Please reply if you think eternity getting their guts ripped out by demons and being force-fed their own excrement and piles of flaming coals, while being skull-fucked by enraged hell-bears (or whatever it is, I never paid much attention to mythology,) is inadequate for copyright trolls, and write-in what YOU believe would be a more appropriate comeuppance. Thanks!
No -- copyright trolls are doing us a very important service. The people who need to have their guts ripped out by demons etc are the assholes who wrote the laws that have these horrible abusive provisions which the intellectual property trolls are so elegantly demonstrating.
Why is it that when I hear there's a new Firefox update, I always think "Oh no -- what did they mess up now?" Other groups' updates aren't met with instinctive dread.
Of course you should follow all the standard safety rules, like switching off the heavy machinery and putting a lock on the switch, or running the machine at 1/10th speed when testing. But (wink wink nudge nudge) probably nobody would notice if you didn't. And (wink wink nudge nudge) we're losing a lot of money with this machine out of commission, you wouldn't want us to lose a bunch of money would you?
I suppose it could also have been plain human error. I've known some pretty dumb people with a total disregard for their own safety and/or the safety of others.
No, you have it backwards. Compressive force of 30 atmospheres is a very different beast than tensile force of 30 atmospheres. Think balloon vs submarine.
The ISS has a mass of approximately 417,000 kg and it's made of comparatively light materials when you are talking about building something out of 1" steel.
Just for fun, I calculated what the weight would be for a balloon of the same size of the article (78,000 m^3) but coated with 1 inch of steel. The best you can get is spherical, radius 26.5 m, which would have a surface area of 8,800 m^2 and with 1 inch of steel weigh 1,800,000 kg. And that is just the outer surface -- though to be fair, the weight of air contained within wouldn't be that much. Also, at those numbers you'd need 31 atmospheres of pressure or so worth of (hot) Venusian atmosphere to equal the weight of the outer hull, so I have my doubts about being able to be at 1 atmosphere.
The main problem I see is that you have seconds to live if your air conditioner dies, followed by where will you get raw materials? Seems to me that if your hull weighs this much you're better off building where you can mine metal and just import air, rather than the other way around. Like, say, on Mars, where you can also get as much nitrogen and oxygen as you want from the atmosphere, and metal from the ground, and only need to import some hydrogen.
I am GM of a nuclear power plan and my bonus is based on the total production of my power plant. My engineering tells me I have to take an outage to fix a pump but if I do that I am going to mix my goal and I am not going to get as big a bonus.
Sounds like a textbook case of negligent manslaughter waiting to happen. Maybe we just need a rule that allows people to take safety seriously and be rewarded for doing so (or fined for not doing so).
My vote goes to the next nuclear accident being caused by environmentalists. Not direct sabotage, mind you, but protesting anything that might be done to upgrade or even maintain old plants or replace them with newer ones or safely store nuclear fuel. Then they'll say, "See how dangerous it is -- we told you so."
You are implying that ones political stance is an indicator of their intelligence?
What!? I'm sure both parties are equally likely to use words like "intellectual", "elite", "professor", "educated", "scientist" as disparaging or insults.
opinion [uh-pin-yuh n] noun 1. a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
To most people, both supporters and opponents, evolution and global warming are a matter of opinion because they don't know enough for certainty. I suppose a lot of them could argue that it's actually a
fact [fakt] noun 4. something said to be true or supposed to have happened: The facts given by the witness are highly questionable.
While evolution and global warming are both definitely questions of fact rather than of preference, there are very few who could make that determination themselves rather than trust someone else's judgement.
OK, if someone decreed that they didn't like what you said and that if you didn't fork over a bundle of cash, their big army of goons would come take it by force... you'd call the cops on them, wouldn't you?
Now, if instead the government decided that they didn't like what you said and that if you didn't fork over a bundle of cash, their big army of goons would come take it by force... then whatever you said isn't protected by freedom of speech. Even if you call this process a civil lawsuit.
Because the alternative would be some kind of wild west scenario where the party who can summon the most naked force to his cause wins.
That would be me. If someone were threatening me with bodily harm over something I said, I'd call the cops on them. Let's see them summon more force than that.
The 1st amendment doesn't apply, as libel is a civil infraction.
If anyone could win a civil lawsuit against any gun owner (no matter how responsible) for emotional damage because "guns are scary", would you still think people had the right to bear arms?
It's not the government that acts against you, it's the injured party.
Then explain why there's a court involved, and why the government will enforce collection of the civil suit damages?
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I know I'd like my rocket to be safe from trolls.
some Freedom Fries with that?
Please reply if you think eternity getting their guts ripped out by demons and being force-fed their own excrement and piles of flaming coals, while being skull-fucked by enraged hell-bears (or whatever it is, I never paid much attention to mythology,) is inadequate for copyright trolls, and write-in what YOU believe would be a more appropriate comeuppance. Thanks!
No -- copyright trolls are doing us a very important service. The people who need to have their guts ripped out by demons etc are the assholes who wrote the laws that have these horrible abusive provisions which the intellectual property trolls are so elegantly demonstrating.
I remember playing with some liquid metal. Call me crazy, but I prefer my things made from solid metal.
Breaking news! Mrs Clinton does a good job representing someone she was supposed to represent... in light of that, who'd want her to represent US?
Microsoft Clippy should be glad he wasn't around back then...
Other countries don't have to worry about their own citizens blowing them up.
Why is it that when I hear there's a new Firefox update, I always think "Oh no -- what did they mess up now?" Other groups' updates aren't met with instinctive dread.
That sounds suspiciously like my patent on aural telepathy. Expect to hear from my lawyers.
Because everyone knows the right and moral thing to do, is quietly pretend that concentration camps don't exist and never have.
Of course you should follow all the standard safety rules, like switching off the heavy machinery and putting a lock on the switch, or running the machine at 1/10th speed when testing. But (wink wink nudge nudge) probably nobody would notice if you didn't. And (wink wink nudge nudge) we're losing a lot of money with this machine out of commission, you wouldn't want us to lose a bunch of money would you?
I suppose it could also have been plain human error. I've known some pretty dumb people with a total disregard for their own safety and/or the safety of others.
Hahahahaha heheheh lol hahahahahahaha lolololololol hahahahahah. I'm sure the kids will learn tons from this.
No, you have it backwards. Compressive force of 30 atmospheres is a very different beast than tensile force of 30 atmospheres. Think balloon vs submarine.
The ISS has a mass of approximately 417,000 kg and it's made of comparatively light materials when you are talking about building something out of 1" steel.
Just for fun, I calculated what the weight would be for a balloon of the same size of the article (78,000 m^3) but coated with 1 inch of steel. The best you can get is spherical, radius 26.5 m, which would have a surface area of 8,800 m^2 and with 1 inch of steel weigh 1,800,000 kg. And that is just the outer surface -- though to be fair, the weight of air contained within wouldn't be that much. Also, at those numbers you'd need 31 atmospheres of pressure or so worth of (hot) Venusian atmosphere to equal the weight of the outer hull, so I have my doubts about being able to be at 1 atmosphere.
The main problem I see is that you have seconds to live if your air conditioner dies, followed by where will you get raw materials? Seems to me that if your hull weighs this much you're better off building where you can mine metal and just import air, rather than the other way around. Like, say, on Mars, where you can also get as much nitrogen and oxygen as you want from the atmosphere, and metal from the ground, and only need to import some hydrogen.
I am GM of a nuclear power plan and my bonus is based on the total production of my power plant. My engineering tells me I have to take an outage to fix a pump but if I do that I am going to mix my goal and I am not going to get as big a bonus.
Sounds like a textbook case of negligent manslaughter waiting to happen. Maybe we just need a rule that allows people to take safety seriously and be rewarded for doing so (or fined for not doing so).
My vote goes to the next nuclear accident being caused by environmentalists. Not direct sabotage, mind you, but protesting anything that might be done to upgrade or even maintain old plants or replace them with newer ones or safely store nuclear fuel. Then they'll say, "See how dangerous it is -- we told you so."
I guess the editors decided that a sensationalistic headline is better than a provocative one.
Meanwhile, I can only imagine that warentless wiretaps are way up given that there's more people and more phones and the NSA.
Of course, I'll be upgrading a fresh Win 7 install on an entirely different disk, then probably keep using my original install.
You are implying that ones political stance is an indicator of their intelligence?
What!? I'm sure both parties are equally likely to use words like "intellectual", "elite", "professor", "educated", "scientist" as disparaging or insults.
opinion
[uh-pin-yuh n]
noun
1.
a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
To most people, both supporters and opponents, evolution and global warming are a matter of opinion because they don't know enough for certainty. I suppose a lot of them could argue that it's actually a
fact
[fakt]
noun
4.
something said to be true or supposed to have happened:
The facts given by the witness are highly questionable.
While evolution and global warming are both definitely questions of fact rather than of preference, there are very few who could make that determination themselves rather than trust someone else's judgement.
OK, if someone decreed that they didn't like what you said and that if you didn't fork over a bundle of cash, their big army of goons would come take it by force... you'd call the cops on them, wouldn't you?
Now, if instead the government decided that they didn't like what you said and that if you didn't fork over a bundle of cash, their big army of goons would come take it by force... then whatever you said isn't protected by freedom of speech. Even if you call this process a civil lawsuit.
Our laws have got to be the most daring hack ever.
Is there any other way for a Middle Eastern country to earn our respect, other than to be able to nuke us?
(And no, they don't need a rocket delivery mechanism -- it can be shipped pre-emptively to the country most likely to meddle with them.)
Because the alternative would be some kind of wild west scenario where the party who can summon the most naked force to his cause wins.
That would be me. If someone were threatening me with bodily harm over something
I said, I'd call the cops on them. Let's see them summon more force than that.
The 1st amendment doesn't apply, as libel is a civil infraction.
If anyone could win a civil lawsuit against any gun owner (no matter how responsible) for emotional damage because "guns are scary", would you still think people had the right to bear arms?
It's not the government that acts against you, it's the injured party.
Then explain why there's a court involved, and why the government will enforce collection of the civil suit damages?