I even stuck to the alternating male/female naming convention! Apparently NOAA doesn't use X, Y, or Z because there "aren't enough names beginning with those letters." The thing is, it's really, really, really rare that you would even get to W, so why not have what few names you can think of starting with those letters held in reserve for the last few storms of the season, should you ever get that far into the alphabet?
As I recall, the US and Russia aren't the only ones with a space program anymore.
Couldn't we call in a favor from China and get 'em to send up another Shenzhou rocket? I know their docking ports don't fit into the one on ISS, but you don't technically have to dock with the station to boost it...
1. Shenzhou capsule maneuvers near station 2. Grappling arm grabs a piece of capsule 3. Shenzhou begins burn 4. Grappling arm holds on tight, station accelerates. 5. Problem solved. NASA breathes collective sigh of relief, thanks China for their help.
who decide to try reading my mind.
WHITE-COATED SCIENTIST 1: Okay, here we go. Let's see what we have her... Good Lord!
WHITE-COATED SCIENTIST 2: Is he... is that... I can't watch any more.
More than screw it up, if the chip has any metal whatsoever in it, an MRI machine will rip that f***er out of your body.
Same reason you can't have an MRI if you have a pacemaker, because when they fire it up, the pacemaker will leap out of your chest, not unlike the creatures from the Alien movies.
"Gutierrez got a personal glimpse of rampant piracy in China during a visit earlier this month, when he was offered the chance to buy a pirated copy of the newest Star Wars movie for $1 dollar, an aide said."
For fsck's sake, it's EITHER "$1" OR "1 dollar", you TROGLODYTES!
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Sorry, that's one of my pet peeves. You'd think that as seemingly educated people, CNN wouldn't make that mis... wait a minute, this is mainstream media we're talking about here. Never mind.
Why not just name it Windows 6? It's version 6.0, it doesn't have a year, it's not some stupid cutesey name like "Vista"... minimalism is cool.
Of course, Fark's Photoshop cult would have a field day with that. I can see it now... "Windows 666". With a picture of Admiral Ackbar saying, "It's a trap!"
If you believe that school is not in the business of molding the characters of students into strong, self-confident, law-abiding citizens...
No, American public schools are in the business of molding the characters of students into good little worker bees who won't question their government and will accept any abuses thrown at them by corporate America.
IIRC, if the shuttle docks with the station, they're traveling at the same speed and their relative motion is zero. Couldn't you just do something like the following...
1. Discovery docks with ISS, drops crew. 2. Atlantis launches and maneuvers close to station, but does not dock. 3. Somebody boards Discovery or programs its computer to pilot it. 4. Discovery undocks with ISS and maneuvers away from it, but stays near it, still in orbit. 5. Atlantis docks with ISS, retrieves crew. 6. Atlantis undocks with ISS, maneuvers toward Discovery. 7. Atlantis docks with Discovery and retrieves pilot. (it's a universal docking adapter on the Shuttle; I think they can dock with one another if need be. Even if they couldn't normally, they could put an adapter on Atlantis so they could.) 8. Discovery redocks with ISS and remains there until Endeavour can be launched on a repair mission. (They repaired the Hubble, I'll bet they can jury-rig the Shuttle so they can at least land it.)
NASA's plan - lose one Shuttle, set the program back ten years. My plan - lose no Shuttles, show off skill.
Paranoid as I am, I'm not that worried. I think whatever standard the AAMVA sets is because of liquor laws, if memory serves. Something about your birthdate being universally readable.
Whatever it is, my New York license doesn't comply with it, because it doesn't have a magnetic stripe at all! It does, however, have an interesting superbarcode on the bottom (think a block of about twenty lines of 1s and 0s)
I think you could almost put more information in the superbarcode than you could on a magstripe. Anybody know how much info you can fit on a stripe?
...whereas anyone on the conservative or Republican side of the spectrum is a greedy, money grubbing liar who would just LOVE to see an end to all environmental concerns.
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Zachary
I even stuck to the alternating male/female naming convention! Apparently NOAA doesn't use X, Y, or Z because there "aren't enough names beginning with those letters." The thing is, it's really, really, really rare that you would even get to W, so why not have what few names you can think of starting with those letters held in reserve for the last few storms of the season, should you ever get that far into the alphabet?
I should run the Hurricane Naming Center!
As I recall, the US and Russia aren't the only ones with a space program anymore.
Couldn't we call in a favor from China and get 'em to send up another Shenzhou rocket? I know their docking ports don't fit into the one on ISS, but you don't technically have to dock with the station to boost it...
1. Shenzhou capsule maneuvers near station
2. Grappling arm grabs a piece of capsule
3. Shenzhou begins burn
4. Grappling arm holds on tight, station accelerates.
5. Problem solved. NASA breathes collective sigh of relief, thanks China for their help.
who decide to try reading my mind. WHITE-COATED SCIENTIST 1: Okay, here we go. Let's see what we have her... Good Lord! WHITE-COATED SCIENTIST 2: Is he... is that... I can't watch any more.
More than screw it up, if the chip has any metal whatsoever in it, an MRI machine will rip that f***er out of your body.
Same reason you can't have an MRI if you have a pacemaker, because when they fire it up, the pacemaker will leap out of your chest, not unlike the creatures from the Alien movies.
And how!
Perhaps I can use some of that tide water to wash my brain...
What the FUCK? Where did that come from?
"Gutierrez got a personal glimpse of rampant piracy in China during a visit earlier this month, when he was offered the chance to buy a pirated copy of the newest Star Wars movie for $1 dollar, an aide said."
For fsck's sake, it's EITHER "$1" OR "1 dollar", you TROGLODYTES!
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Sorry, that's one of my pet peeves. You'd think that as seemingly educated people, CNN wouldn't make that mis... wait a minute, this is mainstream media we're talking about here. Never mind.
Simple. Timmy's skin was white. Padilla's is brown.
Why not just name it Windows 6? It's version 6.0, it doesn't have a year, it's not some stupid cutesey name like "Vista"... minimalism is cool. Of course, Fark's Photoshop cult would have a field day with that. I can see it now... "Windows 666". With a picture of Admiral Ackbar saying, "It's a trap!"
Actually, that's true, strangely enough. I think it has something to do with the type of adhesive they use.
Bitchin!
No pun intended.
No, American public schools are in the business of molding the characters of students into good little worker bees who won't question their government and will accept any abuses thrown at them by corporate America.
WTF is that? And what are aliens doing in Miami Bea.... oh.
They've seen "Baywatch".
Suddenly it all becomes clear to me.
General Psychology, freshman year. Too bad to see such a useful psychological technique being used for such evil means...
MPAA: Want to accept this Big Brother DRM scheme?
Consumers: NO!
*door slams in MPAA's face*
MPAA: How about this?
*door does not slam in MPAA's face*
Didn't they already do that? Rather, haven't they already tried? I recall seeing an article about that somewhere. Might have been on /.
And I quote...
"training young people to rat out their friends and families"
Doesn't that violate the Scout Oath's (or Law, or whatever in the seven hells it is) tenets of being "trustworthy" and "loyal"?
You don't want a laptop on board a racing shell. Trust me on this one.
The only way it would work is if it was very light and very waterproof, or better yet, if it floats and is waterproof.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned this, although geeks who row are probably a rarity.
I wonder how you say "Slashdotted Into Oblivion" in Norwegian?
IIRC, if the shuttle docks with the station, they're traveling at the same speed and their relative motion is zero. Couldn't you just do something like the following...
1. Discovery docks with ISS, drops crew.
2. Atlantis launches and maneuvers close to station, but does not dock.
3. Somebody boards Discovery or programs its computer to pilot it.
4. Discovery undocks with ISS and maneuvers away from it, but stays near it, still in orbit.
5. Atlantis docks with ISS, retrieves crew.
6. Atlantis undocks with ISS, maneuvers toward Discovery.
7. Atlantis docks with Discovery and retrieves pilot. (it's a universal docking adapter on the Shuttle; I think they can dock with one another if need be. Even if they couldn't normally, they could put an adapter on Atlantis so they could.)
8. Discovery redocks with ISS and remains there until Endeavour can be launched on a repair mission. (They repaired the Hubble, I'll bet they can jury-rig the Shuttle so they can at least land it.)
NASA's plan - lose one Shuttle, set the program back ten years.
My plan - lose no Shuttles, show off skill.
Paranoid as I am, I'm not that worried. I think whatever standard the AAMVA sets is because of liquor laws, if memory serves. Something about your birthdate being universally readable.
Whatever it is, my New York license doesn't comply with it, because it doesn't have a magnetic stripe at all! It does, however, have an interesting superbarcode on the bottom (think a block of about twenty lines of 1s and 0s)
I think you could almost put more information in the superbarcode than you could on a magstripe. Anybody know how much info you can fit on a stripe?
...whereas anyone on the conservative or Republican side of the spectrum is a greedy, money grubbing liar who would just LOVE to see an end to all environmental concerns.
Actually, that's pretty close to the truth.
4:1 men to women, dude. Although an engineering school full of women is a very tantalizing thought. I smell a geek-themed pr0n.
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.
What a refreshing break from "Your rights are being diminished." "Bush is on the warpath." "SCO is being generally evil."
"By buying Micro$oft products, you support corporate terrorism!"