No, it sounds like undereporting. I've experienced it three times; reported it zero. My lady, 2 times. No report. My boss, once, no report. My kids (3 of them) seven times so far.
But hey, don't worry about it. When they beat your ass, or shoot your dog, or take your stuff w/o a warrant, just smile and say "it's all for the public good, I just *know* it is."
Lemme tell you how often you should be hearing about this:
No, that's exactly what they've evolved into. Today, they are armed and armored paramilitary who destroy innocent lives and maintain a culture of isolation and privilege.
There's your "most." And mind you, these are just the screwups that have come to light. For every one on that map, there are hundreds or thousands more where no one reports anything because to do so puts you on the police radar, the last place any self-aware citizen wants to be. The idealized view of police forces has for some time diverged greatly from the reality. I doubt you could find a single police department in the USA that isn't corrupt, holding the blue line, handing out favors, etc., and let me take care to include legislators, lawyers and judges in this condemnation. The system is just barely functional enough that it doesn't fall apart, and little more. As the previous posted said, if you do enter into this kind of public service with the idea to serve and protect, that attitude will be most thoroughly adjusted within a short span of time.
20s is far too long at 70-200 mm, you'll turn the stars into streaks.
Set to the highest ISO you can, set the exposure to about 2s...3s, take about 100 shots, and stack them (lots of free apps available, or photoshop, etc.)
You want the best image, that's how you get it.
For instance, here's a shot of a MUCH dimmer and smaller comet made just that way at 200mm; check out how you can see both the ion and dust tails:
(you can see that the 2.5s exposure there was even a little too long... the stars are visibly elongated. You can "fix" that in software, but it's kinda cheating.)
He won't be involved with the Hyperloop because it is not feasable. The earth shifts, moves, pushes this way and that. High speed, long runs aren't reasonable engineering undertakings. Hell, we can't even keep above-ground railroad tracks straight and aligned.
Fuck using a scripting language for anything beyond a "script".
Wow, wish I'd known that when I wrote my aurora-prediction system, my demonstration database, my point of sale system, and my meter generation software. I didn't know it was supposed to be difficult, so I committed the ultimate sin of writing, debugging and using these things quickly and easily. I just didn't know I was supposed to struggle with something more difficult. Can you ever forgive me?
No; I've always written code in an indent-structured manner, it's both natural to me and an aid, not a detriment, to my coding. I've even written (and had published) technical magazine articles on it, back in the day when that actually meant something. If your style (and I use that word loosely) is K&R or some other inherently indent-unfriendly method where braces or other forms of structure are visually unbalanced and code that is structurally dependent isn't visually dependent, then sure, Python is probably a pain your ass. But for me, I always put code in deeper visually when it is deeper structurally, and that makes it much easier, rather than more difficult, to debug.
In my code, indent means dependent. The editor makes sure I can see the indentation properly. This is basically all one needs to manage a language that incorporates the idea of indent into the code. If you're not comfortable with that, there are a plethora of languages that are right with your ideas, and by all means, enjoy them. Me, I'm perfectly happy with Python, and in no way suffering either your imaginary indent-based bugs or the "difficult to support and debug" software imagined by your respondent, below.
I meant, walk into a pizzaria and say: "I'd like a pie" or "I'd like a pizza" and you'll get the same result (which is probably "what size, and whaddaya want onit?")
Which brings me around to that weird question, "you want a cheese pizza?"... I know there may be *specialty* pizzas that don't have cheese out there, but a "pizza" is crust, sauce and cheese. Anything *else* is a variable you specify. Specifying "cheese" is, at least if you're not preceeding with "goat", both superfluous and annoying. If I say "I want a pizza", I think crust, sauce and cheese are a given. Even with some of these crazy gourmet outfits where they use ovens burning 100% driftwood, unbleached dough made from GMO-free wild swamp rushes, sun-ripened clamato sauce, and Yeti foot cheese. Just gimme the damned pizza -- yes, I want cheese. When was the last time a customer came in and said "no cheese, please!"???
When I was a kid, we had to walk uphill both ways for a pizza. And it had sauce, cheese, and crust. You young snapperwhippers need to GTFOM lawn.
...with little focus on the rights and interests of consumers, let alone broader community interests.'"
No! Really?
You idiots keep electing rich fucks, and then everyone acts amazed when they continue to create and enhance systems designed to benefit rich fucks and leave the rest of your mucking about in the gutters. Since you've proved you're just exactly that stupid, I guess it'll never change.
Yeah, there's plenty of government screwing the people, but on the other hand...
Disaster relief... research... NASA... roads... the CDC... food inspections... the NWS... NOAA... you know, actual useful things... not exactly "nothing."
Try to point your finger at the actual problems rather than trying to paint the good and bad with the same brush. Then people may listen. Some of them, anyway.
What you don't understand is that the government can see in the dark. Even if you invent a new kind of dark, they'll just respond by making sure they can see in that, too.
I understand the desire for local control and have no problem with it, I'm just trying to understand why it's believed that that's always best, when I can't think of a reason why except for "ideologically it's what I want".
Here it is: When you have local control, two things obtain: (1), the number of people affected by the control being exerted is minimal, and (2) the people being affected (or afflicted) have a much larger input as to change or continuation, so that if said control turns out to be onerous (as many of the FCC's radio-related controls are), the locals can actually change them -- or, likewise, if they prefer the current state of affairs, they are considerably more empowered to maintain the status quo.
On the other side of the coin, control exerted at the national level, as the FCC is currently a poster child for, is completely resistant to local control, circumstance, or intent, without some unusual input channel (bribery, corporate shill, real estate slinging, etc.)
The FCC used to matter in that the communications below 30 mhz -- AM radio, etc. -- were critical to the system, and said communications go all over the place depending on the time of day. We no longer depend significantly on these communications, and the FCC's relevance at a national level is therefore in some doubt.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the SCOTUS judges are absolutely immune from uproar. The only thing that can affect them is bribes, favors and power distributed sub rosa among them, their families, and their co-conspirators (here, I'm giving them credit for the intelligence they claim, in that I do not believe for a moment that they know not what they do.)
To put it another way, nothing they do WRT liberty will affect their income, social standing, property ownership, freedom, or cocktail party invitation stream.
The problem is the constitution is toothless: There is no penalty or other mechanism for punishing those who violate what is supposedly the highest laws in the land.
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No, it sounds like undereporting. I've experienced it three times; reported it zero. My lady, 2 times. No report. My boss, once, no report. My kids (3 of them) seven times so far.
But hey, don't worry about it. When they beat your ass, or shoot your dog, or take your stuff w/o a warrant, just smile and say "it's all for the public good, I just *know* it is."
Lemme tell you how often you should be hearing about this:
ZERO.
No, that's exactly what they've evolved into. Today, they are armed and armored paramilitary who destroy innocent lives and maintain a culture of isolation and privilege.
Just for example... and then there is this...
There's your "most." And mind you, these are just the screwups that have come to light. For every one on that map, there are hundreds or thousands more where no one reports anything because to do so puts you on the police radar, the last place any self-aware citizen wants to be. The idealized view of police forces has for some time diverged greatly from the reality. I doubt you could find a single police department in the USA that isn't corrupt, holding the blue line, handing out favors, etc., and let me take care to include legislators, lawyers and judges in this condemnation. The system is just barely functional enough that it doesn't fall apart, and little more. As the previous posted said, if you do enter into this kind of public service with the idea to serve and protect, that attitude will be most thoroughly adjusted within a short span of time.
You know, you can contribute. Find yourself a sociologist and get them tickets to Texas or Alabama.
20s is far too long at 70-200 mm, you'll turn the stars into streaks.
Set to the highest ISO you can, set the exposure to about 2s...3s, take about 100 shots, and stack them (lots of free apps available, or photoshop, etc.)
You want the best image, that's how you get it.
For instance, here's a shot of a MUCH dimmer and smaller comet made just that way at 200mm; check out how you can see both the ion and dust tails:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48447736@N00/4695946008/
(you can see that the 2.5s exposure there was even a little too long... the stars are visibly elongated. You can "fix" that in software, but it's kinda cheating.)
He won't be involved with the Hyperloop because it is not feasable. The earth shifts, moves, pushes this way and that. High speed, long runs aren't reasonable engineering undertakings. Hell, we can't even keep above-ground railroad tracks straight and aligned.
You fail statistics, AC. Don't you have a lottery ticket to buy?
Colored its cheeks, then crashed itself out of pure embarrassment?
...the hover time locked to a bedroom window with all the cameras running at max bandwidth is LIMITED.
Jeez, you just can't get good drone drivers these days.
The Klingons are going to be pissed we've got this technology too. Nothing quite as entertaining as a pissed-off Klingon, either.
Wow, wish I'd known that when I wrote my aurora-prediction system, my demonstration database, my point of sale system, and my meter generation software. I didn't know it was supposed to be difficult, so I committed the ultimate sin of writing, debugging and using these things quickly and easily. I just didn't know I was supposed to struggle with something more difficult. Can you ever forgive me?
No; I've always written code in an indent-structured manner, it's both natural to me and an aid, not a detriment, to my coding. I've even written (and had published) technical magazine articles on it, back in the day when that actually meant something. If your style (and I use that word loosely) is K&R or some other inherently indent-unfriendly method where braces or other forms of structure are visually unbalanced and code that is structurally dependent isn't visually dependent, then sure, Python is probably a pain your ass. But for me, I always put code in deeper visually when it is deeper structurally, and that makes it much easier, rather than more difficult, to debug.
In my code, indent means dependent. The editor makes sure I can see the indentation properly. This is basically all one needs to manage a language that incorporates the idea of indent into the code. If you're not comfortable with that, there are a plethora of languages that are right with your ideas, and by all means, enjoy them. Me, I'm perfectly happy with Python, and in no way suffering either your imaginary indent-based bugs or the "difficult to support and debug" software imagined by your respondent, below.
I meant, walk into a pizzaria and say: "I'd like a pie" or "I'd like a pizza" and you'll get the same result (which is probably "what size, and whaddaya want onit?")
Which brings me around to that weird question, "you want a cheese pizza?" ... I know there may be *specialty* pizzas that don't have cheese out there, but a "pizza" is crust, sauce and cheese. Anything *else* is a variable you specify. Specifying "cheese" is, at least if you're not preceeding with "goat", both superfluous and annoying. If I say "I want a pizza", I think crust, sauce and cheese are a given. Even with some of these crazy gourmet outfits where they use ovens burning 100% driftwood, unbleached dough made from GMO-free wild swamp rushes, sun-ripened clamato sauce, and Yeti foot cheese. Just gimme the damned pizza -- yes, I want cheese. When was the last time a customer came in and said "no cheese, please!"???
When I was a kid, we had to walk uphill both ways for a pizza. And it had sauce, cheese, and crust. You young snapperwhippers need to GTFOM lawn.
I'll have some chai tea, please. Two cups, one identity.
No! Really?
You idiots keep electing rich fucks, and then everyone acts amazed when they continue to create and enhance systems designed to benefit rich fucks and leave the rest of your mucking about in the gutters. Since you've proved you're just exactly that stupid, I guess it'll never change.
Cheers. :)
...for Python.
I can continue to completely ignore the incredible, writhing mess that is java and its ecosystem.
Go ahead, mod me down, then go back to fighting with Java. I'll just continue being productive. :)
Hey, look, someone forgot to IQ test the moderator(s) again. Slashdot, lol.
See, 7 is why we're fat. It's that whole two pi thing. We should be satisfied with one pi, but no, we have to have two. No wonder we're rounding up.
Mmm. Two (strawberry + key lime) pie.
Also, two (pizza) pie. Which is, strangely enough, the same as "pie pie."
Sufficiently large values of seven, indeed.
Also for small values of 7. I took a fuzzy math course too. :)
Two more possibilities:
1) Violation of constituting authority
2) Stupidity
Yeah, there's plenty of government screwing the people, but on the other hand...
Disaster relief... research... NASA... roads... the CDC... food inspections... the NWS... NOAA... you know, actual useful things... not exactly "nothing."
Try to point your finger at the actual problems rather than trying to paint the good and bad with the same brush. Then people may listen. Some of them, anyway.
Ok, I'm calling bullshit on that one. At those speeds, how can you tell if it's a real chick or a guy in drag?
The first transistor ever was a crude thing on a lab bench -- it wasn't used in equipment at all. But nice try.
In fact, here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Replica-of-first-transistor.jpg
What you don't understand is that the government can see in the dark. Even if you invent a new kind of dark, they'll just respond by making sure they can see in that, too.
Silence and secrecy are the wrong answers.
Here it is: When you have local control, two things obtain: (1), the number of people affected by the control being exerted is minimal, and (2) the people being affected (or afflicted) have a much larger input as to change or continuation, so that if said control turns out to be onerous (as many of the FCC's radio-related controls are), the locals can actually change them -- or, likewise, if they prefer the current state of affairs, they are considerably more empowered to maintain the status quo.
On the other side of the coin, control exerted at the national level, as the FCC is currently a poster child for, is completely resistant to local control, circumstance, or intent, without some unusual input channel (bribery, corporate shill, real estate slinging, etc.)
The FCC used to matter in that the communications below 30 mhz -- AM radio, etc. -- were critical to the system, and said communications go all over the place depending on the time of day. We no longer depend significantly on these communications, and the FCC's relevance at a national level is therefore in some doubt.
Understand now?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the SCOTUS judges are absolutely immune from uproar. The only thing that can affect them is bribes, favors and power distributed sub rosa among them, their families, and their co-conspirators (here, I'm giving them credit for the intelligence they claim, in that I do not believe for a moment that they know not what they do.)
To put it another way, nothing they do WRT liberty will affect their income, social standing, property ownership, freedom, or cocktail party invitation stream.
The problem is the constitution is toothless: There is no penalty or other mechanism for punishing those who violate what is supposedly the highest laws in the land.