That really is what was regrettably lost in all the panic and craze over this accident.
It was tragic. And it was entirely avoidable. Put the goddamned car in neutral. It's not as much of a headline-grabbing story as "ROGUE CAR KILLS FAMILY!", but "Man's inability to understand basic concept about car leads to his and family's death" is more accurately what happened.
Floor mats? Give me a break, that can cause a moment of terror but if you press down firmly with your heel and pull backwards.. the mat's gonna shift out of the way. Even if it doesn't.. PUT THE CAR IN NEUTRAL.
Automatic brake-override system.. just another fucking computer chip to break, another grand or two you'll have to pay to get your car fixed. For NO fucking gain. PUT THE CAR IN NEUTRAL.
and while those restrictions are a bit.. onerous.. it's those restrictions that allowed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research in the first place. it's not like there was money that was suddenly restricted -- there wasn't money, and then there was, with restrictions.
The roads provide for commerce as well. Trust me, every dollar sunk into infrastructure like that is returned multiple times in increased tax revenue.
Oil should be a far sight cheaper than it is, you seem to have that backwards. It's trading so highly right now just the same as it was before the oil bubble burst -- speculation, peak oil, civil strife in.... god knows or cares what country. If the nation's name is hard for Americans to pronounce and there's unrest and violence, oil shoots up, because clearly.. CLEARLY.. it must be connected.
The world is not so significantly different than it was 11 years ago when gas was under $1/gal that it should now be $4/gal.
You must be short. I had a '90 Lumina with 60/40 bench front seats and the shifter on the steering column. I'm about 6'3. That car.. was *comfortable*. I could stretch my legs out. I slept in it, numerous times (I had it from 16 to 23, camping trips were great. Where's MY tent? You're IN it). Long drives? No problem. Left leg had room, right leg I could stretch with the cruise set. My knees never hit anything.
I don't like sitting in a cramped bubble when I drive. I'd like to have some room to move around. Cars aren't designed with people my height in mind -- and goddamn I feel bad for the taller ones. It's terrible enough just finding a car I can sit in upright without my head hitting the ceiling of the cabin as it is.
It happened ~40 million years ago. We're just now seeing it.
Not a hard concept, not even relativity really. Go outside, see a gunshot from a great distance (or, well, anything else loud). You'll see it before you hear it. At such relatively short distances, light takes very little time to reach your eye, but sound takes much longer. Now increase the distance, and light takes a long time too. Bam.
That just means Russia doesn't 100% trust the people they're selling their military hardware to. You must've missed the point. If I sell you a bat, you might value that bat, but if someone sells the guy you want to hit with that bat an anti-bat shield.. well, you'd probably not be interested in my bat very much anymore, and I've got a BUNCH of bats and NOT a lot of money. You see the problem now, right.
I'm talking about the weapon systems that Russia and China sell to despotic rulers of shitstain nations so they can feel powerful. That stuff. It's going to be worth much less if there's a system in place to defeat it.
These defense systems *don't really fucking matter* to any of the Big Boy nations. Russia and China (and hey, yeah the US too) likes to sell crap to small-time nations. Well, what we're selling to them right now, defeats the stuff Russia and China want to sell to them. That's what this is about. Money.
Haaaaaa. Wow. Because the US, today, really is going to use nuclear assets on Russia. Ok. No. You're just insane.
This is all economics. Russia and China are mad not because of anything relating to war, but because the US is selling things to countries that lessens the value of the things that Russia and China want to sell to different countries.
Think about it. Think about it. No not too hard, you'll hurt yourself.
Yeah. The countries that these missile defense systems are aimed at stopping from aggressive attacks? Those countries buy their hardware from Russia and China!
Thorium, yes, but the wider view is reactor design. Doesn't have to be Thorium, we also have all this lovely nuclear waste from old reactors lying around.. and a good bit of it is still perfectly fissile, given the right sorta conditions. That's producing energy from trash, for the 21st century.
Not just Thorium, and there's probably better designs out by now anyway, but I for one was very pissed and still am that Clinton canceled America's Integral Fast Reactor project. Because ohhh scary nuclear. Except the IFRs produce less waste, safer waste, and can be fed just about anything, including most the crap that right now is considered waste.
You absolutely CAN produce gold from other base elements. Offhandedly I'm not sure if lead is what you'd want to start with or not.. but all it takes is adding energy to the system, and suddenly kaboom.
The problem is the energy required to do that is pretty prohibitive and the amounts you can make pretty small, so it's a net loss of money. But you CAN do it.
Mod parent correct but incomplete! SSD drives can actually be improved down to less than 6kbps loss a year if you're willing to drop top dollar. It's a bit cutting edge, so I'll spare the gory details.. but you can gravimetrically contain stray electron decay by routing the phononic wavefront through an electroencabulator. It's a bit tricky to get set correctly, though -- you can't adjust it while in use or you risk collapsing the function and all quantum effects begin to fail. I learned THAT lesson the hard way!
Relativity has a body of proof behind it. One strange result MIGHT invalidate it, but it's more likely that were these results valid that we would've had a clue that this *could* happen before it happened. The right way to approach it is to assume relativity -- which has evidence backing it up, experimental and theoretical -- is correct, and that there was some experimental error, something systemic.
Hey guys, this result doesn't agree with what we expected and believe true based on math and experiment. What did we do wrong?
Likely, something was done wrong.
In the unlikely case that nothing was done wrong and the results are reproducible, well.. THEN you start questioning relativity.
And in the end, it's the people of NYC that keep electing clowns that support these types of policies. Really, none of that is new. The details change but everything else is the same -- the people of NYC elect, time after time, people who consider the people of NYC to be children. The people of NYC, when it comes down to it and time and time again, vote for "safety" over freedom.
Those corners are rounded, albeit with a much smaller radius than an iPad. That display IS rectangular with sharp corners -- the "rounded display" corners you are seeing are not the corners of the screen/display, but rather the GUI. It's those rounded bubbles that are all over ST:TNG and ST:DS9 -- standard starfleet UI, in other words. The *actual* edges of the display screen are hard angles.
And yeah, it looks like someone's kid got a hold of it and found some stickers.
Looks identical to me.
Oh, gosh, sorry -- the display on the PADD is slightly *RECESSED!* guess that shows me!
I can't tell the difference between any two brands of jeans.
I can't tell the difference between any two brands of mechanical pencils.
Hell, most people can't tell the different between a Harley and a Honda.
Certainly if a brand were to distinguish itself from the rest -- unique stitching or something in jeans -- that would stand out, and copying that would be emulation.
But.. making a pair of pants out of blue denim with a zipper and button on the front, with 2 back pockets and 2 front/side pockets likely with a smaller pocket for a watch on the right side?
You can't fucking patent that design, because it's the basic design of all things we call "jeans".
That is precisely what Apple's doing with their iPad design. You're simply an Apple apologist. If this was Microsoft, not Apple, you'd be calling for heads to roll.
Have you LOOKED at Apple's design patent? It IS for a "rectangular tablet, rounded corners, bevel, screen on front".
The design patent was overly broad, should never have been granted, and Apple is behaving like a boorish asshole by trying to enforce it. These = facts.
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He still could've put it into neutral.
That really is what was regrettably lost in all the panic and craze over this accident.
It was tragic. And it was entirely avoidable. Put the goddamned car in neutral. It's not as much of a headline-grabbing story as "ROGUE CAR KILLS FAMILY!", but "Man's inability to understand basic concept about car leads to his and family's death" is more accurately what happened.
Floor mats? Give me a break, that can cause a moment of terror but if you press down firmly with your heel and pull backwards.. the mat's gonna shift out of the way. Even if it doesn't.. PUT THE CAR IN NEUTRAL.
Automatic brake-override system.. just another fucking computer chip to break, another grand or two you'll have to pay to get your car fixed. For NO fucking gain. PUT THE CAR IN NEUTRAL.
Because the government can't see everything you thick twat.
You're putting way too much faith in technology.
Technological surveillance is not omniscient. It is not omnipresent.
and while those restrictions are a bit.. onerous.. it's those restrictions that allowed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research in the first place. it's not like there was money that was suddenly restricted -- there wasn't money, and then there was, with restrictions.
The US and Israel aren't the only countries that would rather Iran not be a nuclear power.
Having worked in a book store,
Fuck those people.
There is never any good reason to return a book.
The roads provide for commerce as well. Trust me, every dollar sunk into infrastructure like that is returned multiple times in increased tax revenue.
Oil should be a far sight cheaper than it is, you seem to have that backwards. It's trading so highly right now just the same as it was before the oil bubble burst -- speculation, peak oil, civil strife in.... god knows or cares what country. If the nation's name is hard for Americans to pronounce and there's unrest and violence, oil shoots up, because clearly.. CLEARLY.. it must be connected.
The world is not so significantly different than it was 11 years ago when gas was under $1/gal that it should now be $4/gal.
You must be short. I had a '90 Lumina with 60/40 bench front seats and the shifter on the steering column. I'm about 6'3. That car.. was *comfortable*. I could stretch my legs out. I slept in it, numerous times (I had it from 16 to 23, camping trips were great. Where's MY tent? You're IN it). Long drives? No problem. Left leg had room, right leg I could stretch with the cruise set. My knees never hit anything.
I don't like sitting in a cramped bubble when I drive. I'd like to have some room to move around. Cars aren't designed with people my height in mind -- and goddamn I feel bad for the taller ones. It's terrible enough just finding a car I can sit in upright without my head hitting the ceiling of the cabin as it is.
Norway: Iran of the North!
Huh?
It happened ~40 million years ago. We're just now seeing it.
Not a hard concept, not even relativity really. Go outside, see a gunshot from a great distance (or, well, anything else loud). You'll see it before you hear it. At such relatively short distances, light takes very little time to reach your eye, but sound takes much longer. Now increase the distance, and light takes a long time too. Bam.
That just means Russia doesn't 100% trust the people they're selling their military hardware to. You must've missed the point. If I sell you a bat, you might value that bat, but if someone sells the guy you want to hit with that bat an anti-bat shield.. well, you'd probably not be interested in my bat very much anymore, and I've got a BUNCH of bats and NOT a lot of money. You see the problem now, right.
Military hardware. Not consumer goods.
I'm talking about the weapon systems that Russia and China sell to despotic rulers of shitstain nations so they can feel powerful. That stuff. It's going to be worth much less if there's a system in place to defeat it.
These defense systems *don't really fucking matter* to any of the Big Boy nations. Russia and China (and hey, yeah the US too) likes to sell crap to small-time nations. Well, what we're selling to them right now, defeats the stuff Russia and China want to sell to them. That's what this is about. Money.
Haaaaaa. Wow. Because the US, today, really is going to use nuclear assets on Russia. Ok. No. You're just insane.
This is all economics. Russia and China are mad not because of anything relating to war, but because the US is selling things to countries that lessens the value of the things that Russia and China want to sell to different countries.
Think about it. Think about it. No not too hard, you'll hurt yourself.
Yeah. The countries that these missile defense systems are aimed at stopping from aggressive attacks? Those countries buy their hardware from Russia and China!
Money, world go round, etc etc etc.
Thorium, yes, but the wider view is reactor design. Doesn't have to be Thorium, we also have all this lovely nuclear waste from old reactors lying around.. and a good bit of it is still perfectly fissile, given the right sorta conditions. That's producing energy from trash, for the 21st century.
Then again, scary nuclear, NIMBY SAYS NOPE!
Not just Thorium, and there's probably better designs out by now anyway, but I for one was very pissed and still am that Clinton canceled America's Integral Fast Reactor project. Because ohhh scary nuclear. Except the IFRs produce less waste, safer waste, and can be fed just about anything, including most the crap that right now is considered waste.
Bad project, Bill kill!
You absolutely CAN produce gold from other base elements. Offhandedly I'm not sure if lead is what you'd want to start with or not.. but all it takes is adding energy to the system, and suddenly kaboom.
The problem is the energy required to do that is pretty prohibitive and the amounts you can make pretty small, so it's a net loss of money. But you CAN do it.
No, Aluminum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology
The guy who first isolated it called it Aluminum. Some anonymous chucklehead suggested changing it to sound more like other elements.
Mod parent correct but incomplete! SSD drives can actually be improved down to less than 6kbps loss a year if you're willing to drop top dollar. It's a bit cutting edge, so I'll spare the gory details.. but you can gravimetrically contain stray electron decay by routing the phononic wavefront through an electroencabulator. It's a bit tricky to get set correctly, though -- you can't adjust it while in use or you risk collapsing the function and all quantum effects begin to fail. I learned THAT lesson the hard way!
I don't know if it's LIKE that..
I think it may BE that.
Relativity has a body of proof behind it. One strange result MIGHT invalidate it, but it's more likely that were these results valid that we would've had a clue that this *could* happen before it happened. The right way to approach it is to assume relativity -- which has evidence backing it up, experimental and theoretical -- is correct, and that there was some experimental error, something systemic.
Hey guys, this result doesn't agree with what we expected and believe true based on math and experiment. What did we do wrong?
Likely, something was done wrong.
In the unlikely case that nothing was done wrong and the results are reproducible, well.. THEN you start questioning relativity.
And in the end, it's the people of NYC that keep electing clowns that support these types of policies. Really, none of that is new. The details change but everything else is the same -- the people of NYC elect, time after time, people who consider the people of NYC to be children. The people of NYC, when it comes down to it and time and time again, vote for "safety" over freedom.
55 is annoying cold?
More like refreshingly brisk.
Good god, buy a fucking jacket.
Everybody who likes FF7 over FF6?
FF7 was their first RPG.
6 was better. That's just a fact.
Those corners are rounded, albeit with a much smaller radius than an iPad. That display IS rectangular with sharp corners -- the "rounded display" corners you are seeing are not the corners of the screen/display, but rather the GUI. It's those rounded bubbles that are all over ST:TNG and ST:DS9 -- standard starfleet UI, in other words. The *actual* edges of the display screen are hard angles.
And yeah, it looks like someone's kid got a hold of it and found some stickers.
Looks identical to me.
Oh, gosh, sorry -- the display on the PADD is slightly *RECESSED!*
guess that shows me!
I can't tell the difference between any two brands of jeans.
I can't tell the difference between any two brands of mechanical pencils.
Hell, most people can't tell the different between a Harley and a Honda.
Certainly if a brand were to distinguish itself from the rest -- unique stitching or something in jeans -- that would stand out, and copying that would be emulation.
But.. making a pair of pants out of blue denim with a zipper and button on the front, with 2 back pockets and 2 front/side pockets likely with a smaller pocket for a watch on the right side?
You can't fucking patent that design, because it's the basic design of all things we call "jeans".
That is precisely what Apple's doing with their iPad design. You're simply an Apple apologist. If this was Microsoft, not Apple, you'd be calling for heads to roll.
Have you LOOKED at Apple's design patent? It IS for a "rectangular tablet, rounded corners, bevel, screen on front".
The design patent was overly broad, should never have been granted, and Apple is behaving like a boorish asshole by trying to enforce it. These = facts.