gotta change my indentation style and public void( String s1 ) whitespace habit, now the guvnmunt automagically can also get these out of binaries built from my code. O gawd, I'm afraid now.
for Oracle to polish their image which, currently, is pretty bad in the social-and-responsible-enterprise area. Whether they'll really do something - I doubt it.
Amen ! There have been plans once, but they never came to anything, although Dan Simmons was optimistic about the whole thing. Think Kassad and his lover-in-a-simulation. Think of the Yggdrasil! Think Brawne Lamia with the Schrön loop harbouring Keats. Think fucking Martin bloody Silenus and his poetry !! Man... that is mouth-watering....
In the Foreign Legion missions in Chad and the Central African Republic I participated in, we had the French-produced VLRA for rough-terrain driving. The thing is incredibly rugged, and actually has a Perkins engine, initially built for small ships (!!). It features such niceties as a 200 liter water tank behind the rear axle, a compressor outlet for inflating tyres, and (as customized by the Legion) a pump between the two lateral fuel tanks. The enormous reserve wheels, one besides the driver and one on the other side, are as good as armour to protect people from small-caliber fire. I have seen some VLRAs stuck in deep sand, but that was more to drivers inexperienced with dune-driving than to anything else. I also remember a bunch of mechanics, in the bush at Awakaba, the hunting lodge of former Central African emperor Bokassa improvising a crane, from felled trees, to exchange an entire VLRA transmission in the middle of the deepest bush. In short: the things are unbeatable, and unbreakable. My point ? There are many, many scenarios where, as the USMC must have concluded, a good vehicle can be replaced by nothing else.
1) It is poor writing to say things like "...government agencies divorced from profit and loss, its primary task is really to provide pork barrel jobs, regardless of whether those jobs do anything useful or not..." in a slashdot post without giving the slightest data-based foundation for such an (obviously biased) statement
2) If the news is true, then it may provide some confirmation for the theory that EU sanctions are actually working, which would be good news. Please note my careful phrasing of this hypothesis.
Star Wars is not a movie anymore. It is a heavily marketed brand. It can't even qualify for the label "science fiction", compared to the truly good SF movies around. Heck, Interstellar is a lot better than that, even with the hole(s) in the plot and the "Amurrica yeah!" spirit. I mean - I'm an adult. You'd literally have to drag me to a Star Wars movie, kicking and screaming.
This is fucking awesome - to see a bad youth idea of 12-year old me (a boy in a village along the Rhine) turning into a piece of private artillery in the US. I actually got the idea, initially, from Scrooge McDuck, who once built a jay-cannon. It fired diamond jays to pierce the hull of his main opponent's submarine. I then thought "What could I fire?!?" As it was close to year's end, the only period of the year in which fireworks are legally sold in the Netherlands, and as this was 36 years back, I had access to amounts of black powder that, nowadays, would be considered insane (for a 12-year old, that is). I saw you in a discussion about security crazes, education and nanny-state, and won't go into that now. I will definitely remind you in spring ! BTW, ideas for other types of ammo: 1) balls of frozen applesauce, by using a calibrated mold (heck, you could even use a grenade-shaped mold) 2) Something we did in the Foreign Legion with exercise hand grenades, which were hollow and filled with talcum powder: we removed the talcum & filled them up with mayonnaise, mustard or ketchup. [ Favorite target: an open hatch on an armoured vehicle of the regular French cavalry. Jump, dump, duck, enjoy the cursing. ] Why not make a projectile that has a very thin scale at the front side, and fill it with whatever innocent impact-marker the food industry provides you with ?
Anyway, yes you're right: this needs to be done. Can't wait for the pics / vid / specs !
Wow yes - with a sabot you would get even better egg-to-barrel fitting (some of mine didn't go that far away because they wire slightly, like 1/2 mm, under caliber). You just need piping with a very thick wall, I'd say 5 mm at least. I am still amazed the thing didn't blow up in my face - I still have 2 eyes and 10 fingers, strangely enough. Moreover, my supply of firecrackers was limited to the buying power of my pocket and newspaper money. You could do a lot better:-P
I discovered one day that it is quite easy to get the black powder out of firecrackers. And that eggs are sold in two varieties: calibrated, and uncalibrated. And that medium-calibrated eggs fit perfectly inside of a piece of metal tubing klepto-ed from a construction site. So I froze a couple of dozen calibrated eggs at -30 degrees Celsius in my parents' freezer, and made a back-loader out of my metal tube, using tooling from my dad's workbench. The thing had a plug at the bottom made out of rolled-up gutter zinc, and a hole for the fuse (I re-used firecracker fuses.) I quickly realized that firing it at an angle could lob a frozen egg about 300 meters away. (And I also quickly discovered it was advisable to handle the thing with oven mitts, after the first shot.) I was the terror of the neigbourhood. Oh, and I was 12 years old. Somehow strange that I didn't end up as an artillery officer.
Hm yes. Ethan has begun to publish on Forbes, and wants it to be known urbi & orbi. This is becoming annoying. OTOH, do not expect your feature request to be honoured. Not in these days. In the early/. days, it might have been. You're coming about 15 years late, alas.
You're not. The idea for the Alcubierre drive is based upon this principle. No known law of physics contradicts space-time from expanding at any rate. You only need tremendous amounts of power to reach this result.
Disagree. For a developer, the whole point of computing in the cloud is to be familiar with it. To that end, a private cloud makes eminent sense. And "at scale" then means: 8 servers (HP MicroServer Gen8).
Yes. Very often, when offering to pay cash, I can get € 50 off on, say, a €1000 transaction. People don't get to see cash a lot anymore these days, but they sure **love** it. Which is another reason to use cash I have grown so accustomed to I didn't even include it in my list of more formal reasons.
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gotta change my indentation style and public void( String s1 ) whitespace habit, now the guvnmunt automagically can also get these out of binaries built from my code. O gawd, I'm afraid now.
Now for the rest of the EU. And for Facebook, Google et al.
Sounds like a typically American plan.
for Oracle to polish their image which, currently, is pretty bad in the social-and-responsible-enterprise area. Whether they'll really do something - I doubt it.
Amen ! There have been plans once, but they never came to anything, although Dan Simmons was optimistic about the whole thing. Think Kassad and his lover-in-a-simulation. Think of the Yggdrasil! Think Brawne Lamia with the Schrön loop harbouring Keats. Think fucking Martin bloody Silenus and his poetry !! Man... that is mouth-watering....
You, sir, have most obviously never been a soldier, and speak shit.
In the Foreign Legion missions in Chad and the Central African Republic I participated in, we had the French-produced VLRA for rough-terrain driving. The thing is incredibly rugged, and actually has a Perkins engine, initially built for small ships (!!). It features such niceties as a 200 liter water tank behind the rear axle, a compressor outlet for inflating tyres, and (as customized by the Legion) a pump between the two lateral fuel tanks. The enormous reserve wheels, one besides the driver and one on the other side, are as good as armour to protect people from small-caliber fire. I have seen some VLRAs stuck in deep sand, but that was more to drivers inexperienced with dune-driving than to anything else. I also remember a bunch of mechanics, in the bush at Awakaba, the hunting lodge of former Central African emperor Bokassa improvising a crane, from felled trees, to exchange an entire VLRA transmission in the middle of the deepest bush. In short: the things are unbeatable, and unbreakable. My point ? There are many, many scenarios where, as the USMC must have concluded, a good vehicle can be replaced by nothing else.
1) It is poor writing to say things like "...government agencies divorced from profit and loss, its primary task is really to provide pork barrel jobs, regardless of whether those jobs do anything useful or not..." in a slashdot post without giving the slightest data-based foundation for such an (obviously biased) statement
2) If the news is true, then it may provide some confirmation for the theory that EU sanctions are actually working, which would be good news. Please note my careful phrasing of this hypothesis.
Star Wars is not a movie anymore. It is a heavily marketed brand. It can't even qualify for the label "science fiction", compared to the truly good SF movies around. Heck, Interstellar is a lot better than that, even with the hole(s) in the plot and the "Amurrica yeah!" spirit. I mean - I'm an adult. You'd literally have to drag me to a Star Wars movie, kicking and screaming.
This is fucking awesome - to see a bad youth idea of 12-year old me (a boy in a village along the Rhine) turning into a piece of private artillery in the US. I actually got the idea, initially, from Scrooge McDuck, who once built a jay-cannon. It fired diamond jays to pierce the hull of his main opponent's submarine. I then thought "What could I fire?!?" As it was close to year's end, the only period of the year in which fireworks are legally sold in the Netherlands, and as this was 36 years back, I had access to amounts of black powder that, nowadays, would be considered insane (for a 12-year old, that is). I saw you in a discussion about security crazes, education and nanny-state, and won't go into that now. I will definitely remind you in spring ! BTW, ideas for other types of ammo: 1) balls of frozen applesauce, by using a calibrated mold (heck, you could even use a grenade-shaped mold) 2) Something we did in the Foreign Legion with exercise hand grenades, which were hollow and filled with talcum powder: we removed the talcum & filled them up with mayonnaise, mustard or ketchup. [ Favorite target: an open hatch on an armoured vehicle of the regular French cavalry. Jump, dump, duck, enjoy the cursing. ] Why not make a projectile that has a very thin scale at the front side, and fill it with whatever innocent impact-marker the food industry provides you with ?
Anyway, yes you're right: this needs to be done. Can't wait for the pics / vid / specs !
Wow yes - with a sabot you would get even better egg-to-barrel fitting (some of mine didn't go that far away because they wire slightly, like 1/2 mm, under caliber). You just need piping with a very thick wall, I'd say 5 mm at least. I am still amazed the thing didn't blow up in my face - I still have 2 eyes and 10 fingers, strangely enough. Moreover, my supply of firecrackers was limited to the buying power of my pocket and newspaper money. You could do a lot better :-P
I discovered one day that it is quite easy to get the black powder out of firecrackers. And that eggs are sold in two varieties: calibrated, and uncalibrated. And that medium-calibrated eggs fit perfectly inside of a piece of metal tubing klepto-ed from a construction site. So I froze a couple of dozen calibrated eggs at -30 degrees Celsius in my parents' freezer, and made a back-loader out of my metal tube, using tooling from my dad's workbench. The thing had a plug at the bottom made out of rolled-up gutter zinc, and a hole for the fuse (I re-used firecracker fuses.) I quickly realized that firing it at an angle could lob a frozen egg about 300 meters away. (And I also quickly discovered it was advisable to handle the thing with oven mitts, after the first shot.) I was the terror of the neigbourhood. Oh, and I was 12 years old. Somehow strange that I didn't end up as an artillery officer.
Kudos for "Repjblican". One character closer to "Replebejan". Or to "Re-publican".
That's how they do it in Oklahoma, one presumes ?
Which is a girlie hack, so to say.
Nukes are for wimps. Use a black hole. Only way to **really wipe things out. Including yourself, the whole planet and your dog.
This is in the style of the "old" slashdot. Real humour and innocuous sarcasm are vanishing past from /. these days.
If you stand up, bounce up and down a few times, and land heavily on your head - you'll knock that sand out of your vagina.
You do realize that you're ranting at someone on the internet, right? Yeah....
This one had me laugh out so hard I spilled coffee over the keyboard, and the dog came up to check my (in)sanity.
Volkswagen diesel engines.
Have you tried a singularity ? These things are reputed to dissolve anything.
Kein Bier ist auch keine Antwort, goes the German saying: "No beer isn't an answer, either".
Hm yes. Ethan has begun to publish on Forbes, and wants it to be known urbi & orbi. This is becoming annoying. OTOH, do not expect your feature request to be honoured. Not in these days. In the early /. days, it might have been. You're coming about 15 years late, alas.
I could be very wrong.
You're not. The idea for the Alcubierre drive is based upon this principle. No known law of physics contradicts space-time from expanding at any rate. You only need tremendous amounts of power to reach this result.
Disagree. For a developer, the whole point of computing in the cloud is to be familiar with it. To that end, a private cloud makes eminent sense. And "at scale" then means: 8 servers (HP MicroServer Gen8).
Yes. Very often, when offering to pay cash, I can get € 50 off on, say, a €1000 transaction. People don't get to see cash a lot anymore these days, but they sure **love** it. Which is another reason to use cash I have grown so accustomed to I didn't even include it in my list of more formal reasons.