over here at SIAST, there is a continual war on between the IT department and pretty much everyone else, especially the technology department.
one of the major points of battle is some of the sites that they end up blocking.
part of several of the lab work assignments requires posting the results to a personal website, usually a geocities page or something else free. and for some reason or another, IT keeps blocking those specific sites (not all of geocities, but the student's website on geocities). and the official process for getting them to unblock a site is unnecessarily long and complex, even for faculty.
thus the instructors with "i can't access this student's assignments" problems get genuinely pissed off when they practically get the finger from IT. it usually ends up with a battle Royal between the Dean of Technology and the head of IT.
it's gotten to the point where the instructors basically just give IT the same finger and go around the filters via Tor or similar methods.
Did she even ask for a continuation? If she just ignored the whole thing, of course she's going to get screwed. Perhaps she will find the cash for a lawyer who can help her appeal the ruling and get a temporary stay of the court ordered payment. At least then she might get to present a defense.
from the article When Katrina hit in August 2005, Bock's house was flooded and she moved temporarily to Texas before returning to Louisiana last June. Court papers that Scheff and her attorney David H. Pollack mailed to Bock were returned to Pollack's office in Miami.
she never got any of the court papers, so how in hell is she supposed to know when she was supposed to be in court?
I know it sucks to have to get a lawyer and show up in court, but when a defendant doesn't even show up, it sends a message to a jury who doesn't know the back story. If she showed up and talked about her Katrina issues the ruling could have gone a different way. Most times when a defendant doesn't even show up for court, juries interpret that as guilt.
well, she never got the summons (they were returned to the plaintiff's legal firm), so how in hell was she supposed to know that she was supposed to be in court?
Cough syrup is just a silly way of packaging medicine. You can get the same active ingredients in a tablet. You may have to look hard, because too many people believe that a cough tablet couldn't work. Then again, most people never even look at the active ingredients when buying medicine, something I find insane.
well, common thinking would hold that the cough syrup would work faster, as you wouldn't have to wait for it to disolve in the stomach acid, unlike with the tablet. though the differance would be a few minutes at most.
Also make sure nobody shits in your water source. This is where all this e. coli is coming from near San Juan Batista and Salinas. Evidently someone couldn't hold it to the porta-john.
the problem i usually see with water becoming contaminated is either
a. a screw up at the treatment plant (not enough clorine or something)
or
b. some extraordinarily stupid civic planner decided to put the sewage treatment plant upstream of the water treatment plant.
yes, but you're gonna run into problems with the little chip rather than your transceiver. exactly how much power do you think you can shove through them before the power dissipation fries the thing?
the limitation would be with the chip itself, not the transceiver on the other end.
it doesn't matter if you hijack a radio tower, you're only gonna get so much range out of the thing before power disapation (or lack therof) causes the little chip to fry.
hmm. I'd personally recommend Gparted over QTparted. I've had QT mess up some windows installations (usually when the drive is badly fragmented), though i have yet to have G screw up under anything short of a power loss while writing.
3. AI is neat, but wouldn't a human do a better job of understanding satire vs. real political threats, for instance?
i would suspect if these guys are smart, the AI would act as a very fast front-line analyser (read through everything and chuck the obviously irrelevant), then pass on what results it finds to a human for further analysis.
if i'm understanding it properly, the breathing fluid bit would not result in the ability to breathe under limitless gee forces, it merely raises the limit.
as you mentioned, at a certain point, pressure builds enough that the repirtory system cannot handle it and you get the same result as with air, just that you need higher pressure that with air.
unless I'm misunderstanding something, the fluid would simply prevent the normally air-filled lungs from having the air crushed out of them, since fluid wouldn't be compressible, so breathing would be able to continue normally.
and unless I'm completely missing something, the centrifugal force would deal with mass, not weight, so that centrifugal force would remain then same with the same result.
I'm thinking basically a tank of water with some say, ball bearings, in it, on the end of a spinning arm. you set the arm spinning, and all the bearings go to the outer side of the tank. and as the speed of the arm increases, the bearings have increasingly greater weight. substitute a person for the ball bearings, and eventually the weight becomes so great that they're basically crushed flat into their seat as the lower structure is unable to support the weight of the upper body and thus collapse.
The speed has nothing to do with it. Gravities are a unit of acceleration. They could probably accelerate a person in the same way with similar apparatus at a reasonable 2-3 gees, but it would take much longer before they had enough velocity to get out of the atmosphere.
but since we're going in a circle, speed would have a very important effect. the acceleration pushing you back in your seat (the 2-3 gees you mentioned) might not be harmful, but the centrifigural acceleration pushing you out from the centre of the circle could be, as going by the article, you'd be moving at about 28,000 kph, so i would imagine that force could be rather substantial.
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over here at SIAST, there is a continual war on between the IT department and pretty much everyone else, especially the technology department.
one of the major points of battle is some of the sites that they end up blocking.
part of several of the lab work assignments requires posting the results to a personal website, usually a geocities page or something else free. and for some reason or another, IT keeps blocking those specific sites (not all of geocities, but the student's website on geocities). and the official process for getting them to unblock a site is unnecessarily long and complex, even for faculty.
thus the instructors with "i can't access this student's assignments" problems get genuinely pissed off when they practically get the finger from IT. it usually ends up with a battle Royal between the Dean of Technology and the head of IT.
it's gotten to the point where the instructors basically just give IT the same finger and go around the filters via Tor or similar methods.
Did she even ask for a continuation? If she just ignored the whole thing, of course she's going to get screwed. Perhaps she will find the cash for a lawyer who can help her appeal the ruling and get a temporary stay of the court ordered payment. At least then she might get to present a defense.
from the article
When Katrina hit in August 2005, Bock's house was flooded and she moved temporarily to Texas before returning to Louisiana last June. Court papers that Scheff and her attorney David H. Pollack mailed to Bock were returned to Pollack's office in Miami.
she never got any of the court papers, so how in hell is she supposed to know when she was supposed to be in court?
I know it sucks to have to get a lawyer and show up in court, but when a defendant doesn't even show up, it sends a message to a jury who doesn't know the back story. If she showed up and talked about her Katrina issues the ruling could have gone a different way. Most times when a defendant doesn't even show up for court, juries interpret that as guilt.
well, she never got the summons (they were returned to the plaintiff's legal firm), so how in hell was she supposed to know that she was supposed to be in court?
1. AFAIK, none, unless she can appeal. i don't know very much about how the US civil system works.
2. likely
3. as much as they can
4. no. bankruptcy will not erase court-ordered payments, with this falls under, along with such things as child support.
5. extremely likely
Though, apparently some drug that works on prostrate cancer works really well to stop the bleading when injected into the eye.
unfortunately, that drug will only work on the "wet" macular degeneration, which only makes up about 10-15% of the cases.
the more common "dry" form currently doesn't really have a treatment at present.
Can someone please engineer hangover proof Alcohol?
there's a guy working on such a thing at the University of Bristol.
Cough syrup is just a silly way of packaging medicine. You can get the same active ingredients in a tablet. You may have to look hard, because too many people believe that a cough tablet couldn't work. Then again, most people never even look at the active ingredients when buying medicine, something I find insane.
well, common thinking would hold that the cough syrup would work faster, as you wouldn't have to wait for it to disolve in the stomach acid, unlike with the tablet. though the differance would be a few minutes at most.
Also make sure nobody shits in your water source. This is where all this e. coli is coming from near San Juan Batista and Salinas. Evidently someone couldn't hold it to the porta-john.
the problem i usually see with water becoming contaminated is either
a. a screw up at the treatment plant (not enough clorine or something)
or
b. some extraordinarily stupid civic planner decided to put the sewage treatment plant upstream of the water treatment plant.
yes, but you're gonna run into problems with the little chip rather than your transceiver. exactly how much power do you think you can shove through them before the power dissipation fries the thing?
the limitation would be with the chip itself, not the transceiver on the other end.
it doesn't matter if you hijack a radio tower, you're only gonna get so much range out of the thing before power disapation (or lack therof) causes the little chip to fry.
Since when has documenting who is entering the country been a breach of privacy?
that depends on what data is being documented, what that data is being used for, and who has access to that data.
TDM TLA!
SSE come across as worse. Streaming SIMD Extensions, or the full-long, Streaming Single-instruction-multiple-data Extensions. sheesh.
Incidentally, I have mod points, but "strait A's" needs either a "+1 Ironic" or a "-1 Moronic" moderation, and those options don't appear.
or English might be his second or third language.
Nobody is making you buy Vista.
except the boss.
No, but are the ONLY one who never read the EULA.
M$ has had this authority for decades!
Welcome to the party pal.
authority, yes.
means to (automatically) enforce it, no.
hmm. I'd personally recommend Gparted over QTparted. I've had QT mess up some windows installations (usually when the drive is badly fragmented), though i have yet to have G screw up under anything short of a power loss while writing.
ONCE? most windows users i know need to reinstall windows at least every 6 months to keep it running decently.
3. AI is neat, but wouldn't a human do a better job of understanding satire vs. real political threats, for instance?
i would suspect if these guys are smart, the AI would act as a very fast front-line analyser (read through everything and chuck the obviously irrelevant), then pass on what results it finds to a human for further analysis.
if i'm understanding it properly, the breathing fluid bit would not result in the ability to breathe under limitless gee forces, it merely raises the limit.
as you mentioned, at a certain point, pressure builds enough that the repirtory system cannot handle it and you get the same result as with air, just that you need higher pressure that with air.
unless I'm misunderstanding something, the fluid would simply prevent the normally air-filled lungs from having the air crushed out of them, since fluid wouldn't be compressible, so breathing would be able to continue normally.
and unless I'm completely missing something, the centrifugal force would deal with mass, not weight, so that centrifugal force would remain then same with the same result.
I'm thinking basically a tank of water with some say, ball bearings, in it, on the end of a spinning arm. you set the arm spinning, and all the bearings go to the outer side of the tank. and as the speed of the arm increases, the bearings have increasingly greater weight. substitute a person for the ball bearings, and eventually the weight becomes so great that they're basically crushed flat into their seat as the lower structure is unable to support the weight of the upper body and thus collapse.
or am i completely off base here?
The speed has nothing to do with it. Gravities are a unit of acceleration. They could probably accelerate a person in the same way with similar apparatus at a reasonable 2-3 gees, but it would take much longer before they had enough velocity to get out of the atmosphere.
but since we're going in a circle, speed would have a very important effect. the acceleration pushing you back in your seat (the 2-3 gees you mentioned) might not be harmful, but the centrifigural acceleration pushing you out from the centre of the circle could be, as going by the article, you'd be moving at about 28,000 kph, so i would imagine that force could be rather substantial.
Just fill the passenger compartment (and passenger's lungs) with an 02 saturated liquid and acceleration ceases to be an issue.
up to such point that you have enough force to crush the passenger's bones.
and add another 20 or so here!
well, i certainly like the looks of this, except for the support for the "life +70" copyright term, which is completely excessive IMO.