The port’s limits extend geographically from Caloundra to the southern tip of Moreton Island, including the 90km shipping channel, which is dredged to a minimum of 15m LAT (Lowest Astronomical Tide). Our responsibility extends 16km up the Brisbane River to Breakfast Creek.
Port of Brisbane is the shipping port of Brisbane, on the east coast of Australia. It is located in the lower reaches of the Brisbane River on reclaimed land that was once called Fisherman's Island at the mouth of the river. It currently is the third busiest port in Australia and the nation's fastest growing container port. It includes the main shipping channel across the Moreton Bay which extends 90 km north to Mooloolaba and is dredged to maintain a depth fourteen metres at the lowest tide.
Last I checked, all eight of the appendages were called "arms", all of which can and are used for propulsion (c.f. the video in TFA) as well as manipulation of objects and a range of other uses.
A 2006 study by researchers at the University of Minnesota involving a poll of 2,000 households in the United States found atheists to be the most distrusted of minorities, more so than Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians, and other groups. Many of the respondents associated atheism with immorality, including criminal behaviour, extreme materialism, and elitism.
The most recent ARIS report, released March 9, 2009, found in 2008, 34.2 million Americans (15.0%) claim no religion. Of which, 1.6% explicitly describe themselves as atheist or agnostic
Guess I'm going to keep quiet about my atheist ways next time I'm in the U.S.
It's dreamy weather we're on You waved your crooked wand Along an icy pond with a frozen moon A murder of silhouette crows I saw And the tears on my face And the skates on the pond They spell Alice
1 April 1945: Six "Bettys" attack the U.S. Fleet off Okinawa. At least one makes a successful attack, with its Ohka hitting one of the 406 mm (16 in) turrets on West Virginia, causing moderate damage.
12 April 1945: Nine "Bettys" attack the U.S. Fleet off Okinawa. Mannert L. Abele is hit, breaks in two, and sinks. Witnessed by LSMR-189 CO James M. Stewart. Jeffers destroys an Ohka with AA fire 45 m (50 yd) from the ship, but the resulting explosion is still powerful enough to cause extensive damage, forcing Jeffers to withdraw. Stanly is targeted by two Ohkas. One strikes just above the waterline, with the charge punching through the other side of the hull before detonating, causing little damage to the ship, and the other Ohka narrowly missed and crashed into the sea, knocking off the Stanly's ensign in the process
4 May 1945: Seven "Bettys" attack the U.S. Fleet off Okinawa. One Ohka hits the bridge of Shea, causing extensive damage and casualties. Gayety is also damaged by a near-miss by an Ohka. One "Betty" returns.
11 May 1945: Four "Bettys" attack the U.S. Fleet off Okinawa. Hugh W. Hadley is hit, suffers extensive damage and flooding. Vessel judged beyond repair.
Ah, the fear of the unknown. Yes, a classic. "I don't understand it, and I don't believe that they do either".
I've got news for you; this is as good (or should i say precise) model of these things as you are going to get right now. It's the cutting edge of our understanding of how MBHs work, and _that_ understanding in turn depends on a quite large, quite solid foundation of math and physics.
Reminds me of a funny couple of lines in a funny book series I've read a few times:
"Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?" "How much?" said Arthur. "None at all," said Mr Prosser.
No, no, it's absolutely not a "girl thing". There's plenty of guys that are embarrased about how they look in a gym outfit or in a pair of swimming trunks, and therefore do not go to the gym or the pool.
Exercising next to all the ripped guys by the mirrors is intimidating for us guys as well.
You have hindered our work for the last time, uid 1188877. You will not be allowed to do so again. When you hear the knock on your door, do not make a scene, resistance is useless.
It's unlikely that Warhammer would implement this - there's no easy lines to draw between free-to-play and subscriber content in that game.
As an aside, with the 1.3.2 patch 2/3rds of the Tier one (read: starter) content will be closed off or made more difficult to get access to - the RvR areas in High Elves vs Dark Elves and Dwarf vs Greenskin areas will be unflagged for RvR, all players will start in Empire vs Chaos area and the RvR area there will be the only one active.
It's the first time I've heard of a MMO closing off content instead of adding new content. All in the name of a "better new user experience". I guess numbers of new players are so low it doesn't make sense having them spread around three zones...
The most interesting part of Star Trek, and one that is rarely directly explored, but simply hinted at, is how would a society be if almost all physical needs can be supplied almost for free?
Many modern (and a surprisingly large number also Scottish) SF writers have explored these settings. Iain M. Banks The Culture series for example, as well as Ken Macleod's Fall Revolution series and Charles Stross own Eschaton series.
There seems to be a lot of good Scottish SF writers about these days, and most of them seem to have written at least one series about post-scarcity socialist cultures.
The programming language is COBOL, COmmon Business Oriented Language, as you would've known if you really did use it instead of making one-liners on Slashdot, you young whippersnapper.
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The port’s limits extend geographically from Caloundra to the southern tip of Moreton Island, including the 90km shipping channel, which is dredged to a minimum of 15m LAT (Lowest Astronomical Tide). Our responsibility extends 16km up the Brisbane River to Breakfast Creek.
source: Port of Brisbane
Port of Brisbane is the shipping port of Brisbane, on the east coast of Australia. It is located in the lower reaches of the Brisbane River on reclaimed land that was once called Fisherman's Island at the mouth of the river. It currently is the third busiest port in Australia and the nation's fastest growing container port. It includes the main shipping channel across the Moreton Bay which extends 90 km north to Mooloolaba and is dredged to maintain a depth fourteen metres at the lowest tide.
Last I checked, all eight of the appendages were called "arms", all of which can and are used for propulsion (c.f. the video in TFA) as well as manipulation of objects and a range of other uses.
I hesitate to even say it, but yeah, after the greatly stupid $RTBL purge, no mod points for me either.
Same here, haven't seen a mod point since that debacle.
+1 funny
Interesting link there, thanks.
A 2006 study by researchers at the University of Minnesota involving a poll of 2,000 households in the United States found atheists to be the most distrusted of minorities, more so than Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians, and other groups. Many of the respondents associated atheism with immorality, including criminal behaviour, extreme materialism, and elitism.
The most recent ARIS report, released March 9, 2009, found in 2008, 34.2 million Americans (15.0%) claim no religion. Of which, 1.6% explicitly describe themselves as atheist or agnostic
Guess I'm going to keep quiet about my atheist ways next time I'm in the U.S.
It's dreamy weather we're on
You waved your crooked wand
Along an icy pond with a frozen moon
A murder of silhouette crows I saw
And the tears on my face
And the skates on the pond
They spell Alice
- Tom Waits, Alice
Life ain't easy for a boy named "Sue"
Oh, you're in IT.
Sorry you don't have a shiny title to distinguish yourself from the lowly CPU-fixers and computer janitors, but there you go.
You're in IT. Face it. You're in IT. No way around it, might as well say it with me: You're in IT.
I'm not sure it would be that obvious. Apparently Deanna Troi wore black contacts for all of TNG (as did other betazoids) and I can't say I noticed.
"Hey! Up here!"
Small wonder you missed it...
I get a warm, fuzzy feeling knowing that the program they're using to analyze the collisions is called "Fireworks" :)
I don't think they did very well - I seem to recall reading that not one was ever used successfully.
They were used successfully (from the wikipedia article):
1 April 1945: Six "Bettys" attack the U.S. Fleet off Okinawa. At least one makes a successful attack, with its Ohka hitting one of the 406 mm (16 in) turrets on West Virginia, causing moderate damage.
12 April 1945: Nine "Bettys" attack the U.S. Fleet off Okinawa. Mannert L. Abele is hit, breaks in two, and sinks. Witnessed by LSMR-189 CO James M. Stewart. Jeffers destroys an Ohka with AA fire 45 m (50 yd) from the ship, but the resulting explosion is still powerful enough to cause extensive damage, forcing Jeffers to withdraw. Stanly is targeted by two Ohkas. One strikes just above the waterline, with the charge punching through the other side of the hull before detonating, causing little damage to the ship, and the other Ohka narrowly missed and crashed into the sea, knocking off the Stanly's ensign in the process
4 May 1945: Seven "Bettys" attack the U.S. Fleet off Okinawa. One Ohka hits the bridge of Shea, causing extensive damage and casualties. Gayety is also damaged by a near-miss by an Ohka. One "Betty" returns.
11 May 1945: Four "Bettys" attack the U.S. Fleet off Okinawa. Hugh W. Hadley is hit, suffers extensive damage and flooding. Vessel judged beyond repair.
Ah, the fear of the unknown. Yes, a classic. "I don't understand it, and I don't believe that they do either".
I've got news for you; this is as good (or should i say precise) model of these things as you are going to get right now. It's the cutting edge of our understanding of how MBHs work, and _that_ understanding in turn depends on a quite large, quite solid foundation of math and physics.
So please, this isn't speculation, it's SCIENCE.
No no, I didn't. I just wondered if I'd missed some oceans drying up or something. You never know...
That's good to know.
As an aside, freshwater lakes and rivers cover less than 1% of the Earth (0.017% was a figure I saw).
But I'm impressed with the quality of information coming from your, er, thin air. Must be handy, that :)
Reminds me of a funny couple of lines in a funny book series I've read a few times:
"Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?"
"How much?" said Arthur.
"None at all," said Mr Prosser.
65% of the earth's surface is water
65%? Did something change lately? I've never seen a figure that low before, it's always been around the 70-75% mark.
Wikipedia has it at 70.8% water, so I'm curious as to where your 65% figure came from?
I wouldn't recommend skipping meals, it's pretty much the opposite of what you need to do if you want to lose weight.
Eat less each meal, yes, but also snack between meals on something healthy to keep your metabolism going.
Less caloric intace and more exercise is the only way to reliably and healthily lose weight - and be able to sustain your new weight afterwards.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say all diets are doomed to failure, the only thing that will work is to change your lifestyle.
Do not diet. Change your lifestyle. Yeah, it's a nice soundbite, I'll go with that :)
Course, this may be more of a girl thing.
No, no, it's absolutely not a "girl thing". There's plenty of guys that are embarrased about how they look in a gym outfit or in a pair of swimming trunks, and therefore do not go to the gym or the pool.
Exercising next to all the ripped guys by the mirrors is intimidating for us guys as well.
I have a coworker who IS actually named John Conner
Too bad the character in the movie is called John Connor, not Conner.
You have hindered our work for the last time, uid 1188877. You will not be allowed to do so again. When you hear the knock on your door, do not make a scene, resistance is useless.
Thank you,
/theAlienConspiracy of 69968 and 78285
Just evil.
I wonder who else will follow suit (Warhammer?).
It's unlikely that Warhammer would implement this - there's no easy lines to draw between free-to-play and subscriber content in that game.
As an aside, with the 1.3.2 patch 2/3rds of the Tier one (read: starter) content will be closed off or made more difficult to get access to - the RvR areas in High Elves vs Dark Elves and Dwarf vs Greenskin areas will be unflagged for RvR, all players will start in Empire vs Chaos area and the RvR area there will be the only one active.
It's the first time I've heard of a MMO closing off content instead of adding new content. All in the name of a "better new user experience". I guess numbers of new players are so low it doesn't make sense having them spread around three zones...
The most interesting part of Star Trek, and one that is rarely directly explored, but simply hinted at, is how would a society be if almost all physical needs can be supplied almost for free?
Many modern (and a surprisingly large number also Scottish) SF writers have explored these settings. Iain M. Banks The Culture series for example, as well as Ken Macleod's Fall Revolution series and Charles Stross own Eschaton series.
There seems to be a lot of good Scottish SF writers about these days, and most of them seem to have written at least one series about post-scarcity socialist cultures.
I use COBAL you insensitive clod.
COBAL? Compania Bananera Atlantica Ltda?
The programming language is COBOL, COmmon Business Oriented Language, as you would've known if you really did use it instead of making one-liners on Slashdot, you young whippersnapper.
Now get off my lawn!