What's it got to do with BP? [dailymail.co.uk] The rig was owned and operated by a company called Transocean. BP (and others) just leased it off them to do the drilling (and no BP employee was involved in the actual work).
I assume you've never heard of due diligence? If BP leased it from TransOcean, BP is just as guilty, if not more so, than TransOcean. BP has the duty to ensure the rig is operated safely, unless TransOcean was actively lying to BP about how things were going (and we know that's not the case, as BP was making the majority of the "safety" decisions).
If I worked at a bank and our Online Banking software went tits-up and, in the process, royally screwed up every customer's bank account balances, I wouldn't say "Oh, well that software is actually just licensed from some other company, go complain at them". WRONG. The bank's name is all over the Online Banking product, they touted it as "theirs". BP owns this mess.
When I was in high school and had trouble remembering my locker combo, I'd just write it in octal (not as easy to spot as hex) on a sticker and stick it to my locker.
Actually, the term "breakage" comes from even *before* vinyl records. Records were made out of shellac from the late 1800s all the way until the end of the 1950s (when 78s went out of style). Shellac was much more prone to cracking/snapping than vinyl. They did make "unbreakable" shellac records with some weird backing material or something, but the sound quality was awful.
So yeah, breakage hasn't really applied in a LOOOOOOONG time.
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Me (30). I had a chem set in the last 80s, used it to make oxygen and sulfuric acid, of course. The latter made a really big pit on the work surface in my Dad's solid steel table-saw. He was pretty pissed about that.:)
If you aren't 100% sure what you want, then you don't want a tat bad enough to get one. --------------- Or, don't go to tattoo parlors who employee crappy artists while drunk. I think that's the lesson I learned from your story.
"Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice since Neolithic times. "Ötzi the Iceman", dated circa 3300 BC, bearing 57 tattoos: a cross on the inside of the left knee, six straight lines 15 centimeters long above the kidneys and numerous small parallel lines along the lumbar, legs and the ankles, exhibiting possible therapeutic tattoos (treatment of arthritis). Tarim Basin (West China, Xinjiang) revealed several tattooed mummies of a Western (Western Asian/European) physical type. Still relatively unknown (the only current publications in Western languages are those of J P. Mallory and V H. Mair, The Tarim Mummies, London, 2000), some of them could date from the end of the 2nd millennium BC."
Boy, that is one long-lived fad! If only slap-bracelets, pogs, and pet rocks had lasted that long.....
It's just tracking with the camera. You'll notice that the image stays the same (you don't get to see the "top" of the TIE fighter) when they go up and down with the camera.
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:) Kudos to you, parent!
Considering we're still in the first decade of the 21st century (and will be until 1/1/2011), I don't think so.
There was no year 0! The new millennium didn't start until 1/1/2001! Pedants unite!
I believe it's: "One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't...belong."
Flashbacks of early 80s Sesame Street. :)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Time_Travel_Method-2.svg
"GOVERNMENT R BAD, CORPORATIONS R BAD"
The people who say that:
a) Aren't nutjobs
b) Sure as hell aren't political conservatives
Not blaming Windows here. But WTF? Who (in their right mind) uses a 12 yo OS to run mission critical operations?
Ah, but the devil you know is better than the devil you don't, even if the latter might be slightly less evil.
What's it got to do with BP? [dailymail.co.uk] The rig was owned and operated by a company called Transocean. BP (and others) just leased it off them to do the drilling (and no BP employee was involved in the actual work).
I assume you've never heard of due diligence? If BP leased it from TransOcean, BP is just as guilty, if not more so, than TransOcean. BP has the duty to ensure the rig is operated safely, unless TransOcean was actively lying to BP about how things were going (and we know that's not the case, as BP was making the majority of the "safety" decisions).
If I worked at a bank and our Online Banking software went tits-up and, in the process, royally screwed up every customer's bank account balances, I wouldn't say "Oh, well that software is actually just licensed from some other company, go complain at them". WRONG. The bank's name is all over the Online Banking product, they touted it as "theirs". BP owns this mess.
So eisbock isn't a beer? The Germans would disagree with you...
I pity the fool that deviates from the route I calculated!
When I was in high school and had trouble remembering my locker combo, I'd just write it in octal (not as easy to spot as hex) on a sticker and stick it to my locker.
Don't forget the coal mine! :)
Actually, the term "breakage" comes from even *before* vinyl records. Records were made out of shellac from the late 1800s all the way until the end of the 1950s (when 78s went out of style). Shellac was much more prone to cracking/snapping than vinyl. They did make "unbreakable" shellac records with some weird backing material or something, but the sound quality was awful.
So yeah, breakage hasn't really applied in a LOOOOOOONG time.
But I happen to make one part of my income with music...
Mistake #1.
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/jacket/jacketrequest.jsp
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So wait, are we still talking about Harley riders or not?
Me (30). I had a chem set in the last 80s, used it to make oxygen and sulfuric acid, of course. The latter made a really big pit on the work surface in my Dad's solid steel table-saw. He was pretty pissed about that. :)
IN GermaNY!
Holy fuck do I love that movie.
Thanks for the substantive correction. *eye roll*
My guess: Travelling Salesman died.
Nah, I think the Seven Bridges of Königsberg collapsed.
Ask and ye shall receive:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/science-tattoo-emporium/?nggpage=22&pid=127
If you aren't 100% sure what you want, then you don't want a tat bad enough to get one.
---------------
Or, don't go to tattoo parlors who employee crappy artists while drunk. I think that's the lesson I learned from your story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tattooing
"Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice since Neolithic times. "Ötzi the Iceman", dated circa 3300 BC, bearing 57 tattoos: a cross on the inside of the left knee, six straight lines 15 centimeters long above the kidneys and numerous small parallel lines along the lumbar, legs and the ankles, exhibiting possible therapeutic tattoos (treatment of arthritis). Tarim Basin (West China, Xinjiang) revealed several tattooed mummies of a Western (Western Asian/European) physical type. Still relatively unknown (the only current publications in Western languages are those of J P. Mallory and V H. Mair, The Tarim Mummies, London, 2000), some of them could date from the end of the 2nd millennium BC."
Boy, that is one long-lived fad! If only slap-bracelets, pogs, and pet rocks had lasted that long.....
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Gospers_glider_gun.gif
Pick a frame.
So, what "well-regulated militia" are you part of?
It's just tracking with the camera. You'll notice that the image stays the same (you don't get to see the "top" of the TIE fighter) when they go up and down with the camera.