Disclaimer: I've met one- we were having lunch on the same table together, about two months ago.
As he puts it, they are "nothing more than glorified lab managers"- his type, I guess, since he is not running any classified military errands. A crew of three working in shifts around the clock is needed to maintain the ISS ("glorified janitors"), and that leaves room for three more people for extra tasks. Typically, when no tourist visitors are present, the remaining three of the crew work on a 'regular' 8-hour shift, formally complete with days off (e.g. during weekends). Tasks mostly include running experiments on board for third parties and, in theory, once their shift is over they can retire.
In practice, though, they do not get much free time since they do tend to feel a bit extra responsible for work, dedicating more time than it is asked for them to the experiments. Also, nobody on board misses an opportunity to get more hands-on experience on the interworkings of the ISS itself, since that can prove life-saving in case of an emergency. On top of that of course they need to excersize and, according to the one I met, the Russians are the best on maintaining their excersize routines, sometimes 3+ hours a day (also the smokers!)- other nationalities seem to not be prioritizing their work-out time much.
If I had any modpoints to spare, I'd appoint them to you. Finally some proper info!
Did the families of the Challenger and Columbia crew sue NASA? I wasn't aware of that.
No, but it were different times. It changed, people changed, they stopped caring about the greater good, it's all about the 'me' and 'now' nowadays. Things were different back then. Not always better, but certainly different.
The word 'lingua franca' literally means 'french language'.
Literally, yes. For everyone else:
lingua franca |li ng gw fra ng k| noun ( pl. lingua francas ) a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
historical a mixture of Italian with French, Greek, Arabic, and Spanish, formerly used in the Levant. ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from Italian, literally ‘Frankish tongue.’
Legalizing doesn't make the psychosis go away. In the Netherlands it's legal and there are plenty of fucked up people smoking themselves into an even more fucked up state, instead of dealing with their crap and getting on with their life without smoking.
Name one.
Sounds more like your prejudice and ignorance talking here, not experience.
Being in education, I've seen several students spiraling down. I used to think it was mostly harmless, but I've seen the festering side. Some pretty normal young people changing to dope-heads over the course of a few years.
But it's just my ignorance and prejudice talking probably, nothing to see here, move along.
They really do want to catch bad guys while not trampling civil rights, believe it or not.
Uh. No they don't. Believe it or not. They are not there for any kind of philosophical reason. Most cops don't know or care about philosophy any more than any members of a street gang. What they do know is what to say in order to fool gullible people like you into believing their bullshit. They are there because they love their job, which from their point of view is to beat the shit out of as many people as possible and maybe even occasionally get to shoot some. Don't ever, ever forget that they are not on your side, that they are not nice, and not your friend, and that they will turn on you as unpredictably as any wild animal.
And, unlike you, I actually have specific evidence for this.
An (unsupported) post on a message board does not equal 'evidence'.
The majority of police are violent, angry, sadistic thugs certainly no better than members of the most violent street gangs and that is how they should be treated if you value your life even a little.
Your opinion: not worth much. Look, as it stands you're sounding very delusional, you might want to work on that. IF what you claim can be backed up with some info, this would be a good moment to do so.
The problem with the police wearing body armor is that they are often ultra-violent, sadistic criminals themselves. If a cop comes to your house with the intent to kill you (a possibility that I may soon personally face)
Somehow I get the feeling that a majority of/.readers will fail to take this as a reasonable display of reality.
My son still doesn't know on what platform to download, he never saw it coming:) More important: he now knows that it's fairly reasonable to pay for things one enjoys.
It would kill a distribution channel. That's an industry that's worth a lot. "Let's distribute all content digitally!" You'll find several angry truckers and their managers on your doorstep.
Sophos works well enough. Free and enough configuration options imho. ClamXav is there as well but only there for when something suspicious is going on AND sophos unexpectedly stops working.
>Carry a flask of liquor, and if stopped, pretend to take a drink before the cop reaches the door. Is it legal to have an open container of an alcoholic liquid in the drivers' compartment?
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1750410854.png Paying like 70 us-dollars a month for this (never discovered a cap) including a pretty smart tv and phone triple-play. I love Canada but this research is plain wrong.
What is your home backup strategy? External media, or send it to another location? How often, and full, differential or incremental?
I liked your book:)
If you're going to bring Star Trek TV episodes into this, wasn't Geordi able to save the day on a weekly basis by reversing the polarity of something and re-routing it through the main deflector? Oh and young Wesley Crusher seemed fond of reversing the polarity of just about everything he touched.
*coughs*
Young Wesley has a/.-account nowadays, you know...
There is no "secret blacklist", PayPal/eBay uses information from the same database the FBI has, I forget the name, but you are f**ked if you ever attempt fraud. Hence, if you commited fraud (which can be as little as charging back paypal once) once, anytime since the database started, you're blacklisted until you resolve every last one of those incidents.
It's no different from credit tracking companies keeping track of your fraudulent activity (eg, non-pay)
It just so happens that India, like China, Thailand and Romania is a high electronic-payment fraud country.
Some Indians probably figured out how to game the system to not have to pay fees, and when enough people started doing it, PayPal caught on and started freezing accounts that ever did business with them.
And based on how "freezing" accounts was explained in training materials when this first started being implemented, it sounded like an absolute win against fraud. No more people getting ripped off from fraudulent paypal accounts. The tradeoff being that every single person that fits the freezing pattern (see my first point) is going to be frozen, every time.
So it seems like someone flagged "if in india and $secret variable==true, freeze account." I'd be willing to bet that someone put = instead of == in the filter scheme.
Too bad you posted anonymous, it really seems to make sense. Bumping up.
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What the purpose of astronauts is these days?
Disclaimer: I've met one- we were having lunch on the same table together, about two months ago.
As he puts it, they are "nothing more than glorified lab managers"- his type, I guess, since he is not running any classified military errands. A crew of three working in shifts around the clock is needed to maintain the ISS ("glorified janitors"), and that leaves room for three more people for extra tasks. Typically, when no tourist visitors are present, the remaining three of the crew work on a 'regular' 8-hour shift, formally complete with days off (e.g. during weekends). Tasks mostly include running experiments on board for third parties and, in theory, once their shift is over they can retire.
In practice, though, they do not get much free time since they do tend to feel a bit extra responsible for work, dedicating more time than it is asked for them to the experiments. Also, nobody on board misses an opportunity to get more hands-on experience on the interworkings of the ISS itself, since that can prove life-saving in case of an emergency. On top of that of course they need to excersize and, according to the one I met, the Russians are the best on maintaining their excersize routines, sometimes 3+ hours a day (also the smokers!)- other nationalities seem to not be prioritizing their work-out time much.
If I had any modpoints to spare, I'd appoint them to you. Finally some proper info!
Did the families of the Challenger and Columbia crew sue NASA? I wasn't aware of that.
No, but it were different times. It changed, people changed, they stopped caring about the greater good, it's all about the 'me' and 'now' nowadays. Things were different back then. Not always better, but certainly different.
Wouldn't it much more fun for the Chinese if they hid the flags and claimed the moon landings had all been faked?
I chuckled very sincerely, thank you :)
I'm gonna steal it, by the way.
The word 'lingua franca' literally means 'french language'.
Literally, yes. For everyone else:
lingua franca |li ng gw fra ng k|
noun ( pl. lingua francas )
a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
historical a mixture of Italian with French, Greek, Arabic, and Spanish, formerly used in the Levant.
ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from Italian, literally ‘Frankish tongue.’
Legalizing doesn't make the psychosis go away. In the Netherlands it's legal and there are plenty of fucked up people smoking themselves into an even more fucked up state, instead of dealing with their crap and getting on with their life without smoking.
Name one.
Sounds more like your prejudice and ignorance talking here, not experience.
Being in education, I've seen several students spiraling down. I used to think it was mostly harmless, but I've seen the festering side. Some pretty normal young people changing to dope-heads over the course of a few years.
But it's just my ignorance and prejudice talking probably, nothing to see here, move along.
'Space Cadet', 'Rocket Ship Galileo', 'Have Space Suit Will Travel' etc etc.
Excellent, read them later in life but still enjoyed them. Too bad my son is more into ww2-games :(
They really do want to catch bad guys while not trampling civil rights, believe it or not.
Uh. No they don't. Believe it or not. They are not there for any kind of philosophical reason. Most cops don't know or care about philosophy any more than any members of a street gang. What they do know is what to say in order to fool gullible people like you into believing their bullshit. They are there because they love their job, which from their point of view is to beat the shit out of as many people as possible and maybe even occasionally get to shoot some. Don't ever, ever forget that they are not on your side, that they are not nice, and not your friend, and that they will turn on you as unpredictably as any wild animal.
And, unlike you, I actually have specific evidence for this.
An (unsupported) post on a message board does not equal 'evidence'.
The majority of police are violent, angry, sadistic thugs certainly no better than members of the most violent street gangs and that is how they should be treated if you value your life even a little.
Your opinion: not worth much. Look, as it stands you're sounding very delusional, you might want to work on that. IF what you claim can be backed up with some info, this would be a good moment to do so.
The problem with the police wearing body armor is that they are often ultra-violent, sadistic criminals themselves. If a cop comes to your house with the intent to kill you (a possibility that I may soon personally face)
Somehow I get the feeling that a majority of /.readers will fail to take this as a reasonable display of reality.
Java was not created at Stanford. It was created by Gosling at Sun.
I understand the mix-up: SUN = Stanford University Network.
I dunno why Russia is on that list, since population-wise it's more than twice as small as US.
My bad, I still think of Russia as 'that-what-we-used-to-call-the-ussr'-big. About 300.000.000 of people. But here's a proper list, http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+by+country.
Don't listen for your own thoughts. Listen for God's.
Two things: my heart has no ears, and God does not exist. Please come with something that DOES NOT INCLUDE its own requirement of proof.
"So, just from the sheer size of the US there are many more good students in absolute numbers than most other of the top 20 nations, combined!"
Yup, now think of India, China or Russia. They're cheaper as well. Scared yet?
My son still doesn't know on what platform to download, he never saw it coming :)
More important: he now knows that it's fairly reasonable to pay for things one enjoys.
It would kill a distribution channel. That's an industry that's worth a lot. "Let's distribute all content digitally!" You'll find several angry truckers and their managers on your doorstep.
Sophos works well enough. Free and enough configuration options imho. ClamXav is there as well but only there for when something suspicious is going on AND sophos unexpectedly stops working.
>Carry a flask of liquor, and if stopped, pretend to take a drink before the cop reaches the door.
Is it legal to have an open container of an alcoholic liquid in the drivers' compartment?
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1750410854.png Paying like 70 us-dollars a month for this (never discovered a cap) including a pretty smart tv and phone triple-play. I love Canada but this research is plain wrong.
What is your home backup strategy? External media, or send it to another location? How often, and full, differential or incremental? I liked your book :)
Well spoken, sir.
If you're going to bring Star Trek TV episodes into this, wasn't Geordi able to save the day on a weekly basis by reversing the polarity of something and re-routing it through the main deflector? Oh and young Wesley Crusher seemed fond of reversing the polarity of just about everything he touched.
*coughs* /.-account nowadays, you know...
Young Wesley has a
Then I guess he would be
*puts on sun glasses*
beaten at his own game.
YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!
There is no "secret blacklist", PayPal/eBay uses information from the same database the FBI has, I forget the name, but you are f**ked if you ever attempt fraud. Hence, if you commited fraud (which can be as little as charging back paypal once) once, anytime since the database started, you're blacklisted until you resolve every last one of those incidents.
It's no different from credit tracking companies keeping track of your fraudulent activity (eg, non-pay)
It just so happens that India, like China, Thailand and Romania is a high electronic-payment fraud country.
Some Indians probably figured out how to game the system to not have to pay fees, and when enough people started doing it, PayPal caught on and started freezing accounts that ever did business with them.
And based on how "freezing" accounts was explained in training materials when this first started being implemented, it sounded like an absolute win against fraud. No more people getting ripped off from fraudulent paypal accounts. The tradeoff being that every single person that fits the freezing pattern (see my first point) is going to be frozen, every time.
So it seems like someone flagged "if in india and $secret variable==true, freeze account." I'd be willing to bet that someone put = instead of == in the filter scheme.
Too bad you posted anonymous, it really seems to make sense. Bumping up.
I am stunned. A internet bank transfer costs zero in Australia. How do your banks get away with such charges?
There is of course a bit of a charge, but that is distributed among other costs and will be approx. 20 cents per transaction. Anything more is theft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#Sales
Too bad the Dutch hire Germans and Italians for their water management projects now.
Or their own royalty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem-Alexander,_Prince_of_Orange