Well, as an former US Army Ranger, Airborne(with 700+ jumps), I'm going to side with 'Just Some Guy'(3352) on this. Gravity is a fact. In my experience, it always 'just works'. I have never seen anything denser than air fall up.
Serious scientists now believe our understanding of what gravity may be either incomplete, or simply wrong.
[emphasis mine*]
That statement I will heartily second/endorse! Relativity Theory goes a ways towards a very basic limited grasp of the 'surface' aspects of gravity, but not much more than that.
The observable evidence in no way contest the existence of gravity as a fact.(thus, the Law of Gravity) Now explaining how gravity works...we're still just making semi-educated guesses.(forming hypothesis-test, form theories-test, etc.) We seem to have a ways to go, but we're going!
*BTW, I don't understand why you included this word. It makes it sound like either you or physicists are just figuring out that we do not understand how gravity works. That lack of understanding has been known for a long time.:-)
My experience has led me to believe that it is not a binary choice, but a reasoned mix.
It boils down to making it easier to do the 'right' thing, and harder to do the 'wrong' thing.* As a parent, you learn fairly quickly when a verbal 'No!' works, and when it will not. Punishment, or 'harder to do the wrong thing' does not have to be consistently verbal or physical, but you are so very right as to needing to be immediately applied to form the association.
While I understand we consider ourselves more advanced and enlightened than other species, we are still part of the animal kingdom, and subject to the same survival enhancement hardwiring shared by most mammals.
For an interesting experience, just watch a mother/offspring group(or family/pack/herd) behavior. The mothers and/or adults are quick and decisive with meting out 'discouragement' of unwanted behavior on the youngsters. Does not matter if it is a herd animal, predator, or opportunist, it's pretty consistent.
*Technique popularized by an old retired cowboy(life long career) named Fay E. Ward for 'breaking'(training) working ranch horses. He was by no means the first, but he spread the word to his peers effectively.
I would like to humbly suggest you may have left out the 'take your piggy bank, and raid the cookie jar' between 'run inside' and 'burn down the house'.
Just sayin'...But your version fits the original statement much better.
One of the arguments made FTFA(made in defense of the Libel Law): Once initially published online, it's instantly available globally in unlimited supply.[paraphrase]
It seems to be an issue of scale, and exposure rate that they are trying to address.
Your library scenario is a limited, local, low exposure rate issue. You have limited access to a limited audience to spread the content(or 'publish' in the Libel Law's terms).
Post('publish') that same thing online, and the potential audience and exposure rate multiplies tremendously.
There also seems to be this trend of 'x on the internet/a computer' is a new, scary thing and 'x in the real world is okay, cause we are used to it' mentality infecting the politicians and the masses.
Maybe I'm wrong here, but doesn't it make more sense to get everyone trying to fight this virus/bot/whatever early rather than wait?
Yes, it does make more sense, but will never happen. Until you can get more than a handful of Windows users to actually know and care about these issues, it will stay in this same state of sorry affairs. Just three things are keeping this crap going: 1. MS market share guarantees a large fat market for malware authors 2. Typical Windows user does not want bothered with hassles and having to think about updates, configurations, antivirus, etc. 3. The typical users want their computing appliance to 'just work', and don't want to be bothered to learn the proper care and use of their tools.* 4. 'Mouse Monkey' conditioning has reached the point that most users will click on anything that pops up to get their banana.
*Any other profession, craftsmen/workers are required to know how to properly use and maintain their 'tools of the trade', but this is hand-waved for computers?...Why?!?!?
As for the '...get everyone trying to fight this virus/bot/whatever early...' bit, I hardly think that is 'everyones' concern...just everyone running Windows. Me? I've been running Ubuntu/Kubuntu exclusively since 5.04- four years ago, so your 'get an early start on this' idea is old news...How has that worked?(re: 1-4 above)
There's no weathering on the moon; the "soil" is dust and grit with very sharp points and edges.[...] The point is, you'd have to process your lunar resource of choice somehow; you can't use it "straight up."
I was wondering about that myself. I also would think the fine dust that is present in large amounts would cause something similar to 'root rot' due to lack of air space between the soil granules/particles. Once that fine dust becomes wet, it will pack tightly. I think this could pose a significant problem under low gravity conditions.
We may have to also rethink some of our 'dirt working' techniques. Most of our soil processing and our 'earth-moving' equipment/machinery utilizes both gravity and kinetic effects. Low gravity will have an effect here. Having lived on a farm, and operated front-end loaders and dozers, I do have a little practical experience with both growing plants and 'dirt work'.
But, botany and geology are not my fields, so I may be just chasing my tail here.
Pick up a copy of "Improvised Munitions Handbook" for all of your propellant, explosive, incendiary, and destructive device needs! It is US Army TM 31-210, circa 1969.(don't know if it still issued/used- I was issued my copy in 1977) You can find a copy online at cryptome in both html(4.2 MB) and pdf(4.4 MB) zipped files.
From the book: This work is in the public domain. The original work was created by U.S. Federal Government employees in their official capacity. Therefore by United States Code, title 17, section 105, it is not subject to copyright.
BIG DISCLAIMER!!!!:Most of the 'recipes' in this manual are Extremely Dangerous to actually make and use. I heartily do not recommend trying these. Intended for educational/entertainment use only.
...to shut down the child porn network itself? I can imagine an argument that although she wasn't harmed in the taking of these pictures, these pictures do harm society by supplying material to a network of people that do harm children.
*IANAL* I would guess this is probably close to the DA's plan of attack if he gets called on it.
I see it as a 'get re-elected' grandstanding stunt. This will just end up on his campaign statistics as another of the 'I prosecuted x number of child pr0n cases this year'. It won't matter for his campaigning whether or not any of these cases ever see a court room...just padding the stats for his campaign in May.
I would hope that the judge tosses him and these cases out of the courtroom, with a stern rebuke for wasting the court's time, and the taxpayers money.
Way to miss the entire point...just to be cranky, I have to assume.
It was obviously not an example of what could happen to you for taking pictures of your naked infant, but that some people actually considered this child pr0n, and called the cops on the parents.
I don't know how large a rocky planet can get, but it's entirely possible to theorize of a bloody massive exoplanet made largely of iron dive-bombing a star.
Has something like this been modeled, or predicted? (IANAP, but astrophysics has always been one of my interests)
I have tried imagining how that would actually work out, but get overwhelmed trying to research that.
Would it ever actually make contact with the star? I can picture it getting close, then vaporized...but then what? Does the 'gas cloud'(that used to be the planet) get pulled in the rest of the way, or does it get pushed out from the expansion?
If the planet actually makes it to the star's surface, does it just get swallowed? If so, is there a forceful displacement of equivalent star mass? Or does it just swallow it and 'burp' some mass? Or...
Too many questions without answers(I can find) for me to grasp this.
Any answers or links that would help enlighten me here would be appreciated!
Yes! I suggest bombardment with politicians for the first strike.
With all of their hot-air spewing, running around like beheaded chickens, the denseness of their skulls, so full of shite, etc...Now that's an infusion that could keep the sun going for a loooong time.
If that turns out to be not enough, then we start with RIAA lawyers. That should do the trick!
Yes, a person going through puberty(13 year old girl==hormonal change), caught with ibuprofen/Midol(tm,), should be executed without cause.(cue sarcasm)
This whole 'Nanny State' mentality is what needs to stand up against the wall*.
Not suspected of trafficing illegal drugs? Yes she was, the drugs were prohibited for her to have in the school, she was suspected of exactly that.
Yes, this unlawful teenage girl on the rag was dealing Midol,from her bra, in school. What a fucking terrorist!!!
"trafficing"?(I will give your stupidity the benefit of doubt, and assume you mean 'trafficking') A 13 Year old female(human), going through puberty, having 'Midol' is trafficking in 'illegal drugs'?
You are an idiot, to say the least.(yes, the least...I did not stutter)
'Over the Counter' sales of Ibuprofen could have got us here as well. (Stupid Git, get your act together, and shoot yourself in the face-NOW-before it is too late for the Human Race...note:DO NOT BREED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE HUMAN RACE!...You Are Too Stupid To Propgate Human Genetics!
Yes, she could have stashed a Midol(tm) in her bra, and held you, you ignorant asshole, as hostage! With a Pill!!!
Welcome to an ordinary reaction to puberty, you stupid assholes!
Be afraid...very afraid!...You and like you are the cause of the problem. With your mindset, you can never be a part of the solution, only part of the problem. You and your type can only be part of the problem/escalation of the problem.
WTF?!?!? Have any of these clueless idiots tried actually to raise a daughter without Midol(tm), or other forms of ibuprofen? What 'reality' have they been operating in?
Any teen going through puberty is at risk (irregardless of gender)of this crap.
Again, why are we accepting this shite? To the Shooting Wall(line the pol's up to be shot in the face) with these child molesting pedants!!!!think of the children
Deny a 'going through the change' teenager Motrin(tm)?...WTF????
This can only be enacted by those that have no female children to worry about...think about it.
There is a limit to the 'g-forces' the average/mean human being can withstand...or will tolerate commercially.- this is the 'moving limit' that must be addressed.
Give up your inertial compensator design, and we(/.) may agree with you.
Without some form of 'inertial compensator' tech, your comment falls into the 'Hand Waving' category.
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We should not blindly accept gravity as a fact.
Well, as an former US Army Ranger, Airborne(with 700+ jumps), I'm going to side with 'Just Some Guy'(3352) on this. Gravity is a fact. In my experience, it always 'just works'. I have never seen anything denser than air fall up.
Serious scientists now believe our understanding of what gravity may be either incomplete, or simply wrong.
[emphasis mine*]
That statement I will heartily second/endorse!
Relativity Theory goes a ways towards a very basic limited grasp of the 'surface' aspects of gravity, but not much more than that.
The observable evidence in no way contest the existence of gravity as a fact.(thus, the Law of Gravity)
Now explaining how gravity works...we're still just making semi-educated guesses.(forming hypothesis-test, form theories-test, etc.) We seem to have a ways to go, but we're going!
*BTW, I don't understand why you included this word. It makes it sound like either you or physicists are just figuring out that we do not understand how gravity works. That lack of understanding has been known for a long time. :-)
My experience has led me to believe that it is not a binary choice, but a reasoned mix.
It boils down to making it easier to do the 'right' thing, and harder to do the 'wrong' thing.*
As a parent, you learn fairly quickly when a verbal 'No!' works, and when it will not.
Punishment, or 'harder to do the wrong thing' does not have to be consistently verbal or physical, but you are so very right as to needing to be immediately applied to form the association.
While I understand we consider ourselves more advanced and enlightened than other species, we are still part of the animal kingdom, and subject to the same survival enhancement hardwiring shared by most mammals.
For an interesting experience, just watch a mother/offspring group(or family/pack/herd) behavior. The mothers and/or adults are quick and decisive with meting out 'discouragement' of unwanted behavior on the youngsters.
Does not matter if it is a herd animal, predator, or opportunist, it's pretty consistent.
*Technique popularized by an old retired cowboy(life long career) named Fay E. Ward for 'breaking'(training) working ranch horses. He was by no means the first, but he spread the word to his peers effectively.
ROFLMAO! Well Done!
I would like to humbly suggest you may have left out the 'take your piggy bank, and raid the cookie jar' between 'run inside' and 'burn down the house'.
Just sayin'...But your version fits the original statement much better.
Try more salt next time...start with a dump truck load, perhaps?(this technique also muffles those annoying screams)
Yes, that's fine.
One of the arguments made FTFA(made in defense of the Libel Law):
Once initially published online, it's instantly available globally in unlimited supply.[paraphrase]
It seems to be an issue of scale, and exposure rate that they are trying to address.
Your library scenario is a limited, local, low exposure rate issue. You have limited access to a limited audience to spread the content(or 'publish' in the Libel Law's terms).
Post('publish') that same thing online, and the potential audience and exposure rate multiplies tremendously.
There also seems to be this trend of 'x on the internet/a computer' is a new, scary thing and 'x in the real world is okay, cause we are used to it' mentality infecting the politicians and the masses.
Yes, it does make more sense, but will never happen. Until you can get more than a handful of Windows users to actually know and care about these issues, it will stay in this same state of sorry affairs. Just three things are keeping this crap going:
1. MS market share guarantees a large fat market for malware authors
2. Typical Windows user does not want bothered with hassles and having to think about updates, configurations, antivirus, etc.
3. The typical users want their computing appliance to 'just work', and don't want to be bothered to learn the proper care and use of their tools.*
4. 'Mouse Monkey' conditioning has reached the point that most users will click on anything that pops up to get their banana.
*Any other profession, craftsmen/workers are required to know how to properly use and maintain their 'tools of the trade', but this is hand-waved for computers?...Why?!?!?
As for the '...get everyone trying to fight this virus/bot/whatever early...' bit, I hardly think that is 'everyones' concern...just everyone running Windows.
Me? I've been running Ubuntu/Kubuntu exclusively since 5.04- four years ago, so your 'get an early start on this' idea is old news...How has that worked?(re: 1-4 above)
I was wondering about that myself.
I also would think the fine dust that is present in large amounts would cause something similar to 'root rot' due to lack of air space between the soil granules/particles.
Once that fine dust becomes wet, it will pack tightly. I think this could pose a significant problem under low gravity conditions.
We may have to also rethink some of our 'dirt working' techniques. Most of our soil processing and our 'earth-moving' equipment/machinery utilizes both gravity and kinetic effects. Low gravity will have an effect here.
Having lived on a farm, and operated front-end loaders and dozers, I do have a little practical experience with both growing plants and 'dirt work'.
But, botany and geology are not my fields, so I may be just chasing my tail here.
Do you realize how many frames I'll have to carve in stone for just one DVD, much less my whole collection? After that, there are thousands of pics!!!
Can you say: "Holy Bleeding Blisters, Batman!"
Time to move near a stone quarry. I guess...offsite backups go to the moon, Alice...to the moon!
Hear! Hear!
An old saying that I always keep in mind: "Hope for the best, expect the worst", or thanks to being a Boy Scout:"Be Prepared".
I did not get it about this being a binary choice either.
Pick up a copy of "Improvised Munitions Handbook" for all of your propellant, explosive, incendiary, and destructive device needs!
It is US Army TM 31-210, circa 1969.(don't know if it still issued/used- I was issued my copy in 1977)
You can find a copy online at cryptome in both html(4.2 MB) and pdf(4.4 MB) zipped files.
From the book:
This work is in the public domain. The original work was created by U.S. Federal Government employees in their official capacity. Therefore by United States Code, title 17, section 105, it is not subject to copyright.
BIG DISCLAIMER!!!! :Most of the 'recipes' in this manual are Extremely Dangerous to actually make and use. I heartily do not recommend trying these.
Intended for educational/entertainment use only.
*IANAL*
I would guess this is probably close to the DA's plan of attack if he gets called on it.
I see it as a 'get re-elected' grandstanding stunt. This will just end up on his campaign statistics as another of the 'I prosecuted x number of child pr0n cases this year'.
It won't matter for his campaigning whether or not any of these cases ever see a court room...just padding the stats for his campaign in May.
I would hope that the judge tosses him and these cases out of the courtroom, with a stern rebuke for wasting the court's time, and the taxpayers money.
Way to miss the entire point...just to be cranky, I have to assume.
It was obviously not an example of what could happen to you for taking pictures of your naked infant, but that some people actually considered this child pr0n, and called the cops on the parents.
Why, it's a well known, time honored /. tradition.(usually by necessity!-)
All I have to say to them is:don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out! Hurry up!
Has something like this been modeled, or predicted? (IANAP, but astrophysics has always been one of my interests)
I have tried imagining how that would actually work out, but get overwhelmed trying to research that.
Would it ever actually make contact with the star? I can picture it getting close, then vaporized...but then what?
Does the 'gas cloud'(that used to be the planet) get pulled in the rest of the way, or does it get pushed out from the expansion?
If the planet actually makes it to the star's surface, does it just get swallowed? If so, is there a forceful displacement of equivalent star mass? Or does it just swallow it and 'burp' some mass? Or...
Too many questions without answers(I can find) for me to grasp this.
Any answers or links that would help enlighten me here would be appreciated!
Yes!
I suggest bombardment with politicians for the first strike.
With all of their hot-air spewing, running around like beheaded chickens, the denseness of their skulls, so full of shite, etc...Now that's an infusion that could keep the sun going for a loooong time.
If that turns out to be not enough, then we start with RIAA lawyers. That should do the trick!
No, you're not the only one. Very annoying.
When I read/hear that marketdroid lexicon, I know not to take them too seriously.
You said it!
Despite our own wackjobs and dumb stuff we pull, Texas still makes us look good!
Yes, a person going through puberty(13 year old girl==hormonal change), caught with ibuprofen/Midol(tm,), should be executed without cause.(cue sarcasm)
This whole 'Nanny State' mentality is what needs to stand up against the wall*.
*For executions:ie: hangings, lethal injections, firing squads, etc.*
Yes, this unlawful teenage girl on the rag was dealing Midol,from her bra, in school. What a fucking terrorist!!!
"trafficing"?(I will give your stupidity the benefit of doubt, and assume you mean 'trafficking')
A 13 Year old female(human), going through puberty, having 'Midol' is trafficking in 'illegal drugs'?
You are an idiot, to say the least.(yes, the least...I did not stutter)
'Over the Counter' sales of Ibuprofen could have got us here as well.
(Stupid Git, get your act together, and shoot yourself in the face-NOW-before it is too late for the Human Race...note:DO NOT BREED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE HUMAN RACE!...You Are Too Stupid To Propgate Human Genetics!
Yes, she could have stashed a Midol(tm) in her bra, and held you, you ignorant asshole, as hostage! With a Pill!!!
Welcome to an ordinary reaction to puberty, you stupid assholes!
Be afraid...very afraid!...You and like you are the cause of the problem. With your mindset, you can never be a part of the solution, only part of the problem. You and your type can only be part of the problem/escalation of the problem.
Good Fucking Luck With That!!!!!*asshole*
"Anything less is cause for revolution."
Hear! Hear!
Yes!, it is!!.
*note:what makes sense,does not always result in sense.*
WTF?!?!?
Have any of these clueless idiots tried actually to raise a daughter without Midol(tm), or other forms of ibuprofen?
What 'reality' have they been operating in?
Any teen going through puberty is at risk (irregardless of gender)of this crap.
Again, why are we accepting this shite? To the Shooting Wall(line the pol's up to be shot in the face) with these child molesting pedants!!!!think of the children
Deny a 'going through the change' teenager Motrin(tm)?...WTF????
This can only be enacted by those that have no female children to worry about...think about it.
I am a bad one to answer, but since no one else has....
I would say yes, as an answer to your question. I am thinking in terms of what the BIOS perceives as the MBR for your GRUB install.
There is a limit to the 'g-forces' the average/mean human being can withstand...or will tolerate commercially.- this is the 'moving limit' that must be addressed.
Give up your inertial compensator design, and we(/.) may agree with you.
Without some form of 'inertial compensator' tech, your comment falls into the 'Hand Waving' category.