As it seems to me: the "clearing the neighbourhood" argument is obvious bullshit even to a non-astronomer like me, but it was used to get through a more reasonable distinction that has no plausible definition: the difference between a pebble and a boulder. And here, the difference is massive: Pluto is over 25 times smaller (by mass) than the lightest new-definition planet. It's also a chunk of ice rather than of rock.
You're also right about the pointless requirement that a planet needs to orbit a fusor. There's no material difference between a planet, moon, or rogue planet. But then, to a fisherman a dolphin is a fish, and it's not like it's the first time astronomers have a peculiar definition (see metal)...
the Soviet Union - a time when a person could be proud to call themselves Russian
Riiight... 62M murdered (Rummel's pretty conservative figures) compared to 21M of Hitler's merry gang. Surely, it must be a honour to work for the glory of such a magnificent regime!
And, such a great quality of life! It was great to thumb the nose at foul imperialist countries...
Let us cry for the poor raepy billionaires. Go fucking hang you traitor to freedom.
The biggest problem for freedom is when those in power can destroy anyone they want. No matter if it applies to Strauss-Kahn or some beggar. He isn't the nicest kind of person, but he dared to act in a way not liked by the US -- that was the reason for staging the accusation, not any misconduct of some kind.
If your country stoops to such methods, you're no better than Putin's fascist Russia.
Right... so if you are an exec of Burger King, getting fired then finding work as a restaurant team leader at McDonald is not "destroying a career", and thinking otherwise is a fabrication. The scope of his downfall is similar.
Mere few decades ago. false accusation of an affair were the modus operandi of the Right; false accusations of rape and "harassment" are favoured weapon of the Left today.
And what's wrong with that? Heck, I even let my mail client filter those pesky HTML attachments through lynx if need be -- too many bastards put the contents as such an attachment instead of the mail's body.
No operating system would be insane enough to run executables this way, would it?
Can't seem to find a good reference (it's late and I got work to do), but I recall an article that claimed more than a half of core devs either run OS X exclusively with at most VMs, or at least dual-boot with OS X as primary.
Which is an outright sabotage: with Windows getting weak, we could pull in a good part of Windows users had we defaulted to an usable desktop. No experienced user uses GNOME -- including even GNOME devs (they develop it from OS X) -- so the non-technical user suffers from software that's not even dogfooded.
Energy-wise yeah, but the damage is drastically different depending on the distance that energy has been dissipated over: * if you hit a solid wall, the distance is 0 (plus your car's internal crumple zones) * if you hit a similar car coming head-on with the same speed, the distance is 0 (plus your own car's (only) internal crumple zones) * if you hit a parked car with handbrake off, you may move it several meters before coming to a halt
Same difference as falling onto hard floor vs falling onto a pillow, from the same height.
But, as you can notice, the dissipation distance for solid wall vs head-on collision is identical.
What is clear in the linked article, is that a collision between two cars is not similar to a collision between a car and an immovable solid object such as a wall or bridge abutment.
Please show me where you see such a statement. That very article explains it clearly.
As long as the immovable object is solid enough, every force involved is exactly same as for a head-on collision between two identical cars.
Things are different if: * the cars have different mass * the object is not solid: a thin wall, a deformable obstacle like a sign pole -- or a parked car
You have to add the velocities together (like you did with your 50+50 example).
Nope, a head-on collision of 50+50 doesn't add velocities -- it's the equivalent of going 50 into a wall or a similar solid obstacle. Here's an explanation.
Tell me, if you think the Nazis were actually socialists, then why did they throw socialists in concentration camps?
If Sunnis are actually Muslims, then why do they mass-murder Shias? Or if Protestants were actually Christians, then why did they mass-murder Catholics (and vice versa)?
Enemies can be negotiated with. Heretics need to be eradicated without mercy.
This. Early Christians didn't murder anyone, but the very moment they were legalized and gained some political power (Constantine the Great), they started mass-burning of libraries, killing heretics, etc. Then not long after there was Theodosius -- also "the Great", who outright demanded people to convert or die. And they stopped going after heretics only after their political power diminished.
Second, Bible-thumpers may be obnoxious in their misguided attempts to save your soul, but they won't beat up a progressive
Hmm, I think I can recall quite a few people burned at stake for saying things that were disliked by official teaching of Christianity (often things that were obviously factually true, or explicitly mentioned in the Bible). And even in modern times, censorship by Christians goes strong.
And that's still nothing compared to censorship in Saudi Arabia or the likes.
So do bible-thumpers. There's no meaningful difference between left-nazis and right-nazis here.
In the US, far left is currently mainstream while far right is not (Unite the Right 2018 had ~20 participants, most of the hype came from Russian trolls), while eg. in Poland the left is nearly non-existent while far right is everywhere, but that's just a matter of different colors of the same. Just note the name: national socialism.
Their policies are very alike. This includes censorship.
the resolution was just passed there is no way it would affect devices already in your possession... Dumb.
The pin connector one might be older than the previous law, but the remaining three get produced in mass quantities today: micro-USB for most Androids, lightning for iStuff, and USB-C for some early adopters.
This law has no teeth and isn't working. In the building I'm in right now, there are four phones: dad believes in talk-only phones: pin connector; mom has a bondage dumbphone: Lightning; I have a N900 (micro-USB) and a Gemini (USB-C).
The old days used to be like this. It was always a nervous moment when you rebooted. But that was before we had remote management tools and virtual systems.
If you have a fleet of servers, then obviously you have good remote management. That's not the case when every machine is an unique snowflake or at a different location, though.
Mars rovers are very firmly in the the latter category.
Sounds like every sysadmin feels NASA's pain. Don't you just love when there's a remote machine that doesn't respond to any means of contacting it you have, and getting there would take a whole day's trip, preceded by two weeks of having access there organized?
What is wrong with being anti-Israel? The borders keep moving and if they aren't stopped they will soon have committed a genocide.
You got the direction wrong. Only one of the sides has "Death to $OPPONENT" on their flags, only one says no one but them deserve to live on those lands, and only one wants unconditional "supremacy of $RELIGION".
If this was unclear, I call SJW beliefs a religion, as it has all hallmarks of one.
That's probably unfair to stuff like Hinduism, most tribal faiths and so on -- so perhaps a different name would be better. But a number of ideologies behave nearly identically: * Christianity * Islam * SJWery aka so-called third-wave "feminism" (which is an insult to a noble movement that real (ie, "first wave") feminism was) * communism * NSDAP beliefs (the word "nazi" became a generic insult these days) * current Polish nationalism * current Turkish nationalism (current Russian fascism is nasty but works somewhat differently than those above) * etc, etc
All of these are extremely xenophobic, want all unbelievers gone or converted, sprout mutually hostile factions, are thoroughly unscientific -- and, above all, can't take the slightest bit of criticism.
Somewhere during the last American election campaign CNN went through a sudden change: in place of a reliable news source where bias was limited to commentary, they became ardent preachers of the new religion.
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As it seems to me: the "clearing the neighbourhood" argument is obvious bullshit even to a non-astronomer like me, but it was used to get through a more reasonable distinction that has no plausible definition: the difference between a pebble and a boulder. And here, the difference is massive: Pluto is over 25 times smaller (by mass) than the lightest new-definition planet. It's also a chunk of ice rather than of rock.
You're also right about the pointless requirement that a planet needs to orbit a fusor. There's no material difference between a planet, moon, or rogue planet. But then, to a fisherman a dolphin is a fish, and it's not like it's the first time astronomers have a peculiar definition (see metal)...
the Soviet Union - a time when a person could be proud to call themselves Russian
Riiight... 62M murdered (Rummel's pretty conservative figures) compared to 21M of Hitler's merry gang. Surely, it must be a honour to work for the glory of such a magnificent regime!
And, such a great quality of life! It was great to thumb the nose at foul imperialist countries...
Let us cry for the poor raepy billionaires. Go fucking hang you traitor to freedom.
The biggest problem for freedom is when those in power can destroy anyone they want. No matter if it applies to Strauss-Kahn or some beggar. He isn't the nicest kind of person, but he dared to act in a way not liked by the US -- that was the reason for staging the accusation, not any misconduct of some kind.
If your country stoops to such methods, you're no better than Putin's fascist Russia.
Right... so if you are an exec of Burger King, getting fired then finding work as a restaurant team leader at McDonald is not "destroying a career", and thinking otherwise is a fabrication. The scope of his downfall is similar.
Mere few decades ago. false accusation of an affair were the modus operandi of the Right; false accusations of rape and "harassment" are favoured weapon of the Left today.
Natural lighting is far brighter than that. It makes it hard to read the screen.
The Soviet Union hasn't existed for nearly 30 years now, dude.
It's back. With communism replaced by fascism, but these two are so similar it's window dressing.
He doesn't let political crap into the kernel. One example here.
And what's wrong with that? Heck, I even let my mail client filter those pesky HTML attachments through lynx if need be -- too many bastards put the contents as such an attachment instead of the mail's body.
No operating system would be insane enough to run executables this way, would it?
It seems Google does not scan emails for advertisement purposes. Also from the horses mouth:
And I never have lecherous thoughts when passing by a hot woman on a sidewalk, honest!
Can't seem to find a good reference (it's late and I got work to do), but I recall an article that claimed more than a half of core devs either run OS X exclusively with at most VMs, or at least dual-boot with OS X as primary.
But, so my words are not completely unbacked, here's the creator of GNOME.
Which is an outright sabotage: with Windows getting weak, we could pull in a good part of Windows users had we defaulted to an usable desktop. No experienced user uses GNOME -- including even GNOME devs (they develop it from OS X) -- so the non-technical user suffers from software that's not even dogfooded.
All that matters is delta V.
Energy-wise yeah, but the damage is drastically different depending on the distance that energy has been dissipated over:
* if you hit a solid wall, the distance is 0 (plus your car's internal crumple zones)
* if you hit a similar car coming head-on with the same speed, the distance is 0 (plus your own car's (only) internal crumple zones)
* if you hit a parked car with handbrake off, you may move it several meters before coming to a halt
Same difference as falling onto hard floor vs falling onto a pillow, from the same height.
But, as you can notice, the dissipation distance for solid wall vs head-on collision is identical.
What is clear in the linked article, is that a collision between two cars is not similar to a collision between a car and an immovable solid object such as a wall or bridge abutment.
Please show me where you see such a statement. That very article explains it clearly.
As long as the immovable object is solid enough, every force involved is exactly same as for a head-on collision between two identical cars.
Things are different if:
* the cars have different mass
* the object is not solid: a thin wall, a deformable obstacle like a sign pole -- or a parked car
You have to add the velocities together (like you did with your 50+50 example).
Nope, a head-on collision of 50+50 doesn't add velocities -- it's the equivalent of going 50 into a wall or a similar solid obstacle. Here's an explanation.
Tell me, if you think the Nazis were actually socialists, then why did they throw socialists in concentration camps?
If Sunnis are actually Muslims, then why do they mass-murder Shias? Or if Protestants were actually Christians, then why did they mass-murder Catholics (and vice versa)?
Enemies can be negotiated with. Heretics need to be eradicated without mercy.
This. Early Christians didn't murder anyone, but the very moment they were legalized and gained some political power (Constantine the Great), they started mass-burning of libraries, killing heretics, etc. Then not long after there was Theodosius -- also "the Great", who outright demanded people to convert or die. And they stopped going after heretics only after their political power diminished.
Second, Bible-thumpers may be obnoxious in their misguided attempts to save your soul, but they won't beat up a progressive
Hmm, I think I can recall quite a few people burned at stake for saying things that were disliked by official teaching of Christianity (often things that were obviously factually true, or explicitly mentioned in the Bible). And even in modern times, censorship by Christians goes strong.
And that's still nothing compared to censorship in Saudi Arabia or the likes.
The difference between all of those groups and Xi is that he actually has the power to censor the Internet.
You mean, deplatforming isn't a thing?
So do bible-thumpers. There's no meaningful difference between left-nazis and right-nazis here.
In the US, far left is currently mainstream while far right is not (Unite the Right 2018 had ~20 participants, most of the hype came from Russian trolls), while eg. in Poland the left is nearly non-existent while far right is everywhere, but that's just a matter of different colors of the same. Just note the name: national socialism.
Their policies are very alike. This includes censorship.
the resolution was just passed there is no way it would affect devices already in your possession... Dumb.
The pin connector one might be older than the previous law, but the remaining three get produced in mass quantities today: micro-USB for most Androids, lightning for iStuff, and USB-C for some early adopters.
This law has no teeth and isn't working. In the building I'm in right now, there are four phones: dad believes in talk-only phones: pin connector; mom has a bondage dumbphone: Lightning; I have a N900 (micro-USB) and a Gemini (USB-C).
The old days used to be like this. It was always a nervous moment when you rebooted. But that was before we had remote management tools and virtual systems.
If you have a fleet of servers, then obviously you have good remote management. That's not the case when every machine is an unique snowflake or at a different location, though.
Mars rovers are very firmly in the the latter category.
Sounds like every sysadmin feels NASA's pain. Don't you just love when there's a remote machine that doesn't respond to any means of contacting it you have, and getting there would take a whole day's trip, preceded by two weeks of having access there organized?
NASA just has exactly this, scaled way up.
What is wrong with being anti-Israel? The borders keep moving and if they aren't stopped they will soon have committed a genocide.
You got the direction wrong. Only one of the sides has "Death to $OPPONENT" on their flags, only one says no one but them deserve to live on those lands, and only one wants unconditional "supremacy of $RELIGION".
If this was unclear, I call SJW beliefs a religion, as it has all hallmarks of one.
That's probably unfair to stuff like Hinduism, most tribal faiths and so on -- so perhaps a different name would be better. But a number of ideologies behave nearly identically:
* Christianity
* Islam
* SJWery aka so-called third-wave "feminism" (which is an insult to a noble movement that real (ie, "first wave") feminism was)
* communism
* NSDAP beliefs (the word "nazi" became a generic insult these days)
* current Polish nationalism
* current Turkish nationalism
(current Russian fascism is nasty but works somewhat differently than those above)
* etc, etc
All of these are extremely xenophobic, want all unbelievers gone or converted, sprout mutually hostile factions, are thoroughly unscientific -- and, above all, can't take the slightest bit of criticism.
Somewhere during the last American election campaign CNN went through a sudden change: in place of a reliable news source where bias was limited to commentary, they became ardent preachers of the new religion.