You're joking, right? The big computer that's screaming "IMPACT SENSOR 1028 FAILURE" over and over and over wouldn't give you a good place to start looking?
Um, not to be a nitpicker, but why would you care if the car stored your GPS location info if the airbags deployed? Odds are you're not driving anywhere what with getting hit in the face at 300mph with an inflating airbag...
I've seen (and been) people get out of cars in accidents at 10mph - 40mph. Falling down is what they're usually doing.
I routinely go through the FastLanes at exit 15 between 40 and 70 mph and not once has my tag failed to work... <P> You are an asshole. I surely hope you never kill someone doing that.
Reckless driving is indeed the number one cause of accidents, but is so much harder to prove in a court of law, than a video picture of the cops spedometer and your car.:-/ Conundrum, indeed.
Actually, not much harder to prove, because the records will be there for audit. If the auditors find that 75% of the speeders are black, 23% are hispanic, and the remaining 2% are white, then it's obvious something is wrong.
Coupled with an in-car in-device record of when the unit was triggered/read that I can download every day, then abuse is curtailed.
More impartial than some cop with a grudge against blacks...
Okay, a couple postulations here, then feel free to tear me a new one...
* protons travel at the speed of light. * protons have mass. * the sun expels protons every day, in uncountable numbers. * The sun does not consume all available energuy in the entire universe.
E = (MASS) * (C^2)
Since C^2 doesn't change, it's simply a matter of mass. So in theory it's a linear projection of energy. If it takes 4 joules of energy to blast a proton (1.67262158 x 10-27 kg) to light speed, it takes only 5,978,638,635,046,188,989.144 joules to blast 1kg to the speed of light (simplistic bit of math there, I know)
Just because I can see a compelling story arc in an on-screen child killing doesn't mean I cannot empathize with you. I can tell you right now, I'd die if any of my nieces or nephews or friends children had such happen to them. Likely, I'd die killing the murderer. But I can still appreciate a bit of thematic license.
I don't think you can communicate absolute, unrelenting depravity more effectively than emotionless, ruthless child killing. In that regard, it tells the story better than the cylons casually murdering millions of people with atomic weapons.
It's one thing to be capable of hurling giant weapons at someone where you can stand-off and not see the personal bits of gruesome horror you are inflicting. It's something completely different to stand skin to skin with your victim and hurt them. Killing someone with your bare hands is the most insidious act one can commit, and the scene shows the contempt that the cylons had for the human race, while still contemplating the inherent beauty in the human itself.
It spoke volumes about Cylon jealously, that no matter how human they look they shall never be able to bear children, so they are denying humans that ability. I don't think they could have written a better scene. JMHO.
If it means an excuse for me to keep shitloads of fuel on hand, then maybe. If Shell wants to put a 100,000 gallon fuel depot next to my airfield, so be it. Until then, I'm going to GOUGE anyone who wants my fuel.;-)
Not like there's any government down there to stop me...
Please tell us exactly how long that would have remained true had the Germans continued their unrestricted submarine warface against the British Isles, and the U.S. hadn't helped Ireland and the Brits construct that monstrous landing force and mobile seaport for D-Day? Funny how it took almost 3 and a half years to destroy the submarine force enough for the Normandy landings to have ANY chance of success: Dec 1941 - June 1944.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no American revisionist. I know the value the British brought to the fight with cracking Enigma, their great ASW assets and general superiority of their pilots. I think, however, that Europe should be praising Stalin, however, for pretty much ensuring that Germany lost, rather than us Americans.
(I do understand significant inroads were made in 1943 via North Africa to Italy. From what I remember of my war history, however, this seemed more of a diversionary tactic than a true push to Paris or Berlin. Comments?)
They'll fly him out, and go to the trouble of shipping his plane out, COSTING them money and time, mind you, rather than give him $1000US worth of gasoline? It's assinine, and won't stop others like him from making the same attempt.
It's stupid elitism, it what it is. These people are so pissed off they have to fight for a seat on a plane or boat to get there, and this guy flys himself in. They're just jealous.
What's worse, selling every machine in stock and turning people away, or having a run on machines you don't have, building shitloads of them, backordering them, and having people cancel orders because of excessive production delays (say from AMD?), leaving you with a bad rep and overstock?
I know which one I'd rather have. They're preventing the latter from occuring.
You kind of illuminated my point a bit. Had Germany done a little bit of extra effort in rocketry, they would have had SAM's. Aim for the bombers, and all of a sudden, you've shifted the balance.
Short of nuclear weapons though, I doubt very much that Germany would ever have kept control of continental Europe for the very reason you gave above: resources.
That may indeed be true now-a-days, but airplanes and bombers in the 40's had the distinct disadvantage (particularly german bombers) of being easy to shoot down. Jet engines reduced some of the ease of devastating ground fire (and shifted the burden to missiles - gee, interesting event that turned out to be).
While payload is small, the ability to hurl bombs into your enemy's homeland without giving him the ability to hide or shoot them down is a HUGE advantage. Eg: Tomahawk cruise missile. Expensive, but useful.
Even after The Spot ended in what, '98? It was still online for quite some time, maybe a year or three. I was getting a bit nostalgic for some pictures of Tara (was it?, memory fuzzy) and went looking for it a few weeks back. All gone...:(
I'm using the Kyocera 6035 smartphone (smart my ass, damn thing doesn't even know my voicemail access number...). My old Audiovox (qualcommm, now Kyocera) had a call log, as did the 2 before it. I think they were a bit more limited, 25-50 numbers, though.
I had a coworker who had billing issues with Verizon. In my 6 nearly flawless years of service with them (I had one mistaken disconnection that cost them customers), I've found the perfect way of dealing with them.
Walk into their store with your phone and your contract in your hand. Not a reseller, a Verizon store. Get a sales weasel engaged. Loudly explain your problem, how you're being SCREWED (emphasize this!!!!) and how you are NOT leaving the store until it is fixed, because those MORONS on the phone at Customer Service couldn't find their assholes with a tour guide. Make loud outbursts, wild hand motions, and start tearing up your contract (some shit paper or cheap replacement) and see how fast they get you to shut up by fixing it. Threaten to return in 30 days if it's not fixed. If they won't fix it tell them you want your service disconnected immediately due to their POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE and ILLEGAL BILLING PRACTICES and are not paying the early termination fee over INJUSTICES done to ME by VERIZON, and you'll get serviced.
Verizon made it too easy for me to ruin their business. Especially those mall places. Especially at Christmas-time.:-)
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I pray you never get to work on a nuclear missile submarine. ;-)
You're joking, right? The big computer that's screaming "IMPACT SENSOR 1028 FAILURE" over and over and over wouldn't give you a good place to start looking?
Or interplanetary, at least...
IIRC, in Massachusetts, tolls are tax deductible. The whole state mays for the tolls, because those highways are for the PUBLIC good.
Anyone confirm this bit of MA-lore?
Um, not to be a nitpicker, but why would you care if the car stored your GPS location info if the airbags deployed? Odds are you're not driving anywhere what with getting hit in the face at 300mph with an inflating airbag...
I've seen (and been) people get out of cars in accidents at 10mph - 40mph. Falling down is what they're usually doing.
I routinely go through the FastLanes at exit 15 between 40 and 70 mph and not once has my tag failed to work...
<P>
You are an asshole. I surely hope you never kill someone doing that.
Reckless driving is indeed the number one cause of accidents, but is so much harder to prove in a court of law, than a video picture of the cops spedometer and your car. :-/ Conundrum, indeed.
Actually, not much harder to prove, because the records will be there for audit. If the auditors find that 75% of the speeders are black, 23% are hispanic, and the remaining 2% are white, then it's obvious something is wrong.
Coupled with an in-car in-device record of when the unit was triggered/read that I can download every day, then abuse is curtailed.
More impartial than some cop with a grudge against blacks...
doh... got all confused there.. yes, I meant photons... sorry, there. One must not post while drunk... :-/
Okay, a couple postulations here, then feel free to tear me a new one...
* protons travel at the speed of light.
* protons have mass.
* the sun expels protons every day, in uncountable numbers.
* The sun does not consume all available energuy in the entire universe.
E = (MASS) * (C^2)
Since C^2 doesn't change, it's simply a matter of mass. So in theory it's a linear projection of energy. If it takes 4 joules of energy to blast a proton (1.67262158 x 10-27 kg) to light speed, it takes only 5,978,638,635,046,188,989.144 joules to blast 1kg to the speed of light (simplistic bit of math there, I know)
Just because I can see a compelling story arc in an on-screen child killing doesn't mean I cannot empathize with you. I can tell you right now, I'd die if any of my nieces or nephews or friends children had such happen to them. Likely, I'd die killing the murderer. But I can still appreciate a bit of thematic license.
I don't think you can communicate absolute, unrelenting depravity more effectively than emotionless, ruthless child killing. In that regard, it tells the story better than the cylons casually murdering millions of people with atomic weapons.
It's one thing to be capable of hurling giant weapons at someone where you can stand-off and not see the personal bits of gruesome horror you are inflicting. It's something completely different to stand skin to skin with your victim and hurt them. Killing someone with your bare hands is the most insidious act one can commit, and the scene shows the contempt that the cylons had for the human race, while still contemplating the inherent beauty in the human itself.
It spoke volumes about Cylon jealously, that no matter how human they look they shall never be able to bear children, so they are denying humans that ability. I don't think they could have written a better scene. JMHO.
If it means an excuse for me to keep shitloads of fuel on hand, then maybe. If Shell wants to put a 100,000 gallon fuel depot next to my airfield, so be it. Until then, I'm going to GOUGE anyone who wants my fuel. ;-)
Not like there's any government down there to stop me...
Please tell us exactly how long that would have remained true had the Germans continued their unrestricted submarine warface against the British Isles, and the U.S. hadn't helped Ireland and the Brits construct that monstrous landing force and mobile seaport for D-Day? Funny how it took almost 3 and a half years to destroy the submarine force enough for the Normandy landings to have ANY chance of success: Dec 1941 - June 1944.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no American revisionist. I know the value the British brought to the fight with cracking Enigma, their great ASW assets and general superiority of their pilots. I think, however, that Europe should be praising Stalin, however, for pretty much ensuring that Germany lost, rather than us Americans.
(I do understand significant inroads were made in 1943 via North Africa to Italy. From what I remember of my war history, however, this seemed more of a diversionary tactic than a true push to Paris or Berlin. Comments?)
They'll fly him out, and go to the trouble of shipping his plane out, COSTING them money and time, mind you, rather than give him $1000US worth of gasoline? It's assinine, and won't stop others like him from making the same attempt.
It's stupid elitism, it what it is. These people are so pissed off they have to fight for a seat on a plane or boat to get there, and this guy flys himself in. They're just jealous.
They don't take VISA either, apparently...
What's worse, selling every machine in stock and turning people away, or having a run on machines you don't have, building shitloads of them, backordering them, and having people cancel orders because of excessive production delays (say from AMD?), leaving you with a bad rep and overstock?
I know which one I'd rather have. They're preventing the latter from occuring.
Unnecessary.
short sco = 0;
is all you need. At least in K&R anyway...
Probably, if it didn't vaporize first in the multi-thousand kilometer per hour impact.
You kind of illuminated my point a bit. Had Germany done a little bit of extra effort in rocketry, they would have had SAM's. Aim for the bombers, and all of a sudden, you've shifted the balance.
Short of nuclear weapons though, I doubt very much that Germany would ever have kept control of continental Europe for the very reason you gave above: resources.
That may indeed be true now-a-days, but airplanes and bombers in the 40's had the distinct disadvantage (particularly german bombers) of being easy to shoot down. Jet engines reduced some of the ease of devastating ground fire (and shifted the burden to missiles - gee, interesting event that turned out to be).
While payload is small, the ability to hurl bombs into your enemy's homeland without giving him the ability to hide or shoot them down is a HUGE advantage. Eg: Tomahawk cruise missile. Expensive, but useful.
Even after The Spot ended in what, '98? It was still online for quite some time, maybe a year or three. I was getting a bit nostalgic for some pictures of Tara (was it?, memory fuzzy) and went looking for it a few weeks back. All gone... :(
Dude, you're too YOUNG to remember when Apple ruled the world... ;-) Oh the good old days, when Archie was king and gopher ruled the web...
I'm using the Kyocera 6035 smartphone (smart my ass, damn thing doesn't even know my voicemail access number...). My old Audiovox (qualcommm, now Kyocera) had a call log, as did the 2 before it. I think they were a bit more limited, 25-50 numbers, though.
I had a coworker who had billing issues with Verizon. In my 6 nearly flawless years of service with them (I had one mistaken disconnection that cost them customers), I've found the perfect way of dealing with them.
:-)
Walk into their store with your phone and your contract in your hand. Not a reseller, a Verizon store. Get a sales weasel engaged. Loudly explain your problem, how you're being SCREWED (emphasize this!!!!) and how you are NOT leaving the store until it is fixed, because those MORONS on the phone at Customer Service couldn't find their assholes with a tour guide. Make loud outbursts, wild hand motions, and start tearing up your contract (some shit paper or cheap replacement) and see how fast they get you to shut up by fixing it. Threaten to return in 30 days if it's not fixed. If they won't fix it tell them you want your service disconnected immediately due to their POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE and ILLEGAL BILLING PRACTICES and are not paying the early termination fee over INJUSTICES done to ME by VERIZON, and you'll get serviced.
Verizon made it too easy for me to ruin their business. Especially those mall places. Especially at Christmas-time.
Enjoy.