first off 12 little rovers, unless you plan on landing them all one one place, need 12 different rides, and 12 different landings, with 12 different nerd brigades to land them, and then when they land, all can really do do is take pretty pictures, they don't carry enough gear to analyse stuff properly, which as nice as the pics are for giving space obsessed nerds on/. a big boner, don't really do much to further the hunt for water, or tell us much about the Martian environment's chemistry, you need to be able to analyse the rocks and soil for composition and stuff to see what it's made of, which need chunky equipment inside the rovers. If one of those runty little rovers sees something interesting, you would need to follow it up with a big rover, to analyse it properly.
What would be better would be to send some sort of aircraft that can fly about and gather visual data, 1 aircraft could gather as much as a whole brigade of runt rovers in a fraction of the size, then you could send in chunky rovers to the most promising locations to analyse stuff properly.
The US army should spend less money on gadgets and more money on training their troops for longer rather than sending barely trained recruits straight into battle zones.
The correct reply to that arguement is: "cool, can I come over to your house and install these Web Cams in your house, specifically, your bedroom and your shower, they are gunna broadcast on the internet 24/7"
Also, demand all government officials (including senators and the president) must be bugged and have their movements and conversation monitored 24/7, and the full details made public, with archives and live feed to ensure that they aren't corrupt. Remember, they won't object if they have nothing to hide.
I think you are confusing quicktime and quicktime pro.
Normal quicktime does none of those things either, it just plays quicktime files while simultaneously loading the most persistent and annoying background services know to man (or maybe a close second to Real Player). Quicktime alternative is just so you can watch those annoying quicktime videos that don't work in your usual media player of choice, without having quicktime infesting your startup list with pointless processes every time you look at a video. Quicktime alternative isn't better than quicktime, it's just less annoying.
Star trek has always had a rather confused view of evolution, I often see star trek episodes where they directly link a species technological advancement and their evolutionary advancement, I remember one episode where a planet was inhabited by 2 species, one with advanced technology and one without, and they concluded that the species in the tech society must have evolved to be smarter, then when they found the low tech species were just as smart and could understand all the tech species machines, they concluded that they must have started evolving more too.
This is totally divorced from reality, where a prehistoric cave man would have been genetically identical to a modern human, thier lack of technology was simply cos the never had a reason to develop it much until about 6000-7000 years ago when groups of people started making civilisations and developing tech at a ever incresing rate, when in the past few million years, humans didn't develop much tech at all. Whatever caused them to start developing new technology then, who knows, but it wasn't evolution, a million year old human was just as smart as a 6000 year old human, who is just as smart as a modern human.
The Theory of Trekolution (as I choose to dub it), haas a distinct racist undercurrent to it, no doubt if the enterprise had arrived on earth in the 18 - 19th century, they would have declared white people more evolved than black people, tho conversely, if they had shown up about 3000 BC, they would have declared that the white people were less evolved.
yes, cos they are secretly the same person. You think Jesus would let some fat man hijack his holiday? Hell no, he killed the real Santa back in the 20's and stole his identity.
have you ever been to Pluto? No you haven't, so don't go bad mouthing the Plutonians when you don't know shit about the things they've invented, what did they ever do to you? It seems declassifying them as a planet was just the start, when will this wave of Plutophobia stop?
well, duh, at 45 mph, stopping distance (including reaction) is about 150 feet, so considering its not even possible to stop before reaching to other side of the intersection, thats would just be stupid, the fact you would cite such a stupid example just shows what an idiot you are, use a sensible argument not a stupid strawman.
45 mph = 66 feet per second, so at 150 feet, I would cross the line in under 3 seconds, so I have no problem making it to the line before the light changes, over 150 feet I have time to stop. So the only time I would end up going through a red is if I try to make it across the line from distance of about 250 - 300 feet or if I wait until the light goes red before braking.
so whine all you like, I don't care, but don't try and convince yourself your self that running reds is some involuntary act.
Do you know the stopping distance of your own car? If you do you can tell if you can stop in time, if you don't, you shouldn't be driving. If you can't stop by the time the yellow turns to red, you were obviously going too fast.
The yellow light, means you should stop immediately if you can, not that you should see if you can guess how long it will last and guess if you can get over the line before the light changes. You should know your speed, and you should know you safe stopping distance at that speed. If the yellow lights come on, you should brake, if you reach the line before you stop, then continue, you should not keep driving at the maximum speed limit.
The vehicle behind you is not your concern, he has a minimum of a 2 second advantage on you anyway, if you can stop so can he. If there is a truck behind you, it should have enough distance between you to stop in time, it is the truck drivers job to know their stopping distances and timings, and they are generally very good at it, because they face big consequences if they cause an accident.
maybe you should pay attention to the yellow light, if you start braking when the yellow comes on, you should be able to stop safely. If not you were not driving at a safe speed. If you have to slam on the brakes, you were going to fast or not paying attention to the yellow light.
There is such a freaking enormous amount of cable under the atlantic that we aren't going to run out any time soon. And if we do, space rocket or boat which do you think is cheaper to operate?
Secondly, how is that different to say France, Italy and Austria ganging up and stopping Switzerland from accessing cables out of the country, which they could do now if they really wanted, really, this would make the ability to 'cut off' a country harder, cos they would have a whole bunch of satellites to choose from as well as cables. You can't possible imagine all the satellites being controlled by a single country can you?
I see a little thought balloon appearing above his head, with the word Overtime!, then a tiny image of him going Scrooge McDucking style in a huge pile of money.
Meanwhile, the fat cat manger receives the report on how much it cost, a single tear is about to fall, as he thinks he can only buy 3 new yachts this year instead of 5, but then he remembers that actually, he can just shift the blame onto someone else and so still get his $20 million bonus, then he remembers how he would get it anyway even if he didn't fuck up. Then he cuts all all the cleaning staff's pay to make up part of the loss and he gets an even bigger bonus and can buy 7 yachts.
Then all the shareholders get their dividend report, all start crying uncontrollably as they realise their investment is paying out worse than a Scotsman on comic relief night. However instead of doing something like kicking out the board, they bleat along to the tune, The Haaaaaackers did it, BAAAAAAAAAAD hackers. Cut to fat cat manager, takes a break from Scrooge McDucking it in his pool of money and he cuts pensions and healthcare for all shipping and logistics staff. Cut back to original guy, who has to spend all his overtime money on buying his kid new braces, .
Meanwhile, the government outlaws, fair use, free speech, free thought, freedom, etc.
The page was pathetic, the kids clearly are retards and have no imagination.
When I was at school, we had this teacher caller, Sheep shagger Grainger, who we used to piss off in the most elaborate mannor, we once wrote a parady of lord of the rings, (called lord of the ringpieces) in which he apeared as Groppo Grabbins the perverted hobbit, who had so go on a quest to split the ringpiece of Lord Sheepron. With his fellowship including Bellend the Brown, Somewhat Gungie, and I forget the names of the others. In the story, he overcomes almost all his enemys by raping them and commits bestiality with almost every animal he runs into.
We also drew fully detailed schematics of his car showing it as powered by a sheep running in a wheel, which he would fuck in the ass to make it accelerate, and we would print this all out of school printers to post up everywhere.
To be homest, this head teacher could have gotten a lot worse.
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first off 12 little rovers, unless you plan on landing them all one one place, need 12 different rides, and 12 different landings, with 12 different nerd brigades to land them, and then when they land, all can really do do is take pretty pictures, they don't carry enough gear to analyse stuff properly, which as nice as the pics are for giving space obsessed nerds on /. a big boner, don't really do much to further the hunt for water, or tell us much about the Martian environment's chemistry, you need to be able to analyse the rocks and soil for composition and stuff to see what it's made of, which need chunky equipment inside the rovers. If one of those runty little rovers sees something interesting, you would need to follow it up with a big rover, to analyse it properly.
What would be better would be to send some sort of aircraft that can fly about and gather visual data, 1 aircraft could gather as much as a whole brigade of runt rovers in a fraction of the size, then you could send in chunky rovers to the most promising locations to analyse stuff properly.
The US army should spend less money on gadgets and more money on training their troops for longer rather than sending barely trained recruits straight into battle zones.
Yea, but it's all thru counter strike, if they actually saw a real one, they would cry.
Blackberry Jam.
Well, you should elect a better mayor then shouldn't you.
The don't even need to make a new thingy, they could just make it part of the quicktime plugin.
Also, demand all government officials (including senators and the president) must be bugged and have their movements and conversation monitored 24/7, and the full details made public, with archives and live feed to ensure that they aren't corrupt. Remember, they won't object if they have nothing to hide.
Normal quicktime does none of those things either, it just plays quicktime files while simultaneously loading the most persistent and annoying background services know to man (or maybe a close second to Real Player). Quicktime alternative is just so you can watch those annoying quicktime videos that don't work in your usual media player of choice, without having quicktime infesting your startup list with pointless processes every time you look at a video. Quicktime alternative isn't better than quicktime, it's just less annoying.
This is totally divorced from reality, where a prehistoric cave man would have been genetically identical to a modern human, thier lack of technology was simply cos the never had a reason to develop it much until about 6000-7000 years ago when groups of people started making civilisations and developing tech at a ever incresing rate, when in the past few million years, humans didn't develop much tech at all. Whatever caused them to start developing new technology then, who knows, but it wasn't evolution, a million year old human was just as smart as a 6000 year old human, who is just as smart as a modern human.
The Theory of Trekolution (as I choose to dub it), haas a distinct racist undercurrent to it, no doubt if the enterprise had arrived on earth in the 18 - 19th century, they would have declared white people more evolved than black people, tho conversely, if they had shown up about 3000 BC, they would have declared that the white people were less evolved.
yes, cos they are secretly the same person. You think Jesus would let some fat man hijack his holiday? Hell no, he killed the real Santa back in the 20's and stole his identity.
have you ever been to Pluto? No you haven't, so don't go bad mouthing the Plutonians when you don't know shit about the things they've invented, what did they ever do to you? It seems declassifying them as a planet was just the start, when will this wave of Plutophobia stop?
But UK bees are going missing too, just not in such large numbers yet, and the Government Bee Inspectors of the National Bee Unit are denying there is anything wrong. http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/sto ry/0,,2055067,00.html
Students do pay taxes, they pay sales tax, car tax, booze n cig tax, fuel tax, everything except income tax.
In the BTTF script the spelled it 'jigawatt' tho, so everyone remembered to pronounce it the cool way, and not the lame way.
45 mph = 66 feet per second, so at 150 feet, I would cross the line in under 3 seconds, so I have no problem making it to the line before the light changes, over 150 feet I have time to stop. So the only time I would end up going through a red is if I try to make it across the line from distance of about 250 - 300 feet or if I wait until the light goes red before braking.
so whine all you like, I don't care, but don't try and convince yourself your self that running reds is some involuntary act.
Thats why you put in a request for a 'configurable block-based modelling and prototyping system', rather than a 'box of lego'.
The yellow light, means you should stop immediately if you can, not that you should see if you can guess how long it will last and guess if you can get over the line before the light changes. You should know your speed, and you should know you safe stopping distance at that speed. If the yellow lights come on, you should brake, if you reach the line before you stop, then continue, you should not keep driving at the maximum speed limit.
The vehicle behind you is not your concern, he has a minimum of a 2 second advantage on you anyway, if you can stop so can he. If there is a truck behind you, it should have enough distance between you to stop in time, it is the truck drivers job to know their stopping distances and timings, and they are generally very good at it, because they face big consequences if they cause an accident.
Why there could be a RACOON in your garden, and it might even KNOCK OVER YOUR GARBAGE!!!!!1!11!!!!!
maybe you should pay attention to the yellow light, if you start braking when the yellow comes on, you should be able to stop safely. If not you were not driving at a safe speed. If you have to slam on the brakes, you were going to fast or not paying attention to the yellow light.
You forgot the fundamental law of physical possession. Who ever physically possess the hardware, ultimately controls it.
There is such a freaking enormous amount of cable under the atlantic that we aren't going to run out any time soon. And if we do, space rocket or boat which do you think is cheaper to operate? Secondly, how is that different to say France, Italy and Austria ganging up and stopping Switzerland from accessing cables out of the country, which they could do now if they really wanted, really, this would make the ability to 'cut off' a country harder, cos they would have a whole bunch of satellites to choose from as well as cables. You can't possible imagine all the satellites being controlled by a single country can you?
Meanwhile, the fat cat manger receives the report on how much it cost, a single tear is about to fall, as he thinks he can only buy 3 new yachts this year instead of 5, but then he remembers that actually, he can just shift the blame onto someone else and so still get his $20 million bonus, then he remembers how he would get it anyway even if he didn't fuck up. Then he cuts all all the cleaning staff's pay to make up part of the loss and he gets an even bigger bonus and can buy 7 yachts.
Then all the shareholders get their dividend report, all start crying uncontrollably as they realise their investment is paying out worse than a Scotsman on comic relief night. However instead of doing something like kicking out the board, they bleat along to the tune, The Haaaaaackers did it, BAAAAAAAAAAD hackers. Cut to fat cat manager, takes a break from Scrooge McDucking it in his pool of money and he cuts pensions and healthcare for all shipping and logistics staff. Cut back to original guy, who has to spend all his overtime money on buying his kid new braces, .
Meanwhile, the government outlaws, fair use, free speech, free thought, freedom, etc.
Capitalism at it's finest.
The Scottish are British.
When I was at school, we had this teacher caller, Sheep shagger Grainger, who we used to piss off in the most elaborate mannor, we once wrote a parady of lord of the rings, (called lord of the ringpieces) in which he apeared as Groppo Grabbins the perverted hobbit, who had so go on a quest to split the ringpiece of Lord Sheepron. With his fellowship including Bellend the Brown, Somewhat Gungie, and I forget the names of the others. In the story, he overcomes almost all his enemys by raping them and commits bestiality with almost every animal he runs into.
We also drew fully detailed schematics of his car showing it as powered by a sheep running in a wheel, which he would fuck in the ass to make it accelerate, and we would print this all out of school printers to post up everywhere.
To be homest, this head teacher could have gotten a lot worse.
what crack-addled fuckwit modded this offtopic? Parent says Video Downloader is ok, I say that Ook? (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/25 84) is far better. I think that is on topic.