This again, it is excellent advice. Maybe toss in the ability to work from home a couple of times a month to reduce the commute times and see how your current company reacts.
"Evaporation" of the planet might depend on surface area as well. The surface area of a sphere can be represented by A = 4*pi*r^2, so as r->0, A->0 as well. The smaller the planet gets, the smaller the surface area, obviously.
A second consideration would be the amount of matter ejected per second in relation to total mass of the planet, and whether this stays constant. TFA does not list the diameter of the planet in question.
Something along the lines of m = (matter ejected per second), A = 4*pi*r^2, so m/A = ejection rate. Graph ejection rate as a function of varying r. If we knew the diameter of the planet, we could establish a baseline for ejection rate. Another measurement of diameter and ejection rate would give us a rough number.
"Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free or the home of the slave?"
Subject: Stop Work Notice or Notice of Violation
Site Address: slashdot
A.P.N.: 210590
Case Number: fkall
Dear sir,
On 7/22/2011 the State of Massachusetts posted a Stop Work Notice or Notice of Violation on your post for "illegal star-spangled banner pole height".
As of this date, no permits have been issued to clear the Stop Work Notice or Notice of Violation. You must apply for all required permits and approvals, pay all associated fees or take necessary action to correct the violation within 30 days of this notice. No permits, licenses, or other entitlements may be issues by any State Department until this violation has been cleared.
To add to this, both of the local independent bookshops in my town were owned and operated by gigantic assholes. As a poor kid with not much money and not much to do, I would sometimes take a couple of dollars and ride my bike up to the local independent bookstore near me to see if I could find anything good. I was always treated rudely from the second I walked in the door and watched closely as if they were afraid I would steal something the instant their backs were turned. Once I had paid for small stack of used books I was basically ushered out the door. No looking, no browsing, no smiling storekeeper recommending her favorite books. Just scowls and rudeness.
Later in life I got a job working at a big name computer store at the opposite end of town near the other bookstore. I tried heading over there on my too-short 1/2 hour lunch break to browse around a bit and buy a book or two, but the rude woman there treated me the same way. I wasn't in the store for 3 minutes and she had already asked me if she could help me twice, and then followed me around the store while I looked at books. About 5 minutes into skimming a book I was thinking about buying, she told me that her store wasn't a library - I should buy it or leave. So I put it down and never went back.
Since then, I've bought dozens of books and hundreds of items on Amazon. I can browse the inventory at my leisure, at any hour, and have stuff shipped overnight to my door. Amazon has never complained that I take too long to make a decision or followed me around to make sure I don't steal anything. I don't have to pay sales tax either. Tell me again how local independent bookshops are better?
So, let me get this straight. A social media site known mainly for the sheer hideousness of its user-created pages has been purchased by an ad-targeting agency known for its slow, blinky, flash-ridden, "shoot the monkey" ads? Dear god. Not since geocities has a user been easily able to chew up pre-generated HTML and barf up horrible atrocities of clashing styles and colors that make it feel as if your eyes are being raped with a wire brush. If you have photosensitive epilepsy you might want to avoid myspace in the future. In fact, even if you don't have photosensitive epilepsy, you might want to steer clear as well.
I was just thinking... 10000 scents, and yet you'll always be replacing the entire block of nearly full cartridges (like those tri-color inkjets) because it ran out of fart/BO/feces/urine.
Switch from Adam Sandler movies to almost anything else and quadruple the life of your scent cartridges!
I wonder if there's anything from a technical point of view that would prevent this from working on mobile devices, such as iPads and Android phones and tablets? If they're looking for wide adoption, I'll bet that getting it running on everyone's mobile or tablet would make it a killer app.
If they're trying to sell this as a cloud service, why limit yourselves to Windows machines? Microsoft is in the business of making money, and they're quite good at it. Apparently, there is more money in using open standards and having more customers, as opposed to being force-fed your own proprietary standard and limiting your userbase as a result. Certain other huge megacorps (Sony, for one) could learn from this.
That's like reading Dora the Explorer and complaining about the flat characters and unrealistic situations. They are different things with different purposes.
So stop over-analyzing, suspend your disbelief, relax and enjoy the movie. That's why they make them.
So we are comparing the depth and plotlines of a movie with production costs of around $200,000,000 USD to an animated short meant for 4 year old girls? Got it. I knew the expectations for summer movies was low, but never quite realized how low.
...and it wants its headlines back. I mean seriously, there's so much junk up there it's like an orbital junkyard. This is not stuff that launched itself up there. It was carried. On rockets. The type we've been flinging into space for over half a century. But now it's news because Iran decides it wants to doom a few rhesus monkeys in an experiment that consists of 5 steps:
1) Build rocket
2) Strap monkey into chair
3) Put chair into rocket
4) Fling into space
5)...profit?
US courts have no jurisdiction over the company, but I wonder whether, when the company doesn't pay, (alleged) spammers might go after the officials of the company? They would, more likely than not, be liable to extradition to the USA.
Extradition for a civil matter? Nope. Debtors prisons were outlawed long ago. In the US court system, none of these are criminal offenses and therefore not subject to any laws of extradition. A large monetary judgement against Spamhaus might prevent them from doing business or opening offices in the US without having to deal with this debt, but their liability is only financial.
I don't see how that works. Even if they get what they ask for and the damages are reduced to a nominal $1, all it shows is that e360 failed to show evidence of their damages. Spamhouse is still left open to copycat cases from (alleged) spammers who can show evidence of the damages they're asking for.
Also keep in mind two other facts about this case:
1) US civil courts have no jurisdiction over a British company, which is why they failed to respond in the first place.
2) Pro bono lawyers seem to like Spamhaus and represent them for free.
If you're thinking about suing Spamhaus, you'd have to realize that not only do they have a lawyer that works for free (and fame), but no judgement in the USA will have any effect anyway.
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This again, it is excellent advice. Maybe toss in the ability to work from home a couple of times a month to reduce the commute times and see how your current company reacts.
Please die screaming. kthx.
"Evaporation" of the planet might depend on surface area as well. The surface area of a sphere can be represented by A = 4*pi*r^2, so as r->0, A->0 as well. The smaller the planet gets, the smaller the surface area, obviously.
A second consideration would be the amount of matter ejected per second in relation to total mass of the planet, and whether this stays constant. TFA does not list the diameter of the planet in question.
Something along the lines of m = (matter ejected per second), A = 4*pi*r^2, so m/A = ejection rate. Graph ejection rate as a function of varying r. If we knew the diameter of the planet, we could establish a baseline for ejection rate. Another measurement of diameter and ejection rate would give us a rough number.
Mod parent up!
Bonus points for the spelling error. It really added that extra touch of believability.
I want my plate to be '; drop and I'll drive on the left side of my buddy whose plate will be sys;go;
"Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free or the home of the slave?"
Subject: Stop Work Notice or Notice of Violation
Site Address: slashdot A.P.N.: 210590 Case Number: fkall
Dear sir,
On 7/22/2011 the State of Massachusetts posted a Stop Work Notice or Notice of Violation on your post for "illegal star-spangled banner pole height".
As of this date, no permits have been issued to clear the Stop Work Notice or Notice of Violation. You must apply for all required permits and approvals, pay all associated fees or take necessary action to correct the violation within 30 days of this notice. No permits, licenses, or other entitlements may be issues by any State Department until this violation has been cleared.
Sincerely,
The State of Massachusetts
I'm gonna say that's a no. No, it doesn't.
I'd like to propose a new line of designer license plate, the CAPTCHA-plate. You heard it here first, folks.
This sounds like a wonderful idea, but something isn't quite right. I just can't quite get my thumb on it.
That's it, freedom! There are still some lingering freedoms out there, they must be found and eliminated.
To add to this, both of the local independent bookshops in my town were owned and operated by gigantic assholes. As a poor kid with not much money and not much to do, I would sometimes take a couple of dollars and ride my bike up to the local independent bookstore near me to see if I could find anything good. I was always treated rudely from the second I walked in the door and watched closely as if they were afraid I would steal something the instant their backs were turned. Once I had paid for small stack of used books I was basically ushered out the door. No looking, no browsing, no smiling storekeeper recommending her favorite books. Just scowls and rudeness.
Later in life I got a job working at a big name computer store at the opposite end of town near the other bookstore. I tried heading over there on my too-short 1/2 hour lunch break to browse around a bit and buy a book or two, but the rude woman there treated me the same way. I wasn't in the store for 3 minutes and she had already asked me if she could help me twice, and then followed me around the store while I looked at books. About 5 minutes into skimming a book I was thinking about buying, she told me that her store wasn't a library - I should buy it or leave. So I put it down and never went back.
Since then, I've bought dozens of books and hundreds of items on Amazon. I can browse the inventory at my leisure, at any hour, and have stuff shipped overnight to my door. Amazon has never complained that I take too long to make a decision or followed me around to make sure I don't steal anything. I don't have to pay sales tax either. Tell me again how local independent bookshops are better?
So, let me get this straight. A social media site known mainly for the sheer hideousness of its user-created pages has been purchased by an ad-targeting agency known for its slow, blinky, flash-ridden, "shoot the monkey" ads? Dear god. Not since geocities has a user been easily able to chew up pre-generated HTML and barf up horrible atrocities of clashing styles and colors that make it feel as if your eyes are being raped with a wire brush. If you have photosensitive epilepsy you might want to avoid myspace in the future. In fact, even if you don't have photosensitive epilepsy, you might want to steer clear as well.
So you mean it works like /.'s comment moderation system?
Similar, except that this system might actually filter out the useless content instead of posting it on the front page as a breaking story.
I was just thinking... 10000 scents, and yet you'll always be replacing the entire block of nearly full cartridges (like those tri-color inkjets) because it ran out of fart/BO/feces/urine.
Switch from Adam Sandler movies to almost anything else and quadruple the life of your scent cartridges!
Legally, yes, that's true. But if they had their way, simple possession would be a crime.
Oh my. A German chiding the people of other nations over hate. That's absolutely hilarious. I needed that laugh today.
Perhaps he feels qualified to comment; the Germans having had much experience in such matters.
Does such a tool exist or does the RIAA seriously expect me to sift through 60 GB of music, remember which are pirated, and delete them by hand?
That's funny, but neither. They expect you to pay $2000 per illegal track in your possession.
I wonder if there's anything from a technical point of view that would prevent this from working on mobile devices, such as iPads and Android phones and tablets? If they're looking for wide adoption, I'll bet that getting it running on everyone's mobile or tablet would make it a killer app.
If they're trying to sell this as a cloud service, why limit yourselves to Windows machines? Microsoft is in the business of making money, and they're quite good at it. Apparently, there is more money in using open standards and having more customers, as opposed to being force-fed your own proprietary standard and limiting your userbase as a result. Certain other huge megacorps (Sony, for one) could learn from this.
That's like reading Dora the Explorer and complaining about the flat characters and unrealistic situations. They are different things with different purposes.
So stop over-analyzing, suspend your disbelief, relax and enjoy the movie. That's why they make them.
So we are comparing the depth and plotlines of a movie with production costs of around $200,000,000 USD to an animated short meant for 4 year old girls? Got it. I knew the expectations for summer movies was low, but never quite realized how low.
...and it wants its headlines back. I mean seriously, there's so much junk up there it's like an orbital junkyard. This is not stuff that launched itself up there. It was carried. On rockets. The type we've been flinging into space for over half a century. But now it's news because Iran decides it wants to doom a few rhesus monkeys in an experiment that consists of 5 steps:
1) Build rocket ...profit?
2) Strap monkey into chair
3) Put chair into rocket
4) Fling into space
5)
Nothing to see here.
US courts have no jurisdiction over the company, but I wonder whether, when the company doesn't pay, (alleged) spammers might go after the officials of the company? They would, more likely than not, be liable to extradition to the USA.
Extradition for a civil matter? Nope. Debtors prisons were outlawed long ago. In the US court system, none of these are criminal offenses and therefore not subject to any laws of extradition. A large monetary judgement against Spamhaus might prevent them from doing business or opening offices in the US without having to deal with this debt, but their liability is only financial.
I don't see how that works. Even if they get what they ask for and the damages are reduced to a nominal $1, all it shows is that e360 failed to show evidence of their damages. Spamhouse is still left open to copycat cases from (alleged) spammers who can show evidence of the damages they're asking for.
Also keep in mind two other facts about this case:
If you're thinking about suing Spamhaus, you'd have to realize that not only do they have a lawyer that works for free (and fame), but no judgement in the USA will have any effect anyway.
I just wish I could remember what the hell happened after the 6th Guinness and 3rd round of shots last saturday night.
Scratch that, the bits and pieces I do remember ... I wish I could forget.
There's a switch for that.
If the other companies using valador have any sense they will fire them immediately and have nothing more to do with them.
This is a very good point. After being caught up in a racket like this, what do you think their seal of recommendation is worth now?
... investing in lawyers, the only growth industry in the US. The MIC is, of course, a destruction industry.
Not the only growth industry in the US. Figure out a way to grow medical marijuana in space and you'd have a triple whammy of profit.