It seems anyone that travels interstellar distances at superluminal speeds would want a flight suit with cool patches.
The rumour I heard is that they started the trip wearing flight suits with cool patches, but nobody remembered to bring change for the space laundry machines.
You're not wrong, but from a scammers economic perspective poor fools have way less money to part with, and rich fools aren't particularly abundant. Middle class fools hit the sweet spot.
Nothing new or myterious. High altitude airports (i.e. Denver) struggle with it all the time. Helicopters, in particular, have to pay close attention to DAlt. A friend told me an entertaining story of spending a week trying to get a chopper to take off from a plateau in Nairobi... combination of a weird pressure change and a heat wave.
You jest, but you really should be able to take detailed measurements of yourself (not hard; but it helps to have a friend) and enter them into the web site, and then Amazon should be able to calculate how each piece of clothing will fit you...
The assumption is that Amazon has accurate clothing sizes from its vendors. That's, if you'll pardon the expression, quite a stretch.
Unless Amazon launches some sort of Amazon Basics for clothing, sizing is going to remain a bit of a crapshoot.
Yes, but that's a first person shooter tabletop game. Entirely different thing.
Kidding, of course. I was poking fun at the guy who (best as I can guess) saw the word "game" and decided it just had to be about video shooting games.
A blind person is never going to able to play an 3rd person shooter
That's fine; I believe that 3rd person shooter tabletop games are rare enough that I doubt too many people are going to be concerned about the accessibility issues.
I can't wait to see how the carriers manage to interpret this rule in the most customer-hostile way possible. Maybe they'll create a special "speaking to phone unlocking agent" fee.
Their employees pay income tax, their customers pay sales tax, how many taxes can they stand?
I'd expect they should pay, at least at local levels, the same sort of tax rate as businesses who can't afford to play a multi-national shell game to avoid taxes.
What that actual number would be is a complicated problem, but it's not unreasonable to assume that it's a lot higher than what they currently pay.
Every article I come across seems to involve the FCC getting slapped down over pretty much everything, especially when it risks a corporations profits.
They seem to overstep their authority in too many cases. For example, this seems more like an FTC issue; at the institution level, this is pretty much the definition of "coercive monopoly"...
Within the framework of a free society, how to you propose that we restrict speculation about an upcoming event without violating the first amendment?
Not sure, to be honest. Have you got anything you could have your politicians do instead of fundraising and campaigning prior to the official cycle, maybe?
Anyhow, as I said, I think it's just going to get worse; without some sort of penalty or limits there's little reason for anyone to avoid perpetual campaigning.
One might also mention that Russia has just recently discovered that American's reliance on online media is an awesome way to influence elections and to a magnitude they could never have before.
It's also worth pointing out one of the main aggravating factors... the ridiculous length of a typical US election cycle gives hackers the luxury of taking time to build up sophisticated attacks.
Cut the election cycle back to something sane, like 2-3 months, and a lot of this vulnerability disappears.
Not that I expect to see it happen. In fact, I sorta expect to see the exact opposite.
My gut feeling is no. They could do some neat stuff with, say, playing with word spacing or kerning that would still flow through if formatting were preserved. The number of bits that need to be coded is so small...
Of course, and OCR filter assumes they don't mess with the actual document content. If they go that far, nothing short of paraphrasing will hide the source
I'd operate under the assumption that the NSA has hacked their hardware and software to put document tracking information into things like font rendering and image dithering artifacts.
OCR into a plain text file and strip out any formatting. It's the only way to be even remotely sure.
The actual process that ignited the motor was passing current through a wire that was intentionally too thin to carry that current without generating heat, and the heat is what set off the engine.
When I was young, we could reliably detonate pipe bombs by triggering a camera flash through a 1/8W resistor.
If you've got a large capacitor and a power source, the size of the battery doesn't matter too much...
There are, but that is a special case unless you use a very broad definition of "mentally ill". For the purpose here, you would have to include things like regular narcissism.
That certainly may be the case here; I haven't seen following it all that closely. I just threw that in there to remind people that "guilty" or "not guilty" aren't the only answers to stuff like this... there's always the occasional "WTF?" case.
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The rumour I heard is that they started the trip wearing flight suits with cool patches, but nobody remembered to bring change for the space laundry machines.
Any government official of any country which enforces blasphemy or apostate laws, at least:
You're not wrong, but from a scammers economic perspective poor fools have way less money to part with, and rich fools aren't particularly abundant. Middle class fools hit the sweet spot.
It looks like it's marketed to rich people, but the prices (at least for this Goop stuff) are clearly middle class.
Unless you're using a very, very loose definition of "rich people".
The odds are pretty good that you'll be dead long before we reach that point.
I was 99% sure you were just messing with people. Fuck. They even have a consortium.
They can't even keep counterfeits out of their system. I don't see them having much luck enforcing size labelling.
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Nothing new or myterious. High altitude airports (i.e. Denver) struggle with it all the time. Helicopters, in particular, have to pay close attention to DAlt. A friend told me an entertaining story of spending a week trying to get a chopper to take off from a plateau in Nairobi... combination of a weird pressure change and a heat wave.
The assumption is that Amazon has accurate clothing sizes from its vendors. That's, if you'll pardon the expression, quite a stretch.
Unless Amazon launches some sort of Amazon Basics for clothing, sizing is going to remain a bit of a crapshoot.
Yes, but that's a first person shooter tabletop game. Entirely different thing.
Kidding, of course. I was poking fun at the guy who (best as I can guess) saw the word "game" and decided it just had to be about video shooting games.
That's fine; I believe that 3rd person shooter tabletop games are rare enough that I doubt too many people are going to be concerned about the accessibility issues.
Maybe they're still billing the government for Edward Snowden's time and foreign living expenses.
Iconically, that's a position the left and the right both agree on.
I can't wait to see how the carriers manage to interpret this rule in the most customer-hostile way possible. Maybe they'll create a special "speaking to phone unlocking agent" fee.
I'd expect they should pay, at least at local levels, the same sort of tax rate as businesses who can't afford to play a multi-national shell game to avoid taxes.
What that actual number would be is a complicated problem, but it's not unreasonable to assume that it's a lot higher than what they currently pay.
Maybe it was just another person with a mental health problem and access to firearms? Or are politics the only cause of mass shootings these days?
They seem to overstep their authority in too many cases. For example, this seems more like an FTC issue; at the institution level, this is pretty much the definition of "coercive monopoly"...
Not sure, to be honest. Have you got anything you could have your politicians do instead of fundraising and campaigning prior to the official cycle, maybe?
Anyhow, as I said, I think it's just going to get worse; without some sort of penalty or limits there's little reason for anyone to avoid perpetual campaigning.
It's also worth pointing out one of the main aggravating factors... the ridiculous length of a typical US election cycle gives hackers the luxury of taking time to build up sophisticated attacks.
Cut the election cycle back to something sane, like 2-3 months, and a lot of this vulnerability disappears.
Not that I expect to see it happen. In fact, I sorta expect to see the exact opposite.
My gut feeling is no. They could do some neat stuff with, say, playing with word spacing or kerning that would still flow through if formatting were preserved. The number of bits that need to be coded is so small...
Of course, and OCR filter assumes they don't mess with the actual document content. If they go that far, nothing short of paraphrasing will hide the source
I'd operate under the assumption that the NSA has hacked their hardware and software to put document tracking information into things like font rendering and image dithering artifacts.
OCR into a plain text file and strip out any formatting. It's the only way to be even remotely sure.
When I was young, we could reliably detonate pipe bombs by triggering a camera flash through a 1/8W resistor.
If you've got a large capacitor and a power source, the size of the battery doesn't matter too much...
So... you're new around here, aren't you?
That certainly may be the case here; I haven't seen following it all that closely. I just threw that in there to remind people that "guilty" or "not guilty" aren't the only answers to stuff like this... there's always the occasional "WTF?" case.
There's also the people who are flat out mentally ill.