Did the folks conducting the survey really believe beforehand that "Educated Tech Readership" and "Band of Merry Thieves" were somehow mutually exclusive? "How could these people be capable of such things?! They use the Internet and read blogs, for goodness sake!"
As a recording musician I can attest to the fact that using computer based virtual instruments that have an output latency of more than about 6 or 7 milliseconds causes noticeable "lag" that's very annoying, unless one is playing the keyboard quite slowly. If the latency increases to 12-15 ms, it becomes pretty much intolerable.
Every time I've had to go to the doctor lately I've successfully diagnosed myself with the internet and known the treatment before I went, only to pay $120 for a doctor to look at me for 5 minutes and say what I had already guessed.
My difficulty with a recent illness is that while I was able to self-diagnose my condition, I needed to see five physicians before I found one who was actually willing to run the tests to confirm my suspicions. It's really irritating to be told time and time again by doctors "No, you don't have that illness, and I absolutely will not run any tests" until you find one that decides to humor you, and whaddyaknow, confirm what you already knew.
I'm already hearing reports of US swimmers being coached to refer to the time of their race in US broadcast time rather than Beijing time. Ummmmmm - WTF?
The swimming events I've seen this evening in the U.S. have been live - if the event is indeed "live" then what problem is there in referring to the event as having taken place at such-and-such a time local?
At least NBC and mainstream US media hasn't discovered football yet (they are confused by some sport where the players wear helmets and carry the ball around over numbers painted on the grass)
American Football was most likely called "Football" to distinguish it from polo, which was also a popular game in the U.S. at the time. That is, a game played on one's feet, not on horseback.
so, alas NBC misses the trick of bribing the Olympic officials to get football (soccer) on at a decent US hour - in fact better to have it on at 2 AM so they have an excuse to ignore it
They don't need an excuse to ignore it - nobody in the U.S. watches soccer anyway.
but come Winter Olympics and the fit little girls skating in their tights? You can be guaranteed no bribe is too big to get that into US prime time, and I say God bless the Network for that.
Come the Winter Olympics you'll again get to engage in more U.S.-hating, which appears in general to be the world's favorite pastime.
If this story should make it to local news outlets around here it will be pretty simple for the MBTA spin this and gain the support of Boston residents. Do a piece of "investigative journalism" that discovers how MIT students are conspiring to hack the CharlieCard system, and that by doing so these filthy nerds are going to end up RAISING YOUR TAXES due to lost revenue. That should wrap things up nicely - bonus points if a way can be found to fit in how the hack might HURT YOUR KIDS. The news story must also include some stock footage of sinister looking students "hacking" on computers, and a threatening graphic of a computer at MIT shooting out "RFID BEAMS" causing a Green Line train to simultaneously detonate and plunge off the Charles River Dam Bridge.
That's true, for years US automakers classified as many vehicles as possible as "light trucks" so they would be subject to less stringent fuel economy requirements under the CAFE regulations.
One of the experiments shown contains a unit called the "Time Projection Chamber." And so what exactly is the purpose of this "Time Projection Chamber", hmm?
Michael Dukakis from my home state of Massachusetts was the Democratic candidate against Bush Sr. in 1988. He was really no match for the Republican media campaign against him, which was controversial but masterfully executed. The election was easily won by Bush Sr. - it seems amazing to me as a younger guy that there was a time when California's mass of electoral votes consistently went Republican.
On Earth nuclear explosions have a big blast because their is plenty of atmosphere to absorb the gamma, radiate less energetic photons, and expand, a nuclear burst in the water is much less effective blast-wise than an airburst
What, you don't think water absorbs the energies from the bomb (gamma and x-rays) in the same way that the atmosphere does?
Indeed it does. I'm not sure which tests the grandparent poster may be referring to, but in the Operation Crossroads test two Fat Man designs were tested; Crossroads Able and Crossroads Baker. Crossroads Able was an air burst over the target fleet, Crossroads Baker was hung from a moored barge several hundred feet underwater (footage of the second test has been widely used in the media). While the Able air-drop caused moderate damage to the fleet, the underwater shot was judged to be far more powerful, completely wrecking a dozen vessels and severely damaging and contaminating many more.
A while back I'd sometimes turn on Rhode Island PBS and see a Mac desktop! It was OS 9 too. I got the impression that Rhode Island PBS is just the video out of a purple 1st generation iMac in a closet somewhere.
It is legal for a live band to perform cover songs at a venue if the copyright holders of the music are members of ASCAP/BMI, and the venue pays its yearly royalties to those organizations.
The recently concluded trial and conviction of Neil Entwistle in Massachusetts for the murder of his wife and baby daughter was based almost entirely on circumstantial evidence. While there were no witnesses, no gunshot residue on his clothing, and I assume multiple sets of prints on the gun (it was the family firearm, after all), the defendant's flight to England after the murders and the Google search records on his computer of "how to kill your wife" in between searches for discount escort services was extremely damning.
The best the defense could come up with was an extremely implausible murder-suicide event on the part of Entwistle's wife and daughter, while in the meantime trying to get evidence barred from the trial by questioning the skills and integrity of the forensic investigation team - indeed some of the work that was performed by the evidence collection team was flawed. In the end, however, essentially the circumstantial evidence of the mad dash to England along with the internet search records (the full text of which we will probably never see, but could have contained material even more damning than just the above) was enough for the jury to hand down a conviction.
I stopped using Paypal after an error the part of their site caused a payment to a seller to be issued twice. While they are heavily tied in to eBay (the auction numbers each payment is linked to are available in one's payment history) they apparently have no mechanism to prevent double-payments. Both payments were deducted from my credit card immediately, but the seller was kind enough to quickly refund the duplicate payment. However, I learned via a PayPal email that "Refunds to credit cards may take up to 30 days for processing", or something to that effect.
I was finally issued the refund on July 2. I assume the reason that refunds are not issued in a timely manner has nothing to do with processing, but has more to do with keeping your money, whether gained legitimately or not, in their accounts earning interest until the month rolls over.
"A woman does not find self worth in the caliber of man that she can attract, but in the caliber of man she can reject." Sounds like Mencken, maybe. Anyway, the difficulty that both myself and other men have known in the fairly straightforward realization that to obtain sex one must ask is that many women take such obvious pleasure in the process of rejection that eventually the amount of potential emotional exhaustion an approach takes seems hardly worth the effort. It's hard enough to have one's fall caught by a net - many women seem determined to fire one at the ground out of a cannon.
The statement "We sit back and wait for you to do all the work" is interesting - many people of both genders have asked the question as to why it is almost always the male who makes the approach. The best answer I have been able to find is out of game theory, that such a tactic is part of women's evolutionarily stable strategy. Women know that they have what men want, and in that regard the balance is always tipped in their favor. For them to make the approach would needlessly compromise their advantageous position. For example, nightclubs are designed the way they are to aid women and hamper men, thereby increasing competition among men and improving the woman's chances. Loud music and bright lights are the perfect method to make sure that any advantage a man might gain via conversation is cancelled out - nightclubs are about emotions, not rationality. If women were not afforded an advantage in their selection decisions by such establishments, they wouldn't be there. The sexual selection high ground is not to be compromised.
I learned early on the same lesson about women, and attempted to act like a jerk as well. Unfortunately I then realized to play that role successfully you've got to have the looks to back it up, so I just ended up an aloof and difficult jerk. More pleasant in general than having to be perpetually in the friend zone, though.
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Did the folks conducting the survey really believe beforehand that "Educated Tech Readership" and "Band of Merry Thieves" were somehow mutually exclusive? "How could these people be capable of such things?! They use the Internet and read blogs, for goodness sake!"
As a recording musician I can attest to the fact that using computer based virtual instruments that have an output latency of more than about 6 or 7 milliseconds causes noticeable "lag" that's very annoying, unless one is playing the keyboard quite slowly. If the latency increases to 12-15 ms, it becomes pretty much intolerable.
The horizontal sweep tubes in my Philco telereciever can't keep up with 480p, you insensitive clod!
If the chance of Russia gaining sole access to the ISS actually becomes plausible, it would be best to deorbit the thing.
Every time I've had to go to the doctor lately I've successfully diagnosed myself with the internet and known the treatment before I went, only to pay $120 for a doctor to look at me for 5 minutes and say what I had already guessed.
My difficulty with a recent illness is that while I was able to self-diagnose my condition, I needed to see five physicians before I found one who was actually willing to run the tests to confirm my suspicions. It's really irritating to be told time and time again by doctors "No, you don't have that illness, and I absolutely will not run any tests" until you find one that decides to humor you, and whaddyaknow, confirm what you already knew.
I'm already hearing reports of US swimmers being coached to refer to the time of their race in US broadcast time rather than Beijing time. Ummmmmm - WTF?
The swimming events I've seen this evening in the U.S. have been live - if the event is indeed "live" then what problem is there in referring to the event as having taken place at such-and-such a time local?
At least NBC and mainstream US media hasn't discovered football yet (they are confused by some sport where the players wear helmets and carry the ball around over numbers painted on the grass)
American Football was most likely called "Football" to distinguish it from polo, which was also a popular game in the U.S. at the time. That is, a game played on one's feet, not on horseback.
so, alas NBC misses the trick of bribing the Olympic officials to get football (soccer) on at a decent US hour - in fact better to have it on at 2 AM so they have an excuse to ignore it
They don't need an excuse to ignore it - nobody in the U.S. watches soccer anyway.
but come Winter Olympics and the fit little girls skating in their tights? You can be guaranteed no bribe is too big to get that into US prime time, and I say God bless the Network for that.
Come the Winter Olympics you'll again get to engage in more U.S.-hating, which appears in general to be the world's favorite pastime.
Gold medal in the Markov chain event.
Biography of Michael Phelps
a Michael Phelps swimming event
Michael Phelps swims the 100 meter freestyle
The Michael Phelps Story
Buy Coca Cola, Buy Cell Phone, Buy ExxonMobil
Beach Volleyball
Beach Volleyball
The Misty May Story
The Triumph of Misty May
Beach Volleyball
Michael Phelps swims 400 meter butterfly
Swimming
Swimming
Beach Volleyball
Buy Coca Cola, buy Cell Phone, buy ExxonMobil
Michael Phelps Swims Some Other Event
Beach Volleyball
On day 16 they'll show 15 minutes of horse riding.
If this story should make it to local news outlets around here it will be pretty simple for the MBTA spin this and gain the support of Boston residents. Do a piece of "investigative journalism" that discovers how MIT students are conspiring to hack the CharlieCard system, and that by doing so these filthy nerds are going to end up RAISING YOUR TAXES due to lost revenue. That should wrap things up nicely - bonus points if a way can be found to fit in how the hack might HURT YOUR KIDS. The news story must also include some stock footage of sinister looking students "hacking" on computers, and a threatening graphic of a computer at MIT shooting out "RFID BEAMS" causing a Green Line train to simultaneously detonate and plunge off the Charles River Dam Bridge.
The additive would be me.
That's true, for years US automakers classified as many vehicles as possible as "light trucks" so they would be subject to less stringent fuel economy requirements under the CAFE regulations.
One of the experiments shown contains a unit called the "Time Projection Chamber." And so what exactly is the purpose of this "Time Projection Chamber", hmm?
Wait, so it's impossible to troll amateur radio? That..That's j...I ca...It's imp...-head explodes-
Michael Dukakis from my home state of Massachusetts was the Democratic candidate against Bush Sr. in 1988. He was really no match for the Republican media campaign against him, which was controversial but masterfully executed. The election was easily won by Bush Sr. - it seems amazing to me as a younger guy that there was a time when California's mass of electoral votes consistently went Republican.
What, you don't think water absorbs the energies from the bomb (gamma and x-rays) in the same way that the atmosphere does?
Indeed it does. I'm not sure which tests the grandparent poster may be referring to, but in the Operation Crossroads test two Fat Man designs were tested; Crossroads Able and Crossroads Baker. Crossroads Able was an air burst over the target fleet, Crossroads Baker was hung from a moored barge several hundred feet underwater (footage of the second test has been widely used in the media). While the Able air-drop caused moderate damage to the fleet, the underwater shot was judged to be far more powerful, completely wrecking a dozen vessels and severely damaging and contaminating many more.
A while back I'd sometimes turn on Rhode Island PBS and see a Mac desktop! It was OS 9 too. I got the impression that Rhode Island PBS is just the video out of a purple 1st generation iMac in a closet somewhere.
It is legal for a live band to perform cover songs at a venue if the copyright holders of the music are members of ASCAP/BMI, and the venue pays its yearly royalties to those organizations.
The recently concluded trial and conviction of Neil Entwistle in Massachusetts for the murder of his wife and baby daughter was based almost entirely on circumstantial evidence. While there were no witnesses, no gunshot residue on his clothing, and I assume multiple sets of prints on the gun (it was the family firearm, after all), the defendant's flight to England after the murders and the Google search records on his computer of "how to kill your wife" in between searches for discount escort services was extremely damning.
The best the defense could come up with was an extremely implausible murder-suicide event on the part of Entwistle's wife and daughter, while in the meantime trying to get evidence barred from the trial by questioning the skills and integrity of the forensic investigation team - indeed some of the work that was performed by the evidence collection team was flawed. In the end, however, essentially the circumstantial evidence of the mad dash to England along with the internet search records (the full text of which we will probably never see, but could have contained material even more damning than just the above) was enough for the jury to hand down a conviction.
And every guy in the room is STILL staring only at the C64.
I stopped using Paypal after an error the part of their site caused a payment to a seller to be issued twice. While they are heavily tied in to eBay (the auction numbers each payment is linked to are available in one's payment history) they apparently have no mechanism to prevent double-payments. Both payments were deducted from my credit card immediately, but the seller was kind enough to quickly refund the duplicate payment. However, I learned via a PayPal email that "Refunds to credit cards may take up to 30 days for processing", or something to that effect. I was finally issued the refund on July 2. I assume the reason that refunds are not issued in a timely manner has nothing to do with processing, but has more to do with keeping your money, whether gained legitimately or not, in their accounts earning interest until the month rolls over.
"A woman does not find self worth in the caliber of man that she can attract, but in the caliber of man she can reject." Sounds like Mencken, maybe. Anyway, the difficulty that both myself and other men have known in the fairly straightforward realization that to obtain sex one must ask is that many women take such obvious pleasure in the process of rejection that eventually the amount of potential emotional exhaustion an approach takes seems hardly worth the effort. It's hard enough to have one's fall caught by a net - many women seem determined to fire one at the ground out of a cannon.
The statement "We sit back and wait for you to do all the work" is interesting - many people of both genders have asked the question as to why it is almost always the male who makes the approach. The best answer I have been able to find is out of game theory, that such a tactic is part of women's evolutionarily stable strategy. Women know that they have what men want, and in that regard the balance is always tipped in their favor. For them to make the approach would needlessly compromise their advantageous position. For example, nightclubs are designed the way they are to aid women and hamper men, thereby increasing competition among men and improving the woman's chances. Loud music and bright lights are the perfect method to make sure that any advantage a man might gain via conversation is cancelled out - nightclubs are about emotions, not rationality. If women were not afforded an advantage in their selection decisions by such establishments, they wouldn't be there. The sexual selection high ground is not to be compromised.I learned early on the same lesson about women, and attempted to act like a jerk as well. Unfortunately I then realized to play that role successfully you've got to have the looks to back it up, so I just ended up an aloof and difficult jerk. More pleasant in general than having to be perpetually in the friend zone, though.
Nosesoda. I'm sorry I already commented on this thread and can't use my mod points.
They'll fall faster if you drop them from a height of say, 100 million kilometers.