"because I have a BMI of 18.3 If you're wondering, that's supermodel range."
Maybe supermodels in 1950.
I rock a 25 myself, and I could honestly stand to gain a few pounds.
Hey, let's set the default timeout to 60 seconds, even though it never works after about 5 seconds. Why bother with a cancel button. If we just wait longer it will have to work.
"Why? It saves space. I know my parents have one. Never had a problem: there are two separate dials for the separate functions and you cannot turn on both at the same time."
What? Most of them allow you to do both at once. The quickest way to cook something short of frying. Good times.
"There's a thought -- wouldn't it be great if we could just decide the issue with single combat between Bush and bin Ladin?"
Finally, Bush's chance to shine as our leader. He'd win the fight for sure. After all, he's in decent shape while bin Laden is believed to be on kidney dialysis and seems somewhat frail overall.
Kinetic weapons are certainly not the easiest way to take out a satellite. That distinction belongs to nukes. Only problem with them is they take out other satellites too and create a huge EMP that effects things back on Earth. However, if the Chinese faced nuclear annihilation, that would be their first target for retaliation.
"China have recently said they are against the weaponisation of space...So what has changed since 2004?"
Nothing, and that's the point. The US Air Force is pushing hard for a space weapons program and more hardening of satellites against ASAT threats. We are currently spending billions of dollars a year on research, although the programs aren't called "space laser of dewm", they're buried among other research projects.
The Chinese have long maintained that they will begin research in space warfare if the US continues its research. So as long as the US follows policy recommendations titled "Full Spectrum Dominance", the Chinese feel they have little choice but to follow suit. The Indians won't be far behind either.
I was at a conference in Washington a year and a half ago where the Chinese Ambassadors urged the US not to continue and start an arms race in space, mainly because of the sheer economics. The request was completely ignored. In fact, at the same conference, a retired Air Force general detailed some non-classifed projects currently in development. They included kinetic weapons from space called "Rods from God" as well as different aspects of anti-ballistic missile projects. It is estimated that over 150 billion dollars has already been spent on this research, and that's just educated guessing based on public data, the figure could be much higher.
"No, the USA HAD this [vought.com] capability in the past but once the cold war threat was over, dismantled it. While we have other systems such as the experimental 747 borne laser [fas.org] that probably has some asat capability, we no longer have any operational ASAT weapons."
Right. Maybe not any more operational laser weapons. What about conventional missiles? Yeah, those work. I mean, it isn't like satellites follow unpredictable orbits. Most ASAT research has been towards missile development. Meanwhile, while the US has been working on a system for intercepting ICBMs in outer space it would have no capability to take out a satellite? Please.
This is 1960s technology. Anyone that says otherwise is intentionally deceiving you. Like when the US said it couldn't monitor underground nukes and negotiated the partial test ban treaty. Because it wanted to test nukes underground.
Space treaties were based on the Antarctic treaty. Basically, no one can claim anything in space as their own terroitory, establish a military base, or anything like that. You absolutely cannot destroy another country's satellite, doing so would be an act of war. It is not the same as a spy plane because it isn't airspace. You can own airspace, you cannot own space (per the treaty, Peaceful Uses for Outer Space).
It seems pretty short-sighted on China's part, given the US military's desire to achieve hegemony in space. All they need is an excuse like this and reluctance from reasonable people disappears.
"Interesting - in my maths degree and at school (in the UK), we were taught that log(x) was base 10, and ln(x) was the natural log. Other ways of writing it would be to include the base as a subscript to the log(), which made it more obvious when doing those tedious exercises to convert the base."
That's exactly how I learned it here in the US as well. The terminology remained the same through college level math classes as well as computer science.
Or start their own VOIP service and then deprioritize their competitors. There have been stories on slashdot about that already. There's a million ways to abuse this with a little creativity.
I take it you've never cleaned out a clogged sewer pipe then. Trust me, a sink drain isn't even register on the scale compared to the stench of a sewer pipe.
As a bonus, you get to test your gag reflex pulling out things that get stuck... like condoms, tampons, and random things that you will never identify.
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If the bulb is hot enough, you can just spit on it.
Pennsylvania is even more restrictive than Oregon. Beer in the grocery store? I can only dream of that...
"because I have a BMI of 18.3 If you're wondering, that's supermodel range." Maybe supermodels in 1950. I rock a 25 myself, and I could honestly stand to gain a few pounds.
Yeah, they do this already: http://www.botoxseveresweating.com/ "Botox: Not only for your face"
The lameness filter is set to reverse. It rejects useful code and ascii art.
Oh man, so true. Wait, which codec? CRASH!
Hey, let's set the default timeout to 60 seconds, even though it never works after about 5 seconds. Why bother with a cancel button. If we just wait longer it will have to work.
"Why? It saves space. I know my parents have one. Never had a problem: there are two separate dials for the separate functions and you cannot turn on both at the same time."
What? Most of them allow you to do both at once. The quickest way to cook something short of frying. Good times.
"Yes, you just hogtied people to a stone, and threw them in the lake. The ones that sank drowned, and the ones that did not survived."
Actually, the ones that survived were burned for being witches. After all, how else could they survive? Talk about a shitty test.
The water might not get hotter, but the steam sure will. If the sponge is immersed it won't get the benefit of the steam factor.
Also, water doesn't need to be very pure to be heated slightly beyond boiling in my experience, it happens frequently in non-turntable microwaves.
PS - When I tried this I didn't forget to wet the sponge, but I almost burned my hand on the cup I placed it in. So much for intelligence.
"There's a thought -- wouldn't it be great if we could just decide the issue with single combat between Bush and bin Ladin?"
Finally, Bush's chance to shine as our leader. He'd win the fight for sure. After all, he's in decent shape while bin Laden is believed to be on kidney dialysis and seems somewhat frail overall.
Question, who wins if bin Laden blows himself up?
Don't be silly. Clearly George Bush would respond by destroying 10 of our own weather satellites.
Or declare war on anti-satellite weapons.
Kinetic weapons are certainly not the easiest way to take out a satellite. That distinction belongs to nukes. Only problem with them is they take out other satellites too and create a huge EMP that effects things back on Earth. However, if the Chinese faced nuclear annihilation, that would be their first target for retaliation.
"China have recently said they are against the weaponisation of space...So what has changed since 2004?"
Nothing, and that's the point. The US Air Force is pushing hard for a space weapons program and more hardening of satellites against ASAT threats. We are currently spending billions of dollars a year on research, although the programs aren't called "space laser of dewm", they're buried among other research projects.
The Chinese have long maintained that they will begin research in space warfare if the US continues its research. So as long as the US follows policy recommendations titled "Full Spectrum Dominance", the Chinese feel they have little choice but to follow suit. The Indians won't be far behind either.
I was at a conference in Washington a year and a half ago where the Chinese Ambassadors urged the US not to continue and start an arms race in space, mainly because of the sheer economics. The request was completely ignored. In fact, at the same conference, a retired Air Force general detailed some non-classifed projects currently in development. They included kinetic weapons from space called "Rods from God" as well as different aspects of anti-ballistic missile projects. It is estimated that over 150 billion dollars has already been spent on this research, and that's just educated guessing based on public data, the figure could be much higher.
"At least China has some standards on how much liters per km a car can spend, unlike some country which name starts with "United States of America"."
Well, the US does have standards for emissions that are more stringent than China*, which is argueably more important for the environment.
*However due to a lack of forethought, massive vehicles such as the Hummer are excluded. Don't expect this to be the case forever.
In fairness, bans on games have gone forward, but they have been thrown out by the courts.
Also, flag burning amendments have been introduced, but never passed. One was recently in fact.
Military issues, ok, that's fair. That's less evil government than it is manipulation by evil defense industry contractors, but yeah.
"No, the USA HAD this [vought.com] capability in the past but once the cold war threat was over, dismantled it. While we have other systems such as the experimental 747 borne laser [fas.org] that probably has some asat capability, we no longer have any operational ASAT weapons."
Right. Maybe not any more operational laser weapons. What about conventional missiles? Yeah, those work. I mean, it isn't like satellites follow unpredictable orbits. Most ASAT research has been towards missile development. Meanwhile, while the US has been working on a system for intercepting ICBMs in outer space it would have no capability to take out a satellite? Please.
This is 1960s technology. Anyone that says otherwise is intentionally deceiving you. Like when the US said it couldn't monitor underground nukes and negotiated the partial test ban treaty. Because it wanted to test nukes underground.
Space treaties were based on the Antarctic treaty. Basically, no one can claim anything in space as their own terroitory, establish a military base, or anything like that. You absolutely cannot destroy another country's satellite, doing so would be an act of war. It is not the same as a spy plane because it isn't airspace. You can own airspace, you cannot own space (per the treaty, Peaceful Uses for Outer Space).
It seems pretty short-sighted on China's part, given the US military's desire to achieve hegemony in space. All they need is an excuse like this and reluctance from reasonable people disappears.
"Interesting - in my maths degree and at school (in the UK), we were taught that log(x) was base 10, and ln(x) was the natural log. Other ways of writing it would be to include the base as a subscript to the log(), which made it more obvious when doing those tedious exercises to convert the base."
That's exactly how I learned it here in the US as well. The terminology remained the same through college level math classes as well as computer science.
"My snes turned a yellowish huge"
Wait, it change color and got bigger too? I don't think that's tobacco you're smoking...
Oh man, the crotch on that tron suit is stunning.
The difference is, there isn't ONE pirate to criticize, but there is just ONE artist or company that makes the decision to use DRM.
While I basically agree with you, isn't this person making money off of the game? That might change my attitude a bit...
Or start their own VOIP service and then deprioritize their competitors. There have been stories on slashdot about that already. There's a million ways to abuse this with a little creativity.
I take it you've never cleaned out a clogged sewer pipe then. Trust me, a sink drain isn't even register on the scale compared to the stench of a sewer pipe.
As a bonus, you get to test your gag reflex pulling out things that get stuck... like condoms, tampons, and random things that you will never identify.