Also, ask anybody who's served on a nuke boat in the navy, iron/steel is a far better radiation shield than water. Using (scarce) water on Mars as a radiation shield, when the entire surface is rich in iron oxide seems dumb as hell to me. You'd be better off filling bags with surface material, pressing them into blocks, and using those blocks to build igloo shaped structures. This is why most of the (decent) books about mars colonization involve living underground initially.
Agreed. First order of business, violate the SHIT out of the TOS. In deep and unpardonable ways. In ways that will make the TOSs mother cry, father blush, and distant relatives tell the story at family gatherings for YEARS to come. Violate the TOS to a degree that the TOS will require years of therapy just to be able to sleep at night, a decade of therapy to stop wetting the bed, and multiple medications reduce the frequency of 'Terror Diarrhea' to manageable levels.
I'm surprised no one else has posted this, but the address of the actual test is http://newton.inf.ufrgs.br/
You have to register, and fill in a small survey consisting of your experience with image manipulation, but its still up as of this post.
Speaking as a circumcised male, I would not want the tip of my penis to be any more sensitive than it already is. Based on personal experience with my own penis, any increased level of sensitivity there would be damn well debilitating. Obviously, this is anecdotal evidence, and I can't vouch for the sensitivity of any other penises, but I'm just saying, anything more seems like it would be a curse, not a blessing.
You really need to watch the behind the scenes features for Fury Road. Sure, there was some big obvious CGI (the giant sand storm) but for about 90% of the movie, the things you expect to be CGI (the car crashes, explosions, insane stunts) are real, and the CGI is limited to fleshing out the wasteland background and erasing some safety equipment.
Clearly, your Dad' system is far more modern than the one I lived with, which was a hodgpodge of equipment, some dating back to the 1930's. ( we replaced the original lead acid glass jar batteries while I lived there). I assume the solar cells we had would be far less efficient than what are available now, as they where not particularly new, and this was in the early 90's. Glad to hear the consumer available tech has come so far.
I lived in a house that was totally off grid. It actually was never on grid, because the owners already had a wind turbine back in the day when the utility companies where doing the rural electrification project, and declined to be added to the grid. This house had coal heat, gas and wood stoves, gas refrigeration, and no AC at all. Located in central Montana, it was equipped with a bank of around 12 CAT bulldozer batteries, (which replaced about twenty 1 gallon square glass jars with lead plates) over 200 square feet of solar panels, a small wind turbine (about a 2 foot blade) and a backup propane generator, that was set up to automatically start up and top up the system if it dropped below a certain charge level.
So basically, all the system had for load was incandessent bulbs, and occasionally a television. In the winter, that generator ran intermittently during the day, and after dark, it ran until you went to bed, and shut all the lights off.
Obviously, using LED's and more power efficient TV's is possible now, but it takes a hell of a setup to go all off grid. (you could not run a modern computer or a microwave on that system, the computers where to sensitive to the square sin of the inverters, and would randomly restart. Microwaves would pop breakers if not plugged in directly to the generator.)
true, but the impression I have gotten so far is that the people who actually care to build their own advanced multi rotors (like yourself) are generally aware of the regulations surrounding RC aircraft and their use, and abide by them.
The people who fly over crowded sports stadiums, through firework shows, or into the flight path of fire fighting crews are the people with more money than sense, who blew a couple grand on an inspire or phantom, and think they can do whatever they want with it.
I think that safety measures in the mass produced models would probably take care of a great deal of the problems, and the rest is up to the multi rotor community to police itself, which the RC community has done fairly well for decades.
A goodly number of the 'drones' these days have 'return to launch point' modes that activate when 2 way communication with the controller is lost, so jamming those would actually serve to clear the flight space, and locate the pilot/owner. Probably will see that mode become mandatory in any models above the indoor flight only size if this behavior persists.
God, I really hope they follow the Han Solo Trilogy, 1: because I must have read them 10 times each as a teenager, and 2: because they are pretty decent, as far as Star Wars novels go, and did a good job of retconning all the weird shit Lucas did (the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs for example)
The point a lot of you bastards keep tying to make is this:
"You don't get equality by tipping the see-saw the other way"
Equality is great, and all but the most assholish of people are for it.
What people are against is giving only certain groups of people things, in the name of equality.
This means, rules like "You can't fire that person for being black/asian/gay/female." are perfectly fine.
Rules like "You can't hire that white man because you don't have enough (X=non white) ethnicity workers." or "Because you are of X ethnicity, you get to be first in line for Y" That concept is what people are against. The denying of anything to one group in favor of another, due to race/gender/etc. which is NEVER equality.
Equality is everyone rising together, and you don't get it by holding any group down, and you don't get it by unilaterally pushing any group up beyond the whole.
I've actually gone polar opposite. I've pretty well stopped caring who I offend, and push it as far as I can whenever possible. Of course, I don't have much to lose, as my job is not particularly special, and I don't have a reputation of any kind to begin with. The point is, I'm sick of everyone being 'offended on behalf of X' and have made a hobby out of pushing people to it, and then calling them on their bullshit. I'll probably lose my job over it some day, but until then, its all hands on deck to teach people to mind their own bloody business.
Its that, or wait longer in line as every passenger is weighed in, measured and charged by the pound per inch. Fun to watch the whales get humiliated, but also tedious, annoying, slow, and fuck that.
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XM radio still thinks that people like listening to D.J's blab for 5 minutes between songs also, so yeah...
That is precisely where I developed the corollary, watching the elderly do strange things to get their computer to do simple tasks. "You have to set this Mickey Mouse figurine on the monitor just here, or the thing won't print."
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Clarke's Third law.
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
- Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law.
"Any technology sufficiently complex will cause the user to generate useless mystical rites designed to aid in its use"
- Jarik's corollary to Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law.
Welp, I've got a laser pointer and a table, you find us some graphene sponge and a vacuum chamber, and we'll test it. Which is the whole point of this. Its literally:
"Hey scientists of the world, we pointed a laser at some graphene, and something weird happened. Here's what we did, will you give it a go and see if we're tripping balls, or have discovered something awesome?"
Article says they tested for that, and the tests show that the material is not losing atoms. It seems (according to further tests) that the graphene sponge is absorbing energy from the directed light (they repeated the experiment with sunlight and a traditional lens, with similar results) and finally reaches some sort of critical mass, and sheds electrons in a stream, rather than in random directions, resulting in thrust. If this whole hypothesis pans out, the difficulty in making a space craft that makes use of this phenomenon is that it would eventually build up a large positive charge, which would eventually damage the craft, if it can't be dealt with.
Sure, the leather was cut to 1 mil precision, but without other leather working tools and skills, its still a mediocre bag. rough edges, because he does not know how to finish leather edges, rough back on almost every part, because its not layered, glued and stitched to give fine smooth finish to both sides of things like the strap. Its just 'ok'. It'll probably last just fine, but its not even 'ikea' grade.
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Also, ask anybody who's served on a nuke boat in the navy, iron/steel is a far better radiation shield than water. Using (scarce) water on Mars as a radiation shield, when the entire surface is rich in iron oxide seems dumb as hell to me. You'd be better off filling bags with surface material, pressing them into blocks, and using those blocks to build igloo shaped structures. This is why most of the (decent) books about mars colonization involve living underground initially.
I was thinking of running my own smear campaign against myself as well, just to buffer against any future complaints.
Agreed. First order of business, violate the SHIT out of the TOS. In deep and unpardonable ways. In ways that will make the TOSs mother cry, father blush, and distant relatives tell the story at family gatherings for YEARS to come. Violate the TOS to a degree that the TOS will require years of therapy just to be able to sleep at night, a decade of therapy to stop wetting the bed, and multiple medications reduce the frequency of 'Terror Diarrhea' to manageable levels.
I'm surprised no one else has posted this, but the address of the actual test is
http://newton.inf.ufrgs.br/
You have to register, and fill in a small survey consisting of your experience with image manipulation, but its still up as of this post.
Bitdefender is scamware, or at least it was last time I messed with it. "Free AV" then a month later "Pay 30$ to unlock your free AV!"
Speaking as a circumcised male, I would not want the tip of my penis to be any more sensitive than it already is. Based on personal experience with my own penis, any increased level of sensitivity there would be damn well debilitating. Obviously, this is anecdotal evidence, and I can't vouch for the sensitivity of any other penises, but I'm just saying, anything more seems like it would be a curse, not a blessing.
but is that before or after the government subsidies for using solar?
You really need to watch the behind the scenes features for Fury Road. Sure, there was some big obvious CGI (the giant sand storm) but for about 90% of the movie, the things you expect to be CGI (the car crashes, explosions, insane stunts) are real, and the CGI is limited to fleshing out the wasteland background and erasing some safety equipment.
Clearly, your Dad' system is far more modern than the one I lived with, which was a hodgpodge of equipment, some dating back to the 1930's. ( we replaced the original lead acid glass jar batteries while I lived there). I assume the solar cells we had would be far less efficient than what are available now, as they where not particularly new, and this was in the early 90's. Glad to hear the consumer available tech has come so far.
I lived in a house that was totally off grid. It actually was never on grid, because the owners already had a wind turbine back in the day when the utility companies where doing the rural electrification project, and declined to be added to the grid. This house had coal heat, gas and wood stoves, gas refrigeration, and no AC at all. Located in central Montana, it was equipped with a bank of around 12 CAT bulldozer batteries, (which replaced about twenty 1 gallon square glass jars with lead plates) over 200 square feet of solar panels, a small wind turbine (about a 2 foot blade) and a backup propane generator, that was set up to automatically start up and top up the system if it dropped below a certain charge level. So basically, all the system had for load was incandessent bulbs, and occasionally a television. In the winter, that generator ran intermittently during the day, and after dark, it ran until you went to bed, and shut all the lights off. Obviously, using LED's and more power efficient TV's is possible now, but it takes a hell of a setup to go all off grid. (you could not run a modern computer or a microwave on that system, the computers where to sensitive to the square sin of the inverters, and would randomly restart. Microwaves would pop breakers if not plugged in directly to the generator.)
true, but the impression I have gotten so far is that the people who actually care to build their own advanced multi rotors (like yourself) are generally aware of the regulations surrounding RC aircraft and their use, and abide by them.
The people who fly over crowded sports stadiums, through firework shows, or into the flight path of fire fighting crews are the people with more money than sense, who blew a couple grand on an inspire or phantom, and think they can do whatever they want with it.
I think that safety measures in the mass produced models would probably take care of a great deal of the problems, and the rest is up to the multi rotor community to police itself, which the RC community has done fairly well for decades.
A goodly number of the 'drones' these days have 'return to launch point' modes that activate when 2 way communication with the controller is lost, so jamming those would actually serve to clear the flight space, and locate the pilot/owner. Probably will see that mode become mandatory in any models above the indoor flight only size if this behavior persists.
High pressure water gun.
High powered water gun.
God, I really hope they follow the Han Solo Trilogy, 1: because I must have read them 10 times each as a teenager, and 2: because they are pretty decent, as far as Star Wars novels go, and did a good job of retconning all the weird shit Lucas did (the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs for example)
The point a lot of you bastards keep tying to make is this:
"You don't get equality by tipping the see-saw the other way"
Equality is great, and all but the most assholish of people are for it.
What people are against is giving only certain groups of people things, in the name of equality.
This means, rules like "You can't fire that person for being black/asian/gay/female." are perfectly fine.
Rules like "You can't hire that white man because you don't have enough (X=non white) ethnicity workers." or "Because you are of X ethnicity, you get to be first in line for Y" That concept is what people are against. The denying of anything to one group in favor of another, due to race/gender/etc. which is NEVER equality.
Equality is everyone rising together, and you don't get it by holding any group down, and you don't get it by unilaterally pushing any group up beyond the whole.
I've actually gone polar opposite. I've pretty well stopped caring who I offend, and push it as far as I can whenever possible. Of course, I don't have much to lose, as my job is not particularly special, and I don't have a reputation of any kind to begin with. The point is, I'm sick of everyone being 'offended on behalf of X' and have made a hobby out of pushing people to it, and then calling them on their bullshit. I'll probably lose my job over it some day, but until then, its all hands on deck to teach people to mind their own bloody business.
Its that, or wait longer in line as every passenger is weighed in, measured and charged by the pound per inch. Fun to watch the whales get humiliated, but also tedious, annoying, slow, and fuck that.
XM radio still thinks that people like listening to D.J's blab for 5 minutes between songs also, so yeah...
I have no idea, I'm just relaying back what the article says. Further experimentation is warranted.
That is precisely where I developed the corollary, watching the elderly do strange things to get their computer to do simple tasks. "You have to set this Mickey Mouse figurine on the monitor just here, or the thing won't print."
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Clarke's Third law.
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
- Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law.
"Any technology sufficiently complex will cause the user to generate useless mystical rites designed to aid in its use"
- Jarik's corollary to Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law.
Welp, I've got a laser pointer and a table, you find us some graphene sponge and a vacuum chamber, and we'll test it. Which is the whole point of this. Its literally:
"Hey scientists of the world, we pointed a laser at some graphene, and something weird happened. Here's what we did, will you give it a go and see if we're tripping balls, or have discovered something awesome?"
Article says they tested for that, and the tests show that the material is not losing atoms. It seems (according to further tests) that the graphene sponge is absorbing energy from the directed light (they repeated the experiment with sunlight and a traditional lens, with similar results) and finally reaches some sort of critical mass, and sheds electrons in a stream, rather than in random directions, resulting in thrust. If this whole hypothesis pans out, the difficulty in making a space craft that makes use of this phenomenon is that it would eventually build up a large positive charge, which would eventually damage the craft, if it can't be dealt with.
Sure, the leather was cut to 1 mil precision, but without other leather working tools and skills, its still a mediocre bag. rough edges, because he does not know how to finish leather edges, rough back on almost every part, because its not layered, glued and stitched to give fine smooth finish to both sides of things like the strap. Its just 'ok'. It'll probably last just fine, but its not even 'ikea' grade.