So you're saying these Crisco routers might be fakes? How is one to know? When I loaded the SIO everything looked fine. I got the normal & prompt, typed in en, got to the @ prompt, and starting inputting config.
OPSF works fine, EYGRT is running, and PGB is passing routes like a champ!
Light falls off at the square of the distance to the target, which means that when you double the distance you quarter the light output. Even the largest spots, like those used in WW2 in England to illuminate the Luftwaffe's bombers, were only effective to ten thousand feet or so and only against large squadrons of large aircraft moving over a known route. Even then, it was dozens of large lights that often only provided excellent targets for the bombers.
The other edge of the light fall-off sword is that your eye can detect a source as faint as a few photons, and modern night vision equipment is a step above that.
Spotlights are absolutely useless in modern combat.
In his book "Titan" the Chinese bring an asteroid in to Earth orbit with the express intention of dropping it on the US. A miscalculation in the size of the rock ends up wiping out all of humanity.
In this case, they state they want to mine, which is fantastic, we should be doing it right now, but the dragging in to Earth orbit part not so much. There are plenty of NEOs that will provide a much less entire race crushing experience and maybe even net you some better minerals.
I wouldn't sweat the details, I'm sure these researchers are putting their heart and sole in to the effort and with such dedication this product will be a shoe-in to be the must have item the year it is released.
Nation scale debt isn't like home debt and never will be. No private citizen, no matter how rich or powerful, has the ability to issue a fiat currency, so anything you cite that relates to corporate or personal finance is pretty much invalid. The whole "we can't keep spending like this!" chestnut is false. Your idea that U.S. debt is a ponzi scheme shows that you don't understand finance or the workings of the ponzi.
Notice how U.S. t-bills have had a huge run in the last few weeks following the debt ceiling raise? That's because the financial markets know that US debt is still the absolute safest bond on the market, period.
I can only point to personal experience here, but I've been in IT in companies on the receiving end of SEC audits. They may have been rendered toothless, but they know how to retain data, preserve data, and recover data when Joe Sysadmin "accidentally" complies with an e-mail or document deletion policy.
I would have a hard time believing that the records destroyed, especially when pertaining to high profile cases, weren't done maliciously.
The agency that is supposed to keep the banks from committing the kinds of fraud they have been blatantly committing in the last 10 years or so has been wiping data. Ooops!
I first discovered/. and a little comic called "Geek Culture" right around the same time. I was right in the middle of the bubble, learning to master packets and believing that a lunch of Jolt and chocolate covered coffee beans was both right and sane.
Geek Culture is now Joy of Tech and Nitrozac is cartooning about all things Mac, but originally it was about life after the great year 2000 apocalypse. The comic that always sticks with me is the one with CmdrTaco and Hemos waist deep in a swimming pool filled with cash. In the background are four scantily clad women and the smallest part of some enormous mansion.
This is still how I see Jeff today, and hope that this retirement will, at some point, contain a roll in a huge pile of money.
Good luck with whatever it is you decide to do, and I will be watching this little hamster ball related animation clip that's still skunking around on my machine in your honor.
Weight is overcome by thrust. The lighter the aircraft, the less thrust required to maintain a given speed. The less thrust you need for a given speed, the left fuel you burn.
Yes, 38 pounds makes a difference when you're talking about multiplying it over millions of flight hours per year.
I wonder if someone is going to manufacture a tiny rectangular flight case to fit the iPads. How else are you supposed to know those things are for flight operations only if you don't have the rectangular, two latch, top fold case?!?!
I'd love to have a car with a gas turbine and the proper gearing/flywheels/electrical system whatever to make it accelerate similar to a normal car. That way, anything that's liquid enough and burns could be put in the "fuel" column.
Why even go that far? A simple, if rather large, laser is an amazing heat sink, and unless you're right in it's path it would be very very hard to detect.
I used to work for an oil shipping company that used several sizes of crude carriers and did a bit of refining when the prices were right. In my head, diesel fuel is a medium end distillate product while bunker fuel is a residual that just happens to burn. Engines designed to burn these fuels then get separated as well, even though they all are running on the Diesel cycle.
Its not even diesel, is called bunker fuel. There are only two products in a barrel of oil that are heavier, and one of them is used to make asphalt. Bunker fuel requires pre-heating to make it a liquid and the largest crude oil tankers (the VLCC and ULCC class ships) can make their own from the crude in their holding tanks.
Large cargo ships don't use diesel engines for drives, they burn bunker fuel which is barely a step above crude oil in large engines that turn at very low speeds. Most are also connected directly to the drive shaft and propeller.
Large freighters and tankers have problems dealing with the navigable waters in the greater Alaska area. AFAIK, there are few oil terminals far enough out to sea that the VLCC and ULCC class ships would be able to use them. That leaves lightering, which requires more ships. Cargo would be even worse, as there are limited ways to move containers between ships.
He came in steep, fueled by self-loathing. When the Kuang program met the first of the defenders, scattering the leaves of light, he felt the shark thing lose a degree of substantiality, the fabric of information loosening. And then — old alchemy of the brain and its vast pharmacy — his hate flowed into his hands. In the instant before he drove Kuang's sting through the base of the first tower, he attained a level of proficiency exceeding anything he'd known or imagined. Beyond ego, beyond personality, beyond awareness, he moved, Kuang moving with him, evading his attackers with an ancient dance, Hideo's dance, grace of the mind-body interface granted him, in that second, by the clarity and singleness of his wish to die.
I have petitioned the Home Office to also call in representatives from the Highways Agency and the councils of the towns where the riots took place. They are as responsible as anyone, having provided the rioters a town in which to riot and the paved and maintained roads upon which they rioted.
A lot of this is by design and you've stated the reason in your post.
There have been many small and scattered but continually growing and communicating groups of "education reformers" across the country. They believe that public education is wrong, either due to their own religious, social, or political views. These groups have their share of compassionate individuals who actually want the best for their kids, but tend to be lead by a minority of cause-pushing or money grubbing shitheads.
These shitheads have gotten parents to sue schools for ridiculous things. These shitheads have gotten on school boards and are in local, state, and federal government. These shitheads have sometimes come at cross-purposes simultaneously calling for greatly reduced school budgets and increases in school services. These shitheads refuse to send their own children to public schools, but actively make public school worse for all other children.
More often than not, the shitheads from Group A don't know about their fellow shitheads in Group B. Group A will be the religious home school shitheads who believe that all kids need their specific brand of Shithead Salvation (tm) so that they too may become shitheads and further the great shithead cause. Group B shitheads tend to be in it for the money. This is the group where all of the me-first, self-centered, money-grubbing Libertarian type shitheads meet and talk about how this country would be great if everyone would just do like they did and work hard, not realizing that the very society they rail against is the one that gave them the leg up in to the position they are now. But I digress.
Of course there are shitheads in groups C, D, E, and hell Z whynot, all with their own aims, agendas, and methods.
It is all of these shithead groups working for, but not necessarily together, toward a common goal which is private only education.
A. If you are of the wrong religion, fuck you. B. If you are poor, fuck you. C. If you are the wrong color, fuck you. D. If you are handicapped, disabled, or in any way different and requiring special care, fuck you. D+. A double helping of fuck you if any of the above apply.
E. If I disagree with the politics or lifestyle of your child, fuck you.
The end result is that the very wealthy will have the most educated children. Those in the upper middle class who are willing to sacrifice will have reasonably well educated children. Those in the middle and upper middle classes who aren't willing or aren't able to sacrifice will have children who learn to be blindly obedient to authority figures, take standardized tests, and not think or question. The poor can go fuck themselves.
Does this all sound familiar? It should. Most of the course of human civilization has used this model, from the ancient word, to the Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, Gilded Age, etc.
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So you're saying these Crisco routers might be fakes? How is one to know? When I loaded the SIO everything looked fine. I got the normal & prompt, typed in en, got to the @ prompt, and starting inputting config.
OPSF works fine, EYGRT is running, and PGB is passing routes like a champ!
Light falls off at the square of the distance to the target, which means that when you double the distance you quarter the light output. Even the largest spots, like those used in WW2 in England to illuminate the Luftwaffe's bombers, were only effective to ten thousand feet or so and only against large squadrons of large aircraft moving over a known route. Even then, it was dozens of large lights that often only provided excellent targets for the bombers.
The other edge of the light fall-off sword is that your eye can detect a source as faint as a few photons, and modern night vision equipment is a step above that.
Spotlights are absolutely useless in modern combat.
Hey, it worked for nuclear!
In his book "Titan" the Chinese bring an asteroid in to Earth orbit with the express intention of dropping it on the US. A miscalculation in the size of the rock ends up wiping out all of humanity.
In this case, they state they want to mine, which is fantastic, we should be doing it right now, but the dragging in to Earth orbit part not so much. There are plenty of NEOs that will provide a much less entire race crushing experience and maybe even net you some better minerals.
I wouldn't sweat the details, I'm sure these researchers are putting their heart and sole in to the effort and with such dedication this product will be a shoe-in to be the must have item the year it is released.
b-b-b-but, the free market!
Nation scale debt isn't like home debt and never will be. No private citizen, no matter how rich or powerful, has the ability to issue a fiat currency, so anything you cite that relates to corporate or personal finance is pretty much invalid. The whole "we can't keep spending like this!" chestnut is false. Your idea that U.S. debt is a ponzi scheme shows that you don't understand finance or the workings of the ponzi.
Notice how U.S. t-bills have had a huge run in the last few weeks following the debt ceiling raise? That's because the financial markets know that US debt is still the absolute safest bond on the market, period.
I can only point to personal experience here, but I've been in IT in companies on the receiving end of SEC audits. They may have been rendered toothless, but they know how to retain data, preserve data, and recover data when Joe Sysadmin "accidentally" complies with an e-mail or document deletion policy.
I would have a hard time believing that the records destroyed, especially when pertaining to high profile cases, weren't done maliciously.
However, no proof, so there we go.
The agency that is supposed to keep the banks from committing the kinds of fraud they have been blatantly committing in the last 10 years or so has been wiping data. Ooops!
Wait! No! It was Cowboy Neal, not Hemos. My bad.
Ogg was great, but couldn't post after the all caps filter went in.
I first discovered /. and a little comic called "Geek Culture" right around the same time. I was right in the middle of the bubble, learning to master packets and believing that a lunch of Jolt and chocolate covered coffee beans was both right and sane.
Geek Culture is now Joy of Tech and Nitrozac is cartooning about all things Mac, but originally it was about life after the great year 2000 apocalypse. The comic that always sticks with me is the one with CmdrTaco and Hemos waist deep in a swimming pool filled with cash. In the background are four scantily clad women and the smallest part of some enormous mansion.
This is still how I see Jeff today, and hope that this retirement will, at some point, contain a roll in a huge pile of money.
Good luck with whatever it is you decide to do, and I will be watching this little hamster ball related animation clip that's still skunking around on my machine in your honor.
Weight is overcome by thrust. The lighter the aircraft, the less thrust required to maintain a given speed. The less thrust you need for a given speed, the left fuel you burn.
Yes, 38 pounds makes a difference when you're talking about multiplying it over millions of flight hours per year.
I wonder if someone is going to manufacture a tiny rectangular flight case to fit the iPads. How else are you supposed to know those things are for flight operations only if you don't have the rectangular, two latch, top fold case?!?!
I'd love to have a car with a gas turbine and the proper gearing/flywheels/electrical system whatever to make it accelerate similar to a normal car. That way, anything that's liquid enough and burns could be put in the "fuel" column.
Why even go that far? A simple, if rather large, laser is an amazing heat sink, and unless you're right in it's path it would be very very hard to detect.
I used to work for an oil shipping company that used several sizes of crude carriers and did a bit of refining when the prices were right. In my head, diesel fuel is a medium end distillate product while bunker fuel is a residual that just happens to burn. Engines designed to burn these fuels then get separated as well, even though they all are running on the Diesel cycle.
Its not even diesel, is called bunker fuel. There are only two products in a barrel of oil that are heavier, and one of them is used to make asphalt. Bunker fuel requires pre-heating to make it a liquid and the largest crude oil tankers (the VLCC and ULCC class ships) can make their own from the crude in their holding tanks.
Large cargo ships don't use diesel engines for drives, they burn bunker fuel which is barely a step above crude oil in large engines that turn at very low speeds. Most are also connected directly to the drive shaft and propeller.
Large freighters and tankers have problems dealing with the navigable waters in the greater Alaska area. AFAIK, there are few oil terminals far enough out to sea that the VLCC and ULCC class ships would be able to use them. That leaves lightering, which requires more ships. Cargo would be even worse, as there are limited ways to move containers between ships.
The tunnel sounds alright to me.
He came in steep, fueled by self-loathing. When the Kuang program met the first of the defenders, scattering the leaves of light, he felt the shark thing lose a degree of substantiality, the fabric of information loosening. And then — old alchemy of the brain and its vast pharmacy — his hate flowed into his hands. In the instant before he drove Kuang's sting through the base of the first tower, he attained a level of proficiency exceeding anything he'd known or imagined. Beyond ego, beyond personality, beyond awareness, he moved, Kuang moving with him, evading his attackers with an ancient dance, Hideo's dance, grace of the mind-body interface granted him, in that second, by the clarity and singleness of his wish to die.
I have petitioned the Home Office to also call in representatives from the Highways Agency and the councils of the towns where the riots took place. They are as responsible as anyone, having provided the rioters a town in which to riot and the paved and maintained roads upon which they rioted.
A lot of this is by design and you've stated the reason in your post.
There have been many small and scattered but continually growing and communicating groups of "education reformers" across the country. They believe that public education is wrong, either due to their own religious, social, or political views. These groups have their share of compassionate individuals who actually want the best for their kids, but tend to be lead by a minority of cause-pushing or money grubbing shitheads.
These shitheads have gotten parents to sue schools for ridiculous things. These shitheads have gotten on school boards and are in local, state, and federal government. These shitheads have sometimes come at cross-purposes simultaneously calling for greatly reduced school budgets and increases in school services. These shitheads refuse to send their own children to public schools, but actively make public school worse for all other children.
More often than not, the shitheads from Group A don't know about their fellow shitheads in Group B. Group A will be the religious home school shitheads who believe that all kids need their specific brand of Shithead Salvation (tm) so that they too may become shitheads and further the great shithead cause. Group B shitheads tend to be in it for the money. This is the group where all of the me-first, self-centered, money-grubbing Libertarian type shitheads meet and talk about how this country would be great if everyone would just do like they did and work hard, not realizing that the very society they rail against is the one that gave them the leg up in to the position they are now. But I digress.
Of course there are shitheads in groups C, D, E, and hell Z whynot, all with their own aims, agendas, and methods.
It is all of these shithead groups working for, but not necessarily together, toward a common goal which is private only education.
A. If you are of the wrong religion, fuck you.
B. If you are poor, fuck you.
C. If you are the wrong color, fuck you.
D. If you are handicapped, disabled, or in any way different and requiring special care, fuck you.
D+. A double helping of fuck you if any of the above apply.
E. If I disagree with the politics or lifestyle of your child, fuck you.
The end result is that the very wealthy will have the most educated children. Those in the upper middle class who are willing to sacrifice will have reasonably well educated children. Those in the middle and upper middle classes who aren't willing or aren't able to sacrifice will have children who learn to be blindly obedient to authority figures, take standardized tests, and not think or question. The poor can go fuck themselves.
Does this all sound familiar? It should. Most of the course of human civilization has used this model, from the ancient word, to the Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, Gilded Age, etc.
These puns are giving me a haddock.
My giant squid shaped, world cruising, shipping menace of a submersible is one step closer to fruition!