Between the assholes in the audience and the assholes on stage...
Not sure what happened to "just come in, be a decent person and enjoy the scene".
THANK YOU!!! If that's how you feel about live music in 2018, you're either going to the wrong shows or YOU'RE the one we don't want there. Most of the festival and one-off shows I see are a good time with no crowd problems. I generally avoid stadiums and large arenas because you are too far away to see anything and the prices are too high, but smaller theaters and clubs provide the same great experience the always have.
Humanity's biggest problem is not that it suddenly changed, it's people writing off the next generation or the current times as past prime and heading downhill. The same phenomenon can be seen in some of the oldest historical accounts and literature we know. It just means you're crotchety. Most people are still good, decent people.
Mom: What are you doing on your computer?
Brat: What's a computer?
Mom: What you won't be using for 24 hours when I take your ipad away if you talk to me dismissively like that again. You have a one hour computer timeout so we can talk again about why you don't have friends and how important it is to interact with actual people in real life.
I miss my Trooper, what a beast. But now I wonder if the flaky transmission that convinced me sell it was precipitated by chewed wiring rather than plugged oil passages or worn clutch packs. It was rebuilt by the previous owner and had intermittent issues when I got it, but it got worse while I owned it and I eventually sold it for a song. Not sure the insulation in question is biodegradable just because it contains soy, but whatever, if it smells and tastes like food to rodents it's a problem either way.
My family has had this problem with two different Mazda 3's (one was a 2010, other was either 2010 or 2013, same generation at least) at two different suburban residences - chewed oxygen sensor wires. I thought it was the textile lining under the plastic cover above the intake manifold that they were most interested in, since I found mouse droppings and torn fabric there on one of them. But I guess maybe it was the wire coverings that were attractive. Interesting.
Tesla's autopilot dohickey may only be "semi-autonomous" or whatever you want to call it, but as far as I can tell they are the only company on the list that actually has a product of this class for sale. Waymo's never sold anything except themselves, Uber is losing money hand over fist and has no strategy for profitability, Apple has no car, Honda has admitted that they're way behind, and Subaru don't even seem interested (not on the list), but Tesla is last? Maybe they aren't first, but come on.
I forgot to add that the FOGBANK example is a poor one. The problems in replicating the material have been addressed, and the manufacturing process is better than the original. The difficulties on the second go-round were due to an initial lack of understanding of the effects of an ancillary process, and have been resolved.
Just because you know the composition of something doesn't mean you know how to make it. Nobody knows how to make real Damascus steel anymore. There are still discoveries being made about new crystal structures, compounds and alloys. That is before you get into the many different ways to temper or treat metals in the process of creating a particular alloy. Even if you can find one way to create a particular alloy, does the process scale to industrial levels? Creating a few molecules in a lab with special equipment and processes is a very different thing than creating it by the ton in high speed processes. Even using the same recipe with different equipment can potentially produce different outcomes.
that they can make unidentifiable alloys, how come they can't keep pieces of their space ships from falling off? How come so much of the stuff falls off that it takes "a group of buildings" in Vegas to hold all of it?
I'd expect this sort of BS from Fox News "science" reporting (like the mystery planet that was supposed to crash into earth about a month ago), but NYT?
Yeah, ever since I was about 6 years old, I've thought that if we can figure out interstellar space travel and how to do it in a reasonable amount of time, we wouldn't F-up the landing all the time. Keeping amazingly capable starships from disintegrating while moving relatively slowly through the atmosphere shouldn't be the hard part.
I do not see any contradiction in those statemenst. As an example IF I analyze graphene with an AAS (a techniques for knowing the element of your sample) or with an XPS or with secondary scatter emission or with XRD (powder not monocrystal) I would find that graphene is made of C and this is correct. That won't explain ANY of its unusual and wonder properties.
So you can have an alloy with known element with unknown properties. If you gave graphene or even a metamaterial to a scientist to analyse to a scientist 20 years ago he would have probably said "these are unknown materials". it does mean:"we do probably know how they look and what are their elements but we do not know how they made it or what are their properties".
So some people seem to read and understand only what want to see and understand...
So you're saying graphene is an alloy? They are not talking about "unknown materials" made using techniques that they don't understand. I thought this was about alloys that they supposedly couldn't determine the composition of, which seems unlikely.
You can use a belt loop as "bump stock" to acquire automatic fire. Should be ban belt loops on pants too?
People don't use belt loops to kill dozens upon dozens of innocent civilians. You could use a screwdriver to kill too, but that doesn't mean people shouldn't carry swords and machetes around in public all day. Playing a semantics game doesn't mean your position or opinion isn't patently wrong.
If there was any remaining doubt, it has now been erased: Ajit Pai is not only incompetent, in the pocket of some of the biggest of all big businesses, against the will of the people, and morally corrupt, he's also a complete clown. (And I mean clown in the most disrespectful way possible, not in the fun loving, flower-squirting, balloon-bending sense.) I can't believe something as important as the FCC is in this moron's hands. You can debate the merits/follies of an outsider/village idiot like Trump all day, but Ajit Pai's nonsense is indefensible.
We managed to get electric and phone to every home and cable to most...we can get fiber to all of them. Stop screwing around with these other stupid techs.
Yeah, they used to talk a lot about fiber. Then they found out how expensive it is to get it to rural, suburban, and overly-dense urban areas, and they pretty much gave up.
Look up Goubau line. It is a single conductor waveguide.
My guess is that this is what's going to be used. I've seen this transmission line in use and it would be a good fit.
Continuing to guess, I would think the USA Federal Communications Commission could find a few GHz of spectrum in the 30GHz-80GHz range. If there are no sharp turns in the wire, the radiation from the line and susceptibility of unwanted pickup of signals into the line is quite low.
Yeah, sow the seeds of apathy, demonize American politics in general, divide and conquer. Wait, is Bannon a Russian agent, too? He seems to be using the same strategy as the Kremlin. Hmm...
Thank you. This always bugs me when I see it and the source ISN’T Limbaugh, et al.
Yes, it's hard to take anyone seriously when they say Democrat when it should be Democratic. When you see that, you know they're trying to push buttons, and you know where they stand. I'll take it as s typo in this case though, since the summary seems to reflect straight reporting about actions taken by Democratic senators, rather than GOP propaganda.
Ice hockey is a bit weird as there are a significant number of "lefties" at the top levels. Youth coaches who know their stuff want the dominant hand on top of the stick which means the player has a left hand shot. It's so lopsided in the NHL that right hand shot defensemen are very in demand.
I'm very familiar with the mechanics of baseball, how pitching/hitting matchups work, and how youth systems develop players (or fail to do so), but why does it work this way in hockey? For a kid that plays baseball or golf or whatever, it seems natural initially to put the dominant hand lower on a hockey stick. Is it actually better to have the dominant hand on top? I never played a lot of hockey but I know I was much more comfortable with my right hand closer to the business end of the stick, as with a bat or club. I understand that the flow of play on the ice should be symmetrical, thus the need for both lefty and righty shots, just not why players learn one way or the other.
Wait, I've got it - it's less about the shot and more about one-handed stick work and the transition into the shot, isn't it? Therein lies the difference between hockey and baseball, cricket, or golf - the need to use the whacker-thing in different ways, sometimes with one hand and sometimes with both. Maybe?
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Is why I don't bother with live venues anymore.
Between the assholes in the audience and the assholes on stage...
Not sure what happened to "just come in, be a decent person and enjoy the scene".
THANK YOU!!! If that's how you feel about live music in 2018, you're either going to the wrong shows or YOU'RE the one we don't want there. Most of the festival and one-off shows I see are a good time with no crowd problems. I generally avoid stadiums and large arenas because you are too far away to see anything and the prices are too high, but smaller theaters and clubs provide the same great experience the always have.
Humanity's biggest problem is not that it suddenly changed, it's people writing off the next generation or the current times as past prime and heading downhill. The same phenomenon can be seen in some of the oldest historical accounts and literature we know. It just means you're crotchety. Most people are still good, decent people.
Mom: What are you doing on your computer?
Brat: What's a computer?
Mom: What you won't be using for 24 hours when I take your ipad away if you talk to me dismissively like that again. You have a one hour computer timeout so we can talk again about why you don't have friends and how important it is to interact with actual people in real life.
I miss my Trooper, what a beast. But now I wonder if the flaky transmission that convinced me sell it was precipitated by chewed wiring rather than plugged oil passages or worn clutch packs. It was rebuilt by the previous owner and had intermittent issues when I got it, but it got worse while I owned it and I eventually sold it for a song. Not sure the insulation in question is biodegradable just because it contains soy, but whatever, if it smells and tastes like food to rodents it's a problem either way.
My family has had this problem with two different Mazda 3's (one was a 2010, other was either 2010 or 2013, same generation at least) at two different suburban residences - chewed oxygen sensor wires. I thought it was the textile lining under the plastic cover above the intake manifold that they were most interested in, since I found mouse droppings and torn fabric there on one of them. But I guess maybe it was the wire coverings that were attractive. Interesting.
Far better than the US, where it's the people who are trying to kill you.
Oh, we don't just try - we're very good at it, and persistent.
Tesla's autopilot dohickey may only be "semi-autonomous" or whatever you want to call it, but as far as I can tell they are the only company on the list that actually has a product of this class for sale. Waymo's never sold anything except themselves, Uber is losing money hand over fist and has no strategy for profitability, Apple has no car, Honda has admitted that they're way behind, and Subaru don't even seem interested (not on the list), but Tesla is last? Maybe they aren't first, but come on.
Then don't buy it.
The masses are indeed staying away in droves, en masse.
I forgot to add that the FOGBANK example is a poor one. The problems in replicating the material have been addressed, and the manufacturing process is better than the original. The difficulties on the second go-round were due to an initial lack of understanding of the effects of an ancillary process, and have been resolved.
FTA:
Just because you know the composition of something doesn't mean you know how to make it. Nobody knows how to make real Damascus steel anymore. There are still discoveries being made about new crystal structures, compounds and alloys. That is before you get into the many different ways to temper or treat metals in the process of creating a particular alloy. Even if you can find one way to create a particular alloy, does the process scale to industrial levels? Creating a few molecules in a lab with special equipment and processes is a very different thing than creating it by the ton in high speed processes. Even using the same recipe with different equipment can potentially produce different outcomes.
Consider FOGBANK
Nobody knows how to make Damascus steel!?!? What are my kitchen knives made out of then, alien alloys?
Two words:
Dark Matter.
(Drops mic)
Hey, pick that mic back up and put it on the damn stand! dark matter is well accepted, if poorly understood. Now, dark energy... (Drops mic).
that they can make unidentifiable alloys, how come they can't keep pieces of their space ships from falling off? How come so much of the stuff falls off that it takes "a group of buildings" in Vegas to hold all of it?
I'd expect this sort of BS from Fox News "science" reporting (like the mystery planet that was supposed to crash into earth about a month ago), but NYT?
Yeah, ever since I was about 6 years old, I've thought that if we can figure out interstellar space travel and how to do it in a reasonable amount of time, we wouldn't F-up the landing all the time. Keeping amazingly capable starships from disintegrating while moving relatively slowly through the atmosphere shouldn't be the hard part.
I do not see any contradiction in those statemenst. As an example IF I analyze graphene with an AAS (a techniques for knowing the element of your sample) or with an XPS or with secondary scatter emission or with XRD (powder not monocrystal) I would find that graphene is made of C and this is correct. That won't explain ANY of its unusual and wonder properties. So you can have an alloy with known element with unknown properties. If you gave graphene or even a metamaterial to a scientist to analyse to a scientist 20 years ago he would have probably said "these are unknown materials". it does mean:"we do probably know how they look and what are their elements but we do not know how they made it or what are their properties". So some people seem to read and understand only what want to see and understand...
So you're saying graphene is an alloy? They are not talking about "unknown materials" made using techniques that they don't understand. I thought this was about alloys that they supposedly couldn't determine the composition of, which seems unlikely.
Your point is valid, but your example is not. There are steel-aluminum alloys, but they tend to be brittle. A South Korean research team claims to have found a solution to this, but I haven't heard of any commercial uses.
Bah, why let actual facts get in the way of fringe fake news?
sugar in both
and dew is mostly orange juice
I promise you, Mt Dew is less than 5% orange juice, probably less than 2%. It is mostly water, with a bunch of sugar.
translated: Ajit has a future as a corporate stooge.
And the future is right now.
You can use a belt loop as "bump stock" to acquire automatic fire. Should be ban belt loops on pants too?
People don't use belt loops to kill dozens upon dozens of innocent civilians. You could use a screwdriver to kill too, but that doesn't mean people shouldn't carry swords and machetes around in public all day. Playing a semantics game doesn't mean your position or opinion isn't patently wrong.
If there was any remaining doubt, it has now been erased: Ajit Pai is not only incompetent, in the pocket of some of the biggest of all big businesses, against the will of the people, and morally corrupt, he's also a complete clown. (And I mean clown in the most disrespectful way possible, not in the fun loving, flower-squirting, balloon-bending sense.) I can't believe something as important as the FCC is in this moron's hands. You can debate the merits/follies of an outsider/village idiot like Trump all day, but Ajit Pai's nonsense is indefensible.
We managed to get electric and phone to every home and cable to most...we can get fiber to all of them. Stop screwing around with these other stupid techs.
Yeah, they used to talk a lot about fiber. Then they found out how expensive it is to get it to rural, suburban, and overly-dense urban areas, and they pretty much gave up.
Look up Goubau line. It is a single conductor waveguide.
My guess is that this is what's going to be used. I've seen this transmission line in use and it would be a good fit.
Continuing to guess, I would think the USA Federal Communications Commission could find a few GHz of spectrum in the 30GHz-80GHz range. If there are no sharp turns in the wire, the radiation from the line and susceptibility of unwanted pickup of signals into the line is quite low.
So definitely not an "airwave," got it.
I'd bet a pizza...
Is that a pizza bought with bitcoin or with real currency?
Doesn't matter cause it's Little Caesar's anyway. Pass.
AT&T's real answer, also signed by Verizon: We don't give a fuck what you think or how you label us or our actions, and we'll do what we want.
Wow, the Russian AC crowd is out in force here.
Yeah, sow the seeds of apathy, demonize American politics in general, divide and conquer.
Wait, is Bannon a Russian agent, too? He seems to be using the same strategy as the Kremlin. Hmm...
Thank you. This always bugs me when I see it and the source ISN’T Limbaugh, et al.
Yes, it's hard to take anyone seriously when they say Democrat when it should be Democratic. When you see that, you know they're trying to push buttons, and you know where they stand. I'll take it as s typo in this case though, since the summary seems to reflect straight reporting about actions taken by Democratic senators, rather than GOP propaganda.
Mod parent up. The only people who use Democrat rather than Democratic in this context are indeed right-wingers when they are trying to be annoying.
Ice hockey is a bit weird as there are a significant number of "lefties" at the top levels. Youth coaches who know their stuff want the dominant hand on top of the stick which means the player has a left hand shot. It's so lopsided in the NHL that right hand shot defensemen are very in demand.
I'm very familiar with the mechanics of baseball, how pitching/hitting matchups work, and how youth systems develop players (or fail to do so), but why does it work this way in hockey? For a kid that plays baseball or golf or whatever, it seems natural initially to put the dominant hand lower on a hockey stick. Is it actually better to have the dominant hand on top? I never played a lot of hockey but I know I was much more comfortable with my right hand closer to the business end of the stick, as with a bat or club. I understand that the flow of play on the ice should be symmetrical, thus the need for both lefty and righty shots, just not why players learn one way or the other.
Wait, I've got it - it's less about the shot and more about one-handed stick work and the transition into the shot, isn't it? Therein lies the difference between hockey and baseball, cricket, or golf - the need to use the whacker-thing in different ways, sometimes with one hand and sometimes with both. Maybe?