That's an interesting idea you have there with the plain-matter projectile as a sort of, "shell" filled with antimatter. I was thinking if you shoot a bullet and have a slug of antimatter follow it closely behind - "drafting" I believe it's called in racing terms.What little air it does encounter will form a nice, "tracer" effect anyway.
Nice try, but the first 'tracer' explosion will ram the pellet into the back of the bullet.
You seem to be presuming that most posters who have something to say about the subject and who read the first post will nontheless hold off posting and continue reading down to the redundant post.
I think that the first post on a subject will bubble up simply because it is first, without anybody's karma taking an undeserved hit.
Would the moderator who called P 'redundant' please read posting times??? P was only two minutes after the previous mention of Wikileaks. By the time you write your post, click though 'preview' and 'submit', two minutes can easily pass.
So true. I was at the Santa Barbara, Calif library a few weeks ago at a sale where they were selling donated books and discarded library books.
When I left with my purchases, the alarm at the door went off. I stopped, looked at the librarian inquiringly, and she waved me though with a bored expression.
I wasn't just carrying a book or two, I was pushing a library cart with four large boxes of books.
No trolling intended, but the war in Iraq now is the biggest piece of security theater on the planet. It does not make the US safer ( indeed it probably does the reverse ) but it does give certain people benefits. Chaney and friends make millions on no-bid contracts, and neocons get to implement policies that in more normal conditions would not be tolerated by the public.
If there are any enterprising developers out there, there may be a market for this... Mod parent up. He does have a better idea. I'd pay for a service like this. Someone on slashdot surely has the time and skills to do it.
You've got this the wrong way round. It would indeed be a civil liberties matter if the law prohibited people from exercising control over what comes onto their property and what does not. If you're for civil liberties, you should be on the amusement park's side here. Control over who and what comes onto your private property is a pretty important set of rights. Quite true, and well stated. Although the civil liberties purist would insist that the park modify the policy to eject the people who use PDAs rather than attempt to confiscate.
... what if they do find evidence of life? I mean large, complex forms of life... Someone will make the obligatory overlord post, of course. Only this time it might be real.
I recall years ago ( 1981? 1982? ) reading an article in a motorcycle magazine in which the writer interviwed the lead engineers at the four major Japanese motorcycle companies. The interviews with the Honda, Yamaha, and Kawasaki people were predictable and boring.
But the Suzuki engineer said that he wanted to design cycles that behaved like animals. The particular example he gave, IIRC, was a cheetah.
He noted that when a cycle turns, it leans inward. That's good - just like an animal. But when braking, it tends to lean forward, and when accelerating it leans back. Both of those are the wrong way.
This vehicle may finally be doing it right on the acceleration. To do it right when braking would require that the arms extend foraward and the rider lean back.
As shown, there is no way that it is going to do 0-60 in three seconds. If power is on the front wheels, they can't get enough traction because the rider's weight is over the rear wheel. They will spin. If power is on the read wheel, it will do a wheelie and dump him on his ass.
I therefore conclude that it has one of two undocumented features: either there is a ultra-high speed gyro concealed behind the wearer ( which I regard as very unlikely ), or the frame bends so as to lean the rider forward thus lengthening the wheelbase and moving the center of gravity forward.
...and bones have been known to heal badly (which could translate to a greater problem).... "Ladies and Gentlemen, there will be a momentary delay while try to open the doors. Please do not be alarmed, this is just a slight, though predictable malfuction of our aircrft's self-repair system."
Getting back to serious topics, it's very important to note that global food shortages (and corresponding rises in prices) are not caused by increased demand... Not quite true. It is both increased demand and shorter supply. In particular, the growing middle class in both India and China are eating more meat. ( And it takes 2 to 4 pounds of grain to produce a pound of chicken; about 10 pounds of grain to produce a pound of pork, and 15-20 pounds of grain to produce a pound of beef ) So they are increasing the demand for both grain and meat.
The decrease in supply is due to several factors: Australia is in its 6th year of drought, Argentina has had floods, and American farmers are 20% of their corn into producing fuel ethanol.
Black holes, however, are not "hairy" either. That is to say, a black hole can be entirely characterized by its position/velocity/acceleration, mass, charge, and rotation. There is (literally) no other definable characteristic of a black hole besides these things. ...when seen from the outside.
Remember, in China (and, increasingly more places), the truth is what they tell you it is. Their view on how information is handed out is a little different than ours... Actually, the trend is going the other way. Governments have always tried to control the truth. What is changing is our knowledge of their actions.
They aren't doing it more, they're just being caught doing it more often.
The purpose of the law has never been to govern thought.. but expression. You're welcome to sit in the privacy of your home, or your local cafe and think about how much you hate group X or how you'd like it if other people hate group Y.
At issue is encouraging others to do so. Now you're doubly into thoughtcrime: once for me thinking about inducing X to hate Y, and secondly for X hating Y.
And I hate your fascist guts too. ( but I'm not responsible for my hatred. JMorris incited me into it. It's his fault. )
If you want another area of the law where the intent of the crime plays a role in sentencing try manslaughter and murder, the mental state of the attacker has a big influence on the sentence. I think you are confusing degree of harm intended with motivation for harm.
Intending to kill someone is certainly worse than intending to knock him down ( which can be the difference between murder and manslaughter ). But killing a black person is not worse than killing a white person.
I'd like to see those cameras made available to the public to scrutinize at their leisure. They would be effective if they were. Crime can't be stopped by overlords acting alone, unless they enslave the entire population. But if the govt enlists the help of citizens - as equals or better - the crime problem can be solved.
TFA seems to assume that Balmer wanted to aquire Yahoo, and then did it entirely on his own initiative. That is certainly not the case. Even in a company as big as MS, the CEO does not go about spending that kind of money without the approval of major stockholders. He must have had the blessing of at least Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and probably others.
All of them knew going in that Yahoo had to voluntarily cooperate. So they know that Balmer is not to blame. So they are not going to dismiss him. They are going to go to plan B: the hostile takeover.
And what kind of person do you want leading a hostile takeover? You want the most vicious, gut-ripping, back-stabbing, ball-cutting executive you can find. They'll give him a raise.
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They had to lower the standards because the kids today can't handle simple math.
That's an interesting idea you have there with the plain-matter projectile as a sort of, "shell" filled with antimatter. I was thinking if you shoot a bullet and have a slug of antimatter follow it closely behind - "drafting" I believe it's called in racing terms.What little air it does encounter will form a nice, "tracer" effect anyway.
Nice try, but the first 'tracer' explosion will ram the pellet into the back of the bullet.You must be new here.
You seem to be presuming that most posters who have something to say about the subject and who read the first post will nontheless hold off posting and continue reading down to the redundant post.
I think that the first post on a subject will bubble up simply because it is first, without anybody's karma taking an undeserved hit.
Would the moderator who called P 'redundant' please read posting times??? P was only two minutes after the previous mention of Wikileaks. By the time you write your post, click though 'preview' and 'submit', two minutes can easily pass.
So true. I was at the Santa Barbara, Calif library a few weeks ago at a sale where they were selling donated books and discarded library books.
When I left with my purchases, the alarm at the door went off. I stopped, looked at the librarian inquiringly, and she waved me though with a bored expression.
I wasn't just carrying a book or two, I was pushing a library cart with four large boxes of books.
No trolling intended, but the war in Iraq now is the biggest piece of security theater on the planet. It does not make the US safer ( indeed it probably does the reverse ) but it does give certain people benefits. Chaney and friends make millions on no-bid contracts, and neocons get to implement policies that in more normal conditions would not be tolerated by the public.
...and fuck a lot when we get there.
... what if they do find evidence of life? I mean large, complex forms of life... Someone will make the obligatory overlord post, of course. Only this time it might be real.But...but...outside has bluescreened! I'll wait for it to reboot
Thanks for the link.
I recall years ago ( 1981? 1982? ) reading an article in a motorcycle magazine in which the writer interviwed the lead engineers at the four major Japanese motorcycle companies. The interviews with the Honda, Yamaha, and Kawasaki people were predictable and boring.
But the Suzuki engineer said that he wanted to design cycles that behaved like animals. The particular example he gave, IIRC, was a cheetah.
He noted that when a cycle turns, it leans inward. That's good - just like an animal. But when braking, it tends to lean forward, and when accelerating it leans back. Both of those are the wrong way.
This vehicle may finally be doing it right on the acceleration. To do it right when braking would require that the arms extend foraward and the rider lean back.
As shown, there is no way that it is going to do 0-60 in three seconds. If power is on the front wheels, they can't get enough traction because the rider's weight is over the rear wheel. They will spin. If power is on the read wheel, it will do a wheelie and dump him on his ass.
I therefore conclude that it has one of two undocumented features: either there is a ultra-high speed gyro concealed behind the wearer ( which I regard as very unlikely ), or the frame bends so as to lean the rider forward thus lengthening the wheelbase and moving the center of gravity forward.
The decrease in supply is due to several factors: Australia is in its 6th year of drought, Argentina has had floods, and American farmers are 20% of their corn into producing fuel ethanol.
They aren't doing it more, they're just being caught doing it more often.
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At issue is encouraging others to do so. Now you're doubly into thoughtcrime: once for me thinking about inducing X to hate Y, and secondly for X hating Y.
And I hate your fascist guts too. ( but I'm not responsible for my hatred. JMorris incited me into it. It's his fault. )
Intending to kill someone is certainly worse than intending to knock him down ( which can be the difference between murder and manslaughter ). But killing a black person is not worse than killing a white person.
And you see more colors now?
TFA seems to assume that Balmer wanted to aquire Yahoo, and then did it entirely on his own initiative. That is certainly not the case. Even in a company as big as MS, the CEO does not go about spending that kind of money without the approval of major stockholders. He must have had the blessing of at least Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and probably others.
All of them knew going in that Yahoo had to voluntarily cooperate. So they know that Balmer is not to blame. So they are not going to dismiss him. They are going to go to plan B: the hostile takeover.
And what kind of person do you want leading a hostile takeover? You want the most vicious, gut-ripping, back-stabbing, ball-cutting executive you can find. They'll give him a raise.
P has a fair question. I mean, I was a great programmer 15 years ago...
Has anything really changed?