Apparently, she is an ethnic Jew, but not a religious Jew. "They quizzed me on Judaism, which I know nothing about" doesn't contradict her being ethnically Jewish.
Of course she is. You know, all ethnic Jews finish off their blog posts by saying "Insha’allah I will like Israel better tomorrow."
If it indeed had explosives and if shooting it indeed would set them off, it would blow the shooter !
As the other guy said, "Congratulations. You know fuck all about EOD and bomb disposal".
Just face it - he's right and you're wrong. Shooting at suspected explosives may not be the most common disposal method, but it is used and it can be effective. Whether the soldiers in this case were really worried about a bomb is a different question. It's quite possible that she was being a bitch, and they decided to have some fun at her expense. That doesn't change the fact that they employed a legitimate EOD technique.
I can hardly believe some people. Broken laptop vs white phosphorus? Broken laptop vs bombed UN school?! "Unfortunate reality" my backside, I really wonder if some of them know anything whatsoever about reality.
Ohhh, I JUST love the "my side has it worse" game! Why, in MY day, we had broken laptops IN bombed UN schools!
The first time I looked at those pics, I thought they had the engine numbers reversed. If you look at the picture with the lodged turbine piece, it's clearly an aft view with the piece lodged on the right-hand side, which would tend to suggest that we're looking at the number one engine. It took me a good half hour of going back and forth between the pictures before I realized that the turbine piece had actually hit the #2 engine on the left-hand side, near the top, sliced through the cowling and nacelle, and then curved down and came to a rest on the right hand side. That's a hell of a weird trajectory!
So what all this mumbo jumbo means for your PowerWiiGlove is that you would have to use accellerometer mode, and that it would make your glove highly inaccurate for detecting sensitive motion (such as manipulating VR objects).
Or you could stick some LED's on the fingertips of the glove and point the wiimote at them. In fact, I could have sworn someone already did something like that.
You should look up some video clips of the tests that these engines go through before they're approved for use. For example, in this clip you can watch the engine being put through various non-destructive tests, such as ingesting 4.5 TONS of water in one minute.
They are truly humbling machines. The most interesting videos, though, are of the destructive tests, and of actual failures.
They were geniuses at filling positions with cronies and yes-men, but morons at hiring people who were actually competent -- including the IT department, apparently.
That's what they get for recruiting from slashdot.
Did they put a separate door for the pilots? If they would start making it physically impossible for the passengers to enter the cockpit giving each a seperate exterior door, we could get rid of a bunch of the useless security theater.
I think the pilots might complain if you take away their ability to go wee-wee and harass the flight-attendants.
I thought jet engines produced something more like a continuous deflagration rather than periodic explosions.
Yep, that's right. The really amazing thing about jet engines is just the materials science we had to master before we could make turbines which don't disintegrate every time you turn them on. Try to picture 6 metal wheels splined and bolted to each other with hundreds of small metal vanes on the end of them... spinning at about 12,000 revolutions per minute while being blasted by a continues blast-furnace of 1,000+ degrees Celsius. It makes me shiver every time I think about it.
I thought it was understood that octopi have primate-level intelligence. Why is this so surprising?
In the same sense that it's understood that Russels Teapot is filled with Earl Gray rather than Darjeeling.
It's widely accepted that octopuses are probably more intelligent than any other invertebrates. That's a long way from putting them on the same level as primates.
Your world must be a horrid place. I truly do pity you. Were I of a similar mindset, I would have offed myself years ago. Death would be far preferable to life in a self-imposed prison where morality is nonexistent and all human values are utterly meaningless.
That's very interesting, thanks! I've never heard of these provisions being enforced, but it's interesting to know that they are actually on the books. I'm surprised I've never heard of it, especially since several nations have apparently passed acts intended to counter Helms Burton.
1. You've presented an act which requires foreign agents to identify themselves. If that's the best you've got, you're better off admitting defeat.
2. I'd oppose Castro as I oppose all dictators, regardless of US foreign policy. Just because you base your allegiances solely on your foolish political leanings, don't make the mistake of thinking that the rest of us are equally immoral.
Really? If I'm giving out laptops, the cops will confiscate them and look for child porn? Oh my. They must have hired a fuck of a lot of cops to go through the whole One Laptop Per Child project....
Anne Coulter said several widows whose husbands died in the 9/11 attacks were "witches" who "act as if 9/11 only happened to them" and implied they were happy to have been victimized.
You know, Anne Coulter says a lot of stupid shit, but on that one topic I have to agree with her. The women she was referencing are absolutely horrid. They're the equivalent of Cindy Sheehan - pumping out public displays of "grief" in order to pursue their own political agenda. I'd offer my commiseration and sympathy to any person who lost a loved one on 9/11 (or in the GWOT)... but when you start using your loss as a political weapons, you make yourself fair game. If you're willing to profane the memory of your loved ones by making them martyrs for your cause, then I'm sorry but all bets are off.
In ANY democratic country an agent of a foreign power financing political groups would be declared persona non grata and kicked out.
Ah yes. In that case, it should be no problem for you to point to a case where an individual was jailed in, say, the United States, for handing out free stuff to political groups.
Go ahead, I'll wait.
Oh, and while you're trying to think of a way to back-pedal out of this one, you should probably stop and think about just how despicable you look to every person who actually gives a damn about human rights. You're offering excuses on behalf of an oppressive dictatorship, just so you can squeeze in a cheap shot at nations which guarantee you freedoms that Cubans can only dream about. I don't know how you live with yourself.
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Apparently, she is an ethnic Jew, but not a religious Jew. "They quizzed me on Judaism, which I know nothing about" doesn't contradict her being ethnically Jewish.
Of course she is. You know, all ethnic Jews finish off their blog posts by saying "Insha’allah I will like Israel better tomorrow."
If it indeed had explosives and if shooting it indeed would set them off, it would blow the shooter !
As the other guy said, "Congratulations. You know fuck all about EOD and bomb disposal".
Just face it - he's right and you're wrong. Shooting at suspected explosives may not be the most common disposal method, but it is used and it can be effective. Whether the soldiers in this case were really worried about a bomb is a different question. It's quite possible that she was being a bitch, and they decided to have some fun at her expense. That doesn't change the fact that they employed a legitimate EOD technique.
I disagree with the emotive language implying that Palestinians are the only ones killing innocent civilians.
It's a story about a fucking laptop, you twit. If there was ever a comment more deserving of an "off topic" mod, I haven't seen it.
I can hardly believe some people. Broken laptop vs white phosphorus? Broken laptop vs bombed UN school?! "Unfortunate reality" my backside, I really wonder if some of them know anything whatsoever about reality.
Ohhh, I JUST love the "my side has it worse" game! Why, in MY day, we had broken laptops IN bombed UN schools!
Yeah I've seen that before.
The first time I looked at those pics, I thought they had the engine numbers reversed. If you look at the picture with the lodged turbine piece, it's clearly an aft view with the piece lodged on the right-hand side, which would tend to suggest that we're looking at the number one engine. It took me a good half hour of going back and forth between the pictures before I realized that the turbine piece had actually hit the #2 engine on the left-hand side, near the top, sliced through the cowling and nacelle, and then curved down and came to a rest on the right hand side. That's a hell of a weird trajectory!
So what all this mumbo jumbo means for your PowerWiiGlove is that you would have to use accellerometer mode, and that it would make your glove highly inaccurate for detecting sensitive motion (such as manipulating VR objects).
Or you could stick some LED's on the fingertips of the glove and point the wiimote at them. In fact, I could have sworn someone already did something like that.
You should look up some video clips of the tests that these engines go through before they're approved for use. For example, in this clip you can watch the engine being put through various non-destructive tests, such as ingesting 4.5 TONS of water in one minute.
They are truly humbling machines. The most interesting videos, though, are of the destructive tests, and of actual failures.
They were geniuses at filling positions with cronies and yes-men, but morons at hiring people who were actually competent -- including the IT department, apparently.
That's what they get for recruiting from slashdot.
Sure, let me just casually reformat this 22 million emails worth of backup tape...
See, this is why you'd never make it as a Sooper Seeekrit Government Squirrel. Everyone knows that backup tapes should be burned, not reformatted.
Anyway, 22 million e-mails is what ... 1 terabyte? What's the big deal?
Did they put a separate door for the pilots? If they would start making it physically impossible for the passengers to enter the cockpit giving each a seperate exterior door, we could get rid of a bunch of the useless security theater.
I think the pilots might complain if you take away their ability to go wee-wee and harass the flight-attendants.
I thought jet engines produced something more like a continuous deflagration rather than periodic explosions.
Yep, that's right. The really amazing thing about jet engines is just the materials science we had to master before we could make turbines which don't disintegrate every time you turn them on. Try to picture 6 metal wheels splined and bolted to each other with hundreds of small metal vanes on the end of them ... spinning at about 12,000 revolutions per minute while being blasted by a continues blast-furnace of 1,000+ degrees Celsius. It makes me shiver every time I think about it.
French planes don't fall out of the sky. They just RTB every time you turn on the auto-pilot.
I thought it was understood that octopi have primate-level intelligence. Why is this so surprising?
In the same sense that it's understood that Russels Teapot is filled with Earl Gray rather than Darjeeling.
It's widely accepted that octopuses are probably more intelligent than any other invertebrates. That's a long way from putting them on the same level as primates.
Your world must be a horrid place. I truly do pity you. Were I of a similar mindset, I would have offed myself years ago. Death would be far preferable to life in a self-imposed prison where morality is nonexistent and all human values are utterly meaningless.
Yes, absolutely :)
That's very interesting, thanks! I've never heard of these provisions being enforced, but it's interesting to know that they are actually on the books. I'm surprised I've never heard of it, especially since several nations have apparently passed acts intended to counter Helms Burton.
Thanks for the info!
1. You've presented an act which requires foreign agents to identify themselves. If that's the best you've got, you're better off admitting defeat.
2. I'd oppose Castro as I oppose all dictators, regardless of US foreign policy. Just because you base your allegiances solely on your foolish political leanings, don't make the mistake of thinking that the rest of us are equally immoral.
Really? If I'm giving out laptops, the cops will confiscate them and look for child porn? Oh my. They must have hired a fuck of a lot of cops to go through the whole One Laptop Per Child project ....
Yeah, scroll up and this time actually read what I wrote, ok? Then try to draft a response which addresses it. Thanks!
Me giving you a laptop causes a public disturbance?
Go on, pull the other one!
Really? Got any references to back that up?
Hiding a laptop in your ass is a rather difficult proposition. Maybe if they'd sent the goatse.cx guy ....
Anne Coulter said several widows whose husbands died in the 9/11 attacks were "witches" who "act as if 9/11 only happened to them" and implied they were happy to have been victimized.
You know, Anne Coulter says a lot of stupid shit, but on that one topic I have to agree with her. The women she was referencing are absolutely horrid. They're the equivalent of Cindy Sheehan - pumping out public displays of "grief" in order to pursue their own political agenda. I'd offer my commiseration and sympathy to any person who lost a loved one on 9/11 (or in the GWOT) ... but when you start using your loss as a political weapons, you make yourself fair game. If you're willing to profane the memory of your loved ones by making them martyrs for your cause, then I'm sorry but all bets are off.
In ANY democratic country an agent of a foreign power financing political groups would be declared persona non grata and kicked out.
Ah yes. In that case, it should be no problem for you to point to a case where an individual was jailed in, say, the United States, for handing out free stuff to political groups.
Go ahead, I'll wait.
Oh, and while you're trying to think of a way to back-pedal out of this one, you should probably stop and think about just how despicable you look to every person who actually gives a damn about human rights. You're offering excuses on behalf of an oppressive dictatorship, just so you can squeeze in a cheap shot at nations which guarantee you freedoms that Cubans can only dream about. I don't know how you live with yourself.
If you've got 61 virgins to trade, I'm sure someone on here could hook you up with 8 hookers in no time flat.