You mean like that time with the brasilian starlet?
BTW, I saw that clip yesterday, but only because the link was on the headline of another tech blog, and mostly because every download counts when it comes to censorship.
I guess you mean "not exactly legally" when using the "unconventional" word, because that promotion method is neither new nor rare. Of course, times change and having a few copies in cool clubs and thousands on the net do not bring exactly the same liabilities.
Caves could be a good indication that there was errosion caused by liquid, and moreover, it could have protected evidences linked to that erosion from the martian winds, so it is not only cool, it's really worth sending a probe into one of them.
Altough you are unfortunately totally right on the second half of your post, I would like to correct a few points on the first half. -The test was performed on the brand new Paris-Strasbourg line, not the Paris-Marseille (which is the oldest TGV track), and I may have forgotten some, but I clearly remember two other lines (Nantes & Bordeaux), plus the Eurostar and Thalis tat are non-TGV high speed trains. -Fortunately, those trains can be used with stations closer than Paris and Marseille (600km), many TGV stop every 100km or so and are still considered fast. -The TGV can (and do on many lines) use regular tracks since they have the same dimensions, of course, they cannot go full speed on these tracks, so the RFF (owner of the tracks) is slowly replacing them with TGV grade tracks to increase the proportion of high speed sections. However, it is true that the TGV cannot use any regular tracks because of its structure that does not allow it to turn as easily as a regular train, so its only option to cross montains is to go through tunnels.
That's always the problem when a poll is based on the will to participate (and knowledge of its exitence). In 1999, the city of Paris organized an online poll in which we were asked to vote for the most important person of those two millenia and someone in my electronic school put his name, so we all voted for him, then another scholl put up its own champion against ours. shortly before closing the poll, they had to eject both of them because their poll, supposed to be based on notoriety, had two totally unkown winners above 40% each, with Jesus being a good third around 3% and everyone else below 0.5%.
I would agree with the GP estimation. I regulary use the ParisBordeaux TGV, which is about 500km crossed in about 3H. 300km/h is the maximal comercial speed, but at that speed, a train needs top quality tracks, makes a lot of noise, has very limited capacity to turn and needs 15km to stop so its real average speed is significantly lower.
There also are a couple of points to take into acount. -Fast trains like the TGV need special tracks that are very expensive to build and maintained (our latest line, ParisStrasbourg, that will be in comercial service this year, costed several billion E just for the 350km of tracks), on average, we build only less than 50km of new TGV grade tracks each year (usualy, we start a new TGV line with 1/2 to 2/3 of the distance build that way and the rest using regular tracks then replace them with TGV tracks over a decade or two). Even a unique EstWest line like the one build during the far west conquest will be extremely long and expensive in the plains and almost impossible in the montains. -In western Europe, train has a big advantage over plane because of the relatively short distances involved. Imagine I have to go from Paris to London, To avoid trafic jams and prohibitive parking fares, I would have to use a suburb train to go to the airport, then pass security and check in and by the time my plane would finaly take off, the train that I could have taken directly in Paris would already have reached english countryside (and without any risk of cavity search).
Recent history has a fine example of country B not being able to produce as much oil after the invasion by country A as it used to be when it was simply under international embargo and country A having spent so much for that invasion it is nearly buying oil at the price of diamond.
About 5 years ago, my father saw a plane toilet flush (about 1kg of ice with organic wastes) hit the ground in the center of a small city. No one was hurt that time, but that's still dangerous, and given the number of planes above hour heads, quite common.
Fortunately, this can't be done without seriously harming the battery life. My phone can stay idle for 2 full weeks without a charge out of a 600mAh battery, that means it needs less than 2mA on average to stay on the network (OTOH, it can only stay 4H in communication (manufacturer data, I never tried), meaning it needs around 150mA in that mode). Show me a phone that is able to activate its microphone, run its DSP to compress the data and communicate over the air with less than 10mA and then I'll start to worry.
If someone receive a NSL, he needs to shut up because of the security risk if the investigated person knows (I can undersqtand to a certain extend), but a federal agency is publically giving away a plaintext list of a lot of people they are monitoring. Am I the only one who finds that weird?
I agree on the effect of testosterone poisoning among the young uneducated males, but you are wrong on several points: 1- According to current difficulties encountered by american military recruiting officers, it's not always that easy to find enough "suckers" when too many people believe they would just be sent as cannon fodder on the losing side of an unnecessary war. 2- Modern armies do not require dumb grunts that much, they need people that are able to handle modern equiments, work in team and sometimes not shot at everything when under pressure. If you don't have a brain, you're a burden. 3- Even in a theorical situation where cannon fodder wannabes would be highly available, training them is a long and expensive process, so a dead (or worse, severely wounded, but that's not the point) soldier is a big financial loss.
Whish I had mod points, it is the funniest comment on that thread.
In real life, they get an advance, a lot of coke and a year after, the record compagny tells them that the promotion and the coke costed a lot and that they have to pay back 150 to 200% of the advance (that they already totally spent). Year one, they are stars, year two, crackwhores.
And if you look well, you'll notice that these 2-3 semi-acceptable songs in the CD are often produced by someone else, with a different writer and additional musicians and therefore do not represent the (lack of) talent of the "artist" they want to promote.
Usualy, they don't even know the name of their victim when they start the suit, and unfortunately it is in their advantage because an unidentified defendant is unable to defend until it is almost too late.
Actually, I beleive the Dilbert principle is more accurate in the GP case : "The least competent ones are promoted first to take them away from productive position where they could be dangerous".
it many cases, it was simply clouds or optical illusions, which are not even flying objects. And then you add all those drunk peoples and the jokers to that list... Anyway, this base is nothing more than a list of police reports, even it there really was an alien origin in one of those phenomenons, the odds that this base contains anything usefull to prove it is almost nil.
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You mean like that time with the brasilian starlet?
BTW, I saw that clip yesterday, but only because the link was on the headline of another tech blog, and mostly because every download counts when it comes to censorship.
I guess you mean "not exactly legally" when using the "unconventional" word, because that promotion method is neither new nor rare. Of course, times change and having a few copies in cool clubs and thousands on the net do not bring exactly the same liabilities.
No matter its size, when correctly used, a HD can have only 3 states: still in the box, almost full and dead.
Caves could be a good indication that there was errosion caused by liquid, and moreover, it could have protected evidences linked to that erosion from the martian winds, so it is not only cool, it's really worth sending a probe into one of them.
Altough you are unfortunately totally right on the second half of your post, I would like to correct a few points on the first half.
-The test was performed on the brand new Paris-Strasbourg line, not the Paris-Marseille (which is the oldest TGV track), and I may have forgotten some, but I clearly remember two other lines (Nantes & Bordeaux), plus the Eurostar and Thalis tat are non-TGV high speed trains.
-Fortunately, those trains can be used with stations closer than Paris and Marseille (600km), many TGV stop every 100km or so and are still considered fast.
-The TGV can (and do on many lines) use regular tracks since they have the same dimensions, of course, they cannot go full speed on these tracks, so the RFF (owner of the tracks) is slowly replacing them with TGV grade tracks to increase the proportion of high speed sections. However, it is true that the TGV cannot use any regular tracks because of its structure that does not allow it to turn as easily as a regular train, so its only option to cross montains is to go through tunnels.
And the Segway! Evereyone forgets how it changed the face of our cities.
That's always the problem when a poll is based on the will to participate (and knowledge of its exitence).
In 1999, the city of Paris organized an online poll in which we were asked to vote for the most important person of those two millenia and someone in my electronic school put his name, so we all voted for him, then another scholl put up its own champion against ours. shortly before closing the poll, they had to eject both of them because their poll, supposed to be based on notoriety, had two totally unkown winners above 40% each, with Jesus being a good third around 3% and everyone else below 0.5%.
I would agree with the GP estimation. I regulary use the ParisBordeaux TGV, which is about 500km crossed in about 3H. 300km/h is the maximal comercial speed, but at that speed, a train needs top quality tracks, makes a lot of noise, has very limited capacity to turn and needs 15km to stop so its real average speed is significantly lower.
There also are a couple of points to take into acount.
-Fast trains like the TGV need special tracks that are very expensive to build and maintained (our latest line, ParisStrasbourg, that will be in comercial service this year, costed several billion E just for the 350km of tracks), on average, we build only less than 50km of new TGV grade tracks each year (usualy, we start a new TGV line with 1/2 to 2/3 of the distance build that way and the rest using regular tracks then replace them with TGV tracks over a decade or two). Even a unique EstWest line like the one build during the far west conquest will be extremely long and expensive in the plains and almost impossible in the montains.
-In western Europe, train has a big advantage over plane because of the relatively short distances involved. Imagine I have to go from Paris to London, To avoid trafic jams and prohibitive parking fares, I would have to use a suburb train to go to the airport, then pass security and check in and by the time my plane would finaly take off, the train that I could have taken directly in Paris would already have reached english countryside (and without any risk of cavity search).
Recent history has a fine example of country B not being able to produce as much oil after the invasion by country A as it used to be when it was simply under international embargo and country A having spent so much for that invasion it is nearly buying oil at the price of diamond.
And you complained about a few tiny test in Polinesia...
About 5 years ago, my father saw a plane toilet flush (about 1kg of ice with organic wastes) hit the ground in the center of a small city. No one was hurt that time, but that's still dangerous, and given the number of planes above hour heads, quite common.
I learned to detect my boss by the sound of its steps in the corridor, I think I must be a prey.
Fortunately, this can't be done without seriously harming the battery life. My phone can stay idle for 2 full weeks without a charge out of a 600mAh battery, that means it needs less than 2mA on average to stay on the network (OTOH, it can only stay 4H in communication (manufacturer data, I never tried), meaning it needs around 150mA in that mode).
Show me a phone that is able to activate its microphone, run its DSP to compress the data and communicate over the air with less than 10mA and then I'll start to worry.
If someone receive a NSL, he needs to shut up because of the security risk if the investigated person knows (I can undersqtand to a certain extend), but a federal agency is publically giving away a plaintext list of a lot of people they are monitoring. Am I the only one who finds that weird?
I agree on the effect of testosterone poisoning among the young uneducated males, but you are wrong on several points:
1- According to current difficulties encountered by american military recruiting officers, it's not always that easy to find enough "suckers" when too many people believe they would just be sent as cannon fodder on the losing side of an unnecessary war.
2- Modern armies do not require dumb grunts that much, they need people that are able to handle modern equiments, work in team and sometimes not shot at everything when under pressure. If you don't have a brain, you're a burden.
3- Even in a theorical situation where cannon fodder wannabes would be highly available, training them is a long and expensive process, so a dead (or worse, severely wounded, but that's not the point) soldier is a big financial loss.
"and actually get paid for their work".
Whish I had mod points, it is the funniest comment on that thread.
In real life, they get an advance, a lot of coke and a year after, the record compagny tells them that the promotion and the coke costed a lot and that they have to pay back 150 to 200% of the advance (that they already totally spent). Year one, they are stars, year two, crackwhores.
And if you look well, you'll notice that these 2-3 semi-acceptable songs in the CD are often produced by someone else, with a different writer and additional musicians and therefore do not represent the (lack of) talent of the "artist" they want to promote.
Usualy, they don't even know the name of their victim when they start the suit, and unfortunately it is in their advantage because an unidentified defendant is unable to defend until it is almost too late.
Yes, congress did in your name. No, every dictatorship in history had its version of political police.
In the fiction, it would shortly followed by "If it is your first NSL, you must fight", but the reality is far too depressing.
Actually, I beleive the Dilbert principle is more accurate in the GP case : "The least competent ones are promoted first to take them away from productive position where they could be dangerous".
It happens in a lot of places and it's called the "Dilbert Principle". Unfortunatelly, it is usally a self-sustaining process.
and organize the Everyone vs Everyone trial.
it many cases, it was simply clouds or optical illusions, which are not even flying objects. And then you add all those drunk peoples and the jokers to that list...
Anyway, this base is nothing more than a list of police reports, even it there really was an alien origin in one of those phenomenons, the odds that this base contains anything usefull to prove it is almost nil.
Yes, but France is the first country to do so only one mounth before a presidential election, maybe it is not a coincidence.