Sit on the shitter. Grab phone out of pants pocket. Check email. Read all tweets/social media bullshit updates. Play all turns on Wordfeud (or Words with Friends, if you like buggy, inferior shit). Load up Angry Birds because there's nothing else to do. Play until you're done shitting, AND you've gotten 3 stars on the current level. Get off the toilet and wait two minutes for the circulation in your legs to be restored so you can walk again, having spent twenty minutes sitting on the toilet.
FTFY. I'm assuming this is what happens...it's never happened to me of course.
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...and when's the last time we had an "air war" (excluding unilateral bombing campaigns)?
...and I wonder what will become of those 4990 photos fifty years from now. Will anyone see them then? I know I can look at silver halide photos one hundred years old with basically no degradation. How much effort/expense will it take to view today's digital photos a century from now?
To expand, as another former Navy nuke, yes Carter was a nuclear-trained officer on a submarine, but he was not *the* ship's engineer. Nuc officers serve as CRA (Chem/Radcon Assistant), MPA (Main Propulsion Assistant), EA (Electrical Assistant) and/or RCA (Reactor Control Assistant) before becoming "The Engineer", who is a LCDR and is outranked only by the CO and maybe XO. Carter, IIRC, left as a LT, so he probably served as 2 or 3 of the aforementioned assistant positions to the Engineer. As you said Navy nucs are sharp, knowledgeable, responsible people carefully chosen and trained to ensure safe operation of the reactor and propulsion plant. But I can tell you, I had a couple of ensigns for Div O who were pretty clueless from a practical standpoint, and I'm not sure they were much better as LTjg's or even LTs. Many of them (most?) have engineering related degrees, but I remember one who had a degree in forestry (?), although he was pretty cool.
Looking at the Slashdot front page right now, the topics are:
Student Loans iPhone 4s jailbreak Red Hat vs CentOS Fish and toxic sludge Microsoft law suit Apple solar farm Mock Zombie Invasion Dennis Ritchie FBI tracking Open hardware Portugal school and OSS Hybrid quantum computers Google Street VIew GLobal Warming Battlefield 3 EEPROM programmer Anonymous vs Drug Cartel AWS Load Balancer Career Advice for Programmers Android Browser privacy Qantas grounded Police UAV US Debt Android wristwatch Cellular antenna tech Nokia bendable phone HP touchpads all gone Blue Coat devices in Syria Image recognition for races Firefox PDF reader Human Motion software RIM privacy issue in India Microsoft tried to buy Netscape Compromised CAs
So out of 34 stories, two are about Microsoft, one is about Google (with two about Android), and two , yes TWO, are about Apple. Now if the/. commenters derail other stories and make them about MS, Apple, or Google, whose fault is that?...and who is trolling?
I don't have much experience in this regard, but my two flights on Lufthansa (to Addis Ababa via Frankfurt, and back) did not impress me with their service. Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong and Johannesburg, OTOH, was outstanding. But yeah, domestic flights in the US are not enjoyable.
Listen. Anyone can sound like Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Throw in a few oddball names like "Tralfamadorians", and a few quirky cliches every other paragraph, like "And so it goes...", make all the important characters seem like incredible chumps, and you're all set.
I'm a nuclear supporter, but I'd say that depends on your definition of "major". If it means immediately killing people (even a small number) the figure is higher. If it means immediately killing a lot of people, the number is zero. If it means displacing and/or scaring a lot of people the figure could be slightly higher as well. Etc.
There might even be a few of us here who have some actual experience in radcon and health physics. You just have to be careful to take our advice and not the advice of the others who don't know quite as much, who in a perfect world would keep quiet, but in the real world many of whom will have a lot to say.
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You beat me to it. Those things are delicious! I can't believe I'd forgotten about them until this thread prompted my memory.
Sit on the shitter.
Grab phone out of pants pocket.
Check email.
Read all tweets/social media bullshit updates.
Play all turns on Wordfeud (or Words with Friends, if you like buggy, inferior shit).
Load up Angry Birds because there's nothing else to do.
Play until you're done shitting, AND you've gotten 3 stars on the current level.
Get off the toilet and wait two minutes for the circulation in your legs to be restored so you can walk again, having spent twenty minutes sitting on the toilet.
FTFY.
I'm assuming this is what happens...it's never happened to me of course.
...and when's the last time we had an "air war" (excluding unilateral bombing campaigns)?
...and I wonder what will become of those 4990 photos fifty years from now. Will anyone see them then?
I know I can look at silver halide photos one hundred years old with basically no degradation. How much effort/expense will it take to view today's digital photos a century from now?
...the degree to which public sector corruption is perceived to exist...
"Perceived" is a key word in that phrase. But I suppose it is difficult to measure otherwise.
Because the fourth link down on the left side of the main Slashdot page is Ask Slashdot (http://ask.slashdot.org/). It's quite prominent.
Robert Smith is gonna come cry on you!
A girl? How does a telescope have a gender? If it did, shouldn't it be male, since its namesake Edwin Hubble, was male?
Especially Tang. I hate Tang.
You're confusing imaginary with irrational.
irrational:e::imaginary:i
To expand, as another former Navy nuke, yes Carter was a nuclear-trained officer on a submarine, but he was not
*the* ship's engineer. Nuc officers serve as CRA (Chem/Radcon Assistant), MPA (Main Propulsion Assistant), EA (Electrical Assistant) and/or RCA (Reactor Control Assistant) before becoming "The Engineer", who is a LCDR and is outranked only by the CO and maybe XO. Carter, IIRC, left as a LT, so he probably served as 2 or 3 of the aforementioned assistant positions to the Engineer. As you said Navy nucs are sharp, knowledgeable, responsible people carefully chosen and trained to ensure safe operation of the reactor and propulsion plant. But I can tell you, I had a couple of ensigns for Div O who were pretty clueless from a practical standpoint, and I'm not sure they were much better as LTjg's or even LTs. Many of them (most?) have engineering related degrees, but I remember one who had a degree in forestry (?), although he was pretty cool.
You'd think so, but I remember seeing an article with statistics showing the older iPhone users being less likely to upgrade than the newer ones.
Looking at the Slashdot front page right now, the topics are:
Student Loans
iPhone 4s jailbreak
Red Hat vs CentOS
Fish and toxic sludge
Microsoft law suit
Apple solar farm
Mock Zombie Invasion
Dennis Ritchie
FBI tracking
Open hardware
Portugal school and OSS
Hybrid quantum computers
Google Street VIew
GLobal Warming
Battlefield 3
EEPROM programmer
Anonymous vs Drug Cartel
AWS Load Balancer
Career Advice for Programmers
Android Browser privacy
Qantas grounded
Police UAV
US Debt
Android wristwatch
Cellular antenna tech
Nokia bendable phone
HP touchpads all gone
Blue Coat devices in Syria
Image recognition for races
Firefox PDF reader
Human Motion software
RIM privacy issue in India
Microsoft tried to buy Netscape
Compromised CAs
So out of 34 stories, two are about Microsoft, one is about Google (with two about Android), and two , yes TWO, are about Apple. /. commenters derail other stories and make them about MS, Apple, or Google, whose fault is that? ...and who is trolling?
Now if the
Carl Sagan said "star stuff" . A little less poetic, but the same idea.
Uh-oh. A DUI?
Based on my experience dealing with Navy supply stuff, it would be "Device, intrauterine". But you'd also need a NSN, a CAGE code, etc.
Methane is odorless. Methane can exist at absolute zero. Your joke was not funny in any case.
a lot like Wii Fit, to be exact. Except Wii Fit gives you exercises to try to improve your balance. This just tells you if there's a problem.
I don't have much experience in this regard, but my two flights on Lufthansa (to Addis Ababa via Frankfurt, and back) did not impress me with their service.
Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong and Johannesburg, OTOH, was outstanding.
But yeah, domestic flights in the US are not enjoyable.
Listen. Anyone can sound like Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Throw in a few oddball names like "Tralfamadorians", and a few quirky cliches every other paragraph, like "And so it goes...", make all the important characters seem like incredible chumps, and you're all set.
I'm a nuclear supporter, but I'd say that depends on your definition of "major".
If it means immediately killing people (even a small number) the figure is higher. If it means immediately killing a lot of people, the number is zero. If it means displacing and/or scaring a lot of people the figure could be slightly higher as well. Etc.
NTSC is better, since it means "never twice same color".
Novelty is awesome! Or epic.
True, but it's fine here on Slashdot.
Only if you get the freakishly "small" fries, and why would you do that when the fries are the best thing about McDonald's???
Sounds like a question for the Bad Physicist, or the Bad Chemist, not the Bad Astronomer.
Bad AC.
There might even be a few of us here who have some actual experience in radcon and health physics. You just have to be careful to take our advice and not the advice of the others who don't know quite as much, who in a perfect world would keep quiet, but in the real world many of whom will have a lot to say.