It's the same force that holds up the moon - centripetal force. The L2 point orbits Earth at the same period (same angular velocity) that the moon does, but further out. That means it moves faster than the moon does.
If the Moon weren't there, a satellite at L2 wouldn't by in a stable orbit: Its centripetal force would be too great.
However, as you said, at that point Earth and Moon pull in the same direction. That means the combined force acts like the gravity of a single more massive body, creating a point further out along the "Earth->Moon->" line where the increased centripetal force is exactly balanced by the increased pull. That sweet spot is L2.
L3 works by the same principle, on the opposite side.
The same way you meaningfully ban anything else - by arresting anyone who does it. "Check this box if you are living in a country that allows encryption" sounds like a joke to us, but in places where your traffic is already monitored, using encryption may well draw unfriendly attention from authorities. It's not like encrypted traffic is hard to recognize without taking other obfuscation measures.
(Even in many countries where encryption is allowed, a court can force you to surrender your key.)
Possibly used to apply to Wikipedia 6 or 7 years ago. Then its rise in popularity caused trolling and political shilling to become more attractive, libel lawsuits for living person biographies to become a danger, and an increasing obsession with "notability" (ie. having spawned at least one internet meme) to develop. Preventing the former and enforcing the latter required a tight and locked down command structure. Any moderately popular article is locked to anonymous edits now.
That means Wikipedia is no longer dependent on the wisdom of crowds, but the incorruptibility of its management and directorial staff.
Honestly, an IPv6 address is just four IPv4 addresses stacked together; the hex format shouldn't change much. If you can memorize those, you'll have no trouble. The human mind isn't all that feeble when you push it a bit.
Before making a claim to anything happening "regardless of it's [sic] truth", you may want to post something true (or at least not batshit insane) and compare for reference.
Leaving out the risk of impersonation and all that crud:
There is no such thing as a primary source on Wikipedia. Words written on Wikipedia are not attributable to any writer. An authoritative source can log on to Wikipedia and say something, while making a grammatical mistake. You have to fix it, because articles must be written in correct English. In fact, you are encouraged to rewrite even correct texts if they can be expressed more clearly. And perhaps it fits better into a different section. And a different paragraph. So when an article contains an uncited statement "The author intends..." you have to search backward through a thousand revisions if the spirit of this statement faintly resembles that of a sentence written years ago by an account that could possibly belong to the real author. It's not an authentic source.
If you need to put material on Wikipedia, and you're not famous enough to give interviews: Just get yourself a blog, establish its authenticity beyond reasonable doubt, then publish an article on it that explains what you want to say. Then you can cite it on Wikipedia.
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He should look that up.
Edit: When the slices were made, I mean.
They had none of these when the images were made.
I want my home pixelated!
-Signed, a mollusc.
It's the same force that holds up the moon - centripetal force. The L2 point orbits Earth at the same period (same angular velocity) that the moon does, but further out. That means it moves faster than the moon does.
If the Moon weren't there, a satellite at L2 wouldn't by in a stable orbit: Its centripetal force would be too great.
However, as you said, at that point Earth and Moon pull in the same direction. That means the combined force acts like the gravity of a single more massive body, creating a point further out along the "Earth->Moon->" line where the increased centripetal force is exactly balanced by the increased pull. That sweet spot is L2.
L3 works by the same principle, on the opposite side.
OMFGWHAT?
I'm sure getting his computer attacked was just as bad as getting shot in the freaking head.
(...)
The same way you meaningfully ban anything else - by arresting anyone who does it. "Check this box if you are living in a country that allows encryption" sounds like a joke to us, but in places where your traffic is already monitored, using encryption may well draw unfriendly attention from authorities. It's not like encrypted traffic is hard to recognize without taking other obfuscation measures.
(Even in many countries where encryption is allowed, a court can force you to surrender your key.)
Oh hey, it's Gene Ray, the Time Cube guy.
And here I thought my switch to Debian might have been premature.
Pretty sure the largest moon rock ever is still in orbit.
If you can colonize Mars, you can probably find a way to work around that with genetic engineering.
Possibly used to apply to Wikipedia 6 or 7 years ago. Then its rise in popularity caused trolling and political shilling to become more attractive, libel lawsuits for living person biographies to become a danger, and an increasing obsession with "notability" (ie. having spawned at least one internet meme) to develop. Preventing the former and enforcing the latter required a tight and locked down command structure. Any moderately popular article is locked to anonymous edits now.
That means Wikipedia is no longer dependent on the wisdom of crowds, but the incorruptibility of its management and directorial staff.
Whoops.
That scheme is going to catch more hosts than you might think. They don't care if you have a secure password; most others don't.
Though this article indicates they'd be better off trying 1234 first (and possibly "password" after that).
Honestly, an IPv6 address is just four IPv4 addresses stacked together; the hex format shouldn't change much. If you can memorize those, you'll have no trouble. The human mind isn't all that feeble when you push it a bit.
It's for the 10nd kind of people in the world. ;)
For years, the GEMA (German RIAA) has forced Google to indiscriminately block any video with protected music in it from playing in Germany.
Before making a claim to anything happening "regardless of it's [sic] truth", you may want to post something true (or at least not batshit insane) and compare for reference.
That makes me want to see the game "Mornington Crescent: The Gathering".
I'd roughly estimate a football field to be between 0.1 and 0.2 Libraries of Congress.
The headline implies that an author is suing the reviewers of his own book.
Yuh-huh.
Hm, I've heard of a couple of new things called "Internet Relay Chat" and "News Network Transport Protocol".
Leaving out the risk of impersonation and all that crud:
There is no such thing as a primary source on Wikipedia. Words written on Wikipedia are not attributable to any writer. An authoritative source can log on to Wikipedia and say something, while making a grammatical mistake. You have to fix it, because articles must be written in correct English. In fact, you are encouraged to rewrite even correct texts if they can be expressed more clearly. And perhaps it fits better into a different section. And a different paragraph. So when an article contains an uncited statement "The author intends..." you have to search backward through a thousand revisions if the spirit of this statement faintly resembles that of a sentence written years ago by an account that could possibly belong to the real author. It's not an authentic source.
If you need to put material on Wikipedia, and you're not famous enough to give interviews: Just get yourself a blog, establish its authenticity beyond reasonable doubt, then publish an article on it that explains what you want to say. Then you can cite it on Wikipedia.
So... what form does one fill out to apply for a permit for a terrorist attack?