Just because it's in the Olympics, doesn't mean it's a sport. Take rhythmic gymnastics for example, or any of the other competitions that are based on "artistic merit" (figure skating, diving, parallel bars, etc.). Sport requires objectively measurable performance; who is fastest, highest, strongest.
I think the problem with the US system is that it does not allow for minority governments. In places where minority governments are allowed, there is no difference between voting for your preferred party and voting for a third party as a vote against the popular and hated rival. Either way removes votes from the undesired candidate, and they may end up with a minority government. When you have a minority government, the majority gets to halt their reign of suck via a vote of no confidence.
No stage has successfully landed on a barge, so you've never seen the part where the support team boards the barge and secures the rocket against those winds and waves you spoke about.
Oh, and as for that pencil analogy, due to the rockets, most of the weight is in the tail end, so the center of mass is quite low (unlike a pencil).
I don't understand what's going on with SpaceX. Back in May, they did a pad abort test, which is a full up systems test with as close to actual flight hardware as possible. Then in November they do, not a live hover test, but a captive hover test (indicating that they don't trust the dragon's control software not to crash the thing). Now they are doing a parachute test using a block of metal. Not a parachute deploy from a dragon mockup, but they just heaved a chunk of metal with parachutes attached out of the back of a plane.
Are they working backwards in time or something?
It should be:
1 - Parachute test, first with a mass simulant, then with a mockup dragon.
2 - Hover test, first a captive hover, then later a drop test from a plane/helicopter to a hover landing.
3 - Once you've got the kinks worked out in the above, and you've got a close handle on the mass of the actual flight hardware, then you can do a pad abort test to show that you can get the crew out of Dodge when the time comes.
Not needed, desired, nor practical. The last attempt landed square and true about a metre from the center of the barge. The engine shut down on time and all was well until one of the legs collapsed. If that hadn't happened, it would have been an unqualified success. Don't forget that the Falcon 9 first stage is taller than the Statue of Liberty, about the size of a twelve storey apartment building. Designing something capable of capturing it would be far more expensive than simply fixing the problem with the legs.
There are 81 final board positions. However, not all of them are legal. With captures and removing stones from the board, there are multiple ways of getting from the start position to the final position. Apparently, there are as many as 386,356,909,593 games on the tiny 2x2 board if you do not eliminate rotations and reflections. Don't ask me how though. I don't play Go.
I don't know GO, but one thing I have found out is that as play progresses, pieces are removed from the board. That throws my 4! analysis out the window.
I don't know the game of Go, but it seems to me that the first player has four choices of where to put her stone. The second player has three, the first two, and the last one is forced. That's 4! or 24 possibilities, not millions or billions.
Do you know how many Muslims were in the Irish Republican Army? or how many the IRA targetted?
Not a single one.
You don't have to be Muslim to be a terrorist, and you don't have to be a terrorist if you're Muslim. All you have to do is be a bully to someone else's coward.
Copyright notices are only good at the point when they were printed. The copyright could have changed hands later that very same day.
This is why there should be a recorded copyright number, like the patent system's patent number, so you can look up the copyright and see the current conditions.
The real question is whether lighter than air craft count. Can I trick out a surplus barrage balloon with an autopilot? For all it's size, it weighs less than 0.5 lbs.
Suppose they've done the good old detective work, infiltrated and done what the national security services were expected to do and gotten this result:
"The target for assassination is 89HWE79G and we will do it by planting explosives in *()H(& DJKSDF and beneath ((*BBSEUFU^. We will also target the following: SDF^KJDSDF&Gm, ##()*#&$)L#K, and *^)(()*WERWER, ( and if we have time %QAWERA)."
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Just because it's in the Olympics, doesn't mean it's a sport. Take rhythmic gymnastics for example, or any of the other competitions that are based on "artistic merit" (figure skating, diving, parallel bars, etc.). Sport requires objectively measurable performance; who is fastest, highest, strongest.
I think the problem with the US system is that it does not allow for minority governments. In places where minority governments are allowed, there is no difference between voting for your preferred party and voting for a third party as a vote against the popular and hated rival. Either way removes votes from the undesired candidate, and they may end up with a minority government. When you have a minority government, the majority gets to halt their reign of suck via a vote of no confidence.
Why are these turbines sticking up into the fickle air when they should be sticking down into continuous ocean currents like the Gulf stream?
No stage has successfully landed on a barge, so you've never seen the part where the support team boards the barge and secures the rocket against those winds and waves you spoke about.
Oh, and as for that pencil analogy, due to the rockets, most of the weight is in the tail end, so the center of mass is quite low (unlike a pencil).
I don't understand what's going on with SpaceX. Back in May, they did a pad abort test, which is a full up systems test with as close to actual flight hardware as possible. Then in November they do, not a live hover test, but a captive hover test (indicating that they don't trust the dragon's control software not to crash the thing). Now they are doing a parachute test using a block of metal. Not a parachute deploy from a dragon mockup, but they just heaved a chunk of metal with parachutes attached out of the back of a plane.
Are they working backwards in time or something?
It should be:
1 - Parachute test, first with a mass simulant, then with a mockup dragon.
2 - Hover test, first a captive hover, then later a drop test from a plane/helicopter to a hover landing.
3 - Once you've got the kinks worked out in the above, and you've got a close handle on the mass of the actual flight hardware, then you can do a pad abort test to show that you can get the crew out of Dodge when the time comes.
So what's with the backwards schedule?
SpaceX love fourfold symmetry...
For a second there I thought I was going to be reading about the time cube.
Not needed, desired, nor practical. The last attempt landed square and true about a metre from the center of the barge. The engine shut down on time and all was well until one of the legs collapsed. If that hadn't happened, it would have been an unqualified success. Don't forget that the Falcon 9 first stage is taller than the Statue of Liberty, about the size of a twelve storey apartment building. Designing something capable of capturing it would be far more expensive than simply fixing the problem with the legs.
Does putting a denigrating finish to an article to stir controversy make dice more money?
No. Dice will not be making any more money from Slashdot. They sold it.
There are 81 final board positions. However, not all of them are legal. With captures and removing stones from the board, there are multiple ways of getting from the start position to the final position. Apparently, there are as many as 386,356,909,593 games on the tiny 2x2 board if you do not eliminate rotations and reflections. Don't ask me how though. I don't play Go.
Liberties? Deadlocks? Suicide rule?
I don't know GO, but one thing I have found out is that as play progresses, pieces are removed from the board. That throws my 4! analysis out the window.
I don't know the game of Go, but it seems to me that the first player has four choices of where to put her stone. The second player has three, the first two, and the last one is forced. That's 4! or 24 possibilities, not millions or billions.
Explain how that is possible on a 2x2 board.
Um... No. The parent post said there would be no terrorism if there were no Muslims. The IRA is just one of many counter-examples.
If you ask me, I'd say the root threat here is the Oxford Research Group. They're the ones yelling "Phear Dronze"!
How do you hit a drone with a shotgun without pointing the muzzle up? Throw it?
Do you know how many Muslims were in the Irish Republican Army? or how many the IRA targetted?
Not a single one.
You don't have to be Muslim to be a terrorist, and you don't have to be a terrorist if you're Muslim. All you have to do is be a bully to someone else's coward.
I don't know about you, but I keep coming back in the forlorn hope that Slashdot might have recaptured its former glory.
That means nothing. They can cut and splice audience reactions just as easily as they can cut and splice scenes of the actors.
Copyright notices are only good at the point when they were printed. The copyright could have changed hands later that very same day.
This is why there should be a recorded copyright number, like the patent system's patent number, so you can look up the copyright and see the current conditions.
How they record a show that takes place in many different places in front of a studio audience though is beyond me.
Easy. Each set has an audience.
Also, just because something is filmed in front of a live audience, doesn't mean a laugh track wasn't added.
This is about Unmanned Aircraft Systems, not just quadcopters. Drones come in all sorts of rotor numbers, including zero.
Maybe it's time to get someone other than Republicans or Democrats to run the country.
The real question is whether lighter than air craft count. Can I trick out a surplus barrage balloon with an autopilot? For all it's size, it weighs less than 0.5 lbs.
13 years old and above register on their own. Younger than that, and their parents/guardians must register.
Suppose they've done the good old detective work, infiltrated and done what the national security services were expected to do and gotten this result:
"The target for assassination is 89HWE79G and we will do it by planting explosives in *()H(& DJKSDF and beneath ((*BBSEUFU^. We will also target the following: SDF^KJDSDF&Gm, ##()*#&$)L#K, and *^)(()*WERWER, ( and if we have time %QAWERA)."