I used to think I knew a man who didn't want to drive because he was scared of the traffic in north america, it being rather different apparently to how it is in Europe, at least that is how he explained it. For many years I believed him. Then a few months ago he finally revealed that he's actually a fugitive from his home country, with an assumed identity, working 'under the table', and has all this time dared not to have anything in his own name, so no driver's license for him even if he wanted one. Just one anecdote, I know, but I'm just saying that things are not always what they seem.
The trouble is that men are more likely to try to show off, particularly when younger. And also, the better you are at something, the more careless you will tend to be when executing it. Confidence in the wrong hands is a very dangerous thing.
Spatial reasoning plays a role in driving as well, another attribute that tends to be higher among men. I have known women that drive well, even 18-wheelers and such, so they do exist. But I have also known women too terrified of the oncoming traffic and doubting their ability to reconcile all that movement properly. I have never met a man who is concerned about being able to track all the traffic. Driving may stress them out, but I have not seen them refuse to learn to drive because it's too scary. My last girlfriend had it running in her whole family. She said, "The women in my family simply do not drive, it's just too freaky." The girlfriend before her had caused at least three people to swear that they would never attempt to teach her to drive ever again. I've yet to meet a man like this. My sister loves to drive, but has also managed to run into something with EVERY vehicle she has ever been in control of, she can't even keep an off-road vehicle out of the trees.
But you have to give a rat's ass about HTML in order to bother with that. From what I gather they were more interested in the backend, and I for one am thankful for that.
That was sort of my thought.. If they have to go through the trouble of physically working along the entire path, then why not just bring a new line along that path and forget the whole thing?
I agree, and it is certainly more pleasant to imagine all the hot chicks you could someday probe rather than figuring you can't probe them. Excellent point.
Unfortunately, he has already reproduced, and what's worse, he was showing his daughter what fun the laser was. Hopefully she is now aware of the reason daddy's gone away.
My first thought on seeing the current article was that the guy reads/. and was testing some of the theories thrown around here in the very recent past. We've been talking about whether or not you can intentionally get a laser dot into the cockpit of a passing/landing plane. And now this all of a sudden, mentioned along with a rash of lasers being pointed at planes around the country. What, have we Slashdotted the sky now?
then they should bung all the store owners with those big animated roadside signs
I'm only sort of there.. Last summer I got distracted in a dangerous way by a bikini car wash that was happening in the neighborhood. I recognized the danger at the time, but at the same time had no desire for them to go away.:)
It wasn't customized, it was just old (1980), but I should have mentioned it wasn't on pavement either, the parking lot to my apartment has little chunks of broken up concrete here and there surrounded with hills and valleys of dirt. So the solution I used was the easiest, given that I didn't really care about the car as it was getting to its last legs anyhow, I just wanted it to go.
Last year, and what was worse, it happened just as I was getting home, so I didn't notice anything was wrong until the next day. By that point, the tire had fully deflated, leaving me with not enough room to get a jack under the car to do anything about it. I wound up having to put a 4x4 block of wood behind the flat and back up over it, causing permanent damage to the otherwise repairable tire, and possibly wrecking the rim. But at least I was able to get the jack under it and replace it for the spare in the trunk. Nasty, glad it was an old crappy car that I didn't care about.
Not to mention, that when my internet connection goes down (rare, but it can happen), my computer may become slightly less interesting, but not unusable. With the network app and storage model, you have a large expensive brick on your desk during an internet outage.
Yeah that's one big reason I have never liked wmv/asf. The first time (a few years ago) that I got a browser opening halfway through a downloaded video clip, taking me to a site I would not have felt safe at, well that was pretty much the end of my use of that format.
you have to admit you were trying to download a "pirated audio file".
Here in Canada, eh, I can legally download anything I want, I just can't share it. However, there's something I'd like to point out anyway:
Who the hell actually uses and likes wma over mp3? Just asking, since I've generally found it to suck, and prefer to get mp3 whenever possible. Just a thought..
#1 in members as of this post, though points rating has dropped. This should turn around and shoot way up once all the freshly started work units start pouring out.
Cheaper, yes, but how is it more convenient? I guess it depends on how good your public transport is. My job involves a shift that begins at 6am. The very earliest I can get there by bus is 6:20, and that is of course just to somewhere down the street from the building, it'll be a bit later than that before I can actually report in and be ready for work. And that's even optimistic because they cannot guarantee that the second bus I have to transfer to will not have come and gone early, or that my first bus will not be a couple minutes late, leaving me to wait another 15 minutes while still only half-way there.
Under better conditions, like not having to work until 8, one can plan against such schedule problems caused by traffic and plan to be there half an hour early every day. Great, but the trip is still taking three times as long as it would by car, and I have better things to do. Picking up something on the way home from work is a chore, as you've got to have it planned out for each place you might want to visit along the way, are limited in what you can lug around, and are basically a slave to their schedules. With my car (which I will admit is the main reason I have to keep a careful budget) I can move about freely, whenever I want to, never waiting in the cold, for it never leaves without me. I'm also one of those people that finds driving relaxing, even city driving. I'm very low-risk for road-rage, driving's just fun.:) Anyhow, it's way more convenient than the bus, at least where I live, and it is well-worth the money to me. Missing the bus, waiting in the cold, having to leave evening events earlier than others, these things stress me out and make me unhappy. It turns out that money really can buy happiness, in some forms.
Why would you be aiming the laser at the plane with the beam oriented perpendicular to the plane's path, as you seem to imply? I wouldn't even try to aim at a *passing* plane. But if the laser is shining from straight ahead of the plane, in its path, the plane will not be moving very much at all relative to the beam. It would jiggle a bit, but that would be all.
I'm not trying to say that terrorists could and would be able to pull this off, but are all airports surrounded by totally flat ground for hundreds of feet in all directions? I don't know, that's why I ask. I ask because, people seem to be believing that this attack would be taking place from the ground, and I wonder why that would have to be the case. I've got two airports here, one is way on the edge of town and surrounded by pretty much nothing. The other one is in the middle of the city, it's not used much anymore, but there are plenty of tallish buildings in the area. The hospital even got hit one day by a small plane making its approach a bit too low. There are plenty of other problems with aiming a laser accurately into the cockpit of a moving plane, but I don't think that relative elevation needs to be one of them. As for vision and steady hands, why not a sniper rifle on a tripod mount, with a high-powered scope?
Mind you, one could just try to put a bullet in the pilot's head if they were going to go to the trouble of setting that up.
Well, it doesn't cost (in theory) millions of dollars to fix some jackass's face after a well-deserved ass-whuppin'.
There's a guy in my city who has finally come out of his coma, after over a year, with permanent brain damage and limited mobility. He was attacked outside his own home, by a drunk at three in the morning, who had been wandering down the street hollering at the top of his lungs while people tried to sleep. The victim 'earned' his current disability by trying to tell the guy to be quiet. What an asshole, eh? Really had it coming.
What are these alternatives of which you speak? Tell them not to steal again?? Make them take a course in being a productive member of society rather than a bum that has to mooch off everyone else? Prison may not be great for rehabilitation, but it does make my assets safe from that particular individual while they are incarcerated. We lock them up because we can't trust them to run around free and play nice with everyone, as they have shown that they are not interested in being part of society. They want all the perks without any of the work, fuck em.
Violent crimes based on intoxication are typically passionate, arising from a momentary lapse of reason. Drinking while warezing is not at all the same thing, it's very premeditated whether you're medicated or not.
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I used to think I knew a man who didn't want to drive because he was scared of the traffic in north america, it being rather different apparently to how it is in Europe, at least that is how he explained it. For many years I believed him. Then a few months ago he finally revealed that he's actually a fugitive from his home country, with an assumed identity, working 'under the table', and has all this time dared not to have anything in his own name, so no driver's license for him even if he wanted one. Just one anecdote, I know, but I'm just saying that things are not always what they seem.
The trouble is that men are more likely to try to show off, particularly when younger. And also, the better you are at something, the more careless you will tend to be when executing it. Confidence in the wrong hands is a very dangerous thing.
Spatial reasoning plays a role in driving as well, another attribute that tends to be higher among men. I have known women that drive well, even 18-wheelers and such, so they do exist. But I have also known women too terrified of the oncoming traffic and doubting their ability to reconcile all that movement properly. I have never met a man who is concerned about being able to track all the traffic. Driving may stress them out, but I have not seen them refuse to learn to drive because it's too scary. My last girlfriend had it running in her whole family. She said, "The women in my family simply do not drive, it's just too freaky." The girlfriend before her had caused at least three people to swear that they would never attempt to teach her to drive ever again. I've yet to meet a man like this. My sister loves to drive, but has also managed to run into something with EVERY vehicle she has ever been in control of, she can't even keep an off-road vehicle out of the trees.
And they still haven't looked it up apparently, for when you type in 'google' you still don't get Did you mean googol?
But you have to give a rat's ass about HTML in order to bother with that. From what I gather they were more interested in the backend, and I for one am thankful for that.
That was sort of my thought.. If they have to go through the trouble of physically working along the entire path, then why not just bring a new line along that path and forget the whole thing?
I agree, and it is certainly more pleasant to imagine all the hot chicks you could someday probe rather than figuring you can't probe them. Excellent point.
Unfortunately, he has already reproduced, and what's worse, he was showing his daughter what fun the laser was. Hopefully she is now aware of the reason daddy's gone away.
My first thought on seeing the current article was that the guy reads /. and was testing some of the theories thrown around here in the very recent past. We've been talking about whether or not you can intentionally get a laser dot into the cockpit of a passing/landing plane. And now this all of a sudden, mentioned along with a rash of lasers being pointed at planes around the country. What, have we Slashdotted the sky now?
then they should bung all the store owners with those big animated roadside signs
:)
I'm only sort of there.. Last summer I got distracted in a dangerous way by a bikini car wash that was happening in the neighborhood. I recognized the danger at the time, but at the same time had no desire for them to go away.
It wasn't customized, it was just old (1980), but I should have mentioned it wasn't on pavement either, the parking lot to my apartment has little chunks of broken up concrete here and there surrounded with hills and valleys of dirt. So the solution I used was the easiest, given that I didn't really care about the car as it was getting to its last legs anyhow, I just wanted it to go.
Last year, and what was worse, it happened just as I was getting home, so I didn't notice anything was wrong until the next day. By that point, the tire had fully deflated, leaving me with not enough room to get a jack under the car to do anything about it. I wound up having to put a 4x4 block of wood behind the flat and back up over it, causing permanent damage to the otherwise repairable tire, and possibly wrecking the rim. But at least I was able to get the jack under it and replace it for the spare in the trunk. Nasty, glad it was an old crappy car that I didn't care about.
give the kid the tools he or she needs to get started, and see what happens from there
:)
Computer: "How- a- bout- a- game?"
Kid: "Hmm, let's try Global Thermonuclear War"
Not to mention, that when my internet connection goes down (rare, but it can happen), my computer may become slightly less interesting, but not unusable. With the network app and storage model, you have a large expensive brick on your desk during an internet outage.
Bite my shiny daffodil ass!
It finally works.
Well actually, I will find that it opens in an mp3 player that doesn't handle wma. :)
Yeah that's one big reason I have never liked wmv/asf. The first time (a few years ago) that I got a browser opening halfway through a downloaded video clip, taking me to a site I would not have felt safe at, well that was pretty much the end of my use of that format.
you have to admit you were trying to download a "pirated audio file".
Here in Canada, eh, I can legally download anything I want, I just can't share it. However, there's something I'd like to point out anyway:
Who the hell actually uses and likes wma over mp3? Just asking, since I've generally found it to suck, and prefer to get mp3 whenever possible. Just a thought..
#1 in members as of this post, though points rating has dropped. This should turn around and shoot way up once all the freshly started work units start pouring out.
Cheaper, yes, but how is it more convenient? I guess it depends on how good your public transport is. My job involves a shift that begins at 6am. The very earliest I can get there by bus is 6:20, and that is of course just to somewhere down the street from the building, it'll be a bit later than that before I can actually report in and be ready for work. And that's even optimistic because they cannot guarantee that the second bus I have to transfer to will not have come and gone early, or that my first bus will not be a couple minutes late, leaving me to wait another 15 minutes while still only half-way there.
:) Anyhow, it's way more convenient than the bus, at least where I live, and it is well-worth the money to me. Missing the bus, waiting in the cold, having to leave evening events earlier than others, these things stress me out and make me unhappy. It turns out that money really can buy happiness, in some forms.
Under better conditions, like not having to work until 8, one can plan against such schedule problems caused by traffic and plan to be there half an hour early every day. Great, but the trip is still taking three times as long as it would by car, and I have better things to do. Picking up something on the way home from work is a chore, as you've got to have it planned out for each place you might want to visit along the way, are limited in what you can lug around, and are basically a slave to their schedules. With my car (which I will admit is the main reason I have to keep a careful budget) I can move about freely, whenever I want to, never waiting in the cold, for it never leaves without me. I'm also one of those people that finds driving relaxing, even city driving. I'm very low-risk for road-rage, driving's just fun.
Why would you be aiming the laser at the plane with the beam oriented perpendicular to the plane's path, as you seem to imply? I wouldn't even try to aim at a *passing* plane. But if the laser is shining from straight ahead of the plane, in its path, the plane will not be moving very much at all relative to the beam. It would jiggle a bit, but that would be all.
I'm not trying to say that terrorists could and would be able to pull this off, but are all airports surrounded by totally flat ground for hundreds of feet in all directions? I don't know, that's why I ask. I ask because, people seem to be believing that this attack would be taking place from the ground, and I wonder why that would have to be the case. I've got two airports here, one is way on the edge of town and surrounded by pretty much nothing. The other one is in the middle of the city, it's not used much anymore, but there are plenty of tallish buildings in the area. The hospital even got hit one day by a small plane making its approach a bit too low. There are plenty of other problems with aiming a laser accurately into the cockpit of a moving plane, but I don't think that relative elevation needs to be one of them. As for vision and steady hands, why not a sniper rifle on a tripod mount, with a high-powered scope?
Mind you, one could just try to put a bullet in the pilot's head if they were going to go to the trouble of setting that up.
Well, it doesn't cost (in theory) millions of dollars to fix some jackass's face after a well-deserved ass-whuppin'.
There's a guy in my city who has finally come out of his coma, after over a year, with permanent brain damage and limited mobility. He was attacked outside his own home, by a drunk at three in the morning, who had been wandering down the street hollering at the top of his lungs while people tried to sleep. The victim 'earned' his current disability by trying to tell the guy to be quiet. What an asshole, eh? Really had it coming.
What are these alternatives of which you speak? Tell them not to steal again?? Make them take a course in being a productive member of society rather than a bum that has to mooch off everyone else? Prison may not be great for rehabilitation, but it does make my assets safe from that particular individual while they are incarcerated. We lock them up because we can't trust them to run around free and play nice with everyone, as they have shown that they are not interested in being part of society. They want all the perks without any of the work, fuck em.
Violent crimes based on intoxication are typically passionate, arising from a momentary lapse of reason. Drinking while warezing is not at all the same thing, it's very premeditated whether you're medicated or not.