Posts by Destroy All Monsters 16005 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jun 2008
IN OBAMA!
I must not doubt. Doubt is the mind-killer. Doubt is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my doubt. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the doubt has gone there will be nothing. Only surveillance and military detention will remain.
...is why leftist liberals will be forever on my "childish whiner" list.
> Need an abortion clinic all of a sudden in a hurry right now
> Too dumb to find out
> Ask Siri, coz you have that trendy expensive shiny toy from the capitalist evil corporation
> It won't say
> Rage on a blog about this OUTRAGE, drum up a protest action, whatever
Oh noes, my computer has SNMP instrumention, THEY ARE SPIYAN - PANIC ATTACK (but don't forget to bump this Flatter button first!)
Seriously though, how about some data? If this were "active" in more ways than calling the tracing and debugging functionality, ceaslessly dumping stuff over the airnet (unencrypted? what?) I imagine _someone_ would have noticed.
Okay, so RT.com somewhat earlier featured heavy-to-digest fare about how comet Elenin is "behaving oddly" and clearly some sort INTERPLANETARY CRAFT intent on RENDEZVOUS (possibly with the ultimate goal of CAUSING DISASTER). I'm not saying RT.com is shite, actually it often is saying things that are political 3rd rails to "western media pundits" but like El Reg, they may let the loon out. HAARP? HAR HAR!
Apart from that, this looks just like the Beagle fuckup. I suggest looking into correct project, configuration and build management (also financing, hiring practices, and correct application of the better-faster-cheaper-choose-at-most-two mantra).
This will probably lead to greater success than threatening unnamed individuals with a visit by SMERSH. No need to keep up the hardcore.
"Piecing together the tales which Norrys collected for me, and supplementing them with the accounts of several savants who had studied the ruins, I deduced that Exham Priory stood on the site of a prehistoric temple; a Druidical or ante-Druidical thing which must have been contemporary with Stonehenge. That indescribable rites had been celebrated there, few doubted; and there were unpleasant tales of the transference of these rites into the Cybele worship which the Romans had introduced. Inscriptions still visible in the sub-cellar bore such unmistakable letters as “DIV . . . OPS . . . MAGNA. MAT . . . “ sign of the Magna Mater whose dark worship was once vainly forbidden to Roman citizens. Anchester had been the camp of the third Augustan legion, as many remains attest, and it was said that the temple of Cybele was splendid and thronged with worshippers who performed nameless ceremonies at the bidding of a Phrygian priest."
"The patents are beginning to make the market less competitive"
I think you want to say :
"The patents are making the market less competitive and that's what they are all about."
Guilds, trade unions, "free trade zones", collective bargaining, minimum wage laws, "antitrust" and "intellectual property" - it's all about keeping the people out who can't write the law for the benefit of those who can.
Comrades! The new plan is:
Январь: Plan nuclear rocket
Февраль: Build nuclear rocket
Март: Test nuclear rocket
Апрель: Launch nuclear rocket
Май: Coast to Mars
Июнь: Mars arrival!!
Июль: Let robot have beer at lonely Phobos Inn while waiting for American Pigdogs to arrrive.
Август: Curiosity finally trundles in. NASDAROVYE!
"The simple laws of economics – supply and demand – dictate that prices will rise in times of scarcity but clearly some resellers need to convince customers that movements are legit."
In other words, if prices rise too much, then customers won't buy. So much, so expected.
"Others will profiteer and sadly tarnish the channel."
Wrong! That's politican's muddy thinking. You got feet, so you can vote. You see the prices and you make your choices. Or keep running those 7'200 RPM 200GB ATAs for while longer.
"I have to have my model of the Sulaco next to my monitor. I find it so inspirational. It just looks like a weapon. Beautiful on-screen."
IIRC, it was made from a pulse rifle prop that was lying around...
How about the ships in "Legends Of Galactic Heroes", then? They are of the same class.
Personal preference is Captain Harlock's Arcadia. Who wouldn't want to captain an immense spacegoing WWII dreadnought with the stern sculpted as if came from an 18th century man-of-war? Manned by a dedicated crew of society's rejects surviving on sake and rice. And you get to fly a pirate flag. And you get to piss on venal politicians from on high!
In this new home you can slowly sip expensive wine liberated from space freighters while you admire the Milky Way through panorama viewbays and reflect on your permanent fight for the right to lead a life of Libertarian Freedom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aap2vwuFJs8
"The long pointy wedge of Alastair Reynold's Lighthuggers"
While this may be pretty coolish, I imagine a hydrogen atoms coming at you at 0.99999 c is not going to be seriously hindered by the wedge while it deposits its energy into the machinery and soft tissue.
Better use a Bussard Ramjet with FRACKING HUGE MAGNETIC FIELDS GENERATED USING MONOPOLES or better yet a kilometer or so of asteroid between you and any onrushing crap. Like in "Pushing Ice".
No Nuclear BBQ icon? Tsar Bomba, then.
Some dude's citation:
"The UK is teetering on the edge of a double dip and I think we will fall into a second recession."
A double dip, with onions and everything? How about fries with that?
There is no "second recession". It's the same recession as previously, which was papered-over for a time limited by frantic money creation, "stimulus" packages and quite probably "enhanced" GDP stats. Also, excuses were given like the royal wedding causing slowdown (but note that the Lybian War apparently was a-ok)
The illusion is made perfect through shitty commentary by people who have never in their whole life thought about cause-consequence effects like Keynesians and that NYT blogger Krugman.
Once the US gets around to masturbating about Space Hitler instead of about <random country of interest du jour> Hitler, they will loosen some freshly printed money for Star Conquest Operations again.
Forever War in Space, here we come! SIEG!
I don't know whether barking "obey now or I will stop buying your stuff" at one of your biggest creditors is a very credible threat.
The more so as the US gvnmt relies heavily on China buying US gvnmt bonds in exchange for their dollars. Once back in the US, these can then be non-productively used to finance wars etc. Even Goldman-Sachs would hard-pressed to shift all these obligations.
Same here.
That's because you must thing in US-centric terms.
When Hillary says that China must "play by the rules". What rules are that? Why, let the Whitey Cowboy do as he well pleases.
The US is the only one running around like a rabid dog declaring "space supremacy" (note: "supremacy", not "capability") a must have. And it has no money.
The idea that "if neutrinos go so fast, they should radiate and slow down" was also venerable o-sensei Weinberg's first reaction, IIRC.
Now, to a layperson (like me for example), it might well make sense to say that "but you can't know that they would that". On the other hand, these people have a grasp of the mathematical constraints underlying the theory, which do not allow lego-like mix-and-match. I assume that allowing fast neutrinos to not radiate would be quite bad overall and be akin to allowing unicorns to pop up in a LHC vacuum pipe.
This story will be made into a movie with Johnny Depp and uh... James Callis. Yeah. You heard it here first.
Not really.
Virtual particles are just that - virtual - so you can't observe them, even on the mass detector though they do transmit forces like the electrostatic force. (Well, theoretically the VPs should generate a massive "vacuum energy" of zillion Joule per cubic centimeter but this is clearly not observed).
To observe them, you have to kick them loose. This is not unlike using a hammer to break a fat piece of concrete out of a smooth wall. The wall is just the whole set of possible concrete pieces, but you dont' get see the pieces. To see a piece you have to impart serious energy. Indeed, this is what happens in colliders when high-energy photons suddenly transform into particle-antiparticle pairs.
Seems to be the same here. The mirror imparts energy, particles are coming out, the mirror's kinetic energy goes down, it balances out.
Unfortunately, the "governments that seriously need to address this" are exactly the governments that deliver or incessantly push copyright legislation of the worst sort because they do what the lobbyists tell them to. You need to get into serious headbashing for believable change first.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111006/12220616236/lawrence-golan-speaks-about-golan-v-holder-his-fight-to-protect-public-domain.shtml :
"And then in the case of the three famous ones -- Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Stravinsky -- you know they have many heirs probably for each one. If the New York Philharmonic plays a Shostakovich symphony, let’s just estimate that all the heirs will get a 10 percent cut, and then that’s split among them. We’re talking about royalty checks of pennies, depending on how many times it’s split. Even if it’s only one person, oh it’s $20.00 – ah great! I got a royalty check. We’re talking about classical music here. We’re not talking about the Beatles or Michael Jackson. Nobody is going to make a living off royalties from a couple pieces they’re going to play."
"Well I'm 100% certain that none of those savings was ever passed onto the customer."
What does that mean and what has that to do with anything?
Maybe the savings were used to buy a few new pumps.
Maybe the savings were used to hire guards and build a fence for security.
Maybe the savings were hoovered up through higher wages paid to attract quality employees.
Maybe the savings were hoovered up through union-imposed higher wages so that union bosses can stay in their warm bureaus for another term.
Maybe the savings were hoovered up through government-caused inflation, taxation, VAT and social security schemes.
Maybe the savings were hoovered up through government imposed arbitrary "regulation" made by bureaucrats who barely made their sociology degree at uni.
Maybe the savings were used to build the CEOs McMansion and pool, i.e. "consumption".
Maybe the savings were used to get a new contract through dining, wining and brownveloping of political decision makers, i.e. corruption.
Maybe. Who knows.
Clearly you want "more regulation" and "lower prices" and probably also "a pay rise" as well as "quality products" and possibly "jobs".
You can't have it.
It has been found that significant portions of a written work are encoded in the outgoing photon bubble modulated by reflection off printed paper pages, which clearly and undeniably constitutes illegal broadcasting of copyrighted work without license. It is now unlawful to open a book outside of a fully closed room. Special "reading burkhas" are being offered by content owners for a modest fee. In case books are opened under a clear sky, damages due are quadrupled.
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