Comment riskier to fix on the ground? (Score 1) 56
But in the end, he says, the team thought it was riskier to pry apart the telescope's electronic guts than to deal with the problem after launch.
Can someone explain to me why this was the case?
But in the end, he says, the team thought it was riskier to pry apart the telescope's electronic guts than to deal with the problem after launch.
Can someone explain to me why this was the case?
aren't math people supposed to use pencil?
Amen to this - why are they assuming that we're all going to keep working even though we've got H1N1?
If I stay home sick, I feel like shit and I'm not doing any work. Or has the state of labor affairs gotten so bad that we're still expected to work when we're sick?
it doesn't matter how productive I am, my employer doesn't think I'm working unless he can see me working.
Look, if you read celebrity gossip sites and such, yes, you're going to be able to read the latest vampire romance that you bought at the google ebook store on your iPhone.
But if you're an educated person of culture and refinement, you don't like reading on a computer screen. You enjoy the tactile sensation of turning pages and reading real books. In a pinch, you'll use your Kindle.
Amen. I bought the Storm. What a complete piece of shit. Sluggish OS (in a touch screen OS, absolutely intolerable), graphical glitches abound... it just sucks.
are those wings on the sides for ultra-absorbency during "heavy flow" days?
I think the OP has the same issue I do - when I think of "LP" I think of a vinyl record. Since videos aren't coming out on vinyl, I'm guessing that the meaning of LP has changed.
No, police do NOT deserve our thanks. They are immoral bullies enforcing ridiculous laws, and they usually enforce them with an excess amount of force. Any person with an ounce of integrity would refuse to do the job that police do.
No, I've never been arrested. Actually, I've heard cops say similar things - "oh you must have been on the end of charge"...
I think most people realize that cops are just bullies fulfilling their dream of getting paid to be a bully.
Not only that, but anyone willing to ruin someone's life over a little pot (like these cops) has a serious lack of ethics.
Event Horizon! Can you imagine trying to walk down that hall with the walls spinning around you?
Of course, maybe Event Horizon doesn't actually qualify as science fiction.
the traffic prioritization thing seems ripe for abuse
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