Comment Re:Boorish (Score 1) 662
Ken Block's Focus is so modified you could put any body shell over the frame. It's rated for like 600hp. Like comparing your Monty Carlo to a NASCAR.
Ken Block's Focus is so modified you could put any body shell over the frame. It's rated for like 600hp. Like comparing your Monty Carlo to a NASCAR.
What models of American cars are exported? Ford/Chevy have separate divisions and make completely different models for Europe. I'd buy a European made Ford long before an American.
Sounds like the fault of pam for being crippled by a linefeed.
My one rule of robotics (and pointed sticks, cars, crackpipes and umbrellas) is this: my stuff ought to perform in accordance with my wishes.
There might be additional laws ("weld here and here, but nowhere else," or "use the rules in
There are various corollaries that you can infer from the main law, but since they can be derived, they don't need to be laws themselves. (e.g. if my interests conflict with someone else's, then my robot and my umbrella ought to serve my interests at the expense of the other person's interests.)
With regard to harming other robots, that also can be derived. If I desire to kill a knight on a robot horse, then my robot ought to turn them into a pile of bloody gore and shredded circuitboards immediately. OTOH, if I don't desire to kill a robot, then my robot should not do things that incur unnecessary liabilities.
Are you kidding? No self respecting neckbeard would be caught dead using Nano. It's too simple and straightforward for them. Their editor needs to have an interactive and non interactive mode and no use of the delete or backspace key. I mean keyboards have had that function for like a half century now...
I eat with my hands, you insensitive clod!
With regards to the Wikipedia article claiming a historical 0.0-0.2mm range over the last 2000 years that probably needs to be updated with more recent research.
Thewell-preserved biological remains on the sh tank wall allow us to estimate anRSL rise of 40 ±10 cm at Frejus since Roman times
400 / 2000 = 0.2mm average per year over the last 2000 years. (And as documented in this paper there are other papers that claim higher numbers)
http://www.academia.edu/344003...éjus_France
(Slashdot seems to make a mess out of the hyphen in the link - the paper can be found as doi 10.1002/gea.21444 )
It's trivial to secretly record someone using a mobile phone - I can hold it in my hand, down by my waist, at an angle.
It's extremely difficult recording someone secretly using a head mount camera. I must look directly at them the whole time.
Sometimes, it's tough for parents to realize that yes, their kid is a fucking asshole.
The warming data clearly indicates that rate of temperature of last 50 years is far higher than any other period in history
Why do you believe that? It's not even true for the last 150 years - even less so if we include the rest of the Holocene.
Q: Do you agree that according to the global temperature record used by the IPCC, the rates of global warming from 1860-1880, 1910-1940 and 1975-1998 were identical?
A: So, in answer to the question, the warming rates for all 4 periods are similar and not statistically significantly different from each other.
- Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/851...
Until a few decades ago it was generally thought that all large-scale global and regional climate changes occurred gradually over a timescale of many centuries or millennia, scarcely perceptible during a human lifetime. The tendency of climate to change relatively suddenly has been one of the most suprising outcomes of the study of earth history, specifically the last 150,000 years (e.g., Taylor et al., 1993). Some and possibly most large climate changes (involving, for example, a regional change in mean annual temperature of several degrees celsius) occurred at most on a timescale of a few centuries, sometimes decades, and perhaps even just a few years. The decadal-timescale transitions would presumably have been quite noticeable to humans living at such times, and may have created difficulties or opportunities (e.g., the possibility of crossing exposed land bridges, before sea level could rise)
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projec...
(This post does not question AGW. It does question strange statements regarding our current climate that have no scientific basis)
This is nowhere near the worst drought in California's recorded history.
Through studies of tree rings, sediment and other natural evidence, researchers have documented multiple droughts in California that lasted 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years -- compared to the mere three-year duration of the current dry spell. The two most severe megadroughts make the Dust Bowl of the 1930s look tame: a 240-year-long drought that started in 850 and, 50 years after the conclusion of that one, another that stretched at least 180 years.
Unless, of course, those proxies are unreliable.
Onion routing for the Postal Service! Now throw me a couple billion dollars so I can spend it all on hookers and blow.
Look at how you build a computer for casual home use, where downtime means that no astronauts will die, nor will you lose a million dollars per day in sales, but there will be some inconvience and maybe an angry wife. One of these components is so expected to fail, that your initial build will have redundancy for that component. You start out thinking not "that would suck if this failed, because it's critical and will be expensive to replace," but rather "when one of these goes, we'll be fine until the replacement arrives."
Replacing the other things is an exception and it will usually have an interesting story behind it. Replacing a disk, though, is just routine maintenance.
A boy once asked a successful businessman what makes a man successful?
"Good decisions, my boy, good decisions!"
The boy thought for a moment and then asked how does a man learn how to make good decision?
"Bad decisions, my boy, bad decision."
I've found in life life I learn more from my mistakes than my successes. Similar to how poker players can rarely tell you about all the pots they've won, it's the big ones they lost that stand out in their minds.
Feel free to change gender of the examples. It doesn't change the message.
Variables don't; constants aren't.