Comment Re:Miles (Score 3, Funny) 63
Is anyone else embarrassed that NASA uses miles as its primary unit of measure?
Indeed, I was expecting distances expressed in furlongs.
Is anyone else embarrassed that NASA uses miles as its primary unit of measure?
Indeed, I was expecting distances expressed in furlongs.
Because you're too proud of your ignorance to google that
Actually I didn't google something I didn't know I should google to get the answer of a question I ignored it had to be asked.
New Horizons can transmit at most 1 kilobit per second. 1 kilobit is only 125 bytes.
And you can be proud. That's actually two transmitters at 1kb/s. And that's not really 1kb/8 usable bytes, ie 125, as you seem to ignore about control bits and other layer 2 necessary bits...
He has an incredibly calm demeanor across the board. He is unflappable, regardless of tile draws or opponent's plays. The ability to focus on the next play and the strategic situation, without distraction, is critical to winning in a long tournament.
...until the technical trick is identified.
Yeah, we've got a programmer in our group that we played with one night. After his second questionable 2 letter word
The way you tell this it seems a programmer has to behave like a program
the intended audience couldn't possibly be actual humans
Yet another proof of extra terrestrial life
Remember folks. When you lie, cheat, and steal for 1.2 billion dollars, we will talk about all the pressures you are under and force you to resign in disgrace. If you rob $100 from the cash register at quickie-mart when the cashier isn't looking, we'll talk about how you're the scourge of society and put you away for 20 years.
And? Adults repeat the same pattern over and over, the same pattern they learned during schooling. At school you're judged based on your scores. With good scores, a youthful indiscretion is worth a mere reprimand. Similarly, during adulthood in the (American) society, you're judged based on the $$ you earn. A CEO is (usually) at the top of the scale, and as long as his bad behavior doesn't exceed the company's boundaries, he is forgiven.
In a way, the CEO acts on behalf of the rest of the company. His actions (in this case) were not to enrich himself. He was acting trying to help the company, globally.
The punishment will come from markets, affecting the whole company.
This is CEOs. Normal people go to jail for embezzling, CEOs resign with a golden parachute.
I just wish they'd have to jump out of a plane with it...
This is Japan. To resign, CEOs have to say "gomennasai" (sorry) first. Then they are entitled to get a golden parachute.
You could order a taxi online before Uber.
Didn't know that . I live in the Amazon jungle.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
