Comment Re:Nice headline (Score 1) 272
I keep the bodies for the Nativity display at Christmas.
I keep the bodies for the Nativity display at Christmas.
That's because MS Word and L/OO Writer are not word processors anymore. They're WYSIWYG document creation tools, i.e. they attempt to combine text input, text management, and document layout into one tool.
Besides which, word processors aren't feature complete yet. Even advanced text-only word processors like Textpad and Notepad++ are constantly adding new features, and has a leg up on Word/Writer on things like search and cursor movement.
And with persistent connectivity, there's a whole new layer of features for everyone to add.
Can you please stop starting comments in the subject line?
Anyway, how do you know that it wasn't a drone? A $250 plane, $50 battery and about $400 worth of assorted electronics including a Pixhawk autopilot module, a lidar, and an airspeed detector will get you 30+ minutes of flight time out of a fixed wing aircraft which can definitely carry and subsequently drop a cargo weighing a pound — and handle its own takeoff and landing. Is that enough like a drone for you? Remote telemetry costs more.
Not having fucking jetliners filled with fuel hitting them, I'll warrant.
So how many layers of chicken wire do you have to hang to completely block cellphones? Is it just one? That stuff is cheap enough to where it's fairly feasible to actually do that.
Take away their cars and guns and force them to be civil servants they took an oath to be. So few cops get killed in the line of duty each year there is NO reason for them to be armed at all times.
I don't think the problem is the guns, I think the problem is the mentality, and hiring people with that mentality on purpose. And that mentality is that "civilians" (like the cops are, though they think otherwise) are a lower form of life.
Well, unless we discover another fundamental force of the universe that can support the mass of a person against the gravity of a planet, yet somehow hasn't been yet observed, hoverboards as depicted will never happen.
I presume you would need orders of magnitude more energy than is really feasible to ride on a magnetically bottled cushion of plasma. But it would still be a cool inspiration for special effects.
Citation required. "Often" is a bit of hyperbole. Maybe a lot of hyperbole. Manufacturers of pills have quality control systems that verify the output of their pill mills, and if they aren't right the entire batch is dumped.
Or maybe it's not a lot of hyperbole. Maybe drug companies don't actually take as much care as you think they do. Maybe you're just making unfounded assumptions because they make you feel better.
The truth is that there isn't a recall every time a defective drug is found; and there is no reason to believe that every defect is detected. The drug manufacturers do not take the care that you think they do; at best, some of them do.
then you'd have just as much assurance as you do now that the pills are what they say they are.
If I have a question about what a pill is, right now I can go to the PDR or any number of other references, or go online to find a picture of what it looks like.
And you're taking it on faith that the pill was made correctly, when it often wasn't. So what's going to change?
>rubber band
See Beelzebub's post below yours.
This is exactly the kind of thing the OP was talking about.
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BMO
In mid-air, no less! One of the flight crew puts on his super suction shoes, depressurizes the cabin and walks out and gets the krazy glue and sticks a new one on.
I mean, I can't tell you the number of times I've had flaperons fall in my back yard, along with flight crew whose super suction shoes failed.
Are there any factories along the Indian Ocean fabricating these parts for Boeing?
This may qualify as the single most retarded post in the history of the Internet. Congrats.
You do understand that ocean currents are not straight lines, right? For chrissake it's taken years for the Tohoku tsunami's wreckage to make it the Pacific Northwest.
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If you troll the sale section on hobbyking, and source parts like the control system on eBay, you really can build a small drone for under two hundred bucks. That's including the battery, the radio, and the charger. If you restrict yourself to a certain class of drone you can even use recycled Li-Ion batteries from old laptop packs, and knock another twenty bucks or so off of that. And we're talking GPS waypoints here, not just a toy. And well into the double-digit minutes of flight time. That's sufficiently close to "anyone"
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.