Somone quite possibly made a living bitching about the loss of the 3.5" headphone jack, and possibly DB9, parallel, floppy drives, optical drives, firewire, PS2 keyboard and mouse ports, micro USB, VGA, s-video, composite, RJ14, S/PDIF and PCMCIA.
It's always good fodder for an article or a Slashdot story.
Yes, airline pilots associations are well known for not caring much about safety, it's true. Also, have you heard the one about the pizza parlour basement?
Cows... have testicles.
No they don't.
You mean like exactly what happened decades ago since Americans long since stopped wanting to do this low paying work? Oh, it turns out machines don't just magically invent themselves when needed.
Lettuce harvesting machines did in fact get invented when the need and the economic justification arose.
Better? Or are you going to claim that you literally meant "invent themselves" so you're still technically not wrong?
Ah yes, just what the world needs. Another dick measuring who-can-plant-their-flag-first race. Except this time without innovation!
I don't understand why vertical-axis wind turbines are not more common
Because they are on the ground.
they take less horizontal space
That's outright false.
you can potentially stack shorter pieces as high as you want
Can you stack them high enough that they get into where the wind actually is? And if so, why not just put one windmill where the wind is?
(and use guy lines for stability)
So make them use more horizontal space?
I'm no expert so I guess they have good reason for this race to gigantism, but it seems a bit like the dinosaurs...
Obsolete and dead?
VAWTs make sense only on the tops of lonely hills.
Oh no a single symbol before a variable or array which makes it clear what it is and how it's being used, how will you ever read that code? bububububu
He must have had several cars. None with SatNav, though.
I think Moses needed it more.
Either way, as far as Native American references go, I find the use by the Apache Foundation to be relatively benign.
On one hand, sure, it is that. On the other, it's still cultural appropriation, and the fact that it's using "apache" to refer to something which is "patchy" isn't positive either.
A Skycrane, by contrast, has a maximum range of 370 km with no payload. Need to refuel? First you need to hover and detach your payload, then go over somewhere else to refuel, then re-hitch your payload and continue on.
Yes, but the airplane can't take things to their destinations. They have to deliver them to an airport, then the things need to be transported by truck.
Oregon isn't a red state overall. Almost all states, whether red, blue, or purple, allow felons to vote at some point.
The only part of a perl script that necessarily looks like line noise is a perlexp. But regexps look like that no matter what language you use. Just don't write your perl that way and it won't look like that. It takes a lot of lines to do what a complex regexp does without one.
I don't think the airline pilot's union cares much about a few cloud seeding pilot jobs.
They do care a lot about stuff flying around, especially high up though. Airline pilots really dislike uncontrolled air traffic, not without good reason.
The health effects of perfluorooctanoic acid were discovered when herds of cows started getting sick and dying around a DuPont plant that released it into their effluent wanter. They're well studied now. Increased cancer risk is one of the effects, and one of those cancers is testicular.
Democrats sure don't. They want them to vote and everything.
The following red states allow felons to vote after completing their sentences (carceral sentences in some cases, or complete sentences and fines in others):
Alaska, Arkansas, Florida (1), Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa (2), Kansas, Kentucky (3), Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.
That's the overwhelming majority of them. A couple of them have exceptions for certain crimes like rape and murder, but for the rest, if you can finish your sentence, you can probably vote.
(1) Sort of -- the state government has intentionally made a mess of the initiative that passed 65-35.
(2) While the Iowa constitution bars felons from voting unless they have applied to the governor to have voting rights reinstated, Gov. Reynolds (a Republican) has a standing executive order automatically reinstating voting rights of felons upon completing their sentences unless they were convicted of murder.
(3) Similar to (2), except that Gov. Beshear's executive order applies only to those convicted of non-violent offenses.
FORTRAN is the language of Powerful Computers. -- Steven Feiner
