They simplified some things and added drama (brief conflict among the crew when there was none). If you compare the mid-course correction while earth-bound in the movie with all the excitement and yelling and frantic stuff with the radio comms you'll be surprised at how calm and concentrated they were. That said it's still the best astronaut movie. Check out the book "Lost Moon" if you want more details on 8 and 13.

I did see Lovell in person years ago at an Apollo history-related event. Very nice guy, big friendly smile, was very fond of everyone he had worked and flew with.

The thing is... there have been plenty of outspoken and highly visible survivors of school shootings for decades. How the hell do we exorcise this gray paste of untruth?

In English, "IA" is usually understood to mean "Internet Archive." Only "AI" means "Artificial Intelligence."

Adults have this nasty habit of voting and it's best not to antagonize them at this moment. It's also why the band is until the 16th year. Had it been until the 18th, those new voters would have made their displeasure felt. Kids usually do not care what they could or could not do 2 years ago. It's absolutely safe for the government.

Well, if each book has its own docker container...

Hmm. Yeah. You're right. Editorializing by Slashdot commenter fuzzyfuzzyfungus, then!

You're not wrong, but first we must all take two minutes out of our days to laugh at the misfortune of political canvassers, whose methods should be illegal.

No primary source suggests that the effect would be partisan—that's editorializing by Daring Fireball writer John Gruber. The GOP letter, which is somewhat internal to the RNC fundraising effort, simply provides an estimate of their own lost revenue.

If you're an unknown sender, you go into the bin. Simple as.

Swiss economy is dying. They had the chance - big chance - to transition to a technological economy 30 years ago. They have two of the best technical schools in the world, ETHZ and EPFL, and they decided to sit on them because banks were going to be there forever. 30 years down the lane banks are going out and there is no plan B. I feel sorry for them, been living among Swiss for about 20 years and they're good people on average, but they inherited too much of old-time risk aversion and you couldn't change their mind if you held a handful of gold ingots in their face. They've been taught to avoid risks, do not make waves, toe the line. Much as the rest of the Europe they shun, really. They're in for two or three generations of hard times, if they can make it through. Doubtful.

For what it's worth, simply painting a normal gun to look like a toy has been attempted before, too. But I agree that conversions like this must be pretty spooky if you're in law enforcement. Still, toy gun form factors needn't be the only gimmick; consider the chaos a briefcase gun could unleash without scrutiny. The sky is the limit for designing concealed weapons if one is sufficiently imaginative and determined.

I think you're already plenty concerning just on your own!

Are you OK? You don't seem OK.

It's time to learn about the REU!

"Penultimate" isn't a synonym for "ultimate"—it means the thing before the ultimate. Likewise we have penumbra for the blurry edge of a shadow (umbra). This results in some truly special words like "antepenult," meaning "the thing before the thing before the final thing," commonly used when discussing where the stress/accent falls in a Greek or Latin word.

"Invaluable" does indeed mean "not able to be valued" when analyzed morphologically, but the standard usage of it is indicating something is beyond value, i.e. infinitely or inestimably valuable. A value of zero is still a value, after all.

"Inflammable" however actually means "able to be inflamed," as in "put in flame" or "set on fire." The confusion comes from assimilation of the Latin preposition "in" (which we have as "in" or "on") instead of the more typical prefix "in-" (which demarcates negation.) You don't have to look very far for other words where "in" doesn't mean "not": indicate, inherit, imply, investigate, indict, involve...

30 years ago them ee-tah-lean judges killed the whole BBS scene in the country with the Italian Crackdown: one of them woke up one morning and decided that all that computer telephone traffic must have been illegal because, well because and the police acted harshly and with typical arrogance and ignorance. In the end not one prosecution was made but the italian BBS scene was utterly devastated and its main actors too shaken and intimidated to carry on. We're talking equipment taken away for months (including mouse mats because ZOMG they must be compyootah thingie things) and sometimes given back in pieces with no refund.

While I missed the company, the food and after-hours, I was glad I left Italy behind. It's an insane place to work. Too bad because it's got potential and lots of diversity, but its political and judicial system should be thrown into the Etna.