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| 2008/8/6-10 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:50790 Activity:nil |
8/5 Hey blojo got a game up on xbox live:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/b/braidxboxlivearcade/default.htm
Guess he finally finished something!!!
\_ Braid looks beautiful. I hope they port it to other platforms.
\_ It totally sucks that, while the game costs 15 dollars, you can
have to spend 25 dollars to buy enough points to buy the damn
game. Microsoft is a bunch of fuckers.
\_ What are you talking about? I bought a $20 card the other day...
\_ The only way you can buy points online at least are in
bunches of $12.50. |
| 2008/8/6-10 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:50791 Activity:low |
8/6 Maybe Obama is just too weird
http://tinyurl.com/59325e
\_ What, you aren't going with the tire guage attack?
Maybe you can go the "celeb" route and attack him for being too
damn charismatic. I mean shit, that's always a good reason to
hate some.
\_ Oh man, I so want one of those tire gauges. Pure comedy. -!pp
\_ Wow, I didn't even know about the tire gauge attacks. The
Republicans are attacking Obama now because he told them
the truth about something? The GOP is more out of touch and
delusional than I had even imagined. And I imagined that they
were pretty out of touch.
"It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant," Obama said.
\_ The truth? Obama's "inflate your tires == drilling" moment is
the truth? Sorry, not so.
\_ Ahh, there we go. I've been waiting for you to start
spewing this kind of crap. Are you going to start
ranting about how obama thought he claimed tire guages
next?
\_ "Making sure your tires are properly inflated, simple
thing, but we could save all the oil that they're
talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was
just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups.
You could actually save just as much." -- Obama
\_ And? Someone asked "How can I help?" and Obama
told him. How DARE he! Let's go give McCain a huge
campagin donation so he will change his votes on
offshore drilling! (Oh wait, too late)
\_ Obama made a specific claim: that proper
inflation on your tires, regular oil changes, and
tune ups would save *AS MUCH OIL* as we'd get from
increased drilling. This is patently false, and
simply laughable. It also doesn't take into
account how to *grow* our economy.
\_ You are as ignorant as Limbaugh.
\_ Ad hominem! Excellent sir!
\_ "Simply laughable."
\_ Why is it simply laughable?
\_ Do you believe that we cannot grow our economy
without increasing oil consumption?
\_ Is Obama correct? Inflating your tires would
save more oil than we would get by drilling
offshore. You do know that Obama is correct about
this, right?
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6oy9uk
\_ Nope: http://preview.tinyurl.com/5fqnrq
\_ In other words, Obama was right. Powerline adds
in 1T barrels from Oil Shale, which is clearly
not gotten by drilling.
\_ Um, no. The barrels/day extracted number is
based on the *profitable* extraction, where
oil was at $60/barrel in 2008 -- which it
isn't.
\_ Dude, you are amazing. I want to have
sex with you RIGHT NOW.
\_ So you honestly believe that some
partisan blogger is more accurate in his
prediction of how much energy is
profitably extractable from the OCS than
the experts? Simply laughable.
\_ Appeal to authority! Excellent if you
don't care about the truth of an
argument.
\_ Too bad Obama listens to guys
like petroleum engineers and guys
who are petroleum engineers and guys
with PhDs in economics. He could be
like the GOP and get all his
policy ideas from blowhard internet
bloggers who have so far never
been right about anything. But then
he would be a Republican, not a
Democrat. "It's like these guys
take pride in being ignorant."
been right about anything. "It's
like these guys take pride in
being ignorant."
\_ The quote I saw had Obama
doing his own poorly thought
out back of the evelope
calculation. -!pp
\_ If true, he deserves to be
made fun of then.
\_ http://preview.tinyurl.com/62asue
Scroll down to the 1T line. Read the
comments section to see where he gets
eviscerated for including oil shale,
I don't have time to repeat it.
Scroll down to the 1T line.
\_ Not only is there the magic 1T
barrels, the dude also ignored
the bit about tuneups. Nor is that
Obama's energy plan. It is his
answer to "how can I help." Energy
plans good. Personal conservation,
especailly "free" conservation good.
Combined even better. Why does that
make you so sad? Is it too communist
for you or something?
\_ Uh, modern cars don't have tuneups.
\_ Uh, yes they do. But instead of
not working without them they
tend just to work less
efficiently. Still, moving parts
go out of tolerances after 1000's
of miles, modern or not. |
| 2008/8/6-10 [Transportation/Car] UID:50792 Activity:nil |
8/6 "Here's your mask to wear. But don't wear it!"
link:www.yahoo.com/s/930035
\_ Heh, I get a chuckle out of China being os testy about this stuff.
Also, how does 2008 Beijing compare to 1984 LA? LA was pretty nasty
back in the 70's, wasn't it?
\_ la = cars
beijing = cars + factories
\_ 84 was in the 70s?
\_ Har, har.
\_ Hey, I'm not the guy who wrote "the 70's" right after
refering to 1984.
\_ 1984 LA was awesome. The traffic was great, the weather was
great, the smog was a non-factor, and events conspired to make it
one of the most successful Olympics ever. |
| 2008/8/6-10 [Transportation/Airplane] UID:50793 Activity:nil |
8/6 Q: How to defeat a B-2 Stealth Bomber?
A: Use a water spray bottle.
http://www.csua.org/u/m0x (telstarlogistics.typepad.com)
\_ Whoops!
\_ These kinds of mistakes happen more than you might think. I read
the black box account of a plane that had tape over the airspeed
intakes (to protect them while washing). The airplane was lost in
the ocean when it stalled.
\_ If an airspeed intake can crash the plane that's a faulty design.
\_ pitot (French) tube blockage (bug) is one of the most
common reasons why they crash, esp in IFR conditions.
Auto pilot depends on it too.
http://selair.selkirk.bc.ca/aerodynamics1/Basics/Page6.html
By the way I'm a private pilot, ask me any question.
\_ any good air speed measurement technologies that don't
depend on pitot tubes?
\_ Yes there are plenty, the issue is not alternative
technology but rather COST. For general aviation,
pitot tube is a proven, CHEAP, and usually reliable
instrument. As a pilot, most of your training is
failure recovery and safety. For instrumentation errors
you need to first 1) recognize instrumentation failure
and 2) how to compensate for what you think failed.
Your basic GA panel consists of the "Big 6", which
are: (top)ASI, AI, ALT, (bottom)TC, HI, VSI. Of these,
ASI, ALT, and VSI are independently working pressure
static oriented, and AI, TC, and HI are gyro operated.
It takes a lot of time to explain this but if you're
missing one instrument, you can infer its status by
reading and correctly interpreting the other 5. I'm
also missing one more instrument: Tachometer. If you
know your exact attitude (HI or visual) and the
tachometer, then you can infer AS pretty well. Keep
in mind that ASI, ALT, and VSI operate INDEPENDENTLY
regardless of battery or engine failure so you already
have lots of redundancy behind a well trained pilot.
In addition, most AI, HI, and TC, are vacuum driven
from the pump (and some even have electrical motor
backup) so as long as your engine is running it
doesn't matter if your electronics fry.
For big planes they use a combination of redundant
pitot tube+anti-defrost+(GPS+weather estimate) and
other fancy stuff. I don't know the exact details
because I don't have Type Ratings yet.
If you're curious:
http://www.flightsimbooks.com/foi/chapter1.php
http://www.aopa.org/learntofly/startfly/panel.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_instruments
\_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroPeru_Flight_603
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301
second one is another blocked pitot crash. But yes, it's sort
of a design flaw and it sounds like they have better
recommendations now
\_ To be fair, the problem was the ground crews messing with the
gauges, which would have been fine otherwise.
\_ I read an article previously that claimed that this had happened
before, but the ground crew had dried out the sensors, rather
than adujsting them, so no failure.
\_ How does the B-2 fly in rain, or very humid weather where
condensation can form?
condensation can form? -- OP |
| 2008/8/6-10 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:50794 Activity:nil |
8/6 funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBbm8sV6IKk \_ no. |
| 2008/8/6-10 [Transportation/Bicycle] UID:50795 Activity:nil |
8/6 Here's an interesting little write up on bicycle efficiency and power
http://users.frii.com/katana/biketext.html
\_ Bicycle physics (mostly steering mechanisms):
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~fajans/Teaching/bicycles.html -tom |
| 2008/8/6-10 [Recreation/Humor] UID:50796 Activity:nil |
8/6 I know you're all reading it anyway, but todays xkcd was funny
http://www.xkcd.com/459
\_ are you also the one who thought the above youtube was funny? |
| 2008/8/6-10 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50797 Activity:nil |
8/5 here's an article on how the FBI's case against the dead
bioweapons scientist is a bunch of crap
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/05/anthrax/index.html
I did think the weird 'he mailed the stuff from a mailbox
near a sorority' stuff was weird sounding.
\_ The government pulls this kind of crap all the time, but usually
they just lie abaout some evidence they planted on some poor
ass drug dealer, so no one cares.
\_ We know this much: It was one of 12 scientists in that lab.
Why not this one? He seems as wacky as any. On top of it, he
killed himself. I refuse to believe that it was just because of
the pressure he was under. He did it when the government was
finally ready to move on him. Or maybe he was really murdered
by the Mossad. Also, the article seems to give Ivins a lot of
leeway, insinuating that because he had a legitimate use for a
lyophilizer he clearly didn't have a nefarious use for it.
Isn't that what a smart guy would do? Claim to need it for his
work (which he did) to throw off suspicion?
work (which he did) to throw off suspicion? Means, motive,
opportunity. More info released today, btw.
\_ I remember when suggestions were made back in 2001 that the
the quality of the Anthrax powder was so good that only the
US government or perhaps the Russian government could be
the source, the people saying this were widely dismissed as
conspiracy theorists. Well, surprise, surprise, surprise, it
was a US government scientist all along.
\_ Conspiracy theorists are like a broken clock. If you claim
everything is a conspiracy eventually you'll be right. |
| 2008/8/6-10 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:50798 Activity:nil |
8/6 Wow, welcome to the new McCarthy Era
"But you'd think an arch conservative working in an overwhelmingly
liberal town would think about restraining himself for expediency's
sake, if nothing else."
http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/07/scratch_him.php
\_ Yes, it's exactly like the McCarthy Era. (How did you get into
Berkeley again?)
\_ By banging yer mom.
\_ Do you think he will end up blackballed? If he is, you can
complain about McCarthyism.
\_ The senate is holding hearings about this? Really? And
to think that just a week or two ago I was reading about
how a recent administration was using string loyalty tests
how a recent administration was using strong loyalty tests
for non partisan justice department jobs. |
| 2008/8/6-10 [Uncategorized] UID:50799 Activity:nil |
8/6 Ding Dong, Medellin is dead.
\_ Serves him right for setting up that vicious cocaine cartel. |
| 2008/8/6-10 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/Korea, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:50800 Activity:nil |
8/6 Pro-US rallies greet Bush in Seoul.
http://csua.org/u/m12 (Blog w/ pics & vid and link to Rueters)
Actually, when I was a missionary in SK, Bush made a visit
(Feb 2002). An odd fellow in the neighborhood brought us a cake
to give to Bush. I guess because we were the closest Americans he
knew. It said (in Korean) "Welcome Bush". Anyway, we told him we
couldn't give it to Bush, so he told us to eat it. We did. -jrleek
\_ Good to hear that Bush has done a good job of improving our
image overseas.
\_ You ate it? Wow, you are VERY brave. I would have assumed
it was poisoned.
\_ A) This was 2002. B) We knew the guy, he was harmless, just a bit
kooky. -jrleek
\_ We forced them to import our beef again, and they still like us?
It's not clear from the article what Bush did recently that more
than offset the negative feeling from the beef issue.
\_ My understanding is that the protests were less about beef,
and more about the current SK prez, Lee Myung Bak. The beef was
just sort of a handy flashpoint. -jrleek
Addendum: It was good flashpoint largely because Lee Myung Bak
was being so high-handed about it and had terrible PR.
\_ Can someone explain why beef import is such a touchy issue in Korea?
-clueless
\_ Again, my impression is that it wasn't that the beef was such a
huge deal, it's that Lee Myung Pak is pissing everyone off. He
seems to think he's Park Chung-hee (The 1st military dictator.)
My understanding is that it went something like this:
Lee: We're importing beef again.
A few protestors: Hey!
Lee: Stupid poor people, always protesting.
Everyone else: WTF? Rawr!
\_ I talked to my wife about this after I got home. I had forgotten
but Lee Myung Bak is/was a member of a VERY large church in Seoul.
My wife guessed that a large chunk of the pro-US group was from that
church and 'allied' churches. -jrleek |
| 2008/8/6-10 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:50801 Activity:nil |
8/6 What kind of captcha would you love to see? List them here:
-Hot or not? TOTALLY
-Male or Female?
-Gay or not?
-Geek or not?
-enormous breasts or regular size breasts?
\_ Chinese, Japanese or Korean?
\_ That would also serve as a test to weed out whites.
\_ Oh come one. It's been demonstrated that Asians can't
tell each other apart either.
\_ What's "captcha"? Thx.
\_ STFW. Or just read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
\_ I see. But then what does hot or female or gay above have
to do with Captcha?
\_ Hard to program something to automate that check. It used
to be impossible to write a program to recognize the
distorted letters and numbers used in older Captcha's, but
technology has caught up.
\_ http://www.badhackerz.com/full-appz/11087-rapidshare-turbo-download-reads-new-cat-captchas.html |
| 2008/8/6-10 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:50802 Activity:nil |
8/6 "Fakeproof" e-passport is cloned in minutes
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4467106.ece
http://tinyurl.com/62awe6 |
| 2008/8/6-10 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:50803 Activity:nil 75%like:50805 |
8/6 Happiness is a clean gun. Was cleaning my gun last night, and my kids
wanted to watch. So we talked about gun safety, etc. (gun is
disassembled for cleaning). The discussion turned to linear and
rotational momentum, chemical vs. nuclear explosions, energy stored in
a spring, etc. Lotta fun.
\_ they won't learn respect until the fire the thing
\_ They'll have to wait until they're a little older. -op
\_ And this is the basis for responsible ownership that will
make the difference between responsible citizenship and
tragic accidental statistic later in their lives.
\_ ^gun^RPG^penis
\_ You get chemical explosions from your penis?!?
\_ ob too much rotational motion
\_ I have nuclear fusion going on in my balls.
\_ Don't you mean nuclear fission? Nuclear fusion
normally happens in the fallopian tubes, IIRC. |
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