Re: Ticket master
That would be because Ticketmaster bought them up! You only just fed the mouth that bit you.
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Under federal law, private-party sellers are not required to perform background checks on buyers. Private sellers are also not required to record the sale or ask for identification.
Apparently you have to be from the state the gun show is in - but the above seems to suggest that the seller doesnt have to check.
I was surprised last week when I crashed Firefox. Not sure what killed it but I was on a FB group with 2500+ members and was trying to scroll to the bottom so it may be lack of memory (I've only got 16G). Even so it shouldn't crash but that's the first time in as long as I can remember - and given some of the shit I write in JS its bloody extraordinary!
The spinning fluid can be on top of the nearly formed shape and with the right fluid can be far more accurate than any solid mirror. A structure that approximates the parabola when spun seems to me something that can be constructed with relative ease and a thin layer of the fluid floating on top will provide as near perfect a mirror as you can get. As for what you are looking at I'd imagine the secondary mirror shown in the image would be replaced with a movable 'receiver' that can be moved around to provide a few tens of degrees of potential targets. That's a lot of potential targets.
When EE took over Orange they turned my voicemail back on. I got a voicemail message and went straight to turn voicemail back off. Now every time turn my phone on I get a message saying I've got a voicemail and should I be dumb enough to click through it tells me I dont have voicemail services. I occasionally get EE involved and they just tell me to turn voicemail back on and read the message and delete it - this will of course cost me money (PAYG as no signal in house) to get rid of something I never wanted.
Looking forward to this new google free android though - if they get on for my 2014 phone!
I've had the pleasure of opening a box left in the print room to discover its absolutely full of blank cheques AND the knowledge to print them so they could be cashed. Just a moments temptation - nothing to match the finding an XK8 convertible with the engine running far enough away from the bank where the owner was getting some cash from the cash machine to get in and drive away cleanly and without recognition.
I was flown to the US as an 'unaccompanied child' and I was looked after by drop dead gorgeous air hostesses (I was 11 but many parts were doing test runs) and spent 20 minutes in the cockpit of a BOAC VC10 with the pilot and co-pilot and blond bombshell. Fortunately the geek in me was more powerful than the testosterone self test so I didnt get slapped and enjoyed all the technical stuff. I have always wondered if all those switches did in fact work.
Alas no sexual harassment I can retrospectively sue for,
I prefer the Laziness is the Mother of Invention approach. Something pisses you off or makes your life difficult? Fuck it over with a bit of code and or a checklist. My major bugbear in python is the fucking indentation - so a small bit of python or whatever run as a macro to check its a multiple of 4 or tabs or convert one to the other depending on project convention on IDE file save and that's about 5 hrs saved a week on one project I played with that took forever to get to your code and fuckup. Adding preprocessing in make was a a great time save too.
Computers are really good a finding your mistakes - make use of it.
But it is as with all trades, if you program any language for years 24/7 you learn to write defensive code, so it is actually not needed.
And in moving to any new language you take that experience with you. I was just relieving lockdown boredom by (for some reason dont ask me why) looking at Fortran and someone in the comments here mention Fortran book of stupidity and I though perhaps he should read more than one book. Or add the bits that cause him problems.We're using computers FFS, get them to do the work if you cant be arsed.
Only other people using it would need to adopt the services. Its mostly going to be peer to peer and your ISP need do nothing. All you need outside your home/office is DNS or DDNS*. It doesnt replace the current web, but it allows people to sidestep it if they desire, and many do. For social networking which most people want there is no need for some bloke to come and shout over your shoulder in the pub,
*and only if your home hosting - Id imagine many would be happy to have it in the cloud once its been shown to be secure.
I hope I'm reading this right (I've been working on similar for my own amusement and may be overlaying my ideas). Its largely a set of standards. So Australia can demand a backdoor in a product, but as you have a personal server you control you can then add on the encryption to block it. It doesnt even have to be in your country.
As for the "would require massive and widespread adoption" this is a problem even FB started with. All it takes is a product (and that only needs to be surprisingly simple) and the instructions on how to set one up at home (click here and choose which router you have and this is how to configure it...) and there's two or three hundred people in my town of 2000 who would jump at it.
Basements is weird. A mate of mine inherited a 15thC cottage with a massive earth cellar seemingly just dug into the ground. It was dry as a bone even when modern cellars on the same street flooded. One neighbour even offered to pay a small fortune to drill into the earth walls and floor to see what they'd done 600 years ago that worked so well. Didn't occur to him it might spoil the seal.
The sun turns 2*10^11 tons of matter into energy a month. The moon is only 400 million times heavier than that. I dont think it would be much of a shield to that kind of energy in a millisecond or so. Trinity only converter 0.9 of a gram of matter into energy so that would be at leasy 10^13 times the size so I'm sure we'd notice it for a few seconds anyway. We should rename 10^13 the billiard in memory!
If there are a number of areas where it is in both party's interest to prevent immediate disruption it is almost certainly be in one of the 27s interests to veto it. And when I mean in their interests I mean they will benefit more from vetoing it than they would allowing it. As indeed the 18 month reprieve could be vetoed.