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@bb36e If this does indeed turn out to not be a measuring error (which is always a possibility given the miniscule forces on display here) then this is seriously cool :)
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@Rhywden I believe someone with a lot of money stated that his company (which is working on a similar engine based off of this one) is preparing to launch their own satellite to test the feasibility of the engine.
Now if only it was easier to get stuff into space in the first place...
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@bb36e Still waiting for my Space Elevator.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Still waiting for my Space Elevator.
Those fuckers take eons to get down. Is this button even working? I've pressed it a million times!
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Still waiting for my Space Elevator.
Those fuckers take eons to get down. Is this button even working? I've pressed it a million times!
Space Elevator is out of order. Please use stairs.
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At one point, McGhee stripped off all her clothes, but pulled her pants back up and walked around the ferry topless until crew members could restrain her and drape her sweatshirt around her, according to the complaint.
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"The [store] area affected has been thoroughly cleaned and we are trading normally again."
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Man chops off big toe with bolt cutters and 'EATS it' in Wilko
Way to make look like a lightweight.
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@bb36e said in In other news today...:
FTA:
Pilot-wave theory is a slightly controversial interpretation of quantum mechanics.
It's pretty complicated stuff, but basically the currently accepted Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics states that particles do not have defined locations until they are observed.
Pilot-wave theory, on the other hand, suggests that particles do have precise positions at all times, but in order for this to be the case, the world must also be strange in other ways – which is why many physicists have dismissed the idea.
Oh yeah, I remember reading about (or watching about) that before (but not connected to the EM drive, and I don't remember if that name ("Pilot-wave theory") was involved). Lots of really interesting videos exist on a particular macro-level model of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9yWv5dqSKk
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@bb36e said in In other news today...:
It's official: Lorne's UM Drive paper has finally been published!
The drive is hooked up to the Internet, as is powered by people posting "um, actually" like smug little shits.
A prototype ship has already been to Alpha Centauri and back.
A second voyage is planned on the "um, actuallys" that will be posted with facts about Alpha Centauri.
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@tufty From where I sit, that's just immensely funny.
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It's hilarious, isn't it? I used to work for the cunts (about 30 years ago), management couldn't find their arses with both hands and a flashlight back then, glad to see things have "improved".
Are you going to be forcefully relocated as well?
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@tufty said in In other news today...:
Are you going to be forcefully relocated as well?
No, it's all a tempest in a teacup that's 200 miles away from me. I currently try to avoid flying through Heathrow, and that's pretty easy since I can go via Amsterdam to most places; it's nearly as close by air, and nothing like as nasty an airport. (LHR T5 is just a crowded modern airport terminal and would be OK I guess if it wasn't for the people; however, the rest of Heathrow is really unpleasant in my experience.)
Since it is far away with pretty much zero effect on how I travel, my main desire is for the absolute minimum of public money to be spent on this. If BAA wants to expand LHR, let them fund it themselves as a private sector initiative. They can also close the M25 while they're building the runway over it; it seems like the cheapest way to do that, and so eminently sensible.
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The boss of Heathrow’s biggest customer, British Airways, only discovered that building the airport’s planned third runway would require the demolition of his airline’s head office after looking at a map.
Maybe he should have got involved before approval was granted
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@RaceProUK Well, yeah. In any case, I don't see why it's so important. I thought the country was full, why do you want to let more people in?
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@tufty said in In other news today...:
why do you want to let more people in?
To inflate the prices in London still further. Duh!
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@dkf Of course!
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@tufty nah, the third runway is being built so we can export all them 'bloody foreigner immigrants that were stealing our jobs' faster.
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@Arantor
By first making them build the tarmac ... nice thinking, now only to get the Polish to pay for it too.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
By first making them build the tarmac ... nice thinking, now only to get the Polish to pay for it too.
My brain took this as cue to go random: “Mr. Trump, tear up this tarmac!”
Too many different ideas at once in that one I think…
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@tufty said in In other news today...:
management couldn't find their arses with both hands and a flashlight back then
Should have tried fingerprint dust.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
would be OK I guess if it wasn't for the people
I find that's true for most things.
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@tufty That sounds a bit like the story a couple of years ago where the CEO from Exxon (or Chevron?) was incensed at some planned shale gas drilling in (or close to) his country ranch...
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@tufty nah, the third runway is being built so we can export all them 'bloody foreigner immigrants that were stealing our jobs' faster.
Are all those 'bloody foreigner immigrants that were stealing our jobs' being used to build the new runway?
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@CoyneTheDup Yes, though they're proving a bit lumpy.
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@CoyneTheDup Yes, though they're proving a bit lumpy.
That could work in the part of the runway designed for when a plane runs off the end...
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@tufty When I worked at BA I remember someone on the Yammer looking at an artist's impression sort of thing and saying "won't that go through Waterside". I didn't imagine the final design would do so.
As someone who worked up in one of their crummy regional offices and was always treated somewhat as a second class citizen for not being in London, I can't but find it amusing.
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@Jarry 'twas my thought as well.
It's not our fault if you never thought of looking behind the leopard!
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@tufty I was more moved by the woman on Radio 4 that was protesting at 89 years old, after she lived in the same house since I believe the 50s with her now deceased husband.
I can't find the interview. But it was heartbreaking in some ways and in other ways she probably did need to move on a while ago.
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This just in: UK government mistakes Orwell's 1984 for a How-To manual.
The UK government will keep a record of every website every citizen visits for up to a year, with this information also including the apps they use on their phone, and the metadata of their calls. This information is known as internet connection records, or ICRs, and won’t include the exact URL of each site someone visits, but the base domain. For this particular webpage, for example, the government would know you went to www.theverge.com, the time you visited, how long you stayed, your IP address, and some information about your computer — but no individual pages.
Each Internet Service Provider (ISP) and mobile carrier in the UK will have to store this data, which the government will pay them to do.
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The key point about this power, though, is that it has no judicial oversight. Access to citizens’ web history will be solely at the discretion of the police, with a specially trained supervising officer approving or denying requests.
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One of the biggest trouble spots for the bill, though, isn’t so much an explicit power as an assumption by the government — namely, that it can force tech companies to decrypt user data on demand.
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Experts say what is even more dangerous, is the fact that any such battles between tech companies and the UK government will take place in private. Any warrants issued to a company to decrypt users’ data will come with a gagging order, forbidding the firm from discussing it. "There wouldn’t be any public debate about it," Harmit Kambo, campaigns director at Privacy International, tells The Verge. "Apple vs. the FBI just wouldn’t happen in the UK." The first we might know of a battle over encryption could be a company simply withdrawing its services from the UK. "The invisibility of it is the biggest trick they’ve pulled," says Kambo.
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@Rhywden And this is actually Orwellian.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden And this is actually Orwellian.
I think "V for Vendetta" would have fit the bill as well.
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I wonder, what's Canada like nowadays?
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
I wonder, what's Canada like nowadays?
Cold, like usual
On the other hand, we have hockey and Tim Hortons !!!
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Cold
North-west England isn't exactly warm ;)
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
hockey
Ice hockey, I presume. Actually, that reminds me of a game I used to play as a kid: NHL '95 ont he Genesis. That was a fun game
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Tim Hortons
This, I'm afraid I've never heard of. Or if I have, I've never found out what it is.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
Ice hockey, I presume. Actually, that reminds me of a game I used to play as a kid: NHL '95 ont he Genesis. That was a fun game
Of course, almost everything here is on ice
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Tim Hortons
This, I'm afraid I've never heard of. Or if I have, I've never found out what it is.
Coffee and donuts place. But now they sell sandwiches, etc.
Pretty much everything they sell is good.We used to have Dunkin Donuts, but they went bankrupt trying to compete with Tim Hortons
File Under: I drink so much of their coffee, I should probably buy stocks in that company.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Access to citizens’ web history will be solely at the discretion of the police, with a specially trained supervising officer approving
or denyingrequests.Must have been a typo in the article, 'cause he'll be signing like the governor, "Work, work, work..."
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
The UK government will keep a record of every website every citizen visits for up to a year, with this information also including the apps they use on their phone, and the metadata of their calls. This information is known as internet connection records, or ICRs, and won’t include the exact URL of each site someone visits, but the base domain.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
Actually, that reminds me of a game I used to play as a kid: NHL '95 ont he Genesis.
My brother and I played NHL '93. It was the first year they added two new shitty teams, the Ottawa Senators and the Tampa Bay Lightning.
To make up for the fact that these were the two shittiest teams in the game, we'd both pull our goalies right away, and play without them.
We never did get to 100 goals each, but were close.
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The UK government will keep a record of every website every citizen visits for up to a year, with this information also including the apps they use on their phone, and the metadata of their calls. This information is known as internet connection records, or ICRs, and won’t include the exact URL of each site someone visits, but the base domain.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
now only to get the Polish to pay for it too.
This assumes we actually have this amount of money.
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@Maciejasjmj said in In other news today...:
This assumes we actually have this amount of money.
Less talking more fixing plumbing!
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@lucas1 "Old lady kicked out of her home" isn't funny, or even ironic, though, is it?
Unless her son's the head of BAA, and he hadn't realised...
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Cold
North-west England isn't exactly warm ;)
You might want to try Vancouver or some of the other coastal bits of BC. You'll be used to the climate, though it's a bit drier there. Also, the setting of Vancouver with all those mountains across the fjord… just awesome.