bigbubba

66 ms·

721.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Afaik the men manning that radar station confused the Japanese planes with a formation of B-17s that were scheduled to arrive from approximately that direction, not birds.
722.
by bigbubba 6y ago
By wording their question like that, they may actually be priming pilots to report ambiguous sightings as jetpack sightings.
723.
by bigbubba 6y ago
The original drone was a [full sized, not scale model] RC aircraft.
724.
by bigbubba 6y ago
> technically, a drone has some capability for autonomous flight, at the very least something like the ability to travel from waypoint A to B without human control I dispute that. Radio controlled target drones predate the [semi] auto
725.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Jet: A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc. The 'jet' in 'turbojet' refers to the stream of hot gas coming out of the engine. The 'turbo' in 't
726.
by bigbubba 6y ago
I use mpv. It's primarily meant as a video player but it works well for music too and even as an image viewer (alternative to 'feh') There is a pretty active community of people writing scripts for mpv (Lua or JS) and it&#x
727.
by bigbubba 6y ago
On the plus side, pirating music has never been easier. Just rip the audio tracks from youtube with youtube-dl. Coverage is pretty good and so is the audio quality (I am not an audiophile.) No need to sleaze a private tracker invite off
728.
by bigbubba 6y ago
If they had to give me five dollars for every spam call that got through, I bet they'd find a way to stop it. T-mobile already classifies these calls as 'Scam likely' and they've never seemed to misclassify any, so obvio
729.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Is it really true that an employee speculating about the monopolistic nature of their employer might get themselves into legal hot water? If Google got taken down by one of their developers saying 'our employer kind of seems antico
730.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Never meet your heroes.
731.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Nobody needs to buy a VR headset, let alone Facebook's. It's an expensive toy.
732.
by bigbubba 6y ago
There are numerous formulations of this rule. The one used by the US Marines is 'Never point the weapon at anything you do not INTEND to shoot.' In this formulation of the rule, pointing a gun with the intent to threaten isn&#x
733.
by bigbubba 6y ago
I blame the dumb meme of 'Hanlon's Razor' . It extols gullibility.
734.
by bigbubba 6y ago
People who are desperate are easier to scam because they 'want to believe.' They're looking for miracles because they think that's all they could hope for. I think it's less a matter of crypto people being gulli
735.
by bigbubba 6y ago
I've bought things with BTC (I believe I am rare insofar as I have never bought BTC but have spent them...) and having frequently used cash, I can assure you that spending BTC is not even remotely as easy as spending cash.
736.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Many things appear to be a valuable asset, right up until the moment they aren't. In mid-2000, Enron stock was a 'valuable asset.'
737.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Maybe they think the entire market is drying up? The AAA blockbuster everybody thought would make VR mainstream (Half Life) seems to have fizzled with great reviews but not many sales. Maybe Facebook now believes VR will prove to be a bub
738.
by bigbubba 6y ago
'is illegal' wouldn't communicate that it was illegal at the time. It might be taken to suggest it is presently illegal but wasn't when it was done.
739.
by bigbubba 6y ago
The details of my anti-tiger operations are highly classified; whoever leaked this information to you will be vilified and hounded around the globe for the rest of their life.
740.
by bigbubba 6y ago
I've experienced an unlock demand immediately after passing through TSA to get on a domestic flight. Had I refused I surely would have missed my flight and probably the wedding I was trying to get to. Maybe the consequences would hav
741.
by bigbubba 6y ago
You could easily live like a slob before 'new normal', if that's really the lifestyle you desired.
742.
by bigbubba 6y ago
You might be right that this motivates the 'euphemism treadmill', but if so I think that's misguided. It's my personal belief that the stigma follows the condition itself (particularly when untreated), not the name give
743.
by bigbubba 6y ago
> Because terrorist attacks that were prevented didn't happen, there is no way to know. We could only speculate by correlating terrorist attacks and surveillance, but there are so many external variables that it is effectively impo
744.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Claiming it was entirely conceived and written in only 42 days is the extraordinary claim. If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.
745.
by bigbubba 6y ago
That was 25 years ago. The average number of such trucks per year is zero.
746.
by bigbubba 6y ago
The mere thought of paying to government for the privilege of keeping my shoes on is nauseating. How can you even consider that? That program exists as a pressure relief valve to ensure anybody with political influence (businessmen, etc)
747.
by bigbubba 6y ago
> You can't prove that would-be terrorists weren't dissuaded by the knowledge that PRISM existed. This is the tiger repelling rock theory of anti-terrorism. I have a rock that repels tigers. There haven't been any tige
748.
by bigbubba 6y ago
'Whatever makes the rich richer is what they're doing' is probably a decent first order approximation, and under that logic corporate espionage does seem very likely.
749.
by bigbubba 6y ago
The Department of War became the Department of Defense.
750.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Pysch evals are not mutually exclusive with repainting the vehicles. The aesthetic intent of the vehicle designers is irrelevant.

More ›