Always a comforting sight to see.
Category: Humor
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Lesson learned: be careful flying a drone in the city, and at night, especially together and for the first time
So I tried to fly my drone, a Syma X5C, for the first time at night, and for the first time in the city… all in one night. It went rather poorly. The drone was nearly lost.
For one, my control range was very short – I assume due to RF interference. And once it got above the roof line, the wind swept it away. I spent the entire flight trying to get it to come back.
Luckily, I was able to slow the descent a little, I think it hit a roof, and then landed on the ground outside someone’s house. I was so lucky that I found it. It went about four streets over!
See video below.
Scan & Ram AI bug in Elite: Dangerous
Why Ayn Rand shouldn’t be taken seriously
“[The Native Americans] didn’t have any rights to the land and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using…. What was it they were fighting for, if they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their “right” to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or maybe a few caves above it. Any white person who brought the element of civilization had the right to take over this continent.”
– Ayn Rand, Libertarian ubermadchen
And fans ask why Ayn Rand isn’t taken seriously in academic circles.
Do you know Dokdo?
Do You Know Dokdo? Written by MOON YOUNG Sung by SEO HEE
1. Dokdo/ the beautiful islands have been/ parts of Korean land
For the/ last two thousands of years./ they are Korean land
Located in/ the middle of/ East Sea we call.
They comprise/ two main isles/ East and West Islets.
Everybody/ wants to be there/’cause of the holy Sights
Everybody wants to be there/hoping to meet Seagulls.
Yes, nobody is/ greedy for them/’cause of the holy Sights.
But some people/ covet them/that is real/ nonsense!
Korea Korea/ proud to be Koreans.
I’m willing to die/ for the/ peace of /Korea.
Dokdo Dokdo/I’ll keep it for my sake.
I love I love/ Dokdo forever
I love I love/ Dokdo forever
2. Dokdo/ the peaceful islands have been/parts of Korean hearts
Since the Shilla/ King Jijung/conquered Usan Land.
Though the long/ war was over/ some ones feel no/ peace yet.
Foolish men/ start to say /silly empty talks.
Everybody/ wants to be there/’cause of the holy Sights
Everybody wants to be there/hoping to meet Seagulls.
Yes, nobody is/ greedy for them/’cause of the holy Sights.
But some people/ covet them/that is real/ nonsense!
Korea Korea/ proud to be Koreans.
I’m willing to die/ for the/ peace of /Korea.
Dokdo Dokdo/I’ll keep it for my sake.
I love I love/ Dokdo forever
I love I love/ Dokdo forever
Korea Korea/ proud to be Koreans.
I’m willing to die/ for the/ peace of /Korea.
Dokdo Dokdo/I’ll keep it for my sake.
I love I love/ Dokdo forever
I love I love/ Dokdo forever
I love I love/ Dokdo forever
Do you know Dokdo?
Dokdo is Korean land!
Take a speedy cruiser, my friend
from the port of Ulleung island
and glide like a silver dolphin
slicing waves with its fin.Keep running eighty-seven kilometer around
south eastern bound,
you’ll see Dokdo looking like ocean hermit
having two-little rock summit.Mystic rocks standing tall
steep cliffs like a wall
and many white seagulls flying
got me fascinated in my mind.This is our beautiful Dokdo where
we got to protect with care
from some Japanese pirates
coveting like the rats.She’s been keeping us with honesty
in the east since Shilla Dynasty
like the guardian of heirs
for fifteen hundred years.And she has many
migratory fishes in the East sea,
and a maritime petro-resources
under the bottom of the deep sea.Do you know Dokdo in the East Sea is Korean land
We all love Dokdo and that island is our land.
Do you know Dokdo in the East Sea is Korean land
Won’t you leave for Dokdo together with our band.
Congratulations Chilean Miners
A new map of the Internet
Ah, thank you xkcd.
Bizarre Korean beliefs and urban legends
1. Fan death – To me, this is the most hilarious urban legend that I’ve encountered. Apparently, a number of years ago, a man in very poor health was sleeping in a 90+ degree room with the windows closed and had a fan blowing on him, and the fan, in combination with his poor health and alcohol-induced state, caused him to dehydrate and get hypothermia, killing him. Conventional conclusion: don’t go to sleep drunk, dehydrated, and in poor health while the room is ridiculously hot and lacks proper ventilation. The Korean conclusion: fans and air conditioners, when used in an enclosed room, will somehow remove the air from the room and cause you to suffocate. The explanations can vary, like the device “sucking out” the oxygen, the device “chopping” the oxygen up, or pushing the oxygen down to the floor and leaving you nothing to breath. Fans that you can purchase at all of the retailers here have shut-off timers on them that the manufacturers, government, and doctors strongly suggest for you to use so that you do not die from the fan. Everyone in the country, with few exceptions, believes in this and will not accept any notion to the contrary. Korean doctors and academics have researched and documented this “phenomenon” while doctors and academics from around the world have researched and documented how it is not the case and how ridiculous this Korean belief is. Read more on Wikipedia.
2. Never write a name in red ink because it will cause the person to die. The justification goes like this: red is the color of blood – blood’s appearance is a sign of death – conclusion: writing a name in red will cause someone to die. The children, and the teachers even more-so, are terrified of having a name written in red.
3. Your blood type has a direct correlation to the type of personality you have, or will have, and other various things about your life and lifestyle. Never mind things like genetics, environment, and life experiences – it’s your blood type.
4. The season you are born in determines how tall you will grow. Again, never mind genetics and environment, it all has to do with the season you were born in. There has been substantial research in this field by Korean experts, and every time they find a population that doesn’t follow the trends that they expect to find they will simply label it an anomaly and entirely insignificant.
Why wireless input devices are a bad idea
A guy at slashdot has summed up the problems with wireless keyboards and mice:
Your decision to move to a system that requires an independent power supply (batteries) is an invitation to Murphy to send his law to your house / place of work at the most inopportune moment.
Oh, and radiation. I’m sure it’ll kill you too. Bluetooth will force you to visit your dentist too.
Plus what are you going to fight off the ninjas with if you don’t have a mouse cord?
Holy surrealism, bantha!