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Random thought:

How come IG-88 was free and got paid to wack people, while other droids like R2-D2 and C3PO were basically slaves who were bought and sold and sent into combat without being asked, first?

R2-D2 took a shot in the head attacking the Death Star, and nobody ever asked him if he wanted to join the Rebellion, nor did I ever see him get paid.

IG-88 is independent, works for himself. Why is he special?

iu
 
Andy44 said:
Random thought:

How come IG-88 was free and got paid to wack people, while other droids like R2-D2 and C3PO were basically slaves who were bought and sold and sent into combat without being asked, first?

R2-D2 took a shot in the head attacking the Death Star, and nobody ever asked him if he wanted to join the Rebellion, nor did I ever see him get paid.

IG-88 is independent, works for himself. Why is he special?

iu
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For once, a question I am able to answer!
IG-88 is in fact four copies of the same droid. They were created to be assassins, but were so powerful and violent that they escaped confinement and went freelance. Anyone who tried to capture or destroy them was killed. They amassed a fairly hefty kill list before Boba Fett began to cross them off. He probably would have succeeded at that, had Han not knocked him into the Sarlacc. However, if memory serves, the last one actually uploaded himself into the DSII's computers and was destroyed with the station.

All this is now non-canonical, of course, following the announcement of Episode VII, but for many years it was canonical.
 
Fine, but it still doesn't explain why the other droids are slaves...I mean, they put restraining bolts on them and sell them to moisture farmers. And for some reason they are built to feel pain when you burn their feet. Why would you do that to a droid? And when they were loading R2 into the X-Wing to go fight the Death Star, he was beeping a lot, and you can't tell what he was saying, but it was probably, "Hey, man, this is some BS, I didn 't volunteer for no suicide trench run mission!"

Funny thing about Star Wars: if you look deep enough into it you can turn things all around.
 
From what I can recall, that's one of the reasons droids were memory wiped every now and again. They started acting oddly (perhaps approaching self-awareness?).

I don't remember reading that R2 ever underwent a memory wipe, that's why during Episode IV, he seemed to know a whole lot more than C3PO, and recognized Obi-Wan when he saw him. Those two, along with Yoda, were the only ones who knew the whole story (up to that point).
 
RisingFury said:
It's Italy...
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Its Italy, somebody had to be guilty who is not member of the mafia (who violated every building code in L'Aquila for decades with their pseudo-legal construction companies) and some guy predicted a major earthquake by increased radon levels one month ahead.

Sadly, the judges of the first instance failed to notice that the guy with the prediction predicted a major Earthquake for a town 50 km away from L'Aquila, that received only minor damage in 2009 and had been wrong in predicting earthquakes with the radon method every other time.

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Strangely, nobody has posted it yet but... Google has rented Moffett Airfield from NASA for 60 years. Looks like Google even plans to refurbish Hangar One. Not sure from the news, how the NASA Ames Research Center remains connected to it.
 
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Maybe soon we'll have Google Air which redirects your flights from your desired destination to the airfield of a sponsored partner.
 
Here’s a piece of pretty important information that should be included in the Windows product manual: If your PATH variable gets too long, Windows can’t resolve %Windir%

What does this mean? Well, if you have Windows Explorer pinned to the taskbar for example, the shortcut won’t work. Also broken are taskbar and/or start menu shortcuts to Calculator, Remote Desktop Connection, Command Prompt, IIS, Notepad, etc.

How did I find this? I installed Update 3 for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. It added an entry to the PATH variable that apparently put it over some arbitrary limit.

I’ve wasted 30 min of my time trying to fix it, only to find that just removing the entry from the end of the PATH variable and rebooting was all I needed to do.


Don’t waste 30 min of your time trying to fix your computer’s inability to resolve %Windir%. Get DirecTV.
 
IIRC it's 256 characters from start to end of path. Which will mean absolutely nothing until while attempting to copy files, for example, you come across some obscure error that means about as much as properly spoken english in a Hercule Poirot film.

Then it's immensely important, though you'll still spend the next half hour of your life running the error through Google.
 
n122vu said:
I’ve wasted 30 min of my time trying to fix it, only to find that just removing the entry from the end of the PATH variable and rebooting was all I needed to do.


Don’t waste 30 min of your time trying to fix your computer’s inability to resolve %Windir%. Get DirecTV.
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That's it? 30 minutes? I wish all of my Microsoft problems only needed 30 minutes to fix :lol:
 
Maybe this should be placed in a dedicated private space flight thread.

So...google rented an airfield from nasa and may enter the private spaceflight industry. And space x is pondering the development of a fleet of micro-com sattelites. It seems that the private space industry is accelerating...like some sort of new space race.
 
Urwumpe said:
Strangely, nobody has posted it yet but... Google has rented Moffett Airfield from NASA for 60 years. Looks like Google even plans to refurbish Hangar One. Not sure from the news, how the NASA Ames Research Center remains connected to it.
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More to it than meets the eye. In a posting on another site, this appears to be a sweetheart deal where a whopping savings in aviation fuel paid for by NASA for Google executive's aircraft.

What other competition was involved? Fair play and playing by the rules?
 
I don't think the US has any interesting planetary missions planned for the future. This doesn't include the Europa Clipper which is just a proposal at this point.

I think OSIRIS-REx is less compelling than Hayabusa 2 and the New Horizons New Frontiers program money could have been used better to fund a Jupiter Trojan, Io mission, Venus orbiter/lander, etc. instead.

InSight is another Mars lander based on Phoenix to be conservative and safe with the design. It will study the Martian interior like never before, but there's been too much attention spent on Mars. The Discovery program had two far more inspiring competitors, but the ASRG program was halted.

The 2020 Mars rover is a clone of Curiosity which is, again, not very exciting. Its payload is focused on remote sensing instruments to quickly analyze interesting samples that may never be launched to Earth. The inclusion of MOXIE seems ridiculous and is only necessary to achieve a TRL of 9 on that kind of instrument. If there was more funding for the science payload, MOXIE could have been replaced.

I already mentioned Hayabusa 2 which uses ion engines and many landers and an asteroid impactor in the spacecraft's design.

Meanwhile, Europe has BepiColombo. Like the Japanese mission, it will use ion engines. It will study Mercury in more detail than MESSENGER can, a planet that has not been explored much.

Europe's JUICE mission will examine some of the ever increasing number of known liquid worlds in the outer solar system. It will orbit Ganymede and yet not forget about Europa and Callisto. Europa has a better chance of harboring extant life than Mars. There will also be studies of Jupiter itself, so the spacecraft can be considered the successor to Galileo.
 
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n122vu said:
Here’s a piece of pretty important information that should be included in the Windows product manual: If your PATH variable gets too long, Windows can’t resolve %Windir%

What does this mean? Well, if you have Windows Explorer pinned to the taskbar for example, the shortcut won’t work. Also broken are taskbar and/or start menu shortcuts to Calculator, Remote Desktop Connection, Command Prompt, IIS, Notepad, etc.

How did I find this? I installed Update 3 for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. It added an entry to the PATH variable that apparently put it over some arbitrary limit.

I’ve wasted 30 min of my time trying to fix it, only to find that just removing the entry from the end of the PATH variable and rebooting was all I needed to do.


Don’t waste 30 min of your time trying to fix your computer’s inability to resolve %Windir%. Get DirecTV.
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Or just install LINUX!!!

Wait, what, why are you all laughing at me...

Customizing stuff is really nice though. My Crunchbang install has pretty much every daily task executed as a quick Super-[key] combination; file manager: Super-F, IDE: Super-E, browser: Super-W,...
 
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