[url]http://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort[/url]

[url=www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/nyregion/traffic-comes-to-a-halt-and-a-kitten-is-saved.html]Traffic Comes to a Halt, and a Kitten Is Saved[/url] - NYT
[quote]Fortunately for the kitten, the officers were from the Police Department’s Strategic Response Group, trained, the police said, in counterterrorism tactics and “advanced disorder control.”[/quote]
We've all heard the phrase 'herding cats' in reference to the non-order-followingness of the feline character, but claiming training in 'counterterrorism tactics' was useful here seems a tad of a stretch.

Also note a possible feel-good tie-in here with Black Lives Matter - "even if they're cat lives!"

[QUOTE=ewmayer;424365][url=www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/nyregion/traffic-comes-to-a-halt-and-a-kitten-is-saved.html]Traffic Comes to a Halt, and a Kitten Is Saved[/url] - NYT

We've all heard the phrase 'herding cats' in reference to the non-order-followingness of the feline character, but claiming training in 'counterterrorism tactics' was useful here seems a tad of a stretch.

Also note a possible feel-good tie-in here with Black Lives Matter - "even if they're cat lives!"[/QUOTE]Herding cats is not that difficult IME. You just have to think of the action from the cat's point of view.

Certainly no harder than herding chucks.

[QUOTE=xilman;424392]Herding cats is not that difficult IME. You just have to think of the action from the cat's point of view.

Certainly no harder than herding chucks.[/QUOTE]

Y'all should try herding pigs. They are smart. They always try to duck around you. You have to make them think you don't want them to go where you really do want them to go.

Police investigating 'screaming' find a man singing opera
 

"Police in the Netherlands kicked in a door in response to an emergency call - only to realise the [URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35427923"]"terrifying screams"[/URL] that had been reported were actually the sound of a man singing along to opera."
:faf:

this may be better off in the science news thread but:

[url]http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/news/a19177/the-superconductor-of-the-future-may-be-this-self-assembling-plastic/[/url]

[QUOTE=science_man_88;424731]this may be better off in the science news thread but:

[url]http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/news/a19177/the-superconductor-of-the-future-may-be-this-self-assembling-plastic/[/url][/QUOTE]

I recently brought up the word "plastic" in the devil's dictionary thread.

This article I read today also equates polymers with plastics, which I don't always think are equivalent:
[URL="http://www.sciencecodex.com/breakthrough_enables_ultrafast_transport_of_electrical_charges_in_polymers-174310"]Breakthrough enables ultra-fast transport of electrical charges in polymers[/URL]
[QUOTE]"The transport of electric charge is greatly enhanced solely by controlled chain and crystallite orientation inside the film. The mobility measured was approximately one thousand times higher than previously reported in the same organic semiconductor," says David Barbero.

In what way will these results affect the field of organic electronics?

"We believe these results will impact the fields of polymer solar cells and organic photodiodes, where the charges are transported vertically in the device. Organic-based devices have traditionally been slower and less efficient than inorganic ones (e.g. made of silicon), in part due to the low mobility of organic (plastic) semiconductors. Typically, plastic semiconductors, which are only semi-crystalline, have hole mobilities about 10,000 times lower than doped silicon, which is used in many electronic devices. Now we show it is possible to obtain much higher mobility, and much closer to that of silicon, by controlled vertical chain alignment, and without doping," says David Barbero.[/QUOTE]

Blow a trumpet at trump (with confetti)
[url]http://trumpdonald.org/[/url]

[QUOTE=firejuggler;425195]Blow a trumpet at trump (with confetti)
[URL]http://trumpdonald.org/[/URL][/QUOTE]
That's pretty funny! :smile:

A boondoggle wrapped in a hornswoggle -F35
 

[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35494003"]The F35[/URL] is a bottomless pit of corporate welfare.

[QUOTE]The F-35's ejector seat "failed to meet neck-injury criteria" and the jet had a "limited ability to respond to threats", the US defence department [URL="http://aviationweek.com/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2016/01/DOT&E%202015%20F-35%20Annual%20Report.pdf"]has said[/URL].
The jet's development, by Lockheed Martin, has already cost $1 trillion (£0.7tn), partly funded by the UK.


Previously, its UK planned deployment date was put back from 2012 to 2023.
The F-35's ejector seat "failed to meet neck-injury criteria" and the jet had a "limited ability to respond to threats", the US defence department [URL="http://aviationweek.com/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2016/01/DOT&E%202015%20F-35%20Annual%20Report.pdf"]has said[/URL].
The jet's development, by Lockheed Martin, has already cost $1 trillion (£0.7tn), partly funded by the UK.


Previously, its UK planned deployment date was put back from 2012 to 2023.
[/QUOTE]

But, it gets worse:
[QUOTE]Mr Bronk said that while the aircraft could be deployed in its current state, pilots would not be able to fly with as much freedom as planned because of the many technical limitations.


But he added: "They will make this thing work [U][B]because they have no choice[/B][/U], there's no alternative.

[B][U]"They will chuck whatever money they need to at it."[/U][/B]
[/QUOTE]

No choice, eh? So we have to throw good money after bad? :furious::censored::bangheadonwall:

[QUOTE=kladner;425288]
No choice, eh? So we have to throw good money after bad? :furious::censored::bangheadonwall:[/QUOTE]
If only they had to physically throw money at it. Then the spilled paper could at least be used for something. While I am on that, recently I posted this:
[QUOTE=only_human;419090][URL="http://www.thenation.com/article/20-people-now-own-as-much-wealth-as-half-of-all-americans/"]20 People Now Own As Much Wealth as Half of All Americans[/URL][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]
According to “Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us,” just the twenty individuals at the top of the pile—a group that could fit into a Gulfstream G650 luxury jet, according to the study’s authors—now control more wealth than the bottom half of the population.[/QUOTE]
These people should be put on a nofly list to make sure that they can only visit their money nearby and to protect the economy from catastrophic financial provenance disruptions.