I’m reminded of when Ramona was first assigned to work with the Doctor, and she immediately pointed out how she was the top of every class in the history of ever and she had looked up the Doctor’s records and noticed he’d barely passed Timelord School.
(This is a real thing. I did not make this up. Ramona was the Hermione of Dr. Who)
Lumin
It’s Romana. Short for Romanadvoratrelundar, although she said she’d prefer to be called Fred rather than Romana. The Fourth Doctor ignored this.
Heavensrun
I’m kinda of the opinion that you don’t learn what hey do. You -decide- what they do.
Andrusi
Now you know what he’s a doctor of.
Valdrax
Pfft. Are you sure you didn’t just get an MIS degree?
I actually learned a bit of parkour in one of my Computer Science classes once. That prof also spent a lecture on lock picking. CS departments tend to be pretty eccentric, and once those guys get tenure, oh boy do they get tenure.
Jen Aside
dammit I went to the wrong university |=[
Jack Finch
Did the Prof use the MIT guide to lock picking? (It’s a thing)
Seerow
Heh I got a lecture on lockpicking in my computer security class as well. I thought that was pretty interesting.
Terion
We didn’t get lectures on lockpicking, but I did spend several of my boring lectures picking locks. Nowadays I have a smartphone for that (boring lectures, not lockpicking). The thing about eccentric CS guys is true. I’m a bit eccentric myself, but we have a running theory about our professors. We’re not sure yet whether you have to be that eccentric to get tenure as a CS professor, or whether you only get to be that eccentric after you’re a tenured professor, because no one will dare tell you otherwise. My favourite tenured professor is a member of the ethics committee, and is constantly trying to egg our hacker club (I’m a member) on, to hack the university. He’s a great guy.
…mostly because the facilities people never got around to adding anyone to the card-swipe lock for the room most of my classes were in, so we had to sit around outside it until the prof showed up with a physical key.
Moving it isn’t legal. Larceny is the taking and carrying away of tangible personal property of another without consent with the intent to deprive them of it’s possession permanently.
It’s been legally established that moving the entire object ANY distance away after having gained sole possession of it is enough to satisfy the carrying away aspect. The fact she discarded it rather than returned it directly to the bike jacker, is enough to satisfy “deprived permanently” aspect.
I feel like bird rules would apply i.e. she’s not grounded, so the electricity doesn’t want to go through her (if that’s what you were referring to, and if what I learned about that 15+ years ago was actually true).
really? I thought electricity should fry her since she is using steel pipes to grab the cable and it goes through it. Guess I need to study a lot more haha.
TheOthin
Yeah, I was thinking similarly, but it seems there isn’t any reason why the electricity to “want” to go through the metal as opposed to staying on its intended path.
Catriona
Don’t most of those cutters have grips where you hold them? Could be rubber.
E.R.
There’s enough current running through one of those wires to burn through asphalt. You’d probably need at least a foot of rubber for it to start mastering. The reason she’s not being electrocuted is because she’s not grounded and electricity seeks ground in much the same way water seeks it’s lowest level.
Fun fact, if you’ve heard you should stay in your car when a live wire falls on it, that’s true. The car will protect you from getting electrocuted, but not because of its rubber tires. As with the shears, you would need several feet of rubber for it to matter, otherwise the rubber soles in your shoes would save you. Instead, the car’s metal frame forms a vanderferd cage around you.
This works because, in addition to seeking ground, electricity seeks the path of least resistance. Metal has a lot lower resistance then air or humans, so the electricity has no reason to jump through the center of the car, the slightly longer route around its edges is much easier.
This also explains why we normally see electricity jumping to metal. If there are too paths to ground, the one that includes metal will usually be easier, so that’s the one the electricity will takes. However, this is only true if there’s actually a path to ground. On it’s own, metal does not attract electricity.
Rhayve
It’s safer to stay in a car because they are essentially Faraday cages.
E.R.
That would be what I meant to type.
This is why one should not post impromptu science lectures after 3 in the morning.
HiEv
Not really. If cars were Faraday cages then your cell phones wouldn’t work inside of them.
They’re simply a (usually) metal shell on insulated tires, and electricity prefers the path of least resistance.
John
A Faraday cage is simply a metal shell. Cars are just very coarse ones with large holes, so they’re not particularly effective at stopping even long-wavelength radio signals (though they do interfere; my GPS gets notably better signal on the dash under the glass windshield than in the back seat under the metal roof), but still work fine against basically-DC lightning strikes.
etybolik
Nah, she isn’t grounded so it doesn’t matter. If she’d been touching the ground (and thus revealed to be a descendant of one Mr. Richards) or touching something that connected to ground, then you’d have a problem.
Computer Science is LAAAAAAME.
My dream girl studies MUSIC.
<3
A girl who plays Uke…
Sammie1053
I was going to follow this up with a “girl who plays seme” but i have only a vague understanding of what those words mean and that would be followed up with me instituting a “no yaoi jokes before bed” rule.
E.R.
Technically, it would be yuri, since Amber’s a girl…
Unless you meant you’d have to institute the rule because you spent all night “reasearching” yaoi to figure out the proper meanings of the words. If that’s the case I can’t help you.
287 thoughts on “Hrrk”
Vivvav
Ain’t no major like that. Wish there were.
Jen Aside
What she’s doing? There’s a major like that. It’s computer science. They just don’t teach parkour is the thing.
Doctor_Who
I majored in Computer Science. We didn’t learn any parkour.
We DID learn how to do math in base 16. So I’ve got that going for me.
Aizat
I didn’t know that the Doctor majored in Computer Science.
Jordan
The Doctor majored in EVERYTHING.
Alex Stritar
Well, you need a degree to know what all those buttons on the TARDIS control console do.
Kirby
So what you’re saying is he didn’t get his degree.
Doctor_Who
Well…
Tachyon
It’s ok! Those who don’t commit tend to give more of a general sh- well you know.
MichaelHaneline
I’m reminded of when Ramona was first assigned to work with the Doctor, and she immediately pointed out how she was the top of every class in the history of ever and she had looked up the Doctor’s records and noticed he’d barely passed Timelord School.
(This is a real thing. I did not make this up. Ramona was the Hermione of Dr. Who)
Lumin
It’s Romana. Short for Romanadvoratrelundar, although she said she’d prefer to be called Fred rather than Romana. The Fourth Doctor ignored this.
Heavensrun
I’m kinda of the opinion that you don’t learn what hey do. You -decide- what they do.
Andrusi
Now you know what he’s a doctor of.
Valdrax
Pfft. Are you sure you didn’t just get an MIS degree?
tofusmith
I actually learned a bit of parkour in one of my Computer Science classes once. That prof also spent a lecture on lock picking. CS departments tend to be pretty eccentric, and once those guys get tenure, oh boy do they get tenure.
Jen Aside
dammit I went to the wrong university |=[
Jack Finch
Did the Prof use the MIT guide to lock picking? (It’s a thing)
Seerow
Heh I got a lecture on lockpicking in my computer security class as well. I thought that was pretty interesting.
Terion
We didn’t get lectures on lockpicking, but I did spend several of my boring lectures picking locks. Nowadays I have a smartphone for that (boring lectures, not lockpicking). The thing about eccentric CS guys is true. I’m a bit eccentric myself, but we have a running theory about our professors. We’re not sure yet whether you have to be that eccentric to get tenure as a CS professor, or whether you only get to be that eccentric after you’re a tenured professor, because no one will dare tell you otherwise. My favourite tenured professor is a member of the ethics committee, and is constantly trying to egg our hacker club (I’m a member) on, to hack the university. He’s a great guy.
Parnifia the Bastard
Well, looks like I’ve got this kinda stuff to look forward to. I just gotta graduate high school first…
Random832
Lockpicking is actually relevant because a lot of the principles of computer security ethics were first explored and established by locksmith guilds.
Clif
Who reached all the wrong conclusions. (security through obscurity, etc.)
sidhe3141
I wish my CS profs had taught lockpicking.
…mostly because the facilities people never got around to adding anyone to the card-swipe lock for the room most of my classes were in, so we had to sit around outside it until the prof showed up with a physical key.
Jen Aside
See, she just MOVED the cutter. That’s LEGAL.
Plasma Mongoose
You might say that AG is a cutter above the rest. 😀
Yotomoe
But right now she’s gotta Bolt.
WaveRocker
Weren’t Dorothy and Walky shocked
Sammie1053
This story arc has been simply electrifying.
TPman
Electiricity takes the pah of least resistance. Amazigirl is never the path of least resistance.
vanjealous
There’s no place like OHM. There’s no place like OHM. There’s no place like OHM……
Jammy
They just didn’t make the cut
TemplarKnight
Moving it isn’t legal. Larceny is the taking and carrying away of tangible personal property of another without consent with the intent to deprive them of it’s possession permanently.
It’s been legally established that moving the entire object ANY distance away after having gained sole possession of it is enough to satisfy the carrying away aspect. The fact she discarded it rather than returned it directly to the bike jacker, is enough to satisfy “deprived permanently” aspect.
Jen Aside
*shifty eyes*
Ryan Balis
So… rubber gloves eh!
AgentKeen
I feel like bird rules would apply i.e. she’s not grounded, so the electricity doesn’t want to go through her (if that’s what you were referring to, and if what I learned about that 15+ years ago was actually true).
JetstreamGW
Yeah, pretty sure she’d have to be touching TWO of them to complete a circuit and get electrocuted.
Ryan Balis
really? I thought electricity should fry her since she is using steel pipes to grab the cable and it goes through it. Guess I need to study a lot more haha.
TheOthin
Yeah, I was thinking similarly, but it seems there isn’t any reason why the electricity to “want” to go through the metal as opposed to staying on its intended path.
Catriona
Don’t most of those cutters have grips where you hold them? Could be rubber.
E.R.
There’s enough current running through one of those wires to burn through asphalt. You’d probably need at least a foot of rubber for it to start mastering. The reason she’s not being electrocuted is because she’s not grounded and electricity seeks ground in much the same way water seeks it’s lowest level.
Fun fact, if you’ve heard you should stay in your car when a live wire falls on it, that’s true. The car will protect you from getting electrocuted, but not because of its rubber tires. As with the shears, you would need several feet of rubber for it to matter, otherwise the rubber soles in your shoes would save you. Instead, the car’s metal frame forms a vanderferd cage around you.
This works because, in addition to seeking ground, electricity seeks the path of least resistance. Metal has a lot lower resistance then air or humans, so the electricity has no reason to jump through the center of the car, the slightly longer route around its edges is much easier.
This also explains why we normally see electricity jumping to metal. If there are too paths to ground, the one that includes metal will usually be easier, so that’s the one the electricity will takes. However, this is only true if there’s actually a path to ground. On it’s own, metal does not attract electricity.
Rhayve
It’s safer to stay in a car because they are essentially Faraday cages.
E.R.
That would be what I meant to type.
This is why one should not post impromptu science lectures after 3 in the morning.
HiEv
Not really. If cars were Faraday cages then your cell phones wouldn’t work inside of them.
They’re simply a (usually) metal shell on insulated tires, and electricity prefers the path of least resistance.
John
A Faraday cage is simply a metal shell. Cars are just very coarse ones with large holes, so they’re not particularly effective at stopping even long-wavelength radio signals (though they do interfere; my GPS gets notably better signal on the dash under the glass windshield than in the back seat under the metal roof), but still work fine against basically-DC lightning strikes.
etybolik
Nah, she isn’t grounded so it doesn’t matter. If she’d been touching the ground (and thus revealed to be a descendant of one Mr. Richards) or touching something that connected to ground, then you’d have a problem.
EvergreenFir
Could be a phone line
Wonder Wig
It used to be Danny.
Dorsilus
Walky seriously is making this chase scene 1000x better.
Doctor_Who
It’s like Amber and Dorothy are an action movie, and Walky is the MST3K crew just commenting on the action.
IncadescentFlame
I would totally watch Walky watch movies!
Historyman68
His thing is watching snarky cartoons. He’s got this shit down.
GoldStarz
What IS Amber’s major anyway?
Leorale
Computer Science, I think. She’s that much of a dream girl.
Aizat
Yes, she is, Leorale. Yes she is.
Thanks, I'll Have Another!
Is she a manic pixie to boot, though?
LiaHansen
Nope. Too introverted, not enough ukulele.
Rosicrucian
Also has a temper to beat the band.
StClair
Wrong kind of ‘manic’.
Plasma Mongoose
She used her Computer Studies class to hack the matrix that the DoA universe is obviously set in.
Yotomoe
Computer Science is LAAAAAAME.
My dream girl studies MUSIC.
<3
A girl who plays Uke…
Sammie1053
I was going to follow this up with a “girl who plays seme” but i have only a vague understanding of what those words mean and that would be followed up with me instituting a “no yaoi jokes before bed” rule.
E.R.
Technically, it would be yuri, since Amber’s a girl…
Unless you meant you’d have to institute the rule because you spent all night “reasearching” yaoi to figure out the proper meanings of the words. If that’s the case I can’t help you.
otusasio451
…Huh. So, Amber’s, uh…Amber’s pretty awesome.
Jay Eff
So awesome she’s…… Amazing!!
Thank you, I’ll be here all week! Tip your waiter.
Leonou
She’s Amazing !
Opus the Poet
Amber is Batman in drag (somebody had to say it)
Dierna
Wouldn’t that be Batgirl or Batwoman? 😛
John
Batman is Amber in drag.
Leonou
I think there was no way Batman could getbetter, and then you had to come and make me wrong.
Psycho
Batman wishes he could be HER sidekick!
CianM1301
Batman wears Amazi-Girl pajamas!
Batman
I’m not even going to respond to this sort of wild speculation.
Heavensrun
Yoouuu….sorta just did?