You can't really finance a browser development team from a couple thousand nerds that all install Adblock and never use Yahoo once either. They need to kind of keep mainstream appeal up.
It'd still be quite interesting to have a look at that missile. Even really basic things like hinges and reinforcement hull struts might give you ideas how to improve other missiles.
Not that they necessarily are better but being able to look at how other people solved problems and compare them with your own solution has always been one of my favorite ways to gain knowledge.
By the way it's not necessary to be able to see a USB A plug or cable to be able to orient it correctly. On a device, they are always oriented top up, with the hollow (for a regular size) or wide (for a micro) side pointing towards the keyboard. On the cable, there is usually an embossed USB symbol on the side of the cable that's "up".
In 2012 I had to walk 8km to Lulea on the roadside because the bus didn't accept cash, and would not take foreign credit or debit cards. You could only pay with a Swedish mobile phone or card.
There are reasons for creating fake certificates, like when you want to sniff your own HTTPS traffic to aid with web debugging.
But what Symantec never should've done is use their proper CA for that. They should've used an internal CA that their own computers trust but nobody outside knows about, like any company does that can't just walk across the office and get a "real" certificate from Frank.
But if you wanted to send that compressed/encrypted data over an unstable link such as interstellar radio, you'd need to add CRC data which lowers the entropy of the data again.
1. Is just a nomenclature problem. The key issue was whether Pluto belongs in the same category as Mercury through Neptune.
2. If a planet changes its orbit, one of two things will happen:
It clears its new neighborhood
It gets cleared out by a new neighbor or falls into a resonance with it
In both of these cases the new category that object will fall in is quite clear
3. and 4. In geological terms yes, but I think the IAU was correct in preferring to define planets through orbital characteristics over geological ones.
5. The neighborhood of a planet cannot be simply changed without significant consequences. If through some freak incident a formerly solitary planet ends up suddenly having a neighbor of significantly higher mass, that planet will not remain a planet for very long. Its "mutability" is then not even restricted to definition games, it will quite be literally destroyed or thrown away into deep space.
6. An Earth-copy that hasn't cleared its neighborhood yet won't be an Earth-copy due to frequent crust destroying meteorite impacts. Such a child solar system will probably not be described well by our current terminology but these systems are also very rare because that phase of life only lasts for a very short time.
7. There will clearly eventually be edge cases, but Pluto isn't. There is an object with 10000 times its mass within its perihel and apohel. Its orbital period is not independantly "chosen" but defined by Neptune
8. - 10. Those are all things that we are just now starting to discover. They might eventually change up the definition of the word planet again, such as when we do find the first binary pair of planets with similar mass in the same orbit. But for now it should be perfectly acceptable to delay that decision until we have solid data.
11+ are mostly political points where you can have an opinion either way. But scientifically the question is: Are Pluto, Ceres, Eris and the 100+ other yet to be discovered KBOs really similar enough to the big eight to be in the same category.
FYI nothing is ever given away for free.
Yes at first glance that's just a platitude, but it's a good idea to always think about this simple truth whenever you you evaluate something has has a face price of zero.
Are you doing your search on a desktop PC? If yes, the recently added mobile algorithm has no effect and it's all old-fashioned pagerank stuff.
All your listed social media sites do their own very effective SEO and have lots of crosslinking so it's natural their results get up higher. If you want your website to show up higher start by adding links to it to all the social media pages and follow up with the other legal SEO tricks.
The only solution to prevent your kind of double jeopardy would be to disallow civil suits regarding cases that were decided in favor of the accused in criminal court.
And that would allow state attorneys and judges to hand out complete immunity to the law by taking up a case and then immediately dropping it again.
As things are right now there is the unfortunate problem that powerful people can talk or bully state attorneys into dropping cases (i.e. Hillary Clinton's missing emails or the periodic "Mayor's son raped a woman" cases) but at least you can follow those up by hiring a lawyer on your own dime.
The state has to prove intent. If you used to store drugs in that gum wrapper, you are getting chased by the police and then throw it away, it's illegal. If you first throw it away, and are only getting chased after that, it's legal.
You're putting too much value on single people. Hitler as a person didn't cause WW2, and certainly wouldn't be able to repeat it in 1980. Franz Ferdinand didn't really cause WW1 either. Both of them were only a single symptom of their times and if they hadn't existed a similar course of history would have taken place.
Hitler could only start WW2 in the 1930s because he had a willing base of angry Germans with a mix of justified and unjustified grievances. He was the "first past the post" politician to harness those frustrations but if he hadn't existed some other populist would have, if not a Nazi then a Communist. 50 years later the situation was entirely different, the people content, and nobody could've gotten a majority support for political upheaval. We know this because the RAF certainly tried to.
The only way I can think of to remove Venus' atmosphere is through freezing. But then you're stuck with a -80C planet.
As far as chemical means go, CO2 is incredibly stable. Even if you do find a way to convert it down to carbon and oxygen by spending inordinate amounts of energy on chemical processes you still end up lowering the pressure by only one third (since the other two thirds are oxygen) and you now have a planet where everything you bring down to the surface will go up in a fire immediately.
You could instead combine it into carbonates but you'd need huge amounts of cations for that and I'm not aware of any significant source of such ionized materials that aren't already combined into salts.
Physically removing it is out of the question because you'd need to find a way to accelerate the entire atmosphere to escape velocity. Just knocking a few asteroids into it won't help much because the gases will never leave Venus's sphere of influence and should return over the next years.
This is absolutely untrue, just look at these maps.
Control over redistricting by party: http://s1131.photobucket.com/u...
Gerrymanderization of districts: http://www.geoideas.net/wp-con...
WV, IL and MD are truly gerrymandered democratic controlled states. As opposed to the entirety of the southeastern US from Texas to Pennsylvania that are republican controlled and gerrymandered.
Hokkaido is a bit of a bad example though since there's no Shinkansen service through the tunnel.
Going 1500km the other way to Kagoshima the train takes about 7 hours, and the airplane 5-6 (from city center to city center). That's with the 270km/h regular Shinkansen. If you increased the speed to maglev levels the train would outperform an airplane.
By the way your analogy is very wrong. Because while there are indeed a lot of stars, they are also quite far away.
An average star (diameter 10^6 kilometers) at 1000 light years (10^17 kilometers) distance is merely 10^-9 degrees across. To fill the entire night sky with stars you'd need 10^22 stars at that distance which is about how many of them exist in the entire universe. In fact it's statistically quite impossible for stars to actually cover each other.
One hour? If "ease of use" means to have to wait a full hour for confirmation whether the purchase of your coffee went through or not I think I'd rather use cash...
How does this seem appropriate? Chinese oppression is pretty clearly aimed at perpetuating the party rule and guaranteeing their members cushy jobs and a steady income.
There is literally nothing we could do about a Kansas-size (500km) asteroid but that scenario is highly unlikely, there isn't any evidence that such an impact happened anywhere in the solar system in the last 3.5b years. A realistic scenario is an asteroid between 100m and 1km, and ion thrusters and nuclear propulsion have a high enough efficiency that they can influence that category.
Not sure about Hitler or Mussolini - they mixed up ideologies of left and right. Richard the lionheart was driven by religion
Hitler himself was solidly right. The NSDAP had a leftist wing led by Gregor Strasser (the Strasserists) but Hitler showed him what he thought of that in 1934.
With how smart these choppers are getting this shouldn't even be a problem. Just buy three of them for any two jobs and have them find their own schedule to "sleep" when they need to so that there's always at least the required number up in the air.
They originally planned to use 60 miles of wiring but then they only ordered 60 kilometers of wires so two thirds of the devices are not connected. It's not that big of a problem though since most things are covered by redundancy.
"No" doesn't mean "No" as the rather tired example of yelling fire in crowded theatres clearly establishes. There are also libel/slander laws passed by congress that limit free speech and nobody has a problem with those. I would hazard a guess that even a hard core libertarian like you wouldn't have a problem with restricting someone's speech if that person is passing out lies intended to damage your life.
Where exactly those borders to free speech are is of course open to debate, but an absolutely inviolable freedom cannot exist much as a true immovable object cannot exist.
This stuff happens everywhere there is a strong state religion and the state relies on religious authorities to manage the population. You inevitably get a religious elite that meshes with the government and profits from the status quo. Those are then of course thoroughly unfriendly to anyone wanting to change the system.
Your "Islamic democracy" really isn't any different than the "Orthodox democracy" in Russia or "Buddhist democracy" in Thailand so there's absolutely no need to be especially islamophobic about it.
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Deadlocking a supreme court for an entire year just to make a point seems a bit silly though.
You can't really finance a browser development team from a couple thousand nerds that all install Adblock and never use Yahoo once either. They need to kind of keep mainstream appeal up.
It'd still be quite interesting to have a look at that missile. Even really basic things like hinges and reinforcement hull struts might give you ideas how to improve other missiles.
Not that they necessarily are better but being able to look at how other people solved problems and compare them with your own solution has always been one of my favorite ways to gain knowledge.
By the way it's not necessary to be able to see a USB A plug or cable to be able to orient it correctly. On a device, they are always oriented top up, with the hollow (for a regular size) or wide (for a micro) side pointing towards the keyboard. On the cable, there is usually an embossed USB symbol on the side of the cable that's "up".
In 2012 I had to walk 8km to Lulea on the roadside because the bus didn't accept cash, and would not take foreign credit or debit cards. You could only pay with a Swedish mobile phone or card.
There are reasons for creating fake certificates, like when you want to sniff your own HTTPS traffic to aid with web debugging. But what Symantec never should've done is use their proper CA for that. They should've used an internal CA that their own computers trust but nobody outside knows about, like any company does that can't just walk across the office and get a "real" certificate from Frank.
But if you wanted to send that compressed/encrypted data over an unstable link such as interstellar radio, you'd need to add CRC data which lowers the entropy of the data again.
1. Is just a nomenclature problem. The key issue was whether Pluto belongs in the same category as Mercury through Neptune.
2. If a planet changes its orbit, one of two things will happen:
In both of these cases the new category that object will fall in is quite clear
3. and 4. In geological terms yes, but I think the IAU was correct in preferring to define planets through orbital characteristics over geological ones.
5. The neighborhood of a planet cannot be simply changed without significant consequences. If through some freak incident a formerly solitary planet ends up suddenly having a neighbor of significantly higher mass, that planet will not remain a planet for very long. Its "mutability" is then not even restricted to definition games, it will quite be literally destroyed or thrown away into deep space.
6. An Earth-copy that hasn't cleared its neighborhood yet won't be an Earth-copy due to frequent crust destroying meteorite impacts. Such a child solar system will probably not be described well by our current terminology but these systems are also very rare because that phase of life only lasts for a very short time.
7. There will clearly eventually be edge cases, but Pluto isn't. There is an object with 10000 times its mass within its perihel and apohel. Its orbital period is not independantly "chosen" but defined by Neptune
8. - 10. Those are all things that we are just now starting to discover. They might eventually change up the definition of the word planet again, such as when we do find the first binary pair of planets with similar mass in the same orbit. But for now it should be perfectly acceptable to delay that decision until we have solid data.
11+ are mostly political points where you can have an opinion either way. But scientifically the question is: Are Pluto, Ceres, Eris and the 100+ other yet to be discovered KBOs really similar enough to the big eight to be in the same category.
FYI nothing is ever given away for free. Yes at first glance that's just a platitude, but it's a good idea to always think about this simple truth whenever you you evaluate something has has a face price of zero.
Are you doing your search on a desktop PC? If yes, the recently added mobile algorithm has no effect and it's all old-fashioned pagerank stuff. All your listed social media sites do their own very effective SEO and have lots of crosslinking so it's natural their results get up higher. If you want your website to show up higher start by adding links to it to all the social media pages and follow up with the other legal SEO tricks.
The only solution to prevent your kind of double jeopardy would be to disallow civil suits regarding cases that were decided in favor of the accused in criminal court. And that would allow state attorneys and judges to hand out complete immunity to the law by taking up a case and then immediately dropping it again.
As things are right now there is the unfortunate problem that powerful people can talk or bully state attorneys into dropping cases (i.e. Hillary Clinton's missing emails or the periodic "Mayor's son raped a woman" cases) but at least you can follow those up by hiring a lawyer on your own dime.
The state has to prove intent. If you used to store drugs in that gum wrapper, you are getting chased by the police and then throw it away, it's illegal. If you first throw it away, and are only getting chased after that, it's legal.
You're putting too much value on single people. Hitler as a person didn't cause WW2, and certainly wouldn't be able to repeat it in 1980. Franz Ferdinand didn't really cause WW1 either. Both of them were only a single symptom of their times and if they hadn't existed a similar course of history would have taken place.
Hitler could only start WW2 in the 1930s because he had a willing base of angry Germans with a mix of justified and unjustified grievances. He was the "first past the post" politician to harness those frustrations but if he hadn't existed some other populist would have, if not a Nazi then a Communist. 50 years later the situation was entirely different, the people content, and nobody could've gotten a majority support for political upheaval. We know this because the RAF certainly tried to.
The only way I can think of to remove Venus' atmosphere is through freezing. But then you're stuck with a -80C planet.
As far as chemical means go, CO2 is incredibly stable. Even if you do find a way to convert it down to carbon and oxygen by spending inordinate amounts of energy on chemical processes you still end up lowering the pressure by only one third (since the other two thirds are oxygen) and you now have a planet where everything you bring down to the surface will go up in a fire immediately.
You could instead combine it into carbonates but you'd need huge amounts of cations for that and I'm not aware of any significant source of such ionized materials that aren't already combined into salts.
Physically removing it is out of the question because you'd need to find a way to accelerate the entire atmosphere to escape velocity. Just knocking a few asteroids into it won't help much because the gases will never leave Venus's sphere of influence and should return over the next years.
This is absolutely untrue, just look at these maps. Control over redistricting by party: http://s1131.photobucket.com/u...
Gerrymanderization of districts: http://www.geoideas.net/wp-con...
WV, IL and MD are truly gerrymandered democratic controlled states. As opposed to the entirety of the southeastern US from Texas to Pennsylvania that are republican controlled and gerrymandered.
Hokkaido is a bit of a bad example though since there's no Shinkansen service through the tunnel.
Going 1500km the other way to Kagoshima the train takes about 7 hours, and the airplane 5-6 (from city center to city center). That's with the 270km/h regular Shinkansen. If you increased the speed to maglev levels the train would outperform an airplane.
By the way your analogy is very wrong. Because while there are indeed a lot of stars, they are also quite far away. An average star (diameter 10^6 kilometers) at 1000 light years (10^17 kilometers) distance is merely 10^-9 degrees across. To fill the entire night sky with stars you'd need 10^22 stars at that distance which is about how many of them exist in the entire universe. In fact it's statistically quite impossible for stars to actually cover each other.
One hour? If "ease of use" means to have to wait a full hour for confirmation whether the purchase of your coffee went through or not I think I'd rather use cash...
How does this seem appropriate? Chinese oppression is pretty clearly aimed at perpetuating the party rule and guaranteeing their members cushy jobs and a steady income.
There is literally nothing we could do about a Kansas-size (500km) asteroid but that scenario is highly unlikely, there isn't any evidence that such an impact happened anywhere in the solar system in the last 3.5b years.
A realistic scenario is an asteroid between 100m and 1km, and ion thrusters and nuclear propulsion have a high enough efficiency that they can influence that category.
Not sure about Hitler or Mussolini - they mixed up ideologies of left and right.
Richard the lionheart was driven by religion
Hitler himself was solidly right. The NSDAP had a leftist wing led by Gregor Strasser (the Strasserists) but Hitler showed him what he thought of that in 1934.
With how smart these choppers are getting this shouldn't even be a problem. Just buy three of them for any two jobs and have them find their own schedule to "sleep" when they need to so that there's always at least the required number up in the air.
They originally planned to use 60 miles of wiring but then they only ordered 60 kilometers of wires so two thirds of the devices are not connected. It's not that big of a problem though since most things are covered by redundancy.
"No" doesn't mean "No" as the rather tired example of yelling fire in crowded theatres clearly establishes. There are also libel/slander laws passed by congress that limit free speech and nobody has a problem with those. I would hazard a guess that even a hard core libertarian like you wouldn't have a problem with restricting someone's speech if that person is passing out lies intended to damage your life.
Where exactly those borders to free speech are is of course open to debate, but an absolutely inviolable freedom cannot exist much as a true immovable object cannot exist.
This stuff happens everywhere there is a strong state religion and the state relies on religious authorities to manage the population. You inevitably get a religious elite that meshes with the government and profits from the status quo. Those are then of course thoroughly unfriendly to anyone wanting to change the system.
Your "Islamic democracy" really isn't any different than the "Orthodox democracy" in Russia or "Buddhist democracy" in Thailand so there's absolutely no need to be especially islamophobic about it.