Fiber optic cables in of themselves are immune to EMP but the equipment used to manipulate the data sent through the optical cables is not. That is, unless it is specifically shielded against EMP using twisted wires and proper grounding. This would probably be on the list of things that the military would be smart to insist upon in their aircraft.
Ethernet is just one more thing that gets in the way. Wireless connections are unobtrusive. They could even use an infrared band that doesn't travel through windows very well.
You give all of your private information to goohle if you use Gmail too but that doesn't mean that it's ok for the government to go fishing there either.
Ayn Rand held that because of the hierarchical nature of our knowledge, it is possible to take any valid idea (no matter how advanced), and identify its hierarchical roots, i.e. the more primitive, lower-level ideas on which it rests, tracing these ideas all the way back to directly observable phenomena.
Granted Rand's understanding of human nature and economics could probably be called rudimentary but the idea that knowledge tends to be hierarchical isn't that outragous.
if giant black holes in star-forming dwarf galaxies prove to be common
The first time astronomers found a supermassive blackhole at the center of a galaxy they decided to check the results against a typical quiet galaxy and found the same thing. The observations continued and it became clear pretty quickly that blackholes in galaxies were common. So common in fact, that I am unaware of a galaxy that didn't have one. The mass of the supermassive blackhole strongly correlates with the mass of the galaxy. A typical galaxy is about 200 times the mass of its supermassive blackhole which suggests a link between supermassive blackhole formation and the creation of galaxies. Whether they act as seeds for a galaxy to form in the first place or are the inevitable result isn't yet clear.
once the information is leaked to someone else, the information's dissemination is protected speech. The person who originally leaked the information may however, be liable for breaking the NDA they agreed to in order to gain access to said classified information. But considering that our government freaks out if you even say four letter words on tv, wikileaks is screwed.
Because you generally leave killing as a last resort. If you use the laser and they keep coming with hostile intent, then you break out the sniper rifle.
It's also oligotropic, meaning that it's supersaturated with oxygen
No, it means that the lake has very few nutrients and is therefore not terribly productive biologically. see here. Many lakes that fall into the oligotropic chategory are also Oxygenated but it is not why they are oligotropic. The real question I have is where that Oxygen is coming from. There probably isn't much photosynthesis going on at that depth which means either Oxygen is being imported to the system, it isn't being consumed very rapidly or it's being generated somehow.
I'd agree with that if both of them had the same taxes but they don't. One has a sales tax from 0$ on up; the other has zero sales tax up to 1k$. What they ought to do is do away with all sales tax and replace it with something else that isn't so hostile to the poor.
*most tumors are in soft tissue which doesn't preserve well
*people didn't live long enough for most cancers to be very prevalent.
"For both groups, the authors wrote, malignant tumors “were not significantly fewer than expected” when compared with early-20th-century England. They concluded that “the current rise in tumor frequencies in present populations is much more related to the higher life expectancy than primary environmental or genetic factors.”"
On the contrary, a developer should pay attention to the forums if only to keep an eye on bugs. It's perfectly fine to do whatever you want with your chosen project but you'd better know about the times where something doesn't quite work as you'd expected once it's out in the wild.
power consumption = heat that needs to be removed. Heat becomes a bigger problem the smaller the components are. Reduce the amount of heat produced and you've just made it easier to produce even smaller components.
"I give you consent to search my apartment for the purpose of catching a thief" is not the same as "I give you the eternal right to search my premises for any and all reasons." Once their investigation concludes, the permission you gave them goes away. At least that's what would be sane; we could, of course, have a few idiot judges that failed history class give huge power to the state...
Jensen was found guilty of first-degree homicide in 2008 based on this and other incriminating evidence, including a letter written by his wife before her death. He appealed the conviction, arguing for one that the warrantless police search of his computer violated his Fourth Amendment rights. The Wisconsin Court of Appeals did not agree as he had signed a consent form.
Once you give permission to a search, you don't get to retroactively revoke permission once they find evidence against you. It would be a completely different matter if they just barged in without his permission or a warrant. That would be unconstitutional; this however, is just stupidity on his part.
A gradual change can be tolerated. Drastic changes not so much. Let me put this in an analogy that is reasonably easy to understand: You can walk down a flight of stairs from the top of a fairly tall building just fine but jumping off the top floor, falling and then making a splat on the ground isn't so safe. It isn't so much the height that is dangerous, it's the sudden stop after the fall that kills.
Ocean acidification. Solar cycles don't change chemical fact. CO2 + H2O H2CO3 H+(aq) + HCO3-(aq) In other words, as the ocean absorbs more CO2, it becomes more acidic. Combined with the observed isotopic shift in C13/C12 ratios caused by anthropomorphic CO2 sources and it's case closed.
Not to defend the console gamers but: 1) This is based on one game. 2) This assumes that the ports were equivalent 3) This was a count of collective actions of a community not averaged over the individual. The same tournament held between various PC OSes would have resulted in Microsoft crushing Linux's gamers simply because there are more of them on the PC platform.
He was denied approval to build any of the electric transmission lines needed to transport power from these wind farms to cities but do go on with that old troll.
There are good and bad regulations. The SOX/NOX cap and trade regulations as part of the clean air act were good regulations. The goal wasn't to reduce prices so much as make sure that our air didn't have so much Sulfur Oxides in it to make rain as "acidic as vinegar." Subsidies are bad. NIMBY regulations that obstruct wind farms, nuclear plants, recycling etc. are bad. The problem is entirely about which regulations are useful not necessarily the quantity. If regulations go far beyond what is useful to society, prices go up; too few useful regulations and you get rent seeking behavior and rain like vinegar.
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Fiber optic cables in of themselves are immune to EMP but the equipment used to manipulate the data sent through the optical cables is not. That is, unless it is specifically shielded against EMP using twisted wires and proper grounding. This would probably be on the list of things that the military would be smart to insist upon in their aircraft.
Ethernet is just one more thing that gets in the way. Wireless connections are unobtrusive. They could even use an infrared band that doesn't travel through windows very well.
Because RF can go through walls and the whole point of visible band communication is privacy.
You give all of your private information to goohle if you use Gmail too but that doesn't mean that it's ok for the government to go fishing there either.
Granted Rand's understanding of human nature and economics could probably be called rudimentary but the idea that knowledge tends to be hierarchical isn't that outragous.
The first time astronomers found a supermassive blackhole at the center of a galaxy they decided to check the results against a typical quiet galaxy and found the same thing. The observations continued and it became clear pretty quickly that blackholes in galaxies were common. So common in fact, that I am unaware of a galaxy that didn't have one. The mass of the supermassive blackhole strongly correlates with the mass of the galaxy. A typical galaxy is about 200 times the mass of its supermassive blackhole which suggests a link between supermassive blackhole formation and the creation of galaxies. Whether they act as seeds for a galaxy to form in the first place or are the inevitable result isn't yet clear.
once the information is leaked to someone else, the information's dissemination is protected speech. The person who originally leaked the information may however, be liable for breaking the NDA they agreed to in order to gain access to said classified information. But considering that our government freaks out if you even say four letter words on tv, wikileaks is screwed.
Because you generally leave killing as a last resort. If you use the laser and they keep coming with hostile intent, then you break out the sniper rifle.
No, it means that the lake has very few nutrients and is therefore not terribly productive biologically. see here. Many lakes that fall into the oligotropic chategory are also Oxygenated but it is not why they are oligotropic.
The real question I have is where that Oxygen is coming from. There probably isn't much photosynthesis going on at that depth which means either Oxygen is being imported to the system, it isn't being consumed very rapidly or it's being generated somehow.
I'd agree with that if both of them had the same taxes but they don't. One has a sales tax from 0$ on up; the other has zero sales tax up to 1k$. What they ought to do is do away with all sales tax and replace it with something else that isn't so hostile to the poor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/health/28cancer.html?pagewanted=all
*most tumors are in soft tissue which doesn't preserve well
*people didn't live long enough for most cancers to be very prevalent.
"For both groups, the authors wrote, malignant tumors “were not significantly fewer than expected” when compared with early-20th-century England. They concluded that “the current rise in tumor frequencies in present populations is much more related to the higher life expectancy than primary environmental or genetic factors.”"
On the contrary, a developer should pay attention to the forums if only to keep an eye on bugs. It's perfectly fine to do whatever you want with your chosen project but you'd better know about the times where something doesn't quite work as you'd expected once it's out in the wild.
power consumption = heat that needs to be removed. Heat becomes a bigger problem the smaller the components are. Reduce the amount of heat produced and you've just made it easier to produce even smaller components.
"I give you consent to search my apartment for the purpose of catching a thief" is not the same as "I give you the eternal right to search my premises for any and all reasons." Once their investigation concludes, the permission you gave them goes away. At least that's what would be sane; we could, of course, have a few idiot judges that failed history class give huge power to the state...
Once you give permission to a search, you don't get to retroactively revoke permission once they find evidence against you. It would be a completely different matter if they just barged in without his permission or a warrant. That would be unconstitutional; this however, is just stupidity on his part.
China is pretty much where Japan was 30-40 years ago. Look where Japan is today and that's where China will be in a few decades.
A gradual change can be tolerated. Drastic changes not so much. Let me put this in an analogy that is reasonably easy to understand: You can walk down a flight of stairs from the top of a fairly tall building just fine but jumping off the top floor, falling and then making a splat on the ground isn't so safe. It isn't so much the height that is dangerous, it's the sudden stop after the fall that kills.
Ocean acidification. Solar cycles don't change chemical fact. CO2 + H2O H2CO3 H+(aq) + HCO3-(aq) In other words, as the ocean absorbs more CO2, it becomes more acidic. Combined with the observed isotopic shift in C13/C12 ratios caused by anthropomorphic CO2 sources and it's case closed.
CO2 also acidifies the oceans. Global warming isn't the only result of pumping billions of tons of green house gases into the atmosphere.
Not to defend the console gamers but:
1) This is based on one game.
2) This assumes that the ports were equivalent
3) This was a count of collective actions of a community not averaged over the individual. The same tournament held between various PC OSes would have resulted in Microsoft crushing Linux's gamers simply because there are more of them on the PC platform.
metal detectors are boring. using advanced organometallic chemistry to design a system based on training dogs is far more interesting
If a human can "smell" metal then a dog can too.
If you believe that your abilities are the work of God then whom do you believe is responsible for Alzheimer's?
He was denied approval to build any of the electric transmission lines needed to transport power from these wind farms to cities but do go on with that old troll.
There are good and bad regulations. The SOX/NOX cap and trade regulations as part of the clean air act were good regulations. The goal wasn't to reduce prices so much as make sure that our air didn't have so much Sulfur Oxides in it to make rain as "acidic as vinegar." Subsidies are bad. NIMBY regulations that obstruct wind farms, nuclear plants, recycling etc. are bad. The problem is entirely about which regulations are useful not necessarily the quantity. If regulations go far beyond what is useful to society, prices go up; too few useful regulations and you get rent seeking behavior and rain like vinegar.