I don't know where you're getting this idea that the purpose of these agencies is to report to congress instead of the public interest/constitution but it's a fantastic example of what is dreadfully wrong with our government. The government ought to belong to the public, not the other way around!
It's better to vote your conscience and lose than to vote for "the lesser evil" and be stuck with evil. Whenever someone says that they won't vote for a third party because they have "no chance of winning," remember that Mccain didn't either.
No they aren't. Their job is to uphold the constitution and by extension, the will of the people; not blindly uphold every decision regardless. Damages in excess of 10,000 times the value of actual loss is clearly unconstitutional. Period.
That may be true in a lot of cases but really Google's timing was everything. They could have pulled out of China or stopped censoring their results at nearly every point before the time that they considered doing so but they didn't. They waited until their operations were infiltrated and then grew a conscience about what they did.
What karma? Google bowed to pressure from the Chinese government to censor their results from the beginning. Some may argue that that was the price they had to pay to open up China but it was still a massive karma burn. Google didn't just grow a conscience about dealing with China, they are acting in their own selfish interest as they always have been.
In either case, if someone found a way to print off in game currency like mad, then it would be outright fraud and the whole ponzi scheme would collapse immediately. The in game currency is little different than any other currency so there isn't much that makes it logical to single out this system specifically.
No. If the in game currency supplu increases, its value exchanged relative to the Won or any other currency for that matter, goes down. Printing more in game currency does not decrease the value of other currencies.
So you think that no one should be able to carry a gun in public because there's law enforcement? No. If someone tries to mug, kill or rape someone in public, the victim has every right to shoot the fraker. Period. Police get there after the fact, They aren't there during the crime.
Where people know each other and are in a group where there is significant trust involved then Communism might be viable to a degree but the problem is that a lot of people mistakingly extend the concept to large, inhomogeneous groups that are nothing of the sort. Small groups sure, whole countries? No.
An individual has a right to self defense. Firearms give the physically weak a strong defense against an initiation of violence from others. Can you find a good reason why someone shouldn't be able to defend themselves and their families from people who threaten their lives with lethal force if necessary? That alone is a reason to defend the 2nd amendment even if all other reasons dissolve.
Censorship is always evil. It doesn't matter whether they're trying to hide the fact that they're censoring communications or not. Further, while most western countries have nutters that scream for censorship, very few have actually taken the steps to create anything within an order magnitude of the great firewall. Even Australia's blacklist is no where near the scale that China's censorship program is.
Technically the 9th temporarily incorporated it in 2009. The failure of the supreme court to permanently incorporate the 2nd has historically been a huge mistake.
The Cruikshank case held that states could violate the 1st Amendment right to freedom of assembly, the 2nd Amendment right to arms and the 15th Amendment right to vote without the possibility of Federal oversight[25]. The Cruikshank case arose from events now known as the Colfax Massacre, in which blacks trying to vote in Louisiana in 1873 were systematically disarmed and then subjected to three days of arson, riot, rape and murder with over 100 dead before Federal troops moved in to restore order
It is a federal offense to riffle through someone else's mail. This nonsense by the RIAA and friends is like saying "yeah we agree that FEDEX etc. shouldn't be going through other peoples' mail... except to make sure that people aren't pirating things..." Everyone understands that position to be completely ridiculous so why is it that the concept is so difficult to apply to internet packets etc? Just as your mail is legally protected from being ripped open by others, so should your internet packets. It isn't the job of ISPs to do the RIAA's work nor is it their right to riffle through your online activities at their whim.
It's easier just to build a rail gun and be done with it. Why build a device that is capable of several thousand tesla field strength just to weaponize the EMP punch when a rail gun could punch through a tank with similar specs?
No. The problem with laser cutting is that when the laser vaporizes material off of the target, the vaporized material obstructs the beam to a degree which fundamentally limits the rate at which the laser can cut. Another concern is that lasers aren't the most efficient things at converting power into the coherent laser light necessary to cut through metal. It may be more efficnet from an energy standpoint to use the EMP punch rather than the laser.
The field strength falls off considerably as you move away from the metal target which means that the force applied on the metal also dropps off rapidly. As for interacting with gravitational fields (I assume you mean manipulating them) with our current physics knowledge, manipulation of gravitational fields isn't possible to ny degree that is really useful. You can however, if you create a strong enough magnetic field, repel agaisnt the Earth's magnetic field (100+ teslas) however this is a very strong field far beyond what we can maintain currently.
A rail-gun is named such because it utilizes two rails to send current through the projectile its self which induces a current that creates a magnetic field that opposes (repels) the one that created it and thus accelerates the conductive projectile along the conductive rails. The design requires that the rails be conductive.
According to my source a typical Volkswagen Golf 2010 Rabbit weighs 3100–3250 pounds or 1410-1480 kg (rounded) and since 1 atmosphere is very nearly 10N/cm^2 and a 1 kg mass exerts ~10N force we can conclude that 3500 atmospheres is like balancing ~2 and 1/2 Volkswagen Golf 2010 rabbits on a 1cm^2 area. So the journalist wasn't that far off from the truth this time.
Nonsense. The human body has an average resistance of 300-1000 ohms. Not great, but far weaker than modern electrical insulation.
The magnitude of the induced current depends largely on the inverse of the resistance for which steel is magnitudes lower than human flesh. That means that the field would need to be truly colossal to do the same thing to a human being that this punch is doing to the steel.
Evidence has been shown that some frequencies in the EM spectrum indeed do cause damage to DNA and in some cases that damage is propagated to future divisions of that cell, meaning the damage is permanent.
ionizing EM radiation certainly. Terahertz can also create bubbles in the DNA helix which can impair proper cell division but there is *zero* evidence that the fields involved in the EMP press do any of this.
I noticed in the article they said this works based on magnetic repulsion, and also that it works on stainless steels. I'm curious if this works on the largely non-magnetic 300 series SS.
The punch works because it induces a current in the metal which creates a magnetic field to oppose the one that induced the current in the first place. It does not depend on the magnetic properties of the metal. This means that roughly anything that is highly conductive like Aluminum, 303 stainless, copper etc. could be punched with the device. Largely non-conductive materials like humans can not be punched with the EMP punch.
The device works because it induces a current in the conductor (steel in this case) which creates a magnetic field which opposes the field that caused the induction in the first place. This is why you could also punch through non-ferrous metals like Aluminum with the EMP "press." The reason it wouldn't punch a hole through a human is entirely due to the fact that we are poor conductors of electricity which means that it is essentially impossible to induce an electric field strong enough to allow the device to punch a hole.
Due to the physics of fluid dynamics, a urine stream would largely break apart before it would hit the fence its self and thus a current would have a fairly difficult time traveling up the urine stream to you. More so considering that urine isn't a very good conductor unless it has fairly substantial amounts of various salts in it. I wouldn't do it but it isn't *quite* as deadly as it sounds. See mythbusters' take on the matter.
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I don't know where you're getting this idea that the purpose of these agencies is to report to congress instead of the public interest/constitution but it's a fantastic example of what is dreadfully wrong with our government. The government ought to belong to the public, not the other way around!
Then would you care to explain why the DOJ ignored points a-e in regard to previous supreme court decisions?
It's better to vote your conscience and lose than to vote for "the lesser evil" and be stuck with evil. Whenever someone says that they won't vote for a third party because they have "no chance of winning," remember that Mccain didn't either.
No they aren't. Their job is to uphold the constitution and by extension, the will of the people; not blindly uphold every decision regardless. Damages in excess of 10,000 times the value of actual loss is clearly unconstitutional. Period.
That may be true in a lot of cases but really Google's timing was everything. They could have pulled out of China or stopped censoring their results at nearly every point before the time that they considered doing so but they didn't. They waited until their operations were infiltrated and then grew a conscience about what they did.
Behold: the one true undeniable positive trait of the current broken patent system. Keeping horrible ideas expensive.
What karma? Google bowed to pressure from the Chinese government to censor their results from the beginning. Some may argue that that was the price they had to pay to open up China but it was still a massive karma burn. Google didn't just grow a conscience about dealing with China, they are acting in their own selfish interest as they always have been.
In either case, if someone found a way to print off in game currency like mad, then it would be outright fraud and the whole ponzi scheme would collapse immediately. The in game currency is little different than any other currency so there isn't much that makes it logical to single out this system specifically.
No. If the in game currency supplu increases, its value exchanged relative to the Won or any other currency for that matter, goes down. Printing more in game currency does not decrease the value of other currencies.
So you think that no one should be able to carry a gun in public because there's law enforcement? No. If someone tries to mug, kill or rape someone in public, the victim has every right to shoot the fraker. Period. Police get there after the fact, They aren't there during the crime.
Where people know each other and are in a group where there is significant trust involved then Communism might be viable to a degree but the problem is that a lot of people mistakingly extend the concept to large, inhomogeneous groups that are nothing of the sort. Small groups sure, whole countries? No.
An individual has a right to self defense. Firearms give the physically weak a strong defense against an initiation of violence from others. Can you find a good reason why someone shouldn't be able to defend themselves and their families from people who threaten their lives with lethal force if necessary? That alone is a reason to defend the 2nd amendment even if all other reasons dissolve.
Censorship is always evil. It doesn't matter whether they're trying to hide the fact that they're censoring communications or not. Further, while most western countries have nutters that scream for censorship, very few have actually taken the steps to create anything within an order magnitude of the great firewall. Even Australia's blacklist is no where near the scale that China's censorship program is.
Technically the 9th temporarily incorporated it in 2009. The failure of the supreme court to permanently incorporate the 2nd has historically been a huge mistake.
The 14th amendment says otherwise. Not only is the federal government barred from infringing on the first and second amendments, so are the states.
It is a federal offense to riffle through someone else's mail. This nonsense by the RIAA and friends is like saying "yeah we agree that FEDEX etc. shouldn't be going through other peoples' mail... except to make sure that people aren't pirating things..." Everyone understands that position to be completely ridiculous so why is it that the concept is so difficult to apply to internet packets etc? Just as your mail is legally protected from being ripped open by others, so should your internet packets. It isn't the job of ISPs to do the RIAA's work nor is it their right to riffle through your online activities at their whim.
It's easier just to build a rail gun and be done with it. Why build a device that is capable of several thousand tesla field strength just to weaponize the EMP punch when a rail gun could punch through a tank with similar specs?
No. The problem with laser cutting is that when the laser vaporizes material off of the target, the vaporized material obstructs the beam to a degree which fundamentally limits the rate at which the laser can cut. Another concern is that lasers aren't the most efficient things at converting power into the coherent laser light necessary to cut through metal. It may be more efficnet from an energy standpoint to use the EMP punch rather than the laser.
The field strength falls off considerably as you move away from the metal target which means that the force applied on the metal also dropps off rapidly. As for interacting with gravitational fields (I assume you mean manipulating them) with our current physics knowledge, manipulation of gravitational fields isn't possible to ny degree that is really useful. You can however, if you create a strong enough magnetic field, repel agaisnt the Earth's magnetic field (100+ teslas) however this is a very strong field far beyond what we can maintain currently.
A rail-gun is named such because it utilizes two rails to send current through the projectile its self which induces a current that creates a magnetic field that opposes (repels) the one that created it and thus accelerates the conductive projectile along the conductive rails. The design requires that the rails be conductive.
What you are thinking of is called a railgun which works along the same principle only this time the metal projectile isn't tethered to anything.
According to my source a typical Volkswagen Golf 2010 Rabbit weighs 3100–3250 pounds or 1410-1480 kg (rounded) and since 1 atmosphere is very nearly 10N/cm^2 and a 1 kg mass exerts ~10N force we can conclude that 3500 atmospheres is like balancing ~2 and 1/2 Volkswagen Golf 2010 rabbits on a 1cm^2 area. So the journalist wasn't that far off from the truth this time.
The magnitude of the induced current depends largely on the inverse of the resistance for which steel is magnitudes lower than human flesh. That means that the field would need to be truly colossal to do the same thing to a human being that this punch is doing to the steel.
ionizing EM radiation certainly. Terahertz can also create bubbles in the DNA helix which can impair proper cell division but there is *zero* evidence that the fields involved in the EMP press do any of this.
The punch works because it induces a current in the metal which creates a magnetic field to oppose the one that induced the current in the first place. It does not depend on the magnetic properties of the metal. This means that roughly anything that is highly conductive like Aluminum, 303 stainless, copper etc. could be punched with the device. Largely non-conductive materials like humans can not be punched with the EMP punch.
The device works because it induces a current in the conductor (steel in this case) which creates a magnetic field which opposes the field that caused the induction in the first place. This is why you could also punch through non-ferrous metals like Aluminum with the EMP "press." The reason it wouldn't punch a hole through a human is entirely due to the fact that we are poor conductors of electricity which means that it is essentially impossible to induce an electric field strong enough to allow the device to punch a hole.
Due to the physics of fluid dynamics, a urine stream would largely break apart before it would hit the fence its self and thus a current would have a fairly difficult time traveling up the urine stream to you. More so considering that urine isn't a very good conductor unless it has fairly substantial amounts of various salts in it. I wouldn't do it but it isn't *quite* as deadly as it sounds. See mythbusters' take on the matter.