Sorry, but no. They don't lose mass from their core, but rather they emit mass in the form of hawking radiation as you yourself acknowledged. Hawking Radiation comes from the phenomena of photon-pairs being created ex nihilo which supposedly happens in the vacuum of space all the time, but they usually annihilate one another in a short period of time. Because half of these pairs fall into the black hole (never to be seen again) the other half is radiated out into space. So what would actually happen is that the black hole gains mass, rather than losing it, because of the other half of the photon pairs are sucked into the black hole.
Sure you can measure what's going on past the event horizon of a black hole. All you have to do is make your camera's velocity exceed the force created (or rather possessed) by a photon going at the speed of light, and presto! You now have a camera that can probe farther into the gravimetric field of a black hole than light by itself.
Unless you're one of those General Relativity literalists. *shudder*
Great questions, but they don't fall into the realm of relevancy. What's important about this article is the potential for transparency in government, so that we can slowly crawl toward our national ideal of democracy.
Not at all. Call your local office/division of elections, or refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_college . I have a paper (dead tree version, I'm afraid) that outlines the exact process of a Presidential election in the US, but unfortunately I'm without a scanner at the moment.
Or you can just concede defeat, without doing all that legwork.;) I win either way.
Well considering what causes EMPs (explosions, nuclear in particular) according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse I'd say that the EMP is the going to be the least of the UAV's concerns when it encounters it.
Well right now the main detriment that aging brings to the table is cardiovascular health, so after a certain age (depending on the person) they're no longer healthy enough to have sex. I'm curious if regeneration would perhaps mitigate this factor, as cardiac cells could conceivably be regenerated to undo the effects of aging as well.
No no no, *we* didn't elect him into office; the electoral college and the private political parties (democrat, republic) decides who gets into office and what kind of person they need to be (or at least their platform), in that order. Never have I seen US Reps telling their constituents who or what kind of person they'll vote for when it comes time for the next presidential primary when they're begging for your votes, meaning that we the people have no way at all of influencing who the next president will be. But you have to appreciate the dog and pony show that all the news channels put on to keep us content in our delusion that we have a modicum of power. Especially with all those pretty visual aides. Aren't they all shiny? Oooooh
Our only recourse is to move to Iran and invade Iraq, to keep the battle over there as our like-minded foreign peers have been so diligent as to do for the past half a decade or so....because that'll change something. Right.
But not to worry - the Prozac or illicit substances will kick in shortly.
The machines we have don't have USB ports, and don't run on any popular OS. They are never plugged into each other (directly or indirectly). There really is no way for such a virus to spread across these machines.
We keep track of voters by their polling place, so in the unlikely event that a box of votes from a certain polling place were to be blown up, abducted by aliens, or what have you, we would simply contact the voters of that polling place to recast their ballots. Yes, it really is that simple.
Voting machines are never networked, so there's no way for such a virus to propagate.
The votes aren't tabulated on a computer until after the paper ballots (which the machines spit out after each individual vote) are counted against the electronic counter. In effect this electronic counter is more of a guide-point for the paper counters, so if your results deviate from it you probably need to recount the paper ballots.
One of the great features of the machines used in my office is that it allows even the blind to vote. How would you accommodate them via your SAT-like ballots? Would they have to trust someone to darken the correct circle for them? Wouldn't you rather trust an impartial machine to do this for you?
Aside from all that, you make excellent points. Let's keep going into the future kicking and screaming.;-)
Or instead of jumping the gun straight to picketing and boycotting, you could take a trip down to your local office of elections and raising your concerns in person. Perhaps, given the chance to elucidate you as to the invalidity of your concerns, you won't even need to picket.
I've personally worked for the Alaska's Division of Election, so this might not hold true for the equipment used by other states but:
The major problems with the system as it is are: 1) poor physical security 2) risk of sabotage of code and components [corruption] 3) no paper trail to verify votes 4) code must be/remain open source to make sure the voting machines are not doing something shady without anyone's knowledge etc...
1) All TSX (touch-screen machines) are always under lock and key when not being fielded. When they're out in the wild they are under constant supervision of either staff or a group of volunteers (who as far as the staff knows don't know each other - integrity through numbers approach)
2) Only the staff has the a key to open the machine's controls. Said staff is so busy with the logistics of elections that they a) have no time to sabotage, b) don't know how to code, let alone for the proprietary system (which doesn't exactly have a keyboard to input arbitrary code, compile, and execute it)
3) Oh yes there's a paper trail. Every entered vote automagically results in a paper receipt, which are immediately locked into a security box, and hand-counted by a committee during and again after the election closes. This is one of the biggest concerns we hear, and we're only happy to show our voters how this is NOT the case.
4) This is the most valid (in my situation) point out of all of them. They are closed source, as far as I know. However, they aren't networked to computers (let alone the internet), and all ballots are composed ad hoc - meaning that the company couldn't have programmed in 'Give Candidate A 2 votes per every 1 vote for Candidate B' as they have no idea who's going to be in which slot.
So once again every electronic vote (for the foreseeable future) results in one paper receipt which the voter can see, which is counted multiple times. All in all, we're just making it easier for the voter to cast his or her ballot versus the clumsy machines of yore; that and they have built-in accessibility features for the blind.
Here in the USA it doesn't matter who you're affiliated with, as long as you're completely impartial when dealing with voters (et al). You can't campaign on the Division of Elections' property, and so on.
A range of infinite but not all-encompassing numbers is one thing as it's merely a mental construct, but point anyone to an actual object (and an anthropic one at that) that is infinite in size and isn't all-encompassing.
Because little ol' Iran is such a huge threat to the colossal USA, who, I might add, has the most history of nuclear weapons abuse in the history of mankind.
Why shouldn't it be? Given enough inertia a relatively large object should be able to escape what feeble photons can't. The only foreseeable problem is accelerating said object to the requisite velocity. I'm thinking a rail-gun-esque launch system might do the trick.
Black holes don't presuppose singularities (unless you buy that whole 'bending of spacetime' hoopla). The laws of physics don't necessarily change in black holes, but because of their gravimetric impact (particularly upon radiation) we wouldn't know if they did.
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Had to attack the form and not the argument itself. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the mark of an uneducated mind. Let's hear it for Ecuador. ;)
Sorry, but no. They don't lose mass from their core, but rather they emit mass in the form of hawking radiation as you yourself acknowledged. Hawking Radiation comes from the phenomena of photon-pairs being created ex nihilo which supposedly happens in the vacuum of space all the time, but they usually annihilate one another in a short period of time. Because half of these pairs fall into the black hole (never to be seen again) the other half is radiated out into space. So what would actually happen is that the black hole gains mass, rather than losing it, because of the other half of the photon pairs are sucked into the black hole.
Sure you can measure what's going on past the event horizon of a black hole. All you have to do is make your camera's velocity exceed the force created (or rather possessed) by a photon going at the speed of light, and presto! You now have a camera that can probe farther into the gravimetric field of a black hole than light by itself.
Unless you're one of those General Relativity literalists. *shudder*
Great questions, but they don't fall into the realm of relevancy. What's important about this article is the potential for transparency in government, so that we can slowly crawl toward our national ideal of democracy.
Not at all. Call your local office/division of elections, or refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_college . I have a paper (dead tree version, I'm afraid) that outlines the exact process of a Presidential election in the US, but unfortunately I'm without a scanner at the moment.
Or you can just concede defeat, without doing all that legwork.Well considering what causes EMPs (explosions, nuclear in particular) according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse I'd say that the EMP is the going to be the least of the UAV's concerns when it encounters it.
Well right now the main detriment that aging brings to the table is cardiovascular health, so after a certain age (depending on the person) they're no longer healthy enough to have sex. I'm curious if regeneration would perhaps mitigate this factor, as cardiac cells could conceivably be regenerated to undo the effects of aging as well.
No no no, *we* didn't elect him into office; the electoral college and the private political parties (democrat, republic) decides who gets into office and what kind of person they need to be (or at least their platform), in that order. Never have I seen US Reps telling their constituents who or what kind of person they'll vote for when it comes time for the next presidential primary when they're begging for your votes, meaning that we the people have no way at all of influencing who the next president will be. But you have to appreciate the dog and pony show that all the news channels put on to keep us content in our delusion that we have a modicum of power. Especially with all those pretty visual aides. Aren't they all shiny? Oooooh
Our only recourse is to move to Iran and invade Iraq, to keep the battle over there as our like-minded foreign peers have been so diligent as to do for the past half a decade or so. ...because that'll change something. Right.
But not to worry - the Prozac or illicit substances will kick in shortly.
You're all about a bunch of Austin Powers walking around? I don't know...
*shrug* Somebody needs to code a shell that takes command-line input and provides GUI output.
Regardless of how long that one line would have to be.
and I've been of the same opinion for years as well. Postulating that time is variable instead of the speed of light is nonsense.
When's that writer's strike slated to be over, anyway?
That's rather messed up, IMHO. I had no idea that this changes from state to state.
The machines we have don't have USB ports, and don't run on any popular OS. They are never plugged into each other (directly or indirectly). There really is no way for such a virus to spread across these machines.
We keep track of voters by their polling place, so in the unlikely event that a box of votes from a certain polling place were to be blown up, abducted by aliens, or what have you, we would simply contact the voters of that polling place to recast their ballots. Yes, it really is that simple.
Voting machines are never networked, so there's no way for such a virus to propagate.
The votes aren't tabulated on a computer until after the paper ballots (which the machines spit out after each individual vote) are counted against the electronic counter. In effect this electronic counter is more of a guide-point for the paper counters, so if your results deviate from it you probably need to recount the paper ballots.
One of the great features of the machines used in my office is that it allows even the blind to vote. How would you accommodate them via your SAT-like ballots? Would they have to trust someone to darken the correct circle for them? Wouldn't you rather trust an impartial machine to do this for you?
Aside from all that, you make excellent points. Let's keep going into the future kicking and screaming. ;-)
Or instead of jumping the gun straight to picketing and boycotting, you could take a trip down to your local office of elections and raising your concerns in person. Perhaps, given the chance to elucidate you as to the invalidity of your concerns, you won't even need to picket.
I've personally worked for the Alaska's Division of Election, so this might not hold true for the equipment used by other states but:
The major problems with the system as it is are: 1) poor physical security 2) risk of sabotage of code and components [corruption] 3) no paper trail to verify votes 4) code must be/remain open source to make sure the voting machines are not doing something shady without anyone's knowledge etc...1) All TSX (touch-screen machines) are always under lock and key when not being fielded. When they're out in the wild they are under constant supervision of either staff or a group of volunteers (who as far as the staff knows don't know each other - integrity through numbers approach)
2) Only the staff has the a key to open the machine's controls. Said staff is so busy with the logistics of elections that they a) have no time to sabotage, b) don't know how to code, let alone for the proprietary system (which doesn't exactly have a keyboard to input arbitrary code, compile, and execute it)
3) Oh yes there's a paper trail. Every entered vote automagically results in a paper receipt, which are immediately locked into a security box, and hand-counted by a committee during and again after the election closes. This is one of the biggest concerns we hear, and we're only happy to show our voters how this is NOT the case.
4) This is the most valid (in my situation) point out of all of them. They are closed source, as far as I know. However, they aren't networked to computers (let alone the internet), and all ballots are composed ad hoc - meaning that the company couldn't have programmed in 'Give Candidate A 2 votes per every 1 vote for Candidate B' as they have no idea who's going to be in which slot.
So once again every electronic vote (for the foreseeable future) results in one paper receipt which the voter can see, which is counted multiple times. All in all, we're just making it easier for the voter to cast his or her ballot versus the clumsy machines of yore; that and they have built-in accessibility features for the blind.
Here in the USA it doesn't matter who you're affiliated with, as long as you're completely impartial when dealing with voters (et al). You can't campaign on the Division of Elections' property, and so on.
A range of infinite but not all-encompassing numbers is one thing as it's merely a mental construct, but point anyone to an actual object (and an anthropic one at that) that is infinite in size and isn't all-encompassing.
Since when have GigaBytes been base 10?
Because little ol' Iran is such a huge threat to the colossal USA, who, I might add, has the most history of nuclear weapons abuse in the history of mankind.
Why shouldn't it be? Given enough inertia a relatively large object should be able to escape what feeble photons can't. The only foreseeable problem is accelerating said object to the requisite velocity. I'm thinking a rail-gun-esque launch system might do the trick.
Black holes don't presuppose singularities (unless you buy that whole 'bending of spacetime' hoopla). The laws of physics don't necessarily change in black holes, but because of their gravimetric impact (particularly upon radiation) we wouldn't know if they did.