The difference in density is less than half a percent. Much more difficult to detect than, say, the substitution of some quantity of silver. Depending on the method used, it could easily slip beneath the margin of error of a test. For a ten grams of material (a popular size for ingots), that's a difference in volume of 0.0013 milliliters. To put that in perspective, a drop of water is twenty times larger than that.
Of course, the issue is the chemical signals used to trigger the sensation of "fullness" end up being less effective in fatter people. There's a bit of positive feedback with regards to weight gain/appetite.
You do realize that those large lever-based mechanical voting systems have a 7% chance of recording the vote incorrectly, right? And that with a screwdriver and a few minutes you can tamper it into casting all votes for a single candidate? And that they aren't immune to stuffing the ballot box before voting begins?
Mechanical voting machines aren't any better than e-voting.
>But I find it a remarkable and wholly unbelievable coincidence that they were found just before the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. Hey, would *you* check the time capsule?
In the case of the red scares, though, the government actually was riddled with communists. Unfortunately, McCarthy used a chainsaw instead of a scalpel, and did far more harm than good.
My real question is, what is the environmental impact going to be from removing all this energy from the weather? If a very slight increase in global temperatures can cause such catastrophic impacts, what impact will we find once we start extracting energy at a rate of 16 terawatts? After a year, that's about 500 exajoules, which has to have SOME impact upon the weather.
He wasn't attempting to compare the peak power for a horse, but the power that can be sustained for useful work. For very short periods of time, a horse can get up to about 15 horse power, but for purposes for which you'd actually use a steam engine, they drop to around 0.9 horse power or so.
Actually, he made the horses do more intense work they normally performed, then rounded the amount of power a horse could exert upwards. He took great pains not to promise more than he could deliver.
Actually, technically speaking, Steamboat Willie is in the public domain due to errors in how they did the nameplates. The copyright act of 1909 was very stringent in that regard.
It's not really that difficult to fake it. Adulterate the gold with powdered tungsten, then electroplate pure gold over it. The difference it weight is close to negligible, but the tungsten costs a whole lot less...
Of course, it would be easy to separate it out by just melting the gold...
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The difference in density is less than half a percent. Much more difficult to detect than, say, the substitution of some quantity of silver. Depending on the method used, it could easily slip beneath the margin of error of a test. For a ten grams of material (a popular size for ingots), that's a difference in volume of 0.0013 milliliters. To put that in perspective, a drop of water is twenty times larger than that.
Of course, the issue is the chemical signals used to trigger the sensation of "fullness" end up being less effective in fatter people. There's a bit of positive feedback with regards to weight gain/appetite.
In Firefox 3.5, the bard class has been totally revised, and you no longer need to "intuit direction" to browse the web.
So, why isn't this in idle, again?
You do realize that those large lever-based mechanical voting systems have a 7% chance of recording the vote incorrectly, right? And that with a screwdriver and a few minutes you can tamper it into casting all votes for a single candidate? And that they aren't immune to stuffing the ballot box before voting begins?
Mechanical voting machines aren't any better than e-voting.
>But I find it a remarkable and wholly unbelievable coincidence that they were found just before the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
Hey, would *you* check the time capsule?
What they aren't saying is that the Sunday Press borrowed them all along, and never returned them.
They didn't even bother to rewind, those selfish jerks.
Well, you know what they say, camels are the ships of the desert.
>And if you can't intuit physics then you probably shouldn't mess with it.
So, nobody should mess with Quantum Physics?
In the case of the red scares, though, the government actually was riddled with communists. Unfortunately, McCarthy used a chainsaw instead of a scalpel, and did far more harm than good.
Of course. Trackpoints are pretty much strictly better than touchpads.
Well, they don't make 'em like they used to.
My real question is, what is the environmental impact going to be from removing all this energy from the weather? If a very slight increase in global temperatures can cause such catastrophic impacts, what impact will we find once we start extracting energy at a rate of 16 terawatts? After a year, that's about 500 exajoules, which has to have SOME impact upon the weather.
He wasn't attempting to compare the peak power for a horse, but the power that can be sustained for useful work. For very short periods of time, a horse can get up to about 15 horse power, but for purposes for which you'd actually use a steam engine, they drop to around 0.9 horse power or so.
Actually, he made the horses do more intense work they normally performed, then rounded the amount of power a horse could exert upwards. He took great pains not to promise more than he could deliver.
Actually, technically speaking, Steamboat Willie is in the public domain due to errors in how they did the nameplates. The copyright act of 1909 was very stringent in that regard.
It's not really that difficult to fake it. Adulterate the gold with powdered tungsten, then electroplate pure gold over it. The difference it weight is close to negligible, but the tungsten costs a whole lot less...
Of course, it would be easy to separate it out by just melting the gold...
It was Carmen Sandiego. Seriously, wasn't anyone paying attention?
Estimates for polywell put mass production at 20 years, assuming the test results keep coming in the way they are now.
At least two publishers.
Or, given how English works, technically zero works as well.
Wait, people actually read the article summary?
I just base my comments off the title.
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Sure, you can find naked servers at google, but don't you prefer the personal touch?
Must be just your Cici's - the one near me doesn't charge a fee for credit cards.
And back in world war one! They called it "The thousand-yard stare"! Five syllables and a hyphen!
Cherrypicking, much?
I would think it would be harder to code a lock for the phone, and then break through the security.