The WTF business does the US Army have in most third-world countries (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Somalia,...) or fighting nebulous terror groups. There are no clearly defined objectives. Leave the land armies at home.
However, "the two year old child originated 2.75 years ago" is a true statement. He gestated a while elsewhere before emerging into our realm. Fascinating thing - some characteristics (such as his navel) offer a hint at what that preceding stage was like.
What's wrong with connecting dots? We project the past into the future routinely and reliably. Why can't it run backwards? Epidemiologists certainly do that. Consider today's cinema... audience sizes, production cost, production values, censorship, graphic content, crew size, number of awards. It scarcely matters which parameters are picked as long as they can be measured. Next, examine those parameters for the 1990s, 1970s, and 1950s. From those data points, you can infer trends. From those trends, you can probably make a decent guess as to when motion photography was invented.
The first impact of the CME has hit and the boulder Kp is hovering around 3. Watch it here.and here. Here in southern Minnesota, Kp has to hit 6 before we see anything. 5 up on the Canadian border. Good luck spotting those unicorns!
Slashdot is also remarkably conservative. You see this regularly in terms of computer technology (anti-Wayland, anti-Gnome, anti-Windows 8....) but it is also true in terms of American politics. Climate change is going to require coordinated large scale governmental actions through incentives and regulation. Libertarians don't like it so they pretend there is no underlying problem
It is generally true that the past has too many constituents and the future doesn't have enough.
3. You get bored, distracted, and fall asleep behind the wheel... especially on long straight highways.
4. You are limited in how many hours per day you can drive.
5. You are expensive.
This is why the premier application (note I did not use the term "killer app") for self-driving vehicles will be in long haul trucks.
Long ago, I worked at a commercial lab where tanks of H2, 02, and N2O (nitrous oxide) were used for flame or plasma ion detectors. For fun, we used to launch "Hindenburgs"... large trash bags filled with hydrogen plus a latex glove filled with the oxydizer and trailed by a fuse of burning paraffin film. The balloon would sail off into the night sky and detonate at a safe altitude and distance downwind. Usually. Our antics abruptly halted when one exploded prematurely just a dozen feet off the ground. The concussion and heat convinced us to give up our fun.
Can this tell us something about the shape of space?
The fabric of space could form a loop such as a sphere. Think of the arcade game Asteroids. I have wondered if the Hubble deep field images are something like a self portrait photo shot in a very large house of mirrors. The loop is so big, in fact, that we are seeing our own galaxy and all others repeated at intervals of time in the past. The minimum homogeneous volume would also place a lower limit on the size of the loop.
Farts with a range of 150 feet, what could go wrong?
That would be a biological weapon delivery system. "Fetchez la vache" is so 12 seconds ago. We don't have to launch a whole putrid carcass over the castle walls, just a few puffs of bad air.
Keep poking it with a stick and eventually it will stop hiding in the corner and come sink its claws and teeth into you. And why? Because it didn't have a choice.
"Terror" is the strategy for those with no other options. The best weapon against terror is blind and principled justice for all.
1) Given that there are only so many seconds in a month, a rate cap automatically limits a plan that was sold as "unlimited". You cannot download more than 9GB/month at 14.4kbps.
2) Every time I see the AT&T ads with people exclaiming "that was so 29 seconds ago" I chuckle. They are selling performance as the primary feature of their service, then hobbling that performance when customers make use of it.
3) AT&T is framing this as a tragedy of the commons problem: unilimited access to a finite common good leads to a collapse. (Grazing sheep on public property, fisheries, etc.) Is this really a finite good of just a failure to invest in capacity?
The academy awards serve a purpose. Just as the Superbowl is more about the ads than the game on the field, And Oscar night has evolved to become more about the red carpet than the statuettes. SciFi = Summer Blockbuster (generally). Blockbuster summer films just don't seem to require the type of hype machine that the Academy dishes up.
There is a simple solution. At each airport, the state should provide a traveler's advocate with superceding authority (yes, above TSA) to allow travelers through security, ignore the "no fly" list for people with common names, allow grannies and cancer patients to avoid groping and disrobing, etc. Any traveler could say "Get the traveler's advocate" and have them there within ten minutes. The advocate applies immediate, common sense judgement of "risk" to minimizing harm to the individual traveler against protecting the general flying population. This would actually help the TSA agents by allowing common sense to prevail over politics and policy.
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The WTF business does the US Army have in most third-world countries (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Somalia, ...) or fighting nebulous terror groups. There are no clearly defined objectives. Leave the land armies at home.
I just came here to become a person who has seen a video of Schrodinger's cat collapsing. Nothing to see here, move along.
However, "the two year old child originated 2.75 years ago" is a true statement. He gestated a while elsewhere before emerging into our realm. Fascinating thing - some characteristics (such as his navel) offer a hint at what that preceding stage was like.
What's wrong with connecting dots? We project the past into the future routinely and reliably. Why can't it run backwards? Epidemiologists certainly do that. Consider today's cinema ... audience sizes, production cost, production values, censorship, graphic content, crew size, number of awards. It scarcely matters which parameters are picked as long as they can be measured. Next, examine those parameters for the 1990s, 1970s, and 1950s. From those data points, you can infer trends. From those trends, you can probably make a decent guess as to when motion photography was invented.
The first impact of the CME has hit and the boulder Kp is hovering around 3. Watch it here.and here. Here in southern Minnesota, Kp has to hit 6 before we see anything. 5 up on the Canadian border. Good luck spotting those unicorns!
Slashdot is also remarkably conservative. You see this regularly in terms of computer technology (anti-Wayland, anti-Gnome, anti-Windows 8....) but it is also true in terms of American politics. Climate change is going to require coordinated large scale governmental actions through incentives and regulation. Libertarians don't like it so they pretend there is no underlying problem
It is generally true that the past has too many constituents and the future doesn't have enough.
... how about banning self-driving cars with camera pods, too?
Sure. And that fruitcake you will be getting this year will be "regiven" not "regifted".
How about using the same positions, but for stereoscopic ultra high res search and mapping of near Earth objects?
Funny, since one of with software patents is that the hurdle of "not obvious to a practitioner of the art" has been set way, way too low.
I want my sig back.
Technology Review has a similar piece.
3. You get bored, distracted, and fall asleep behind the wheel ... especially on long straight highways.
4. You are limited in how many hours per day you can drive.
5. You are expensive.
This is why the premier application (note I did not use the term "killer app") for self-driving vehicles will be in long haul trucks.
Long ago, I worked at a commercial lab where tanks of H2, 02, and N2O (nitrous oxide) were used for flame or plasma ion detectors. For fun, we used to launch "Hindenburgs" ... large trash bags filled with hydrogen plus a latex glove filled with the oxydizer and trailed by a fuse of burning paraffin film. The balloon would sail off into the night sky and detonate at a safe altitude and distance downwind. Usually. Our antics abruptly halted when one exploded prematurely just a dozen feet off the ground. The concussion and heat convinced us to give up our fun.
Can this tell us something about the shape of space? The fabric of space could form a loop such as a sphere. Think of the arcade game Asteroids. I have wondered if the Hubble deep field images are something like a self portrait photo shot in a very large house of mirrors. The loop is so big, in fact, that we are seeing our own galaxy and all others repeated at intervals of time in the past. The minimum homogeneous volume would also place a lower limit on the size of the loop.
Is it good or bad when "bob" goes down?
Yeah, that's actually a bit of a problem. Canadians really need to get a little more creative in naming their daughters.
How about their racks? ChristyAA, ChristyC, ChristyDD...
She knows.
Really? The headline reads "Trooper was on laptop moments before crash"
"this bread sure is postnatural."
Whatever you do, don't say "this breakfast cereal sure is postnatural."
Farts with a range of 150 feet, what could go wrong?
That would be a biological weapon delivery system. "Fetchez la vache" is so 12 seconds ago. We don't have to launch a whole putrid carcass over the castle walls, just a few puffs of bad air.
Keep poking it with a stick and eventually it will stop hiding in the corner and come sink its claws and teeth into you. And why? Because it didn't have a choice.
"Terror" is the strategy for those with no other options. The best weapon against terror is blind and principled justice for all.
1) Given that there are only so many seconds in a month, a rate cap automatically limits a plan that was sold as "unlimited". You cannot download more than 9GB/month at 14.4kbps. 2) Every time I see the AT&T ads with people exclaiming "that was so 29 seconds ago" I chuckle. They are selling performance as the primary feature of their service, then hobbling that performance when customers make use of it. 3) AT&T is framing this as a tragedy of the commons problem: unilimited access to a finite common good leads to a collapse. (Grazing sheep on public property, fisheries, etc.) Is this really a finite good of just a failure to invest in capacity?
The academy awards serve a purpose. Just as the Superbowl is more about the ads than the game on the field, And Oscar night has evolved to become more about the red carpet than the statuettes. SciFi = Summer Blockbuster (generally). Blockbuster summer films just don't seem to require the type of hype machine that the Academy dishes up.
There is a simple solution. At each airport, the state should provide a traveler's advocate with superceding authority (yes, above TSA) to allow travelers through security, ignore the "no fly" list for people with common names, allow grannies and cancer patients to avoid groping and disrobing, etc. Any traveler could say "Get the traveler's advocate" and have them there within ten minutes. The advocate applies immediate, common sense judgement of "risk" to minimizing harm to the individual traveler against protecting the general flying population. This would actually help the TSA agents by allowing common sense to prevail over politics and policy.