Any material used for a space elevator cable will have an enourmous strength/weight ratio. We're not talking about steel cables here. Imagine how destructive it would be to have a 100km ribbon of toilet paper falling to earth and you'll get the idea.
Isn't every place in a bus that could possibly serve as a projection surface already covered in advertisements, graffiti, old chewing gum, and god only knows what else?
What do you think causes floods? The National Weather Service isn't talking about broken pipes.
While +5 is overrated, the point I was trying to make is that the OP's analogy was doing a poor job of making his point for him. I was trying to make it clear that while the dramatic and spectacular issues may make news, it's the ordinary, persistant problems that really cause more damage.
While their effects aren't as terrifying for those affected, there is little doubt that MyDoom and Netsky are continuing to have a far greater impact than the Kama Sutra virus.
Actually, from what I gather rain does cause more damage than tornadoes. In 1999 rain (floods) caused $5.4 billion in property damage in the US, while tornadoes caused $1.1 billion worth of damage.
when there is a particular date they can get in a tizzy about. No one will know they were making a mountain out of a mole hill until the "crisis" has passed. Remeber the michelangelo virus?
Since when is even "a little bit of ribbing" okay just because someone was born into a particular demographic? Double standards are alright as long as the people we're screwing haven't been as historicaly oppressed as everyone else? And I'm not talking about the powerful, I never said powerful. I am talking about a gender. Male bashing and misandry should be no more acceptable than making cracks at women, blacks, homosexuals, or Poles. Or are some people more equal than others?
These days it seems you need legislation just to protect a market from further legislation. The default situation for everything is to bring things to a near standstill with regualtion, taxation, tarrifs, and oversight. The only hope may be to tie up the government so tightly in it's own rules that it becomes impotent to screw things up further.
I'm not arguing one way or the other. I'm just pointing out that the sentence that you quoted was clearly not a statemnet of of the author's beliefs (as you seemed to imply) but rather a statement of what the author believed to be a widely held falsehood. It seemed silly for you to make a post explaing what was untrue about a statement that the author himself didn't believe.
Are you an idiot? Did you read the sentence right after the one you quoted? The one that says: "Businesses unaware of the falsehood of this claim are too afraid of running afoul of the 'open source community' and sometimes make decisions that are not in their financial interests."
Historically, the best way to make sure that your data will really last, is to start a religion devoted to studying, copying, distributing, and preserving it.
The trick is to sort out the transcription errors after a couple millenia.
I'm pretty sure that assembling a critical mass doesn't require any significant energy expenditure. It's just a matter of putting a suffient quantity of suitably fissile material into close enough proximity to provide the escaping neutrons enough chances to interact with enough nuclei to create a self sustaining reaction. Usually the reaction that results from a criticality accident will scatter the fissile material before a significant quantity of the material has reacted.
An atomic bomb is just a device for assembling a critical mass quickly enough that a lot of the material will undergo fission before it gets blown apart. The simplest ones just use a "gun" to shoot one sub-critical mass at another sub-critical mass.
It may, theoreticaly, result in the emission of some greenhouse gasses. Warming the lower depths of the ocean would reduce its ability to hold dissolved gasses such as methane and carbon dioxode. On the other hand, it may not be a problem because tropical waters may never have been cold enough to hold much gas in the first place.
I meant that the mileage after changing the rear end when the engine had already been swapped.
I swapped the engine (and later the differential) exactly because I wanted, to make the car more fun to drive. You wouldn't believe how much I had to learn about the E30 and variations in the M20 series engines, especially since I upgrade from a motronic 1.0 ECU to motronic 1.3. These days it should be pushing 200hp with the headers, intake and chip upgrades.
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Any material used for a space elevator cable will have an enourmous strength/weight ratio. We're not talking about steel cables here. Imagine how destructive it would be to have a 100km ribbon of toilet paper falling to earth and you'll get the idea.
Isn't every place in a bus that could possibly serve as a projection surface already covered in advertisements, graffiti, old chewing gum, and god only knows what else?
Uh huh. And why would this stop you from also having a more discrete display?
I wonder if they may also end up seeding cancers.
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What do you think causes floods? The National Weather Service isn't talking about broken pipes.
While +5 is overrated, the point I was trying to make is that the OP's analogy was doing a poor job of making his point for him. I was trying to make it clear that while the dramatic and spectacular issues may make news, it's the ordinary, persistant problems that really cause more damage.
While their effects aren't as terrifying for those affected, there is little doubt that MyDoom and Netsky are continuing to have a far greater impact than the Kama Sutra virus.
Actually, from what I gather rain does cause more damage than tornadoes. In 1999 rain (floods) caused $5.4 billion in property damage in the US, while tornadoes caused $1.1 billion worth of damage.
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Yes, there is.
when there is a particular date they can get in a tizzy about. No one will know they were making a mountain out of a mole hill until the "crisis" has passed. Remeber the michelangelo virus?
Since when is even "a little bit of ribbing" okay just because someone was born into a particular demographic? Double standards are alright as long as the people we're screwing haven't been as historicaly oppressed as everyone else? And I'm not talking about the powerful, I never said powerful. I am talking about a gender. Male bashing and misandry should be no more acceptable than making cracks at women, blacks, homosexuals, or Poles. Or are some people more equal than others?
Don't forget men, especially caucasian men. Nobody will mind if you make fun of them.
These days it seems you need legislation just to protect a market from further legislation. The default situation for everything is to bring things to a near standstill with regualtion, taxation, tarrifs, and oversight. The only hope may be to tie up the government so tightly in it's own rules that it becomes impotent to screw things up further.
I'm not arguing one way or the other. I'm just pointing out that the sentence that you quoted was clearly not a statemnet of of the author's beliefs (as you seemed to imply) but rather a statement of what the author believed to be a widely held falsehood. It seemed silly for you to make a post explaing what was untrue about a statement that the author himself didn't believe.
Are you an idiot? Did you read the sentence right after the one you quoted? The one that says:
"Businesses unaware of the falsehood of this claim are too afraid of running afoul of the 'open source community' and sometimes make decisions that are not in their financial interests."
Historically, the best way to make sure that your data will really last, is to start a religion devoted to studying, copying, distributing, and preserving it.
The trick is to sort out the transcription errors after a couple millenia.
I'm pretty sure that assembling a critical mass doesn't require any significant energy expenditure. It's just a matter of putting a suffient quantity of suitably fissile material into close enough proximity to provide the escaping neutrons enough chances to interact with enough nuclei to create a self sustaining reaction. Usually the reaction that results from a criticality accident will scatter the fissile material before a significant quantity of the material has reacted.
An atomic bomb is just a device for assembling a critical mass quickly enough that a lot of the material will undergo fission before it gets blown apart. The simplest ones just use a "gun" to shoot one sub-critical mass at another sub-critical mass.
It may, theoreticaly, result in the emission of some greenhouse gasses. Warming the lower depths of the ocean would reduce its ability to hold dissolved gasses such as methane and carbon dioxode.
On the other hand, it may not be a problem because tropical waters may never have been cold enough to hold much gas in the first place.
Agreed. I read an article about this when I was digging through a box of Popular Science magazines from about 1972.
Don't worry. Global warming will make it all balance out.
No, but it does derive it's power from heavy elements that were created by the explosions of older stars.
By your definition slaves are the most civilized people of all.
Truly civilized people are characterized their respect for liberties of others.
Oh really?
The formation of cult of the majority is one of the most dangerous tools that tyrants have ever devised.
My SquirrelMail installation has it all over all three of them!
I meant that the mileage after changing the rear end when the engine had already been swapped.
I swapped the engine (and later the differential) exactly because I wanted, to make the car more fun to drive. You wouldn't believe how much I had to learn about the E30 and variations in the M20 series engines, especially since I upgrade from a motronic 1.0 ECU to motronic 1.3. These days it should be pushing 200hp with the headers, intake and chip upgrades.