I don't understand why a) this is rated funny (unless in lieu of a sad tag) or b) why anyone thinks that Stallman's opinion on economic politics is worth discussing in the first place. Stallman on economics is like Einstein on impressionistic paintings and Hawkins on gardening.
No current or near future laser will do anything to the warhead itself. The warhead is designed to survive high speed reentry, good luck to make a laser that can exceed that energy release. You need to hit the launching rocket while there's still fuel to trigger an explosive release, or otherwise damage it enough to miss. Also, by the time anyone deploys a long range anti-missile laser the wavelength is operates on will be fairly well known, so you only need to be good in a small wavelength band. And lastly, just by rotating your missile you can multiply your energy requirements as you greatly increase the surface area the beam hits.
So, leave slashdot and go back dreaming of lasers that can blow through a warhead in 10 nanoseconds.
Unfortunately, you're mistaken. The police has no mandate to protect the individual, especially not if it involves an armed threat that could endanger the officer. All the examples you quote, from politicians to witness protection, are based on an active decision by law enforcement that it would be to their benefit to extend protection, not because it's the right of the person to be protected.
Sure it's an exciting science problem to look at - what individual compounds are part of the degradation chain of oil in the environment, how do we analyze it, what's the distribution, and is any of it toxic to wildlife. Plenty a PhD thesis in there. But the journalistic description of "we're missing part of a spill", implying that we're underestimating a problem, isn't really there IMO. Standard analysis gives you the amount of unchanged oil still around, stuff that kills birds by gumming up feathers etc. The oxidized material is quickly going to become water soluble or at least miscible as surfactant, and while not pretty it's going to dilute away in short order.
Not really, but with enough oxygen in it they start decomposing at the temperature of vaporization, producing short chain material that the automatic sample analysis suppresses. If you manually evaluate the samples you can still see it. Problem is that you get highly operator dependent results, and that makes comparing samples difficult.
Also, once you've started to oxidize the material, biodegradation isn't far behind. So it's not really an environmental problem but literally an academic one.
The fact that Antigua is not subject to copyright enforcement unfortunately won't help the US citizen taking advantage of it. The work is still protected in the US. So tracing a download will be much more difficult as there's no corresponding upload involved.
If Antigua really wants to hurt Hollywood they recoup their $21M 1 cent at a time, by posting only the newest releases before they're available on DVD. Of course, US distributors might hold off on letting any copies get into Antigua's movie theaters.
It's not SUPPOSED to run only an Ipad. It's supposed to run communications equipment, air conditioners etc. But the smallest generator they have is the 3 kW unit, the problem being that gasoline or diesel generators become extremely inefficient at low power outputs. Your 13 W solar panel helps for an Ipad, but the real meat is somewhere in the 300 - 500W range. Which is where the fuel cells shine, no mechanical parts to break, no noise, and independent from sunshine. And a lot more compact than the 5 m^2 solar panel you'd need to provide that much power.
This is strictly for military applications. The US forces in Afghanistan use 28 gallons of fuel to deliver one gallon of fuel to an outpost where a 3 gal/h generator charges an Ipod (don't laugh, that's from an US Army presentation). So, if I can charge my devices of a fuel cell fed by something like this silicon hydrogen generator I might save money not because it's energy efficient in production but energy efficient at the point of use. The reason they use silicon is that it gives you 1 gram of hydrogen per 8 grams of silicon. You could use other, cheaper, metals, but the weight ratio isn't as favorable (iron would require something like 20 to 1). As 1 kg of hydrogen gives you 127 MJ of energy, 1 kg of silicone powder gives you about 15 MJ. Compare that to a battery that gives you less than one MJ/kg, and you see the attractiveness if weight is at a premium.
The embargo on Cuba dates back to the nationalization of US property in Cuba by Castro (think Bacardi). What's actually forbidden is the transfer of US funds to Cuba, which is why Paypal, as a US company subject to that rule, gets antsy if people use their service to pay for Cuban goods. They would have to trace every transaction involving the German cigar seller for any US based funds, and that would be a huge nightmare. Easier for them to just block the whole transaction
Of course, if you, the admin, just reported an serious intruder you will find out the trace leads to a proxy server in Moldova, and your personal directory now is full of very nasty jailbird porn. But feel good about reporting the college kid with no clue.
Actually, it's too late anyway. I got lucky and met my wife on an Uqua raid, and we maintained the lifestyle for quite a while. Easy to do while the kids are in cribs, but soon they start bugging you during raid times (you know how well that tell to the raid leader goes over "stop the boss fight, need to change diaper/clean up mess/sorry kid pulled plug from wall"). Had to quit cold turkey after 10+ years of 4-5 days raiding was pretty bad, but we couldn't see ourselves be "casual players". As the OP has been married for 4 years already, he's getting too close to "that point" where a gamers live isn't really compatible with family obligations. Of course, if his overseas life involves access to full time nannies and cleaning staff for $1/day, good luck and happy gaming. Get her hooked on Zynga games until the frustration kicks in, and then slowly slide her over to the real stuff.
On the other hand, Avast gave very reasonable licensing options for their business offerings. I used them for years simply because you self-reported the number of users you had, paid your dues and got a key working unlimited for the duration. Unlike some others where you had to register each machine, and each machine turn-over or harddrive replacement required a new activation key.
Correct, there's no requirement for the 3rd party to honor the rule. But unlike a patent which stays valid even if I don't do anything with it (so I might lose the right to damages if I delay prosecution), the owner of the trademark needs to be able to demonstrate that they were paying attention to the use by others, or they can lose the trademark for good. Still have a folder here from a trademark we registered, and had to fight with the trademark office over for 3 years when they determined we weren't really using and defending the mark.
Trademarks need to be defended. So if the Good Night Lamp is trademarked, and mentioned somewhere without the (tm) note, the company needs to write a letter pointing out that the name is indeed trademarked and needs to be marked as such. Easier to just put the (tm) on it in the first place.
Steiner's anthroposophy movement (Waldorf schools etc) actively decries vaccinations, and there are some evangelical splinter denominations that refuse all medical inventions based on a bible passage that you should put your trust in faith. But all main stream religions support vaccinations.
That would still be a perfectly good argument to make the vaccine mandatory for hospital staff. AAPS is using the old trick of picking one perceived benefit, putting it in doubt, and then claiming if that one benefit isn't true, the whole vaccine has to be useless. Similar to the "if it's not 100% effective with zero side effects it's not safe" argument. Orac has taken that group apart over and over again on Respectful Insolence.
In the Boer war, the English army was invading an independent country, and succeeded by establishing concentration camps for the local Boer civilians, with death rates up to 50%. Good example there why people should never rise in armed rebellion. Kinda like saying Auschwitz was the Poles fault for fighting the Nazis.
There's significant development costs involved in keeping those games going. To keep you busy the game has to come up with at least one new quest a week. Each quest WILL break the game, don't ask me why; as it typically involves Flash crashing that's where I'd start to look. So you need content developers and programmers for troubleshooting, my guess is that each game they support requires at least one full time employee, 10 of which they just made redundant.
Sure, so the irony of something called "anonymous" using personal information as a weapon in the name of freedom of speech seems completely lost on you.
Because these mass shootings are typically massive ego trips by normally pretty bright people. It doesn't help their future "bad boy" image if they find boy on boy hentai or a fetish for amish cooking on the computer afterwards.
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I don't understand why a) this is rated funny (unless in lieu of a sad tag) or b) why anyone thinks that Stallman's opinion on economic politics is worth discussing in the first place. Stallman on economics is like Einstein on impressionistic paintings and Hawkins on gardening.
No current or near future laser will do anything to the warhead itself. The warhead is designed to survive high speed reentry, good luck to make a laser that can exceed that energy release. You need to hit the launching rocket while there's still fuel to trigger an explosive release, or otherwise damage it enough to miss. Also, by the time anyone deploys a long range anti-missile laser the wavelength is operates on will be fairly well known, so you only need to be good in a small wavelength band. And lastly, just by rotating your missile you can multiply your energy requirements as you greatly increase the surface area the beam hits. So, leave slashdot and go back dreaming of lasers that can blow through a warhead in 10 nanoseconds.
Unfortunately, you're mistaken. The police has no mandate to protect the individual, especially not if it involves an armed threat that could endanger the officer. All the examples you quote, from politicians to witness protection, are based on an active decision by law enforcement that it would be to their benefit to extend protection, not because it's the right of the person to be protected.
Sure it's an exciting science problem to look at - what individual compounds are part of the degradation chain of oil in the environment, how do we analyze it, what's the distribution, and is any of it toxic to wildlife. Plenty a PhD thesis in there. But the journalistic description of "we're missing part of a spill", implying that we're underestimating a problem, isn't really there IMO. Standard analysis gives you the amount of unchanged oil still around, stuff that kills birds by gumming up feathers etc. The oxidized material is quickly going to become water soluble or at least miscible as surfactant, and while not pretty it's going to dilute away in short order.
Not really, but with enough oxygen in it they start decomposing at the temperature of vaporization, producing short chain material that the automatic sample analysis suppresses. If you manually evaluate the samples you can still see it. Problem is that you get highly operator dependent results, and that makes comparing samples difficult. Also, once you've started to oxidize the material, biodegradation isn't far behind. So it's not really an environmental problem but literally an academic one.
The fact that Antigua is not subject to copyright enforcement unfortunately won't help the US citizen taking advantage of it. The work is still protected in the US. So tracing a download will be much more difficult as there's no corresponding upload involved. If Antigua really wants to hurt Hollywood they recoup their $21M 1 cent at a time, by posting only the newest releases before they're available on DVD. Of course, US distributors might hold off on letting any copies get into Antigua's movie theaters.
It's not SUPPOSED to run only an Ipad. It's supposed to run communications equipment, air conditioners etc. But the smallest generator they have is the 3 kW unit, the problem being that gasoline or diesel generators become extremely inefficient at low power outputs. Your 13 W solar panel helps for an Ipad, but the real meat is somewhere in the 300 - 500W range. Which is where the fuel cells shine, no mechanical parts to break, no noise, and independent from sunshine. And a lot more compact than the 5 m^2 solar panel you'd need to provide that much power.
This is strictly for military applications. The US forces in Afghanistan use 28 gallons of fuel to deliver one gallon of fuel to an outpost where a 3 gal/h generator charges an Ipod (don't laugh, that's from an US Army presentation). So, if I can charge my devices of a fuel cell fed by something like this silicon hydrogen generator I might save money not because it's energy efficient in production but energy efficient at the point of use. The reason they use silicon is that it gives you 1 gram of hydrogen per 8 grams of silicon. You could use other, cheaper, metals, but the weight ratio isn't as favorable (iron would require something like 20 to 1). As 1 kg of hydrogen gives you 127 MJ of energy, 1 kg of silicone powder gives you about 15 MJ. Compare that to a battery that gives you less than one MJ/kg, and you see the attractiveness if weight is at a premium.
The journal for those are the Tetrahedron Letters, and chemists have in vain tried to replicate them for a century.
The embargo on Cuba dates back to the nationalization of US property in Cuba by Castro (think Bacardi). What's actually forbidden is the transfer of US funds to Cuba, which is why Paypal, as a US company subject to that rule, gets antsy if people use their service to pay for Cuban goods. They would have to trace every transaction involving the German cigar seller for any US based funds, and that would be a huge nightmare. Easier for them to just block the whole transaction
Of course, if you, the admin, just reported an serious intruder you will find out the trace leads to a proxy server in Moldova, and your personal directory now is full of very nasty jailbird porn. But feel good about reporting the college kid with no clue.
Actually, it's too late anyway. I got lucky and met my wife on an Uqua raid, and we maintained the lifestyle for quite a while. Easy to do while the kids are in cribs, but soon they start bugging you during raid times (you know how well that tell to the raid leader goes over "stop the boss fight, need to change diaper/clean up mess/sorry kid pulled plug from wall"). Had to quit cold turkey after 10+ years of 4-5 days raiding was pretty bad, but we couldn't see ourselves be "casual players". As the OP has been married for 4 years already, he's getting too close to "that point" where a gamers live isn't really compatible with family obligations. Of course, if his overseas life involves access to full time nannies and cleaning staff for $1/day, good luck and happy gaming. Get her hooked on Zynga games until the frustration kicks in, and then slowly slide her over to the real stuff.
On the other hand, Avast gave very reasonable licensing options for their business offerings. I used them for years simply because you self-reported the number of users you had, paid your dues and got a key working unlimited for the duration. Unlike some others where you had to register each machine, and each machine turn-over or harddrive replacement required a new activation key.
Sure does, one term - for life. Very untypical for emperors to have multiple terms, unless your name is Napoleon.
Correct, there's no requirement for the 3rd party to honor the rule. But unlike a patent which stays valid even if I don't do anything with it (so I might lose the right to damages if I delay prosecution), the owner of the trademark needs to be able to demonstrate that they were paying attention to the use by others, or they can lose the trademark for good. Still have a folder here from a trademark we registered, and had to fight with the trademark office over for 3 years when they determined we weren't really using and defending the mark.
Trademarks need to be defended. So if the Good Night Lamp is trademarked, and mentioned somewhere without the (tm) note, the company needs to write a letter pointing out that the name is indeed trademarked and needs to be marked as such. Easier to just put the (tm) on it in the first place.
That they fail high school chemistry is not surprising, that they can't be bothered googling it is.
Good then that Barium Sulfate is one of the least water soluble minerals known to man.
Steiner's anthroposophy movement (Waldorf schools etc) actively decries vaccinations, and there are some evangelical splinter denominations that refuse all medical inventions based on a bible passage that you should put your trust in faith. But all main stream religions support vaccinations.
That would still be a perfectly good argument to make the vaccine mandatory for hospital staff. AAPS is using the old trick of picking one perceived benefit, putting it in doubt, and then claiming if that one benefit isn't true, the whole vaccine has to be useless. Similar to the "if it's not 100% effective with zero side effects it's not safe" argument. Orac has taken that group apart over and over again on Respectful Insolence.
In the Boer war, the English army was invading an independent country, and succeeded by establishing concentration camps for the local Boer civilians, with death rates up to 50%. Good example there why people should never rise in armed rebellion. Kinda like saying Auschwitz was the Poles fault for fighting the Nazis.
There's significant development costs involved in keeping those games going. To keep you busy the game has to come up with at least one new quest a week. Each quest WILL break the game, don't ask me why; as it typically involves Flash crashing that's where I'd start to look. So you need content developers and programmers for troubleshooting, my guess is that each game they support requires at least one full time employee, 10 of which they just made redundant.
Sure, so the irony of something called "anonymous" using personal information as a weapon in the name of freedom of speech seems completely lost on you.
Because these mass shootings are typically massive ego trips by normally pretty bright people. It doesn't help their future "bad boy" image if they find boy on boy hentai or a fetish for amish cooking on the computer afterwards.
Well, it's only 2008 by your calculation, we wait until Australia catches up to 2012 . Bloody time zones