How do you know if your vote is registered correctly or not?
Well, in Finland, paper voting has proven to work in a time of great civil unrest, specifically before and after a bloody civil war. Representatives of all parties count the votes together, several times to make sure everything is counted right. Unreadable votes are discarded. After this the voting result is sent to the central electoral committee and the votes are recounted by different people. The number of votes per candidate are written down, and a carbon copy of the paper is stored with the original ballots in a sealed bag which is sent to the ministry of internal affairs.
Of course there's no way of knowing your vote was counted right but since there's people with opposite (at times even hostile) motivations it's pretty close the best we can have whilst retaining anonymity.
And now we're substituting this with a closed source voting system. The system provider even forced auditors to sign an NDA to secure their IP. Basically we're substituting a good, working system with an expensive, unsecure, and useless system.
On another note: Forgive the Godwin, and correct me if I am wrong, but don't some European countries have criminal penalties for displaying a swastika even in the form of satire or parody?
There are initiaves in extending the ban for the whole EU. What really annoys me is that if this goes through the hammer&sickle and other soviet/socialist emblems are not banned as well. The Soviets and their puppets caused suffering equal to the nazis in many European countries.
I certainly admit that you must have more knowledge than me about this. It may be that I have confused things since I can't find a reliable source for my claim (being too lazy to browse through the law texts).
Intrestingly enough, in Finland, the plaintiff is allowed to lie. Actually, he is allowed to say nothing, to tell the truth, or to lie. Witnesses are held under oath to tell the truth and we don't have the jury system. All of this would make Finland very unsuitable to court drama series' but believe it or not, it actually works.
It depends on how pro-latin english speaker you are. Those words belong to the third declension and if you consider linux to be a latin-based word it would indeed be linuces. But then you also have antenna, pl. antennae and datum, pl. data.
"All linuces I have worked with have some malformed datum bits when connected to several wireless antennae"
(like, as the other responder pointed out, more mass than previously thought in existing stars).
Won't work. Nothing that we have seen or deducted so far has not been able to explain the velocity discrepancies of stars orbiting the center of the galaxy. Also, more mass somewhere is propably the easiest thing to check, for example the effects could be seen in binary systems.
It's also a thing with the mass distribution. With a system where things rotate around a central mass (ie. the solar system) the speed of the objects can be easily estimated. Now, in a galaxy, if all the mass is in the objects we can see we should be able to deduct the speeds of the objects (faster near the center, slower in the edges). This is not the case. The stars seem to be rotating around the center of the galaxy with nearly equal velocities. This can thus far only be explained by a dark matter halo that gives additional speed to the outer stars.
I wonder how much freedom they give the people communicating with the lander. Do they triple-check every command sent to it to make sure noone does the inadvertent 'rm -fr/'? Actually they've messed up a satellite this way. A detaild explanation can be found here, quote "A modification to a spacecraft parameter, intended to update the High Gain Antenna's (HGA) pointing direction used for contingency operations, was mistakenly written to the incorrect spacecraft memory address in June 2006. The incorrect memory load resulted in the following unintended actions...". It's actually pretty amazing that they've managed to reconstruct the whole sequence of events, most likely by using simulators.
Furthermore, it's not just the wrong commands you have to worry about, but also bit flips in the signal, bit flips and errors in the memory caused by solar wind and even ultra-high-energy cosmic rays that you cannot even shield against, even with lead. Many precautions are taken, such as using old chips that are not so densely packed.
Anyway, my point is, you can have many sorts of errors in the computer programs, human, solar, or even extrasolar.
There are others (Angara A5, Ares V, Falcon 9 Heavy, Long March 5) on the books, but a NASA payload is unlikely to ever launch on a Long March rocket. The remaining lifters on the list (Energia, N1, and the Saturn line) are retired; the two Soviet lifters had a dismal record of one success in six launches. What about Ariane 5? The ECA version lifts 21000 kg to LEO, which 3400 kg less than STS but I would still consider it a viable heavy lifter. It has even been used to take Da Vinci to the ISS succesfully.
In the article they state that the vehicle returned in "a plunge with an uncontrollable, steep trajectory." So basically it came down without guidance, maybe the steering systems malfunctioned. The "ballistic trajectory" seems to be an euphemism for coming down like a rock.
A human being is capable of doing approximately 60 watts worth of work. So for three-shift operation, three people could generate about 50 watts of continuous power. A treadmill takes about two square meters. Mouse scales down in size and if we assume that the drop in power is linear to size we can safely use this 25 watts/sqm for mice also. A square mile is (takes out a calculator and curses the imperial system) approximately 2.56 square kilometers. This would yield about 64 MW of power. My question is, how many mice are needed?
We have a pretty efficient way of transporting energy across the globe with hydrocarbons. We only need to create an infrastructure of some other material (did someone say hydrogen?) that we can produce with the thermal power and then tranport it to the place where energy is needed. It's merely a question of
a) engineering and
b) politics
I think it's obvious which one is the bigger hurdle.
The White Rose organisation was labelled terrorist, and its leaders beheaded. for their non-violent anti-Nazi position in pre-WWII Nazi Germany. The German body politic bought into their government's propaganda. Sorry for the nitpicking, but die Weisse Rose was actually in action in wartime Nazi Germany (42-43), not pre-war. This is important as one of the main figures, Sophie Scholl, lost her husband in Stalingrad, which is thought to have provoked her into action. Pre-war, she was actually a member of the BDM, a female equivalent of Hitler Youth. There's a movie about the movement too, I encourage checking it out.
Great! And it took only 80-90 000 civilian casualties so far and an invasion to a sovreign country under a false pretense and without UN approval so that "things are mostly going rather well over there.".
Private communication is a key factor in a democratic society. Without it, a powerful opposition is not possible. And an opposition is very necessary, even though the current US regime/government tries to label it 'unpatriotic'. But then, I'm an ignorant European treehugger who undersands nothing about the dangers USA is facing. There is also a nice quote from one of the great minds that America has produced. "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Yes, I really had to. I usually use Google through the browser address bar or a search field, I very rarely use the front page. I assumed that I must not be the only one and saved people from wasting several seconds when they'd have to type the address. This saved time can then be used to read insightful comments here on./.
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How do you know if your vote is registered correctly or not?
Well, in Finland, paper voting has proven to work in a time of great civil unrest, specifically before and after a bloody civil war. Representatives of all parties count the votes together, several times to make sure everything is counted right. Unreadable votes are discarded. After this the voting result is sent to the central electoral committee and the votes are recounted by different people. The number of votes per candidate are written down, and a carbon copy of the paper is stored with the original ballots in a sealed bag which is sent to the ministry of internal affairs.
Of course there's no way of knowing your vote was counted right but since there's people with opposite (at times even hostile) motivations it's pretty close the best we can have whilst retaining anonymity.
And now we're substituting this with a closed source voting system. The system provider even forced auditors to sign an NDA to secure their IP. Basically we're substituting a good, working system with an expensive, unsecure, and useless system.
Moister Mars.... mmm.... sweet...
On another note: Forgive the Godwin, and correct me if I am wrong, but don't some European countries have criminal penalties for displaying a swastika even in the form of satire or parody?
There are initiaves in extending the ban for the whole EU. What really annoys me is that if this goes through the hammer&sickle and other soviet/socialist emblems are not banned as well. The Soviets and their puppets caused suffering equal to the nazis in many European countries.
Maybe they should ask the science community for 1 million dollars to build this "Telescope".
I certainly admit that you must have more knowledge than me about this. It may be that I have confused things since I can't find a reliable source for my claim (being too lazy to browse through the law texts).
Intrestingly enough, in Finland, the plaintiff is allowed to lie. Actually, he is allowed to say nothing, to tell the truth, or to lie. Witnesses are held under oath to tell the truth and we don't have the jury system. All of this would make Finland very unsuitable to court drama series' but believe it or not, it actually works.
I would tend to think that "214 megapascals vs. 130 mPa" would be a bit more than 1.6 times bigger, say something in the magnitude of 1e9.
More importantly, did it run Linux?
I also hope there was no seriousness in the suggestions that plurals in -ces and -ii would be appropriate.
How about radius, radii? I think there's no contest there.It depends on how pro-latin english speaker you are. Those words belong to the third declension and if you consider linux to be a latin-based word it would indeed be linuces. But then you also have antenna, pl. antennae and datum, pl. data.
"All linuces I have worked with have some malformed datum bits when connected to several wireless antennae"
It's also a thing with the mass distribution. With a system where things rotate around a central mass (ie. the solar system) the speed of the objects can be easily estimated. Now, in a galaxy, if all the mass is in the objects we can see we should be able to deduct the speeds of the objects (faster near the center, slower in the edges). This is not the case. The stars seem to be rotating around the center of the galaxy with nearly equal velocities. This can thus far only be explained by a dark matter halo that gives additional speed to the outer stars.
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Furthermore, it's not just the wrong commands you have to worry about, but also bit flips in the signal, bit flips and errors in the memory caused by solar wind and even ultra-high-energy cosmic rays that you cannot even shield against, even with lead. Many precautions are taken, such as using old chips that are not so densely packed.
Anyway, my point is, you can have many sorts of errors in the computer programs, human, solar, or even extrasolar.
In the article they state that the vehicle returned in "a plunge with an uncontrollable, steep trajectory." So basically it came down without guidance, maybe the steering systems malfunctioned. The "ballistic trajectory" seems to be an euphemism for coming down like a rock.
A human being is capable of doing approximately 60 watts worth of work. So for three-shift operation, three people could generate about 50 watts of continuous power. A treadmill takes about two square meters. Mouse scales down in size and if we assume that the drop in power is linear to size we can safely use this 25 watts/sqm for mice also. A square mile is (takes out a calculator and curses the imperial system) approximately 2.56 square kilometers. This would yield about 64 MW of power. My question is, how many mice are needed?
We have a pretty efficient way of transporting energy across the globe with hydrocarbons. We only need to create an infrastructure of some other material (did someone say hydrogen?) that we can produce with the thermal power and then tranport it to the place where energy is needed. It's merely a question of a) engineering and b) politics I think it's obvious which one is the bigger hurdle.
Great! And it took only 80-90 000 civilian casualties so far and an invasion to a sovreign country under a false pretense and without UN approval so that "things are mostly going rather well over there.".
Nah, just collateral damage.
It's official http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1123
How can I pull a bit to half mast?
Private communication is a key factor in a democratic society. Without it, a powerful opposition is not possible. And an opposition is very necessary, even though the current US regime/government tries to label it 'unpatriotic'. But then, I'm an ignorant European treehugger who undersands nothing about the dangers USA is facing. There is also a nice quote from one of the great minds that America has produced. "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
None whatsoever. And, come to think of it, it is really funny.
Yes, I really had to. I usually use Google through the browser address bar or a search field, I very rarely use the front page. I assumed that I must not be the only one and saved people from wasting several seconds when they'd have to type the address. This saved time can then be used to read insightful comments here on ./.
Another commemmorative logo. http://www.google.com/.