au contraire, the colour is a problem, since the human eye is most sensitive to light wavelengths in the green part of the spectrum (which is why a green dot is easier to see in bright sunlight than a red one, saith the voice of experience). Hence the power must be limited: lecture pointers are rarely over 3mW, designators around 5-15mW, night vision gear can go over 25mW. Technical limitations aside, it then falls to legal incentive; in the UK malicious abuse of a laser is treated as an assault with a section 1 firearm, which carries a mandatory five year sentence. In the case of an incident involving aircraft, I think it now falls under the terrorism laws. In some US states, any and all laser equipment not involved in the reading or writing of CDs, DVDs or Blueray discs, must be registered with State authorities - right down to those lecture pens.
Green lasers are used, outside the lab, for day/night use in ballistic targeting systems. They're also powerful enough in some cases to cook the retina even at ranges of several miles.
anecdotal source: I use a Magfire green designator on an AGS PCR1 for ratting - the rats aren't bothered by the laser, they run a mile when they're hit with a red. They drop when they're hit with a lump of tinshot doing 700 feet per second.
Back up everything onto usb-powered drives (they come in 1TB size these days; you can fit 20 in a makeup case!), sell the hardware, put the drives in hand luggage, take a netbook with to show $customs$ that it's just data or whatever, and don't worry about shipping something that's gonna cost more to ship than it's worth. Buy new gear at the other end with the proceeds and buy Tiger beer by the case with what's left.
probably why they used gold on a quartz substrate. Both chemically inert; the quartz is very hard (hence pretty robust) the gold is fairly immune to hard radiation to boot. Pretty much the only thing that's going to destroy the plate is a direct impact or an encounter with a quantity of cyanide followed by a liberal sprinkling with hydrofluoric acid.
...an immersion environment using a couple projectors behind you and the kinect sensors in front of you (like, in the corners of the room).
I had a portable projector setup at one point, for the ubergeeky flightsim pilot in me, which ran off of three laptops and two projectors, onto a pair of screens set at right angles to each other: I would be sat or stood at the midpoint of the hypoteneuse to get fairly brilliant very large and almost completely immersive FS experience. Also worked on Unreal Tournament and Quake. It's not quite the same on a pair of 15" Dell panels (yeah, tried it).
This could actually be the precursor to the Minority Report type interface, but without the glove. Yep, I'd like that.
Party trick: tell someone you're gonna stick a rubber balloon with a needle and it not burst. Make it a beer game.
Take some cellotape and stick it on the balloon. Make sure to get the air bubbles out, get a good seal on that bad boy. Then stick your needle straight through the middle of the tape and through the wall of the balloon. As long as the needle's in there, the balloon shouldn't pop and it should stay inflated. Remove the needle and the balloon should just slowly deflate. You're up a beer.
"We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana, as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy!"
- Benjamin Franklin's original quote, translated from a letter to Abbe Morellet
"Beer is living proof God loves us and wants us to be happy."
- Homer Simpson, sometime around 1996
I have a theory on that... it's called the Dark Ages because the sum of Human knowledge and scientific progress was kept on computer. We'd gone through our first silicon age. Then one day, a massive EMP wiped everything, setting us back a thousand years. Everything was forgotten except that for some unknown reason, eight hundred years had passed.
Yeah, I think it was from the crater of Mt. Nyiragongo, DRC, they even made a documentary about it on Nat. Geo.Region-limited Youtube link. I've seen this show, it's awesome, makes me wish I had a projector and a rocket heater to get the full experience without actually leaving my comfy chair.
1 a : neglect or wrong performance of official duty b : concealment of treason or felony by one who is not a participant in the treason or felony c : seditious conduct against the government or the courts
Where a person has committed an arrestable offence, any other person who, knowing or believing that the offence or some other arrestable offence has been committed, and that he has information which might be of material assistance in securing the prosecution or conviction of an offender for it, accepts or agrees to accept for not disclosing that information any consideration other than the making good of loss or injury caused by the offence, or the making of reasonable compensation for that loss or injury, shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for not more that two years.
It is not only a crime to not report a crime, it is a compoundable indictment.
Now you, please shut the fuck up or present a citation to your assertion that overrides the definitive source of English Statute.
Leo Traynor is a fiction. Apparently he has lived in no less than seventeen countries over the past eight years, including some of the most politically unstable regions on the planet; more that he has managed to stay still long enough to gain a DPhil in international politics (no school anywhere has any record of him), that he has worked for all three main parties in the UK as a press liaison officer (yet no mention of him in the Press, ever). That he has worked for both parties in the US as a Press liaison officer (ditto). His story is so full of holes you could drain chips with it.
that's up there with telling someone the green light on their CRT is really a camera...
Or "Oh, you wanna hack me? OK, my IP, to make life easy for you, is 127.0.0.1, and you can try and plant this command: "format c:/f". I'll send you a thousand Dollars if you can kill my computer."
Next system message: "SUCKER HAS LEFT CHAT (BROKEN PIPE)"
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it's also an incentive for men not to marry and have families with female douchebags.
Just keeping the balance here.
ah, the electrocoriolis effect...
au contraire, the colour is a problem, since the human eye is most sensitive to light wavelengths in the green part of the spectrum (which is why a green dot is easier to see in bright sunlight than a red one, saith the voice of experience). Hence the power must be limited: lecture pointers are rarely over 3mW, designators around 5-15mW, night vision gear can go over 25mW. Technical limitations aside, it then falls to legal incentive; in the UK malicious abuse of a laser is treated as an assault with a section 1 firearm, which carries a mandatory five year sentence. In the case of an incident involving aircraft, I think it now falls under the terrorism laws. In some US states, any and all laser equipment not involved in the reading or writing of CDs, DVDs or Blueray discs, must be registered with State authorities - right down to those lecture pens.
Did the man mug old ladies? No.
Did I say it was okay to mug old ladies? No.
Fuck me, you're delusional.
What was /he/ flying?? An Apache?
Green lasers are used, outside the lab, for day/night use in ballistic targeting systems. They're also powerful enough in some cases to cook the retina even at ranges of several miles.
anecdotal source: I use a Magfire green designator on an AGS PCR1 for ratting - the rats aren't bothered by the laser, they run a mile when they're hit with a red. They drop when they're hit with a lump of tinshot doing 700 feet per second.
Back up everything onto usb-powered drives (they come in 1TB size these days; you can fit 20 in a makeup case!), sell the hardware, put the drives in hand luggage, take a netbook with to show $customs$ that it's just data or whatever, and don't worry about shipping something that's gonna cost more to ship than it's worth. Buy new gear at the other end with the proceeds and buy Tiger beer by the case with what's left.
Whose lifetime?
probably why they used gold on a quartz substrate. Both chemically inert; the quartz is very hard (hence pretty robust) the gold is fairly immune to hard radiation to boot. Pretty much the only thing that's going to destroy the plate is a direct impact or an encounter with a quantity of cyanide followed by a liberal sprinkling with hydrofluoric acid.
I was fucking blind before I started drinking fucking coffee.
He gets 4 years in a Fed pen for contributing to the economy??
Something wrong here.
apparently they did etch the images onto the disk.
...an immersion environment using a couple projectors behind you and the kinect sensors in front of you (like, in the corners of the room).
I had a portable projector setup at one point, for the ubergeeky flightsim pilot in me, which ran off of three laptops and two projectors, onto a pair of screens set at right angles to each other: I would be sat or stood at the midpoint of the hypoteneuse to get fairly brilliant very large and almost completely immersive FS experience. Also worked on Unreal Tournament and Quake. It's not quite the same on a pair of 15" Dell panels (yeah, tried it).
This could actually be the precursor to the Minority Report type interface, but without the glove. Yep, I'd like that.
Party trick: tell someone you're gonna stick a rubber balloon with a needle and it not burst. Make it a beer game.
Take some cellotape and stick it on the balloon. Make sure to get the air bubbles out, get a good seal on that bad boy. Then stick your needle straight through the middle of the tape and through the wall of the balloon. As long as the needle's in there, the balloon shouldn't pop and it should stay inflated. Remove the needle and the balloon should just slowly deflate. You're up a beer.
"We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana, as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy!"
- Benjamin Franklin's original quote, translated from a letter to Abbe Morellet
"Beer is living proof God loves us and wants us to be happy."
- Homer Simpson, sometime around 1996
I have a theory on that... it's called the Dark Ages because the sum of Human knowledge and scientific progress was kept on computer. We'd gone through our first silicon age. Then one day, a massive EMP wiped everything, setting us back a thousand years. Everything was forgotten except that for some unknown reason, eight hundred years had passed.
That could almost be a book...
No, he's the Bartender.
oh, you mean like one of those "Found Footage" things?
Blair Witch, or Cloverfield?
Blair Witch was shite, btw. Cloverfield was bearable. Just.
Yeah, I think it was from the crater of Mt. Nyiragongo, DRC, they even made a documentary about it on Nat. Geo. Region-limited Youtube link. I've seen this show, it's awesome, makes me wish I had a projector and a rocket heater to get the full experience without actually leaving my comfy chair.
yes which is precisely why that same paper is censoring comments on the online copy to exclude those which it deems counter to the delusion.
Isn't it sad when so many people can see this shit coming from a mile off, yet the media insists it's genuine?
From this:
1
a : neglect or wrong performance of official duty
b : concealment of treason or felony by one who is not a participant in the treason or felony
c : seditious conduct against the government or the courts
Also refer to the Criminal Law Act 1967 section 5(1):
Where a person has committed an arrestable offence, any other person who, knowing or believing that the offence or some other arrestable offence has been committed, and that he has information which might be of material assistance in securing the prosecution or conviction of an offender for it, accepts or agrees to accept for not disclosing that information any consideration other than the making good of loss or injury caused by the offence, or the making of reasonable compensation for that loss or injury, shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for not more that two years.
It is not only a crime to not report a crime, it is a compoundable indictment.
Now you, please shut the fuck up or present a citation to your assertion that overrides the definitive source of English Statute.
Leo Traynor is a fiction. Apparently he has lived in no less than seventeen countries over the past eight years, including some of the most politically unstable regions on the planet; more that he has managed to stay still long enough to gain a DPhil in international politics (no school anywhere has any record of him), that he has worked for all three main parties in the UK as a press liaison officer (yet no mention of him in the Press, ever). That he has worked for both parties in the US as a Press liaison officer (ditto). His story is so full of holes you could drain chips with it.
Leo Traynor, you are a bullshitter.
It was delivered by *somebody*, whether courier or USPS.
You know what? I just saw the last shit I will ever give, walk off into the sunset.
If someone threatens my family or me in my own home, then I will not consider any sort of moral tightrope as I end the threat. Period.
that's up there with telling someone the green light on their CRT is really a camera...
Or "Oh, you wanna hack me? OK, my IP, to make life easy for you, is 127.0.0.1, and you can try and plant this command: "format c: /f". I'll send you a thousand Dollars if you can kill my computer."
Next system message: "SUCKER HAS LEFT CHAT (BROKEN PIPE)"
Android=Linux. So, yes. Most of them, anyway.