Facebook wasn't upsetting them. If one topic begins to upset you, unfollow those groups and choose topics that don't.
You are right about what you should do, but they often get into nasty arguments first. I will scoot out of a group of asshats pretty quickly. Facebook is trying a little to clean up, but we'll see how that goes.
Its going to be a popcorn moment for some coming up. FB has been trying to shut down a lot of the Sexism flame wars. A lot of the women are now getting angry. Seems it started out with shutting out mostly men, but apparently its now not okay to say that all men should be shot, or that its cause for a celebration when one dies. I have a couple close relatives that suddenly stopped posting, and it appears they got a little too vigorous with their misandry.
Facebook is a force for whatever the nature is of the people who use it.
After I was required to open a facebook account for what I am working on, family and friends found me. Some of them are a little interesting. The tragedy of the commons effect where the worst people who are yelling the loudest did a pretty good job of silencing decent folk, and the little endorphin buzz that many get from likes and replies allowed others to become addicted even as much of Facebook was upsetting or angering them.
The major shitstorm happened after teenagers largely abandoned Facebook and older people took over. So you have a addictive venue with a lot of assholes in the mix.
Okay. Some how or another, this guy is going to be attached to a truss that will trail behind a rocket.
"Then I’ll fire a rocket through the balloon that will pull me up by my shoulders through a truss for 42 miles at 1.5 g’s
Better have a hella long line between him and the rocket exhaust.
"Everything will be controlled remotely. Even if I’m unconscious, they can use the controls to bring the balloon back. That is the plan. That is if I don’t burn up coming back through the atmosphere."
He seems to think that the slow velocity he will be going will allow for enough friction heating to ignite him? He won't even be going fast enough to orbit, so he'll pretty quickly slow to terminal velocity.
You only NEED radiation shielding on a manned aircraft. A bomber sized drone outfitted with lots of missiles and good air defence would be a game changer.
The individual missions are only one part of the process. You need some way of preparing the device, and working on it.
Think about it, unless radiation hardened, fully unmanned facilities are there to repair and re-arm the drone, some folks are gonna get a dose. And the concept of single use weapons is going to put a helluva lot of expensive fissile material out of human reach when they dunk into the ocean.
This device would be more at home in a 1947 Popular Mechanics magazine than in real life.
And before people bring up -but it is just like stocks-. NO it is NOT. Maybe the stocks you are familiar with or heard about are zero sum games or based on speculations. That makes up a very small part of the market. The majority of the market is defined by the 401ks, pensions, insurance funds, trust funds, savings accounts, etc. The type of stocks these funds generally invest in represent growth in the pie; meaning everyones slices get bigger.
2006 just called, and want's us to buy 600 square foot i bedroom houses for 2 million dollars, a steal, and remember Real Estate never loses value! So buy them now before they reach infinite value.
In contrast we could build nuclear plants (using half-century old designs, even) that would work, and by any reasonable standard would deserve to be called "clean".
Is an unshielded sodium reactor clean?
"anonymous source" Who knows if it is true or not, so until a fact appears a sane person would disregard it!!
Just Saying!!
This from the crowd that brought you Pizzagate.
Oh, that's real. Pizzagate ships teh Children to the sge in the Arizona Desert where the fake moon landings were filmed by Kubrick, and O'Blama and Hellery have theie way with the kids on top of the barrels of chemtrail juice and the real copies of his Kenyan Birth certificate. It's also where the 50 plus people that the Clinton's had murdered are decomposing while they take videos and laugh, laugh, laugh.
Low = around 150 degrees C, not room temperature. Still needs a heating system to keep the reactor from "freezing up."
There are metals that are liquid at room temperature. Mercury is heavy and nasty to work with -- dissolves metal piping as well as being toxic. So is gallium.
There are sodium potassium alloys that are also liquid at room temperature, but they react explosively with water, making them amusing to work with.
I for one, really, really, eally want to see a sdium cooled reactor plunge into the Ocean. Just not too closely.
I think the nuclear reactor flying machine business has been tried before, and it tends to have some interesting problems. problems. Although I'm assuming this will be closed cycle, so spewing radiation out the ass end won't be an issue.
Shielding and it's weight will be an issue, so there will be some real logistics issues with drone prep. I'm making an assumption that there won't be much shielding. The Sodium coolant itself gets pretty radioactive while in use. The half lives are short.
It would be a lot of fun to shoot one and enjoy the fireworks. Wouldn't take much to knock one out of the sky. Extra points for breaching the coolant containment and watching the liquid sodium spill out into the ocean. Though if I know my nuc proponents, land will see the drone use.
The problem is that if you lose enough bits you get nothing, whereas with FM you just get more static. also it doesn't have to be "pretty much perfect", whatever that means, that's why there's something called error correction.
I deal with Digital and analog signals every day, being at present involved in Emergency communications. The digital repeaters and radios we use do have a striking difference in range. Digital is much less.
The manifestation of this is that at high signal strengths, a traditional FM signal and a Digital signal sound for practical purposes, identical. The Digital signal has a more silent background, but for all practical purposes, they are the same.
As the signal strength from one radio to another is decreased, a point comes where hiss is introduced to the received signal. This is the point where what we call "Full Quieting" is lost. It is basically a change in the signal to noise ratio. The signal is fading, and the noise is a larger component of the signal.
A digital signal is not immune to this change in Signal to Noise ratio. It shows Full Quieting until you don't hear it any more.
What happens is at some point, is that this increase in noise makes it impossible for the D to A and A to D converter to do it's job. At this point the signal goes away.
The FM analog signal is still intelligible to human ears long after the digital signal is not.
There have been efforts to alleviate some of the problem by a lot more tolerance, which is to say, allowing the less egregious errors to be passed along as if they were part of a good decode. But now imagine when this happens twice, say one station with a sub par input to a repeater, which then resends the message to other stations, some of which might have non-optimal receiving conditions.
There are some other attempts to allay this problem, such as MELP https://www.vocal.com/speech-c... which instead of a normal digital encoding, the receiving end uses lookup tables of phonemes to reconstruct a person's voice. You can get some pretty weird sounding results. It's hard to determine the fidelity of turining a human voice into a sort of robotic one.
the fading is due to loss of signal strength at distance. there is no "FM fades slowly over distance", the signal, regardless of analog or digital, fades slowly over distance as 1/r^2.
I really have to stop ya for a second. First you say that an FM signal does not slowly fade over distance, then you say thay all fade over distance.
So which is it? FM does not fade? SRSLY, you here just to troll or something? I challenge you to show that FM signals do not fade.
All Radio frequency signals, regardless of origin, race, sexual orientation, or creed, lose signal strength as the distance between a transmitting station and a receiving station is increased. The only part where the rules are a little different is that there is what is called a Near Field, and a Far Field. The size of the near field is related to the frequency , the Near Field becoming smaller as the frequency increases.
it's only a really shitty radio where "nothing happens at a much closer range.". generally that's impossible.
Now you are just playing games I must congratulate you not not only taking my quote out of context,. but quoting only part of my sentence.
Congratulations - in your world, there is no such thing as a digital cliff. Now scoot on over to Wikipedia and inform them how and why the are wrong. Here's the link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So i'd really like to see a system that does that without it being the result of a shit radio that can't do automatic gain control properly, because that sounds exactly like a shit radio with a bad AGC implementation.
This is actually pretty much the first I've heard of this...
Intentional pun?
Well, even in Norway, where they do have it . . . it seems that a lot of folks will not hear it either. Too bad that a lot of cars won't get traffic reports any more.
Digital radio suffers a big drawback. Unlsee the received signal is pretty much perfect, you are greeted with very high fidelity silence. It's called the Digital cliff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
An analog FM signal slowly fades over distance. A digital radio signal is fine one moment, than nothing, and the nothing happens at a much closer range. As well, there is no advantage bandwidth wise.
Unfortunately, as soon as most people hear "digital something", they immediately assume it is better. Not always. So Norway has switched to a radio system with less coverage.
You left out "a deeply corrupt primary system in the opposition party that coronated the only person in the country that could lose a general election" and "hubris that stopped said candidate from stepping foot in the Rust Belt"
I stopped thinking anything would happen to Trump when he went crazy over the inauguration photos and the Republican party didn't immediately convene to discuss how to remove someone that divorced from reality from the White House.
The Republicans had control of all three governing bodies, House, Senate and Executive branch. They had some very specific tasks they wanted to accomplish, repeal of The Affordable care act, tax cuts and a lot of executive orders which suddenly became legal when Trump was inaugurated.
So in a party that would support a suspected pedophile who was once kicked out of a Mall for harassing jailbait girls, it isn't all that surprising that they wouldn't have issues with our first Russian president as long as the agenda was met. It's amazing how far the party of the moral high ground has abandoned that concept.
Gotta be a bit patient, this investigation is moving pretty fast compared to the investigations of other presidents.
This immediately leads to questions about why a president might trust a foreign power over his own agencies.
No, the real question and, as far as I know a question that no one is asking, is: if the elections have really been hacked, why not void them and have a do over?
That would be cool, but the process of removing a sitting president in America is based on either Impeachment and removal, or the 25th amendment removal process, then there is a specific line of succession as to who is next in line. The next to are obviously vice president Mike Pence, followed by Paul Ryan, speaker of the house.
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But its a bloody nuisance when you work with something, then it suddenly goes away. Security through loss of function.
Yes! Our very own Baghdad Bob!
I've been hearning a lot of references to good old Bob lately.
> Is an unshielded sodium reactor clean? Only if you keep it way the fuck away from everyone.
For some reason people only think of in-flight conditions. Not re-arming or maintenance or where they will be launched from.
Myself, I think this is a story about people raising funding for a project by say "drones!", it's not like anyone is really going to do that.
Sorta like low key saber rattling.
Facebook wasn't upsetting them. If one topic begins to upset you, unfollow those groups and choose topics that don't.
You are right about what you should do, but they often get into nasty arguments first. I will scoot out of a group of asshats pretty quickly. Facebook is trying a little to clean up, but we'll see how that goes.
Its going to be a popcorn moment for some coming up. FB has been trying to shut down a lot of the Sexism flame wars. A lot of the women are now getting angry. Seems it started out with shutting out mostly men, but apparently its now not okay to say that all men should be shot, or that its cause for a celebration when one dies. I have a couple close relatives that suddenly stopped posting, and it appears they got a little too vigorous with their misandry.
Let us all be excellent to each other.
After I was required to open a facebook account for what I am working on, family and friends found me. Some of them are a little interesting. The tragedy of the commons effect where the worst people who are yelling the loudest did a pretty good job of silencing decent folk, and the little endorphin buzz that many get from likes and replies allowed others to become addicted even as much of Facebook was upsetting or angering them.
The major shitstorm happened after teenagers largely abandoned Facebook and older people took over. So you have a addictive venue with a lot of assholes in the mix.
"Then I’ll fire a rocket through the balloon that will pull me up by my shoulders through a truss for 42 miles at 1.5 g’s
Better have a hella long line between him and the rocket exhaust.
"Everything will be controlled remotely. Even if I’m unconscious, they can use the controls to bring the balloon back. That is the plan. That is if I don’t burn up coming back through the atmosphere."
He seems to think that the slow velocity he will be going will allow for enough friction heating to ignite him? He won't even be going fast enough to orbit, so he'll pretty quickly slow to terminal velocity.
We do make stupid people famous don't we?
My first thought as well. There must be some place in the Trump administration for this man!
Minister of truthiness.
You only NEED radiation shielding on a manned aircraft. A bomber sized drone outfitted with lots of missiles and good air defence would be a game changer.
The individual missions are only one part of the process. You need some way of preparing the device, and working on it.
Think about it, unless radiation hardened, fully unmanned facilities are there to repair and re-arm the drone, some folks are gonna get a dose. And the concept of single use weapons is going to put a helluva lot of expensive fissile material out of human reach when they dunk into the ocean.
This device would be more at home in a 1947 Popular Mechanics magazine than in real life.
And before people bring up -but it is just like stocks-. NO it is NOT. Maybe the stocks you are familiar with or heard about are zero sum games or based on speculations. That makes up a very small part of the market. The majority of the market is defined by the 401ks, pensions, insurance funds, trust funds, savings accounts, etc. The type of stocks these funds generally invest in represent growth in the pie; meaning everyones slices get bigger.
2006 just called, and want's us to buy 600 square foot i bedroom houses for 2 million dollars, a steal, and remember Real Estate never loses value! So buy them now before they reach infinite value.
Make that "clean coal".
Just takes a little dishwashing detergent.
I've read the original WaPo report on this *carefully*, and at present the effect is limited to budgetary documents that are being sent to Congress.
/quote? Well, we are working in teh right direction. Words need to be banned. It's the American way.
This from the crowd that brought you Pizzagate.
Oh, that's real. Pizzagate ships teh Children to the sge in the Arizona Desert where the fake moon landings were filmed by Kubrick, and O'Blama and Hellery have theie way with the kids on top of the barrels of chemtrail juice and the real copies of his Kenyan Birth certificate. It's also where the 50 plus people that the Clinton's had murdered are decomposing while they take videos and laugh, laugh, laugh.
Republicans are all about fact based shit.
While China is exerting its technical superiority, here in the US, we are building a state-of-the-art coal powered steam drone. #MAGA!
FTFY
Low = around 150 degrees C, not room temperature. Still needs a heating system to keep the reactor from "freezing up."
There are metals that are liquid at room temperature. Mercury is heavy and nasty to work with -- dissolves metal piping as well as being toxic. So is gallium.
There are sodium potassium alloys that are also liquid at room temperature, but they react explosively with water, making them amusing to work with.
I for one, really, really, eally want to see a sdium cooled reactor plunge into the Ocean. Just not too closely.
I think the nuclear reactor flying machine business has been tried before, and it tends to have some interesting problems. problems. Although I'm assuming this will be closed cycle, so spewing radiation out the ass end won't be an issue.
Shielding and it's weight will be an issue, so there will be some real logistics issues with drone prep. I'm making an assumption that there won't be much shielding. The Sodium coolant itself gets pretty radioactive while in use. The half lives are short.
It would be a lot of fun to shoot one and enjoy the fireworks. Wouldn't take much to knock one out of the sky. Extra points for breaching the coolant containment and watching the liquid sodium spill out into the ocean. Though if I know my nuc proponents, land will see the drone use.
The problem is that if you lose enough bits you get nothing, whereas with FM you just get more static. also it doesn't have to be "pretty much perfect", whatever that means, that's why there's something called error correction.
I deal with Digital and analog signals every day, being at present involved in Emergency communications. The digital repeaters and radios we use do have a striking difference in range. Digital is much less. The manifestation of this is that at high signal strengths, a traditional FM signal and a Digital signal sound for practical purposes, identical. The Digital signal has a more silent background, but for all practical purposes, they are the same.
As the signal strength from one radio to another is decreased, a point comes where hiss is introduced to the received signal. This is the point where what we call "Full Quieting" is lost. It is basically a change in the signal to noise ratio. The signal is fading, and the noise is a larger component of the signal.
A digital signal is not immune to this change in Signal to Noise ratio. It shows Full Quieting until you don't hear it any more.
What happens is at some point, is that this increase in noise makes it impossible for the D to A and A to D converter to do it's job. At this point the signal goes away.
The FM analog signal is still intelligible to human ears long after the digital signal is not.
There have been efforts to alleviate some of the problem by a lot more tolerance, which is to say, allowing the less egregious errors to be passed along as if they were part of a good decode. But now imagine when this happens twice, say one station with a sub par input to a repeater, which then resends the message to other stations, some of which might have non-optimal receiving conditions.
There are some other attempts to allay this problem, such as MELP https://www.vocal.com/speech-c... which instead of a normal digital encoding, the receiving end uses lookup tables of phonemes to reconstruct a person's voice. You can get some pretty weird sounding results. It's hard to determine the fidelity of turining a human voice into a sort of robotic one.
the fading is due to loss of signal strength at distance. there is no "FM fades slowly over distance", the signal, regardless of analog or digital, fades slowly over distance as 1/r^2.
I really have to stop ya for a second. First you say that an FM signal does not slowly fade over distance, then you say thay all fade over distance.
So which is it? FM does not fade? SRSLY, you here just to troll or something? I challenge you to show that FM signals do not fade.
All Radio frequency signals, regardless of origin, race, sexual orientation, or creed, lose signal strength as the distance between a transmitting station and a receiving station is increased. The only part where the rules are a little different is that there is what is called a Near Field, and a Far Field. The size of the near field is related to the frequency , the Near Field becoming smaller as the frequency increases.
it's only a really shitty radio where "nothing happens at a much closer range.". generally that's impossible.
Now you are just playing games I must congratulate you not not only taking my quote out of context,. but quoting only part of my sentence.
Congratulations - in your world, there is no such thing as a digital cliff. Now scoot on over to Wikipedia and inform them how and why the are wrong. Here's the link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So i'd really like to see a system that does that without it being the result of a shit radio that can't do automatic gain control properly, because that sounds exactly like a shit radio with a bad AGC implementation.
So what you are saying is tha
Hmm...do we have DAB in the US?
This is actually pretty much the first I've heard of this...
Intentional pun?
Well, even in Norway, where they do have it . . . it seems that a lot of folks will not hear it either. Too bad that a lot of cars won't get traffic reports any more.
Digital radio suffers a big drawback. Unlsee the received signal is pretty much perfect, you are greeted with very high fidelity silence. It's called the Digital cliff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
An analog FM signal slowly fades over distance. A digital radio signal is fine one moment, than nothing, and the nothing happens at a much closer range. As well, there is no advantage bandwidth wise.
Unfortunately, as soon as most people hear "digital something", they immediately assume it is better. Not always. So Norway has switched to a radio system with less coverage.
The next to are obviously vice president Mike Pence, followed by Paul Ryan, speaker of the house.
It's shitstains all the way down ?
Oh my yes. Some folks are hoping to delay the impeachment until right after the 2018 elections to avoid just this.
You are proposing to isolate women.
No I am not. I am proposing to isolate men from women. There is a big difference.
You really need to start taking your meds again.
Wel;l then give the damn things back to me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com... Now I don't know if the guy was guilty or not, but I suspect that some people are very pleased with his death.
You left out "a deeply corrupt primary system in the opposition party that coronated the only person in the country that could lose a general election" and "hubris that stopped said candidate from stepping foot in the Rust Belt"
My fingers were tired.
>as for the second one - just stand by
I stopped thinking anything would happen to Trump when he went crazy over the inauguration photos and the Republican party didn't immediately convene to discuss how to remove someone that divorced from reality from the White House.
The Republicans had control of all three governing bodies, House, Senate and Executive branch. They had some very specific tasks they wanted to accomplish, repeal of The Affordable care act, tax cuts and a lot of executive orders which suddenly became legal when Trump was inaugurated.
So in a party that would support a suspected pedophile who was once kicked out of a Mall for harassing jailbait girls, it isn't all that surprising that they wouldn't have issues with our first Russian president as long as the agenda was met. It's amazing how far the party of the moral high ground has abandoned that concept.
Gotta be a bit patient, this investigation is moving pretty fast compared to the investigations of other presidents.
This immediately leads to questions about why a president might trust a foreign power over his own agencies.
No, the real question and, as far as I know a question that no one is asking, is: if the elections have really been hacked, why not void them and have a do over?
That would be cool, but the process of removing a sitting president in America is based on either Impeachment and removal, or the 25th amendment removal process, then there is a specific line of succession as to who is next in line. The next to are obviously vice president Mike Pence, followed by Paul Ryan, speaker of the house.
That would be news to those of us who have been following this very closely. Please provide a citation.
Suuuure you are following this very closely. Look up Mike FLynn, Trump's ex-security head Look up George Papadopoulos a foreign policy advisor.
Amazing that a person such as yourself, who is an apparent expert on all of this does't know that bit of fact.
Don't they get anything other than Fox News in Moscow?