Nukes aren't anonymous. Analysis of the fallout can tell a knowledgeable analyst a great deal about the design of the weapon and the source of the fissionable material.
Think of all those Cobol programs, databases, and external file formats with fixed length variables/fields. It's probably cheaper to code for the cases that will handle 99.9% of the general population and handle the exceptions manually. For incomes over some high limit, I doubt that they rely on a computer to check the returns.
That support also hurt them financially and in numbers of members. Many people, even some ACLU members, aren't big fans of freedom of speech when it is exercised by the "wrong people".
The investors care, and they can vote out the management if they are sufficiently pissed off. Top-level executives are usually given very generous grants and options on the company's stock. In many companies, the employees own a substantial amount of the company's stock through participation in 401K plans.
That's the USA. Things probably are done differently in Japanese companies.
Support of the second amendment does not imply disregard for the rest of the Bill of Rights.
The ACLU runs into problems of consistency when the Constitution conflicts with the political beliefs of many of its members, which tend to be left-wing. Some ACLU activists confuse the organization with a platform for pushing the left-wing agenda.
The NRA avoids this problem by focusing on issues related to the second amendment.
I support both organizations, even though I disagree with them on some issues.
Stock prices are based on predictions of a company's future profits. Any failure to meet the expectations of the market is severely punished. If you produced a hit last year, they will expect you to produce a bigger hit every year.
You can make a workable space suit out of an elastic leotard and a pressurized helmet. The suit does not have to be air tight. The elasticity of the leotard produces pressure on the skin that duplicates the effect of normal atmopheric pressure. The pressurized helmet is needed to keep gas exchange in the lungs functioning properly.
People do not blow up when exposed to a vacuum. They rapidly lose consciousness due to lack of oxygen and outgassing through the lungs.
A cop once told me that's why many drunk drivers escape bad accidents with minor injuries, while the sober occupants of the other car are killed or severely injured.
Yes. I assisted someone with troubleshooting the repeated crashing of their system. After much grief, the problem was isolated to StarForce. If they did a fresh install of Windows, their system was rock solid. As soon as they installed a particular game that was protected by StarForce, their system started crashing. This was repeatable.
IMHO, applications software, esp. games, should never install device drivers or modify the operating system software.
It looks much larger and better built than the generic electric range/oven at your local discount store. Plus, you are forgetting the refrigeration systems and the engineering needed to make two refrigerator/oven units.
Risks are inherent in space flight. They can be quantified, managed, and reduced to "acceptable levels", but never eliminated. Engineering is the art of producing something useful with limited resources.
The booster rockets did not explode either. Read the fine accident report. Burn-through on the SRB caused a structural failure of the stack, resulting in break-up of the orbiter from aerodynamic forces. Nothing exploded. The external tank ruptured during the break-up, releasing its contents, which burned rapidly, producing the fireball seen on television.
The same thing happens with high-performance jet aircraft that lose attitude control at supersonic speeds. The aerodynamic stresses tear the aircraft apart. You may see a fireball from the ignition of fuel from ruptured fuel tanks, but that is a secondary effect.
Modern environmentalism and government regulation have more to do with fear and scare tactics than rational thought and analysis. We flip from "asbestos is great" to "asbestos is the evil spawn of Satan and must be completely eliminated, no matter what the cost". The same thing is currently happening with lead. There are real problems that should be addressed. That doesn't mean that we need to succumb to a collective orgy of hysteria. Asbestos and lead are not evil. They are useful materials that still have worthwhile applications if used with intelligence and respect for their hazards.
How much of your "weird weather" is due to normal variability in weather? Where I live, there have been years with zero snow accumulation and years with major record-setting blizzards. Sometimes there are droughts and sometimes the floods wash out bridges. There's an occasional tornado or tropical storm left over from a hurricane. It's hard to detect trends when there is so much normal variability in the weather.
Too late. The federal government has used this tactic for a very long time. Back when the feds at least paid lip service to the Constitution, they imposed a $200 transfer tax (NFA 1934) on the sale of machine guns. $200 was a hell of a lot of money in 1934, almost $3000 in today's dollars, and far greater than the value of the weapon in a free market.
I've known a number of very smart bureaucrats. They may not be politicians, but they have a good understanding of organizational politics and use it to their advantage. They keep their organizations running in a reasonably efficient and effective manner, despite the insanity of the system. Unfortunately, even they are not immune to the effects of stupid decisions and rules made at the highest levels of government. What's worse are the kleptocracies often seen in state and local government, whose primary function is to give jobs and contracts to the friends and relatives of elected officials.
I believe you are wrong. If ACPI is a requirement, then you need a BIOS that supports ACPI. ACPI is at least partially implemented in BIOS code that runs in System Management Mode. The operating system has no direct control over System Management Mode. The designer of the motherboard and BIOS control what software runs in System Management Mode. You may think that the operating system has absolute control over the CPU and other hardware, but you would be wrong. The operating system is preempted when the motherboard tells the CPU to switch to System Management Mode.
Nukes in space do not behave like nukes in the dense atmosphere of the Earth. Most of the effects that we associate with nuclear weapons are the result of a complex set of interactions between the nuclear fireball and the Earth's atmosphere. A nuclear weapon in space produces most of its energy in the form of soft x-rays from black-body radiation. Good for killing an exposed astronaut but of little value for doing anything to inanimate objects.
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Nukes aren't anonymous. Analysis of the fallout can tell a knowledgeable analyst a great deal about the design of the weapon and the source of the fissionable material.
That support also hurt them financially and in numbers of members. Many people, even some ACLU members, aren't big fans of freedom of speech when it is exercised by the "wrong people".
That's the USA. Things probably are done differently in Japanese companies.
The ACLU runs into problems of consistency when the Constitution conflicts with the political beliefs of many of its members, which tend to be left-wing. Some ACLU activists confuse the organization with a platform for pushing the left-wing agenda.
The NRA avoids this problem by focusing on issues related to the second amendment.
I support both organizations, even though I disagree with them on some issues.
Stock prices are based on predictions of a company's future profits. Any failure to meet the expectations of the market is severely punished. If you produced a hit last year, they will expect you to produce a bigger hit every year.
People do not blow up when exposed to a vacuum. They rapidly lose consciousness due to lack of oxygen and outgassing through the lungs.
A cop once told me that's why many drunk drivers escape bad accidents with minor injuries, while the sober occupants of the other car are killed or severely injured.
IMHO, applications software, esp. games, should never install device drivers or modify the operating system software.
An opinion on policy is not "the truth", it's an opinion.
People with genuine civil cases must wait years for a court date in many places.
Spaceship One never enters orbit. That makes a huge difference in the amount of kinetic energy that must be dissipated as heat during reentry.
Obviously.
It looks much larger and better built than the generic electric range/oven at your local discount store. Plus, you are forgetting the refrigeration systems and the engineering needed to make two refrigerator/oven units.
Risks are inherent in space flight. They can be quantified, managed, and reduced to "acceptable levels", but never eliminated. Engineering is the art of producing something useful with limited resources.
The same thing happens with high-performance jet aircraft that lose attitude control at supersonic speeds. The aerodynamic stresses tear the aircraft apart. You may see a fireball from the ignition of fuel from ruptured fuel tanks, but that is a secondary effect.
Modern environmentalism and government regulation have more to do with fear and scare tactics than rational thought and analysis. We flip from "asbestos is great" to "asbestos is the evil spawn of Satan and must be completely eliminated, no matter what the cost". The same thing is currently happening with lead. There are real problems that should be addressed. That doesn't mean that we need to succumb to a collective orgy of hysteria. Asbestos and lead are not evil. They are useful materials that still have worthwhile applications if used with intelligence and respect for their hazards.
How much of your "weird weather" is due to normal variability in weather? Where I live, there have been years with zero snow accumulation and years with major record-setting blizzards. Sometimes there are droughts and sometimes the floods wash out bridges. There's an occasional tornado or tropical storm left over from a hurricane. It's hard to detect trends when there is so much normal variability in the weather.
A formal declaration of war in not necessary for there to be a war.
Too late. The federal government has used this tactic for a very long time. Back when the feds at least paid lip service to the Constitution, they imposed a $200 transfer tax (NFA 1934) on the sale of machine guns. $200 was a hell of a lot of money in 1934, almost $3000 in today's dollars, and far greater than the value of the weapon in a free market.
I've known a number of very smart bureaucrats. They may not be politicians, but they have a good understanding of organizational politics and use it to their advantage. They keep their organizations running in a reasonably efficient and effective manner, despite the insanity of the system. Unfortunately, even they are not immune to the effects of stupid decisions and rules made at the highest levels of government. What's worse are the kleptocracies often seen in state and local government, whose primary function is to give jobs and contracts to the friends and relatives of elected officials.
I believe you are wrong. If ACPI is a requirement, then you need a BIOS that supports ACPI. ACPI is at least partially implemented in BIOS code that runs in System Management Mode. The operating system has no direct control over System Management Mode. The designer of the motherboard and BIOS control what software runs in System Management Mode. You may think that the operating system has absolute control over the CPU and other hardware, but you would be wrong. The operating system is preempted when the motherboard tells the CPU to switch to System Management Mode.
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Many people are under the mistaken impression that these escape systems are a cure-all for anything going wrong during ascent.
Nukes in space do not behave like nukes in the dense atmosphere of the Earth. Most of the effects that we associate with nuclear weapons are the result of a complex set of interactions between the nuclear fireball and the Earth's atmosphere. A nuclear weapon in space produces most of its energy in the form of soft x-rays from black-body radiation. Good for killing an exposed astronaut but of little value for doing anything to inanimate objects.