I believe that Obama naively did not expect the Republicans to dedicate themselves to stopping him from getting reelected. Right off the bat, they actually came out and said that their top political goal was to stop Obama from getting elected to a second term. Instead of trying to fix the economy, reform our banking system to become more robust, or to end the wars, the Republicans said that they were going to stop Obama from winning. Witness, the debt crisis.
Also, I don't think anyone expected the Republicans to declare war on reality. The entire meme that there is a "liberal media" that is out to get them, and that Fox News is the only "real" media source is one of the greatest scams in political memory. Facts simply do not matter anymore. Obama is a secret Muslim! Obama hates America! The drones over Benghazi were armed and ready to shoot the bad guys but Obama stopped them from engaging! All the polls are skewed towards Obama, and Romney will definitely win by a landslide once you correct for the oversampling of Democrats! But if he loses, it's because of voter fraud!
The right wing, driven by the Tea Party, has become so detached from reality that it has become a political threat to think. Pregnancy by rape is divine will! Really, that's insane.
You can get a Mach 3 SST if you want to pay $15,000 for a one-way ticket. The Concorde tried that business model, and well, it didn't work. Passengers like to claim that they will pay more for service, for more legroom, to get to the destination early, etc., but when it comes time to put their money where their mouths are, well, there's a reason we have had Mach 0.85 airliners for over fifty years.
Carbon fiber is new for passenger jets but it has been extensively used in the latest generation of fighter jets. Boeing submitted the YF-23 as an unsuccessful bid for the USAF Advanced Tactical Fighter Program, which was built substantially from carbon fibers. Of all the problems with the F-22 (another carbon fiber airplane), none have been with the carbon fiber exploding.
Doctors and hospitals don't want to look like the bad guys, so they'll always dump on lawyers and malpractice lawsuits. But consider that hospitals get paid for each scan and each test that they perform under our current fee-for-service regime. In other words, the more you do, the more you get paid. Not surprisingly, in a free market, you'll see lots of services. Insurance companies try to deny payment for "unnecessary" services, but that's when doctors will trash insurance companies for rejecting life-saving services.
Also consider that the AMA has commissioned studies proving that there are too many medical malpractice lawsuits. But every study commissioned on the matter has concluded that medical malpractice causes far more damage than is recovered in malpractice lawsuits. There are many cases of malpractice where the person dies and no one is around to sue, or where there is malpractice but the case isn't clear cut enough to convince a jury, etc. Lawyers have to front huge expenses in a malpractice case because expert witnesses (doctors) are crazy expensive. So only the "best" cases go to trial. That means, paradoxically, that sometimes clear cases of malpractice won't get tried because the victim was too old and too poor, and died too quickly so you can't sue for lost earnings, or pain and suffering.
So it's a complicated issue. Just don't take the simple narrative that doctors are all saints. Assume everyone is only human and start from there.
It was bad phrasing. Google didn't misuse DKIM as much as it negligently implemented DKIM. The big news was that HSBC and other high-security websites were using weak implementations of DKIM. The problem is that people may rely on DKIM authentication as a sign that it's not phishing. ("Hey, this email from HSBC was signed by DKIM so it's not fake. I guess I'll send a $10,000 check to these guys.")
I am also curious how many keys is used in the Google Apps Premier DKIM. I have a domain with Google Apps, and it might have had a weak key. I reissued a new DKIM key and removed the old one in the hopes that the new key would be strong. But Google should really provide this info during implementation.
The latest outbreak is of fungal meningitis, which is not contagious but also cannot be treated by regular antibiotics. Luckily, your relative was very likely not a victim of the outbreak because the course of antibiotics she was on would have done nothing to stop the fungus from running wild in her system.
You're joking, but I'm always amazed when conservatives want to deregulate the government and leave us at the hands of big business. They believe that government is bad, and that the free market should be allowed to work without interference. Look at how that's working out for China. Massive water pollution, schools collapsing during earthquakes due to lax building codes, air that is not breathable, kids working ridiculous hours for puny wages, ubiquitous counterfeiting of foods and medications, and lots of other bizarre shit that just make you wonder if the free market without government regulation wouldn't simply be anarchy.
This is correct but you forgot VOIP. Many businesses are using VOIP or a PBX. Losing Internet access would mean losing the phones. I am a lawyer with my own small office. If my Internet went down (and I didn't have my smartphone) then that means no phone service, no Westlaw access for legal research, and no email. Internet access to me is as important as electricity service. I believe that I'm not an outlier.
I am by no means a supporter of Iran or its current government, but I do believe in facts. President Ahmadinejad has never said that Israel must be wiped off the map. The entire issue arose from a mistranslation of his statements, which is more accurately translated as "this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time." If you're going to use this statement to support actions against another country, please get it right.
I read a very interesting book called Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda. The book chronicles the history of the Office of Technical Services, which provides bugs, cameras, radios, forged documents, and other tools of the trade for spies in denied areas. I was surprised to learn that America had been operating so blatantly and effectively in the former Soviet Union.
A great story concerned a US operative on a sting operation trying to buy weapons from an arms dealer. At the closing table, the arms dealer asks for the operative's (fake) passport, and looks it over. He hands it back and says, "You told me you were in Yemen so I wanted to check your passport." Of course, the operative was never in Yemen, but the CIA techs had even forged an Yemeni entry stamp onto the fake passport. The OTS also forged the documents in Operation Argo, now playing in a theater near you.
On top of all the tech are many stories of humans. A touching story concerned three OTS agents who were betrayed, arrested for spying in Cuba in 1960, then imprisoned for three years. The US government disavowed them, but despite harsh conditions and torture, they never admitted they were CIA agents. Instead, to a man, they steadfastly maintained their cover stories that they were just tourists who happened to be carrying high-tech spy equipment. From the book:
Sometimes the questions would vary, with the interrogators accusing them of working for the FBI. Bad Teeth would often claim that the other two prisoners already confessed, so not telling the truth was pointless. During one session, a young guard incessantly played with his gun, flipping the cylinder open and then pulling the trigger. "Tell him that men don't play with guns," Wally ordered Bad Teeth. "Only kids do." Bad Teeth obliged and the guard looked suitably chastened.
Our attitude was that we didn't know what our fate would be. I was convinced I was going to be shot. I figured I'm expendable, but I'd never do anything to disgrace my children or the Marine Corps," explained Andy, who had served in the Marines from 1944 to 1946 and again between 1950 and 1952. "I made my peace with God, but it never happened, thank God.
And while in prison, they used their technical skills to defuse a bomb that guards had planted as a self-destruct contingency if the US invaded, and also built a radio from discarded scrap. Their arrest was a secret even within OTS. An agent working as part of a team preparing care packages for operatives in the field saw an old tech preparing a care package by himself. He asked why the old timer was working by himself, and the guy said, "This is for our boys in Cuba. The others don't know that." Eventually, the CIA swapped them for four Cubans arrested in NY for espionage.
It's a great book, and I highly recommend it for nerds like us.
That's a pretty bad example of a double tap attack. The first missile MISSED THE CAR. It shouldn't be surprising that a second missile would be fired. Note that the first missile left the target alive, and the second missile hit the car and finished him off. That's trying to get the target, not a malicious attempt to snag a first responder.
When news recently broke about President Obama signing death warrants for American citizens without judicial review, Republicans were outraged because they thought this made the President look too awesome. It's crazy that the Executive Branch has usurped the right to secretly review the evidence against an American then blow him away by droneâ"the executioner has become the judge.
This was the logical consequence, by the way, of the decision to hold military tribunals (under the Executive Branch) for suspected terrorists rather than a proper Article III (i.e., Judicial Branch) Court in New York. We are in the era of the unitary Executive Branch, which has the power to try suspects in secret and execute them if necessary.
I agree with you. Why can't we have an opposition party that focuses on important things rather than bullshit like Obama's birth certificate or whether gays can marry?
People keep saying this, and I'm not so sure it's true. It seems true that it is easier to improve radar systems than stealth. However, it's also easier for a stealth aircraft to detect incoming radar signals than for radar systems to detect the reflected radar signals. Also, it's easier for a stealth aircraft to run away from a missile than a radar system can.
(This also ignores any killer decoy drones. I think it would be a good idea to launch decoy drones that reflect radar to mimic a target, stealthy or otherwise. When the bad guys launch a missile at the drone, then the drone can fire an anti-radiation weapon at the site.)
As long as the stealth aircraft system can detect and shoot at a radar system before a radar system can detect the stealth aircraft system, stealth will win. For instance, if the radar system can detect me at 100 miles, but I can detect the radar system at 150 miles, then I can simply fly around the radar system. I can also launch a long-range missile at the radar system. Or I can walk up to the system, shoot a missile at it, and then turn around and run away. The radar system can detect stealth, but at this point, the radar seeker head on the missile cannot do so. If the incoming missile convinces the radar operator to turn off his radar, the missile is probably going to go dead.
Thus, improvement and deployment of advanced radar systems will not necessarily defeat stealth so long as detection systems improve and standoff anti-radiation weapons are fielded.
I have to disagree with this. Just because insurance companies are making money doesn't mean that the consumer is not obtaining value from getting the insurance. That's like saying the iPhone is a rip-off because Apple makes a profit.
A good insurance plan is worth it unless you have the money to self-insure. For most people, paying $50 (or whatever) is worth avoiding a potential payment of $600. Of course, there are bad insurance plans out there but that doesn't mean that they are all bad because they make a profit on it.
Al Qaeda is shitting their pants that they are increasingly becoming irrelevant to the modern world. Documents from Osama Bin Laden's compound showed that he was concerned that the Islamic world is starting to reject his group's philosophy. If America went into the ME and started slaughtering more Muslims then this would only validate the hardliner's position.
What should America do? Speak quietly and politely and fucking kill all the bad guys (and only the bad guys) using drones and whatever other military methods we have at our disposal.
What does God say that isn't said through the voice of men? What we are seeing is a bunch of psychopaths seizing the unbreakable and unquestionable chains of God to lead a bunch of uneducated and disgruntled peons into violence. Don't think we're any different. You look at any major Holy Book and you can pervert it to violence if you so choose. There were Christian fundamentalists at Waco and the Branch Davidians who thought that God wanted them to prepare for the end of days. It's only because we have already went through the Crusades and have a relatively well-educated population that we haven't devolved into a theocratic shit state. We already have the TeaTards pushing an evangelical agenda. If our economy really hits the shitter, and we get rid of secular education, we'd be in the same fucking shit show in a few decades. Heck, you can argue that our invasion of Iraq was driven by evangelical neocons who thought they were on a fucking Crusade to tame the infidels, and a hundred thousand civilians died as a result of the invasion.
The government of Libya already apologized. The government of Egypt deployed forces around the US Embassy there to protect it from attack. Eventually, the governments will need to send in their police forces and military to crush these violent uprisings. Other than that, there's nothing the US should do unless it turns out that the governments were actually behind the attacks.
Welcome to the real world. Companies lavish new customers with great deals all the time while denying the same benefits to their current customers. DirecTV will give free HBO to new customers for three months, but not current ones. The same with Verizon. You can call and complain, and they might match or offer you a better deal, but for the rest of the customers, ignorance is bliss.
Is this unethical? I don't think so. While paying less would be better, you are already paying a price you find acceptable. The fact that someone else might get a better price is kind of besides the point.
I read somewhere that dog food experts were consulted about how to minimize poop from food. Apparently, dog food already has the quality of getting your dog full while minimizing poop generation. But they were questioning whether or not astronauts would appreciate their food being associated with the makers of Alpo or whatever.
No one is saying that Republicans are stupid in terms of playing politics. They have stupid policies such as force-feeding creationism in science class, but they are geniuses at fear-mongering, name-calling, and just flat-out lying in order to get what they want. You want to talk about leaving Iraq? Well, you're a cut-and-run coward who hates America. You want to help the poor and middle class? You're engaging in class warfare, and you hate success. These guys are freaking geniuses at political gamesmanship. Look at ObamaCare. They were able to stop even a single Republican representative from voting in favor of the bill. Are you telling me that not one of them thought the bill was a good idea or was the leadership that absolute? Hint: it's the latter.
It sounds like they will be using CNC to armor cars or windows rather than body armor. In such applications, you could paint it, then stick it somewhere it won't be touched on a day-to-day basis, such as between the car's body panels. If the CNC is so much cheaper, you probably could put a lot more of it if weight allows.
I'll note that Kevlar and Spectra also have problems with high humidity/high temperature conditions. Dragon Skin was supposedly revolutionary body armor that got stopped by the military. There was a controversy over the entire matter. The manufacturer claimed a coverup. Eventually, the military claimed that the armor would delaminate under high humidity/high temperature applications, such as in body armor worn by soldiers in a desert.
If I decided to write a throwaway script based on a non-official API, then I would not complaint too much about the API being deprecated and removed. If Google had pushed this as an officially-supported API, then stopped supporting it, then you could complain. Otherwise, it is just baseless.
This to a trillion degrees. The USPTO and the guys challenging a patent application are much better suited to knocking out bad patents before they are even born. Even more fundamentally, however, patents on genes and software should not be patentable subject matter.
This presupposes that old age can be achieved without a significant decline in one's ability to enjoy the world. I'm sure you can do many fun things at a young age, but if you can't see, can't move without pain, can't hear too well, forget about things constantly, or are in physical pain then you might want to punch an early ticket out of this world.
Comments from a jury cannot be used as evidence in either the appeal or a later trial. The prior art has already been reviewed by a jury, which rejected them as invalidating. An appellate court cannot replace its own findings over that of the jury unless it is very clear that the jury is wrong.
This to a million degrees. I used to mock the flu until I actually had the flu. It turns out I had the cold all the times before. With the flu, I felt like my back was going to break. I laid down in bed for an entire week, which is very rare for me. I usually take pride in being able to get over illness, but the flu knocked me on my ass for a solid week. And this was as an otherwise healthy 25 year old. I imagine that the flu can be murder on an elderly person with other diseases.
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I believe that Obama naively did not expect the Republicans to dedicate themselves to stopping him from getting reelected. Right off the bat, they actually came out and said that their top political goal was to stop Obama from getting elected to a second term. Instead of trying to fix the economy, reform our banking system to become more robust, or to end the wars, the Republicans said that they were going to stop Obama from winning. Witness, the debt crisis.
Also, I don't think anyone expected the Republicans to declare war on reality. The entire meme that there is a "liberal media" that is out to get them, and that Fox News is the only "real" media source is one of the greatest scams in political memory. Facts simply do not matter anymore. Obama is a secret Muslim! Obama hates America! The drones over Benghazi were armed and ready to shoot the bad guys but Obama stopped them from engaging! All the polls are skewed towards Obama, and Romney will definitely win by a landslide once you correct for the oversampling of Democrats! But if he loses, it's because of voter fraud!
The right wing, driven by the Tea Party, has become so detached from reality that it has become a political threat to think. Pregnancy by rape is divine will! Really, that's insane.
You can get a Mach 3 SST if you want to pay $15,000 for a one-way ticket. The Concorde tried that business model, and well, it didn't work. Passengers like to claim that they will pay more for service, for more legroom, to get to the destination early, etc., but when it comes time to put their money where their mouths are, well, there's a reason we have had Mach 0.85 airliners for over fifty years.
Carbon fiber is new for passenger jets but it has been extensively used in the latest generation of fighter jets. Boeing submitted the YF-23 as an unsuccessful bid for the USAF Advanced Tactical Fighter Program, which was built substantially from carbon fibers. Of all the problems with the F-22 (another carbon fiber airplane), none have been with the carbon fiber exploding.
Doctors and hospitals don't want to look like the bad guys, so they'll always dump on lawyers and malpractice lawsuits. But consider that hospitals get paid for each scan and each test that they perform under our current fee-for-service regime. In other words, the more you do, the more you get paid. Not surprisingly, in a free market, you'll see lots of services. Insurance companies try to deny payment for "unnecessary" services, but that's when doctors will trash insurance companies for rejecting life-saving services.
Also consider that the AMA has commissioned studies proving that there are too many medical malpractice lawsuits. But every study commissioned on the matter has concluded that medical malpractice causes far more damage than is recovered in malpractice lawsuits. There are many cases of malpractice where the person dies and no one is around to sue, or where there is malpractice but the case isn't clear cut enough to convince a jury, etc. Lawyers have to front huge expenses in a malpractice case because expert witnesses (doctors) are crazy expensive. So only the "best" cases go to trial. That means, paradoxically, that sometimes clear cases of malpractice won't get tried because the victim was too old and too poor, and died too quickly so you can't sue for lost earnings, or pain and suffering.
So it's a complicated issue. Just don't take the simple narrative that doctors are all saints. Assume everyone is only human and start from there.
It was bad phrasing. Google didn't misuse DKIM as much as it negligently implemented DKIM. The big news was that HSBC and other high-security websites were using weak implementations of DKIM. The problem is that people may rely on DKIM authentication as a sign that it's not phishing. ("Hey, this email from HSBC was signed by DKIM so it's not fake. I guess I'll send a $10,000 check to these guys.")
I am also curious how many keys is used in the Google Apps Premier DKIM. I have a domain with Google Apps, and it might have had a weak key. I reissued a new DKIM key and removed the old one in the hopes that the new key would be strong. But Google should really provide this info during implementation.
The latest outbreak is of fungal meningitis, which is not contagious but also cannot be treated by regular antibiotics. Luckily, your relative was very likely not a victim of the outbreak because the course of antibiotics she was on would have done nothing to stop the fungus from running wild in her system.
You're joking, but I'm always amazed when conservatives want to deregulate the government and leave us at the hands of big business. They believe that government is bad, and that the free market should be allowed to work without interference. Look at how that's working out for China. Massive water pollution, schools collapsing during earthquakes due to lax building codes, air that is not breathable, kids working ridiculous hours for puny wages, ubiquitous counterfeiting of foods and medications, and lots of other bizarre shit that just make you wonder if the free market without government regulation wouldn't simply be anarchy.
This is correct but you forgot VOIP. Many businesses are using VOIP or a PBX. Losing Internet access would mean losing the phones. I am a lawyer with my own small office. If my Internet went down (and I didn't have my smartphone) then that means no phone service, no Westlaw access for legal research, and no email. Internet access to me is as important as electricity service. I believe that I'm not an outlier.
I am by no means a supporter of Iran or its current government, but I do believe in facts. President Ahmadinejad has never said that Israel must be wiped off the map. The entire issue arose from a mistranslation of his statements, which is more accurately translated as "this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time." If you're going to use this statement to support actions against another country, please get it right.
Source here.
I read a very interesting book called Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda. The book chronicles the history of the Office of Technical Services, which provides bugs, cameras, radios, forged documents, and other tools of the trade for spies in denied areas. I was surprised to learn that America had been operating so blatantly and effectively in the former Soviet Union.
A great story concerned a US operative on a sting operation trying to buy weapons from an arms dealer. At the closing table, the arms dealer asks for the operative's (fake) passport, and looks it over. He hands it back and says, "You told me you were in Yemen so I wanted to check your passport." Of course, the operative was never in Yemen, but the CIA techs had even forged an Yemeni entry stamp onto the fake passport. The OTS also forged the documents in Operation Argo, now playing in a theater near you.
On top of all the tech are many stories of humans. A touching story concerned three OTS agents who were betrayed, arrested for spying in Cuba in 1960, then imprisoned for three years. The US government disavowed them, but despite harsh conditions and torture, they never admitted they were CIA agents. Instead, to a man, they steadfastly maintained their cover stories that they were just tourists who happened to be carrying high-tech spy equipment. From the book:
And while in prison, they used their technical skills to defuse a bomb that guards had planted as a self-destruct contingency if the US invaded, and also built a radio from discarded scrap. Their arrest was a secret even within OTS. An agent working as part of a team preparing care packages for operatives in the field saw an old tech preparing a care package by himself. He asked why the old timer was working by himself, and the guy said, "This is for our boys in Cuba. The others don't know that." Eventually, the CIA swapped them for four Cubans arrested in NY for espionage.
It's a great book, and I highly recommend it for nerds like us.
That's a pretty bad example of a double tap attack. The first missile MISSED THE CAR. It shouldn't be surprising that a second missile would be fired. Note that the first missile left the target alive, and the second missile hit the car and finished him off. That's trying to get the target, not a malicious attempt to snag a first responder.
When news recently broke about President Obama signing death warrants for American citizens without judicial review, Republicans were outraged because they thought this made the President look too awesome. It's crazy that the Executive Branch has usurped the right to secretly review the evidence against an American then blow him away by droneâ"the executioner has become the judge.
This was the logical consequence, by the way, of the decision to hold military tribunals (under the Executive Branch) for suspected terrorists rather than a proper Article III (i.e., Judicial Branch) Court in New York. We are in the era of the unitary Executive Branch, which has the power to try suspects in secret and execute them if necessary.
I agree with you. Why can't we have an opposition party that focuses on important things rather than bullshit like Obama's birth certificate or whether gays can marry?
People keep saying this, and I'm not so sure it's true. It seems true that it is easier to improve radar systems than stealth. However, it's also easier for a stealth aircraft to detect incoming radar signals than for radar systems to detect the reflected radar signals. Also, it's easier for a stealth aircraft to run away from a missile than a radar system can.
(This also ignores any killer decoy drones. I think it would be a good idea to launch decoy drones that reflect radar to mimic a target, stealthy or otherwise. When the bad guys launch a missile at the drone, then the drone can fire an anti-radiation weapon at the site.)
As long as the stealth aircraft system can detect and shoot at a radar system before a radar system can detect the stealth aircraft system, stealth will win. For instance, if the radar system can detect me at 100 miles, but I can detect the radar system at 150 miles, then I can simply fly around the radar system. I can also launch a long-range missile at the radar system. Or I can walk up to the system, shoot a missile at it, and then turn around and run away. The radar system can detect stealth, but at this point, the radar seeker head on the missile cannot do so. If the incoming missile convinces the radar operator to turn off his radar, the missile is probably going to go dead.
Thus, improvement and deployment of advanced radar systems will not necessarily defeat stealth so long as detection systems improve and standoff anti-radiation weapons are fielded.
I have to disagree with this. Just because insurance companies are making money doesn't mean that the consumer is not obtaining value from getting the insurance. That's like saying the iPhone is a rip-off because Apple makes a profit.
A good insurance plan is worth it unless you have the money to self-insure. For most people, paying $50 (or whatever) is worth avoiding a potential payment of $600. Of course, there are bad insurance plans out there but that doesn't mean that they are all bad because they make a profit on it.
Al Qaeda is shitting their pants that they are increasingly becoming irrelevant to the modern world. Documents from Osama Bin Laden's compound showed that he was concerned that the Islamic world is starting to reject his group's philosophy. If America went into the ME and started slaughtering more Muslims then this would only validate the hardliner's position.
What should America do? Speak quietly and politely and fucking kill all the bad guys (and only the bad guys) using drones and whatever other military methods we have at our disposal.
What does God say that isn't said through the voice of men? What we are seeing is a bunch of psychopaths seizing the unbreakable and unquestionable chains of God to lead a bunch of uneducated and disgruntled peons into violence. Don't think we're any different. You look at any major Holy Book and you can pervert it to violence if you so choose. There were Christian fundamentalists at Waco and the Branch Davidians who thought that God wanted them to prepare for the end of days. It's only because we have already went through the Crusades and have a relatively well-educated population that we haven't devolved into a theocratic shit state. We already have the TeaTards pushing an evangelical agenda. If our economy really hits the shitter, and we get rid of secular education, we'd be in the same fucking shit show in a few decades. Heck, you can argue that our invasion of Iraq was driven by evangelical neocons who thought they were on a fucking Crusade to tame the infidels, and a hundred thousand civilians died as a result of the invasion.
The government of Libya already apologized. The government of Egypt deployed forces around the US Embassy there to protect it from attack. Eventually, the governments will need to send in their police forces and military to crush these violent uprisings. Other than that, there's nothing the US should do unless it turns out that the governments were actually behind the attacks.
Welcome to the real world. Companies lavish new customers with great deals all the time while denying the same benefits to their current customers. DirecTV will give free HBO to new customers for three months, but not current ones. The same with Verizon. You can call and complain, and they might match or offer you a better deal, but for the rest of the customers, ignorance is bliss.
Is this unethical? I don't think so. While paying less would be better, you are already paying a price you find acceptable. The fact that someone else might get a better price is kind of besides the point.
I read somewhere that dog food experts were consulted about how to minimize poop from food. Apparently, dog food already has the quality of getting your dog full while minimizing poop generation. But they were questioning whether or not astronauts would appreciate their food being associated with the makers of Alpo or whatever.
No one is saying that Republicans are stupid in terms of playing politics. They have stupid policies such as force-feeding creationism in science class, but they are geniuses at fear-mongering, name-calling, and just flat-out lying in order to get what they want. You want to talk about leaving Iraq? Well, you're a cut-and-run coward who hates America. You want to help the poor and middle class? You're engaging in class warfare, and you hate success. These guys are freaking geniuses at political gamesmanship. Look at ObamaCare. They were able to stop even a single Republican representative from voting in favor of the bill. Are you telling me that not one of them thought the bill was a good idea or was the leadership that absolute? Hint: it's the latter.
It sounds like they will be using CNC to armor cars or windows rather than body armor. In such applications, you could paint it, then stick it somewhere it won't be touched on a day-to-day basis, such as between the car's body panels. If the CNC is so much cheaper, you probably could put a lot more of it if weight allows.
I'll note that Kevlar and Spectra also have problems with high humidity/high temperature conditions. Dragon Skin was supposedly revolutionary body armor that got stopped by the military. There was a controversy over the entire matter. The manufacturer claimed a coverup. Eventually, the military claimed that the armor would delaminate under high humidity/high temperature applications, such as in body armor worn by soldiers in a desert.
If I decided to write a throwaway script based on a non-official API, then I would not complaint too much about the API being deprecated and removed. If Google had pushed this as an officially-supported API, then stopped supporting it, then you could complain. Otherwise, it is just baseless.
This to a trillion degrees. The USPTO and the guys challenging a patent application are much better suited to knocking out bad patents before they are even born. Even more fundamentally, however, patents on genes and software should not be patentable subject matter.
This presupposes that old age can be achieved without a significant decline in one's ability to enjoy the world. I'm sure you can do many fun things at a young age, but if you can't see, can't move without pain, can't hear too well, forget about things constantly, or are in physical pain then you might want to punch an early ticket out of this world.
Comments from a jury cannot be used as evidence in either the appeal or a later trial. The prior art has already been reviewed by a jury, which rejected them as invalidating. An appellate court cannot replace its own findings over that of the jury unless it is very clear that the jury is wrong.
This to a million degrees. I used to mock the flu until I actually had the flu. It turns out I had the cold all the times before. With the flu, I felt like my back was going to break. I laid down in bed for an entire week, which is very rare for me. I usually take pride in being able to get over illness, but the flu knocked me on my ass for a solid week. And this was as an otherwise healthy 25 year old. I imagine that the flu can be murder on an elderly person with other diseases.