I recall seeing an estimate somewhere that the peak deceleration of a relativistic craft like this hitting the heliopause would be about 12g, not comfortable but very effective and cheap way to slow down.
Not only uncomfortable, but probably very likely to tear up your spacecraft, unless it's really reinforced. Spacecraft are extremely fragile things, relatively speaking.
Isn't ethnicity probably the easiest thing on that list for a computer to determine?
Whatever the case, I love fried chicken and grape soda. Anyone got a can of shoe polish?
Don't use shoe polish. It burns and itches. The smell from the stuff under your nose will make you dizzy. Use burnt cork and frying grease. It's safer.
Any chance you know where I can find a GOOD tutorial to installing and using Grub with Slackware? I'm on Lilo right now, and while I don't mind Lilo, I wouldn't mind trying out Grub.
DirectX 10 level? pshaw! When they support Linux systems, then I'm interested. ATI shot themselves in the foot years ago with me by not supporting Linux systems.
On the other hand, I have relatives in Oklahoma who regularly fill up at the Kum N' Go and think nothing of it.
(Yes, that's really the name of the leading gas station/convenience store. Yes, it's really spelled like that.)
Yeah, they're like cockroaches. Everywhere. On the bright side, it is kind of fun to pull up with a friend and ask if she wants a Kum'n'Go Jerk-and-Squirt (A squishee).
I don't believe they would ever stop these experiments, as too many people involved with the science (and the money behind the LHC) have such intense desire to learn from the experiments. But I do at least hope, they use extreme caution and so only slowly, (over a period of a many months) move to (even currently possible) higher energy collision experiments, in very small increments. While its easy to assume they will, they have shown too many times how worried they are other experiment teams are going to get to the noble prize winning results first, so they do have extreme pressure on them, to rush into the higher energy experiments to show results fast).
A la the Photoelectric effect:
"Nothing. Increase power."
"Well, we got a few muons. Increase power."
"Same amount of muons. Increase power."
"Same amount of muons. Increase power." . . .
"Same amount of muons. Increase power."
"What's this? I never thought I'd live to see a resonance cascade! Oh shi
So you see, incrementing is probably a safe approach, but as soon as you cross some energy threshold, you might very well get exotic results. With the photoelectric effect, there was no current at all, until they increased the frequency of light (read: energy per photon) to a certain limit (which happened to be the minimum ionizing energy of sodium). Then they suddenly had a current in the detector.
Because of they didn't actually make these purchases, millions of puppies in California had to be killed, because their owners couldn't afford to keep them into adulthood.
I'm not sure that's such a bad thing. I really felt sorry for Paris Hilton's little fluffball. And it's not like she's starving herself because she can't afford it.
Um, Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus for a civil war. Please don't compare the two.
Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, replaced Maryland's gov't with a puppet government, garrisoned Missouri and Maryland, declared laws effective where he had no sovereignty (yet didn't apply them to his own jurisdiction), and greatly increased federal control over the states, leading us up to some the mess we have now.
I'd say Lincoln might have been the worst president we had, hands-down. He's not the benevolent saviour everyone claims in the history books.
Stoner movies don't actually make you think about stuff that much, granted, pot does make you think incoherent stuff at times but it makes you think nonetheless. The last thing the UK government needs now is people thinking stuff about their incoherent policies.
"The idea that you can whack your head hundreds of times in your life and knock yourself out and get up and be fine is gone," said [retired wrestler] Nowinski.
This was a legitimate idea that people actually believed?
No. He just whacked his head a few hundred times, and finally came to the correct conclusion.
It is comparing apples to oranges. Growing things is generally not dangerous. Having people make their own fuel/engine modifications can be dangerous if you don't know exactly what you are doing.
You make a good point. One minor flaw in it, though. The fuel tax bond isn't there to keep fools from playing with matches, so to speak. It's there to ensure that the revenuers get their cut.
I'm essentially pointing out that things like that are difficult, if not impossible to tax (I have no clue how anyone found out he was burning soy oil, and I could find no indications anywhere). He essentially made his own fuel (made the engine mods, put something flammable in that isn't normally sold or used as fuel.)
You're probably the same guy who might argue that someone who grew or plucked wild cannabis then smoked or made fabric with it should be paying a use-bond upon penalty of being fined.
Ok, so we've lost a few people in space exploration. You know what, that's what happens, that's what they signed up for, and... that's healthy. What's not healty is how oversensitive the Public seems to be to these losses. Yes, the shuttle is aging, yes we need a new syste, but we shouldn't abandon manned space flight. Without manned space flight, how will we ever escape the Earth? And sooner or later, the Earth is going to want to be rid of us. Or the sun will, and Earth won't have much choice in the matter.
Please stop making this ridiculous argument. Beer is easy to make at home, but is legal and taxed. Food is easy to grow at home, but is legal and taxed in some (many?) states. Clothes are easy to make at home, but are legal and taxed in some (many) states.
The evidence flies in the face of this absolutely retarded claim.
Sec. 25.205
Production of Beer
(a) Any adult may produce beer, without payment of tax, for personal or family use and not for sale. An adult is any individual who is 18 years of age or older. If the locality in which the household is located requires a greater minimum age for the sale of beer to individuals, the adult shall be that age before commencing the production of beer. This exemption does not authorize the production of beer for use contrary to State or local law.
(b) The production of beer per household, without payment of tax, for personal or family use may not exceed:
(1) 200 gallons per calendar year if there are two or more adults residing in the household, or (2) 100 gallons per calendar year if there is only one adult residing in the household.
(c) Partnerships except as provided in Sec. 25.207, corporations or associations may not produce beer, without payment of tax, for personal or family use.
(Sec. 201, Pub. L. 85-859, 72 Stat. 1334, as amended (26 U.S.C. 5053))
Sec. 25.206
Removal of beer
Beer made under Sec. 25.205 may be removed from the premises where made for personal or family use including use at organized affairs, exhibitions or competitions such as homemaker's contests, tastings or judging. Beer removed under this section may not be sold or offered for sale.
(Sec. 201, Pub. L. 85-859, 72 Stat. 1334, as amended (26 U.S.C. 5053))
Sec. 25.207
Removal from brewery for personal or family use.
Any adult, as defined in Sec. 25.205, who operates a brewery under this part as an individual owner or in partnership with others, may remove beer from the brewery without payment of tax for personal or family use. The amount of beer removed for each household, without payment of tax, per calendar year may not exceed 100 gallons if there is one adult residing in the household or 200 gallons if there are two or more adults residing in the household. Beer removed in excess of the above limitations will be reported as a taxable removal.
(Sec. 201, Pub. L. 85-859, 72 Stat. 1334, as amended (26 U.S.C. 5053))
Technically speaking tobacco is a weed too, but they manage to tax that. Note that you don't find seeds in cigarettes.
I bet if you just grew it for yourself and never sold it, it wouldn't be very easily taxed. As an aside, potatoes, tomatoes, and tobacco are all quite related. And the green parts of all are quite toxic if ingested.
Well, consider that switching without adequate provision for the vast majority to pick up DTV will piss a lot of people off, and then consider that governments don't remain in power if they piss people off.
Also consider the investment in digital TV broadcast masts to ensure you cover the whole country. It is not moronic to be out of range of a digital signal.
I'd think they'd be more afraid of pissing their lobbies off. After all, the lobbies are the ones that wanted Automatic Gain Control in VCRs and the broadcast flag for digital.
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Wow. It lasted a whole 7 minutes. Now if only it last a few years till breeding season.
I suppose microsoft was in charge of the DNA code and that's why it crashed so quickly?
Doc Brown says: "JIGAvolt it's JIGAvolt!"
Actually, it's JIGAwatt. It should be GIGAwatt, but he says JIGAwatt.
I recall seeing an estimate somewhere that the peak deceleration of a relativistic craft like this hitting the heliopause would be about 12g, not comfortable but very effective and cheap way to slow down.
Not only uncomfortable, but probably very likely to tear up your spacecraft, unless it's really reinforced. Spacecraft are extremely fragile things, relatively speaking.
They do make those for the front door. They're called home security cameras.
Wrong. They're called peepholes, and they were invented by a guy who got tired of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Now if they could only make one of these for my front door to recognize the vacuum salesmen.
Actually, they need to come up with one of these to recognize telemarketers on the phone, and prevent my phone from ringing when they call.
Isn't ethnicity probably the easiest thing on that list for a computer to determine?
Whatever the case, I love fried chicken and grape soda. Anyone got a can of shoe polish?
Don't use shoe polish. It burns and itches. The smell from the stuff under your nose will make you dizzy. Use burnt cork and frying grease. It's safer.
And for their next feat, they will teleport a cat!
It already exists, it's called GRUB ;-)
Any chance you know where I can find a GOOD tutorial to installing and using Grub with Slackware? I'm on Lilo right now, and while I don't mind Lilo, I wouldn't mind trying out Grub.
DirectX 10 level? pshaw! When they support Linux systems, then I'm interested. ATI shot themselves in the foot years ago with me by not supporting Linux systems.
On the other hand, I have relatives in Oklahoma who regularly fill up at the Kum N' Go and think nothing of it. (Yes, that's really the name of the leading gas station/convenience store. Yes, it's really spelled like that.)
Yeah, they're like cockroaches. Everywhere. On the bright side, it is kind of fun to pull up with a friend and ask if she wants a Kum'n'Go Jerk-and-Squirt (A squishee).
I don't believe they would ever stop these experiments, as too many people involved with the science (and the money behind the LHC) have such intense desire to learn from the experiments. But I do at least hope, they use extreme caution and so only slowly, (over a period of a many months) move to (even currently possible) higher energy collision experiments, in very small increments. While its easy to assume they will, they have shown too many times how worried they are other experiment teams are going to get to the noble prize winning results first, so they do have extreme pressure on them, to rush into the higher energy experiments to show results fast).
A la the Photoelectric effect:
"Nothing. Increase power."
.
.
.
"Well, we got a few muons. Increase power."
"Same amount of muons. Increase power."
"Same amount of muons. Increase power."
"Same amount of muons. Increase power."
"What's this? I never thought I'd live to see a resonance cascade! Oh shi
So you see, incrementing is probably a safe approach, but as soon as you cross some energy threshold, you might very well get exotic results. With the photoelectric effect, there was no current at all, until they increased the frequency of light (read: energy per photon) to a certain limit (which happened to be the minimum ionizing energy of sodium). Then they suddenly had a current in the detector.
Because of they didn't actually make these purchases, millions of puppies in California had to be killed, because their owners couldn't afford to keep them into adulthood.
I'm not sure that's such a bad thing. I really felt sorry for Paris Hilton's little fluffball. And it's not like she's starving herself because she can't afford it.
Personally: I wouldn't download a car.
I wouldn't download a horse (or a condom). It might be a Trojan!
Um, Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus for a civil war. Please don't compare the two.
Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, replaced Maryland's gov't with a puppet government, garrisoned Missouri and Maryland, declared laws effective where he had no sovereignty (yet didn't apply them to his own jurisdiction), and greatly increased federal control over the states, leading us up to some the mess we have now.
I'd say Lincoln might have been the worst president we had, hands-down. He's not the benevolent saviour everyone claims in the history books.
I'd call him distinctly evil.
Stoner movies don't actually make you think about stuff that much, granted, pot does make you think incoherent stuff at times but it makes you think nonetheless. The last thing the UK government needs now is people thinking stuff about their incoherent policies.
Are you saying the UK gov't smokes pot?
Is his track record so far.
What can we now expect?
Dude, that's a great resume for a government bureaucrat.
What track record? I didn't see any track record. Maybe a bureaucrat that doesn't do anything is the best kind.
"The idea that you can whack your head hundreds of times in your life and knock yourself out and get up and be fine is gone," said [retired wrestler] Nowinski.
This was a legitimate idea that people actually believed?
No. He just whacked his head a few hundred times, and finally came to the correct conclusion.
Is that usually considered to be legal grounds for Officer Obie to pull someone over?
It is comparing apples to oranges. Growing things is generally not dangerous. Having people make their own fuel/engine modifications can be dangerous if you don't know exactly what you are doing.
You make a good point. One minor flaw in it, though. The fuel tax bond isn't there to keep fools from playing with matches, so to speak. It's there to ensure that the revenuers get their cut.
I'm essentially pointing out that things like that are difficult, if not impossible to tax (I have no clue how anyone found out he was burning soy oil, and I could find no indications anywhere). He essentially made his own fuel (made the engine mods, put something flammable in that isn't normally sold or used as fuel.)
You're probably the same guy who might argue that someone who grew or plucked wild cannabis then smoked or made fabric with it should be paying a use-bond upon penalty of being fined.
If you grew it yourself and never sold any, there would be no reason to tax it.
Tell that to the guy in NC fined for violating the state fuel tax laws for running his vehicles on fuel he produced for himself. http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/599471.html
Ok, so we've lost a few people in space exploration. You know what, that's what happens, that's what they signed up for, and... that's healthy. What's not healty is how oversensitive the Public seems to be to these losses. Yes, the shuttle is aging, yes we need a new syste, but we shouldn't abandon manned space flight. Without manned space flight, how will we ever escape the Earth? And sooner or later, the Earth is going to want to be rid of us. Or the sun will, and Earth won't have much choice in the matter.
I'd take this risk any day over a mundane job.
ARGHHH
Please stop making this ridiculous argument. Beer is easy to make at home, but is legal and taxed. Food is easy to grow at home, but is legal and taxed in some (many?) states. Clothes are easy to make at home, but are legal and taxed in some (many) states.
The evidence flies in the face of this absolutely retarded claim.
No it isn't. I'm going to assume that the blogger who posted this is actually relying on the authority of the US Gov't for the info. Here are a few relevant exerpts from the US Legal Code.
Technically speaking tobacco is a weed too, but they manage to tax that. Note that you don't find seeds in cigarettes.
I bet if you just grew it for yourself and never sold it, it wouldn't be very easily taxed. As an aside, potatoes, tomatoes, and tobacco are all quite related. And the green parts of all are quite toxic if ingested.
Well, consider that switching without adequate provision for the vast majority to pick up DTV will piss a lot of people off, and then consider that governments don't remain in power if they piss people off. Also consider the investment in digital TV broadcast masts to ensure you cover the whole country. It is not moronic to be out of range of a digital signal.
I'd think they'd be more afraid of pissing their lobbies off. After all, the lobbies are the ones that wanted Automatic Gain Control in VCRs and the broadcast flag for digital.