The DA may not offer you immunity to all possible venues of prosecution (ie federal, state, municipal, and county). He therefore cannot offer you full immunity.
Continue to refuse, and they find you in contempt of court and lock you up until you change your mind.
You can be found in contempt of court by a judge at your trial. This means that the DA has gotten enough evidence of your crime to convince a grand jury to indict you, and you are on trial for this crime. Furthermore, you cannot be compelled by comtempt of court or ortherwise to give up your fifth ammendment right.
Your assertion about solar energy is incorrect. Most solar panels are net energy producers after 5 years of their 30 year lifespan.
Your assertion about wind energy is also incorrect. The time for most wind turbines to be net positive in energy is a few months. The area required for energy production for wind is much smaller than you say. If 6% of the total land in the US were cultivated for wind power (which doesn't exclude other uses, like ranching), the total energy production would be 1.5 times the total produced in the US today.
The key to energy independance is not just switching sources, but using substantailly less energy. Using less energy is possible without making huge sacrifices, it just requires developing and building smarter.
I do beleive your theory on constitutionality of law is incorrect. Laws are not judged to be constitutional because several courts have cited it in rulings. A law can be thrown out at any time as unconstitutional and the final arbiter is the Supreme Court. If said law is ruled to unconstitutional, convictions under that law are held to be invalid.
Flash disks have a layer between what the computer sees as it's "blocks" and what are really it's blocks. It uses a system that evenly distributes writes around the memory and marks off bad blocks. Unless you frequently write data onto your entire disk (like a video recorder), it isn't much of a problem.
Also, many flash parts have a 1e6 writes rated life span. That is, they will survive a *minimum* of 1e6 writes or you can have your money back.
There are a number of ways that "smart" munitions are guided to their targets. There are GPS guided bombs, laser designator seeking bombs/missiles, CCTV guided bombs/missiles, and inertial navigation system guided missiles.
The military is well aware that GPS signals are easy to jam.
Having worked for a semiconductor company that supplies chips for consumer electronics, I have a little insight.
First, consumer electronics makers are cheap. They will do ANYTHING to save a buck on the bill of materials. If this means skimping on a power supply, or ommitting some protection circuits, they will do it. Their goals are 1) regulatory compliance (UL in the US) and 2) low RMA's.
Secondly, the consumer cannot distinguish "quality." They things that the consumer can see have no real relation to the quality of the design. How would you know if they power supply is very ripply? How would you know that they left out some filter capacitors. Price or brand is no indicator, that's all driven by marketting. For the consumer to determine the quality, they would have to take apart the device and then analyze it like an engineer. Doesn't happen. Reviews don't help-- the reviewer doesn't know anything either. Think of the quality test most consumers do of a stereo: they go to the store and turn up the volume. What does that tell them?
Also, the electronics that you buy today are considerably more complicated than that of yesteryear. Consider a stereo. Twenty years ago, it was just a collection of transistors and power supplies. Now they have micro controllers, DSP, codec's, etc. There is a lot more to go wrong. Pluse a lot more corner cutting that you can do. Besides, once you throw software into the mix, you get bugs.
Lastly, buy the $49 APEX DVD player. The part that will fail is going to be the DVD mechanism. Do you think there is a big difference between the one APEX buys and the one Sony buys? They're probably both made by TEAC.
I'm sure that VA, who is always looking for some money, would be happy to strike up some sort of arrangement. They obviously have the resources already in place.
Actually, using RAID5 on tapes is not unusual. It has the same benefits that RAID5 disk arrays have. It allows for the loss of one tape, as well as increased throughput. This technique can actually be extended to any media.
The Centers for Diseas Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks gun deaths as an epidemic. As such, they have correlation data for various aspects of gun deaths in America. They can for example, show you the correlation between guns in a home and suicide or homicide. They even do some study of gun death and injury among 26 industrialized nations.
You can see the CDC data on the subject at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/fafacts.h tm
From all my research, gun ownership correlates very well with gun death and injury in America. This doesn't seem to be true in all countries.
That's a storm sewer. These methods put fiber in sanitary sewers. If a guy goes into the sanitary sewer to cut a fiber optic line, the loss of the fiber is not your largest problem.
Everone who is annoyed with the idea that the regulatory agency in charge of protecting a public asset is instead helping corporations restrict your rights, write a comment!
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You're somewhat correct. Solar power is economical if you don't already have utility service. In this situation, it is much cheaper to conserve than to generate more. A house can be run with about 7KW peak output. This is comparable to other types of installations in terms of TCO.
However, at the utility scale, PV just doesn't hold a candle to the cheapest form of energy production. Discounting the subsidies given to coal production, wind power is the cheapest way to produce power at the utility scale.
A gasoline mower pollutes far more than an electric mower. The small gasoline engine in a gas mower is very inefficient and has no pollution controls. Running a gas mower pollutes about as much as driving your car for 100 miles. Of course, the volatile organic compounds that it creates (which cause cancer) hover in your yard, unlike when you drive. (learn more at: http://www.peoplepoweredmachines.com/faq-environme nt.htm)
If you're concerned about the enviromental impact of your lawn or mowing it, I would choose to replace the battery of your current electric mower. That's probably the cheapest and easiest answer. The battery vendor should be willing to take the broken battery. If not, you should be able to find a municiple hazardous waste facility that will. Of course, you could follow StandardDeviant's advice and replace your lown with something climate appropriate. The benefit is that you probably won't have to water it or mow it. You can find more about that at: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/ xeris cape/xeriscape.html
There are plastic vendors that have aluminized acrylic for sale. It's acrylic with a very thin layer of aluminum on it. It's still mostly transparent, but forms an effective EMI shield. A similar process is used for military airplane canopies, but the material is not acrylic.
You should consult an Interior Designer THe building is already built. As to others who say that you need someone knowledgeable about computer stuff, a competent designer will ask you about your requirements. It is an interactive process.
Serial has the potential for higher speed. At low speed, a parallel connection can provide more bandwidth than a serial connection. However, at high speed (especially with long cables), the clock speed you can get with parallel connections plateus. However, the clock speed you can get with serial doesn't have this limitation (cross-talk, mismatch, etc). That is why high speed interfaces are mostly serial (think ethernet).
The difference between SCSI and ATA is not merely the interface. SCSI drives are aimed at the server market, and are manufactured to a higher standard. IDE drives are aimed at the consumer market, and are manufactured accordingly. SCSI drives are far more reliable. That is the primary reason they are much more expensive. The silicon (the chips that make the interface to the computer) on a drive represents a tiny fraction of the overall drive cost.
Also, the cd recorders that you find are actually SCSI over IDE emulation.
As a side note, SCSI and ATA are on a fundamentally different model. The ATA model is to minimize host controllers and move all the smarts to the drive, thereby minimizing costs. The SCSI model is to have two controllers on each side, thereby minimizing host overhead. In terms of raw throughput, ATA is on par with SCSI. In terms of host overhead, SCSI will always be ahead of ATA.
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The DA may not offer you immunity to all possible venues of prosecution (ie federal, state, municipal, and county). He therefore cannot offer you full immunity.
Continue to refuse, and they find you in contempt of court and lock you up until you change your mind.
You can be found in contempt of court by a judge at your trial. This means that the DA has gotten enough evidence of your crime to convince a grand jury to indict you, and you are on trial for this crime. Furthermore, you cannot be compelled by comtempt of court or ortherwise to give up your fifth ammendment right.
Your assertion about solar energy is incorrect. Most solar panels are net energy producers after 5 years of their 30 year lifespan.
w ww.nrel.gov/wind/wind_potential.html
Your assertion about wind energy is also incorrect. The time for most wind turbines to be net positive in energy is a few months. The area required for energy production for wind is much smaller than you say. If 6% of the total land in the US were cultivated for wind power (which doesn't exclude other uses, like ranching), the total energy production would be 1.5 times the total produced in the US today.
The key to energy independance is not just switching sources, but using substantailly less energy. Using less energy is possible without making huge sacrifices, it just requires developing and building smarter.
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Enlist in the NSA and enroll in the National Cryptologic School.
Having multiple developers tinkering with the same part of the same file is a project management problem- not a tool problem.
I do beleive your theory on constitutionality of law is incorrect. Laws are not judged to be constitutional because several courts have cited it in rulings. A law can be thrown out at any time as unconstitutional and the final arbiter is the Supreme Court. If said law is ruled to unconstitutional, convictions under that law are held to be invalid.
Flash disks have a layer between what the computer sees as it's "blocks" and what are really it's blocks. It uses a system that evenly distributes writes around the memory and marks off bad blocks. Unless you frequently write data onto your entire disk (like a video recorder), it isn't much of a problem.
Also, many flash parts have a 1e6 writes rated life span. That is, they will survive a *minimum* of 1e6 writes or you can have your money back.
I think to find out the information you are seeking, you need to work at the NSA in one of the higher echelon positions.
There are a number of ways that "smart" munitions are guided to their targets. There are GPS guided bombs, laser designator seeking bombs/missiles, CCTV guided bombs/missiles, and inertial navigation system guided missiles.
The military is well aware that GPS signals are easy to jam.
Having worked for a semiconductor company that supplies chips for consumer electronics, I have a little insight.
First, consumer electronics makers are cheap. They will do ANYTHING to save a buck on the bill of materials. If this means skimping on a power supply, or ommitting some protection circuits, they will do it. Their goals are 1) regulatory compliance (UL in the US) and 2) low RMA's.
Secondly, the consumer cannot distinguish "quality." They things that the consumer can see have no real relation to the quality of the design. How would you know if they power supply is very ripply? How would you know that they left out some filter capacitors. Price or brand is no indicator, that's all driven by marketting. For the consumer to determine the quality, they would have to take apart the device and then analyze it like an engineer. Doesn't happen. Reviews don't help-- the reviewer doesn't know anything either. Think of the quality test most consumers do of a stereo: they go to the store and turn up the volume. What does that tell them?
Also, the electronics that you buy today are considerably more complicated than that of yesteryear. Consider a stereo. Twenty years ago, it was just a collection of transistors and power supplies. Now they have micro controllers, DSP, codec's, etc. There is a lot more to go wrong. Pluse a lot more corner cutting that you can do. Besides, once you throw software into the mix, you get bugs.
Lastly, buy the $49 APEX DVD player. The part that will fail is going to be the DVD mechanism. Do you think there is a big difference between the one APEX buys and the one Sony buys? They're probably both made by TEAC.
I'm sure that VA, who is always looking for some money, would be happy to strike up some sort of arrangement. They obviously have the resources already in place.
Actually, using RAID5 on tapes is not unusual. It has the same benefits that RAID5 disk arrays have. It allows for the loss of one tape, as well as increased throughput. This technique can actually be extended to any media.
The Centers for Diseas Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks gun deaths as an epidemic. As such, they have correlation data for various aspects of gun deaths in America. They can for example, show you the correlation between guns in a home and suicide or homicide. They even do some study of gun death and injury among 26 industrialized nations.
h tm
You can see the CDC data on the subject at:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/fafacts.
From all my research, gun ownership correlates very well with gun death and injury in America. This doesn't seem to be true in all countries.
A sanitary sewer carries crap. A storm sewer carries runoff from buildings, roads, etc.
That's a storm sewer. These methods put fiber in sanitary sewers. If a guy goes into the sanitary sewer to cut a fiber optic line, the loss of the fiber is not your largest problem.
Everone who is annoyed with the idea that the regulatory agency in charge of protecting a public asset is instead helping corporations restrict your rights, write a comment!
You're somewhat correct. Solar power is economical if you don't already have utility service. In this situation, it is much cheaper to conserve than to generate more. A house can be run with about 7KW peak output. This is comparable to other types of installations in terms of TCO.
However, at the utility scale, PV just doesn't hold a candle to the cheapest form of energy production. Discounting the subsidies given to coal production, wind power is the cheapest way to produce power at the utility scale.
If you are made of money, check out these push buttons with built in graphical LCD's. They even have multicolor backlights.
www.screenkeys.com
StandardDeviant is mostly correct... BUT.
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A gasoline mower pollutes far more than an electric mower. The small gasoline engine in a gas mower is very inefficient and has no pollution controls. Running a gas mower pollutes about as much as driving your car for 100 miles. Of course, the volatile organic compounds that it creates (which cause cancer) hover in your yard, unlike when you drive.
(learn more at: http://www.peoplepoweredmachines.com/faq-environm
If you're concerned about the enviromental impact of your lawn or mowing it, I would choose to replace the battery of your current electric mower. That's probably the cheapest and easiest answer. The battery vendor should be willing to take the broken battery. If not, you should be able to find a municiple hazardous waste facility that will. Of course, you could follow StandardDeviant's advice and replace your lown with something climate appropriate. The benefit is that you probably won't have to water it or mow it. You can find more about that at:
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension
It's the law. The utility has to buy power back from you.
There are plastic vendors that have aluminized acrylic for sale. It's acrylic with a very thin layer of aluminum on it. It's still mostly transparent, but forms an effective EMI shield. A similar process is used for military airplane canopies, but the material is not acrylic.
The choice between AOL and RoadRunner is a farce. THey are the same company.
You should consult an Interior Designer THe building is already built. As to others who say that you need someone knowledgeable about computer stuff, a competent designer will ask you about your requirements. It is an interactive process.
Serial has the potential for higher speed. At low speed, a parallel connection can provide more bandwidth than a serial connection. However, at high speed (especially with long cables), the clock speed you can get with parallel connections plateus. However, the clock speed you can get with serial doesn't have this limitation (cross-talk, mismatch, etc). That is why high speed interfaces are mostly serial (think ethernet).
The difference between SCSI and ATA is not merely the interface. SCSI drives are aimed at the server market, and are manufactured to a higher standard. IDE drives are aimed at the consumer market, and are manufactured accordingly. SCSI drives are far more reliable. That is the primary reason they are much more expensive. The silicon (the chips that make the interface to the computer) on a drive represents a tiny fraction of the overall drive cost.
Also, the cd recorders that you find are actually SCSI over IDE emulation.
As a side note, SCSI and ATA are on a fundamentally different model. The ATA model is to minimize host controllers and move all the smarts to the drive, thereby minimizing costs. The SCSI model is to have two controllers on each side, thereby minimizing host overhead. In terms of raw throughput, ATA is on par with SCSI. In terms of host overhead, SCSI will always be ahead of ATA.