It's unfortunate that teachers have ceased to be considered authority figures.
Why should they muck around with jamming when they can just confiscate the phones when they are being used in violation of school policy and then returned at the end of the day, as has been done for countless other disruptive devices (before the wussification of America and the rise of the helicopter parent)?
But what would cops do to try to make you nervous so that they have a (false) pretense to pull you over if they couldn't trade paint with your rear bumper?
I use a cycloDS. All my games are played from that. However, all of the ROMs were ripped directly (and personally) from my own carts and those files are kept in my sole possession. I keep all the carts too.
I buy the games so that there could be the chance of more games that I like (and thus will probably buy).
(The other big advantage of a flash cart is you can carry and play GBA games without the cart protruding from the lite.)
The interesting thing is that The Great War, The War to End All Wars was World War I, which preceded World War II and introduced the horrors of chemical weapons and machine guns, and WWI pulled America out of one of its most isolationist periods.
Depending on which countries you pick there was less than 20 years between "The Last War" and, well, the next war.
Wars should be started by rational people. Then they'd have a much better chance of being properly used as one of the last tools of resolving State v. State issues and not another plank in some party's platform.
Unfortunately "police actions" tend to be started by very irrational people and police actions are much easier to start, harder to stop, and avoid all the formalities entailed in an actual declaration of war.
You'd probably want E96 (i.e. 4% water, which iirc is what Brazil ran).
There's a massive jump in the energy required remove the water when you get into the really high proofs. 96%/192 proof is (or was) the sweet spot between purity and energy required.
Photovoltaic panels didn't have the constraint of having to develop replication and maintenance capabilities. They engineered humans to figure that out for them.
I've had the suspicion that the decline of cursive is partly due to the change in pen types.
A good fountain pen (which can have the nib altered to suit the angle you hold the pen) needs almost no pressure to apply the ink. Long flowing strokes are very easy and very fast.
Ball point pens, on the other hand, require a lot of pressure, compared to a fountain pen, and seems to be more suited to the short strokes of printing, which limits the length of time you have to apply the pressure before being able to rest.
Open iTunes. Make sure you have your main library open. Create a new folder on your desktop. Open that new folder. Go back into iTunes and hit [cmd|ctrl]-A and then [cmd|ctrl]-C. Go to the new folder that you opened. Hit [cmd|ctrl]-V. When it is done copying you can have whatever program or device you want manage your music for you. (iTunes lock in is sooooooooooooo harsh!)
What the pre is doing is making use of iTunes' management capabilities so that that palm didn't have to much about with coming up with their own playlist and management app.
The Count of Monte Cristo is in the public domain but if I want a dead tree version of it I have to be able to find a dead tree version of it and then generally will need to purchase that dead tree version.
Now finding a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo is rather easy. Imagine trying to find a copy of something that is technically in the public domain but the book itself is rare enough to effectively not exist anymore (and there are no electronic copies of it) and the market so small that no one would bother trying to republish it even if they had the book to work from. Print On Demand is a perfect solution to that problem. You don't have to keep stock of books that will rarely sell but yet you can make those books available to for purchase.
You forgot that before the pudgy guy in a rumpled business could throw the ugly beige 1980's era PC chassis he had to stop and click "Allow" on the dialog box that read "You are about to throw an ugly 1980's era PC chassis by its powercord, Allow or Deny?".
The problem is *we* (the U.S.) can't offensively use our nuclear arsenal. Right now it's there to keep other sane countries from thinking of using theirs and making the less-than-stable countries hold out for some opportune moment.
The world knows this and thus they know they can drag the U.S. into a conventional war and not have to worry about us deploying nukes against them.
What would be foolish would be start a serious war with an unstable country that has nukes (and wouldn't mind seeing their own cities being glassed over as long as they get to nuke their enemies and the top brass and VIPs can survive). Which is why there's been long, drawn out, and relatively fruitless negotiations with certain countries.
Eventually military research makes its way into the civilian sector so defense spending isn't entirely a money pit. Its not nearly as good a return as other investments but it is sort of the investment that makes all the other ones possible.
Russia and America had pretty much the same strategy for their tanks because they had the production capabilities and raw resources to just spew them out (and were of such high quality that they acquired nicknames like "The Ronson").
Germany didn't have the luxury of the level of resources that the Russians or Americans did. Germany wouldn't have had the fuel to field an American or Russian style of armor.
Why shoot down a drone when you can just jam its communications?
Ya, it was taken down by a ground based radar network that had the capability to use low enough frequencies to make the F-117 intermittently visible enough to lob a valley of SAMs in its flight path.
The F-117 wasn't an air superiority fighter. The F-22 is. The F-22 isn't meant to strike ground targets, it's meant to keep the enemy out of its airspace. The F-22 is still effective against current fighter based radar.
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When the time comes, it's already too late. And any built at the 11th hour wouldn't be nearly as valuable as they could have been if they could have been built earlier and served as a deterrent instead of only a defense.
You don't build them to use them, you build them so you don't have to use them. You also force anyone who thinks they need to counter them to spend resources on developing and deploying the countermeasures.
With the way the gov't is throwing money I'm surprised anything under a billion registers on their radar. They've probably got rounding errors (intentional or not) that could pay for a whole squadron of these.
If you're doing the repairs yourself what difference does labor make?
Depends on how much you value your own time. If you don't value your free time, then it makes sense to fix it yourself. If the value of your free time exceeds the cost to have someone else fix it then it makes sense to have someone else fix it. If it is cheaper (considering time and money) to replace than to fix it makes sense to just replace it.
To see how 195-205F drinks can be consumed, try this test: Heat some water to 195F.
Drink the hot water by sipping a small amount and swallowing immediately. The small amount of water spread rather quickly over a large surface area doesn't allow it to heat any particular area of the mouth enough to cause a burn.
Now take a mouthful of the hot water and try hold it in your mouth for 10 seconds.
You have now learned a basic (and painful) lesson of liquids and how they transfer heat.
Stella's injuries wouldn't have been severe if she hadn't allowed the soaked sweat pants to remain in contact with her skin for the 90 seconds she did.
Isn't that sort of the point of FOIA requests? Agency has report, you want it, file the FOIA, it gets cleared for release and then is possibly released? The article stresses the 800 pages repeatedly (while barely mentioning the total of 15 events...). I wouldn't expect them to process that request overnight.
And how do you not notice something burning hot in contact with your skin? "At first I thought, how in the heck did I get burned? Right there?" she told Clancy, while pointing to a penny-sized, round burn on her chest. "Then I remembered that I had my iPod right there."
The best part is the article even thinks of the children! "So far, no serious injuries have been reported to the CPSC, but Tami Mooney of Portland believes it's only a matter of time. And she says she was angry to read the reports Clancy shared with her, especially since many of them were filed after she had notified Apple about what had happened to her daughter.
"That's what I've been afraid of, is that that could have been a dead child because Apple didn't care to fix it. I'm horrified to learn it's still going on."
Definitely some serious journalism going on there.
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A damaged lithium ion battery exploding is just as unexpected as a gas can exploding after you set a flare next to it and then poke a hole in it.
It's unfortunate that teachers have ceased to be considered authority figures.
Why should they muck around with jamming when they can just confiscate the phones when they are being used in violation of school policy and then returned at the end of the day, as has been done for countless other disruptive devices (before the wussification of America and the rise of the helicopter parent)?
But what would cops do to try to make you nervous so that they have a (false) pretense to pull you over if they couldn't trade paint with your rear bumper?
Won't someone think of the quotas?!?
I use a cycloDS. All my games are played from that. However, all of the ROMs were ripped directly (and personally) from my own carts and those files are kept in my sole possession. I keep all the carts too.
I buy the games so that there could be the chance of more games that I like (and thus will probably buy).
(The other big advantage of a flash cart is you can carry and play GBA games without the cart protruding from the lite.)
Nor are universes.
Stupid industrial revolution, causing the heat death of the entire universe. What won't mankind destroy?
The interesting thing is that The Great War, The War to End All Wars was World War I, which preceded World War II and introduced the horrors of chemical weapons and machine guns, and WWI pulled America out of one of its most isolationist periods.
Depending on which countries you pick there was less than 20 years between "The Last War" and, well, the next war.
Wars should be started by rational people. Then they'd have a much better chance of being properly used as one of the last tools of resolving State v. State issues and not another plank in some party's platform.
Unfortunately "police actions" tend to be started by very irrational people and police actions are much easier to start, harder to stop, and avoid all the formalities entailed in an actual declaration of war.
You'd probably want E96 (i.e. 4% water, which iirc is what Brazil ran).
There's a massive jump in the energy required remove the water when you get into the really high proofs. 96%/192 proof is (or was) the sweet spot between purity and energy required.
Photovoltaic panels didn't have the constraint of having to develop replication and maintenance capabilities. They engineered humans to figure that out for them.
Try running a spectrum analyzer when you fire up the microwave. Microwaves are very noisy on 2.4ghz.
Mine basically obliterates about 3 channels when you turn it on.
I've had the suspicion that the decline of cursive is partly due to the change in pen types.
A good fountain pen (which can have the nib altered to suit the angle you hold the pen) needs almost no pressure to apply the ink. Long flowing strokes are very easy and very fast.
Ball point pens, on the other hand, require a lot of pressure, compared to a fountain pen, and seems to be more suited to the short strokes of printing, which limits the length of time you have to apply the pressure before being able to rest.
Open iTunes. Make sure you have your main library open. Create a new folder on your desktop. Open that new folder. Go back into iTunes and hit [cmd|ctrl]-A and then [cmd|ctrl]-C. Go to the new folder that you opened. Hit [cmd|ctrl]-V. When it is done copying you can have whatever program or device you want manage your music for you. (iTunes lock in is sooooooooooooo harsh!)
What the pre is doing is making use of iTunes' management capabilities so that that palm didn't have to much about with coming up with their own playlist and management app.
The Count of Monte Cristo is in the public domain but if I want a dead tree version of it I have to be able to find a dead tree version of it and then generally will need to purchase that dead tree version.
Now finding a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo is rather easy. Imagine trying to find a copy of something that is technically in the public domain but the book itself is rare enough to effectively not exist anymore (and there are no electronic copies of it) and the market so small that no one would bother trying to republish it even if they had the book to work from. Print On Demand is a perfect solution to that problem. You don't have to keep stock of books that will rarely sell but yet you can make those books available to for purchase.
You forgot that before the pudgy guy in a rumpled business could throw the ugly beige 1980's era PC chassis he had to stop and click "Allow" on the dialog box that read "You are about to throw an ugly 1980's era PC chassis by its powercord, Allow or Deny?".
The problem is *we* (the U.S.) can't offensively use our nuclear arsenal. Right now it's there to keep other sane countries from thinking of using theirs and making the less-than-stable countries hold out for some opportune moment.
The world knows this and thus they know they can drag the U.S. into a conventional war and not have to worry about us deploying nukes against them.
What would be foolish would be start a serious war with an unstable country that has nukes (and wouldn't mind seeing their own cities being glassed over as long as they get to nuke their enemies and the top brass and VIPs can survive). Which is why there's been long, drawn out, and relatively fruitless negotiations with certain countries.
Eventually military research makes its way into the civilian sector so defense spending isn't entirely a money pit. Its not nearly as good a return as other investments but it is sort of the investment that makes all the other ones possible.
Better than a Hot War.
Russia and America had pretty much the same strategy for their tanks because they had the production capabilities and raw resources to just spew them out (and were of such high quality that they acquired nicknames like "The Ronson").
Germany didn't have the luxury of the level of resources that the Russians or Americans did. Germany wouldn't have had the fuel to field an American or Russian style of armor.
Why shoot down a drone when you can just jam its communications?
Ya, it was taken down by a ground based radar network that had the capability to use low enough frequencies to make the F-117 intermittently visible enough to lob a valley of SAMs in its flight path.
The F-117 wasn't an air superiority fighter. The F-22 is. The F-22 isn't meant to strike ground targets, it's meant to keep the enemy out of its airspace. The F-22 is still effective against current fighter based radar.
When the time comes, it's already too late. And any built at the 11th hour wouldn't be nearly as valuable as they could have been if they could have been built earlier and served as a deterrent instead of only a defense.
Interesting, you casually call people peons yet you can't type "pisspoor".
You don't build them to use them, you build them so you don't have to use them. You also force anyone who thinks they need to counter them to spend resources on developing and deploying the countermeasures.
With the way the gov't is throwing money I'm surprised anything under a billion registers on their radar. They've probably got rounding errors (intentional or not) that could pay for a whole squadron of these.
If you're doing the repairs yourself what difference does labor make?
Depends on how much you value your own time. If you don't value your free time, then it makes sense to fix it yourself. If the value of your free time exceeds the cost to have someone else fix it then it makes sense to have someone else fix it. If it is cheaper (considering time and money) to replace than to fix it makes sense to just replace it.
To see how 195-205F drinks can be consumed, try this test:
Heat some water to 195F.
Drink the hot water by sipping a small amount and swallowing immediately. The small amount of water spread rather quickly over a large surface area doesn't allow it to heat any particular area of the mouth enough to cause a burn.
Now take a mouthful of the hot water and try hold it in your mouth for 10 seconds.
You have now learned a basic (and painful) lesson of liquids and how they transfer heat.
Stella's injuries wouldn't have been severe if she hadn't allowed the soaked sweat pants to remain in contact with her skin for the 90 seconds she did.
Isn't that sort of the point of FOIA requests? Agency has report, you want it, file the FOIA, it gets cleared for release and then is possibly released? The article stresses the 800 pages repeatedly (while barely mentioning the total of 15 events...). I wouldn't expect them to process that request overnight.
And how do you not notice something burning hot in contact with your skin? "At first I thought, how in the heck did I get burned? Right there?" she told Clancy, while pointing to a penny-sized, round burn on her chest. "Then I remembered that I had my iPod right there."
The best part is the article even thinks of the children! "So far, no serious injuries have been reported to the CPSC, but Tami Mooney of Portland believes it's only a matter of time. And she says she was angry to read the reports Clancy shared with her, especially since many of them were filed after she had notified Apple about what had happened to her daughter.
"That's what I've been afraid of, is that that could have been a dead child because Apple didn't care to fix it. I'm horrified to learn it's still going on."
Definitely some serious journalism going on there.