That would make a better film than most of the crap out there at the moment.
How would that be? The evil mastermind, who owns a pest control company, revives the prehistoric termites immune to modern pesticides. And the hero, aided by his beautiful lab assistant, releases into the environment the ancient bacteria that are the termites only natural enemy.
You could go unpowered, launch when there is a good breeze blowing into North Korea and deflate once it reaches another country
Or you could make a glider with AI or remote control. Perhaps an infrared camera on a glider would help it find thermal columns? Gliders piloted by humans have flown over 3000 km, I wonder how much a remote control glider could do.
If Verizon were truly afraid of what the federal government says, they would respect president Obama's opinion and not risk being found guilty of a hypothetical future manslaughter.
Most of our fertilizers and pesticides are produced using fossil fuels
Manure was used as fertilizer before they invented the Haber-Bosch process. There's one tropical plant, the Brazilian water hyacinth, that's considered one of the world's worst weeds. It doubles its mass in six to eighteen days, probably the fastest growing plant in the world. One hectare produces up to 750 kg of dry organic matter per day.
The ideal biomass production scheme? Grow water hyacinth in ponds of untreated sewage. Make cellulosic ethanol from that, or else just burn the biomass to power steam turbines.
As I already posted above, copaiba oil is remarkable exactly because, unlike other vegetable oils, it needs no further processing to be used as fuel.
Copaiba's main limitation is that it requires Amazon region climate, warm temperatures and abundant rainfall all year long. However, a researcher in Colorado is trying to insert the oil producing gene from copaiba into grasses. This could have a very interesting use, if it could be used with plants such as wild grasses that grow in regions unsuitable for growing food plants.
Where exactly do you draw the line between "slightly eccentric" and "paranoid wackjob"? How can you ever be sure that something you think is perfectly normal wouldn't be considered paranoid by someone else? Randy Weaver was a former green beret, perhaps being paranoid was part of his work qualifications and he only happened to be slightly more so than others.
One of the people involved in the Ruby Ridge case, FBI agent Lon Horiuchi, was charged with manslaughter but the case was dropped. Years later he became again involved with a major fuck-up by the US federal government, the Waco massacre where more than seventy people were killed, twenty of them children. How could a man who had demonstrated such terrible misjudgement when handling a firearm still remain a sniper in the FBI? The least they should have done to him is to put him behind a desk for the rest of his career in the FBI.
It's hard to interpret that as anything but attempting to shoot their way past the marshals and back inside the house.
Court trials and juries exist to get at the best possible interpretation of disputed facts. To kill people based on an "obvious" interpretation of facts is called a "lynching".
It still needs to be converted to biodiesel to be safe for long-term use in a diesel engine
Googling for more data on this, I found at least one article that claims otherwise: "... copaiba (Copaifera Langsdorfii) has raised the possibility of eliminating even the processing step. The copaiba produces at least 20-30 liters of oil every six months -- and this oil is a mixture of 15-carbon hydrocarbons which can be used directly to power a diesel engine"
Copaiba is a tree from the Amazon region that gives diesel oil. Drill a hole in the tree and pour the oil that comes out in your tank, that is all you need to do. Typical yield is 40 liter per tree every year.
What is the incentive for the FCC to try and go into a random house and ask to see your wireless router or the fob for your car keys, without evidence of some kind of violation of the FCC regs?
The incentive could be, for instance, money. There are corrupt federal officers, you know that? It's not as if the RIAA hasn't been suing people left and right. It seems plausible to me that they could corrupt some FTC officer to get into someone's home.
For an example of a case gone terribly wrong, take a look at the Ruby ridge massacre where FBI snipers killed a woman and a child when trying to arrest their husband and father. The reason they were looking for him is that he had failed to appear at a court hearing at the correct date. The reason he hadn't appeared was that he had received a letter from the court informing him a *wrong* date.
In the end the federal government had to pay about $3 million in settlement to the family, but charges against the agents that committed the crimes were dismissed under the "sovereign immunity" doctrine.
There is the precedent of a man who had his wife and son shot dead because a clerk had typed a wrong date in a letter. We should be afraid of anyone who has too much power, that power should be carefully limited in every case the slightest misunderstanding could happen.
All of the cases mentioned in the article related to fairly powerful transmitters that were being used in a way such that the violation of FCC regs could be detected by someone miles from the source
That's true, but it's not the issue being discussed there. The point is that the 1934 regulation didn't foresee the amount of unlicensed RF spectrum we use today. That rule is obsolete and should be reformed to keep up with the times, otherwise it's ripe for abuses of the "slippery slope" type.
How long until the MAFIAA gets the FCC to break into someone's house on the pretext that they are using a wireless router to transfer music and video files between a desktop and a notebook computer?
Cars do no spend the majority of their time idling at traffic lights.
I live in a place with severe traffic congestion problems, you insensitive clod!
Seriously, I think the car analogy is not so bad here. Too many people drive in the inner city using cars designed for cruising in an open freeway. Consider this: if so many cars weren't used in congested traffic, where would traffic congestion come from?
That's a very interesting link, I had never heard of that. I wonder how it compares with Cuda for parallel numerical computation? The article mention that they are considering using this concept for scientific computation.
50 years ago, movie tickets cost $0.15. Applying the consumer price index we find that the price today would be $1.12 if movie ticket prices had gone up in the same average proportion as other prices.
Considering how much films today depend on special effects, and considering that so many effects are done by computers, one would believe that the cost of producing a movie should be lower than fifty years ago.
Some people say that "all capitalists are greedy pigs", but obviously some pigs are greedier than others.
If you look at the supporting documents written by the various framers,
If you have to look at supporting documents, it means the original document wasn't well phrased to begin with.
That's the big problem with the 2nd Amendment, it's not a consensus. The problem is not with a particular comma or an interpretation of the word "regulated". The problem is that, differently from the 1st, the right guaranteed by the 2nd is not as clear in people's minds.
And there is where the interpretation problems begin.
This Zeebo tyhing won't emerge in Brazil for the simple fact that a PSP2 is cheaper than this
Also, TFA says "it's expected in Brazil that Zeebo games will be available for around $12". Since PS2 games in Brazil typically cost R$10 (around US$5), Zeebo games at $12 are too expensive.
(Witness the legal arguments derived from comma placement in the 2nd Amendment!)
I think this last parentheses goes against what you and the GP were trying to say. We should simplify our speech, using small sentences and paragraphs, OK. But the Second Amendment is very short, it's just one sentence less than thirty words in length.
For me the real argument in the 2nd is the "well regulated" part. There are two types of militia mentioned in the US laws, the organized militia which means, basically, the National Guard, and the unorganized militia which can be anyone.
If "well regulated" means controlled by laws and regulations, then the "well regulated militia" that has the right to bear arms would be only the National Guard. OTOH, if "well regulated" means "smoothly functioning" then the right to keep and bear arms should go to people who take the time and effort to organize and train themselves as a militia.
You can take away all the three commas in that sentence and still I cannot see how anyone can walk into a gun shop and buy anything without having to prove he's able to handle a gun safely and responsibly.
I think you have a point - one *should* try to write clearly - but, unfortunately, no matter how clear your writing is, someone will always find a way to distort it to his benefit.
at a length of 1mm these are 300Ghz+ high energy waves, you run the risk of increased cancer
Do you have any data to support that?
Any time people talk of "cancer risk" they should beware of differences in dosage. It's one thing smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, it's another thing if you once smelled the smoke of a distant fire.
Anyhow, 300 GHz waves are much less energetic than visible light. Will you spend the rest of your life in darkness for fear of the cancer risk in light?
"A gifted child, he wrote a medical paper on alternative treatments for rheumatoid arthritis at age eleven,[1] which was published in the Hawai'i Journal of Medicine.[2] At sixteen, having skipped high school, Camara earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Hawaii Pacific University.[2] He completed the program in two years and was singularly recognized by the university for outstanding academic performance."
Yes, he's just 25 and perhaps could have more experience. But anyhow he seems a pretty smart guy. And note that he is the senior partner in his own law firm.
off the top of my head, as far as street bikes go, only the less powerful Ducatis are air cooled
Ducati? I think you are way too elitist, a Ducati isn't what most people ride.
Anyhow, internal combustion engines and computers have vastly different cooling needs. My car has a 1.6 liter 113 HP (83 kW) engine. Considering that the IC engine has an efficiency around 20%, there are hundreds of kilowatts of heat that must be dissipated from a volume of 1.6 liter. In a data center, it takes a roomful of equipment to dissipate 100 kW.
Good idea! Then the drug smugglers would be US citizens, able to make use of their Second Amendment rights.
Well, of course, they already do their shopping in the US anyway, but it would be slightly cheaper crossing the border, no need to bribe customs officers.
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How would that be? The evil mastermind, who owns a pest control company, revives the prehistoric termites immune to modern pesticides. And the hero, aided by his beautiful lab assistant, releases into the environment the ancient bacteria that are the termites only natural enemy.
Or you could make a glider with AI or remote control. Perhaps an infrared camera on a glider would help it find thermal columns? Gliders piloted by humans have flown over 3000 km, I wonder how much a remote control glider could do.
If Verizon were truly afraid of what the federal government says, they would respect president Obama's opinion and not risk being found guilty of a hypothetical future manslaughter.
Now, let's see who has given Verizon a reason to be afraid.
After reading on Slashdot about this guy and reading more on the internet, I've become his fan. I wish him well.
Well, since what you described looks something like what chroot+setuid do on a Unix system, 25 apps in 2 days by 3 people is *extremely* slow.
Manure was used as fertilizer before they invented the Haber-Bosch process. There's one tropical plant, the Brazilian water hyacinth, that's considered one of the world's worst weeds. It doubles its mass in six to eighteen days, probably the fastest growing plant in the world. One hectare produces up to 750 kg of dry organic matter per day.
The ideal biomass production scheme? Grow water hyacinth in ponds of untreated sewage. Make cellulosic ethanol from that, or else just burn the biomass to power steam turbines.
As I already posted above, copaiba oil is remarkable exactly because, unlike other vegetable oils, it needs no further processing to be used as fuel.
Copaiba's main limitation is that it requires Amazon region climate, warm temperatures and abundant rainfall all year long. However, a researcher in Colorado is trying to insert the oil producing gene from copaiba into grasses. This could have a very interesting use, if it could be used with plants such as wild grasses that grow in regions unsuitable for growing food plants.
Where exactly do you draw the line between "slightly eccentric" and "paranoid wackjob"? How can you ever be sure that something you think is perfectly normal wouldn't be considered paranoid by someone else? Randy Weaver was a former green beret, perhaps being paranoid was part of his work qualifications and he only happened to be slightly more so than others.
One of the people involved in the Ruby Ridge case, FBI agent Lon Horiuchi, was charged with manslaughter but the case was dropped. Years later he became again involved with a major fuck-up by the US federal government, the Waco massacre where more than seventy people were killed, twenty of them children. How could a man who had demonstrated such terrible misjudgement when handling a firearm still remain a sniper in the FBI? The least they should have done to him is to put him behind a desk for the rest of his career in the FBI.
Court trials and juries exist to get at the best possible interpretation of disputed facts. To kill people based on an "obvious" interpretation of facts is called a "lynching".
Googling for more data on this, I found at least one article that claims otherwise: "... copaiba (Copaifera Langsdorfii) has raised the possibility of eliminating even the processing step. The copaiba produces at least 20-30 liters of oil every six months -- and this oil is a mixture of 15-carbon hydrocarbons which can be used directly to power a diesel engine"
Copaiba is a tree from the Amazon region that gives diesel oil. Drill a hole in the tree and pour the oil that comes out in your tank, that is all you need to do. Typical yield is 40 liter per tree every year.
That's what I think every time I see a mention to GM food
The incentive could be, for instance, money. There are corrupt federal officers, you know that? It's not as if the RIAA hasn't been suing people left and right. It seems plausible to me that they could corrupt some FTC officer to get into someone's home.
For an example of a case gone terribly wrong, take a look at the Ruby ridge massacre where FBI snipers killed a woman and a child when trying to arrest their husband and father. The reason they were looking for him is that he had failed to appear at a court hearing at the correct date. The reason he hadn't appeared was that he had received a letter from the court informing him a *wrong* date.
In the end the federal government had to pay about $3 million in settlement to the family, but charges against the agents that committed the crimes were dismissed under the "sovereign immunity" doctrine.
There is the precedent of a man who had his wife and son shot dead because a clerk had typed a wrong date in a letter. We should be afraid of anyone who has too much power, that power should be carefully limited in every case the slightest misunderstanding could happen.
That's true, but it's not the issue being discussed there. The point is that the 1934 regulation didn't foresee the amount of unlicensed RF spectrum we use today. That rule is obsolete and should be reformed to keep up with the times, otherwise it's ripe for abuses of the "slippery slope" type.
How long until the MAFIAA gets the FCC to break into someone's house on the pretext that they are using a wireless router to transfer music and video files between a desktop and a notebook computer?
I live in a place with severe traffic congestion problems, you insensitive clod!
Seriously, I think the car analogy is not so bad here. Too many people drive in the inner city using cars designed for cruising in an open freeway. Consider this: if so many cars weren't used in congested traffic, where would traffic congestion come from?
That's a very interesting link, I had never heard of that. I wonder how it compares with Cuda for parallel numerical computation? The article mention that they are considering using this concept for scientific computation.
50 years ago, movie tickets cost $0.15. Applying the consumer price index we find that the price today would be $1.12 if movie ticket prices had gone up in the same average proportion as other prices.
Considering how much films today depend on special effects, and considering that so many effects are done by computers, one would believe that the cost of producing a movie should be lower than fifty years ago.
Some people say that "all capitalists are greedy pigs", but obviously some pigs are greedier than others.
If you have to look at supporting documents, it means the original document wasn't well phrased to begin with.
That's the big problem with the 2nd Amendment, it's not a consensus. The problem is not with a particular comma or an interpretation of the word "regulated". The problem is that, differently from the 1st, the right guaranteed by the 2nd is not as clear in people's minds.
And there is where the interpretation problems begin.
Oh, yeah? And what about question marks?
Also, TFA says "it's expected in Brazil that Zeebo games will be available for around $12". Since PS2 games in Brazil typically cost R$10 (around US$5), Zeebo games at $12 are too expensive.
I think this last parentheses goes against what you and the GP were trying to say. We should simplify our speech, using small sentences and paragraphs, OK. But the Second Amendment is very short, it's just one sentence less than thirty words in length.
For me the real argument in the 2nd is the "well regulated" part. There are two types of militia mentioned in the US laws, the organized militia which means, basically, the National Guard, and the unorganized militia which can be anyone.
If "well regulated" means controlled by laws and regulations, then the "well regulated militia" that has the right to bear arms would be only the National Guard. OTOH, if "well regulated" means "smoothly functioning" then the right to keep and bear arms should go to people who take the time and effort to organize and train themselves as a militia.
You can take away all the three commas in that sentence and still I cannot see how anyone can walk into a gun shop and buy anything without having to prove he's able to handle a gun safely and responsibly.
I think you have a point - one *should* try to write clearly - but, unfortunately, no matter how clear your writing is, someone will always find a way to distort it to his benefit.
Do you have any data to support that?
Any time people talk of "cancer risk" they should beware of differences in dosage. It's one thing smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, it's another thing if you once smelled the smoke of a distant fire.
Anyhow, 300 GHz waves are much less energetic than visible light. Will you spend the rest of your life in darkness for fear of the cancer risk in light?
From his Wikipedia article:
"A gifted child, he wrote a medical paper on alternative treatments for rheumatoid arthritis at age eleven,[1] which was published in the Hawai'i Journal of Medicine.[2] At sixteen, having skipped high school, Camara earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Hawaii Pacific University.[2] He completed the program in two years and was singularly recognized by the university for outstanding academic performance."
Yes, he's just 25 and perhaps could have more experience. But anyhow he seems a pretty smart guy. And note that he is the senior partner in his own law firm.
Ducati? I think you are way too elitist, a Ducati isn't what most people ride.
Anyhow, internal combustion engines and computers have vastly different cooling needs. My car has a 1.6 liter 113 HP (83 kW) engine. Considering that the IC engine has an efficiency around 20%, there are hundreds of kilowatts of heat that must be dissipated from a volume of 1.6 liter. In a data center, it takes a roomful of equipment to dissipate 100 kW.
Isn't protecting the borders exactly what the military are supposed to do?
Good idea! Then the drug smugglers would be US citizens, able to make use of their Second Amendment rights.
Well, of course, they already do their shopping in the US anyway, but it would be slightly cheaper crossing the border, no need to bribe customs officers.