The HQ needs to be in an incorporated territory though, with addresses and whatnot. I'll grant you "Luna, Tycho Brahe drive 1" sounds awesome, but probably wouldn't fly in the registers.
As for stopping them, I think the Russians and the US would suddenly be pals and send a couple of Soyuz's up there in short order.
The question is, can that really be considered a corporation, and not an extension of the state itself? My studies did not include economic and corporate law, so I'm only going by common sense here, but I'd say the ICJ would throw that claim out.
Actually, everything in space is considered the "common province of mankind", which, however, is not defined as to what it actually means. This creates a sort of limbo situation, where no nation itself may exploit any space object, but this is not explicitly laid down anywhere. There exists a loophole, as the Outer Space Agreement only forbids territorial claims by sovereign nations, but not corporations or private persons, meaning that a company could legally take ownership of the asteroid for mining, but this is (still) incompatible with the Chinese economic mentality. I actually dealt with this topic in my thesis, and I can say that the area is woefully under-researched.
Technically, there's a UN body (UNOOSA), that should be dealing with this sort of thing, but they've been pretty much inactive ever since the Outer Space Agreement entered into force. That body should be resurrected and empowered with much greater powers, including managing global launch registration and ownership of all extraterrestrial real estate.
If he was expressing his favor of Christianity what would you have said then?
I don't normally reply to troll posts (or pretty much anything these days), but here's what: if he told me that some bearded old dude said a few words and the world popped into being in six days, went and wiped out pretty much all life on whim to apply a symptomatic cure, instead of rectifying the problem, then sent his only offspring out, knowing full well he'd die the most horrible death known to civilization at the time, I'd ask for a hit of whatever he's smoking, because it must be one hell of a drug!
If this guy can express his opinion then there are MANY Christians who have had the exact opposite applied to them[...]
Sure, okay, let them express their opinion. Just keep them opinions, don't turn them into facts. I like a good fantasy novel as much as the next guy, but I don't go around wearing armor, carrying a sword, and insisting I need to chop down a tree because it's an evil dryad.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a school is not a government institution, and the teacher is not a government employee, is he? So he can say whatever he wishes about religion, and still not invoke the "Church and State, separate!"-clause.
In Hungary, there's something called the National Curriculum, but that only specifies the rough topics and lays out a track to follow to the end of high school. Inside those topics, the teachers are free to subdivide their classes, and teach whatever they wish, since they aren't government employees (only public servants), and although the schools are government/municipality-funded, they are not government institutions.
Well, I refreshed an old memory from high school biology again. Thanks!
As the reply to your post suggests, with this, a case of HIV may even be survivable and curable (provided the naturally harbored bacteria and viruses don't get out of control once the T-cells are gone). Question: could the same be achieved with a massive immunosuppressant dose, or do those suppress another aspect of the immune system?
I'm not an immunologist/molecular biologist, but if this drug works by targeting the infected cells to eliminate the infection, then by the time an HIV-infection is apparent, you might as well target the whole human, and there are already several drugs that do that very effectively. Potassium Cyanide comes to mind, for one...
It would sure be nice to bring him back for another lifetime. Maybe he could contribute some new ideas with today's fabrication technology making things not available to him in his day...
Hack apart the cable/connector, and disconnect the data lines. Sometimes that stops the device charging altogether, though, since it's waiting perpetually for the host on the other end to negotiate a full load of five units, but can't, due to the data lines being cut. I solved this by taking a USB charger and cannibalizing the cable only to get the pin-five-shorted-to-ground connector.
Okay, I was aiming a bit higher, so shoot me.:) The absolute minimum this starts to become useful is your vision. At the very least, I want the table surface, plus maybe ten centimeters above it to be charging. Anything like a 10 cm by 10 cm powermat, and we're back to square one with wired chargers. Ideal would be a citywide or even global field, that removes the need for batteries in the first place, but that would probably have all sorts of technical obstructions, like interference...
Inductive charging suffers from efficiency problems (86% of power drawn is transmitted, as opposed to the 9x% of a DC/DC converter chip in wired chargers), but okay, it's no big deal. However, it doesn't offer practically any convenience over wired chargers: still fixed in place over the powermat, although you just have to pick it up and dash off, I'll grant them that. Inductive charging will be a valuable asset when a room, a house, or even a city can be blanketed with the required EM field, so that my phone keeps charging all the time, and we can do away with batteries altogether or keep only a small reserve battery for 'emergency' power in shielded areas (like the inside of an elevator). Either that, or they achieve such transfer rates that I can go from 5% to 100% by holding it up to the coil for five-ten seconds at most, like they do in games (which would likely incinerate the electronics with waste heat). Until then, wireless charging will be a gimmick, albeit a marginally useful one, in all devices.
One heart? I'm sure more blood could be pumped with two hearts, and maybe an extra lung to oxygenate that blood.
Ever since I've seen a story about NASA designing an artificial heart based on the turbines of the Space Shuttle, almost a decade ago, I've wondered about what it would be like to have such a heart (no pulse to begin with, just a steady flow), and when having to exert myself, such as by running to catch the bus, turn it up into high gear until the blades start to cavitate.
Of course, this might go towards explaining how The Doctor does all the things he does, like enduring high-power electric shocks...
These are not cybernetic in any way. No feedback, no power, no control over their actions. These are just passive prostheses, much like a glass eye or a plastic testicle.
What's next, calling a peg-legged pirate a cyborg because his wooden leg is "cybernetic"? Then we send him to ninja school and we have "cyborg pirate ninja". If we want to see cybernetic athletes, the closest we can come was that Japanese paralympic, who had a boat propeller hidden in his prosthetic leg, but was found out and got disqualified.
The only problem I see with an ion drive is that we need to blast up a whole lot of xenon or other gas to use as thrust medium. A Bussard ramscoop would be cool and useful, but it can't start itself, nor is the magnet feasible:D I'd be all for saving the ISS too, if the political climate wasn't overwhelmingly against it right now...
Yes, there are many ways the US can get into space sooner or later. Right now, there's only the Soyuz. So if there's trouble brewing up there, and they need an American crew, stat, the only way is to kiss the Russians' ass and beg for a quick ride while the US finishes their manned capsules.
How expensive? VERY! It's orders of magnitude more expensive to put something into lunar transfer than into LEO, and the ISS is at the lower edge of LEO, where it can only stay up with regular boosting. It would take one rocket most likely bigger than the Saturn-V (going by the seat of my pants and allowing for the generous margins NASA loves(d)), and even that one was almost twice the size of the Shuttle assembly...
As others have pointed before and probably after me, boosting it out of the decaying orbit it's in is too expensive, while leaving it there to crash is too dangerous. Hence the controlled deorbiting.
Why is this new? The StreetView cards were set to promiscuous mode, since they sniffed data packets not intended for them. It stands to reason they recorded responses from the end devices too, not just the AP->device traffic.
How high is the percentage of geeks in the world? I'd say it's just over 10%, but then why isn't the world a better place, for example with functioning space programs?!
Maybe they were insane, maybe not. The point is, they were smart enough not to make public their plans to kill the head of the state. If I were plotting to kill someone, I'd sure as hell not tell them about my plans, not even the existence of said plans, in order to maximize chances of success. Any publication means that the plotter is just an attention-seeking, overconfident clown. End Of Line.
And those who did made their threats public well before, didn't they? Someone should learn to differentiate between a clown and a professional, dedicated, calculating killer...
Apples and oranges: threatening your ex is something you can conceivably follow up on, unlike threatening the president himself. You can't reasonably compare the two.
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The HQ needs to be in an incorporated territory though, with addresses and whatnot. I'll grant you "Luna, Tycho Brahe drive 1" sounds awesome, but probably wouldn't fly in the registers.
As for stopping them, I think the Russians and the US would suddenly be pals and send a couple of Soyuz's up there in short order.
The question is, can that really be considered a corporation, and not an extension of the state itself? My studies did not include economic and corporate law, so I'm only going by common sense here, but I'd say the ICJ would throw that claim out.
Actually, everything in space is considered the "common province of mankind", which, however, is not defined as to what it actually means. This creates a sort of limbo situation, where no nation itself may exploit any space object, but this is not explicitly laid down anywhere. There exists a loophole, as the Outer Space Agreement only forbids territorial claims by sovereign nations, but not corporations or private persons, meaning that a company could legally take ownership of the asteroid for mining, but this is (still) incompatible with the Chinese economic mentality.
I actually dealt with this topic in my thesis, and I can say that the area is woefully under-researched.
Technically, there's a UN body (UNOOSA), that should be dealing with this sort of thing, but they've been pretty much inactive ever since the Outer Space Agreement entered into force. That body should be resurrected and empowered with much greater powers, including managing global launch registration and ownership of all extraterrestrial real estate.
If he was expressing his favor of Christianity what would you have said then?
I don't normally reply to troll posts (or pretty much anything these days), but here's what: if he told me that some bearded old dude said a few words and the world popped into being in six days, went and wiped out pretty much all life on whim to apply a symptomatic cure, instead of rectifying the problem, then sent his only offspring out, knowing full well he'd die the most horrible death known to civilization at the time, I'd ask for a hit of whatever he's smoking, because it must be one hell of a drug!
If this guy can express his opinion then there are MANY Christians who have had the exact opposite applied to them[...]
Sure, okay, let them express their opinion. Just keep them opinions, don't turn them into facts. I like a good fantasy novel as much as the next guy, but I don't go around wearing armor, carrying a sword, and insisting I need to chop down a tree because it's an evil dryad.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a school is not a government institution, and the teacher is not a government employee, is he? So he can say whatever he wishes about religion, and still not invoke the "Church and State, separate!"-clause.
In Hungary, there's something called the National Curriculum, but that only specifies the rough topics and lays out a track to follow to the end of high school. Inside those topics, the teachers are free to subdivide their classes, and teach whatever they wish, since they aren't government employees (only public servants), and although the schools are government/municipality-funded, they are not government institutions.
Well, I refreshed an old memory from high school biology again. Thanks!
As the reply to your post suggests, with this, a case of HIV may even be survivable and curable (provided the naturally harbored bacteria and viruses don't get out of control once the T-cells are gone). Question: could the same be achieved with a massive immunosuppressant dose, or do those suppress another aspect of the immune system?
I'm not an immunologist/molecular biologist, but if this drug works by targeting the infected cells to eliminate the infection, then by the time an HIV-infection is apparent, you might as well target the whole human, and there are already several drugs that do that very effectively. Potassium Cyanide comes to mind, for one...
It would sure be nice to bring him back for another lifetime. Maybe he could contribute some new ideas with today's fabrication technology making things not available to him in his day...
Hack apart the cable/connector, and disconnect the data lines. Sometimes that stops the device charging altogether, though, since it's waiting perpetually for the host on the other end to negotiate a full load of five units, but can't, due to the data lines being cut. I solved this by taking a USB charger and cannibalizing the cable only to get the pin-five-shorted-to-ground connector.
Okay, I was aiming a bit higher, so shoot me. :)
The absolute minimum this starts to become useful is your vision. At the very least, I want the table surface, plus maybe ten centimeters above it to be charging. Anything like a 10 cm by 10 cm powermat, and we're back to square one with wired chargers.
Ideal would be a citywide or even global field, that removes the need for batteries in the first place, but that would probably have all sorts of technical obstructions, like interference...
Inductive charging suffers from efficiency problems (86% of power drawn is transmitted, as opposed to the 9x% of a DC/DC converter chip in wired chargers), but okay, it's no big deal. However, it doesn't offer practically any convenience over wired chargers: still fixed in place over the powermat, although you just have to pick it up and dash off, I'll grant them that.
Inductive charging will be a valuable asset when a room, a house, or even a city can be blanketed with the required EM field, so that my phone keeps charging all the time, and we can do away with batteries altogether or keep only a small reserve battery for 'emergency' power in shielded areas (like the inside of an elevator). Either that, or they achieve such transfer rates that I can go from 5% to 100% by holding it up to the coil for five-ten seconds at most, like they do in games (which would likely incinerate the electronics with waste heat). Until then, wireless charging will be a gimmick, albeit a marginally useful one, in all devices.
One heart? I'm sure more blood could be pumped with two hearts, and maybe an extra lung to oxygenate that blood.
Ever since I've seen a story about NASA designing an artificial heart based on the turbines of the Space Shuttle, almost a decade ago, I've wondered about what it would be like to have such a heart (no pulse to begin with, just a steady flow), and when having to exert myself, such as by running to catch the bus, turn it up into high gear until the blades start to cavitate.
Of course, this might go towards explaining how The Doctor does all the things he does, like enduring high-power electric shocks...
These are not cybernetic in any way. No feedback, no power, no control over their actions. These are just passive prostheses, much like a glass eye or a plastic testicle.
What's next, calling a peg-legged pirate a cyborg because his wooden leg is "cybernetic"? Then we send him to ninja school and we have "cyborg pirate ninja".
If we want to see cybernetic athletes, the closest we can come was that Japanese paralympic, who had a boat propeller hidden in his prosthetic leg, but was found out and got disqualified.
The only problem I see with an ion drive is that we need to blast up a whole lot of xenon or other gas to use as thrust medium. A Bussard ramscoop would be cool and useful, but it can't start itself, nor is the magnet feasible :D
I'd be all for saving the ISS too, if the political climate wasn't overwhelmingly against it right now...
Yes, there are many ways the US can get into space sooner or later. Right now, there's only the Soyuz. So if there's trouble brewing up there, and they need an American crew, stat, the only way is to kiss the Russians' ass and beg for a quick ride while the US finishes their manned capsules.
How expensive? VERY!
It's orders of magnitude more expensive to put something into lunar transfer than into LEO, and the ISS is at the lower edge of LEO, where it can only stay up with regular boosting. It would take one rocket most likely bigger than the Saturn-V (going by the seat of my pants and allowing for the generous margins NASA loves(d)), and even that one was almost twice the size of the Shuttle assembly...
As others have pointed before and probably after me, boosting it out of the decaying orbit it's in is too expensive, while leaving it there to crash is too dangerous. Hence the controlled deorbiting.
Why doesn't the US get a say in it? Because the US either agrees to Russia's demands, or they get denied passage on the Soyuz, plain and simple.
Why is this new? The StreetView cards were set to promiscuous mode, since they sniffed data packets not intended for them. It stands to reason they recorded responses from the end devices too, not just the AP->device traffic.
How high is the percentage of geeks in the world? I'd say it's just over 10%, but then why isn't the world a better place, for example with functioning space programs?!
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Don't forget the "c" out of BSc. BS in Engineering is something else entirely, for example, the perpetuum mobile :-)
Maybe they were insane, maybe not. The point is, they were smart enough not to make public their plans to kill the head of the state. If I were plotting to kill someone, I'd sure as hell not tell them about my plans, not even the existence of said plans, in order to maximize chances of success.
Any publication means that the plotter is just an attention-seeking, overconfident clown. End Of Line.
And what do you think this is? Is this not a public threat well before?
That marks him as a clown, not as a professional. You really need to learn to use and recognize Irony...
And those who did made their threats public well before, didn't they?
Someone should learn to differentiate between a clown and a professional, dedicated, calculating killer...
Apples and oranges: threatening your ex is something you can conceivably follow up on, unlike threatening the president himself. You can't reasonably compare the two.