He still he had an extremely sound point when he indicated that Apple and Motorola couldn't actually prove significant damages. I doubt there will be too many other judges (outside of perhaps a fabulously corrupt district) who would reverse that. The patent suits that seem to do really well are the ones referring to cutting-edge and recently-released products, where the economic harm doesn't need to be proven because it's too new to tell. (I think.)
The majority of Indian English speakers learn it as a second language, and aren't in an environment where they're constantly surrounded by good examples of well-spoken English to provide the normal corrective force that immersion brings. There's a great gap between theory and practice, and even between theory and what we speak in the rest of the world these days.
Read the review I linked—they don't bother stopping shoe-bombers. The CIA monitors a threat, and the TSA ramps up their response until the threat cracks and leaves the country. The TSA isn't really a generalized anti-terrorism machine, only an anti-Al-Qaeda machine. Security theatre scares the real bad guys, real safety doesn't—and it's (infinitely) easier than actually focusing on bombs. By the time the dozen reports on the countermeasure-of-the-month's ineffectiveness has come out, it's long after the fact, and the baddies have already been scared enough to cancel their plot.
And yeah, without a doubt it's the most terrible abuse of a security system ever devised. Clever, because there's no way people would put up with what it would actually take to make a flight risk-free (something about locking passengers in individual cabins during the flight comes to mind), but definitely squarely under the "you're horrible people" category.
Unfortunately I think you were too subtle. Alas, those who get shaving cuts by Occam's razor are rarely the ones employing it. Maybe try more self-parody next time?
Well, here's where the report's from. If you'd like to poke through it, you might very well glean some useful information. It looks very much like they did in fact test all medically-relevant frequencies across a wide range of samples. Feel safe yet?
The summary I posted came from this site, which includes a rather lengthy database of biological and abiotic THz spectra. I am believe what you are saying is medically irrelevant.
There was an article here a week or so ago that answers your question. The TSA is a psychological warfare campaign being carried out under the guise of a security practice. Its purpose is to scare would-be bombers into staying home. When there's a credible threat, they introduce new policies until the problem goes away. That's why grandpa is allowed to keep his jacket on—because he isn't likely to be impressionable or political enough to carry a bomb.
In essence, it's more straight out of George Orwell than people realize, but slightly less anti-citizen than most stereotypically Orwellian practices.
As someone who knows nothing about you or your life situation, and is way too young to be giving advice, maybe you should try it anyway? Some of the nicest, most easy-to-work-with people are self-tempered cynics.
FWIW, the available researchis pretty clear that terahertz radiation poses little or no threat to the body under biological conditions. There's lingering concern that it may have a small ability to affect lipid bilayer permeability (which could imbalance how cells pass messages, receive nutrients, and eliminate waste), but over all, a THz exposure is a lot like being bombarded with visible or infrared light: it will warm you up if left on for too long, but it's not really dangerous on its own. The radiation is too high-frequency to excite any of the electrons orbiting the atoms in the human body (which is how UV causes damage), and much, much too low-energy to knock an electron onto a different atom (which is how X-rays and gamma radiation cause damage.) Any effects it does have must be extremely subtle—and the body is very good at handling subtle problems, since we replace almost every cell every ten years on average.
I had no idea about bug #1. This amuses me. I imagine there are lots of programs that do paid binaries only for Windows—X-Chat is another one that comes to mind.
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He still he had an extremely sound point when he indicated that Apple and Motorola couldn't actually prove significant damages. I doubt there will be too many other judges (outside of perhaps a fabulously corrupt district) who would reverse that. The patent suits that seem to do really well are the ones referring to cutting-edge and recently-released products, where the economic harm doesn't need to be proven because it's too new to tell. (I think.)
The majority of Indian English speakers learn it as a second language, and aren't in an environment where they're constantly surrounded by good examples of well-spoken English to provide the normal corrective force that immersion brings. There's a great gap between theory and practice, and even between theory and what we speak in the rest of the world these days.
And Atari! Don't forget Atari!
Read the review I linked—they don't bother stopping shoe-bombers. The CIA monitors a threat, and the TSA ramps up their response until the threat cracks and leaves the country. The TSA isn't really a generalized anti-terrorism machine, only an anti-Al-Qaeda machine. Security theatre scares the real bad guys, real safety doesn't—and it's (infinitely) easier than actually focusing on bombs. By the time the dozen reports on the countermeasure-of-the-month's ineffectiveness has come out, it's long after the fact, and the baddies have already been scared enough to cancel their plot.
And yeah, without a doubt it's the most terrible abuse of a security system ever devised. Clever, because there's no way people would put up with what it would actually take to make a flight risk-free (something about locking passengers in individual cabins during the flight comes to mind), but definitely squarely under the "you're horrible people" category.
Unfortunately I think you were too subtle. Alas, those who get shaving cuts by Occam's razor are rarely the ones employing it. Maybe try more self-parody next time?
...also, I've always loved your sig. Seemed like a good time to say something.
Rare, eccentric, but not non-existent. Time to hose down that assumption before it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy!
You don't understand; it's a cultural exchange program! They just want to integrate!
You guys can come up to Northern Ontario! We're not using it anyway.
The answer lies in here somewhere. I think it might be this one in particular.
Well, here's where the report's from. If you'd like to poke through it, you might very well glean some useful information. It looks very much like they did in fact test all medically-relevant frequencies across a wide range of samples. Feel safe yet?
The summary I posted came from this site, which includes a rather lengthy database of biological and abiotic THz spectra. I am believe what you are saying is medically irrelevant.
There was an article here a week or so ago that answers your question. The TSA is a psychological warfare campaign being carried out under the guise of a security practice. Its purpose is to scare would-be bombers into staying home. When there's a credible threat, they introduce new policies until the problem goes away. That's why grandpa is allowed to keep his jacket on—because he isn't likely to be impressionable or political enough to carry a bomb.
In essence, it's more straight out of George Orwell than people realize, but slightly less anti-citizen than most stereotypically Orwellian practices.
More Canadians migrate to the United States annually than Americans migrate to Canada.
Crap; sorry. You got me. I would've caught that if I'd read it more carefully. You deserve some mod points for that.
The DNA in certain immune cells can be damaged by terahertz radiation if they're removed from the blood first.
I mean "subtle" as in "not causing cancer."
I'm Canadian. The linked article does not mention Mexico whatsoever. Better luck next time.
Y'know, you'd think people would notice, but (at least until 2006) we were actually losing more people southward. A reputation as a Land of Opportunity dies hard.
As someone who knows nothing about you or your life situation, and is way too young to be giving advice, maybe you should try it anyway? Some of the nicest, most easy-to-work-with people are self-tempered cynics.
FWIW, the available research is pretty clear that terahertz radiation poses little or no threat to the body under biological conditions. There's lingering concern that it may have a small ability to affect lipid bilayer permeability (which could imbalance how cells pass messages, receive nutrients, and eliminate waste), but over all, a THz exposure is a lot like being bombarded with visible or infrared light: it will warm you up if left on for too long, but it's not really dangerous on its own. The radiation is too high-frequency to excite any of the electrons orbiting the atoms in the human body (which is how UV causes damage), and much, much too low-energy to knock an electron onto a different atom (which is how X-rays and gamma radiation cause damage.) Any effects it does have must be extremely subtle—and the body is very good at handling subtle problems, since we replace almost every cell every ten years on average.
I had no idea about bug #1. This amuses me. I imagine there are lots of programs that do paid binaries only for Windows—X-Chat is another one that comes to mind.
Technically it's 50% troll, 50% funny. "Hit and miss" indeed.
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