I trust they to play by the rules. Because they are audited on a regular basis on one hand. If they get caught cheating on this they will be in for major problems, fines etc. On the other hand there is no great incentive for them to cheat. Assuming that the casino gets enough people to gamble to pay its bills it will make money.
It means that the guy who wrote that article does not have a clue. Or at least he has an agenda. The theories of 20th century physics, Special Relativity, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Quentum Electro Dynamics etc have stood up to ever exeriment. In the case of QED the theory agrees with the exeriments to some thing like 15 significant digits.
I just finished a BA in physics doing some research, and I can say this guy is full of it. Though some of the string theory is not verifiable. But I know someone who is working on it.
No you can have duel citizenship. Not all countries allow you renouce your citizenship. For example the US makes it damn hard to renouce its citizenship. When you aquire US citizenship what happens to your other citizenship depends on the laws of that country. I have some knowlege of this in that I have 2 and soon to be 3 citizenships (and passports).
FromThe US State Department's page on being a duel national:
A U.S. citizen may acquire foreign citizenship by marriage, or a person naturalized as a U.S. citizen may not lose the citizenship of the country of birth.U.S. law does not mention dual nationality or require a person to choose one citizenship or another. Also, a person who is automatically granted another citizenship does not risk losing U.S. citizenship. However, a person who acquires a foreign citizenship by applying for it may lose U.S. citizenship. In order to lose U.S. citizenship, the law requires that the person must apply for the foreign citizenship voluntarily, by free choice, and with the intention to give up U.S. citizenship.
Plus what would be the point, you (The casino) get in big trouble if you get caught, and you are going to make money anyway.
Now it may help the casinos figure out how to set up the floor to maximize revenue or something, sort of like, people who like game X tend to like game Y but not Z, so lets move these slots over there.
But then again if you are in a casino you are a bit of a fool.
A few weeks back I had the joy of watching a sofar (Jewish scribe) working on making a Torah scroll with a goose quill. It was amazing, even if it is not something you would use for day to day work.
True, but as anyone who has ever had an office full of computers running windows will tell you, those machines need support too. Probably more hours a month than linux does.
True there are costs with linux, but moving to windows will not make them go away.
It sounds like you have a shop full of good Java people. While you may want to change how things are run, I would not change languages. This is not based on any love for Java, but the fact that if you have a team of Java programers to get them to the point where they can write top flight code in something else will take time that you can better spend on something else.
But I would consider changing the architecture if that makes sense.
On the other hand a weblog is probably something that even if they could claim ownership of they won't. Unless it directly relates to your job (which It could I guess) why should they care?
I am not working at the moment, but if I was would my employer really want to own my articles on names for use in the sca and my pictures of Jerusalem? All are on my web site, but who cares.
its not hard, if your road is wide enough to do it. A lot of roads around here are just not that wide. And then of course there is the old city of Jerusalem, where the majority of "roads" are foot trafic only as there are too many stairs etc on them to do anything else.
Not really, While the copyright on "steam boat willy" will at some point lapse. The trademark on Mickey will last forever, as long as Disney keeps using the charecter and defending it legally.
I personally would like to live a very long time, after all who would not want that. On the other hand I understand that at some point I will need to stand down and let the next generation step up to bat. If my generation were to be able to live forever (or just a lot longer than any before), what chance would my children have?
Someday I will have children, and I want them to be able to step out of the shadow of my generation at some point. After all every generation before ours has gotten out of the way when the time is right.
Somehow it seems that it is worse to use a gun to stick up a 7/11 for $250 than to use a bunch of accountants to stick up the stock owners for $250,000,000 or at least the courts will give similar sentances for the two. (Depending on what state you are in. It seems wrong to me.
And Jews and Muslims? I tell you its just not right. How about some good roast beef? Or maybe some tzimmis or geffilta fish? And Blintzes! We should have blintzes.
Ok with all seriousness, please be safe and careful everyone, huricanes are not for messing about do what you have to to get out of the way. With all love and prayers from Jerusalem.
I read a paper on something related to this
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In stars where there is a much higher level of "metals" seem to generate more large planets than we have. It seems that in a star like this you may end up with 4-10 Jovian size planets. In the case of our solar system you have 2 very large planets and everything is far enough appart that it is stable. On the other hand if you had a bunch of planets at 10 Jovian masses it is inevitable that a few would be kicked out of the system and a few put into very close in orbits.
it all comes down to how much matter there is to create planets. The higher the densisty of heavy elements the faster things start to clump into planets, and the bigger the planets get.
Simple in many of the more tecnical parts of the US Gov (FDA,FCC,FAA etc) Congress passes rules with broad outlines. They department then makes admistrative rules based on those laws to allow things to actually get done.
For example in aviation (because I know something about that) The FAA is given by congress the right to make rules for civil aviation. So for example the number of hours it takes to get a pilot's licence is in the FAR's written by the FAA and not in a bill passed by congress.
I would imagine that the relivant parts of the DOT here had to make some rules on exactly how you admister this law and that took some time.
Um you expect to fly a plane in a huracane? Are you nuts? And after the storm goes threw I would give it some time for them to clear the random crap off of the airport runways and taxi ways.
It would not be hard to figure out who is leeking the movies. Assuming that you are sending out pre-realease DVD's to critics and so on. In each DVD you send out a small on screen defect, just a few pixles in one frame, Something that no one will notice when watching. Then make it different for each pre-release you send out.
You could write a simple program to put them in and go find them.
When you find one floating around you can figure out who's copy it was and go yell at them.
I would say this was an original Idea but there was something like it in a Tom Clancy Novel.
Well when I lived in the UK there were major protests about the price of fuel (mostly diesel) not by private motorists, but by the truck drivers. They had put the taxes on fuel up so high that the truckers could not charge enough to pay for it. So they lost money for every mile that they drove their trunks. Of course just about *EVERYTHING* these days gets to where its going on a truck at least part of the way so if you put fuel prices up for the trunks it hits everything else.
Oh and as I recall the truckers tend to protest by driving down busy streets en mass at very slow speeds. Nothing like 250 tractor trailers going 20mph on the m5 to make a mess of rush hour.
What will keep the counterweight in orbit is basic physics. You set the whole thing up so that gravity and conservation of energy and so on work for you.
The question I want to know is what are the osilation modes going to look like. You have a massive string under tention, it is going to vibrate. I'm sure you could figure it out if you had some clue as to the properties of the material.
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Its not Static electricty. If you run a wire loop threw a magnectic field you will generate current and a drag force, if you push current you will generate a force. This is how electric moters and generators work. So In theory if you had a big wire loop in space you could run a current threw it and use that force to speed up your orbit, which would push to you a higher orbit.
They have had tecnical problems when they have tried it but they physics is all undergrad E&M.
Hey may have told them how to fix it, but that does not meen that they didn't spend a lot of time double checking *EVERYTHING*. Just becaue he tells you exactly what he did, does not mean you trust him. After all he just broke into your computers and messed them up.
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Well I don't think you can renouce US citizenship in the USA. I think you have to leave the country first. (IANAL).
I trust they to play by the rules. Because they are audited on a regular basis on one hand. If they get caught cheating on this they will be in for major problems, fines etc. On the other hand there is no great incentive for them to cheat. Assuming that the casino gets enough people to gamble to pay its bills it will make money.
It means that the guy who wrote that article does not have a clue. Or at least he has an agenda. The theories of 20th century physics, Special Relativity, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Quentum Electro Dynamics etc have stood up to ever exeriment. In the case of QED the theory agrees with the exeriments to some thing like 15 significant digits.
I just finished a BA in physics doing some research, and I can say this guy is full of it. Though some of the string theory is not verifiable. But I know someone who is working on it.
No you can have duel citizenship. Not all countries allow you renouce your citizenship. For example the US makes it damn hard to renouce its citizenship. When you aquire US citizenship what happens to your other citizenship depends on the laws of that country. I have some knowlege of this in that I have 2 and soon to be 3 citizenships (and passports). :
FromThe US State Department's page on being a duel national
A U.S. citizen may acquire foreign citizenship by marriage, or a person naturalized as a U.S. citizen may not lose the citizenship of the country of birth.U.S. law does not mention dual nationality or require a person to choose one citizenship or another. Also, a person who is automatically granted another citizenship does not risk losing U.S. citizenship. However, a person who acquires a foreign citizenship by applying for it may lose U.S. citizenship. In order to lose U.S. citizenship, the law requires that the person must apply for the foreign citizenship voluntarily, by free choice, and with the intention to give up U.S. citizenship.
Plus what would be the point, you (The casino) get in big trouble if you get caught, and you are going to make money anyway.
Now it may help the casinos figure out how to set up the floor to maximize revenue or something, sort of like, people who like game X tend to like game Y but not Z, so lets move these slots over there.
But then again if you are in a casino you are a bit of a fool.
A few weeks back I had the joy of watching a sofar (Jewish scribe) working on making a Torah scroll with a goose quill. It was amazing, even if it is not something you would use for day to day work.
True, but as anyone who has ever had an office full of computers running windows will tell you, those machines need support too. Probably more hours a month than linux does.
True there are costs with linux, but moving to windows will not make them go away.
It sounds like you have a shop full of good Java people. While you may want to change how things are run, I would not change languages. This is not based on any love for Java, but the fact that if you have a team of Java programers to get them to the point where they can write top flight code in something else will take time that you can better spend on something else.
But I would consider changing the architecture if that makes sense.
if you look on ebay you can find all sorts of HP calculators.
On the other hand a weblog is probably something that even if they could claim ownership of they won't. Unless it directly relates to your job (which It could I guess) why should they care?
I am not working at the moment, but if I was would my employer really want to own my articles on names for use in the sca and my pictures of Jerusalem? All are on my web site, but who cares.
its not hard, if your road is wide enough to do it. A lot of roads around here are just not that wide. And then of course there is the old city of Jerusalem, where the majority of "roads" are foot trafic only as there are too many stairs etc on them to do anything else.
I've always thought that at least on specific roads at specific times they should ban private cars. delivery truck, buses and cabs only.
It would probably be more trouble to do that then its worth.
Not really, While the copyright on "steam boat willy" will at some point lapse. The trademark on Mickey will last forever, as long as Disney keeps using the charecter and defending it legally.
I personally would like to live a very long time, after all who would not want that. On the other hand I understand that at some point I will need to stand down and let the next generation step up to bat. If my generation were to be able to live forever (or just a lot longer than any before), what chance would my children have?
Someday I will have children, and I want them to be able to step out of the shadow of my generation at some point. After all every generation before ours has gotten out of the way when the time is right.
Somehow it seems that it is worse to use a gun to stick up a 7/11 for $250 than to use a bunch of accountants to stick up the stock owners for $250,000,000 or at least the courts will give similar sentances for the two. (Depending on what state you are in. It seems wrong to me.
And Jews and Muslims? I tell you its just not right. How about some good roast beef? Or maybe some tzimmis or geffilta fish? And Blintzes! We should have blintzes.
Ok with all seriousness, please be safe and careful everyone, huricanes are not for messing about do what you have to to get out of the way. With all love and prayers from Jerusalem.
In stars where there is a much higher level of "metals" seem to generate more large planets than we have. It seems that in a star like this you may end up with 4-10 Jovian size planets. In the case of our solar system you have 2 very large planets and everything is far enough appart that it is stable. On the other hand if you had a bunch of planets at 10 Jovian masses it is inevitable that a few would be kicked out of the system and a few put into very close in orbits.
it all comes down to how much matter there is to create planets. The higher the densisty of heavy elements the faster things start to clump into planets, and the bigger the planets get.
Simple in many of the more tecnical parts of the US Gov (FDA,FCC,FAA etc) Congress passes rules with broad outlines. They department then makes admistrative rules based on those laws to allow things to actually get done.
For example in aviation (because I know something about that) The FAA is given by congress the right to make rules for civil aviation. So for example the number of hours it takes to get a pilot's licence is in the FAR's written by the FAA and not in a bill passed by congress.
I would imagine that the relivant parts of the DOT here had to make some rules on exactly how you admister this law and that took some time.
Um you expect to fly a plane in a huracane? Are you nuts? And after the storm goes threw I would give it some time for them to clear the random crap off of the airport runways and taxi ways.
It would not be hard to figure out who is leeking the movies. Assuming that you are sending out pre-realease DVD's to critics and so on. In each DVD you send out a small on screen defect, just a few pixles in one frame, Something that no one will notice when watching. Then make it different for each pre-release you send out.
You could write a simple program to put them in and go find them.
When you find one floating around you can figure out who's copy it was and go yell at them.
I would say this was an original Idea but there was something like it in a Tom Clancy Novel.
Well when I lived in the UK there were major protests about the price of fuel (mostly diesel) not by private motorists, but by the truck drivers. They had put the taxes on fuel up so high that the truckers could not charge enough to pay for it. So they lost money for every mile that they drove their trunks. Of course just about *EVERYTHING* these days gets to where its going on a truck at least part of the way so if you put fuel prices up for the trunks it hits everything else.
Oh and as I recall the truckers tend to protest by driving down busy streets en mass at very slow speeds. Nothing like 250 tractor trailers going 20mph on the m5 to make a mess of rush hour.
Thats why you put a large weight at the geosync point, and probably a lot of cable out past it in the other direction. That way the fource balances.
What will keep the counterweight in orbit is basic physics. You set the whole thing up so that gravity and conservation of energy and so on work for you.
The question I want to know is what are the osilation modes going to look like. You have a massive string under tention, it is going to vibrate. I'm sure you could figure it out if you had some clue as to the properties of the material.
Its not Static electricty. If you run a wire loop threw a magnectic field you will generate current and a drag force, if you push current you will generate a force. This is how electric moters and generators work. So In theory if you had a big wire loop in space you could run a current threw it and use that force to speed up your orbit, which would push to you a higher orbit.
They have had tecnical problems when they have tried it but they physics is all undergrad E&M.
Hey may have told them how to fix it, but that does not meen that they didn't spend a lot of time double checking *EVERYTHING*. Just becaue he tells you exactly what he did, does not mean you trust him. After all he just broke into your computers and messed them up.