As a side note, opening this can of worms is going to be a complete nightmare for Google. Once you take one stance on one issue, now you're going to be expected take more stances on issues someone feels is critical. Also, now that you've put your card on the table, refusing to take a stance when demanded to will always result in the most negative position being assumed. Sorry about that Google, but you have my sympathy.
I refuse to allow myself any sympathy for Google. YouTube censoring gun videos is just a continuation of Google censoring search results. I am surprised it took them this long.
Instead of being a vehicle to facilitate communication between opposing sides, let's just censor one side. I am sure that will lead to a more civil result.
I can forgive that you don't understand this given the 2008 Heller decision is what clearly established the individual right to bear arms. But do please try to keep up, it's been 9 years now.
He does not even understand the 1939 Miller decision which specifically states that weapons suitable for a militia are protected.
Gun nuts will start bleating about the Constitution. Guess what, you AREN'T part of a well regulated militia.
Those citizen militia on Flight 93 should have followed government instructions and allowed the plane to be flown into its target in Washington, DC. We would all have been better off.
Based on history, I am sure Youtube will follow their own policies in an objective and restrained manner... hahaha, who are we kidding? This will just become the new go-to excuse to say one thing and do another without due process.
I'm 58 years old. I've never had to defend myself. Not here in the U.S. Not anywhere in Europe (I think I've been to pretty much every country in western Europe and a few in eastern Europe.
So what is your point? I live near the US city with the highest and second highest property and crime rate in the US. I have had to be prepared to defend myself twice with a firearm but I guess since nobody was killed or shot, it does not count.
Jesus fucking Christ people. Free speech only keeps the government from impeding your speech. No one else, NO ONE ELSE, has to bear the burden of spreading your speech if they choose not to.
I sent in all my pro trump articles to the NYT and they wont publish them... CENSORSHIP!!!!1!
Just like when Best Buy's Geek Squad is paid by the government to search computers for child porn, it is not a violation of the 4th amendment. Do you think Best Buy will get immunity like the telecommunication companies did?
Let's take these things to their logical conclusion and see how many rights remain.
That is why I mentioned displacement although considering the cost of the bridge, a permanently mounted load cell is not *that* expensive. Paint a visible marker on the tension rod and measure displacement compared to the concrete with a tape measure. The accuracy requirements are not that great in this application.
Tell that to Martha Stewart. She went to prison for selling her position in ImClone based on a tip from a broker who noticed ImClone's CEO was dumping his stock.
"Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of felony charges of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators."
Which is another way of saying she talked her way into jail and should have taken legal advice to shut up.
Well that is fine and all, but what if the company itself doesn't want to give up the data? Should they be forced to give up the data with no warrant?
If I give a letter to Joe to hang on to for a few months, can the cops simply demand the letter from Joe with threat of imprisonment since I voluntarily handed it to him? What if Joe wants to honor my privacy?
Warrants are approved ex parte so there is only the judge and government involved. Once the warrant is approved, it is assumed to be good and the only remedy is exclusion of evidence which of course is useless if you are not charged with a crime. So nobody can contest the warrant when approved and issued and since the company or Joe would not be the one charged, they have no standing to challenge it later either.
The 4th amendment was clearly intended to establish a right to privacy of your personal possessions. Just because a lot of those possessions are digital and stored outside of your home, does not mean that right does not exist.
Elections matter. We need to elect people, regardless of party, that defend important rights like this, but you should look at their entire record, not what they say.
Congress then extended 4th amendment protection to third party data through statute but anything Congress can grant Congress can take away. The government's preference is that everybody trust their false assurances that third party data is protected so that end to end encryption and other methods are not used to protect privacy while seizing and searching it all.
There's been some good research in reducing prop noise, however. One of my favourites is the use of props with an even number of blades, with the number of pairs at least two (aka, at least 4 blades), where the pairs are balanced within themselves but not evenly spaced around the axis. Normally, a prop with perfectly spaced blades sets up a wave where pressure rises as a blade approaches and declines as the blade leaves, with each subsequent blade passing at the exact same rate and amplifying the signal in a resonant fashion. But when pairs of blades are unevenly spaced, you're adding power at two or more different frequencies, so you don't get that buildup, and to the contrary, the waveforms disrupt each other.
You can find tubeaxial fans which do that to reduce noise but usually with an odd number of blades. I found this out when trying to remove a blade to rebalance a rotor after a blade was lost until a replacement fan could be found and there were no opposite pairs and the spacing was irregular.
If an old tank full of 50 year old radwaste (which is often nitrate-based, and thus also explosive) fails, it will be nasty.
Just because something is nitrate based does not make it explosive. Reactions with nitric acid to form soluble metal nitrates are common for extraction and purification. The big advantage of plutonium over uranium for bombs is that it is extracted chemically instead of via expensive isotope separation.
Possibly naive question: canâ(TM)t the cells be arranged in such a way that you deep cycle test on half the battery at a time, so youâ(TM)re running at reduced rather than zero capacity?
As long as the UPS can provide full power with a partial bank of batteries, sure this can be done and it is not even difficult.
Quality UPS units use the USB UPS spec. It's actually part of HID for some reason but whatever, it's an open standard.
On Windows such devices just work, plug in and the driver is automatically loaded.
I have never seen a UPS which supported that but there is a larger problem I have run into with Windows multiple times now; the UPS issues the notification for impending shutdown, and Windows promptly decides it is time to install updates resulting in power being lost during the update process often resulting in a non-functional OS.
I have been told it is not suppose to work that way but it does. So I do not care about the impending shutdown message because you are better off without it at least on Windows.
Like what? What are these options? Why would you need to add them on? Just put them ALL in! Unless you want a Tektronix 500-series and all the plugins.
Do you live in a cave? What is wrong with the Tektronix 7000 series?
I would not mind a sampling option for high bandwidth and instant overdrive recovery. I went as far as to design a low cost DSO to support it but decided competing with the cheap Chinese DSOs would fail due to marketing even if their product is broken.
The amount of available and potential pumped storage capacity is woefully insufficient for this.
As opposed to new nuclear power plants that just magically sprout from the ground in the morning???
You can build a nuclear power plant anywhere although they are better where cooling water is available. Pumped storage is limited to a fraction of hydroelectric sites.
Zombie talking point. Wind and solar power generation would be spaced across a grid - same as coal and nuclear are. Excess power may be saved via a pumped storage facility like the Ludington plant in Michigan - which is used to back up a nuclear power plant - to be used when needed.
The amount of available and potential pumped storage capacity is woefully insufficient for this. That leaves much more expensive secondary and flow batteries.
1. Isolate every device including every PC on the LAN using a real router instead of a switch. Then every device can see the internet unimpeded but all traffic between devices is controlled by the firewall which be default can block everything. Most routers only have one LAN port no matter how many switched ports are connected to it so the cheapest way to implement this is some PC hardware with multiple LAN ports or perhaps better, using a router which supports VLANs and attaching a VLAN switch.
2. Use a server to store backups but pull them instead of pushing them. The backup server needs access to everything it is going to backup but the stateful firewall in the router above blocks incoming connections so the backup sever can see what it needs to on the LAN but the devices on the LAN cannot see it.
So if hotels are losing customers, why aren't they cutting hotel rates to be more competitive with ABnB? Hell, why aren't they slashing staff completely and converting some properties to ABnB only -- or becoming apartments?
Hotels get a greater return on investment through rent seeking by buying the local politicians.
They did it to stop this kind of rent seeking garbage.
They did it to facilitate the rent seeking garbage of existing land owners who want to see their property values increase by limiting availability. Shortages are good for them.
Prior to that, the court had ruled repeatedly that the second amendment gave civilians no right to posses firearms outside of the context of a government-run militia.
In Miller the USSC said civilians have a right to posses weapons *suitable* for a militia, and then returned the case to lower court to determine if that was a fact but Miller was dead and unrepresented even before then so no determination was ultimately made.
Given the history of the case, I think the government set the whole thing up and controlled both sides as a way to uphold the NFA which has several unconstitutional aspects.
ARs are actually not the biggest problem here, BTW. IIRC over 60% of all those deaths are caused by handguns, which, like ARs, have no reason to exist except to be used to shoot people (or sure, targets, tin cans, and maybe the very rare snake). Handguns are generally semiautomatic, loaded with absurdly large magazines, and are kept "at hand", so they are right there when you are feeling depressed, angry, or your grandchildren are visiting. Easily concealed, they are the gun of choice of criminals and gang-bangers everywhere. Cheap and plentiful, virtually unregulated, and with a huge supply, what's not to like? But that's for another day...
Handguns were included in the original NFA. They are involved in much more than 60% of firearm deaths even though long arms are more deadly. Semiautomatic rifles are barely a blip compared to handguns.
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As a side note, opening this can of worms is going to be a complete nightmare for Google. Once you take one stance on one issue, now you're going to be expected take more stances on issues someone feels is critical. Also, now that you've put your card on the table, refusing to take a stance when demanded to will always result in the most negative position being assumed. Sorry about that Google, but you have my sympathy.
I refuse to allow myself any sympathy for Google. YouTube censoring gun videos is just a continuation of Google censoring search results. I am surprised it took them this long.
Instead of being a vehicle to facilitate communication between opposing sides, let's just censor one side. I am sure that will lead to a more civil result.
I can forgive that you don't understand this given the 2008 Heller decision is what clearly established the individual right to bear arms. But do please try to keep up, it's been 9 years now.
He does not even understand the 1939 Miller decision which specifically states that weapons suitable for a militia are protected.
Gun nuts will start bleating about the Constitution. Guess what, you AREN'T part of a well regulated militia.
Those citizen militia on Flight 93 should have followed government instructions and allowed the plane to be flown into its target in Washington, DC. We would all have been better off.
Based on history, I am sure Youtube will follow their own policies in an objective and restrained manner ... hahaha, who are we kidding? This will just become the new go-to excuse to say one thing and do another without due process.
I'm 58 years old. I've never had to defend myself. Not here in the U.S. Not anywhere in Europe (I think I've been to pretty much every country in western Europe and a few in eastern Europe.
So what is your point? I live near the US city with the highest and second highest property and crime rate in the US. I have had to be prepared to defend myself twice with a firearm but I guess since nobody was killed or shot, it does not count.
Jesus fucking Christ people. Free speech only keeps the government from impeding your speech. No one else, NO ONE ELSE, has to bear the burden of spreading your speech if they choose not to.
I sent in all my pro trump articles to the NYT and they wont publish them... CENSORSHIP!!!!1!
Just like when Best Buy's Geek Squad is paid by the government to search computers for child porn, it is not a violation of the 4th amendment. Do you think Best Buy will get immunity like the telecommunication companies did?
Let's take these things to their logical conclusion and see how many rights remain.
That is why I mentioned displacement although considering the cost of the bridge, a permanently mounted load cell is not *that* expensive. Paint a visible marker on the tension rod and measure displacement compared to the concrete with a tape measure. The accuracy requirements are not that great in this application.
Yes and no, there is no 'gauge' you can check although you can check the post tensioning being done twice.
Strain is pretty easy to measure either through gauges or displacement.
Tell that to Martha Stewart. She went to prison for selling her position in ImClone based on a tip from a broker who noticed ImClone's CEO was dumping his stock.
"Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of felony charges of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators."
Which is another way of saying she talked her way into jail and should have taken legal advice to shut up.
Well that is fine and all, but what if the company itself doesn't want to give up the data? Should they be forced to give up the data with no warrant?
If I give a letter to Joe to hang on to for a few months, can the cops simply demand the letter from Joe with threat of imprisonment since I voluntarily handed it to him? What if Joe wants to honor my privacy?
Warrants are approved ex parte so there is only the judge and government involved. Once the warrant is approved, it is assumed to be good and the only remedy is exclusion of evidence which of course is useless if you are not charged with a crime. So nobody can contest the warrant when approved and issued and since the company or Joe would not be the one charged, they have no standing to challenge it later either.
None of this matters though since thanks to the United States Supreme Court in Smith versus Maryland, third party data has no 4th amendment protection and there is no constitutional requirement for a warrant anyway.
The 4th amendment was clearly intended to establish a right to privacy of your personal possessions. Just because a lot of those possessions are digital and stored outside of your home, does not mean that right does not exist.
Elections matter. We need to elect people, regardless of party, that defend important rights like this, but you should look at their entire record, not what they say.
Thank the United States Supreme Court for that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Congress then extended 4th amendment protection to third party data through statute but anything Congress can grant Congress can take away. The government's preference is that everybody trust their false assurances that third party data is protected so that end to end encryption and other methods are not used to protect privacy while seizing and searching it all.
More than just data mining, ...
More than data mining, being able to take the game back after the implied rental period has expired.
There's been some good research in reducing prop noise, however. One of my favourites is the use of props with an even number of blades, with the number of pairs at least two (aka, at least 4 blades), where the pairs are balanced within themselves but not evenly spaced around the axis. Normally, a prop with perfectly spaced blades sets up a wave where pressure rises as a blade approaches and declines as the blade leaves, with each subsequent blade passing at the exact same rate and amplifying the signal in a resonant fashion. But when pairs of blades are unevenly spaced, you're adding power at two or more different frequencies, so you don't get that buildup, and to the contrary, the waveforms disrupt each other.
You can find tubeaxial fans which do that to reduce noise but usually with an odd number of blades. I found this out when trying to remove a blade to rebalance a rotor after a blade was lost until a replacement fan could be found and there were no opposite pairs and the spacing was irregular.
If an old tank full of 50 year old radwaste (which is often nitrate-based, and thus also explosive) fails, it will be nasty.
Just because something is nitrate based does not make it explosive. Reactions with nitric acid to form soluble metal nitrates are common for extraction and purification. The big advantage of plutonium over uranium for bombs is that it is extracted chemically instead of via expensive isotope separation.
Possibly naive question: canâ(TM)t the cells be arranged in such a way that you deep cycle test on half the battery at a time, so youâ(TM)re running at reduced rather than zero capacity?
As long as the UPS can provide full power with a partial bank of batteries, sure this can be done and it is not even difficult.
Quality UPS units use the USB UPS spec. It's actually part of HID for some reason but whatever, it's an open standard.
On Windows such devices just work, plug in and the driver is automatically loaded.
I have never seen a UPS which supported that but there is a larger problem I have run into with Windows multiple times now; the UPS issues the notification for impending shutdown, and Windows promptly decides it is time to install updates resulting in power being lost during the update process often resulting in a non-functional OS.
I have been told it is not suppose to work that way but it does. So I do not care about the impending shutdown message because you are better off without it at least on Windows.
Like what? What are these options? Why would you need to add them on? Just put them ALL in! Unless you want a Tektronix 500-series and all the plugins.
Do you live in a cave? What is wrong with the Tektronix 7000 series?
I would not mind a sampling option for high bandwidth and instant overdrive recovery. I went as far as to design a low cost DSO to support it but decided competing with the cheap Chinese DSOs would fail due to marketing even if their product is broken.
As opposed to new nuclear power plants that just magically sprout from the ground in the morning???
You can build a nuclear power plant anywhere although they are better where cooling water is available. Pumped storage is limited to a fraction of hydroelectric sites.
Zombie talking point. Wind and solar power generation would be spaced across a grid - same as coal and nuclear are. Excess power may be saved via a pumped storage facility like the Ludington plant in Michigan - which is used to back up a nuclear power plant - to be used when needed.
The amount of available and potential pumped storage capacity is woefully insufficient for this. That leaves much more expensive secondary and flow batteries.
I would do two things:
1. Isolate every device including every PC on the LAN using a real router instead of a switch. Then every device can see the internet unimpeded but all traffic between devices is controlled by the firewall which be default can block everything. Most routers only have one LAN port no matter how many switched ports are connected to it so the cheapest way to implement this is some PC hardware with multiple LAN ports or perhaps better, using a router which supports VLANs and attaching a VLAN switch.
2. Use a server to store backups but pull them instead of pushing them. The backup server needs access to everything it is going to backup but the stateful firewall in the router above blocks incoming connections so the backup sever can see what it needs to on the LAN but the devices on the LAN cannot see it.
So if hotels are losing customers, why aren't they cutting hotel rates to be more competitive with ABnB? Hell, why aren't they slashing staff completely and converting some properties to ABnB only -- or becoming apartments?
Hotels get a greater return on investment through rent seeking by buying the local politicians.
They did it to stop this kind of rent seeking garbage.
They did it to facilitate the rent seeking garbage of existing land owners who want to see their property values increase by limiting availability. Shortages are good for them.
Prior to that, the court had ruled repeatedly that the second amendment gave civilians no right to posses firearms outside of the context of a government-run militia.
In Miller the USSC said civilians have a right to posses weapons *suitable* for a militia, and then returned the case to lower court to determine if that was a fact but Miller was dead and unrepresented even before then so no determination was ultimately made.
Given the history of the case, I think the government set the whole thing up and controlled both sides as a way to uphold the NFA which has several unconstitutional aspects.
I have terrible hand-writing and therefore took an after school typing class in 9th grade, back in the late '70s.
I took typing class during summer school in the mid 1980s but to make up for my terrible handwriting, I printed.
ARs are actually not the biggest problem here, BTW. IIRC over 60% of all those deaths are caused by handguns, which, like ARs, have no reason to exist except to be used to shoot people (or sure, targets, tin cans, and maybe the very rare snake). Handguns are generally semiautomatic, loaded with absurdly large magazines, and are kept "at hand", so they are right there when you are feeling depressed, angry, or your grandchildren are visiting. Easily concealed, they are the gun of choice of criminals and gang-bangers everywhere. Cheap and plentiful, virtually unregulated, and with a huge supply, what's not to like? But that's for another day...
Handguns were included in the original NFA. They are involved in much more than 60% of firearm deaths even though long arms are more deadly. Semiautomatic rifles are barely a blip compared to handguns.