Exactly. Shotguns using birdshot are only effective at short ranges. If you manage to a shoot down a drone with one and it lands on your property, then it was too close. Consider it a modern version of the cannon shot rule. Local ordinances might prevent even using a shotgun though which has nothing to do with this.
As far as using rifles or pistols to shoot down a drone, that is both more dangerous and very few people could do it anyway. Offhand the only person I can think of would be John Ross.
Anyway, the problem with 70mm was how little was shot in 70mm. Most of the 70mm projection was 35mm blown up. It made for a dramatic picture on that wide screen, but it wasn't true 70mm resolution.
To put this in perspective, Aliens shot in Super 35 which at the time suffered from an emulsion problem leading to graininess did not look any better in 70mm.
What 70mm did provide however is a 6 track magnetic sound track versus 2 track optical.
Like women who don't sleep around, men who show 'maturity' (ie they don't sleep around either) are considered desirable.
I am not convinced of this in the sense which you mean it.
A philandering son is advantageous and more likely to be produced by a philandering father. The woman's general strategy then is to *marry* the non-philanderer who will support her and her children while philandering herself.
She *knows* the maternity of her children but the father cannot be so sure. This shows up with maternal grandparents being more generous than paternal grandparents.
What shorts this all out is medical tests which can reveal to the father whether the children are actually his. Women should be fighting against allowing paternity tests if they want to hold these advantages. In some cases the law already does this.
Seriously why call it a disease? That implies that an iPhone could get it from another iPhone, you not washing your hands, etc.
Is cancer not also considered a disease?
We refer to ROM failures over time (fuck you Mostek!) and anti-fuses growing back as bit rot but it has nothing to do with microorganisms. I wish we had a special name for the failure of those edge wipe sockets Texas Instruments made.
And software development, alas, isn't free of managers and companies pushing such boneheaded stupid goals that get the contrary of what they intend to.
"It seems when you are sick and laying in a hospital bed and have trouble sleeping, the single LED shining in your eyes is an issue,"
A LED shining in your eyes is the LEAST of your worries when trying to get to sleep in a hospital.
Actually, it IS a big deal. Sleep is important to a patient's recovery, and a lack of good sleep can slow healing.
Patients in a hospital are constantly being disturbed at night due to vital signs checks, administration of medication, pain medication wearing off, etc. Sometimes the disturbance is not even for the patient but for the other patient in the same semi-private room.
When I complained that the noise from the IV pump was keeping me awake, the nurse apologized and said, "but hospitals are not a place for resting."
I have personally been on flights where, when de-boarding on the tarmac, they have yelled at us not to use cell phones because of the possibility of fueling + sparks. Yet no other airline I've encountered seems to be concerned about this remote possibility.
And no shuffling of feet. And sweaters are right out.
I don't think it really matters. The standard court remedy for an unlawful search and seizure is exclusion of evidence but that does not apply unless the government prosecutes you. So only presumed criminals have 4th amendment rights.
Congress can excuse laws from judicial review if it wants to, for example.
Congress can excuse laws from supreme court review. The laws are still reviewed by lower courts resulting in circuit court splits which cannot be reconciled by the supreme court.
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Exactly. Shotguns using birdshot are only effective at short ranges. If you manage to a shoot down a drone with one and it lands on your property, then it was too close. Consider it a modern version of the cannon shot rule. Local ordinances might prevent even using a shotgun though which has nothing to do with this.
As far as using rifles or pistols to shoot down a drone, that is both more dangerous and very few people could do it anyway. Offhand the only person I can think of would be John Ross.
To refer to a likely obscure quote, "Range safety is very important."
Anyway, the problem with 70mm was how little was shot in 70mm. Most of the 70mm projection was 35mm blown up. It made for a dramatic picture on that wide screen, but it wasn't true 70mm resolution.
To put this in perspective, Aliens shot in Super 35 which at the time suffered from an emulsion problem leading to graininess did not look any better in 70mm.
What 70mm did provide however is a 6 track magnetic sound track versus 2 track optical.
I'm not sure why they are using dry ice rather than just a tank of compressed CO2.
Likely because the dry ice is cheaper, easier, and more effective. It also requires less equipment and training.
It is also safer and easier to transport making it cheaper.
Rats are our ancestors.
Rats are no more our ancestors than any living primate; they are 88 million year old cousins.
Obviously, you've never used a MacBook in defense of your home planet.
I tried but Apple removed the port needed to interface with alien systems.
Like women who don't sleep around, men who show 'maturity' (ie they don't sleep around either) are considered desirable.
I am not convinced of this in the sense which you mean it.
A philandering son is advantageous and more likely to be produced by a philandering father. The woman's general strategy then is to *marry* the non-philanderer who will support her and her children while philandering herself.
She *knows* the maternity of her children but the father cannot be so sure. This shows up with maternal grandparents being more generous than paternal grandparents.
What shorts this all out is medical tests which can reveal to the father whether the children are actually his. Women should be fighting against allowing paternity tests if they want to hold these advantages. In some cases the law already does this.
Seriously why call it a disease? That implies that an iPhone could get it from another iPhone, you not washing your hands, etc.
Is cancer not also considered a disease?
We refer to ROM failures over time (fuck you Mostek!) and anti-fuses growing back as bit rot but it has nothing to do with microorganisms. I wish we had a special name for the failure of those edge wipe sockets Texas Instruments made.
This is why I miss Steve Jobs.
The obvious problem is that your finger is defective, and Jobs wouldn't have been afraid to tell you that.
You're fingering it wrong.
Contrast impersonating a news professional with impersonating a cable repair person:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
...you were all clamoring for DNS control to leave the US...
I gleefully await the technical community reaping the bitter harvest they have sown.
Then the technical community can build a replacement for DNS, with blackjack and hookers.
Has everyone forgotten so quickly the 2008 recession was in large part due to this kind of sales activity?
Nope, I am sure many learned lessons from what happened like how to do it again but better.
And software development, alas, isn't free of managers and companies pushing such boneheaded stupid goals that get the contrary of what they intend to.
http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-...
More like somebody will come with a still.
Forget undo. If you make a typo, you should have to reboot.
Actually, it IS a big deal. Sleep is important to a patient's recovery, and a lack of good sleep can slow healing.
Patients in a hospital are constantly being disturbed at night due to vital signs checks, administration of medication, pain medication wearing off, etc. Sometimes the disturbance is not even for the patient but for the other patient in the same semi-private room.
When I complained that the noise from the IV pump was keeping me awake, the nurse apologized and said, "but hospitals are not a place for resting."
Could there be some future hurdle that many civilizations fail to jump?
Lawyers.
More like, "Range safety is very important."
Obscure?
2: why didn't they name it OSIRIS-SEX?
For the same reason the Sign Extend mnemonic is Convert Byte to Word.
We will all be dead long before then. I mean didn't anyone on the team that developed this thing watch The Andromeda Strain
Didn't almost everyone survive in The Andromeda Strain because the bad thing mutated until it wasn't bad anymore?
We know it was fiction because of the happy ending.
... but now you have to wonder how deep the rot is?
How far can you run into a forest? Half way, because then you are running out.
The rot is only half way in so it encompasses the entire company.
I have personally been on flights where, when de-boarding on the tarmac, they have yelled at us not to use cell phones because of the possibility of fueling + sparks. Yet no other airline I've encountered seems to be concerned about this remote possibility.
And no shuffling of feet. And sweaters are right out.
I don't think it really matters. The standard court remedy for an unlawful search and seizure is exclusion of evidence but that does not apply unless the government prosecutes you. So only presumed criminals have 4th amendment rights.
Congress can excuse laws from judicial review if it wants to, for example.
Congress can excuse laws from supreme court review. The laws are still reviewed by lower courts resulting in circuit court splits which cannot be reconciled by the supreme court.
But then the demand for replacement phones would be lowered. Why sell replacement batteries when you can sell replacement phones?