How does this make sense for govn't.. isn't this a Private sector issue?
It *is* a private sector issue. You see, people who wanted to pay less for IT guys bribed these senators to pass this bill. The senators rubbed their hands together and agreed. Now they each have a new car.
That's a good point. Further, AC transmits electricity. I have a tiny tesla coil in my room that can light up a flourescent bulb from some distance. I'm betting he's gonna blow out all his own equipment the first time he turns it on. I'll give him bonus points if he can spread that EMP burst out enough to fry electronics in nearby homes.
I'd like to see a spin off of it that can absorb cosmic rays easily, then we could coat our spacecrafts with it. You know -- when we have them again....:-\
How many more lines are left on the list? We've got past the "it's not warming at all" stage. So next up is "it may be warming, but it's not us" then "ok, it's us, but we can't/shouldn't do anything about it" and eventually "it was us but it's too late." What comes after that?
After that, we realize that it is indeed too late and everybody dies. But at least we die with rich energy companies. Successful collection of the manmade concept of currency is more important than the survival of society, after all.
I think your post will be modded out of the "flamebait" category after people compare it to mine.:P
When people start using this stuff for windows in buildings, I wonder how the bird population will be affected....
And if I'm wondering that now, you know PETA will jump on it later. Hmmmm -imagines typical naughty imagery they use somehow involving invisible glass this time- This might be worth it after all. Kill the birds!!
Once again Barack Hussein Obama, the traitorous Muslim he is, is significantly weakening the defenses of this country for the benefit of his al qaeda brethren. Impeach Obama in 2012!
Is Colbert trolling slashdot now? Must be a slow week.:D
There are some bulky Geiger counter wristwatches you can buy. Polimaster makes some, for example. They're pricey, but they'll do that job. An alarm goes off if it detects too many Sv, which you can set after establishing a baseline for where you live. Since it's a small counter, it takes about a minute for it to accumulate enough statistics to warn you.
Just never take the thing on a flight. It'll beep without end at high altitude. If you explain why it's beeping, you'll be detained.
I could see the government pocketing the money, then turning to say: "Good news, America! We're lowering your taxes by $21 million!!" Of course, without actually lowering anything....
Neutrinos have been observed coming from supernovae from light years away. There would have been a very noticeable time difference between the neutrinos and the light at that distance if this were true. (Any astrophysicists about to verify this?)
I'm skeptical. I think it was likely a wiring problem. It only takes a few centimeters of wire to make a 60ns delay, and these experiments are notorious for using many wires.
This is clearly a marketing ruse to encourage us to buy SilverHawks on DVD, which has a cyber-bird named Tally Hawk. Hmmmm it appears to only be $10 now....
This news pleases me. I wouldn't play it, but sometimes I like watching a guy named raocow play through these. His voice makes my ears tickle. http://www.raocow.com/
It is pretty clear what this is really about. Facebook is the natural enemy of Anonymity.
You're right, it definitely isn't about what they're claiming. From their message:
Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed. If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill facebook for the sake of your own privacy.
How is destroying Facebook protecting freedom of information? Didn't Facebook help organize events bringing about a couple peaceful revolutions recently? Isn't that what freedom of information is all about, letting the voice of the people change the world? I'd think these guys would have issued a statement that they were pleased if anything.
Are these guys really the same hacker group? Something is definitely wrong here....
My essay grades in college humanities courses were terrible until I started trying to figure out the political slant of my professor (or TA if the TA is the grader) and wrote papers supporting those views (and to be fair, those views weren't always left-leaning ones). I went from a C paper student to a low-A paper student in the blink of an eye.
That sounds like an excellent humanities lesson in itself.
Assassins Creed: Completely un-intuitive console controls. Impossible to change.
I finally broke down and got a 360 controller after trying this game for the first time last month.... It's a good controller, at least. I would've preferred it to cost about 2/3 the price, but what can you do?
I think he would've had better luck just coming here and asking them kindly to stop rather than ticking them off. (I'm assuming some of those guys read/..) Not that that would stop them either, but they might put a positive spin on the data they release.
Anybody know of competitors? Amazon's streaming service looks kind of interesting.
Yes, yes it does. It costs less than Netflix already and gives faster and cheaper shipping to all their products as well. I don't think they have a wide a selection as Netflix, but I'm gonna try it out for a year and see how it goes.
The free market is supposed to solve issues like this on it's own. Why don't a bunch of women get together and start their own gaming company then? They could call it Amazon. Errr, AmazonGames..... Okay, forget Amazon, but they could have their own company and write games that they would like. Why do "we" have to write games for "them"?
Do you live in Japan directly downwind of Fukushima? Otherwise, you are lying, simple as that. Either that, or using your detector for 6 years continuously has brought it out of calibration.
The dose rates in Tokyo, directly downwind of Fukushima, at the peak of the radiation release, was 0.30 uSv/hr. The detected radiation on the west coast of the united states was about one part in a million above background. This is not an amount that is detectable using common geiger counters.
Now you're just sounding silly. This is unproductive for me so I'm moving on after this reply.
1) Tokyo is Southwest of Fukushima -- which means it's *upwind*.
2) You can estimate your annual dose here: http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/calculate.html Convert the result to match units and you'll probably get an answer of about ~0.35uSv/hr. Make sure your "bogus numbers" are actually bogus before you declare someone a liar.
3) Google "fukushima radiation us". You'll find several articles to choose from.
4) Background radiation varies a lot, *much* more than one ppm that you entirely made up. The sun could "burp" and incident cosmic rays on a detector can double on a whim. They have to be monitored continuously during experiments for this reason.
a) Geiger counters are not sensitive enough to detect small variations in background. You need lab-grade [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_counter"]PCA's[/a].
b) There have been numerous large solar eruptions recently which is far more likely to have impacted background counts.
While YOU may not be qualified to make statements other than lies to further your political agenda, I am in fact qualified to say that he global impact of Fukushima is 100 to 1000 times less than any of the individual 400+ atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in the 50's and 60's.
"Shens" for telling you what a doohickey on my desk registered. Interesting.
My device that reads.05 -.15 microSieverts/hour every day for the last 6 years, then suddenly reads.35 -.45 *coincidentally* during this time frame. It doesn't need to be lab-grade accurate to tell me that the rates are above normal. To be fair, I don't plot the data from it continuously, so I might miss some spikes.
What political agenda are you suggesting I have? O_o; Thinking about not inadvertently shortening my lifespan is a biological imperative of mine, not a political agenda.
I'll grant you that the nuclear tests in the past were pretty careless. Saying "we've done dumber shit before" isn't a good argument for this though...
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How does this make sense for govn't.. isn't this a Private sector issue?
It *is* a private sector issue. You see, people who wanted to pay less for IT guys bribed these senators to pass this bill. The senators rubbed their hands together and agreed. Now they each have a new car.
That's a good point. Further, AC transmits electricity. I have a tiny tesla coil in my room that can light up a flourescent bulb from some distance. I'm betting he's gonna blow out all his own equipment the first time he turns it on. I'll give him bonus points if he can spread that EMP burst out enough to fry electronics in nearby homes.
I'd like to see a spin off of it that can absorb cosmic rays easily, then we could coat our spacecrafts with it. You know -- when we have them again.... :-\
How many more lines are left on the list?
We've got past the "it's not warming at all" stage.
So next up is "it may be warming, but it's not us" then "ok, it's us, but we can't/shouldn't do anything about it" and eventually "it was us but it's too late." What comes after that?
After that, we realize that it is indeed too late and everybody dies. But at least we die with rich energy companies. Successful collection of the manmade concept of currency is more important than the survival of society, after all.
I think your post will be modded out of the "flamebait" category after people compare it to mine. :P
When people start using this stuff for windows in buildings, I wonder how the bird population will be affected....
And if I'm wondering that now, you know PETA will jump on it later. Hmmmm
-imagines typical naughty imagery they use somehow involving invisible glass this time-
This might be worth it after all. Kill the birds!!
humans need external directional cues to maintain their own guidance (otherwise we wander and circle without realizing it
Hmmm I wonder if having a tail would correct that....
-looks at sleeping neighbor and stapler-
Once again Barack Hussein Obama, the traitorous Muslim he is, is significantly weakening the defenses of this country for the benefit of his al qaeda brethren. Impeach Obama in 2012!
Is Colbert trolling slashdot now? Must be a slow week. :D
America isn't a nation either.... :P
There are some bulky Geiger counter wristwatches you can buy. Polimaster makes some, for example. They're pricey, but they'll do that job. An alarm goes off if it detects too many Sv, which you can set after establishing a baseline for where you live. Since it's a small counter, it takes about a minute for it to accumulate enough statistics to warn you.
Just never take the thing on a flight. It'll beep without end at high altitude. If you explain why it's beeping, you'll be detained.
I could see the government pocketing the money, then turning to say:
"Good news, America! We're lowering your taxes by $21 million!!"
Of course, without actually lowering anything....
Ah, right.... pico, nano... I always get those confused. Oops.
Well, 2000 centimeters is still "a few" compared to some things. :P
Neutrinos have been observed coming from supernovae from light years away. There would have been a very noticeable time difference between the neutrinos and the light at that distance if this were true. (Any astrophysicists about to verify this?)
I'm skeptical. I think it was likely a wiring problem. It only takes a few centimeters of wire to make a 60ns delay, and these experiments are notorious for using many wires.
Why the hell is that comment at 3, Insightful? That quotation isn't even in any of the linked pages.
Did you use Turnitin to determine that?
This is clearly a marketing ruse to encourage us to buy SilverHawks on DVD, which has a cyber-bird named Tally Hawk.
Hmmmm it appears to only be $10 now....
This news pleases me. I wouldn't play it, but sometimes I like watching a guy named raocow play through these. His voice makes my ears tickle.
http://www.raocow.com/
It is pretty clear what this is really about. Facebook is the natural enemy of Anonymity.
You're right, it definitely isn't about what they're claiming. From their message:
Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed. If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill facebook for the sake of your own privacy.
How is destroying Facebook protecting freedom of information? Didn't Facebook help organize events bringing about a couple peaceful revolutions recently? Isn't that what freedom of information is all about, letting the voice of the people change the world? I'd think these guys would have issued a statement that they were pleased if anything.
Are these guys really the same hacker group? Something is definitely wrong here....
My essay grades in college humanities courses were terrible until I started trying to figure out the political slant of my professor (or TA if the TA is the grader) and wrote papers supporting those views (and to be fair, those views weren't always left-leaning ones). I went from a C paper student to a low-A paper student in the blink of an eye.
That sounds like an excellent humanities lesson in itself.
Assassins Creed: Completely un-intuitive console controls. Impossible to change.
I finally broke down and got a 360 controller after trying this game for the first time last month.... It's a good controller, at least. I would've preferred it to cost about 2/3 the price, but what can you do?
Global warming probably is real... it's just not cause by the carbon dioxide. Which means there's nothing we can do, we're doomed to burn. :(
I think he would've had better luck just coming here and asking them kindly to stop rather than ticking them off. (I'm assuming some of those guys read /..) Not that that would stop them either, but they might put a positive spin on the data they release.
Anybody know of competitors? Amazon's streaming service looks kind of interesting.
Yes, yes it does. It costs less than Netflix already and gives faster and cheaper shipping to all their products as well. I don't think they have a wide a selection as Netflix, but I'm gonna try it out for a year and see how it goes.
The free market is supposed to solve issues like this on it's own. Why don't a bunch of women get together and start their own gaming company then? They could call it Amazon. Errr, AmazonGames. .... Okay, forget Amazon, but they could have their own company and write games that they would like. Why do "we" have to write games for "them"?
I was thinking the same thing. I haven't seen so many duplicate topics since Android was coming out.
Do you live in Japan directly downwind of Fukushima? Otherwise, you are lying, simple as that. Either that, or using your detector for 6 years continuously has brought it out of calibration.
The dose rates in Tokyo, directly downwind of Fukushima, at the peak of the radiation release, was 0.30 uSv/hr. The detected radiation on the west coast of the united states was about one part in a million above background. This is not an amount that is detectable using common geiger counters.
Now you're just sounding silly. This is unproductive for me so I'm moving on after this reply.
1) Tokyo is Southwest of Fukushima -- which means it's *upwind*.
2) You can estimate your annual dose here: http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/calculate.html
Convert the result to match units and you'll probably get an answer of about ~0.35uSv/hr. Make sure your "bogus numbers" are actually bogus before you declare someone a liar.
3) Google "fukushima radiation us". You'll find several articles to choose from.
4) Background radiation varies a lot, *much* more than one ppm that you entirely made up. The sun could "burp" and incident cosmic rays on a detector can double on a whim. They have to be monitored continuously during experiments for this reason.
Shens. Two problems with your post.
a) Geiger counters are not sensitive enough to detect small variations in background. You need lab-grade [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_counter"]PCA's[/a].
b) There have been numerous large solar eruptions recently which is far more likely to have impacted background counts.
While YOU may not be qualified to make statements other than lies to further your political agenda, I am in fact qualified to say that he global impact of Fukushima is 100 to 1000 times less than any of the individual 400+ atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in the 50's and 60's.
"Shens" for telling you what a doohickey on my desk registered. Interesting.
My device that reads .05 - .15 microSieverts/hour every day for the last 6 years, then suddenly reads .35 - .45 *coincidentally* during this time frame. It doesn't need to be lab-grade accurate to tell me that the rates are above normal. To be fair, I don't plot the data from it continuously, so I might miss some spikes.
What political agenda are you suggesting I have? O_o; Thinking about not inadvertently shortening my lifespan is a biological imperative of mine, not a political agenda.
I'll grant you that the nuclear tests in the past were pretty careless. Saying "we've done dumber shit before" isn't a good argument for this though...