Unfortunately the "Nuremberg defense" does often work, historically at least. Also you don't need the defense if no one pushes the charges, which is often up to someones discretion. Selective enforcement of the "rule of law" has always been the way.....
The law is not the problem in the US. Its the enforcement of the law that is. A big faceless corporation simply doesn't pay what the real damage really costs. Even if sued.
Ground water contamination can be quite unlocalized as well.
GP didn't say don't do it, GP said if you make a mess clean it up. But we see time and time again that corporations cut the cleaning up corner just about every time. A corporation that wants to be responsible can't compete since they do foot the bill for the clean up, and finally the general public will still buy the cheapest item no matter how bad the corporations are.
Bottom line. Most people don't care as long as it affects someone else. That is not progress. That is short sighted.
There are things we should *not* copy from the Israel model for sure, but there are many things that are really worth following up on. In particular Israels *response* to a attack is very different. Basically they try to fix everything up as quickly as possible. Compensate victims* well and provide proper support. Then carry on with there day. They don't shut down society for a month and a day each time someone farts in a airline que.
*This "data" is from Israelis or westerners only. Other ethnic groups may have a different experience about the compensation.
"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security", D. Eisenhower.
Don't know much about Eisenhower, but i was always impressed with his insights. He warned us all of the dangers of a Military Industrial complex. We didn't listen.
Our local aero club had a IFR certified simulator. At least in NZ hours on that was good enough for keeping your instrument ratings, and it was much cheaper than plane. However its still time, and you need someone else with proper instrument ratings to sign the hours off.
But lets face it. Non of us at the club flew for travel, we flew for fun.
You realize that most of the folks working in Climatology are not climatologist either don't you. The earliest you could get a Degree or PhD in "climatology" was about 2000, so every senior researcher in the field is not really a climatologist.
HF is a nasty toxic acid. That's the main reason we don't use Fluorine. In fact they tested Li,F,H rocket that has more than 20% performance boost over H2 O2. But the problems of dealing with liquid metal and Florine along with massive plumes of toxic exhaust means its just not worth it. Its cheaper to build the rocket 2-3x bigger.
Liquids can be designed to have even higher acceleration (see the Sprint Anti ballistic missile). Currently built solids have high thrust/weight because they are made as boosters, not because they have inherently higher acceleration. Solids best feature is storablity in a "ready to fire" state without N2O2 or other such nastiness or cyro fuels.
There are no adds on his page, he didn't submit the story to/. and doesn't need to drive page hits in anyway. In fact some of us regular posters to his blog avoid any articles that get/. because the signal to noise ratio drops to a close approximation of zero.
When a suspect does not obey orders, and could potentially be going for a weapon, Cops get scared. Abuse of authority? Perhaps. Reasonable justifiable fear? YES.
No its not. If you are an officer that has sworn to protect and serve, then its YOUR job to be the one to not shoot because you are scared. If you are so easily spooked because someone doesn't just jump every time you tell them to, you shouldn't be a cop, and you don't deserve the badge.
Older processes use the larger feature size which makes them inherently more robust against radiation. Background counts are already quite a lot higher at 30,000 feet. Also you generally just don't need the horse power anyway.
I went to St Pauls last year at the Vatican. Women were not allowed in with skirts that are above knee height. Yet many of the statues were of bare breasted, and not too shabby breasts at that.
Many places I have seen use fresh cow shit and chicken shit, fresh as in it was food yesterday, shit today. Nothing about composting at all. The pesticides that are marked acceptable for organic, are just as toxic to humans as the normal stuff, you have to wear and do all the same safety procedures. There is one difference, it doesn't have to rain before you harvest with organics while it does with normal pesticides. Perhaps you should be getting the clue.
The practice of quantum computing makes it quite doubtful that they will be any better than classical attacks for the foreseeable future. The problem is that quantum computers have exponential complexity in *construction*. A 2n qbit machine needs much more than just 2x the qbit, but also better decoherence times and much higher fidelity on the quantum to classical output channel (it gets harder to "read" the answer).
To make matters worse. A n bit quantum computer cannot simulate a (n+1) bit quantum computer like we can do with classical computers. So if you know that "they" have a 1024 bit quantum computer (many decades away, some say much longer), you just need a 1025 bit key to be secure from that machine.
There is at least one public key method (McEliece cryptosystem) that is not vulnerable to quantum computing attacks. It requires very big (1Mb or larger) keys which is less of a problem these days than 10 year ago.
I have taught stats, was a physics major (Masters level, switched to an applied Math PhD), and have done more graduate stats than many of my stats colleges. I am in no way unusual.
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American diplomacy is in shambles, because we now know its full of people like you. You really think what you are doing is OK.
Unfortunately the "Nuremberg defense" does often work, historically at least. Also you don't need the defense if no one pushes the charges, which is often up to someones discretion. Selective enforcement of the "rule of law" has always been the way.....
US courts have ruled that such isolation is torture.
The law is not the problem in the US. Its the enforcement of the law that is. A big faceless corporation simply doesn't pay what the real damage really costs. Even if sued.
Ground water contamination can be quite unlocalized as well.
GP didn't say don't do it, GP said if you make a mess clean it up. But we see time and time again that corporations cut the cleaning up corner just about every time. A corporation that wants to be responsible can't compete since they do foot the bill for the clean up, and finally the general public will still buy the cheapest item no matter how bad the corporations are.
Bottom line. Most people don't care as long as it affects someone else. That is not progress. That is short sighted.
There are things we should *not* copy from the Israel model for sure, but there are many things that are really worth following up on. In particular Israels *response* to a attack is very different. Basically they try to fix everything up as quickly as possible. Compensate victims* well and provide proper support. Then carry on with there day. They don't shut down society for a month and a day each time someone farts in a airline que.
*This "data" is from Israelis or westerners only. Other ethnic groups may have a different experience about the compensation.
"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security", D. Eisenhower.
Don't know much about Eisenhower, but i was always impressed with his insights. He warned us all of the dangers of a Military Industrial complex. We didn't listen.
Our local aero club had a IFR certified simulator. At least in NZ hours on that was good enough for keeping your instrument ratings, and it was much cheaper than plane. However its still time, and you need someone else with proper instrument ratings to sign the hours off.
But lets face it. Non of us at the club flew for travel, we flew for fun.
You realize that most of the folks working in Climatology are not climatologist either don't you. The earliest you could get a Degree or PhD in "climatology" was about 2000, so every senior researcher in the field is not really a climatologist.
In other news, they are also not true Scotsman.
US courts have ruled that it is.
HF is a nasty toxic acid. That's the main reason we don't use Fluorine. In fact they tested Li,F,H rocket that has more than 20% performance boost over H2 O2. But the problems of dealing with liquid metal and Florine along with massive plumes of toxic exhaust means its just not worth it. Its cheaper to build the rocket 2-3x bigger.
LH2 is the best thermal nozzle working fluid. You still need something to heat it up.
Liquids can be designed to have even higher acceleration (see the Sprint Anti ballistic missile). Currently built solids have high thrust/weight because they are made as boosters, not because they have inherently higher acceleration. Solids best feature is storablity in a "ready to fire" state without N2O2 or other such nastiness or cyro fuels.
There are no adds on his page, he didn't submit the story to /. and doesn't need to drive page hits in anyway. In fact some of us regular posters to his blog avoid any articles that get /. because the signal to noise ratio drops to a close approximation of zero.
When a suspect does not obey orders, and could potentially be going for a weapon, Cops get scared. Abuse of authority? Perhaps. Reasonable justifiable fear? YES.
No its not. If you are an officer that has sworn to protect and serve, then its YOUR job to be the one to not shoot because you are scared. If you are so easily spooked because someone doesn't just jump every time you tell them to, you shouldn't be a cop, and you don't deserve the badge.
Older processes use the larger feature size which makes them inherently more robust against radiation. Background counts are already quite a lot higher at 30,000 feet. Also you generally just don't need the horse power anyway.
I went to St Pauls last year at the Vatican. Women were not allowed in with skirts that are above knee height. Yet many of the statues were of bare breasted, and not too shabby breasts at that.
Some places may, but many i have seen use fresh shit. No shit.
Many places I have seen use fresh cow shit and chicken shit, fresh as in it was food yesterday, shit today. Nothing about composting at all. The pesticides that are marked acceptable for organic, are just as toxic to humans as the normal stuff, you have to wear and do all the same safety procedures. There is one difference, it doesn't have to rain before you harvest with organics while it does with normal pesticides. Perhaps you should be getting the clue.
The practice of quantum computing makes it quite doubtful that they will be any better than classical attacks for the foreseeable future. The problem is that quantum computers have exponential complexity in *construction*. A 2n qbit machine needs much more than just 2x the qbit, but also better decoherence times and much higher fidelity on the quantum to classical output channel (it gets harder to "read" the answer).
To make matters worse. A n bit quantum computer cannot simulate a (n+1) bit quantum computer like we can do with classical computers. So if you know that "they" have a 1024 bit quantum computer (many decades away, some say much longer), you just need a 1025 bit key to be secure from that machine.
There is at least one public key method (McEliece cryptosystem) that is not vulnerable to quantum computing attacks. It requires very big (1Mb or larger) keys which is less of a problem these days than 10 year ago.
We are the general public. We don't do that sort of thing.
You mean something in the media is misleading or misrepresented? Seriously, get a clue. All media is like this. Hell /. is like this.
given the quality that facebook stores photos. They deserve what the get.
The number of attacks that have happened is very quantifiable. Its a matter of fact. What you do with that fact, is perhaps more subjective.
You should read up on the true Scotsman fallacy.
I have taught stats, was a physics major (Masters level, switched to an applied Math PhD), and have done more graduate stats than many of my stats colleges. I am in no way unusual.