That may be the case in your jurisdiction. I don't know (because I'm not a lawyer) if it's the case in my jurisdiction.
There's a logical test in there : since this is likely to be a lot of money in running such facilities, there's the possibility of substantial ground rent for a country who hosts such a facility.
Therefore, there is potential for substantial "squeeze" (bribery, corruption, or just perfectly legal well-paying jobs for the electorate) in persuading local politicians to modify the laws of some small Pacific island nation to allow this sort of treatment. Particularly if it applies only to foreigners, "Let the gringo pig-dogs kill themselves, as long as they pay us to store the meat!"
I'm not aware of the lawyers of the Cryonics Institute having persuaded any country to permit this. (Counter-example, anyone?)
Therefore, they don't believe the process works themselves, and it really is a scam.
Which is what I'd expected all along, but I just hadn't bothered to think about it for 30 seconds, and so hadn't proved (to my own satisfaction) that it is a scam.
I think I've just found a nice counter-example to the assertion that "there's no such thing as bad publicity".
If you were a farmer faced with a big bill for herbicides and a field full of vigorous weeds that it won't kill after all, you might see the horror.
Use a different herbicide, and make sure that your competitors (a.k.a. "neighbours") are also infested with the same strains of weeds (they probably are already, but you can ensure they don't get any advantage relative to you).
Monsanto may have killed their golden-egg-laying goose (glyphosate, a.k.a. "Roundup") with this. I mourn for people with money invested in Monsanto (not knowing if my pension fund includes holdings in them).
Are they idiots? No. Do they think we're idiots? You'd have to be an idiot if you didn't realize every politician on the planet thinks we are all idiots.
And they're mostly right.
Or at least, around half of the time they're talking to or about people of below average intelligence, and don't even realise that this is not a problem.
The way that I read the advertising for most of the recurring "great new discoveries" is that they help the water to disperse, not to form droplets. I realise that this is because copy-writers are generally at best language or arts graduates, not science graduates, but I still find it disappointing.
What I'd look for, which may be possible, is something that altered the surface tension between the coating and water such that the droplets sink down into a thin (few 10s of microns) film of rain water and then flow off the bottom of the glasses. It should be do-able, but no-one seems to do it. For the optical effects... look at the effect of anti-reflection coatings etc on optical quality ; they're well within the range of optical tolerance of people.
You can literally turn EVERYTHING into a weapon, given creativity.
OK ; here's the challenge you so plainly want. Your tools are a rather limp jam sandwich and a pair of pink pom-pom slippers ; how are you going to turn them into weapons.
(The selection is not arbitrary ; this selection of items was a key plot element in a 1980s game.)
What about denying fly-over for any US airplane ? What about extending that ban all over Europe ?
Since the zone for which the UK has air traffic control extends a long way west and significantly north and south from the UK itself (until the region comes closer to Iceland, Portugal or Greenland), then denial of overflight by the UK effectively cuts off much of Europe from direct, great circle, flight paths to America. They'd have to re-route via Reykjavik or Lisbon, or add 20-30% more fuel.
why would I want one of those? I don't run Windows.
Don't install linux - to the over-suspicious, those strange black screens and white text could be classed as a 'hacking tool.'
Set it up to run a thing called X-windows - there are many variants out there - which the Windows operating system imitates in some visually important respects.
Besides, I use green-on-black screens, which every one knows is a sign of being plugged directly into the Matrix, and so one is not to be fucked-with. Infallible armour! (Not that I need armour when wearing my Mormon Magical panty-girdle.)
Ask a lawyer if you want to ; you'd be wasting your money. As I understand it, your obligation to provide the decryption key is absolute. If you don't decrypt it, they'll take that as evidence of a conspiracy to "avoid the ends of justice," concerning the crime that you're charged with, for which the punishment is around twice what you'd get for pleading guilty to the crime.
The system is designed to not be winnable by the accused. The designers may have been fucking lawyers, but unfortunately that doesn't necessarily mean that they were clinically retarded while designing the system.
I keep a diary but only on paper and I will mail it and anything else I've written ahead.
What makes you think it will arrive? Of the mail that we send to the wife's family, about 20% disappears en route. And that's when sending it recorded-delivery.
Carry a photocopy and manually update the master version when you get back from your trip.
When everything results in the death penalty... the law effectively has zero deterrent value.
This took place in the civilized world. We don't have a death penalty.
And to squash that old canard - no punishment, capital or smacked-wrist, has any deterrent effect if the perpetrator does not consider themselves likely to be caught.
Is the melting SD card hyperbole, or do you actually have a source? The only credible way I can think of to make something like this would be to make an SD card stuffed with thermite, and burn the thermite on writing. Which would get me serious jail time for trying to carry explosives onto a plane. Maybe releasing mercury metal from the SD card into the offending computer would work. Or... where's my gallium? But nonetheless, carriage of such materials without the appropriate IATA paperwork completed, submitted and accepted gives them the grounds to lock you up and throw away the key anyway, so "meh".
The USA constitution is irrelevant. It doesn't apply to countries other than the USA. This is an action by the UK government (via their lap dogs, the police) on UK pressmen and their friends and families.
The sheer size is a moderate problem, but the disparity between the insurance files' sizes is a problem. As presented, lots of people (myself included ; though why I'm getting only 3 peers in total, I don't know) will be able to swallow the first 2, but #3 would require me to bring forward my "must build a file server" plans by several months.
Really, they need to have made a more equitable split if the files - even if the keys are still in Snowden's hands. As it stands, the big chunk of data is going to receive relatively little insurance by multiple copying.
Not good.
Also not good is that I am still getting no connectivity. I suspect blocking in the UK.
Besides the issues of heat, you'd have to worry about plate tectonics
Plate tectonics, on a human timescale, isn't really worth worrying about. It's the low physical strength of some of the layers involved, particularly the asthenosphere (Greek : "no-strength sphere"). Within hours of cutting the tunnel (with your Unobtanium heat shield etc), the walls would be falling in on you. It's rather like cutting a tunnel through liquid mud or a plastic clay formation - you'd have to line the borehole continuously, which would vastly increase the amount of unobtanium you'd need for the lining. How to use a liquid-unobtanium cooling system to protect the passengers is another issue. As the length of borehole to be cooled increases, you need a larger borehole to run the coolant pipes through. Unless your liquid unobtanium really does have an infinite heat transfer capability.
Rain-X isn't wax although it does appear to close up the pores of glass
Your glass should have a porosity several orders of magnitude lower than 1% v/v.
I've not heard- of this "Rain-X" stuff before, and I suffer greatly from rain and fog adhering to my spectacles when I'm hill-walking in the driving rain, or caving, or bicycling. I've looked at lots of different alleged "keep glass usable" materials over the years, and found it to be a field full, just absolutely full, of sheer unadulterated bullshit.
Googles... "It is a hydrophobic silicone polymer that forces water to bead and roll off of the car"... oh, another one of those. Might work at driving speeds ; WOMBAT at walking/ cycling speeds. Even their advertising shows that it still leaves myriads of spherical droplets on the screen/ spectacles to distort vision.
At least someone can spell "silicone" when they mean "silicone" ; a rarity that.
Neither is anyone going to use sodium, for the simple reason that you have to go much higher than processors' rated temperature maxima before it melts,
Isn't there as sodium-potassium eutectic with a melting point down in the low-double-digits of centigrade?
Uh, yeah, more or less : "The eutectic mixture consists of 77% potassium and 23% sodium, is liquid from â'12.6 to 785degC, and has a density of 866kg/m3 at 21degC and 855kg/m3 at 100degC."
Still not the sort of material that I'd want Joe Soap buggering around with if I lived above him. I'd be pretty chary about working with it, but I could conceive of it in a sealed unit with really BIG "return to manufacturer ; do not dispose of to trash or regular recycling" stickers. It'll still be thrown into the trash, but you've got to be seen to make an effort.
I can't even fathom the idea that they can force them to take cloned animals.
I'll expose my ignorance of horse biology, but..
(1) Can mares carry (to birth) identical twins?
(2) If (1), Has it happened in the past?
(3) If (2), Are both horses of appropriate pedigree, and build to succeed?
(4) then let the games commence!
There is no existential difference between a clone and an identical twin. If they don't ban identical twins already..... (and have a procedure for managing them)... "Meh"
But as described, it's only something that Americans can act upon.
Having said that, I've been involved in pushes against privacy breaches in the UK in the past, and will be in the future. But I suspect that an American identical twin of mine would have greater global effect. That's not right, but it is real.
Oh, but I am going to enjoy the live broadcast of the US President opening Sino-US talk by publicly giving the Chinese Premier a blowjob. Bareback, with swallow.
If you have significant residue, then "bag it" and park it somewhere (e.g., nearby). If you need it again (including as reaction mass for a mass-driver), then it's to-hand. If you really need to tidy up the environment, drop it -60km/s of heliocentric delta-vee and it'll soon enough be plasma.
Remember that the Lagrangian points are "points" only when all of (Sun, Earth and Moon are perfect spheres) AND Jupiter and the rest of the Solar System don't exist AND lots of other things.
Objects need steering to remain in the Lagrange regions (L2 and L3 excepted ; empty for Earth), even in an otherwise theoretically empty universe. So, you'd need to "bag it" (assuming it is left-over dust) and tag it with a (solar-powered) transponder, so you can find it again. At which point, it's getting close to using the dust for reaction mass for an ion drive, slapping on "some" solar panels, and you can deliver mass to a location, if slowly.
IAB notes that 'If cookies are eliminated, it is clear to us that consumers will get a less relevant and diverse Internet experience.'"
Then that's perfectly OK then.
Don't worry, advertisers, I'll continue to use the internet. And all of your advertising is still going to have to penetrate past my built-in filter telling me that "anyone attempting to sell anything to anyone is a thief and a liar." Enjoy, you thieving scumbags.
I'm sure there is, valid, useful advertising out there. But it is thin and far between.
Mathematical skill does note require presence at a "major university" (though there is a strong correlation, distorted by (common) mathematical geniuses who really do not give a shit about conventionality. Perelman, (sp?), the recent proposer of a proof of the Something Big Conjecture being a case in point.
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There's a logical test in there : since this is likely to be a lot of money in running such facilities, there's the possibility of substantial ground rent for a country who hosts such a facility.
Therefore, there is potential for substantial "squeeze" (bribery, corruption, or just perfectly legal well-paying jobs for the electorate) in persuading local politicians to modify the laws of some small Pacific island nation to allow this sort of treatment. Particularly if it applies only to foreigners, "Let the gringo pig-dogs kill themselves, as long as they pay us to store the meat!"
I'm not aware of the lawyers of the Cryonics Institute having persuaded any country to permit this. (Counter-example, anyone?)
Therefore, they don't believe the process works themselves, and it really is a scam.
Which is what I'd expected all along, but I just hadn't bothered to think about it for 30 seconds, and so hadn't proved (to my own satisfaction) that it is a scam.
I think I've just found a nice counter-example to the assertion that "there's no such thing as bad publicity".
Corpsicle, anyone?
Use a different herbicide, and make sure that your competitors (a.k.a. "neighbours") are also infested with the same strains of weeds (they probably are already, but you can ensure they don't get any advantage relative to you).
Monsanto may have killed their golden-egg-laying goose (glyphosate, a.k.a. "Roundup") with this. I mourn for people with money invested in Monsanto (not knowing if my pension fund includes holdings in them).
Or at least, around half of the time they're talking to or about people of below average intelligence, and don't even realise that this is not a problem.
I use Obscurium and Nonfoundium wire to scour the crack residues out of my pipe, to avoid scratching it's hologram-polished surface.
What I'd look for, which may be possible, is something that altered the surface tension between the coating and water such that the droplets sink down into a thin (few 10s of microns) film of rain water and then flow off the bottom of the glasses. It should be do-able, but no-one seems to do it. For the optical effects ... look at the effect of anti-reflection coatings etc on optical quality ; they're well within the range of optical tolerance of people.
OK ; here's the challenge you so plainly want. Your tools are a rather limp jam sandwich and a pair of pink pom-pom slippers ; how are you going to turn them into weapons.
(The selection is not arbitrary ; this selection of items was a key plot element in a 1980s game.)
Since the zone for which the UK has air traffic control extends a long way west and significantly north and south from the UK itself (until the region comes closer to Iceland, Portugal or Greenland), then denial of overflight by the UK effectively cuts off much of Europe from direct, great circle, flight paths to America. They'd have to re-route via Reykjavik or Lisbon, or add 20-30% more fuel.
why would I want one of those? I don't run Windows.
Set it up to run a thing called X-windows - there are many variants out there - which the Windows operating system imitates in some visually important respects.
Besides, I use green-on-black screens, which every one knows is a sign of being plugged directly into the Matrix, and so one is not to be fucked-with. Infallible armour! (Not that I need armour when wearing my Mormon Magical panty-girdle.)
The system is designed to not be winnable by the accused. The designers may have been fucking lawyers, but unfortunately that doesn't necessarily mean that they were clinically retarded while designing the system.
What makes you think it will arrive? Of the mail that we send to the wife's family, about 20% disappears en route. And that's when sending it recorded-delivery.
Carry a photocopy and manually update the master version when you get back from your trip.
What are Miranda rights in the UK context?
This took place in the civilized world. We don't have a death penalty.
And to squash that old canard - no punishment, capital or smacked-wrist, has any deterrent effect if the perpetrator does not consider themselves likely to be caught.
Is the melting SD card hyperbole, or do you actually have a source? The only credible way I can think of to make something like this would be to make an SD card stuffed with thermite, and burn the thermite on writing. Which would get me serious jail time for trying to carry explosives onto a plane. Maybe releasing mercury metal from the SD card into the offending computer would work. Or ... where's my gallium? But nonetheless, carriage of such materials without the appropriate IATA paperwork completed, submitted and accepted gives them the grounds to lock you up and throw away the key anyway, so "meh".
Exactly as expected.
Really, they need to have made a more equitable split if the files - even if the keys are still in Snowden's hands. As it stands, the big chunk of data is going to receive relatively little insurance by multiple copying.
Not good.
Also not good is that I am still getting no connectivity. I suspect blocking in the UK.
Plate tectonics, on a human timescale, isn't really worth worrying about. It's the low physical strength of some of the layers involved, particularly the asthenosphere (Greek : "no-strength sphere"). Within hours of cutting the tunnel (with your Unobtanium heat shield etc), the walls would be falling in on you. It's rather like cutting a tunnel through liquid mud or a plastic clay formation - you'd have to line the borehole continuously, which would vastly increase the amount of unobtanium you'd need for the lining. How to use a liquid-unobtanium cooling system to protect the passengers is another issue. As the length of borehole to be cooled increases, you need a larger borehole to run the coolant pipes through. Unless your liquid unobtanium really does have an infinite heat transfer capability.
Your glass should have a porosity several orders of magnitude lower than 1% v/v.
I've not heard- of this "Rain-X" stuff before, and I suffer greatly from rain and fog adhering to my spectacles when I'm hill-walking in the driving rain, or caving, or bicycling. I've looked at lots of different alleged "keep glass usable" materials over the years, and found it to be a field full, just absolutely full, of sheer unadulterated bullshit.
Googles ... "It is a hydrophobic silicone polymer that forces water to bead and roll off of the car" ... oh, another one of those. Might work at driving speeds ; WOMBAT at walking/ cycling speeds. Even their advertising shows that it still leaves myriads of spherical droplets on the screen/ spectacles to distort vision.
At least someone can spell "silicone" when they mean "silicone" ; a rarity that.
Isn't there as sodium-potassium eutectic with a melting point down in the low-double-digits of centigrade?
Uh, yeah, more or less : "The eutectic mixture consists of 77% potassium and 23% sodium, is liquid from â'12.6 to 785degC, and has a density of 866kg/m3 at 21degC and 855kg/m3 at 100degC."
Still not the sort of material that I'd want Joe Soap buggering around with if I lived above him. I'd be pretty chary about working with it, but I could conceive of it in a sealed unit with really BIG "return to manufacturer ; do not dispose of to trash or regular recycling" stickers. It'll still be thrown into the trash, but you've got to be seen to make an effort.
And when you were writing out your essays and assignments for your homework? Or did you have a computer and printer at home?
I'll expose my ignorance of horse biology, but ..
(1) Can mares carry (to birth) identical twins?
(2) If (1), Has it happened in the past?
(3) If (2), Are both horses of appropriate pedigree, and build to succeed?
(4) then let the games commence!
There is no existential difference between a clone and an identical twin. If they don't ban identical twins already ..... (and have a procedure for managing them) ... "Meh"
But as described, it's only something that Americans can act upon.
Having said that, I've been involved in pushes against privacy breaches in the UK in the past, and will be in the future. But I suspect that an American identical twin of mine would have greater global effect. That's not right, but it is real.
Oh, but I am going to enjoy the live broadcast of the US President opening Sino-US talk by publicly giving the Chinese Premier a blowjob. Bareback, with swallow.
To both options.
If you have significant residue, then "bag it" and park it somewhere (e.g., nearby). If you need it again (including as reaction mass for a mass-driver), then it's to-hand. If you really need to tidy up the environment, drop it -60km/s of heliocentric delta-vee and it'll soon enough be plasma.
Remember that the Lagrangian points are "points" only when all of (Sun, Earth and Moon are perfect spheres) AND Jupiter and the rest of the Solar System don't exist AND lots of other things.
Objects need steering to remain in the Lagrange regions (L2 and L3 excepted ; empty for Earth), even in an otherwise theoretically empty universe. So, you'd need to "bag it" (assuming it is left-over dust) and tag it with a (solar-powered) transponder, so you can find it again. At which point, it's getting close to using the dust for reaction mass for an ion drive, slapping on "some" solar panels, and you can deliver mass to a location, if slowly.
Old "joke" from avalanche rescue workers : you can live for 3 months without food, 3 days without water, but only 3 minutes without air!"
Ha ha, but serious.
Then that's perfectly OK then.
Don't worry, advertisers, I'll continue to use the internet. And all of your advertising is still going to have to penetrate past my built-in filter telling me that "anyone attempting to sell anything to anyone is a thief and a liar." Enjoy, you thieving scumbags.
I'm sure there is, valid, useful advertising out there. But it is thin and far between.
Of course, the two are not mutually incompatible.
You think it sounds confusing? Meh!
It took me about 6 clicks to get to http://www.nuim.ie/
Mathematical skill does note require presence at a "major university" (though there is a strong correlation, distorted by (common) mathematical geniuses who really do not give a shit about conventionality. Perelman, (sp?), the recent proposer of a proof of the Something Big Conjecture being a case in point.