I suspect you forfeit your right to an attorney by refusing to pay if the court claims you are able, and that your right to representation is still supported by your right to conduct your own defense.
What you think you can afford and what the court claims you can afford can be two very different things. Can you afford $20,000? Because that's what it costs the defendant for a typical trial, and if you're gainfully employed chances are the court won't appoint a public defender for your.
A common failure mode for CFLs is physical breakage (at least in my house with three cats and a nine year old kid). In that case the broken pieces go in the trash. I'd like LEDs but I can't find bright enough ones that aren't enormous, they tend to shine mostly in one direction, and I'm worried about them lasting as advertised. It's also hard to budget $50+ per light bulb up front.
If the burned paper isn't too badly smashed up, it is still theoretically possible to read the information from it. The same could be true of a severely damaged brain. I imagine someday it will be possible to MRI a damaged brain, run the data through software, and reconstruct an image of what the brain was just before the damage (within a reasonable margin of error). This image could then be run in a virtual environment, or printed on an artificial brain.
Heat differentials have been used as power sources throughout history. This however seems to be extracting ambient heat energy directly, rather than using a differential. Very different animal.
Have you seen the recently demonstrated ability of the copter droids to observe, map, and avoid obstacles in real time? Eventually these will be able to do that too, dodging out of the way of an RPG. The counter would be a guided RPG with proximity detonation, but those are far more rare and expensive. In the case of a firearm they'll be able to interpolate your point of aim and avoid that location much more rapidly than you can adjust to aim.
Or has the ability to observe, map, and avoid obstacles in real time such as has been demonstrated recently by the copter droids. You know those anime's where the hero jumps on the attacker's sword and jumps off it for a better attack? Eventually these will be able to do that.
You are aware that the US spends approximately the same amount on military as does the entire rest of the world combined...? Maybe we could dial that down just a little bit.
Eventually it will have radar and sonar with which to detect your traps, and will be able to easily avoid them. Besides, if it does fall into one that it can't get out of, it will simply call for a few copter droids to pull it out.
When I first started reading the summary I was thinking someone was using it to prevent people from calling for help, so they could rob, assault, whatever.
Nerves do regenerate, but at a very slow rate. About a millimeter per year, IIRC. I have feeling again in a fingertip which was smashed 90% off, though it returned very gradually over the course of a couple years. In certain experimental circumstances this can be assisted with stem cells, nutrients, and hormones.
Not necessarily. As I understand it, while the signal would be entering at the interface point it could be describing pain in every part of the arm distal to the interface. In addition, pain nerves have memory (hence "ghost pains") so once the pain has been started even removing the interface and the nerve it connected to may not stop the pain, as it may be maintained closer to or inside the brain. On the other hand, there has been some success and reinitializing nerves which are locked on pain, by use of electrodes. Bearing that in mind, perhaps the best early adopters would be those who already have severe ghost pain, as adding new signal may help to alleviate it.
It's always possible that you could develop a problem with the connector, but the connector has a very small percentage of failure points compared to the whole system. It's also relatively protected. Imagine you wipe out on a motorcycle and grind down your palm, forearm, and elbow. Chances are the connector will be just fine, provided the bone mounting point was sufficiently reinforced.
If a CNC milling machine crashes it's tool into the workpiece, it's possible to damage the spindle, but usually it's just the cutter and toolholder that get damaged. Those are much faster and cheaper to replace.
Pain nerves are separate from temperature or touch nerves. I'd just want to recalibrate the pain to be appropriate to the hardware's durability. Silicone based skin should be able to handle a few hundred degrees Fahrenheit easily. I'd also want at least two, maybe three different sets of limbs; one realistic, one strong and durable, one light, fast, and dexterous. #2 and #3 wouldn't need to look at all human.
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Can you afford to lobby (bribe) for that to happen?
I suspect you forfeit your right to an attorney by refusing to pay if the court claims you are able, and that your right to representation is still supported by your right to conduct your own defense.
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What you think you can afford and what the court claims you can afford can be two very different things. Can you afford $20,000? Because that's what it costs the defendant for a typical trial, and if you're gainfully employed chances are the court won't appoint a public defender for your.
A common failure mode for CFLs is physical breakage (at least in my house with three cats and a nine year old kid). In that case the broken pieces go in the trash. I'd like LEDs but I can't find bright enough ones that aren't enormous, they tend to shine mostly in one direction, and I'm worried about them lasting as advertised. It's also hard to budget $50+ per light bulb up front.
In Minnesota the incandescent bulbs heating effect is useful about 50% of the time.
Do you have an affordable 100 Watt equivalent LED bulb that fits in the physical envelope of a 100 Watt incandescent? I haven't seen one.
If the burned paper isn't too badly smashed up, it is still theoretically possible to read the information from it. The same could be true of a severely damaged brain. I imagine someday it will be possible to MRI a damaged brain, run the data through software, and reconstruct an image of what the brain was just before the damage (within a reasonable margin of error). This image could then be run in a virtual environment, or printed on an artificial brain.
Pick up only, will not ship. Location: LEO.
Heat differentials have been used as power sources throughout history. This however seems to be extracting ambient heat energy directly, rather than using a differential. Very different animal.
No, this is a ZPM: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27625/?nlid=nlmat&nld=2012-03-08
It sure beats grammar arguments...
Then, Snoop Dogg comes out and talks about the growing biomedical field in Compton./p
What's he growing in a field in Compton for medical purposes?
Have you seen the recently demonstrated ability of the copter droids to observe, map, and avoid obstacles in real time? Eventually these will be able to do that too, dodging out of the way of an RPG. The counter would be a guided RPG with proximity detonation, but those are far more rare and expensive. In the case of a firearm they'll be able to interpolate your point of aim and avoid that location much more rapidly than you can adjust to aim.
Or has the ability to observe, map, and avoid obstacles in real time such as has been demonstrated recently by the copter droids. You know those anime's where the hero jumps on the attacker's sword and jumps off it for a better attack? Eventually these will be able to do that.
You are aware that the US spends approximately the same amount on military as does the entire rest of the world combined...? Maybe we could dial that down just a little bit.
Eventually it will have radar and sonar with which to detect your traps, and will be able to easily avoid them. Besides, if it does fall into one that it can't get out of, it will simply call for a few copter droids to pull it out.
I want it measured in beardseconds.
When I first started reading the summary I was thinking someone was using it to prevent people from calling for help, so they could rob, assault, whatever.
Nerves do regenerate, but at a very slow rate. About a millimeter per year, IIRC. I have feeling again in a fingertip which was smashed 90% off, though it returned very gradually over the course of a couple years. In certain experimental circumstances this can be assisted with stem cells, nutrients, and hormones.
Not necessarily. As I understand it, while the signal would be entering at the interface point it could be describing pain in every part of the arm distal to the interface. In addition, pain nerves have memory (hence "ghost pains") so once the pain has been started even removing the interface and the nerve it connected to may not stop the pain, as it may be maintained closer to or inside the brain. On the other hand, there has been some success and reinitializing nerves which are locked on pain, by use of electrodes. Bearing that in mind, perhaps the best early adopters would be those who already have severe ghost pain, as adding new signal may help to alleviate it.
If a CNC milling machine crashes it's tool into the workpiece, it's possible to damage the spindle, but usually it's just the cutter and toolholder that get damaged. Those are much faster and cheaper to replace.
Pain nerves are separate from temperature or touch nerves. I'd just want to recalibrate the pain to be appropriate to the hardware's durability. Silicone based skin should be able to handle a few hundred degrees Fahrenheit easily. I'd also want at least two, maybe three different sets of limbs; one realistic, one strong and durable, one light, fast, and dexterous. #2 and #3 wouldn't need to look at all human.
We certainly need more Thinkers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48vGcv3iR-k
IIRC last time we had a bunch of help from the French.