The only way a citizens group would ever have a chance at affecting change in government with guns would be by assassinating a politician--you have no chance against the military or police, sorry.
I guess you have forgotten about the American revolution, French Revolution, Libyan Revolution, Russian Revolution, etc. They all were well armed civilians rising up against the military and police. The main reason behind the second amendment is that, in the case of a despotic government taking over the United States, another revolution could occur.
and the 5 million people (as of 2011) with security clearances aren't enough?
Not everyone with security clearances are spying on people. Many government workers are cleared so they can see protected information. I had a security clearance to be able to work on a database that had information about commercial fishermen.
The data count those cleared for confidential, secret and top secret records.
Of those 4.9 Million clearance only 1.4 million were top secret. One also has to take into account that many of these clearances are for military personnel. Every officer in the US military including national guard has to have a secret clearance. Any officer over Captain has to have top secret clearance. Five million sounds like a pretty big number but the US population is over 315 million. Even if everyone with a clearance was working on spying that is still only 1.5% of the population of the US.
The idea that everyone with a security clearance is spying just indicates how little the poster understands what security clearances are used for.
Feature, Advantage benefit. For each feature the software has, how is it an advantage and how does it benefit the customer.
Also the one thing VC's really want is data to back up your claims of sales. What market research have you done, Who will buy this product? How many will buy the product? Is it a need, want or nice to have? What are your costs? Is there customer support involved? Is the a mass market or niche market? How will people find your product?
The bottom line for a VC is "How am I going to have a reasonable likelihood of making money on this product?". Do not go into technical detail on how things work. At best this will bore them; at worst it will make them feel stupid. Most VC's don't care how it works; they care that it works well and will make them money. Be prepared with technical details because you may be tested to see how well prepared you are.
7 black robes in Washington should not be overturning/hearing on individual state laws/rulings unless the founding papers of this great land specifically gave the Supreme Court the power to do so.
The founding papers did exactly that in the form of the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution. Since the Fourth Amendment is Federal law it needs to be applied the same in all States. Had it been State law that was relevant then the State Supreme Court would suffice. In this case it is Federal law and the Federal Supreme Court will probably have to hear it.
Marriage is a different matter in that the right to marry is not part of the US Constitution while protection against unreasonable search and seizure is.
Which law do you see as being broken by the Virginia? People who reside in Virginia can get the information. It is just people out of Virginia who can not file FOI requests.
The 2006 Lee v. Minner decision (458 F.3d 194) found that Delaware wasn't allowed to have such a clause in their FOIA, so this isn't even going to affect all states.
Lee v. Minner is a ruling from the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. The SCOTUS is a higher court and therefore its opinion would supersede the lower court's opinion.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
It seems that State held information is a State matter and not a federal one. It is interesting that people look upon the US as a monolithic country when it was formed more as a confederation of independent States. The states guard their sovereignty very strongly. The SCOTUS appears to see FOI requests from different states the same as FOI requests from different countries and, as it is the way the US is set up, it should. If a State does not want to respond to FOI requests from different States or countries there is no Federal power that requires them to.
Here is a quote from the decision;
The state FOIA essentially represents a mechanism by which those who ultimately hold sovereign power (i.e., the citizens of the Commonwealth) may obtain an accounting from the public officials to whom they delegate the exercise of that power.
He has a "host of critical questions" and I will answer them.
Will officers be able to choose when the video is running?
Yes and no. When they are on duty and not in a private situation (eg using the washroom) the camera will be on. They may choose to turn it on if off duty and in a relevant circumstance
How will the video be protected from tampering?
Video tampering is quite easy to spot forensically.
How long will it be archived?
With backups, probably forever and I do not see a problem with that.
Can it be demanded by courts?
Yes and a good thing.
Divorce lawyers?
Yes as a prevention of fraud against a spouse.
Insurance companies?
Yes as a prevention of fraud against an insurance company thereby keeping insurance costs down.
Can it be enhanced and used to trigger prosecutions of new crimes, perhaps based on items in private homes captured on video when officers enter?
Maybe as it may fall under the standard of "plain sight" the same as the officers seeing it with their own eyes This one will probably have to go to court for a ruling.
What will be the penalties when clips of these videos, often involving people in personal situations of high drama and embarrassment, often through no fault of their own, leak onto video sharing sites?
This is the only really hard question. I say it is something we have to live with. Perhaps when enough people are "exposed", society will realize that everyone is occasionally embarrassed in public and the tables will turn on the bullies that victimize these already embarrassed people.
China's population 1,359,647,471 USA's population 318,693,892
Ratio: 4.27 to 1
Therefore on a national basis China would have to out spend the USA by 4.27 to 1 to spend the same on a per capita basis. As a nation China is outspending the USA but on a per capita basis china is spending much less. This is what I mean by being able to spin statistics to say whatever one wants.
They have a way to get around the rotor stall issue. While none of the videos had a shot of a transition it looks like the aircraft stalls, ceasing forward movement, and while it is falling through the air the rotor spins up or spins down. The then use the conventional control surfaces to translate the vertical movement into horizontal movement. That could require quite a bit of a drop depending on how fast the rotor can change speed.
It looks like quite a carnival ride during transition..
First responder radios should not operate on cell-phone frequencies
Well they do and I do not see the need for them to change so some company can enforce a no cell phone policy.
As for 911, what stops them from having a pay phone on premise.
I am talking about people on the street near the building not inside the building. How many pay phones have you seen in the street? In the city I live I know of none. You may say they could go into the building. What happens if they are closed but forgot to turn off the jammers? The 911 operator can also give life saving advice but that only works if the phone is close to the victim. Sure, it "[w]orked for the first 100 years of phones" but I bet more than a few people died due to the time finding a phone. Do you really think looking for a pay phone while someone is bleeding to death is a good idea just so some company can enforce a no cell phone rule in their business? Not being able to call 911 from any particular spot may not cause death but it sure cuts down on the chances of saving a life..
If they could keep the jamming signals inside the building I would not see a problem. But since that is not the case there is a problem.
When a member of the public can not call 911 outside the building due to the jammers there is a problem. Are we to wait till someone dies? They also interfere with first responder radios.
How would someone outside the building know which building was causing the issue? I don't care who reported it. Did you look at the issues behind jamming in that it can interfere with first responded communication? There are good reasons jamming is illegal.
The issue is that jammer signals are not restricted to the building they are in. Radio waves will spill out and cause interference with cell phones of people who have nothing to do with the business owning the jammers.
What regulations does he want? Size? Duration aloft? Areas of operation? Who can operate them? Licensing? I agree there should be regulation as I don't want heavy object falling on my head due to untrained idiot pilots.
The terrorist FUD is just stupid. How many terrorists will follow the regulations?
The neighbor scenario thing is also stupid. A similar thing can be done with a couple of 40' poles and cameras. If he wants the annoying factor of the sound then add a leaf blower. This issue is already covered by noise bylaws and invasion of privacy laws.
Drones in civilian hands are quite useful. They can be used by farmers to check crops and livestock. They can be used in search and rescue. They can be used for recreation.
So 36,000 cubic meters of water to supply one hour of power if we're down to 10% efficiency. At the most, 180,000 cubic meters--49%. Again, smaller cities supply 24 hours of water pressure stored in towers.
Which may at most relieve 5% of the city's power usage. It is a drop in the bucket. It is a complex plan for little gain. What I was talking about was the ability to store GWhrs of electricity so that the lights stay on.
Lets link to a vague report based on a paywalled paper. There is no way to look at the actual numbers to verify the article's assertions.
More alarmingly, the researchers also detected large amounts of POPs in various components of the ecosystems such as soil, grass, trees and fish in the Himalayas...
Terms like "large amounts" are meaningless as it is a relative subjective term. My "large amount" may be different than their "large amount". Show me the numbers. It looks to me like they want people to buy their report.
At 0.272 Kwhrs per cubic meter of water at 100 feet that would be 367,648 cubic meters of water to supply one hour of that power. Do you see the problem?
I guess you have never dealt with development permits, public consultation, building permits, environmental impact studies, inspections, utility hookups, etc. To break ground within a year of starting is considered very fast in development circles. Then there is build out, hiring, equipment installation and worker training together which will add about a year. So at lest two years from project start to opening.
Can you show me figures supporting the idea that water pumps use a significant portion of electricity in cities, how much water is actually used per hour, etc. Until you have those numbers and calculated saving are theoretical at best. What you propose is actually already done in large buildings as many have a reservoir on the top floor so deal with fluctuations in demand. If water pumps use 5% of electricity in a city and we can even cut that in half that is only 2.5% of energy usage.
What is needed is the ability of storing at least four hours of demand to be a significant impact on reducing the need for fossil fuel power plants. The short term fluctuations you are referring to are already dealt with by capacitors and flywheels which are even more responsive than pumped hydro.
You continue to miss the point about pumped hydro. It requires massive amounts of water and or height. To make it useful one would need to move millions of gallons of water. Water towers are just not going to cut it.
Granted a water tower only holds oh 1800 cubic meters of water,
that is only 1800*0.272= 490Kwhrs and that is with 100% efficient generators. That is not much energy. According to this paper a highrise can darw up to 150,000 Kwhrs/month or 5,000Kwhrs per day. Take a third of that and one gets 1667 Kwhrs for night. Which would require three and a half water towers for just one high rise. Scale that up to a whole city and you can see that hundreds of water towers are not feasible.
If you look at the third post in the thread you would see how the topic changed. Pumped hydrofrom water towers has been looked into and found to be not feasible as the volumes are just not there.
For example, 1000 kilograms of water (1 cubic meter) at the top of a 100 meter tower has a potential energy of about 0.272 kWh
To power a house for a day would require 183 cubic meters of water in a 100 foot tower. That's a lot of water
By the way, that's still 5MWh per month or 0.17MWh per day, not 50MWh.
According to researchers the average is 50 KWh. Sorry, I made a typing mistake but my calculations were based on 50 KWhrs.
Perhaps you should look it up. Panzer literally means "armour" in German The complete word for tank was "Panzerkampfwagen". Note what we call Armored divisions they called Panzer divisions. Theirs armoured infantry, they ran around in armoured halftracks, were called panzergenadiers. If you are referring to the numbered models such as Panzer I, II, III and IV. They were completely different tanks and are never referred to by the name panzer. Panzer alone means armour not a specific tank. The use of the term panzer instead of Panzerkampfwagen was due to shortening of the word and not an inability to pronounce panther, The word panther is used in English and is what people in Florida call a cougar and the name of a famous american radical group "The Black Panthers"..
Two of the best late war German tanks were the Panther and Tiger. The panther was lighter and faster while the Tiger was more heavily armoured. From Wikipedia about the Panther;
Until 1944, it was designated as the Panzerkampfwagen V Panther and had the ordnance inventory designation of Sd.Kfz. 171. On 27 February 1944, Hitler ordered that the Roman numeral V be deleted from the designation.
From Wikipedia about the Tiger;
Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf.E
Notice they both started with Panzerkampfwagen and a roman numeral but has a name after them.
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The only way a citizens group would ever have a chance at affecting change in government with guns would be by assassinating a politician--you have no chance against the military or police, sorry.
I guess you have forgotten about the American revolution, French Revolution, Libyan Revolution, Russian Revolution, etc. They all were well armed civilians rising up against the military and police. The main reason behind the second amendment is that, in the case of a despotic government taking over the United States, another revolution could occur.
and the 5 million people (as of 2011) with security clearances aren't enough?
Not everyone with security clearances are spying on people. Many government workers are cleared so they can see protected information. I had a security clearance to be able to work on a database that had information about commercial fishermen.
The data count those cleared for confidential, secret and top secret records.
Of those 4.9 Million clearance only 1.4 million were top secret. One also has to take into account that many of these clearances are for military personnel. Every officer in the US military including national guard has to have a secret clearance. Any officer over Captain has to have top secret clearance.
Five million sounds like a pretty big number but the US population is over 315 million. Even if everyone with a clearance was working on spying that is still only 1.5% of the population of the US.
The idea that everyone with a security clearance is spying just indicates how little the poster understands what security clearances are used for.
Feature, Advantage benefit.
For each feature the software has, how is it an advantage and how does it benefit the customer.
Also the one thing VC's really want is data to back up your claims of sales. What market research have you done, Who will buy this product? How many will buy the product? Is it a need, want or nice to have? What are your costs? Is there customer support involved? Is the a mass market or niche market? How will people find your product?
The bottom line for a VC is "How am I going to have a reasonable likelihood of making money on this product?". Do not go into technical detail on how things work. At best this will bore them; at worst it will make them feel stupid. Most VC's don't care how it works; they care that it works well and will make them money. Be prepared with technical details because you may be tested to see how well prepared you are.
7 black robes in Washington should not be overturning/hearing on individual state laws/rulings unless the founding papers of this great land specifically gave the Supreme Court the power to do so.
The founding papers did exactly that in the form of the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution. Since the Fourth Amendment is Federal law it needs to be applied the same in all States. Had it been State law that was relevant then the State Supreme Court would suffice. In this case it is Federal law and the Federal Supreme Court will probably have to hear it.
Marriage is a different matter in that the right to marry is not part of the US Constitution while protection against unreasonable search and seizure is.
Which law do you see as being broken by the Virginia? People who reside in Virginia can get the information. It is just people out of Virginia who can not file FOI requests.
The 2006 Lee v. Minner decision (458 F.3d 194) found that Delaware wasn't allowed to have such a clause in their FOIA, so this isn't even going to affect all states.
Lee v. Minner is a ruling from the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. The SCOTUS is a higher court and therefore its opinion would supersede the lower court's opinion.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
It seems that State held information is a State matter and not a federal one.
It is interesting that people look upon the US as a monolithic country when it was formed more as a confederation of independent States. The states guard their sovereignty very strongly. The SCOTUS appears to see FOI requests from different states the same as FOI requests from different countries and, as it is the way the US is set up, it should. If a State does not want to respond to FOI requests from different States or countries there is no Federal power that requires them to.
Here is a quote from the decision;
The state FOIA essentially represents a mechanism by which those who ultimately hold sovereign power (i.e., the citizens of the Commonwealth) may obtain an accounting from the public officials to whom they delegate the exercise of that power.
He has a "host of critical questions" and I will answer them.
Will officers be able to choose when the video is running?
Yes and no. When they are on duty and not in a private situation (eg using the washroom) the camera will be on. They may choose to turn it on if off duty and in a relevant circumstance
How will the video be protected from tampering?
Video tampering is quite easy to spot forensically .
How long will it be archived?
With backups, probably forever and I do not see a problem with that.
Can it be demanded by courts?
Yes and a good thing.
Divorce lawyers?
Yes as a prevention of fraud against a spouse.
Insurance companies?
Yes as a prevention of fraud against an insurance company thereby keeping insurance costs down.
Can it be enhanced and used to trigger prosecutions of new crimes, perhaps based on items in private homes captured on video when officers enter?
Maybe as it may fall under the standard of "plain sight" the same as the officers seeing it with their own eyes This one will probably have to go to court for a ruling.
What will be the penalties when clips of these videos, often involving people in personal situations of high drama and embarrassment, often through no fault of their own, leak onto video sharing sites?
This is the only really hard question. I say it is something we have to live with. Perhaps when enough people are "exposed", society will realize that everyone is occasionally embarrassed in public and the tables will turn on the bullies that victimize these already embarrassed people.
PS. Eight questions is far from a host.
China's population 1,359,647,471
USA's population 318,693,892
Ratio: 4.27 to 1
Therefore on a national basis China would have to out spend the USA by 4.27 to 1 to spend the same on a per capita basis. As a nation China is outspending the USA but on a per capita basis china is spending much less. This is what I mean by being able to spin statistics to say whatever one wants.
They have a way to get around the rotor stall issue. While none of the videos had a shot of a transition it looks like the aircraft stalls, ceasing forward movement, and while it is falling through the air the rotor spins up or spins down. The then use the conventional control surfaces to translate the vertical movement into horizontal movement. That could require quite a bit of a drop depending on how fast the rotor can change speed.
It looks like quite a carnival ride during transition..
First responder radios should not operate on cell-phone frequencies
Well they do and I do not see the need for them to change so some company can enforce a no cell phone policy.
As for 911, what stops them from having a pay phone on premise.
I am talking about people on the street near the building not inside the building. How many pay phones have you seen in the street? In the city I live I know of none. You may say they could go into the building. What happens if they are closed but forgot to turn off the jammers? The 911 operator can also give life saving advice but that only works if the phone is close to the victim. Sure, it "[w]orked for the first 100 years of phones" but I bet more than a few people died due to the time finding a phone. Do you really think looking for a pay phone while someone is bleeding to death is a good idea just so some company can enforce a no cell phone rule in their business? Not being able to call 911 from any particular spot may not cause death but it sure cuts down on the chances of saving a life..
If they could keep the jamming signals inside the building I would not see a problem. But since that is not the case there is a problem.
When a member of the public can not call 911 outside the building due to the jammers there is a problem. Are we to wait till someone dies? They also interfere with first responder radios.
How would someone outside the building know which building was causing the issue? I don't care who reported it. Did you look at the issues behind jamming in that it can interfere with first responded communication? There are good reasons jamming is illegal.
The issue is that jammer signals are not restricted to the building they are in. Radio waves will spill out and cause interference with cell phones of people who have nothing to do with the business owning the jammers.
What regulations does he want?
Size? Duration aloft? Areas of operation? Who can operate them? Licensing? I agree there should be regulation as I don't want heavy object falling on my head due to untrained idiot pilots.
The terrorist FUD is just stupid. How many terrorists will follow the regulations?
The neighbor scenario thing is also stupid. A similar thing can be done with a couple of 40' poles and cameras. If he wants the annoying factor of the sound then add a leaf blower. This issue is already covered by noise bylaws and invasion of privacy laws.
Drones in civilian hands are quite useful. They can be used by farmers to check crops and livestock. They can be used in search and rescue. They can be used for recreation.
It is even simpler in that all you need to do is lodge a complaint with the local bylaw enforcement officer.
So 36,000 cubic meters of water to supply one hour of power if we're down to 10% efficiency. At the most, 180,000 cubic meters--49%. Again, smaller cities supply 24 hours of water pressure stored in towers.
Which may at most relieve 5% of the city's power usage. It is a drop in the bucket. It is a complex plan for little gain. What I was talking about was the ability to store GWhrs of electricity so that the lights stay on.
Lets link to a vague report based on a paywalled paper. There is no way to look at the actual numbers to verify the article's assertions.
More alarmingly, the researchers also detected large amounts of POPs in various components of the ecosystems such as soil, grass, trees and fish in the Himalayas ...
Terms like "large amounts" are meaningless as it is a relative subjective term. My "large amount" may be different than their "large amount". Show me the numbers. It looks to me like they want people to buy their report.
You are still thinking too small scale.
4% of just that plant would be almost 100GW.
At 0.272 Kwhrs per cubic meter of water at 100 feet that would be 367,648 cubic meters of water to supply one hour of that power. Do you see the problem?
I guess you have never dealt with development permits, public consultation, building permits, environmental impact studies, inspections, utility hookups, etc. To break ground within a year of starting is considered very fast in development circles. Then there is build out, hiring, equipment installation and worker training together which will add about a year. So at lest two years from project start to opening.
Can you show me figures supporting the idea that water pumps use a significant portion of electricity in cities, how much water is actually used per hour, etc. Until you have those numbers and calculated saving are theoretical at best. What you propose is actually already done in large buildings as many have a reservoir on the top floor so deal with fluctuations in demand. If water pumps use 5% of electricity in a city and we can even cut that in half that is only 2.5% of energy usage.
What is needed is the ability of storing at least four hours of demand to be a significant impact on reducing the need for fossil fuel power plants. The short term fluctuations you are referring to are already dealt with by capacitors and flywheels which are even more responsive than pumped hydro.
You continue to miss the point about pumped hydro. It requires massive amounts of water and or height. To make it useful one would need to move millions of gallons of water. Water towers are just not going to cut it.
Granted a water tower only holds oh 1800 cubic meters of water,
that is only 1800*0.272= 490Kwhrs and that is with 100% efficient generators. That is not much energy. According to this paper a highrise can darw up to 150,000 Kwhrs/month or 5,000Kwhrs per day. Take a third of that and one gets 1667 Kwhrs for night. Which would require three and a half water towers for just one high rise. Scale that up to a whole city and you can see that hundreds of water towers are not feasible.
If you look at the third post in the thread you would see how the topic changed. Pumped hydrofrom water towers has been looked into and found to be not feasible as the volumes are just not there.
For example, 1000 kilograms of water (1 cubic meter) at the top of a 100 meter tower has a potential energy of about 0.272 kWh
To power a house for a day would require 183 cubic meters of water in a 100 foot tower. That's a lot of water
By the way, that's still 5MWh per month or 0.17MWh per day, not 50MWh.
According to researchers the average is 50 KWh. Sorry, I made a typing mistake but my calculations were based on 50 KWhrs.
Perhaps you should look it up. Panzer literally means "armour" in German The complete word for tank was "Panzerkampfwagen". Note what we call Armored divisions they called Panzer divisions. Theirs armoured infantry, they ran around in armoured halftracks, were called panzergenadiers. If you are referring to the numbered models such as Panzer I, II, III and IV. They were completely different tanks and are never referred to by the name panzer. Panzer alone means armour not a specific tank. The use of the term panzer instead of Panzerkampfwagen was due to shortening of the word and not an inability to pronounce panther, The word panther is used in English and is what people in Florida call a cougar and the name of a famous american radical group "The Black Panthers"..
Two of the best late war German tanks were the Panther and Tiger. The panther was lighter and faster while the Tiger was more heavily armoured.
From Wikipedia about the Panther;
Until 1944, it was designated as the Panzerkampfwagen V Panther and had the ordnance inventory designation of Sd.Kfz. 171. On 27 February 1944, Hitler ordered that the Roman numeral V be deleted from the designation.
From Wikipedia about the Tiger;
Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf.E
Notice they both started with Panzerkampfwagen and a roman numeral but has a name after them.