So to say the warrantless wiretaps were required for security is only meaningful if the government was partaking in broad based surveilance of anyone who made any contact with person's from the middle east.
And how do we know that wasn't what the NSA was doing? We may yet find out that is what happened, as the judge let the case go through. Remember government officials: if you have nothing to hide, then you won't mind the public oversight.
Also, I believe purposely deconstruction the public scrutiny of your actions as well as checks and balances of the three arms of government could be construed as an attempt to overthrow an open government, the definition you gave did not explicity require a violent overthrow, but did give it as an EXAMPLE of treason.
Have you even seen a lithium ion battery go anywhere near 10-15 years? My current cell phone could go one week without recharging when I bought it. Less than a couple months into ownership, I can barely go 2 days. Yes, lithium ion batteries can be recharged 500 times, but saying that you will go anywhere near the full 250 miles on that 500th charge is assinine. The deep charge/discharge cycles gradually affect the chemical makeup so that the battery can no longer hold the same charge.
More importantly, Lithium ion batteries age whether or not they are being used. According to Wikipedia they can lose 20% of their charge capacity of a year if stored at 20c, which is around 75f, not that far off from normal daytime temperatures, and who knows what operating the car will do to the temperature: it could vary wildly based on where the batteries are located, what cooling they use, etc. (Charging and discharging batteries is not 100% eficient and so gives off a fair amount of heat.) Let's give them 15% losses per year, from storage alone. That means after the first year the battery only has 85% storage capacity, after the second year the battery has about 72.5% storage capacity remaining, after the third year around 61% of storage capacity remains. So, after the first year you get an average of 212 miles per charge, after the second year you get around 180 miles per charge, and by the end of the third year you're down to somewhere around 150 miles per charge. And that's not including the wear and tear on the battery from deep charge/discharge cycles, which will occur more and more often as the battery ages and the charge becomes more and more shallow. I would honestly assume less than 100 miles a charge cycle by the end of the third year. If you haven't replaced the batteries or just garaged your 80,000 car by that point.
Granted, for someone who has the money and wants to go really fast, a pure electric car with lithium ion batteries may very well be the way to do it. But for a reliable mode of transportation that anybody but rich playboys can afford to maintain (Remeber TCO, boys) lithium ion batteries are not the best choice energy storage method.
And assault weapons such as the AK-47 used are indeed banned in the united states under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. Didn't stop him from getting one, did it?
The car brand is best known as one of the most spectacular failures in the history of the United States automobile industry.
Marketing experts hold the Edsel up as a supreme example of Corporate America's failure to understand the nature of the American consumer
Indeed, the name "Edsel" came to be synonymous with commercial failure, and similar ill-fated products, have often been colloquially referred to as "Edsels."
"All you have to do is replace the batteries, probably once a year."
From the summary, the car runs on 6,831 laptop style lithium ion batteries. A quick froogle search reveals that a replacement lithium ion laptop battery runs around $90 - $150. Let's assume $100/battery. Since you'd be buying in bulk and using batteries designed for this purpose, I'll give you a 90% reduction in cost (overly generous) which puts you at $10/battery. That means your annual battery replacement is almost $70,000 (I.E. most of the price of the car.) And we haven't even charged the batteries yet. Most people I know with anything approaching a reasonable car fill up maybe once a week for under $50.00/tank. That puts you at $2,500 annual fuel cost, add in a quite generous $1,000 for maintenance and repairs, and $1,000 a month for insurance and loan payment brings you to a little over $15,000 annual cost of driving a relatively decent newish car. So, assuming a lithium ion battery pack lasts four years, it would still be cheaper to own and operate, and insure a gasoline powered internal combustion vehicle than to simply change the batteries on this car.
And I'd be willing to place a decent size wager that trying to outfit any significant portion of U.S. vehicles (Let's say... 10%) with lithium ion batteries will cause a tremendous surge in demand for lithium, driving prices sky high. In fact, I'll do the math. Lithium has a specific energy density of up to about 200 Wh/Kg. Many major electric vehicles use around 300 Wh/mile, so I'll be generous and say 1 Kg of lithium storage will get a driver 1 mile before recharging. American passenger vehicles drive around 2.5 trillion miles per year, which works out to around 6 billion miles a day driven by americans (An average day's driving being the absolute minimum charge you would want in a car) which means we would need 600 million Kg lithium to make enough batteries to replace 10% of passenger cars. That works out to a bit over half a million tons of lithium. In the year 2005, only 18,000 tons of lithium were mined WORLDWIDE. That means we would need over 25 times the current annual worldwide lithium production just to make enough lithium batteries to give ten percent of U.S. passenger vehicles (cars, light trucks, SUVs) enough charge to drive for one average day, with pretty generous rounding in favor of lithium storage at almost every step I took. That's not even touching the semis, construction equipment, mass transit, airlines and ocean liners that actually keep our society running. And then there's the issue REPLACING the batteries, although I assume there would be large scale lithium recycling implemented.
So I don't foresee lithium being a long-term cost effective material for energy storage in our transportaion system.
You could also farm the work out to a DVD replication plant and hope they don't take a look at what you are making 500 copies of (500 pretty much being the smallest number of presses needed to make it worthwhile to make the glass master. Granted, that's for CDs but I assume it's pretty much the same.)
But short run duplication (Think automated self-loading cd burners which you can just load up a bunch of spindles of CD-Rs into) won't do the trick, you'd need to physically stamp the DVD. Although it may be possible to hack a DVD burner so that it will allow you to bypass the security.
This really depends on the network, and what you are trying to accomplish with it.
Let's consider two major online sales venues (The models will be idealized a bit, but...)
Amazon: Adding customers to Amazon does not really increase the value much to each customer, maybe Amazon is capable of getting better rates of bulk purchases from publishers, and is financially able to stock more books, but the growth of the value of Amazon is fairly linear with respect to number of users.
eBay: Adding users to eBay has a direct positive correlation to existing users: More users mean it is more likely that shoppers will be able to find the items that you want, and people selling will more likely to find someone willing to buy the items at the desired price.
There are exceptions, of course. Amazon does list other sellers as well, and therefore bringing in more customers means more people would be willing to offer their products on Amazon, which offers better selection to customers.
Also, eBay would not have a literal N^2 total value curve, in that more users means that both buyers and sellers are going to run into more competition (driving prices up for the buyers when other people want to buy the same goods as you, driving selling price down for sellers due to other people offering the same item or an equivalent good.) But in general the ability to find someone willing to buy or sell rare items will increase as the number of users goes up.
But any of these models really won't accurately model the total value of a network, although it MAY be possible to model a given implementation of a network designed for a given purpose, it would likely require a complex polynomial with some coefficients even being negative. At certain size ranges it is even possible that adding more nodes to the network reduces the total value: troublesome choke points can be stressed reducing reliability, or the network could grow large enough to allow for parasitic elements to thrive (Spam, Viruses, Spyware, Trolls, Scam Artists, etc) but then increasing the network size even further could overcome these negative traits, I.E. making the network large enough for checks and balances against the parasitic elements, making it financially worthwhile to solve the bottlenecks with new technology or physical network topologies.
It would be more painful due to pressure. Superman's hands have a lot less surface area than the ground she would have hit. Combine that with the fact that he's usually flying UP vs the ground staying still. True, he could apply the force over a longer time and move down while slowly slowing her down, but that's not how it appears in the movies.
That actually seems to be a decent marketing strategy. Work on some really big new advance even forgoing some of the research into incrimental processor improvements. Then plan your release for the brand new CPU so your product blows the competition out of the water during that critical gap when a new resource intense operating system (Vista) comes out.
I would doubt that AMD chose to advertise specifically on this article. Most likely this is some adwords or related content scanning system which says "The article is about CPUs, we'll insert the ads of the advertiser who won the bid for that keyword"
If the tooth grows back pure white it would more likely put a lot of money in the pockets of the tooth whitening companies than put them out of business. It's probably going to be a lot less painful and expensive to just whiten the other teeth. I know this can be a problem with porcelain caps on broken teeth. They are so much whiter than the other teeth that it makes your teeth look really bad. So dentists use a combined strategy of whitening the other teeth and staining the cap untill they're about equal.
Or the hockey coaches at my highschool. They had a couple gaps. But only one of two was canadian. Yes, the teeth were knocked out playing hockey. It was during pickup games as teenagers where full gear wasn't worn. So organized hockey may no longer have the missing teeth stigma, but just getting together on a frozen pond without even mouthguards can result in tooth loss.
Hmm... that leads me to more good guy google conspiracy theory. The mispelling was what Google suggested when I typed in something really wrong, figuring that google would just correct it for me.
Regarding glow plugs, those are really only needed when starting a diesel. The rest of the time residual heat is enough to cause ignition. In fact, most well tuned diesels don't even need the glow plugs to start in colder weather.
Indeed, an older carbureted gasline car with mechanical timing (which a car with a carb would most likely be anyways) no ECU and so forth would also not be neutralized by an EMP or such.
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So to say the warrantless wiretaps were required for security is only meaningful if the government was partaking in broad based surveilance of anyone who made any contact with person's from the middle east.
And how do we know that wasn't what the NSA was doing? We may yet find out that is what happened, as the judge let the case go through. Remember government officials: if you have nothing to hide, then you won't mind the public oversight.
I don't think that's a fair comparison... I've actually seen fish caught on a bamboo pole.
Definition 1)The betrayal of a trust.
Also, I believe purposely deconstruction the public scrutiny of your actions as well as checks and balances of the three arms of government could be construed as an attempt to overthrow an open government, the definition you gave did not explicity require a violent overthrow, but did give it as an EXAMPLE of treason.
Have you even seen a lithium ion battery go anywhere near 10-15 years? My current cell phone could go one week without recharging when I bought it. Less than a couple months into ownership, I can barely go 2 days. Yes, lithium ion batteries can be recharged 500 times, but saying that you will go anywhere near the full 250 miles on that 500th charge is assinine. The deep charge/discharge cycles gradually affect the chemical makeup so that the battery can no longer hold the same charge.
More importantly, Lithium ion batteries age whether or not they are being used. According to Wikipedia they can lose 20% of their charge capacity of a year if stored at 20c, which is around 75f, not that far off from normal daytime temperatures, and who knows what operating the car will do to the temperature: it could vary wildly based on where the batteries are located, what cooling they use, etc. (Charging and discharging batteries is not 100% eficient and so gives off a fair amount of heat.) Let's give them 15% losses per year, from storage alone. That means after the first year the battery only has 85% storage capacity, after the second year the battery has about 72.5% storage capacity remaining, after the third year around 61% of storage capacity remains. So, after the first year you get an average of 212 miles per charge, after the second year you get around 180 miles per charge, and by the end of the third year you're down to somewhere around 150 miles per charge. And that's not including the wear and tear on the battery from deep charge/discharge cycles, which will occur more and more often as the battery ages and the charge becomes more and more shallow. I would honestly assume less than 100 miles a charge cycle by the end of the third year. If you haven't replaced the batteries or just garaged your 80,000 car by that point.
Granted, for someone who has the money and wants to go really fast, a pure electric car with lithium ion batteries may very well be the way to do it. But for a reliable mode of transportation that anybody but rich playboys can afford to maintain (Remeber TCO, boys) lithium ion batteries are not the best choice energy storage method.
And assault weapons such as the AK-47 used are indeed banned in the united states under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. Didn't stop him from getting one, did it?
Gratuitis Wikipedia quotes:
"All you have to do is replace the batteries, probably once a year." From the summary, the car runs on 6,831 laptop style lithium ion batteries. A quick froogle search reveals that a replacement lithium ion laptop battery runs around $90 - $150. Let's assume $100/battery. Since you'd be buying in bulk and using batteries designed for this purpose, I'll give you a 90% reduction in cost (overly generous) which puts you at $10/battery. That means your annual battery replacement is almost $70,000 (I.E. most of the price of the car.) And we haven't even charged the batteries yet. Most people I know with anything approaching a reasonable car fill up maybe once a week for under $50.00/tank. That puts you at $2,500 annual fuel cost, add in a quite generous $1,000 for maintenance and repairs, and $1,000 a month for insurance and loan payment brings you to a little over $15,000 annual cost of driving a relatively decent newish car. So, assuming a lithium ion battery pack lasts four years, it would still be cheaper to own and operate, and insure a gasoline powered internal combustion vehicle than to simply change the batteries on this car. And I'd be willing to place a decent size wager that trying to outfit any significant portion of U.S. vehicles (Let's say... 10%) with lithium ion batteries will cause a tremendous surge in demand for lithium, driving prices sky high. In fact, I'll do the math. Lithium has a specific energy density of up to about 200 Wh/Kg. Many major electric vehicles use around 300 Wh/mile, so I'll be generous and say 1 Kg of lithium storage will get a driver 1 mile before recharging. American passenger vehicles drive around 2.5 trillion miles per year, which works out to around 6 billion miles a day driven by americans (An average day's driving being the absolute minimum charge you would want in a car) which means we would need 600 million Kg lithium to make enough batteries to replace 10% of passenger cars. That works out to a bit over half a million tons of lithium. In the year 2005, only 18,000 tons of lithium were mined WORLDWIDE. That means we would need over 25 times the current annual worldwide lithium production just to make enough lithium batteries to give ten percent of U.S. passenger vehicles (cars, light trucks, SUVs) enough charge to drive for one average day, with pretty generous rounding in favor of lithium storage at almost every step I took. That's not even touching the semis, construction equipment, mass transit, airlines and ocean liners that actually keep our society running. And then there's the issue REPLACING the batteries, although I assume there would be large scale lithium recycling implemented.
So I don't foresee lithium being a long-term cost effective material for energy storage in our transportaion system.
You could also farm the work out to a DVD replication plant and hope they don't take a look at what you are making 500 copies of (500 pretty much being the smallest number of presses needed to make it worthwhile to make the glass master. Granted, that's for CDs but I assume it's pretty much the same.)
But short run duplication (Think automated self-loading cd burners which you can just load up a bunch of spindles of CD-Rs into) won't do the trick, you'd need to physically stamp the DVD. Although it may be possible to hack a DVD burner so that it will allow you to bypass the security.
You'd probably be able to get those in Iraq after they figure out some way to make these not especially vulnerable to MANPAD attack.
There's a Bill Murray movie that you're forgetting.
Mods: this post is not offtopic, check the title of the film. That, and Bill Murray is NEVER offtopic. NEVER!
This really depends on the network, and what you are trying to accomplish with it.
Let's consider two major online sales venues (The models will be idealized a bit, but...)
Amazon: Adding customers to Amazon does not really increase the value much to each customer, maybe Amazon is capable of getting better rates of bulk purchases from publishers, and is financially able to stock more books, but the growth of the value of Amazon is fairly linear with respect to number of users.
eBay: Adding users to eBay has a direct positive correlation to existing users: More users mean it is more likely that shoppers will be able to find the items that you want, and people selling will more likely to find someone willing to buy the items at the desired price. There are exceptions, of course. Amazon does list other sellers as well, and therefore bringing in more customers means more people would be willing to offer their products on Amazon, which offers better selection to customers.
Also, eBay would not have a literal N^2 total value curve, in that more users means that both buyers and sellers are going to run into more competition (driving prices up for the buyers when other people want to buy the same goods as you, driving selling price down for sellers due to other people offering the same item or an equivalent good.) But in general the ability to find someone willing to buy or sell rare items will increase as the number of users goes up.
But any of these models really won't accurately model the total value of a network, although it MAY be possible to model a given implementation of a network designed for a given purpose, it would likely require a complex polynomial with some coefficients even being negative. At certain size ranges it is even possible that adding more nodes to the network reduces the total value: troublesome choke points can be stressed reducing reliability, or the network could grow large enough to allow for parasitic elements to thrive (Spam, Viruses, Spyware, Trolls, Scam Artists, etc) but then increasing the network size even further could overcome these negative traits, I.E. making the network large enough for checks and balances against the parasitic elements, making it financially worthwhile to solve the bottlenecks with new technology or physical network topologies.
Oh yeah? I got my eyes modded to detect electromagnetic radiation. Right now they're pretty good between 400 and 700nm.
Slashdot would NEVER post a story about the sorts of sick, twisted individuals that perpetrate such sleazy tactics for profit.
(N.B: Okay, yeah, there's a difference between spyware and spam... I'd think that spyware is the worse of the two evils, though.)
1 step forward for individual rights... followed by 50 steps backwards for same rights. That's the way it seems to go.
Exacly... every time a company isn't paying for a logo to show up, it gets pulled off the products, blurred from tshirts, etc etc etc.
Ahh... but engineers do make changes to the project without going back. Like in Sampoong or Kansas City.
It would be more painful due to pressure. Superman's hands have a lot less surface area than the ground she would have hit. Combine that with the fact that he's usually flying UP vs the ground staying still. True, he could apply the force over a longer time and move down while slowly slowing her down, but that's not how it appears in the movies.
And imagine how much easier it would be to lose a mine if it wanders away from where you put it!
That actually seems to be a decent marketing strategy. Work on some really big new advance even forgoing some of the research into incrimental processor improvements. Then plan your release for the brand new CPU so your product blows the competition out of the water during that critical gap when a new resource intense operating system (Vista) comes out.
I would doubt that AMD chose to advertise specifically on this article. Most likely this is some adwords or related content scanning system which says "The article is about CPUs, we'll insert the ads of the advertiser who won the bid for that keyword"
If the tooth grows back pure white it would more likely put a lot of money in the pockets of the tooth whitening companies than put them out of business. It's probably going to be a lot less painful and expensive to just whiten the other teeth. I know this can be a problem with porcelain caps on broken teeth. They are so much whiter than the other teeth that it makes your teeth look really bad. So dentists use a combined strategy of whitening the other teeth and staining the cap untill they're about equal.
By intensity, I believe they mean low amplitude. The frequency can still be quite high.
Or the hockey coaches at my highschool. They had a couple gaps. But only one of two was canadian. Yes, the teeth were knocked out playing hockey. It was during pickup games as teenagers where full gear wasn't worn. So organized hockey may no longer have the missing teeth stigma, but just getting together on a frozen pond without even mouthguards can result in tooth loss.
Hmm... that leads me to more good guy google conspiracy theory. The mispelling was what Google suggested when I typed in something really wrong, figuring that google would just correct it for me.
Regarding glow plugs, those are really only needed when starting a diesel. The rest of the time residual heat is enough to cause ignition. In fact, most well tuned diesels don't even need the glow plugs to start in colder weather.
Indeed, an older carbureted gasline car with mechanical timing (which a car with a carb would most likely be anyways) no ECU and so forth would also not be neutralized by an EMP or such.