Right, but due to the ABM treaty (which GWB pulled out of) the US and USSR were only allowed *one* location to be protected by an ABM system. The SU picked Moscow, and the US picked some base in BFE, North Dakota, from what I recall.
Slightly different from a country or continent wide "shield", in that it hardly tips the balance of MAD, even if the system is 100% effective.
A NATO-Russia agreement really makes me wonder why NATO still exists.
The Warsaw pact is dead, former members are now part of NATO, Russia is generally friendly. NATO has never been used for it's actual role (defending members), but has been used outside of this scope, unjustly IMO (in the Yugoslavian civil war).
Perhaps it could become a looser partnership, less black and white, instead of being disbanded entirely.
I presume the system would be something like this. The car talks to the phone via bluetooth or what have you. It would disable calls, but naturally not 911. Think of it as a soft disable, as opposed to actual jamming (which the FCC would never permit, I don't think).
Obviously the phone would have to honour the system, I'm sure there would be ways around it.
I think it's not a horrible idea, but I don't see it working out so well, between all the grandfathered cars and phones, and hacking the phones to disable the system. Although maybe they'll implement summary execution for individuals found "carbreaking" their phone, that might work. It rather leaves something to be desired for the passengers too.
Right, but there are plenty of dumb phones (which still do more than this, say text, play at least midis, and might have an awful camera) for $40 or less, without contract.
Why not get one of those and just not use the features?
"Freedom specula", like datum -> data.;-) I'd imagine they would be painted with the American flag no less. It's your patriotic duty to get checked out.
The machines have definitely been in the works for some time. My airport in Canada just got one. I'm so terribly excited to try it out.
Well, you'd be able to show your kids Disney's rendition of Cinderella, which I suppose would never exist if brothers Grimm had eternal copyright. Want to watch some old loony tunes? Perhaps one of my favourite films, Dr. Strangelove. There is plenty of stuff that is greater than 14 years old, and still relevant.
You know how many films and cartoons use pieces of classical music like Tchaikovsky, etc? Nothing like that is possible with the current bordering-on-perpetual copyright setup. If nothing ever enters into the public domain, things sort of stagnate.
Of course people would still pirate, There's no getting away from that.
The benefit is you would be free to use older material, incorporate it into your own, etc. As it stands most things are lost to the wheel of time before you'll be able to build on them, or include them in your works, and so on. It's detrimental to creativity as a whole, as I see it. It's not just about wanting to see free movies. Maybe you want to make a short film, and have a song from the 40's in the background. You're probably going to have to pay royalties for that.
But not because of any tridents. Because of too many variants of connectors.
And it can be a pita to implement for some things, teeny embedded ones for example. Not horrible, but just to set up serial port emulation can be fairly non-trivial. Although luckily people have written nice libs for a lot of things by now.
Part of the cause of that is the lack of proportional representation, though. So people get stuck in the whole "Go ahead, throw your vote away" dilemma. They end up voting for the lesser of two corporate ruled evils, as opposed to a party that is more in line with what they actually want.
Well, that coupled with People believing myths due to either propaganda or outright stupidity (ie. republicans being for small govn't, which is patently false these days; or that dems are going to implement any sort of democratic social reform... maybe token measure here and there, but it's still by the corps, for the corps.)
Being an outsider looking in, the whole setup looks like sheer lunacy to me, but...
The thermocouples wear out before the decay source does.
And then you run into problems like people selling the lead shielding for scrap, and leaving the pu or sr90 or whatnot to rot. And this is with big, expensive ones. Do not want.
Joking aside, my girlfriend mentioned etsy a few times. I think she got someone to knit her a scarf on there, and was showing me some pretty neat woodwork as well. Seems kinda neat.
Although when I think about DIY, it involves a soldering iron generally;-)
I make a lot of different projects, from computer and microcontroller based down to discrete transistor and vacuum tube stuff. I like fixing radios and similar old tube things also.
But between work and sleep, I only find the time to put up 1% of them on my site. I've got a horrible problem with half finishing things as it is.
That said, things like instructables never really appealed to me. I'd rather throw a quick blurb about my latest device on a related forum, and if someone wants to build it i can help em out.. give em schematic, source, etc.. less teaching more doing I suppose. Seems rather a waste writing directions that very well may never be used. I think it probably attracts incompetent folk to starting on fail projects also. I don't know.
Could be that I'm just horribly unorganized and rarely complete things in a linear fashion though, which makes it difficult to document them.
People seem to hate on watt-hours because we already have a unit for energy, the Joule. Although it is less handy for laymen.
A joule is one watt-second. So, say you run a 100w bulb for an hour. simple math, 100w x 1h = 100Wh. Joule is ever so slightly more complex. 100W = 100J/s * 3600s = 360000J = 360kJ.
Unfortunately, american stupidity seems to smear uphill. So we end up with warnings on pop bottles that say "warning: contents under pressure" and the like, along with stupid airport searches.
0000 is usually represented as 4/0, and spoken as "four aught". Can't say I've ever seen it written out as four zeros before, for that matter. In open air, for short cycles, I'd think it would handle 500A or so, though.
Anyway, there is wire bigger than 4/0, but it uses a different system. 1000 MCM is good for around a thousand amps IIRC (though this is unrelated to it being '1000' MCM - It just means it is 1000 thousand circular mils) [again, probably more in open air and intermittent duty]
But I'm thinking the GP made a false assumption with the 900kW thought - the summary says this is based on an Audi A2, which is *teeny*. Considerably smaller than a VW golf, and the body is (almost?) entirely aluminium.
Use one of the pdf readers that doesn't have adobe's holes and bloat.
I think there is a windows port of evince, and I used to use sumatra when I had windows boxen. I have a friend that likes foxit, but I've never used it myself. etc.
Well perhaps you're forgetting the provisions of plan R, sir.
Plan R?
Plan R is an emergency war plan in which a lower echelon commander may order nuclear retaliation after a sneak attack if the normal chain of command is disrupted. You approved it, sir. You must remember. Surely you must recall, sir, when Senator Buford made that big hassle about our deterrent lacking credibility. The idea was for plan R to be a sort of retaliatory safeguard.
A safeguard.
I admit the human element seems to have failed us here. But the idea was to discourage the Russkies from any hope that they could knock out Washington, and yourself, sir, as part of a general sneak attack, and escape retaliation because of lack of proper command and control.
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Right, but due to the ABM treaty (which GWB pulled out of) the US and USSR were only allowed *one* location to be protected by an ABM system. The SU picked Moscow, and the US picked some base in BFE, North Dakota, from what I recall.
Slightly different from a country or continent wide "shield", in that it hardly tips the balance of MAD, even if the system is 100% effective.
A NATO-Russia agreement really makes me wonder why NATO still exists.
The Warsaw pact is dead, former members are now part of NATO, Russia is generally friendly. NATO has never been used for it's actual role (defending members), but has been used outside of this scope, unjustly IMO (in the Yugoslavian civil war).
Perhaps it could become a looser partnership, less black and white, instead of being disbanded entirely.
Amen. Good luck with that though.
The absolute worst are the new LED signs, cranked up to 10000000% of what brightness they need to be, in the middle of the night.
I presume the system would be something like this. The car talks to the phone via bluetooth or what have you. It would disable calls, but naturally not 911. Think of it as a soft disable, as opposed to actual jamming (which the FCC would never permit, I don't think).
Obviously the phone would have to honour the system, I'm sure there would be ways around it.
I think it's not a horrible idea, but I don't see it working out so well, between all the grandfathered cars and phones, and hacking the phones to disable the system. Although maybe they'll implement summary execution for individuals found "carbreaking" their phone, that might work.
It rather leaves something to be desired for the passengers too.
Right, but there are plenty of dumb phones (which still do more than this, say text, play at least midis, and might have an awful camera) for $40 or less, without contract.
Why not get one of those and just not use the features?
"Freedom specula", like datum -> data. ;-)
I'd imagine they would be painted with the American flag no less. It's your patriotic duty to get checked out.
The machines have definitely been in the works for some time. My airport in Canada just got one. I'm so terribly excited to try it out.
It's a damn shame I can't drive to Europe.
Well, you'd be able to show your kids Disney's rendition of Cinderella, which I suppose would never exist if brothers Grimm had eternal copyright. Want to watch some old loony tunes? Perhaps one of my favourite films, Dr. Strangelove. There is plenty of stuff that is greater than 14 years old, and still relevant.
You know how many films and cartoons use pieces of classical music like Tchaikovsky, etc? Nothing like that is possible with the current bordering-on-perpetual copyright setup. If nothing ever enters into the public domain, things sort of stagnate.
Of course people would still pirate, There's no getting away from that.
The benefit is you would be free to use older material, incorporate it into your own, etc. As it stands most things are lost to the wheel of time before you'll be able to build on them, or include them in your works, and so on. It's detrimental to creativity as a whole, as I see it.
It's not just about wanting to see free movies. Maybe you want to make a short film, and have a song from the 40's in the background. You're probably going to have to pay royalties for that.
But not because of any tridents. Because of too many variants of connectors.
And it can be a pita to implement for some things, teeny embedded ones for example. Not horrible, but just to set up serial port emulation can be fairly non-trivial. Although luckily people have written nice libs for a lot of things by now.
Part of the cause of that is the lack of proportional representation, though. So people get stuck in the whole "Go ahead, throw your vote away" dilemma.
They end up voting for the lesser of two corporate ruled evils, as opposed to a party that is more in line with what they actually want.
Well, that coupled with People believing myths due to either propaganda or outright stupidity (ie. republicans being for small govn't, which is patently false these days; or that dems are going to implement any sort of democratic social reform... maybe token measure here and there, but it's still by the corps, for the corps.)
Being an outsider looking in, the whole setup looks like sheer lunacy to me, but...
The thermocouples wear out before the decay source does.
And then you run into problems like people selling the lead shielding for scrap, and leaving the pu or sr90 or whatnot to rot. And this is with big, expensive ones. Do not want.
Why would the people implementing security theatre want to subject themselves to it?
They know it's just show. Not to mention the whole being above the law thing.
and making the device less usable helps security?
I guess in some ways it does. This rock is definitely more secure than my computer, which has root. It suffers slightly in usefulness, however.
>implying there are females on the internet
Joking aside, my girlfriend mentioned etsy a few times. I think she got someone to knit her a scarf on there, and was showing me some pretty neat woodwork as well. Seems kinda neat.
Although when I think about DIY, it involves a soldering iron generally ;-)
For sure, to some extent.
I make a lot of different projects, from computer and microcontroller based down to discrete transistor and vacuum tube stuff. I like fixing radios and similar old tube things also.
But between work and sleep, I only find the time to put up 1% of them on my site. I've got a horrible problem with half finishing things as it is.
That said, things like instructables never really appealed to me. I'd rather throw a quick blurb about my latest device on a related forum, and if someone wants to build it i can help em out.. give em schematic, source, etc.. less teaching more doing I suppose. Seems rather a waste writing directions that very well may never be used. I think it probably attracts incompetent folk to starting on fail projects also. I don't know.
Could be that I'm just horribly unorganized and rarely complete things in a linear fashion though, which makes it difficult to document them.
SLBM has the whole benefit of short fly time, rendering ABM stuffs less useful, and non-fixed location, making retaliation more difficult.
How so? maemo is full blown linux, you can have whatever you want on it... no?
or they have some default scripts on it that happen to be python?
Are there really people that wouldn't know (at least roughly) what the pact was about without looking it up?
faith_in_humanity--;
People seem to hate on watt-hours because we already have a unit for energy, the Joule. Although it is less handy for laymen.
A joule is one watt-second. So, say you run a 100w bulb for an hour. simple math, 100w x 1h = 100Wh.
Joule is ever so slightly more complex. 100W = 100J/s * 3600s = 360000J = 360kJ.
I kinda prefer Wh myself :-/
It's huge in embedded things as well.
Unfortunately, american stupidity seems to smear uphill. So we end up with warnings on pop bottles that say "warning: contents under pressure" and the like, along with stupid airport searches.
You mean when you were in Siam? ;-)
0000 is usually represented as 4/0, and spoken as "four aught". Can't say I've ever seen it written out as four zeros before, for that matter. In open air, for short cycles, I'd think it would handle 500A or so, though.
Anyway, there is wire bigger than 4/0, but it uses a different system. 1000 MCM is good for around a thousand amps IIRC (though this is unrelated to it being '1000' MCM - It just means it is 1000 thousand circular mils) [again, probably more in open air and intermittent duty]
But I'm thinking the GP made a false assumption with the 900kW thought - the summary says this is based on an Audi A2, which is *teeny*. Considerably smaller than a VW golf, and the body is (almost?) entirely aluminium.
Use one of the pdf readers that doesn't have adobe's holes and bloat.
I think there is a windows port of evince, and I used to use sumatra when I had windows boxen. I have a friend that likes foxit, but I've never used it myself. etc.
Well perhaps you're forgetting the provisions of plan R, sir.
Plan R?
Plan R is an emergency war plan in which a lower echelon commander may order nuclear retaliation after a sneak attack if the normal chain of command is disrupted. You approved it, sir. You must remember. Surely you must recall, sir, when Senator Buford made that big hassle about our deterrent lacking credibility. The idea was for plan R to be a sort of retaliatory safeguard.
A safeguard.
I admit the human element seems to have failed us here. But the idea was to discourage the Russkies from any hope that they could knock out Washington, and yourself, sir, as part of a general sneak attack, and escape retaliation because of lack of proper command and control.
Never seem to have mod points when I need them. bang on.