TFA says Greene "draws ire from physicists," then goes on to explain that a journalist from Scientific American has written an editorial, and another blog agrees. Where are the physicists? I can't read the article from Nature, but just the abstract calls Greene's book "beguiling."
"Another blog" is "Not Even Wrong," which is written by Peter Woit, another mathematical physicist at Columbia.
How's that an answer to your question, "Where are the physicists?" The second link on the TFA, that's where.
As myself and as many others have replied in response to you, you're basing your opinion on an isolated data point(s).
If anything, Korean children under a certain age are more unruly and undisciplined than their Western counterparts. One of the first things a Korean parent remarks on in the US is how remarkably well behaved young American children are.
One of the hats I wear is that of an emergency water engineer in disasters, conflicts and other public health emergencies. I've worked all over Africa, SE Asia and now the Caribbean.
One cap of chlorox is beyond excessive and detrimental to anyone who would drink it. Bleach to chlorinate water is okay in an truly urgent situation but is not an idea solution.
Your question implies that your understanding is that filtering versus chlorination are processes that are exclusive of the other. In almost every situation, to minimize the amount of chlorine used, the water should first be filtered, then chlorinated. Otherwise, there's just too much stuff in the water that consumes the chlorine before it can get to work in oxidizing anything organic.
This is the same basic process used in most conventional water treatment facilities the world over, from municipal plants to smaller scale portable plants for refugee/IDP camps.
Yeah, don't really know, haven't tried in years simply because I know they don't work.
OTOH, I bought the multipack 10.6 disc but lost the media so I've used/been using the $29 "Upgrade" disc when I need a physical disc. Full OS, no goofing around with license keys and bullshit like that.
The P90 is not an assault rifle, nor is the 5.7x28mm a rifle round. It is clearly a pistol (or PDW) caliber cartridge. The armor piercing and shape of the bullet has nothing to do with it's classification.
The only two weapons in the world to use this cartridge are the FN FiveseveN, a pistol, and the P90, which by definition, makes the P90 a submachine gun.
Assault rifles cartridges: 5.56 ~1800J 7.62x39 (aka, AK round) ~2000
Full size rifle cartridges: 7.62x51 (NATO) ~3500J 7.62x54 ~3600J
As for backblast, the latest generation of man portable rockets mitigate this through a number of methods - soft launch, countermass (water or confetti), etc.
Disposable auto-disable syringes cost roughly 7 eurocents in the quantities a person needs for a mass vacc campaign.
Preloading is a bad idea, because it increases the bulk of items to be held within the cold chain. Vaccine dilution and solvent mixing is best done at the vaccination point for least wastage. Usually, it's easier to hire and train a person to do this on site as a part of the vaccination line than trying to refrigerate hundreds of thousands of individually packaged doses.
As I'd pointed out in my earlier response to fuzzyfuzzyfungus, the economic and logistical argument for jet-injectors usually doesn't make much sense.
3. Iridium phones can manage dial up internet access at 2400bps for around $1.50 per minute. Globalstar phones will give you 9600bps but (despite the name) coverage is far from global. Thuraya give you "unlimited" internet access for a mere $3550 per month and speeds into hundreds of kilobits per second. Other's have already mentioned Imarsat's BGAN. http://www.satphone.co.uk/index.shtml has good info on all of these.
Hundreds of kbps on a Thuraya? Since when? Plus Thuraya's coverage doesn't extend to the Western hemisphere.
Globalstar's become very dicey these days, even on land.
If you want reliable, mobile global data access at a reasonable speed, there's BGAN and that's about it.
Anyone who claims that deglaciation is due to any one cause isn't fully considering the problem. Maybe you ought to reconsider rephrasing your first paragraph so it's not inconsistent with the second?
At one time, for example, people thought the melting glaciers off Kilimanjaro was caused by global warming, but it turned out it was mainly caused by deforestation.
The deglaciation of Kilimanjaro is not due to just one cause. Anyone who says it is, isn't really fully considering the problem.
I've done/coordinated emergency mass vaccination campaigns in developing nations (once during a simultaneous outbreak of measles and meningitis in the same region).
One-time-use assemblies are currently more practical, safer and logistically feasible for field use than jet injectors for a number of reasons, depending on the needs and conditions.
With one time use assemblies, you need only ship one way and can teach the mentality that anything that's used (save cold chain and crowd control gear) needs to be discarded. Nothing is re-used. This is particularly important in reducing confusion and increasing efficiency with poorly trained local health staff.
With single-use, there's absolutely no need for sterilization equipment, to account for maintenance, support equipment, loss of equipment and half dozen other issues. With specialized injectors, the rate of vaccination is limited by the number of functioning injectors. With single use, the rate is limited by how many people can be trained and supervised to implement assembly line vaccination points or the number of cold chains can be maintained.
The single use syringes used in modern mass vaccination campaigns are generally auto disable and go directly into the disposable sharps boxes as a part of the disposal process, collected at the end of the day, then in turn disposed of in the sharps burn pit. Little to no possibility of re-use, thus much less risk of cross contamination - which was the reason that jet-syringes fell out of use in the first place.
There may be again be a time when jet-syringes become more practical and safe but for now, the mass vaccination process via needles has been refined enough to the point where it's efficiency and safety is hard to beat.
For work, I fly mostly international. I burn through an extra page supplemented passport in under a year.
Domestically, for personal travel, I fly Southwest. It's the only US domestic airline that actually seems to have a standard of service, much less a high standard of service.
Most of you didn't read the GP's qualifiers well enough.
GP said this:
For the first time, a native militia completely broke the advance of a modern Western army.
First, the definition of "native militia" and "modern Western army" is flexible enough to fit anyone's argument.
Second, I see many of you are naming examples of guerilla and/or insurgency strategic victories, as if these are exceptions. These are, in fact, the rule. In modern warfare, the insurgent force with widespread popular support is at an inherent advantage and is almost always the victor in the long run. Examples of the occupying belligerent attains overall strategic victory are extremely rare.
So the GP is a troll, but believe it or not, one of his points is actually valid.
I said "many, if not most," to be extremely generous.
In reality, it's most, if not all.
In terms of gaming, I'm willing to give my suspension of disbelief a certain threshold, because I like being told and taking part in a good story.
In reality, even the most minor magic fundamentally changes reality. Any magical power, regardless of magnitude, subverts the physical laws that make the universe function the way it does.
If I can communicate faster than light, what implication does that have? It means I can subvert causality.
If I can cast a fireball, what does that mean? Where's that heat/energy coming from?
Most of the time, I neither need nor want to think about this when playing a game. In fact, I'd rather not have the explanation in the first place. I just want consistency in the game world. If in the game world, I can resurrect humans, then let me resurrect humans. Put limitations on it, but let me know before a character dies for the sake of the story and leaves me going, WTF? Why can't I use my goddamn resurrection spell/item?
Exactly my point. This is the trope from another angle, which is that game designers (pen & paper or bits & bytes) are rarely as creative as they think they are.
Many, if not most, fail to fully consider the implications of the world they design.
Yep. It was interesting when GoW did it. Now it's just lazy.
I get the first QTE in any game demo and that's it for the game. I started Star Wars: Force Unleashed. Got the first QTE, quit the game. Fuck that noise.
The messenger/last survivor of the massacre with his last gasp, says a bunch of nonsensical stuff, right before he dies. WTF? There's two fucking clerics in the party that can cast Heal in the middle of a battle. And now that the dude's dead, why can't my guys cast Raise Dead on him? Total crap.
Planescape Torment is one of the few that get this mechanic even close to right.
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TFA says Greene "draws ire from physicists," then goes on to explain that a journalist from Scientific American has written an editorial, and another blog agrees. Where are the physicists? I can't read the article from Nature, but just the abstract calls Greene's book "beguiling."
"Another blog" is "Not Even Wrong," which is written by Peter Woit, another mathematical physicist at Columbia.
How's that an answer to your question, "Where are the physicists?" The second link on the TFA, that's where.
Because a solution should be cost effective for the environment.
GSM is an infrastructure that's already in place. Everything else, you'd have to build out the infrastructure yourself.
As myself and as many others have replied in response to you, you're basing your opinion on an isolated data point(s).
If anything, Korean children under a certain age are more unruly and undisciplined than their Western counterparts. One of the first things a Korean parent remarks on in the US is how remarkably well behaved young American children are.
One of the hats I wear is that of an emergency water engineer in disasters, conflicts and other public health emergencies. I've worked all over Africa, SE Asia and now the Caribbean.
One cap of chlorox is beyond excessive and detrimental to anyone who would drink it. Bleach to chlorinate water is okay in an truly urgent situation but is not an idea solution.
Your question implies that your understanding is that filtering versus chlorination are processes that are exclusive of the other. In almost every situation, to minimize the amount of chlorine used, the water should first be filtered, then chlorinated. Otherwise, there's just too much stuff in the water that consumes the chlorine before it can get to work in oxidizing anything organic.
This is the same basic process used in most conventional water treatment facilities the world over, from municipal plants to smaller scale portable plants for refugee/IDP camps.
Gen McChrystal's mistake was allowing his subordinates to blatantly disrespect and disparage HIS superiors/civilian authority in his presence.
No, he gives a shit, and took a stab at making the system better, and by stab I mean a career destroying rant, and not just his. Kudos.
No, he most certainly did not.
You said it yourself. He ranted. Do you see a single constructive suggestion for improving the system in his article?
No. Just whining, bitching, complaining and moaning. That's not making the system better.
He deserved to be fired.
Yeah, don't really know, haven't tried in years simply because I know they don't work.
OTOH, I bought the multipack 10.6 disc but lost the media so I've used/been using the $29 "Upgrade" disc when I need a physical disc. Full OS, no goofing around with license keys and bullshit like that.
No, they're not. The discs that come with your Mac are model specific, just like all the other PC vendors.
I can't take my MBP DVDs and use them on my Mac Pro. The drivers aren't there.
The P90 is not an assault rifle, nor is the 5.7x28mm a rifle round. It is clearly a pistol (or PDW) caliber cartridge. The armor piercing and shape of the bullet has nothing to do with it's classification.
The only two weapons in the world to use this cartridge are the FN FiveseveN, a pistol, and the P90, which by definition, makes the P90 a submachine gun.
Pistols cartridges: .45 ~500J .40 ~500
9mm ~500J
5.7mm ~500J
Assault rifles cartridges:
5.56 ~1800J
7.62x39 (aka, AK round) ~2000
Full size rifle cartridges:
7.62x51 (NATO) ~3500J
7.62x54 ~3600J
As for backblast, the latest generation of man portable rockets mitigate this through a number of methods - soft launch, countermass (water or confetti), etc.
If you want to sound the least bit credible, for the love of monkey, learn the difference between magazines and clips.
Clips:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Clip_M1-SKS.JPG
Magazines (except for the en bloc on the left):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/M1-M14-M16-magazines.JPG
If you use a clip to load a .
Magazines are what you change to reload the weapon.
In other words, YOU DO NOT CHANGE CLIPS.
Use your phrase. Just turn it into a password.
I Need My Morning Coffee!!
Then jam a number (your morning train, maybe) than makes sense onto it. Result:
inmmc!!650
I do this with song lyrics and quotes, going as far as to leave plaintext reminders on post-its - it's still impossible to guess.
Requirements of the Month at the Museum
The winning candidate must:
* Pass a drug test, behavioral assessment, and background checks.
Yeah, okay.
Disposable auto-disable syringes cost roughly 7 eurocents in the quantities a person needs for a mass vacc campaign.
Preloading is a bad idea, because it increases the bulk of items to be held within the cold chain. Vaccine dilution and solvent mixing is best done at the vaccination point for least wastage. Usually, it's easier to hire and train a person to do this on site as a part of the vaccination line than trying to refrigerate hundreds of thousands of individually packaged doses.
As I'd pointed out in my earlier response to fuzzyfuzzyfungus, the economic and logistical argument for jet-injectors usually doesn't make much sense.
3. Iridium phones can manage dial up internet access at 2400bps for around $1.50 per minute. Globalstar phones will give you 9600bps but (despite the name) coverage is far from global. Thuraya give you "unlimited" internet access for a mere $3550 per month and speeds into hundreds of kilobits per second. Other's have already mentioned Imarsat's BGAN. http://www.satphone.co.uk/index.shtml has good info on all of these.
Hundreds of kbps on a Thuraya? Since when? Plus Thuraya's coverage doesn't extend to the Western hemisphere.
Globalstar's become very dicey these days, even on land.
If you want reliable, mobile global data access at a reasonable speed, there's BGAN and that's about it.
Anyone who claims that deglaciation is due to any one cause isn't fully considering the problem. Maybe you ought to reconsider rephrasing your first paragraph so it's not inconsistent with the second?
At one time, for example, people thought the melting glaciers off Kilimanjaro was caused by global warming, but it turned out it was mainly caused by deforestation.
The deglaciation of Kilimanjaro is not due to just one cause. Anyone who says it is, isn't really fully considering the problem.
I've done/coordinated emergency mass vaccination campaigns in developing nations (once during a simultaneous outbreak of measles and meningitis in the same region).
One-time-use assemblies are currently more practical, safer and logistically feasible for field use than jet injectors for a number of reasons, depending on the needs and conditions.
With one time use assemblies, you need only ship one way and can teach the mentality that anything that's used (save cold chain and crowd control gear) needs to be discarded. Nothing is re-used. This is particularly important in reducing confusion and increasing efficiency with poorly trained local health staff.
With single-use, there's absolutely no need for sterilization equipment, to account for maintenance, support equipment, loss of equipment and half dozen other issues. With specialized injectors, the rate of vaccination is limited by the number of functioning injectors. With single use, the rate is limited by how many people can be trained and supervised to implement assembly line vaccination points or the number of cold chains can be maintained.
The single use syringes used in modern mass vaccination campaigns are generally auto disable and go directly into the disposable sharps boxes as a part of the disposal process, collected at the end of the day, then in turn disposed of in the sharps burn pit. Little to no possibility of re-use, thus much less risk of cross contamination - which was the reason that jet-syringes fell out of use in the first place.
There may be again be a time when jet-syringes become more practical and safe but for now, the mass vaccination process via needles has been refined enough to the point where it's efficiency and safety is hard to beat.
In my experience, Hughes BGAN units are absolute pieces of shit.
Southwest doesn't fly international so no thanks.
So what?
For work, I fly mostly international. I burn through an extra page supplemented passport in under a year.
Domestically, for personal travel, I fly Southwest. It's the only US domestic airline that actually seems to have a standard of service, much less a high standard of service.
Most of you didn't read the GP's qualifiers well enough.
GP said this:
First, the definition of "native militia" and "modern Western army" is flexible enough to fit anyone's argument.
Second, I see many of you are naming examples of guerilla and/or insurgency strategic victories, as if these are exceptions. These are, in fact, the rule. In modern warfare, the insurgent force with widespread popular support is at an inherent advantage and is almost always the victor in the long run. Examples of the occupying belligerent attains overall strategic victory are extremely rare.
So the GP is a troll, but believe it or not, one of his points is actually valid.
I said "many, if not most," to be extremely generous.
In reality, it's most, if not all.
In terms of gaming, I'm willing to give my suspension of disbelief a certain threshold, because I like being told and taking part in a good story.
In reality, even the most minor magic fundamentally changes reality. Any magical power, regardless of magnitude, subverts the physical laws that make the universe function the way it does.
If I can communicate faster than light, what implication does that have? It means I can subvert causality.
If I can cast a fireball, what does that mean? Where's that heat/energy coming from?
Most of the time, I neither need nor want to think about this when playing a game. In fact, I'd rather not have the explanation in the first place. I just want consistency in the game world. If in the game world, I can resurrect humans, then let me resurrect humans. Put limitations on it, but let me know before a character dies for the sake of the story and leaves me going, WTF? Why can't I use my goddamn resurrection spell/item?
Exactly my point. This is the trope from another angle, which is that game designers (pen & paper or bits & bytes) are rarely as creative as they think they are.
Many, if not most, fail to fully consider the implications of the world they design.
Yep. It was interesting when GoW did it. Now it's just lazy.
I get the first QTE in any game demo and that's it for the game. I started Star Wars: Force Unleashed. Got the first QTE, quit the game. Fuck that noise.
I always hated this part of RPGs.
The messenger/last survivor of the massacre with his last gasp, says a bunch of nonsensical stuff, right before he dies. WTF? There's two fucking clerics in the party that can cast Heal in the middle of a battle. And now that the dude's dead, why can't my guys cast Raise Dead on him? Total crap.
Planescape Torment is one of the few that get this mechanic even close to right.
Did it right.
Almost every other game with a gimmick = does it wrong.