so you actually list 5 confounding factors and then dismiss them arbitrarily in favor of your gun theory? I would say the incarceration rate and glorification of violence alone would account for the almost triple murder rate of the UK. I'm sure there are also other reasons.
I think there is *no* causal relation between gun ownership and crime. Pro CCL people like myself like to point out that license holders commit less than half the crimes of non license holders. So more license holders means less crime right? Wrong. You select a bunch of people with a clean mental health and criminal record at 21 or older, and of course they will commit less than half as many crimes on average, if you didn't get into hot water at all by the time you are 21 you are probably a pretty reasonable person. The fact is there are violent criminals, and they are a small percentage of the population. What the rest of us do or don't do doesn't have much effect on them. Chicago has a gun ban, I don't think it works, but I suspect they have a gun ban because the knee jerk reaction to there being a lot of shootings allowed them to convince people it was a good idea at the time. My point is, that if making a law and putting people in jail can't be proven to have a large positive effect on everyone else's well being, then it's a bad idea. This is where we're at on gun laws, no one has made one that significantly decreased crime, ever, so why harass all the shooting and collecting enthusiasts who never hurt anyone?
I agree with this as well, sorry no mod points right now. One of the main reasons that I feel such animosity toward police is that they have literally never helped me directly at all, except perhaps in NYC where some nice officers in the bronx were willing to give us directions to get back to where we meant to be. Even that small amount of help made me feel much better about NYPD than the local police anywhere else I've lived. Even when I've called the police in Texas myself I always had the feeling they were trying to find something I had done wrong, and nothing was ever resolved through calling them.
Yes you can do that, but the fact is that gangsta's rap about their nines, not their subsonic.22s that barely stop a bunny let alone a pissed off human at dozens of yards while driving by and not being able to aim effectively..22s are a bitch to dig out, and yes,.22 rounds kill lots of people, but the idea that everyone is going to switch to bolt action.22 rifles and actually aim is a bit silly. Hell, even if they did that at least fewer innocents would be caught in crossfires. If these things work, and I don't know if they do, I suspect the emergency services would get a lot use out of them. Maybe less for the police and more for the EMTs, since a couple minutes response time is still lots if you are running, and there are supposedly no cameras attached.
There are notable differences, but you're right, it's not necessarily useful. Superconductors are perfect diamagnets, however, excluding magnetic fields completely, perfect conductors will not do this.
OK forget everything your highschool chemistry teacher taught you. There are fermions, and bosons, in a horribly oversimplified sense fermions aren't allowed to be in the same place at the same time, bosons are. In certain crystals, at low temperatures, electrons pair up, in what are called cooper pairs, and become bosons instead of fermions, they then are allowed to occupy the same space at the same time. When this happens the material becomes super conductive, because the electrons are indistinguishable from one another and can pass through any point without having to change energy levels and therefore being scattered.
Jargons are a new area of physics, a small number of exotic particles have been known since antiquity to baffle the layman. Recently through QFT, QED, QCD and other quantum field theories, these have been combined under the categories of spin 0 massless weakly interacting Jargons. Wikipedia has a great number of these, unfortunately they are a result of photon scattering in photonic fibers. These particles collect on web sites that attract a large number of physicists and wreak havoc on normal society, an number of DARPA initiatives have been aimed at the creation of a corresponding antiparticle using synchrotrons and other high energy accelerators.
I don't care to read the comments, someone probably mentioned this, mod me down if they did, but superconductors are great, though they aren't necessary for saving energy at the nanoscale. A number of things are close to perfect normal everyday conductors at this scale, notably graphene and single walled nanotubes. They have a very low effective electron mass, meaning that over nanoscales the charge carriers will experience no collisions at all. Superconductors are superconductors due to electrons condensing into pairs that are bosons, allowing them to pass through each other without scattering, if there are no scattering events because the feature size is much smaller than the mean free path, there isn't much advantage.
I think his point was that automatics are only less efficient due to the hydraulic torque converter, but automatically shifting with an electronic clutch, which is done on higher end systems, doesn't effect efficiency at all.
people always give these same tips. Most companies tell you to "apply on the web site", where you upload your resume/cv and it is reformatted to fit their HR database, it is usually somewhat slaughtered in the process. It is not possible to make it look good. HR then does keyword searches, if yours doesn't pop up, your SOL. As much as I hate to admit it, connections still seem the best way to go.
You go get fresh air for a half hour or so, go back in, and see if you smell it again, if this isn't possible, you grab a coworker from a different room. I've never heard of hydrogen sulfide harming server maintenance employees, but it can and does happen in chemistry labs, even at undergrad level. I don't know about sulfur dioxide, but HS is about as poisonous as hydrogen cyanide (zyklon), the difference is only that it stinks so much people tend to flee before it kills them.
You are way less cynical than me, I had the impression they prescribed the newest most expensive drug the hot pharm-rep chick came by to plug. That being said efficacy studies are regulated by the FDA, and I do feel relatively confident that most of the drugs on the market actually work. Just sometimes I wish I wouldn't have to argue to get the older, just as effective, drug that has a generic for 5 dollars.
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so you actually list 5 confounding factors and then dismiss them arbitrarily in favor of your gun theory? I would say the incarceration rate and glorification of violence alone would account for the almost triple murder rate of the UK. I'm sure there are also other reasons.
Obviously from the other side of the pond there, probably firearms crimes are quite different in your neck of the woods.
I think there is *no* causal relation between gun ownership and crime. Pro CCL people like myself like to point out that license holders commit less than half the crimes of non license holders. So more license holders means less crime right? Wrong. You select a bunch of people with a clean mental health and criminal record at 21 or older, and of course they will commit less than half as many crimes on average, if you didn't get into hot water at all by the time you are 21 you are probably a pretty reasonable person. The fact is there are violent criminals, and they are a small percentage of the population. What the rest of us do or don't do doesn't have much effect on them. Chicago has a gun ban, I don't think it works, but I suspect they have a gun ban because the knee jerk reaction to there being a lot of shootings allowed them to convince people it was a good idea at the time. My point is, that if making a law and putting people in jail can't be proven to have a large positive effect on everyone else's well being, then it's a bad idea. This is where we're at on gun laws, no one has made one that significantly decreased crime, ever, so why harass all the shooting and collecting enthusiasts who never hurt anyone?
Uhmm Heller?
I agree with this as well, sorry no mod points right now. One of the main reasons that I feel such animosity toward police is that they have literally never helped me directly at all, except perhaps in NYC where some nice officers in the bronx were willing to give us directions to get back to where we meant to be. Even that small amount of help made me feel much better about NYPD than the local police anywhere else I've lived. Even when I've called the police in Texas myself I always had the feeling they were trying to find something I had done wrong, and nothing was ever resolved through calling them.
Yes you can do that, but the fact is that gangsta's rap about their nines, not their subsonic .22s that barely stop a bunny let alone a pissed off human at dozens of yards while driving by and not being able to aim effectively. .22s are a bitch to dig out, and yes, .22 rounds kill lots of people, but the idea that everyone is going to switch to bolt action .22 rifles and actually aim is a bit silly. Hell, even if they did that at least fewer innocents would be caught in crossfires. If these things work, and I don't know if they do, I suspect the emergency services would get a lot use out of them. Maybe less for the police and more for the EMTs, since a couple minutes response time is still lots if you are running, and there are supposedly no cameras attached.
Is that you murdoch?
mousing
What are these "windows" of which you speak?
There are notable differences, but you're right, it's not necessarily useful. Superconductors are perfect diamagnets, however, excluding magnetic fields completely, perfect conductors will not do this.
OK forget everything your highschool chemistry teacher taught you. There are fermions, and bosons, in a horribly oversimplified sense fermions aren't allowed to be in the same place at the same time, bosons are. In certain crystals, at low temperatures, electrons pair up, in what are called cooper pairs, and become bosons instead of fermions, they then are allowed to occupy the same space at the same time. When this happens the material becomes super conductive, because the electrons are indistinguishable from one another and can pass through any point without having to change energy levels and therefore being scattered.
Jargons are a new area of physics, a small number of exotic particles have been known since antiquity to baffle the layman. Recently through QFT, QED, QCD and other quantum field theories, these have been combined under the categories of spin 0 massless weakly interacting Jargons. Wikipedia has a great number of these, unfortunately they are a result of photon scattering in photonic fibers. These particles collect on web sites that attract a large number of physicists and wreak havoc on normal society, an number of DARPA initiatives have been aimed at the creation of a corresponding antiparticle using synchrotrons and other high energy accelerators.
I don't care to read the comments, someone probably mentioned this, mod me down if they did, but superconductors are great, though they aren't necessary for saving energy at the nanoscale. A number of things are close to perfect normal everyday conductors at this scale, notably graphene and single walled nanotubes. They have a very low effective electron mass, meaning that over nanoscales the charge carriers will experience no collisions at all. Superconductors are superconductors due to electrons condensing into pairs that are bosons, allowing them to pass through each other without scattering, if there are no scattering events because the feature size is much smaller than the mean free path, there isn't much advantage.
And the guy next to you with a cell phone?
Erm.. did you see the simpsons movie? It wasn't censored.
I think his point was that automatics are only less efficient due to the hydraulic torque converter, but automatically shifting with an electronic clutch, which is done on higher end systems, doesn't effect efficiency at all.
people always give these same tips. Most companies tell you to "apply on the web site", where you upload your resume/cv and it is reformatted to fit their HR database, it is usually somewhat slaughtered in the process. It is not possible to make it look good. HR then does keyword searches, if yours doesn't pop up, your SOL. As much as I hate to admit it, connections still seem the best way to go.
You go get fresh air for a half hour or so, go back in, and see if you smell it again, if this isn't possible, you grab a coworker from a different room. I've never heard of hydrogen sulfide harming server maintenance employees, but it can and does happen in chemistry labs, even at undergrad level. I don't know about sulfur dioxide, but HS is about as poisonous as hydrogen cyanide (zyklon), the difference is only that it stinks so much people tend to flee before it kills them.
Oh and SSID stands for soviet socialist ID
SSID broadcast you?
My ssid is dd-wrt good luck.
FOUND YOU! What are the odds that my neighbor posts on slashdot... ermm.. it's not me using your bandwidth... I swear.
That's a moot point.
There are various hot air engines already usable for that purpose.
I sincerely doubt it is a flue.
You are way less cynical than me, I had the impression they prescribed the newest most expensive drug the hot pharm-rep chick came by to plug. That being said efficacy studies are regulated by the FDA, and I do feel relatively confident that most of the drugs on the market actually work. Just sometimes I wish I wouldn't have to argue to get the older, just as effective, drug that has a generic for 5 dollars.