I bet that a good way to get the attention of the secret service would be to shine a laser on the whitehouse.
As far as the optical system goes, one could probably get away with a webcam in conjunction with a Mini-ITX motherboard and some really sophisticated pattern-matching software, along with a decent amount of flash RAM
Would those components be able to take the stress of a missile? If it's based on UAV/model airplane technology, maybe, but it'd be iffy for rocket or jet propulsion. Also, even those components would be tough to fit on something small enough to bypass the radar.
One way to look at the USA, our default position (given the schizophrenia inherent in any multigenerational conglomerate) is isolationalist. Not for our businesses, but in matters of war and such, definatly.
Remember, it wasn't too long ago that we still thought in terms of being a citizen of a state in the United States, rather than a citizen of the United States. Nebraskans aren't so worried about Europe because they're busy wondering what the Iowans and Californians are doing.
Surely they have a good enough clock in them that they can still operate for at least a few days without a sync?
Now I will say that as a defense against a known terrorist plot, shutting down a part of the cell network is certainly an option. Terrorists have been using cell phones & pagers as detonators for some time now.
Close, but not exact. They're more like cousins. We didn't actually fund Osama, for example, we funded the groups that eventually became the norther alliance, who we worked with when reforming Afganistan.
I agree, though, that we shouldn't of pulled our assistance the moment the Soviets gave up. And it's a great example why we shouldn't pull out of Iraq until they have a government strong enough to resist the slide into anarchy.
You must have a nice theater in your area. Either that or you need to reexamine your HDTV solution.
Have you tried getting a projector and a good screen? They have projectors out now that have a higher contrast than film. If you're really a picture nazi, you'd want to do some research and maybe get it professionally installed (to minimize digital keystoning).
1. We do have jails and prisons. These bans are accepted in lieu of terms in said institutions 2. Here in the USA, we have the concept of "you proved yourself uncapable of responsably using x object, so we're ordering you not to use x object for a set period of time"
Just think about how much the internet and google combine to allow individuals to amplify their knowledge of a subject - to access tools
Just think, judges banning access to cars is the western version of the gulag. After all, cars are used to allow people to move from location to location, increasing their work&spending options.</sarcasm>
The boys were bad, the fact that they're denied a useful service is part of the punishment they accepted in place of spending time in the clink.
yourself, who have certainly never read the GCRTPOW
I've studied the Geneva conventions. It's part of my job(military).
You have a number of categories. Civilians Combatants Clergy Medica l Personnel.
Civilians, Clergy, and Medical Personnel do not keep their status if they fight. Well, there is an exemption that people can protect themselves against unlawful forces (ie brigands).
Combatants are further divided up into lawful and unlawful categories. Lawful combatants are POWS. Al Qaeda are not lawfull combatants since they do not fulfill the measures needed to be considered lawful. The Iraqi military did, and I haven't heard any stories about their being held.
Of course, my instructions were basicly "treat them like a POW within these parameters: treat wounds, don't hurt them, speed them to the rear to the people better trained to handle prisoners and determine their status.
Al Qaeda doesn't operate following the conventions, so technically we could treat them like spies and execute them without trial. There are other treaties, accords, and such that disallow this, but the geneva conventions don't matter.
Then the math is better for you. I happen to like some popcorn during a movie, but I can't really smuggle it in.
Movie theaters are actually working quite hard, renovating to provide larger seats, a steeper incline, putting a bit more effort into the screen and sound system, more smaller theaters so that they can show more shows more often...
While the microwave popcorn may be hotter, the taste of movie popcorn is quite different from even the "movie theater" microwave popcorn. Enough popcorn is used in American theaters that it's rare for the popcorn to be more than even a half hour old. They do, after all, pop it right there. And I've found microwave popcorn to be quite nasty once it's cooled a bit.
I know about the relative profit sections for the ticket vs. concession sales. However, just because I know about that doesn't mean that I don't total up expenses when I go to the movies.
Do I really need popcorn&soda? No, but I want them, and it's considered part of the "movie experience".
And while my video&sound system doesn't beat the new theaters, it does pretty good against the old theaters. My couch for one, is nicer than the old theater seating. Also, I can start the movie at any time, pause if I want to.
It's a relative merits thing. One of the driving forces behind the theaters swapping to the stadium seating is this. The theater is trying to get your money by offering a movie sooner, "theater popcorn"(no the microwave stuff isn't the same), a comfortable seat with a big picture and good sound. The competitor: Poorer sound(but better than it used to be), smaller picture(but fixable with the right investment), later, but played in the convenience of your home, cheaper. It's like apples and oranges. Sure, they're different, but they're both fruits. If the price of apples increases and oranges drop, oranges will grab a larger share of the fruit market.
While you can't compare them directly, they can be compared on an individual basis.
Think of it this way. I go to the theater expecting to see a movie at, say, 2 pm. I've read that it's a 100 minutes long, so I expect to be done by 3 pm. With all the ads, I'm not going to be out of the theater until 3:20. This might put a crimp on my plans.
So if I purchase a ticket with an assumed contract of the movie starting at 2, and they aren't going to start the movie until 2:30, I'm going to be pissed, and it should be my option to get a refund. Just like if I buy a DVD and it turns out to have adds with the no-skip switch set, I'll want to return it. I paid $20 for the movie, I don't want to have to sit through all those ads (especially when they get to be five years old).
If you get into a cab, do you expect or want to get the scenic route?
Sigh... I was working out the money for your typical law abiding family of four. Besides, as the other poster said, $1 for the popcorn (admittably rounded up, a $1 bag of bulk popcorn lasts me months, but butter is a bit more expensive).
Don't forget, that if FOO() is written, but uncovered by patent, and microsoft or the like tries to patent a FOO() like program, FOO()counts as a previous work, disallowing the patent.
So it can be quite successfully used to force stuff to be open source. Also, if you don't disclose your code to apply for a patent, you rely on trade secret, which isn't protected if somebody else figures it out.
And the movie industry wonders why movie theaters aren't performing well.
Take the family of four(I live in a cheap area): Tickets: $18 (two adults @$5, two kids @$4) Popcorn&Soda: $20 (easy, for four drinks & two large popcorns). Total: $38
At home: Buy DVD: $20 Popcorn: $1-4 (air popped/butter or microwave) Soda: $2-3 (couple two-liters) Total: $27, and you get to keep the movie. If you rent: ~$10-12?
It makes a difference when you're going to see the latest blockbuster on opening night...
While you likely won't get good seats, it at least allows you to get seats without visiting the theater in person an hour or two in advance.
Now, I usually won't go to a movie if the seats are going to be more than half full, and I try to get the matinees, both for the more empty seating and cheaper prices.
Which still means that if the spammers annoy the higher ups, that various unkind things will happen. And as for the higher-ups doing the spamming, well, they have better (corrupt) things to do with their time with better profit margins.
Second paid add on google. Thought I think the place down in the mall is cheaper.
As for what you gain, well, a digital projector is often 1024x768. You might be able to blow it up more, but your pixels get huge. With a slide, you have the potential of much higher resolution.
The fact that something is an alpha emitter has never stopped the greenies from yelling...
ingesting huge amounts of this simply by breathing even living next door to a coal plant.
However minor this is, it's been shown in studies that living close to a coal plant puts you on the same level as former smokers for lung disorders. Nuclear radiation is like a boogie man. Has far more effect scaring people than what damage it actually does. I'm sure the effects noted in the study (higher allergy rates, asthma, cancers, bronchitus, etc), are more from some of the other stuff going up the flue.
I'm wan't talking about snow pack so much as what comes and sticks. Minot, ND doesn't actually tend to keep snow on the roofs.
But the question comes to usage. When I'm taking my shower at 6 am, and the sun doesn't come out until 8 am, do you make the water tank able to store hot water for that long (14+ hours)? More expense...
I'll look more into it when my dad talks about it being the new rave in Nebraska (he works for a heating/cooling company). The current rave are the geothermal heat pumps.
right != profitable This is true. It was true during the dot-com boom, and is still true now. You're not going to see much of a solar 'boom'. Either only the most obsessivly green people and special situations will install them, or everybody will install them when they renovate. Solar equipment suffers in this aspect that the profit/loss is very much calculable. Either it makes sense or it doesn't.
Like what has been said before, if and when it comes down that solar actually saves money, the 'evil capitalists' will be installing them left and right.
Not a bad idea at all. Every house can use hot water. I'm in North Dakota now, so I don't think that this would be able to produce enough heat to even keep themselves clear of snow/ice during the winter, but further south... If it can produce hot water during the summer, if the installation cost doesn't run too much, it might not be a bad idea.
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optical system can take over, similar to what the U.S. Tomahawks do
And a tomahawk costs over half a mil
I bet that a good way to get the attention of the secret service would be to shine a laser on the whitehouse.
As far as the optical system goes, one could probably get away with a webcam in conjunction with a Mini-ITX motherboard and some really sophisticated pattern-matching software, along with a decent amount of flash RAM
Would those components be able to take the stress of a missile? If it's based on UAV/model airplane technology, maybe, but it'd be iffy for rocket or jet propulsion. Also, even those components would be tough to fit on something small enough to bypass the radar.
I'd see a mortar attack sooner.
Man, you must be old if ANY B52's are younger than you. :)
As for "modern" avionics, well, they don't have the avionics they originally came with, but "modern" is a relative term with that.
One way to look at the USA, our default position (given the schizophrenia inherent in any multigenerational conglomerate) is isolationalist. Not for our businesses, but in matters of war and such, definatly.
Remember, it wasn't too long ago that we still thought in terms of being a citizen of a state in the United States, rather than a citizen of the United States. Nebraskans aren't so worried about Europe because they're busy wondering what the Iowans and Californians are doing.
Surely they have a good enough clock in them that they can still operate for at least a few days without a sync?
Now I will say that as a defense against a known terrorist plot, shutting down a part of the cell network is certainly an option. Terrorists have been using cell phones & pagers as detonators for some time now.
Close, but not exact. They're more like cousins. We didn't actually fund Osama, for example, we funded the groups that eventually became the norther alliance, who we worked with when reforming Afganistan.
I agree, though, that we shouldn't of pulled our assistance the moment the Soviets gave up. And it's a great example why we shouldn't pull out of Iraq until they have a government strong enough to resist the slide into anarchy.
If you're going to do a job, do it right.
You must have a nice theater in your area. Either that or you need to reexamine your HDTV solution.
Have you tried getting a projector and a good screen? They have projectors out now that have a higher contrast than film.
If you're really a picture nazi, you'd want to do some research and maybe get it professionally installed (to minimize digital keystoning).
Hehehe...
My area ended up switching back, if they ever switched at all (I spent some time overseas)...
1. We do have jails and prisons. These bans are accepted in lieu of terms in said institutions
2. Here in the USA, we have the concept of "you proved yourself uncapable of responsably using x object, so we're ordering you not to use x object for a set period of time"
Just think about how much the internet and google combine to allow individuals to amplify their knowledge of a subject - to access tools
Just think, judges banning access to cars is the western version of the gulag. After all, cars are used to allow people to move from location to location, increasing their work&spending options.</sarcasm>
The boys were bad, the fact that they're denied a useful service is part of the punishment they accepted in place of spending time in the clink.
Actually. NO.
a l Personnel.
yourself, who have certainly never read the GCRTPOW
I've studied the Geneva conventions. It's part of my job(military).
You have a number of categories.
Civilians
Combatants
Clergy
Medic
Civilians, Clergy, and Medical Personnel do not keep their status if they fight. Well, there is an exemption that people can protect themselves against unlawful forces (ie brigands).
Combatants are further divided up into lawful and unlawful categories. Lawful combatants are POWS. Al Qaeda are not lawfull combatants since they do not fulfill the measures needed to be considered lawful. The Iraqi military did, and I haven't heard any stories about their being held.
Of course, my instructions were basicly "treat them like a POW within these parameters: treat wounds, don't hurt them, speed them to the rear to the people better trained to handle prisoners and determine their status.
Al Qaeda doesn't operate following the conventions, so technically we could treat them like spies and execute them without trial. There are other treaties, accords, and such that disallow this, but the geneva conventions don't matter.
Then the math is better for you. I happen to like some popcorn during a movie, but I can't really smuggle it in.
Movie theaters are actually working quite hard, renovating to provide larger seats, a steeper incline, putting a bit more effort into the screen and sound system, more smaller theaters so that they can show more shows more often...
While the microwave popcorn may be hotter, the taste of movie popcorn is quite different from even the "movie theater" microwave popcorn. Enough popcorn is used in American theaters that it's rare for the popcorn to be more than even a half hour old. They do, after all, pop it right there. And I've found microwave popcorn to be quite nasty once it's cooled a bit.
I know about the relative profit sections for the ticket vs. concession sales. However, just because I know about that doesn't mean that I don't total up expenses when I go to the movies.
Do I really need popcorn&soda? No, but I want them, and it's considered part of the "movie experience".
And while my video&sound system doesn't beat the new theaters, it does pretty good against the old theaters. My couch for one, is nicer than the old theater seating. Also, I can start the movie at any time, pause if I want to.
It's a relative merits thing. One of the driving forces behind the theaters swapping to the stadium seating is this. The theater is trying to get your money by offering a movie sooner, "theater popcorn"(no the microwave stuff isn't the same), a comfortable seat with a big picture and good sound. The competitor: Poorer sound(but better than it used to be), smaller picture(but fixable with the right investment), later, but played in the convenience of your home, cheaper. It's like apples and oranges. Sure, they're different, but they're both fruits. If the price of apples increases and oranges drop, oranges will grab a larger share of the fruit market.
While you can't compare them directly, they can be compared on an individual basis.
Dohhh!
knock all times after 2 back an hour.
I guess that's what happens when I try to post and do work at the same time.
Think of it this way.
I go to the theater expecting to see a movie at, say, 2 pm. I've read that it's a 100 minutes long, so I expect to be done by 3 pm. With all the ads, I'm not going to be out of the theater until 3:20. This might put a crimp on my plans.
So if I purchase a ticket with an assumed contract of the movie starting at 2, and they aren't going to start the movie until 2:30, I'm going to be pissed, and it should be my option to get a refund. Just like if I buy a DVD and it turns out to have adds with the no-skip switch set, I'll want to return it. I paid $20 for the movie, I don't want to have to sit through all those ads (especially when they get to be five years old).
If you get into a cab, do you expect or want to get the scenic route?
And if you download the movie...free.
Sigh...
I was working out the money for your typical law abiding family of four.
Besides, as the other poster said, $1 for the popcorn (admittably rounded up, a $1 bag of bulk popcorn lasts me months, but butter is a bit more expensive).
Don't forget, that if FOO() is written, but uncovered by patent, and microsoft or the like tries to patent a FOO() like program, FOO()counts as a previous work, disallowing the patent.
So it can be quite successfully used to force stuff to be open source. Also, if you don't disclose your code to apply for a patent, you rely on trade secret, which isn't protected if somebody else figures it out.
And the movie industry wonders why movie theaters aren't performing well.
Take the family of four(I live in a cheap area): Tickets: $18 (two adults @$5, two kids @$4)
Popcorn&Soda: $20 (easy, for four drinks & two large popcorns).
Total: $38
At home:
Buy DVD: $20
Popcorn: $1-4 (air popped/butter or microwave)
Soda: $2-3 (couple two-liters)
Total: $27, and you get to keep the movie.
If you rent: ~$10-12?
It makes a difference when you're going to see the latest blockbuster on opening night...
While you likely won't get good seats, it at least allows you to get seats without visiting the theater in person an hour or two in advance.
Now, I usually won't go to a movie if the seats are going to be more than half full, and I try to get the matinees, both for the more empty seating and cheaper prices.
Which still means that if the spammers annoy the higher ups, that various unkind things will happen. And as for the higher-ups doing the spamming, well, they have better (corrupt) things to do with their time with better profit margins.
And the spammers, if chinese, do NOT want the government to take negative notice.
Remember, even if the country is more or less capitalistic, the government is still totalitarian. They execute people for drunk driving and such...
$2.49
Second paid add on google. Thought I think the place down in the mall is cheaper.
As for what you gain, well, a digital projector is often 1024x768. You might be able to blow it up more, but your pixels get huge. With a slide, you have the potential of much higher resolution.
The fact that something is an alpha emitter has never stopped the greenies from yelling...
ingesting huge amounts of this simply by breathing even living next door to a coal plant.
However minor this is, it's been shown in studies that living close to a coal plant puts you on the same level as former smokers for lung disorders. Nuclear radiation is like a boogie man. Has far more effect scaring people than what damage it actually does. I'm sure the effects noted in the study (higher allergy rates, asthma, cancers, bronchitus, etc), are more from some of the other stuff going up the flue.
I'm wan't talking about snow pack so much as what comes and sticks. Minot, ND doesn't actually tend to keep snow on the roofs.
But the question comes to usage. When I'm taking my shower at 6 am, and the sun doesn't come out until 8 am, do you make the water tank able to store hot water for that long (14+ hours)? More expense...
I'll look more into it when my dad talks about it being the new rave in Nebraska (he works for a heating/cooling company). The current rave are the geothermal heat pumps.
right != profitable
This is true. It was true during the dot-com boom, and is still true now.
You're not going to see much of a solar 'boom'. Either only the most obsessivly green people and special situations will install them, or everybody will install them when they renovate. Solar equipment suffers in this aspect that the profit/loss is very much calculable. Either it makes sense or it doesn't.
Like what has been said before, if and when it comes down that solar actually saves money, the 'evil capitalists' will be installing them left and right.
Not a bad idea at all. Every house can use hot water. I'm in North Dakota now, so I don't think that this would be able to produce enough heat to even keep themselves clear of snow/ice during the winter, but further south... If it can produce hot water during the summer, if the installation cost doesn't run too much, it might not be a bad idea.
It'd have the best return on new construction.