Then you repeat step 2 until they're forced to give you a different title or a refund because they don't have any more. Had to do this once for a computer game where they messed up the copy-protection so it wouldn't play on ANYBODY'S computer. Of course, I told the clerks that none of them were going to work, because they were all from the same run, and it was the master that was bad.
Remember, what does a plan cost? Nothing but a few hours/days of some military planner's time. Think of it as an extended 'what-if' that is then filed 'just in case'. Doesn't mean that the planner doesn't stamp it with a 'YOU'RE CRAZY IF YOU WANT TO DO THIS', or 'NO REASONABLE SOLUTIONS FOUND'. For the China invasion, it might be a suprise nuking of our fleet, then an invasion of Japan/Phillipines. Heck, they probably have a plan for invading Australia.
As far as the Pentagon goes, I'm sure they have a plan somewhere for fighting 'unknown aerospace hostiles'. You're going to get weird stuff when you sit down teams and tell them to 'cover contingencies'...
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I was in Lincoln, NE when it happened. Listened to it all on the radio. What actually happened was that after the killers (they took no money) hijacked the car (took the keys from the owner at gunpoint). The police were tracking them using the onstar system when the radio/TV companies started broadcasting their theories and asking the police if they were using the onstar to track them. The police, of course, were 'no comment'. This caused the killers to ditch the SUV and the police finally caught them in an stolen old pickup some distance away from the abandoned SUV.
Many people were upset with the media there because they felt that the killers heard about the onstar on the radio and ditched the SUV because of it.
If you'd paid attention to earlier articles, you would have seen that in many US counties, there is an 'emergency vehicle' override switch on many red lights. As this is activated without a physical connection (by a strobe), it is a remote control. Just a very very basic one. There is a lower priority equivalent to your bus beacon, but the sheer cost of changing to a different system slows upgrades to a crawl. So the system remains unsecure for the most part. One of the (cheap) solutions is to make it into a 4 way stop, so anybody spoofing it still faces the illegality of running a red light. But this makes it more difficult for the emergency vehicles, because then they have to deal with stopped traffic.
And why wouldn't a remote control for a traffic light be technically possible? We control far more complicated resources remotely with a $5 remote.
I never said that it's a falsehood. Note that I said 'most overdiagnosed'. Everything I've read about ADD makes me think a)It's convenient for quieting 'problem children' b)Should be controllable with counseling or adjustment in teaching methods c)When the kid gets of off ritalin at 16-18, you get a hyper adult.
I was, and am hyper as well. I missed the main push for ritalen, but I believe that they would have tried if I had been in a different school a few years later. I'm actually hyper-attentive, but bored by most teachers/subjects. So I'd read in class (I'd read the entire textbook for the class in the first 1 or 2 days). It sometimes quite literally took physical contact to break me away. Many of my problems went away when they put me in more advanced classes that could hold my attention.
It's the movie industry, not the music, saying this. Blockbust was the one to come out and say that piracy is thriving on the staggered release schedules the producers are fond of. And region encoding doesn't stop them.
an increase of 20 from 180 per 100,000 for 1973 to 2000. Could be better diagnosis, or cancer-prone people being counted multiple times for seperate instances of cancer. but a 10% difference is large, and needs to be researched. Alot of that is being done. Remember the old glow in the dark watches that were hand painted with radium? Asbestos has been banned. The air force has switched away from a jet fuel found to cause cancer. Also, since the '80s, farmers have been going to lower pesticide/fertalizer usage. Not only is it less polluting, it's cheaper to use only the amounts needed.
Don't forget the trade-offs of using something. If you look at the banning of flame-retardant on the idea that it might cause harm*. You need to look at the positive benefits like how many lives are saved, fires prevented or controlled, and injuries prevented or reduced
*Hazard studies have not yet been completed for the flame retardant. All I could find was that it has been found in breast milk (no mention of concentration), and is bioaccumulative (meaning it doesn't really leave the body). The only mention of a specific harm was a quote from a california politician stating that it may be associated with learning disabilities, specifically ADD. Now, I think that ADD is one of the most overdiagnosed 'disorders', mostly for keeping kids quiet for bad teachers and schoolsystems. Also, these chemicals are so widely used that any trends for a technological society will show a positive correlation with these chemicals.
So the California emission standards is doing nothing? Our research into fuel cells is nothing? Designing cars to get higher MPG (and therefore less pollution per mile) is nothing? Bush gets banged on alot for the enviroment. But he's signed legislation that while it allows existing plants to avoid some 'required' pollution prevention, it doesn't allow those plants to pollute any more than what they were, allowing them to modernize enough to stay competitive without the upgrades costing so much they go bankrupt. The key point is that they do have to improve their emissions at least SOME. Modern production has discovered that less polluting production methods are often cheaper than the old way.
Well, eventually the death rate reaches 100%. You can attribute the increase in cancer rate to people living longer due to not dying as much from accident and disease. Therefore, as deaths from diseases such as cholera, pnemonia, smallpox, and polio fell, the 'old age' illnessess of cancer and heart problems increased. We're seeing more people with serious (potentially fatal) allergies because, guess what, they aren't dying as babies/children like they used to.
Only problem, then people can't send mail using their home ISP. Might have to do some sort of rate/authentication scheme to prevent abuse. Maybe use a whitelist of 'good' servers from one of the services.
They're really not in series, what keeps the others lit is that there is now a kind of 'reverse-fuse' run in parallel inside the bulb. If the filiment burns out, the extra power going across the 'fuse' causes it to short instead of opening.
1) Doesn't matter. We're actually a REPUBLIC, not a democracy. The European Union is trying to be what we are. Take a look at what the smaller countries in the EU and see what they're trying to do in order to have SOME say in the new government. They're trying to say 'we want a representative at all times, no rotation thing where we don't have a rep 4/5 of the time'.
2) Your english falls apart here, but I consider the death penalty, properly carried out, more humane than life in prison (safer for the rest of the population too).
3) Even the proponents have admitted that the Kyoto treaty is more about 'economic evening' than safeguarding the enviroment. We ARE NOT going to agreee to a treaty that's going to hamstring us economically. Note: a number of 'developing' countries like China have more industry more polluting than what we've had for years. I've also seen that Russia has also told them where to shove it.
4) An international court run by some of the worst human rights offenders... And if we chose not to cooperate, what are you going to do? Go to war against the USA? WAR, and the willingness to go to it, that is the final authority. Besides, when Bush, Rumsfield and other military officials were charged with war crimes on the thinist of allegations, that kind of put a damper on US acceptance. We'll try our own, thank you very much. And the UCMJ has jurisdiction over any US military member, anywhere.
5) See above and UNSCR 1441. Anybody can go to war if they like. They just have to understand that there will be consequences. That can vary between everybody else going to war against you, to a 'we told you not to' whine. If Europe was really pissed, they could be doing things like economic sanctions, kicking out ambassadors and stuff like that. Or they could declare war...
6) Guantanamo bay. I think this is one of the stickier problems. It's a complicated situation. We aren't really sure if they're criminals needing to be tried in court or POWs, who can be kept in stated conditions for the duration of the war(effectivly life). I think it would have been better to let them have at least some communication with the outside world. But then, I don't know the whole situation. And as for the mention of Stalin and Hitler, the only ovens there are for the cooking of food, and I haven't heard of massive prisoner rotations into graves. I haven't even heard any reliable allegations of torture or starvation. Doesn't really come close.
Heh, I know. I also know that some areas that do manage to overcom the NIMBY, has had people from the cities 'imported' to provide more NIMBY! You can often get a smaller town with a good leader to agree to stuff, if you can convince the leader/s that it's good for the town.
Excuse my dyslexia please. Anti-biotics have never been effective against viruses.
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Huh, recently I saw an article about the Australians putting up a new 200MW solar plant. This plant was expected to produce 650GW/h a year. Out of curiosity, I looked up the power production of the US, and did some calculations. It came out to replace US power production with solar like the proposed plant would require 83k square miles (2% of the USA's area). Note: This is a reflective plant, that directs solar energy to a central tower, that then uses the heat to drive a standard steam cycle generator. The cost would be about 3 trillion dollars for the number of plants required. Don't forget that you'd still need to figure out a way to power places during the night/cloudy days.
I also figured it out for the south african pebble bed reactors. Replacing the entire US power generation system with these plants would only cost 500bil-1tril(figuring 2x cost from south africa). It was something like 2.5k plants to produce this much power, but they don't cost that much per MW.
I think that the best use for nuclear waste is recycling to reclaim useful isotopes, then glassification of the true waste, then burying it in a subduction trench.
They have very tight specs (to produce a nice white light for good color fidelity), are very bright for their size, and are limited quantity items, usually only available OEM. 100W HID headlight buld is commodity, nobody really cares if it wanders blue/red. And only 100W. Some projector bulbs push 300W.
Are you kidding, this is EXACTLY what the patent system is for. Think of it like the golden carrot. Very few medical research projects succeed. They are universally expensive. This guy took a risk, and due to a certain amount of luck, and a guaranteed huge amount of work, succeeded. This is a true innovation. In order to pay him for his risks (and encourage others to try the same), he has sole rights to his invention for a set period of time (much less than those for copyright). This theoretically works better than just handing out billions in grants because he gets to profit only if he succeeds. And as for the $5000 a week for the rest of your life, that happens NOW. Normal economic methods and other treatments will combine to keep costs down to a high, not outragous, level. Remember, you're not just paying for the cost of production and reseach for that treatment, you're paying for the research for 5 other drugs that failed in clinical trials, and 20 others that failed earlier.
It's not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually alter the DNA of the host cell (like AIDS does). What it does is injects it's DNA to hijack the cell's functions and resources to produce more virus. This eventually kills the cell and releases the virus, resulting in a kind of targeted attack on the tumor (more tumor cells lead to more virus in that area).
Then use 'Scan-o-tron' ballets. Run it through the same systems that are used for standardized testing. As it's hooked up to a computer, you can quickly come up with x number of sheets voted for candidate A, y for candidate B, z didn't vote for either, and w were referred to hand counters because they filled in the blank. If the machine breaks or it's integrity is questioned, you can easily hand count the ballets in question, for the race in question, to verify the machine's accuracy. Matter of fact, I'd hand count a random sample of the ballets each year just to verify accuracy and integrity. To prevent ballet-stuffing, you need good control at the voting stations, which you'll need no matter what the voting system is. This generally ends up being assured by having 3 or more representatives at the station. One for each party with enough volunteers to have one there, and a hired neutral party.
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Then you repeat step 2 until they're forced to give you a different title or a refund because they don't have any more. Had to do this once for a computer game where they messed up the copy-protection so it wouldn't play on ANYBODY'S computer. Of course, I told the clerks that none of them were going to work, because they were all from the same run, and it was the master that was bad.
Was there any evidence that the USA knew about these communications, or was it hindsight? Did the president know?
Remember, what does a plan cost? Nothing but a few hours/days of some military planner's time. Think of it as an extended 'what-if' that is then filed 'just in case'. Doesn't mean that the planner doesn't stamp it with a 'YOU'RE CRAZY IF YOU WANT TO DO THIS', or 'NO REASONABLE SOLUTIONS FOUND'. For the China invasion, it might be a suprise nuking of our fleet, then an invasion of Japan/Phillipines. Heck, they probably have a plan for invading Australia.
As far as the Pentagon goes, I'm sure they have a plan somewhere for fighting 'unknown aerospace hostiles'. You're going to get weird stuff when you sit down teams and tell them to 'cover contingencies'...
I was in Lincoln, NE when it happened. Listened to it all on the radio. What actually happened was that after the killers (they took no money) hijacked the car (took the keys from the owner at gunpoint). The police were tracking them using the onstar system when the radio/TV companies started broadcasting their theories and asking the police if they were using the onstar to track them. The police, of course, were 'no comment'. This caused the killers to ditch the SUV and the police finally caught them in an stolen old pickup some distance away from the abandoned SUV.
Many people were upset with the media there because they felt that the killers heard about the onstar on the radio and ditched the SUV because of it.
If you'd paid attention to earlier articles, you would have seen that in many US counties, there is an 'emergency vehicle' override switch on many red lights. As this is activated without a physical connection (by a strobe), it is a remote control. Just a very very basic one. There is a lower priority equivalent to your bus beacon, but the sheer cost of changing to a different system slows upgrades to a crawl. So the system remains unsecure for the most part. One of the (cheap) solutions is to make it into a 4 way stop, so anybody spoofing it still faces the illegality of running a red light. But this makes it more difficult for the emergency vehicles, because then they have to deal with stopped traffic.
And why wouldn't a remote control for a traffic light be technically possible? We control far more complicated resources remotely with a $5 remote.
In a sense they already have/likely will. Both Glock and Beretta are European. A better example would be Browning, Colt, Ruger, and Winchester
I never said that it's a falsehood. Note that I said 'most overdiagnosed'. Everything I've read about ADD makes me think a)It's convenient for quieting 'problem children' b)Should be controllable with counseling or adjustment in teaching methods c)When the kid gets of off ritalin at 16-18, you get a hyper adult.
I was, and am hyper as well. I missed the main push for ritalen, but I believe that they would have tried if I had been in a different school a few years later. I'm actually hyper-attentive, but bored by most teachers/subjects. So I'd read in class (I'd read the entire textbook for the class in the first 1 or 2 days). It sometimes quite literally took physical contact to break me away. Many of my problems went away when they put me in more advanced classes that could hold my attention.
It's the movie industry, not the music, saying this. Blockbust was the one to come out and say that piracy is thriving on the staggered release schedules the producers are fond of. And region encoding doesn't stop them.
an increase of 20 from 180 per 100,000 for 1973 to 2000. Could be better diagnosis, or cancer-prone people being counted multiple times for seperate instances of cancer. but a 10% difference is large, and needs to be researched. Alot of that is being done. Remember the old glow in the dark watches that were hand painted with radium? Asbestos has been banned. The air force has switched away from a jet fuel found to cause cancer. Also, since the '80s, farmers have been going to lower pesticide/fertalizer usage. Not only is it less polluting, it's cheaper to use only the amounts needed.
Mercury: Overplayed or Overstated?
DDT: Controls Malaria which kills over a million people per year. and is a major killer of children under 5.
Dioxin: A baddie, But was it truly necessary to evacuate people?
Asbestos: Only things I saw was people complaining about others getting money for 'exposure' while showing no detrimental health effects.
Don't forget the trade-offs of using something. If you look at the banning of flame-retardant on the idea that it might cause harm*. You need to look at the positive benefits like how many lives are saved, fires prevented or controlled, and injuries prevented or reduced
*Hazard studies have not yet been completed for the flame retardant. All I could find was that it has been found in breast milk (no mention of concentration), and is bioaccumulative (meaning it doesn't really leave the body). The only mention of a specific harm was a quote from a california politician stating that it may be associated with learning disabilities, specifically ADD. Now, I think that ADD is one of the most overdiagnosed 'disorders', mostly for keeping kids quiet for bad teachers and schoolsystems. Also, these chemicals are so widely used that any trends for a technological society will show a positive correlation with these chemicals.
So the California emission standards is doing nothing? Our research into fuel cells is nothing? Designing cars to get higher MPG (and therefore less pollution per mile) is nothing? Bush gets banged on alot for the enviroment. But he's signed legislation that while it allows existing plants to avoid some 'required' pollution prevention, it doesn't allow those plants to pollute any more than what they were, allowing them to modernize enough to stay competitive without the upgrades costing so much they go bankrupt. The key point is that they do have to improve their emissions at least SOME. Modern production has discovered that less polluting production methods are often cheaper than the old way.
Well, eventually the death rate reaches 100%. You can attribute the increase in cancer rate to people living longer due to not dying as much from accident and disease. Therefore, as deaths from diseases such as cholera, pnemonia, smallpox, and polio fell, the 'old age' illnessess of cancer and heart problems increased. We're seeing more people with serious (potentially fatal) allergies because, guess what, they aren't dying as babies/children like they used to.
Only problem, then people can't send mail using their home ISP. Might have to do some sort of rate/authentication scheme to prevent abuse. Maybe use a whitelist of 'good' servers from one of the services.
They're really not in series, what keeps the others lit is that there is now a kind of 'reverse-fuse' run in parallel inside the bulb. If the filiment burns out, the extra power going across the 'fuse' causes it to short instead of opening.
1) Doesn't matter. We're actually a REPUBLIC, not a democracy. The European Union is trying to be what we are. Take a look at what the smaller countries in the EU and see what they're trying to do in order to have SOME say in the new government. They're trying to say 'we want a representative at all times, no rotation thing where we don't have a rep 4/5 of the time'.
2) Your english falls apart here, but I consider the death penalty, properly carried out, more humane than life in prison (safer for the rest of the population too).
3) Even the proponents have admitted that the Kyoto treaty is more about 'economic evening' than safeguarding the enviroment. We ARE NOT going to agreee to a treaty that's going to hamstring us economically. Note: a number of 'developing' countries like China have more industry more polluting than what we've had for years. I've also seen that Russia has also told them where to shove it.
4) An international court run by some of the worst human rights offenders... And if we chose not to cooperate, what are you going to do? Go to war against the USA? WAR, and the willingness to go to it, that is the final authority. Besides, when Bush, Rumsfield and other military officials were charged with war crimes on the thinist of allegations, that kind of put a damper on US acceptance. We'll try our own, thank you very much. And the UCMJ has jurisdiction over any US military member, anywhere.
5) See above and UNSCR 1441. Anybody can go to war if they like. They just have to understand that there will be consequences. That can vary between everybody else going to war against you, to a 'we told you not to' whine. If Europe was really pissed, they could be doing things like economic sanctions, kicking out ambassadors and stuff like that. Or they could declare war...
6) Guantanamo bay. I think this is one of the stickier problems. It's a complicated situation. We aren't really sure if they're criminals needing to be tried in court or POWs, who can be kept in stated conditions for the duration of the war(effectivly life). I think it would have been better to let them have at least some communication with the outside world. But then, I don't know the whole situation. And as for the mention of Stalin and Hitler, the only ovens there are for the cooking of food, and I haven't heard of massive prisoner rotations into graves. I haven't even heard any reliable allegations of torture or starvation. Doesn't really come close.
Heh, I know. I also know that some areas that do manage to overcom the NIMBY, has had people from the cities 'imported' to provide more NIMBY! You can often get a smaller town with a good leader to agree to stuff, if you can convince the leader/s that it's good for the town.
Excuse my dyslexia please. Anti-biotics have never been effective against viruses.
Huh, recently I saw an article about the Australians putting up a new 200MW solar plant. This plant was expected to produce 650GW/h a year. Out of curiosity, I looked up the power production of the US, and did some calculations. It came out to replace US power production with solar like the proposed plant would require 83k square miles (2% of the USA's area). Note: This is a reflective plant, that directs solar energy to a central tower, that then uses the heat to drive a standard steam cycle generator. The cost would be about 3 trillion dollars for the number of plants required. Don't forget that you'd still need to figure out a way to power places during the night/cloudy days.
I also figured it out for the south african pebble bed reactors. Replacing the entire US power generation system with these plants would only cost 500bil-1tril(figuring 2x cost from south africa). It was something like 2.5k plants to produce this much power, but they don't cost that much per MW.
I think that the best use for nuclear waste is recycling to reclaim useful isotopes, then glassification of the true waste, then burying it in a subduction trench.
They have very tight specs (to produce a nice white light for good color fidelity), are very bright for their size, and are limited quantity items, usually only available OEM. 100W HID headlight buld is commodity, nobody really cares if it wanders blue/red. And only 100W. Some projector bulbs push 300W.
The fact that they aren't bacteria?
It's a VIRUS, not a bacteria. Anti-biotics have never been effective against bacteria.
Are you kidding, this is EXACTLY what the patent system is for. Think of it like the golden carrot. Very few medical research projects succeed. They are universally expensive. This guy took a risk, and due to a certain amount of luck, and a guaranteed huge amount of work, succeeded. This is a true innovation. In order to pay him for his risks (and encourage others to try the same), he has sole rights to his invention for a set period of time (much less than those for copyright). This theoretically works better than just handing out billions in grants because he gets to profit only if he succeeds. And as for the $5000 a week for the rest of your life, that happens NOW. Normal economic methods and other treatments will combine to keep costs down to a high, not outragous, level. Remember, you're not just paying for the cost of production and reseach for that treatment, you're paying for the research for 5 other drugs that failed in clinical trials, and 20 others that failed earlier.
It's not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually alter the DNA of the host cell (like AIDS does). What it does is injects it's DNA to hijack the cell's functions and resources to produce more virus. This eventually kills the cell and releases the virus, resulting in a kind of targeted attack on the tumor (more tumor cells lead to more virus in that area).
Who's gone to jail from Enron? Anyone?
Ben Glisan got five years. He's the first and only from my quick search.
Then use 'Scan-o-tron' ballets. Run it through the same systems that are used for standardized testing. As it's hooked up to a computer, you can quickly come up with x number of sheets voted for candidate A, y for candidate B, z didn't vote for either, and w were referred to hand counters because they filled in the blank. If the machine breaks or it's integrity is questioned, you can easily hand count the ballets in question, for the race in question, to verify the machine's accuracy. Matter of fact, I'd hand count a random sample of the ballets each year just to verify accuracy and integrity. To prevent ballet-stuffing, you need good control at the voting stations, which you'll need no matter what the voting system is. This generally ends up being assured by having 3 or more representatives at the station. One for each party with enough volunteers to have one there, and a hired neutral party.