I save my best routines for "Windows" when they call. Woe to them if I'm bored. It will take them a half hour to get to the point where I tell them I run Linux. In the meantime it takes 15 minutes "to boot my PC" and ten minutes while I "look for my credit card" and some time spent in the loo with the phone, treating them to the sounds of defecation, micturation, and flatulence.
As long as it's more expensive. That separates the true aficionados and golden ears from the rabble. That's really the only difference, except that vinyl wears out.
Yes, but that's at very short range. HPM can be focused in a narrow beam and stop things far away. If they can set off their charges and leave a big crater a quarter mile away, you just have to fix the road and clean the blood stains off it but none of your guys get hurt.
I'm a military radar transmitter R&D engineer, and designed, built, and ran high power radar starting in 1968. Let me explain a few things....
In the military, radiation of any kind is carefully measured and controlled when it is generated. Secrecy has nothing to do with it.
Anything that accelerates an electron beam over about 10 kilovolts is going to generate X rays. Even your grandparents' old color TV set, but that put out microamps of beam current whereas a big microwave tube puts out amperes of current at tens or hundreds of kilovolts. They have to be carefully shielded.
The RF radiation from antennas is also measured and kept below levels deemed hazardous in personnel areas. This usually means keeping people out of the main beam and lots of interlocks to prevent accidental exposure. Of course, nothing is "idiot proof" versus a real determined idiot.
Since the "rat study" showed that RF exposure causes longevity (I read the study) that explains my good health throughout my 40+ years of exposure.
Panic over "radiation" derives from ignorance about energy, dosage, antenna patterns and the like. You can cook anything with enough power. Some people are scared of the RF from smart meters.
We have had a billion people holding cell phones to their brains for ten years. Are cemeteries full of brain cancer victims?
I nearly nailed one this morning, crossing against my green light. He had on camo clothing. Then there's the idiots who who walk in the road with dark clothes at night. Where is Darwin when you need him?
Let's also point out that those antennas are on tall towers, and unless you are on the same horizontal plane as the antenna, the field is much lower. Theoretically, the lowest field is right under the tower, where there's a null; although there are sidelobes which leak some.
If you see piles of dead birds around an antenna, you'll know it is putting out a lot. (Which you don't.)
We've had a billion people put a 100mW-1W transmitter next to their brains for a couple hours a day, for ten years. Are graveyards filling up yet?
If somebody comes up with a cheap fuel cell that runs on diesel, gasoline, natural gas or something with a big infrastructure (and refuels quickly), it'll be all over. EVs with their heavy batteries and heavier price tags (for limited range) will be at a big disadvantage.
A range extender might be a viable idea. Most of my driving is to town but frequently I need to go 90 miles, 200 miles, 500 miles, and I don't want to spend hours recharging.
Only the ones that run on magic, sorcery, and "bargaining with God" instead of people getting their shit together and doing the right thing. Joel Osteen and his ilk on those upper TV channels.
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I save my best routines for "Windows" when they call. Woe to them if I'm bored. It will take them a half hour to get to the point where I tell them I run Linux. In the meantime it takes 15 minutes "to boot my PC" and ten minutes while I "look for my credit card" and some time spent in the loo with the phone, treating them to the sounds of defecation, micturation, and flatulence.
It's much more useful to say "I don't do Windows".
As long as it's more expensive. That separates the true aficionados and golden ears from the rabble. That's really the only difference, except that vinyl wears out.
Red Hat made a billion dollars giving away software. Hmmm.
Yes, but that's at very short range. HPM can be focused in a narrow beam and stop things far away. If they can set off their charges and leave a big crater a quarter mile away, you just have to fix the road and clean the blood stains off it but none of your guys get hurt.
But how did you replace the Windows malware download client??
So how are they enjoying Linux, and what distros did you install?
Microsoft + Linux = Microsux?
My fridge is smart enough already. It keeps my food cold.
I'm a military radar transmitter R&D engineer, and designed, built, and ran high power radar starting in 1968. Let me explain a few things....
In the military, radiation of any kind is carefully measured and controlled when it is generated. Secrecy has nothing to do with it.
Anything that accelerates an electron beam over about 10 kilovolts is going to generate X rays. Even your grandparents' old color TV set, but that put out microamps of beam current whereas a big microwave tube puts out amperes of current at tens or hundreds of kilovolts. They have to be carefully shielded.
The RF radiation from antennas is also measured and kept below levels deemed hazardous in personnel areas. This usually means keeping people out of the main beam and lots of interlocks to prevent accidental exposure. Of course, nothing is "idiot proof" versus a real determined idiot.
Since the "rat study" showed that RF exposure causes longevity (I read the study) that explains my good health throughout my 40+ years of exposure.
Panic over "radiation" derives from ignorance about energy, dosage, antenna patterns and the like. You can cook anything with enough power. Some people are scared of the RF from smart meters.
We have had a billion people holding cell phones to their brains for ten years. Are cemeteries full of brain cancer victims?
And they're subsidized by us taxpayers so rich people can have luxury electric cars. Still, Elon is losing money.
Some cars have headlights.
I nearly nailed one this morning, crossing against my green light. He had on camo clothing.
Then there's the idiots who who walk in the road with dark clothes at night. Where is Darwin when you need him?
She would have been texting, so, no.
...and the Ramazzini Institute is in Baloney, Italy. Tells you something right there.
Let's also point out that those antennas are on tall towers, and unless you are on the same horizontal plane as the antenna, the field is much lower. Theoretically, the lowest field is right under the tower, where there's a null; although there are sidelobes which leak some.
If you see piles of dead birds around an antenna, you'll know it is putting out a lot. (Which you don't.)
We've had a billion people put a 100mW-1W transmitter next to their brains for a couple hours a day, for ten years. Are graveyards filling up yet?
Serious answer: because magnetrons use vacuum cavities to generate microwaves, and to make 915 MHz you'd need much larger cavities.
The next generation of RF ovens will use transistors, which work more efficiently at the lower frequencies.So they will use 915 MHz, not microwaves.
Art imitates life. Or something.
If somebody comes up with a cheap fuel cell that runs on diesel, gasoline, natural gas or something with a big infrastructure (and refuels quickly), it'll be all over. EVs with their heavy batteries and heavier price tags (for limited range) will be at a big disadvantage.
A range extender might be a viable idea. Most of my driving is to town but frequently I need to go 90 miles, 200 miles, 500 miles, and I don't want to spend hours recharging.
I'm looking at Chevy Volts now...
But the gasoline is made from biofermented unicorn manure.
Mitsubishi makes horrid cars.
And I've had 3 of them. No more, ever.
Only the ones that run on magic, sorcery, and "bargaining with God" instead of people getting their shit together and doing the right thing.
Joel Osteen and his ilk on those upper TV channels.
It'd be funny if it was Best Korea doing the mining and manipulating, and the NSA suddenly decided to mine the majority then crash it to zero.
At least nice tulip bulbs will always be worth $2.59 a pound. What can you use bitcoins for?