Jury nullification is viewed with great distrust by the legal profession in the US because it has a sordid history - it was commonly used in the south during segregation as a way to literally get away with murder. If the victim were black and the perpetrator white, the jury would often nullify regardless of the evidence.
Both the US and UK use districting systems, which means that in many areas the outcome of the election is almost a foregone conclusion - if you live there, the chance of your vote actually affecting anything is so slim as to be for all practical purposes zero. It's only if you live in a borderline area - what the US calls a swing state, and the UK a marginal constituency - that your vote has any chance of mattering at all.
He already addressed the tires by claiming there is tradeoff between traction and lifespan, and a tire can be made to provide extreme traction at the expense of rapid wear.
Just because a decision is driven by lobbying efforts by money-hungry corporations with all the moral compass of a psychopath doesn't mean the decision is actually wrong.
That's a large, directional antenna. You can't conceal it, and you can't casually drop it. It's also up in 2.4GHz band - where range is far too short. This device would have to run lower, which means a bigger antenna still.
The technology isn't fundamentally impossible - it isn't breaking any laws of physics or demanding amazing breakthroughs. The only really difficult part is making it sufficiently small. Distance like that needs a large antenna.
Considering you have spoken out in the past about female characters in games being overtly sexualized, could you explain why the protagonists of your own game Revolution 60 wear what appears to be skintight lycra to show off their perfect hourglass figures?
The City, for historic reasons, is semi-independent. It's one of those vestigial structures where they have a lot of power on paper, but a general agreement never to actually use it. They do have their own police force and a 'shadow government' headed by the Lord Mayor.
We do like our traditions. Plus it can be used for tax avoidance.
*City of London Police, considered a world-class force in prosecuting fraud, but most widely despised as the source of PIPCU and their loose concept of jurisdiction.
It does, but it produces very little of that waste. Little enough that 'bury and forget' is a viable disposal method. You just need a deep enough hole. The problem seems to be that everyone wishes for that hole to be somewhere else.
Some will comply. Some won't. It's not just the UK that poses such an issue for them - if the UK starts, every repressive country in the world will be hurrying to copy, starting with China and followed quickly by Russia. It's not practical to comply with many different laws in different countries, and the inability to promise confidentiality means a loss of business contracts - not a big deal for WhatsApp, but a big problem for Skype.
A long-established military practice. It's known as an 'idiot code,' and was vital for secure (or secure-enough) battlefield radio communications before encryption technology became practical for field use.
You forgot the increase in extreme weather events. A warming of the oceans by even a small amount would have a powerful effect upon hurricane formation.
It is really cheap though - it's just a byproduct of highly profitable activities. It also sticks around a long time, methane has a rather short environmental half life.
"Nope, they know how many times you wipe and how many sheets you used."
It should be possible to calculate that from shopping records. You can get someone's diet from that, and their toilet paper consumption - all you need is a food-to-feces conversion model and you can calculate how many times people wipe.
That might be more practical today. Drone technology is good enough to make the aircraft unpiloted, which means a fraction of the shielding requirements.
It's still a ridiculous idea because of the crash risk, but the engineering issues could be solved. Not sure what you'd do with it. It's not really good as a nuclear bomber any more, as you couldn't effectively stealth something so big and slow - as soon as the war breaks out AA missiles would be launched.
"Ahh, so the already cash-strapped schools that can't afford to pay teachers and buy textbooks should go without modern equipment"
That's one option. There are two obvious others: 1. Increase funding to education. This is politically difficult. 2. Accept private interests paying for some of the costs in exchange for a degree of influence in the material being taught.
Option two might look attractive at first, but can potentially lead to very bad outcomes.
I should note that I didn't actually try 100% ethanol. I used a solution of approximately 37% ethanol in water, that being the strongest booze the local shop had in stock.
Xylene: Does nothing at all. Toluene: Does nothing at all. Ethanol: Does nothing at all. Water: Does nothing at all. Acetone: Does nothing at all. Tetrahyrofuran: Does... very little. Something. Not really soluble, but it seemed to be absorbed into the PLA and deform it. Dichloromethane: Perfect! Does vapor smoothing (Though much slower than ABS/acetone), and does liquid smoothing very nicely indeed if you rub your print down with a DCM-soaked cloth.
Highly flamable, toxic, carcinogenic, tends to turn into high explosive if you leave it to sit around too long. Also legally risky - as the other commenter said, it's one of those things the police will consider evidence of drugs manufacture. That's why it's so hard to get. It isn't controlled, but no supplier will ship to a residential address.
I destroyed it in what seemed the obvious way: Combustion. I'm not much of a chemist but I can recognise when a molecule is going to burn into nice, safe carbon dioxide and water. So I burned it.
Some people have reported using THF for smoothing 3D prints in PLA. I tried it. It sort-of-worked a little, but very poorly in either liquid or vapor phase. I found DCM works far better.
Just how bad is DCM? I got my hands doused in the stuff while smoothing my wind turbine print, as it goes straight through the gloves I planned to use.
I did stabilise my THF, but it's of no use to me - and I didn't want to come back to the bottle in ten years and find it had transformed into a bomb. I had a very hard time obtaining it too - no reputable supplier would ship to a residential address, so I get to get it from some dodgy store on eBay that couldn't even print the right chemical symbol on the bottle.
Lab-grade acetone, dichloromethane. Used for cleaning my 3D printer. Copper sulfate, concentraded sulfuric acid. Used for copper plating contacts. The acid could also make a pretty good weapon if thrown in someone's face. 4-nitroaniline, leftover from a failed chemistry demonstration. sodium sulfite, purchased to remove ink stains from a carpet. xylene, toluene - I tried many solvents in my quest for something that can vapor-smooth PLA. I used to have tetrahydrofuran too, but destroyed it. Too risky to keep something like that around.
It's cheating when you advance your project in some manner independent of that product's qualities - usually meaning to lose money in one area (eg, steep discounts in education) in order to secure sales elsewhere (A generation who enter the workforce already familiar with your software).
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Jury nullification is viewed with great distrust by the legal profession in the US because it has a sordid history - it was commonly used in the south during segregation as a way to literally get away with murder. If the victim were black and the perpetrator white, the jury would often nullify regardless of the evidence.
Both the US and UK use districting systems, which means that in many areas the outcome of the election is almost a foregone conclusion - if you live there, the chance of your vote actually affecting anything is so slim as to be for all practical purposes zero. It's only if you live in a borderline area - what the US calls a swing state, and the UK a marginal constituency - that your vote has any chance of mattering at all.
He already addressed the tires by claiming there is tradeoff between traction and lifespan, and a tire can be made to provide extreme traction at the expense of rapid wear.
Just because a decision is driven by lobbying efforts by money-hungry corporations with all the moral compass of a psychopath doesn't mean the decision is actually wrong.
What's the difference? The romantic image of the farmer and his spade has long been outdated.
That's a large, directional antenna. You can't conceal it, and you can't casually drop it. It's also up in 2.4GHz band - where range is far too short. This device would have to run lower, which means a bigger antenna still.
The technology isn't fundamentally impossible - it isn't breaking any laws of physics or demanding amazing breakthroughs. The only really difficult part is making it sufficiently small. Distance like that needs a large antenna.
Considering you have spoken out in the past about female characters in games being overtly sexualized, could you explain why the protagonists of your own game Revolution 60 wear what appears to be skintight lycra to show off their perfect hourglass figures?
The City, for historic reasons, is semi-independent. It's one of those vestigial structures where they have a lot of power on paper, but a general agreement never to actually use it. They do have their own police force and a 'shadow government' headed by the Lord Mayor.
We do like our traditions. Plus it can be used for tax avoidance.
*City of London Police, considered a world-class force in prosecuting fraud, but most widely despised as the source of PIPCU and their loose concept of jurisdiction.
It does, but it produces very little of that waste. Little enough that 'bury and forget' is a viable disposal method. You just need a deep enough hole. The problem seems to be that everyone wishes for that hole to be somewhere else.
Some will comply. Some won't. It's not just the UK that poses such an issue for them - if the UK starts, every repressive country in the world will be hurrying to copy, starting with China and followed quickly by Russia. It's not practical to comply with many different laws in different countries, and the inability to promise confidentiality means a loss of business contracts - not a big deal for WhatsApp, but a big problem for Skype.
Until WhatsApp counter with a decentralised network.
A long-established military practice. It's known as an 'idiot code,' and was vital for secure (or secure-enough) battlefield radio communications before encryption technology became practical for field use.
You forgot the increase in extreme weather events. A warming of the oceans by even a small amount would have a powerful effect upon hurricane formation.
It is really cheap though - it's just a byproduct of highly profitable activities. It also sticks around a long time, methane has a rather short environmental half life.
"Nope, they know how many times you wipe and how many sheets you used."
It should be possible to calculate that from shopping records. You can get someone's diet from that, and their toilet paper consumption - all you need is a food-to-feces conversion model and you can calculate how many times people wipe.
That might be more practical today. Drone technology is good enough to make the aircraft unpiloted, which means a fraction of the shielding requirements.
It's still a ridiculous idea because of the crash risk, but the engineering issues could be solved. Not sure what you'd do with it. It's not really good as a nuclear bomber any more, as you couldn't effectively stealth something so big and slow - as soon as the war breaks out AA missiles would be launched.
"Ahh, so the already cash-strapped schools that can't afford to pay teachers and buy textbooks should go without modern equipment"
That's one option. There are two obvious others:
1. Increase funding to education. This is politically difficult.
2. Accept private interests paying for some of the costs in exchange for a degree of influence in the material being taught.
Option two might look attractive at first, but can potentially lead to very bad outcomes.
I should note that I didn't actually try 100% ethanol. I used a solution of approximately 37% ethanol in water, that being the strongest booze the local shop had in stock.
Xylene: Does nothing at all.
Toluene: Does nothing at all.
Ethanol: Does nothing at all.
Water: Does nothing at all.
Acetone: Does nothing at all.
Tetrahyrofuran: Does... very little. Something. Not really soluble, but it seemed to be absorbed into the PLA and deform it.
Dichloromethane: Perfect! Does vapor smoothing (Though much slower than ABS/acetone), and does liquid smoothing very nicely indeed if you rub your print down with a DCM-soaked cloth.
I have pictures:
http://birds-are-nice.me/publi...
Highly flamable, toxic, carcinogenic, tends to turn into high explosive if you leave it to sit around too long. Also legally risky - as the other commenter said, it's one of those things the police will consider evidence of drugs manufacture. That's why it's so hard to get. It isn't controlled, but no supplier will ship to a residential address.
I destroyed it in what seemed the obvious way: Combustion. I'm not much of a chemist but I can recognise when a molecule is going to burn into nice, safe carbon dioxide and water. So I burned it.
Some people have reported using THF for smoothing 3D prints in PLA. I tried it. It sort-of-worked a little, but very poorly in either liquid or vapor phase. I found DCM works far better.
Just how bad is DCM? I got my hands doused in the stuff while smoothing my wind turbine print, as it goes straight through the gloves I planned to use.
I did stabilise my THF, but it's of no use to me - and I didn't want to come back to the bottle in ten years and find it had transformed into a bomb. I had a very hard time obtaining it too - no reputable supplier would ship to a residential address, so I get to get it from some dodgy store on eBay that couldn't even print the right chemical symbol on the bottle.
Lab-grade acetone, dichloromethane. Used for cleaning my 3D printer.
Copper sulfate, concentraded sulfuric acid. Used for copper plating contacts. The acid could also make a pretty good weapon if thrown in someone's face.
4-nitroaniline, leftover from a failed chemistry demonstration.
sodium sulfite, purchased to remove ink stains from a carpet.
xylene, toluene - I tried many solvents in my quest for something that can vapor-smooth PLA.
I used to have tetrahydrofuran too, but destroyed it. Too risky to keep something like that around.
I don't know about glycerol, but copper sulfate is restricted as there is some evidence it may be a very weak carcinogen. Just like everything else.
It's cheating when you advance your project in some manner independent of that product's qualities - usually meaning to lose money in one area (eg, steep discounts in education) in order to secure sales elsewhere (A generation who enter the workforce already familiar with your software).