I'm not sure exactly what commercial uses there are for really heavy launches. Comms and science do not need to be so large. Only thing I can think of is a space hotel, and that's not going to be commercially viable unless you can bring the human launch cost down far enough for the moderately rich to afford a holiday there, rather than just the obscenely rich. There aren't enough billionaires around to constitute a sufficient market.
Before you start trying to warn us: - The outside area has very little in the way of animal life, and almost all the 4-nitroaniline should be used up. The very small quantity released will break down safely. - We're ordering filter mask too. Probably overkill considering how small a quantity we are using, but better safe than sorry. - I've read the MSDS.
I know this stuff is toxic, precautions are being taken. There's no real purpose to this: It's just for fun and youtube hits.
Tricky, but no more so than the other steps of meth-making.
Chemistry supplies can be hard these days. I've just delivered some 4-nitroaniline to a friend, but I had to order it from some dodgy ebay seller in Ukraine - next we order the sulfuric acid. High-speed camera is ready to film. I think you can guess what we're planning to put on youtube.
Yes, we have a place out of doors and gloves to handle it - I know that stuff is really toxic.
You'd face objections from the family: They want their dead returned to them without any holes or gore. That's one of the main reasons fireing squad was abolished.
Justice has several purposes. Deterrance, protection, rehabilitation and 'retribution' - providing comfort to the victims. The problem is that there is another very negative element too: Collective vengence. The social desire to see those who offend society made to suffer. Worse, this can be counterproductive to the rehabilitation role: Programs aimed at educating prisoners are widely seen as 'soft on crime,' while there is widespread support for any policy that increases the difficulty released prisoners face in finding housing and employment. In large part due to this attitude, the prison system in many countries has turned into an industrial-scale system for taking minor offenders as input and turning them into hardened criminals with gang connections who, upon release, find themselves effectively unemployable and thus with a strong incentive to turn to serious crime.
The deterrance aspect only works for crimes in which the offender knows beforehand that they have a significent chance of getting caught.
Because it's too humane. The condemned doesn't just die peacefully, they die after a brief euphoria. For many people this offends their sense of justice: It feels like an evil person has gotten away because they didn't suffer sufficient pain to balance out their crime.
Or just nitrogen. Same effect, easier to handle. Just make sure you have an ECG hooked up too, so you can make sure the condemned is well and truly dead before you expose them to oxygen again.
There's a similar thing with ultra-orthodox Jews. It's only a tiny minority - most Jews are perfectly happy with sterile surgical scalpels. The ultra-orthodox though are ridiculously averse to change of any form (thus the name), and many insist on using the 'oral suction' technique in which the rabbi, having removed the foreskin with a traditional unsterilised blade, proceeds to suck upon the damaged penis in order to ensure a strong blood flow to flush the wound and promote healing. It's very prone to infections, but it's also the way they have been doing it for two and a half thousand years - and being ultra-orthodox, they are not willing to alter such a venerable tradition in even the slightest way.
Cleanliness might be a reason today, as there is some evidence that circumcision can reduce STI transmission (Though research that has yet to be reproduced and suffered from some flaws). That is not why it was introduced, nor is it the main reason the practice persists.
It was introduced in the US because it was thought at the time to be a prudent medical precaution against the dangers of masturbation in later life - something known to all at the time to be a cause of muscular atrophy, epilepsy and blindness. Medical science eventually marched on, but by that point the practice had become cultural: Men get their sons cut because they themselves were cut. It's just what people do.
Outside of the US, it's mostly a religious thing - or more cynically, tribal identity. It's something you do to children to mark them forever as 'one of us' and not like the outsider heathens.
I've got a Lenovo laptop where the firmware doesn't initialise the touchpad if you cold boot to linux. It's a slight annoyance. Strangely, it does work after a reboot. As I keep it on suspend, it's only a slight annoyance - just means that if I ever turn it right off, I have to then turn it on and reboot from software to get the touchpad back.
The problem is the same as everyone is complaining about: Like the vast majority of laptops, it was designed to run Windows. It was tested running Windows - certainly Windows 8, and I imagine Windows 7, Vista and XP for all those corporate customers who see no reason to update their standard build. There was never any plan to sell it with linux or support linux on it, so there was no reason for the developers to invest any resources in testing it properly under linux, and so any bugs that manifest only under linux went undetected and unfixed.
Google probably does. Facebook came up with the Open Compute project, so a lot of their servers are custom designed for their specific niche. I don't know who actually manufactures them, but they are probably made especially to order.
Blocking lists of proxy sites then means blocking sites that link to sites that link to sites that provide a service saying where to get the infringing material.
The only reason Google isn't blocked is that they have money and influence, as the filetype:torrent and intitle:"index of" are some of the resources most useful to pirates today.
Bigger issue: You can't drive an external display and charge at the same time. Eventually you'll run out of power and have to unplug your monitor to recharge.
The typical.11g wireless, the sort found in the vast majority of offices can, under ideal circumstances and at close range, without interference and with only one device connected, just about reach half the capacity of a 100mbit ethernet connection. Or about 5% that of gig-eth.
When effective enforcement isn't possible, one option is to resort to lottery enforcement and disproportionate consequences. You can't prosecute a million people for a crime - but you can prosecute a hundred and hit them with life-runing consequences that will destroy everything they have and everything they hold dear. Then you rely on intimidation to stop all the rest: Even if the risk of getting caught is very low, when the consequences are severe enough people will be too afraid to break the law.
I prefer to harness rather than fight the change in the language. It's going to happen, but that's not a problem: Pirates can be cool! Look how successful the Pirate Bay was - they took pirate into their name and their logo, turning it from an insult into an icon of pride.
If a human pilot can do it, so can a computerized landing system. It can use the ground marking as a fixed reference point to track it's own position, and react a lot faster than any pilot to quickly adjust thrust in response to any drift.
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I'm not sure exactly what commercial uses there are for really heavy launches. Comms and science do not need to be so large. Only thing I can think of is a space hotel, and that's not going to be commercially viable unless you can bring the human launch cost down far enough for the moderately rich to afford a holiday there, rather than just the obscenely rich. There aren't enough billionaires around to constitute a sufficient market.
Before you start trying to warn us:
- The outside area has very little in the way of animal life, and almost all the 4-nitroaniline should be used up. The very small quantity released will break down safely.
- We're ordering filter mask too. Probably overkill considering how small a quantity we are using, but better safe than sorry.
- I've read the MSDS.
I know this stuff is toxic, precautions are being taken. There's no real purpose to this: It's just for fun and youtube hits.
Tricky, but no more so than the other steps of meth-making.
Chemistry supplies can be hard these days. I've just delivered some 4-nitroaniline to a friend, but I had to order it from some dodgy ebay seller in Ukraine - next we order the sulfuric acid. High-speed camera is ready to film. I think you can guess what we're planning to put on youtube.
Yes, we have a place out of doors and gloves to handle it - I know that stuff is really toxic.
You'd face objections from the family: They want their dead returned to them without any holes or gore. That's one of the main reasons fireing squad was abolished.
Justice has several purposes. Deterrance, protection, rehabilitation and 'retribution' - providing comfort to the victims. The problem is that there is another very negative element too: Collective vengence. The social desire to see those who offend society made to suffer. Worse, this can be counterproductive to the rehabilitation role: Programs aimed at educating prisoners are widely seen as 'soft on crime,' while there is widespread support for any policy that increases the difficulty released prisoners face in finding housing and employment. In large part due to this attitude, the prison system in many countries has turned into an industrial-scale system for taking minor offenders as input and turning them into hardened criminals with gang connections who, upon release, find themselves effectively unemployable and thus with a strong incentive to turn to serious crime.
The deterrance aspect only works for crimes in which the offender knows beforehand that they have a significent chance of getting caught.
Because it's too humane. The condemned doesn't just die peacefully, they die after a brief euphoria. For many people this offends their sense of justice: It feels like an evil person has gotten away because they didn't suffer sufficient pain to balance out their crime.
Or just nitrogen. Same effect, easier to handle. Just make sure you have an ECG hooked up too, so you can make sure the condemned is well and truly dead before you expose them to oxygen again.
There's a similar thing with ultra-orthodox Jews. It's only a tiny minority - most Jews are perfectly happy with sterile surgical scalpels. The ultra-orthodox though are ridiculously averse to change of any form (thus the name), and many insist on using the 'oral suction' technique in which the rabbi, having removed the foreskin with a traditional unsterilised blade, proceeds to suck upon the damaged penis in order to ensure a strong blood flow to flush the wound and promote healing. It's very prone to infections, but it's also the way they have been doing it for two and a half thousand years - and being ultra-orthodox, they are not willing to alter such a venerable tradition in even the slightest way.
Cleanliness might be a reason today, as there is some evidence that circumcision can reduce STI transmission (Though research that has yet to be reproduced and suffered from some flaws). That is not why it was introduced, nor is it the main reason the practice persists.
It was introduced in the US because it was thought at the time to be a prudent medical precaution against the dangers of masturbation in later life - something known to all at the time to be a cause of muscular atrophy, epilepsy and blindness. Medical science eventually marched on, but by that point the practice had become cultural: Men get their sons cut because they themselves were cut. It's just what people do.
Outside of the US, it's mostly a religious thing - or more cynically, tribal identity. It's something you do to children to mark them forever as 'one of us' and not like the outsider heathens.
Which is actually a nice simple molecule, and not too difficult to synthesize.
Or tetrahydrofuran. I had a very hard time getting hold of that stuff for an experiment.
The stomach is very bad at absorbing, due to the fairly smooth and acid-proof lining, but small molecules can slip through. Like ethanol or water.
Is it any easier to sneak than a mini vodka bottle?
I've got a Lenovo laptop where the firmware doesn't initialise the touchpad if you cold boot to linux. It's a slight annoyance. Strangely, it does work after a reboot. As I keep it on suspend, it's only a slight annoyance - just means that if I ever turn it right off, I have to then turn it on and reboot from software to get the touchpad back.
The problem is the same as everyone is complaining about: Like the vast majority of laptops, it was designed to run Windows. It was tested running Windows - certainly Windows 8, and I imagine Windows 7, Vista and XP for all those corporate customers who see no reason to update their standard build. There was never any plan to sell it with linux or support linux on it, so there was no reason for the developers to invest any resources in testing it properly under linux, and so any bugs that manifest only under linux went undetected and unfixed.
Google probably does. Facebook came up with the Open Compute project, so a lot of their servers are custom designed for their specific niche. I don't know who actually manufactures them, but they are probably made especially to order.
Sometimes you have to make do with the hardware you have.
Blocking lists of proxy sites then means blocking sites that link to sites that link to sites that provide a service saying where to get the infringing material.
The only reason Google isn't blocked is that they have money and influence, as the filetype:torrent and intitle:"index of" are some of the resources most useful to pirates today.
Bigger issue: You can't drive an external display and charge at the same time. Eventually you'll run out of power and have to unplug your monitor to recharge.
The typical .11g wireless, the sort found in the vast majority of offices can, under ideal circumstances and at close range, without interference and with only one device connected, just about reach half the capacity of a 100mbit ethernet connection. Or about 5% that of gig-eth.
He hasn't said much of anything yet. He made a political announcement, not a practical one.
And are reaching the same point. The upgrade cycle is lengthening. Manufacturers are having to turn to fashion as their model to drive sales now.
When effective enforcement isn't possible, one option is to resort to lottery enforcement and disproportionate consequences. You can't prosecute a million people for a crime - but you can prosecute a hundred and hit them with life-runing consequences that will destroy everything they have and everything they hold dear. Then you rely on intimidation to stop all the rest: Even if the risk of getting caught is very low, when the consequences are severe enough people will be too afraid to break the law.
I prefer to harness rather than fight the change in the language. It's going to happen, but that's not a problem: Pirates can be cool! Look how successful the Pirate Bay was - they took pirate into their name and their logo, turning it from an insult into an icon of pride.
I don't know anything about the music industry, but the movie industry is quite well-known for using the dodgiest of dodgy accounting.
If a human pilot can do it, so can a computerized landing system. It can use the ground marking as a fixed reference point to track it's own position, and react a lot faster than any pilot to quickly adjust thrust in response to any drift.