Because often a part of divorce proceedings is child custody. The way to get the children is to convince the court that your partner would be a poor parent. If you can make them look like a weirdo or a pervert, that's a significent advantage. While looking at internet pornography is very common, it's also something socially condemned, and revealing it in court could tip the balance.
Gallium is also used as an exotic coolant. The type of thing overclocking enthusiasts might play with in their bid to get a higher clock rate than their peers. It's got excellent thermal conductivity and capacity - and being an electrical conductor, you can pump it magnetically, so your pump has no moving parts and runs silently.
The melting point is a little too high, but you can alloy it with some other metals to bring it to below room temperature. It's still more compatible with other metals than mercury, and not quite as toxic.
RTGs do have civilian uses. The soviet union used to use a great many of them for powering control systems in remote locations like lighthouses. More than a few went missing when the country collapsed. You'd probably do it on solar these days, but that doesn't work at extreme latitudes.
I've read of hobbyist chemists having to buy hair bleach and concentrate it to get H2O2.
I don't know how you'd go about making HCL, short of distilling one's own vomit, but I'm sure there's a way. Which shows how ineffective these restrictions are.
Ive run up against them myself in 3D printing, when I needed tetrahydrofuran to experiment with solvent smoothing of PLA prints. It proved almost impossible to get - even though it isn't legally controlled in any way, no reputable chemical supplier will ship to a non-business address because it can be used in recreational drugs manufacture. Eventually I had to import it from some dodgy Polish firm with an eBay store.
Once I was able to run some experiments, I found dichloromethane gave better results anyway. It's also easier to obtain.
Then some success has been had: They now know of a compound engine design that doesn't work very well. Time to go figure out why it exploded, and how to make sure it doesn't happen again.
We have ridiculously expensive spaceships. SpacePlaneTwo is never going to go into orbit, true. But it is serving as a testbed for a spaceplane technology, something that right now we don't have - and something that, if refined, could make the cost of getting into orbit a lot lower. Lower cost in turn makes it possible to do all sorts of long-term things that right now are simply too expensive.
You don't want to raise and lower any high-mass structures on a regular basis. It uses propellant. Quite a lot of it, proportional to mass. If you're looking at a space tourist destination, you'd want to place it as far down as atmosphere allows in LEO, and keep it there. Probably not far above the ISS, though in less inclined orbit. You can't dock without matching velocity, so your spaceplane would need to be able to reach that orbit too. SpaceShipTwo isn't going to do it, it just isn't capable of that kind of delta-V, but maybe its successor will one day. A SSTO spaceplane could potentially be a lot cheaper than the 'strapped to a firework' method currently used, but the technology is still some way off.
The issue isn't getting high. It's making orbit - something that requires you first get high, and then achieve a huge change in velocity once you get there. If you just get into space without that change in velocity afterwards, you're going to come right back down again.
Assymetric wars do provide an incentive to invest in and research new and more sophisticated means of mass-surveilance. That's a very useful capability. If you can intercept and analyse every phone call, text message and email for a country then you have a powerful too for identifying who is a militent and where their key locations are. As an added bonus, with a trivial adjustment it'll be able to identify people who are critcising the government and highlight them for imprisonment.
He may have a point though. Russia is one of those countries where one man pretty much dicates things: What Putin orders, Russia does. He depends upon maintaining a high level of national pride and patriotism, which is aided by showboating exercises. I doubt that's the case here, because it's just not being shown off - if this were a stunt, Putin would be proclaiming it on state TV, not trying to deny it.
It's a satellite. It's small. It's secret. So the obvious theories are more likely: It's probably a test platform for something Russia doesn't want rival countries to find out about, either because it has military applications or commercial applications. Maybe it's a new anti-sat weapon, or Russia is conducting their own tests on new thruster technologies.
Pirates have been known to tap into theater sound. Use the induction loop for hearing aids. You only get mono, but it's still better than the background noise of the audience shuffling, eating and chatting.
Encryption and layers of security have given individuals the ability to strongly protect their information. The error is in thinking that they will do so. The unpleasant truth is that most people don't actually care that much about their privacy, aside from what will become known to their circle of contacts. They would be horrified at the idea of their parents knowing about their habbit of reading erotic fiction involving gryphons in bondage and [CENSORED] being '[CENSORED],' but the idea of some technicians or data-analysts at Google or a bored contractor at the NSA finding out doesn't bother them - and they are happy enough to post slightly less damaging information like their schedule to social media every five minutes.
The only way this could change would be through some high-profile abuses of this information - eg, by seeing more people being fired because the boss was offended by something from their facebook page, or turned down for insurance because the provider paid for access to their online gaming records and classified them as reckless and lacking spartial intelligence. That isn't likely to happen though, because any company with a half-decent legal advisor will know the importance of deniability and the value of a vague 'your application was not successful' letter.
You make a good point, but it would be an error to accept your general argument in all cases. There are situations where government intervention is the best tool to solve a problem, but many people are so strong in defaulting to the 'more government is bad' position that they are unable to admit when these situations arise.
You break the brag-barrier. Those round numbers aren't especially important in mathematics or engineering, but human cultures today use base ten, so they are important psychologically. That's why the 99-cents/pence on store prices works.
Yes, but it means going via an exit node. Exit notes can't sniff or meddle in your traffic if you use SSL, but they are under high contention. Few people are willing to take the legal risk of running one, as it carries a possibility of being falsely accused of a serious crime.
I suspect the point is part publicity stunt, and partly an effort to guard against any countries that may take measures to block access to facebook. The use of SSL alone can force those countries to go to an 'all or nothing' approach to censorship, but TOR accessibility means that even if they block the site by DNS and IP users can still get through with a little more effort. This is important not only from a free speech point of view*, but commercially to ensure those countries remain full of potential users.
*Much as I hate to say this, facebook is actually useful for something. Occasionally. Like organising protests and disseminating accounts of abuses of power.
The 'gay==hiv' thing was true, once - the disease was first detected in the gay population and spread quickly through that group. Twenty years ago. All the best myths have a grain of truth in them, and in this one the truth is that the claim was once right - it is simply outdated. It persists because it reenforces something that many people desperately wish were true - the idea that there could be a concrete, scientific way to show that homosexuality harms society and should be prohibited.
No, but we're getting there. Like with race: The true end of that campaign can be declared not when the country has a black president, but when no-one notices.
That would screw up the advertising model. If they aren't using a continuous broadcast, how do they interupt the programme every ten minues to put a commercial break in?
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Because often a part of divorce proceedings is child custody. The way to get the children is to convince the court that your partner would be a poor parent. If you can make them look like a weirdo or a pervert, that's a significent advantage. While looking at internet pornography is very common, it's also something socially condemned, and revealing it in court could tip the balance.
Gallium is also used as an exotic coolant. The type of thing overclocking enthusiasts might play with in their bid to get a higher clock rate than their peers. It's got excellent thermal conductivity and capacity - and being an electrical conductor, you can pump it magnetically, so your pump has no moving parts and runs silently.
The melting point is a little too high, but you can alloy it with some other metals to bring it to below room temperature. It's still more compatible with other metals than mercury, and not quite as toxic.
RTGs do have civilian uses. The soviet union used to use a great many of them for powering control systems in remote locations like lighthouses. More than a few went missing when the country collapsed. You'd probably do it on solar these days, but that doesn't work at extreme latitudes.
It's 'aluminium' in every country except for the US. Once again, you just have to be different.
I managed to get propanone off eBay without any trouble, but you just try getting tetrahydrofuran in the UK!
I've read of hobbyist chemists having to buy hair bleach and concentrate it to get H2O2.
I don't know how you'd go about making HCL, short of distilling one's own vomit, but I'm sure there's a way. Which shows how ineffective these restrictions are.
Ive run up against them myself in 3D printing, when I needed tetrahydrofuran to experiment with solvent smoothing of PLA prints. It proved almost impossible to get - even though it isn't legally controlled in any way, no reputable chemical supplier will ship to a non-business address because it can be used in recreational drugs manufacture. Eventually I had to import it from some dodgy Polish firm with an eBay store.
Once I was able to run some experiments, I found dichloromethane gave better results anyway. It's also easier to obtain.
Then some success has been had: They now know of a compound engine design that doesn't work very well. Time to go figure out why it exploded, and how to make sure it doesn't happen again.
This is why Concorde had such a small market. The only people who might use it were those who had a lot of money, and not enough time.
We have ridiculously expensive spaceships. SpacePlaneTwo is never going to go into orbit, true. But it is serving as a testbed for a spaceplane technology, something that right now we don't have - and something that, if refined, could make the cost of getting into orbit a lot lower. Lower cost in turn makes it possible to do all sorts of long-term things that right now are simply too expensive.
You don't want to raise and lower any high-mass structures on a regular basis. It uses propellant. Quite a lot of it, proportional to mass. If you're looking at a space tourist destination, you'd want to place it as far down as atmosphere allows in LEO, and keep it there. Probably not far above the ISS, though in less inclined orbit. You can't dock without matching velocity, so your spaceplane would need to be able to reach that orbit too. SpaceShipTwo isn't going to do it, it just isn't capable of that kind of delta-V, but maybe its successor will one day. A SSTO spaceplane could potentially be a lot cheaper than the 'strapped to a firework' method currently used, but the technology is still some way off.
The issue isn't getting high. It's making orbit - something that requires you first get high, and then achieve a huge change in velocity once you get there. If you just get into space without that change in velocity afterwards, you're going to come right back down again.
Assymetric wars do provide an incentive to invest in and research new and more sophisticated means of mass-surveilance. That's a very useful capability. If you can intercept and analyse every phone call, text message and email for a country then you have a powerful too for identifying who is a militent and where their key locations are. As an added bonus, with a trivial adjustment it'll be able to identify people who are critcising the government and highlight them for imprisonment.
People with that much money don't pay taxes.
He may have a point though. Russia is one of those countries where one man pretty much dicates things: What Putin orders, Russia does. He depends upon maintaining a high level of national pride and patriotism, which is aided by showboating exercises. I doubt that's the case here, because it's just not being shown off - if this were a stunt, Putin would be proclaiming it on state TV, not trying to deny it.
It's a satellite. It's small. It's secret. So the obvious theories are more likely: It's probably a test platform for something Russia doesn't want rival countries to find out about, either because it has military applications or commercial applications. Maybe it's a new anti-sat weapon, or Russia is conducting their own tests on new thruster technologies.
The only reason cam copies exist is for those who just cannot wait a little longer to see the film in decent quality.
Pirates have been known to tap into theater sound. Use the induction loop for hearing aids. You only get mono, but it's still better than the background noise of the audience shuffling, eating and chatting.
How do you enforce that without a ban? Anyone can stick a bit of tape over the LED.
Encryption and layers of security have given individuals the ability to strongly protect their information. The error is in thinking that they will do so. The unpleasant truth is that most people don't actually care that much about their privacy, aside from what will become known to their circle of contacts. They would be horrified at the idea of their parents knowing about their habbit of reading erotic fiction involving gryphons in bondage and [CENSORED] being '[CENSORED],' but the idea of some technicians or data-analysts at Google or a bored contractor at the NSA finding out doesn't bother them - and they are happy enough to post slightly less damaging information like their schedule to social media every five minutes.
The only way this could change would be through some high-profile abuses of this information - eg, by seeing more people being fired because the boss was offended by something from their facebook page, or turned down for insurance because the provider paid for access to their online gaming records and classified them as reckless and lacking spartial intelligence. That isn't likely to happen though, because any company with a half-decent legal advisor will know the importance of deniability and the value of a vague 'your application was not successful' letter.
You make a good point, but it would be an error to accept your general argument in all cases. There are situations where government intervention is the best tool to solve a problem, but many people are so strong in defaulting to the 'more government is bad' position that they are unable to admit when these situations arise.
You break the brag-barrier. Those round numbers aren't especially important in mathematics or engineering, but human cultures today use base ten, so they are important psychologically. That's why the 99-cents/pence on store prices works.
Yes, but it means going via an exit node. Exit notes can't sniff or meddle in your traffic if you use SSL, but they are under high contention. Few people are willing to take the legal risk of running one, as it carries a possibility of being falsely accused of a serious crime.
I suspect the point is part publicity stunt, and partly an effort to guard against any countries that may take measures to block access to facebook. The use of SSL alone can force those countries to go to an 'all or nothing' approach to censorship, but TOR accessibility means that even if they block the site by DNS and IP users can still get through with a little more effort. This is important not only from a free speech point of view*, but commercially to ensure those countries remain full of potential users.
*Much as I hate to say this, facebook is actually useful for something. Occasionally. Like organising protests and disseminating accounts of abuses of power.
The 'gay==hiv' thing was true, once - the disease was first detected in the gay population and spread quickly through that group. Twenty years ago. All the best myths have a grain of truth in them, and in this one the truth is that the claim was once right - it is simply outdated. It persists because it reenforces something that many people desperately wish were true - the idea that there could be a concrete, scientific way to show that homosexuality harms society and should be prohibited.
Then why are infertile couples allowed to get married?
No, but we're getting there. Like with race: The true end of that campaign can be declared not when the country has a black president, but when no-one notices.
That would screw up the advertising model. If they aren't using a continuous broadcast, how do they interupt the programme every ten minues to put a commercial break in?