I'll have to look into that approach. I don't know my current requirements, they would need to be determined experimentally, but my plan is to have a circular (ring) anode and a spherical cathode in the middle, with the electrons thus forced to take a spiral path - much like in a magnatron, except without the vacuum.
I did determine that it's very hard to strike an arc in a strong magnetic field.
See the 'visibly bloody' comment. Though you're right: If the condemned were fed in head-first, they'd be incapable of feeling pain in about a third of a second. So it's not quite painless, but certainly quick.
I've been looking into making one myself as a hobby project, to go with my can-crusher/disc-launcher. So far it's gotten as far as generating a very strong magnetic field (Solonoid, and it draws 500A at 12V - I'm powering it off an ultracap bank). Progress stopped there, because the next part of my design requires a supply of at least fifty kilovolts, DC, and that doesn't rectify easily. It'd need specialised, very expensive parts.
The end goal is to flick marbles at it and watch them bounce off.
The Russians have nuclear weapons. The only thing stopping them from invading anyone they want is knowing that if they launch an open war then the rest of the world will turn on them. Locals with rifles can't hope to stop an army with bombers and tanks - the best they can achieve is a long insurgency that makes the prospect of invasion much less attractive (See Afganistan, Iraq). That's why Russia is using the 'deniable invasion' - inciting chaos then moving troops in for claimed humanitarian reasons to help restore order.
Companies do have a 'corporate culture' - the collective personality of all the decision-makers. Some of these are more friendly to society in general than others.
Well, we had *one* genocide... and didn't the US have their own continential war, too?
Do you really think widespread gun ownership would have stopped the holocaust? I can tell you exactly what would happen: The Nazis would march into the ghetto to round up some jews. A few jews would fight back and kill some Nazi soldiers. Then some more Nazi soldiers would go in after them - but this time in armored vehicles carrying machine guns on top, preceeded by smoke and gas grenades.
The government has more guns then you. They have bigger guns than you. They have better-trained men to operate the guns.
You mean that bit about 'a well-regulated militia?' The constitution spells out exactly what those guns are for, and it isn't individual defense. It's national defense, dating back to a time when warfare was still about vast armies meeting in open battle.
Accidents, too. There are quite a few children die from playing with guns.
The obvious advice is to keep your gun unloaded and in a locked cupboard, but that defeats the point of having one for self-defense: If the burgler is breaking into your home, you don't want to spend two minutes fumbling around for the key in a drawer, unlocking the cupboard and putting the bullets in. There's a reason people sleep beside them, ready to grab at a moment's notice.
Among other things, it requires members impliment some new intellectual property protection measures that are stricter even than those in the US. Mostly streamlining of enforcement by removing those time-consuming things like courts from the legal process. For a specific example, it makes it trivial for a copyright holder or an exclusive distributor to get an import ban not only on infringing products, but on products not licensed for distribution in that country. In practical terms that means banning the grey import market - you won't be able to, say, buy a DVD boxed set of a series from the US and have it delivered to Australia because the Australian distribution rights have been sold to another company who is only going to start selling it six months later and for three times the price. Or you won't be able to buy imported DVDs of your favorate anime series in the US because 4Kids has purchased the rights to import it and will only sell their heavily-censored version in which rice balls have been translated into donuts.
Because it isn't reliably painless. It depends upon the skill of the executioner to avoid pain. That was the problem with hanging, too: It could be painless if done right, but it was also really easy to botch. Also, anything to visibly bloody tends to unsettle people. The contradiction of modern execution: It needs to be painful enough to satisfy people's instinctive desire to see evil-doers punished, but clean enough that the barbarism can then be denied.
Any idiot can turn the nitrogen valve and wait until the ECG graph has been flat for ten minutes.
Painless, reliable, simple execution actually isn't hard. Nitrogen asphyxiation does the job nicely. You won't see it used though, precisely because it is painless, even briefly euphoric. A lot of people, including many in congress, believe that justice is not served if the guilty are not made to suffer - the idea that murderers might die peacefully is intolerable.
1. See conventional finance. 2. See conventional finance.
There are some valid criticisms to make (The idea of a deflationary currency will have economists collapsed in the floor laughing at how stupid that is), but yours are not really good ones.
There's a widespread distrust of the conventional finance system, as it's reached the point where there are so many levels of abstraction that few people can understand how it actually works any more. Bitcoin has serious flaws, but it's part of an effort to find a technological solution.
The blockchain records the coin split. It can also record coin fractions being rejoined to conserve space. The bitcoin is just a fundamental unit, like the dollar. It can still be divided.
I said 'can be' good advice. Some people have the self-control for it to work. Many more do not. There's a tendency to shame those who lack control and assume it's a personal weakness, rather than admitting that it is just human nature.
That can be good advice for individuals, but as health policy it's terrible. Humans are largely unable to resist their instincts for long by willpower alone - that's why abstinence-only education fails.
Google isn't planning to make money on their investment. It's more strategic for them. Faster internet promotes their other services, and undermines the ability of ISPs to extort money from them as they are for Netflix.
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I'll have to look into that approach. I don't know my current requirements, they would need to be determined experimentally, but my plan is to have a circular (ring) anode and a spherical cathode in the middle, with the electrons thus forced to take a spiral path - much like in a magnatron, except without the vacuum.
I did determine that it's very hard to strike an arc in a strong magnetic field.
See the 'visibly bloody' comment. Though you're right: If the condemned were fed in head-first, they'd be incapable of feeling pain in about a third of a second. So it's not quite painless, but certainly quick.
There is no furry sex in the Ringworld series.
- A genuine furry. Note the username.
I've been looking into making one myself as a hobby project, to go with my can-crusher/disc-launcher. So far it's gotten as far as generating a very strong magnetic field (Solonoid, and it draws 500A at 12V - I'm powering it off an ultracap bank). Progress stopped there, because the next part of my design requires a supply of at least fifty kilovolts, DC, and that doesn't rectify easily. It'd need specialised, very expensive parts.
The end goal is to flick marbles at it and watch them bounce off.
NASA has no heavy lift rockets.
France has.
They are quite happy to let NASA buy a launch on an Ariane 5. It'll do twenty-one tons to LEO.
The Russians have nuclear weapons. The only thing stopping them from invading anyone they want is knowing that if they launch an open war then the rest of the world will turn on them. Locals with rifles can't hope to stop an army with bombers and tanks - the best they can achieve is a long insurgency that makes the prospect of invasion much less attractive (See Afganistan, Iraq). That's why Russia is using the 'deniable invasion' - inciting chaos then moving troops in for claimed humanitarian reasons to help restore order.
Companies do have a 'corporate culture' - the collective personality of all the decision-makers. Some of these are more friendly to society in general than others.
Well, we had *one* genocide... and didn't the US have their own continential war, too?
Do you really think widespread gun ownership would have stopped the holocaust? I can tell you exactly what would happen: The Nazis would march into the ghetto to round up some jews. A few jews would fight back and kill some Nazi soldiers. Then some more Nazi soldiers would go in after them - but this time in armored vehicles carrying machine guns on top, preceeded by smoke and gas grenades.
The government has more guns then you. They have bigger guns than you. They have better-trained men to operate the guns.
You mean that bit about 'a well-regulated militia?' The constitution spells out exactly what those guns are for, and it isn't individual defense. It's national defense, dating back to a time when warfare was still about vast armies meeting in open battle.
At least the autos are bringing a clear benefit to society. Guns, not so much. They are heavily restricted in most of Europe, and we do just fine.
Accidents, too. There are quite a few children die from playing with guns.
The obvious advice is to keep your gun unloaded and in a locked cupboard, but that defeats the point of having one for self-defense: If the burgler is breaking into your home, you don't want to spend two minutes fumbling around for the key in a drawer, unlocking the cupboard and putting the bullets in. There's a reason people sleep beside them, ready to grab at a moment's notice.
Among other things, it requires members impliment some new intellectual property protection measures that are stricter even than those in the US. Mostly streamlining of enforcement by removing those time-consuming things like courts from the legal process. For a specific example, it makes it trivial for a copyright holder or an exclusive distributor to get an import ban not only on infringing products, but on products not licensed for distribution in that country. In practical terms that means banning the grey import market - you won't be able to, say, buy a DVD boxed set of a series from the US and have it delivered to Australia because the Australian distribution rights have been sold to another company who is only going to start selling it six months later and for three times the price. Or you won't be able to buy imported DVDs of your favorate anime series in the US because 4Kids has purchased the rights to import it and will only sell their heavily-censored version in which rice balls have been translated into donuts.
Because it isn't reliably painless. It depends upon the skill of the executioner to avoid pain. That was the problem with hanging, too: It could be painless if done right, but it was also really easy to botch. Also, anything to visibly bloody tends to unsettle people. The contradiction of modern execution: It needs to be painful enough to satisfy people's instinctive desire to see evil-doers punished, but clean enough that the barbarism can then be denied.
Any idiot can turn the nitrogen valve and wait until the ECG graph has been flat for ten minutes.
Painless, reliable, simple execution actually isn't hard. Nitrogen asphyxiation does the job nicely. You won't see it used though, precisely because it is painless, even briefly euphoric. A lot of people, including many in congress, believe that justice is not served if the guilty are not made to suffer - the idea that murderers might die peacefully is intolerable.
That's socialist talk!
1. See conventional finance.
2. See conventional finance.
There are some valid criticisms to make (The idea of a deflationary currency will have economists collapsed in the floor laughing at how stupid that is), but yours are not really good ones.
As do I. As do many
It would mutate into 'driving while looking at a police officer in an insulting manner.'
There's a widespread distrust of the conventional finance system, as it's reached the point where there are so many levels of abstraction that few people can understand how it actually works any more. Bitcoin has serious flaws, but it's part of an effort to find a technological solution.
Mathemagic.
The blockchain records the coin split. It can also record coin fractions being rejoined to conserve space. The bitcoin is just a fundamental unit, like the dollar. It can still be divided.
Where the bugs in the code are silverfish.
And sure enough, an inert body in deep space will end up very cold. It is indeed cold, just takes time to get that way.
I said 'can be' good advice. Some people have the self-control for it to work. Many more do not. There's a tendency to shame those who lack control and assume it's a personal weakness, rather than admitting that it is just human nature.
That can be good advice for individuals, but as health policy it's terrible. Humans are largely unable to resist their instincts for long by willpower alone - that's why abstinence-only education fails.
Google isn't planning to make money on their investment. It's more strategic for them. Faster internet promotes their other services, and undermines the ability of ISPs to extort money from them as they are for Netflix.