He3 is fuel for reactors we don't even know how to build yet. The moon is a very useful place to have a base scientifically (Great for astronomy in all bands) but commercially, not much use. There's no money in it. The ore isn't good enough to pay for the cost of getting it, communications and earth science are better done in more-affordable earth orbit, it's too far to transmit power. It could serve as a good waypoint for longer journeys, manufacturing fuel in the shallow gravity well, but there's no commercial possibility further out either. Lofty dreams of colonising space don't pay the bills.
We'll probably still be saying that when the meteor hits.
This 'humane punishment' think is really quite recent, historically. Go back just a couple of hundred years and look at all the inventive ways that 'civilised' societies came up with to make sure punishments were properly agonising, as well as suitably spectacular at times to put on a big public show.
There's still something of a relic of that. Look at executions in the US - while openly there is a lot of concern about making it humane and painless, this isn't really what is done. Killing someone painlessly isn't hard - it's done all the time for animals, a simple nitrogen asphyxiation, almost trivial, essentially infallible and certainly routine. But instead states use things like an elaborate three-drug sequential method that has a good chance to inflict a period of agony before death, and before that used things like poison gas that burns any mucus membrane it touches or a death by execution so slow and unreliable it often had to be repeated. There's no political will to introduce nitrogen execution, precisely because it has no possibility of being painful.
Of course they could, if they were targeting me. But it's beyond the reach of any automated advertising-data-gathering system, and cannot be easily tied to the social media identity of anyone who downloads from it it. If anyone wants to spy, they'll have to get an actual human to do the job.
Investigations cost time and money, and can potentially be embarassing. So prosecutors really want to skip all of that and just get a nice simply guilty plea. They have a few tricks to make that happen, the most obvious being the use of threats - they'll come up with a list of charges long enough to get you jailed for fifty years or more, but then generously agree to drop almost all of them if you back down then and there and agree to plead guilty to the most minor ones and just do a couple of years or pay a big fine. Often the charges they threaten with are unlikely to hold up in court, but it doesn't matter - the possibility alone can be sufficiently intimidating.
The police themselves are just doing the groundwork. If they can secure the confession first it saves prosecutor-time, and they get all the glory for themselves too.
I would guess that what they really mean is PRISM captures and stores everything, but their agents are under orders only to look at specified email addresses. Probably with an audit trail if they go beyond this.
They make the pricy stuff, out of the range of most hobbyists. Higher margins in components, higher rated voltage tolerance. They are also well known for their cable certifiers, which would mostly set me back a month's wages.
I took have a yellow meter, made by BT. I understand it was only ever issued to BT employees, so it's quite exclusive. No special phone features though, it's just your basic V-I-R meter. Got a nice 10A setting, though.
I've never worked for BT, but a relative did. I got this off him.
Multimeters generally all look much alike. I've not looked at the pictures, but let me guess: Is it boxy, with a numeric LCD at the top and a big knob you can turn on the front? Probably with red and black wires coming out, or a row of sockets to plug those wires in to?
Apple computers and Apple music have actually gone to court over that several times. Always ends in a settlement.
The first time, Apple computer agreed not to enter the music or musical equipment business. The second time, it was after macs with decent audio capability were out - the two Apples disagreed if those qualified as musical equipment. The third time, Apple computer had to reach a new agreement so they could launch iTunes. So they paid over a pile-o-money for an agreement to use the Apple name in music retail.
Trademark, not copyright. Though often lumped together along with patents under the heading of 'intellectual property' they are actually unrelated areas of law with little in common.
Unless you need some specialist features like transistor testing, multimeters are basically interchangeable.
Voltage, current, resistance, continuity/diode test with a beeper. Those are the 'standard package' - it covers the vast majority of use cases, and every meter I've ever seen has them except one - an old analog meter that had a continuity/diode check, but didn't beep.
If they are willing to spend the resources to store thirty days of phone calls, they probably are storing a lot more than thirty days of textual data - text takes up very little space. I imagine every SMS message, email and IM communication they can obtain is kept for a few years.
This is a good chance to plug Retroshare. Go get it. Tell your friends to get it. Annoy the NSA with an IM program even they can't monitor on a large scale.
Sure, an oversight committee would be a good idea. But are they going to be able to actually do their job? High-ranking officials in the NSA have already demonstrated they are willing to outright lie to congress, so why would they be any more honest here?
We'll just end up with a committee that isn't allowed to know about the things they should be monitoring, wouldn't be told if they were allowed to know, and can't actually do anything about any abuses they do find beyond politely reminding the NSA that their actions are probably illegal.
"they would probably kill all the birds and raise yams or something that had a better ROI. "
Reminds me of the 'Highland Clearances' of Scotland. Landowners realised that they had farmer tenants living on land which would have a better ROI were it instead used used to raise sheep. Forceful evictions followed, leaving many families suddenly kicked out of their homes with almost no notice.
The one who published a (ghostwritten, but nothing unusual there) autobiography an inch thick, including many stories of his family life and childhood?
Because Palin was a soundbite politician. She had an open distaste for carefully considering all sides of an issue, favoring the use of quick slogans ('Drill Baby Drill') to win over the unthinking. It's always hard to tell a politicians image from reality - behind closed doors she could have been a genius in all things - but the image she carefully projected was of the quick-thinking renegade who didn't have the time to actually read any reports or listen to advisers, but instead promised she could run a country on gut instinct and American luck.
Pretty much. Obama ran on the platform of 'change.' He isn't bringing it. The only reason his supporters continued to support him last election was because a democrat not advancing their agenda would still be better than a republican openly fighting against it.
The problem with homeschooling is consistency. It's also commonly used by parents who just want to mold their children into little duplicates of themselves - which is exactly what you are doing. Fine for you, you sound like a good person to duplicate, but there's a reason much of the homeschool movement in the US is run by fundamentalists who want to shield their children from 'evilution' and make sure they grow up to be flag-waving american-exceptionalist patriots.
Unfortunately most parents are not so intellectually capable nor so intellectually honest as yourself, so homeschooling is really not a good general solution.
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He3 is fuel for reactors we don't even know how to build yet. The moon is a very useful place to have a base scientifically (Great for astronomy in all bands) but commercially, not much use. There's no money in it. The ore isn't good enough to pay for the cost of getting it, communications and earth science are better done in more-affordable earth orbit, it's too far to transmit power. It could serve as a good waypoint for longer journeys, manufacturing fuel in the shallow gravity well, but there's no commercial possibility further out either. Lofty dreams of colonising space don't pay the bills.
We'll probably still be saying that when the meteor hits.
Once you're making enough money though, you can start using 'tax efficient' accounting schemes to avoid paying anything at all.
This 'humane punishment' think is really quite recent, historically. Go back just a couple of hundred years and look at all the inventive ways that 'civilised' societies came up with to make sure punishments were properly agonising, as well as suitably spectacular at times to put on a big public show.
There's still something of a relic of that. Look at executions in the US - while openly there is a lot of concern about making it humane and painless, this isn't really what is done. Killing someone painlessly isn't hard - it's done all the time for animals, a simple nitrogen asphyxiation, almost trivial, essentially infallible and certainly routine. But instead states use things like an elaborate three-drug sequential method that has a good chance to inflict a period of agony before death, and before that used things like poison gas that burns any mucus membrane it touches or a death by execution so slow and unreliable it often had to be repeated. There's no political will to introduce nitrogen execution, precisely because it has no possibility of being painful.
* Satisfying the public's hunger to see those who violate the social rules made to suffer.
Humans are not all peace-and-love hippies. They are vicious, hateful bunch.
Of course they could, if they were targeting me. But it's beyond the reach of any automated advertising-data-gathering system, and cannot be easily tied to the social media identity of anyone who downloads from it it. If anyone wants to spy, they'll have to get an actual human to do the job.
I don't trust anyone, so I wrote my own primitive-but-effective filelocker script and put it on a VM I rent.
Investigations cost time and money, and can potentially be embarassing. So prosecutors really want to skip all of that and just get a nice simply guilty plea. They have a few tricks to make that happen, the most obvious being the use of threats - they'll come up with a list of charges long enough to get you jailed for fifty years or more, but then generously agree to drop almost all of them if you back down then and there and agree to plead guilty to the most minor ones and just do a couple of years or pay a big fine. Often the charges they threaten with are unlikely to hold up in court, but it doesn't matter - the possibility alone can be sufficiently intimidating.
The police themselves are just doing the groundwork. If they can secure the confession first it saves prosecutor-time, and they get all the glory for themselves too.
I would guess that what they really mean is PRISM captures and stores everything, but their agents are under orders only to look at specified email addresses. Probably with an audit trail if they go beyond this.
They make the pricy stuff, out of the range of most hobbyists. Higher margins in components, higher rated voltage tolerance. They are also well known for their cable certifiers, which would mostly set me back a month's wages.
I took have a yellow meter, made by BT. I understand it was only ever issued to BT employees, so it's quite exclusive. No special phone features though, it's just your basic V-I-R meter. Got a nice 10A setting, though.
I've never worked for BT, but a relative did. I got this off him.
Multimeters generally all look much alike. I've not looked at the pictures, but let me guess: Is it boxy, with a numeric LCD at the top and a big knob you can turn on the front? Probably with red and black wires coming out, or a row of sockets to plug those wires in to?
Apple computers and Apple music have actually gone to court over that several times. Always ends in a settlement.
The first time, Apple computer agreed not to enter the music or musical equipment business.
The second time, it was after macs with decent audio capability were out - the two Apples disagreed if those qualified as musical equipment.
The third time, Apple computer had to reach a new agreement so they could launch iTunes. So they paid over a pile-o-money for an agreement to use the Apple name in music retail.
Trademark, not copyright. Though often lumped together along with patents under the heading of 'intellectual property' they are actually unrelated areas of law with little in common.
Here in the UK, there are registered trademarks on the colors orange and red.
They belong to the telecoms company Orange and the Post Office* respectively.
*Privatised years ago.
Unless you need some specialist features like transistor testing, multimeters are basically interchangeable.
Voltage, current, resistance, continuity/diode test with a beeper. Those are the 'standard package' - it covers the vast majority of use cases, and every meter I've ever seen has them except one - an old analog meter that had a continuity/diode check, but didn't beep.
If they are willing to spend the resources to store thirty days of phone calls, they probably are storing a lot more than thirty days of textual data - text takes up very little space. I imagine every SMS message, email and IM communication they can obtain is kept for a few years.
This is a good chance to plug Retroshare. Go get it. Tell your friends to get it. Annoy the NSA with an IM program even they can't monitor on a large scale.
Sure, an oversight committee would be a good idea. But are they going to be able to actually do their job? High-ranking officials in the NSA have already demonstrated they are willing to outright lie to congress, so why would they be any more honest here?
We'll just end up with a committee that isn't allowed to know about the things they should be monitoring, wouldn't be told if they were allowed to know, and can't actually do anything about any abuses they do find beyond politely reminding the NSA that their actions are probably illegal.
"they would probably kill all the birds and raise yams or something that had a better ROI. "
Reminds me of the 'Highland Clearances' of Scotland. Landowners realised that they had farmer tenants living on land which would have a better ROI were it instead used used to raise sheep. Forceful evictions followed, leaving many families suddenly kicked out of their homes with almost no notice.
But think of the spiky umbrella manufacturers.
DIL socket. Add your own firmware chip.
The one who published a (ghostwritten, but nothing unusual there) autobiography an inch thick, including many stories of his family life and childhood?
Because Palin was a soundbite politician. She had an open distaste for carefully considering all sides of an issue, favoring the use of quick slogans ('Drill Baby Drill') to win over the unthinking. It's always hard to tell a politicians image from reality - behind closed doors she could have been a genius in all things - but the image she carefully projected was of the quick-thinking renegade who didn't have the time to actually read any reports or listen to advisers, but instead promised she could run a country on gut instinct and American luck.
Pretty much. Obama ran on the platform of 'change.' He isn't bringing it. The only reason his supporters continued to support him last election was because a democrat not advancing their agenda would still be better than a republican openly fighting against it.
He'd have actually pushed for a real socialised healthcare system, rather than throwing money at the insurance companies and hoping they lower prices.
The problem with homeschooling is consistency. It's also commonly used by parents who just want to mold their children into little duplicates of themselves - which is exactly what you are doing. Fine for you, you sound like a good person to duplicate, but there's a reason much of the homeschool movement in the US is run by fundamentalists who want to shield their children from 'evilution' and make sure they grow up to be flag-waving american-exceptionalist patriots.
Unfortunately most parents are not so intellectually capable nor so intellectually honest as yourself, so homeschooling is really not a good general solution.