Balancing is easy. I want to know how they got the fuel into those cylinders. A conventional fuel line and valve mechanism is obviously out of the question. Also, imagining the mass of something spinning that fast, I wonder if there were any problems with the giant flywheel insisting on conserving it's angular momentum in tight turns and wrenching itsself out of the airframe.
I took hard drives apart just to figure out how the automatic park works. As best I can figure out, it's powered by the residual momentum of the drive as it spins down. Implicit flywheel energy storage.
It's mostly in the form of highly favorable treatment. For example, their headquarters is owned by the government and 'leased' by them for one dollar a year, in order to avoid having any taxable property. In effect, the government is openly saying that the BSA don't have to pay any property tax as a sort of thanks for their work. Many lesser, local buildings are operated in a similar way: Government owned, but for the scouts unpaid occasional or even exclusive use. They are also permitted to use domestic military bases (mostly training facilities) to host their major events, as part of a long relationship with the armed forces. Very few organisations are extended an invitation to use that land, and completly free too. The army also has a policy of donating free surplus or disused equipment - tents, bedding, anything the scouts can use. So you're right, there is no big cheque of tax money just handed over - the the financial support is there, in the form of preferential treatment, de-facto tax exemption, government maintainance of facilities and free handouts of land or materials.
The other AC is correct. The first scouting movement was indeed British, but the American division is entirely independent. They have a shared history, but no shared management, and their ideology long ago parted ways.
Take a look at the posters they used though. Images of women in niqab, even directly appealing to feminist pressure groups to gang up on a 'common enemy.' That's akin to, for example, an environmental pressure group in the US running a campaign urging conservatives to support renewable fuels because, even if they can't agree on global warming, it at least means less money going to Islamic regimes. It just isn't done. There's a strict divide there on what is left and what is right, and they do not cross over.
The Shannon limit is for a fixed-bandwidth channel of mostly-fixed average noise. It doesn't apply here, because they are just finding a way to squeeze more independent channels into the same path. It isn't infinite, of course, but Shannon isn't the limit here. It'll be something else limiting the angular discrimination of the antennas.
They used to have a Christians-only policy - non-christians were considered inherently immoral and so not qualified for membership. Exactly what 'christian' meant was a subject of some dispute. They did, after great pressure, change their policy to 'believers only' - they'll accept any religion, so long as it's a religion. Atheists are still banned. I eagerly await the day when the discrimination is acknowledged and the BSA is finally forced to reform or collapse, but right now they are still seen as a 'great American institution' and grand tradition to such an extent they they often receive government support or outright handouts of tax money.
Xenophobic right-wingers campaigning using left-wing causes like feminism. But this is Switzerland: It doesn't follow exactly the same left-vs-right divide familiar from US politics.
Irrational, religious... these are not mutually exclusive classifications. I've seen many religious arguments objecting to homosexuality, and I have yet to see one I would call rational. The best of them are flawed, and the worst laughable. Far too often religion is just an excuse to justify a position which cannot rationally be justified - because once the debate reaches 'Because God said so' it halts, and no further discussion is possible.
They are indeed depicted as homophobic. That is because they (Specifically the BSA, their American branch) *are* homophobic. They are quite open about it, and even proud of it. It's right there in their official rules: No gay men are permitted in any form of leadership role in the organisation, not even local troop leader.
Marx's ideology was sound, but he failed to address the issues of corruptability. Any attempt to realize his ideas creates a perfect breeding ground for corruption, power-grabbing and oppression, and any ideals of economic equality for all are rapidly abandoned at the leadership consolidates their power. I do think that his ideas were fundamentally sound, merely incomplete.
Depends how you define 'robot.' There are lots of stationary appliances that are intended to do things mechanically so that humans do not need to. Washing machines, dishwashers, blenders. They aren't quite robots as they don't make use of any feedback or sensory input beyond the most basic controls and safety locks, but they are machines in the home.
And most of those were some form of dumb terminal. With the technology of the time, it just made sense - who would want a power-sucking, noisy, expensive, high-maintainence piece of equipment like a computer in their home? It seemed more practical for the service provider to maintain those, and for home users to just have the basic hardware needed to access it remotely and rent what resources they need. And maybe play a few simple single-player games and do the most basic computational tasks like text editing and the family finances.
Slightly different technique on win98. IIRC, the screen was actually a.bmp file with the wrong extension, logo.sys. You could also configure it not to boot the GUI at all, and just get the underlying DOS (Windows 9x was indeed, as critics so often claimed, built upon the foundation of DOS-with-a-few-extensions). I did that on one of my laptops to greatly reduce the boot time. You could always just enter the 'win' command to go graphical.
To most Americans, the middle east is just a vaguely blur of arabic ethnicities. But I understand that to those from the region, there are many, many, many different definitions within that blue... and they get really annoyed if you get them mixed up.
Look at it from the Apple employee's point of view: He sees a person who looks vaguely Iranian and speaks their language. That means there is a small chance that they may actually be from Iran. They probably aren't, and just have some recent ancestry or family connections there, but there is still a small chance. Now, if they are and he sells them an iPad, he could go to jail and/or Apple could face massive fines. On the other hand, if they aren't and he refuses service, the worst that could happen is a lost sale (The media interest being unanticipated). So he opted to play it safe.
Even for linux, only a very small proportion of the userbase can code anything beyond 'Hello, world.' I can throw a few half-decent utilities out myself, but drivers are far, far beyond my ability.
I've had one: The Apple bluetooth keyboard on my mac pro ceased to work after a kernel update. I don't know how this keyboard works, really - it's some type of bluetooth-supported-in-EFI voodoo. I do know that the window during which you need to press alt to bring up the Apple boot selector is about half a second long, and there is no visual indication to say when.
Could there perhaps be an indirect link in social pressure? Gay people are also prone to social exclusion during adolescence, which might actually benefit their education by freeing up the time that would otherwise be spent in social activities or drive them to persue more academic careers rather than those their peers would consider cool like athletics.
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Balancing is easy. I want to know how they got the fuel into those cylinders. A conventional fuel line and valve mechanism is obviously out of the question. Also, imagining the mass of something spinning that fast, I wonder if there were any problems with the giant flywheel insisting on conserving it's angular momentum in tight turns and wrenching itsself out of the airframe.
Even the English don't use those weird English units any more, with a few very specific exceptions (Vehicle speed, people-weight, beer)
I took hard drives apart just to figure out how the automatic park works. As best I can figure out, it's powered by the residual momentum of the drive as it spins down. Implicit flywheel energy storage.
It's mostly in the form of highly favorable treatment. For example, their headquarters is owned by the government and 'leased' by them for one dollar a year, in order to avoid having any taxable property. In effect, the government is openly saying that the BSA don't have to pay any property tax as a sort of thanks for their work. Many lesser, local buildings are operated in a similar way: Government owned, but for the scouts unpaid occasional or even exclusive use. They are also permitted to use domestic military bases (mostly training facilities) to host their major events, as part of a long relationship with the armed forces. Very few organisations are extended an invitation to use that land, and completly free too. The army also has a policy of donating free surplus or disused equipment - tents, bedding, anything the scouts can use. So you're right, there is no big cheque of tax money just handed over - the the financial support is there, in the form of preferential treatment, de-facto tax exemption, government maintainance of facilities and free handouts of land or materials.
The other AC is correct. The first scouting movement was indeed British, but the American division is entirely independent. They have a shared history, but no shared management, and their ideology long ago parted ways.
Take a look at the posters they used though. Images of women in niqab, even directly appealing to feminist pressure groups to gang up on a 'common enemy.' That's akin to, for example, an environmental pressure group in the US running a campaign urging conservatives to support renewable fuels because, even if they can't agree on global warming, it at least means less money going to Islamic regimes. It just isn't done. There's a strict divide there on what is left and what is right, and they do not cross over.
It applies per channel, it doesn't limit the number of channels. I'm sure there is a theoretical limit, but shannon isn't it.
The Shannon limit is for a fixed-bandwidth channel of mostly-fixed average noise. It doesn't apply here, because they are just finding a way to squeeze more independent channels into the same path. It isn't infinite, of course, but Shannon isn't the limit here. It'll be something else limiting the angular discrimination of the antennas.
I imagine Finland has more than a few international links.
They used to have a Christians-only policy - non-christians were considered inherently immoral and so not qualified for membership. Exactly what 'christian' meant was a subject of some dispute. They did, after great pressure, change their policy to 'believers only' - they'll accept any religion, so long as it's a religion. Atheists are still banned. I eagerly await the day when the discrimination is acknowledged and the BSA is finally forced to reform or collapse, but right now they are still seen as a 'great American institution' and grand tradition to such an extent they they often receive government support or outright handouts of tax money.
Xenophobic right-wingers campaigning using left-wing causes like feminism. But this is Switzerland: It doesn't follow exactly the same left-vs-right divide familiar from US politics.
Irrational, religious... these are not mutually exclusive classifications. I've seen many religious arguments objecting to homosexuality, and I have yet to see one I would call rational. The best of them are flawed, and the worst laughable. Far too often religion is just an excuse to justify a position which cannot rationally be justified - because once the debate reaches 'Because God said so' it halts, and no further discussion is possible.
They are indeed depicted as homophobic. That is because they (Specifically the BSA, their American branch) *are* homophobic. They are quite open about it, and even proud of it. It's right there in their official rules: No gay men are permitted in any form of leadership role in the organisation, not even local troop leader.
If those companies don't, someone else will. The EU isn't just some small town with one corner shop.
Marx's ideology was sound, but he failed to address the issues of corruptability. Any attempt to realize his ideas creates a perfect breeding ground for corruption, power-grabbing and oppression, and any ideals of economic equality for all are rapidly abandoned at the leadership consolidates their power. I do think that his ideas were fundamentally sound, merely incomplete.
Depends how you define 'robot.' There are lots of stationary appliances that are intended to do things mechanically so that humans do not need to. Washing machines, dishwashers, blenders. They aren't quite robots as they don't make use of any feedback or sensory input beyond the most basic controls and safety locks, but they are machines in the home.
And most of those were some form of dumb terminal. With the technology of the time, it just made sense - who would want a power-sucking, noisy, expensive, high-maintainence piece of equipment like a computer in their home? It seemed more practical for the service provider to maintain those, and for home users to just have the basic hardware needed to access it remotely and rent what resources they need. And maybe play a few simple single-player games and do the most basic computational tasks like text editing and the family finances.
Slightly different technique on win98. IIRC, the screen was actually a .bmp file with the wrong extension, logo.sys. You could also configure it not to boot the GUI at all, and just get the underlying DOS (Windows 9x was indeed, as critics so often claimed, built upon the foundation of DOS-with-a-few-extensions). I did that on one of my laptops to greatly reduce the boot time. You could always just enter the 'win' command to go graphical.
I wasn't trying to justify his decision, only explain it.
To most Americans, the middle east is just a vaguely blur of arabic ethnicities. But I understand that to those from the region, there are many, many, many different definitions within that blue... and they get really annoyed if you get them mixed up.
Look at it from the Apple employee's point of view: He sees a person who looks vaguely Iranian and speaks their language. That means there is a small chance that they may actually be from Iran. They probably aren't, and just have some recent ancestry or family connections there, but there is still a small chance. Now, if they are and he sells them an iPad, he could go to jail and/or Apple could face massive fines. On the other hand, if they aren't and he refuses service, the worst that could happen is a lost sale (The media interest being unanticipated). So he opted to play it safe.
This is one of the many reasons I look forward to the day when flash can finally be taken out back and shot.
Even for linux, only a very small proportion of the userbase can code anything beyond 'Hello, world.' I can throw a few half-decent utilities out myself, but drivers are far, far beyond my ability.
I've had one: The Apple bluetooth keyboard on my mac pro ceased to work after a kernel update. I don't know how this keyboard works, really - it's some type of bluetooth-supported-in-EFI voodoo. I do know that the window during which you need to press alt to bring up the Apple boot selector is about half a second long, and there is no visual indication to say when.
Could there perhaps be an indirect link in social pressure? Gay people are also prone to social exclusion during adolescence, which might actually benefit their education by freeing up the time that would otherwise be spent in social activities or drive them to persue more academic careers rather than those their peers would consider cool like athletics.