If you set aside cynicism for moment, they do have a valid concern in that area. Any competent person can repair a phone safely - but how many repairs would be carried out by people who have never held a soldering iron before, and are following a tutorial video on youtube? It's quite possible for an inexperienced person to botch the procedure and leave the battery in an unsafe condition.
It's still just an excuse Apple are using, but it's at least a plausible excuse. My problem with it is that it boils down to the standard of the lowest: "You can't be trusted to repair your own equipment because somewhere, someone else might screw it up."
Trump doesn't really have a lot of views on social issues. He has positions of convenience. He has already signed a pledge to fight against the evils of pornography, not because he personally believes in that cause, but because that is the expected thing for a Republican to do and he needs the party behind him. His position on abortion is exactly the same: Once he joined the Republicans, he suddenly decided to switch sides on that too.
On economics, and on border security, he appears to have some strong views that he will fight for. But on more social issues, his lack of strong views grants him a lot more flexibility.
Was. PPV porn revenue has plummeted in recent years.
The Hilton chain dropped it entirely last year. They made a big announcement about 'values' and 'family,' the usual stuff to try to score points with a certain demographic, but the real reason was purely financial.
"With turbo engaged, we died in snake before the first keystroke was registered."
If that was the quickbasic version, there's a delay loop you can modify. You'd need to increase the delay on anything past around a P133, otherwise it would just divide-by-zero.
Speculation is all we have to go on. Maybe there were sneaky backroom deals made, or perhaps it's just one executives strange 'seemed like a good idea at the time,' or perhaps just an attempt to curry favor with those in power right now. Who knows? I don't.
It's actually a perfectly reasonable action - bizarely, for the sake of privacy. The embedded information in images can include when and where it was taken, which is information that could be used against a person.
Facebook want to spy on you. But it is not in their interests to aid other organisations or individuals in spying on you. Not without paying Facebook for the information, anyway.
As price falls, consumption rises. There comes a point where the product of price and units sold is maximal, and hollywood, like every other industry, devotes a great deal of money and expertise to trying to determine where this optimal price lies. No easy task, as it varies between regions and across time.
It's not too bad a place to be. The crew can hole up safely for a while, then take the escape Soyuz down to earth. Without ground guidance you'd have a hard time aiming at anything very precisely, but you should be able to hit a target the size of Australia - which, having no nuke-worthy targets away from the east cost, would probably come through relatively unscathed.
Just starting out in the outback would be better though.
There are only three possibilities I can see for the EM drive: 1. It's a repeated experimental error, and further testing will eventually prove this. Most probable, but still exciting. 2. It works, but it isn't reactionless - it's just a hidden momentum dump. Perhaps it spits neutrinos out the back, or is interacting with WIMP particles. Our understanding of the laws of physics is wrong, but only a little wrong - science, as it always does, will need revising to explain new observations. It may or may not be useful for space travel when refined. It is possible that understanding the underlying physics will make it possible to design higher-thrust drives, but perpetual-motion-wise it is no more perpetual than a photon rocket. 3. Least likely, it is a true reactionless drive, and our understanding of the laws of physics is very wrong indeed. It may have been designed by a crank, but by sheer luck he stumbled upon a real and revolutionary effect that changes the way energy is understood.
"I remember hearing of a science fiction story in which a "molecular distortion" battery could store and release fully 10 percent of its rest mass as energy."
You know some idiot would try to break the thing open with a crowbar and wipe out half a continent.
It probably does. But theory alone is not enough to say conclusively, as the substance is rather exotic and may not be properly modeled by any existing framework. The only way to be sure is to run the experiment, which requires manufacturing it in a larger quantity and in a modified apparatus that allows for observation during reduction of pressure too. I am quite sure that a number of research organizations are already considering the most practical way to go about this.
At the moment it's not even known if metallic hydrogen can exist without such pressures. It's possible it will remain as a solid - which would be a solid with some really exotic and useful properties. Or, more disappointingly, it will more likely just sublime back into plain old hydrogen gas.
There are ways Trump could force Mexico to pay short of war. They just have unfortunate consequences.
He could, for example, put a large tax on remittances. Mexicans living in the US, legally and illegally, send a lot of money back to Mexico. This would create serious diplomatic trouble though: There would be immediate and irresistible pressure on the Mexican government to respond somehow, which probably means legal action of some sort. There would be riots in Mexico. People would die. Somehow, I don't think Trump cares. If Trump announces this, expect Bitcoin to shoot up in value and shady back-street money transfer agents to flourish.
He could also go one step further, and simply seize assets. Confiscate the homes and bank accounts of Mexicans living in the US, and the assets of Mexican businesses with a US presence. This would destroy international trust in the US, but leave the Mexican government with no choice but to bail out the affected.
He could hold illegal immigrants hostage: Throw them into the most miserable hole of a prison he can, make sure a few of them die in there, and demand a payment from Mexico per immigrant returned.
For anyone else, such extreme measures would be unthinkable. But this is Trump: Normal rules do not apply.
Wiping out civilisation is hard. Wiping out mankind is a lot harder. If you only wipe out civilisation, then civilisation will eventually re-emerge. Probably quite quickly too, as records and relics of the past will still be around to accelerate the process. A couple of centuries later and we'll be right back where we started, except with the political map redrawn and a higher cancer incidence. Then the Restored Republic of Amerika and the Kingdom of Rusland can point their newly-made nukes at each other and start the whole thing over.
" They didn't base it on change to policy, just based on what they believe his policy will change to."
Trump has stated his policies in advance. That's the point of having an election. It's true that he may abandon those policies now he is in office, as politicians tend to do, but policies he has already stated are still a close approximation for the policies he will now advance.
Unfortunately parties often come as a package. If you want the 'small government' Republicans, you find that there is a very large overlap with the 'climate change is a chinese hoax' Republicans and the 'public officials have a right to refuse to serve homosexuals' Republicans.
The Democrats have their lunatic fringe too - the excesses of the Social Justice movement. But they are still only a fringe, seldom seen outside of college campuses, while the crazies seem to have taken over the Republicans.
Republicans often pretend to be libertarians, but their talk on that subject seldom translates into action. Sometimes it happens to align with another agenda, and then they proclaim libertarian ideals loudly.
This is why science education matters for the general population, even though most of them will never work in a scientific or engineering field. It immunises them against ridiculous claims and scams.
I'm no neurologist, but I know that EEG contacts don't work through fur - and I've seen plenty of photos of laboratory animals with shaven heads, or narrow probes that pass through the fur and through the skin in a way that most dog owners would not permit.
Actually, you can. The presidential pardon is really powerful. It can even given as 'pardon for all crimes from date A to date B' so they can be pardoned for a crime they were never charged with.
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If you set aside cynicism for moment, they do have a valid concern in that area. Any competent person can repair a phone safely - but how many repairs would be carried out by people who have never held a soldering iron before, and are following a tutorial video on youtube? It's quite possible for an inexperienced person to botch the procedure and leave the battery in an unsafe condition.
It's still just an excuse Apple are using, but it's at least a plausible excuse. My problem with it is that it boils down to the standard of the lowest: "You can't be trusted to repair your own equipment because somewhere, someone else might screw it up."
Trump doesn't really have a lot of views on social issues. He has positions of convenience. He has already signed a pledge to fight against the evils of pornography, not because he personally believes in that cause, but because that is the expected thing for a Republican to do and he needs the party behind him. His position on abortion is exactly the same: Once he joined the Republicans, he suddenly decided to switch sides on that too.
On economics, and on border security, he appears to have some strong views that he will fight for. But on more social issues, his lack of strong views grants him a lot more flexibility.
Not just to view, no, but I have paid to commission pornographic artwork.
Was. PPV porn revenue has plummeted in recent years.
The Hilton chain dropped it entirely last year. They made a big announcement about 'values' and 'family,' the usual stuff to try to score points with a certain demographic, but the real reason was purely financial.
"I also think the Shift-2 being a " on many early keyboards should be in there too."
It still is on mine. Except on those occasions an OS gets confused about keyboard layouts and puts it in yank-mode.
I also get a nice £ symbol. But somehow the label looks like it is very slowly shrinking lately.
"With turbo engaged, we died in snake before the first keystroke was registered."
If that was the quickbasic version, there's a delay loop you can modify. You'd need to increase the delay on anything past around a P133, otherwise it would just divide-by-zero.
Speculation is all we have to go on. Maybe there were sneaky backroom deals made, or perhaps it's just one executives strange 'seemed like a good idea at the time,' or perhaps just an attempt to curry favor with those in power right now. Who knows? I don't.
It's actually a perfectly reasonable action - bizarely, for the sake of privacy. The embedded information in images can include when and where it was taken, which is information that could be used against a person.
Facebook want to spy on you. But it is not in their interests to aid other organisations or individuals in spying on you. Not without paying Facebook for the information, anyway.
As price falls, consumption rises. There comes a point where the product of price and units sold is maximal, and hollywood, like every other industry, devotes a great deal of money and expertise to trying to determine where this optimal price lies. No easy task, as it varies between regions and across time.
It's not too bad a place to be. The crew can hole up safely for a while, then take the escape Soyuz down to earth. Without ground guidance you'd have a hard time aiming at anything very precisely, but you should be able to hit a target the size of Australia - which, having no nuke-worthy targets away from the east cost, would probably come through relatively unscathed.
Just starting out in the outback would be better though.
I use btrfs. So long as you avoid RAID5-a-like mode it works very nicely. I wish RAID5 were fixed though.
There are only three possibilities I can see for the EM drive:
1. It's a repeated experimental error, and further testing will eventually prove this. Most probable, but still exciting.
2. It works, but it isn't reactionless - it's just a hidden momentum dump. Perhaps it spits neutrinos out the back, or is interacting with WIMP particles. Our understanding of the laws of physics is wrong, but only a little wrong - science, as it always does, will need revising to explain new observations. It may or may not be useful for space travel when refined. It is possible that understanding the underlying physics will make it possible to design higher-thrust drives, but perpetual-motion-wise it is no more perpetual than a photon rocket.
3. Least likely, it is a true reactionless drive, and our understanding of the laws of physics is very wrong indeed. It may have been designed by a crank, but by sheer luck he stumbled upon a real and revolutionary effect that changes the way energy is understood.
"I remember hearing of a science fiction story in which a "molecular distortion" battery could store and release fully 10 percent of its rest mass as energy."
You know some idiot would try to break the thing open with a crowbar and wipe out half a continent.
It probably does. But theory alone is not enough to say conclusively, as the substance is rather exotic and may not be properly modeled by any existing framework. The only way to be sure is to run the experiment, which requires manufacturing it in a larger quantity and in a modified apparatus that allows for observation during reduction of pressure too. I am quite sure that a number of research organizations are already considering the most practical way to go about this.
There are many elements not found on earth. They are manufactured in reactors, and cost a bomb. In one case, quite literally.
At the moment it's not even known if metallic hydrogen can exist without such pressures. It's possible it will remain as a solid - which would be a solid with some really exotic and useful properties. Or, more disappointingly, it will more likely just sublime back into plain old hydrogen gas.
You wouldn't be familiar with "The Mouse that Roared" by any chance?
There are ways Trump could force Mexico to pay short of war. They just have unfortunate consequences.
He could, for example, put a large tax on remittances. Mexicans living in the US, legally and illegally, send a lot of money back to Mexico. This would create serious diplomatic trouble though: There would be immediate and irresistible pressure on the Mexican government to respond somehow, which probably means legal action of some sort. There would be riots in Mexico. People would die. Somehow, I don't think Trump cares. If Trump announces this, expect Bitcoin to shoot up in value and shady back-street money transfer agents to flourish.
He could also go one step further, and simply seize assets. Confiscate the homes and bank accounts of Mexicans living in the US, and the assets of Mexican businesses with a US presence. This would destroy international trust in the US, but leave the Mexican government with no choice but to bail out the affected.
He could hold illegal immigrants hostage: Throw them into the most miserable hole of a prison he can, make sure a few of them die in there, and demand a payment from Mexico per immigrant returned.
For anyone else, such extreme measures would be unthinkable. But this is Trump: Normal rules do not apply.
Wiping out civilisation is hard. Wiping out mankind is a lot harder. If you only wipe out civilisation, then civilisation will eventually re-emerge. Probably quite quickly too, as records and relics of the past will still be around to accelerate the process. A couple of centuries later and we'll be right back where we started, except with the political map redrawn and a higher cancer incidence. Then the Restored Republic of Amerika and the Kingdom of Rusland can point their newly-made nukes at each other and start the whole thing over.
" They didn't base it on change to policy, just based on what they believe his policy will change to."
Trump has stated his policies in advance. That's the point of having an election. It's true that he may abandon those policies now he is in office, as politicians tend to do, but policies he has already stated are still a close approximation for the policies he will now advance.
Unfortunately parties often come as a package. If you want the 'small government' Republicans, you find that there is a very large overlap with the 'climate change is a chinese hoax' Republicans and the 'public officials have a right to refuse to serve homosexuals' Republicans.
The Democrats have their lunatic fringe too - the excesses of the Social Justice movement. But they are still only a fringe, seldom seen outside of college campuses, while the crazies seem to have taken over the Republicans.
It's exactly the same on the right. It's not a political thing, it's a human thing.
Republicans often pretend to be libertarians, but their talk on that subject seldom translates into action. Sometimes it happens to align with another agenda, and then they proclaim libertarian ideals loudly.
This is why science education matters for the general population, even though most of them will never work in a scientific or engineering field. It immunises them against ridiculous claims and scams.
I'm no neurologist, but I know that EEG contacts don't work through fur - and I've seen plenty of photos of laboratory animals with shaven heads, or narrow probes that pass through the fur and through the skin in a way that most dog owners would not permit.
Actually, you can. The presidential pardon is really powerful. It can even given as 'pardon for all crimes from date A to date B' so they can be pardoned for a crime they were never charged with.