Ebola gets a lot of attention because it's high-mortality, spreads fast in the right conditions, and is a wonderfully messy way to die - and that means lots of newspaper sales and TV ratings.
It's the influenzas you have to look out for. People don't pay attention any more after the bird flu and swine flu fizzled out without producing the pandemic everyone was fearing - and perhaps the next one will do likewise. Eventually, though, we'll get another really nasty strain and it'll be 1918 all over again. Fifty million dead last time - people forgot quickly.
Ask most people today about the 1918 pandemic and most wouldn't know about it - and of those that do know, half of it only know it from a passing mention in Twilight.
You might be able to get some government subsidies though. Platinum is really useful stuff - it's a great catalyst for all sorts of reactions, and an excellent electrocatalyst too, plus it's pretty much inert otherwise. If it were cheap, hydrogen might have become a viable means of bulk energy storage by now.
You could try atmospheric braking your asteroid to shed some of that unwanted energy. You'd better be really sure of your calculations though, or braking becomes breaking.
There's another resource the moon has in abundance: Power. You can enjoy slow-tracking unfiltered sunlight, suitable for use in either photovoltaics or solar furnaces. What do you get if you melt moon-dust and resoldify it into a casting basin?
Option two destroys a sizable chunk of the building. The option they went with, a high-risk attempt to sever the control lines without detonation, likely destroys a sizable chunk of the building. But not certainly. It's the superior option.
Go look up the price of a mac pro, baseline. Now select a slight change in spec, like more memory. Subtract the second price from the first, to get the cost of the memory alone. That's some very expensive RAM.
X-ray triggers are exotic parts even today, and very hard to get in 1980. A bomber would have to go to some lengths to get hold of one, and it might be possible to track the purchase afterwards.
I can think of two possible ways to disarm it: The way they tried, or the liquid nitrogen mentioned below. TNT gets less sensitive when cooled - if you get it down to well below zero, it should inactivate or at least have a greatly reduced yield. At which point you use your low-tech rope set it off - hopefully resulting in a small explosion and a lot of scattered bomb parts.
He did miss an obvious sensor though: Light. A simple light sensor inside would be enough to trigger the bomb if someone did manage to open it, and would have been easy to include even with quite basic technology. He also had an obvious weakness in the split-container construction.
The biggest mistake of all though was in expecting the police to actually pay up - that never happens. Of course he'll get dodgy money - it'll be dummy, or contain timed dye packs, or be covered with some slow-developing dye that turns bright purple two days after exposure to oxygen, or printed on paper 10% too large, or some combination of the above. It wouldn't matter if he locked some kidnapped schoolchildren inside the bomb: There's no way he's getting that money. If you pulled the same thing today you could try asking for payment in bitcoin, but law enforcement would just stall for time while they 'get the coins' in order to have a shot at finding you - and they'd rather let the bomb go off than pay up. Even with a child locked inside.
As the shaped charge resulted in detonation, I expect he put the battery in the bottom half with all the explosives.
The fixed-duration copyright term is for works-for-hire - that means works created by a corporation, including the famous mouse. But a work of an individual author is protected for a different term - the life of the author, plus another seventy years, under US law and in most other countries. Until God dies, the copyright holds. At which point Jesus inherits as next-of-kin and holds it for another seventy years.
The placenta is genetically part of the offspring. It's a sort of demarcation point - it lets the mother and fetus exchange material without incurring the wrath or the immune system.
Actually, it does. http://childrenshealthcare.org... First google result lists many, many religious exceptions regarding children and healthcare. See all those laws which establish minimum standards for the care of children, with a big glaring 'unless your religion says otherwise' exception?
Then go down to section B. In many states, it is indeed a religious right to neglect the medical needs of children. Does your child have, say, diabeties, which will certainly be fatal if untreated? Then it's abuse to refuse to seek medical treatment, unless you happen to be one of those wackos who refuses all medicine on religious grounds, in which case you get special exception. See Madeline Newmann for a famous case. Last I heard the parents were praying for her resurrection. Even when she was suffering seizures the parents refused to violate their religion by calling a doctor, and only prayed for healing.
In five states, there's a religious exception of some form that can cover murder. It's pretty rare that it actually gets used, but it covers situations like death during exorcism attempts. You can actually torture your child to death and then get away with it, if you did so for religious reasons. If you didn't intend for them to actually die.
... you can't turn the lights off because the internet connection is down.... there's a three-second round-trip lag to turn your car on.... you can turn your heating off from halfway around the world with your phone, but can't find a button on the wall.... your computer gets a virus and your TV starts advertising sites selling viagra of dubious origin.
Russia has banned food imports from the EU. They siezed a load a few months ago and put on a big public show on national TV of destroying it as an illegal import. The official line is that they couldn't trust in the safety of the illegally imported cheese because smugglers might not refrigerate it properly or keep the correct paperwork to track origin, but no-one buys that excuse, so there are some level of quiet muttering in Russia about the incident - mostly because, thanks to the food import ban, food prices have shot up at a time when their economy is already seriously struggling.
At one extreme there is a truly corrupt system where you just hand the prosecution or judge a wad of cash under the table to get off.
America's courts are corruptable, but in a different manner: They are complex and multi-layered to the extent that a case can be dragged out for years easily. Look at the Mount Soledad cross case for an example - it's been lost, appealed, switched in jurisdiction, lost, appealed, switched again, lost, and delayed for more than a year by simply refusing to file an appeal while a stay was in effect, and is currently under appeal again. A single case that's lasted for twenty-five years, and isn't over yet. That means a lot of cases can turn into a 'battle of attrition' - they just run and run until one side runs out of money to pay the ridiculous legal costs. In the case of a criminal prosecution it's very common for the defendant to reach a plea bargain because they can't afford to put up a good defense, and the prosecution threatens to throw in additional charges if they dare try.
2) The ID argument: Life was created by a superintelligent supernatural uncreated designer with supreme powers who, for legal reasons, we can neither confirm nor deny as the Christian God.
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I'd rather think of them as the arms dealer who sells to both sides.
Ebola gets a lot of attention because it's high-mortality, spreads fast in the right conditions, and is a wonderfully messy way to die - and that means lots of newspaper sales and TV ratings.
It's the influenzas you have to look out for. People don't pay attention any more after the bird flu and swine flu fizzled out without producing the pandemic everyone was fearing - and perhaps the next one will do likewise. Eventually, though, we'll get another really nasty strain and it'll be 1918 all over again. Fifty million dead last time - people forgot quickly.
Ask most people today about the 1918 pandemic and most wouldn't know about it - and of those that do know, half of it only know it from a passing mention in Twilight.
A visual demonstration of the sillyness and pointlessness of emoji.
I've never used one. Why would I? I have words and, on occasion, an old-fashioned ascii smiley :>
(Why the >? Look at the name. That's why.)
You might be able to get some government subsidies though. Platinum is really useful stuff - it's a great catalyst for all sorts of reactions, and an excellent electrocatalyst too, plus it's pretty much inert otherwise. If it were cheap, hydrogen might have become a viable means of bulk energy storage by now.
You could try atmospheric braking your asteroid to shed some of that unwanted energy. You'd better be really sure of your calculations though, or braking becomes breaking.
There's another resource the moon has in abundance: Power. You can enjoy slow-tracking unfiltered sunlight, suitable for use in either photovoltaics or solar furnaces. What do you get if you melt moon-dust and resoldify it into a casting basin?
We used to. Now we just torrent things before they reach the cinema anyway.
I'd say about 1/3 run by the US government... another third by China, and the rest by Russia.
"I am TheRaven."
You are *a* raven. We cannot both be *the* raven.
Option two destroys a sizable chunk of the building.
The option they went with, a high-risk attempt to sever the control lines without detonation, likely destroys a sizable chunk of the building. But not certainly. It's the superior option.
You want to see proof of the apple markup? Easy.
Go look up the price of a mac pro, baseline.
Now select a slight change in spec, like more memory.
Subtract the second price from the first, to get the cost of the memory alone.
That's some very expensive RAM.
Option 2 wouldn't be good in this case, as the bomb was big enough to destroy a sizable chunk of the building.
X-ray triggers are exotic parts even today, and very hard to get in 1980. A bomber would have to go to some lengths to get hold of one, and it might be possible to track the purchase afterwards.
I can think of two possible ways to disarm it: The way they tried, or the liquid nitrogen mentioned below. TNT gets less sensitive when cooled - if you get it down to well below zero, it should inactivate or at least have a greatly reduced yield. At which point you use your low-tech rope set it off - hopefully resulting in a small explosion and a lot of scattered bomb parts.
He did miss an obvious sensor though: Light. A simple light sensor inside would be enough to trigger the bomb if someone did manage to open it, and would have been easy to include even with quite basic technology. He also had an obvious weakness in the split-container construction.
The biggest mistake of all though was in expecting the police to actually pay up - that never happens. Of course he'll get dodgy money - it'll be dummy, or contain timed dye packs, or be covered with some slow-developing dye that turns bright purple two days after exposure to oxygen, or printed on paper 10% too large, or some combination of the above. It wouldn't matter if he locked some kidnapped schoolchildren inside the bomb: There's no way he's getting that money. If you pulled the same thing today you could try asking for payment in bitcoin, but law enforcement would just stall for time while they 'get the coins' in order to have a shot at finding you - and they'd rather let the bomb go off than pay up. Even with a child locked inside.
As the shaped charge resulted in detonation, I expect he put the battery in the bottom half with all the explosives.
GMO scaremongers are on the left. Embryo fetishists are on the right. This is a rare situation in which they have some common ground.
Not true.
The fixed-duration copyright term is for works-for-hire - that means works created by a corporation, including the famous mouse. But a work of an individual author is protected for a different term - the life of the author, plus another seventy years, under US law and in most other countries. Until God dies, the copyright holds. At which point Jesus inherits as next-of-kin and holds it for another seventy years.
Eggs do not make it into the placenta at all.
A part of them *becomes* the placenta.
The placenta is genetically part of the offspring. It's a sort of demarcation point - it lets the mother and fetus exchange material without incurring the wrath or the immune system.
Stuart Little 2 gains points for having a bird as a main character
Human embryos are not magic. You can learn a lot from fiddling with them that can then be applied to improve the lives of people.
Actually, it does.
http://childrenshealthcare.org...
First google result lists many, many religious exceptions regarding children and healthcare. See all those laws which establish minimum standards for the care of children, with a big glaring 'unless your religion says otherwise' exception?
Then go down to section B. In many states, it is indeed a religious right to neglect the medical needs of children. Does your child have, say, diabeties, which will certainly be fatal if untreated? Then it's abuse to refuse to seek medical treatment, unless you happen to be one of those wackos who refuses all medicine on religious grounds, in which case you get special exception. See Madeline Newmann for a famous case. Last I heard the parents were praying for her resurrection. Even when she was suffering seizures the parents refused to violate their religion by calling a doctor, and only prayed for healing.
In five states, there's a religious exception of some form that can cover murder. It's pretty rare that it actually gets used, but it covers situations like death during exorcism attempts. You can actually torture your child to death and then get away with it, if you did so for religious reasons. If you didn't intend for them to actually die.
Noted: ... is the slashdot code for 'screw newlines.'
... you can't turn the lights off because the internet connection is down. ... there's a three-second round-trip lag to turn your car on. ... you can turn your heating off from halfway around the world with your phone, but can't find a button on the wall. ... your computer gets a virus and your TV starts advertising sites selling viagra of dubious origin.
There's an old joke that if you ask the FBI if they keep a file on you, they may answer 'we do now.'
Russia has banned food imports from the EU. They siezed a load a few months ago and put on a big public show on national TV of destroying it as an illegal import. The official line is that they couldn't trust in the safety of the illegally imported cheese because smugglers might not refrigerate it properly or keep the correct paperwork to track origin, but no-one buys that excuse, so there are some level of quiet muttering in Russia about the incident - mostly because, thanks to the food import ban, food prices have shot up at a time when their economy is already seriously struggling.
There's a scale of how blatant the bribery is.
At one extreme there is a truly corrupt system where you just hand the prosecution or judge a wad of cash under the table to get off.
America's courts are corruptable, but in a different manner: They are complex and multi-layered to the extent that a case can be dragged out for years easily. Look at the Mount Soledad cross case for an example - it's been lost, appealed, switched in jurisdiction, lost, appealed, switched again, lost, and delayed for more than a year by simply refusing to file an appeal while a stay was in effect, and is currently under appeal again. A single case that's lasted for twenty-five years, and isn't over yet. That means a lot of cases can turn into a 'battle of attrition' - they just run and run until one side runs out of money to pay the ridiculous legal costs. In the case of a criminal prosecution it's very common for the defendant to reach a plea bargain because they can't afford to put up a good defense, and the prosecution threatens to throw in additional charges if they dare try.
2) The ID argument: Life was created by a superintelligent supernatural uncreated designer with supreme powers who, for legal reasons, we can neither confirm nor deny as the Christian God.