I happen to work in petroleum research, where industrial espionage is far from unheard of. Some people have more sensitive information on their (work) computers than kitten photos, you know.
The Dead Hand was not a doomsday device. Modern accounts describe it as semi-automatic, with a group of people who had the final decision. In this respect it was no different than the US putting nuclear weapons on submarines. In fact, it was likely developed in response to the Trident C4/D5 missiles which were accurate enough that the US would be able to effectively cripple Soviet high command with a limited nuclear strike.
BTW, in case you missed it in the first post, I avoid dangerous situations rather then rely on my car to compensate for my lack of driving ability.
And this is the key problem with driver assists. The traction control "handles all that", so you don't even notice that today the road is very slippery, and you end up with accidents like this one in Sweden last year (100 car pile-up): http://www.thelocal.se/45626/20130115/
Yeah, this is the same stuff they've been doing with early electric cars here in Norway. Classify them as motorcycles, because then you don't have to fulfill any safety requirements (almost). That does not mean this isn't as unsafe as a '62 Chevy Corvair.
Sure, we can make bearings last forever. But no car manufacturer will put those in a car, or they wouldn't make any money off spares, brand workshops etc. Same thing with nylon stockings: back in the days you could tow a car with one, now they break when you open the bag they came in.
Eyes? A common CRT emits measurable levels of soft X-rays (shielded from you by the glass in the monitor). This would emit significant amounts of hard X-rays, not just bad for your eyes.
Well, the woman is pregnant all nine months. Does your government manage to get that job swapped off to the husband so he needs time off? Wouldn't that be awesome, a system like you ask about, where I can get my wife pregnant, take five months off with pay, and then she gets the next four to deal with being pregnant. Wham, bam, thank you Ma'am I'm going to Orlando for five months!
Just to clarify: most women work up to 7 or 8 months pregnant, at least where I live. 90% of the total leave is after the child is born.
And you think Norway has a good system? You have to work 50+ years over there? Our standard retirement age is around 62 to 65 or so. We don't really enter the workforce, for the most part, until long after 12. We'd call them sweatshops, I think.
This is a common misconception: that the retirement age will be constant. Yes, the people who retire today do so at around 65. But given the rapidly changing demographics of our society (people having less children and living healthier longer lives), the retirement age in 2050 will have to be closer to 75, for sheer macroeconomic reasons.
With the current progress in industrial applications for high-temperature superconductors (MRI machines, high-quality aluminium tempering) being ahead of the progress in supercapacitors, I think you will see superconductors doing the heavy lifting IF (big if) this happens.
How about your RTF link you posted? It admits that "they are not deliberately randomized", but suggests that the current situation, having evolved by chance, is (close to) an economic equilibrium, and is thus stable to changes. This is, as most economic theories, very hard to disprove.
I have to say, you Americans have a completely retarded system when it comes to maternity leave etc., and I don't just mean what the government decides. My background: I live in Norway, our kid is 14 months now, and I just finished 3 months of paid paternity leave. It's been 3 awesome months.
What I don't get is: even when you don't have paid maternity/paternity leave (which is your society's fault), why can't you as the man take (20-40%) of the time staying at home (before kindergarden), and then your wife takes the rest? I mean, she has after all carried the baby and given birth to it, so surely she deserves more than 50%? Is your employer really going to deny you a total of (1-3)x3 months of unpaid leave, when seen against your entire working life of 50+ years and all the benefits that come from a closer connection to your children?
Well, a CRT accelerates electrons up to around 30 000 eV. This gets them up to 2 000 000 000 eV in roughly the same size, so I'd say it's a little more complicated than that.
Of course. EVs are still incredibly efficient. FAR more than ICEs.
Have you factored in that EVs are coal powered, since you're effectively a marginal consumer of electricity, so that you use the most expensive (which is the most polluting) electricity? And that coal releases far more nasty stuff into the atmosphere than petrol does? Did you know that the radioactive dose released into the atmosphere from coal power (carbon 14) equals one Chernobyl accident per year?
Or, how about, you know, an Android phone? Get a cheapo one, they can still record video at VGA or better, and ICS has native encryption support. Plenty of holders exist, as well.
We have a fairly good hunch what Fermat's actual "proof in the margin" was. I can't remember how it goes, but it falls apart because rings Z^n with n>13 are no longer Unique Factorization Domains (UFD: a ring where all numbers have a single unique prime factorization) (or something like that). The concept of something not being a UFD was unheard of at the time of Fermat. Disclaimer: it's a few years since I did Algebra, so there may be errors in this post.
The best solution: make it socially unacceptable (same level as kicking a dog) to drink and drive. Takes time and effort, but it has worked in most of Northern and Western Europe.
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I happen to work in petroleum research, where industrial espionage is far from unheard of. Some people have more sensitive information on their (work) computers than kitten photos, you know.
I keep explaining this to people at work, but they invariably do a mental "lalala, my data is secure, lalala" every time.
The Dead Hand was not a doomsday device. Modern accounts describe it as semi-automatic, with a group of people who had the final decision. In this respect it was no different than the US putting nuclear weapons on submarines. In fact, it was likely developed in response to the Trident C4/D5 missiles which were accurate enough that the US would be able to effectively cripple Soviet high command with a limited nuclear strike.
reply to undo incorrect mod. Damn you, /., for not having an undo button.
They still make stupid Nokias. The Nokia 100 retails for $50, on sale for $29 on Amazon now. 35 days of standy time.
Sure, it wasn't that bad by the standards of that time. But I meant by todays standards.
"You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?"
BTW, in case you missed it in the first post, I avoid dangerous situations rather then rely on my car to compensate for my lack of driving ability.
And this is the key problem with driver assists. The traction control "handles all that", so you don't even notice that today the road is very slippery, and you end up with accidents like this one in Sweden last year (100 car pile-up): http://www.thelocal.se/45626/20130115/
I think he was talking about racing slicks for a bicycle. Which of course do not hydroplane below 120MPH, since they're 1 inch wide.
massive rubber on it.
I've always suspected BMW drivers use their cars as penis extenders, but this takes "safety" to a whole new level...
Yeah, this is the same stuff they've been doing with early electric cars here in Norway. Classify them as motorcycles, because then you don't have to fulfill any safety requirements (almost). That does not mean this isn't as unsafe as a '62 Chevy Corvair.
Sure, we can make bearings last forever. But no car manufacturer will put those in a car, or they wouldn't make any money off spares, brand workshops etc. Same thing with nylon stockings: back in the days you could tow a car with one, now they break when you open the bag they came in.
Eyes? A common CRT emits measurable levels of soft X-rays (shielded from you by the glass in the monitor). This would emit significant amounts of hard X-rays, not just bad for your eyes.
Well, the woman is pregnant all nine months. Does your government manage to get that job swapped off to the husband so he needs time off? Wouldn't that be awesome, a system like you ask about, where I can get my wife pregnant, take five months off with pay, and then she gets the next four to deal with being pregnant. Wham, bam, thank you Ma'am I'm going to Orlando for five months!
Just to clarify: most women work up to 7 or 8 months pregnant, at least where I live. 90% of the total leave is after the child is born.
And you think Norway has a good system? You have to work 50+ years over there? Our standard retirement age is around 62 to 65 or so. We don't really enter the workforce, for the most part, until long after 12. We'd call them sweatshops, I think.
This is a common misconception: that the retirement age will be constant. Yes, the people who retire today do so at around 65. But given the rapidly changing demographics of our society (people having less children and living healthier longer lives), the retirement age in 2050 will have to be closer to 75, for sheer macroeconomic reasons.
With the current progress in industrial applications for high-temperature superconductors (MRI machines, high-quality aluminium tempering) being ahead of the progress in supercapacitors, I think you will see superconductors doing the heavy lifting IF (big if) this happens.
How about your RTF link you posted? It admits that "they are not deliberately randomized", but suggests that the current situation, having evolved by chance, is (close to) an economic equilibrium, and is thus stable to changes. This is, as most economic theories, very hard to disprove.
I have to say, you Americans have a completely retarded system when it comes to maternity leave etc., and I don't just mean what the government decides. My background: I live in Norway, our kid is 14 months now, and I just finished 3 months of paid paternity leave. It's been 3 awesome months.
What I don't get is: even when you don't have paid maternity/paternity leave (which is your society's fault), why can't you as the man take (20-40%) of the time staying at home (before kindergarden), and then your wife takes the rest? I mean, she has after all carried the baby and given birth to it, so surely she deserves more than 50%? Is your employer really going to deny you a total of (1-3)x3 months of unpaid leave, when seen against your entire working life of 50+ years and all the benefits that come from a closer connection to your children?
Well, a CRT accelerates electrons up to around 30 000 eV. This gets them up to 2 000 000 000 eV in roughly the same size, so I'd say it's a little more complicated than that.
I stand corrected, thank you.
Of course. EVs are still incredibly efficient. FAR more than ICEs.
Have you factored in that EVs are coal powered, since you're effectively a marginal consumer of electricity, so that you use the most expensive (which is the most polluting) electricity? And that coal releases far more nasty stuff into the atmosphere than petrol does? Did you know that the radioactive dose released into the atmosphere from coal power (carbon 14) equals one Chernobyl accident per year?
Or, how about, you know, an Android phone? Get a cheapo one, they can still record video at VGA or better, and ICS has native encryption support. Plenty of holders exist, as well.
Actually, it is.
We have a fairly good hunch what Fermat's actual "proof in the margin" was. I can't remember how it goes, but it falls apart because rings Z^n with n>13 are no longer Unique Factorization Domains (UFD: a ring where all numbers have a single unique prime factorization) (or something like that). The concept of something not being a UFD was unheard of at the time of Fermat. Disclaimer: it's a few years since I did Algebra, so there may be errors in this post.
The best solution: make it socially unacceptable (same level as kicking a dog) to drink and drive. Takes time and effort, but it has worked in most of Northern and Western Europe.
Amen.