Uh, I think you rushed to quickly to jump on big brother and not bother to notice that these satellites are infared, not photo.
These things wouldn't be able to notice the lot locations, only the houses (since your house is climate controlled, and would show up only as a yellow dot in a red background if it was a hot day outside).
Uh, no.
Go read the article again - the LANDSAT, etc., images used were taken in the near-IR (1.0-1.5 micron wavelengths, roughly). Thermal imaging is done in the far-IR (8-10+ micron wavelengths). Near-IR images look [mostly] like the normal black and white photographs.
By the way, the unemployment rate here in the US is figured on the basis of how many people are eligible for and seek government assistance, not how many people would take a job if there was one. This was done by the Clinton administration to prop up labor unions and help them bargain for higher pay.
Umm... no.
The U.S. has been doing it this way for decades - it's been controversial since at least the Reagan administration, and probably well before that.
-JS
P.S. If you're in the U.S. Military, you've also been marked as "fully employed" since the mid-80's specifically to drive down the official unemployment rate (as if you could change jobs anytime a better offer came along; the old way was to mark you as outside the labor pool as long as you were in the service).
Why is there far more 'concern' over emissions from the one monitor sitting in front of us or from the high voltage power lines strung along the poles out in the street yet not a peep from the dozens and dozens of plasma filled tubes at the office and even at home? Any radio enthusist will tell you that fluorescent lights screw up reception far more than a PC monitor does. In fact, even the PC, with the metal cover on the case is pumping out more RF hash than the monitor.
Not all radiation is created equal. Only ionizing radiation (e.g. x-rays and radioactive decay producs; some people include UV) can break up DNA molecules. Visible light doesn't have enough energy; RF sources have orders of magnitude less energy than visible light (per photon, which is what matters on molecular scales).
Here's a link with a full description of what was done (brought to you by the American Institute of Physics).
Just to summarize, the material has both a negative dielectric and a negative permeability. Velocity (both group velocity and phase velocity) remains sub-luminal because it is the product of the two that determines the speed of propagation.
-JS
P.S. This isn't really news anymore; the link I posted is 13 months old.
According to the send web-page, the laser has accumulated a total of 3000 seconds of active use since it was constructed in 1980. 50 hours uptime in 20 years? Even Microsoft does better than that!
It's interesting reading the responses so far - they seem to indicate that only the weak (unskilled) tech folks will be hurt by layoffs and well, since they aren't as smart as we all are, that's fine.
Not relevant. The fuel cell acts as a battery, charging during the day and discharging during the night. All the energy comes from the sun; some of it is simply stored for later use. What seems to be special about this setup is that the fuel cell weighs much less than other types of batteries.
-JS
As an aside, since the energy comes from the sun, 2nd law of thermodynamcis isn't a limit either (this isn't a closed system).
Let's see... (Score:2)...you could go to college, pay $15k/year, be too busy with studies to generate any income, learn obsolete technology, and live in a crappy dorm with annoying roommates while getting no real world experience other than "how to cope with hangovers".
Living with annoying roomates is a
real world experience, and an important one at that. The world is full of annoying people, and how to deal with them on a daily basis is something you need to know how to do.
-JS
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So, here is what has me so riled up today. It all revolves around this page of mine. It uses width="100%" and height="100%" tags on images so that they create a border around the text. It is 100% legit HTML.
OK everyone, repeat after me, "HTML describes content not layout".
You're trying to get HTML to do something it wasn't designed to do; don't be suprised when it doesn't live up to your expectations. For example, try looking at your page using lynx.
-The ending of the cold war allowing a vast reduction in military spending.
Allowed, but not realized. Actual reduction was under 10% of the military budget (from peak cold-war spending levels) and the trend has been steadily upwards for the last 5 years or so, and will probably accelerate under 'w'.
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Uh, no.
Go read the article again - the LANDSAT, etc., images used were taken in the near-IR (1.0-1.5 micron wavelengths, roughly). Thermal imaging is done in the far-IR (8-10+ micron wavelengths). Near-IR images look [mostly] like the normal black and white photographs.
-JS
Umm... no.
The U.S. has been doing it this way for decades - it's been controversial since at least the Reagan administration, and probably well before that.
-JS
P.S. If you're in the U.S. Military, you've also been marked as "fully employed" since the mid-80's specifically to drive down the official unemployment rate (as if you could change jobs anytime a better offer came along; the old way was to mark you as outside the labor pool as long as you were in the service).
-JS
Just to summarize, the material has both a negative dielectric and a negative permeability. Velocity (both group velocity and phase velocity) remains sub-luminal because it is the product of the two that determines the speed of propagation.
-JS
P.S. This isn't really news anymore; the link I posted is 13 months old.
-JS
Ahh the delusions of youth...
-JS (who remembers job hunting in '93)
The Fortarn code runs faster and the development time was 1/10 of what it would have been to write in C or C++. Your point is?
-JS
1977 Fortran. Not the tool for every job, but damn good at what it was designed for.
-JS
Not relevant. The fuel cell acts as a battery, charging during the day and discharging during the night. All the energy comes from the sun; some of it is simply stored for later use. What seems to be special about this setup is that the fuel cell weighs much less than other types of batteries.
-JS
As an aside, since the energy comes from the sun, 2nd law of thermodynamcis isn't a limit either (this isn't a closed system).
Living with annoying roomates is a real world experience, and an important one at that. The world is full of annoying people, and how to deal with them on a daily basis is something you need to know how to do.
-JS
OK everyone, repeat after me, "HTML describes content not layout".
You're trying to get HTML to do something it wasn't designed to do; don't be suprised when it doesn't live up to your expectations. For example, try looking at your page using lynx.
Allowed, but not realized. Actual reduction was under 10% of the military budget (from peak cold-war spending levels) and the trend has been steadily upwards for the last 5 years or so, and will probably accelerate under 'w'.
-JS