If you are going for body count, you'd use shrapnel. Greatly increases the injury radius. Did this guy even have a plan for a target that would notice, or was it just curiousity and telling the "fellow conspirators" what they seemed to want to hear?
Looking at the list from 2003, I am surprised to see one "nonfiction" book: Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, by Michael Bellesiles. That book got a lot of good press, but then became the only book ever to have a Bancroft Prize revoked after it turned out the author basically made the whole thing up. Most of the books make the list because religious groups want to get rid of books with sex, drugs, etc., but it looks like this book was opposed because it was factually incorrect, (and "scholarly dishonest" - Bellesiles had to leave Emory University after his book came under scrutiny). That the book was very much opposed to the gun lobby didn't help. I'll admit that I had a copy - but a little research quickly shows how worthless it is. I am normally not in favor of burning books, but that trash should never have been published as nonfiction.
Because static electricity doesn't have current to measure, so it it would be hard to quantify in amps, a unit of current? Once there is current, it is no longer static.
2X is normal. If you are providing the office they work out of, and all equipment, it might go down a little, but paying 2X for outside consultants actually ends up about breaking even.
Now, if you are hiring an entire department of them, it might work out differently.
That is a big component of this. How much you want to bet a private company is already lined up to run the whole operation, for a large percentage of the revenue? Not just privatizing of law enforcement, but blurring the line between criminal and civil offenses and government giving sanction to private companies to do things only governments should be doing.
You don't break causality, you just have a new speed limit for it. Breaking causality would require something arriving before it was sent, not messages arriving out of order.
At one time, the speed of business was the maximum speed of letters carried across the ocean. Telegraph allowed business communication much faster, so the speed limit of causing things to happen on the other side of the ocean was upgraded - we didn't break the maximum speed of a letter going across the ocean, we found something else entirely that went faster. Telegraph didn't allow messages from the future.
Does relativity really say that neutrinos can't go faster than the speed of light?
How many people will get cancer from contamination left over from top-secret production facilities? In some places, closed military bases and outlying fields can't be given away because the fuel spills contaminating the soil would cost more to clean up than the land would then be worth - and that's just regular aircraft fuel.
All you have to do is convince the buyer that you have stolen the Mona Lisa, and the one still hanging in the Louvre is a fake. Cut the power and water, close the museum to the public for a few days, then save the newspaper article about the temporary closure for repairs. Of course they aren't going to publicize the real story that they were robbed. Make sure to decide ahead of time if you put up the fake that is now on display, or if they put up a fake as part of the coverup.
And while you are at it, sell your "real" Mona Lisa to as many people as you can before they can brag to eachother about their latest acquisition.
The problem is, companies see data as infallible. If it is there, it must be correct enough to work with. You think the employees are allowed to work on the assumption their data is wrong?
There is basically no liability to companies who get your records mixed up, even if it costs you time and money fto fix. The problem is they are putting together the bad data, buying bad data from others, and combining it badly, but you are the one that gets inconvenienced. Companies and bureaucracies tend to treat the data as the real thing they are dealing with, and forget the reality that you are the real thing, the data is just their guesses, their collection of rumors and stories about you.
When companies keep specific records on specific people, they ought to be more careful about knowing the limitations of the data's accuracy. I am not a credit score, that is a number the credit rating agency made up to describe me. If they are inacurately describing me (saying I am a bum who doesn't pay his bills) and it costs me money, why isn't that slander/libel?
How many people did we have in stone-axe R&D at the time, and how was their communication? Right now, we have a lot more people sharing a lot more ideas than at any point in history. We also have better ways to communicate ideas, including preserving them for later, as developed pretty recently.
Wait, is the TSA the cat, or the mouse? Because we haven't seen all that much cleverness on either side of the game in a while. I mean seriously, shoe-bomb that doesn't work, followed by underwear bomb that doesn't work? the only thing remotely clever was the pepto-bismol-as-xray-shield, which would have worked except for the TSA gets slightly curious when things show opaque on an xray of your carry-on.
Referring to TSA-vs-the enemy as a "cat-and-mouse-game" is insulting to both cats, and mice.
I think it is pretty obvious the TSA wasn't thinking.
Just to humor the idea, though, I'm pretty sure compressed gas and cryogenic liquids were already not allowed. Although someone did try to use pepto-bismol to hide stuff from the xray machine.
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If you are going for body count, you'd use shrapnel. Greatly increases the injury radius. Did this guy even have a plan for a target that would notice, or was it just curiousity and telling the "fellow conspirators" what they seemed to want to hear?
Then you go to the list called "These names were suspected of terrorism, but absolutely nothing was found. Yet."
Looking at the list from 2003, I am surprised to see one "nonfiction" book: Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, by Michael Bellesiles. That book got a lot of good press, but then became the only book ever to have a Bancroft Prize revoked after it turned out the author basically made the whole thing up. Most of the books make the list because religious groups want to get rid of books with sex, drugs, etc., but it looks like this book was opposed because it was factually incorrect, (and "scholarly dishonest" - Bellesiles had to leave Emory University after his book came under scrutiny). That the book was very much opposed to the gun lobby didn't help. I'll admit that I had a copy - but a little research quickly shows how worthless it is. I am normally not in favor of burning books, but that trash should never have been published as nonfiction.
No, no, this is the season where you can get drunk and hunt parrots. A handicap, like muzzle-loader or archery season.
That would require them to actually be interested in making a cheap OTC available, rather than a more-profitable prescription-only drug.
The one with estimates that change frequently by several orders of magnitude.
Because static electricity doesn't have current to measure, so it it would be hard to quantify in amps, a unit of current? Once there is current, it is no longer static.
The problem doesn't have anything to do with the FDA requiring the old drugs with new propellants to be retested as new drugs?
2X is normal. If you are providing the office they work out of, and all equipment, it might go down a little, but paying 2X for outside consultants actually ends up about breaking even.
Now, if you are hiring an entire department of them, it might work out differently.
That is a big component of this. How much you want to bet a private company is already lined up to run the whole operation, for a large percentage of the revenue? Not just privatizing of law enforcement, but blurring the line between criminal and civil offenses and government giving sanction to private companies to do things only governments should be doing.
Does this apply to the Overdrive? Previously, there was a monthly 3G cap, but no 4G cap.
for picking this apple?
What is they mass of a neutrino? Maybe they only sometimes have mass.
You don't break causality, you just have a new speed limit for it. Breaking causality would require something arriving before it was sent, not messages arriving out of order.
At one time, the speed of business was the maximum speed of letters carried across the ocean. Telegraph allowed business communication much faster, so the speed limit of causing things to happen on the other side of the ocean was upgraded - we didn't break the maximum speed of a letter going across the ocean, we found something else entirely that went faster. Telegraph didn't allow messages from the future.
Does relativity really say that neutrinos can't go faster than the speed of light?
Which would be more useful, a perfect EM reflector, or a perfect EM absorber?
The neutrinos are claimed to have arrived before light should have, not before they were sent.
How many people will get cancer from contamination left over from top-secret production facilities? In some places, closed military bases and outlying fields can't be given away because the fuel spills contaminating the soil would cost more to clean up than the land would then be worth - and that's just regular aircraft fuel.
I was wondering if China would offer to shoot it down for us, just because we are such good friends.....
All you have to do is convince the buyer that you have stolen the Mona Lisa, and the one still hanging in the Louvre is a fake. Cut the power and water, close the museum to the public for a few days, then save the newspaper article about the temporary closure for repairs. Of course they aren't going to publicize the real story that they were robbed. Make sure to decide ahead of time if you put up the fake that is now on display, or if they put up a fake as part of the coverup.
And while you are at it, sell your "real" Mona Lisa to as many people as you can before they can brag to eachother about their latest acquisition.
What about the VPPA? (video privacy protection act?)
It would be a horrible fucking alibi. The police could prove you were in any part of town they wanted you to have been in.
The problem is, companies see data as infallible. If it is there, it must be correct enough to work with. You think the employees are allowed to work on the assumption their data is wrong?
There is basically no liability to companies who get your records mixed up, even if it costs you time and money fto fix. The problem is they are putting together the bad data, buying bad data from others, and combining it badly, but you are the one that gets inconvenienced. Companies and bureaucracies tend to treat the data as the real thing they are dealing with, and forget the reality that you are the real thing, the data is just their guesses, their collection of rumors and stories about you.
When companies keep specific records on specific people, they ought to be more careful about knowing the limitations of the data's accuracy. I am not a credit score, that is a number the credit rating agency made up to describe me. If they are inacurately describing me (saying I am a bum who doesn't pay his bills) and it costs me money, why isn't that slander/libel?
How many people did we have in stone-axe R&D at the time, and how was their communication? Right now, we have a lot more people sharing a lot more ideas than at any point in history. We also have better ways to communicate ideas, including preserving them for later, as developed pretty recently.
Wait, is the TSA the cat, or the mouse? Because we haven't seen all that much cleverness on either side of the game in a while. I mean seriously, shoe-bomb that doesn't work, followed by underwear bomb that doesn't work? the only thing remotely clever was the pepto-bismol-as-xray-shield, which would have worked except for the TSA gets slightly curious when things show opaque on an xray of your carry-on.
Referring to TSA-vs-the enemy as a "cat-and-mouse-game" is insulting to both cats, and mice.
I think it is pretty obvious the TSA wasn't thinking.
Just to humor the idea, though, I'm pretty sure compressed gas and cryogenic liquids were already not allowed. Although someone did try to use pepto-bismol to hide stuff from the xray machine.