I dare say the danger from lasers is about the same as the danger from passengers using mobile phones.
Undoubtably from time to time pilots see people flashing laser pointers at them. They probably find it annoying. But it's not going to blind a pilot and make the plane fall out of the sky.
Someone can imagine it occurring, therefore it's a threat we must spend money to defend against.
Not long ago, in Chile, it was demonstrated that a deep hole wide enough for a man can be drilled reasonably quickly. That would be a hole with a diameter which is a significant fraction of a meter, which could handle a flow of 1 cubic meter per second for many materials. If the hole enlarges itself, somewhat more might be able to flow.
I'm pretty sure that hole wasn't immediately flooded with upward-flowing magma at the completion of the drilling. That might complicate matters a bit.
Why should the people of North Dakota pay for tsunami monitoring for California? If the west coast wants earth quake and tsunami warning, they can pay for it.
He also wants to axe NOAA, of which the National Weather Service is a part, which tracks weather events like thunderstorms and blizzards that affect North Dakota.
Besides, your callous attitude would seem to lead to something like this: "Why should I have to do anything to help anyone? Screw 'em." (later) "Eeek, I'm in trouble, why won't someone help me?!"
“We have a massive reforestation event that’s sequestering carbon coincident with the European arrival,” says Nevle, who described the consequences of this change October 11 at the Geological Society of America annual meeting.
Actually, her criticism isn't of the vaccine itself, it's of the mandatory innoculation of young girls.
For values of "mandatory" that include a conscientious objection opt-out.
Minnesota also has a bevy of required inoculations for little kids before they enter school, just like Texas. Curious that she never objected to that while she was in the state legislature.
That must be a hell of a large family. The family-run dairy farms I've visited—including my aunt and uncle's when they still had one—had at most dozens of animals.
Heather, of course. Max tries to hold on to the conversation while Heather doesn't quite manage to follow context. An exchange of barely-correlated sentences does not a cogent conversation make.
With git, you have no option to pull the entire repository, and all of its data, and all of its history.
That does get some getting used to, but pulling a git clone is incredibly fast compared to a simple SVN checkout, particularly if you're using a repo hosted over WebDAV.
I used to scoff at Git, but I've really become a believer.
We have a five year old Java project with close to 6000 commits against it hosted in Subversion. The working copy (ignoring.svn directories) is around 336 MB, including build dependencies and test resources. The Git repository clone of the entire Subversion project is 423 MB, only slightly larger than the working copy. (I'm sure some of this is due to the dubious decision to host dependencies in the source tree rather than pulling them via Maven.) Since I usually had at least two or three working copies checked out with Subversion to work on branches, I basically broke even on disk space moving to Git as a front-end for Subversion.
From my experience, the Git toolset's effect on my productivity would have more than made up for an increase in disk space, anyway. It makes many things much easier and just works. (Which they often did not in Subversion. I got sick of blowing away and re-creating Subversion working copies to fix bizarre problems in the working copy metadata.)
There are very few federal roads, even the interstates are maintained by the states. They can fund that themselves.
Part of the goal for the Interstate Highway System was to support land transportation for national defense. National defense shouldn't be something farmed out to the states.
It's also understandable why US tried to fight for copyrights so much - that's basically the only thing they produce now.
The scenario Charles Stross posits for the USA and copyright in Accelerando is becoming more and more believable. (government-sanctioned and supported copyright mafia)
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I dare say the danger from lasers is about the same as the danger from passengers using mobile phones.
Undoubtably from time to time pilots see people flashing laser pointers at them. They probably find it annoying. But it's not going to blind a pilot and make the plane fall out of the sky.
Someone can imagine it occurring, therefore it's a threat we must spend money to defend against.
Not long ago, in Chile, it was demonstrated that a deep hole wide enough for a man can be drilled reasonably quickly. That would be a hole with a diameter which is a significant fraction of a meter, which could handle a flow of 1 cubic meter per second for many materials. If the hole enlarges itself, somewhat more might be able to flow.
I'm pretty sure that hole wasn't immediately flooded with upward-flowing magma at the completion of the drilling. That might complicate matters a bit.
...Obama wants it ready for when he declares martial law! I kid, I kid (at least I think I'm kidding...)
Considering his track record, you might not be far from the truth.
Okay, I'll bite. What?
So much for providing for common defense and promoting general welfare.
Why should the people of North Dakota pay for tsunami monitoring for California? If the west coast wants earth quake and tsunami warning, they can pay for it.
North Dakota is not geologically inert. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1909_05_16.php
He also wants to axe NOAA, of which the National Weather Service is a part, which tracks weather events like thunderstorms and blizzards that affect North Dakota.
Besides, your callous attitude would seem to lead to something like this:
"Why should I have to do anything to help anyone? Screw 'em." (later) "Eeek, I'm in trouble, why won't someone help me?!"
Along those lines, I submitted Sagan Array.
FTA:
“We have a massive reforestation event that’s sequestering carbon coincident with the European arrival,” says Nevle, who described the consequences of this change October 11 at the Geological Society of America annual meeting.
Actually, her criticism isn't of the vaccine itself, it's of the mandatory innoculation of young girls.
For values of "mandatory" that include a conscientious objection opt-out.
Minnesota also has a bevy of required inoculations for little kids before they enter school, just like Texas. Curious that she never objected to that while she was in the state legislature.
Thousands of adult cows [...]
That must be a hell of a large family. The family-run dairy farms I've visited—including my aunt and uncle's when they still had one—had at most dozens of animals.
Maybe you meant "family owned".
Well as some wine or beer lovers say: "Water? No, thanks. Fish sh%t in it."
Beer is made with that same water. While the water in wine has been filtered through a plant, both wine and beer are full of yeast excrement.
Heather, of course. Max tries to hold on to the conversation while Heather doesn't quite manage to follow context. An exchange of barely-correlated sentences does not a cogent conversation make.
No. Making money is not easy in any business.
It might be, but only if it's kept secret. Easy money implies that someone's found an edge that isn't known widely.
This movie make me think Humans stole Parkour from the Primates.
Um, we are primates.
Great. Another "science will destroy us all" theme.
Good news everybody! We're all going to die...but with SCIENCE!
With git, you have no option to pull the entire repository, and all of its data, and all of its history.
That does get some getting used to, but pulling a git clone is incredibly fast compared to a simple SVN checkout, particularly if you're using a repo hosted over WebDAV.
I used to scoff at Git, but I've really become a believer.
We have a five year old Java project with close to 6000 commits against it hosted in Subversion. The working copy (ignoring .svn directories) is around 336 MB, including build dependencies and test resources. The Git repository clone of the entire Subversion project is 423 MB, only slightly larger than the working copy. (I'm sure some of this is due to the dubious decision to host dependencies in the source tree rather than pulling them via Maven.) Since I usually had at least two or three working copies checked out with Subversion to work on branches, I basically broke even on disk space moving to Git as a front-end for Subversion.
From my experience, the Git toolset's effect on my productivity would have more than made up for an increase in disk space, anyway. It makes many things much easier and just works. (Which they often did not in Subversion. I got sick of blowing away and re-creating Subversion working copies to fix bizarre problems in the working copy metadata.)
There are very few federal roads, even the interstates are maintained by the states. They can fund that themselves.
Part of the goal for the Interstate Highway System was to support land transportation for national defense. National defense shouldn't be something farmed out to the states.
Usually those that believe that they are "The Elite" are in fact, not.
And often those who are accused of believing they are "The Elite", in fact, do not.
No, we are 100% IN a police state right now.
The final brick in that particular wall was the aftermath of 9/11, when the nation as a whole suddenly became obsessed with safety.
My homeopathic doctor charges $15/hour for the exact same service that my medical doctor charged $5,400/hour for.
The sheer number of jokes that could be made here made my head explode.
I don't think that we've read of mass executions in Turkey, have we.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
Perhaps I've read too much Charlie Stross, but this story immediately think that users should be careful what they draw with this pen...
It's also understandable why US tried to fight for copyrights so much - that's basically the only thing they produce now.
The scenario Charles Stross posits for the USA and copyright in Accelerando is becoming more and more believable. (government-sanctioned and supported copyright mafia)
There are entities out there that would do nearly anything for that kind of publicity. I dunno, maybe she could use it for something.
Claiming that cell phones can cause cancer is like saying that the wake from a surfboard could capsize a passing supertanker.
What if the surfer had a Quantum Weather Butterfly on his shoulder?
I think you're on to something with the "gamma radiation cellphone" concept. No more signal loss just because you're in the middle of downtown
I'd bet the battery life would be crap, though.