The last study I read (forgive me, I cannot seem to locate it to quote as a source here at work) states that most self-defense shoots are 3 shots in 3 seconds from 3 feet away.
Honestly, only a few sessions at the range with drills for drawing and firing at man sized targets (to hit center mass) should be enough for anyone to gain the gross muscle memory required to fire under duress.
While that is good "Bad or Maybe" test, most PSU problems are transient over- or under-voltage conditions, which a DMM is not going to reveal.
Even cheap DMMs have a min/max button which will freeze the display with the last minimum or maximum value which can be used to view over and under voltages. Naturally this can be time consuming if you are testing each different voltage output on each rail of a PSU while under load.
Why not use a technique which has been around since the 50's and the required parts are ubiquitous; write the data to a PROM chip. Remember include schematics to build an output device(s) or you can build them yourself and include those as well.
You can use each chip to produce one type of media such as text output or audio output. Storage is nearly endless depending upon your time and monetary budget constraints.
I wish I had points to mod this up; this post is not only hilarious, but hits on a true idea. Jerkiness in cinematography can add realism, but only to a point. Once a perspective is overdone the effectiveness is lost.
In 1998, Congress made identity theft a federal crime when it enacted the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act (Identity Theft Act).5 The act made it a criminal offense for a person to "knowingly transfer, possess, or use without lawful authority," another person's means of identification "with the intent to commit, or to aid or abet, or in connection with, any unlawful activity that constitutes a violation of federal law, or that constitutes a felony under any applicable state or local law." Under the act, a name or SSN is considered a "means of identification," and a number of cases have been prosecuted under this law.
Your argument is flawed. The statute does not make possession of the information illegal; the statute makes possession of the information with intent for illegal activity illegal.
I wouldn't recommend providing personal data or even doing business with a company that has an intent to commit, aid, or abet unlawful activities.
Finland (data from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/fi.html): Total area: 338,145 sq km Population: 5,250,275 (July 2009 est.) Urbanization: urban population: 63% of total population (2008)
US (data from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html): Total area: 9,826,675 sq km Population: 307,212,123 (July 2009 est.) Urbanization: urban population: 82% of total population (2008)
To directly compare these two countries first we will determine the population density.
Finland = 5,250,275 people / 338,145 sq km = 15.53 people per sq. km. US = 307,212,123 people / 9,826,675 sq km = 31.26 people per sq. km.
If the cell carriers deploy towers which cover the same area then each tower will serve almost twice as many potential US customers as Finnish customers. This is discounting that a larger percentage of the US population lives in an urban environment. It is true that a rural infrastructure build out would be more expensive per potential customer; Finland would have the higher cost to bear in this case (63% vs. the US 82% of the population).
If we use a cell tower that will cover 1 sq. km of area that would be placed in an urban zone of each country it would cover:
Finland = (63% x 5,250,275 people) / 338,145 sq km = 9.78 urban people per sq. km. US = (82% x 307,212,123 people) / 9,826,675 sq km = 25.64 urban people per sq. km.
I don't see how the argument of infrastructure build out is the defining factor in the order of magnitude in plan pricing seen between Finland and the US.
Victoria's Secret seems to endorse couples checking the clothing together. I can't count how many times the sales women will ask if I wanted to join my (now) ex-fiance in the dressing room to see the fit, color, shape, etc of the articles she was trying on. Even if it was just a bra. Definitely good stuff, but just try to keep the hormones in check...
But first of all, do we want the federal government having that kind of control over the states? The actions taken by the federal government ought to be carefully weighed with the impact it will have on all states.
The federal government already exerts this type of control over states legislation without using federal mandated law. Let's examine the current drinking age as a case study.
The federal government commisioned a study which found that raising the drinking age from 18 to 21 would have a direct influence on decreasing the amount and severity of automobile accidents for young adults. Citing this study the government wanted to increase the drinking age, but that was traditionally held at state levels. Instead of mandating a federal drinking age of 21 the government did the next best thing: withheld federal transportation repair funds for any state with a drinking age lower than 21 after a certain date.
Effect - States needed the federal monies for road repair work thus the drinking age was increase at the state level.
I guess it's the classic argument for patents. I'd be interested in hearing Prometheus Labs' pricing scheme. A modest one time fee per hospital? A once per use fee? Covered by insurance? What motive do they have to pour over this data and draw these correlations statistically without a monetary incentive of some sort to keep them going/make money?
I think you are missing the downstream economics here. The general public will be paying the premium no matter the pricing scheme of prometheus labs or the level of insurance coverage. Insurance companies are capitalistic entities; coverage is based upon complex forecasts to create profit from monthly premiums.
Prometheus Labs' pricing is irrelevant to the discussion of their patent dispute.
I always like to leave the option open for any person to join our group at the pub, but I don't ask directly by saying things like "just to let you know, we are all going down to the pub for a few drinks; it should be fun since we leave an open invitation for anyone to join us". Of all the companies I have work for, even the most stringent sexual harrasment policy wouldn't be effective against that. How can you be sexually harrassing someone when you have an open invitation to everyone in the company? Am I guilty of sexually harrassing every employee at once?
How long will it take before someone hacks the encryption scheme of AACS to make a converter to change the HD signal from a digital HDMI connection to the analog component connections?
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The last study I read (forgive me, I cannot seem to locate it to quote as a source here at work) states that most self-defense shoots are 3 shots in 3 seconds from 3 feet away. Honestly, only a few sessions at the range with drills for drawing and firing at man sized targets (to hit center mass) should be enough for anyone to gain the gross muscle memory required to fire under duress.
While that is good "Bad or Maybe" test, most PSU problems are transient over- or under-voltage conditions, which a DMM is not going to reveal.
Even cheap DMMs have a min/max button which will freeze the display with the last minimum or maximum value which can be used to view over and under voltages. Naturally this can be time consuming if you are testing each different voltage output on each rail of a PSU while under load.
Why not use a technique which has been around since the 50's and the required parts are ubiquitous; write the data to a PROM chip. Remember include schematics to build an output device(s) or you can build them yourself and include those as well.
You can use each chip to produce one type of media such as text output or audio output. Storage is nearly endless depending upon your time and monetary budget constraints.
I wish I had points to mod this up; this post is not only hilarious, but hits on a true idea. Jerkiness in cinematography can add realism, but only to a point. Once a perspective is overdone the effectiveness is lost.
In 1998, Congress made identity theft a federal crime when it enacted the
Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act (Identity Theft Act).5 The
act made it a criminal offense for a person to "knowingly transfer, possess,
or use without lawful authority," another person's means of identification
"with the intent to commit, or to aid or abet, or in connection with, any
unlawful activity that constitutes a violation of federal law, or that
constitutes a felony under any applicable state or local law." Under the
act, a name or SSN is considered a "means of identification," and a number
of cases have been prosecuted under this law.
Your argument is flawed. The statute does not make possession of the information illegal; the statute makes possession of the information with intent for illegal activity illegal.
I wouldn't recommend providing personal data or even doing business with a company that has an intent to commit, aid, or abet unlawful activities.
Finland (data from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/fi.html):
Total area: 338,145 sq km
Population: 5,250,275 (July 2009 est.)
Urbanization: urban population: 63% of total population (2008)
US (data from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html):
Total area: 9,826,675 sq km
Population: 307,212,123 (July 2009 est.)
Urbanization: urban population: 82% of total population (2008)
To directly compare these two countries first we will determine the population density.
Finland = 5,250,275 people / 338,145 sq km = 15.53 people per sq. km.
US = 307,212,123 people / 9,826,675 sq km = 31.26 people per sq. km.
If the cell carriers deploy towers which cover the same area then each tower will serve almost twice as many potential US customers as Finnish customers. This is discounting that a larger percentage of the US population lives in an urban environment. It is true that a rural infrastructure build out would be more expensive per potential customer; Finland would have the higher cost to bear in this case (63% vs. the US 82% of the population).
If we use a cell tower that will cover 1 sq. km of area that would be placed in an urban zone of each country it would cover:
Finland = (63% x 5,250,275 people) / 338,145 sq km = 9.78 urban people per sq. km.
US = (82% x 307,212,123 people) / 9,826,675 sq km = 25.64 urban people per sq. km.
I don't see how the argument of infrastructure build out is the defining factor in the order of magnitude in plan pricing seen between Finland and the US.
Victoria's Secret seems to endorse couples checking the clothing together. I can't count how many times the sales women will ask if I wanted to join my (now) ex-fiance in the dressing room to see the fit, color, shape, etc of the articles she was trying on. Even if it was just a bra. Definitely good stuff, but just try to keep the hormones in check...
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But first of all, do we want the federal government having that kind of control over the states? The actions taken by the federal government ought to be carefully weighed with the impact it will have on all states.
The federal government already exerts this type of control over states legislation without using federal mandated law.
Let's examine the current drinking age as a case study.
The federal government commisioned a study which found that raising the drinking age from 18 to 21 would have a direct influence on decreasing the amount and severity of automobile accidents for young adults. Citing this study the government wanted to increase the drinking age, but that was traditionally held at state levels. Instead of mandating a federal drinking age of 21 the government did the next best thing: withheld federal transportation repair funds for any state with a drinking age lower than 21 after a certain date.
Effect - States needed the federal monies for road repair work thus the drinking age was increase at the state level.
I guess it's the classic argument for patents. I'd be interested in hearing Prometheus Labs' pricing scheme. A modest one time fee per hospital? A once per use fee? Covered by insurance? What motive do they have to pour over this data and draw these correlations statistically without a monetary incentive of some sort to keep them going/make money?
I think you are missing the downstream economics here. The general public will be paying the premium no matter the pricing scheme of prometheus labs or the level of insurance coverage. Insurance companies are capitalistic entities; coverage is based upon complex forecasts to create profit from monthly premiums.
Prometheus Labs' pricing is irrelevant to the discussion of their patent dispute.
I always like to leave the option open for any person to join our group at the pub, but I don't ask directly by saying things like "just to let you know, we are all going down to the pub for a few drinks; it should be fun since we leave an open invitation for anyone to join us". Of all the companies I have work for, even the most stringent sexual harrasment policy wouldn't be effective against that. How can you be sexually harrassing someone when you have an open invitation to everyone in the company? Am I guilty of sexually harrassing every employee at once?
How long will it take before someone hacks the encryption scheme of AACS to make a converter to change the HD signal from a digital HDMI connection to the analog component connections?