Sure I do, but when people say "the speed of light", they pretty much always mean c, unless they specify that there's a medium involved. I happen to think that the wording in the article was unintentional, but the fact remains that it COULD be correct, if (a) the chamber has air in it, and (b) the author meant to say "the speed of light in a vacuum"
While the idea sounds interesting, and I'm sure it would reduce drag significantly, I don't really like the idea of plummiting to the ground like a rock if there's an electrical failure. Hell, you wouldn't even need that - just a thrust imbalance would do the trick.
The ability to glide to a landing is sort of a big deal for me.
And then use google to automatically find highly rated comments from the previous dupe and post them automagically to karma whore on/.
Actually, I read neither the article nor the comments from the previous story, I simply remember seeing it on the main page. My comment above was simply the first thing that came to mind (and I typed it rapidly, as evidenced by the glaringly inappropriate article).
Well, ok, yes...I suppose in my mind deciding that someone must go because of their attire constitutes the creation of a sort of temporary "policy". But you're right, it's the managers discretion.
However...
The cops can't "move them along" unless a crime has been committed. The cops can't even tell them to leave; it's not their building. Until the manager or someone else associated with Best Buy asks them to leave and they refuse, the cops are powerless because nothing illegal is taking place....and that critical step was not taken.
You'll be hard-pressed to find a court that will convict you of "disturbing the peace" by standing somewhere. The worst they could do is loitering, but, once again (and I really can't emphasize this enough):
They can refuse service to anyone for any reason, barring specially protected classes of discrimination such as race.
Yes, and such a decision falls under "making a policy of 'no blue shirts and khakis'" read what I wrote next time.
Their recourse is to call the cops and have the people removed, which is what they did.
No crime was being committed. In a place of public accommodation it's not trespassing until someone's asked to leave and refuses. Hence, that is not a recourse available to them. Incidentally, I think that the cops should have written the manager a summons as soon as they found out that simply asking everyone nicely hadn't even been tried.
That's the thing. They weren't "impersonating" anyone. They were just wearing clothes that happened to be quite similar to the employee uniform. If you RTFA, you'd find that NONE of them EVER said that they worked there.
If Best Buy doesn't like it, they can make a "No blue shirts and Khakis" policy. Barring that, they have no recourse.
you don't save the cost or weight of carrying around a ruler.
That was never the point. The point is that you don't have to disrupt the crime scene to get your measurements now. When evidence is microscopic, that can be extremely important.
Rulers and tape measures can be used to measure other things, that lasers can't- like skew distances, or circumferences.
Once you've got a scale in a digital image, you can measure curves to your heart's content in software, without distrurbing the crime scene.
Red laser light is not too visible if the object is like, red, or covered with blood.
Yes, it is, actually...and it appears that, despite the obvious flaws that you pointed out, it is actually being adopted by the FBI. Such a folly could surely have beeb prevented, if only they'd consulted you first!
Yeah, here's another current 24 year old who knows damn well that he knows jack shit. I knew everything when I graduated from High School. Four years as a physics major kicked that shit out of me, as well it should.
My mom's in the same boat. Thank God or whatever deity you prefer that she got her job as a state employee before her diagnosis. MS is nasty, and the price they charge for Copaxone is simply criminal. I'm all about compensating the drug companies, but it's something that we should all do collectively, IMO. When your "market" is a very few people who will die or suffer debilitating consequences without the product, gouging them individually so you can make a profit is simply immoral.
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Sending more MER-class rovers after MSL is indeed one of the options that are being considered. They're calling them "Mid Rovers", though.
Have you noticed that the countries with socialized medicine and minimal military are not in space, or they largely piggy back on the former?
Have you noticed a rather large launch complex in South America, and space probes orbiting the Moon, Venus, and Mars?
Have you even glanced at the ESA's upcoming mision roster?
You'll have to to better than that if you want to troll around here.
Sure I do, but when people say "the speed of light", they pretty much always mean c, unless they specify that there's a medium involved. I happen to think that the wording in the article was unintentional, but the fact remains that it COULD be correct, if (a) the chamber has air in it, and (b) the author meant to say "the speed of light in a vacuum"
Is his chamber evacuated? If not, then that statement is likely true.
While the idea sounds interesting, and I'm sure it would reduce drag significantly, I don't really like the idea of plummiting to the ground like a rock if there's an electrical failure. Hell, you wouldn't even need that - just a thrust imbalance would do the trick.
The ability to glide to a landing is sort of a big deal for me.
Dang, you beat me to it!
And then use google to automatically find highly rated comments from the previous dupe and post them automagically to karma whore on /.
Actually, I read neither the article nor the comments from the previous story, I simply remember seeing it on the main page. My comment above was simply the first thing that came to mind (and I typed it rapidly, as evidenced by the glaringly inappropriate article).
So, sorry, but I wasn't trying to karma whore.
He plans on using Google as an means to track down dupes on Slashdot!
Well, ok, yes...I suppose in my mind deciding that someone must go because of their attire constitutes the creation of a sort of temporary "policy". But you're right, it's the managers discretion.
...and that critical step was not taken.
However...
The cops can't "move them along" unless a crime has been committed. The cops can't even tell them to leave; it's not their building. Until the manager or someone else associated with Best Buy asks them to leave and they refuse, the cops are powerless because nothing illegal is taking place.
You'll be hard-pressed to find a court that will convict you of "disturbing the peace" by standing somewhere. The worst they could do is loitering, but, once again (and I really can't emphasize this enough):
Nobody asked them to leave first
The store is not a public space.
I never said it was
They can refuse service to anyone for any reason, barring specially protected classes of discrimination such as race.
Yes, and such a decision falls under "making a policy of 'no blue shirts and khakis'" read what I wrote next time.
Their recourse is to call the cops and have the people removed, which is what they did.
No crime was being committed. In a place of public accommodation it's not trespassing until someone's asked to leave and refuses. Hence, that is not a recourse available to them. Incidentally, I think that the cops should have written the manager a summons as soon as they found out that simply asking everyone nicely hadn't even been tried.
That's the thing. They weren't "impersonating" anyone. They were just wearing clothes that happened to be quite similar to the employee uniform. If you RTFA, you'd find that NONE of them EVER said that they worked there.
If Best Buy doesn't like it, they can make a "No blue shirts and Khakis" policy. Barring that, they have no recourse.
OTOH, the State of the Union came back as Authentic. ...I'll have to find something the man wrote himself to prove that he really IS a robot...
My LPSC abstract came back at 45.6%. It's quite technical. Weird.
I'd say it's an experimental physics breakthrough with serious theoretical implications, but meh.
If you can create sound, it should be easy to create antisound, i.e., silence.
Noise-cancelling headsets. They create silence by inverting the external waveform. Effectively "antisound"
If you can create heat, it should be easy to creat antiheat, i.e., cold.
Refrigerator?
You have a point on the first one, however, and it's true that neither of those technologies are particularly "easy". Nevertheless, they're possible.
you don't save the cost or weight of carrying around a ruler.
That was never the point. The point is that you don't have to disrupt the crime scene to get your measurements now. When evidence is microscopic, that can be extremely important.
Rulers and tape measures can be used to measure other things, that lasers can't- like skew distances, or circumferences.
Once you've got a scale in a digital image, you can measure curves to your heart's content in software, without distrurbing the crime scene.
Red laser light is not too visible if the object is like, red, or covered with blood.
Yes, it is, actually...and it appears that, despite the obvious flaws that you pointed out, it is actually being adopted by the FBI. Such a folly could surely have beeb prevented, if only they'd consulted you first!
Care to point out where parent mentions religion at all?
...we can finally replace 'Enterprise' with a space-going vehicle in the air and space museum!
Yeah, that's why I primed the second dt in my post above.
That only works if you never accellerate. Otherwise, your frame is non-inertial, and cannot be so defined.
Not only that, but you move every day, which dilates time WRT the rest frame, so dt/dt' != 1
I don't feel like taking the derivative of the Lorentz dilation, but I'm sure you could look it up.
Yeah, here's another current 24 year old who knows damn well that he knows jack shit. I knew everything when I graduated from High School. Four years as a physics major kicked that shit out of me, as well it should.
My mom's in the same boat. Thank God or whatever deity you prefer that she got her job as a state employee before her diagnosis. MS is nasty, and the price they charge for Copaxone is simply criminal. I'm all about compensating the drug companies, but it's something that we should all do collectively, IMO. When your "market" is a very few people who will die or suffer debilitating consequences without the product, gouging them individually so you can make a profit is simply immoral.
You, sir, owe me a new keyboard. Well done. :)