It is known that on the tips of these whips were nails, glass shards, and jagged sheep bone. These were attached form the three to twelve different strips of leather that made the scourge. The glass, nails, and bone were embedded in a fashion that they would not break, thus rendering the whip useless.... Effects of such whips are devastating to the skin. The tear apart the flesh and rip open underlying veins and arteries. So effective are these whips that medical historians believe the very ribcage of a person would be visible through the skin after a scourging. The Roman Scourge
He was likey physically intimidating, he was a carpenter after all, in an age when if you needed a board, you went out and cut down a tree and sawed out the board. The Romans couldn't allow this man to cause any ruckus on the way to his execution, just making to his execution alive was no mean feat.
Not necessarily, going from Earth to Mars means you not only have to travel up through Earth's gravity well, but the sun's as well, so there may be no delta V between the fueling station and the vehicle to Mars at that point. The other point is it's much easier to get to Mars than it is to get there and back, in space travel energy budgets always trumps distance; Frequntly just getting off a planet's surface is half or more of the trip energy wise, and there is noway to get around spending the energy to get off the Marsian surface. Since there will be humans on board, time of flight is also a factor, since we don't want the raditation exposure during the trip to fry them into crispy critters.
The banking indusrtries computers and computer networks are just as important to National Security as electric utility networks and computers are, so I'm sure they'll get their turn in the barrel sooner or later.
Our 3 letter agencies don't spy on Americans, they spy on the Austrailians, the Austrailians spy on the British, then the British spy on the Americans. When anybody discovers anything interesting, an anonomous file is sent through back channels to the respective government.
i seriously doubt it would take hours to get intel on joe blow,with all of the technology and power of the government they would know you from seed to coffin in an hour or less.
They can assemble a lot of raw data pretty quickly, but so can anybody; for example I applied for credit at Dell they ask which street I had lived on, one was arround the corner from where I presently lived, two were out of the blue, and the correct answer was where I had lived 40 years ago when I was 10 years old! What we have to remember is raw data isn't information, it's a lot easier to take a person of interest and assemble a dossier from available data, than it is to take the raw data and deducing who the person of interest is. Even with the incredable resources the law enforcement and intelligence agencies have, most cases are broken through serendipity.
It's not a blog's gif, it's a graph from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report 5, it's current unlike your 4 year old peer reviewed paper.
I figured that the Mayans used significant celestial events for the under pinning of their calender, and the end of their calender's epoch is suspiciously on the day of the solstice. The solstice is an actual event, where the sun is directly overhead at solar noon on the latitude of one of the tropics which occured at 11:12 UTC in Namibia; I happened to have slept through it. If the world was going to end, the end would have started at 11:12 UTC, by my reckoning.
Sorry to burst your bubble but the warming has stalled about 15 years ago while CO2 levels in the atmosphere keep rising, every year the chances that this could be a statistical fluctuations in a long term trend diminishes, all you have to do is look at IPCC AR5 draft figure 1-4 to see how badly the models have failed to predict reality; as Richard Feyman said "When actual observations over a period of time contradict predictions based on a given theory, that theory is wrong!"
Most of the side arms made in 2012 are cheap knock-off's of the M191A1 with a few minor tweeks, and yes I know this is going to start a flamewar of vi vs. emacs proportions, but it's the truth. Also it's hard to beat the stopping-power of the.45APC round; shoot'em in the shoulder and it rips the arm off, so don't shoot'em if you don't intend to kill them.
We used to do that in the National Guard, weapons in the Arm's vault on site and the bolts in a locked box store in the local police station's arm's vault. The bolts were not inter-changeable, each had a unique timing and headspace so putting the wrong bolt in the weapon might result in anything from normal operation to not firing.
But, what the FUCK does "qw" mean? One can guess, and only guess, for the context that it's some sort of means to delineate a list. Fact is, Perl is W.O.R.N. language: Write Once Read Never
qw() is the quote word function it purpose is to keep you from wearing out your ['] key; example my @names = qw(Kernighan Ritchie Pike); is the same as my @names = ('Kernighan', 'Ritchie', 'Pike');.
Considering the havoc that a few over-achieving, narcissistic and predatory businessman have reeked on our economy, maybe a little tempering of the ambition would be a good thing.
I have to say that $3.99 is not out of line to distribute the source, cost of the blank CD, personel time invovled in burning, handling and posting, cost of mailer and postage. Try getting a legal transcript copy for a real eye opener.
That is assuming the US even uses soldiers on the ground, as nukes are useless against air targets, and they're less than optimally effective in water as well (it is amazing how much energy even modest amounts of water can absorb by vaporizing. Absolutely unbelievable).
It has actually been tested that an atomic explosion more than 200 meters away from an aircraft carrier, while it would kill anyone on in line of sight from the explosion, wouldn't sink the ship (tested on a model, not with an actual aircraft carrier).
Actually tests have been made, such as Operation Crossroads, Baker eventand not against models, but real full sized ships and the Lexington-class air craft carrier, the USS Saratoga (CV-3) did in fact sink from damage caused by the the underwater baker detonation, 8 hours later.
Also you greatly under-estimate the effect of a nuclear explosion on aircraft, both EMP and blast waves have devastating effect on the airframes and electronics, even hardened military grade electronics; and the fleshies inside are very susceptible to blinding and dazzle from the flash, absorb neutron radiation like a sponge and there is the psychological effects also.
If your trying to take out a US Minuteman III ICBM in a silo with the blast doors closed, you have to detonate a 15 KT warhead within 100m of the silo to have 50% chance of disabling the missile; considering reentry angle and velocity that's unimaginably accurate shooting and the detonation timing is in nanoseconds. Getting the same warhead within a couple miles of target, and detonating a 1/4 mile above LA or Seatle is a much easier proposition.
HIV doesn't have DNA, it's a retrovirus so it's genetic information is carried by RNA instead. Because Human cells understand DNA, the HIV needs to use reverse transcriptase to convert the RNA into single strand DNA
Most of the islands of the Seychelles are coral islands and atolls, which means they will always look like they are on the verge of becoming inundated, no matter what the sea levels do. Sealevel rises measured in millimeters per decade just don't seem that scary, hasn't been any significant warming for 16 years; these people are more worried about the gravy-train ending than anything else.
Seriously, Grits is a Native American or First Nations in Canadian English, dish; best described as a porridge made from Corn meal instead of Oatmeal. It's more commonly eaten in the American South, so I'd guess that your not a Snowbird.
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My experience has been that the single thing that kills your mod-points the fastest is having your moderations overturn in meta-moderation.
I've found that my comtempories in the habitual internet porn veiwing comunity find very little that appeals only to prurient interests on the whole.
Jesus was scrourged quite vigorously,
He was likey physically intimidating, he was a carpenter after all, in an age when if you needed a board, you went out and cut down a tree and sawed out the board. The Romans couldn't allow this man to cause any ruckus on the way to his execution, just making to his execution alive was no mean feat.
Not necessarily, going from Earth to Mars means you not only have to travel up through Earth's gravity well, but the sun's as well, so there may be no delta V between the fueling station and the vehicle to Mars at that point. The other point is it's much easier to get to Mars than it is to get there and back, in space travel energy budgets always trumps distance; Frequntly just getting off a planet's surface is half or more of the trip energy wise, and there is noway to get around spending the energy to get off the Marsian surface. Since there will be humans on board, time of flight is also a factor, since we don't want the raditation exposure during the trip to fry them into crispy critters.
You might have fun at Wood for Trees , comparing the different temperature records against each other can be enlightening.
The banking indusrtries computers and computer networks are just as important to National Security as electric utility networks and computers are, so I'm sure they'll get their turn in the barrel sooner or later.
Our 3 letter agencies don't spy on Americans, they spy on the Austrailians, the Austrailians spy on the British, then the British spy on the Americans. When anybody discovers anything interesting, an anonomous file is sent through back channels to the respective government.
i seriously doubt it would take hours to get intel on joe blow,with all of the technology and power of the government they would know you from seed to coffin in an hour or less.
They can assemble a lot of raw data pretty quickly, but so can anybody; for example I applied for credit at Dell they ask which street I had lived on, one was arround the corner from where I presently lived, two were out of the blue, and the correct answer was where I had lived 40 years ago when I was 10 years old! What we have to remember is raw data isn't information, it's a lot easier to take a person of interest and assemble a dossier from available data, than it is to take the raw data and deducing who the person of interest is. Even with the incredable resources the law enforcement and intelligence agencies have, most cases are broken through serendipity.
IPCC AR5, draft, is going to be difficult to cover up.
It's not a blog's gif, it's a graph from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report 5, it's current unlike your 4 year old peer reviewed paper.
I figured that the Mayans used significant celestial events for the under pinning of their calender, and the end of their calender's epoch is suspiciously on the day of the solstice. The solstice is an actual event, where the sun is directly overhead at solar noon on the latitude of one of the tropics which occured at 11:12 UTC in Namibia; I happened to have slept through it. If the world was going to end, the end would have started at 11:12 UTC, by my reckoning.
Real Climatologists don't used weather satellite data, at least for temperatures, only deniers like Roy Spencer
Sorry to burst your bubble but the warming has stalled about 15 years ago while CO2 levels in the atmosphere keep rising, every year the chances that this could be a statistical fluctuations in a long term trend diminishes, all you have to do is look at IPCC AR5 draft figure 1-4 to see how badly the models have failed to predict reality; as Richard Feyman said "When actual observations over a period of time contradict predictions based on a given theory, that theory is wrong!"
Most of the side arms made in 2012 are cheap knock-off's of the M191A1 with a few minor tweeks, and yes I know this is going to start a flamewar of vi vs. emacs proportions, but it's the truth. Also it's hard to beat the stopping-power of the .45APC round; shoot'em in the shoulder and it rips the arm off, so don't shoot'em if you don't intend to kill them.
We used to do that in the National Guard, weapons in the Arm's vault on site and the bolts in a locked box store in the local police station's arm's vault. The bolts were not inter-changeable, each had a unique timing and headspace so putting the wrong bolt in the weapon might result in anything from normal operation to not firing.
use List::MoreUtils qw(uniq);
But, what the FUCK does "qw" mean? One can guess, and only guess, for the context that it's some sort of means to delineate a list.
Fact is, Perl is W.O.R.N. language: Write Once Read Never
qw() is the quote word function it purpose is to keep you from wearing out your ['] key;
example
my @names = qw(Kernighan Ritchie Pike);
is the same as
my @names = ('Kernighan', 'Ritchie', 'Pike');.
You can write some pretty obtuse Perl, but that's mainly a style thing with the programmer, just using English.pm helps a lot.
Considering the havoc that a few over-achieving, narcissistic and predatory businessman have reeked on our economy, maybe a little tempering of the ambition would be a good thing.
It's also much more effective to down-convert from 60 FPM to 60i for broadcast than to up-convert from 24 or even 48 FPM to 30i
I have to say that $3.99 is not out of line to distribute the source, cost of the blank CD, personel time invovled in burning, handling and posting, cost of mailer and postage. Try getting a legal transcript copy for a real eye opener.
That is assuming the US even uses soldiers on the ground, as nukes are useless against air targets, and they're less than optimally effective in water as well (it is amazing how much energy even modest amounts of water can absorb by vaporizing. Absolutely unbelievable).
It has actually been tested that an atomic explosion more than 200 meters away from an aircraft carrier, while it would kill anyone on in line of sight from the explosion, wouldn't sink the ship (tested on a model, not with an actual aircraft carrier).
Actually tests have been made, such as Operation Crossroads, Baker eventand not against models, but real full sized ships and the Lexington-class air craft carrier, the USS Saratoga (CV-3) did in fact sink from damage caused by the the underwater baker detonation, 8 hours later.
Also you greatly under-estimate the effect of a nuclear explosion on aircraft, both EMP and blast waves have devastating effect on the airframes and electronics, even hardened military grade electronics; and the fleshies inside are very susceptible to blinding and dazzle from the flash, absorb neutron radiation like a sponge and there is the psychological effects also.
If your trying to take out a US Minuteman III ICBM in a silo with the blast doors closed, you have to detonate a 15 KT warhead within 100m of the silo to have 50% chance of disabling the missile; considering reentry angle and velocity that's unimaginably accurate shooting and the detonation timing is in nanoseconds. Getting the same warhead within a couple miles of target, and detonating a 1/4 mile above LA or Seatle is a much easier proposition.
HIV doesn't have DNA, it's a retrovirus so it's genetic information is carried by RNA instead. Because Human cells understand DNA, the HIV needs to use reverse transcriptase to convert the RNA into single strand DNA
Most of the islands of the Seychelles are coral islands and atolls, which means they will always look like they are on the verge of becoming inundated, no matter what the sea levels do. Sealevel rises measured in millimeters per decade just don't seem that scary, hasn't been any significant warming for 16 years; these people are more worried about the gravy-train ending than anything else.
Seriously, Grits is a Native American or First Nations in Canadian English, dish; best described as a porridge made from Corn meal instead of Oatmeal. It's more commonly eaten in the American South, so I'd guess that your not a Snowbird.