The gov't ought to sell them at a premium price - "Get your honest-to-goodness commemorative "Silk Road Evildoer Bitcoin (tm)" right here! Only $MARKET_PRICE * 10 !!!
You have it backwards. The Federal Government may only do what is specifically ALLOWED in the Constitution; it is not allowed to do anything not PROHIBITED by the Constitution.
Funny, I don't find her that attractive. Something about the collars and cuffs not matching, perhaps. So far her character has been rather 2 dimensional and annoying.
If you look at the Cottonmouth-III picture, I think it says UWB next to the RF section. That means it uses Ultra-wideband to communicate, which is very difficult to detect and has enormous bandwidth. As for an antenna, if you interpose the RF signal on both wires of a twisted pair, you've got a decent longwire antenna. With a decent directional antenna at the receiver (easy to do given the multi-GHz freqs involved), I don't doubt an 8 mile range.
The one thing that almost everyone forgets to mention is that both CFL and LED bulbs, at least right now, generate a TON of RF hash across the radio spectrum. In the rush to get cheap Chinese bulbs to market, no one bothered to verify that they comply with FCC standards (compliance is self-reported). So right now we have tons of noisy bulbs out there with 7 year lifetimes - even if they stop importing the junk bulbs right now, the RFI problem won't go away for a very long time.
K4 was originally delivered with an official mass of 1 kg75ug in 1889, but as of 1989 was officially calibrated at 1 kg106ug and ten years later was 1 kg116ug. Over a period of 110 years, K4 lost 41ug relative to the IPK.
Your mu's got eaten by slashdot. Those should all be micrograms. Naturally μ doesn't work.
What about a frequency-doubling crystal? Could they be used to 'see' IR light, or do they require such high input light levels and/or monochromatic light to work?
There have been great leaps in my little corner of the ag world I'm familiar with - growing hay for horses. When I was a kid it took several adults drive the tractors to cut, windrow, and bale the hay, and a whole host of kids to stack it on the hay wagons and then transfer it to the barn. The hay had to be perfectly dry in the field and couldn't get rained on or it'd be ruined (at least for horses).
Now a single farmer can cut, tett, and bale hay at almost any moisture level thanks to the orange-based inhibitor that's sprayed on the hay as it enters the baler (that detects the moisture level and adjusts the spray). As for the transfer of hay bales, the modern round balers poop out a wrapped round bale automatically, and the square balers now have a follow-behind stacker that arranges the bales in a grid and drops them as a unit on the ground. That same farmer can then either move the round bales with a front-mounted spike on the tractor, or a front-mounted multi-bale grabber that picks up the whole grid of square bales.
What took at least 2 farmers and 10 farmhands now takes as few people as a single farmer.
The classic 74181 4 bit ALU shows how it can be done (page 5). It shows the schematic of the chip in gate form. Page 4 shows the 'opcodes' (really operation selection line combinations) that this simple chip can perform.
The mighty (!) 32xx series of minicomputers from Concurrent Computer in the 1980s/90s used a bunch of these chained together to form a 32 bit ALU.
There was a sci-fi book I once read (for the life of me I can't remember the title) that had an alien society where if their governing body declared war, they'd fight the battle, and then all members of the governing body that voted for the war were put to death. You had to believe so strongly that the war was just that you were willing to give your own life.
I'll bet if you clear cookies you will not get the intermediate image and must answer extra questions, after which the cookie gets set. Bank of America does this, too.
A similar thing happened in Germany during/after WWI - they started using Notgeld (literally, emergency money) for transactions since the official currency was either hoarded due to inflation or was needed for the war effort, or after the war was hyper-inflating itself to death.
This site has lots pictures of Notgeld - much of it was colorful and very artfully done. Flip open the twisties on the left and explore the Notgeld of the different cities.
No. The battery/generator comment was in regard to the station in the disaster area - implying they're not going to be running 1500 Watts of power; more likely less that 100 Watts. Interference near the receiver is bad no matter how much power the transmitter is using, but it can mean absolutely no copy when the transmitting station is using low power and makeshift antennas.
Not so fast, Mr. smug. Until the FCC cracks down on LED lights that contain power supplies that generate huge amounts of RFI, blank out the HF radio spectrum, and interfere with garage door openers, I'll keep my incandescents, thank you.
That HF spectrum comes in mighty handy during natural disasters - remember all the articles about Amateur Radio operators saving the day? We can't help if we can't hear the affected station (running on batteries or a generator, and probably using a makeshift antenna).
Sadly, due to their presumed long life, the huge influx of illegal LED lights will be a problem for years to come, even if the FCC halts their importation right now.
This is a very important issue to me - I'm an amateur radio operator, and RFI from a zillion light bulbs in my house would be an absolute show-stopper for any non-incandescent light bulb. I'd go back to candles before using RF-generating bulbs - I have enough trouble with the seldom-used fluorescent tubes in the basement and closet.
Did you test the bulb thoroughly, or just not notice any RFI on an AM or FM radio?
The Constitution gave the power of the federal government to tax STATES w/ apportionment based on the census, NOT the power to tax individuals directly or on non-direct income. That was changed with the 16th Amendment.
Constitution: Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers...
Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Gotcha. Regulatory issues aside, there are chips that do I/Q upconverting. I've always wanted to get one and play with it. They're actually becoming commodityhardware, potentially illegal as they may be.
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The gov't ought to sell them at a premium price - "Get your honest-to-goodness commemorative "Silk Road Evildoer Bitcoin (tm)" right here! Only $MARKET_PRICE * 10 !!!
You have it backwards. The Federal Government may only do what is specifically ALLOWED in the Constitution; it is not allowed to do anything not PROHIBITED by the Constitution.
Funny, I don't find her that attractive. Something about the collars and cuffs not matching, perhaps. So far her character has been rather 2 dimensional and annoying.
A standard deviation is something kinky everyone should try at least once.
If you look at the Cottonmouth-III picture, I think it says UWB next to the RF section. That means it uses Ultra-wideband to communicate, which is very difficult to detect and has enormous bandwidth. As for an antenna, if you interpose the RF signal on both wires of a twisted pair, you've got a decent longwire antenna. With a decent directional antenna at the receiver (easy to do given the multi-GHz freqs involved), I don't doubt an 8 mile range.
The one thing that almost everyone forgets to mention is that both CFL and LED bulbs, at least right now, generate a TON of RF hash across the radio spectrum. In the rush to get cheap Chinese bulbs to market, no one bothered to verify that they comply with FCC standards (compliance is self-reported). So right now we have tons of noisy bulbs out there with 7 year lifetimes - even if they stop importing the junk bulbs right now, the RFI problem won't go away for a very long time.
I'll keep my incandescents, thank you.
K4 was originally delivered with an official mass of 1 kg75ug in 1889, but as of 1989 was officially calibrated at 1 kg106ug and ten years later was 1 kg116ug. Over a period of 110 years, K4 lost 41ug relative to the IPK.
Your mu's got eaten by slashdot. Those should all be micrograms. Naturally μ doesn't work.
... no passive device is going to help ...
What about a frequency-doubling crystal? Could they be used to 'see' IR light, or do they require such high input light levels and/or monochromatic light to work?
... roberts your relative ...
I'm probably one of the few Americans that got that - "Bob's Your Uncle!"
Robert's one of your parent's male sibling.
There have been great leaps in my little corner of the ag world I'm familiar with - growing hay for horses. When I was a kid it took several adults drive the tractors to cut, windrow, and bale the hay, and a whole host of kids to stack it on the hay wagons and then transfer it to the barn. The hay had to be perfectly dry in the field and couldn't get rained on or it'd be ruined (at least for horses).
Now a single farmer can cut, tett, and bale hay at almost any moisture level thanks to the orange-based inhibitor that's sprayed on the hay as it enters the baler (that detects the moisture level and adjusts the spray). As for the transfer of hay bales, the modern round balers poop out a wrapped round bale automatically, and the square balers now have a follow-behind stacker that arranges the bales in a grid and drops them as a unit on the ground. That same farmer can then either move the round bales with a front-mounted spike on the tractor, or a front-mounted multi-bale grabber that picks up the whole grid of square bales.
What took at least 2 farmers and 10 farmhands now takes as few people as a single farmer.
< yes you can - the HTML escape is < - note the trailing semicolon.
The classic 74181 4 bit ALU shows how it can be done (page 5). It shows the schematic of the chip in gate form. Page 4 shows the 'opcodes' (really operation selection line combinations) that this simple chip can perform.
The mighty (!) 32xx series of minicomputers from Concurrent Computer in the 1980s/90s used a bunch of these chained together to form a 32 bit ALU.
Thanks for the reply - I searched and searched for that a few months ago and couldn't find a reference to it.
There was a sci-fi book I once read (for the life of me I can't remember the title) that had an alien society where if their governing body declared war, they'd fight the battle, and then all members of the governing body that voted for the war were put to death. You had to believe so strongly that the war was just that you were willing to give your own life.
I think that's a grand idea.
I'll bet if you clear cookies you will not get the intermediate image and must answer extra questions, after which the cookie gets set. Bank of America does this, too.
Do NOT burn the goats - they're much better medium rare.
A similar thing happened in Germany during/after WWI - they started using Notgeld (literally, emergency money) for transactions since the official currency was either hoarded due to inflation or was needed for the war effort, or after the war was hyper-inflating itself to death.
This site has lots pictures of Notgeld - much of it was colorful and very artfully done. Flip open the twisties on the left and explore the Notgeld of the different cities.
No. The battery/generator comment was in regard to the station in the disaster area - implying they're not going to be running 1500 Watts of power; more likely less that 100 Watts. Interference near the receiver is bad no matter how much power the transmitter is using, but it can mean absolutely no copy when the transmitting station is using low power and makeshift antennas.
Not so fast, Mr. smug. Until the FCC cracks down on LED lights that contain power supplies that generate huge amounts of RFI, blank out the HF radio spectrum, and interfere with garage door openers, I'll keep my incandescents, thank you.
That HF spectrum comes in mighty handy during natural disasters - remember all the articles about Amateur Radio operators saving the day? We can't help if we can't hear the affected station (running on batteries or a generator, and probably using a makeshift antenna).
Sadly, due to their presumed long life, the huge influx of illegal LED lights will be a problem for years to come, even if the FCC halts their importation right now.
You wrote: Zero RFI.
This is a very important issue to me - I'm an amateur radio operator, and RFI from a zillion light bulbs in my house would be an absolute show-stopper for any non-incandescent light bulb. I'd go back to candles before using RF-generating bulbs - I have enough trouble with the seldom-used fluorescent tubes in the basement and closet.
Did you test the bulb thoroughly, or just not notice any RFI on an AM or FM radio?
Thanks!
Resistance is V/I.
A citation from the police is bad. A citation from the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is good.
Uh.... whoosh? Where did I state otherwise? I was simply pointing out that the original idea was to tax per capita, and not on income.
The Constitution gave the power of the federal government to tax STATES w/ apportionment based on the census, NOT the power to tax individuals directly or on non-direct income. That was changed with the 16th Amendment.
Constitution:
Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers...
Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Gotcha. Regulatory issues aside, there are chips that do I/Q upconverting. I've always wanted to get one and play with it. They're actually becoming commodity hardware, potentially illegal as they may be.