I live in a country where "GENERAL welfare" and strict non-discrimination are codified in a Constitution. I'd like both of those requirements to be met simultaneously, thank you.
The fact that a welfare state is even necessary is something to be ashamed of, not proud of. It's very existence proves government has failed us.
To put it another way, the military is an entitlement programme.
No, we actually get something in return from the military. If not actual combat, we at least get citizens with a sense of personal honor and discipline.
... even if you're a millionaire you get money to help pay your fuel bill and a free bus pass past a certain age all paid for by the state.
Some people call providing the same benefit to all citizens equally regardless og their circumstance 'fair and non-discriminatory'. Others call it 'wasteful'. Those that call it 'wasteful' are also the ones that espouse legally mandated discrimination, or to use PC terms, 'affirmative action'.
Here's a site that has good info about using your sound card as an ELF receiver - you hook an antenna right to the mic input since the 'RF' involved uses the same frequencies as we humans hear (and are generated by microphones, etc).
A better, and more honest, comparison for that 30 uV/m the Kindle put out would be to consider that a decent FM radio can get stereo reception with a signal of 2 uV/M. That's reasonable, as FM frequencies (88-108 MHz) have similar characteristics compared to those used for aircraft communications (108-137 MHz), which are immediately adjacent. RTCA DO-196 [rtca.org] assumes a radio sensitivity of 20 uV. So, a Kindle can compete in signal strength with those normally received by an aircraft communications receiver.
The antenna for the comms receiver is outside the plane, so the Kindle's 30 uV/m signal would be attenuated by the same factor as the 200 uV/m 'external' signal you mention. Assuming no holes in the coax or gaps in the receiver casing, the kindle would have to emit more than 30uV/m to be on par w/ an external signal of 20 uV/m.
Also note that adjacent channel signals can affect the front end sensitivity of radios even if they're outside the passband of the subsequent stages. I'm amazed that VOR receivers can deal with 50+kW FM stations on 107.9 when they're trying to receive on 108.x MHz.
I find it funny that morons blame Democrats for all the big government spending, when it's REPUBLICAN presidents and congresses that have had the largest deficits in all of modern history.
Deficits can be caused by excessive spending OR insufficient revenue collection, i.e. taxes. Check you facts. Democrats tax but also overspend like drunken sailors, Republicans don't tax and also spend like drunken sailors.
I don't want the government that enslaves with golden handcuffs - free money, free cell phones, free food, free health care, abysmal free 'education', no job prospects, legalized racism in the name of 'affirmative' action, etc.
I want a country where you're rewarded for effort, not rewarded for not even trying.
...and the scientific left dwells in clouds of numbers and graphs...
I agree 100% with that; note that the truth is not among the things the 'scientific left' deals in. Lots of FUD, lots of NIMBY, lots of "save the owls". No real answers, just obstructionism. Want to know why we're still burning coal and emitting vast amounts of CO2 for power generation? NIMBY and FUD. We could stop burning coal and start using modern fast flux reactors for power in no time if we could just get the scaremongers out of the scientific and political discourse and debate FACTS. We need to break the ties between the ancient nuclear weapons program reactors and power reactors - they have very different goals and should have different designs. Modern reactors are vastly safer then the already pretty safe Gen 1 designs, but the 'scientific left' clings to their 'China Syndrome' intro to nuclear physics.
How about, "Family gets corrupt sys admin to substitute the prints of a recently washed-up corpse in place of yours in this magic, perfect system. Your prints get linked with an known terrorist." What's going to happen when you scan your thumb in front of the judge again?
My personal crusade is to get Henrico County to fix the light at Broad St. and Hungary Spring Rd. It is quite literally a 15 second green followed by 2-3 minutes of red. It's infuriating to see the first car in line fiddle around and eventually mosey thru the intersection as it turns red. At best only 3-4 cars get thru if everyone is paying strict attention.
It would be a change that could be easily rolled out incrementally as an adjunct to OCRing the signs. Hell, hire a bunch of the under/unemployed to go around sticking IR stickers on existing signs. Good for self-drive cars, good for the economy!
Have an IR reflective layer on 'official' signs that gives a QR code or other readily computer-readable symbology that either tells the car all it needs to know about the detour or tells the car what to look up in 'skynet'. Each sign could just have a unique ID that's the key to the current detour data for that sign.
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I live in a country where "GENERAL welfare" and strict non-discrimination are codified in a Constitution. I'd like both of those requirements to be met simultaneously, thank you.
The fact that a welfare state is even necessary is something to be ashamed of, not proud of. It's very existence proves government has failed us.
To put it another way, the military is an entitlement programme.
No, we actually get something in return from the military. If not actual combat, we at least get citizens with a sense of personal honor and discipline.
... even if you're a millionaire you get money to help pay your fuel bill and a free bus pass past a certain age all paid for by the state.
Some people call providing the same benefit to all citizens equally regardless og their circumstance 'fair and non-discriminatory'. Others call it 'wasteful'. Those that call it 'wasteful' are also the ones that espouse legally mandated discrimination, or to use PC terms, 'affirmative action'.
Here's a site that has good info about using your sound card as an ELF receiver - you hook an antenna right to the mic input since the 'RF' involved uses the same frequencies as we humans hear (and are generated by microphones, etc).
...Susan B. Anthony dollar too which is silver with a fluted edge, the ones that are easy to mistake for a quarter.
FYI, that's called reeding and was invented to prevent 'clipping' and counterfeiting.
The bills you call 1976 are SERIES 1976 - that has nothing to do with the date it was printed, rather it is the date of the design.
Currency notes are printed, coins are minted.
A better, and more honest, comparison for that 30 uV/m the Kindle put out would be to consider that a decent FM radio can get stereo reception with a signal of 2 uV/M. That's reasonable, as FM frequencies (88-108 MHz) have similar characteristics compared to those used for aircraft communications (108-137 MHz), which are immediately adjacent. RTCA DO-196 [rtca.org] assumes a radio sensitivity of 20 uV. So, a Kindle can compete in signal strength with those normally received by an aircraft communications receiver.
The antenna for the comms receiver is outside the plane, so the Kindle's 30 uV/m signal would be attenuated by the same factor as the 200 uV/m 'external' signal you mention. Assuming no holes in the coax or gaps in the receiver casing, the kindle would have to emit more than 30uV/m to be on par w/ an external signal of 20 uV/m.
Also note that adjacent channel signals can affect the front end sensitivity of radios even if they're outside the passband of the subsequent stages. I'm amazed that VOR receivers can deal with 50+kW FM stations on 107.9 when they're trying to receive on 108.x MHz.
Otherwise, a good analysis.
I find it funny that morons blame Democrats for all the big government spending, when it's REPUBLICAN presidents and congresses that have had the largest deficits in all of modern history.
Deficits can be caused by excessive spending OR insufficient revenue collection, i.e. taxes. Check you facts. Democrats tax but also overspend like drunken sailors, Republicans don't tax and also spend like drunken sailors.
I don't want the government that enslaves with golden handcuffs - free money, free cell phones, free food, free health care, abysmal free 'education', no job prospects, legalized racism in the name of 'affirmative' action, etc.
I want a country where you're rewarded for effort, not rewarded for not even trying.
...and the scientific left dwells in clouds of numbers and graphs...
I agree 100% with that; note that the truth is not among the things the 'scientific left' deals in. Lots of FUD, lots of NIMBY, lots of "save the owls". No real answers, just obstructionism. Want to know why we're still burning coal and emitting vast amounts of CO2 for power generation? NIMBY and FUD. We could stop burning coal and start using modern fast flux reactors for power in no time if we could just get the scaremongers out of the scientific and political discourse and debate FACTS. We need to break the ties between the ancient nuclear weapons program reactors and power reactors - they have very different goals and should have different designs. Modern reactors are vastly safer then the already pretty safe Gen 1 designs, but the 'scientific left' clings to their 'China Syndrome' intro to nuclear physics.
How about, "Family gets corrupt sys admin to substitute the prints of a recently washed-up corpse in place of yours in this magic, perfect system. Your prints get linked with an known terrorist." What's going to happen when you scan your thumb in front of the judge again?
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We must all be from Mars, then - a 24.67 earth-hour day.
My personal crusade is to get Henrico County to fix the light at Broad St. and Hungary Spring Rd. It is quite literally a 15 second green followed by 2-3 minutes of red. It's infuriating to see the first car in line fiddle around and eventually mosey thru the intersection as it turns red. At best only 3-4 cars get thru if everyone is paying strict attention.
Heck - make that 187.25 Biiiiilion electrons. I forgot to multiply by 30.
30 nanoCoulumbs = 6.24 Biiiiilllion electrons.
That's ok, we've had carbon and monoxide for 40 years now.
It would be a change that could be easily rolled out incrementally as an adjunct to OCRing the signs. Hell, hire a bunch of the under/unemployed to go around sticking IR stickers on existing signs. Good for self-drive cars, good for the economy!
Have an IR reflective layer on 'official' signs that gives a QR code or other readily computer-readable symbology that either tells the car all it needs to know about the detour or tells the car what to look up in 'skynet'. Each sign could just have a unique ID that's the key to the current detour data for that sign.
As such, you can track it at http://www.flightradar24.com/ - just search for it.
Since it's a registered aircraft with a transponder, you can track it HERE - just search for N878UP.
... instead of building a well-sealed building right here with real technologies ...
Real technologies sometimes fail in the face of the unknown. The Andromeda Strain, anyone?
Read up on LFTRs - having the fuel as a liquid helps solve a ton of those issues.
... stubbornly refuses to sleep with win7. Works fine with Linux.
At least she has some standards.
Handy map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes