1) how poorly the average police officer is trained in using (and more importantly) retaining possession of his weapon while engaged in an altercation
2) the mamby-pamby rules that require the officer to put himself in a position where his weapon can be taken from him instead of using it while still out of reach of an armed or otherwise dangerous perp.
A crazy-looking double 's' that looks like a cursive lower case 'f' followed by a normal 's' can be seen in the The US Declaration of Independence and Constitution where there are 2 's' characters in a row. this article says the ß character was originally an fz dipthong, and used to be expressed as 'fs'.
Agreed it looks like harmonics, but they have changed the buzz over the years. It would be interesting to analyze a few hours/days/years of it to see if there are changes in the pattern. Of course I'd have to look for phase changes as well as bits going missing.
Aside from getting your Amateur radio license and using our satellites, there are plenty of things you could do with a 10' dish, given the correct feedhorn.
1) Radio Astronomy 2) C/Ka band video feeds (mostly encrypted now) 3) Monitor commercial and US military satellites (some milsats have been taken over by central/south Americans as a free phone system). 4) Get really good satellite weather maps directly from the birds 5) ??? 6) Profit!
States can ban the importation of anything they want to from other states (like fruit into California, etc) if they consider it dangerous, or if they just don't want it (try selling handguns across state lines to people in Chicago). I would posit that imported MSW (municipal solid waste) is _much_ more of a hazard to the health of millions of citizens that get their water from the rivers around those landfills. Virginia should have the right to limit the influx of toxic garbage into the state, plain and simple.
Virginia businesses cannot buy alcohol from out of state; they must buy it from the state stores. How is that legal?
For that matter, since Virginia is the only state that still outlaws radar detectors, do you think other states can sell and ship them to VA residents? They can't. States can and do regulate commerce between entities with the state and entities outside the state all the time.
If you want to see a massive list of no-no shipments, go to the Cheaper Than Dirt site and look at the huge list of shipping restrictions.
The issue is the massive waste lobby - can you say **$$cough$#@ MOB $$$# cough#$(#$ ?
I doesn't seem like anyone has attempted to find digital data in the 'buzz' described in the article. If you look at this spectrograph, you'll see that the buzz consists of many discrete tones, not just a simple buzzing sound. This looks to me like an implementation of one of many multitone digital modes like MT63, MFSK16, Olivia, Throb, Piccolo, Domino, etc used on HF.
What do you mean "spin it"? I live in Virginia. I don't want my state being NY/NJ's dumping ground (or any other state's, for that matter). My state government listened to us voters and attempted to limit out of state waste. They were overruled by the Federal Government saying we had to accept out of state waste. MY state can be forced to take another state's waste?
Every college/university I know of can charge out-of-state students a lot more than in state - why is that legal? Why can't VA charge in-state dumpers $10/ton and out-of-state dumpers $1,000/ton?
...he mistook them for car thieves and got out his gun. One dead cop later and the guy gets charged with murder.
And rightly so. With no clear threat to his safety, his gun should've stayed holstered. In most jurisdictions defense of property cannot legally include deadly force. One glaring exception is Texas.
Funny you say should that - maybe they could use some of the landfill funk to spray on the evergreen trees along NJ highways. They actually have signs that read "Evergreen trees treated with noxious spray" to keep people from cutting them down for Christmas trees. Unbelievable.
There's a financial compensation that New Jersey's comfortable with. Otherwise, they'd say to just move along.
It's not that easy to say "Move along". Virginia has tried to stop/stem the inflow of out-of-state garbage but was forbidden to do so by the federal government. States no longer have any right to refuse refuse from being dumped into their state! I can't imagine that the founding fathers ever envisioned the Commerce Clause being used to force interstate commerce.
From this article: "Virginia tried to ban garbage shipments by barge and cap the capacity of the state's seven giant private landfills at 1998 levels. All these state laws have been struck down by higher courts. The U.S. Congress has the power to act. Federal judges have consistently ruled that based on the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, Congress has exclusive power over the interstate trash business."
I used to think humans and other primates were more closely related than they are before I found out that we don't even share the same number of chromosomes. We have 46, chimps (and many other apes) have 48. By that metric humans are more like Sable Antelopes and whatever the hell this thing is than chimps.
Chimps share chromosome number 48 with deer mice, gorillas, hares, orangutans, potatoes (tetraploid), rhesus monkeys, and tobacco (tetraploid). Humans share chromosome number 46 with Sable deer and the Reeve's Muntjac.
FYI, horses have 64 and donkeys 62. Mules, the love children of their ill-fated summer flings, have 63 and are mostly infertile.
Is there (or could there be) a similar chimp/human hybrid? I've never heard of one, so it seems that humans and chimps are farther apart, genetic compatibility-wise, than horses and donkeys.
No, the purpose of this therapy, as developed by The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, is to keep US troops safe from infection should some whackjob decide to use Ebola, etc as an aerosolized biological weapon. Did you RTFA?
Certainly there will be civilian uses for such a treatment, but that's not what this research is about.
If you feel so strongly about helping "poor African nations", start a campaign to fund stockpiles of this drug when it makes it out of the research phase. Since it was developed by the US government, I'd hope you would be able to get the right to manufacture license-free, since We The People(tm) funded the research.
Imagine the intermediary search results if I search for "ASSault" or "ASSigning a variable in Python" or "CUMmington" or "CUMmerbun" (yes, that's the correct spelling) or any other phrase that could be misconstrued by a company's internet filter as inappropriate.
I can see it now - I search for ASSertionError and get a screen full of butt at work.
Being magnetic has nothing to do with it - you want a highly conductive metal to create a Faraday cage; silver and gold are excellent, but copper is not bad. Steel is poor.
I would say the the fall of the USSR in 1991 makes a decent example. It was a good revolution - for the people, by the people, and the first elected government was 'good'. Sadly the worst parts of democracy seem to have taken over (greed, corruption, etc). Regardless of how bad the current government is, the revolution itself stands independently as a very good thing not only for the then Soviet citizens, but for the world.
It is worth selling your nickels and pennies - or at least melting down pre-1982 (and some 1982) pennies and all recent nickels. Unfortunately the government figured this out and made itillegal.
I got a 1964 silver quarter in change the other day - it's worth $3.32 today.
BTW, you can tell a 95% copper penny from a 97.5% zinc one by carefully listening to the sound it makes after being dropped onto a hard surface. The 95% copper one 'rings out', whereas the zinc one goes 'thud'.
My take would be that they purposely and knowingly monitored the students (it wasn't turned on by accident or by a hax0r), but didn't think it was a crime. In their case I think that their alleged 'ignorance' of the law is letting them off the hook.
If I truly believe that the speed limit is 65 and I'm doing 65, I can't get a ticket if it's really 45 because I had no mens rea? Nope - I get the ticket.
I wondered what that meant. Why did they choose to create a new symbol instead of using the existing symbol '±' or the abbreviations 'approx' or 'est'?
ISPs aren't the only industry that uses this sales technique. I hear ads for "discounts up to 90% off!" for cars, furniture, discount shopping stores/web sites, etc all the time.
As long as at least one single item is in fact 90% off, they are not misrepresenting anything.
According to the '10 Mbps claimed' graph in TFA, 6% of users got 10+ Mbps - that's actually higher than I thought it would be.
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That also hints at either:
1) how poorly the average police officer is trained in using (and more importantly) retaining possession of his weapon while engaged in an altercation
2) the mamby-pamby rules that require the officer to put himself in a position where his weapon can be taken from him instead of using it while still out of reach of an armed or otherwise dangerous perp.
Thanks for the info. Do you know why there existed such a thing, and when it came into being and fell out of favor?
A crazy-looking double 's' that looks like a cursive lower case 'f' followed by a normal 's' can be seen in the The US Declaration of Independence and Constitution where there are 2 's' characters in a row. this article says the ß character was originally an fz dipthong, and used to be expressed as 'fs'.
Agreed it looks like harmonics, but they have changed the buzz over the years. It would be interesting to analyze a few hours/days/years of it to see if there are changes in the pattern. Of course I'd have to look for phase changes as well as bits going missing.
Aside from getting your Amateur radio license and using our satellites, there are plenty of things you could do with a 10' dish, given the correct feedhorn.
1) Radio Astronomy
2) C/Ka band video feeds (mostly encrypted now)
3) Monitor commercial and US military satellites (some milsats have been taken over by central/south Americans as a free phone system).
4) Get really good satellite weather maps directly from the birds
5) ???
6) Profit!
States can ban the importation of anything they want to from other states (like fruit into California, etc) if they consider it dangerous, or if they just don't want it (try selling handguns across state lines to people in Chicago). I would posit that imported MSW (municipal solid waste) is _much_ more of a hazard to the health of millions of citizens that get their water from the rivers around those landfills. Virginia should have the right to limit the influx of toxic garbage into the state, plain and simple.
Virginia businesses cannot buy alcohol from out of state; they must buy it from the state stores. How is that legal?
For that matter, since Virginia is the only state that still outlaws radar detectors, do you think other states can sell and ship them to VA residents? They can't. States can and do regulate commerce between entities with the state and entities outside the state all the time.
If you want to see a massive list of no-no shipments, go to the Cheaper Than Dirt site and look at the huge list of shipping restrictions.
The issue is the massive waste lobby - can you say **$$cough$#@ MOB $$$# cough#$(#$ ?
I doesn't seem like anyone has attempted to find digital data in the 'buzz' described in the article. If you look at this spectrograph, you'll see that the buzz consists of many discrete tones, not just a simple buzzing sound. This looks to me like an implementation of one of many multitone digital modes like MT63, MFSK16, Olivia, Throb, Piccolo, Domino, etc used on HF.
What do you mean "spin it"? I live in Virginia. I don't want my state being NY/NJ's dumping ground (or any other state's, for that matter). My state government listened to us voters and attempted to limit out of state waste. They were overruled by the Federal Government saying we had to accept out of state waste. MY state can be forced to take another state's waste?
Every college/university I know of can charge out-of-state students a lot more than in state - why is that legal? Why can't VA charge in-state dumpers $10/ton and out-of-state dumpers $1,000/ton?
Ouch! Owned!
With the RMS voltage of each phase being 240V to neutral, just to make your statement complete.
We also have 480/277V systems for large commercial/industrial accounts, and some pretty strange hi-leg setups.
...he mistook them for car thieves and got out his gun. One dead cop later and the guy gets charged with murder.
And rightly so. With no clear threat to his safety, his gun should've stayed holstered. In most jurisdictions defense of property cannot legally include deadly force. One glaring exception is Texas.
Funny you say should that - maybe they could use some of the landfill funk to spray on the evergreen trees along NJ highways. They actually have signs that read "Evergreen trees treated with noxious spray" to keep people from cutting them down for Christmas trees. Unbelievable.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/24/nyregion/the-great-outdoors-a-dose-of-smelly-chemicals-keeps-tree-poachers-away.html
There's a financial compensation that New Jersey's comfortable with. Otherwise, they'd say to just move along.
It's not that easy to say "Move along". Virginia has tried to stop/stem the inflow of out-of-state garbage but was forbidden to do so by the federal government. States no longer have any right to refuse refuse from being dumped into their state! I can't imagine that the founding fathers ever envisioned the Commerce Clause being used to force interstate commerce.
From this article:
"Virginia tried to ban garbage shipments by barge and cap the capacity of the state's seven giant private landfills at 1998 levels. All these state laws have been struck down by higher courts. The U.S. Congress has the power to act. Federal judges have consistently ruled that based on the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, Congress has exclusive power over the interstate trash business."
http://virginia.sierraclub.org/issues/recycling-solid-waste.html
I used to think humans and other primates were more closely related than they are before I found out that we don't even share the same number of chromosomes. We have 46, chimps (and many other apes) have 48. By that metric humans are more like Sable Antelopes and whatever the hell this thing is than chimps.
Chimps share chromosome number 48 with deer mice, gorillas, hares, orangutans, potatoes (tetraploid), rhesus monkeys, and tobacco (tetraploid).
Humans share chromosome number 46 with Sable deer and the Reeve's Muntjac.
FYI, horses have 64 and donkeys 62. Mules, the love children of their ill-fated summer flings, have 63 and are mostly infertile.
Is there (or could there be) a similar chimp/human hybrid? I've never heard of one, so it seems that humans and chimps are farther apart, genetic compatibility-wise, than horses and donkeys.
No, the purpose of this therapy, as developed by The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, is to keep US troops safe from infection should some whackjob decide to use Ebola, etc as an aerosolized biological weapon. Did you RTFA?
Certainly there will be civilian uses for such a treatment, but that's not what this research is about.
If you feel so strongly about helping "poor African nations", start a campaign to fund stockpiles of this drug when it makes it out of the research phase. Since it was developed by the US government, I'd hope you would be able to get the right to manufacture license-free, since We The People(tm) funded the research.
Who's your friend?
Imagine the intermediary search results if I search for "ASSault" or "ASSigning a variable in Python" or "CUMmington" or "CUMmerbun" (yes, that's the correct spelling) or any other phrase that could be misconstrued by a company's internet filter as inappropriate.
I can see it now - I search for ASSertionError and get a screen full of butt at work.
Where's my "+1 Deliciously Cruel" mod when I need it?
No. Steel. You want a magnetic material.
Being magnetic has nothing to do with it - you want a highly conductive metal to create a Faraday cage; silver and gold are excellent, but copper is not bad. Steel is poor.
I would say the the fall of the USSR in 1991 makes a decent example. It was a good revolution - for the people, by the people, and the first elected government was 'good'. Sadly the worst parts of democracy seem to have taken over (greed, corruption, etc). Regardless of how bad the current government is, the revolution itself stands independently as a very good thing not only for the then Soviet citizens, but for the world.
It is worth selling your nickels and pennies - or at least melting down pre-1982 (and some 1982) pennies and all recent nickels. Unfortunately the government figured this out and made it illegal.
I got a 1964 silver quarter in change the other day - it's worth $3.32 today.
BTW, you can tell a 95% copper penny from a 97.5% zinc one by carefully listening to the sound it makes after being dropped onto a hard surface. The 95% copper one 'rings out', whereas the zinc one goes 'thud'.
I don't know - if 'baning' means 'to declare something a bane on society' then I'm all for it.
My take would be that they purposely and knowingly monitored the students (it wasn't turned on by accident or by a hax0r), but didn't think it was a crime.
In their case I think that their alleged 'ignorance' of the law is letting them off the hook.
If I truly believe that the speed limit is 65 and I'm doing 65, I can't get a ticket if it's really 45 because I had no mens rea? Nope - I get the ticket.
I wondered what that meant. Why did they choose to create a new symbol instead of using the existing symbol '±' or the abbreviations 'approx' or 'est'?
ISPs aren't the only industry that uses this sales technique. I hear ads for "discounts up to 90% off!" for cars, furniture, discount shopping stores/web sites, etc all the time.
As long as at least one single item is in fact 90% off, they are not misrepresenting anything.
According to the '10 Mbps claimed' graph in TFA, 6% of users got 10+ Mbps - that's actually higher than I thought it would be.