Are those numbers for Wensleydale? Wallace and Gromit proved that the moon is made of Wensleydale or Stilton. My own ground-based spectrographic analyses point to Wensleydale.
I remember taking a tour of the datacenter of a large utility many years ago - they had drum storage units that used the spinning drum to power the electronics long enough to write any buffered data and park the heads. As I recall, it was an IBM product.
Thank you for the compliment - I do try to offer reasoned comments and occasionally a funny post. You're correct that my stance is pretty absolute, but I agree that there are instances where civil disobedience are acceptable. One such is where the laws themselves are written 'against' the rights and freedoms we as humans hold dear. I would suggest that the scenario you offered fits my original exception "for any situations... most dire."
Whether or not the issue was brought up by Karl Rove or Santa Claus, it still is a valid question that as far as I know has never come up before, and is not well-defined wrt the Constitution. Other posts in this thread have provided good information regarding the details of citizenship - I will read and digest it all. It's quite possible that there is no 'citizenship crisis', but at least I'd like to see it clearly and lucidly explained by someone with more legal knowledge than I. NYCL, are you listening???
Instead of sealing records, you'd think he'd want to head off all of the controversy by laying out exactly why the 'accusers' arguments are not supported by law without regardless of whether the documents are sealed.
Yes, I am. In fact, I'm a stickler for the rule of law and decry Consequentialism wherever it crops up. I'm sorry you have a major problem with my post - I don't think those that place their own wants and needs above others by trying to justify their actions are 'slimy connivers', I think they're being disingenuous to the rest of the population, intellectually dishonest, and are contributing to the downfall of society, that's all.
Regardless of whether he was born in the Hawaii, I question whether he gave up his citizenship to attend school in Indonesia, as has been posited. If so, can he still be considered eligible? I don't know the answer, and I don't really care one way or the other, but if we are to be a country bound by the rule of law, that issue must be resolved. Those that chose to vote for him seem willing to ignore the question, which only helps feed the government's "we're above the law" attitude.
You may have been going for the +5 funny, but no, I'm not a compliance officer. I'm a software developer. That, however, has little to do with my political beliefs. I was brought up to believe that the rule of law was the only thing that separates us from anarchy, and from the rule of law comes peace and stability to those that respect the law. Breaking a law, even for 'a good cause' is never excusable - understandable, perhaps, but not excusable.
You know all those recent law enforcement-themed tv shows that portray the officers roughing up suspects because they simply must have the information, or those that snoop into bank records without probable cause? They're criminals IMHO, regardless of the the perceived merit of their intent. A very bad precedent, and it makes people think that giving up a little liberty for (perceived) safety is a good thing.
And that, my friend, is why I will not consider him legally elected until the matter of his citizenship is investigated and resolved. He may be the best presidential candidate ever, and he might make the best president ever, but I'm a stickler for following the rules to the letter, and I am not one of those liberal 'the end justifies the means' types. In fact, that's a very useful litmus test - if someone believes that the end justifies the means for any situations but the most dire, I have doubts about their character.
I don't know if it's feasible in your situation, but I'd put a box on the ceiling in the garage right above your car. From there I'd use a length of flexible cable (perhaps on a retractor) to plug into your car. That way it would matter where the plug was on your car or whether you drove in or backed in to the garage. At least in the US you can always use a larger gauge wire in place of a smaller one, so if you're in the situation where you must decide now before you close a wall up, I'd run 3 conductors of #6 or #4 (two hot, one neutral) and one ground conductor of whatever gauge your jurisdiction requires (where I am, you generally dfon't need a ground larger than #10 solid copper). That way you can do 110 or 220 at up to 100A - that's 22kW at 220V/100A (that's half the current rating of my whole breaker panel). Good luck!
Funny (maybe) Sizzler story. I used to frequent one near Oceanport NJ. The cashier was a nice lady of Pacific Island heritage who always told us to "Enjoy your lungs". I'm pretty sure she meant "Lunch", but she might have been a representative of the American Lung Association, I don't know. In any case, she did make me stop and think about how much I appreciate my lungs on more than one occasion.
If this thing has decent angular resolution, I bet the military is looking at this very closely. The super-Kamiokande (or was it the Sudbury) neutrino detector was able to 'see' operating reactors from their neutrino flux. How cool would it be to be able to detect and get a fix on rogue reactors and nuclear subs?
Amen to that. Exterior ballistics is quite complicated. I deal with bullets at 4000 fps, and I can tell you that predicting the performance of any particular powder brand+load/primer/bullet shape+weight/barrel combination is next to impossible.
If you want an overview of exterior ballistics, read this treatise. Specifically, this section gives the horribly complex equations of flight. Note that the ballistic coefficients are determined empirically, and any particular bullet has different BCs for different velocity ranges.
I agree re: the efficiency/frequency relationship. I'm interested in what frequency he used when modeling the efficiencies, since that must take the freq into account.
I'm also interested in how egregiously he violated FCC rules and RF exposure limits and in which portion of the RF spectrum. As an Amateur Radio Operator, I'm only allowed 1.5kW PEP - they were pushing more than twice that, and as far as I could tell from the article, they were doing it without a license of any kind. The FCC claims jurisdiction over all RF >= 9kHz, IIRC.
And you did that without a computer? Cheater!!!! I chose that particular problem because I actually had to do that calculation. My old house had oil heat, and I wanted to make a calibrated dipstick for it.
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Are those numbers for Wensleydale? Wallace and Gromit proved that the moon is made of Wensleydale or Stilton. My own ground-based spectrographic analyses point to Wensleydale.
Maybe they were tired of circa 1980's Punk Rock music and meant "Ramones, go home!".
You mean like Rubber Biscuit by the Blues Brothers, with the "B" side being "B Movie Boxcar Blues"? I had that 45 as a kid. Strange stuff indeed.
An Example. I've toured it a few times, back before 911 - really neat.
I remember taking a tour of the datacenter of a large utility many years ago - they had drum storage units that used the spinning drum to power the electronics long enough to write any buffered data and park the heads. As I recall, it was an IBM product.
Thank you for the compliment - I do try to offer reasoned comments and occasionally a funny post. You're correct that my stance is pretty absolute, but I agree that there are instances where civil disobedience are acceptable. One such is where the laws themselves are written 'against' the rights and freedoms we as humans hold dear. I would suggest that the scenario you offered fits my original exception "for any situations ... most dire."
If you eat Potassium Chloride, you get nutrition. If you inject it, you die.
Either way, you get radioactive.
Instead of sealing records, you'd think he'd want to head off all of the controversy by laying out exactly why the 'accusers' arguments are not supported by law without regardless of whether the documents are sealed.
Yes, I am. In fact, I'm a stickler for the rule of law and decry Consequentialism wherever it crops up. I'm sorry you have a major problem with my post - I don't think those that place their own wants and needs above others by trying to justify their actions are 'slimy connivers', I think they're being disingenuous to the rest of the population, intellectually dishonest, and are contributing to the downfall of society, that's all.
Very good information - thanks!
Perhaps it's intentional, but the last picture in the seventh set is not clickable.
Regardless of whether he was born in the Hawaii, I question whether he gave up his citizenship to attend school in Indonesia, as has been posited. If so, can he still be considered eligible? I don't know the answer, and I don't really care one way or the other, but if we are to be a country bound by the rule of law, that issue must be resolved. Those that chose to vote for him seem willing to ignore the question, which only helps feed the government's "we're above the law" attitude.
You know all those recent law enforcement-themed tv shows that portray the officers roughing up suspects because they simply must have the information, or those that snoop into bank records without probable cause? They're criminals IMHO, regardless of the the perceived merit of their intent. A very bad precedent, and it makes people think that giving up a little liberty for (perceived) safety is a good thing.
And that, my friend, is why I will not consider him legally elected until the matter of his citizenship is investigated and resolved. He may be the best presidential candidate ever, and he might make the best president ever, but I'm a stickler for following the rules to the letter, and I am not one of those liberal 'the end justifies the means' types. In fact, that's a very useful litmus test - if someone believes that the end justifies the means for any situations but the most dire, I have doubts about their character.
I don't know if it's feasible in your situation, but I'd put a box on the ceiling in the garage right above your car. From there I'd use a length of flexible cable (perhaps on a retractor) to plug into your car. That way it would matter where the plug was on your car or whether you drove in or backed in to the garage. At least in the US you can always use a larger gauge wire in place of a smaller one, so if you're in the situation where you must decide now before you close a wall up, I'd run 3 conductors of #6 or #4 (two hot, one neutral) and one ground conductor of whatever gauge your jurisdiction requires (where I am, you generally dfon't need a ground larger than #10 solid copper). That way you can do 110 or 220 at up to 100A - that's 22kW at 220V/100A (that's half the current rating of my whole breaker panel). Good luck!
...is 11 bits of precision, approximately. Somehow I'm underwhelmed.
Funny (maybe) Sizzler story. I used to frequent one near Oceanport NJ. The cashier was a nice lady of Pacific Island heritage who always told us to "Enjoy your lungs". I'm pretty sure she meant "Lunch", but she might have been a representative of the American Lung Association, I don't know. In any case, she did make me stop and think about how much I appreciate my lungs on more than one occasion.
If this thing has decent angular resolution, I bet the military is looking at this very closely. The super-Kamiokande (or was it the Sudbury) neutrino detector was able to 'see' operating reactors from their neutrino flux. How cool would it be to be able to detect and get a fix on rogue reactors and nuclear subs?
Amen to that. Exterior ballistics is quite complicated. I deal with bullets at 4000 fps, and I can tell you that predicting the performance of any particular powder brand+load/primer/bullet shape+weight/barrel combination is next to impossible.
If you want an overview of exterior ballistics, read this treatise. Specifically, this section gives the horribly complex equations of flight. Note that the ballistic coefficients are determined empirically, and any particular bullet has different BCs for different velocity ranges.
he didn't design her to look like a teenage school-girl... with tentacles. Fixed that for you.
I don't think NASA of 2008 is ahead of where NASA was in 1963. Sad.
I'm also interested in how egregiously he violated FCC rules and RF exposure limits and in which portion of the RF spectrum. As an Amateur Radio Operator, I'm only allowed 1.5kW PEP - they were pushing more than twice that, and as far as I could tell from the article, they were doing it without a license of any kind. The FCC claims jurisdiction over all RF >= 9kHz, IIRC.
What's the frequency, Kenneth?
So he was a space probe originally named "Navunkola Tecla" that returned to menace the Earth?
And you did that without a computer? Cheater!!!! I chose that particular problem because I actually had to do that calculation. My old house had oil heat, and I wanted to make a calibrated dipstick for it.