The russian have and have used knockout gas think is was a big standoff in a theater. They claimed it was an aerosolized fentanyl that can need only skin contact a gas mask won't help you need a full NBC rated suit.
Yeah, they used it, but it killed a bunch (but not all) of the hostages, too. The stuff falls in the "less-lethal" category, rather than "non-lethal".
I think the parent's title is a valid question. More often than not, the poles are carrying power and are owned by the electrical utility. Occasionally, you see shorter poles with only communications cable, but not that often in most places.
The backdoor doesn't directly unlock the iPhone. The backdoor allows Apple to alter the firmware without unlocking the phone itself. The authentication mechanism is baked into the ROM, but the "10 strikes and auto-wipe" is not. The FBI wants Apple to disable the 10 strikes so they can guess as many times as they want, as fast as they want (through a cable interface). However, once that altered firmware gets on that particular iPhone, the FBI has that firmware permanently and can re-use it at a later date on some other iPhone. (At least that's the gist I get from the various articles I've read.)
I never said my buddy was correct in his judgment, but if he was convinced he was correct, that means plenty of other people follow that same line of reasoning (he's a fairly analytical sort of guy).
Use of the parking brake seems to vary with the terrain and climate conditions of where you grew up and where your current residence is. I grew up on the U.S. west coast, where there are plenty of hills, and the whether is usually above freezing. On the other hand, I once visited my buddy in Illinois at the tail end of winter, and he practically yelled at me for setting the parking brake afterwards stating "You've never had your brake pads freeze to your rotors, overnight, have you?" (Illinois is also very, very flat)
If they just build the first line from Los Angeles to Las Vegas they should make their money back rather quickly (and probably get plenty of casino-based investors to help pay for it). The next legs could be Phoenix to Vegas or a San Diego to Vegas (perhaps with an L.A. connector).
Rewiring it might be a little far-fetched to teach an eagle, but you probably could teach one to fly underneath a drone, flip over, snatch the drone by the camera, then flip the drone over to plummet to it's death... I've seen an eagle do something similar to an overly annoying seagull.
I'd have to re-read it (it's been awhile), but, IIRC, in the book version of Return of the Jedi, Luke feels "dirty" when he force-chokes the Gamorrean guards. He also strays a bit in the extended universe and has confidence issues with staying true to the light side thereafter. (Yes, I know JJ Abrams shot down the previous Extended Universe canon, but that's how things were explained previously.)
Let's see, they say that "Knowledge is Power", so knowledge = power, and we know from physics that power = work / time. And finally, they say that "Time is money", so time = money.
So, making the substitutions: knowledge = work / money, and solving for money, money = work / knowledge.
So, now we can see that the dumber you are, the more money you can make!
Even more importantly, the trackpad on a MacBook only has one-button. You have to hold down Ctrl to "right-click", and the trick doesn't work when running Windows through BootCamp or Parallels.
Cmd + up/down arrows. Not the best solution, but it works, and after a while, you get used to it!
It doesn't always work, some applications have Cmd-(up/down arrow) mapped already. However Fn-(up/down arrow) is always Page Up/Down, and (IIRC) Shift-Fn-(up/down arrow) is Home/End.
How hard would it be to drop the corn syrup part and just call it fructose?
Because "High Fructose Corn Syrup" rolls off the tongue slightly better than "a 50%:50% ±10% homogeneous mixture of fructose and glucose with >0.5% residual corn proteins and cellulose."
How far away was the guy in the costume from the principal's office? I'm not familiar with that school district but most public schools I attended were set back quite a ways from the road and sidewalk. If the blaster was black plastic, would you be able to distinguish it from a real gun from 100 feet away?
Using Google Maps and Streetview, you can see that school is tiny, it's about 200ft of frontage along a commercial-zone 2-lane road (+parking shoulders and sidewalks) sandwiched between two very narrow residential streets. The play area between the school and sidewalk is maybe 15 feet wide. So, even if this guy was on the opposite side of the commercial street, I doubt the principle would have been any farther than 100ft away at close observation, and probably much closer than that.
The news story photo definitely looks like it was taken in that generally vicinity, but I can't pin the location down, exactly.
I do this for a living as an facilities electrical engineer who works closely with electricians. The phase between lines on the primary side of a single-phase stepdown transformer is irrelevant to the secondary side. Indeed, sometimes the distribution lines are Y configuration rather than delta, so the inputs to the single-phase transformer is sometimes line-neutral instead of line-line. In most systems worldwide the single-phase transformer has two poles on the secondary side, one of which is grounded locally and is connected to the neutral conductor, the other pole is connected to the "hot" conductor or "line voltage". There is typically about 240V between hot on neutral. A main electrical panel for residential will have 2 bus bars in this case.
In the U.S., the transformer is typically has a three-pole secondary with a center-tap connected to the center of the secondary coil. The center tap is connected to local ground as well as the neutral conductor, and the other two poles at opposite ends are each hot conductors. Since there is only one coil on the transformer secondary this results in two hots that while measured against neutral are 120V, but each 180 degrees out of phase with the other for a result of 240V between lines. A main electrical panel will have 3 bus bars in this case. You can confirm this with a voltmeter. (If they were 120-degrees out of phase, you would measure a SQRT(3) ratio of V_lineline/V_lineneutral.
Occasionally in a commercial or industrial facility, you may find a 2-pole electrical panel that is a sub-circuit to a three-phase Y-configured panel (120/208V Typical configuration). These tend to be remodel conversions from when the building mains were swapped from single-phase to three-phase. In this one case, you will get the 120-degree difference between lines. When this is the case you have to be extra careful when connecting loads to the subpanel, because the difference in line-line voltage is less than what you would expect at first glance, and some equipment may fail to operate, or operate in a degraded state, because of that.
You can do a motor-generator set with a shared shaft. They are kind of bulky, but both the motor and generator will have efficiencies in the mid- to high- 90 percentiles, for a 90-95% net.
The USA is running on 220-250V AC for residential (exact voltage varies per locale). It's single-phase with a center-tap neutral, sometimes called "split phase"; Typically, a neighborhood will be on one phase of three-phase distribution system. Split phase allows one get two half-phases of about 120V (typical U.S. receptacle, a.k.a. "power outlet"), but you still have 240V available for large appliances: electric stoves/ranges, furnaces, installed heaters (baseboard or in-wall), clothes dryers, and/or sometimes a welding receptacle in the garage.
Split phase is occasionally incorrectly referred to as "two phase", which actually only exists with one old electrical distribution system near Niagra.
Official measurements don't get taken at or near surfaces of concrete, asphalt, tarmac, or compacted sand (that's why I mentioned the caveat about placement and calibration of the thermometers). My buddies and I were stuck working (albeit very slowly, for very short periods) in those conditions. I was just glad I didn't have to wear combat gear at the time.
During major U.S. heat waves we typically get a similar number of deaths, and that's with about 1/3 the population. There are quite a few places in the world that get worse heat without heat waves. The worst two I've visited were Kuwait and Qatar, both read 140F/60C on thermometers in the shade (placement/calibration technically didn't meet weather station standards, so no "world record", but that is still the temperature people were subjected to). Qatar was worse though, the humidity was borderline condensing (some surfaces were damp with not a cloud in the sky); I'm glad I didn't have to stay there any longer than one day!
By "pop" music are we talking about the current, popular [adjective] music genre/scene, or are we talking about the mass-market, lip-syncing dancer(s) with canned music written by someone else where the rest of the performing band (if present at all) is faceless? If it's the second, I've always detested that crap, even as an elementary school kid!
Do electrons actually vibrate? Or is this one of those cases where a scientist has dumbed it slightly and a journalist had taken very third word and jiggled them about until they make a vaguely coherent sentence?
Yes, they indeed do; see "de Broglie wavelength" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.... The AC that said, "Everything vibrates," as trollish as that sounds, is correct.
Let's see, the Columbia river discharges around 171x10^9 gallons per day to the Pacific Ocean, I think we could spare California 10x10^6 gallons per day without too much of an issue.
In general Americans have problems with moderation.
If you say you went out to drink, then you will drink until you're drunk. While in many other countries a drink is just a drink, not even enough to get legally buzzed.
If the person smoke then they smoke at least a pack a day. While in other countries it may be 1 or 2 cigarette a day.
Anecdotes are anecdotes, but as an American with a bit a world travel under my belt, this contrasts with my observations. Europeans tend to be better at the "just one drink" (and when they do over-do it, there is much better public transit, or their homes are nearby). East Asians seem to enjoy having a few drinks at a time, and Mexicans as well. There was no legal alcohol in Kuwait, and my visit to Afghanistan was before the wine "industry" started up again (so no observations there). However, the pub culture and local breweries have been taking off here in the western U.S., and we frequently go and have just one beer around here.
As to smokers: in every other country I visit, the local nationals are always surprised at how few Americans smoke. In many states in the U.S., public indoors smoking is illegal, which really cuts down on the number of chain smokers, and forces them to limit their smoking to about one cigarette per hour. I'm always surprised when I go elsewhere, as to how many people will finish a cigarette, then immediately light up another.
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The russian have and have used knockout gas think is was a big standoff in a theater. They claimed it was an aerosolized fentanyl that can need only skin contact a gas mask won't help you need a full NBC rated suit.
Yeah, they used it, but it killed a bunch (but not all) of the hostages, too. The stuff falls in the "less-lethal" category, rather than "non-lethal".
How so? A hebrew daleth doesn't look anything like a triangle.
At the time of King David, Hebrew was still using Phoenician-based script http://www.omniglot.com/writin... (which used a triangle for daleth), rather than the modern Aramaic-based script http://www.omniglot.com/writin... (Aramaic) http://www.omniglot.com/writin... (Hebrew), so the doubled-daleth could be a valid explanation for the Star of David symbol.
Did anyone else picture "The Bus" from Agents of Shield after reading the summary?
I think the parent's title is a valid question. More often than not, the poles are carrying power and are owned by the electrical utility. Occasionally, you see shorter poles with only communications cable, but not that often in most places.
The backdoor doesn't directly unlock the iPhone. The backdoor allows Apple to alter the firmware without unlocking the phone itself. The authentication mechanism is baked into the ROM, but the "10 strikes and auto-wipe" is not. The FBI wants Apple to disable the 10 strikes so they can guess as many times as they want, as fast as they want (through a cable interface). However, once that altered firmware gets on that particular iPhone, the FBI has that firmware permanently and can re-use it at a later date on some other iPhone. (At least that's the gist I get from the various articles I've read.)
I never said my buddy was correct in his judgment, but if he was convinced he was correct, that means plenty of other people follow that same line of reasoning (he's a fairly analytical sort of guy).
Use of the parking brake seems to vary with the terrain and climate conditions of where you grew up and where your current residence is. I grew up on the U.S. west coast, where there are plenty of hills, and the whether is usually above freezing. On the other hand, I once visited my buddy in Illinois at the tail end of winter, and he practically yelled at me for setting the parking brake afterwards stating "You've never had your brake pads freeze to your rotors, overnight, have you?" (Illinois is also very, very flat)
If they just build the first line from Los Angeles to Las Vegas they should make their money back rather quickly (and probably get plenty of casino-based investors to help pay for it). The next legs could be Phoenix to Vegas or a San Diego to Vegas (perhaps with an L.A. connector).
Rewiring it might be a little far-fetched to teach an eagle, but you probably could teach one to fly underneath a drone, flip over, snatch the drone by the camera, then flip the drone over to plummet to it's death... I've seen an eagle do something similar to an overly annoying seagull.
I'd have to re-read it (it's been awhile), but, IIRC, in the book version of Return of the Jedi, Luke feels "dirty" when he force-chokes the Gamorrean guards. He also strays a bit in the extended universe and has confidence issues with staying true to the light side thereafter. (Yes, I know JJ Abrams shot down the previous Extended Universe canon, but that's how things were explained previously.)
Flash would have been fine if it just stuck with the vector animation and left out the video encapsulation.
If Neil Sloane is so smart, why ain't he rich?
Let's see, they say that "Knowledge is Power", so knowledge = power, and we know from physics that power = work / time. And finally, they say that "Time is money", so time = money.
So, making the substitutions: knowledge = work / money, and solving for money, money = work / knowledge.
So, now we can see that the dumber you are, the more money you can make!
Even more importantly, the trackpad on a MacBook only has one-button. You have to hold down Ctrl to "right-click", and the trick doesn't work when running Windows through BootCamp or Parallels.
Cmd + up/down arrows. Not the best solution, but it works, and after a while, you get used to it!
It doesn't always work, some applications have Cmd-(up/down arrow) mapped already. However Fn-(up/down arrow) is always Page Up/Down, and (IIRC) Shift-Fn-(up/down arrow) is Home/End.
How hard would it be to drop the corn syrup part and just call it fructose?
Because "High Fructose Corn Syrup" rolls off the tongue slightly better than "a 50%:50% ±10% homogeneous mixture of fructose and glucose with >0.5% residual corn proteins and cellulose."
How far away was the guy in the costume from the principal's office? I'm not familiar with that school district but most public schools I attended were set back quite a ways from the road and sidewalk. If the blaster was black plastic, would you be able to distinguish it from a real gun from 100 feet away?
Using Google Maps and Streetview, you can see that school is tiny, it's about 200ft of frontage along a commercial-zone 2-lane road (+parking shoulders and sidewalks) sandwiched between two very narrow residential streets. The play area between the school and sidewalk is maybe 15 feet wide. So, even if this guy was on the opposite side of the commercial street, I doubt the principle would have been any farther than 100ft away at close observation, and probably much closer than that.
The news story photo definitely looks like it was taken in that generally vicinity, but I can't pin the location down, exactly.
I do this for a living as an facilities electrical engineer who works closely with electricians. The phase between lines on the primary side of a single-phase stepdown transformer is irrelevant to the secondary side. Indeed, sometimes the distribution lines are Y configuration rather than delta, so the inputs to the single-phase transformer is sometimes line-neutral instead of line-line. In most systems worldwide the single-phase transformer has two poles on the secondary side, one of which is grounded locally and is connected to the neutral conductor, the other pole is connected to the "hot" conductor or "line voltage". There is typically about 240V between hot on neutral. A main electrical panel for residential will have 2 bus bars in this case.
In the U.S., the transformer is typically has a three-pole secondary with a center-tap connected to the center of the secondary coil. The center tap is connected to local ground as well as the neutral conductor, and the other two poles at opposite ends are each hot conductors. Since there is only one coil on the transformer secondary this results in two hots that while measured against neutral are 120V, but each 180 degrees out of phase with the other for a result of 240V between lines. A main electrical panel will have 3 bus bars in this case. You can confirm this with a voltmeter. (If they were 120-degrees out of phase, you would measure a SQRT(3) ratio of V_lineline/V_lineneutral.
Occasionally in a commercial or industrial facility, you may find a 2-pole electrical panel that is a sub-circuit to a three-phase Y-configured panel (120/208V Typical configuration). These tend to be remodel conversions from when the building mains were swapped from single-phase to three-phase. In this one case, you will get the 120-degree difference between lines. When this is the case you have to be extra careful when connecting loads to the subpanel, because the difference in line-line voltage is less than what you would expect at first glance, and some equipment may fail to operate, or operate in a degraded state, because of that.
You can do a motor-generator set with a shared shaft. They are kind of bulky, but both the motor and generator will have efficiencies in the mid- to high- 90 percentiles, for a 90-95% net.
The USA is running on 220-250V AC for residential (exact voltage varies per locale). It's single-phase with a center-tap neutral, sometimes called "split phase"; Typically, a neighborhood will be on one phase of three-phase distribution system. Split phase allows one get two half-phases of about 120V (typical U.S. receptacle, a.k.a. "power outlet"), but you still have 240V available for large appliances: electric stoves/ranges, furnaces, installed heaters (baseboard or in-wall), clothes dryers, and/or sometimes a welding receptacle in the garage.
Split phase is occasionally incorrectly referred to as "two phase", which actually only exists with one old electrical distribution system near Niagra.
They don't. The temperature record is Qatar and Kuwait is about 53C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Official measurements don't get taken at or near surfaces of concrete, asphalt, tarmac, or compacted sand (that's why I mentioned the caveat about placement and calibration of the thermometers). My buddies and I were stuck working (albeit very slowly, for very short periods) in those conditions. I was just glad I didn't have to wear combat gear at the time.
During major U.S. heat waves we typically get a similar number of deaths, and that's with about 1/3 the population. There are quite a few places in the world that get worse heat without heat waves. The worst two I've visited were Kuwait and Qatar, both read 140F/60C on thermometers in the shade (placement/calibration technically didn't meet weather station standards, so no "world record", but that is still the temperature people were subjected to). Qatar was worse though, the humidity was borderline condensing (some surfaces were damp with not a cloud in the sky); I'm glad I didn't have to stay there any longer than one day!
By "pop" music are we talking about the current, popular [adjective] music genre/scene, or are we talking about the mass-market, lip-syncing dancer(s) with canned music written by someone else where the rest of the performing band (if present at all) is faceless? If it's the second, I've always detested that crap, even as an elementary school kid!
Do electrons actually vibrate? Or is this one of those cases where a scientist has dumbed it slightly and a journalist had taken very third word and jiggled them about until they make a vaguely coherent sentence?
Yes, they indeed do; see "de Broglie wavelength" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.... The AC that said, "Everything vibrates," as trollish as that sounds, is correct.
Let's see, the Columbia river discharges around 171x10^9 gallons per day to the Pacific Ocean, I think we could spare California 10x10^6 gallons per day without too much of an issue.
In general Americans have problems with moderation. If you say you went out to drink, then you will drink until you're drunk. While in many other countries a drink is just a drink, not even enough to get legally buzzed. If the person smoke then they smoke at least a pack a day. While in other countries it may be 1 or 2 cigarette a day.
Anecdotes are anecdotes, but as an American with a bit a world travel under my belt, this contrasts with my observations. Europeans tend to be better at the "just one drink" (and when they do over-do it, there is much better public transit, or their homes are nearby). East Asians seem to enjoy having a few drinks at a time, and Mexicans as well. There was no legal alcohol in Kuwait, and my visit to Afghanistan was before the wine "industry" started up again (so no observations there). However, the pub culture and local breweries have been taking off here in the western U.S., and we frequently go and have just one beer around here.
As to smokers: in every other country I visit, the local nationals are always surprised at how few Americans smoke. In many states in the U.S., public indoors smoking is illegal, which really cuts down on the number of chain smokers, and forces them to limit their smoking to about one cigarette per hour. I'm always surprised when I go elsewhere, as to how many people will finish a cigarette, then immediately light up another.