a few dozen planes and helicopters were shot down in Vietnam by AK 47s. The NVA even trained specialists for that purpose. I personnaly met an old man who had received a special medal for one of these feats.
then why is there a speed limit in the USA ? It would be much nicer and to the point to be able to go 150 MPH on the endless straight highways separating the two coasts rather than on the 20 km separating two sprawling cities of Germany...
The point here is however that the reducted mass of the u235+electrons system is not exactly the same
than the one of the u238+electrons system. Therefore the absorption frequencies are slightly different, enabling the separation. That point about reducted mass is usually made in freshman physics courses but forgotten afterward, everyone happily taking the mass of the lighter object as the reducted mass and considering the heavier object at rest (even in the earth-moon system) when it actually revolves around the center of mass. I seem to remember that there are methods to detect extrasolar planets also based on this reducted mass effect : the star wobbles a little around the center of gravity giving a periodic doppler shift of the emitted light.
Just buy an US itunes gift certificate on Ebay ; then (if you have not been ripped off by the seller...) redeem the gift certificate on itunes AND THEN create a new login with a phony US address. Here you go, Desperate Housewives complete season 2 (not to be found anywhere else at the time I tried this...)
I just got a Nokia 6230i to replace my old Siemens S55.
Now I get a camera, MP3 player, Edge connectivity on bluetooth (150 kbps on average) but the address book and organizer do not synchronise with my powerbook 12" (maybe 50% of Nokia phones are recognized by Apple). It used to work with the S55 (the modem was only GPRS) but its battery was dead anyway.
I saw a forum which required that you post a (non-'shopped) picture of yourself holding a 45 rpm record of the artist the forum was about before getting an account...best signal/noise ratio I ever saw with rec.guns, which seems to be moderated by gods because of the very high flame and spam potential!
"odds are 1 in 10000"...rather 1 in 1000, and even more for receptive sex, and if you do it once a day, you get almost a 1 in 2 chance of catching it after 500 days. Check Chad Douglas on google...always on top, positive after 5 years, dead after 15.
A satirical newspaper was able to expose a good part of the COs working in covert agencies. They all had studied in the same military academy (Saint Cyr, eq. West Point) and in order to have reunions sometimes they were listed in the alumni directory as belonging to bogus units...the existence of which being quite easy to check.
I just checked on the imdb and King Kong grossed $216M in the USA for a budget of $200M. Adding foreign sales (2M entries in Germany, probably the same in each large European and Asian country), DVD, TV rights, merchandising and so on the movie actually made money, maybe not as much as the original Star Wars, but it is not a disaster of Waterworld dimensions. And that was done leaving artistic freedom to Peter Jackson ! It's true anyway that movies in the $5M-$30M range, even on the commercial and "fun" side (Pulp fiction, Austin Powers...) and not on the arty-intellectual side are often much more enjoyable and less predictable than blockbusters. On the IMDB top 250 list, there are not that many blockbusters excepted for LOTR; Terminator 2, and Star Wars.
I just bought from ex-USSR soldiers a Raketa 24 hour mechanical watch. Great conversation starter : almost anyone notices something weird about my watch after a few minutes of casual staring. It has a rotating bezel to dispplay the time in every world timezone, and the 24-hour rotating small hand is convenient to visualize the progress of the day.
Re:More likely like this ....thank you GW Bush !
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You confirm my opinion that GW Bush (although he is probably not aware of it) is the greatest closet ecologist in the whole world. Doing what he does in the middle East and Venezuela, gas prices go up everyday, people give up their SUVs for hybrids or public transportation, and total oil demand falls more than with any direct law, in the same way that Nike brings much more money to third world countries than any direct aid from European governments.
the first test was done during primo infection ?
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Maybe he had the first test while he was developing primo-infection ; his body managed to kill off the virus before it entered his marrowbones and infected his immune system : hence the initially positive test and then the negatives ones and the immunity. Maybe it's much more common than we think since excepted for lab workers who are accidentally contaminated I don't think that many people have an HIV test if they fill feverish a few days after unprotected sex, the tests are usually routine ones done several years after the primo-infection or during the first outbreak of full blown AIDS. Besides, there are a few cases of contaminated lab workers (or newborns) saved from HIV by a massive tritherapy just after the contamination, killing off the virus before it can hide itself in the marrows : same phenomenon here ?
This would explain that the probability of being infected during unprotected sex is less than 1% (however, once a day on several years is a sure winner, which would contradict the fact that the guy is now immune).
No connection but if someone is dumb enough to sleep with an HIV positive person would he also be dumb enough to refuse to help science ?
don't make fun of these theories !
I recently assisted to a talk about Aristotelician and Ptolemaic physics, and it was extremely interesting. Using the full power of the theory in the XVIth century an Italian named Bombelli could predict an almost parabolic trajectory for artillery cannonballs ! And the ptolemaic description of the universe (correcting the view of embedded spheres thus "salving the apparences", hence the expression) using corrected epicycloids was actually more accurate and predictive than the Copernic system using circular trajectories for the planets ; here you go for falsification. It was not until Kepler determined that the trajectories were actually ellipses that the heliocentric system was more accurate and predictive than the ptolemaic one.
The whole Galilean and later Newtonian physics originate from the problem that if the earth rotates, according to aristotelican physics, we should feel a strong wind, and objects that we drop should hit the floor several hundred meters behind us : hence the development of classical relativity, stating that butterflies or goldfish inside a moving boat at constant speed move at the same speed in every directions, and that object dropped in the same boat fall at the exact vertical of the dropping point. Those developments require some mathematics, and in the process new, more accurate motion laws were found than only graphical and descriptive ones. All this to say that if a system (like the aristotelician, or ptolemaic ones) has some internal coherence and some predictive power, it is not uninteresting and can be taught at some point, as a preliminary to a more accurate description of the world (or giving rise to some interesting equations for the ptolemaic ones, used in gears for example), in the same way that classical physics is taught along quantum mechanics or relativity in order to understand the interest of each (no point in applying general relativity corrections in the design of a car, excepted in the GPS system).
Coincidentally by putting the Earth at the center of the universe the ptolemaic system, developed at first to compute horoscopes and describe the world, agrees with the Bible ; hence its support by the church, as opposed to intelligent design being developed from the bible.
To me, intelligent design, although with some explanative power, has neither predictive power or falsifiability, and no practical use, and should be banned from science classes.
you are basically right, but in classical physics f=ma is true if m is a constant (that is, in almost every case excepted open systems like rockets which are more convenient to treat with f=dp/dt - but even there you can apply f=ma if you consider a closed system composed of the rocket and the ejected material).
completely offtopic, but you chose a fine example with Ford ! IIRC, the current Mustang has a V8 engine based on a 1948 design, and the rear uspension is a De Dion design from 1905...only electronics and maybe disc brakes were added to the 1963 model (admittingly doubling mileage with electronic engine management), but the driving feels the same, with the rear zig-zagging on each pothole ! Of course you get 300 HP for less than $20,000, looks and excellent 0-60 mph values, in comparison to European cars which for the same price have state-of-the-art design (4 valves per cylinder, turbo/turbo diesel/TDI, dual overhead camshaft, independent suspension with double arms, ABS, ESP..) but only 100 HP and poor acceleration (but again more than double mileage). Porsches 911 are also directly related to the 1963 model and even to the pre-WWII beetle.
I leave the analogy between Russian rockets and European (or American ones)
to the reader : think cryogenics, electronics, etc.
exactly ; moreover, when you solve Schrödinger's equation for a molecule on a program like Gaussian, you end up with pictures of the electronic density which look most of the time surprisingly close to the old fashioned ball and stick representation.
for each copy you destroy the original...so you have only one copy at maximum at each moment !
The teleportation is in the fact that you can send by radio (or other means) all the information you have measured (destroying the original in the process) and reassemble at another point a copy taking from a reservoir of atoms in all possible states. (which you have to manage to transport somehow). If the remote atoms from the reservoir are quantally correlated (entangled) to the original, measuring system then you can have quantum teleportation (teleporting systems in a superposition of eigenstates) which is in principle perfect. People have done it for individual atoms.
you cannot create a perfect copy without destroying the original since you have to
measure the state of each of the atoms of the original, thereby destroying the "quantumness" of those states (ie the fact that they can be a superposition of eigenstates). Nevertheless with quantum teleportation you can transport the information stating that an atom is in a superposition of states (which might be the case of consciousness).
About Windows or BSD, I remember using a lot of open source stuff (gcc, emacs, tex, nethack, gnuplot...) on Sun and HP workstations in the early 90's. Without linux I think it would have stayed this way at least in the academic world.
that these incredible computers will be programmed in Fortran like the supercomputers of today have been for 50 years, or (even worse) run some flavour of Windows, that nuclear fusion will be only 20 years away in the future, that cars will not fly, have a lot of electronic gizmos but an internal combustion engine, and that two thirds of the world population will live on a dirt floor with no access to education, sanitation or medication, and launch wars against the other third for religious reasons. The rich however will be AIDS and cancer free. There will not be any space travel, only very good quality and free videoconferencing and virtual worlds/3d games allowing one to be virtually anywhere in the universe.
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a few dozen planes and helicopters were shot down in Vietnam by AK 47s. The NVA even trained specialists for that purpose. I personnaly met an old man who had received a special medal for one of these feats.
then why is there a speed limit in the USA ? It would be much nicer and to the point to be able to go 150 MPH on the endless straight highways separating the two coasts rather than on the 20 km separating two sprawling cities of Germany...
do they have a "party mode" emergency button blaring "Feel the Energy" ?
The point here is however that the reducted mass of the u235+electrons system is not exactly the same than the one of the u238+electrons system. Therefore the absorption frequencies are slightly different, enabling the separation. That point about reducted mass is usually made in freshman physics courses but forgotten afterward, everyone happily taking the mass of the lighter object as the reducted mass and considering the heavier object at rest (even in the earth-moon system) when it actually revolves around the center of mass. I seem to remember that there are methods to detect extrasolar planets also based on this reducted mass effect : the star wobbles a little around the center of gravity giving a periodic doppler shift of the emitted light.
Just buy an US itunes gift certificate on Ebay ; then (if you have not been ripped off by the seller...) redeem the gift certificate on itunes AND THEN create a new login with a phony US address. Here you go, Desperate Housewives complete season 2 (not to be found anywhere else at the time I tried this...)
I just got a Nokia 6230i to replace my old Siemens S55. Now I get a camera, MP3 player, Edge connectivity on bluetooth (150 kbps on average) but the address book and organizer do not synchronise with my powerbook 12" (maybe 50% of Nokia phones are recognized by Apple). It used to work with the S55 (the modem was only GPRS) but its battery was dead anyway.
I saw a forum which required that you post a (non-'shopped) picture of yourself holding a 45 rpm record of the artist the forum was about before getting an account...best signal/noise ratio I ever saw with rec.guns, which seems to be moderated by gods because of the very high flame and spam potential!
"odds are 1 in 10000"...rather 1 in 1000, and even more for receptive sex, and if you do it once a day, you get almost a 1 in 2 chance of catching it after 500 days. Check Chad Douglas on google...always on top, positive after 5 years, dead after 15.
"not licensed for download" still "16 beatles songs available" maybe not on the UK itunes store.
running Mac OS X on an elcheapo generic PC ! That would be useful !
A satirical newspaper was able to expose a good part of the COs working in covert agencies. They all had studied in the same military academy (Saint Cyr, eq. West Point) and in order to have reunions sometimes they were listed in the alumni directory as belonging to bogus units...the existence of which being quite easy to check.
I just checked on the imdb and King Kong grossed $216M in the USA for a budget of $200M. Adding foreign sales (2M entries in Germany, probably the same in each large European and Asian country), DVD, TV rights, merchandising and so on the movie actually made money, maybe not as much as the original Star Wars, but it is not a disaster of Waterworld dimensions. And that was done leaving artistic freedom to Peter Jackson ! It's true anyway that movies in the $5M-$30M range, even on the commercial and "fun" side (Pulp fiction, Austin Powers...) and not on the arty-intellectual side are often much more enjoyable and less predictable than blockbusters. On the IMDB top 250 list, there are not that many blockbusters excepted for LOTR; Terminator 2, and Star Wars.
I just bought from ex-USSR soldiers a Raketa 24 hour mechanical watch. Great conversation starter : almost anyone notices something weird about my watch after a few minutes of casual staring. It has a rotating bezel to dispplay the time in every world timezone, and the 24-hour rotating small hand is convenient to visualize the progress of the day.
You confirm my opinion that GW Bush (although he is probably not aware of it) is the greatest closet ecologist in the whole world. Doing what he does in the middle East and Venezuela, gas prices go up everyday, people give up their SUVs for hybrids or public transportation, and total oil demand falls more than with any direct law, in the same way that Nike brings much more money to third world countries than any direct aid from European governments.
Maybe he had the first test while he was developing primo-infection ; his body managed to kill off the virus before it entered his marrowbones and infected his immune system : hence the initially positive test and then the negatives ones and the immunity. Maybe it's much more common than we think since excepted for lab workers who are accidentally contaminated I don't think that many people have an HIV test if they fill feverish a few days after unprotected sex, the tests are usually routine ones done several years after the primo-infection or during the first outbreak of full blown AIDS. Besides, there are a few cases of contaminated lab workers (or newborns) saved from HIV by a massive tritherapy just after the contamination, killing off the virus before it can hide itself in the marrows : same phenomenon here ? This would explain that the probability of being infected during unprotected sex is less than 1% (however, once a day on several years is a sure winner, which would contradict the fact that the guy is now immune). No connection but if someone is dumb enough to sleep with an HIV positive person would he also be dumb enough to refuse to help science ?
because soon the US will have to send the boys like in 1917 or 1944 to help the French !
don't make fun of these theories ! I recently assisted to a talk about Aristotelician and Ptolemaic physics, and it was extremely interesting. Using the full power of the theory in the XVIth century an Italian named Bombelli could predict an almost parabolic trajectory for artillery cannonballs ! And the ptolemaic description of the universe (correcting the view of embedded spheres thus "salving the apparences", hence the expression) using corrected epicycloids was actually more accurate and predictive than the Copernic system using circular trajectories for the planets ; here you go for falsification. It was not until Kepler determined that the trajectories were actually ellipses that the heliocentric system was more accurate and predictive than the ptolemaic one. The whole Galilean and later Newtonian physics originate from the problem that if the earth rotates, according to aristotelican physics, we should feel a strong wind, and objects that we drop should hit the floor several hundred meters behind us : hence the development of classical relativity, stating that butterflies or goldfish inside a moving boat at constant speed move at the same speed in every directions, and that object dropped in the same boat fall at the exact vertical of the dropping point. Those developments require some mathematics, and in the process new, more accurate motion laws were found than only graphical and descriptive ones. All this to say that if a system (like the aristotelician, or ptolemaic ones) has some internal coherence and some predictive power, it is not uninteresting and can be taught at some point, as a preliminary to a more accurate description of the world (or giving rise to some interesting equations for the ptolemaic ones, used in gears for example), in the same way that classical physics is taught along quantum mechanics or relativity in order to understand the interest of each (no point in applying general relativity corrections in the design of a car, excepted in the GPS system). Coincidentally by putting the Earth at the center of the universe the ptolemaic system, developed at first to compute horoscopes and describe the world, agrees with the Bible ; hence its support by the church, as opposed to intelligent design being developed from the bible. To me, intelligent design, although with some explanative power, has neither predictive power or falsifiability, and no practical use, and should be banned from science classes.
you are basically right, but in classical physics f=ma is true if m is a constant (that is, in almost every case excepted open systems like rockets which are more convenient to treat with f=dp/dt - but even there you can apply f=ma if you consider a closed system composed of the rocket and the ejected material).
completely offtopic, but you chose a fine example with Ford ! IIRC, the current Mustang has a V8 engine based on a 1948 design, and the rear uspension is a De Dion design from 1905...only electronics and maybe disc brakes were added to the 1963 model (admittingly doubling mileage with electronic engine management), but the driving feels the same, with the rear zig-zagging on each pothole ! Of course you get 300 HP for less than $20,000, looks and excellent 0-60 mph values, in comparison to European cars which for the same price have state-of-the-art design (4 valves per cylinder, turbo/turbo diesel/TDI, dual overhead camshaft, independent suspension with double arms, ABS, ESP..) but only 100 HP and poor acceleration (but again more than double mileage). Porsches 911 are also directly related to the 1963 model and even to the pre-WWII beetle. I leave the analogy between Russian rockets and European (or American ones) to the reader : think cryogenics, electronics, etc.
exactly ; moreover, when you solve Schrödinger's equation for a molecule on a program like Gaussian, you end up with pictures of the electronic density which look most of the time surprisingly close to the old fashioned ball and stick representation.
for each copy you destroy the original...so you have only one copy at maximum at each moment ! The teleportation is in the fact that you can send by radio (or other means) all the information you have measured (destroying the original in the process) and reassemble at another point a copy taking from a reservoir of atoms in all possible states. (which you have to manage to transport somehow). If the remote atoms from the reservoir are quantally correlated (entangled) to the original, measuring system then you can have quantum teleportation (teleporting systems in a superposition of eigenstates) which is in principle perfect. People have done it for individual atoms.
you cannot create a perfect copy without destroying the original since you have to measure the state of each of the atoms of the original, thereby destroying the "quantumness" of those states (ie the fact that they can be a superposition of eigenstates). Nevertheless with quantum teleportation you can transport the information stating that an atom is in a superposition of states (which might be the case of consciousness).
About Windows or BSD, I remember using a lot of open source stuff (gcc, emacs, tex, nethack, gnuplot...) on Sun and HP workstations in the early 90's. Without linux I think it would have stayed this way at least in the academic world.
that these incredible computers will be programmed in Fortran like the supercomputers of today have been for 50 years, or (even worse) run some flavour of Windows, that nuclear fusion will be only 20 years away in the future, that cars will not fly, have a lot of electronic gizmos but an internal combustion engine, and that two thirds of the world population will live on a dirt floor with no access to education, sanitation or medication, and launch wars against the other third for religious reasons. The rich however will be AIDS and cancer free. There will not be any space travel, only very good quality and free videoconferencing and virtual worlds/3d games allowing one to be virtually anywhere in the universe.
here is the proof you are right.