Predators go after WEAK PREY. Most criminals who might threaten others with violence tend to prefer targets that offer less risk to them. This is why people rob banks and not police stations
Criminals rob banks (and convience stores and liquor stores) because there is money there.
Anyone that has seen "Reservoir Dogs" will understand that even an unskilled person with a weapon can be a serious threat to a criminal's welfare.
Need I point out the fallacy of using Hollywood as a research resource?
"I seriously doubt that mate. A random armed rabble will not overthrow your government by force. You have invented the most powerful Military on the planet."
Actually an armed rabble overthrowing the U.S. government is quite feasible. Look at Iraq as an example of how well an armed rabble can stand up to our military.
Precisely, a well armed rabble can't stand up to the US military. And they damm well know it in Iraq - which is why they have resorted to IED's and other terror tactics. The insurgents in Iraq hope to accomplish what the North Vietnamese did - to win a political victory that removes the superior military force from the chessboard, then and only then could the NVA fight (and win) it's war.
Throw the potency of guerrilla warfare
The potency of guerilla warfare is vastly overstated in the mind of the general public. The only thing guerilla warefare can hope to accomplish is to either set the stage for a political victory, or to eventually morph into something more closely resembling a military formation and win a military victory by force of arms.
Does anybody know if Virginia Tech has a policy against firearms on campus? If so, I hope people stop and ask: could one student, armed with a handgun, have prevented the death toll from climbing as high as it did?
Two answers;
First - it probably wouldn't have stopped the madman. It's not enough to be simply carrying a gun, one has to be willing and able to use it. (And to use it properly and in a timely fashion.) If your hypothetical armed student pulls his gun and fumbles it, and if the shooter (perpetrator) is as methodical and observant as one eyewitness account implies, then said armed student is now an armed corpse.
This is why cops (and soldiers) spend so much time not only practicing their Weaver stance, but on pop-up ranges and other combat/crisis simulators.
Second - Imagine this not too unlikely scenario; Armed Student #1 hears the rumor/news of an armed madman on campus, he pulls his gun and starts circulating around campus looking for the madman. Armed student #2, having heard the same rumor keeps watch out of his dorm window with his buddies... He see #1 on 'patrol', and egged on by his buddies takes aim... This scenario will probably not end well.
From a collector's stand point, vinyls never really faded from popularity. I still have all of my old vinyls...
I wouldn't exactly call myself a collector but my collection started back in the 60's when that's all there was and I bought most of them in the 70's. Some of that stuff will never be released on CD. For example, I'm a Commander Cody fan. His Country Casanova album was only released on vinyl.
Bees are not the only insect that pollinates the plants. If one reads The Origin of Species there are mentions of many different ways for plants to propagate. Bees are generally being pushed aside by the wasps, at least here in England. Many other creatures can spread pollen, along with wind itself.
Certainly there are different methods of spreading pollen and creatures that do so. The problem is that any given plant species is generally evolved to only utilize a single method.
And while I'm not a coder by trade, I'm pretty sure that code is still written in english, isn't it? I mean, sprintf() is sprintf() no matter where you're writing code? It's not elsprintfo() just because you go south of the border or anything...
You miss the OP's point. The Dvorak keyboard is optimized to improve the efficiency of typists typing in English. Code isn't English - even though it uses the same alphabet, the frequency of the letters is different as are the common patterns (digraphs, trigraphs, etc...).
If the taxes get out of hand in the US or UK, what's to stop the owners from moving to a more tax friendly country?
If you are an eBay seller whose livelihood depends on reselling knick-knacks found at garage sales... it's a bit hard to visit them from that more tax friendly country. If you are an eBay seller whose livelihood depends on reselling stuff you've bought elsewhere... you've just increased your shipping costs.
When you deal in physical goods, physical location matters.
It might seem that wth, we already know the laws of mechanics well enough, we don't need experiments to test them. The problem is that any model is based on some simplifications, since you just don't have the computing power to even account for all waves, reflections and interferences in a big building with hundreds of joints and thousands of metal bars, pipes, whatever other discontinuities through the walls. So physicists get to decide what are the important parts to simulate, and which should at best be lost in the decimals.
This test was pretty simplified too - as what was tested was really a model of a real building. (a honkin' big model, granted, but a model none the less.) All the pipes, walls, elevator shafts, stairwells, etc... found in a real building are noticeable by their absence.
The reason given was that Wikipedia (being user created and edited) did not represent a credible or reliable source of information for schools.
I swear, Funk and Wagnall's, Britannica, and World Book must be stepping up with the lobby money. This isn't the first time I've read about the "inaccuracy" of Wikipedia recently.
Ah, the old chestnut: I love something and thing it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, so when The Man comes down against it - it must be a conspiracy.
I find it far more likely that as the reputation of Wikipedia spreads, so does awareness of it's deep and systemic shortcomings and problems. (As well as the weakness of arguments in favor of it.)
Second, we all know that Wikipedia is often an excellent first source of basic information on a topic. Me, I've got a Ph.D. and a book published with a university press, and I constantly refer to Wikipedia to ground myself in things.
Someone as educated as you claim to be should be aware of logical fallacy of Argument From Authority. Your education is impressive, but your endorsement of Wikipedia is about as useful as $CELEBRITY shilling for $CONSUMER_PRODUCT.
I rewatched it a few months ago, and found it interesting that some of the concepts about dinosaurs that characters in the film considered "out there" -- namely, that dinosaurs evolved into birds, and that they were probably warm-blooded -- are pretty much the mainstream view today.
Shouldn't come as much of a surprise though. The film is fourteen years old, and the book older yet. At that time those concepts were "out there" - there was a lot of suspicion that they might be true, but precious little evidence.
It could have some interesting applications as a road surface. traffic alerts and stop lights being part of the road itself.
Where they would be frequently covered up by other cars, dirt, dust, snow, etc... Not to mention that keeping your eyes (litterally) 'on the road' is a bad thing as it disrupts your scan pattern and may cause you to miss other cars misbehaving. (The phrase 'keep your eyes on the road' isn't meant to be taken literally - it's the driving equivalent of 'keep your head in the game'.)
Its a disingenuous marketing claim though. Cooling oil is no more efficient than cooling air
Actually, cooling oil is much more efficient than cooling air - as air carries much less heat.
convection won't be the final word at an industrial scale - they'll need pumps which consume as much energy as fans
Not with proper design of the racks. You'll want some external piping or internal ducting to direct the flow of rising (heated) oil and falling (cooled) oil, but it's a pretty straightforward process. (Hmm... That may be a clue as to why they are using oil rather than Fluorinert - a greater density change with temperature change?) Those huge transformers you see outdoors in an electrical switching yard? The coolant in them circulates entirely by convection. Heck, there are nuclear reactors that circulate their coolant via convection - you don't get much more 'industrial scale' than that.
And reading about virtual meetings in Second Life sure doesn't make it sound like something serious. It sounds more like some "let's pretend that we're hip and fly and on their level" idea a PHB might have.
It's fascinating to watch the/. el33t explain how uncool really something is - basically because they've decided that it's not. (See also: Myspace, LiveJournal.)
ROTFLMAO. Anyone who imagines the US is any more repressive than the EU nations is *seriously* brain damaged himself. The OP was indeed doing nothing but bashing without a point. Your kneejerk ignorance merely confirms my point.
Also, the fact that the fan is ducted means gentle collisions won't destroy the rotor system which is a pretty good feature for a small UAV.
Since the crafts stability depends on the airflow around the body - one wonders what a gentle collision will do to that airflow.
Did anyone else notice where/how Coanda effect was used?
To make the air flow down around the outside the body, rather than straight out where the fans exhaust hits the top of the craft. I imagine it also plays a role in the functioning of the body flaps at the base/rim of the craft.
So Fermilab, CERN's competition, designed the magnets that happened to have a basic design flaw? Hmmmm, cue The Beastie Boys tune "Sabotage"!
Once could equally easily invert this; CERN, Fermilab's competition and responsible for reviewing and approving the design, managed to miss a fundemental flaw in the design. Plenty of blame to go around here on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Criminals rob banks (and convience stores and liquor stores) because there is money there.
Need I point out the fallacy of using Hollywood as a research resource?
Precisely, a well armed rabble can't stand up to the US military. And they damm well know it in Iraq - which is why they have resorted to IED's and other terror tactics. The insurgents in Iraq hope to accomplish what the North Vietnamese did - to win a political victory that removes the superior military force from the chessboard, then and only then could the NVA fight (and win) it's war.
The potency of guerilla warfare is vastly overstated in the mind of the general public. The only thing guerilla warefare can hope to accomplish is to either set the stage for a political victory, or to eventually morph into something more closely resembling a military formation and win a military victory by force of arms.
I've never been fond of this question - as it implies that (somehow) bad things simply aren't supposed to happen.
Two answers;
First - it probably wouldn't have stopped the madman. It's not enough to be simply carrying a gun, one has to be willing and able to use it. (And to use it properly and in a timely fashion.) If your hypothetical armed student pulls his gun and fumbles it, and if the shooter (perpetrator) is as methodical and observant as one eyewitness account implies, then said armed student is now an armed corpse.
This is why cops (and soldiers) spend so much time not only practicing their Weaver stance, but on pop-up ranges and other combat/crisis simulators.
Second - Imagine this not too unlikely scenario; Armed Student #1 hears the rumor/news of an armed madman on campus, he pulls his gun and starts circulating around campus looking for the madman. Armed student #2, having heard the same rumor keeps watch out of his dorm window with his buddies... He see #1 on 'patrol', and egged on by his buddies takes aim... This scenario will probably not end well.
I take it you haven't actually looked much then?
Certainly there are different methods of spreading pollen and creatures that do so. The problem is that any given plant species is generally evolved to only utilize a single method.
Sounds like an urban legend to me. Cite?
You miss the OP's point. The Dvorak keyboard is optimized to improve the efficiency of typists typing in English. Code isn't English - even though it uses the same alphabet, the frequency of the letters is different as are the common patterns (digraphs, trigraphs, etc...).
If you are an eBay seller whose livelihood depends on reselling knick-knacks found at garage sales... it's a bit hard to visit them from that more tax friendly country. If you are an eBay seller whose livelihood depends on reselling stuff you've bought elsewhere... you've just increased your shipping costs.
When you deal in physical goods, physical location matters.
A nice theory, but one that fails to coincide with the facts. NASA routinely shuts down missions for lack of budget.
This test was pretty simplified too - as what was tested was really a model of a real building. (a honkin' big model, granted, but a model none the less.) All the pipes, walls, elevator shafts, stairwells, etc... found in a real building are noticeable by their absence.
Sorry, one sees so much tinfoil hattery on Slashdot - it's reflexive to believe the poster means it.
Ah, the old chestnut: I love something and thing it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, so when The Man comes down against it - it must be a conspiracy.
I find it far more likely that as the reputation of Wikipedia spreads, so does awareness of it's deep and systemic shortcomings and problems. (As well as the weakness of arguments in favor of it.)
Someone as educated as you claim to be should be aware of logical fallacy of Argument From Authority. Your education is impressive, but your endorsement of Wikipedia is about as useful as $CELEBRITY shilling for $CONSUMER_PRODUCT.
Shouldn't come as much of a surprise though. The film is fourteen years old, and the book older yet. At that time those concepts were "out there" - there was a lot of suspicion that they might be true, but precious little evidence.
Where they would be frequently covered up by other cars, dirt, dust, snow, etc... Not to mention that keeping your eyes (litterally) 'on the road' is a bad thing as it disrupts your scan pattern and may cause you to miss other cars misbehaving. (The phrase 'keep your eyes on the road' isn't meant to be taken literally - it's the driving equivalent of 'keep your head in the game'.)
Actually, cooling oil is much more efficient than cooling air - as air carries much less heat.
Not with proper design of the racks. You'll want some external piping or internal ducting to direct the flow of rising (heated) oil and falling (cooled) oil, but it's a pretty straightforward process. (Hmm... That may be a clue as to why they are using oil rather than Fluorinert - a greater density change with temperature change?) Those huge transformers you see outdoors in an electrical switching yard? The coolant in them circulates entirely by convection. Heck, there are nuclear reactors that circulate their coolant via convection - you don't get much more 'industrial scale' than that.
It's fascinating to watch the
Not only is it graphic, it's interactive as well. (I.E. the audience can interact with objects - and everyone present can view the interaction.)
An $1100 HP from Best Buy and bog standard home cable work just fine.
ROTFLMAO. Anyone who imagines the US is any more repressive than the EU nations is *seriously* brain damaged himself. The OP was indeed doing nothing but bashing without a point. Your kneejerk ignorance merely confirms my point.
Ah yes, the mandatory anti-US post.
Since the crafts stability depends on the airflow around the body - one wonders what a gentle collision will do to that airflow.
To make the air flow down around the outside the body, rather than straight out where the fans exhaust hits the top of the craft. I imagine it also plays a role in the functioning of the body flaps at the base/rim of the craft.
Once could equally easily invert this; CERN, Fermilab's competition and responsible for reviewing and approving the design, managed to miss a fundemental flaw in the design. Plenty of blame to go around here on both sides of the Atlantic.
One has to wonder how many of the students that attend those workshops has a computer with pirated music and video.