At those speeds, at any reasonably steep angle of incidence, the atmosphere will cause a few seconds of heating, fire, some ablated material, but the bulk of the meteor will be almost unimpeded when it impacts something solid or liquid.
20 megatons, however, would only be a terrible disaster if it hits a densely populated area. If it's rural or completely uninhabited, it will have the global effect of a nuke test of that size, minus the radiation, i.e., it will be news but not a noticeable change to the planet overall. And if it hits deep water, it might not leave a mark on the planet other than its own debris.
Okay, you made me reread it, because I went "wtf?", and I don't find that there. The jury is not part of the public, it's part of the trial, and isn't allowed to communicate (input nor output) with the public during the trial.
In addition to reducing weight, they do more QC on the higher-end stuff. DA is less likely to have alignment issues than Sora, for instance. Campy Super Record is really close to Record (the difference is almost all cosmetic), but Record is a ways above Chorus.
As for frames, yes, there's a lot of inflated expectations in prices, but quality is not invariant. At a higher price point you're getting a lighter frame that's actually stiffer than the lower-priced models, and is likely to have fewer internal flaws and a longer life.
My problem with carbon is that it's like a helmet. Whack it once, and you can't trust it any more. I've been looking for a nice ride for a couple of years, while tooling around on a $1k Trek/Lemond that has Shimano 105 on it. Test rides have proved that there's a palpable difference, but there's always something wrong with the dream bike. The Tarmac tracked great but had painful roadfeel, for instance. DA 7900 is more precise than 105 5600 (I'm constantly fiddling the barrel adjuster on that thing) but the loud clack it makes on shifts is jarring.
Yeah, sure, there's "basic transportation" and "good ride", but as I learned with cars you can't really decry the luxury segment until you've had a couple of years in it and then try to find the same feeling in an economical vehicle. I just hope I still have the legs and my ass doesn't get any bigger when I finally do go "what the fuck" and get a Pinarello with the DI2 and the Zipps. But first I want to see what Cancellara's riding next year. Can't leave out the fan-boy points in the decision process.
If people want to invest in gold, they're generally going to buy it in larger lots than this.
It's a recognition that the people who did invest in gold have pretty much exhausted the field of sheep who listen to advertising and consider themselves investors, and are now taking advantage of the last untapped source of suckers for their pump-and-dump: the walk-by impulse buyer with not much cash in the bank.
Only a matter of time before the ROI on the scam drops, the huckstering stops, and everyone left holding the gold wonders what the fuss was all about. They start to sell, don't find the promised buyers, watchs the price drop, then drop, then drop, and then the panic sets in.
Yeh. Their piss-poor punt to "OpenOffice.org" after the Open Office people gave them a reason to kill that crappy name just indicated that it wasn't going to get a lot of market juice against MS Office any time soon.
They should give it a name with some recognizability and marketability that doesn't even have "office" in it, and then put "The open office-software solution." as the tagline. They can even register that as an ® with my compliments.
new and more appropriate organisational model for the next decade
I literally shuddered when I got to that last word.
It reeks of a lack of urgency, flexibility, and inventiveness. It's the sort of change that geology makes. Sudden, noisy, makes all the papers, and then nothing happens until the next time.
Actually, I use OO.o everywhere I don't get MSO for free. I don't see that changing, since MSO is priced like an enterprise-grade OS and not like a shrink-wrapped CD full of editors, which is all it really is.
Everyone ever prosecuted thinks they were maliciously prosecuted. You have to prove that the prosecutor knew the law was wrong. You can't do that, because no court had ruled it wrong yet. That's the way statutory law works. It's the law because it hasn't been overruled by a court or repealed by a legislature. No matter how stupid it looks, it's what the cops and the prosecutor are bound by law to enforce, and as long as the courts don't rule against it, it will continue to be enforced.
It's called a wiretapping statute. Like most laws, its title isn't the entire law, and sometimes what you hear it being called isn't even its title. This one included other forms of recording, and conditions on applicability of the prohibition of them. The cops didn't understand the law when they tried to use it against the recorder. The recorder probably didn't even know about the law, he just thought he was covering his ass recording the incident. He got lucky. They learned something.
Antonin Scalia is a constructionalist obstructionist who yet again applied Alice-in-Wonderland thinking in interpreting the Constitution to rule incorrectly as part of a lifetime of putting "individual" rights over "collective" rights, something that he doesn't use to protect you and me, but to protect the few "individuals" (i.e. corporations) who are attempting to turn this country into even more of a de facto fascist state than it already is.
Stevens schooled him in that opinion, even quoting from the case Scalia cited, Katz v. United States, a demurral showing that the deciders of Katz knew there would be exceptions, under which Kyllo eventually fell. Privacy ends where your emissions enter the public air, whether you are emitting noise, radio waves, the odor of a meth lab, photons bouncing off your naked body through an open window, or thermal radiation. The police or your neighbors can receive those emissions passively at a distance and act on the information as reasonable suspicion or probable cause.
The hitch in this case is that having a hot garage is evidence of nothing in particular and gave the police no cause to do anything. Even if the garage is being used as a hot-house, there's no evidence it's a hot-house for illegal plants. They must have had other evidence. The opinion suggests they did the thermal imaging because of a prior suspicion. At the end it says it's up to the original courts to figure out if that evidence is still sufficient to have justified the search. Likely it wasn't, or the cops wouldn't have done the thermal imaging. And whether coupling a hot garage to the other evidence is sufficient is unknowable without knowing what the other evidence is. I get the feeling I'd come down on the side of saying it isn't sufficient and the cops should have just done some more surveillance.
there is an expectation of privacy in a courtroom.
No, there isn't.
Exactly the opposite, in fact.
Everything that transpires in a courtroom is public knowledge. It's against the law for the public to be excluded completely*. Reporters, sketch artists, and members of the general public can all sit in the gallery during a trial.
Technological means of recording are a tiny fraction of the age of the legal system, so the legal system does not yet (and probably never will) consider them necessary implements to be used in informing the public, so the use of them is at the court's discretion.
* - there are exceptions where there are statutory claims of privacy, such as when the evidence is classified or the defendant is a minor.
If you were writing it unsolicited, then there's no reason to expect them to give you free run of their column inches.
If they solicited it, then they should have told you the amount of space you were likely to have, so you could write to that limit. And if you went over it, then that's your fault.
If neither of these were true, then, seriously, wtf?
(P.S. I've written a couple of published LOE's, one of which went nearly a thousand words and they cut very little of, but I didn't really expect them to publish it, anyway, so I let it slide. They even gave it a box outline, which was nice.)
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At those speeds, at any reasonably steep angle of incidence, the atmosphere will cause a few seconds of heating, fire, some ablated material, but the bulk of the meteor will be almost unimpeded when it impacts something solid or liquid.
20 megatons, however, would only be a terrible disaster if it hits a densely populated area. If it's rural or completely uninhabited, it will have the global effect of a nuke test of that size, minus the radiation, i.e., it will be news but not a noticeable change to the planet overall. And if it hits deep water, it might not leave a mark on the planet other than its own debris.
If we launch Rush Limbaugh into orbit now, the average IQ of the planet will go up enough we can talk the asteroid into missing us.
When I was a kid we got forced into retirement at 65 and we liked it.
When the man gives you the option, take the red pill, not the blue one, and you'll avoid that.
Nope. Slashdotted those, too. Someone needs to put these on some embiggener iron.
Sure. But how do you define "minor variations" such that more than a handful out of "thousands" function at all?
Where's Jon Postel when you need him...
it's not sacrilege.
it's hypocrisy.
sacrilege would be if it was a pope's hat instead of a hitler mustache.
of course, with this pope, i can understand the confusion...
Infinitesimal on decent hardware.
What he says isn't what he does. That's why he was picked by those he serves.
Okay, you made me reread it, because I went "wtf?", and I don't find that there. The jury is not part of the public, it's part of the trial, and isn't allowed to communicate (input nor output) with the public during the trial.
Err, sorta.
In addition to reducing weight, they do more QC on the higher-end stuff. DA is less likely to have alignment issues than Sora, for instance. Campy Super Record is really close to Record (the difference is almost all cosmetic), but Record is a ways above Chorus.
As for frames, yes, there's a lot of inflated expectations in prices, but quality is not invariant. At a higher price point you're getting a lighter frame that's actually stiffer than the lower-priced models, and is likely to have fewer internal flaws and a longer life.
My problem with carbon is that it's like a helmet. Whack it once, and you can't trust it any more. I've been looking for a nice ride for a couple of years, while tooling around on a $1k Trek/Lemond that has Shimano 105 on it. Test rides have proved that there's a palpable difference, but there's always something wrong with the dream bike. The Tarmac tracked great but had painful roadfeel, for instance. DA 7900 is more precise than 105 5600 (I'm constantly fiddling the barrel adjuster on that thing) but the loud clack it makes on shifts is jarring.
Yeah, sure, there's "basic transportation" and "good ride", but as I learned with cars you can't really decry the luxury segment until you've had a couple of years in it and then try to find the same feeling in an economical vehicle. I just hope I still have the legs and my ass doesn't get any bigger when I finally do go "what the fuck" and get a Pinarello with the DI2 and the Zipps. But first I want to see what Cancellara's riding next year. Can't leave out the fan-boy points in the decision process.
If people want to invest in gold, they're generally going to buy it in larger lots than this.
It's a recognition that the people who did invest in gold have pretty much exhausted the field of sheep who listen to advertising and consider themselves investors, and are now taking advantage of the last untapped source of suckers for their pump-and-dump: the walk-by impulse buyer with not much cash in the bank.
Only a matter of time before the ROI on the scam drops, the huckstering stops, and everyone left holding the gold wonders what the fuss was all about. They start to sell, don't find the promised buyers, watchs the price drop, then drop, then drop, and then the panic sets in.
Yeh. Their piss-poor punt to "OpenOffice.org" after the Open Office people gave them a reason to kill that crappy name just indicated that it wasn't going to get a lot of market juice against MS Office any time soon.
They should give it a name with some recognizability and marketability that doesn't even have "office" in it, and then put "The open office-software solution." as the tagline. They can even register that as an ® with my compliments.
new and more appropriate organisational model for the next decade
I literally shuddered when I got to that last word.
It reeks of a lack of urgency, flexibility, and inventiveness. It's the sort of change that geology makes. Sudden, noisy, makes all the papers, and then nothing happens until the next time.
And for a bloated mess, it was really thin on top.
They never have figured out how to drag rows in a spreadsheet and insert them.
Hell, even Google Docs is doing that now, in a freaking widget in a freaking web-browser.
You have to hope that with a new organizational structure they'll get some of the benefits of reorganization.
You have to expect there's a chance the other thing could happen, and it will get worse.
He left out Uwe Boll, so he stayed under the line.
Actually, I use OO.o everywhere I don't get MSO for free. I don't see that changing, since MSO is priced like an enterprise-grade OS and not like a shrink-wrapped CD full of editors, which is all it really is.
No he won't. Unless he got personal about it and slagged-off all cops. Then some might take a little revenge next time they have a legal chance.
Otherwise, they have better things to do with their time than harass people who got the law right.
Everyone ever prosecuted thinks they were maliciously prosecuted. You have to prove that the prosecutor knew the law was wrong. You can't do that, because no court had ruled it wrong yet. That's the way statutory law works. It's the law because it hasn't been overruled by a court or repealed by a legislature. No matter how stupid it looks, it's what the cops and the prosecutor are bound by law to enforce, and as long as the courts don't rule against it, it will continue to be enforced.
It's called a wiretapping statute. Like most laws, its title isn't the entire law, and sometimes what you hear it being called isn't even its title. This one included other forms of recording, and conditions on applicability of the prohibition of them. The cops didn't understand the law when they tried to use it against the recorder. The recorder probably didn't even know about the law, he just thought he was covering his ass recording the incident. He got lucky. They learned something.
Antonin Scalia is a constructionalist obstructionist who yet again applied Alice-in-Wonderland thinking in interpreting the Constitution to rule incorrectly as part of a lifetime of putting "individual" rights over "collective" rights, something that he doesn't use to protect you and me, but to protect the few "individuals" (i.e. corporations) who are attempting to turn this country into even more of a de facto fascist state than it already is.
Stevens schooled him in that opinion, even quoting from the case Scalia cited, Katz v. United States, a demurral showing that the deciders of Katz knew there would be exceptions, under which Kyllo eventually fell. Privacy ends where your emissions enter the public air, whether you are emitting noise, radio waves, the odor of a meth lab, photons bouncing off your naked body through an open window, or thermal radiation. The police or your neighbors can receive those emissions passively at a distance and act on the information as reasonable suspicion or probable cause.
The hitch in this case is that having a hot garage is evidence of nothing in particular and gave the police no cause to do anything. Even if the garage is being used as a hot-house, there's no evidence it's a hot-house for illegal plants. They must have had other evidence. The opinion suggests they did the thermal imaging because of a prior suspicion. At the end it says it's up to the original courts to figure out if that evidence is still sufficient to have justified the search. Likely it wasn't, or the cops wouldn't have done the thermal imaging. And whether coupling a hot garage to the other evidence is sufficient is unknowable without knowing what the other evidence is. I get the feeling I'd come down on the side of saying it isn't sufficient and the cops should have just done some more surveillance.
there is an expectation of privacy in a courtroom.
No, there isn't.
Exactly the opposite, in fact.
Everything that transpires in a courtroom is public knowledge. It's against the law for the public to be excluded completely*. Reporters, sketch artists, and members of the general public can all sit in the gallery during a trial.
Technological means of recording are a tiny fraction of the age of the legal system, so the legal system does not yet (and probably never will) consider them necessary implements to be used in informing the public, so the use of them is at the court's discretion.
* - there are exceptions where there are statutory claims of privacy, such as when the evidence is classified or the defendant is a minor.
This is an unnecessary post pointing out that if I had mod points I'd mod you redundant.
If you were writing it unsolicited, then there's no reason to expect them to give you free run of their column inches.
If they solicited it, then they should have told you the amount of space you were likely to have, so you could write to that limit. And if you went over it, then that's your fault.
If neither of these were true, then, seriously, wtf?
(P.S. I've written a couple of published LOE's, one of which went nearly a thousand words and they cut very little of, but I didn't really expect them to publish it, anyway, so I let it slide. They even gave it a box outline, which was nice.)