In response: people have a right to do what they want so long as they do not exercise force against others. This right is absolute. If the man wants not to save the child, we may call him a depraved individual with a set of values far outside the set of those which sane human beings may hold, we may. We may not however initiate the use of force against him by imprisoning him for no action.
I should point out that this is not true in all regions of the world. The United States to my knowledge does not require bystanders to render aid, but other nations or regions do. The Province of Quebec is one example.
Actually, from what I understand, a Sun-like star could pass as close as (roughly) Neptune's orbit without disrupting the Earth's orbit enough to matter. Assuming, of course, that the interloper star doesn't like, throw Neptune at us...:)
While black holes themselves don't noticibly emit energy, they tend to have strong effects on their surroundings, due to their ridiculous density. It's not too likely that the number of black holes of sufficient size required to produce the observed galactic rotation would remain unnoticed. There'd be accretion disks and lensing effects all over the sky...
The reason you're not likely to see a pure electric car in the US is because the auto manufacturers hate the idea. Why?
Standard internal combustion engine: ~700 moving parts.
Electric engine: 1 moving part.
The only maintenance that needs be done to an electric motor is to replace the brushes, which is trivial. How much to customers pay (on an ongoing basis) for maintenance of internal combustion engines?
Photons are the gauge boson (particle) of the electromagnetic field. Gravitons theoretically are the gauge boson of the gravitational field. I don't think the prohibition of escaping an event horizon actually applies to fields, only particle; thus, a black hole can have charge (an electromagnetic field) but not emit light (photons). I assume the same applies to gravity, if you're interpreting it as a field and not an effect of geometry.
I believe the frog levitated due to the paramagnetic effects of water under an extremely intense magnetic field. The frog was not sitting on a metal plate that was subsequently levitated... it was floating all by its lonesome.
And yes, the frog was perfectly fine after the experience.
Most research into negative index materials involves artificial 'metamaterials', basically structures comprised of arrays of rods, loops, or in the case mentioned here on slashdot, small regularly-spaced spheres suspended in a matrix.
Carbon-14 (the radioactive isotope of carbon used in carbon dating) is continuously generated on Earth at a fairly constant rate, by the interaction of neutrons (from cosmic rays) with nitrogen (and occasionally oxygen and carbon) atoms. So, 'new' carbon-14 atoms are being made all the time.
Because it has a relatively constant abundance in nature, living things should also maintain the same ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-14 in their tissues... until they die, at which point they're no longer taking in new carbon from the environment. Then the carbon-14 starts to decay (with a half-life of ~5700 years), but the carbon-12, which is stable, remains. Measuring this ratio can give an approximation of the length of time since the creature died.
The carbon-12 in your body is stable, and could very well pre-date the solar system. Carbon-14 doesn't hang around very long, in astronomical timescales.:)
QWERTY is bad, by design. It was laid out that way to slow typists down, because they kept jamming the manual typewriters of the time by going too fast.
Well, I don't think it's a typical scenario for a white dwarf star to collapse into a neutron star due to mass accretion; that usually leads to a Type Ia supernova. Neutron stars form from the core of their progenitor star directly, do they not, skipping the white dwarf stage?
Also bear in mind that 'rotational artificial gravity' (that effect caused by 'centrifugal force') is not indistinguishable from real gravity. For instance, if you walk in the direction of rotation, you'll feel heavier, and the opposite is true as well. Also, you'll be prone to dizziness, as gyroscopic effects will sometimes make it more difficult to turn your head in one direction than another. It'd be a fun, strange environment.:)
No, the radio telescope itself would be the directed energy weapon. It's startlingly easy to fry a satellite with directed radio, assuming you know precisely where it is. They're not talking about blasting the satellites into vapour, you know, just rendering them inoperable.
It's not even a real rule of the English language, so don't bother using it. At one point, Latin was considered 'the most perfect of all languages', and thus linguistics 'experts' decided to try to make English follow the rules of Latin grammar. You can't end a sentence with a preposition in Latin, so...
Anyway, yeah. It's perfectly fine to end a sentence that way.:)
You're missing the point entirely. He wrapped the badge in aluminum foil precisely to cause this reaction, because he wanted to get his point across to a wide audience of people.
Complaining quietly and politely about certain kinds of issues just gets you swept under the rug and ignored.
And since when should security be 'easier'? If security is easy then you're probably doing something wrong.
What will the ISP do with thr money saved? Because of competition, they'll spend it on service quality improvements for services their customers do use. If they pocketed it, they'd lose business.
This is Rogers that's being discussed in the article, isn't it? Pocketing the money is exactly what they'll do. Improve service? Why would they bother, with the size of their captive market?
I think you're making an incorrect assumption, in that a lack of fear equals a lack of sense of harm. A fearless person is still going to jerk their hand back from a hot stove element, because it hurts like hell, not because it scares them.
That said, I imagine the behavior of an adult human who's had their fear removed would become somewhat more reckless, since their automatic anti-recklessness alarm (fear) isn't working anymore. But I seriously doubt that they'd become self-destructive. Just because I'm not afraid of dying doesn't mean I want to die.
My understanding is that ketamine is still used as a general anaesthetic for children, in some areas of the world, primarily because children don't seem to suffer any of the negative side effects from it that adults do. IANAD, though.:)
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In response: people have a right to do what they want so long as they do not exercise force against others. This right is absolute. If the man wants not to save the child, we may call him a depraved individual with a set of values far outside the set of those which sane human beings may hold, we may. We may not however initiate the use of force against him by imprisoning him for no action.
I should point out that this is not true in all regions of the world. The United States to my knowledge does not require bystanders to render aid, but other nations or regions do. The Province of Quebec is one example.
I have fuel for my erotic fiction now for several more years, thanks!
Um, exactly what was 'fortunate' about a large enough number of us Canadians being stupid enough to elect the Canadian Bigotry Party into power?
:)
Or is it the 'barely' part that was fortunate?
masters of magic.
Oh god, yes! Master of Magic was an awesome game. I only lament the lack of multiplayer...
Actually, from what I understand, a Sun-like star could pass as close as (roughly) Neptune's orbit without disrupting the Earth's orbit enough to matter. Assuming, of course, that the interloper star doesn't like, throw Neptune at us... :)
While black holes themselves don't noticibly emit energy, they tend to have strong effects on their surroundings, due to their ridiculous density. It's not too likely that the number of black holes of sufficient size required to produce the observed galactic rotation would remain unnoticed. There'd be accretion disks and lensing effects all over the sky...
The reason you're not likely to see a pure electric car in the US is because the auto manufacturers hate the idea. Why?
Standard internal combustion engine: ~700 moving parts.
Electric engine: 1 moving part.
The only maintenance that needs be done to an electric motor is to replace the brushes, which is trivial. How much to customers pay (on an ongoing basis) for maintenance of internal combustion engines?
Photons are the gauge boson (particle) of the electromagnetic field. Gravitons theoretically are the gauge boson of the gravitational field. I don't think the prohibition of escaping an event horizon actually applies to fields, only particle; thus, a black hole can have charge (an electromagnetic field) but not emit light (photons). I assume the same applies to gravity, if you're interpreting it as a field and not an effect of geometry.
I believe the frog levitated due to the paramagnetic effects of water under an extremely intense magnetic field. The frog was not sitting on a metal plate that was subsequently levitated... it was floating all by its lonesome.
And yes, the frog was perfectly fine after the experience.
Looka here: http://www.hfml.ru.nl/froglev.html
Most research into negative index materials involves artificial 'metamaterials', basically structures comprised of arrays of rods, loops, or in the case mentioned here on slashdot, small regularly-spaced spheres suspended in a matrix.
Negative Refraction...
Carbon-14 (the radioactive isotope of carbon used in carbon dating) is continuously generated on Earth at a fairly constant rate, by the interaction of neutrons (from cosmic rays) with nitrogen (and occasionally oxygen and carbon) atoms. So, 'new' carbon-14 atoms are being made all the time.
:)
Because it has a relatively constant abundance in nature, living things should also maintain the same ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-14 in their tissues... until they die, at which point they're no longer taking in new carbon from the environment. Then the carbon-14 starts to decay (with a half-life of ~5700 years), but the carbon-12, which is stable, remains. Measuring this ratio can give an approximation of the length of time since the creature died.
The carbon-12 in your body is stable, and could very well pre-date the solar system. Carbon-14 doesn't hang around very long, in astronomical timescales.
QWERTY is bad, by design. It was laid out that way to slow typists down, because they kept jamming the manual typewriters of the time by going too fast.
And guess what? Professional lobbyists cost... money!
See? It all does just come right back down to money.
There's no documented evidence that anyone saw them back in 1883, either.
Well, I don't think it's a typical scenario for a white dwarf star to collapse into a neutron star due to mass accretion; that usually leads to a Type Ia supernova. Neutron stars form from the core of their progenitor star directly, do they not, skipping the white dwarf stage?
Also bear in mind that 'rotational artificial gravity' (that effect caused by 'centrifugal force') is not indistinguishable from real gravity. For instance, if you walk in the direction of rotation, you'll feel heavier, and the opposite is true as well. Also, you'll be prone to dizziness, as gyroscopic effects will sometimes make it more difficult to turn your head in one direction than another. It'd be a fun, strange environment. :)
No, the radio telescope itself would be the directed energy weapon. It's startlingly easy to fry a satellite with directed radio, assuming you know precisely where it is. They're not talking about blasting the satellites into vapour, you know, just rendering them inoperable.
It's not even a real rule of the English language, so don't bother using it. At one point, Latin was considered 'the most perfect of all languages', and thus linguistics 'experts' decided to try to make English follow the rules of Latin grammar. You can't end a sentence with a preposition in Latin, so...
:)
Anyway, yeah. It's perfectly fine to end a sentence that way.
You're kind of forgetting the caveat "What can we get away with?"
This is why you don't see major corporations (frequently?) taking out hits on their competitors.
Um... 1,000,000 Km/s? They've got to be pretty advanced to get a projectile up to 3+ times the speed of light...
You're missing the point entirely. He wrapped the badge in aluminum foil precisely to cause this reaction, because he wanted to get his point across to a wide audience of people.
Complaining quietly and politely about certain kinds of issues just gets you swept under the rug and ignored.
And since when should security be 'easier'? If security is easy then you're probably doing something wrong.
What will the ISP do with thr money saved? Because of competition, they'll spend it on service quality improvements for services their customers do use. If they pocketed it, they'd lose business.
This is Rogers that's being discussed in the article, isn't it? Pocketing the money is exactly what they'll do. Improve service? Why would they bother, with the size of their captive market?
I think you're making an incorrect assumption, in that a lack of fear equals a lack of sense of harm. A fearless person is still going to jerk their hand back from a hot stove element, because it hurts like hell, not because it scares them.
That said, I imagine the behavior of an adult human who's had their fear removed would become somewhat more reckless, since their automatic anti-recklessness alarm (fear) isn't working anymore. But I seriously doubt that they'd become self-destructive. Just because I'm not afraid of dying doesn't mean I want to die.
My understanding is that ketamine is still used as a general anaesthetic for children, in some areas of the world, primarily because children don't seem to suffer any of the negative side effects from it that adults do. IANAD, though. :)
So... as long as you don't know it's there, it can't harm you, right?