(I don't mean you, personally. Or do I? Maybe. The question should probably be, "What gives anyone the right to appoint anyone else as sole arbiter of Justice, or even themselves in said role?"
uh... there's actually no minimum size for a star to collapse from to form a black hole. The only real requirements are that the star reaches the Fe phase at which point nuclear reactions become endothermic and the core collapses, rebounds at the neutron threshold, collides with the plasma outer shell sending that out and imploding with enough force to collapse again - this time beyond the neutron threshold. For a star with a start mass of ~1.4Msol, this would mean the core containing at least 50% of the stellar mass (0.7Msol) collapsing to a neutron sphere no more than 11 miles in diameter. The average mass of a Milky Way black hole is estimated to be 10Msol (or a start mass of 20Msol or thereabouts). The Fe+He phase (also known as the neutrino phase) of stellar evolution is estimated to last somewhere in the region of twenty millionths of a second and produces all the heavier elements in the universe in a supernova explosion. Less massive stars will die less violently, shedding outer layers over time and/or simply cooling. Few if any with masses less than about 0.75Msol will even reach the Fe phase before simply expiring. I do subscribe to the notion that Jupiter is a failed star, particularly given that it does radiate more than it receives from Sol.
When I challenged the Met to show the precise area of terrorism legislation that specified the offence, I was threatened with arrest for wasting police time.
it's a lot easier for paedophiles to procure children by gaining employment in such industries as affords them direct and practically risk-free access to OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN, on top of which they get PAID:
Schoolteachers Social workers Nursery nurses Hospital technicians Other medical practitioners (eg child/educational psychologists, play centre therapists, GPs, paediatricians) Foster carers Scout leaders Priests YOI (secure unit/borstal) staff Judges Politicians Media personalities
Mass media is awash with cases of ALL of the above being involved/implicated and even convicted of fucking our babies.
yeah, there are specific exemptions in eg the Human Rights Act, where rights granted* can be abrogated for reasons of protection of public morals, protection of public safety, national security, preventing violent disorder, and lawful punishment of crime (and FOR NO OTHER REASONS).
*Read the HRA properly and carefully. It gives no GUARANTEES of rights, it GRANTS rights. Something granted is something that can also be taken away. It is further devalued by section 71 of the serious organised crime and police act which basically grants immunity to public authorities (to whom the HRA solely applies) and employees thereof who turn evidence in ANY OTHER PROCEEDING. HRA isn't worth SHIT.
when seconds count the police are only minutes away.
Fuck you, I would rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it because some snivelling fuckhead like you thinks it's a good idea to put the monopoly on force into the hands of some psycho in a blue fucking uniform.
uh... that isn't the intention of TPM. TPM is a subarchitecture to facilitate platform authentication (eg signing a specific software license to a specific hardware setup and locking it in - prime example is WGA. Change something like the graphics card or upgrade the RAM, WGA kicks in and locks out your Windows license. Some soft encryption packages would use TPM if available to salt volume encryption, otherwise they use clock-based random number generators). TPM by itself is practically useless as the simplest attack vector imaginable - a cold start - is also the simplest way to defeat it.
so what's the problem? He's only doing what thousands of others are doing, and that's playing the market for his nest egg. I do the same, it's safer than a pension fund or a bank account right now - both of which stand to be raped hard by the State, as has already happened all over Europe. What's next? Going after clerics for buying stock in fountain pens?
the polygraph is about as reliable as chicken bones and as trustworthy as a politician's promise. It is not used in evidence in military court, or criminal court, and has only limited value (for arbitrary definitions of "value") in civil court. I do not know why the FBI insist on using it as a compass to honesty, because the process is a scam. The only truly deceptive person throughout an entire session is the examiner.
Anyone who surrenders a little liberty for the illusion of security deserves neither and will lose both.
Fuck your movie references, fuck your "what-if" liberal bullshit, fuck your community spirit and herd immunity mentality - it's all SHIT. I AM FREE because I SAY I AM, NOT because YOU feel like "granting" me that which I am entitled to by virtue of the fact that I LIVE. And I will defend to the DEATH my right to say what I want in whatever forum I find myself. NOBODY is forcing you to listen, and YOU DO NOT have the right to censor me to quell your moral outrage. FUCK. OFF.
1. Victoria Line are cabless/driverless, there are train captains who have the ability to take over manual control for whatever reason but that's more to bring the train to a safe stop than anything else. Control panels for such eventualities are kept behind locked panels at the end of all cars since they are all interchangeable by design and the train captain occupies the "front" end car with passengers. I should know this being as I use Victoria every single time I go to London (several times a year) and given what almost happened to me in 1987 I like to make sure I'm near someone who can stop the train and direct me to the nearest glint of daylight. I *hate* being inside a metal tube several dozen feet underground at the best of times. 2. I don't honestly know, since I've never used DLR.
some of the underground lines run driverless (as in no cabs, the locomotive control is by computer and is dependent on a crewman running the doors), I wonder if the GP actually means "completely crewless" as in DLR, Heathrow, Gatwick?
...like passing a cat5 cable down a wheel well of an airliner and into the waiting hand of someone in another vehicle (without scraping engine nacelles on the runway - yeah, those wheels were NOT down and locked) while travelling over 200mph and waiting around long enough to download some firmware that for some reason couldn't be done entirely from the aircraft (what, nobody on board had a fucking ipad??) then bringing a Ferrari to a stop before it pancaked into a steel barrier, from 200+ to 0 in less than fifty feet - sideways, without flipping? All in the space of SEVEN SECONDS??
I'm with you on that. Maybe we should ask Ted Kennedy, who seems more than qualified to comment having performed a 118th trimester abortion himself on Mary Jo Kopechne.
uh... there would be a problem if they required 16-bit environment, since 64-bit Windows has the canny ability to run 32-bit in compatibility mode (most of the time completely seamlessly) in which the memory space is shared. 16-bit mode in 64-bit requires a segregated memory space and a sandboxed environment.
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(I don't mean you, personally. Or do I? Maybe. The question should probably be, "What gives anyone the right to appoint anyone else as sole arbiter of Justice, or even themselves in said role?"
but you're basically bestowing them the gift of Godhood.
I would ask, what gives you the right?
hm.
A tactical nuclear warhead holds enough fuel hydrogen to fill a party balloon. That's several quadrillion atoms.
Atom smashers you're talking about smashing *a few dozen atoms* together. Per *year*.
uh... there's actually no minimum size for a star to collapse from to form a black hole. The only real requirements are that the star reaches the Fe phase at which point nuclear reactions become endothermic and the core collapses, rebounds at the neutron threshold, collides with the plasma outer shell sending that out and imploding with enough force to collapse again - this time beyond the neutron threshold. For a star with a start mass of ~1.4Msol, this would mean the core containing at least 50% of the stellar mass (0.7Msol) collapsing to a neutron sphere no more than 11 miles in diameter. The average mass of a Milky Way black hole is estimated to be 10Msol (or a start mass of 20Msol or thereabouts). The Fe+He phase (also known as the neutrino phase) of stellar evolution is estimated to last somewhere in the region of twenty millionths of a second and produces all the heavier elements in the universe in a supernova explosion. Less massive stars will die less violently, shedding outer layers over time and/or simply cooling. Few if any with masses less than about 0.75Msol will even reach the Fe phase before simply expiring. I do subscribe to the notion that Jupiter is a failed star, particularly given that it does radiate more than it receives from Sol.
who's going to appoint the Judges? You?
I'll buy all of that when you show crime figures for Calcutta and Tokyo.
what, apart from reducing the standing army to three thousand yet maintaining the military budget?
that is fucked up. That'd be like DEFRA caving my front door in for growing my own turnips.
When I challenged the Met to show the precise area of terrorism legislation that specified the offence, I was threatened with arrest for wasting police time.
The fuck??
it's a lot easier for paedophiles to procure children by gaining employment in such industries as affords them direct and practically risk-free access to OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN, on top of which they get PAID:
Schoolteachers
Social workers
Nursery nurses
Hospital technicians
Other medical practitioners (eg child/educational psychologists, play centre therapists, GPs, paediatricians)
Foster carers
Scout leaders
Priests
YOI (secure unit/borstal) staff
Judges
Politicians
Media personalities
Mass media is awash with cases of ALL of the above being involved/implicated and even convicted of fucking our babies.
yeah, there are specific exemptions in eg the Human Rights Act, where rights granted* can be abrogated for reasons of protection of public morals, protection of public safety, national security, preventing violent disorder, and lawful punishment of crime (and FOR NO OTHER REASONS).
*Read the HRA properly and carefully. It gives no GUARANTEES of rights, it GRANTS rights. Something granted is something that can also be taken away. It is further devalued by section 71 of the serious organised crime and police act which basically grants immunity to public authorities (to whom the HRA solely applies) and employees thereof who turn evidence in ANY OTHER PROCEEDING. HRA isn't worth SHIT.
"I'm suffering from the effects of ongoing PTSI." One symptom of which is memory loss.
Good luck with that.
when seconds count the police are only minutes away.
Fuck you, I would rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it because some snivelling fuckhead like you thinks it's a good idea to put the monopoly on force into the hands of some psycho in a blue fucking uniform.
...as has been repeatedly demonstrated. This site has covered such events fairly recently. http://tech.slashdot.org/story... to give four examples.
uh... that isn't the intention of TPM. TPM is a subarchitecture to facilitate platform authentication (eg signing a specific software license to a specific hardware setup and locking it in - prime example is WGA. Change something like the graphics card or upgrade the RAM, WGA kicks in and locks out your Windows license. Some soft encryption packages would use TPM if available to salt volume encryption, otherwise they use clock-based random number generators). TPM by itself is practically useless as the simplest attack vector imaginable - a cold start - is also the simplest way to defeat it.
so what's the problem? He's only doing what thousands of others are doing, and that's playing the market for his nest egg. I do the same, it's safer than a pension fund or a bank account right now - both of which stand to be raped hard by the State, as has already happened all over Europe. What's next? Going after clerics for buying stock in fountain pens?
the polygraph is about as reliable as chicken bones and as trustworthy as a politician's promise. It is not used in evidence in military court, or criminal court, and has only limited value (for arbitrary definitions of "value") in civil court. I do not know why the FBI insist on using it as a compass to honesty, because the process is a scam. The only truly deceptive person throughout an entire session is the examiner.
Anyone who surrenders a little liberty for the illusion of security deserves neither and will lose both.
Fuck your movie references, fuck your "what-if" liberal bullshit, fuck your community spirit and herd immunity mentality - it's all SHIT. I AM FREE because I SAY I AM, NOT because YOU feel like "granting" me that which I am entitled to by virtue of the fact that I LIVE. And I will defend to the DEATH my right to say what I want in whatever forum I find myself. NOBODY is forcing you to listen, and YOU DO NOT have the right to censor me to quell your moral outrage. FUCK. OFF.
1. Victoria Line are cabless/driverless, there are train captains who have the ability to take over manual control for whatever reason but that's more to bring the train to a safe stop than anything else. Control panels for such eventualities are kept behind locked panels at the end of all cars since they are all interchangeable by design and the train captain occupies the "front" end car with passengers. I should know this being as I use Victoria every single time I go to London (several times a year) and given what almost happened to me in 1987 I like to make sure I'm near someone who can stop the train and direct me to the nearest glint of daylight. I *hate* being inside a metal tube several dozen feet underground at the best of times.
2. I don't honestly know, since I've never used DLR.
some of the underground lines run driverless (as in no cabs, the locomotive control is by computer and is dependent on a crewman running the doors), I wonder if the GP actually means "completely crewless" as in DLR, Heathrow, Gatwick?
TFL are still in the middle of total network conversion to cabless - so far it's only taken thirty years!
give it time.
Cowell just hasn't seen the pilot yet.
...like passing a cat5 cable down a wheel well of an airliner and into the waiting hand of someone in another vehicle (without scraping engine nacelles on the runway - yeah, those wheels were NOT down and locked) while travelling over 200mph and waiting around long enough to download some firmware that for some reason couldn't be done entirely from the aircraft (what, nobody on board had a fucking ipad??) then bringing a Ferrari to a stop before it pancaked into a steel barrier, from 200+ to 0 in less than fifty feet - sideways, without flipping? All in the space of SEVEN SECONDS??
Not far fetched at all.
By the way: SPOILER ALERT.
I'm with you on that. Maybe we should ask Ted Kennedy, who seems more than qualified to comment having performed a 118th trimester abortion himself on Mary Jo Kopechne.
uh... there would be a problem if they required 16-bit environment, since 64-bit Windows has the canny ability to run 32-bit in compatibility mode (most of the time completely seamlessly) in which the memory space is shared. 16-bit mode in 64-bit requires a segregated memory space and a sandboxed environment.