1. Would a right-minded person consider the comments to be of a specific and threatening nature? This would have to go before a Grand Jury to decide if there is even a case to answer. This bit has apparently been done, and apparently there is a case to answer. 2. This is an either/or, depending on the answer to the first question. If yes, are the comments traceable to an individual who can a: be named and b: therefore be served with a valid warrant of whatever description? If no, can an individual's rights be trumped by the rights of the State as they invoke that right to access to your information and everybody else's information per the new snooping laws which have given the Sunset sections of PATRIOT six months' grace? The Constitution says no, and District Judge John Rasnik agrees: "It is not clear that plaintiff could... make factual contentions regarding an Internet subscriber's infringing activities based solely on the fact that he or she pays the Internet bill," he wrote in his order of Elf-Man v Cariveau et al., 2013
From my experience, people who have already tripped the nutball alarm are the ones likely to flip with indicators - because it is those indicators that have tripped the alarm. By definition, then, sane people aren't crazy and crazy people aren't sane. There's no sane/violently crazy switch, there is a transition between sane/passive-aggressive/batshit-fucking-run.
Why are aircraft cabins decorated in neutral colours? Why are the cabins pressurised to only 8,000 feet ASL? Ask then answer: because just those two measures are designed to subdue passengers during the flight. Most people can't cope with burst exercise at 8,000 feet pressure, it's like drawing a breath holding it then drawing another breath on top of it - holding that and sprinting 50 metres BEFORE you exhale. Your lungs are going to HURT. 8,000 feet is what professional athletes train at for weeks before the World Championship, soccer players before the FIFA World Cup, cyclists before the Tour de France.
it is neither useless nor a waste of taxpayer money. It keeps tens of thousands off welfare and more importantly it keeps them from being significantly productive to the point where they might effect the actual labour output of the nation enough that imports of certain commodity items which CAN be produced locally (efficient automobiles, mobile phones and other portable microelectronics, white goods, foodstuffs such as potatoes and sugar) are reduced. It provides security theatre for mass transit and a false sense of security for sardine-tin commuters when what they should REALLY be worried about is disgruntled copilots (yeah whatever). It is called a makework economy, and it's the fast track to fucking up a country without firing a shot.
doesn't take a lot to link my circle of acquaintences to some VERY powerful people, some VERY popular celebrities, some UTTERLY DANGEROUS PSYCHOTICS, and yes, Kevin Bacon.
Here's just one run. I've sat on a couch and gotten blitzed on voddie with Adam Ant. He dated DD Winters in 1983. DD dated Prince in 1982. Prince dated Susanna Hoffs (Bangles) in 1986, during which time she found the time to knock boots with Michael J Fox. He, the ol' sly fox him, married Tracy Pollan (his Family Ties co-star in 1988 following a two year stretch of just trying it out soon after she broke off a five year relationship with Kevin Bacon.
is that when you ask a private company to do law enforcement and don't give them all the information they need (like CROSSAGENCY BACKGROUND CHECKS), shit will slip through the dragnet. For some strange reason, the Government won't let certain information pass into the hands of privately owned data mining concerns such as the Criminal Records Bureau and the Independent Safeguarding Authority (now conglomerated into the Disclosure & Barring Service); the information they do hold - for which they charge exhorbitant fees to access even if negative or null results are returned - is also *freely* available through a bit of Google mining.
Prime examples and how the criminals defeat the system: child protection services in the the UK. How do the paedophiles get around enhanced background checks? Simple. THEY ASSUME A DIFFERENT NAME. This is pretty much how the predators get access to other people's kids. They insinuate themselves into positions of trust. New name, no CRB records, no court records, no police records. Next thing you know, a familiar face with a different name is caught fucking a nursery full of two year olds. Angela Allen. Vanessa George. Colin Blanchard. Or salivating over a sunday school class of boys, while at the same time perjuring oneself to enable child snatching and trafficking under colour of Law, and/or claiming expertise and/or qualification in a protected field when no record exists of such study in order to gain a position of trust. Andrew Kawalek. George Hibbert. Roy Meadow. Or hanging around public conveniences for the sole purpose of having sex with strange men in one of the most unclean environments you can possibly imagine. Charles Lynton (his other name should be very familiar to a lot of people and it doesn't take a lot of working out, and then wondering why the entire Bow Street Magistrates Records of Session is currently inaccessible to ANYONE but the London City Archive curator).
point me to precisely where. You made the claim or are supporting the claim with nothing but hot air. Show me the money. I am not a GW denier, I'm an AGW skeptic. AS I HAVE ALREADY SPECIFICALLY POINTED OUT, WHY ARE YOU STILL MAKING COMPLETELY WRONG CLAIMS?? Or shall I just call bullshit on you because that's all you are putting out.
smothering it with sand or anhydrous sodium chloride is the only safe way.
I have a small bucket of sand under my desk for just such an eventuality. I have many laptops and other gadgets with lithium batteries. I'd rather look silly with a bucket of kitty grits under my desk than wake up from a catnap with my hair on fire.
3 star review: got five of these news fangled triple sensor (heat, gas, particulates) jobs dotted around my house, I still have a better nose for when my wife makes toast than these bloody things.That don't go off if I hold a bit of smouldering paper directly underneath them. I've just tried it, they're fucking useless.
better tell Viacom that they don't own Simon & Schuster or Paramount Pictures, then, that'll edgumicate 'em!
Hollywood has absolutely depended on books since its inception. Major publishing houses, especially those not wholly owned or subsidiaries of Hollywood companies, depend on Hollywood cash pre-injections (and big-name spamming, hello King, Clancy and Rowling) to turn a profit. A quick example: OJ Simpson's lawyer wrote a book called Journey To Justice. It got optioned by the publisher, but because it didn't appear on Oprah's reading list, it flopped. In 1997, the first six books that appeared on Oprah's reading list made the bestseller list. ALL six got optioned and made into movies.
And now for my raw, unadulterated opinion: The Harry Potter books just really aren't that good. The only reason Rowling has been so successful is because she got in early and got the first book optioned, got movie rights signed away and got rich off the back of a promise to keep churning out pulp bubblegum romance which is what HP basically is. Clancy hasn't written a paragraph since his first Op Center novel (read his books in publishing order, there's a marked and dramatic change in writing style and the level of technical description). How many ghost writers does he have on his staff, anyway? King will be churning out books long after he's dead, and people will still buy them because - and I'm gonna hate myself for saying this - it's not the storytelling prowess of the man, it's the name: STEPHEN FUCKING KING!
the Triskelions in Star Trek - got off on blood sports. The Running Man - Bread and Circuses for a collapsed US economy. Rollerball - street hockey and motorcycles. Death Race 2000 - Cannonball Run with real cannonballs. Death Race - like the preceding, but laps around a prison island and the entire country's putting bets on. Kinda like The Running Man but with miniguns. And Tombstones. Gotta love those Tombstones.
The first King novel I ever read was his masterpiece "The Long Walk". Death Race 2000 but without the cars. Published as part of the Bachman anthology in 1985.
More recently, we have Battle Royale and its Hollywood ripoff, The Hunger Games.
See, the Romans had it right. Give the plebs just enough food to survive and keep them entertained, they stay compliant and content. Hence, "Bread and Circuses".
the QE isn't that far shy of the length of the Nimitz, IIRC (checking, the QE is 284m, the Nimitz is 333m with a comparable weatherdeck area (Nimitz is a complex plan only 4m wider (thank the protruding aircraft elevator on the port side foredeck for that) than the QE's which is basically rectangular)). Yes, the Invincible class were about the same length as the catapult deck on the Nimitz, hence needed the ramp, the QE wouldn't need a ramp but for the fact that a VTOL can't VTOL when fully loaded, it has to STOS/VL off and on the deck, hence the ramp (plus I don't think the QE is getting a cat - Hansard 10 May 2012 per Hammond). Oh, and the rather embarrassing point that the F35B can't actually hover with a weapons load - so for a crowded deck landing it'd have to first dump whatever ordnance it's still carrying:x
actually in a pressurised water reactor it is. There are two loops: one sealed loop from the core, one through the secondary heat exchanger and the turbine and condenser. The latter can be open. The former ideally SHOULD NOT EVER LEAK. It'd be a bad day on board ship if it does. Fortunately since it's designed to withstand fluid pressure of 160 bar (not too difficult on paper, my air rifle runs at a working pressure of 210 bar but not at 300+C), it should be OK through a SCRAM event (where the core is shut down).
the Queen Elizabeth carriers are going with conventional diesel and gas turbines turning generators to drive an induction motor pair on each of two waterscrews.
uh... the only bit of "all electric" propulsion hat is actually directly electric is the induction motors attached to the screw shafts. The rest is still reactor cores (or gas turbines), heat exchangers (or not) and steam-driven (or shaft-driven) generators.
primary steam out of a nuclear reactor is going to be highly radioactive. The core in a shipboard reactor is generally a pressurised water type, which means it'll have not one but TWO heat exchangers: one inside the core, one next to it. The working steam goes through this secondary heat exchanger where it's heated by superdry steam circulating from the core. The working steam can be vented if needed, the superdry HAS to be kept isolated. In a water reactor, there is only one heat exchanger - the core. Breeder reactors have THREE heat exchangers: the primary and secondary are closed salt loops, the tertiary dry steam. This type is used to breed weapons-grade plutonium.
nope. Linear motors do not use the spindle (payload) as part of the circuit. They use coil electromagnets to impart a controllable inertia. In some applications (eg maglev trains) the payload is not even in physical contact with the rail. Railguns use busbars and very high currents for a linear force on the payload..
I would assume the system involves some sort of captive bolt on a rail. This would make the scenario you're describing highly unlikely. For that you would need a pair of parallel copper rails, a source of ridiculous DC current and a small metal (aluminium?) slug (the bit that completes the circuit and your payload). As for the pipedream of approaching relativistic velocities: with a current of over one million amps, the US Navy have managed to propel a seven pound projectile at just over 1.6 miles a second. This is about a hundred sixteen thousandth the speed of light. To hit one thousandth the speed of light we'd need to channel the entire plasma output of Jupiter-Io through the busbar (that's about thirty trillion amps).
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explain. And less of the bullshit claims because you have no cogent counterargument.
I must be on someone's list...
1. Would a right-minded person consider the comments to be of a specific and threatening nature? This would have to go before a Grand Jury to decide if there is even a case to answer. This bit has apparently been done, and apparently there is a case to answer. ... make factual contentions regarding an Internet subscriber's infringing activities based solely on the fact that he or she pays the Internet bill," he wrote in his order of Elf-Man v Cariveau et al., 2013
2. This is an either/or, depending on the answer to the first question. If yes, are the comments traceable to an individual who can a: be named and b: therefore be served with a valid warrant of whatever description? If no, can an individual's rights be trumped by the rights of the State as they invoke that right to access to your information and everybody else's information per the new snooping laws which have given the Sunset sections of PATRIOT six months' grace? The Constitution says no, and District Judge John Rasnik agrees: "It is not clear that plaintiff could
citations please.
From my experience, people who have already tripped the nutball alarm are the ones likely to flip with indicators - because it is those indicators that have tripped the alarm. By definition, then, sane people aren't crazy and crazy people aren't sane. There's no sane/violently crazy switch, there is a transition between sane/passive-aggressive/batshit-fucking-run.
Why are aircraft cabins decorated in neutral colours? Why are the cabins pressurised to only 8,000 feet ASL? Ask then answer: because just those two measures are designed to subdue passengers during the flight. Most people can't cope with burst exercise at 8,000 feet pressure, it's like drawing a breath holding it then drawing another breath on top of it - holding that and sprinting 50 metres BEFORE you exhale. Your lungs are going to HURT. 8,000 feet is what professional athletes train at for weeks before the World Championship, soccer players before the FIFA World Cup, cyclists before the Tour de France.
it is neither useless nor a waste of taxpayer money. It keeps tens of thousands off welfare and more importantly it keeps them from being significantly productive to the point where they might effect the actual labour output of the nation enough that imports of certain commodity items which CAN be produced locally (efficient automobiles, mobile phones and other portable microelectronics, white goods, foodstuffs such as potatoes and sugar) are reduced. It provides security theatre for mass transit and a false sense of security for sardine-tin commuters when what they should REALLY be worried about is disgruntled copilots (yeah whatever). It is called a makework economy, and it's the fast track to fucking up a country without firing a shot.
In a nation where law abiding citizens are disarmed, only the criminals will have guns.
AAAAAAALLRIGHTYTHEN! So glad we got that straightened out! :D
doesn't take a lot to link my circle of acquaintences to some VERY powerful people, some VERY popular celebrities, some UTTERLY DANGEROUS PSYCHOTICS, and yes, Kevin Bacon.
Here's just one run. I've sat on a couch and gotten blitzed on voddie with Adam Ant. He dated DD Winters in 1983. DD dated Prince in 1982. Prince dated Susanna Hoffs (Bangles) in 1986, during which time she found the time to knock boots with Michael J Fox. He, the ol' sly fox him, married Tracy Pollan (his Family Ties co-star in 1988 following a two year stretch of just trying it out soon after she broke off a five year relationship with Kevin Bacon.
I've yet to meet Kevin Bacon.
is that when you ask a private company to do law enforcement and don't give them all the information they need (like CROSSAGENCY BACKGROUND CHECKS), shit will slip through the dragnet. For some strange reason, the Government won't let certain information pass into the hands of privately owned data mining concerns such as the Criminal Records Bureau and the Independent Safeguarding Authority (now conglomerated into the Disclosure & Barring Service); the information they do hold - for which they charge exhorbitant fees to access even if negative or null results are returned - is also *freely* available through a bit of Google mining.
Prime examples and how the criminals defeat the system: child protection services in the the UK. How do the paedophiles get around enhanced background checks? Simple. THEY ASSUME A DIFFERENT NAME. This is pretty much how the predators get access to other people's kids. They insinuate themselves into positions of trust. New name, no CRB records, no court records, no police records. Next thing you know, a familiar face with a different name is caught fucking a nursery full of two year olds. Angela Allen. Vanessa George. Colin Blanchard. Or salivating over a sunday school class of boys, while at the same time perjuring oneself to enable child snatching and trafficking under colour of Law, and/or claiming expertise and/or qualification in a protected field when no record exists of such study in order to gain a position of trust. Andrew Kawalek. George Hibbert. Roy Meadow. Or hanging around public conveniences for the sole purpose of having sex with strange men in one of the most unclean environments you can possibly imagine. Charles Lynton (his other name should be very familiar to a lot of people and it doesn't take a lot of working out, and then wondering why the entire Bow Street Magistrates Records of Session is currently inaccessible to ANYONE but the London City Archive curator).
point me to precisely where. You made the claim or are supporting the claim with nothing but hot air. Show me the money. I am not a GW denier, I'm an AGW skeptic. AS I HAVE ALREADY SPECIFICALLY POINTED OUT, WHY ARE YOU STILL MAKING COMPLETELY WRONG CLAIMS?? Or shall I just call bullshit on you because that's all you are putting out.
in contact with Prof. Parvin right now, will update.
smothering it with sand or anhydrous sodium chloride is the only safe way.
I have a small bucket of sand under my desk for just such an eventuality. I have many laptops and other gadgets with lithium batteries. I'd rather look silly with a bucket of kitty grits under my desk than wake up from a catnap with my hair on fire.
3 star review: got five of these news fangled triple sensor (heat, gas, particulates) jobs dotted around my house, I still have a better nose for when my wife makes toast than these bloody things.That don't go off if I hold a bit of smouldering paper directly underneath them. I've just tried it, they're fucking useless.
better tell Viacom that they don't own Simon & Schuster or Paramount Pictures, then, that'll edgumicate 'em!
Hollywood has absolutely depended on books since its inception. Major publishing houses, especially those not wholly owned or subsidiaries of Hollywood companies, depend on Hollywood cash pre-injections (and big-name spamming, hello King, Clancy and Rowling) to turn a profit. A quick example: OJ Simpson's lawyer wrote a book called Journey To Justice. It got optioned by the publisher, but because it didn't appear on Oprah's reading list, it flopped. In 1997, the first six books that appeared on Oprah's reading list made the bestseller list. ALL six got optioned and made into movies.
And now for my raw, unadulterated opinion: The Harry Potter books just really aren't that good. The only reason Rowling has been so successful is because she got in early and got the first book optioned, got movie rights signed away and got rich off the back of a promise to keep churning out pulp bubblegum romance which is what HP basically is. Clancy hasn't written a paragraph since his first Op Center novel (read his books in publishing order, there's a marked and dramatic change in writing style and the level of technical description). How many ghost writers does he have on his staff, anyway? King will be churning out books long after he's dead, and people will still buy them because - and I'm gonna hate myself for saying this - it's not the storytelling prowess of the man, it's the name: STEPHEN FUCKING KING!
does "Ow! My Balls!" count as bloodsport?? o.0
the Triskelions in Star Trek - got off on blood sports.
The Running Man - Bread and Circuses for a collapsed US economy.
Rollerball - street hockey and motorcycles.
Death Race 2000 - Cannonball Run with real cannonballs.
Death Race - like the preceding, but laps around a prison island and the entire country's putting bets on. Kinda like The Running Man but with miniguns. And Tombstones. Gotta love those Tombstones.
The first King novel I ever read was his masterpiece "The Long Walk". Death Race 2000 but without the cars. Published as part of the Bachman anthology in 1985.
More recently, we have Battle Royale and its Hollywood ripoff, The Hunger Games.
See, the Romans had it right. Give the plebs just enough food to survive and keep them entertained, they stay compliant and content. Hence, "Bread and Circuses".
the QE isn't that far shy of the length of the Nimitz, IIRC (checking, the QE is 284m, the Nimitz is 333m with a comparable weatherdeck area (Nimitz is a complex plan only 4m wider (thank the protruding aircraft elevator on the port side foredeck for that) than the QE's which is basically rectangular)). Yes, the Invincible class were about the same length as the catapult deck on the Nimitz, hence needed the ramp, the QE wouldn't need a ramp but for the fact that a VTOL can't VTOL when fully loaded, it has to STOS/VL off and on the deck, hence the ramp (plus I don't think the QE is getting a cat - Hansard 10 May 2012 per Hammond). Oh, and the rather embarrassing point that the F35B can't actually hover with a weapons load - so for a crowded deck landing it'd have to first dump whatever ordnance it's still carrying :x
smart chaff?
salt reactors are used almost exclusively for breeding weapons-grade plutonium. I'd like to see citations, please?
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.g...
actually in a pressurised water reactor it is. There are two loops: one sealed loop from the core, one through the secondary heat exchanger and the turbine and condenser. The latter can be open. The former ideally SHOULD NOT EVER LEAK. It'd be a bad day on board ship if it does. Fortunately since it's designed to withstand fluid pressure of 160 bar (not too difficult on paper, my air rifle runs at a working pressure of 210 bar but not at 300+C), it should be OK through a SCRAM event (where the core is shut down).
the Queen Elizabeth carriers are going with conventional diesel and gas turbines turning generators to drive an induction motor pair on each of two waterscrews.
uh... the only bit of "all electric" propulsion hat is actually directly electric is the induction motors attached to the screw shafts. The rest is still reactor cores (or gas turbines), heat exchangers (or not) and steam-driven (or shaft-driven) generators.
while true, you have multiple valves, and it'd have to be a REALLY bad day for enough of them to fail at once for a failure to launch event.
primary steam out of a nuclear reactor is going to be highly radioactive. The core in a shipboard reactor is generally a pressurised water type, which means it'll have not one but TWO heat exchangers: one inside the core, one next to it. The working steam goes through this secondary heat exchanger where it's heated by superdry steam circulating from the core. The working steam can be vented if needed, the superdry HAS to be kept isolated. In a water reactor, there is only one heat exchanger - the core. Breeder reactors have THREE heat exchangers: the primary and secondary are closed salt loops, the tertiary dry steam. This type is used to breed weapons-grade plutonium.
Citation: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.g...
nope. Linear motors do not use the spindle (payload) as part of the circuit. They use coil electromagnets to impart a controllable inertia. In some applications (eg maglev trains) the payload is not even in physical contact with the rail. Railguns use busbars and very high currents for a linear force on the payload..
I would assume the system involves some sort of captive bolt on a rail. This would make the scenario you're describing highly unlikely. For that you would need a pair of parallel copper rails, a source of ridiculous DC current and a small metal (aluminium?) slug (the bit that completes the circuit and your payload). As for the pipedream of approaching relativistic velocities: with a current of over one million amps, the US Navy have managed to propel a seven pound projectile at just over 1.6 miles a second. This is about a hundred sixteen thousandth the speed of light. To hit one thousandth the speed of light we'd need to channel the entire plasma output of Jupiter-Io through the busbar (that's about thirty trillion amps).