it's simple: outlaw guns, only outlaws and Governments will have guns, because Governments don't believe the Law applies to them and criminals ignore the Law anyway. The rest of us are thus victims.
Midnight Massacre (Salina, Utah), July 8 1945: 9 prisoners of war executed by an Army private. Twin Peaks (Waco, Texas), May 2015: unknown of 9 deaths by Waco PD. Fort Hood, April 2014: rogue Specialist killed 3 before eating his own gun. Washington Navy Yard, September 2013: Navy contractor fatally shot twelve.
Information on the Yemen situation is being fully suppressed by Western media. Information on Syria is spotty at best.
because a lot of them burn their documents. Either to drop off the grid to avoid their own security services or with the intention of committing criminal activity.
Wouldyoulike to revise your information? DOOM engine renders at 320x200 (16:10 aspect ratio). You'll also find that the memory space for 320x240 is the SAME (it's a VGA mode which uses a more efficient algorithm) as the CGA 320x200 mode (which in 1993 was STILL the most common graphics mode available to MOST PC users hence the denominator for developers). Also, the only reason to split the screen was during multiplayer mode on console (eg Saturn, N64). It makes absolutely no sense to bank the screen quadrants when you're using the same amount of memory to render and MORE memory (and processor clocks) to stitch the quadrants.
because if you don't bother to read through a simple test paper before chickenscratching your way to a frycook job, how the fuck do you expect to be entrusted with a complex set of instructions which could potentially injure or kill you or someone else if you get it wrong?
no, it's called teaching your students to arm themselves with the maximum amount of information BEFORE they act. It's not as if the information they require isn't RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF THEM.
I had a similar test for potentials when I ran my law firm. Five pages of questions (about 70 of them, some multiple choice, some short answer), the first instruction being: "Read the entire paper before you begin answering any of the questions", the penultimate being "Do not answer any question on this test but carry out the next instruction", the very last one being and I quote: "Sign your name in the box below, break your pencil in half and step away from the desk."
Only one person ever passed, out of probably 500 applicants. Some of the responses on the short answer questions were hysterical.
720x400 is 80x25 textmode with the 9x16 system typeface. Doom was 320x200 CGA graphics mode (specifically IBM mode 13h, 256 colours). Both use the same amount of video memory (IIRC 16kB).
Getting to the top of the troposphere (about 10km) requires the same amount of helium as barely lifting your balloon.
The scale height of the atmosphere is about 7.5km, so getting up to 25km will require your balloon to expand by about a factor of e^3, or about 20x. So your balloon should be able to expand to 20x the volume that it has on liftoff. Also, the stratosphere is dynamically stable -- so you need a little extra helium to rise through it.
The lifting power of helium is a little over 1.2 grams per litre at sea level (but that has to lift the balloon itself too). So if your camera has a mass of 1kg and you're not carrying anything else, your balloon has to be about 1,000 litres (a ~4 foot diameter sphere) on launch. But since you want to rise through the stratosphere you should add another 50%-100% -- making it 2,000 litres (a ~5 foot diameter sphere). The balloon needs to be able to expand by a factor of 20 as it rises -- so it needs to be able to stretch to a ~14 foot diameter sphere.
Anyone know the going rate for tanked helium?
A 9 cubic metre tank (76.5kg gross weight) goes for £165 at retail. You'd need three of those (27,000 litres) just to lift the payload. One on board for topping (you'd get away with a smaller tank for this, say a 12kg, 2.61cu.m one at £104). So your total lift on the ground would be payload + helium tank + envelope + control/propulsion. Probably looking at 35-40kg. Your balloon would need to be able to hold half a million litres of rarefied gas. This isn't a case of just chucking things at a balloon and hoping for the best, we're talking about advances in materials science and NASA on the lookout for up-and-coming aero engineers.
in 30 years the coast has remained 70 miles away from my house. If the sea levels rose by 10cm then it should have been about eight miles nearer and my favourite holiday destination will have joined the City of Alexandria.
In another 30 years barring major tectonic activity off Western Mainland Europe, the coast will still be 70 miles away from my house.
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I don't have ID. ::mike drop::
I vote.
you're more likely to be killed by tobacco than by pretty much any other cause.
Let's outlaw tobacco. Hm?
uh, no, it's because the police in the US are inariably armed to the teeth and packing ammunition that can crack an engine block.
it's simple: outlaw guns, only outlaws and Governments will have guns, because Governments don't believe the Law applies to them and criminals ignore the Law anyway. The rest of us are thus victims.
Midnight Massacre (Salina, Utah), July 8 1945: 9 prisoners of war executed by an Army private.
Twin Peaks (Waco, Texas), May 2015: unknown of 9 deaths by Waco PD.
Fort Hood, April 2014: rogue Specialist killed 3 before eating his own gun.
Washington Navy Yard, September 2013: Navy contractor fatally shot twelve.
Information on the Yemen situation is being fully suppressed by Western media.
Information on Syria is spotty at best.
You're welcome.
This.
nah, she'll be pulling the switch on him - *he'll* be under the desk!
because a lot of them burn their documents. Either to drop off the grid to avoid their own security services or with the intention of committing criminal activity.
open the stolen phone market.
Don't these shrubs think this shit through?
actually my "dumb test" weeded out the fools who just waded right on in and FUCKED UP as surely as they would have FUCKED UP CASE AFTER CASE.
Shithead.
Would you like to revise your information? DOOM engine renders at 320x200 (16:10 aspect ratio). You'll also find that the memory space for 320x240 is the SAME (it's a VGA mode which uses a more efficient algorithm) as the CGA 320x200 mode (which in 1993 was STILL the most common graphics mode available to MOST PC users hence the denominator for developers). Also, the only reason to split the screen was during multiplayer mode on console (eg Saturn, N64). It makes absolutely no sense to bank the screen quadrants when you're using the same amount of memory to render and MORE memory (and processor clocks) to stitch the quadrants.
because if you don't bother to read through a simple test paper before chickenscratching your way to a frycook job, how the fuck do you expect to be entrusted with a complex set of instructions which could potentially injure or kill you or someone else if you get it wrong?
no, it's called teaching your students to arm themselves with the maximum amount of information BEFORE they act. It's not as if the information they require isn't RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF THEM.
I had a similar test for potentials when I ran my law firm. Five pages of questions (about 70 of them, some multiple choice, some short answer), the first instruction being: "Read the entire paper before you begin answering any of the questions", the penultimate being "Do not answer any question on this test but carry out the next instruction", the very last one being and I quote: "Sign your name in the box below, break your pencil in half and step away from the desk."
Only one person ever passed, out of probably 500 applicants. Some of the responses on the short answer questions were hysterical.
720x400 is 80x25 textmode with the 9x16 system typeface. Doom was 320x200 CGA graphics mode (specifically IBM mode 13h, 256 colours). Both use the same amount of video memory (IIRC 16kB).
98 used COMMAND.COM, ME used VMM32.VXD (hence real-mode DOS applications couldn't run without some serious tweaking).
fuck off, this is my joke.
I vote for Planety McPlanet.
citations required.
addendum: having run the numbers I'm short on mylar by a factor of about 5.
doesn't matter, this project isn't about manned aircraft, it's quite safe to use hydrogen.
Getting to the top of the troposphere (about 10km) requires the same amount of helium as barely lifting your balloon.
The scale height of the atmosphere is about 7.5km, so getting up to 25km will require your balloon to expand by about a factor of e^3, or about 20x. So your balloon should be able to expand to 20x the volume that it has on liftoff. Also, the stratosphere is dynamically stable -- so you need a little extra helium to rise through it.
The lifting power of helium is a little over 1.2 grams per litre at sea level (but that has to lift the balloon itself too). So if your camera has a mass of 1kg and you're not carrying anything else, your balloon has to be about 1,000 litres (a ~4 foot diameter sphere) on launch. But since you want to rise through the stratosphere you should add another 50%-100% -- making it 2,000 litres (a ~5 foot diameter sphere). The balloon needs to be able to expand by a factor of 20 as it rises -- so it needs to be able to stretch to a ~14 foot diameter sphere.
Anyone know the going rate for tanked helium?
A 9 cubic metre tank (76.5kg gross weight) goes for £165 at retail. You'd need three of those (27,000 litres) just to lift the payload. One on board for topping (you'd get away with a smaller tank for this, say a 12kg, 2.61cu.m one at £104). So your total lift on the ground would be payload + helium tank + envelope + control/propulsion. Probably looking at 35-40kg. Your balloon would need to be able to hold half a million litres of rarefied gas. This isn't a case of just chucking things at a balloon and hoping for the best, we're talking about advances in materials science and NASA on the lookout for up-and-coming aero engineers.
surprisingly enough, I was thinking mylar. I have a box full of them, probably enough to build a 100,000cu.ft envelope.
Now all I need is an adhesive that can withstand hard solar radiation as well as extremes of temperature.
in 30 years the coast has remained 70 miles away from my house. If the sea levels rose by 10cm then it should have been about eight miles nearer and my favourite holiday destination will have joined the City of Alexandria.
In another 30 years barring major tectonic activity off Western Mainland Europe, the coast will still be 70 miles away from my house.
...and then you get the tools who think they're armchair psychologists.