Have you tried buying a cuban cigar recently? How about going for a drive in Florida with more than $100 in your pocket? How about joining the political party of your choice? Media such as TV and newspapers which isn't directly controlled by the government (You must insert our propaganda into this program, you must not show this news footage), and is also self-censored by the owners.
In a lot of practical ways, the US is the least free western nation.
You're making it sound like there was months between these events. Hiroshima was August 6th, the Soviet Union declared war on the 8th, the Nagasaki bombing was on the 9th, and the surrender was on the 14th. That's a total of 8 days from start to finish. I think that's an amazingly fast response time. The Japanese military & leadership had to evalulate the damage, try and work out the responses they could do, all in an enviroment where all normal communications had been cut off.
Real polling companies spend a lot of effort trying to get statistically-valid results.
I think that should read "trying to get client-validated results".
I'd have to agree with you. If you read the raw questions & answers of most opinion polls, they're horribly slanted, have too small a number of respondants, and the summaries given out in press releases are often unsupported by the actual results.
Remember that South Korea is a small geographic area compared to the US. 99,373 square km. That's about the same size as Oregon, yet it's got about 1/7th the population of the whole US. That means that any installation of communications is going to be much cheaper & easier than in the US.
The ADA has always said that employers must make "reasonable accommodations". That means that if a accommodation will cause "undue hardship" to the employer then the ADA does not apply. Reasons for undue hardship include "the nature and cost of the accommodation needed".
I don't see systems exceeding their engineered capacity as a failure of engineering. It would certainly be possible to build a switch which can handle the spice girls tickets plus the normal traffic, or a highway which can handle 5Y cars. However these would cost money. What would be a failure of engineering if the system didn't handle the extra load gracefully. If picking up the phone caused the switch to crash and loose all the calls.
No, I was saying that once you have got your energy, either through the nuclear explosion or through the kinetic energy, you cannot just compare them directly. If you have X in one type of explosion, and 10X in another type, then you can't say that the 10X is 10 times worse, because the inefficency of the large explosion will cause less damage than the simple scaling will suggest.
Actually there are other boxes which have CPU meters. I used to use an HP server that had a 4 character LED display which gave status codes as the system booted up, and after it was running would display the % CPU busy. Unfortunatly I cannot remember the model number. However a few years later I was using 9000/800 G30's, which had the same feature, but instead implemented it as software on the console.
One thing you have to take into consideration is that nuclear detonations aren't terribly efficent at causing damage. Most of the energy is wasted because the energy concentration is too high. To use an analogy, if someone was standing on a building above a crowd, and tips out a jug of water they might get one person wet. A barrel of water might have 20 times the water of the jug, but it's not going to get 20 people wet, it might get 3 or 4 people wet, because the people are too spread out in comparision to the water.
The biggest constraint would be having a accurate picture of where on the Earth the rock was coming down.
This is a huge constraint. When Mir was deorbited it was under control, and only from LEO, yet the debris was still over an area of 6000x500 km. An uncontrolled asteroid hitting earth could hit almost any part of the earth.
It would be ok if the judges are actually limiting the warrents they approve. Unfortunatly it's seeming like judges are just rubberstamping anything put in front of them. If the reason for the search is 'an informer told me', then it should be rejected.
I find it very interesting to compare the ratings given around the world. It shows how different cultures view different things. For example 2001: or Erin Brockovich gets an R under the US system, but a 6 under the German system, while Ace Ventura: Pet Detective gets a PG-13 under the US system, but an 18 in the Spanish system.
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Most currencies have changed their styles over the years, it's an anti-fraud system. What was incredibly difficult for a forger to do in 1970 can be done by anyone with a colour photocopier in 1990, so the anti-fraud system has to be changed. For the quarters, there was a special millenium monthly issue of different designs. This is very similar to the US's ongoing state quarters, where each state is getting a design for the quarter.
Right, if you choose to ignore the extensive economic costs of changing * millions * of cash handling systems across the country,
Almost everyone doesn't need to do any changes. For those few who do, the costs are easily countered by the cost of maintaining bill readers on vending machines, which are very unreliable compared to coin readers.
A decade would be a short timescale for a coin, except for very low value ones like pennies. 3 out of 4 quarters in my pocket are 20 years old or more (the oldest is 1974). In the UK, until about 10 years ago, it was common to see pre-war 2 bob bits.
On the other hand, if you have a smaller chromosome, then the chance of a mutagen hitting hte chromosome would correspondingly decrease.
Some bacteria have virtually no junk DNA at all. Living in an enviroment where reproducing as fast as possible is desirable has eliminated as much junk as possible.
It depends on what you mean by 'completion'. This is a very long and involved project. Sequencing was a milestone, but it's not the end of the process. Decoding is also a milestone, but it's not the end of the process either. Understanding the genes are will probably take decades.
There are two sorts of genes found on chromasomes, coding genes, which as described above are (eventually) transcribed to proteins, and regulatory genes, which work at a higher level, and control which proteins will be expressed and when. Regulatory genes aren't transcribed. A good description of the process is here. There is of course a third usage of the DNA, which is junk DNA, but (as far as we know) this has no purpose at all.
It just means that if 23 million people each spend one hour digging, the Panama canal could have been finished in less then a month.
No, it couldn't. This is the mythical man month, which was truely debunked in the book of the same name. Each project has it's optimal size. If you don't have enough people, then the project will fail or take longer than neccessary. However, if you have too many people, then the project will also fail or take longer than necessary.
This is especially true when you think of overall design, or other tasks which cannot be sub-divided. If you split the design work into 10 units, then you could well have either a canal where the two ends don't meet in the middle, or your designers spend longer in meetings deciding on the route instead of just doing it.
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Have you tried buying a cuban cigar recently? How about going for a drive in Florida with more than $100 in your pocket? How about joining the political party of your choice? Media such as TV and newspapers which isn't directly controlled by the government (You must insert our propaganda into this program, you must not show this news footage), and is also self-censored by the owners.
In a lot of practical ways, the US is the least free western nation.
You're making it sound like there was months between these events. Hiroshima was August 6th, the Soviet Union declared war on the 8th, the Nagasaki bombing was on the 9th, and the surrender was on the 14th. That's a total of 8 days from start to finish. I think that's an amazingly fast response time. The Japanese military & leadership had to evalulate the damage, try and work out the responses they could do, all in an enviroment where all normal communications had been cut off.
I think that should read "trying to get client-validated results".
I'd have to agree with you. If you read the raw questions & answers of most opinion polls, they're horribly slanted, have too small a number of respondants, and the summaries given out in press releases are often unsupported by the actual results.
Remember that South Korea is a small geographic area compared to the US. 99,373 square km. That's about the same size as Oregon, yet it's got about 1/7th the population of the whole US. That means that any installation of communications is going to be much cheaper & easier than in the US.
The ADA has always said that employers must make "reasonable accommodations". That means that if a accommodation will cause "undue hardship" to the employer then the ADA does not apply. Reasons for undue hardship include "the nature and cost of the accommodation needed".
Pictures aren't 'practically random'. They've very non-random.
I don't see systems exceeding their engineered capacity as a failure of engineering. It would certainly be possible to build a switch which can handle the spice girls tickets plus the normal traffic, or a highway which can handle 5Y cars. However these would cost money. What would be a failure of engineering if the system didn't handle the extra load gracefully. If picking up the phone caused the switch to crash and loose all the calls.
No, I was saying that once you have got your energy, either through the nuclear explosion or through the kinetic energy, you cannot just compare them directly. If you have X in one type of explosion, and 10X in another type, then you can't say that the 10X is 10 times worse, because the inefficency of the large explosion will cause less damage than the simple scaling will suggest.
Actually there are other boxes which have CPU meters. I used to use an HP server that had a 4 character LED display which gave status codes as the system booted up, and after it was running would display the % CPU busy. Unfortunatly I cannot remember the model number. However a few years later I was using 9000/800 G30's, which had the same feature, but instead implemented it as software on the console.
Quality control was important. I had drives that would not work reliablty with a RRL controller that would work fine with a MFM controller.
One thing you have to take into consideration is that nuclear detonations aren't terribly efficent at causing damage. Most of the energy is wasted because the energy concentration is too high. To use an analogy, if someone was standing on a building above a crowd, and tips out a jug of water they might get one person wet. A barrel of water might have 20 times the water of the jug, but it's not going to get 20 people wet, it might get 3 or 4 people wet, because the people are too spread out in comparision to the water.
This is a huge constraint. When Mir was deorbited it was under control, and only from LEO, yet the debris was still over an area of 6000x500 km. An uncontrolled asteroid hitting earth could hit almost any part of the earth.
It would be ok if the judges are actually limiting the warrents they approve. Unfortunatly it's seeming like judges are just rubberstamping anything put in front of them. If the reason for the search is 'an informer told me', then it should be rejected.
I find it very interesting to compare the ratings given around the world. It shows how different cultures view different things. For example 2001: or Erin Brockovich gets an R under the US system, but a 6 under the German system, while Ace Ventura: Pet Detective gets a PG-13 under the US system, but an 18 in the Spanish system.
Most currencies have changed their styles over the years, it's an anti-fraud system. What was incredibly difficult for a forger to do in 1970 can be done by anyone with a colour photocopier in 1990, so the anti-fraud system has to be changed. For the quarters, there was a special millenium monthly issue of different designs. This is very similar to the US's ongoing state quarters, where each state is getting a design for the quarter.
But there are jobs in the US where you have to be a Spanish speaker or an English speaker.
Almost everyone doesn't need to do any changes. For those few who do, the costs are easily countered by the cost of maintaining bill readers on vending machines, which are very unreliable compared to coin readers.
A decade would be a short timescale for a coin, except for very low value ones like pennies. 3 out of 4 quarters in my pocket are 20 years old or more (the oldest is 1974). In the UK, until about 10 years ago, it was common to see pre-war 2 bob bits.
I don't expect this will be a major problem. There are many similar bimetal coins already minted around the world, eg the Canadian $2 coin.
The US Dollar doesn't have it's own symbol. The $ sign can mean US Dollars, Canadian Dollars, or Australian Dollars.
Only if it's a US company. Most commerical satellites are launched by ESA, which obviously doesn't follow NASA regulations.
Some bacteria have virtually no junk DNA at all. Living in an enviroment where reproducing as fast as possible is desirable has eliminated as much junk as possible.
It depends on what you mean by 'completion'. This is a very long and involved project. Sequencing was a milestone, but it's not the end of the process. Decoding is also a milestone, but it's not the end of the process either. Understanding the genes are will probably take decades.
There are two sorts of genes found on chromasomes, coding genes, which as described above are (eventually) transcribed to proteins, and regulatory genes, which work at a higher level, and control which proteins will be expressed and when. Regulatory genes aren't transcribed. A good description of the process is here. There is of course a third usage of the DNA, which is junk DNA, but (as far as we know) this has no purpose at all.
No, it couldn't. This is the mythical man month, which was truely debunked in the book of the same name. Each project has it's optimal size. If you don't have enough people, then the project will fail or take longer than neccessary. However, if you have too many people, then the project will also fail or take longer than necessary.
This is especially true when you think of overall design, or other tasks which cannot be sub-divided. If you split the design work into 10 units, then you could well have either a canal where the two ends don't meet in the middle, or your designers spend longer in meetings deciding on the route instead of just doing it.