Wait, wait? How is Russia "a bastion of human rights"? Ever tried being supporting an opposition party there?
And what does this have to do with human rights? A US Government employee broke the law and shared information he wasn't supposed to. And now he's an attention whore traveling to world to keep his name in the news. If he really cared that it was "the right thing to do" he would turned himself in the day he released to keep the storm on PRISIM, not himself.
As an anglophone Canadian expat, my main exposure to French is occasional trips to Quebec or France. I've picked up much more French in Quebec than France simply because I understand the context better.
Not if you keep to the trails, and stay hydrated. The vast majority of deaths/serious injuries are people leaving the trails or look out points and falling. Or not looking where they are going and walking off a cliff. Or just generally being dumbasses. If you obey the signs, it's perfectly safe, even with a 40+ pound pack/camera rig.
An unintended consequence could well be to make it harder for researchers without a lot of funding (i.e. grad students, post docs) to publish. Publishers often offer the choice between paying them to publish it open access (several hundred dollars), or publishing it for free behind a paywall (a paywall that most researchers don't see because of institutional subscriptions). So, most of the work of my dissertation is technically behind a paywall because I had to.
Of course it's also on the preprint sever (http://arxiv.org), but noone trusts stuff there that does not link back to journal article.
For many products, they have to change them anyways. For example, I just had a English beer (Fuller's ESB), and the entire back label is clearly different from the UK version, with the US-specific health warning, US state bottle deposits, and US importer's address. The fact that it also has the volume in fluid ounces is trivial compared to everything else they have to add.
The more productive thing to change machining standards. When a US engineering company receives an order from outside the US, they have to change everything to US units, do the engineering work in the US units that all the tool are calibrated to, and then convert back to metric to send the spec/blueprints/etc back to the customer. It's an unnecessary expense, and not really justified given how much the US industrial base has shrunk.
And the truth is, meat actually isn't all that expensive. If it were, maybe there would be pressure for this or other "extreme measures", but as it farming techology keeps improving at a much faster rate than demand for meat. In real terms, meat is cheaper now than at any point in human history, and we should be proud of that.
They do already have regionally variable names, as English names rarely translate properly. I'm reminded of this every time a French college refers to Pluton.
The true gatekeepers of standards in science are the journal editorial boards. The standards they set are what everyone has to follow, not what some third-party "international authority" says.
To quite honest, and speaking as a working professional astronomer, the IAU itself is a bit of scam. It has no actual authority, no actual acountability, and no real sway on science. It's more a bunch of astronomers who should have been lawyers and who occasionally meet and pretend they are important. Oh and they charge an arm and leg for membership, which is why the vast majority of astronomers are not members.
In reality astronomy doesn't really need an "international authority". The sky is the sky and observations are almost always reproducible. If someone doesn't believe you, they can go and observe it themselves. That's called the scientific method. It does not need nor is enhanced by lawyers-cum-astronomers.
The general public doesn't know the difference between RF EM radiation and ionizing/nuclear radiation. That's why it's some common to call microwaving a foodstuff "nuking it" (hydrogen bonding it would be more appropriate).
So, just don't call it radiation. Call RF emission or RF power. Just as accurate, just as technical sounding, but less scary to the illiterate.
I got to use the Keck II Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics systems last week (to hunt for binary Kuiper Belt objects). It fires a 16 W CW laser (32x beyond what's needed to be Class 4) from one of the world's largest telescopes up to create an artificial ball of plasma about 90 km above the Earth. Since the ball should appear as a point source, all the distortion it in is due to the atmosphere. So, the computers calculate the distortion and cancel it out to create better resolution images than the atmosphere would allow. In theory it's better than Hubble (or so the PR people say), but in our experience using both, it really has to be a perfect night to just match Hubble.
There is an automatic aircraft detection system, but we still have to have a guy out there with a pair of binoculars looking for airplanes. More pressing though, is the satellites. To insure the laser doesn't blind any "downward-looking satellites", we have to submit our list of targets to the US Space Command. If we get close to violating any of the closures that they gave us, the laser automatically shutters and the control system bleats out "Waring! Warning! Space Command! Space Command!", which has several near heart attacks at about 3 AM...
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Wait, wait? How is Russia "a bastion of human rights"? Ever tried being supporting an opposition party there?
And what does this have to do with human rights? A US Government employee broke the law and shared information he wasn't supposed to. And now he's an attention whore traveling to world to keep his name in the news. If he really cared that it was "the right thing to do" he would turned himself in the day he released to keep the storm on PRISIM, not himself.
And how is this any different from the FBI using aeroplanes or helicopters or cars?
For all the armwaving and hysteria about drones, they aren't a fundimentally new technology and are not without copious legal precident.
As an anglophone Canadian expat, my main exposure to French is occasional trips to Quebec or France. I've picked up much more French in Quebec than France simply because I understand the context better.
The next challenge is a robot that drunkenly argues about the rules for three hours after just 10 minute of gameplay.
I've been playing Civ V in Wine for about half a year now, and it crashes roughly as often (on the same hardware) as it did in Windows 7.
And if you're not into change for change's sake, Windows 8 has news for you...
Obviously, it was caused the paleolithic nuclear reactor Grok was working at. They had very primitive safety systems.
Not if you keep to the trails, and stay hydrated. The vast majority of deaths/serious injuries are people leaving the trails or look out points and falling. Or not looking where they are going and walking off a cliff. Or just generally being dumbasses. If you obey the signs, it's perfectly safe, even with a 40+ pound pack/camera rig.
An unintended consequence could well be to make it harder for researchers without a lot of funding (i.e. grad students, post docs) to publish. Publishers often offer the choice between paying them to publish it open access (several hundred dollars), or publishing it for free behind a paywall (a paywall that most researchers don't see because of institutional subscriptions). So, most of the work of my dissertation is technically behind a paywall because I had to.
Of course it's also on the preprint sever (http://arxiv.org), but noone trusts stuff there that does not link back to journal article.
Isn't that kinda the point of baseball? It's only cheating if they catch you? Is a scuffed ball any different from stealing a base?
World's most agile Zeppelin?
For many products, they have to change them anyways. For example, I just had a English beer (Fuller's ESB), and the entire back label is clearly different from the UK version, with the US-specific health warning, US state bottle deposits, and US importer's address. The fact that it also has the volume in fluid ounces is trivial compared to everything else they have to add.
The more productive thing to change machining standards. When a US engineering company receives an order from outside the US, they have to change everything to US units, do the engineering work in the US units that all the tool are calibrated to, and then convert back to metric to send the spec/blueprints/etc back to the customer. It's an unnecessary expense, and not really justified given how much the US industrial base has shrunk.
And the truth is, meat actually isn't all that expensive. If it were, maybe there would be pressure for this or other "extreme measures", but as it farming techology keeps improving at a much faster rate than demand for meat. In real terms, meat is cheaper now than at any point in human history, and we should be proud of that.
Mod parent up.
The real transrcipt makes a lot more sense....
They do already have regionally variable names, as English names rarely translate properly. I'm reminded of this every time a French college refers to Pluton.
The true gatekeepers of standards in science are the journal editorial boards. The standards they set are what everyone has to follow, not what some third-party "international authority" says.
To quite honest, and speaking as a working professional astronomer, the IAU itself is a bit of scam. It has no actual authority, no actual acountability, and no real sway on science. It's more a bunch of astronomers who should have been lawyers and who occasionally meet and pretend they are important. Oh and they charge an arm and leg for membership, which is why the vast majority of astronomers are not members.
In reality astronomy doesn't really need an "international authority". The sky is the sky and observations are almost always reproducible. If someone doesn't believe you, they can go and observe it themselves. That's called the scientific method. It does not need nor is enhanced by lawyers-cum-astronomers.
But can you power a Cray 2 with it?
Fox is so good at canceling good shows that they thought they'd cancel themselves!
Ubuntu core distribution is ~34 MB, and available for x86, amd64, and ARM. It's more than suffcient to bootstrap a lean OS.
The general public doesn't know the difference between RF EM radiation and ionizing/nuclear radiation. That's why it's some common to call microwaving a foodstuff "nuking it" (hydrogen bonding it would be more appropriate).
So, just don't call it radiation. Call RF emission or RF power. Just as accurate, just as technical sounding, but less scary to the illiterate.
No, that would drain the batteries. Instead they're just going to mount a gun.
JMS is going to plan out this awesome many-year epic that never be finished, and then the Wachowskis will take a CGI shit on it.
So, it look nice, briefly.
Heh, amateurs. Literally.
I got to use the Keck II Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics systems last week (to hunt for binary Kuiper Belt objects). It fires a 16 W CW laser (32x beyond what's needed to be Class 4) from one of the world's largest telescopes up to create an artificial ball of plasma about 90 km above the Earth. Since the ball should appear as a point source, all the distortion it in is due to the atmosphere. So, the computers calculate the distortion and cancel it out to create better resolution images than the atmosphere would allow. In theory it's better than Hubble (or so the PR people say), but in our experience using both, it really has to be a perfect night to just match Hubble.
There is an automatic aircraft detection system, but we still have to have a guy out there with a pair of binoculars looking for airplanes. More pressing though, is the satellites. To insure the laser doesn't blind any "downward-looking satellites", we have to submit our list of targets to the US Space Command. If we get close to violating any of the closures that they gave us, the laser automatically shutters and the control system bleats out "Waring! Warning! Space Command! Space Command!", which has several near heart attacks at about 3 AM...
Why is a Windows release named after its most famous failure screen? Is the marketing department that ignorant?
The US is quite involved in LHC:
http://www.uslhc.us/The_US_and_the_LHC
And the collider that did most of this work before LHC was the Tevatron, just outside of Chicago.
Tablet, I mean. It's not as useful as a table.