It was a Mk-4, basically an improved Fat Man design, but using a composite Uranium/Plutonium core with a levitated pit. Obviously not a gun-type. As a matter of fact I don't think the US had any gun-type devices in service during 1950, the T-1 demolition bomb was withdrawn from service before then and the Mk-8 had not yet entered production.
Had the bomb been armed with its fissile capsule, the immediate death toll may have reached six figures.
And maybe that's the reason the fissile material wasn't inserted into the bomb? And in any event I'd be very surprised if the fire caused the explosives to detonate sufficently simoultaneously to actually cause anything more than a fizzle.
Oh, really? Do you have any evidence? If I brought a baboon into a supermarket, would that be OK? If I pointed out that my baboon was gay, would it be homophobic to refuse the beast entry?
You're an idiot, allow me to quote the fucking SUMMARY for you:
"A statement given by restaurant owners Hong Hoa Thi To and Anh Hoang Le said one of the waiters had understood Mr. Jolly's partner Chris Lawrence 'to be saying she wanted to bring a gay dog into the restaurant. The staff genuinely believed that Nudge was an ordinary pet dog which had been desexed to become a gay dog,' the statement said. Mr. Jolly and Ms. Lawrence were refused entry to the restaurant -- which displays a 'guide dogs welcome' sign -- even after providing staff with a guide dogs fact card."
They displayed a sign with the text "Guide dogs welcome" and then denied the dog access since they confused it for a gay dog. Yes, it WAS homophobic to deny the dog entry.
The verdict explicitly addresses this point and states that due to TPB running the tracker and thus being intimately involved in the sharing of copyrighted material any comparison with Google is false. They were not convicted because TPB is hosting a bunch of torrent files, they were convicted because they were running a tracker.
I don't think he worries about the cost of upgrading, I think he worries about having to learn how to use the new system. I'd bet that's the reason he wants such a long lifetime.
The USS New Orleans isn't equipped with a sonar suite, perfecting underwater stealth technology sufficiently to hide from her isn't much of an accomplishment.
So what has ICANN and ICANN's community done in the meantime?
Well, at the Marrakech meeting, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) released a report [pdf] covering the issue, following a request by the owner of the.org registry, PIR, which had been getting annoyed with the practice.
A few months later (September 2006), PIR pushed [pdf] for it to be allowed to charge five cents for.org domains, irrespective of whether they were returned during the Add Grace Period, if the returns accounted for more than 90 percent of domains registered in that month.
The Board approved the measure a month later and the first effort to stamp out domain tasting began. It was, according to PIR, immediately successful in reducing domain tasting.
In the meantime, a series of workshops was held at ICANN meetings covering the issue in increasing depth. The meeting after Marrakech, in São Paulo, Brazil in December 2006, saw a Domain Name Marketplace presentation. And no less than two sessions were held at the Lisbon meeting in March 2007: How the Marketplace for Expiring Names Has Changed; and the Domain name secondary market.
All of this prompted the At Large Advisory Committee to demand an issues report into the issue of domain tasting, which ICANN staff promptly did, producing a report in May 2007, putting it out for public comment, revising it, and then providing a final Issues Report [pdf] to the GNSO Council in June 2007, recommending that a formal policy development process (PDP) be launched.
The GNSO decided to create a Working Group, which produced an Outcomes Report [pdf] four months later in October 2007. That report then led to the GNSO launching a formal policy development process on the issue.
The result of this was an Initial Report [pdf] by staff in January 2008, put out for public comment. That led to a draft Final Report [pdf] the next month (February 2008). In March, the GNSO Council voted to solicit comments on a draft motion that had been prepared by a number of Council members and constituency representatives in an effort to curb domain tasting (a summary/analysis of those comments subsequently pulled back into the process).
In the meantime, the Board had embarked on its own solution, recommending at its January 2008 meeting that all domains be charged the 20 cent transaction fee, regardless of whether it was returned during the Add Grace Period. That proposal would have to go through the budgetary process for the next fiscal year before being enacted.
Is it any wonder it took forever to fix something as simple as domain name sampling?
How are they going to get people on and off the station?
My first thought was Dragon, but according to the SpaceX website the price for even the cheapest Falcon9 to LEO is 35 million, with a suggested price of 4 million for a three day stay and the Dragon capsule being capable of carrying 7 people this can't possibly be profitable (or even close to break even).
Anyone know what launch vehicle they're planning to use?
What you are forgetting is that demonstarting the problem takes roughly three months (give or take), this makes it impossible to collect the so called prize, as you can't possibly demonstrate the slow deterioration of a DVD-drive during a trip to Moscow. This is something StarForce undoubtedly was well aware of before they offered the price.
If there are anyone here who doubts that StarForce creates problems you should visit the StarForce web site drop by the support forums.
Ohh I don't know, personally I consider web access to be just slightly less important than electricity and I'm willing to bet that getting decent web access installed, regardless of it being cable, ADSL or something else, is next to impossible in New Orleans at the moment.
The first bomb had two hemispherses of Uranium that were polished smooth.
This is slightly inaccurate the first bomb (Gadget) did indeed consist of two hollow hemispheres, but it was two nickel plated plutonium hemispheres (with some gold foil added to smooth it out after the nickle blistered) and not uranium hemispheres.
The first uranium bomb (Little Boy) was a gun type system with a cannon firing a bullet of uranium into a barely subcritical mass of uranium.
This is not to say that a bomb can't be made with two hemispheres of uranium, but this was not done with either the first bomb or the first uranium bomb. The idea of converting the Little Boy bomb into an implosion design (with two hemispheres of uranium) was raised after the Gadget test as it would permit more efficent use of the uranium, but it was decided not to as this would delay the use of the weapon.
Natural uranium contains U-238, U-235 and a TINY amount of U-234. U-233 is an isotope of uranium created by neutron bombardment of thorium and is not present in natural uranium. Above should read seperating the U-235 from the U-238.
My personal favourite is "Mutineer's Moon", in fact I liked it so much that I bought the entire series including "Mutineer's Moon" in their dead wood editions. If you're a sci-fi or fantasy fan you really should check it and the other books here out. No DRM either.
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It was a Mk-4, basically an improved Fat Man design, but using a composite Uranium/Plutonium core with a levitated pit. Obviously not a gun-type. As a matter of fact I don't think the US had any gun-type devices in service during 1950, the T-1 demolition bomb was withdrawn from service before then and the Mk-8 had not yet entered production.
Had the bomb been armed with its fissile capsule, the immediate death toll may have reached six figures.
And maybe that's the reason the fissile material wasn't inserted into the bomb? And in any event I'd be very surprised if the fire caused the explosives to detonate sufficently simoultaneously to actually cause anything more than a fizzle.
Oh, really? Do you have any evidence? If I brought a baboon into a supermarket, would that be OK? If I pointed out that my baboon was gay, would it be homophobic to refuse the beast entry?
You're an idiot, allow me to quote the fucking SUMMARY for you:
"A statement given by restaurant owners Hong Hoa Thi To and Anh Hoang Le said one of the waiters had understood Mr. Jolly's partner Chris Lawrence 'to be saying she wanted to bring a gay dog into the restaurant. The staff genuinely believed that Nudge was an ordinary pet dog which had been desexed to become a gay dog,' the statement said. Mr. Jolly and Ms. Lawrence were refused entry to the restaurant -- which displays a 'guide dogs welcome' sign -- even after providing staff with a guide dogs fact card."
They displayed a sign with the text "Guide dogs welcome" and then denied the dog access since they confused it for a gay dog. Yes, it WAS homophobic to deny the dog entry.
The verdict explicitly addresses this point and states that due to TPB running the tracker and thus being intimately involved in the sharing of copyrighted material any comparison with Google is false. They were not convicted because TPB is hosting a bunch of torrent files, they were convicted because they were running a tracker.
I don't think he worries about the cost of upgrading, I think he worries about having to learn how to use the new system. I'd bet that's the reason he wants such a long lifetime.
The USS New Orleans isn't equipped with a sonar suite, perfecting underwater stealth technology sufficiently to hide from her isn't much of an accomplishment.
Could you possibly elaborate a little on how you expect eka-heavy elements to produce cold fusion?
So what has ICANN and ICANN's community done in the meantime?
.org registry, PIR, which had been getting annoyed with the practice.
.org domains, irrespective of whether they were returned during the Add Grace Period, if the returns accounted for more than 90 percent of domains registered in that month.
Well, at the Marrakech meeting, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) released a report [pdf] covering the issue, following a request by the owner of the
A few months later (September 2006), PIR pushed [pdf] for it to be allowed to charge five cents for
The Board approved the measure a month later and the first effort to stamp out domain tasting began. It was, according to PIR, immediately successful in reducing domain tasting.
In the meantime, a series of workshops was held at ICANN meetings covering the issue in increasing depth. The meeting after Marrakech, in São Paulo, Brazil in December 2006, saw a Domain Name Marketplace presentation. And no less than two sessions were held at the Lisbon meeting in March 2007: How the Marketplace for Expiring Names Has Changed; and the Domain name secondary market.
All of this prompted the At Large Advisory Committee to demand an issues report into the issue of domain tasting, which ICANN staff promptly did, producing a report in May 2007, putting it out for public comment, revising it, and then providing a final Issues Report [pdf] to the GNSO Council in June 2007, recommending that a formal policy development process (PDP) be launched.
The GNSO decided to create a Working Group, which produced an Outcomes Report [pdf] four months later in October 2007. That report then led to the GNSO launching a formal policy development process on the issue.
The result of this was an Initial Report [pdf] by staff in January 2008, put out for public comment. That led to a draft Final Report [pdf] the next month (February 2008). In March, the GNSO Council voted to solicit comments on a draft motion that had been prepared by a number of Council members and constituency representatives in an effort to curb domain tasting (a summary/analysis of those comments subsequently pulled back into the process).
In the meantime, the Board had embarked on its own solution, recommending at its January 2008 meeting that all domains be charged the 20 cent transaction fee, regardless of whether it was returned during the Add Grace Period. That proposal would have to go through the budgetary process for the next fiscal year before being enacted.
Is it any wonder it took forever to fix something as simple as domain name sampling?
No way in HELL! They made their bed, now they can lie in it.
I think he got the registration fee back as well as some free Microsoft software.
Keystone Cops indeed, but that seems to be the norm today.
How are they going to get people on and off the station?
My first thought was Dragon, but according to the SpaceX website the price for even the cheapest Falcon9 to LEO is 35 million, with a suggested price of 4 million for a three day stay and the Dragon capsule being capable of carrying 7 people this can't possibly be profitable (or even close to break even).
Anyone know what launch vehicle they're planning to use?
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Indeed. Sofia will be working in her parents' retail store this summer to pay off her debt
What you are forgetting is that demonstarting the problem takes roughly three months (give or take), this makes it impossible to collect the so called prize, as you can't possibly demonstrate the slow deterioration of a DVD-drive during a trip to Moscow. This is something StarForce undoubtedly was well aware of before they offered the price.
If there are anyone here who doubts that StarForce creates problems you should visit the StarForce web site drop by the support forums.
Ohh I don't know, personally I consider web access to be just slightly less important than electricity and I'm willing to bet that getting decent web access installed, regardless of it being cable, ADSL or something else, is next to impossible in New Orleans at the moment.
Microsoft had let thousands of programmers each produce their own piece of computer code, then stitched it together into one sprawling program.
This really explains a lot...
Personally I'd guess burn victims, but hey, that's just me.
In fact, the opposite is indicated. ISS and Cisco are apparently working on a fix.
For four months... Come on, how long should he be required to wait?
The first bomb had two hemispherses of Uranium that were polished smooth.
This is slightly inaccurate the first bomb (Gadget) did indeed consist of two hollow hemispheres, but it was two nickel plated plutonium hemispheres (with some gold foil added to smooth it out after the nickle blistered) and not uranium hemispheres.
The first uranium bomb (Little Boy) was a gun type system with a cannon firing a bullet of uranium into a barely subcritical mass of uranium.
This is not to say that a bomb can't be made with two hemispheres of uranium, but this was not done with either the first bomb or the first uranium bomb. The idea of converting the Little Boy bomb into an implosion design (with two hemispheres of uranium) was raised after the Gadget test as it would permit more efficent use of the uranium, but it was decided not to as this would delay the use of the weapon.
Natural uranium contains U-238, U-235 and a TINY amount of U-234. U-233 is an isotope of uranium created by neutron bombardment of thorium and is not present in natural uranium. Above should read seperating the U-235 from the U-238.
£80851 per problem actually.
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My personal favourite is "Mutineer's Moon", in fact I liked it so much that I bought the entire series including "Mutineer's Moon" in their dead wood editions. If you're a sci-fi or fantasy fan you really should check it and the other books here out. No DRM either.
Kerry didn't volunteer until he had tried every way under the sun to get out of going. Read your history, Sparky.
You mean like joining the Texas Air National Guard?
Not to mention the fact that Bush will win California according to the 7-11 poll.
Kerry: 48.84%
Bush: 51.16%
Who said we were 'world police'? We're trying to destroy terrorism.
Could you please in your infinite wisdom explain Iraq to me then?