Actually, you can drink all the water you want and still be dehydrated, if that water lacks the supplements your body is craving (it just tries to get rid of the water quicker rather than retaining it).
So no, their claim is not 100% accurate and can lead to permanent damage.
We don't know what payload this weapon will be certified for - with cruise missiles such as the Tomahawk being certified for both the nuclear strike role and the conventional strike role, you cannot rule out the nuclear role for this weapon.
And indeed, this would be the perfect weapon for initiating a nuclear war - launch and strike the opposing forces command structure before they are aware (as you note), just as the plan was with the B-2 Spirit - but much quicker. With this weapon you could strike a target deep within Russia, with a nuclear payload, in the same time as an ICBM could - except the opposing force doesn't get the warning they do with an ICBM.
Launch your leadership strikes, and the moment they hit, launch your infrastructure strikes while the opposing force is headless and flailing.
So I really wouldn't discount this as a nuclear first strike weapon, not at all.
Has anyone explained why neutrinos have to have a single velocity yet? Pretty much all the commentary I am reading in these stories assume that a neutrino from one source is going to have the same velocity as a neutrino from another source.
What's cheaper for the school? Going after the lawyers and politicians, or printing a few hundred letters and sending them home with the kids?
No contest, from the schools point of view.
When I was at school, we weren't allowed to throw snowballs when it snowed, and we were only allowed soft soccer balls during winter periods when the playing fields were closed during "recess" and we had to play on the concrete areas. This was 20 years ago...
You are largely making the same mistake you take issue with other people making - Stalin was in power for 12 years, and the USSR went on for another 40 or so years after him. During the period after him, the USSR changed dramatically in policy and stance.
Can you name any mass killings etc carried out under any of Stalins successors? No, because the totalitarian regime largely died with him.
The license is most certainly optional on GPL software - for the GPL v2, see sections 0 ("Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program)") and 5 ("You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works.").
For the GPL v3, see section 9 ("You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program.").
If I do not wish to modify or distribute, I don't have to accept the GPL at all.
Virgin isn't exactly much better - about 10 years ago their predecessor received a government grant to extend their network, so the town I was living in at the time had all it's roads ripped up while they laid the infrastructure out to cabinets on all street corners.
Did we ever actually get any service? No. That cable has lain unused ever since. The grant stopped short of providing money to hook up the buildings, so it never happened.
I never understood the lure of the RAZR, I got one with an upgrade a few months after everyone started raving about them - it was the tackiest, cheapest phone I have ever had. The UI was shit, the features were shit, the battery life wasnt all that great. What was so spectacular about it?
I sold it after a couple of weeks and stuck to my Samsung clamshell - best phone I ever had pre-smartphone.
I think people are misconstruing some of the issues here - in this case, has due process really been afforded, because the Twitter ruling was based around a lower requirement of demonstration of need for obtaining the search warrant - basically, the Judge ruled that the requester didn't need to demonstrate any "probable cause" because of the type of information being requested, and thus the warrant would be issued on a lower burden of requirement.
So in this case, even if this lady had papers and possessions within the US, warrants to search those would be held to a higher burden because they do not fall under the same conditions as this ruling - she would infact have more protection for those items than her Twitter information here.
So has due process really been afforded? By lowering the burden of requirement, I'm hesitant to say that it has.
At the start of Thatchers reign, coal was running at a huge loss, steel was running at a huge loss, the energy companies were running at huge losses, British Rail was running at a huge loss etc etc etc See where I'm going with this?
There really is no point in propping up a domestic industry which has no market - find other, better things to do.
I don't see what your reply has to do with my post - the OPs point was "well, if they are against X, then why arent they equally against Y?" when X and Y differ hugely in the effort required to do the same "damage". Someone lending over sneakernet is going to have to work pretty damn hard to lend to the same number of people that one person spending 5 minutes uploading to isohunt can end up distributing to over the internet.
Because people lending (which is different to whats going on here) over "sneakernet" doesn't equate to tens of thousands of people having their own copy in only a few hours.
And the content industry certainly does go after those persons mass producing unlicensed copies.
Don't underestimate Thatcher - she freed us from the tyranny of the coal unions (and it really was a tyranny), and we have benefitted from that and other such acts ever since.
Apple have already psuedo-crippled HTML5 apps in IOS, as the embedded WebKit that PhoneGap uses, and the WebKit instance that your "saved to the desktop" HTML5 app uses, don't have the same accelerations applied that the standard mobile Safari does.
If you are going to go down that road, then theres pretty much no one you can trust.
Plus Microsoft (and its so called "proxies") is much more likely to bring suite against parties which are implementing different languages - there's little reason to bring suite against a project which is spreading your own language around, when there are others potentially infringing on the same patents while implementing competing languages and ecosystems (see Sun vs MS first time round, and now Oracle vs Google for Dalvik).
On an unrelated note, to the infantile little turd who is wholesale modding bunches of my posts down as "-1 Troll" (unrelated posts, in groups of 5), grow up and get a life. Perhaps consider moving out of your parents basement and living a little.
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Except we did use the Vulcan to bomb the Falklands, there were 7 missions in total...
The bomb load of the Vulcan was such that it would have needed several sorties from each Harrier in the task force to put the same amount of ordnance on Stanley, so the planners went with the Vulcan. That and the psychological effect of proving to the Argentinians that we could put a heavy bomber very close to their main land, making their bases a prime target...
The real reason Boeing will come out as the winner is because they bought McDonell Douglas, and with it the F-15 (which is selling reasonably well overseas) and the F/A-18, which is what a lot of countries are looking at instead of the F-35 (Australia just bought a load, and are considering dropping their F-35 buy for more F/A-18s - and it looks likely that the USMC will lose the F-35B and have to buy more F/A-18s instead, as well as the F-35C).
Except the Boeing offering could not achieve most of the fly-off goals without actual modification to the airframe each time (for a vertical takeoff the Boeing team had to remove sections of the bodywork to allow enough airflow and reduce the weight, which restricted the aircraft in forward flight - so the Boeing team couldn't demonstrate a straight mission profile). The Lockheed aircraft outperformed and outflew the Boeing aircraft throughout the fly-off, even to the point of air-to-air refuelling (the Boeing aircraft abandoned refuelling) and firing a missile (even through that wasn't part of the demonstration requirements).
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You are missing the real tanker fiasco - the KC-135 fleet only needs replacing *now* because the USAF purposely drew it down in anticipation of a replacement fleet in 2001. When that fleet was determined to be the result of corruption, for some reason the USAF managed to keep the idea of a new fleet on the cards, hence the two rounds of bidding. If the replacement hadn't been put forward to begin with, the KC-135s would currently be undergoing a midlife upgrade and merrily continuing to serve for another 30 years.
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Problem is, the F-22 turned out to be hideously expensive to fly, with something like 100 maintenance hours per flight hour required, so in essence the most expensive portion of the program was infect ahead of them - the ownership and operation.
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Nope, the grounding order was raised across the fleet a few weeks ago - however, no resolution was found for the problems that caused the grounding in the first place. And a base specific grounding occured shortly after the return to flight, after one commander decided the risk was too much.
No, Dropbox Teams only differs from normal accounts in one real way - shared folders only count once against the team storage. It has no permissions etc.
Oh, and Teams accounts have been available for the past 18 months, they were just recently take out of (a very silent) beta...
Read the story again, the characters think they are on Earth, but Reynolds makes it obvious it's infact Mars (there is reference to a First Landing Day for example, as well as durations, ages and references to prominent Mars features).
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Actually, you can drink all the water you want and still be dehydrated, if that water lacks the supplements your body is craving (it just tries to get rid of the water quicker rather than retaining it).
So no, their claim is not 100% accurate and can lead to permanent damage.
We don't know what payload this weapon will be certified for - with cruise missiles such as the Tomahawk being certified for both the nuclear strike role and the conventional strike role, you cannot rule out the nuclear role for this weapon.
And indeed, this would be the perfect weapon for initiating a nuclear war - launch and strike the opposing forces command structure before they are aware (as you note), just as the plan was with the B-2 Spirit - but much quicker. With this weapon you could strike a target deep within Russia, with a nuclear payload, in the same time as an ICBM could - except the opposing force doesn't get the warning they do with an ICBM.
Launch your leadership strikes, and the moment they hit, launch your infrastructure strikes while the opposing force is headless and flailing.
So I really wouldn't discount this as a nuclear first strike weapon, not at all.
Has anyone explained why neutrinos have to have a single velocity yet? Pretty much all the commentary I am reading in these stories assume that a neutrino from one source is going to have the same velocity as a neutrino from another source.
What's cheaper for the school? Going after the lawyers and politicians, or printing a few hundred letters and sending them home with the kids?
No contest, from the schools point of view.
When I was at school, we weren't allowed to throw snowballs when it snowed, and we were only allowed soft soccer balls during winter periods when the playing fields were closed during "recess" and we had to play on the concrete areas. This was 20 years ago...
You are largely making the same mistake you take issue with other people making - Stalin was in power for 12 years, and the USSR went on for another 40 or so years after him. During the period after him, the USSR changed dramatically in policy and stance.
Can you name any mass killings etc carried out under any of Stalins successors? No, because the totalitarian regime largely died with him.
The license is most certainly optional on GPL software - for the GPL v2, see sections 0 ("Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program)") and 5 ("You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works.").
For the GPL v3, see section 9 ("You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program.").
If I do not wish to modify or distribute, I don't have to accept the GPL at all.
Fuck that, how about routing millions of nodes in general? Ad hoc would result in either massive routing tables or long routes...
Virgin isn't exactly much better - about 10 years ago their predecessor received a government grant to extend their network, so the town I was living in at the time had all it's roads ripped up while they laid the infrastructure out to cabinets on all street corners.
Did we ever actually get any service? No. That cable has lain unused ever since. The grant stopped short of providing money to hook up the buildings, so it never happened.
I never understood the lure of the RAZR, I got one with an upgrade a few months after everyone started raving about them - it was the tackiest, cheapest phone I have ever had. The UI was shit, the features were shit, the battery life wasnt all that great. What was so spectacular about it?
I sold it after a couple of weeks and stuck to my Samsung clamshell - best phone I ever had pre-smartphone.
I think people are misconstruing some of the issues here - in this case, has due process really been afforded, because the Twitter ruling was based around a lower requirement of demonstration of need for obtaining the search warrant - basically, the Judge ruled that the requester didn't need to demonstrate any "probable cause" because of the type of information being requested, and thus the warrant would be issued on a lower burden of requirement.
So in this case, even if this lady had papers and possessions within the US, warrants to search those would be held to a higher burden because they do not fall under the same conditions as this ruling - she would infact have more protection for those items than her Twitter information here.
So has due process really been afforded? By lowering the burden of requirement, I'm hesitant to say that it has.
At the start of Thatchers reign, coal was running at a huge loss, steel was running at a huge loss, the energy companies were running at huge losses, British Rail was running at a huge loss etc etc etc See where I'm going with this?
There really is no point in propping up a domestic industry which has no market - find other, better things to do.
I don't see what your reply has to do with my post - the OPs point was "well, if they are against X, then why arent they equally against Y?" when X and Y differ hugely in the effort required to do the same "damage". Someone lending over sneakernet is going to have to work pretty damn hard to lend to the same number of people that one person spending 5 minutes uploading to isohunt can end up distributing to over the internet.
Thats why X is more rigorously persued than Y.
Because people lending (which is different to whats going on here) over "sneakernet" doesn't equate to tens of thousands of people having their own copy in only a few hours.
And the content industry certainly does go after those persons mass producing unlicensed copies.
Don't underestimate Thatcher - she freed us from the tyranny of the coal unions (and it really was a tyranny), and we have benefitted from that and other such acts ever since.
Apple have already psuedo-crippled HTML5 apps in IOS, as the embedded WebKit that PhoneGap uses, and the WebKit instance that your "saved to the desktop" HTML5 app uses, don't have the same accelerations applied that the standard mobile Safari does.
If you are going to go down that road, then theres pretty much no one you can trust.
Plus Microsoft (and its so called "proxies") is much more likely to bring suite against parties which are implementing different languages - there's little reason to bring suite against a project which is spreading your own language around, when there are others potentially infringing on the same patents while implementing competing languages and ecosystems (see Sun vs MS first time round, and now Oracle vs Google for Dalvik).
On an unrelated note, to the infantile little turd who is wholesale modding bunches of my posts down as "-1 Troll" (unrelated posts, in groups of 5), grow up and get a life. Perhaps consider moving out of your parents basement and living a little.
Except we did use the Vulcan to bomb the Falklands, there were 7 missions in total...
The bomb load of the Vulcan was such that it would have needed several sorties from each Harrier in the task force to put the same amount of ordnance on Stanley, so the planners went with the Vulcan. That and the psychological effect of proving to the Argentinians that we could put a heavy bomber very close to their main land, making their bases a prime target...
The real reason Boeing will come out as the winner is because they bought McDonell Douglas, and with it the F-15 (which is selling reasonably well overseas) and the F/A-18, which is what a lot of countries are looking at instead of the F-35 (Australia just bought a load, and are considering dropping their F-35 buy for more F/A-18s - and it looks likely that the USMC will lose the F-35B and have to buy more F/A-18s instead, as well as the F-35C).
Except the Boeing offering could not achieve most of the fly-off goals without actual modification to the airframe each time (for a vertical takeoff the Boeing team had to remove sections of the bodywork to allow enough airflow and reduce the weight, which restricted the aircraft in forward flight - so the Boeing team couldn't demonstrate a straight mission profile). The Lockheed aircraft outperformed and outflew the Boeing aircraft throughout the fly-off, even to the point of air-to-air refuelling (the Boeing aircraft abandoned refuelling) and firing a missile (even through that wasn't part of the demonstration requirements).
You are missing the real tanker fiasco - the KC-135 fleet only needs replacing *now* because the USAF purposely drew it down in anticipation of a replacement fleet in 2001. When that fleet was determined to be the result of corruption, for some reason the USAF managed to keep the idea of a new fleet on the cards, hence the two rounds of bidding. If the replacement hadn't been put forward to begin with, the KC-135s would currently be undergoing a midlife upgrade and merrily continuing to serve for another 30 years.
Problem is, the F-22 turned out to be hideously expensive to fly, with something like 100 maintenance hours per flight hour required, so in essence the most expensive portion of the program was infect ahead of them - the ownership and operation.
Nope, the grounding order was raised across the fleet a few weeks ago - however, no resolution was found for the problems that caused the grounding in the first place. And a base specific grounding occured shortly after the return to flight, after one commander decided the risk was too much.
No, Dropbox Teams only differs from normal accounts in one real way - shared folders only count once against the team storage. It has no permissions etc.
Oh, and Teams accounts have been available for the past 18 months, they were just recently take out of (a very silent) beta...
You missed all of the pointers in the story then - don't worry, I did the first time as well. It's definitely Mars, not Earth.
Read the story again, the characters think they are on Earth, but Reynolds makes it obvious it's infact Mars (there is reference to a First Landing Day for example, as well as durations, ages and references to prominent Mars features).