You just reminded me of something. I take it most of you that follow American politics even a little know about all the whining over 10 of Bush's judicial appointments? Well, after years (and particularly so in the past several months), of shrill complaints by the GOP that the Democrats where delaying and obstructing the "up or down" votes of these nominies, they finally got their way.
This is where it gets good: During the discussion over one of the nominies a few days ago, just before the vote, the Republicans demanded the debate be shut down and the vote put off. And, the Democrats agreed. What had been so important for them to put a halt to what they had wanted for so many years?
Well, it was announced that 2 communist Chinese businessmen had arrived in the captal building. And, yes, in a show of bipartisan support, both the Republicans and the Democrats stopped the important work of running the nation to both go and meet the businessmen. Not even a vote on a motion taken, just simulatious agreement.
Most people think of censorship as the government putting it's foot down and outright banning words or topics. Actually direct government intervention is not necessary.
All the government has to do is: -pass regulations penalizing media outlets -refuse to inform the outlets when releasing news items -ignore questions and refuse to call on certain reporters during press conferences, if not outright banning certain people -use other media outlets to turn one into a scape goat -sabotage reporting for that outlet with false evidence from "anonymous" sources -start accusations that the reporting is reclessly endangering others and threaten to prosecute -"accidently" shoot at and imprison field reporters -consistantly confiscate all of above reporter's recordings and notes as "evidence" -question the patriotism and loyalty -etc
...of media that "doesn't play ball." Any capitalist corporation will bow under such pressure because their primary driver is not integrity and values, but profits. If you are in the business of reporting news, patially or exclusively, you don't make any money if you don't have news to report or if your consumers think it's all lies.
If it where possible, I'd imagine the light waves would behave in much the same manner as a sonic boom-style shockwave, but with light instead. In other words a high energy electro-magnetic pulse that would seem to originate from a point, I'd guess.
I'm not talking about GPS. At least not with this prototype. It is too underpowered. A stack powerful enough to handle GPS would probably be too large at this point. Plus there is the problem of the signal making it through flesh, which would likely block a good portion of it. I'm talking about relatively short range tracking for now.
I already thought of this. In order for an RFID style implant to work, like you said, it needs to be scanned first. This requires an active transmission from whoever or whatever it trying to get the information. Having an implant actively powered allows for the reading of the information to take place without as much risk of who or what is trying to get that information from being revealed.
At that low power, Wouldn't it be just about right for a small tracking device? Implant it in the body and it would be self powered. It could also be used for punishment and "interogation" by attaching the cell to the right pain nerves.
I know this is scary, but how long until this is our "National ID Card."
But, why are we taking advice from economists on election fraud? I could understand statisticians, sociologists, or constitutional scholars. But, economists?
No, I'm not a real election expert. But, I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night!
Now, for the freepers on here that like to take every situation that isn't an outright and total failure for their gods and declare victory: There is more evidence than just these guys that election fraud took place in 2000, 2002, and 2004. But, if you are that way anyway, nothing I say or post or link will convince you...unless it's about the 2004 Washington Mayor's Race.
Wouldn't "accidently" selectively releasing classified information be an effective propaganda technique? That way people would think that since it was classified it must be true?
Perhaps I'm just too paranoid about the modern media-goverment incest going on for the past few decades.
Well, you seem to act like this is coming from only one side of the fence. So, I'll point out something. Even the SanFranLiberals couldn't get away with trying this normally. They would be publically castrated for abusing free speech rights by Republican noise machine. Well, that is until some liberal blogs blew Mr. Guckert's cover. Now napalming these grassroots forums are on the top of the list of the leadership and thier media plants of both parties. (Well, except Mr. Dean and Air America.) Especially so, since many of the partisan style blogs are trying to hold their leadership's feet to the fire and grow a spine; which puts a cramp in the politians' ability to wheel and deal under the radar for their own personal profit.
The funny thing I find ignored by democrats, republicans, the media, and thier grassroots, is that JG was a blogger himself. Hell he was known to brag about his exploits on FR. Face it, Talon News was set up after the fact to give him cover after he had been in for months. It was his personal blog, with FR being his forum. It's hypocritical, and a sign of the times. FR has been on the rampage for years with this kind of activity. Hell JG himself "outed" Kerry as being a gay frenchman....and that wasn't even based on facts. And after other people get fed up with the abuse from FR and start their own political blogs. Now all of a sudden blogs are evil and must be regulated by big brother. Go figure...
Even the freepers don't get it. For example, during the 2004 Presidential selection cycle, the freepers that have spent the last several years flooding every "biased" poll they could find on the internet, from news media polls, to forum polls (including some of slashdot's), to polls for frickin elementry school students, could not comprehend why the blogs rooting for Kerry where flooding the polls after the debates. Even the shoot'em first, ask questions later crowd couldn't understand payback when they where the ones recieving it. It's amazing how quick the schoolyard bully is to cry foul when someone punches back.
I've seen people bring in Microsoft PCs so loaded full of trojans, spyware, worms, and backdoors, that it litterally would take 15 minutes for the start menu to draw after clicking the button on a PC shipped from the manufacturer 6 months before. And, even then, they just wanted an estimate...
FYI: I think it took about an hour and a half to finish it's boot. A 1Ghz AMD based PC with 256MB of RAM if I remember correctly. It was a new middle of the road system at the time.
Happens to me, too. I have a so far unshakable faith in God. Yet when I express my views that don't play well with the predominant Southern Baptist fudamentalism of the region or the "Born Again"s, I get called an atheist or agnostic. And, I get treated like I'm half acceptable, but still damned, and mostly ignored like a biblical temptation. Seriously...
Yes, it would be possible for an omnipotent, omniscient being to do anything. Even the whole universe in seven days if he/she/it/whatever wanted, too. But, food for thought, why would a benefactor of a being as such, go out of it's way to actively decieve it's own children by leaving evidence to the contrary?
I beleive the next step of this argument is to go on about some plan or test of faith...
Actually, I thought the whole science and religion are incompatable BS started back in the day when saying the earth orbited the sun instead of the other way around was declared heresy, and punishable by torture and death. This probably happened even earlier since I vaguely remember some pre-science greek philosephers getting the knife for expessing views that disagreed with the views of the fundies of that culture.
This makes me wonder, because of it's density, whether or not it has a fission component. Almost like a big hydrogen bomb, a fission triggered, fusion reaction. Is so massive because the hydrogen somehow got so dence? Or is the core composed of heavy elements? Can core composition be determined from spectral lines?
Could it be a star that was stripped of most of it's mass?
Could it be a white dwarf that accumulated more hydrogen? If I remember correctly, dwarfs and neutron stars that accumulate mass tend to errupt in a nova.
I don't see any attempts to hint at what caused this in the article...
Your trying to do an apples to oranges comparison. A Watt is a unit of power. The bomb is usually measured in kilotons or megatons, energy units. But I'll try:
P = E/t A Watt is a Joule per second.
The energy released by a ton of TNT exploding as a unit of energy is 4.2 x 10^9 Joules. So divide 10^39 (10,000 trillion trillion trillion watts) by 4.2x10^9 and get 2.38095238 x 10^29 tons of TNT per second. That's 2.38 x 10^26 kilotons or 2.38 x 10^23 megatons.
The Hiroshima bomb released about 12.5 kilotons of TNT of energy. That means at one point the magnetar was releasing the energy at the rate of about 1.9 x 10^25 (19,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)Hiroshima bombs per second.
The problem is, that the snitch can frame someone else as a bigger fish. One of the "terrorist cells" the US "found" was actually a few muslim guys a fraudster knew. When the fraudster got caught, well, he decided to rat them out as terrorists in order to get away with a reduced sentance...
The video tape profiling Disney world as a target ended up being a tourist tape. The notebook with a sketch of a base in turkey ended up being the mad scriblings of a crazy guy who lived at the place before them that thought he was the head of the military of the entire middle east or something...
People have already said its about 390 meters wide. But, I'll add it's impact speed would be about 28 000 miles per hour or 45 000 kilometers per hour. A little slower than the estimated mean impact speed for an a near earth orbit asteriod if I remember correctly. The crater would be a few, I think about 3, miles wide.
FYI: 600 feet (re: the Arizona impact) is about 183 meters. This one is estimated to be about 390 meters wide.
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You just reminded me of something. I take it most of you that follow American politics even a little know about all the whining over 10 of Bush's judicial appointments? Well, after years (and particularly so in the past several months), of shrill complaints by the GOP that the Democrats where delaying and obstructing the "up or down" votes of these nominies, they finally got their way.
This is where it gets good: During the discussion over one of the nominies a few days ago, just before the vote, the Republicans demanded the debate be shut down and the vote put off. And, the Democrats agreed. What had been so important for them to put a halt to what they had wanted for so many years?
Well, it was announced that 2 communist Chinese businessmen had arrived in the captal building. And, yes, in a show of bipartisan support, both the Republicans and the Democrats stopped the important work of running the nation to both go and meet the businessmen. Not even a vote on a motion taken, just simulatious agreement.
All the government has to do is:
-pass regulations penalizing media outlets
-refuse to inform the outlets when releasing news items
-ignore questions and refuse to call on certain reporters during press conferences, if not outright banning certain people
-use other media outlets to turn one into a scape goat
-sabotage reporting for that outlet with false evidence from "anonymous" sources
-start accusations that the reporting is reclessly endangering others and threaten to prosecute
-"accidently" shoot at and imprison field reporters
-consistantly confiscate all of above reporter's recordings and notes as "evidence"
-question the patriotism and loyalty
-etc
"The Motion Picture Association of America provided valuable assistance to the investigation."
The political financing kind I'd assume...
If it where possible, I'd imagine the light waves would behave in much the same manner as a sonic boom-style shockwave, but with light instead. In other words a high energy electro-magnetic pulse that would seem to originate from a point, I'd guess.
I'm not talking about GPS. At least not with this prototype. It is too underpowered. A stack powerful enough to handle GPS would probably be too large at this point. Plus there is the problem of the signal making it through flesh, which would likely block a good portion of it. I'm talking about relatively short range tracking for now.
I already thought of this. In order for an RFID style implant to work, like you said, it needs to be scanned first. This requires an active transmission from whoever or whatever it trying to get the information. Having an implant actively powered allows for the reading of the information to take place without as much risk of who or what is trying to get that information from being revealed.
At that low power, Wouldn't it be just about right for a small tracking device? Implant it in the body and it would be self powered. It could also be used for punishment and "interogation" by attaching the cell to the right pain nerves.
I know this is scary, but how long until this is our "National ID Card."
But, why are we taking advice from economists on election fraud? I could understand statisticians, sociologists, or constitutional scholars. But, economists?
No, I'm not a real election expert. But, I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night!
Now, for the freepers on here that like to take every situation that isn't an outright and total failure for their gods and declare victory: There is more evidence than just these guys that election fraud took place in 2000, 2002, and 2004. But, if you are that way anyway, nothing I say or post or link will convince you...unless it's about the 2004 Washington Mayor's Race.
Wouldn't "accidently" selectively releasing classified information be an effective propaganda technique? That way people would think that since it was classified it must be true?
Perhaps I'm just too paranoid about the modern media-goverment incest going on for the past few decades.
This might interest you:
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
by Lawrence Britt
Well, you seem to act like this is coming from only one side of the fence. So, I'll point out something. Even the SanFranLiberals couldn't get away with trying this normally. They would be publically castrated for abusing free speech rights by Republican noise machine. Well, that is until some liberal blogs blew Mr. Guckert's cover. Now napalming these grassroots forums are on the top of the list of the leadership and thier media plants of both parties. (Well, except Mr. Dean and Air America.) Especially so, since many of the partisan style blogs are trying to hold their leadership's feet to the fire and grow a spine; which puts a cramp in the politians' ability to wheel and deal under the radar for their own personal profit.
The funny thing I find ignored by democrats, republicans, the media, and thier grassroots, is that JG was a blogger himself. Hell he was known to brag about his exploits on FR. Face it, Talon News was set up after the fact to give him cover after he had been in for months. It was his personal blog, with FR being his forum. It's hypocritical, and a sign of the times. FR has been on the rampage for years with this kind of activity. Hell JG himself "outed" Kerry as being a gay frenchman. ...and that wasn't even based on facts. And after other people get fed up with the abuse from FR and start their own political blogs. Now all of a sudden blogs are evil and must be regulated by big brother. Go figure...
Even the freepers don't get it. For example, during the 2004 Presidential selection cycle, the freepers that have spent the last several years flooding every "biased" poll they could find on the internet, from news media polls, to forum polls (including some of slashdot's), to polls for frickin elementry school students, could not comprehend why the blogs rooting for Kerry where flooding the polls after the debates. Even the shoot'em first, ask questions later crowd couldn't understand payback when they where the ones recieving it. It's amazing how quick the schoolyard bully is to cry foul when someone punches back.
I've seen people bring in Microsoft PCs so loaded full of trojans, spyware, worms, and backdoors, that it litterally would take 15 minutes for the start menu to draw after clicking the button on a PC shipped from the manufacturer 6 months before. And, even then, they just wanted an estimate...
FYI: I think it took about an hour and a half to finish it's boot. A 1Ghz AMD based PC with 256MB of RAM if I remember correctly. It was a new middle of the road system at the time.
Apparenly you missed the news about Spongebob Squarepants being gay...
It's funny. Laugh!
Well, actually it's quite sad...
Happens to me, too. I have a so far unshakable faith in God. Yet when I express my views that don't play well with the predominant Southern Baptist fudamentalism of the region or the "Born Again"s, I get called an atheist or agnostic. And, I get treated like I'm half acceptable, but still damned, and mostly ignored like a biblical temptation. Seriously...
Yes, it would be possible for an omnipotent, omniscient being to do anything. Even the whole universe in seven days if he/she/it/whatever wanted, too. But, food for thought, why would a benefactor of a being as such, go out of it's way to actively decieve it's own children by leaving evidence to the contrary?
I beleive the next step of this argument is to go on about some plan or test of faith...
Actually, I thought the whole science and religion are incompatable BS started back in the day when saying the earth orbited the sun instead of the other way around was declared heresy, and punishable by torture and death. This probably happened even earlier since I vaguely remember some pre-science greek philosephers getting the knife for expessing views that disagreed with the views of the fundies of that culture.
This makes me wonder, because of it's density, whether or not it has a fission component. Almost like a big hydrogen bomb, a fission triggered, fusion reaction. Is so massive because the hydrogen somehow got so dence? Or is the core composed of heavy elements? Can core composition be determined from spectral lines?
Could it be a star that was stripped of most of it's mass?
Could it be a white dwarf that accumulated more hydrogen? If I remember correctly, dwarfs and neutron stars that accumulate mass tend to errupt in a nova.
I don't see any attempts to hint at what caused this in the article...
Why not define a gram as the mass equivilant to the mass of one mole of hydrogen (the proton-electron isotope)? ...and a kilogram is just 1000 grams...
You know, Avogadro's number? It's mentioned up top in the summary. KISS
Your trying to do an apples to oranges comparison. A Watt is a unit of power. The bomb is usually measured in kilotons or megatons, energy units. But I'll try:
P = E/t
A Watt is a Joule per second.
The energy released by a ton of TNT exploding as a unit of energy is 4.2 x 10^9 Joules. So divide 10^39 (10,000 trillion trillion trillion watts) by 4.2x10^9 and get 2.38095238 x 10^29 tons of TNT per second. That's 2.38 x 10^26 kilotons or 2.38 x 10^23 megatons.
The Hiroshima bomb released about 12.5 kilotons of TNT of energy. That means at one point the magnetar was releasing the energy at the rate of about 1.9 x 10^25 (19,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)Hiroshima bombs per second.
Of course assuming all my math is correct...
The problem is, that the snitch can frame someone else as a bigger fish. One of the "terrorist cells" the US "found" was actually a few muslim guys a fraudster knew. When the fraudster got caught, well, he decided to rat them out as terrorists in order to get away with a reduced sentance...
Initial story.
Later story.
The video tape profiling Disney world as a target ended up being a tourist tape. The notebook with a sketch of a base in turkey ended up being the mad scriblings of a crazy guy who lived at the place before them that thought he was the head of the military of the entire middle east or something...
So, you'll only be $145 000 in the hole when they sue you?
"Isn't that blatently illegal?"
The Golden Rule: He with the gold, makes the rules.
Yeah, there is a chance it will screw your virgin system.
People have already said its about 390 meters wide. But, I'll add it's impact speed would be about 28 000 miles per hour or 45 000 kilometers per hour. A little slower than the estimated mean impact speed for an a near earth orbit asteriod if I remember correctly. The crater would be a few, I think about 3, miles wide.
FYI: 600 feet (re: the Arizona impact) is about 183 meters. This one is estimated to be about 390 meters wide.