Not necessarily a single person. Many illegal aliens will pick a random set of digits, and they'll share numbers that work. Depending on the employer, they may need to change numbers annuallly.
Well, reporters who aren'tin danger of being tossed into a cell with people suffering from tuberculosis have a different view. Keep in mind that here in the west, we have access not only to our own country's take on events, we can read the accounts from the Red Dynasty's propagandists as well. Guess which side I find convincing?
Hell, most Chinese don't even know that Mao killed more Chinese than Tojo.
China will be back to her dictatorial self once the Olympics is finished in 2008.
Please don'tconflate China with the criminal regime that rules it. China is the country. The Red Dynasty is the dictatorship. (Although strictly speaking, it hasn't been a dictatorship for sometime. These days it's an oligarchy, consisting of a committee of thugs.)
You'reoversimplifying that quite a bit. Under Texas law (and I don't think any other states allow this), it's permissible to introduce evidence to impugn the character of the deceased as a murder defense. Basically, it's a justifiable homicide theory, and you have to convince the jury that the person killed presented a danger to the defendant or to the community. It's rather harder to win an acquittal that way than it would be (say) to claim self-defense.
It wouldn't surprise meat all if the Chinese take him out with a railway accident in the near future. They don't need a Stalinist throwback on their border any more than we do.
This sort of publically-announced test is just an extremely expensive and technologically advanced version of chest-beating.
I'd describe it more as highly-aggressive panhandling. What the repugnant little runt expects, and what he's gotten in the past, is a package of bribes to get more empty promises out of him.
The North Korean economy is a complete basket case, as one would expect from one of the last two Stalinist regimes on earth. All that's keeping North Korea from collapsing into famine AGAIN, is the largess of South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China.
If there had been even the remotest chance that Saddam Hussein had had weapons of mass destruction, do you think we'd have invaded Iraq?
The question was actually whether he stlll had them. His use of chemical weapons and his program to develop nukes was not in doubt. The cease-fire that he agreed to after being ejected from Kuwait obligated Iraq to destroy those weapons, and prove that they had done so. It was not the job of the weapons inspectors to go hunting for them. Their job was to witness, document and audit Iraq's disarmament.
Refueling it, probably. Those hybrid solid-fuel/liquid-oxidizer engines are fine for a single burn, but a tad time-consuming to reload.
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I suppose you could use the inexpensive ones, as long as your goal was to change the pilot requirement from "top of the line test pilot" to "very good helicopter pilot," and not an attempt to make it flyable by anyone with a bit of simulator practice.
This doesn't make any sense. If you've got attitude sensors and the means to alter the attitude through computer control of thrust, it's a programming problem.
College classes routinely build autonomous helicopters, so you can obviously reduce the "piloting" to indicating intentions to the computer that's flying the thing.
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the next problem is to find a fuel light enough that you can stand up and walk around with more than 20 seconds' worth hanging on your back.
Got it: It's called "gasoline".
How you get a significant amount of its stored energy released in a useful way by a rocket motor is left as an exercise for the reader.
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You can't do it on cheap gyros (read: you're probably spending $5-10k per axis),
Why not? There are gyros that model helicopters use that are cheaper than $100, and an RC chopper is a whole lot twitchier than something with the mass of a human being in it. If your flight only lasts for a couple of minutes, then you hardly need high-precision gyros that won't drift more than a degree per hour.
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If I had any intention of using Vista, this would bother me, too.
However, as an Apple shareholder, I applaud this move by Microsoft. Keep it up, guys!
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Not necessarily a single person. Many illegal aliens will pick a random set of digits, and they'll share numbers that work. Depending on the employer, they may need to change numbers annuallly.
-jcr
In the beginning the Social Security Number was issued by the government and is unique to each living citizen. This much still holds true.
Nope. There have been many cases of the SSA issuing blocks of numbers multiple times. SSN collisions happen every day.
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I missed the part where you explained why it's any of our concern what weapons Saddam had or didn't have.
It became the concern of the international community when Saddam attempted to forcibly annex Kuwait. Maybe you heard about it, it made all the papers.
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Well, reporters who aren'tin danger of being tossed into a cell with people suffering from tuberculosis have a different view. Keep in mind that here in the west, we have access not only to our own country's take on events, we can read the accounts from the Red Dynasty's propagandists as well. Guess which side I find convincing?
Hell, most Chinese don't even know that Mao killed more Chinese than Tojo.
-jcr
I just had a chat with a friend in China, and she wasn't able to get to the WP article on the 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre.
-jcr
China will be back to her dictatorial self once the Olympics is finished in 2008.
Please don'tconflate China with the criminal regime that rules it. China is the country. The Red Dynasty is the dictatorship. (Although strictly speaking, it hasn't been a dictatorship for sometime. These days it's an oligarchy, consisting of a committee of thugs.)
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What does this say about Schwartz when he blogs stupidities like this?
Well, to me it says he's looking for attention. Is there any other reason for Sun to be in the news this month?
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Alls you have to do is convince 12 people that the person who's dead was such a cretin that the world is better off without him/I
In most states, the judge wouldn't allow you to introduce evidence about the character of the deceased.
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Lie detectors are way overused.
Call it a polygraph, please. "lie detector" is just wishful thinking.
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"He needed killin'" is an acceptable defense.
You'reoversimplifying that quite a bit. Under Texas law (and I don't think any other states allow this), it's permissible to introduce evidence to impugn the character of the deceased as a murder defense. Basically, it's a justifiable homicide theory, and you have to convince the jury that the person killed presented a danger to the defendant or to the community. It's rather harder to win an acquittal that way than it would be (say) to claim self-defense.
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MacArthur had a Navy to help him.
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It wouldn't surprise meat all if the Chinese take him out with a railway accident in the near future. They don't need a Stalinist throwback on their border any more than we do.
-jcr
This sort of publically-announced test is just an extremely expensive and technologically advanced version of chest-beating.
I'd describe it more as highly-aggressive panhandling. What the repugnant little runt expects, and what he's gotten in the past, is a package of bribes to get more empty promises out of him.
The North Korean economy is a complete basket case, as one would expect from one of the last two Stalinist regimes on earth. All that's keeping North Korea from collapsing into famine AGAIN, is the largess of South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China.
-jcr
If there had been even the remotest chance that Saddam Hussein had had weapons of mass destruction, do you think we'd have invaded Iraq?
The question was actually whether he stlll had them. His use of chemical weapons and his program to develop nukes was not in doubt. The cease-fire that he agreed to after being ejected from Kuwait obligated Iraq to destroy those weapons, and prove that they had done so. It was not the job of the weapons inspectors to go hunting for them. Their job was to witness, document and audit Iraq's disarmament.
-jcr
Nukes are the most useless weapon any country can have, simply because you can't use them.
I wouldn't say it's useless to force a stalemate. Nukes are probably what prevented the cold war turning into WW3.
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Of all the greenhouse gases, CO2 is, by a considerable margin, the most significant.
Except for water vapor, you mean.
-jcr
Ok, what's the third problem?
Refueling it, probably. Those hybrid solid-fuel/liquid-oxidizer engines are fine for a single burn, but a tad time-consuming to reload.
-jcr
I suppose you could use the inexpensive ones, as long as your goal was to change the pilot requirement from "top of the line test pilot" to "very good helicopter pilot," and not an attempt to make it flyable by anyone with a bit of simulator practice.
This doesn't make any sense. If you've got attitude sensors and the means to alter the attitude through computer control of thrust, it's a programming problem.
College classes routinely build autonomous helicopters, so you can obviously reduce the "piloting" to indicating intentions to the computer that's flying the thing.
-jcr
the next problem is to find a fuel light enough that you can stand up and walk around with more than 20 seconds' worth hanging on your back.
Got it: It's called "gasoline".
How you get a significant amount of its stored energy released in a useful way by a rocket motor is left as an exercise for the reader.
-jcr
You can't do it on cheap gyros (read: you're probably spending $5-10k per axis),
Why not? There are gyros that model helicopters use that are cheaper than $100, and an RC chopper is a whole lot twitchier than something with the mass of a human being in it. If your flight only lasts for a couple of minutes, then you hardly need high-precision gyros that won't drift more than a degree per hour.
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You've hit the nail on the head.
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I'm looking at buying farmland in Canada and Antarctica. ;-)
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Full-scale? That must have been a large room.
Nah, the actors were tiny.
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Try to keep up, sparky. I was talking about databases, not web app development tools.
-jcr