Not "Assured Destruction"? The country is presently flipping-the-fuck-out over New Orleans; you mean to tell me that a nuclear strike won't be at least that destructive?
Flipping out isn't "assured destruction". You've got dozens of cities, you only lost one temporarily and a few hundred or at most thousand people. (In nuclear war terms, hardly worth counting.)Actually, the definition of "Mutual Assured Destruction" is that either side could destroy the other (i.e. at least most of the cities) even if the other side struck first. That's why the USSR and USA have bombers AND ICBMs AND sub-launched missiles. If the US made a first strike with just a dozen missiles NK would be toast and have no second strike ability.
And who did preemeption work for then? The Japs did make a creditable attempt with Pearl Harbor, but failed to destroy the US fleet and brought on their own destruction.
They're not FIRING missles at the stockpiles. Once the stockpiles are actually identified and under control the nuclear weapon would be used onsite to incinerate the weapons so we don't have to transport them or store them and run the risk of them being stolen or accidentally engaged.
The military has plenty of ways to incinerate bioweapons at very high temperatures without going nuclear. Nuclear weapons can be easily dismantled and the fissiles extracted. Again, conventional explosives could be used if they were in imminent danger of being seized. Nuclear weapons aren't designed to go off easily, there's no "red wire or blue wire", I think even the North Korean scientists would have designed them to fail safe.
Bollocks. They may have a handful of warheads, but no ICBMs with the range or accuracy. Even if they delivered them by hand, that would be terrible, but not "Assured Destruction". But at the first sign of them making ready, I think they'd get preemptively struck; the US has lots of force in place just over the border.
Russia still has thousands of nukes. China has enough, and some ICBMs, to do a lot of damage. As does France, so I wouldn't keep pissing on them as has become fashionable in the US.
Grog means Rum. This is beacuse Admiral Grog, of the (British) Royal Navy ordered that all British sailors be given a tot of rum every day.
Grog is not (straight) rum, there was no Admiral Grog, and the sailors already drank rum, since the 17th C, and it became part of their official ration in 1731.
"Old Grog" was the nickname of Admiral Vernon (1684-1757), from his grogram cloak, afterwards applied to the mixture he ordered to be served out to sailors instead of neat rum.
By Vernon's time straight rum was commonly issued to sailors aboard ship - and drunkenness and lack of discipline were common problems. On August 21, 1740, Vernon issued an order that rum would thereafter be mixed with water. A quart of water was mixed with a half-pint of rum on deck and in the presence of the Lieutenant of the Watch. Sailors were given two servings a day; one between 10 and 12 AM and the other between 4 and 6 PM. To make it more palatable it was suggested sugar and lime be added. In 1756 the mixture of water and rum became part of the regulations, and the call to "Up Spirits" sounded aboard Royal Navy ships for more than two centuries thereafter.
but what is the problem with making one you can't tweak much,
I haven't used it, but isn't that what Linspire is, at least by default? Like Windows, it's not so much you "can't tweak" as you have to click through a few menus before you can fuck things up.
...is set up for all eventualities, and required very little user input to set up and maintain.
so if a paper is dumbed down and jargon is avoided I can appreciate the quality of the paper. So, where do I get it?
New Scientist and Scientific American for general science. Most fields have "popualr" magazines that cover their disciplines. Just look for the references in mainstream news in articles that interest you, usually they quote from these jopurnals and most are online in some form so you can check them out.
Actually, quite wrong. It takes about 10 times as much energy
It's not the amount of energy, it's how expensive. You need a do-or-die blast to get into Earth orbit. If you're not fighting our gravity or air resistance, you can use slower and more efficient methods and take years rather than minutes. You can use nuclear power (a no-no for Earth launches), you can even use solar. From the payload you might use rocky matter in massdriver or volatiles in a rocket.
We can't haul that kind of water anywhere in the solar system, period.
Of course not. I'm not talking about tomorrow or next week. We were discussing the economics of mining asteroids and you claimed it was pointless because we could always get it cheaper on earth. My point is that these would be more useful elsewhere. A little research turned up this article, quoting an (old) NASA study on asteroid mining. Lots of relevant stuff there, among which:
The study determined that to retrieve half the mass of a million-metric-ton asteroid, some 10,000 metric tons of materials would need to be lifted into LEO at an assumed cost of $240/kg (1977 dollars). The total cost of the mission was put at $31 billion, including R&D costs. To ship the same quantity of mined materials from Earth's surface would cost a prohibitive $663 billion.
Even with gravity assists to lose momentum (not gain it; you're going *in*, here),
Closer orbits are faster. p=mv. You need to accelerate to move into a closer orbit. "Check your data before you post." So don't be so patronising when you get simple physics backwards.
Speculating about mining Trans-Neptunian objects, let along moving them in bulk, for terraforming is complete science- fiction right now and will be fore the foreseeable future.
The context was a discussion about asteroid mining. As for science-fiction, this is simple physics, chemistry and engineering that could be done in a few decades with no midichlorians needed. Terraforming is far away, but space & lunar habitats are not.
Really though, if I needed to print that much, I'd send stuff off to someone with an offset press and have them run the job.
So. What's the market for this thing?
Not for printing multiple copies of the same document; it can print a stream of differetn documents at this rate. A print-on-demand compnay uses these to print books, one or two of each title at a time. Otherwise, business documents, like invoices, tax statements, etc, etc. Currently they can easily replace short run document printing.
War and Peace is 365 chapters and 1500 pages long. On this 330 p/m printer will take about 5 minutes to print.
1) number of pages depends on both the size of the pages and the font.
You can print about 4 times as many words on the same page in 6 point type than 12, for instance.
2) regardless, the summary was misleading as usual. According to the specs of the 4100 it can print "at up to 330 linear feet (100.6 m) per minute (440 2-up duplex letter impressions)... Deliver true 3-up pages with an extra-wide format: 19.5" (495 mm) paper width..."
So we see the "330 pages/min" is wrong, unless you print 19.5x12" pages. An average paperback is about 4.5x7", so the 4100 could print about 330x(19.5x12)/(4.5x7) = 2451 pages that size per minute.
This is IBM's foray into the market that is dominated by the Xerox Docutech's. The Printing industry is moving toward Print on Demand.
A previous model, the IBM Infoprint 4000 has been used by a POD company, Lightning Source to print their books for a few years now. Still costs more than offset for a big run, and the quality is 600 dpi, fine for text but less so for halftones, but for short runs of plain text books it's great.
Except that you'd have to extract the water from the methane and ammonia first. Not to mention the enormous difficulty in hauling that much water across the entire solar system. It's something we're utterly incapable of now and will be for the foreseeable future, so it's not really worth counting on.
"Hauling stuff across the solar system" is much easier than hauling it up to orbit (as long as you don't have any passengers). Space probes have been travelling to the outer planets for the last 30 years. You can use efficient low thrust rockets and take your time, even use some of the payload for fuel, use some orbital mechanics to steal momentum from planets and moons. As for the chemistry, methane and ammonia are carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, we can use them all with 19th C chemistry. It's pretty likely there is lots of water ice there as well.
The men choose the ones they find most attractive, then those must face off in an exotic dancing competition
There was an SF short story, possibly by Frederic Brown, about aliens who conquered earth and set up slave breeding farms. Men surrendered to join these, believing it would be like your fantasy. But of course it was like a cattle stud farm. The studs were electrically stimulated in the anus to produce sperm collected for artifical insemination, much more efficient and no exotic dancing required.
I've found that printers typically only last a year, at most
If you don't need colour, get a laser. If you have the room, get an old HP5 (NOT 5L). You can get these for less than $40, they literally have a lifetime of millions of pages, and refill toner is cheap.
Which would be extremely useful to breathe, drink, or make fuel in orbital factories/colonies, the moon or even Mars, and much cheaper to bring in, if much slower, than hauling up from Earth.
hey have plenty of time to trickle-flow the radios in.
I've been looking at some photos from the statium, they appear to be doing a patdown search of everyone who enters. So they could give them to people outside, but coudn't sneak boxes of them in.
Not trolling. This is actually the first (now third) comment I've ever posted here. There was a lot more information on how to do the things I managed to do rather than simply adding a hard drive. Like I mentioned, at the time, there just wasn't an obvious tutorial on how to add a hard drive.
Heck, I had a LOT of trouble understanding the whole partition-usage thing. I'm not sure I ever came to understand it either. I think I just took the defaults (I was using Red Hat version, like 7 or so).
If you want to enter converstions and have people take you seriously, get an account. I generally ignore anon posts.
Anyway, Back when I first installed RedHat 6 I quickly found the key to all that was fstab, and, really, though initially cryptic, a few minutes looking at relevant documentation got me going. But of course maybe you had some unsupported hardware, formatting, or whatever. I had a hell of a time inmstalling before I realised that my floppy drive, no problem in Windows, couldn't boot in Linux; a quick swap fixed that. These days bootable CDROM installers are almost idiotproof and there are many places to get advice, sympathy being somewhat harder to come by.
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If opiates weren't a problem, what are you complaining about then? Marijuana. God you're thick.
I also doubt that many people who believe in third eyes are likely to be computer users.
Mystical religious beliefs are not inconsistent with technical skills. A lot of American fundies are engineers and such. Anyway, the Falun Gong have used technology to very good effect. Several times they've hijacked satellite TV transmissions in China and made their own broadcasts and they're very active on the Internet.
The Chinese government is roundly criticized for growing their economy at 20% to 25% per year.
That's widely considered by analysts to be quite fictional. Otherwise, I don't see your connection between hoding back a peasant revolt and blocking Skype calls. That's mostly about protecting income from overseas calls, and if your average peasant can call some relative working overseas occasionally I don't see how this can destabilise the country (more than the first-hand stories these relatives have when they return anyway).
China is a country ruled by communists. Hair-splitting over whether they're a "communist nation" or not is pointless
No, it's a huge difference. Maoist China was a communist nation ruled by communists. Modern China is essentially a capitalist nation ruled by communists. North Korea is about the only real "communist nation" left.
we tend to forget that China is still under the political control of the Communist Party.
Well, true, but this story has nothing to do with that, it's just about good old robber-baron style capitalism, big companies who are well-connected with the government abusing the rights of consumers to protect their profits.
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Flipping out isn't "assured destruction". You've got dozens of cities, you only lost one temporarily and a few hundred or at most thousand people. (In nuclear war terms, hardly worth counting.)Actually, the definition of "Mutual Assured Destruction" is that either side could destroy the other (i.e. at least most of the cities) even if the other side struck first. That's why the USSR and USA have bombers AND ICBMs AND sub-launched missiles. If the US made a first strike with just a dozen missiles NK would be toast and have no second strike ability.
And who did preemeption work for then? The Japs did make a creditable attempt with Pearl Harbor, but failed to destroy the US fleet and brought on their own destruction.
The military has plenty of ways to incinerate bioweapons at very high temperatures without going nuclear. Nuclear weapons can be easily dismantled and the fissiles extracted. Again, conventional explosives could be used if they were in imminent danger of being seized. Nuclear weapons aren't designed to go off easily, there's no "red wire or blue wire", I think even the North Korean scientists would have designed them to fail safe.
And Israel, possibly South Africa (supposedly dismantled). Japan and Germany have the "capability" in a very short time should they want to.
Bollocks. They may have a handful of warheads, but no ICBMs with the range or accuracy. Even if they delivered them by hand, that would be terrible, but not "Assured Destruction". But at the first sign of them making ready, I think they'd get preemptively struck; the US has lots of force in place just over the border.
Russia still has thousands of nukes. China has enough, and some ICBMs, to do a lot of damage. As does France, so I wouldn't keep pissing on them as has become fashionable in the US.
Grog is not (straight) rum, there was no Admiral Grog, and the sailors already drank rum, since the 17th C, and it became part of their official ration in 1731.
"Old Grog" was the nickname of Admiral Vernon (1684-1757), from his grogram cloak, afterwards applied to the mixture he ordered to be served out to sailors instead of neat rum.
I haven't used it, but isn't that what Linspire is, at least by default? Like Windows, it's not so much you "can't tweak" as you have to click through a few menus before you can fuck things up.
Maybe Ubuntu is close to that too.
New Scientist and Scientific American for general science. Most fields have "popualr" magazines that cover their disciplines. Just look for the references in mainstream news in articles that interest you, usually they quote from these jopurnals and most are online in some form so you can check them out.
It's not the amount of energy, it's how expensive. You need a do-or-die blast to get into Earth orbit. If you're not fighting our gravity or air resistance, you can use slower and more efficient methods and take years rather than minutes. You can use nuclear power (a no-no for Earth launches), you can even use solar. From the payload you might use rocky matter in massdriver or volatiles in a rocket.
We can't haul that kind of water anywhere in the solar system, period.
Of course not. I'm not talking about tomorrow or next week. We were discussing the economics of mining asteroids and you claimed it was pointless because we could always get it cheaper on earth. My point is that these would be more useful elsewhere. A little research turned up this article, quoting an (old) NASA study on asteroid mining. Lots of relevant stuff there, among which:
Even with gravity assists to lose momentum (not gain it; you're going *in*, here),Closer orbits are faster. p=mv. You need to accelerate to move into a closer orbit. "Check your data before you post." So don't be so patronising when you get simple physics backwards.
Speculating about mining Trans-Neptunian objects, let along moving them in bulk, for terraforming is complete science- fiction right now and will be fore the foreseeable future.
The context was a discussion about asteroid mining. As for science-fiction, this is simple physics, chemistry and engineering that could be done in a few decades with no midichlorians needed. Terraforming is far away, but space & lunar habitats are not.
Not for printing multiple copies of the same document; it can print a stream of differetn documents at this rate. A print-on-demand compnay uses these to print books, one or two of each title at a time. Otherwise, business documents, like invoices, tax statements, etc, etc. Currently they can easily replace short run document printing.
1) number of pages depends on both the size of the pages and the font. You can print about 4 times as many words on the same page in 6 point type than 12, for instance.
2) regardless, the summary was misleading as usual. According to the specs of the 4100 it can print "at up to 330 linear feet (100.6 m) per minute (440 2-up duplex letter impressions)... Deliver true 3-up pages with an extra-wide format: 19.5" (495 mm) paper width..."
So we see the "330 pages/min" is wrong, unless you print 19.5x12" pages. An average paperback is about 4.5x7", so the 4100 could print about 330x(19.5x12)/(4.5x7) = 2451 pages that size per minute.
A previous model, the IBM Infoprint 4000 has been used by a POD company, Lightning Source to print their books for a few years now. Still costs more than offset for a big run, and the quality is 600 dpi, fine for text but less so for halftones, but for short runs of plain text books it's great.
"Hauling stuff across the solar system" is much easier than hauling it up to orbit (as long as you don't have any passengers). Space probes have been travelling to the outer planets for the last 30 years. You can use efficient low thrust rockets and take your time, even use some of the payload for fuel, use some orbital mechanics to steal momentum from planets and moons. As for the chemistry, methane and ammonia are carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, we can use them all with 19th C chemistry. It's pretty likely there is lots of water ice there as well.
See the B612 Foundation for one scheme to move asteroids.
Extracting the nucleus of an ovum and replacing it with another one is porn? If microscopes and petri dishes turn you on...
There was an SF short story, possibly by Frederic Brown, about aliens who conquered earth and set up slave breeding farms. Men surrendered to join these, believing it would be like your fantasy. But of course it was like a cattle stud farm. The studs were electrically stimulated in the anus to produce sperm collected for artifical insemination, much more efficient and no exotic dancing required.
If you don't need colour, get a laser. If you have the room, get an old HP5 (NOT 5L). You can get these for less than $40, they literally have a lifetime of millions of pages, and refill toner is cheap.
If it was another warrior princess, and not a planet(oid), maybe.
Which would be extremely useful to breathe, drink, or make fuel in orbital factories/colonies, the moon or even Mars, and much cheaper to bring in, if much slower, than hauling up from Earth.
I've been looking at some photos from the statium, they appear to be doing a patdown search of everyone who enters. So they could give them to people outside, but coudn't sneak boxes of them in.
If you want to enter converstions and have people take you seriously, get an account. I generally ignore anon posts.
Anyway, Back when I first installed RedHat 6 I quickly found the key to all that was fstab, and, really, though initially cryptic, a few minutes looking at relevant documentation got me going. But of course maybe you had some unsupported hardware, formatting, or whatever. I had a hell of a time inmstalling before I realised that my floppy drive, no problem in Windows, couldn't boot in Linux; a quick swap fixed that. These days bootable CDROM installers are almost idiotproof and there are many places to get advice, sympathy being somewhat harder to come by.
Marijuana. God you're thick.
Maybe you need something to calm you down.
Mystical religious beliefs are not inconsistent with technical skills. A lot of American fundies are engineers and such. Anyway, the Falun Gong have used technology to very good effect. Several times they've hijacked satellite TV transmissions in China and made their own broadcasts and they're very active on the Internet.
That's widely considered by analysts to be quite fictional. Otherwise, I don't see your connection between hoding back a peasant revolt and blocking Skype calls. That's mostly about protecting income from overseas calls, and if your average peasant can call some relative working overseas occasionally I don't see how this can destabilise the country (more than the first-hand stories these relatives have when they return anyway).
No, it's a huge difference. Maoist China was a communist nation ruled by communists. Modern China is essentially a capitalist nation ruled by communists. North Korea is about the only real "communist nation" left.
Well, true, but this story has nothing to do with that, it's just about good old robber-baron style capitalism, big companies who are well-connected with the government abusing the rights of consumers to protect their profits.