There are bastions and there are bastions...google your way to the Leadsman's Chant. "By the deep, six" means it's six fathoms deep, which is safe water for a deep-draft ship. "By the mark, twain" means it's two fathoms, which is safe water for a Mississippi riverboat, and another esoteric reference is resolved.
Depths of 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 fathoms are indicated by "marks" on the leadline. The other depths are unmarked and are called "deeps". The leadsman estimates the depth to a quarter fathom and calls out the fraction, mark or deep, and number.
By the mark, five: 5 fathoms And a half, deep six: 6-1/2 fathoms Less a quarter, mark ten: 9-3/4 fathoms.
...for a former coworker of mine. He had previously worked as a tech rep aboard an aircraft carrier, and the Navy made him leave because the sailors were picking up his language. His health was always just fine.
As it is DHS involved, I fully expect them to fuck it up and apply it wrong,
...as they did at Las Vegas when my wife and I were in line for a flight out.They selected her, not me, for extra screening, and just asked her to move over one line for it. We were within arm's reach of each other for minutes after that...wouldn't have been the slightest trouble to make a handoff.
Because we all know an oppressive government that's willing and able to cut off internet access to an entire country won't be able to send a couple soldiers to gun down the guy down the street blasting HF in his ham shack.
And we are right.
HF radio communication can be done with a few pounds of equipment in a car. It can be concealed by short, transmit-and-skedaddle operations, and even better by using spread spectrum, and with the right atmospheric conditions it can reach around the world with no infrastructure between sender and receiver.
But first you have to have (a) somebody equipped and ready to send, and (b) somebody equipped and ready to receive. If the country in question keeps its citizens from possessing HF equipment (which I believe Burma has done for a long time) or hams elsewhere have retired their equipment because commercial comm services have squeezed them out of operation, you're screwed.
FTFA: So Apple made Ville-Marie borough an offer: "three meters, $3 an hour, so many hours a week, carry the 3.... we'll give you about $35,000 to cover the lost revenue from those meters over five years. How about it?"
Two words: meter maids. The real revenue from parking meters isn't the quarters people put in them: it's the fines they pay if they don't put in enough quarters.
Don't bother with the "faraday cage" argument -- most cases are metal, but as anybody with engineering experience would tell you it is imperfect (as I've stated before, you can use your cellphone in a metal plane, also a "faraday cage.")
Trouble is, an airplane is not a Faraday cage at cellphone frequencies, because in order to block RF signals, any holes in it have to be substantially smaller than the wavelength. At cell frequencies that's less than a foot -- which means that your cellphone can see through the same windows your eyes do.
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There are bastions and there are bastions...google your way to the Leadsman's Chant. "By the deep, six" means it's six fathoms deep, which is safe water for a deep-draft ship. "By the mark, twain" means it's two fathoms, which is safe water for a Mississippi riverboat, and another esoteric reference is resolved.
Depths of 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 fathoms are indicated by "marks" on the leadline. The other depths are unmarked and are called "deeps". The leadsman estimates the depth to a quarter fathom and calls out the fraction, mark or deep, and number.
By the mark, five: 5 fathoms
And a half, deep six: 6-1/2 fathoms
Less a quarter, mark ten: 9-3/4 fathoms.
rj
Of course it's Cerenkov radiation. And it's a counterexample to "stuff doesn't glow when you expose it to radiation"...QED.
rj
And the cooling water in a reactor...
rj
...for a former coworker of mine. He had previously worked as a tech rep aboard an aircraft carrier, and the Navy made him leave because the sailors were picking up his language. His health was always just fine.
rj
Must make those in Mexico...
rj
...he didn't buy Nigeria and fire them.
rj
rj
It's not as if she were taking a real job away from a deserving person...
rj
But if the cops could shut down a car remotely, there wouldn't be any Amazing Police Chases videos. Doesn't anybody care about John Bunnell?
rj
How much is that in VW Beetles per football field?
rj
Sit down, Darl.
rj
Now I'll have to wear a hat to the Home Despot...
rj
So, ummm, what will those guys call themselves if they get a gig in Russia?
rj
Don't hardly neither. The epicenter is on the surface by definition.
RYOFP: Northridge earthquake had a hypocentral depth of 18 kilometers
Hypocenter is the word you want.
rj
If you want to cite a modern equivalent to the Spartans, the Waffen-SS would be a good choice.
rj
rj
And we are right.
HF radio communication can be done with a few pounds of equipment in a car. It can be concealed by short, transmit-and-skedaddle operations, and even better by using spread spectrum, and with the right atmospheric conditions it can reach around the world with no infrastructure between sender and receiver.
But first you have to have (a) somebody equipped and ready to send, and (b) somebody equipped and ready to receive. If the country in question keeps its citizens from possessing HF equipment (which I believe Burma has done for a long time) or hams elsewhere have retired their equipment because commercial comm services have squeezed them out of operation, you're screwed.
rj
There's a small matter of possessing the equipment.
rj
Last I heard, amateur radio was either illegal or very tightly restricted in Burma.
rj
Somebody at Microsoft must be a James Watt fan...
rj
rj
The other 199 people didn't have the balls to complain.
Fixed that for you.
rj
...und schliesslich ist die SCOhexe tot.
rj
Two words: meter maids. The real revenue from parking meters isn't the quarters people put in them: it's the fines they pay if they don't put in enough quarters.
rj
Trouble is, an airplane is not a Faraday cage at cellphone frequencies, because in order to block RF signals, any holes in it have to be substantially smaller than the wavelength. At cell frequencies that's less than a foot -- which means that your cellphone can see through the same windows your eyes do.
rj