The SCOTUS thinks its the supreme decider of the constitution, but any literate person can read the document themselves and see when the government is acting illegally.
I think one can assume he meant thrust, but used the word torque because he's thinking in automotive terms. The ability of a car to accelerate is conventionally expressed as the torque the engine delivers, which gets translated into thrust by the drive train and wheels.
Correct. There are a limited number of frequencies available for cellphone communication. The system accommodates multiple users on the same frequencies by separating them geographically: if your phone is using x.xx MHz in Los Angeles, another user in Riverside can use the same frequency and not interfere because there is no line-of-sight path between you. Further, both your phone and the terminal it's connected to adjust their output power to the minimum required to communicate.
Now take your phone up in an airplane over LA, and you're in line of sight of everything from Santa Barbara to Mexico, and you tie up a channel.
The proposals for cellphone use on airplanes involve installing a mini-terminal aboard the airplane, and connecting both that and Internet service to a ground station with a microwave link. Since the terminal will only be a few feet from you, your phone will put out a bare minimum amount of power and the leakage through the airplane windows won't be strong enough to hit ground cell terminals.
Yes, you're missing something. If you have the lengths of the legs, Pythagoras tells you how long the diagonals should be. Moving the stakes until the diagonals are that long makes the corners accurately perpendicular.
Until you measure off the 5 feet you don't have a perpendicular. You have an eyeball perpendicular, and the diagonal measurement corrects it to a real one.
No. Fish receive most of their vertical support from hydrostatic buoyancy; if a fish doesn't move a muscle, it will neither rise nor sink very quickly. All the muscular energy it expends goes into overcoming the drag that resists its forward movement.
Birds have to expend some energy just to stay aloft, plus more to travel. If a bird doesn't move a muscle, assuming it's holding its wings in the gliding position, it will continuously lose altitude. Its drag has two components: parasite drag which resists its forward motion and induced drag which results from the lift-producing process.
When a penguin (or other diving bird) swims underwater, it has to expend energy just to avoid floating up, because it's positively buoyant in water -- in effect, it's flying upside down.
If you'd like to live in 10 square meters for six months, you can do it by joining the Navy and going on a deployment in an aircraft carrier...and you'll have two roommates.
Hot weather reduces the density of the air, and that affects takeoff performance in two ways. First, the lift generated by the wing is proportional to the density and to the square of the airspeed. Reduce the density and you'll have to reach a higher speed to lift off.
Second, the density affects the horsepower available from the engines. For non-supercharged piston engines the horsepower is approximately proportional to the density...for other types it's more complex.
So on a hot day you have to accelerate to a higher speed with less power to do it with.
Density declines with altitude too, so on a hot day at some of the high-elevation airports in the American southwest, you have to be very careful about computing how much runway you need and comparing it to how much you have.
True, and any other school board inclined to try this stunt will be acutely aware of the judge's "breathtaking inanity" remark...
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#include "IANAL.h"
Sadder yet, an asterisk should be attached to the Dover event. Since the Dover voters have already thrown out the school board that started the issue, and the new board is quite happy with the decision, there will be no appeal. That means it will not go to a higher court, which in turn means the decision will have little or no precedential effect outside its jurisdiction.
...meteor impact observed on the moon, actually. Five English monks saw a much larger one in 1178 as they were finishing up a day's work on their monastery's farm. There's a crater named for Giordano Bruno that may be the result of that.
An explosion doesn't have to be a chemical or nuclear reaction. When a small object collides with a large one at very high speed, a load of kinetic energy gets converted to heat in a small fraction of a second, melting and vaporizing a quantity of material. The high temperature generates very high pressure, and the hot matter proceeds to escape forcibly in every available direction. That's an explosion, and that's why meteor craters are bigger than the meteors that made them.
The only difference between this and a TNT explosion is the source of the energy.
Do you mean artistic failure or commercial failure? They intersect very little. Remember: Judy Garland made millions for MGM by playing a six-year-old when she was sixteen.
Sears used to be famous for those errors, especially in the catalog department. I haven't shopped there in many years, but in the Seventies you had the option of buying items off the counters or ordering them from Catalog Sales, usually for a slightly lower price. You would go to a desk back by the loading dock, fill out an order and pay for it...and then you'd pick it up a week or so later.
The kicker was that since you paid in advance, you paid for what you ordered -- which might or might not be what you got. Orders were filled by warehousemen working from carbon copies of hand-scrawled forms, and it wasn't the least unusual to pay for a wrench and get a drill press...and if the error went the other way, you could always refuse it.
Something similar would happen with warranty returns...failed tools were exchanged for rebuilt ones, and they were even less accurate at matching those up.
When has France ever been hostile towards something and then come out on top?
When they bottled up the British fleet in Chesapeake Bay, and provided Washington with half the troops who whipped Corwallis at Yorktown? Or maybe when Charlemagne's grandpa permanently stopped the Muslim invasion that had overrun Spain in the eighth century?
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OK, so when somebody "violates" it, who gets to do what about it?
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Because we figured out that stone is not the best wheel material.
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So, who should decide what the Constitution says?
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Now take your phone up in an airplane over LA, and you're in line of sight of everything from Santa Barbara to Mexico, and you tie up a channel.
The proposals for cellphone use on airplanes involve installing a mini-terminal aboard the airplane, and connecting both that and Internet service to a ground station with a microwave link. Since the terminal will only be a few feet from you, your phone will put out a bare minimum amount of power and the leakage through the airplane windows won't be strong enough to hit ground cell terminals.
rj
Ummm, no, Congress gave it to the FCC in the Communications Act of 1934. Some people consider that unconstitutional, but the SCOTUS is not among them.
rj
Cool...with your help we'll be able to achieve a seed bank gap.
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Just drain the water out and replace it with gasoline. Then your computer will be as safe as your car.
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Birds have to expend some energy just to stay aloft, plus more to travel. If a bird doesn't move a muscle, assuming it's holding its wings in the gliding position, it will continuously lose altitude. Its drag has two components: parasite drag which resists its forward motion and induced drag which results from the lift-producing process.
When a penguin (or other diving bird) swims underwater, it has to expend energy just to avoid floating up, because it's positively buoyant in water -- in effect, it's flying upside down.
rj
Oh, and you'll have to be an officer.
rj
Second, the density affects the horsepower available from the engines. For non-supercharged piston engines the horsepower is approximately proportional to the density...for other types it's more complex.
So on a hot day you have to accelerate to a higher speed with less power to do it with.
Density declines with altitude too, so on a hot day at some of the high-elevation airports in the American southwest, you have to be very careful about computing how much runway you need and comparing it to how much you have.
rj
...first cellphone jammers and now P2P. Maybe they didn't name 'em Freedom Fries for nothing.
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True, and any other school board inclined to try this stunt will be acutely aware of the judge's "breathtaking inanity" remark...
rj
#include "IANAL.h"
Sadder yet, an asterisk should be attached to the Dover event. Since the Dover voters have already thrown out the school board that started the issue, and the new board is quite happy with the decision, there will be no appeal. That means it will not go to a higher court, which in turn means the decision will have little or no precedential effect outside its jurisdiction.
rj
...meteor impact observed on the moon, actually. Five English monks saw a much larger one in 1178 as they were finishing up a day's work on their monastery's farm. There's a crater named for Giordano Bruno that may be the result of that.
rj
An explosion doesn't have to be a chemical or nuclear reaction. When a small object collides with a large one at very high speed, a load of kinetic energy gets converted to heat in a small fraction of a second, melting and vaporizing a quantity of material. The high temperature generates very high pressure, and the hot matter proceeds to escape forcibly in every available direction. That's an explosion, and that's why meteor craters are bigger than the meteors that made them.
The only difference between this and a TNT explosion is the source of the energy.
rj
Do you mean artistic failure or commercial failure? They intersect very little. Remember: Judy Garland made millions for MGM by playing a six-year-old when she was sixteen.
rj
There are a lot of things you could do in the movies 27 years ago.
The nudity in Ender's Game isn't remotely in a sexual context (unlike the aforementioned) so if the law hasn't changed dramatically
It hasn't, but the power of the Religious Reich has. I don't think you could even get funding for The Secret of Roan Inish today.
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Yeah, yeah, and I'll bet you were just helping that poor little sheep over the fence too...
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Sears used to be famous for those errors, especially in the catalog department. I haven't shopped there in many years, but in the Seventies you had the option of buying items off the counters or ordering them from Catalog Sales, usually for a slightly lower price. You would go to a desk back by the loading dock, fill out an order and pay for it...and then you'd pick it up a week or so later.
The kicker was that since you paid in advance, you paid for what you ordered -- which might or might not be what you got. Orders were filled by warehousemen working from carbon copies of hand-scrawled forms, and it wasn't the least unusual to pay for a wrench and get a drill press...and if the error went the other way, you could always refuse it.
Something similar would happen with warranty returns...failed tools were exchanged for rebuilt ones, and they were even less accurate at matching those up.
rj
The first lawsuit is going to make some survivors very, very rich...
rj
When they bottled up the British fleet in Chesapeake Bay, and provided Washington with half the troops who whipped Corwallis at Yorktown? Or maybe when Charlemagne's grandpa permanently stopped the Muslim invasion that had overrun Spain in the eighth century?
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