As far as I remmember, black hole have the same mass as the collapsing star (before starting slowly to dissipate). Thus the same gravity as the as the star would be felt at the same distance. There is albeit a difference, within the schwarschild radius, the gravity pull is enough to pull everything without possible escape even light. Normally this radius smaller than the radius of the star itself before collapsing, if the mass would be at a point.
In other word if the sun was to suddenly transform in black hole, the earth would happily go wander on the same orbit.
Blade runner is the tittle of the film from which "Do androids dream of electronic sheep" (yeah the submitter mangled it a bit). SInce balde runner is not at all from PK dick you would not see it as a rightful title. OTOH the little black box, the terran odissey, solar lotery, valis etc... Are PK dick title. As is "We will remmember it for you wholesale !" (Total recall). And one another minority report, and paycheck.
Albeit not directly ion the secure zone, although I go there from time to time. And you are freaking allowed to have your phone camera because there is nothing sensitive to be phtographied (aka : "secret"). The only things which is not allowed is to go near tanking plane, tank reserve etc... with anything which could go up with a spark, in other word security reason as in "physical security".
I grew up in the street where it all started !
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And let me tell you this:
1) It is true that many of the older generation at the time I grew up and which are now 65 and going to retire were/are indeed racist. But nowadays a lot of HR departement were replaced by younger people, for which being arab looking isn't that a big deal. In other word the situation nowadays is nowhere as bad as it was 20 years ago or 40 years ago.
2) BUT what I observed a lot was people which think they are ENTITLED to get a great place in society. I could tell you 100's of story of youth simply misusing the fact that their parents did not READ french to lie them outright on "absence bulletin" or "end of year result bulletin". Go play in the street, steal from local supermarket. And then get angry at teacher which gave them a bad note because they did not learn, and kick out of anger pupils which got better note than them. And later got out undiplommed. Sure there were a few non-arabic which did that too. But the majority in my streets were arabics BECAUSE THEY COULD GET AWAY WITH IT BY LYING TO THEIR PARENTS. Remmember : their parent did not speak french or read it.
3) a lot of the youth at my epoch did not care shit about the future. And as far as I can tell this is valid for every generation. I certainly doubt the youth which started it cared more for it than us. Actually when there were protest for whatever stupid scheme our education minister came up with (86?) when we got off to protest in the street, the trouble maker from there simply went away from college to steal en-masse from the supermarket, whereas we were in the street to protest.
4) on the other hand we had on regular basis a burnt down car, burnt play ground, broken stuff. Why ? Because, in the immortal words of some of my friends of that epoch "it is fun to break things down". And as far as I can tell from the story some of my old friends told me from dec 05, well most of the youth were laughing when they started burning stuff. Not really what you would call anger, hu ? Now sure my old friends could be lying out, but why would they ? They are arabic too (well tunisien). When it spread out away from there , maybe more angry youth added to the fuel, but I doubt it. I think it was more akin to "let us show them we aren't pussy coward. Let us revolt !".
The bottom line : I doubt that the revolt of the youth was really a revolt against latent french racism (which IS a problem for some age layer), because those which burnt stuff down, were not the one which had to confront racism the most, I think they were simply idiot finding it funny to break stuff down around.
I am holding out my breath and hope they will turn in film what was the 4th "oldy" game of indy (the one with atlantis, point and click). Althoguh it had a sad end (I won't spoil it) so maybe my hope are in vain...
Normally only when it is saved in the PNR will a credit card be sent. Naturally if you wish to use a CC as frequent flyer, then it NEEDS to be saved in the PNR, else it won't be sent to the airline in the PNL (Passenger Name List a document generated by reservation systems and sent to the check in systems) and the airline add your flown miles to your frequent flyer account at check in time (or afterward). Although I can imagine at sales time you could do it in a complicated manner (send the data to a separate DB but not save it in the PNR & use the PNR key+name as index, then at check in time send the PFS message to show that the pax flew, but it is way more complicated than to save the frequent flyer number in the PNR).
As for the CC used as identification at check in time, I can't speak for every system , but the few I know of do not "save" the CC (and thus it is not sent to the immrgation) it is only used as a check of the name for the identity. And as far as I know it is only a US concept anyway to request a CC when you paid cash: I did indeed pay cash in many other country all over the world for flight tickets (out of credit card fraud concern) and was never requested to show my CC except in the US.
I am pretty sure this is a dupe and was already discussed to death. I am trying to fight the slashdot search engine but up to now "parasite" and "toxoplasm" did not give any search result back... Maybe someone can point out what article it was ?
Those two are chip (aka: hardware). I am not sure if I do not get your sarcasm or your humour here, but comparing a software to a hardware in that case isn't quite right.
French Law. If you do not like it : stop selling in France. If you want to sell in France : respect the french law. If there was only *1* ever OS available and it that unique OS would be necessary, HP would have a point. But it ain't so, and so HP has no case at all. OTOH french consummer association, and french governement have got a case. Frankly if HP *want* to bundle absolutly windows, then they have either to offer it for free , or stop selling in France. If this is the case, they choose to stop selling in France, then a cotage industry will automatically jump in (after all it ain't like making a PC is mojo-mojo magic) or even other firms.
I do not remmember whether it is said in such PLAIN wording, but it comes more or less down to "are you a criminal we might want to arrest on the SPOT as soon as you land, or not ?". Can't remmember on which form it is, the white cartonned one or the green one (or both) which are given for visa waiver country citizen. I think I had to feel something similar also to get my special B (B1?) visa (normally I would have a visa need waived but I have an old not machine readable passport so I need a stupid visa).
Some people assocy automatically "synthetic chemicals" to bad things. See additive for example. It does not matter to them that the structure is the same , as long as it is synthetised, and tehrefore not "natural" , it is bad. Since this is my family, after trying educating them, I choose to ignore them and their antic (microwave is not cooking food naturally and give cancer, quartz clock give cancer, magnetic stone increase longevity, homepathy is a medicine and I won't citate the worst).
I would be hard pressed to find a recent building (less than 200 years old) which is not in cut stone, concrete, brick, or parpaing (concrete already made in the form of a big brick with a empty room in the middle). Sure there are *some* wood house, for example in some region near the german/french frontier, old house which are built with wooden raster and some sort of filling, generally they are "kept" as historical heritage. Maybe also those garden pavillion. But the rest , the bulk, is definitively not in wood. I also suspect that in many part of the developping world, it is easier to deliver 2 tons of concrete to build a house than 2 tons of woods, at least the place where I visited, where the people were not living in slums out of metal sheets, they were living in concrete houses or high rise.
Actually is there many country which in the recent years build anything out of wood in mass except canada/US ?
The TSA guy aren't idiot. They do not want to investigate the kid to make the problem go away, they want to send a STRONG message to other kid , or heck, security researcher : "do the same stunt and we will make sure you will sooooo buried in shit that you can say goodbye to your carrier, flying/travel freedom, and peace of mind". In other word they are trying to implement self-censorship through fear.
What ios the problem with an old fashionned metal key ? Maybe this is because I live in EU, but I know of next to nobody with a remote to open their garage... And I used to live in place where tehre is maybe 30 days of a sun during the year (northern coastal area: lot of rain there).
When you have a radioactive material created in a reactor, say plutonium, by measuring the quantity of the different isotopes and their half life by product, you can determine from which reactor they come (that is if you have the data) and even "when". Now in that case that would mean they have traced a cocktail of element beside the polonium and the "ratio" match the polonium produced by that particular reactor. What make it a bit implausible for me is that we are speaking of really small quantity here from stuff which have a half life beyond a year... And especially if you refine the polonium and separate it from the rest.
I also have an opinion on that murder if it interrest anybody : I have a conspiracy theory for you: foe of putin where seeing that putin position wasn't that bad right now, and they wanted a quick way to dredge dirt on him. So they procurated polonium then killed a resident in another country which was a vocal agaisnt Putin in a so SPECTACULAR way that it will be for a long time all over the media with all finger pointing at Putin. I do not see what Putin wins by making it so spectacular. True other vocal group might get afraid, but with it all over the media they might be emboldened to go forward and be more vocal, so that it will be even more difficult to elimnate them. No I think an old fashionned car "incident" and an old fashionned "push" in a train station at rush hour or an even more old fashionned slithing of throat would give as much a signal to the other vocal people without even being able to point finger at Russia. But polonium ??? Come on, they could have as well have tatooed "Putin killed me" on the forehead of the guy. This is why I think it is more convoluted and simply guys wanting to pee on putin did this to slime him all over. It looks like it was a total success from what I see in our media...
Just look at my post history:) just kidding. But in addition to what CNN says the compartement (busines/first) lower your score, as well as belonging to a frequent traveler program. I am jsut SURPRISED that the US citizen also are in the database (it used to be only us dirty foreigner).
So how much worth is this score ?
The easiest way to avoid a high score is to pay with credit card (can't be that hard to obtain), always make 2 ways travel even if you do not go "back", get senator/gold frequent traveler card (cumualte miles), business class, always order a meal with pig (just pretend to be ill and do not eat it, or just plain sleep thru the meal). Et Voila ! I just defeated any trace of security provided by such a score. Do I get to be shipped to a nice comfy cuban prison ?
By the way those rules are knowns since year and I remmember commenting about it on slashdot 2 or 3 times.
ALl source I see with citate the 1 million figure include the irak-iran war, at a time where Saddam was SUPPORTED by the US. Even if you count 1 million over 20 years of regime, that is 50K per year. Since the start of the US invasion there is a rumored 600K dead. If those number are correct then the US invasion caused MORE death than if Saddam was still in power. This is especially true that in the last year Saddam was relatively "calm" due to the number of spotlight on him. He was a butcher and a dictator, but the US invasion caused MORE grief.
Group Density Examples
Group I less than 0.8 Gasoline, Kerosene : disappear in hours
Group II 0.8 - 0.85 Gas Oil, Abu Dhabi Crude : disappear in days
Group III 0.85-0.95 Arabian Light Crude, North Sea Crude Oils (e.g. Forties) : disappear in week/monthes
Group IV greater than 0.95 Heavy Fuel Oil, Venezuelan Crude Oils : disappear in years
You have inside crude a mix of very light organic element, and some downright long chain. Some part of it will indeed evaporate over time (the lighter element). But i think the Tar and most long chains, what most people think when picturing crude, will not evaporate over time. And most probably this is the first to fall down on the bottom of the sea to be decomposed :
*I* as a consummer have difficulty to see a real improvement on SD when seen side by side in REAL condition. By that I mean in a room with an average lightning from a viewing distance superior to 6 feet, with the identical program filmed in HD, left side HDTV right side SD. FACT IS, in real condition with a moving image you do not see squat if you look at the whole image and not at the detail. Sure if you look at stills you will see differences. If you look near, you will see differences. But in normal viewing distance with attention at the ACTION on what happens to whatever show you look at : the detail will be not taken in by your brain. So I certainly will not be buying something for a few k$ jsut to have a slight difference in resolution, that I will not even pay attention to anyway.
Quote"anyone who doesn't feel HD is a worthwhile upgrade SERIOUSLY needs to get their eyes checked". No. You have it backwaqrd. Anybody paying attention to the definition instead of the action of the show, is probably a salesman or a first-accepter of technology.
Any fragment of imaginary and/or entertainement work, political, and religion in any form and media : book, music, tv show, film, games (p&p, board, computer & console) is a fragment of our culture and of the Zeit-Geist, whether of good or bad quality by your own personal feeling. This is roughly the only way you live your culture, or at least what is left of it for the next generation. How else do youn want to live it in ? Talk with friends ? That aren't culture per see. Go out of visit the world ? Ain't it either.
And like the gp said, this is where the steal of our culture kick in : all those piece of CULTURE, were supposed to come back to us the PUBLIC after we the public granted them a TEMPORARY monopoly on selling their stuff. Alas for anything done during your lifetime now, it will never come back during your life time as public domain, and maybe not even to your children, to your grand children. Thus a stealing organized by lobyying. The fact that it was m,ade into a law doesn't change the fact that only 1 stackholder was involved and the other stackholder (the public) was taken its goody gainst its will. In my culture we call that stealing.
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As far as I remmember, black hole have the same mass as the collapsing star (before starting slowly to dissipate). Thus the same gravity as the as the star would be felt at the same distance. There is albeit a difference, within the schwarschild radius, the gravity pull is enough to pull everything without possible escape even light. Normally this radius smaller than the radius of the star itself before collapsing, if the mass would be at a point. In other word if the sun was to suddenly transform in black hole, the earth would happily go wander on the same orbit.
All the "convincing" came from US & UK intelligence.
Blade runner is the tittle of the film from which "Do androids dream of electronic sheep" (yeah the submitter mangled it a bit). SInce balde runner is not at all from PK dick you would not see it as a rightful title. OTOH the little black box, the terran odissey, solar lotery, valis etc... Are PK dick title. As is "We will remmember it for you wholesale !" (Total recall). And one another minority report, and paycheck.
Albeit not directly ion the secure zone, although I go there from time to time. And you are freaking allowed to have your phone camera because there is nothing sensitive to be phtographied (aka : "secret"). The only things which is not allowed is to go near tanking plane, tank reserve etc... with anything which could go up with a spark, in other word security reason as in "physical security".
And let me tell you this:
1) It is true that many of the older generation at the time I grew up and which are now 65 and going to retire were/are indeed racist. But nowadays a lot of HR departement were replaced by younger people, for which being arab looking isn't that a big deal. In other word the situation nowadays is nowhere as bad as it was 20 years ago or 40 years ago.
2) BUT what I observed a lot was people which think they are ENTITLED to get a great place in society. I could tell you 100's of story of youth simply misusing the fact that their parents did not READ french to lie them outright on "absence bulletin" or "end of year result bulletin". Go play in the street, steal from local supermarket. And then get angry at teacher which gave them a bad note because they did not learn, and kick out of anger pupils which got better note than them. And later got out undiplommed. Sure there were a few non-arabic which did that too. But the majority in my streets were arabics BECAUSE THEY COULD GET AWAY WITH IT BY LYING TO THEIR PARENTS. Remmember : their parent did not speak french or read it.
3) a lot of the youth at my epoch did not care shit about the future. And as far as I can tell this is valid for every generation. I certainly doubt the youth which started it cared more for it than us. Actually when there were protest for whatever stupid scheme our education minister came up with (86?) when we got off to protest in the street, the trouble maker from there simply went away from college to steal en-masse from the supermarket, whereas we were in the street to protest.
4) on the other hand we had on regular basis a burnt down car, burnt play ground, broken stuff. Why ? Because, in the immortal words of some of my friends of that epoch "it is fun to break things down". And as far as I can tell from the story some of my old friends told me from dec 05, well most of the youth were laughing when they started burning stuff. Not really what you would call anger, hu ? Now sure my old friends could be lying out, but why would they ? They are arabic too (well tunisien). When it spread out away from there , maybe more angry youth added to the fuel, but I doubt it. I think it was more akin to "let us show them we aren't pussy coward. Let us revolt !".
The bottom line : I doubt that the revolt of the youth was really a revolt against latent french racism (which IS a problem for some age layer), because those which burnt stuff down, were not the one which had to confront racism the most, I think they were simply idiot finding it funny to break stuff down around.
I am holding out my breath and hope they will turn in film what was the 4th "oldy" game of indy (the one with atlantis, point and click). Althoguh it had a sad end (I won't spoil it) so maybe my hope are in vain...
Normally only when it is saved in the PNR will a credit card be sent. Naturally if you wish to use a CC as frequent flyer, then it NEEDS to be saved in the PNR, else it won't be sent to the airline in the PNL (Passenger Name List a document generated by reservation systems and sent to the check in systems) and the airline add your flown miles to your frequent flyer account at check in time (or afterward). Although I can imagine at sales time you could do it in a complicated manner (send the data to a separate DB but not save it in the PNR & use the PNR key+name as index, then at check in time send the PFS message to show that the pax flew, but it is way more complicated than to save the frequent flyer number in the PNR).
As for the CC used as identification at check in time, I can't speak for every system , but the few I know of do not "save" the CC (and thus it is not sent to the immrgation) it is only used as a check of the name for the identity. And as far as I know it is only a US concept anyway to request a CC when you paid cash: I did indeed pay cash in many other country all over the world for flight tickets (out of credit card fraud concern) and was never requested to show my CC except in the US.
I am pretty sure this is a dupe and was already discussed to death. I am trying to fight the slashdot search engine but up to now "parasite" and "toxoplasm" did not give any search result back... Maybe someone can point out what article it was ?
Those two are chip (aka: hardware). I am not sure if I do not get your sarcasm or your humour here, but comparing a software to a hardware in that case isn't quite right.
French Law. If you do not like it : stop selling in France. If you want to sell in France : respect the french law. If there was only *1* ever OS available and it that unique OS would be necessary, HP would have a point. But it ain't so, and so HP has no case at all. OTOH french consummer association, and french governement have got a case. Frankly if HP *want* to bundle absolutly windows, then they have either to offer it for free , or stop selling in France. If this is the case, they choose to stop selling in France, then a cotage industry will automatically jump in (after all it ain't like making a PC is mojo-mojo magic) or even other firms.
I do not remmember whether it is said in such PLAIN wording, but it comes more or less down to "are you a criminal we might want to arrest on the SPOT as soon as you land, or not ?". Can't remmember on which form it is, the white cartonned one or the green one (or both) which are given for visa waiver country citizen. I think I had to feel something similar also to get my special B (B1?) visa (normally I would have a visa need waived but I have an old not machine readable passport so I need a stupid visa).
Some people assocy automatically "synthetic chemicals" to bad things. See additive for example. It does not matter to them that the structure is the same , as long as it is synthetised, and tehrefore not "natural" , it is bad. Since this is my family, after trying educating them, I choose to ignore them and their antic (microwave is not cooking food naturally and give cancer, quartz clock give cancer, magnetic stone increase longevity, homepathy is a medicine and I won't citate the worst).
After all, dead artist signing petition for a longer copyright protection do not need that much money, so the royalty can be lowered.
I would be hard pressed to find a recent building (less than 200 years old) which is not in cut stone, concrete, brick, or parpaing (concrete already made in the form of a big brick with a empty room in the middle). Sure there are *some* wood house, for example in some region near the german/french frontier, old house which are built with wooden raster and some sort of filling, generally they are "kept" as historical heritage. Maybe also those garden pavillion. But the rest , the bulk, is definitively not in wood. I also suspect that in many part of the developping world, it is easier to deliver 2 tons of concrete to build a house than 2 tons of woods, at least the place where I visited, where the people were not living in slums out of metal sheets, they were living in concrete houses or high rise.
Actually is there many country which in the recent years build anything out of wood in mass except canada/US ?
The TSA guy aren't idiot. They do not want to investigate the kid to make the problem go away, they want to send a STRONG message to other kid , or heck, security researcher : "do the same stunt and we will make sure you will sooooo buried in shit that you can say goodbye to your carrier, flying/travel freedom, and peace of mind". In other word they are trying to implement self-censorship through fear.
So the satellite receive nothing from them=>Thailand cannot be seen. Or maybe this is a sick joke I do not get at all.
What ios the problem with an old fashionned metal key ? Maybe this is because I live in EU, but I know of next to nobody with a remote to open their garage... And I used to live in place where tehre is maybe 30 days of a sun during the year (northern coastal area: lot of rain there).
When you have a radioactive material created in a reactor, say plutonium, by measuring the quantity of the different isotopes and their half life by product, you can determine from which reactor they come (that is if you have the data) and even "when". Now in that case that would mean they have traced a cocktail of element beside the polonium and the "ratio" match the polonium produced by that particular reactor. What make it a bit implausible for me is that we are speaking of really small quantity here from stuff which have a half life beyond a year... And especially if you refine the polonium and separate it from the rest.
I also have an opinion on that murder if it interrest anybody :
I have a conspiracy theory for you: foe of putin where seeing that putin position wasn't that bad right now, and they wanted a quick way to dredge dirt on him. So they procurated polonium then killed a resident in another country which was a vocal agaisnt Putin in a so SPECTACULAR way that it will be for a long time all over the media with all finger pointing at Putin. I do not see what Putin wins by making it so spectacular. True other vocal group might get afraid, but with it all over the media they might be emboldened to go forward and be more vocal, so that it will be even more difficult to elimnate them. No I think an old fashionned car "incident" and an old fashionned "push" in a train station at rush hour or an even more old fashionned slithing of throat would give as much a signal to the other vocal people without even being able to point finger at Russia. But polonium ??? Come on, they could have as well have tatooed "Putin killed me" on the forehead of the guy. This is why I think it is more convoluted and simply guys wanting to pee on putin did this to slime him all over. It looks like it was a total success from what I see in our media...
Just look at my post history :) just kidding. But in addition to what CNN says the compartement (busines/first) lower your score, as well as belonging to a frequent traveler program. I am jsut SURPRISED that the US citizen also are in the database (it used to be only us dirty foreigner).
So how much worth is this score ? The easiest way to avoid a high score is to pay with credit card (can't be that hard to obtain), always make 2 ways travel even if you do not go "back", get senator/gold frequent traveler card (cumualte miles), business class, always order a meal with pig (just pretend to be ill and do not eat it, or just plain sleep thru the meal). Et Voila ! I just defeated any trace of security provided by such a score. Do I get to be shipped to a nice comfy cuban prison ?
By the way those rules are knowns since year and I remmember commenting about it on slashdot 2 or 3 times.
Oh and see this : not only in the 2 million they count the war Iran irak but also the death of children due to the sanction imposed by the west !!
Death Count
IF you count Saddam as butcher, then the west hands are full of blood too.
ALl source I see with citate the 1 million figure include the irak-iran war, at a time where Saddam was SUPPORTED by the US. Even if you count 1 million over 20 years of regime, that is 50K per year. Since the start of the US invasion there is a rumored 600K dead. If those number are correct then the US invasion caused MORE death than if Saddam was still in power. This is especially true that in the last year Saddam was relatively "calm" due to the number of spotlight on him. He was a butcher and a dictator, but the US invasion caused MORE grief.
And here is data from the previous link showing that there can be rest of crude YEARS after the spill :
lifetime of crude way below the page see the graphs with time
Group Density Examples
Group I less than 0.8 Gasoline, Kerosene : disappear in hours
Group II 0.8 - 0.85 Gas Oil, Abu Dhabi Crude : disappear in days
Group III 0.85-0.95 Arabian Light Crude, North Sea Crude Oils (e.g. Forties) : disappear in week/monthes
Group IV greater than 0.95 Heavy Fuel Oil, Venezuelan Crude Oils : disappear in years
You have inside crude a mix of very light organic element, and some downright long chain. Some part of it will indeed evaporate over time (the lighter element). But i think the Tar and most long chains, what most people think when picturing crude, will not evaporate over time. And most probably this is the first to fall down on the bottom of the sea to be decomposed :
how crude behave with time
*I* as a consummer have difficulty to see a real improvement on SD when seen side by side in REAL condition. By that I mean in a room with an average lightning from a viewing distance superior to 6 feet, with the identical program filmed in HD, left side HDTV right side SD. FACT IS, in real condition with a moving image you do not see squat if you look at the whole image and not at the detail. Sure if you look at stills you will see differences. If you look near, you will see differences. But in normal viewing distance with attention at the ACTION on what happens to whatever show you look at : the detail will be not taken in by your brain. So I certainly will not be buying something for a few k$ jsut to have a slight difference in resolution, that I will not even pay attention to anyway.
Quote"anyone who doesn't feel HD is a worthwhile upgrade SERIOUSLY needs to get their eyes checked". No. You have it backwaqrd. Anybody paying attention to the definition instead of the action of the show, is probably a salesman or a first-accepter of technology.
Any fragment of imaginary and/or entertainement work, political, and religion in any form and media : book, music, tv show, film, games (p&p, board, computer & console) is a fragment of our culture and of the Zeit-Geist, whether of good or bad quality by your own personal feeling. This is roughly the only way you live your culture, or at least what is left of it for the next generation. How else do youn want to live it in ? Talk with friends ? That aren't culture per see. Go out of visit the world ? Ain't it either.
And like the gp said, this is where the steal of our culture kick in : all those piece of CULTURE, were supposed to come back to us the PUBLIC after we the public granted them a TEMPORARY monopoly on selling their stuff. Alas for anything done during your lifetime now, it will never come back during your life time as public domain, and maybe not even to your children, to your grand children. Thus a stealing organized by lobyying. The fact that it was m,ade into a law doesn't change the fact that only 1 stackholder was involved and the other stackholder (the public) was taken its goody gainst its will. In my culture we call that stealing.