The referendum is unconstitutional: the constitution enshrines the territorial integrity of Spain as inviolate; and even if there is some wiggle room there, it would have to be a national referendum rather than a regional one.
So wouldn't the very first step in the procedure to change it be determining whether one area wants to secede? There is a huge difference between saying that you cannot secede and you cannot even ask anyone if they want to secede. In fact isn't that a violation of EU human rights on the freedom of thought and speech? It may require a national vote to allow them to secede but at the moment the only thing anyone is doing is asking "should we secede"?
Cataluña has no reason to secede. Nationalists, who are basically localist fascists are the ones pushing for an impossible exit of cataluña from the Spain, when by the way, they werent anexed.
You can say exactly the same things about Scotland in the UK and Quebec in Canada. In both cases the regions were given a free vote (two in fact for Quebec) about whether they wanted to secede and in both cases the majority voted against it and the independence movements in both locations are now effectively muted for decades. So while Spain has been saying that "no country would tolerate this" they are utterly wrong: two countries have and it worked out well both times.
If what you say is true then the Spanish government is being idiotic in its response. It should not only have allowed the vote but organized it too to ensure it is performed fairly. If you are right then such a vote would have been against independence and the problem goes away for several decades. Actively suppressing it is likely to greatly increase support for independence and the result will be some sort of election probably in favour of independence and then you'll have a resurgent independence movement which will cause you problems for decades and way well eventually result in independence!
The Mac Pro makes an excellent point in Apple's favour though because become so complex that Apple can't even figure out how to upgrade it. They had the same model for over 4 years with no updates so with complexity like that it's not even clear that they know how to repair it let alone anyone else.
Do you bother thinking before opening your mouth? Do you even live in a semi-urban area?
Yes I have lived in many over the years, admittedly none of which sound anything like as bad as yours, which is why I indicated that it would need to be secured and padlocked (or did you miss that before your medication wore off?). This requires some work and expense but I suspect a lot less than installing a special smart lock plus network connected, computer controlled video surveillance throughout your house which is what we were comparing it to. Besides, based on your own description of your neighbourhood even going to the store yourself does not sound safe since you could get mugged for your groceries on your way back from it.
What about the fact that all this is unnecessary if you put a secured, padlocked cool box (possibly even one with active cooling) outside your door and let them put the groceries in that? It's probably a lot cheaper than installing a smart lock plus video surveillance throughout your house and has no security implications. It might not keep them cool all day in the summer but if you arrange delivery for a 3-hour window before you return home it should do fine. Milk used to be delivered door-to-door in the UK and it was fine for an hour or so with zero refrigeration or insulation.
Of course this solution does not involve high tech locks, flying drones, autonomous delivery trucks or robots so it's clearly less amazon-y but who knows, perhaps it might work?
These are much higher energy cosmic rays than those you typically detect with a couple of bits of scintillator, a few PMTs and a CAMAC crate. In addition, all you detected were the direction of one muon in the shower which the ray initiated in the atmosphere so you had very little idea of the original direction of the ray. To do that you have to reconstruct the entire shower which, for a high energy ray, is spread over a large area.
Gravity is too weak to do this, even over long distances. The reason that nobody can detect the sources of cosmis rays is because they are easily deflected by magnetic fields and we don't have a magnetic field map of the universe to unravel this effect. Even extremely high energy rays can be deflected by weak magnetic fields due to the huge distances involved.
So for this result, I presume that they must have ruled out the possibility that these rays are being bent back towards us by the galactic magnetic field which is not unreasonable given that we know something of the galactic magnetic field and the energy of these particles.
So if you extrapolate this facts, don't they suggest that it stands to reason that, the further away in distance [and thus the further back in time] that we look, the higher the energies we would expect to observe.
To get to the energies of cosmic rays you have to go back to before 10^-13 s after the Big Bang. Back then the Universe was incredibly small and incredibly dense. So dense and energetic that everything, even things like neutrinos, were colliding and interacting with everything around them. This meant that everything was roughly in thermal equilibrium and had comparable energies.
By the time than the charged particles responsible for cosmic rays the energy and density of the universe would have been much, much lower since it would require photons to decouple first which happened 380,000 years after the Big Bang. The result is that there is no way that a Cosmic ray, as a charged particle, can get its energy directly from the Big Bang.
It could get it indirectly if there were some high mass, exotic and as yet undiscovered particle which was created in the Big Bang and which decays with a lifetime of billions of years or which might annihilate with itself to create these particles. This is one possible way to detect Dark Matter but it is extremely unlikely (impossible without even more new physics) that this would provide enough energy to explain high energy cosmic rays.
It's also available for Microsoft Surface devices which just goes to show how much things have changed. Now it's no problem when MS does it but when Apple does it's "Orwellian and creepy".
No, you are right I don't have a clue. I have evidence, logical reasoning and two family members who are airline pilots. I know that's not much to counter your unsupported insults with but hey that's ok, I'll slowly back off your lawn and you can go back to muttering quietly to yourself again.
While what you said is correct that does not mean that the report has no value. They searched for evidence of harm and did not find any. This means that if there is any harm it is not visible in the places where they looked and so the report is useful in that the next search for harm clearly needs to look somewhere else. In addition, if piracy really does not cause any harm, then all such studies will show no evidence of harm and we need to see that in order to be able to conclude that in fact there might not be any harm being caused.
We use the same approach in physics when searching for evidence of new models. If we find nothing then we publish this result along with the areas where we looked and saw nothing. The next experiment then knows not to look there and to try a different approach that looks in a different area of the parameter space. If, after lots of searches, massive areas of parameter space are ruled out then at some point people start to think that the new model is probably not the way the universe works and theorists start to develop other ideas which is what is happening with something called Supersymmetry now which was once regarded as the most promising model to explain Dark Matter. None of this would happen if nobody published their unsuccessful searches.
Would these be the same type of computers that currently control fly by wire aircraft yet still have to hand back control to the pilots if conditions exceed their pre-programmed limits?
No, because clearly that would not be acceptable. However, if we have almost solved the problem of autonomous driving in 2D it should be easier to solve in 3D because there are fewer obstacles and more ways to avoid them. Autopilots, while limited, have been around on aircraft for years. What we need is some combination of the two so that flying cars can not only fly automatically but also take off and land.
Have you seen the way people drive in only two dimensions?
I think that's why we are hearing this from someone who works on autonomous vehicles. The only way we are going to have flying cars is if there is a computer driving it to stop us doing something stupid.
I doubt greatly that the emissions is contributing that much to the health of individuals.
All it says is "premature" death. What is not clear is by how much - shaving a day off the average life of 5,000 people is not that much statistically speaking. Shaving 10 years off is a lot. I also have to wonder that if diesel cars are having this much effect what is the effect of diesel lorries? These burn a lot more fuel than cars per kilometre and are driven far more too. If the effect of lorries is to cause the premature deaths of 50,000 people by whatever standard they are using then we should not be worrying about cars.
I stand corrected - it must have been a 1000 CHF note then - whatever it was it was worth a heck of a lot more than the price of two cinema tickets even in Geneva!
If you think like an engineer for a minute, then you realize that the air from a breach could be used as an automatic brake.
This is the same sort of thinking that leads people to believe that water is a soft place to land a plane. While air certainly has less viscosity and density than water it will be in an enclosed tube with no ability to flow out of the way easily. What you suggest might be possible but it might not - it will certainly take a lot stronger nose cone than an aircraft which travels at the same speeds in open air. Even then the deceleration force might still be a lot more than a human can tolerate.
With no air to dissipate the heat from the braking system, how that works and getting it to work quickly will be a major challenge.
The breaking will undoubtedly be magnetic so will either be regenerative or dissipate heat through a current in some material - probably the track. Falling objects or derailment I think will be the big dangers since any physical contact at those speeds will likely be extremely dangerous.
What do you mean by a containment failure? The tube is going to have a near vacuum in it so it has to be built to withstand a pressure difference of only one atmosphere.
Not necessarily. Since it is only near vacuum the train will generate an increase in pressure in front of it where the remaining air is compressed. This over pressure could be a lot more than one atmosphere - it just depends on what the specs of the system. However, I'm not a fluid dynamicist nor do I have any idea of the specs of the hyperloop so I've no idea whether this effect is significant or not.
High denomination notes are a lot more common in Switzerland - although this is in Euros and not Swiss Francs. I remember taken my then fiance (now wife) to the cinema only to see the guy in front pay for two tickets with a 10,000 Swiss Franc note (then worth around 4,000 pounds). The cashier did not bat an eyelid - she just lent over to her colleague because she was short of a couple of 1,000 SFr notes for the change - and handed back over 9,900 SFr in change.
Yes, I have noticed that too but only for the UK. It's my UK bank which has the requirement for an SMS verification and British Airways which insisted on a mobile number for SMS texting when I bought a ticket online despite having an option for "no mobile" which just gave an error (fortunately they took my office phone number). I've not seen nagging from Google about this but I don't have a Facebook account again because I don't see any use for it that justifies the cost of having one.
Really? No clue at all? I find that very unlikely. I also don't see any fucking evidence.
Really? No evidence? They did not notice the breach for 10 weeks, it was caused by bug that had a patch released for it months beforehand, it took them 6 weeks to notify people about the breach, their website in response to the breach was an utter joke, they exposed data from the UK that was not even supposed to be in the US, their web portal's username/password combination was admin/admin. How much worse does it have to get to prove she had no clue how to do her job?
Idaho has its own way of minimizing crime - shoot back.
...which unfortunately makes the argument for street lights even stronger because if you are going to do that I expect most people would like you to be able to see what you are shooting at instead of firing a gun randomly in the dark.
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The referendum is unconstitutional: the constitution enshrines the territorial integrity of Spain as inviolate; and even if there is some wiggle room there, it would have to be a national referendum rather than a regional one.
So wouldn't the very first step in the procedure to change it be determining whether one area wants to secede? There is a huge difference between saying that you cannot secede and you cannot even ask anyone if they want to secede. In fact isn't that a violation of EU human rights on the freedom of thought and speech? It may require a national vote to allow them to secede but at the moment the only thing anyone is doing is asking "should we secede"?
Cataluña has no reason to secede. Nationalists, who are basically localist fascists are the ones pushing for an impossible exit of cataluña from the Spain, when by the way, they werent anexed.
You can say exactly the same things about Scotland in the UK and Quebec in Canada. In both cases the regions were given a free vote (two in fact for Quebec) about whether they wanted to secede and in both cases the majority voted against it and the independence movements in both locations are now effectively muted for decades. So while Spain has been saying that "no country would tolerate this" they are utterly wrong: two countries have and it worked out well both times.
If what you say is true then the Spanish government is being idiotic in its response. It should not only have allowed the vote but organized it too to ensure it is performed fairly. If you are right then such a vote would have been against independence and the problem goes away for several decades. Actively suppressing it is likely to greatly increase support for independence and the result will be some sort of election probably in favour of independence and then you'll have a resurgent independence movement which will cause you problems for decades and way well eventually result in independence!
I have a 2009 Mac Pro.
The Mac Pro makes an excellent point in Apple's favour though because become so complex that Apple can't even figure out how to upgrade it. They had the same model for over 4 years with no updates so with complexity like that it's not even clear that they know how to repair it let alone anyone else.
Do you bother thinking before opening your mouth? Do you even live in a semi-urban area?
Yes I have lived in many over the years, admittedly none of which sound anything like as bad as yours, which is why I indicated that it would need to be secured and padlocked (or did you miss that before your medication wore off?). This requires some work and expense but I suspect a lot less than installing a special smart lock plus network connected, computer controlled video surveillance throughout your house which is what we were comparing it to. Besides, based on your own description of your neighbourhood even going to the store yourself does not sound safe since you could get mugged for your groceries on your way back from it.
Don't worry, for all us un-americans there is a more accurate Pi day on 22/7 since 22/7 is a slightly better approximation to pi than 3.14.
What about the fact that all this is unnecessary if you put a secured, padlocked cool box (possibly even one with active cooling) outside your door and let them put the groceries in that? It's probably a lot cheaper than installing a smart lock plus video surveillance throughout your house and has no security implications. It might not keep them cool all day in the summer but if you arrange delivery for a 3-hour window before you return home it should do fine. Milk used to be delivered door-to-door in the UK and it was fine for an hour or so with zero refrigeration or insulation.
Of course this solution does not involve high tech locks, flying drones, autonomous delivery trucks or robots so it's clearly less amazon-y but who knows, perhaps it might work?
Sorry but as you should know God is an Englishman and what you suggest simply isn't cricket.
These are much higher energy cosmic rays than those you typically detect with a couple of bits of scintillator, a few PMTs and a CAMAC crate. In addition, all you detected were the direction of one muon in the shower which the ray initiated in the atmosphere so you had very little idea of the original direction of the ray. To do that you have to reconstruct the entire shower which, for a high energy ray, is spread over a large area.
Gravity is too weak to do this, even over long distances. The reason that nobody can detect the sources of cosmis rays is because they are easily deflected by magnetic fields and we don't have a magnetic field map of the universe to unravel this effect. Even extremely high energy rays can be deflected by weak magnetic fields due to the huge distances involved.
So for this result, I presume that they must have ruled out the possibility that these rays are being bent back towards us by the galactic magnetic field which is not unreasonable given that we know something of the galactic magnetic field and the energy of these particles.
So if you extrapolate this facts, don't they suggest that it stands to reason that, the further away in distance [and thus the further back in time] that we look, the higher the energies we would expect to observe.
To get to the energies of cosmic rays you have to go back to before 10^-13 s after the Big Bang. Back then the Universe was incredibly small and incredibly dense. So dense and energetic that everything, even things like neutrinos, were colliding and interacting with everything around them. This meant that everything was roughly in thermal equilibrium and had comparable energies.
By the time than the charged particles responsible for cosmic rays the energy and density of the universe would have been much, much lower since it would require photons to decouple first which happened 380,000 years after the Big Bang. The result is that there is no way that a Cosmic ray, as a charged particle, can get its energy directly from the Big Bang.
It could get it indirectly if there were some high mass, exotic and as yet undiscovered particle which was created in the Big Bang and which decays with a lifetime of billions of years or which might annihilate with itself to create these particles. This is one possible way to detect Dark Matter but it is extremely unlikely (impossible without even more new physics) that this would provide enough energy to explain high energy cosmic rays.
It's also available for Microsoft Surface devices which just goes to show how much things have changed. Now it's no problem when MS does it but when Apple does it's "Orwellian and creepy".
No, you are right I don't have a clue. I have evidence, logical reasoning and two family members who are airline pilots. I know that's not much to counter your unsupported insults with but hey that's ok, I'll slowly back off your lawn and you can go back to muttering quietly to yourself again.
While what you said is correct that does not mean that the report has no value. They searched for evidence of harm and did not find any. This means that if there is any harm it is not visible in the places where they looked and so the report is useful in that the next search for harm clearly needs to look somewhere else. In addition, if piracy really does not cause any harm, then all such studies will show no evidence of harm and we need to see that in order to be able to conclude that in fact there might not be any harm being caused.
We use the same approach in physics when searching for evidence of new models. If we find nothing then we publish this result along with the areas where we looked and saw nothing. The next experiment then knows not to look there and to try a different approach that looks in a different area of the parameter space. If, after lots of searches, massive areas of parameter space are ruled out then at some point people start to think that the new model is probably not the way the universe works and theorists start to develop other ideas which is what is happening with something called Supersymmetry now which was once regarded as the most promising model to explain Dark Matter. None of this would happen if nobody published their unsuccessful searches.
Would these be the same type of computers that currently control fly by wire aircraft yet still have to hand back control to the pilots if conditions exceed their pre-programmed limits?
No, because clearly that would not be acceptable. However, if we have almost solved the problem of autonomous driving in 2D it should be easier to solve in 3D because there are fewer obstacles and more ways to avoid them. Autopilots, while limited, have been around on aircraft for years. What we need is some combination of the two so that flying cars can not only fly automatically but also take off and land.
Have you seen the way people drive in only two dimensions?
I think that's why we are hearing this from someone who works on autonomous vehicles. The only way we are going to have flying cars is if there is a computer driving it to stop us doing something stupid.
I doubt greatly that the emissions is contributing that much to the health of individuals.
All it says is "premature" death. What is not clear is by how much - shaving a day off the average life of 5,000 people is not that much statistically speaking. Shaving 10 years off is a lot. I also have to wonder that if diesel cars are having this much effect what is the effect of diesel lorries? These burn a lot more fuel than cars per kilometre and are driven far more too. If the effect of lorries is to cause the premature deaths of 50,000 people by whatever standard they are using then we should not be worrying about cars.
I stand corrected - it must have been a 1000 CHF note then - whatever it was it was worth a heck of a lot more than the price of two cinema tickets even in Geneva!
If you think like an engineer for a minute, then you realize that the air from a breach could be used as an automatic brake.
This is the same sort of thinking that leads people to believe that water is a soft place to land a plane. While air certainly has less viscosity and density than water it will be in an enclosed tube with no ability to flow out of the way easily. What you suggest might be possible but it might not - it will certainly take a lot stronger nose cone than an aircraft which travels at the same speeds in open air. Even then the deceleration force might still be a lot more than a human can tolerate.
With no air to dissipate the heat from the braking system, how that works and getting it to work quickly will be a major challenge.
The breaking will undoubtedly be magnetic so will either be regenerative or dissipate heat through a current in some material - probably the track. Falling objects or derailment I think will be the big dangers since any physical contact at those speeds will likely be extremely dangerous.
What do you mean by a containment failure? The tube is going to have a near vacuum in it so it has to be built to withstand a pressure difference of only one atmosphere.
Not necessarily. Since it is only near vacuum the train will generate an increase in pressure in front of it where the remaining air is compressed. This over pressure could be a lot more than one atmosphere - it just depends on what the specs of the system. However, I'm not a fluid dynamicist nor do I have any idea of the specs of the hyperloop so I've no idea whether this effect is significant or not.
I don't blame them - after Brexit and Trump it is now sometimes hard to tell the difference between a joke and reality.
High denomination notes are a lot more common in Switzerland - although this is in Euros and not Swiss Francs. I remember taken my then fiance (now wife) to the cinema only to see the guy in front pay for two tickets with a 10,000 Swiss Franc note (then worth around 4,000 pounds). The cashier did not bat an eyelid - she just lent over to her colleague because she was short of a couple of 1,000 SFr notes for the change - and handed back over 9,900 SFr in change.
Yes, I have noticed that too but only for the UK. It's my UK bank which has the requirement for an SMS verification and British Airways which insisted on a mobile number for SMS texting when I bought a ticket online despite having an option for "no mobile" which just gave an error (fortunately they took my office phone number). I've not seen nagging from Google about this but I don't have a Facebook account again because I don't see any use for it that justifies the cost of having one.
Really? No clue at all? I find that very unlikely. I also don't see any fucking evidence.
Really? No evidence? They did not notice the breach for 10 weeks, it was caused by bug that had a patch released for it months beforehand, it took them 6 weeks to notify people about the breach, their website in response to the breach was an utter joke, they exposed data from the UK that was not even supposed to be in the US, their web portal's username/password combination was admin/admin. How much worse does it have to get to prove she had no clue how to do her job?
Idaho has its own way of minimizing crime - shoot back.