I sympathise, if I bought every book I read I'd be bankrupt twice over. The public library is my friend, and I try to ration my books by reading only 2 or 3 hours a day.
I prefer not to re-read anything I've read within the last 3 years or so, and I only re-read books I liked alot the first time through.
Then pack protective garments in your shelter. Basicly a coat with gloves and a full facemask and hood, and pants. Use non UV transparent materials.
If it's just UV you don't need teperature shielding or an air supply, but if you're packing a fallout shelter then you might as well pack spacesuits. You can modify them to draw outside air pretty easy and you're covered if it's very hot/cold or the air's polluted.
Any prediction of future developments in science is risky at best, it's near impossible to tell where we'll be in even just 20 years.
Even though the carbon nanotubes we have now are only a few cm long at most, you could probably still build a bridge from them. But why would you? It'd be about as economical as bulding it from lab grown diamond, if it was that cheap. Hemp is considered an excelent plant fibre for ropes and it's fibres are about 2.5 cm long.
We surely have a way to go before we can build a space elevator, but it's economic and social value are immense. It's a worthwhile endeavor. Materials science almost always pays for itself many times over.
I totaly agree. I think people overeact to the crappy shows and adds on tv, nobody's forcing anyone to watch them after all. If you don't like the stuff on TV, don't watch. TV is not the only kind of entertainment for sale. It's like getting offended by people buying and selling pepsi while you prefer dr.pepper.
IMO novels are a better deal, you can get 2 or 3 new paperbacks a month for the price of basic cable, or almost 10 books if you buy used.
A "space elevator" is totally unlike anything ever done before. As I read in a Slashdot post some years ago (referring to nanotubes, the favorite among space-elevator aficionados), "When somebody has built a 40,000 millimeter bridge across a creek on campus, then we can start to talk about a 40,000 kilometer bridge straight up".
A 40,000mm bridge is a 40m bridge. That's less than 120 feet. People have built multiple KM bridges long before now, the new Millau bridge in france is 2.5 KM in length.
There are bridges made of stone or wood longer than 40,000 millimetres!
>However, what about certain plastics, etc. that we need, that are made from oil? Perhaps we should start moving towards alternative energy now, and save the fuel for what we need it for?
We can manufacture oil in a lab. Granted, it'd be pretty expensive (or someone would be doing it already) but it's do-able. We can manufacture diamonds, oil shouldn't be any problem.
> Come to think of it, my DVD player plays DVDs, MP3, and CDs and has no hard drive. Throw in a network card and we're really cooking.
You may be on to something there. Make a front end unit for the living room that's basicly a DVD player that also lets you use the desktop off of your main computer.
If you build in an X client or something it'll give you access to the media on your computer. It'd probably be a little high latency to play games off of, but it'd work fine for video or websurfing. Pack in a CD with the server software in the box.
If you want it to play games, include a KVM switch in the unit, and a few USB ports that also lead back to the PC for joysticks etc. Anyone know the max run lenth for keyboards, mice or monitor cabling? Is it practical to put in repeaters or amplifiers?
LM hashes are Lan Master hashes, an old microsoft standard.
They're not used much anymore because they're ludicrously insecure yet windows still makes a LM hash of all passwords by default. You can easly get someone's (administrator) password from these hashes, and the hashes aren't hard to get from a computer.
They're not used and can give others your password, and now there's a site that'll give you any letters only password from it's hash in seconds.
>The only down side is that I have to find a way to dispose of them when they finally die in 10 years -- they contain mercury.. so I can't just throw them out.
I don't know if this is applicable where you live but here we often have yearly or semi yearly hazerdous waste disposal days. People from all over bring their toxic stuff in to a central location and it's all sorted and sent on it's way to proper disposal. Call your city hall and ask if your community is doing this.
Energy storeage isn't nececary. In from solar, then right out again. If you want it anyway, use flywheels.
As for Newton, you can time your fire so you speed up then equaly slow down your orbital velocity each orbit. Or just fire in both directions. Orbital corrections aren't hard with an engine of that scale.
My family is probably larger than yours. I and all 3 of my brothers are taller and heavier than most college level football players, and I'm not talking about the recievers or running backs. I personally am 6'3" and 330 lb. I'm about 70ish lbs overweight so muscle, organs and bone I'm about 250 lbs.
Weekly we drink about 24 to 32 litres of milk (6 to 8 jugs). Just that much milk would end up weighing somewhere near the 53 to 71 lb. range and would be quite bulky.
Personaly I don't think it's anywhere near impractical for people to shop by bicycle, but it's also not easy. Even someone like me with a large family to shop for could just buy a bike trailer. But oddly enough some people don't want to bicycle home 100+ pounds of groceries. (they're probably just lazy wimps or something though;) )
>Hmmm, The FBI as a Disaster Recovery scenario, who'd've thought...
I had always thought of that as one of my likely disaster scenarios. You can recover from it the same way as you'd recover from a theft of your servers, or a fire or flood where the servers are destroyed.
AFS would certainly work. Even with just an off site full backup and a contingency contract with another hosting provider you can be up again pretty quick. There's no real reason for not having a site back up within a few hours other than insufficient preparation.
"The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a treaty, opened for signature on July 1, 1968, to which the vast majority of states (189) are parties, restricting the possession of nuclear weapons to the US (signed 1968), UK (1968), France (1992), Soviet Union (1968), and People's Republic of China (1992) (the five states which possessed nuclear weapons when the treaty was adopted, which are also the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.)"
From wikipedia
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1968 is pre-dated by the french aid in 1958 by 10 years. Also france didn't sign till 1992. Isreal had been developing nukes for ten years and didn't want to stop and give up the nukes they probably already had. When the treaty came up they didn't sign it.
The threat of non jewish voters issue from the links you provided seems to be limited mostly to the far right of Israels political specrum. The perception of threat isn't baseless, if my government had treated people like that I'd be afraid of retribution too, and rightly so judging from history.
On the other hand, the injustice of the Israeli governments current position is blatant. The problem being that the likely result of acting toward palistine in a just manner would be to make attacks on Israeli citizens easyer. The hard liner anti Israel terrorists would not stop if the border where put back tommorrow, though they may wait till the inevitible next issue that provokes strain between the nations comes along (to avoid loss of public support).
Personally I think the one nation idea could work, but I also fear it could turn into another Rwanda.
Well, firstly I'm not american, I'm canadian. I know what it's like to live in a country where I have to worry about the US's reactions to domestic policy. One of the major reasons we don't do stuff like legalising marijuana is because the US would go nuts. I don't think there is any messing with our elections going on though.
But even with that in mind, both your country and mine are independent. If you and your fellow citizens of italy have a problem with how italy is run then vote for someone else, campain for someone else, or run for office. Make being willing to tell the US where to stick their ideas a voting criteria.
The US may well have an unseemly level of effect on your policies, but it's up to the citizenry of a democratic country to determine who writes the law's of their nation. Your current state of affairs is as much your country's fault as the americans state of afairs is theirs: entirely. The voting public of many nations around the world are letting themselves be manipulated, while all they do is complain. Apathy is a rot to democracy.
If you live in a democratic nation and you don't like the way your nation is run, then act to change it. A nation gets from democracy what effort they put into it.
Wouldn't the remaining antimatter left over from the fission reaction react with the atmosphere anyway? I'd think you'd get about the same yeild as a normal antimatter bomb.
The problem with testing this is: how are you going to make antimatter heavy metals??
(a) Israel is building a big fuckoff wall *way outside* those borders, conveniently annexing large swathes of territory that do not belong to Israel with NO JUSTIFICATION
They may not have justification, but they sure have good reasons. Israels origional border is near indefensible and leaves most of it's population centres within easy rocket range of a probably hostile forein power.
(b) Israel is pursuing a systematic policy of colonising a foreign territory with 'native' Israelis
This on the other hand is just plain dumb. "hey lets see how much MORE we can piss off our neibors"
(c) Israelis forces are performing violent operations against civilian, terrorist and militia forces alike with no real concern as to which is which, outside its own territory, with no international sanction and indeed against international law and consensus
Israel is as justified attacking targets in palistine as the US was in attacking stuff in Afganistan.
(d) the Israeli government actually talks about maintaining the genetic purity of Israel (ah the irony) in the sense of making sure that at least 50% of Israelis are Jewish so that there can never be a 'democratic coup' inside Israel at election time
Never heard of this, do you have evidence, and is it official party policy? And for what party?
(e) Israel, unlike other nations, is completely ignored in all the hubbub from the west about nuclear proliferation despite possessing 100-200 nuclear warheads.
proliferate
v. proliferated, proliferating, proliferates
v. intr.
1. To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring.
2. To increase or spread at a rapid rate: fears that nuclear weapons might proliferate.
Its a tragic situation for all involved as far as I can see. Both populations are being denied any chance for peace by the extremeist segments of their societies.
Since the US has so much influence on the world, I sometimes think it would be fair if every human being in the world was allowed to vote in the US elections (at least as far as foreign affairs are concerned). The republicans would be wiped out.
Would you mind if americans could vote in your elections though?
kbahey (102895) said: "Then, the USA did not invade a soveriegn country illegally, against international law. Now it does."
I replied: "What about the US/Mexican war?"
Because the US took land from Mexico it had agreed was spanish while mexico was a spanish colony, it could be seen as breaking international law.
My point is that the US has acted like this before, near the 1876 and 1880 elections that were being disscussed. That was far more of a boondogle than the 2000 elections too.
my point was that the US was violently expantionist, not compared to anyone else, but as a stand alone statement.
I don't think the US of the 1800s needed to be compared to anyone to look violently expansionist.
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I sympathise, if I bought every book I read I'd be bankrupt twice over. The public library is my friend, and I try to ration my books by reading only 2 or 3 hours a day. I prefer not to re-read anything I've read within the last 3 years or so, and I only re-read books I liked alot the first time through.
Then pack protective garments in your shelter. Basicly a coat with gloves and a full facemask and hood, and pants. Use non UV transparent materials.
If it's just UV you don't need teperature shielding or an air supply, but if you're packing a fallout shelter then you might as well pack spacesuits. You can modify them to draw outside air pretty easy and you're covered if it's very hot/cold or the air's polluted.
Any prediction of future developments in science is risky at best, it's near impossible to tell where we'll be in even just 20 years. Even though the carbon nanotubes we have now are only a few cm long at most, you could probably still build a bridge from them. But why would you? It'd be about as economical as bulding it from lab grown diamond, if it was that cheap. Hemp is considered an excelent plant fibre for ropes and it's fibres are about 2.5 cm long. We surely have a way to go before we can build a space elevator, but it's economic and social value are immense. It's a worthwhile endeavor. Materials science almost always pays for itself many times over.
I totaly agree. I think people overeact to the crappy shows and adds on tv, nobody's forcing anyone to watch them after all. If you don't like the stuff on TV, don't watch. TV is not the only kind of entertainment for sale. It's like getting offended by people buying and selling pepsi while you prefer dr.pepper.
IMO novels are a better deal, you can get 2 or 3 new paperbacks a month for the price of basic cable, or almost 10 books if you buy used.
Isn't the whole point of using a rope or ribon that you don't need a strand the length of the elevator?
A "space elevator" is totally unlike anything ever done before. As I read in a Slashdot post some years ago (referring to nanotubes, the favorite among space-elevator aficionados), "When somebody has built a 40,000 millimeter bridge across a creek on campus, then we can start to talk about a 40,000 kilometer bridge straight up".
A 40,000mm bridge is a 40m bridge. That's less than 120 feet. People have built multiple KM bridges long before now, the new Millau bridge in france is 2.5 KM in length.
There are bridges made of stone or wood longer than 40,000 millimetres!
>However, what about certain plastics, etc. that we need, that are made from oil? Perhaps we should start moving towards alternative energy now, and save the fuel for what we need it for?
We can manufacture oil in a lab. Granted, it'd be pretty expensive (or someone would be doing it already) but it's do-able. We can manufacture diamonds, oil shouldn't be any problem.
>People need to learn, senstive data is only protected in ONE place, inside our minds.
;)
>Keep it there and no one can snoop it.
That storage medium can still usualy be brute forced. All you need is a room where nobody will hear the screams and sufficient time.
Don't worry, even with more than enough land we can still fight over who gets the best land.
> Come to think of it, my DVD player plays DVDs, MP3, and CDs and has no hard drive. Throw in a network card and we're really cooking.
You may be on to something there. Make a front end unit for the living room that's basicly a DVD player that also lets you use the desktop off of your main computer.
If you build in an X client or something it'll give you access to the media on your computer. It'd probably be a little high latency to play games off of, but it'd work fine for video or websurfing. Pack in a CD with the server software in the box.
If you want it to play games, include a KVM switch in the unit, and a few USB ports that also lead back to the PC for joysticks etc. Anyone know the max run lenth for keyboards, mice or monitor cabling? Is it practical to put in repeaters or amplifiers?
LM hashes are Lan Master hashes, an old microsoft standard.
They're not used much anymore because they're ludicrously insecure yet windows still makes a LM hash of all passwords by default. You can easly get someone's (administrator) password from these hashes, and the hashes aren't hard to get from a computer.
They're not used and can give others your password, and now there's a site that'll give you any letters only password from it's hash in seconds.
>The only down side is that I have to find a way to dispose of them when they finally die in 10 years -- they contain mercury.. so I can't just throw them out.
I don't know if this is applicable where you live but here we often have yearly or semi yearly hazerdous waste disposal days. People from all over bring their toxic stuff in to a central location and it's all sorted and sent on it's way to proper disposal. Call your city hall and ask if your community is doing this.
But it's not as easy as in a car, and that's what stops people. Most people don't want to even spend the effort of riding themselves.
With a trailer, no hills, and low enough gears you could haul 2000 litres, at least.
Energy storeage isn't nececary. In from solar, then right out again. If you want it anyway, use flywheels.
As for Newton, you can time your fire so you speed up then equaly slow down your orbital velocity each orbit. Or just fire in both directions. Orbital corrections aren't hard with an engine of that scale.
My family is probably larger than yours. I and all 3 of my brothers are taller and heavier than most college level football players, and I'm not talking about the recievers or running backs. I personally am 6'3" and 330 lb. I'm about 70ish lbs overweight so muscle, organs and bone I'm about 250 lbs.
;) )
Weekly we drink about 24 to 32 litres of milk (6 to 8 jugs). Just that much milk would end up weighing somewhere near the 53 to 71 lb. range and would be quite bulky.
Personaly I don't think it's anywhere near impractical for people to shop by bicycle, but it's also not easy. Even someone like me with a large family to shop for could just buy a bike trailer. But oddly enough some people don't want to bicycle home 100+ pounds of groceries. (they're probably just lazy wimps or something though
On a bicycle it's not too easy to bring back 4 litres of milk and assorted other groceries.
>Hmmm, The FBI as a Disaster Recovery scenario, who'd've thought...
I had always thought of that as one of my likely disaster scenarios. You can recover from it the same way as you'd recover from a theft of your servers, or a fire or flood where the servers are destroyed.
AFS would certainly work. Even with just an off site full backup and a contingency contract with another hosting provider you can be up again pretty quick. There's no real reason for not having a site back up within a few hours other than insufficient preparation.
"The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a treaty, opened for signature on July 1, 1968, to which the vast majority of states (189) are parties, restricting the possession of nuclear weapons to the US (signed 1968), UK (1968), France (1992), Soviet Union (1968), and People's Republic of China (1992) (the five states which possessed nuclear weapons when the treaty was adopted, which are also the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.)"
From wikipedia
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1968 is pre-dated by the french aid in 1958 by 10 years. Also france didn't sign till 1992. Isreal had been developing nukes for ten years and didn't want to stop and give up the nukes they probably already had. When the treaty came up they didn't sign it.
The threat of non jewish voters issue from the links you provided seems to be limited mostly to the far right of Israels political specrum. The perception of threat isn't baseless, if my government had treated people like that I'd be afraid of retribution too, and rightly so judging from history.
On the other hand, the injustice of the Israeli governments current position is blatant. The problem being that the likely result of acting toward palistine in a just manner would be to make attacks on Israeli citizens easyer. The hard liner anti Israel terrorists would not stop if the border where put back tommorrow, though they may wait till the inevitible next issue that provokes strain between the nations comes along (to avoid loss of public support).
Personally I think the one nation idea could work, but I also fear it could turn into another Rwanda.
Well, firstly I'm not american, I'm canadian. I know what it's like to live in a country where I have to worry about the US's reactions to domestic policy. One of the major reasons we don't do stuff like legalising marijuana is because the US would go nuts. I don't think there is any messing with our elections going on though.
But even with that in mind, both your country and mine are independent. If you and your fellow citizens of italy have a problem with how italy is run then vote for someone else, campain for someone else, or run for office. Make being willing to tell the US where to stick their ideas a voting criteria.
The US may well have an unseemly level of effect on your policies, but it's up to the citizenry of a democratic country to determine who writes the law's of their nation. Your current state of affairs is as much your country's fault as the americans state of afairs is theirs: entirely. The voting public of many nations around the world are letting themselves be manipulated, while all they do is complain. Apathy is a rot to democracy.
If you live in a democratic nation and you don't like the way your nation is run, then act to change it. A nation gets from democracy what effort they put into it.
Wouldn't the remaining antimatter left over from the fission reaction react with the atmosphere anyway? I'd think you'd get about the same yeild as a normal antimatter bomb.
The problem with testing this is: how are you going to make antimatter heavy metals??
v. proliferated, proliferating, proliferates
v. intr.
1. To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring.
2. To increase or spread at a rapid rate: fears that nuclear weapons might proliferate.
v. tr.
To cause to grow or increase rapidly.
They're not spreading them around of making more so they're not proliferating. Acording to Wikipedia having nukes does not count as nuklear proliferation. Also how many nukes (warheads, not missles) are owned by the US or Russia, or France? wikipedia says there are about about 40,000 nuclear weapons in the world in 2002. That would make Israels nukes 0.5% to 0.25% of the worlds nukes.
Its a tragic situation for all involved as far as I can see. Both populations are being denied any chance for peace by the extremeist segments of their societies.
Since the US has so much influence on the world, I sometimes think it would be fair if every human being in the world was allowed to vote in the US elections (at least as far as foreign affairs are concerned). The republicans would be wiped out.
Would you mind if americans could vote in your elections though?
Nation-states are violently expansionist.
America is a nation-state.
Therefore....
Wrong, but also totally beside the point.
kbahey (102895) said:
"Then, the USA did not invade a soveriegn country illegally, against international law. Now it does."
I replied:
"What about the US/Mexican war?"
Because the US took land from Mexico it had agreed was spanish while mexico was a spanish colony, it could be seen as breaking international law.
My point is that the US has acted like this before, near the 1876 and 1880 elections that were being disscussed. That was far more of a boondogle than the 2000 elections too.
my point was that the US was violently expantionist, not compared to anyone else, but as a stand alone statement. I don't think the US of the 1800s needed to be compared to anyone to look violently expansionist.
I don't think Yugoslavia is in charge of the OSCE. and what was the point? That you distain european nations and wish to inacurately belittle them?