Help the feds and get your but sued off by your customers, or dont help the feds and run the risk of pissing off the powers that be. I can understand how the telco's are in a serious pickle over this, since both sides will start screaming "do what we say, the law is on our side"
the thing is... would a human be able to reliably make the distinction between a 25 year old woman who says she just removed her nailpolish that morning, and a 25 year old woman who says she just removed her nailpolish that morning and also has half a liter of acitone straped to the inside of her left thigh?
I think 70 on a flight is a VERY low estimate... considering 747s can carry several hundred people. And there is no WAY the false positve rate will be that low in real life. As another poster commented ascitone (sp?) is the primary ingrediant in nailpolish remover, and can react with high concentration hydrogyn peroxide to make a powerfull explosive. So any and every woman who walks by this machene who has remoed their nailpolish in the last 24 hours will touch it off, shake hands with her and you might be flaged as well. Every florist or farmer or even backyard gardener or wall-mart employee who works with nitrogen based fertilizer will be makred and pulled over. There are an absolutely ABSURD number of chemicals used every day that can be mixed to become a bomb.
How long does it take to strip search someone, unpack and repack every item of carry on AND call back their checked luggage to search that.... half an hour? an hour? now if you're really lucky they will catch all of the false positives early enough that your flight isn't delayed.... if youre not lucky they will catch them just minutes before the flight is due to take off (not everyone follows the "get here 3 hours early" rule) and your flight is delayed for several hours. And since your gate is still full, the plane who was to disembark at it is now also delayed until a gate can be freed up.
and this is just at one airport, if legislated into every airport in the states it will clog up air travel like nothing else seen.
Human Papolova Virus (HPV) can be transmitted from person to person, however the cancer cells it creates are from the host. The article states that in this case the very cancer cells themselves are being transmitted and growing in a new host. These tumors have no genitic relation to host, whereas HPV induced cancers do.
all gas clouds wil collapse under their own gravity unless pushed out by some force, no matter how small the cloud. Even a "cloud" of two molicules will eventually join together given enough time. Smaller clouds just take longer to collapse as the mutual gravity of the cloud is less.
there is no reason a planemo cant, or doesnt, form in this manner.
I dont like the name one bit... they have NOTHING to do with planets... they are stelar objects whos mass is simply to low to get their internal temperature high enough for hydrogen fusion.
IMHO better names would be: stellar dwarfs, non-fusion stars or something along those lines... they arnt planets.
how exactly does this streach the ideas of how objects are formed in space? These "planemos" were therorized in my highschool astronomy book (and no, im not going to tell you how many years ago that was).
To form a star: Take a whole LOT of hydrogen gas in open space... maybe add a little helium for good measure. Wait for a few million years untill the gravatational pull of the gas concentrates in in the center of the cloud. As the gas condences it gets hotter due to the collisions of the gas molicuels/atoms. If there is enough presure then the temperature will reach the point needed for hydrogen fusion, at which point the new solar wind will stop any more gas from condencing into the new star.
now, if you DONT have enough gas to get the presure high enough to get the temperature high enough, then fusion WONT occur, the gas will all condence into the failed star and.... thats it. The condenced gasses will simply float away from the star forming reagon and voila.... planemos.
this reminds me so much of the bomb that will be hddvd and blu ray.
Unless there is a signifigant advantage in a new media it will be extremely hard to get the customer to pic it up. DVDs were HUGE over VHS, CDs were equally superior to audio cassettes, who were supperior to LPs (in portability). But what does DVD audio have to ofer over a CD? When you consider how little data on the average 80min cd is actually being used by the music it makes you wonder just how much extra they can fit on the disks they have.
OTOH... if they offered some good extras, videos for every song, artist comintary and whatnot... then it "might" take off. But I sure wouldn't bet the farm on it.
doubt that will happen.... when youre the only kid on the playground trying to change the rules it doesnt matter how big you are when everyone else is playing by the same rules.
then you must not do much talking to Americans either... or Britts, French... anyone in NATO, most of the countries in the UN.... Ok, who DO you talk to?
even if true.... why would the US have to be the only place growing corn? 97% of the landmass of the US, spread out over all the airable land in the world, isnt nearly as extreme.
Canada, and youre right, i AM responcible for their actions. If a party whos policies i dont agree with gets voted in I take full responcibility for getting them voted out come the next election, If they do something i dont like I send a letter to my member of parliment, the relivent cabinent minister and the Prime minister telling them why i dont like it and what i think they should do in its place.
Next time you try and trow an argument back in someone's face, make damn sure they arnt wearing a catchers mit and is actually a person who practices what they preach.
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honestly... no. you can't afford multi million dollar lawyers like the big newspapers and firms can.
"damned if you do, damned if you don't"
Help the feds and get your but sued off by your customers, or dont help the feds and run the risk of pissing off the powers that be. I can understand how the telco's are in a serious pickle over this, since both sides will start screaming "do what we say, the law is on our side"
the thing is... would a human be able to reliably make the distinction between a 25 year old woman who says she just removed her nailpolish that morning, and a 25 year old woman who says she just removed her nailpolish that morning and also has half a liter of acitone straped to the inside of her left thigh?
I think 70 on a flight is a VERY low estimate... considering 747s can carry several hundred people. And there is no WAY the false positve rate will be that low in real life. As another poster commented ascitone (sp?) is the primary ingrediant in nailpolish remover, and can react with high concentration hydrogyn peroxide to make a powerfull explosive. So any and every woman who walks by this machene who has remoed their nailpolish in the last 24 hours will touch it off, shake hands with her and you might be flaged as well. Every florist or farmer or even backyard gardener or wall-mart employee who works with nitrogen based fertilizer will be makred and pulled over. There are an absolutely ABSURD number of chemicals used every day that can be mixed to become a bomb.
How long does it take to strip search someone, unpack and repack every item of carry on AND call back their checked luggage to search that.... half an hour? an hour? now if you're really lucky they will catch all of the false positives early enough that your flight isn't delayed.... if youre not lucky they will catch them just minutes before the flight is due to take off (not everyone follows the "get here 3 hours early" rule) and your flight is delayed for several hours. And since your gate is still full, the plane who was to disembark at it is now also delayed until a gate can be freed up. and this is just at one airport, if legislated into every airport in the states it will clog up air travel like nothing else seen.
its the licking im worried about. How many times do you let a dog lick the back of your hand to gain it's trust? or see one licking a kids face?
close, but not quite.
Human Papolova Virus (HPV) can be transmitted from person to person, however the cancer cells it creates are from the host. The article states that in this case the very cancer cells themselves are being transmitted and growing in a new host. These tumors have no genitic relation to host, whereas HPV induced cancers do.
just hope it doesnt jump to humans.
very large gas planets orbit a star. Planets need a central object to orbit, or they arnt planets.
all gas clouds wil collapse under their own gravity unless pushed out by some force, no matter how small the cloud. Even a "cloud" of two molicules will eventually join together given enough time. Smaller clouds just take longer to collapse as the mutual gravity of the cloud is less.
there is no reason a planemo cant, or doesnt, form in this manner.
i like it :)
technically they do... a planetary object by definition needs something to orbit.
What i think you meen is that a nebula of the right size can form a stelar object that doesnt have the mass for fusion.
I dont like the name one bit... they have NOTHING to do with planets... they are stelar objects whos mass is simply to low to get their internal temperature high enough for hydrogen fusion.
IMHO better names would be: stellar dwarfs, non-fusion stars or something along those lines... they arnt planets.
how exactly does this streach the ideas of how objects are formed in space? These "planemos" were therorized in my highschool astronomy book (and no, im not going to tell you how many years ago that was).
To form a star: Take a whole LOT of hydrogen gas in open space... maybe add a little helium for good measure. Wait for a few million years untill the gravatational pull of the gas concentrates in in the center of the cloud. As the gas condences it gets hotter due to the collisions of the gas molicuels/atoms. If there is enough presure then the temperature will reach the point needed for hydrogen fusion, at which point the new solar wind will stop any more gas from condencing into the new star.
now, if you DONT have enough gas to get the presure high enough to get the temperature high enough, then fusion WONT occur, the gas will all condence into the failed star and.... thats it. The condenced gasses will simply float away from the star forming reagon and voila.... planemos.
not exactly a streach.
this reminds me so much of the bomb that will be hddvd and blu ray.
Unless there is a signifigant advantage in a new media it will be extremely hard to get the customer to pic it up. DVDs were HUGE over VHS, CDs were equally superior to audio cassettes, who were supperior to LPs (in portability). But what does DVD audio have to ofer over a CD? When you consider how little data on the average 80min cd is actually being used by the music it makes you wonder just how much extra they can fit on the disks they have.
OTOH... if they offered some good extras, videos for every song, artist comintary and whatnot... then it "might" take off. But I sure wouldn't bet the farm on it.
thats copyright, not patent
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I was wonder how the parrent missed all that damn X10 pop-up spam too.....
doubt that will happen.... when youre the only kid on the playground trying to change the rules it doesnt matter how big you are when everyone else is playing by the same rules.
It's really getting time that the USPTO was gutted and brought up to standards with the rest of the world
darn, im out of mod points funny and insightfull
then you must not do much talking to Americans either... or Britts, French... anyone in NATO, most of the countries in the UN.... Ok, who DO you talk to?
We've got other options, though, such as switchgrass and hemp.
oh i can see it now... kids getting the bright idea that they can get high off of the fumes
even if true.... why would the US have to be the only place growing corn? 97% of the landmass of the US, spread out over all the airable land in the world, isnt nearly as extreme.
Canada, and youre right, i AM responcible for their actions. If a party whos policies i dont agree with gets voted in I take full responcibility for getting them voted out come the next election, If they do something i dont like I send a letter to my member of parliment, the relivent cabinent minister and the Prime minister telling them why i dont like it and what i think they should do in its place.
Next time you try and trow an argument back in someone's face, make damn sure they arnt wearing a catchers mit and is actually a person who practices what they preach.
do you meen to tell me that it takes 10 times the power to do that today then 5 years ago?