Its not that new of an idea this wiki has many ideas, some of which are crap. I was referring (generically) to an oscillating wing which doesn't work that well, but has a few potential special case uses (maybe).
Using a strip as a poorman's airfoil exploiting harmonics and distortion which themselves will be altered and dampened by the power extraction is not going to work that well.
Popular Mechanics is just a front for Press Releases most of the time and probably lost most their educated staff many years ago back when I stopped reading the trash it became (not that it was ever a quality source for science news.)
Look at savonius for cheap power.
Off the top of my head: Take the design from those shake flashlights (aka "jerk off" lights) and balance the thing so it can totter up and down enough for the magnet to slide past the coil. Then hook up just about anything that will flap in the wind to the other side... One could also use a simple air foil which mechanically alters its own pitch (to create a wave motion) and have it pump the shake light magnet up and down... Or the magnet could be lifted up and down thru wave motion and no wind is required at all. 2 different methods of power!
Popular Mechanics can send my award money to slashdot.
10) Optical scanners, their communication system, and the central tabulator ALL have been hacked before. (not all models, but most are only less stupidly designed than the touch screens)
9) The scan card itself as far as I know has not been hacked yet. re-scans will not show the errors depending on attack.
8) Districts. There is no algorithm for district definition; its not fixed either. (perhaps fixed is better than adapting to population? Perhaps a proxy voting system would work better?)
7) Faulty closed equip. Our optical scan system has NO lights; it to spits the paper back out.
6) Ballots are not authenticated, nor are their numbers tracked
5) Recounts are for "sore losers" so cheat a lot and quickly get the "loser" to fold without a fight
4) Cheaters are REWARDED and protected (Jeb Bush- fought in court, lost, then violated the same law and court orders backing those laws- before 2000.)
3) Some laws do not make a hand count of paper the official count; which is should be out of common sense (screw the laws that say otherwise which BTW, are written by #7 with no fear of the 2nd amendment.)
2) Voter registration & denied rights. Registration is a nightmare. Everybody votes or many are wrongfully denied.
1) Exit polls have been banned (here anyway) no error sampling allowed. (despite all the science, I'm amazed global warming even got past the filters.)
The severe damage to the USA has already been done; is the system healthy enough to ever fully recover? (not that going back to a pre-2000 condition is all that great.)
I do not STOP thinking upon reading "Greenpeace" because unlike Big Oil, they don't do PR for the sake of making unfettered profit-- if anything their motives are just short of removing mankind off the planet.
I don't know about Greenpeace other than meeting a few people, and I do not find their fanatic members to be bad or even "crazy" and their motives are entirely honorable; the organization and some of its members is bound to have the same problems any large organization has.
Greenpeace is far from perfect; however, they get a bad rap from the trillion dollar industries they fight with. The most powerful forces on earth today are some of the long time enemies of Greenpeace and don't think they haven't spend time and resources to hurt Greenpeace in every way they can for DECADES now.
You should consider how much actual experience and examination you have done in respect to Greenpeace and the large influential global powers with proven track records WANTING you to judge them based upon popular culture (which they have considerable influence over.)
My objections with nuclear are with stupid politicians regulating the waste and the actual long term cost - because no nuclear plant in the USA has ever been profitable. (hint: include government handouts when you do your math.)
How could Apple Legal not notice laws for cell phones? Surely, they put in stuff in the user agreements to address the issues involved-- one would think. Doesn't mean that it can't end up in court there are plenty of stupid laws to fix. Sadly, we don't have a fair system for dealing with those laws - even when both sides have equal funding and lawyers there are plenty of tricks; around my town hiring a lawyer from the same firm as the judge moves the odds in your favor (depending on the judge, naturally.)
Everybody knows the US legal system is in bad shape aside from the obvious undermining of the "rule of law" of the last 6 years.
Motive / Intent do not mean anything anymore its just a traditional question without meaning like a greeting "how are you?" Most any answer will suffice.
If you speed and kill somebody or just kill somebody while driving slow and there is no motive: the two should be the same. Sure, fine them for speeding because that is the deterrent but the judge should be able to wave it (since killing somebody would deter most people + proper media coverage would make the most of it.) Americans are so stuck on revenge/punishment ironically they are self described Christians.
When will we start arresting people who are tired? Drinking levels are so low, you can be in WORSE shape just being tired. Unless really drunk, its largely a matter of reaction time; which is also the argument for speed limits... and getting OLD people off the road and for stopping cell phones.
My neighbor hit a SCHOOL BUS FULL OF KIDS with his car before the state realized he was legally BLIND... Before that he thought he could see just fine to drive. No chemicals needed to impair his judgment, reaction time... just his AGE.
In addition, the PURPOSE for law or for specific laws goes largely unnoticed today. Speed limits are NOT about control although that is what its turning into. If they admit their mistake they shouldn't get sued but if they pull out obscure law out of their ass unrelated the initial mistake you should be able to sue the hell out of them.
Mail fraud law wasn't created or intended for Mr. Kurtz. If the flu could kill you, DO NOT EVER GO ON CAMPUS.
Yes you should be allowed to mod anything; however, you are updating THEIR software with new software from Apple. This means you are agreeing to the conditions they place on THEIR upgrade software! One of which is the classic disclaimers is "you can't blame our software for anything even if its our fault" BS which all software has today. If they do it on purpose you might have grounds to cause some legal trouble but otherwise you agreed to take all the risk when you clicked the button.
I thought you HAD to buy the phone with a contract for ATNT? Can you buy the phone without getting/paying for phone service? Anybody read that contract as well?
I have seen hundreds of similar situations and they are handled correctly. let them rant out their time; even turn off the mic; sometimes you can get them to SIT DOWN etc.
Telling him he was under arrest is was only made an upset person more upset. He is likely NOT a nutcase there are millions of seriously upset people in the country right now for good reason. Stupid way to handle the situation; the cops should be soundly reprimanded.
The most STUPID thing you can do is to treat a highly motivated (usually upset/anger is why they are highly motivated) individual in a way that disrespects their cause while punishing them for it by being removed or even worse arrested. Quite often the cause they fight for has been elevated to a selfless level so you can expect selfless actions (which in popular contexts are considered heroic.) Telling him he was being arrested would set off a large number of people.
I have seen 100s of people go into rants wasting everybody's time and ONLY went they are unpopular does the mob mentality to abuse the person sets in.
We do not know anything and a good scientist knows how little we do know and is reluctant to bash things without proof in the negative. Skepticism can be foolish its not always the best policy - I meet so many close-minded scientists with strong opinions on things they do not understand. (I'm a scientist.)
Chiropractic WORKS! There are scams in every area. My insurance covers it now but back 15 years ago when I went for treatment people were telling me how much of a sucker I was. I could not stand up after my back went out. My doctor unofficially said I needed a chiropractor because officially all he could do is send me for back surgery! My back wasn't fixed by a quack. (FYI the chiropractor happened to be a former back surgeon.)
Acupuncture WORKS! Try having your teeth REMOVED using it to stop the pain. People used to dismiss that completely as well; even now its slow going. It can knock you out or make you hyperactive.. Haven't tried anything else with it yet.
I informally test fairly harmless stuff I run across for curiosity and sometimes I find plenty of 'proof' - the above two examples being concrete proof. I also have run into some of the most obvious snake oil salesmen they were a living parody (those I dismissed.) I have had insurance backed medical doctors that sucked too... and many of those pills they push are no better than snake oil with corp backing.
Yes. 1) Flash microcontrollers are designed to spread out the write wear on the memory since they have limited writes before they die, your data is staggered all over the place. You can't overwrite a file to wipe it from the medium. In addition, different flash devices do it all differently.
2) In theory, flash never loses data because traces of prior data remain. In real-world use we don't know how many generations back can be recovered by current methods or really the methods themselves because they are proprietary or secret. Physically probing the chips is possble but extremely time intensive and therefore an unrealistic method but the most likely to work the best. Some flash ram is built in ways that allow the design or testing parts of the chips to be leveraged to help get the data back; however, this changes a lot and by brand.
3) the NIST recomends only to totally destroy (burn) flash medium, proving that even in lower security situations they know there is no secure wipe worth bothering with.
4) RAM possibly can be recovered even with the computer has been turned off, I've not found any recent proof of the ability to do this; however, there are papers indicating it is possible to get the last thing in ram using the built-in testing parts of the ram. Also, non-encrypted swap likely has a lot of data worth getting. Apple for example, does not mlock() any passwords in ram so they seem to always end up in your swap file and seemed to be given away by surrounding data.
5) DMA hacks allow external devices to copy active ram rather quickly and quite possibly without the OS having a clue. Firewire was a perfect method for doing this and works on older macs without firmware patches or running pre OS X 10.3 and it is supposed to work on any windows before Vista. Other DMA hacks surely exist. Not to mention methods to crash your KERNEL and hook into debugging features or using the crash dump file. As networking concepts move into your system bus more abilities are likely to develop.
I trained some PsyOp who were close to 'retirement'. Guess where they go for a great job (in addition to their nice retirement plans they get) BEFORE they turn 40 years old? You guessed it, they get high paying jobs as consultants for ROVE and his team! Guess what they thought of democrats? Yup, the dems are lucky to hire any of them; that is, if they are even trying (yet.)
These mind games are known well enough to have been in use and being perfected many years ahead of published academic studies, because they simply try and see what works and if it works a little they use it and refine it. They are not interested in why or even how it works, its a duct tape mentality of applied psychology.
Those guys thought of humans like programmable machines and were totally desensitized about their assignments; ironically, they also were trained to be arrogant enough to think they were immune from being impacted by any of it (which anybody in psychology can tell you is impossible.)
Bush was appointed by manipulation of a corrupt system and there ARE actual crimes that were committed which went unchallenged by the media just like they sat on every big story that made Bush look bad until 2005; except for that Dan Rather crucifixion. Sure, dismiss my opinion as some blind bias even though the messenger has no logical impact on the truth of the message (something also being promoted by Rove/GOP. Ever notice how the "Right" brings up conspiracy and never gets flack for it?)
"People believe what they want to believe and disregard the rest" Paul Simon had it figured out decades ago...
The subconscious doesn't remember negatives (generally,) tell me something new. We've known for a long time that fake news is remembered in the long term as real news before the academics agreed (have they concluded on this one yet?)
Memories can be altered after the fact and can be altered before you sleep and save them into long term memory (although that theory is still in debate, its being used in the field already and it works.) Tell me something new.
New study? big deal; I'm just glad they get people aware of some of the basics.
Ironically, people use their huge brains not to think logically (unlike the animals) but they use it to rationalize their impulsive animal nature so they can feel smug about their "decisions." FYI: one way to counter it is to instruct somebody to THINK which actually works for a little while.
Scientists seek 'truth' (Usually by proving things wrong;-)) Engineers understand 'truth' and apply it
Propagandists have nothing to do with the truth; they are manipulation tools who's sole purpose is to change perception (which has little to do with the 'truth' other than it might influence how you cover the truth up)
Propagandists are worse than LAWYERS. A lawyer is representing a position as a champion to provide a fair balance between opposing forces; they are civilized version of hiring gunmen (and the powerful still have you out gunned...) Not that all lawyers are honorably fulfilling their purpose. An old west equivalent for a propagandist would be a snake oil salesman
A society with outspoken experts will learn to understand them and not be dumbed down so much they need to be spoon fed sugarcoatings.
A teen need not seek out porn when he just has to find girls that will put out; and those are more common as women gain more social equality and freedom.
Some teens might be better with the porn than diseases or their own children. How about a study on the impact porn has on teen sex related problems?
Physically adulthood is sooner than our cultural adulthood (the mental threshold IS cultural) and therein lies the bulk of the problem. The whole issue is a cultural one which as a result has little fact or logical foundation and more to do with belief, dogma, tradition, peer pressure, etc... Religion and SIMILAR belief structures should be prevented from getting into government. Its a core reason for having a Republic as opposed to an actual Democracy; protect the minority from the majority.
Non-Disclaimer: I will not cave into judgmental self-centered people who think other people can't understand points of view that they do not agree with.
P.R. === Public Relations == Propaganda The term was coined by a propagandist because "Propaganda" sounds bad, especially after a world war. Naturally, one would expect a propagandist to leverage their expertise on their own profession and they have.
Controlling the message from public experts so it can be "fixed" by propagandists may not in and of itself be fascist but its certainly a characteristic of commonly known fascist governments. It is actually an essential part of authoritarian government and not of fascism.
American media already acts in similar ways to authoritarian systems and no killings or torcher are required. Its not as easy as knowing most official 'news' is lies like Iranian radio, its more a advanced next generation. Social Engineering.
politicalcompass.org is required reading for anybody who wants to refer fascism
Why buy a door? its not rocket science. pre-fab insulated doors suck. I need minimum R14 but walls up here often are R16; me I'm going to be doing R30-R50 using straw. I've not seen pre-fab doors with high R values outside of giant refrigeration doors.
Double doors are a great idea; although, after 1 inch of air gap it is not helping (which is probably why storm/screen doors are more bang for the buck.)
I can build a thick door with the R value I want and the seals I want with hinge without a whole lot of work. If I want to fuss over it, I can make it balanced or pull off the nice metal front from a pre-fab. The garage doors will be fun stuff --heavy stuff-- the best design is just down the street and uses a single balanced wheel to hold a 5" thick fiberglass insulated garage door and can be opened with a single finger. Thats no fun... I want a vertical lifting one with a counter weight... (the single finger thing for that would be way too much work, but its possible.)
No plans to open windows; don't know why people waste the money on windows that open... Good air circulation and a air exchanger(required by law) pretty much removes any need to open windows. However, the required air exchanger probably creates my biggest loss (well, in the garage it does; short of opening the doors of course) even a good one loses some heat and you want good circulation...
I haven't seen vacuum windows, but then I have not looked around much; there are plenty of argon filled ones... can you point me to these lower pressure (vacuum) seal windows? Some use plastic inside the window already-- Up here double glazing is the cheapo option; anybody with a brain puts up storm windows in the winter..
I can cheaply make doors myself, I've done wood work etc. It'll be fun to make a thick door with a custom hinge that easily sways-- the garage doors will be really fun!
From my experience the bad schools are not public or private, but the PARENTS and community impact on the quality of the school.
I tried different kinds of school: private and public, inner-city and suburbs. BOTH suburban schools were bad and luckily I transferred to good inner-city public schools which were much higher quality (in Minnesota they were.) Plus the inner city schools didn't have the racism, class issues, and fewer drugs that the suburban schools did (and boy are the suburbanites BLIND to it..)
The quality differences between the suburban public & suburban private schools didn't have to do with public vs private as much as they did with the community's impact on the schools-- BOTH schools were NEXT TO EACH OTHER and BOTH had plenty of crazy suburban parents screwing everything up. The private school was worse for me, since I was big on science and their old hags still thought the earth was flat "just because." BOTH poor quality schools discouraged thought and trained students like dogs while the PTA and fanatic parents tried to force things to be done their way (usually for the benefit of just their child.) The suburban public school came out better on tests AT THAT TIME, largely because they taught to the test, started sooner, and had college educated teachers; which said a lot since they had to accept anybody as a student...(but they both sucked equally in reality.) Elitism and prejudice was/is a serious problem; merely expressing itself differently between the religious and secular frameworks.
My brother is now a suburban public school teacher; and he sees it-- although these days fewer suburban parents have the time and money to mess with him or his superiors, so its just the upper class parents raising hell-- a smaller group so they can be more easily marginalized for the nuts they are.
I know many people in public education. Mostly they are good at what they do and like it; however, the system is getting so political here and degrading to the level of other states that all of them are looking to leave teaching because of all the added BS they have to put up with. The system is being systematically dismantled and the ones who stick around are the drone idiot teachers who don't have any other career options. The people I know are getting out. Don't think private schools will solve all these societal problems; plus any private school that gets government funding is subject to regulations which will open them up to those problems (which can also be benefits sometimes.)
The problem you non-teacher types have is that education is not like other fields, there are no quantitative measures for performance and value. The best teachers are often the ones that did something unmeasurable for us. We are no closer to nailing the problem than we are to figuring out the human brain.
Concrete is not a "green" building material but is extremely good for some things so its use should be minimized as much as possible to just the places it is the best thing to use. The frost line foundation can be rock capped with concrete for example.
As for cost, I can't find anything that beats straw bales for the money. You must design around the downsides and if you do it right it lasts for 100+ years. Its just insulation, I'd not seriously have it support anything; although some houses do that to cut costs even more.
Vacuums in glass windows? who has that? I'd like to see a window strong enough to handle atmospheric pressure..
Doors and Windows are a huge problem (although the ceiling and walls come 1st.) Me, I'm making my own doors and I've been looking into ways to deal with the window problem... (I suppose someday cheap OLED wall paper and cameras might be an alternative to windows??)
Concrete is not a "green" building material; and in freezing areas it has trouble dealing with cracking. Properly used its worth it, but heavy use would cause me to rule it out as a good design.
1) Godwin's law is a harmful one-liner that shuts off too many people's brains. Its not a true statement; just an observation and is in no way a "law."
2) Godwin's law should be forgotten. Godwin's law only serves to keep the people who need to learn lessons of history the MOST from learning anything. If you need a guideline to spot a failing discussio you clearly need some debate skills in addition to possibly needing history lessons.
3) I think Godwin's law undermines the word "law." Nice part is that it can quickly indicate your arguing with a fool and that you should stop immediately (because fools will get you to sink down to their level and beat you with their experience.)
WW2 was arguably the most widespread and influential man-made event in human history. I'm bashing Godwin's "law" and not commenting on the quality of the./ discussions.
I don't see why a highway analogy isn't a bad idea for explaining the issue with people; or the city water system maybe even the sewage and storm drain systems.
We don't have multiple roads provided by multiple vendors (well most of us dont) 'competing' for drivers or multiple water lines etc. It does not make sense; furthermore, we have public land upon which these utilities almost entirely coexist to get to that "last mile." Cable and Phone must pay for use of the public land (in less corrupt areas they do) to reach your house-- because the "last mile" IS public property! Without that public land they would have to deal with each land owner they passed by. (don't go thinking you could negotiate with ATNT or Commiecast about the line going thru your property and get any real bargains...)
Here in the twin cities, MINNESOTA we have a private power company that does creepy business to extort funding from the state. Our GAS lines are decades behind in repair and we've already had disasters as a result, but the media fails to mention that they power company is only fixing problems as they see them (which sometimes means BOOM!) Its not just that our bridges are under maintained, which was NO SURPRISE to the informed who were just waiting for a big enough disaster--- the thought was (me included) was that most states are worse off and less used bridges would be more likely to fall-- so it would not happen to US (and it just did.) The public wasn't informed and people didn't care when people like myself ranted about the boring problems... (but would listen if you talked about the latest worthless gossip.) The public is ultimately at fault for the bridges, which were publicaly managed - but the gas leaks are privately managed and the blame rests upon the corporation who doesn't plan for long term repair and fights regulation.
Essentially, this is the exact same debate as public utilities. If you live somewhere that has privatized some of them you have no chance for public internet. An "OK" run non-profit government utility will beat a private one (in cost/benefit) and when they do not win its one of two flaws:
1) the service itself doesn't fit will with the organization (which might mean its better off being private)
2) that specific group of citizens are incapable of managing it
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Its not that new of an idea this wiki has many ideas, some of which are crap.
I was referring (generically) to an oscillating wing which doesn't work that well, but has a few potential special case uses (maybe).
Using a strip as a poorman's airfoil exploiting harmonics and distortion which themselves will be altered and dampened by the power extraction is not going to work that well.
uses unconventional wind generators too.
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uses unconventional wind generators too.
Popular Mechanics is just a front for Press Releases most of the time and probably lost most their educated staff many years ago back when I stopped reading the trash it became (not that it was ever a quality source for science news.)
Look at savonius for cheap power.
Off the top of my head:
Take the design from those shake flashlights (aka "jerk off" lights) and balance the thing so it can totter up and down enough for the magnet to slide past the coil. Then hook up just about anything that will flap in the wind to the other side...
One could also use a simple air foil which mechanically alters its own pitch (to create a wave motion) and have it pump the shake light magnet up and down... Or the magnet could be lifted up and down thru wave motion and no wind is required at all. 2 different methods of power!
Popular Mechanics can send my award money to slashdot.
In top ten format: (although not the top ones)
10) Optical scanners, their communication system, and the central tabulator ALL have been hacked before. (not all models, but most are only less stupidly designed than the touch screens)
9) The scan card itself as far as I know has not been hacked yet. re-scans will not show the errors depending on attack.
8) Districts. There is no algorithm for district definition; its not fixed either. (perhaps fixed is better than adapting to population? Perhaps a proxy voting system would work better?)
7) Faulty closed equip. Our optical scan system has NO lights; it to spits the paper back out.
6) Ballots are not authenticated, nor are their numbers tracked
5) Recounts are for "sore losers" so cheat a lot and quickly get the "loser" to fold without a fight
4) Cheaters are REWARDED and protected (Jeb Bush- fought in court, lost, then violated the same law and court orders backing those laws- before 2000.)
3) Some laws do not make a hand count of paper the official count; which is should be out of common sense (screw the laws that say otherwise which BTW, are written by #7 with no fear of the 2nd amendment.)
2) Voter registration & denied rights. Registration is a nightmare. Everybody votes or many are wrongfully denied.
1) Exit polls have been banned (here anyway) no error sampling allowed. (despite all the science, I'm amazed global warming even got past the filters.)
The severe damage to the USA has already been done; is the system healthy enough to ever fully recover? (not that going back to a pre-2000 condition is all that great.)
Who didn't see the threat google's power (or any of the other gatekeepers) before?
When all you can do is character assassination, everyone and every organization is some sort of hidden evil needing exposure and ridicule.
I would like to know why right wing nuts can support conspiracies with significantly less ridicule/dismissal than everybody else can.
I do not STOP thinking upon reading "Greenpeace" because unlike Big Oil, they don't do PR for the sake of making unfettered profit-- if anything their motives are just short of removing mankind off the planet.
I don't know about Greenpeace other than meeting a few people, and I do not find their fanatic members to be bad or even "crazy" and their motives are entirely honorable; the organization and some of its members is bound to have the same problems any large organization has.
Greenpeace is far from perfect; however, they get a bad rap from the trillion dollar industries they fight with. The most powerful forces on earth today are some of the long time enemies of Greenpeace and don't think they haven't spend time and resources to hurt Greenpeace in every way they can for DECADES now.
You should consider how much actual experience and examination you have done in respect to Greenpeace and the large influential global powers with proven track records WANTING you to judge them based upon popular culture (which they have considerable influence over.)
My objections with nuclear are with stupid politicians regulating the waste and the actual long term cost - because no nuclear plant in the USA has ever been profitable. (hint: include government handouts when you do your math.)
How could Apple Legal not notice laws for cell phones? Surely, they put in stuff in the user agreements to address the issues involved-- one would think. Doesn't mean that it can't end up in court there are plenty of stupid laws to fix. Sadly, we don't have a fair system for dealing with those laws - even when both sides have equal funding and lawyers there are plenty of tricks; around my town hiring a lawyer from the same firm as the judge moves the odds in your favor (depending on the judge, naturally.)
Everybody knows the US legal system is in bad shape aside from the obvious undermining of the "rule of law" of the last 6 years.
Motive / Intent do not mean anything anymore its just a traditional question without meaning like a greeting "how are you?" Most any answer will suffice.
If you speed and kill somebody or just kill somebody while driving slow and there is no motive: the two should be the same. Sure, fine them for speeding because that is the deterrent but the judge should be able to wave it (since killing somebody would deter most people + proper media coverage would make the most of it.) Americans are so stuck on revenge/punishment ironically they are self described Christians.
When will we start arresting people who are tired?
Drinking levels are so low, you can be in WORSE shape just being tired. Unless really drunk, its largely a matter of reaction time; which is also the argument for speed limits... and getting OLD people off the road and for stopping cell phones.
My neighbor hit a SCHOOL BUS FULL OF KIDS with his car before the state realized he was legally BLIND... Before that he thought he could see just fine to drive. No chemicals needed to impair his judgment, reaction time... just his AGE.
In addition, the PURPOSE for law or for specific laws goes largely unnoticed today. Speed limits are NOT about control although that is what its turning into. If they admit their mistake they shouldn't get sued but if they pull out obscure law out of their ass unrelated the initial mistake you should be able to sue the hell out of them.
Mail fraud law wasn't created or intended for Mr. Kurtz. If the flu could kill you, DO NOT EVER GO ON CAMPUS.
Yes you should be allowed to mod anything; however, you are updating THEIR software with new software from Apple. This means you are agreeing to the conditions they place on THEIR upgrade software! One of which is the classic disclaimers is "you can't blame our software for anything even if its our fault" BS which all software has today. If they do it on purpose you might have grounds to cause some legal trouble but otherwise you agreed to take all the risk when you clicked the button.
I thought you HAD to buy the phone with a contract for ATNT? Can you buy the phone without getting/paying for phone service? Anybody read that contract as well?
I have seen hundreds of similar situations and they are handled correctly. let them rant out their time; even turn off the mic; sometimes you can get them to SIT DOWN etc.
Telling him he was under arrest is was only made an upset person more upset. He is likely NOT a nutcase there are millions of seriously upset people in the country right now for good reason. Stupid way to handle the situation; the cops should be soundly reprimanded.
The most STUPID thing you can do is to treat a highly motivated (usually upset/anger is why they are highly motivated) individual in a way that disrespects their cause while punishing them for it by being removed or even worse arrested. Quite often the cause they fight for has been elevated to a selfless level so you can expect selfless actions (which in popular contexts are considered heroic.) Telling him he was being arrested would set off a large number of people.
I have seen 100s of people go into rants wasting everybody's time and ONLY went they are unpopular does the mob mentality to abuse the person sets in.
We do not know anything and a good scientist knows how little we do know and is reluctant to bash things without proof in the negative. Skepticism can be foolish its not always the best policy - I meet so many close-minded scientists with strong opinions on things they do not understand. (I'm a scientist.)
Chiropractic WORKS! There are scams in every area. My insurance covers it now but back 15 years ago when I went for treatment people were telling me how much of a sucker I was. I could not stand up after my back went out. My doctor unofficially said I needed a chiropractor because officially all he could do is send me for back surgery! My back wasn't fixed by a quack. (FYI the chiropractor happened to be a former back surgeon.)
Acupuncture WORKS! Try having your teeth REMOVED using it to stop the pain. People used to dismiss that completely as well; even now its slow going. It can knock you out or make you hyperactive.. Haven't tried anything else with it yet.
I informally test fairly harmless stuff I run across for curiosity and sometimes I find plenty of 'proof' - the above two examples being concrete proof. I also have run into some of the most obvious snake oil salesmen they were a living parody (those I dismissed.) I have had insurance backed medical doctors that sucked too... and many of those pills they push are no better than snake oil with corp backing.
Yes.
1) Flash microcontrollers are designed to spread out the write wear on the memory since they have limited writes before they die, your data is staggered all over the place. You can't overwrite a file to wipe it from the medium. In addition, different flash devices do it all differently.
2) In theory, flash never loses data because traces of prior data remain. In real-world use we don't know how many generations back can be recovered by current methods or really the methods themselves because they are proprietary or secret. Physically probing the chips is possble but extremely time intensive and therefore an unrealistic method but the most likely to work the best. Some flash ram is built in ways that allow the design or testing parts of the chips to be leveraged to help get the data back; however, this changes a lot and by brand.
3) the NIST recomends only to totally destroy (burn) flash medium, proving that even in lower security situations they know there is no secure wipe worth bothering with.
4) RAM possibly can be recovered even with the computer has been turned off, I've not found any recent proof of the ability to do this; however, there are papers indicating it is possible to get the last thing in ram using the built-in testing parts of the ram. Also, non-encrypted swap likely has a lot of data worth getting. Apple for example, does not mlock() any passwords in ram so they seem to always end up in your swap file and seemed to be given away by surrounding data.
5) DMA hacks allow external devices to copy active ram rather quickly and quite possibly without the OS having a clue. Firewire was a perfect method for doing this and works on older macs without firmware patches or running pre OS X 10.3 and it is supposed to work on any windows before Vista. Other DMA hacks surely exist. Not to mention methods to crash your KERNEL and hook into debugging features or using the crash dump file. As networking concepts move into your system bus more abilities are likely to develop.
I trained some PsyOp who were close to 'retirement'. Guess where they go for a great job (in addition to their nice retirement plans they get) BEFORE they turn 40 years old? You guessed it, they get high paying jobs as consultants for ROVE and his team! Guess what they thought of democrats? Yup, the dems are lucky to hire any of them; that is, if they are even trying (yet.)
These mind games are known well enough to have been in use and being perfected many years ahead of published academic studies, because they simply try and see what works and if it works a little they use it and refine it. They are not interested in why or even how it works, its a duct tape mentality of applied psychology.
Those guys thought of humans like programmable machines and were totally desensitized about their assignments; ironically, they also were trained to be arrogant enough to think they were immune from being impacted by any of it (which anybody in psychology can tell you is impossible.)
Bush was appointed by manipulation of a corrupt system and there ARE actual crimes that were committed which went unchallenged by the media just like they sat on every big story that made Bush look bad until 2005; except for that Dan Rather crucifixion. Sure, dismiss my opinion as some blind bias even though the messenger has no logical impact on the truth of the message (something also being promoted by Rove/GOP. Ever notice how the "Right" brings up conspiracy and never gets flack for it?)
"People believe what they want to believe and disregard the rest"
Paul Simon had it figured out decades ago...
The subconscious doesn't remember negatives (generally,) tell me something new. We've known for a long time that fake news is remembered in the long term as real news before the academics agreed (have they concluded on this one yet?)
Memories can be altered after the fact and can be altered before you sleep and save them into long term memory (although that theory is still in debate, its being used in the field already and it works.) Tell me something new.
New study? big deal; I'm just glad they get people aware of some of the basics.
Ironically, people use their huge brains not to think logically (unlike the animals) but they use it to rationalize their impulsive animal nature so they can feel smug about their "decisions." FYI: one way to counter it is to instruct somebody to THINK which actually works for a little while.
Scientists seek 'truth' (Usually by proving things wrong ;-))
Engineers understand 'truth' and apply it
Propagandists have nothing to do with the truth; they are manipulation tools who's sole purpose is to change perception (which has little to do with the 'truth' other than it might influence how you cover the truth up)
Propagandists are worse than LAWYERS. A lawyer is representing a position as a champion to provide a fair balance between opposing forces; they are civilized version of hiring gunmen (and the powerful still have you out gunned...) Not that all lawyers are honorably fulfilling their purpose. An old west equivalent for a propagandist would be a snake oil salesman
A society with outspoken experts will learn to understand them and not be dumbed down so much they need to be spoon fed sugarcoatings.
A teen need not seek out porn when he just has to find girls that will put out; and those are more common as women gain more social equality and freedom.
Some teens might be better with the porn than diseases or their own children. How about a study on the impact porn has on teen sex related problems?
Physically adulthood is sooner than our cultural adulthood (the mental threshold IS cultural) and therein lies the bulk of the problem. The whole issue is a cultural one which as a result has little fact or logical foundation and more to do with belief, dogma, tradition, peer pressure, etc... Religion and SIMILAR belief structures should be prevented from getting into government. Its a core reason for having a Republic as opposed to an actual Democracy; protect the minority from the majority.
Non-Disclaimer: I will not cave into judgmental self-centered people who think other people can't understand points of view that they do not agree with.
P.R. === Public Relations == Propaganda
The term was coined by a propagandist because "Propaganda" sounds bad, especially after a world war. Naturally, one would expect a propagandist to leverage their expertise on their own profession and they have.
Controlling the message from public experts so it can be "fixed" by propagandists may not in and of itself be fascist but its certainly a characteristic of commonly known fascist governments. It is actually an essential part of authoritarian government and not of fascism.
American media already acts in similar ways to authoritarian systems and no killings or torcher are required. Its not as easy as knowing most official 'news' is lies like Iranian radio, its more a advanced next generation. Social Engineering.
politicalcompass.org is required reading for anybody who wants to refer fascism
Why buy a door? its not rocket science. pre-fab insulated doors suck. I need minimum R14 but walls up here often are R16; me I'm going to be doing R30-R50 using straw. I've not seen pre-fab doors with high R values outside of giant refrigeration doors.
Double doors are a great idea; although, after 1 inch of air gap it is not helping (which is probably why storm/screen doors are more bang for the buck.)
I can build a thick door with the R value I want and the seals I want with hinge without a whole lot of work. If I want to fuss over it, I can make it balanced or pull off the nice metal front from a pre-fab. The garage doors will be fun stuff --heavy stuff-- the best design is just down the street and uses a single balanced wheel to hold a 5" thick fiberglass insulated garage door and can be opened with a single finger. Thats no fun... I want a vertical lifting one with a counter weight... (the single finger thing for that would be way too much work, but its possible.)
No plans to open windows; don't know why people waste the money on windows that open... Good air circulation and a air exchanger(required by law) pretty much removes any need to open windows. However, the required air exchanger probably creates my biggest loss (well, in the garage it does; short of opening the doors of course) even a good one loses some heat and you want good circulation...
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I haven't seen vacuum windows, but then I have not looked around much; there are plenty of argon filled ones... can you point me to these lower pressure (vacuum) seal windows? Some use plastic inside the window already-- Up here double glazing is the cheapo option; anybody with a brain puts up storm windows in the winter
I can cheaply make doors myself, I've done wood work etc. It'll be fun to make a thick door with a custom hinge that easily sways-- the garage doors will be really fun!
From my experience the bad schools are not public or private, but the PARENTS and community impact on the quality of the school.
I tried different kinds of school: private and public, inner-city and suburbs.
BOTH suburban schools were bad and luckily I transferred to good inner-city public schools which were much higher quality (in Minnesota they were.) Plus the inner city schools didn't have the racism, class issues, and fewer drugs that the suburban schools did (and boy are the suburbanites BLIND to it..)
The quality differences between the suburban public & suburban private schools didn't have to do with public vs private as much as they did with the community's impact on the schools-- BOTH schools were NEXT TO EACH OTHER and BOTH had plenty of crazy suburban parents screwing everything up. The private school was worse for me, since I was big on science and their old hags still thought the earth was flat "just because." BOTH poor quality schools discouraged thought and trained students like dogs while the PTA and fanatic parents tried to force things to be done their way (usually for the benefit of just their child.) The suburban public school came out better on tests AT THAT TIME, largely because they taught to the test, started sooner, and had college educated teachers; which said a lot since they had to accept anybody as a student...(but they both sucked equally in reality.) Elitism and prejudice was/is a serious problem; merely expressing itself differently between the religious and secular frameworks.
My brother is now a suburban public school teacher; and he sees it-- although these days fewer suburban parents have the time and money to mess with him or his superiors, so its just the upper class parents raising hell-- a smaller group so they can be more easily marginalized for the nuts they are.
I know many people in public education. Mostly they are good at what they do and like it; however, the system is getting so political here and degrading to the level of other states that all of them are looking to leave teaching because of all the added BS they have to put up with. The system is being systematically dismantled and the ones who stick around are the drone idiot teachers who don't have any other career options. The people I know are getting out. Don't think private schools will solve all these societal problems; plus any private school that gets government funding is subject to regulations which will open them up to those problems (which can also be benefits sometimes.)
The problem you non-teacher types have is that education is not like other fields, there are no quantitative measures for performance and value. The best teachers are often the ones that did something unmeasurable for us. We are no closer to nailing the problem than we are to figuring out the human brain.
Concrete is not a "green" building material but is extremely good for some things so its use should be minimized as much as possible to just the places it is the best thing to use. The frost line foundation can be rock capped with concrete for example.
As for cost, I can't find anything that beats straw bales for the money. You must design around the downsides and if you do it right it lasts for 100+ years. Its just insulation, I'd not seriously have it support anything; although some houses do that to cut costs even more.
Vacuums in glass windows? who has that? I'd like to see a window strong enough to handle atmospheric pressure..
Doors and Windows are a huge problem (although the ceiling and walls come 1st.) Me, I'm making my own doors and I've been looking into ways to deal with the window problem... (I suppose someday cheap OLED wall paper and cameras might be an alternative to windows??)
Concrete is not a "green" building material; and in freezing areas it has trouble dealing with cracking. Properly used its worth it, but heavy use would cause me to rule it out as a good design.
1) Godwin's law is a harmful one-liner that shuts off too many people's brains. Its not a true statement; just an observation and is in no way a "law."
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2) Godwin's law should be forgotten. Godwin's law only serves to keep the people who need to learn lessons of history the MOST from learning anything. If you need a guideline to spot a failing discussio you clearly need some debate skills in addition to possibly needing history lessons.
3) I think Godwin's law undermines the word "law." Nice part is that it can quickly indicate your arguing with a fool and that you should stop immediately (because fools will get you to sink down to their level and beat you with their experience.)
WW2 was arguably the most widespread and influential man-made event in human history. I'm bashing Godwin's "law" and not commenting on the quality of the
I don't see why a highway analogy isn't a bad idea for explaining the issue with people; or the city water system maybe even the sewage and storm drain systems.
We don't have multiple roads provided by multiple vendors (well most of us dont) 'competing' for drivers or multiple water lines etc. It does not make sense; furthermore, we have public land upon which these utilities almost entirely coexist to get to that "last mile." Cable and Phone must pay for use of the public land (in less corrupt areas they do) to reach your house-- because the "last mile" IS public property! Without that public land they would have to deal with each land owner they passed by. (don't go thinking you could negotiate with ATNT or Commiecast about the line going thru your property and get any real bargains...)
Here in the twin cities, MINNESOTA we have a private power company that does creepy business to extort funding from the state. Our GAS lines are decades behind in repair and we've already had disasters as a result, but the media fails to mention that they power company is only fixing problems as they see them (which sometimes means BOOM!) Its not just that our bridges are under maintained, which was NO SURPRISE to the informed who were just waiting for a big enough disaster--- the thought was (me included) was that most states are worse off and less used bridges would be more likely to fall-- so it would not happen to US (and it just did.) The public wasn't informed and people didn't care when people like myself ranted about the boring problems... (but would listen if you talked about the latest worthless gossip.) The public is ultimately at fault for the bridges, which were publicaly managed - but the gas leaks are privately managed and the blame rests upon the corporation who doesn't plan for long term repair and fights regulation.
Essentially, this is the exact same debate as public utilities. If you live somewhere that has privatized some of them you have no chance for public internet. An "OK" run non-profit government utility will beat a private one (in cost/benefit) and when they do not win its one of two flaws:
1) the service itself doesn't fit will with the organization (which might mean its better off being private)
2) that specific group of citizens are incapable of managing it