Thus, many judges don't even password protect their PCs
I think you may be mis-using the word "judges". Australian judges wear horse-hair wigs and wouldn't know a PC if they tripped over it. They have typists and stenographers to do that newfangled stuff.
Don't forget: how many stone do you weigh? What's that in kg?
And an American would be asking "Whats that in lb?" . They have never heard of stones weight either. But at least you both use pints and gallons. That must reduce confusion:-)
Automotive ignition systems ran hotter than 12,000v and I am still alive to tell the tale.
No, they _were_ >12kV until you stuck your fingers in there and shorted it. The voltage across your body was nothing like the voltage across the spark plug. Ditto for anybody who ever touched the back of a CRT.
Why not use a large 'gun' (rail/coil/whatever) to launch the fuel into orbit instead of rockets?!
Because we have an atmosphere. Ever seen what happens to a meteorite? The rail gun would be a nice way to send cargo back out of the much-shallower luna gravity well, back to earth. But this method is not recommended, in case the lunar colony ever rebels.
I am certain that a number of spots on the poles can be found to do that with.
The poles? The place that gets six months of day, and six months of night? Or is the lunar rotational axis precisely aligned with the axis of the earth-moon lunar orbit, so it has no seasons? Given that it is in gravitational lock with the earth, that might be possible. Anyone?
Unless you are on the poles, you have to have enough battery power for around 14 days of darkness. That said, a giant rotating mirror at one of the poles could provide a lot of power,
Right... so to avoid the problem of 14-"days" of darkness, you want to go somewhere that is dark for six months of the year?
So running the heater shouldn't cost more than around 1% of your total range.
It will be much more than 1%. It is the avergae power, not the max. that determines range. To improve heating efficiency, you could use a reverse cycle aircon. And improve insulation, though I suppose double-glazing is out.
I don't get where you get this stat...the US Federal govt spends money on medicare, medicade (only for the very poor, and one for the elderly), and the VA (Veterans Admin).
Amazing, isn't it? I justy found this table: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_hea_car_fun_pub_per_cap-care-funding-public-per-capita US public health spending ranks third after Iceland and Germany, ahead of such well-known "socialists" France and Norway. Wikipedia has "federal government 34%, state and local governments 11%," so 44% of ~$4600 is $2000 per capita gov't spending. This is similar to Australia's total spend, public, insurance, and private out-of-pocket all added up.
Unfortunately, it looks like we have a real chance of switching to just such coverage here in the US too. Yep, we'll get that extra 20+% taxation
Don't you have it already? Amazingly, the US gov't already spends more money per-capita on health-care than most other comparable economies, yet it covers only a small portion of the population.
As a owner of two beagles I disagree that beagles are "unintelligent",
Take it easy. They really just said that beagles and other older/hunting breeds scored lower on certain modified human tests, such as vocabulary and numeracy.
I have yet to hear of a country that fries up children and serves them.
Ireland, 18th century. Poor families would fatten children to sell to wealthy Landlords. This both brought much needed income, and alleviated over-population. I can't quite find the link, but I'm sure we studied it in school.
A Segway doesn't brake like a bike's friction pad system,
The segway's braking advantage comes from being able to tilt back, and put the CoG at a lower angle to the tyre/road contact. The bad news is the time taken to tilt back, when a bike can apply the brakes instantly. Segway and bike are both limited by road/tyre friction, or balance, not by brake-pads.
Apart from being insanely expensive you can't ride it legally in most places,
And why would you want to? For most people, 'it' is inferior in every way to a bicycle. Costs more, slower, less reliable, and gives you no exercise. OK, so maybe it is hot and 100% humidity where you live, you are fit and ideal weight, so the exercise is not a bonus. How does 'Ginger' beat a folding electric bike? This is geeky-cool tech no doubt, and I'd love to try one. But it has zero practical value, which could not clash more with all the hype that this gadget arrived with.
Buy your device from a manufacturer who doesn't suck.
"manufacturer!? When was the last time Apple actually made anything, aside from rules and money? How long before Foxconn goes retail like Lenovo, ASUS, etc? Maybe they'll find they don't need Apple so much. There is some nice hardware being designed in the East already. Give them a couple of years, and maybe add Android.
Nokia still have their own factories, though all the cheap stuff is made in China.
Many a time I need to put up encryption, but have no need whatsoever for authentication (sending data like passwords or whatever, but not that critical to be a target of somebody setting up a bigus copy).
But they don't need to make a copy to listen in. Without authentication, your #1 connection encryption is almost pointless, as anyone in between can do an automated MITM attack. They don't need to clone your website or anything fancy or pre-planned. They just relay all your HTTP requests to the real site, and log the data.
There is no scientific consensus on when life begins,.
If you really want the scientific viewpoint, there is no beginning, at least not in the last billion years or so. It has never been observed. Life is continuous from parent to gamete, zygote, blastocyst, embryo, etc. Whichever stage you choose to call a "new human being" has little to do with science, except in the role of rationalisation.
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Thus, many judges don't even password protect their PCs
I think you may be mis-using the word "judges". Australian judges wear horse-hair wigs and wouldn't know a PC if they tripped over it. They have typists and stenographers to do that newfangled stuff.
Don't forget: how many stone do you weigh? What's that in kg?
And an American would be asking "Whats that in lb?" . They have never heard of stones weight either. But at least you both use pints and gallons. That must reduce confusion :-)
Huh? Why don't you just turn it upside down?
Strewth - never thought of that. All these years I've been using my cheaper US-sourced mouse as a trackball. I fell as dumb as a dead dingo.
Automotive ignition systems ran hotter than 12,000v and I am still alive to tell the tale.
No, they _were_ >12kV until you stuck your fingers in there and shorted it. The voltage across your body was nothing like the voltage across the spark plug.
Ditto for anybody who ever touched the back of a CRT.
Why not use a large 'gun' (rail/coil/whatever) to launch the fuel into orbit instead of rockets?!
Because we have an atmosphere. Ever seen what happens to a meteorite?
The rail gun would be a nice way to send cargo back out of the much-shallower luna gravity well, back to earth.
But this method is not recommended, in case the lunar colony ever rebels.
I am certain that a number of spots on the poles can be found to do that with.
The poles? The place that gets six months of day, and six months of night?
Or is the lunar rotational axis precisely aligned with the axis of the earth-moon lunar orbit, so it has no seasons?
Given that it is in gravitational lock with the earth, that might be possible. Anyone?
But without ALLCAPS, how could we instantly recognise crackpots and ignore them? We'd have to actually READ THE POSTS!
Unless you are on the poles, you have to have enough battery power for around 14 days of darkness. That said, a giant rotating mirror at one of the poles could provide a lot of power,
Right ... so to avoid the problem of 14-"days" of darkness, you want to go somewhere that is dark for six months of the year?
The Volt's engine is rated at 111 kilowatts.
So running the heater shouldn't cost more than around 1% of your total range.
It will be much more than 1%. It is the avergae power, not the max. that determines range.
To improve heating efficiency, you could use a reverse cycle aircon. And improve insulation, though I suppose double-glazing is out.
Its already been proven that the Government won't let anything happen to GM.
Unless you count nationalisation as something. Judging by UK experience, the next step is selling it to the Germans. Except your Germans are Chinese.
I don't get where you get this stat...the US Federal govt spends money on medicare, medicade (only for the very poor, and one for the elderly), and the VA (Veterans Admin).
Amazing, isn't it? I justy found this table:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_hea_car_fun_pub_per_cap-care-funding-public-per-capita
US public health spending ranks third after Iceland and Germany, ahead of such well-known "socialists" France and Norway.
Wikipedia has "federal government 34%, state and local governments 11%," so 44% of ~$4600 is $2000 per capita gov't spending. This is similar to Australia's total spend, public, insurance, and private out-of-pocket all added up.
Unfortunately, it looks like we have a real chance of switching to just such coverage here in the US too. Yep, we'll get that extra 20+% taxation
Don't you have it already? Amazingly, the US gov't already spends more money per-capita on health-care than most other comparable economies, yet it covers only a small portion of the population.
Is it ironic that I can't make an ironic reference to Swift without three replies who all take me literally, despite knowing Swift?
If dogs are as intelligent as human 2 year olds is it right for Huntingdon Life Sciences to do painful experiments on them?
Yes, all the more reason. I don't think the results would be so useful if we used molluscs instead.
For "two year old", read 24 months, not 24-35 months.
As a owner of two beagles I disagree that beagles are "unintelligent",
Take it easy. They really just said that beagles and other older/hunting breeds scored lower on certain modified human tests,
such as vocabulary and numeracy.
Well, cats can learn to use the toilet.. I've yet to see a dog do that.
Many dogs use the toilet. Just for a different purpose than we do.
I have yet to hear of a country that fries up children and serves them.
Ireland, 18th century. Poor families would fatten children to sell to wealthy Landlords.
This both brought much needed income, and alleviated over-population. I can't quite find the link, but I'm sure we studied it in school.
How about a "Thinking Brain" dog for some of the terminally stupid people I have to deal with?
Something like Guide Dogs For The Really Blind And Munted?
A Segway doesn't brake like a bike's friction pad system,
The segway's braking advantage comes from being able to tilt back, and put the CoG at a lower angle to the tyre/road contact. The bad news is the time taken to tilt back, when a bike can apply the brakes instantly.
Segway and bike are both limited by road/tyre friction, or balance, not by brake-pads.
Apart from being insanely expensive you can't ride it legally in most places,
And why would you want to? For most people, 'it' is inferior in every way to a bicycle.
Costs more, slower, less reliable, and gives you no exercise.
OK, so maybe it is hot and 100% humidity where you live, you are fit and ideal weight, so the exercise is not a bonus. How does 'Ginger' beat a folding electric bike?
This is geeky-cool tech no doubt, and I'd love to try one. But it has zero practical value, which could not clash more with all the hype that this gadget arrived with.
Buy your device from a manufacturer who doesn't suck.
"manufacturer!? When was the last time Apple actually made anything, aside from rules and money?
How long before Foxconn goes retail like Lenovo, ASUS, etc? Maybe they'll find they don't need Apple so much.
There is some nice hardware being designed in the East already. Give them a couple of years, and maybe add Android.
Nokia still have their own factories, though all the cheap stuff is made in China.
Many a time I need to put up encryption, but have no need whatsoever for authentication (sending data like passwords or whatever, but not that critical to be a target of somebody setting up a bigus copy).
But they don't need to make a copy to listen in. Without authentication, your #1 connection encryption is almost pointless, as anyone in between can do an automated MITM attack.
They don't need to clone your website or anything fancy or pre-planned. They just relay all your HTTP requests to the real site, and log the data.
Didn't you get the memo? September ended in Feb 2005 when AOL cut access to usenet.
Its all back to serious discussion, netiquette, and no spam.
There is no scientific consensus on when life begins,.
If you really want the scientific viewpoint, there is no beginning, at least not in the last billion years or so. It has never been observed.
Life is continuous from parent to gamete, zygote, blastocyst, embryo, etc.
Whichever stage you choose to call a "new human being" has little to do with science, except in the role of rationalisation.