"MEM devices are invulnerable to electromagnetic pulse weapons that fry transistor-based switches,"
I don't know why that would be true. We're talking about a very small mechanical switch, right? Two metallic surfaces (presumably at the end of wires or traces) that connect to close a circuit? The high voltage surge usually associated with an EMP would jump (and weld) micro-teensy-tiny switches just as easily as big ones. You've never seen a mechanical switch welded by an unexpected high voltage or amperage surge? I have. No reason why that won't happen with an MEM device. I'll have to see a better reference to proof of that surge invulnerability before I buy into this.
"the people buying them wanted something more than today's brainless run through a maze and shoot continuously at everything that moves experience"
Sorry, but I don't play the game that way at all. It's been about five years now, I guess, and I still enjoy questing, exploring, farming to get the gold to advance my characters, etc. I like the way things have changed so you can pretty much solo most things (questing and exploring anyway).
And I like very much that you don't have to spend real world money for game-killing advantages.
Questions? Meh.. maybe where I can find the Sword of a Thousand Truths?:-)
Damned right! I'm thinking this puppy will do just fine.. replacing the missile pods with a few solar cell panels of course, just to be sporting and all.
"A North Carolina House committee denied a bill that tried to stop Tesla from selling directly to consumers
Tesla Motors landed a major win in North Carolina this week when the state threw out a bill that attempted to block the automaker from selling its vehicles directly to consumers. "
I submit that populations dying out LONG ago have damn all to do with populations dying out NOT so long ago.
Unless the newer ones tripped over the bones of the older ones and broke their necks.
North America still had plenty of mammoths running around, healthy as clams, 4500, 3000, even 1500 years ago. The continent was warming up then, not chilling down.
Oah yes, I am completely American, absolutely, you betcha! Mom and apple pie, verry good. Uncle Sam, hooray! I will be doing this for you every time, so you will be verry satisfied with this service.
As a pretend Political Officer, I had to come up with a bunch of meaningless (but familiar sounding) political sayings for a POW training exercise once.
"The People Know Best, And I Speak For The People" was a good one.. especially when I forced the poor long-suffering POWs to try to explain its meaning.
Some of my fellow NCOs were looking at me a bit oddly for a while, until they finally got the point.
"Humility Is A Smile In The Eye Of Your Mother" was another favorite:-)
So you'd better be careful, look closely at how this could all be presented by a prosecutor.. or the first few hundred trying this convincingly enough may get a wee bit more attention than they expected. Kind of like the first few ranks in the protest march.. encountering.50 cal's in The Man's anti-riot barricades.
Of course they say the weather at Gitmo isn't so bad in the winter months.
Well, in the movies anyway. Remember the first robot who could NOT get a joke? (Robbie) And I think the first wise-cracking robot? (Johnny 5 in "Short Circuit")
And then of course there was Data.. with mixed results in reference to humor and jokes.
Rep. Mike Rogers may not have been lying, exactly, with what he stated earlier. He may have been misinformed (e.g., lied to) by whoever briefed him on NSA's capabilities and available data. Which is not surprising, given the blatant lies and deception exhibited over and over again by the highest levels of NSA executives.
"Vitruvius, writing around 25 BC in his Ten Books on Architecture, distinguished types of aggregate appropriate for the preparation of lime mortars. For structural mortars, he recommended pozzolana, which were volcanic sands from the sandlike beds of Pozzuoli brownish-yellow-gray in color near Naples and reddish-brown at Rome. Vitruvius specifies a ratio of 1 part lime to 3 parts pozzolana for cements used in buildings and a 1:2 ratio of lime to pulvis Puteolanus for underwater work, essentially the same ratio mixed today for concrete used at sea.[2]"
Why build a super-expensive super-elaborate device, absolutely dependent on alignment and all that.. in a place where (1) land could hardly be less available or more expensive, (2) it tends to MOVE all the time (earthquakes, volcanoes, whatever), (3) it'll cost a bloody fortune for any visitors to visit.
Why not on some steppe somewhere, or a big flat desert (where there's at least sand for the concrete)?
Sea level is different between Atlantic and Pacific, at least down near the Panama Isthmus where they've bothered to really track it. Average only 9.2 inches maybe (sources vary), possible a maximum of 9 meters (depending on tides, winds, etc.).
For all those cardiovascular and lower respiratory disease deaths?
So a proper, well-balanced experiment would be for us to destroy 100 million trees somewhere NOT infected with emerald tree borers, and see what happens to the human death rate then, eh?
Hey, it's tough on the trees, I know.. but in the end.. if it WERE all the fault of the emerald tree borer, humans might do more to protect the trees while protecting themselves! Seems, fair, right?
Python, not perl, but that's okay, close enough. It even had a working algorithm, love it!
Except even a simple toad can see that the numbers are going to get a wee bit big (even if they are all integers). Sure wish I hadn't lost the source to Toad's Infinite Math [tm], hacked back in the 80's. It was in Turbo Pascal, but let you do all the common math things (to include powers and factoring, of course) for integers as big as you had hard drive storage for.. which was kind of big even then:-)
I might just have to reengineer that; it was ever so much fun. And simple too:-) Then solve (well, disprove) the conjecture, pocket the million, be suitably modest at the Nobel Prize awards...
Have the bathroom door handle stain the hand with a soap-soluble dye.
Sure, that won't force the staff to wash their hands as often as they should.. but at least we'll know they washed their hands when they went to the bathroom.
Code sure could use some cleaning up (all those "foo's" !!!). But I suppose that (and obvious subroutines) would detract from the musical flow of the thing.
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"MEM devices are invulnerable to electromagnetic pulse weapons that fry transistor-based switches,"
I don't know why that would be true. We're talking about a very small mechanical switch, right? Two metallic surfaces (presumably at the end of wires or traces) that connect to close a circuit? The high voltage surge usually associated with an EMP would jump (and weld) micro-teensy-tiny switches just as easily as big ones. You've never seen a mechanical switch welded by an unexpected high voltage or amperage surge? I have. No reason why that won't happen with an MEM device. I'll have to see a better reference to proof of that surge invulnerability before I buy into this.
"the people buying them wanted something more than today's brainless run through a maze and shoot continuously at everything that moves experience"
Sorry, but I don't play the game that way at all. It's been about five years now, I guess, and I still enjoy questing, exploring, farming to get the gold to advance my characters, etc. I like the way things have changed so you can pretty much solo most things (questing and exploring anyway).
And I like very much that you don't have to spend real world money for game-killing advantages.
Questions? Meh .. maybe where I can find the Sword of a Thousand Truths? :-)
Damned right! I'm thinking this puppy will do just fine .. replacing the missile pods with a few solar cell panels of course, just to be sporting and all.
http://www.warn.com/blog/images/1945/landmaster.jpg
The other vehicles are going to be unarmed too, right? Right?
Those unsigned applets on websites are EXACTLY the scripts you should be worried about!
I totally love my NoScript, but would appreciate the alerts for unsigned scripts more than a generic blocking.
there are no cows on Mars.
As I had long suspected.
Not just one steenking 45-second ad .. but TWO?! Screw that video, and screw IBM.
Letting nature take its course can be an ugly business.
Here's one, a sad story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/12/ss-america-cruise-adrift_n_2663875.html
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/8_-_AmStar_7.JPG
And the Murmansk (lost during tow to a wrecking yard), now being salvaged:
http://www.afgruppen.com/Removal-of-the-wreck-Murmansk/
http://www.dailytech.com/Tesla+Motors+Successfully+Fights+Off+Auto+Dealership+Assault+in+North+Carolina/article31854.htm
"A North Carolina House committee denied a bill that tried to stop Tesla from selling directly to consumers
Tesla Motors landed a major win in North Carolina this week when the state threw out a bill that attempted to block the automaker from selling its vehicles directly to consumers. "
I submit that populations dying out LONG ago have damn all to do with populations dying out NOT so long ago.
Unless the newer ones tripped over the bones of the older ones and broke their necks.
North America still had plenty of mammoths running around, healthy as clams, 4500, 3000, even 1500 years ago. The continent was warming up then, not chilling down.
"Did the Feds order you to shut up?"
"No."
When you can't answer that question any more .. let people draw their own conclusions.
Oh, and Federal Prosecutor: come on. Give me your best shot.
You have a very twisted mind. Except .. you may damned well be right!
If Assad is that clever and devious, he's wasting his talents in that little Third World Middle East country.
Oah yes, I am completely American, absolutely, you betcha! Mom and apple pie, verry good. Uncle Sam, hooray! I will be doing this for you every time, so you will be verry satisfied with this service.
As a pretend Political Officer, I had to come up with a bunch of meaningless (but familiar sounding) political sayings for a POW training exercise once.
"The People Know Best, And I Speak For The People" was a good one .. especially when I forced the poor long-suffering POWs to try to explain its meaning.
Some of my fellow NCOs were looking at me a bit oddly for a while, until they finally got the point.
"Humility Is A Smile In The Eye Of Your Mother" was another favorite :-)
So you'd better be careful, look closely at how this could all be presented by a prosecutor .. or the first few hundred trying this convincingly enough may get a wee bit more attention than they expected. Kind of like the first few ranks in the protest march .. encountering .50 cal's in The Man's anti-riot barricades.
Of course they say the weather at Gitmo isn't so bad in the winter months.
Well, in the movies anyway. Remember the first robot who could NOT get a joke? (Robbie)
And I think the first wise-cracking robot? (Johnny 5 in "Short Circuit")
And then of course there was Data .. with mixed results in reference to humor and jokes.
Rep. Mike Rogers may not have been lying, exactly, with what he stated earlier. He may have been misinformed (e.g., lied to) by whoever briefed him on NSA's capabilities and available data. Which is not surprising, given the blatant lies and deception exhibited over and over again by the highest levels of NSA executives.
Yep, I too am burning joss that NoScript will still work.
If it doesn't .. I'm gone to whatever browser lets me disable Java, sorry 'bout that, Firefox.
What a bunch of crap! Yes, you're absolutely correct: this is all (literally) ancient history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete
"Vitruvius, writing around 25 BC in his Ten Books on Architecture, distinguished types of aggregate appropriate for the preparation of lime mortars. For structural mortars, he recommended pozzolana, which were volcanic sands from the sandlike beds of Pozzuoli brownish-yellow-gray in color near Naples and reddish-brown at Rome. Vitruvius specifies a ratio of 1 part lime to 3 parts pozzolana for cements used in buildings and a 1:2 ratio of lime to pulvis Puteolanus for underwater work, essentially the same ratio mixed today for concrete used at sea.[2]"
Also, back in 1993:
http://www.romanconcrete.com/docs/spillway/spillway.htm
Why build a super-expensive super-elaborate device, absolutely dependent on alignment and all that .. in a place where (1) land could hardly be less available or more expensive, (2) it tends to MOVE all the time (earthquakes, volcanoes, whatever), (3) it'll cost a bloody fortune for any visitors to visit.
Why not on some steppe somewhere, or a big flat desert (where there's at least sand for the concrete)?
Sea level is different between Atlantic and Pacific, at least down near the Panama Isthmus where they've bothered to really track it. Average only 9.2 inches maybe (sources vary), possible a maximum of 9 meters (depending on tides, winds, etc.).
Maybe that'll matter, maybe it won't.
For all those cardiovascular and lower respiratory disease deaths?
So a proper, well-balanced experiment would be for us to destroy 100 million trees somewhere NOT infected with emerald tree borers, and see what happens to the human death rate then, eh?
Hey, it's tough on the trees, I know .. but in the end .. if it WERE all the fault of the emerald tree borer, humans might do more to protect the trees while protecting themselves! Seems, fair, right?
Man, ain't the scientific process wunnerful?
This site made it clear to me than anywhere else .. since it had code! Yesss, preciousssssss, code!
http://www.norvig.com/beal.html
Python, not perl, but that's okay, close enough. It even had a working algorithm, love it!
Except even a simple toad can see that the numbers are going to get a wee bit big (even if they are all integers). Sure wish I hadn't lost the source to Toad's Infinite Math [tm], hacked back in the 80's. It was in Turbo Pascal, but let you do all the common math things (to include powers and factoring, of course) for integers as big as you had hard drive storage for .. which was kind of big even then :-)
I might just have to reengineer that; it was ever so much fun. And simple too :-) Then solve (well, disprove) the conjecture, pocket the million, be suitably modest at the Nobel Prize awards ...
Toad, mafematakul Toad
Have the bathroom door handle stain the hand with a soap-soluble dye.
Sure, that won't force the staff to wash their hands as often as they should .. but at least we'll know they washed their hands when they went to the bathroom.
I told him and TOLD him, not to text while approaching the base .. but nooo ...
Toad
Code sure could use some cleaning up (all those "foo's" !!!). But I suppose that (and obvious subroutines) would detract from the musical flow of the thing.
Clever, still.
Apparently no birds were harmed in the making of that video.
We'll probably never see the videos where they were :-)