Most would be able to go off in a vacuum. There's what, about 250 grams of O2 in a cubic meter of air? That's not enough for solid explosives to use.
What I think the parent was saying, though, is the MOAB would explode, but there wouldn't be any way for the shock wave to propagate. It would just be a spray of high-velocity chemical by-products of the explosion. For a MOAB, though, that would still be nasty. I wouldn't want to be 10 meters away from that in a spacesuit, but you could be a LOT closer than with a similar explosion in an atmosphere.
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They're spending a lot on homeland defense (sensors, etc), and they'll have to replenish the ordnance used in Iraq and Afghanistan, but 9/11 hasn't caused, and isn't going to cause, a large increase in the size of the military. Come on, now, what use are soldiers against terrorists? Or do you actually believe the US is going to invade every country in the world?
The only reason the US and UK had to go it alone in Iraq is because the French and Russian governments are populated by whores.
I can buy LOTR DVDs with the original theatrical version. I have a bad feeling that I'm *never* going to be able to do that with the original 3 star wars movies.
I saw Star Wars in 9th grade. I want the version where Han shoots Greedo first.
Lucas can put Jar Jar into the original Star Wars Special Edition. I don't care. As long as I can get the version I saw in 9th grade.
I vaguely remember something in the constitution about "cruel and unusual" punishment. Do you think that executing someone for jaywalking or sharing MP3s fall into this category?
I've got a better idea. Execute people for price fixing. And for committing fraud against musicians. That'll clear up all the problems real fast.
You forgot that the kid has to be accelerating upwards at 4 gees to meet the ball. And the wind has to be blowing downward at hundreds of miles an hour.
Oh, please. Exxon's business model wasn't based on intentionally spilling oil onto pristine beaches. Union Carbide's business model wasn't based on gassing thousands of Indians to death. Napster's business model was based on violating copyright. Out of curiosity, what percentage of the files traded on Napster do you think were copyrighted? My guess is at least 95%, and likely more than 99%.
This suit doesn't mean the end of the stock market. It means that people who do things that are illegal get punished.
Of course, legal/illegal doesn't necessarily map to right/wrong, but hey, the law's the law. Anybody with millions of dollars laying around to spend on something like Napster really ought to know that.
According to your theory, if the Columbian drug cartels incorporate in Delaware, they should be free from prosecution.
I know a lot of people with guns. None of them bought them to murder somebody. They bought them because they like hunting, or for home defense, or because they like to go to the gun range and shoot things. The reason the gun companies are currently being sued is that they set up sales and distribution channels explicitly to make it easier for criminals to buy guns (supposedly).
Napster's primary purpose was to facilitate copyright violation.
If the VCs lose this case, the only people that should be worried are those who fund businesses whose primary purpose is to break the law.
I guess you've never worked with neural networks. The one I wrote for class learned how to recognize hand-written numbers. I don't have any idea how it was able to do it, and I really doubt you could figure out how it did either.
Personally, I have no doubt that eventually we will be able to build sentient machines. And we won't really know how they work. Give it structure similar to a human brain and the ability to learn, expose it to external stimuli for a few years, and it'll become aware.
Actually, a gun-type uranium bomb would have been much easier to build; an implosion bomb is fairly difficult to build.
I would have thought the main thing keeping the Germans from building a bomb would be getting the weapons grade Uranium or Plutonium. The amount of infrastructure to make that stuff is significant.
I mean, never does it. Ever. Every time someone uses time travel, it kicks the universe into a different state. The universe will eventually reach a state where nobody ever uses time travel, and it'll stay in that state.
Larry Niven short story collection, "All The Myriad Ways", the story is "The Theory and Practice of Time Travel". Good book.
I've read that the resumed sales in the 80's were due mostly to MTV. I don't know if you're old enough to remember, but a lot of the popular bands back then (Culture Club, Duran Duran) became so because they had popular videos.
Maybe the RIAA should pressure MTV to start playing music videos again.:)
I'm surprised I haven't seen a slashdot article on how Clear Channel is going to start blowing off all the independant promoters. Could Clear Channel actually be doing a good thing?
Maybe if they worked with the BIOS makers so that
if the CPU is overclocked, a warning splash screen comes up when booting? This would protect the average customer and still allow the home tweaker to overclock.
I think Larry Niven's theory of time travel is that travel to the past changes the timeline, so the universe will "stabilize" at a timeline where nobody travels into the past.
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Most would be able to go off in a vacuum. There's what, about 250 grams of O2 in a cubic meter of air? That's not enough for solid explosives to use.
What I think the parent was saying, though, is the MOAB would explode, but there wouldn't be any way for the shock wave to propagate. It would just be a spray of high-velocity chemical by-products of the explosion. For a MOAB, though, that would still be nasty. I wouldn't want to be 10 meters away from that in a spacesuit, but you could be a LOT closer than with a similar explosion in an atmosphere.
They're spending a lot on homeland defense (sensors, etc), and they'll have to replenish the ordnance used in Iraq and Afghanistan, but 9/11 hasn't caused, and isn't going to cause, a large increase in the size of the military. Come on, now, what use are soldiers against terrorists? Or do you actually believe the US is going to invade every country in the world?
The only reason the US and UK had to go it alone in Iraq is because the French and Russian governments are populated by whores.
You can compress when you back up to HD too, so to compare apples to apples, you should use the raw capacity of the tape.
Why can't you ship a 200 GB HD somewhere?
Actually, he could get him to do the Star Wars 3, then have him go ahead and film Star Wars 7, 8, and 9 while he's at it :)
Even better idea: Have him hire Peter Jackson to do the last Star Wars movie.
I can buy LOTR DVDs with the original theatrical version. I have a bad feeling that I'm *never* going to be able to do that with the original 3 star wars movies.
I saw Star Wars in 9th grade. I want the version where Han shoots Greedo first.
Lucas can put Jar Jar into the original Star Wars Special Edition. I don't care. As long as I can get the version I saw in 9th grade.
Well, the only relevant question is:
How do you prevent terrorism?
It's pretty obvious that Clinton/Gore didn't know jack diddley squat about how to answer that one.
I'd bet there are a lot fewer Al-Queda training camps in Afghanistan now.
What do *you* think we should do?
I vaguely remember something in the constitution about "cruel and unusual" punishment. Do you think that executing someone for jaywalking or sharing MP3s fall into this category?
I've got a better idea. Execute people for price fixing. And for committing fraud against musicians. That'll clear up all the problems real fast.
You forgot that the kid has to be accelerating upwards at 4 gees to meet the ball. And the wind has to be blowing downward at hundreds of miles an hour.
Oh, please. Exxon's business model wasn't based on intentionally spilling oil onto pristine beaches. Union Carbide's business model wasn't based on gassing thousands of Indians to death. Napster's business model was based on violating copyright. Out of curiosity, what percentage of the files traded on Napster do you think were copyrighted? My guess is at least 95%, and likely more than 99%.
This suit doesn't mean the end of the stock market. It means that people who do things that are illegal get punished.
Of course, legal/illegal doesn't necessarily map to right/wrong, but hey, the law's the law. Anybody with millions of dollars laying around to spend on something like Napster really ought to know that.
According to your theory, if the Columbian drug cartels incorporate in Delaware, they should be free from prosecution.
I'd bet most of that 114.8 billion is professional sports.
Even the videogame industry is bigger than the movie industry.
I know a lot of people with guns. None of them bought them to murder somebody. They bought them because they like hunting, or for home defense, or because they like to go to the gun range and shoot things. The reason the gun companies are currently being sued is that they set up sales and distribution channels explicitly to make it easier for criminals to buy guns (supposedly).
Napster's primary purpose was to facilitate copyright violation.
If the VCs lose this case, the only people that should be worried are those who fund businesses whose primary purpose is to break the law.
I can usually buy a concert DVD, with 5.1 sound, for less than the live CD *of the same concert*. How does your theory explain this?
If you believe we evolved from lower primates, that's pretty much a given.
Also, there's the Flynn Effect. IQs seem to be increasing about 3 points per decade, so it's an ongoing process.
I guess you've never worked with neural networks. The one I wrote for class learned how to recognize hand-written numbers. I don't have any idea how it was able to do it, and I really doubt you could figure out how it did either.
Personally, I have no doubt that eventually we will be able to build sentient machines. And we won't really know how they work. Give it structure similar to a human brain and the ability to learn, expose it to external stimuli for a few years, and it'll become aware.
That's because the value of your property in Canada is measured in Canadian dollars :).
Actually, a gun-type uranium bomb would have been much easier to build; an implosion bomb is fairly difficult to build.
I would have thought the main thing keeping the Germans from building a bomb would be getting the weapons grade Uranium or Plutonium. The amount of infrastructure to make that stuff is significant.
"Heroes Of Telemark" starring Kirk Douglas.
Hey, I used Agent Orange in my back yard a few weeks ago. Only, these days, it's called Roundup.
I mean, never does it. Ever. Every time someone uses time travel, it kicks the universe into a different state. The universe will eventually reach a state where nobody ever uses time travel, and it'll stay in that state.
Larry Niven short story collection, "All The Myriad Ways", the story is "The Theory and Practice of Time Travel". Good book.
I've read that the resumed sales in the 80's were due mostly to MTV. I don't know if you're old enough to remember, but a lot of the popular bands back then (Culture Club, Duran Duran) became so because they had popular videos.
:)
Maybe the RIAA should pressure MTV to start playing music videos again.
I'm surprised I haven't seen a slashdot article on how Clear Channel is going to start blowing off all the independant promoters. Could Clear Channel actually be doing a good thing?
Maybe if they worked with the BIOS makers so that if the CPU is overclocked, a warning splash screen comes up when booting? This would protect the average customer and still allow the home tweaker to overclock.
Cool. Now it won't take fifteen years of conditioning to be convinced that Kim Il Jung II is God.
I think Larry Niven's theory of time travel is
:).
that travel to the past changes the timeline, so
the universe will "stabilize" at a timeline
where nobody travels into the past.
It may be possible, but nobody ever does it