Even though the taste is bad, their beer-soda sells pretty good and they need to maintain the reproducibility of the manufacturing procedure so they do not to want fiddle with the ingredients. Besides, it is a good marketing ploy. (Some time ago, Bud had an large ad campain emphasizing that they never use any preservatives - like benzoate - in their beer. Which is fair enough except that no brewery does that either.)
In this case, the banks also heavily relied on the perpetrators. These guys were actualy withdrawing money from the recipient account using their own names on personal checks! And they started spending like crazy on luxury cars. This is as clever as a dougnut shop robbery.
From what I heard, many bulet wounds (especialy from modern high velocity rifles with piercing ammo) do not hurt too much initialy and feel rather funny, much like a dull thud - until a crippling pain sets in, few seconds later.
I think the real purpose of this "reality" training is to find a good material for US army - people with nascent masochist inclination and low self-preservation instinct.
Maybe the management strategy games like Railroad tycoon woul be helpful - they are (somewhat tedious) fun and you have to remember stats and plan ahead when you are playing them. For an accountant, I suggest something like Tropico;)
"However, even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought to pose a threat. At these energies and distances, gravity is not the dominant force in a black hole" reads in the press release from the research group.
(The research team members were not available for interview.)
Check your chemistry. Since NO and NO2 and N2O5 formation is endothermic, nitrogen in air will not ignite regardless of the temperature - and this fact was well known in 1942-5.
What was not known was the actual temperature and compression required for starting fusion of (light) nuclei like hydrogen and nitrogen. Possibility of hydrogen fusion was investicated since the start of the project. And since nitrogen fusion was presumed to operate in some stars, the remote possibility of igniting fusion in earth atmosphere by fusion bomb was floated at one time. Bethe did some quick math to explain why this was unlikely and re-confirmed it later with more rigorous paper. But the idea of seting air on fire got out and made some non-technical people in government worried.
there is not much gamma released in nuke explosion (except for the fission product decay), most of the initial radiation pulse is actualy X-ray and neutrons.
"Breathalyzer" alcohol tests are notoriously unreliable. Judges often do not realise this - and will side with the officer who nailed you through the "scientific" method. (One should refuse submit himself to this balooney and insist on a regular blood sample test.)
Developing new cheap alcohol tests is step in a very wrong directions.
I am not sorry for snitches - I was just trying to point out that the nature of the most of the agents was more mundane - not realy Bond types.
My classmate was arrested, interrogated and coerced by State Security in Prague. They wanted him to report on fellow church-goers. He said no - - even when they anounced him that he would be kicked out of university.
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Kalashnikov: The guy designed it simple because he never even attended a high school. He was a naturaly gifted boy from a remote village where almost everybody was a sheppard.
Also, there is huge tolerance between moving parts in AK47 (the production could not handle more precise specifications)- hence the typical rattling sound. It is the use of loose-fitting parts which makes it less prone to jamming. Also, the chamber was made from a single block of metal and was nickel-plated to accomodate a cheap and exceptionaly nasty soviet propellant - which incidentaly made it more rust-resistant.
So it was a durability by necessity rather than by foresight. The typical soviet design goes like this: "how do we compensate for lousy technology we have? - we will add twice as much metal everywhere"
these are not top agents. Just some shmucks that were asked to sign a paper that they would inform the authorities. Not all of them did afterwards. Often this kind of thing was required for traveling to West or getting a promotion, rigt to publish, etc. Plus in the list there are also people that were "worked on" by state security to be recruited/set up into becoming a confidant. Typicaly under blackmail. ("We know what you are involved in and you don't have to lose your job/ go to jail if you give us some information"). Then there were carierists, often recruited in college ("you are young and perspective, we can help you to get ahead"). And some retired Nosy Parkers who liked to report on their neighbours.
In Czechoslovakia, the list came out in early 90s thanks to an activist and former political prisoner Cibulka.
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neutrinos do not clump in galaxies. Majority of the dark matter must be slow-moving stuff.
"Google is floating like a butterfly (pun intended) and stinging like a bee"
Hope not - butterflies are slow + fragile and bees die right after stinging.
With a textile sample, there is a pretty easy chemical way to separate cellulose (which was made by the original plant) from anything else (fungi, bacteria) that could have been growing on the sample later. Then you do carbon dating on the purified sample.
Cabon dating for a sample about 2000y old can be precise enough to place the origin within a century. So it is not just like vanillin baloney: A half-slice is not the same thing as no bread at all.
This is a bulshit analysis. The new "dating" is based on vaniline decay. This is inherently unreliable.
Vaniline is a somewhat unstable chemial and gets oxidised over time. This kind of reaction greatly depends on temperature, humidity and sunlight. (A chemical reaction rate typicaly accelerates 2-3fold with 10C temperature increase). If I remember correctly, the shroud nearly burned at one time.
But radiocarbon decay is not a chemical process - it does not depend on the storage of the shroud, only on the initial 12C/14C ratio and the time elapsed. The initial ratio tends to be pretty constant in all organic matter throughout the history (14C in environment is formed by cosmic rays and is in steady state in living systems because 14C decays. There are slight deviations depending on environment temperature and the particular living organism, but very small. One can use an authentic plant material from the same period, which was dated independently, as a standard for the radiocarbon calibration).
It is the same kind of "science" as the Creacionist research.
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shithouse mice are resistant
Even though the taste is bad, their beer-soda sells pretty good and they need to maintain the reproducibility of the manufacturing procedure so they do not to want fiddle with the ingredients. Besides, it is a good marketing ploy. (Some time ago, Bud had an large ad campain emphasizing that they never use any preservatives - like benzoate - in their beer. Which is fair enough except that no brewery does that either.)
It is good to know that there will be a day when my cancer will die of old age - even if I am not around to see it.
Best Buy has a policy of "emphateticaly disengaging" their difficult customers. Leg restraints are emphatetic.
In this case, the banks also heavily relied on the perpetrators. These guys were actualy withdrawing money from the recipient account using their own names on personal checks! And they started spending like crazy on luxury cars. This is as clever as a dougnut shop robbery.
It was the DEA agents who planted the crack in the tank firstplace.
From what I heard, many bulet wounds (especialy from modern high velocity rifles with piercing ammo) do not hurt too much initialy and feel rather funny, much like a dull thud - until a crippling pain sets in, few seconds later.
I think the real purpose of this "reality" training is to find a good material for US army - people with nascent masochist inclination and low self-preservation instinct.
Maybe the management strategy games like Railroad tycoon woul be helpful - they are (somewhat tedious) fun and you have to remember stats and plan ahead when you are playing them. For an accountant, I suggest something like Tropico ;)
It has the dark side and it has the light side. It holds the universe together...
"I am your duct-tape, Luke."
"However, even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought to pose a threat. At these energies and distances, gravity is not the dominant force in a black hole" reads in the press release from the research group.
(The research team members were not available for interview.)
Check your chemistry. Since NO and NO2 and N2O5 formation is endothermic, nitrogen in air will not ignite regardless of the temperature - and this fact was well known in 1942-5.
What was not known was the actual temperature and compression required for starting fusion of (light) nuclei like hydrogen and nitrogen. Possibility of hydrogen fusion was investicated since the start of the project. And since nitrogen fusion was presumed to operate in some stars, the remote possibility of igniting fusion in earth atmosphere by fusion bomb was floated at one time. Bethe did some quick math to explain why this was unlikely and re-confirmed it later with more rigorous paper. But the idea of seting air on fire got out and made some non-technical people in government worried.
these will be pretty popular with perverts
there is not much gamma released in nuke explosion (except for the fission product decay), most of the initial radiation pulse is actualy X-ray and neutrons.
"Breathalyzer" alcohol tests are notoriously unreliable. Judges often do not realise this - and will side with the officer who nailed you through the "scientific" method. (One should refuse submit himself to this balooney and insist on a regular blood sample test.)
Developing new cheap alcohol tests is step in a very wrong directions.
I am not sorry for snitches - I was just trying to point out that the nature of the most of the agents was more mundane - not realy Bond types.
My classmate was arrested, interrogated and coerced by State Security in Prague. They wanted him to report on fellow church-goers. He said no - - even when they anounced him that he would be kicked out of university.
Kalashnikov: The guy designed it simple because he never even attended a high school. He was a naturaly gifted boy from a remote village where almost everybody was a sheppard.
Also, there is huge tolerance between moving parts in AK47 (the production could not handle more precise specifications)- hence the typical rattling sound. It is the use of loose-fitting parts which makes it less prone to jamming. Also, the chamber was made from a single block of metal and was nickel-plated to accomodate a cheap and exceptionaly nasty soviet propellant - which incidentaly made it more rust-resistant.
So it was a durability by necessity rather than by foresight. The typical soviet design goes like this: "how do we compensate for lousy technology we have? - we will add twice as much metal everywhere"
these are not top agents. Just some shmucks that were asked to sign a paper that they would inform the authorities. Not all of them did afterwards. Often this kind of thing was required for traveling to West or getting a promotion, rigt to publish, etc. Plus in the list there are also people that were "worked on" by state security to be recruited/set up into becoming a confidant. Typicaly under blackmail. ("We know what you are involved in and you don't have to lose your job/ go to jail if you give us some information"). Then there were carierists, often recruited in college ("you are young and perspective, we can help you to get ahead"). And some retired Nosy Parkers who liked to report on their neighbours.
In Czechoslovakia, the list came out in early 90s thanks to an activist and former political prisoner Cibulka.
neutrinos do not clump in galaxies. Majority of the dark matter must be slow-moving stuff.
"Google is floating like a butterfly (pun intended) and stinging like a bee" Hope not - butterflies are slow + fragile and bees die right after stinging.
and no dating, even
With a textile sample, there is a pretty easy chemical way to separate cellulose (which was made by the original plant) from anything else (fungi, bacteria) that could have been growing on the sample later. Then you do carbon dating on the purified sample.
Cabon dating for a sample about 2000y old can be precise enough to place the origin within a century. So it is not just like vanillin baloney: A half-slice is not the same thing as no bread at all.
This is a bulshit analysis. The new "dating" is based on vaniline decay. This is inherently unreliable.
Vaniline is a somewhat unstable chemial and gets oxidised over time. This kind of reaction greatly depends on temperature, humidity and sunlight. (A chemical reaction rate typicaly accelerates 2-3fold with 10C temperature increase). If I remember correctly, the shroud nearly burned at one time.
But radiocarbon decay is not a chemical process - it does not depend on the storage of the shroud, only on the initial 12C/14C ratio and the time elapsed. The initial ratio tends to be pretty constant in all organic matter throughout the history (14C in environment is formed by cosmic rays and is in steady state in living systems because 14C decays. There are slight deviations depending on environment temperature and the particular living organism, but very small. One can use an authentic plant material from the same period, which was dated independently, as a standard for the radiocarbon calibration).
It is the same kind of "science" as the Creacionist research.
Sokal
...maybe something about memory volatility and distilled spirits?
No, it is not. People like to go to Thailand.