Indeed, I believe, it wasn't quite a blind eye of UN... It was a deliberate ignoring of the fact that there was no sanction from UNSC, since Russia and France, both having a veto power in UNSC, did not agree with the proposed measures, wasn't it?
That's because there is no perfect solution for the problem of codec choice. There is no perfect codec for all people's needs. Some need it lossless, some care about the size (bandwidth, whatever...).
File extention is irrelevant here: multimedia files shouldn't really be judged by their extention (especially, when this extention is only 3 alpha-numeric characters). Meta-data is the way to go...
Oh yeah! Making our already small moon 100+ tons smaller (by mass) every day will make it much lighter, which will definitely reduce the tides, which will endanger many species here on Earth! Well, that may become even worse than that "global warming" thing, that everyone is talking about!:)
Well, I don't remember from the history of this century, that there were any 10 years, when there were no wars anywhere in the world... I think, it's just a century of war and it looks like 21st century is not going to be any different...:P
And I don't quite agree, that this is a World War... It's more just pre-war tentions...;) The real fight is yet to come. Unfortunately.
Eeh, sorry, but what's up with Kazahstan? Never heard about any islamic extremism there...
But concerning Russia, it's not only Moscow... It's a lot more! The whole Caucasia is in war, if to follow your little theory...:)
OK. Imagine I'm a teacher of physics at a university. Some student asks me something as simple as: why are things dropping down to the ground? I answer: "I don't know". Now, what will the student think? A) I'm too lazy to explain? B) I'm too busy answering stupid questions, because we've got the quantum physics to learn today? C) I really don't know??
I bet for the first two.
Well, easy to guess, that those scientists already did this, compared this to data about the amount of living organisms or their remnants detected so far and decided, that it is highly improbable, that they exist at all! Thus the search for other possible sources of methane...
You could also give and example of the Aral Sea. This great salt lake (sea?) had tremendous shrink (> 50%?), after the river, that was feeding it with water was used for irrigation. This was only 70 years ago (1930+), or so.
Well, I guess, this device is meant for very special situations, when there is already an emergency -- think "wounds, sustained in battle" -- these aren't only 5.56 bullet wounds, but also severed arms, legs, inner bleeding etc. From what I remember from first aid classes I received during basic training (in an defence organisation, similar to the American Maryland National Guard), if you've got your leg severed, you don't really care if that clot is going anywhere at all... You've got literally seconds to stop the bleeding, because you lose hundreds of grams of blood every second (that is a liter in less than a minute). And if the question is life or death, it doesn't matter, that you have to risk the life of the injured to at least try to save his life.
This enormously CO2-rich atmosphere results in a strong greenhouse effect that raises the surface temperature more than 400 C (750 F) with temperatures at the surface reaching extremes as great as 500 C (930 F) in low elevation regions near the planet's equator. This makes Venus's surface hotter than Mercury's, even though Venus is nearly twice as distant from the Sun and only receives 25% of the solar irradiance (2613.9 W/m in the upper atmosphere, and just 1071.1 W/m at the surface).
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(planet)
It is believed, that surface temperature doesn't get much lower even in Venus' night-time, even though day cicle on Venus is very-very long...:) (116.75 Earth days actually)
Dogs are actually quite intelligent animals, true. But they are also intelligent enough to be able to distinguish and follow the orders of their trainer. That means, they will go under anything, that resembles a tank or a bunker, if properly taught.
In fact, dogs are being trained for this kind of operation in Russia even now. It has been proved to be rather effective.
The training mechanism is NOT about a dog expecting to be fed under the tank, but rather expecting to get something for going under the tank and then returning back (most likely only after a second order from the trainer). Same way as it does with fetching a stick or making jumps and rollovers for little chunks of food.
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Indeed, I believe, it wasn't quite a blind eye of UN... It was a deliberate ignoring of the fact that there was no sanction from UNSC, since Russia and France, both having a veto power in UNSC, did not agree with the proposed measures, wasn't it?
Yeah, let's "slashdot" their mail server. :)
That's because there is no perfect solution for the problem of codec choice. There is no perfect codec for all people's needs. Some need it lossless, some care about the size (bandwidth, whatever...). File extention is irrelevant here: multimedia files shouldn't really be judged by their extention (especially, when this extention is only 3 alpha-numeric characters). Meta-data is the way to go...
Oh yeah! Making our already small moon 100+ tons smaller (by mass) every day will make it much lighter, which will definitely reduce the tides, which will endanger many species here on Earth! Well, that may become even worse than that "global warming" thing, that everyone is talking about! :)
I think they were talking about something like 100,000+ g in the railgun, not 16,000 g... The number is many times bigger, you see...
Could you, please, write, where did you get this $1000 to $3000 figure? My best guess, is these are just US figures...
Well, I don't remember from the history of this century, that there were any 10 years, when there were no wars anywhere in the world... I think, it's just a century of war and it looks like 21st century is not going to be any different... :P
;) The real fight is yet to come. Unfortunately.
And I don't quite agree, that this is a World War... It's more just pre-war tentions...
Eeh, sorry, but what's up with Kazahstan? Never heard about any islamic extremism there... But concerning Russia, it's not only Moscow... It's a lot more! The whole Caucasia is in war, if to follow your little theory... :)
OK. Imagine I'm a teacher of physics at a university. Some student asks me something as simple as: why are things dropping down to the ground? I answer: "I don't know". Now, what will the student think? A) I'm too lazy to explain? B) I'm too busy answering stupid questions, because we've got the quantum physics to learn today? C) I really don't know?? I bet for the first two.
Well, easy to guess, that those scientists already did this, compared this to data about the amount of living organisms or their remnants detected so far and decided, that it is highly improbable, that they exist at all! Thus the search for other possible sources of methane...
Yeah, I knew that! Area 51 was indeed used to make contacts with captive extraterrestial aliens! =8-)
If it was Mrs. Paris Hilton, then yeah, definitely! :)
Then they would be much more dangerous to their owners, not thugs or smth. :)
You could also give and example of the Aral Sea. This great salt lake (sea?) had tremendous shrink (> 50%?), after the river, that was feeding it with water was used for irrigation. This was only 70 years ago (1930+), or so.
Well, I guess, this device is meant for very special situations, when there is already an emergency -- think "wounds, sustained in battle" -- these aren't only 5.56 bullet wounds, but also severed arms, legs, inner bleeding etc. From what I remember from first aid classes I received during basic training (in an defence organisation, similar to the American Maryland National Guard), if you've got your leg severed, you don't really care if that clot is going anywhere at all... You've got literally seconds to stop the bleeding, because you lose hundreds of grams of blood every second (that is a liter in less than a minute). And if the question is life or death, it doesn't matter, that you have to risk the life of the injured to at least try to save his life.
Unless a law makes it illegal to sell hardware, that doesn't include DRM... :P Then you don't have that choice anymore!
Dogs are actually quite intelligent animals, true. But they are also intelligent enough to be able to distinguish and follow the orders of their trainer. That means, they will go under anything, that resembles a tank or a bunker, if properly taught. In fact, dogs are being trained for this kind of operation in Russia even now. It has been proved to be rather effective. The training mechanism is NOT about a dog expecting to be fed under the tank, but rather expecting to get something for going under the tank and then returning back (most likely only after a second order from the trainer). Same way as it does with fetching a stick or making jumps and rollovers for little chunks of food.
Unless they face something, what is Doom 3 games is based on! :)
I'm not even mentioning Belarussia... :)
Don't let my nickname mislead you, buddy... :) I usually pronounce it "pomidor", or more rarely: "tomat". :)
Hey, I mean, it's not funny! My browser crashed two times! Haven't seen that for a while already...
They haven't yet fixed this bug as well (I tried it today, and my Firefox 1.0.7 crashed)...
<script>
a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); }
</script>
Or, actually, trying to enter it, by the unusual ways...
Just imagine how sexy it would look -- a light-blue tighty with a rainbow-ish bubble helmet!