No, EMP happens instantly. In fact, it happens the moment of flash. That's what happens when you convert mass into energy. You get a nasty "flash" of all sorts of light, radio and X-rays all at once. It just so happens that a strong burst of EMR damages silcon chips.
Anyone want to guess how integrated our society is with modern silcon chips?
Nukes give off more then just radiation, they give off an EMP burst that will fry anything electrical. In fact, both US and Russian millitary uses hardend chips and other electronics to function in the event a nuclear war.
Here is a scary though. A small yeild nuclear bomb by a terrorist will cause more electrical property damage then the explosion itself. Just imagine 10.000+ cars on a city highway system all shutting down at ONCE!. It's not like your going to tow them off the road in one day. Because, that's exactly what you will have to do once the ECU in every car gets fried.
From what I've read, the atmosphere should be much thicker then it is now given martian gravity. However, because of a very weak magnetic field, solar wind has slowly erroded away at the atmosphere and blow it out to space. If true, Mars may remain dead forever unless we can reactivate the almost-solidified core.
Note: Please no mention of the movie CORE. It sucked ass.
But none the less, I still see deminishing returns on safety the more you spend exponentually. There has to be an ecconomic "Sweet spot" on the amount of lives saved vs cost of tax dollars. But, I doubt the government runs such metrics. If they do, I'm currious to see them myself.
It doesn't just piss you off, it really really pisses me off...and I live in Texas.
I wish I could just purchase a car without all of that extra safety shit and roll the dice on whether or not I survive. In return, I get a car with a huge discount. But noooooooo, the Big Government wont give me that option. So I must pay the "safety tax"
The problem with ceramic engines is they crack. Sooner or later, they will crack. While the idea has been tossed around for use in Formula-1 racecar engines, the laws of physics gets into the way.
Note: Cermaic and metal expand and contract at different rate. Also, you can never have just a pure Ceramic block and moving parts.
It's not a reason, it's a FACT. In order for a car to be driven in the US, it must first meet strict safety regulations. If it doesn't, then you can't drive it on public roads (you can on a private racetrack however). The only way you can drive a car nowdays that does NOT meet the current safety guidelines is if you drive on older vehicle that has been "grandfathered" into the system.
Basically, when you buy a car a good percentage goes into the design of a car to make sure it meets these current safety guidelines. I'm not sure to the exact amount, but I've been told it's about 20% of the MSRP when you purchase the car. That ammount covers the R&D and certification requirement that the US government requires.
And remember....it's for the CHILDREN.....BLAHhhhhhhhhhhhhh
When I worked at Dell in the safety investigation labs, I would often inspect failed PCs via unusual means. Most of the time, it's because of smoke or "pop" sounds from a failed power supply (bad capacitor sounds like a fire cracker). At any rate, about 1/10 of those PCs failed due to ROACHS!!! That's right, roaches are attracted to the ionized air created by the power supply. They often find them steril and clean enough to lay eggs in. By the time we get those PCs, they eggs have already hatched.
Let me tell you something... I ALWAYS open the side case cover very very carefully. You never know when a swarm of 20+ roaches come crawling out the moment they see some light.
Remember kiddies! Speeding tickets are another term for "random toll road fee". I've paid my dues lately. It's just a matter of time before you do as well.
It's interesting you should mention that. I always recommend 900mhz phones. The voice quality between 900mhz and 2.4 Ghz is vertually the same to the user. The reason why everyone went 2.4 was for two main reasons.
1. Marketing. Larger numbers = better technology. 2. It is not regulated by FCC and 900 was getting crowded for spread spectrum.
The reality is, 2.4ghz is VERY crowded far more then 900Mhz ever was in the past. Also, 900Mhz provides better range in practice because no one uses the phone with a direct line-of-site to the base station. So when using 2.4 phones and going from room to room or outside, the quality sucks far more then with 900mhz. As such, 900Mhz is the right (even perfect) frequency for digital cordless phone use.
The golden rule: THe higher your radio frequency, the harder it is to pass through solid objects.
If you thought 2.4Ghz was a bitch through layers of sheetrock, just imagine 60Ghz. Hell, you might as well be using infrared to transmit as it's basically a line-of-sight transmission anyways. Unless of course, you boost the gain. But damn, the radiation levels would be pretty damn high.
What ever happened to the honor of strapping some C4 to your chest and manually blowing yourself up...errr...wait a sec..... Terrorist have no honor.
Ok ok, so let me make my point more clear. At what point will technology become so cheap and simple to use, that it will make terrorism that much more effective and efficient. I'm not advocating tight controls of such technology. However, I am pointing out that we are living in some very interesting times and will continue to do so in the future.
4. A primitive state of existence, untouched and uninfluenced by civilization or artificiality: couldn't tolerate city life anymore and went back to nature.
I totally disagree this this definition. I'm not sure who or what consortium designated this to be, but it doesn't belong philosophically. That, and add to the fact your link also includes....
"The totality of all existing things: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world. See matter, part/whole."
Although skewing off topic here, did you know that oxygen never existed in Earth atmosphere until a billon years after it's formation? Well it's true. Oxygen started off as polution, and now all modern life depends on it. Ironic that you find what Humans doing to be unnatural, but the first microbes on earth wasn't? There just isn't any formal logic as to what "natural" is in regards to life and evolution.
While yet to be proven, who's to say mankind isn't natures "evolution revolution". Who's to say nano-technology won't take over biology. Perhaps even fuse mechanical with biological processes to form new life? An even grander thought is to think we can actually stop an astroid impact from wiping out all life on Earth (again) while at the same time seeding sterile planets with life from Earth.
This may just piss you off more, but there actually are valid points you may find "out there".
Valid points?! What valid points??? It does not piss me off, it makes me weep out of the pure insanity that you would even ponder such things. Humans are a product of nature. Even if we lay scorched earth and caused the extinction, it's still a process of nature. Because...we ARE a part of nature. Life and death are part of a cycle. As such, just live yours with respect for everyone elses quality of life. But don't force others HOW to live their own life as well.
Yup. and we should be making toys out of plutonium. It's such fun stuff! It's harmless, really.
Ya, my post was flamebait. But you did hit the nail on the head with the poor judgement issue. Personally, I want to protect the enviroment. In fact, I for one do. I recycle plastic for example. I keep a single plastic bag under my kitchen sink at my appartment and collect bits and pieces of plastic there. When it comes time at the end of each month, I take that huge bag down the the trash area and dump it into the plastic recycle bin.
But seriously folks. Resonable people don't want to live with extreme rules and regulations. Fact is, most of the member of Greenpeace ARE extreme. If you haven't been to one of their meetings before, I suggest you do so. It's enough to make you vomit.
Logic be DAMNED! It's all about the *cause* that matters with envirowacos. No go back to rubbing two sticks togeather. Better yet, dont breed! Humans are viri to the planet.
God damn that felt good. And yes, I was making fun of those tree huggers.
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At least the tin-foil hat industry will boom from this. Just imagine how many tin-foil hats will be sold that are made to cover a wireless router!
For example, I will put one over my WiFi router right now. Now you see, as I put thi.....
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No, EMP happens instantly. In fact, it happens the moment of flash. That's what happens when you convert mass into energy. You get a nasty "flash" of all sorts of light, radio and X-rays all at once. It just so happens that a strong burst of EMR damages silcon chips.
Anyone want to guess how integrated our society is with modern silcon chips?
Creepy!
Nukes give off more then just radiation, they give off an EMP burst that will fry anything electrical. In fact, both US and Russian millitary uses hardend chips and other electronics to function in the event a nuclear war.
Here is a scary though. A small yeild nuclear bomb by a terrorist will cause more electrical property damage then the explosion itself. Just imagine 10.000+ cars on a city highway system all shutting down at ONCE!. It's not like your going to tow them off the road in one day. Because, that's exactly what you will have to do once the ECU in every car gets fried.
Huh???? o_0.
And so it is. The first post is to be funny, and the fact you bring this to our attention gets moodded "informative"??!!
What the FUCK! What happend, and who put LSD in my coffee this morning?
Because of your cockwad response to my thread, I added you to my "foe" list.
Have a happy day...
From what I've read, the atmosphere should be much thicker then it is now given martian gravity. However, because of a very weak magnetic field, solar wind has slowly erroded away at the atmosphere and blow it out to space. If true, Mars may remain dead forever unless we can reactivate the almost-solidified core.
Note: Please no mention of the movie CORE. It sucked ass.
Ya, that's actually a good point.
But none the less, I still see deminishing returns on safety the more you spend exponentually. There has to be an ecconomic "Sweet spot" on the amount of lives saved vs cost of tax dollars. But, I doubt the government runs such metrics. If they do, I'm currious to see them myself.
You didn't know about the ABBA command did you? ;) Just press the buttons in that order after you die and you are blessed with another chance.
It doesn't just piss you off, it really really pisses me off...and I live in Texas.
I wish I could just purchase a car without all of that extra safety shit and roll the dice on whether or not I survive. In return, I get a car with a huge discount. But noooooooo, the Big Government wont give me that option. So I must pay the "safety tax"
The problem with ceramic engines is they crack. Sooner or later, they will crack. While the idea has been tossed around for use in Formula-1 racecar engines, the laws of physics gets into the way.
Note: Cermaic and metal expand and contract at different rate. Also, you can never have just a pure Ceramic block and moving parts.
It's called a Corvette. Most racing buff that I know think it's the most phalic design that you can get in a sports car.
It's not a reason, it's a FACT. In order for a car to be driven in the US, it must first meet strict safety regulations. If it doesn't, then you can't drive it on public roads (you can on a private racetrack however). The only way you can drive a car nowdays that does NOT meet the current safety guidelines is if you drive on older vehicle that has been "grandfathered" into the system.
Basically, when you buy a car a good percentage goes into the design of a car to make sure it meets these current safety guidelines. I'm not sure to the exact amount, but I've been told it's about 20% of the MSRP when you purchase the car. That ammount covers the R&D and certification requirement that the US government requires.
And remember....it's for the CHILDREN.....BLAHhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Kinda what I was thinking. He should have just podcasted the book.
All I got to say is... SPIN THAT REVOLVER BABY!
:-P
It's a joke, laugh.
It doesn't matter. How can FCC demand control when my phone calls go from PC to PC. I don't even make VIOP calls to a standard switched telco system.
Sorry big brother, your fucked. Kill skype, then I will use another voice P2P program! You CANNOT stop me!
While offtopic, it's fun to talk about...
When I worked at Dell in the safety investigation labs, I would often inspect failed PCs via unusual means. Most of the time, it's because of smoke or "pop" sounds from a failed power supply (bad capacitor sounds like a fire cracker). At any rate, about 1/10 of those PCs failed due to ROACHS!!! That's right, roaches are attracted to the ionized air created by the power supply. They often find them steril and clean enough to lay eggs in. By the time we get those PCs, they eggs have already hatched.
Let me tell you something... I ALWAYS open the side case cover very very carefully. You never know when a swarm of 20+ roaches come crawling out the moment they see some light.
Remember kiddies! Speeding tickets are another term for "random toll road fee". I've paid my dues lately. It's just a matter of time before you do as well.
Now then, just sign on the dotted line....
It's interesting you should mention that. I always recommend 900mhz phones. The voice quality between 900mhz and 2.4 Ghz is vertually the same to the user. The reason why everyone went 2.4 was for two main reasons.
1. Marketing. Larger numbers = better technology.
2. It is not regulated by FCC and 900 was getting crowded for spread spectrum.
The reality is, 2.4ghz is VERY crowded far more then 900Mhz ever was in the past. Also, 900Mhz provides better range in practice because no one uses the phone with a direct line-of-site to the base station. So when using 2.4 phones and going from room to room or outside, the quality sucks far more then with 900mhz. As such, 900Mhz is the right (even perfect) frequency for digital cordless phone use.
The golden rule: THe higher your radio frequency, the harder it is to pass through solid objects.
If you thought 2.4Ghz was a bitch through layers of sheetrock, just imagine 60Ghz. Hell, you might as well be using infrared to transmit as it's basically a line-of-sight transmission anyways. Unless of course, you boost the gain. But damn, the radiation levels would be pretty damn high.
Cheap phones = cheap remote detonators.
What ever happened to the honor of strapping some C4 to your chest and manually blowing yourself up...errr...wait a sec..... Terrorist have no honor.
Ok ok, so let me make my point more clear. At what point will technology become so cheap and simple to use, that it will make terrorism that much more effective and efficient. I'm not advocating tight controls of such technology. However, I am pointing out that we are living in some very interesting times and will continue to do so in the future.
4. A primitive state of existence, untouched and uninfluenced by civilization or artificiality: couldn't tolerate city life anymore and went back to nature.
I totally disagree this this definition. I'm not sure who or what consortium designated this to be, but it doesn't belong philosophically. That, and add to the fact your link also includes....
"The totality of all existing things: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world. See matter, part/whole."
Although skewing off topic here, did you know that oxygen never existed in Earth atmosphere until a billon years after it's formation? Well it's true. Oxygen started off as polution, and now all modern life depends on it. Ironic that you find what Humans doing to be unnatural, but the first microbes on earth wasn't? There just isn't any formal logic as to what "natural" is in regards to life and evolution.
While yet to be proven, who's to say mankind isn't natures "evolution revolution". Who's to say nano-technology won't take over biology. Perhaps even fuse mechanical with biological processes to form new life? An even grander thought is to think we can actually stop an astroid impact from wiping out all life on Earth (again) while at the same time seeding sterile planets with life from Earth.
This may just piss you off more, but there actually are valid points you may find "out there".
Valid points?! What valid points??? It does not piss me off, it makes me weep out of the pure insanity that you would even ponder such things. Humans are a product of nature. Even if we lay scorched earth and caused the extinction, it's still a process of nature. Because...we ARE a part of nature. Life and death are part of a cycle. As such, just live yours with respect for everyone elses quality of life. But don't force others HOW to live their own life as well.
Yup. and we should be making toys out of plutonium. It's such fun stuff! It's harmless, really.
Ya, my post was flamebait. But you did hit the nail on the head with the poor judgement issue. Personally, I want to protect the enviroment. In fact, I for one do. I recycle plastic for example. I keep a single plastic bag under my kitchen sink at my appartment and collect bits and pieces of plastic there. When it comes time at the end of each month, I take that huge bag down the the trash area and dump it into the plastic recycle bin.
But seriously folks. Resonable people don't want to live with extreme rules and regulations. Fact is, most of the member of Greenpeace ARE extreme. If you haven't been to one of their meetings before, I suggest you do so. It's enough to make you vomit.
Logic be DAMNED! It's all about the *cause* that matters with envirowacos. No go back to rubbing two sticks togeather. Better yet, dont breed! Humans are viri to the planet.
God damn that felt good. And yes, I was making fun of those tree huggers.
There will always be an opening for a lawyers *lawyer*. It's the new rage. Soon, you can apply for a lawyers lawyers lawyer and make even more $$$$$$$