This is the very definition of begging the question. They should put that headline in the dictionary as a perfect example of it. If you find someone using "begs the question" to mean "makes me want to ask a question", when you correct them you can point them to this article.
It's hard to google for, so what if that someone would loose the URL in there bookmark's?
Two behaviors: Trying to look good in front of the judge if they're busted 10 seconds later, and trying not to walk off with personally identifiable property.
The CD changer probably had no recorded serial number, but was full of your CDs, easily identifiable.
Well, that and the lunchboxes, posters, cartoon shows, movies, guest appearances, fast-food tie-ins, TV specials, KISS Army fan club, clothing line, Halloween costumes, makeup line, books, toys, and probably a whole lot of other stuff I'm forgetting about.
If you put a 100W directional transmitter 5 feet away, sure, you'd feel the heat, similar to sitting close to a very weak oven.
Doesn't work. Ask your local ham radio operator. Takes at least 500 watts and at least a yard away before you notice, if you're paying close attention. Think of standing next to a light bulb and you get the idea.
Its actually quite dangerous, if you think about it. You can't sense RF until crazy high levels, but at the lower levels the voltages and currents on the antenna are high enough to cause nasty burns. IF it was theoretically possible for people to sense RF, then why would RF burns be so "unavoidable".
Unavoidable in quotes because smart people treat antennas hooked up to transmitters like smart people handle firearms, its always transmitting much like all firearms are treated as always loaded, etc.
The high-temperature ultra-pasteurization of milk makes it last longer by rendering it almost inedible to bacteria.
Absolutely hilarious. Go ahead, prove yourself correct by popping open a container, and letting it sit at room temperature for a few weeks. Bonus points if you put a webcam on it and post it to slashdot, like the rotting meat cam from well over a decade ago.
Just think about it for a second... bacteria (as an overall group) can eat anything humans can plus much more. So the venn diagram has a tiny little circle with us in it, surrounded by a really big circle of stuff that bacteria can eat. There are some things that kill bacteria in a much lower concentration than they kill humans, like salt or sugar or antibiotics, but at a low enough concentration they'll consume them. So this implies we're even less able to digest that milk than bacteria. Implying consuming UHT milk would have a mineral oil or olestra effect, that being that what you drink comes out the other end unchanged. If that happens to you, the problem is you, not the milk.
Whats the university equivalent of wikipedia's deletionist morons?
Seriously, without the ability to ruin and disrespect other peoples work, a significant fraction of wikipedians will not participate in a wiki-university.
No that was intentional, not misspeaking. A concentration camp is where non-majority race undesirables are stashed away in a non-judicial manner with generally poor treatment, such as torture, and they don't get their human rights respected.
So the description I chose was based on the facts I've been told.
Which could all be wrong. Maybe instead of torture chambers they actually have masseuse service. Or instead of lock em up and throw away the key, they they have full civilized haebus corpus rights just like any other prisoner. Maybe they volunteered to go there instead of being locked up. But... probably not. Its a concentration camp, pure and simple.
He can order the military to do stuff, but it generally must be authorized by Congress first.
Your reasoning seems extraordinarily theoretical. In this practical situation, at least until November, his party controls Congress, I think it unlikely they would do anything but rubber stamp his decisions. The idea that his own party would impeach him is equally unlikely. Everything I listed is supported by around 70% of the voters, which is about 30 percentage points higher than his current poll numbers, so I'm not seeing a second civil war as a likely result.
it would be a disaster if a deliberative body tried to do it
Unfortunately that result happens with everything that congress attempts, not just fighting wars.
Humorously, since Mexico is a failed narco-state, he can simply station them on the Mexico side of the border. Its not like they'd be organized enough to stop us, or even really slow us down.
Being "on the border" doesn't mean literally standing on a painted line (or visiting Taco Bell). Standing on the north edge of the south side is close enough.
Students of history will note that it would not, by any means, be the first time the US military has invaded Mexico (although not recently).
I think an invasion of Mexico is inevitable anyway. Make a list of reasons why Mexico will slide into deeper chaos in the near future. Its a long list. Then make a list of reasons why Mexico will improve their situation. Uh huh, blank sheet of paper. Thinking its inevitable doesn't mean I think its an ideal situation or I love the idea, I'm just saying it is a unavoidable future situation.
In my questionable estimation, furthermore it MIGHT be a good idea to get it over with sooner rather than later.
If you're trying to make a plant comment, the correct answer is red. Plants adsorb red and blue. They're green because they reflect that away. But trees dump their leaves in the fall because of uv and physical damage, not because they got too much visible light.
He seemed pretty accurate other than some exaggeration. If you want to see a "Massive amount of crapware" buy a PC from a big box store, not "java tried to install the yahoo toolbar boo hoo".
The funniest Java related thing I've seen, is amongst the non-computer cow orkers "Oh man, another java program, that thing is gonna be slow and take IT forever to install (actually they mean the JVM) and crash all the time". Computer people have known that for over a decade now, the funny part is hearing non computer people start to complain.
So we are left in the uncomfortable position of saying "we don't know", and we don't even have any well-founded probabilistic guesses.
You have a perfectly good probabilistic guess that it seems to cause less than one person-death per billion centuries of exposure. An upper bound should be pretty obvious.
Don't forget working on theoretical provable models. There appears to be no reason under any known physics chemistry or biology for low level RF to have non-thermal effects, despite the general fields being studied very closely, and the specific question being studied.
Also experimentation. I wouldn't shove a kid into a megawatt class radar waveguide for its entire life, but I'd think about shoving a multi-generational hamster colony in. And, assuming you keep the rodent away from the anode circuits (boring old electrocution) nothing really seems to happen over the long term, despite crazy high exposures.
So how long are WiFi's waves? And how "short" do they need to be to cause damage?
About 13 cm. Roughly about 4 times the required electrical length of your antenna, which may be shaped different due to style/marketing. Also vertical stacked antennas provide more gain so you might end up with a multiple of 13/4 cm.
The phrase you don't know to google for is "electromagnetic spectrum". The short answer is wavelengths in the vaguely hundreds of nanometers range aka UV light.
Aside - It's somewhat ironic that Shortwave Radio is called "shortwave" when the waves are actually much longer than the waves used by AM, FM, or TV.
Not entirely wrong, if you ignore the "AM" part. And the historical development of radio, etc.
Ionizing radiation doesn't give you headaches and inability to concentrate that goes away on weekends. Exposure to RF at microwave oven, heating-up-your-brain levels could do so a lot more plausibly than ionizing radiation.
Hmmm, not really. Most peoples brains are very well provided with blood vessels. Good luck cooking a living mammal brain.
On the other hand, your eyes cornea has very little cooling capacity. Its not difference of a few percent, its a difference of a couple orders of magnitude. Cooked corneas are not transparent, as a generation or two of radar repairmen accidents have unfortunately proven.
Blasting enough RF to cause heatstroke like effects to the brain over a long term period, are almost certainly high enough to cause instantaneous permanent blindness.
Suddenly blind people don't really pay attention to a slight headache.
Yes, the most important lesson a school could teach is the proper response when ignorant of something, is fear, and the ignorant fearmongers position makes them morally superior to all others thus we must subject everyone to the tyranny of the (ignorant) minority.
What could possibly go wrong when our childrens role models, model that behavior?
The good news is that ten to the negative 99th and the billion times more likely ten to the negative 90th are, for all practical purposes, both zero. You got yer heart in the right place but simplified the details a bit.
There is a small hole in that business model... combine:
will at most buy us a few months, perhaps a year or two, of time.
Those companies who got in early and got a Class A will make maybe hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars auctioning off the addresses.
Knowing that quote 1 is a vast exaggeration, probably turn out to be weeks to perhaps months, I'm guessing that it would be hard for the buyers to invest "billions" for weeks of service before they become worthless since everyone will have to go to IPv6
I work for a small company that at most has had 14 full-time employees that started back in the mid 90s. My boss had full class-C block back in the day which worked out to about 20 IPs per employee. He surrendered it years ago, though.
Twenty servers per admin isn't very impressive, even by Windows standards... Yes I understand that all 14 employees probably were not admins, but...
As commander in chief of the armed forces, he can force a couple million personnel to do certain things. They dance to his drum (just as I had to follow Army orders in the early 90s)
He could theoretically order that the concentration camp in Guantanamo bay be closed, or order all the troops out of the mideast, or order Iran's nuke facilities to be destroyed, or order troops posted on the Mexico border, or...
Claiming the commander of the worlds largest, most expensive, and most powerful military is powerless is a wee bit ingenuous.
More likely it'll be to patent the business process of banning research.
If those morons actually enact their ban, I'd like to see them try to stop a private citizen doing research such as computer simulations, or banning a wiki devoted to researching / discussing the topic.
I said "Not any time soon. Maybe not ever." We've been talking about IPv6 for how long now? A decade? Longer? And it's always got to happen right now because we're all out of addresses! But it doesn't happen. And we keep limping along as-is. And I see no reason to believe that'll change any time soon.
A quote from the CEO of Countrywide or any other recently failed financial institution (all of them?):
House prices always go up. Always have, always will. Sure, in the past they went up and down, but they won't go down now. Not any time soon. Maybe not ever. We've been talking about the housing bubble popping for how long now? Years? Longer? But it doesn't happen. And we keep limping along with subprime mortgages, liar loans, ninja loans, option mortgages, adjustable rates. And I see no reason to believe that'll change any time soon.
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This is the very definition of begging the question. They should put that headline in the dictionary as a perfect example of it. If you find someone using "begs the question" to mean "makes me want to ask a question", when you correct them you can point them to this article.
It's hard to google for, so what if that someone would loose the URL in there bookmark's?
(just kidding)
Two behaviors: Trying to look good in front of the judge if they're busted 10 seconds later, and trying not to walk off with personally identifiable property.
The CD changer probably had no recorded serial number, but was full of your CDs, easily identifiable.
Well, that and the lunchboxes, posters, cartoon shows, movies, guest appearances, fast-food tie-ins, TV specials, KISS Army fan club, clothing line, Halloween costumes, makeup line, books, toys, and probably a whole lot of other stuff I'm forgetting about.
Yeah, you forgot the KISS branded casket
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Kasket
Now if someone replicated on a 3-d printer, then ole Gene would be rightly annoyed. But copying the music? He doesn't lose any real money from that.
If you put a 100W directional transmitter 5 feet away, sure, you'd feel the heat, similar to sitting close to a very weak oven.
Doesn't work. Ask your local ham radio operator. Takes at least 500 watts and at least a yard away before you notice, if you're paying close attention. Think of standing next to a light bulb and you get the idea.
Its actually quite dangerous, if you think about it. You can't sense RF until crazy high levels, but at the lower levels the voltages and currents on the antenna are high enough to cause nasty burns. IF it was theoretically possible for people to sense RF, then why would RF burns be so "unavoidable".
Unavoidable in quotes because smart people treat antennas hooked up to transmitters like smart people handle firearms, its always transmitting much like all firearms are treated as always loaded, etc.
"Low intensity" is also easier to explain in a sound bite than "non-ionizing."
And it makes anyone whom knows physics vomit. Two entirely different concepts analogous to current vs voltage.
The high-temperature ultra-pasteurization of milk makes it last longer by rendering it almost inedible to bacteria.
Absolutely hilarious. Go ahead, prove yourself correct by popping open a container, and letting it sit at room temperature for a few weeks. Bonus points if you put a webcam on it and post it to slashdot, like the rotting meat cam from well over a decade ago.
Just think about it for a second... bacteria (as an overall group) can eat anything humans can plus much more. So the venn diagram has a tiny little circle with us in it, surrounded by a really big circle of stuff that bacteria can eat. There are some things that kill bacteria in a much lower concentration than they kill humans, like salt or sugar or antibiotics, but at a low enough concentration they'll consume them. So this implies we're even less able to digest that milk than bacteria. Implying consuming UHT milk would have a mineral oil or olestra effect, that being that what you drink comes out the other end unchanged. If that happens to you, the problem is you, not the milk.
Whats the university equivalent of wikipedia's deletionist morons?
Seriously, without the ability to ruin and disrespect other peoples work, a significant fraction of wikipedians will not participate in a wiki-university.
No that was intentional, not misspeaking. A concentration camp is where non-majority race undesirables are stashed away in a non-judicial manner with generally poor treatment, such as torture, and they don't get their human rights respected.
So the description I chose was based on the facts I've been told.
Which could all be wrong. Maybe instead of torture chambers they actually have masseuse service. Or instead of lock em up and throw away the key, they they have full civilized haebus corpus rights just like any other prisoner. Maybe they volunteered to go there instead of being locked up. But ... probably not. Its a concentration camp, pure and simple.
And look how much good that did for the last president....
"Good or Bad?" is a totally different question, a totally different type of question, than "Is it possible?"
He can order the military to do stuff, but it generally must be authorized by Congress first.
Your reasoning seems extraordinarily theoretical. In this practical situation, at least until November, his party controls Congress, I think it unlikely they would do anything but rubber stamp his decisions. The idea that his own party would impeach him is equally unlikely. Everything I listed is supported by around 70% of the voters, which is about 30 percentage points higher than his current poll numbers, so I'm not seeing a second civil war as a likely result.
it would be a disaster if a deliberative body tried to do it
Unfortunately that result happens with everything that congress attempts, not just fighting wars.
Order troops posted on the Mexico border? Uhhh, no.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
Humorously, since Mexico is a failed narco-state, he can simply station them on the Mexico side of the border. Its not like they'd be organized enough to stop us, or even really slow us down.
Being "on the border" doesn't mean literally standing on a painted line (or visiting Taco Bell). Standing on the north edge of the south side is close enough.
Students of history will note that it would not, by any means, be the first time the US military has invaded Mexico (although not recently).
I think an invasion of Mexico is inevitable anyway. Make a list of reasons why Mexico will slide into deeper chaos in the near future. Its a long list. Then make a list of reasons why Mexico will improve their situation. Uh huh, blank sheet of paper. Thinking its inevitable doesn't mean I think its an ideal situation or I love the idea, I'm just saying it is a unavoidable future situation.
In my questionable estimation, furthermore it MIGHT be a good idea to get it over with sooner rather than later.
I guess that puts them around the level of witch hunters. Oh wait thats the election in CT or whatever not prez BHO...
You need to get to green light.
If you're trying to make a plant comment, the correct answer is red. Plants adsorb red and blue. They're green because they reflect that away. But trees dump their leaves in the fall because of uv and physical damage, not because they got too much visible light.
He seemed pretty accurate other than some exaggeration. If you want to see a "Massive amount of crapware" buy a PC from a big box store, not "java tried to install the yahoo toolbar boo hoo".
The funniest Java related thing I've seen, is amongst the non-computer cow orkers "Oh man, another java program, that thing is gonna be slow and take IT forever to install (actually they mean the JVM) and crash all the time". Computer people have known that for over a decade now, the funny part is hearing non computer people start to complain.
So we are left in the uncomfortable position of saying "we don't know", and we don't even
have any well-founded probabilistic guesses.
You have a perfectly good probabilistic guess that it seems to cause less than one person-death per billion centuries of exposure. An upper bound should be pretty obvious.
Don't forget working on theoretical provable models. There appears to be no reason under any known physics chemistry or biology for low level RF to have non-thermal effects, despite the general fields being studied very closely, and the specific question being studied.
Also experimentation. I wouldn't shove a kid into a megawatt class radar waveguide for its entire life, but I'd think about shoving a multi-generational hamster colony in. And, assuming you keep the rodent away from the anode circuits (boring old electrocution) nothing really seems to happen over the long term, despite crazy high exposures.
So how long are WiFi's waves? And how "short" do they need to be to cause damage?
About 13 cm. Roughly about 4 times the required electrical length of your antenna, which may be shaped different due to style/marketing. Also vertical stacked antennas provide more gain so you might end up with a multiple of 13/4 cm.
The phrase you don't know to google for is "electromagnetic spectrum". The short answer is wavelengths in the vaguely hundreds of nanometers range aka UV light.
Aside - It's somewhat ironic that Shortwave Radio is called "shortwave" when the waves are actually much longer than the waves used by AM, FM, or TV.
Not entirely wrong, if you ignore the "AM" part. And the historical development of radio, etc.
Ionizing radiation doesn't give you headaches and inability to concentrate that goes away on weekends. Exposure to RF at microwave oven, heating-up-your-brain levels could do so a lot more plausibly than ionizing radiation.
Hmmm, not really. Most peoples brains are very well provided with blood vessels. Good luck cooking a living mammal brain.
On the other hand, your eyes cornea has very little cooling capacity. Its not difference of a few percent, its a difference of a couple orders of magnitude. Cooked corneas are not transparent, as a generation or two of radar repairmen accidents have unfortunately proven.
Blasting enough RF to cause heatstroke like effects to the brain over a long term period, are almost certainly high enough to cause instantaneous permanent blindness.
Suddenly blind people don't really pay attention to a slight headache.
Yes, the most important lesson a school could teach is the proper response when ignorant of something, is fear, and the ignorant fearmongers position makes them morally superior to all others thus we must subject everyone to the tyranny of the (ignorant) minority.
What could possibly go wrong when our childrens role models, model that behavior?
OK /. help me match the list of irrational beliefs with the county.
Canadians think RF affects the body in a non-thermal way, which is hilarious.
South Koreans believe in fan death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
(North Koreans don't have the electricity to run the fans...)
USA has all kinds of irrational beliefs vaguely revolving around religion, abstinence education works, creation science etc.
Any other "funny" ones?
That's the neat thing about quantum mechanics; if one photon can't do any damage, neither can a thousand photons.
Well then theres quantum tunneling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling
The good news is that ten to the negative 99th and the billion times more likely ten to the negative 90th are, for all practical purposes, both zero. You got yer heart in the right place but simplified the details a bit.
There is a small hole in that business model... combine:
will at most buy us a few months, perhaps a year or two, of time.
Those companies who got in early and got a Class A will make maybe hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars auctioning off the addresses.
Knowing that quote 1 is a vast exaggeration, probably turn out to be weeks to perhaps months, I'm guessing that it would be hard for the buyers to invest "billions" for weeks of service before they become worthless since everyone will have to go to IPv6
I work for a small company that at most has had 14 full-time employees that started back in the mid 90s. My boss had full class-C block back in the day which worked out to about 20 IPs per employee. He surrendered it years ago, though.
Twenty servers per admin isn't very impressive, even by Windows standards... Yes I understand that all 14 employees probably were not admins, but...
It's not like there's a lot he can actually DO.
As commander in chief of the armed forces, he can force a couple million personnel to do certain things. They dance to his drum (just as I had to follow Army orders in the early 90s)
He could theoretically order that the concentration camp in Guantanamo bay be closed, or order all the troops out of the mideast, or order Iran's nuke facilities to be destroyed, or order troops posted on the Mexico border, or ...
Claiming the commander of the worlds largest, most expensive, and most powerful military is powerless is a wee bit ingenuous.
I hope the US reaction is to de-fund the UN.
More likely it'll be to patent the business process of banning research.
If those morons actually enact their ban, I'd like to see them try to stop a private citizen doing research such as computer simulations, or banning a wiki devoted to researching / discussing the topic.
I said "Not any time soon. Maybe not ever." We've been talking about IPv6 for how long now? A decade? Longer? And it's always got to happen right now because we're all out of addresses! But it doesn't happen. And we keep limping along as-is. And I see no reason to believe that'll change any time soon.
A quote from the CEO of Countrywide or any other recently failed financial institution (all of them?):
House prices always go up. Always have, always will. Sure, in the past they went up and down, but they won't go down now. Not any time soon. Maybe not ever. We've been talking about the housing bubble popping for how long now? Years? Longer? But it doesn't happen. And we keep limping along with subprime mortgages, liar loans, ninja loans, option mortgages, adjustable rates. And I see no reason to believe that'll change any time soon.
Surprise!