The sad part, is that surface sonar systems are not even manned half the time, and when they are, modern submairnes int he deep sound channel just run rings around them.
How do you know they aren't trying to hack Obama too?
Did you fail critical thinking 101?
I seriously doubt all hackers are voting democrat.
Maybe we don't hear embarassing crap like this from the Obama camp, is because they know how to use computers.
We'll create a government agency called the Watcher Watchers, which will intern, be monitored by the Watcher Watcher Watchers.
and eventually
Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watchers.
They already do.
And without need for cameras and expensive image recognition.
There are already RFID in your tires.
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1223/1/1/
T.R.E.A.D. act.
I don't mind making deadly firestone tires easier to recall, but I don't like how the RFID is tamperproof.
The Russian created botnets, that spammers use, are busy attacking Georgia.
The good news, is that you'll never see spam again.
These guys have nukes, and after WWIII, you'll actually be happy to find canned spam in the rubble.
Sadly, If "W" was not in office, and our Army wasn't bogged down in a quagmire, those clowns would not have dared trying to stir up sh... er stuff.
They're doing it now, because they won't be able to do it later, when we get a real president.
And Yes, either Obama or McCain will probably be a real president. There is nowhere to go but up.
They won't need wire taps.
They only have to catch a small fraction of the neutrinos in the stream, the rest will pass through the detector on their way to our criminal cohorts at centauri prime.
Of course, the galactic coppers will have to be exactly in line with between us.
Not a place i'd like to be. During a galactic gang war, all the relativistic projectiles will be flying along that trajectory!
Serves 'em right for setting the speed limit at C.
Yes.
But the alien suns would do the same to them.
So if neutrino Comms were used, you would look for neutrinos which aren't produced by the sun.
Don't think of a neutrino detector as a geiger counter, think of it as an omnidirectional telescope. Which happens to be burried deep underground, and run by mole men.
our neutrino detectors are giant spheres of drycleaning fluid burried deep underground. When a neutrino smacks into the fluid, it makes flashes of cherenkov radiation (pretty blue light). Photodetectors triangulate these flashes. The observatory is surrounded by a larger sphere of water which detects regular cosmic rays. These are digitally filtered out.
A stream of neutrinoes comming from the sun will (suprise!) point towards the sun.
A stream of nutrinos in a straight line pointing towards Trantor, will most likely be from there (or exactly in line with it.)
We can only detect a small fraction of neutrinos, but it's almost enough to detect any communications hidden in the stream.
I'm not a crypto expert. I wonder what kind of crypto you would use with a neutrino message.
If there is a public key server out there, we might be able to ping it with the LHC.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but communication with neutrinos would still NOT be faster than light, right? I'm sorry, but I don't think any galaxy-spanning civilization can possibly exist without FTL communication. Like, thousands of times FTL, because of the massive distances involved. According to one site the Milky Way is about 90,000 light years across. Which means it would take, let's see, 90,000 years (hard math, there) for a signal to cross the galaxy. Not exactly useful for galactic communications.
This is also why I think projects like SETI@Home are ridiculously stupid. Even if other intelligent life did evolve elsewhere in the galaxy or universe, unless they evolved sooner than us (by at least the amount of time it would take for signals to travel from their world(s) ) their signals likely wouldn't have reached us yet. It's also possible that they evolved, developed RF technology, then either died out (and so stopped sending coherent signals), or moved on to FTL comms that we currently have no idea how to receive, or even the basic principles that they are based on (since we currently have no notion of any possible way for information to travel faster than the speed of light).
Since we've only been receiving RF signals for about 100 years, the window of opportunity for other civilizations' RF signals to reach us during the period in which we were 'listening' is ridiculously small.
Neutrino comms might be good for communicating inside of our Solar system, but unless they travel FTL, it would take a message a little over 4 years just to reach the next closest star to our Solar system. That seems pretty useless to me. Intersting Conjecture.
I believe you are mistaking "Civilization" with "Government"
When archeologists or ethnographers say "Civilization" they actually mean "Complex Society". In a complex society a single government only needs local control of one island. By exchanging smoke/neutrino/photon signals with nearby islands, they can exchange ideas. The exchange of ideas can create enough commonality between islands. Commonality is what makes us regard each other as part of the same "civilization"
As long as we can exchange ideas, we can be part of the same complex society. We don't even have to be the same species.
For one single government to control a "Civilization", its a good idea to have a reasonably short lag time. (Its why the ancient mediterranean and mesoamerican societies built so many roads.) But it's still possible to have a single government control a civilization if the periferal territories identify strongly with the central government.
The ancient egyptions governed for over 3 millienia with a figurehead government consisting of a god-emporer, and local beurocrats empowered with the peoples loyalty. This is why they could work many generations to build pyramids. It might have lasted longer had they not buried the stargate;)
BTW, 4yr old messages aren't useless. Imagine a 4yr old message detailing cold fusion, RT superconductors, space drives, and hot replicants.
Can you imagine what kind of crypto they would use?
It's important, but I'd hardly call it one of the greatest discoveries made. It just confirms what we've suspected all along--There are stable elements past Uranium. There's a very narrow set of conditions that can synthesize them, and we haven't had alot of luck in the labs, but now that we know nature's managed it, we can possibly devise new experiments better aimed at sucessfuly generating these heavier elements.
As far as how it got there naturally--presumably the same way all the naturally occuring heavy elements came to be--Supernovae billions of years ago.
A good observation.
But, this will at least refine our theory of stellar evolution.
Iron on Iron action, though hot, is not a net gain. It releases too many neutrinos for our little white dwarf to contain. The core, lacking radiation pressure will collapse and spew.
Most elements heavier than iron are created during a supernova, as the nuclear shockwave travels from the core in milliseconds. The heavier the elements are, the more energy it takes to make them. More energy, requires a bigger star. Bigger star often means older star. Astronomy is a lot like Milf hunting.
However, there is a chance that this element may be formed from natural decay. Chemical analysis of rock crystals can reveal if nuclear decay has occured.
Either way, if this is verified with pear review, it could have interesting consequences.
BTW, the sudden increase of nutrinoes is the only outside indicator that somethings going to blow.
The enterprize better have a calibrated sphere of photoluminescent dry cleaning fluid on board, or they're screwed.
The shockwave will travel close enough to the speed of light, that by the time Captain Picard can see it and think "oh CR@P", they would have been smeared; not by just an explosion of radiation, but by a shockwave as dense as a wall of angry bricks.
Life, as we know it, is made up of the most common elements in the universe. This raises the question: Where the hell are my naked orion dancing girls?
The sinister "Tax subsidy" you are talking about, is known as an "equity deduction" you can get one by doing any home improvement, such as repairing a roof, new windows, and even skylights. There are both state and federal deductions for this. I suggest you take advantage if you are a home owner.
20K for a full roof array? Damn. You are being over charged, or you have over estimated the amount you need! you only need a full array if you ae goingto live completely off the grid,and are going to be storing your exxess power in a storage battery. If you have the grid, use it. Why maintain a backup battery, when your reduced bill will more than make up for it. Keep in mind the day (when the sun shines) is when most of the power is consumed. If you are not at home, and your appliances don't suck, you can even feed some back into the grid, reducing your bill. Someone will be using that energy, I guarantee it.
Are you really that angry? or just trolling? Why are so much better, that you deserve to live, while they deserve to die? Remember that it is by pure chance that we were born where we were born, and they were born less well off.
In any case,your argument needs work. Third world countries tend to be unstable because they are poor,and poor because they are unstable. It is a painfull process, but they will come out of it eventually,as some have. This does not mean we should just give them handouts, so much as opportunity. The third world will not be the hotbed of microchip research anytime soon, but in africa, they have excellent soil. If we stopped subsidizing our cotton farmers (who pollute our water anyway), we could have a thriving cotton economy in Africa! Our cotton farmers could simply farm something else (like marajuana....er "hemp"), farm wind, or farm better quality cotton.
Studies have constantly shown that if the quality of life (especially for women, we wants our women happy) increases, a society will have smaller amounts of children. This is why you rarely see a family of 10 outside of Utah, and they usually require 2 or 3 wives. (Oddly enough, they don't actually have group sex? I just don't see the point of having more than one women if you can't see some hot bi action.)
You are right about religion screwing things up. It is not because of "vaccinations" (remember that if the children live, the parents have fewer of them, which is good becuse dead babies smell bad) Religion screws things up in Africa because 1. Missionaries (mostly from texas) tell people they should not use condoms.(Missionaries think that educating people about condoms causes sex.) NOT educating people about condoms causes UN-safe sex, resulting in babies, AIDS, and babies who have AIDS. 2. Missionary doctors (again, mostly Texan missionaries) will not tell their female patients that they have the option for an abortion. 3. When my wife and I do it with her girlfriends, I'm the one usually on the bottom. The Missionary position is boring, and you can only have one women at a time! Such bordom! Genocide is the only entertainment. 4. Speaking of genocide. It often comes down to religeon. 5. MOLESTING CHILDREN!!! (Ok, I admit sometimes the wifey and I play alter boy and naughty nuns, or sometimes she wears pigtails and sits on my lap...sometimes I'm "santa", and she's naught again...... but its only fun when you are just PLAYING!) Instead of saying "Don't have sex with children" missionaries say "marry the children, then make more" this means young girls must stop their education and raise a family! When you are turned into a baby factory, you tend to not have ambitions of learning to read, going to harvard and posting on slashdot. OK. Plenty of illiterates post on slashdot.
So stop being angry, and go get laid! In fact, strike a "blow" against religion, and go after the (of-age and consenting) daughter of the preacher. Tell her LMNOPO says HI.
They don't.
PV cells pay for themselves in about 2 to 3 years, depending upon the technology.
Solar panels will continue to pump out power for at least 30 years (that's the age of the oldest existing). In my experience though, after about 20 years, a cell or two in an array may wear out, and must be removed or at least shorted around. Cell destruction is caused by temperature fluxuations, oxygen seepage, and the occasional rock. Most of these can be controlled, or at least mitigated by buting the arrays in an enclosure. Some plastics will block certain spectrums of light, so it is goo to match the arrays, or at least the expected spectrum with the enclosure.( most glass panels only block the infrared, which is not the most energetic spectrum anyway.)
You are using the term "slippery slope". I don't think you know what it means.
Slippery slope is a logical fallacy; that is, it is a classified form of a noncritical, or weak-sense argument.
The slippery slope variety assumes that one decision, or situtation could go out of control and influence other, sometimes unrelated, situations. It assumes there are no controls, customs, or methodologies in place to prevent it.
Example: Killing fetus's means we can kill vegetables.
Answer. NO. Fetus's and quadrapalegic vegetable humans are created in completely different ways. Most quadrapalegic vegetables are on their way out anyway, and many people have "living" wills they drafted AHEAD of time so they would not burden their families.
A fetus is a bunch of carbon molecules, that will form their own kind of burden, but by being inside another human being,they form a potential health risk as well.
YOUR agrument is the slippery slope, because it assumes we do not have the proper methods of preventing quadrapalegic vegetables from crawling insides womens wombs, and staying around for the next 18 years blowing allowance on Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
Being an individual starts when you have a chance to survive without being parascitic on an umbilical cord. Most babies can do this around 7 months, although being born premature has its own health risks.
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The sad part, is that surface sonar systems are not even manned half the time, and when they are, modern submairnes int he deep sound channel just run rings around them.
Your ignorance apalls me. Please do not ever leave the confines of slashdot. love -The Internet.
I doubt 409ers could come from anywhere but africa. 409 is a reference to the Nigeria criminal code.
How is it we "Now have the missile defence stuff" We don't. It doesn't work. It's a paper tiger. A paper tiger which will get us nuked.
I understand that they may all look alike to you. But. The Japanese are not Germans.
How do you know they aren't trying to hack Obama too? Did you fail critical thinking 101? I seriously doubt all hackers are voting democrat. Maybe we don't hear embarassing crap like this from the Obama camp, is because they know how to use computers.
I wonder if intense IR bouncing off the plate would be useful?
We'll create a government agency called the Watcher Watchers, which will intern, be monitored by the Watcher Watcher Watchers. and eventually Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watcher Watchers.
They already do. And without need for cameras and expensive image recognition. There are already RFID in your tires. http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1223/1/1/ T.R.E.A.D. act. I don't mind making deadly firestone tires easier to recall, but I don't like how the RFID is tamperproof.
The Russian created botnets, that spammers use, are busy attacking Georgia. The good news, is that you'll never see spam again. These guys have nukes, and after WWIII, you'll actually be happy to find canned spam in the rubble. Sadly, If "W" was not in office, and our Army wasn't bogged down in a quagmire, those clowns would not have dared trying to stir up sh... er stuff. They're doing it now, because they won't be able to do it later, when we get a real president. And Yes, either Obama or McCain will probably be a real president. There is nowhere to go but up.
Oh. I had forgotten that Marvin had prior art on the diode leg pain. Commits seppuku, blood sprays like a gallager watermellon
Ooooh Bad bad bad darth vader blog reference. i must commit seppuku for knowing what you refer too!
They won't need wire taps. They only have to catch a small fraction of the neutrinos in the stream, the rest will pass through the detector on their way to our criminal cohorts at centauri prime. Of course, the galactic coppers will have to be exactly in line with between us. Not a place i'd like to be. During a galactic gang war, all the relativistic projectiles will be flying along that trajectory! Serves 'em right for setting the speed limit at C.
Yes. But the alien suns would do the same to them. So if neutrino Comms were used, you would look for neutrinos which aren't produced by the sun. Don't think of a neutrino detector as a geiger counter, think of it as an omnidirectional telescope. Which happens to be burried deep underground, and run by mole men. our neutrino detectors are giant spheres of drycleaning fluid burried deep underground. When a neutrino smacks into the fluid, it makes flashes of cherenkov radiation (pretty blue light). Photodetectors triangulate these flashes. The observatory is surrounded by a larger sphere of water which detects regular cosmic rays. These are digitally filtered out. A stream of neutrinoes comming from the sun will (suprise!) point towards the sun. A stream of nutrinos in a straight line pointing towards Trantor, will most likely be from there (or exactly in line with it.) We can only detect a small fraction of neutrinos, but it's almost enough to detect any communications hidden in the stream. I'm not a crypto expert. I wonder what kind of crypto you would use with a neutrino message. If there is a public key server out there, we might be able to ping it with the LHC.
It certainly does not "Beg the question" http://begthequestion.info/
Oh sorry. I misspelled pier. Wooden beams sunk into the harbor are known for their skills of observation.
It's important, but I'd hardly call it one of the greatest discoveries made. It just confirms what we've suspected all along--There are stable elements past Uranium. There's a very narrow set of conditions that can synthesize them, and we haven't had alot of luck in the labs, but now that we know nature's managed it, we can possibly devise new experiments better aimed at sucessfuly generating these heavier elements.
As far as how it got there naturally--presumably the same way all the naturally occuring heavy elements came to be--Supernovae billions of years ago.
A good observation. But, this will at least refine our theory of stellar evolution. Iron on Iron action, though hot, is not a net gain. It releases too many neutrinos for our little white dwarf to contain. The core, lacking radiation pressure will collapse and spew. Most elements heavier than iron are created during a supernova, as the nuclear shockwave travels from the core in milliseconds. The heavier the elements are, the more energy it takes to make them. More energy, requires a bigger star. Bigger star often means older star. Astronomy is a lot like Milf hunting. However, there is a chance that this element may be formed from natural decay. Chemical analysis of rock crystals can reveal if nuclear decay has occured. Either way, if this is verified with pear review, it could have interesting consequences. BTW, the sudden increase of nutrinoes is the only outside indicator that somethings going to blow. The enterprize better have a calibrated sphere of photoluminescent dry cleaning fluid on board, or they're screwed. The shockwave will travel close enough to the speed of light, that by the time Captain Picard can see it and think "oh CR@P", they would have been smeared; not by just an explosion of radiation, but by a shockwave as dense as a wall of angry bricks. Life, as we know it, is made up of the most common elements in the universe. This raises the question: Where the hell are my naked orion dancing girls?I think It is sad, very sad, that I get your joke in reference to "The emporer's march". I think I'll go suffocate myself now.
The sinister "Tax subsidy" you are talking about, is known as an "equity deduction" you can get one by doing any home improvement, such as repairing a roof, new windows, and even skylights. There are both state and federal deductions for this. I suggest you take advantage if you are a home owner. 20K for a full roof array? Damn. You are being over charged, or you have over estimated the amount you need! you only need a full array if you ae goingto live completely off the grid,and are going to be storing your exxess power in a storage battery. If you have the grid, use it. Why maintain a backup battery, when your reduced bill will more than make up for it. Keep in mind the day (when the sun shines) is when most of the power is consumed. If you are not at home, and your appliances don't suck, you can even feed some back into the grid, reducing your bill. Someone will be using that energy, I guarantee it.
Are you really that angry? or just trolling?
Why are so much better, that you deserve to live, while they deserve to die?
Remember that it is by pure chance that we were born where we were born, and they were born less well off.
In any case,your argument needs work.
Third world countries tend to be unstable because they are poor,and poor because they are unstable. It is a painfull process, but they will come out of it eventually,as some have.
This does not mean we should just give them handouts, so much as opportunity.
The third world will not be the hotbed of microchip research anytime soon, but in africa, they have excellent soil. If we stopped subsidizing our cotton farmers (who pollute our water anyway), we could have a thriving cotton economy in Africa! Our cotton farmers could simply farm something else (like marajuana....er "hemp"), farm wind, or farm better quality cotton.
Studies have constantly shown that if the quality of life (especially for women, we wants our women happy) increases, a society will have smaller amounts of children. This is why you rarely see a family of 10 outside of Utah, and they usually require 2 or 3 wives. (Oddly enough, they don't actually have group sex? I just don't see the point of having more than one women if you can't see some hot bi action.)
You are right about religion screwing things up. It is not because of "vaccinations" (remember that if the children live, the parents have fewer of them, which is good becuse dead babies smell bad)
Religion screws things up in Africa because
1. Missionaries (mostly from texas) tell people they should not use condoms.(Missionaries think that educating people about condoms causes sex.) NOT educating people about condoms causes UN-safe sex, resulting in babies, AIDS, and babies who have AIDS.
2. Missionary doctors (again, mostly Texan missionaries) will not tell their female patients that they have the option for an abortion.
3. When my wife and I do it with her girlfriends, I'm the one usually on the bottom. The Missionary position is boring, and you can only have one women at a time! Such bordom! Genocide is the only entertainment.
4. Speaking of genocide. It often comes down to religeon.
5. MOLESTING CHILDREN!!! (Ok, I admit sometimes the wifey and I play alter boy and naughty nuns, or sometimes she wears pigtails and sits on my lap...sometimes I'm "santa", and she's naught again...... but its only fun when you are just PLAYING!)
Instead of saying "Don't have sex with children" missionaries say "marry the children, then make more" this means young girls must stop their education and raise a family! When you are turned into a baby factory, you tend to not have ambitions of learning to read, going to harvard and posting on slashdot. OK. Plenty of illiterates post on slashdot.
So stop being angry, and go get laid! In fact, strike a "blow" against religion, and go after the (of-age and consenting) daughter of the preacher. Tell her LMNOPO says HI.
Please submit in detail, the pollutants you believe are caused by the production of photovoltaics.
AHHHH my legs are made of LEGO bricks!!!!!!
They don't. PV cells pay for themselves in about 2 to 3 years, depending upon the technology. Solar panels will continue to pump out power for at least 30 years (that's the age of the oldest existing). In my experience though, after about 20 years, a cell or two in an array may wear out, and must be removed or at least shorted around. Cell destruction is caused by temperature fluxuations, oxygen seepage, and the occasional rock. Most of these can be controlled, or at least mitigated by buting the arrays in an enclosure. Some plastics will block certain spectrums of light, so it is goo to match the arrays, or at least the expected spectrum with the enclosure.( most glass panels only block the infrared, which is not the most energetic spectrum anyway.)
You are using the term "slippery slope". I don't think you know what it means. Slippery slope is a logical fallacy; that is, it is a classified form of a noncritical, or weak-sense argument. The slippery slope variety assumes that one decision, or situtation could go out of control and influence other, sometimes unrelated, situations. It assumes there are no controls, customs, or methodologies in place to prevent it. Example: Killing fetus's means we can kill vegetables. Answer. NO. Fetus's and quadrapalegic vegetable humans are created in completely different ways. Most quadrapalegic vegetables are on their way out anyway, and many people have "living" wills they drafted AHEAD of time so they would not burden their families. A fetus is a bunch of carbon molecules, that will form their own kind of burden, but by being inside another human being,they form a potential health risk as well. YOUR agrument is the slippery slope, because it assumes we do not have the proper methods of preventing quadrapalegic vegetables from crawling insides womens wombs, and staying around for the next 18 years blowing allowance on Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Being an individual starts when you have a chance to survive without being parascitic on an umbilical cord. Most babies can do this around 7 months, although being born premature has its own health risks.