No, that's not correct. Quite a lot of vaccines have efficiencies less than 90%, so even vaccinated people can contract a disease.
However, it's not a problem if everyone is vaccinated because of "herd immunity". I.e. even if someone is infected, the disease won't be able to spread through the population.
The level of vaccinations required to achieve the herd immunity greatly varies by disease. For polio it's about 85%. And for influenza it's not even possible (required level of vaccination is >100%) with the current vaccines.
For comparison, Russia has a 'first-to-file' patent system. However there's a clause that earlier inventors receive an automatic license to use the patent, and it also could lead to patent's invalidation. I don't see anything like this in the new bill.
Before the war USSR was experimenting with liquid rocket engines ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIRD ) and later proceeded to develop the R-7 rocket which was used to launch the famous Sputnik-1. And no, it was done without significant contributions from the German engineers.
Sure. Once you start glowing in the visible range most of radiation will pass through CO2 easily enough. It's actually interesting why Venus is so hot, because it should be almost like the Earth.
As much as I hate religions, the Second Chechen War was in no way religious. Religion was used only as a tool there.
Why? Because Dagestan was predominantly Muslim and the first militia formations opposing Chechens in Dagestan during the first days of war was Muslim as well.
There's also Tatarstan, for example. Which is mostly Muslim and lives in peace with the rest of Russia. In my home at the Udmurt republic about 15% of population is Muslim - doesn't cause any problems at all (my brother is married on Muslim girl, for example).
There's a joke in Russia that somebody should tell to Putin that he's not a president anymore. His political power dwarfs the power of Medvedev who looks more and more like a clown.
Though Medvedev's approval ratings are slightly better than Putin's right now.
"If it wasn't for those bombings, I think most Russians will agree, there was no way in hell he'd get the presidency."
Well, I certainly disagree. By the time Eltsin had resigned, even a stuffed mummy could be elected in his place if it was able to say more than a few words at a time.
Also, if you were in Russia during 98-2000 you could remember the situation: complete hopelessness, no money (after the default of 98), regions of Russia rapidly moving away, Russia on the brink of disintegration. In this situation a strong leader like Putin was welcomed by almost everybody (and to be fair, Putin had stopped the disintegration processes, unfortunately, by over-centralizing the government).
The Chechens are the citizens of Russia. And most of Chechen population by now lives outside the Chechen republic. So we'd need to nuke all the major cities to exterminate them.
So no, your chicken-hawk rhetoric is extremely stupid. Mass murders rarely solve ethnic problems.
Religion was a great motivator in Chechnya. It was used (as usually) as a tool to control population. Historically, Chechnya used a fairly moderate variant of Islam but during the 90-s preachers from Arabic countries started the push to introduce the Sharia law (some say with West's support).
Then came the First Chechen War which ended with a de-facto independence for Chechnya ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khasavyurt_Accord ). It resulted in Chechen invasion into the neighbor Dagestan republic (which ignited the Second Chechen War).
"They'll probably bomb the heck out of Chechnya again"
LOL! Chechnya is currently THE biggest acceptor of federal help in Russia. Grozny has been rebuilt from ground up in the recent years and now it's a very nice city (if one ignores its inhabitants). Kadyrov (the governor of Chechnya) calls Putin "his best friend".
There IS a security checkpoint with a metal detector at the entrance to DMD. However, it's completely useless because the sec.check is very shallow. I carried bags with axes, hammers and other climbing equipment (lots of metal!) without any problem.
And yes, installing a real security checkpoint won't help either.k
There's enough carbon in vegetation to raise CO2 to about 1500ppm. If it's prevented from being reabsorbed (by a 'nuclear winter' type of scenario) then it's more than enough to start massive heat spike. That's from memory, I can't find the paper in question right now.
That's where deforestation comes to play. It can give a large CO2 spike. It will later, of course, level out. But it just might give enough time for extreme GH effect to kick in.
I don't think anybody seriously pursued research in this area with detailed modeling.
"Not toward or away from Betelguese as in red and blue shifts of that particular star but just how fast are we moving through space in general."
Uhm. There's no absolute coordinate system, so this question is meaningless.
"Can we look at one part of the sky and see everything red shifted and another part of the sky and see blue shifted and extrapolate the total speed from that (obviously we would need a series of measurements)?"
Sure. That's how we can detect our orbital motion around the Sun, for example. If we factor that out, then we can detect our motion around the Galaxy's nucleus. After that, there's motion of our Galaxy in our local cluster. After that, however, there's not much else.
And no, laws of physics are not affected by it. For a local observer a cup of water will boil exactly the same whether they're moving at 0.9c or stationary.
Think of it like this: for an observer tied to particle in the LHC it's _you_ who are moving at almost the lightspeed.
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No, that's not correct. Quite a lot of vaccines have efficiencies less than 90%, so even vaccinated people can contract a disease.
However, it's not a problem if everyone is vaccinated because of "herd immunity". I.e. even if someone is infected, the disease won't be able to spread through the population.
The level of vaccinations required to achieve the herd immunity greatly varies by disease. For polio it's about 85%. And for influenza it's not even possible (required level of vaccination is >100%) with the current vaccines.
"file a statutory invention registration, looks like a patent application on PGPUB but lacks enforceability. it does however act as prior art"
Which still is about $100. Also, it counts as a prior art but you still will have to prove it.
"file an application then abandon it after publication and before a non-final rejection."
Filing fee.
"Then you patent it and then allow unlimited open licensing of the patent."
And that can cost you $10000 per patent. I won't spend this kind of money on my small hobby project.
So? Why should the second inventor get the patent?
And 'active concealment' is a non-starter. USPTO is not going to revoke patents if there was no publicized article or another use of the invention.
"it's not like somebody could just wait for a patent to become successful, and then say "I invented first, gimme!""
Why not? If you've got a patent for something that has already been invented, then why should you be able to use it at all?
I'm reading it and it's horrible.
For comparison, Russia has a 'first-to-file' patent system. However there's a clause that earlier inventors receive an automatic license to use the patent, and it also could lead to patent's invalidation. I don't see anything like this in the new bill.
"The bill (PDF) also gives patents to the first inventor to file, rather than the first to invent"
WTF?
Pile snow on trucks and move it to a larger lawn. That's what we do in my home town when snow is 2 meters deep.
And yes, it's actually cheaper than melting it. I've calculated it once just for fun.
This article is factually incorrect.
First, rockets were developed by the USSR before and during the war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyusha_rocket_launcher rocket launchers were used quite devastatingly on the Axis forces.
Before the war USSR was experimenting with liquid rocket engines ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIRD ) and later proceeded to develop the R-7 rocket which was used to launch the famous Sputnik-1. And no, it was done without significant contributions from the German engineers.
This does happen sometimes, and is quite annoying when you need to copy a link directly from Google's search page.
There was a nice page explaining that "tempuri" is a name for a placeholder. But we've Slashdotted it :)
Microsoft has been using http://tempuri.org/ as a default namespace in webservices. So far it worked pretty good.
Well, and Putin was that 'someone else'. He was supported by oligarchs (by Berezovsky) initially.
Not really. There was only communist Zhuganov as a more-or-less viable opponent for Putin on his elections.
Putin would have won this, not by a landslide, probably.
"You do realize there is a saturation effect?"
Sure. Once you start glowing in the visible range most of radiation will pass through CO2 easily enough. It's actually interesting why Venus is so hot, because it should be almost like the Earth.
As much as I hate religions, the Second Chechen War was in no way religious. Religion was used only as a tool there.
Why? Because Dagestan was predominantly Muslim and the first militia formations opposing Chechens in Dagestan during the first days of war was Muslim as well.
There's also Tatarstan, for example. Which is mostly Muslim and lives in peace with the rest of Russia. In my home at the Udmurt republic about 15% of population is Muslim - doesn't cause any problems at all (my brother is married on Muslim girl, for example).
There's a joke in Russia that somebody should tell to Putin that he's not a president anymore. His political power dwarfs the power of Medvedev who looks more and more like a clown.
Though Medvedev's approval ratings are slightly better than Putin's right now.
"If it wasn't for those bombings, I think most Russians will agree, there was no way in hell he'd get the presidency."
Well, I certainly disagree. By the time Eltsin had resigned, even a stuffed mummy could be elected in his place if it was able to say more than a few words at a time.
Also, if you were in Russia during 98-2000 you could remember the situation: complete hopelessness, no money (after the default of 98), regions of Russia rapidly moving away, Russia on the brink of disintegration. In this situation a strong leader like Putin was welcomed by almost everybody (and to be fair, Putin had stopped the disintegration processes, unfortunately, by over-centralizing the government).
The Chechens are the citizens of Russia. And most of Chechen population by now lives outside the Chechen republic. So we'd need to nuke all the major cities to exterminate them.
So no, your chicken-hawk rhetoric is extremely stupid. Mass murders rarely solve ethnic problems.
Religion was a great motivator in Chechnya. It was used (as usually) as a tool to control population. Historically, Chechnya used a fairly moderate variant of Islam but during the 90-s preachers from Arabic countries started the push to introduce the Sharia law (some say with West's support).
Then came the First Chechen War which ended with a de-facto independence for Chechnya ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khasavyurt_Accord ). It resulted in Chechen invasion into the neighbor Dagestan republic (which ignited the Second Chechen War).
"They'll probably bomb the heck out of Chechnya again"
LOL! Chechnya is currently THE biggest acceptor of federal help in Russia. Grozny has been rebuilt from ground up in the recent years and now it's a very nice city (if one ignores its inhabitants). Kadyrov (the governor of Chechnya) calls Putin "his best friend".
Here's a post with pictures from several years ago: http://www.englishrussia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=700
So please, do some bit of research before posting.
There IS a security checkpoint with a metal detector at the entrance to DMD. However, it's completely useless because the sec.check is very shallow. I carried bags with axes, hammers and other climbing equipment (lots of metal!) without any problem.
And yes, installing a real security checkpoint won't help either.k
There's enough carbon in vegetation to raise CO2 to about 1500ppm. If it's prevented from being reabsorbed (by a 'nuclear winter' type of scenario) then it's more than enough to start massive heat spike. That's from memory, I can't find the paper in question right now.
That's where deforestation comes to play. It can give a large CO2 spike. It will later, of course, level out. But it just might give enough time for extreme GH effect to kick in.
I don't think anybody seriously pursued research in this area with detailed modeling.
"Not toward or away from Betelguese as in red and blue shifts of that particular star but just how fast are we moving through space in general."
Uhm. There's no absolute coordinate system, so this question is meaningless.
"Can we look at one part of the sky and see everything red shifted and another part of the sky and see blue shifted and extrapolate the total speed from that (obviously we would need a series of measurements)?"
Sure. That's how we can detect our orbital motion around the Sun, for example. If we factor that out, then we can detect our motion around the Galaxy's nucleus. After that, there's motion of our Galaxy in our local cluster. After that, however, there's not much else.
And no, laws of physics are not affected by it. For a local observer a cup of water will boil exactly the same whether they're moving at 0.9c or stationary.
Think of it like this: for an observer tied to particle in the LHC it's _you_ who are moving at almost the lightspeed.