i've seen many posts like yours and heard many people say the same. I would like to offer a counterpoint, because I very rarely see it expressed.
I cannot recall I've had a single interaction with the police, where they have not been courteous and professional. Not that I've had a lot of run-ins with the law, but my experience ranges from police in rural Texas through the french border police to the police of my native Denmark. The causes have been from carrying electronics and batteries in my check-in luggage that was flagged as a bomb by the xray to being wanted by the swiss police because they thought I was an illegal immigrant.
Why not create a device that picks up the magnetic fields created by the electric engine and emits a small humming sound rising in intensity inversely with the distance. Then let our taxes pay for distributing them freely to the blind.
It would be cheaper than fitting all cars with noise emitters and it would reduce noise pollution. (A study from the university of Delft claims that around 50'000 lives a year are lost in the EU, because of noise.)
the last tax bracket for me is 68% of everything earned above $70'000.
yes it is true that I will still earn more if I worked more. But on the other hand you could argue that I am only being compensated a third of what my time is worth. So I'd rather stay at home and fix things around the house, than paying others to do it. It just better for me economically. I also won't have to pay the 25% sales tax on stuff i make or do myself(sales tax have to be paid on everything also services).
So while I'm not directly coming out ahead by working less. I can come out ahead if it making less means I work fewer hours.
A bit silly that the government is "forcing" a university educated professional to stay at home to do my own plumbing, carpenting, baking my own bread, making cheese... on the other hand I have a chance to play around with all that stuff.
If the (non paying) watching of CP is a boon to the production of CP, which it must be if you want to uphold that just seeing CP constitutes abetting the act of abusing the child, then it is at odds with the current copyright laws.
Either then "piracy" is in fact a boon to the production of art and therefore must be upheld as not only legal but an ideal for man to follow, or copyright is correct and we should all be downloading as much CP as possible to put the child pornographers out of business.
q.e.d.
Sadly logic is not the goal of politics and law. Politicians just want to be seen as doing something. It is off course much easier to find and convict someone of seeing something online, than finding the assholes who are abusing the children. But, frankly anyone who favours spending time and money on finding some harmless perv(especially when the material is a cartoon as in this case) on the internet instead of using that effort to convict the people abusing children, are implicated in the abuse in my eyes.
Another reason why there are no people present when the power is on is bremsstrahlung. The LHC will be emitting hard radiation while in operation, strong enough to activate materials in the tunnel. So that it will stil be radioactive when the power is turned off.
I am not so sure. The first package would burn a passage through the atmosphere. The next packages will then travel down that path. That could increase the range. But my gas physics is sketchy, and i don't have access to a high energy particle accelerator to test with. I believe that there will be 156 bunches with an inter-bunch distance of ~8 meters apart (25 ns) once the Death St... LHC is fully operational.
I know the beam dumps contains defocusing magnets to lower the beam intensity. Then they are allowed to drift for ½ a kilometer before hitting a 7m long graphite core.
Of course I can deal with you by force. Having a gun is not a magical cancellation of reality. The only thing you having a gun does is force me to up my level of violence. I have to bring my tank or kidnap your family and threaten to harm them.
A gun(- rifles/shotguns for hunting) has one purpose: to kill humans. They can therefore never be "civilised".
The last ~20 years and the ~40 years before that should have shown you what kind of peace and civilization is the result of having the means to utterly destroy one another, and what happens when you instead try to cooperate.
The fact that this breakthrough is built on a long line of research and attempts doesn't detract anything from the acomplishment in my eyes. I know we all love the myth that there are these fantastic breakthroughs in science that spontaneously appear, but it is a myth. Even(I would say naturally) the biggest breakthroughs have been based on a earlier trial and error. Einsteins relativity is bsaed on the work of Lorentz and Minkowski. It is still an amazing breakthrough.
The Millau Viaduct is a great accomplishment even if they weren't the first to think bridges were a good idea.
I know it goes against the american infatuation with the Hero concept. But, that's how the world works. Neil Armstrong didn't invent and build his own rocket and went to the Moon on his own. It was the dedicated work of 1000s of engineers and scientists with the support of the government and the people, building on decades of research. Does that make it less of an accomplishment?
Who cares if the stem-cell grown windpipe is only one small step further based on years of research and practice. It is one step further!
It's good people thought of the children here in Scandinavia. I fondly remember only going to school for one hour a day in winter. The problem then comes in summer when we had to go to school from 4 am until midnight to make up for the time lost in winter. But, luckily it was still light when I walked home from school. And the poor kids who went out in the dark to play in winter... All dead. Taken by Grendel or the Fenris wolf.
I worked at CERN for a while. One time when I was flying out of Geneva Airport, I was bringing some electronics and a huge rechargeable battery in my suitcase. Obviously this got the interest of the security screeners. I was paged and taken to a room together with the security screener and also a police officer to observe. The screener then asked me to open my suitcase and remove the items they were interested in and demonstrate the equipment and that all batteries were disconnected and secure from short-circuits. I was asked to tape over the power connectors on the electronics. Then i repacked my bag, and was wished a pleasat journey.
They never touched the contents of my suitcase. They never asked or tried to see anything that was not related to the items they were interested in.
I guess the airport people are a bit more relaxed because they are used to people flying to and from Geneva with all sorts of weird stuff for CERN. But still, they handled it very courteously and discrete.
So I guess if you want your American constitutional rights you have to go to Switzerland.
A colleague of mine has this piece of advice in his email signature. I've forgotten to whom it is atributted: "Always code as if the guy who ends up mantaining your code will be a violent psycopath who knows where you live."
And it is not only the power that is pumped in from the outside. As parts of the magnet becomes non-superconducting the magnetic field changes, and a changing magnetic field induces electrical currents(see eddy currents). So even if only a small part of the magnet becomes non-superconducting it will create a "cascade" event, if you will. All the energy locked up in the field is released as heat and torque(kinetic energy). The magnet failure back in 2007 (http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/20070329_page01.html) was caused by an inadequate fixing of the magnet. When it was purposefully subjected to a quench it ripped its support structure apart.
I totally agree. Could you send me your full name and address and I'll add you to the secret EU dissident datab.. umm subscribe you to our newsletter?
I also think Gowachin law would be a fantastic cure for the US legal system. If every ambulance chaser risked being eaten alive by a wreave, that problem would be gone in seconds. And added bonus, court tv would be infinitely more entertaining:
"Your honour, I have demonstrated that the extension of copyright is directly in conflict with original purpose of the law set down in the constitution and against the common good. I therefore pronounce Congress 'innocent' and get to throw this trident through your spleen. Have a nice day."
>California has the strictest standards in the world.
According to that article. Sadly, i have not been able to find the related standard. Do you have a link. The article suggests a 25% cut in levels by 2016(or maybe 2009). That is equivalent to euro4->euro5 that goes into effect in 2009.
The article suggest that CO2 will also be restricted. Again i don't know if that is the case without the proper source. But let's assume that it also requires a 25% reduction in CO2. According to the EPA's "Transportation Energy Data Book" the average CO2 emission for a US passenger car is ~260 g/km after the reduction that will be 195 g/km. The average EU emission is currently ~170 g/km. There is a law proposal that will make a limit of 130 g/km for all eu cars by 2012. It is a very contested piece of legislation. The french and italians are for it. Probably because their car manufacturers are close to the limit (140 g/km). The germans are against it. probably because they are far from the target.
>I don't see how the Euro 4 is stricter than current Tier 2 regulations The euro4 has a 3,5 times stricter limit on CO emission. Sulphur are about the same.
>Where do you get that China has stricter standards than the U.S.? from the pew climate center study i mentioned in my first post.
And a quick look at the epa tier-2 vs euro4 emission standards for emission pr kilometer/mile driven shows that the european standards are much stricter. According to the a study done by the Pew climate center(a US institution) EU and Japan has the strictest standards in the world. Even China has stricter standards than the US.
>Mozart died in poverty and had his body dumped in a pauper's grave
Mozart died deeply in debt and was buried in a common grave.
That may sound almost like you put it but it's worlds apart.
Who would lend a poor man huge amounts of money? Unless they expected to make it back? Mozart lived the life of a freelance rockstar. He had left behind the financial security of a position at the court in salzburg. He had huge expenses for clothes, parties, etc. Necesarry to get the connections that would get him work. But, on the other hand he was paid very handsomely for his work.
He was buried in a common grave in Vienna as was the custom at the time(with or without onions in the belt). The fact that he had fallen out with the family back in Salzburg and the long trip making it unlikely he would be put to rest in the family grave.
sources: Mozart. - Bruno Kvist - Jyllands Posten 2006
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i've seen many posts like yours and heard many people say the same. I would like to offer a counterpoint, because I very rarely see it expressed.
I cannot recall I've had a single interaction with the police, where they have not been courteous and professional. Not that I've had a lot of run-ins with the law, but my experience ranges from police in rural Texas through the french border police to the police of my native Denmark. The causes have been from carrying electronics and batteries in my check-in luggage that was flagged as a bomb by the xray to being wanted by the swiss police because they thought I was an illegal immigrant.
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Mr Kermit has time and time again made it clear to you that he does not want to be "used".
Your blatant disregard for Mr. Kermit's wishes was the reason for the restraining order he has against you!
Please remember you are to stay at least 300 ft. from our client at all times.
Representatives for Kermit,
Messieurs Dreg & Receptacle, Lawyers
The helix towers are also less efficient. And,
the higher up you go the more wind there is.
Finally, I like the standard windmills. I think they are a beautiful monument to human ingenuity.
Tell me when ... or new Big Bang ...
I would say that based on the data I have available the chance is ~ 1/13'600'000'000 of it happening in 2009 and falling. wikipedia
Spartaaaaaa?
Why not create a device that picks up the magnetic fields created by the electric engine and emits a small humming sound rising in intensity inversely with the distance. Then let our taxes pay for distributing them freely to the blind.
It would be cheaper than fitting all cars with noise emitters and it would reduce noise pollution. (A study from the university of Delft claims that around 50'000 lives a year are lost in the EU, because of noise.)
Nah, don't worry.
We're not really people out here in the rest of the world. We're just some sort of upright talking monkey.
Diebold, Inc?
Well maybe all of us don't live in the US?
the last tax bracket for me is 68% of everything earned above $70'000.
yes it is true that I will still earn more if I worked more. But on the other hand you could argue that I am only being compensated a third of what my time is worth. So I'd rather stay at home and fix things around the house, than paying others to do it. It just better for me economically. I also won't have to pay the 25% sales tax on stuff i make or do myself(sales tax have to be paid on everything also services).
So while I'm not directly coming out ahead by working less. I can come out ahead if it making less means I work fewer hours.
A bit silly that the government is "forcing" a university educated professional to stay at home to do my own plumbing, carpenting, baking my own bread, making cheese... on the other hand I have a chance to play around with all that stuff.
A ha. We've got 'em now.
If the (non paying) watching of CP is a boon to the production of CP, which it must be if you want to uphold that just seeing CP constitutes abetting the act of abusing the child, then it is at odds with the current copyright laws.
Either then "piracy" is in fact a boon to the production of art and therefore must be upheld as not only legal but an ideal for man to follow, or copyright is correct and we should all be downloading as much CP as possible to put the child pornographers out of business.
q.e.d.
Sadly logic is not the goal of politics and law. Politicians just want to be seen as doing something. It is off course much easier to find and convict someone of seeing something online, than finding the assholes who are abusing the children. But, frankly anyone who favours spending time and money on finding some harmless perv(especially when the material is a cartoon as in this case) on the internet instead of using that effort to convict the people abusing children, are implicated in the abuse in my eyes.
Another reason why there are no people present when the power is on is bremsstrahlung. The LHC will be emitting hard radiation while in operation, strong enough to activate materials in the tunnel. So that it will stil be radioactive when the power is turned off.
I am not so sure. The first package would burn a passage through the atmosphere. The next packages will then travel down that path. That could increase the range. But my gas physics is sketchy, and i don't have access to a high energy particle accelerator to test with. I believe that there will be 156 bunches with an inter-bunch distance of ~8 meters apart (25 ns) once the Death St... LHC is fully operational.
I know the beam dumps contains defocusing magnets to lower the beam intensity. Then they are allowed to drift for ½ a kilometer before hitting a 7m long graphite core.
more info here.
http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/components/beam-dump.htm
Of course I can deal with you by force. Having a gun is not a magical cancellation of reality. The only thing you having a gun does is force me to up my level of violence. I have to bring my tank or kidnap your family and threaten to harm them.
A gun(- rifles/shotguns for hunting) has one purpose: to kill humans. They can therefore never be "civilised".
The last ~20 years and the ~40 years before that should have shown you what kind of peace and civilization is the result of having the means to utterly destroy one another, and what happens when you instead try to cooperate.
Sadly.
The fact that this breakthrough is built on a long line of research and attempts doesn't detract anything from the acomplishment in my eyes. I know we all love the myth that there are these fantastic breakthroughs in science that spontaneously appear, but it is a myth. Even(I would say naturally) the biggest breakthroughs have been based on a earlier trial and error. Einsteins relativity is bsaed on the work of Lorentz and Minkowski. It is still an amazing breakthrough.
The Millau Viaduct is a great accomplishment even if they weren't the first to think bridges were a good idea.
I know it goes against the american infatuation with the Hero concept. But, that's how the world works. Neil Armstrong didn't invent and build his own rocket and went to the Moon on his own. It was the dedicated work of 1000s of engineers and scientists with the support of the government and the people, building on decades of research. Does that make it less of an accomplishment?
Who cares if the stem-cell grown windpipe is only one small step further based on years of research and practice. It is one step further!
-rant over
Anyhow, thanks for an informative comment.
It's good people thought of the children here in Scandinavia. I fondly remember only going to school for one hour a day in winter. The problem then comes in summer when we had to go to school from 4 am until midnight to make up for the time lost in winter. But, luckily it was still light when I walked home from school. And the poor kids who went out in the dark to play in winter... All dead. Taken by Grendel or the Fenris wolf.
I worked at CERN for a while. One time when I was flying out of Geneva Airport, I was bringing some electronics and a huge rechargeable battery in my suitcase. Obviously this got the interest of the security screeners. I was paged and taken to a room together with the security screener and also a police officer to observe. The screener then asked me to open my suitcase and remove the items they were interested in and demonstrate the equipment and that all batteries were disconnected and secure from short-circuits. I was asked to tape over the power connectors on the electronics. Then i repacked my bag, and was wished a pleasat journey.
They never touched the contents of my suitcase. They never asked or tried to see anything that was not related to the items they were interested in.
I guess the airport people are a bit more relaxed because they are used to people flying to and from Geneva with all sorts of weird stuff for CERN. But still, they handled it very courteously and discrete.
So I guess if you want your American constitutional rights you have to go to Switzerland.
A colleague of mine has this piece of advice in his email signature. I've forgotten to whom it is atributted:
"Always code as if the guy who ends up mantaining your code will be a violent psycopath who knows where you live."
And it is not only the power that is pumped in from the outside. As parts of the magnet becomes non-superconducting the magnetic field changes, and a changing magnetic field induces electrical currents(see eddy currents). So even if only a small part of the magnet becomes non-superconducting it will create a "cascade" event, if you will. All the energy locked up in the field is released as heat and torque(kinetic energy).
The magnet failure back in 2007 (http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/20070329_page01.html) was caused by an inadequate fixing of the magnet. When it was purposefully subjected to a quench it ripped its support structure apart.
I agree, also you are not going to get any medieval babes, just because some aquatic biddy bestowed a scimitar upon you.
I totally agree. Could you send me your full name and address and I'll add you to the secret EU dissident datab.. umm subscribe you to our newsletter?
I also think Gowachin law would be a fantastic cure for the US legal system. If every ambulance chaser risked being eaten alive by a wreave, that problem would be gone in seconds. And added bonus, court tv would be infinitely more entertaining:
"Your honour, I have demonstrated that the extension of copyright is directly in conflict with original purpose of the law set down in the constitution and against the common good. I therefore pronounce Congress 'innocent' and get to throw this trident through your spleen. Have a nice day."
>California has the strictest standards in the world.
According to that article. Sadly, i have not been able to find the related standard. Do you have a link. The article suggests a 25% cut in levels by 2016(or maybe 2009). That is equivalent to euro4->euro5 that goes into effect in 2009.
The article suggest that CO2 will also be restricted. Again i don't know if that is the case without the proper source. But let's assume that it also requires a 25% reduction in CO2.
According to the EPA's "Transportation Energy Data Book" the average CO2 emission for a US passenger car is ~260 g/km after the reduction that will be 195 g/km. The average EU emission is currently ~170 g/km. There is a law proposal that will make a limit of 130 g/km for all eu cars by 2012. It is a very contested piece of legislation. The french and italians are for it. Probably because their car manufacturers are close to the limit (140 g/km). The germans are against it. probably because they are far from the target.
>I don't see how the Euro 4 is stricter than current Tier 2 regulations
The euro4 has a 3,5 times stricter limit on CO emission. Sulphur are about the same.
>Where do you get that China has stricter standards than the U.S.?
from the pew climate center study i mentioned in my first post.
And a quick look at the epa tier-2 vs euro4 emission standards for emission pr kilometer/mile driven shows that the european standards are much stricter. According to the a study done by the Pew climate center(a US institution) EU and Japan has the strictest standards in the world. Even China has stricter standards than the US.
Thats how the security works for UBS e-banking.
>Mozart died in poverty and had his body dumped in a pauper's grave
Mozart died deeply in debt and was buried in a common grave.
That may sound almost like you put it but it's worlds apart.
Who would lend a poor man huge amounts of money? Unless they expected to make it back?
Mozart lived the life of a freelance rockstar. He had left behind the financial security of a position at the court in salzburg.
He had huge expenses for clothes, parties, etc. Necesarry to get the connections that would get him work. But, on the other hand he was paid very handsomely for his work.
He was buried in a common grave in Vienna as was the custom at the time(with or without onions in the belt). The fact that he had fallen out with the family back in Salzburg and the long trip making it unlikely he would be put to rest in the family grave.
sources:
Mozart. - Bruno Kvist - Jyllands Posten 2006