That's an extremely good question. To the best of my understanding, no, friends and relatives absolutely never use the word "suicide" when referencing someone blowing themselves up in a conflict. It's exclusively considered martyrdom.
The best source I can readily find is a documentary about suicide bombing ("The Cult of the Suicide Bomber", which is excellent, by the way), where the narrator interviews the family of Iran's most celebrated martyr, Mohammed Hossein Fahmideh.
Bob Baer:"I hope you don't mind me asking, but Hossein was the first suicide bomber, wasn't he?"
Family: "No, not at all. Yes, he did have a very strong belief. He was a martyr. It's impossible to describe him as anything else. A martyr through and through."
Bob Baer: [aside] "It's interesting, they absolutely reject the word 'suicide', even though there was a 100% chance that he would die. It just does not come into the vocabulary; he is simply a martyr."
Politics aside (or perhaps not...), I'm pretty sure one could make a pretty reasonable argument that either attempting to or in actuality derailing an investigation into which person leaked extremely sensitive information is indeed giving aid to the enemy. And I don't know how one could argue against classifying actually leaking that information as anything other than treason.
I know there's also the two witness thing you left out (next paragraph, I think?) to qualify for Article Three treason, but that's that the espionage act is for anyway.
I'm really not an expert at embedded systems to any extent at all, but I'm not sure you're entirely correct there.
I know Microsoft technology is behind BMW's iDrive concept (disaster?), and I know on at least a few of their models (just the M models, as far as I can recall) the iDrive can control available horsepower.
Wouldn't that require something other than a one-way connection to the embedded systems in the engine control unit?
Well, I hope I'm not missing a joke or anything, but... erm... from the article:
The spicy greenish condiment was squirted out of a tube while astronaut Sunita Williams was trying to make a pretend sushi meal with bag-packaged salmon. So basically sushi was what caused this "incident."
All kidding aside, this guy came to speak at my college. I got a seat in the second-to-front row well before the presentation started. The school photographer came up to him to ask him to sign a silly little photography release so he could take photos. He signed it, stared at the poor guy, and said, "I want three copies of this, okay?"
Well, from your use of "solicitor" below, I'm assuming you're from a common law country. In the US at least, it just takes a really, really, really long and annoying phone call.
While we're at it, cancelling an Experian account (that you might get if you need to check your credit more than once per annum) has got to be right up there with AOL.
After at least fifteen minutes of searching for cancellation information, I finally found a number to call (no on-line cancellations) from a third party website!.
I timed the call. I had to talk with a customer service rep for 23 minutes to cancel the account: "Okay Steven, I can offer you [this], if you'd like, which is x% off what it normally costs." "Nope, just cancel the account please." "Okay, Steven, it seems like you want to cancel your account. But did you know that I can offer you..." etc.
... 1. Semis dueling down the interstate seeing whose cruise control will win. For FIVE MILES.... "... 1. Semis dueling down the interstate seeing whose cruise control will win. For FIVE MILES...."
ha ha. Well done. I haven't laughed that hard in a very long time. I just recently drove across the country, and this was happening all over the place. At least every 15 minutes or so across the midwest, I'd run into two three-trailer-long semis side by side.
I know it takes a long time for those guys to pass each other, but come on.
Here's some more anecdotal evidence:
I have somewhere between 20/10 and 20/15 vision. I generally use a Mac, but whenever I'm in front of a Windows computer, I always turn ClearType on. I much prefer it to the standard Windows fonts/smoothing.
Granted, my only medical experience is treating badly banged up Boy Scouts, but I can see two issues with this thing:
1) How reversible is it? I mean, once the wounded person gets to advanced medical care in a hospital or the battlefield equivalent, how easy is it to remove the clots? I know this (thryombolysis) can be quite tricky for hospitals to pull off as it is in cases like heart attacks and pulmonary embolisms.
2) What about partially formed clots? I can only imagine the damage caused by huge amounts of partially formed clots floating around in the body wreaking havoc.
Granted, if the person would clearly die without the treatment anyway, then those points are void. But surely this has more side effects than tying a piece of cloth around a limb and cinching really tightly.
At any rate, those seem like some pretty clever engineers and scientists at work, and I certainly hope this device works as well as they hope it does.
I'm not a materials engineer, unfortunately, so I can only answer with the perspective of someone who has raced on them rather than someone who has a truly deep understanding of how they work.
The first thing you notice upon clamping a set of carbon wheels on the bike is that the brake levers are generally useful for making an absolutely horrendous noise, and less so for actually slowing down. As I've gone through sponsors and bike shops and racing seasons, I've tried three brands of carbons and a bunch of different combinations of brake pads, and they've all had the characteristics of braking very badly, punctuated by sheer terror for the brief moments when the pads grab really, really well, and then they go back to braking very badly. And don't get me started about how they handle when it's even mildly wet out...
As for the heat transfer issue, here's an excerpt from a letter (http://www.velonews.com/tech/report/articles/9143 .0.html) from a very well known mechanic named Lennard Zinn
Carbon is an insulator, whereas aluminum (or steel) is a conductor. Thus, an aluminum rim is working to get rid of heat, thus taking heat away from the brake pads. On the other hand, a carbon rim is trying to hold heat, thus retaining heat in the brake pads. Furthermore, carbon rims, being generally lighter than metal rims, have less thermal mass to transfer heat to than a heavier rim would.
And here's the reasoning from Lightweight about why their wheel only worked uphill:
The "L'Alpe d'Huez" wheelset has been developed specifically for the demands of uphill time trials. To achieve the least possible rotary mass, the rim's brake surfaces have been lightened. Thus, the brakes must be used sparingly and not with brute force. Only use these wheels in flat or uphill sections. They are not designed for the braking forces encountered when riding downhill. We offer other wheels for these purposes.
When this is taken into account, you will find that the "L'Alpe d'Huez" wheelset is very robust and reliable and meets the highest demands.
P.S. I thought the big deal with carbon brakes on racing cars was that they resisted heat-related brake fade really well, not that they necessarily stopped the best. Maybe I'm wrong.
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But you are wrong about the brakes. At anything like reasonable speeds, say below 40mph I can lock up the tires just fine in my 2004 Raleigh Grand Prix road bike with a good, hard squeeze. I'd skid out of control and take about half the life out of my $30 tires if I did so though. But stopping in an emergency is not a problem.
I'd guess that he's probably right.
If I'm right, your bike has rims branded as "Equation" that are made from alloy.
A good number of the competitors in the Tour are using carbon rimmed wheels, which are totally different than the alloy you'd normally ride on. Carbon, in case you've not experienced wheels made from it, is an enormously bad braking surface - there's horrid heat transfer problems, it seems like there's hardly any friction at all, and there tend to be rigidity problems. In fact, a company called Lightweight famously made a carbon wheel a few years ago that could only be used on entirely uphill stages because of the problems with heat transfer and rigidity.
At the point of the cutting edge wheel tech these guys are using in the Tour, I'd say it's a safe bet to say that braking wouldn't always be as effective as the Raleigh.
I'm sure the coaches are loving all of this stuff.
In the beginning, you just had the riders out on their own wits to guide them, then they got radios and the coaches got to keep them updated, then the coaches got live TV feeds in their cars to keep themselves updated, and now apparently "it is now possible to track the position and speed of each rider in the Tour de France in real-time thanks to the EGNOS European satellite positioning system."
Being a coach sure got easier if they've got realtime tracking of all the other riders.
I'm almost surprised they even decided to proceed to the point that they did today (the hold with T-9 minutes to go). Standing on the ground at Kennedy, if you looked West, the sky was almost black with storm clouds over the runway at the Shuttle landing faciliity. You know, the one that needs to be clear for the Shuttle to land if there's an emergency? Seems like a bit of a waste.
Some 15 minutes later, I saw him bowing and praying on a rug that he brought with him facing in the direction I presume must be Mecca...on the SECURE side of the airport.
And how is someone practicing Islam a reason to deny them entry through a security gate? Praying salah is unbelieveably required for every Muslim (in fact, I think it's right behind the declaration of faith). I can see not letting the guy through because he is on a watch list (which I think are bullshit anyway, but that's a different discussion), but what's wrong with prayer? Would you have said that a Christian praying is a security risk?
I may be dating myself (as someone rather young) in saying this, but I've seriously never heard that before. Is this phrase really in common usage? It doesn't make any sense.
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Bah. Sorry about that. Ahem ... http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=california,+ca&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=10&iwloc=addr
Ahem ...
The best source I can readily find is a documentary about suicide bombing ("The Cult of the Suicide Bomber", which is excellent, by the way), where the narrator interviews the family of Iran's most celebrated martyr, Mohammed Hossein Fahmideh.
Bob Baer:"I hope you don't mind me asking, but Hossein was the first suicide bomber, wasn't he?"
Family: "No, not at all. Yes, he did have a very strong belief. He was a martyr. It's impossible to describe him as anything else. A martyr through and through."
Bob Baer: [aside] "It's interesting, they absolutely reject the word 'suicide', even though there was a 100% chance that he would die. It just does not come into the vocabulary; he is simply a martyr."
Does that satisfy your curiosity?
Umm ... unless I'm missing something ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Empire
I know there's also the two witness thing you left out (next paragraph, I think?) to qualify for Article Three treason, but that's that the espionage act is for anyway.
I know Microsoft technology is behind BMW's iDrive concept (disaster?), and I know on at least a few of their models (just the M models, as far as I can recall) the iDrive can control available horsepower.
Wouldn't that require something other than a one-way connection to the embedded systems in the engine control unit?
The poor photographer nodded meekly.
True story.
Well, from your use of "solicitor" below, I'm assuming you're from a common law country. In the US at least, it just takes a really, really, really long and annoying phone call.
After at least fifteen minutes of searching for cancellation information, I finally found a number to call (no on-line cancellations) from a third party website!.
I timed the call. I had to talk with a customer service rep for 23 minutes to cancel the account: "Okay Steven, I can offer you [this], if you'd like, which is x% off what it normally costs." "Nope, just cancel the account please." "Okay, Steven, it seems like you want to cancel your account. But did you know that I can offer you ..." etc.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/D/6/5D6EA F2B-7DDF-476B-93DC-7CF0072878E6/output_protect.doc
In fact, here's a paper from Microsoft which includes details of how it's going to work. Sorry, but they've got it in .doc format.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/D/6/5D6 EAF2B-7DDF-476B-93DC-7CF0072878E6/output_protect.d oc
It's great to be working on a cs lab, with free pizza on cute little Google plates with Google napkins.
... 1. Semis dueling down the interstate seeing whose cruise control will win. For FIVE MILES.ha ha. Well done. I haven't laughed that hard in a very long time. I just recently drove across the country, and this was happening all over the place. At least every 15 minutes or so across the midwest, I'd run into two three-trailer-long semis side by side.
I know it takes a long time for those guys to pass each other, but come on.
Here's some more anecdotal evidence: I have somewhere between 20/10 and 20/15 vision. I generally use a Mac, but whenever I'm in front of a Windows computer, I always turn ClearType on. I much prefer it to the standard Windows fonts/smoothing.
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"Preface.
Our informal corporate motto is 'Don't be evil.'"
Granted, my only medical experience is treating badly banged up Boy Scouts, but I can see two issues with this thing:
1) How reversible is it? I mean, once the wounded person gets to advanced medical care in a hospital or the battlefield equivalent, how easy is it to remove the clots? I know this (thryombolysis) can be quite tricky for hospitals to pull off as it is in cases like heart attacks and pulmonary embolisms.
2) What about partially formed clots? I can only imagine the damage caused by huge amounts of partially formed clots floating around in the body wreaking havoc.
Granted, if the person would clearly die without the treatment anyway, then those points are void. But surely this has more side effects than tying a piece of cloth around a limb and cinching really tightly.
At any rate, those seem like some pretty clever engineers and scientists at work, and I certainly hope this device works as well as they hope it does.
The first thing you notice upon clamping a set of carbon wheels on the bike is that the brake levers are generally useful for making an absolutely horrendous noise, and less so for actually slowing down. As I've gone through sponsors and bike shops and racing seasons, I've tried three brands of carbons and a bunch of different combinations of brake pads, and they've all had the characteristics of braking very badly, punctuated by sheer terror for the brief moments when the pads grab really, really well, and then they go back to braking very badly. And don't get me started about how they handle when it's even mildly wet out ...
As for the heat transfer issue, here's an excerpt from a letter (http://www.velonews.com/tech/report/articles/9143 .0.html) from a very well known mechanic named Lennard Zinn
And here's the reasoning from Lightweight about why their wheel only worked uphill:
P.S.
I thought the big deal with carbon brakes on racing cars was that they resisted heat-related brake fade really well, not that they necessarily stopped the best. Maybe I'm wrong.
I'd guess that he's probably right.
If I'm right, your bike has rims branded as "Equation" that are made from alloy.
A good number of the competitors in the Tour are using carbon rimmed wheels, which are totally different than the alloy you'd normally ride on. Carbon, in case you've not experienced wheels made from it, is an enormously bad braking surface - there's horrid heat transfer problems, it seems like there's hardly any friction at all, and there tend to be rigidity problems. In fact, a company called Lightweight famously made a carbon wheel a few years ago that could only be used on entirely uphill stages because of the problems with heat transfer and rigidity.
At the point of the cutting edge wheel tech these guys are using in the Tour, I'd say it's a safe bet to say that braking wouldn't always be as effective as the Raleigh.
I wonder how many other people will catch the A&P reference.
In the beginning, you just had the riders out on their own wits to guide them, then they got radios and the coaches got to keep them updated, then the coaches got live TV feeds in their cars to keep themselves updated, and now apparently "it is now possible to track the position and speed of each rider in the Tour de France in real-time thanks to the EGNOS European satellite positioning system."
Being a coach sure got easier if they've got realtime tracking of all the other riders.
I'm almost surprised they even decided to proceed to the point that they did today (the hold with T-9 minutes to go). Standing on the ground at Kennedy, if you looked West, the sky was almost black with storm clouds over the runway at the Shuttle landing faciliity. You know, the one that needs to be clear for the Shuttle to land if there's an emergency? Seems like a bit of a waste.
Just my two cents.
My apologies.
And how is someone practicing Islam a reason to deny them entry through a security gate? Praying salah is unbelieveably required for every Muslim (in fact, I think it's right behind the declaration of faith). I can see not letting the guy through because he is on a watch list (which I think are bullshit anyway, but that's a different discussion), but what's wrong with prayer? Would you have said that a Christian praying is a security risk?
You might want to find some more information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salat
I may be dating myself (as someone rather young) in saying this, but I've seriously never heard that before. Is this phrase really in common usage? It doesn't make any sense.