What do you do about corporations that are owned by other corporations or offshore trusts? Eventually, you have an entire economic ecosystem evolving that will be made of non persons, all beyond the reach of the tax collector.
Right. Because if I can show that there is a significant error rate, even if the map is reliable in some locations, we don't know where those are beforehand. So, if you are from out of town and you are betting your life on them to go into the outback, or Death Valley, or get stuck in the snow in the Cascade mountains, think again.
I don't know about that. If I put "King County Washington" into both Google maps and Open Street Maps, I get a point somewhere south of I-90, near North bend (for OSM) or Issaquah (for Google). Both points appear to be an estimate of the geographic center of the county. Both points are near enough local roads to make unintentional navigation to them possible (although not nearly as life threatening as the Australian outback or Death Valley).
I suppose one solution would be for the mapping companies to make the stored point the county seat (located about 20 miles to the West, in Seattle). Or to have the GPS s/w treat counties as large areas and announce arrival whenever their political boundaries have been reached.
First of all, when a dam is built the consequences for the upstream residents are pretty easy to determine. A better analogy would be like building a dam and a fish hatchery and then refusing to compensate some tribe a hundred miles downstream because they don't consider hatchery fish to be actual fish.
With dams, we compensate all the property owners upstream (or none). So, what will we be paying The Netherlands for sea level rise due to AGW? Or all the residents on Long Island when the hurricanes wash their ocean front properties away?
That's a good point. We've had meteorologists, oceanographers and a whole host of scientists available for years. The idea that we had to invent a category of 'climate science' to understand the physics of this problem is absurd.
And that creates two issues: Admission into the climate science group is controlled by those who define the curriculum and graduation requirements. And then there's the one of 'this subject is just too complex for the average person to understand'. Maybe, but the average physicist? It's just like computers used to be in the '60s through the '80s, until PCs hit the scene. Computing was just too complex for anyone not wearing the white coats in the raised floor area to understand. Until people started banging out their own spreadsheets and calling 'bullshit' on the priesthood.
People may not understand the details, but the 75% can smell the PR campaigns at work.
How about just relying on the science to speak for itself?
A figure of 75 percent unconvinced is encouraging in one sense. I means that the majority of the people aren't buying either argument yet. That's fine. We don't have anywhere near a clear understanding of how climate change is working (or not), who or what is responsible and what, if anything, we can do about it. The fact that the majority remains skeptical is a healthy sign.
We can only hope that the group that actually does the science and gets it right will sway the majority. And that the group who is giving up on the science and switching over to propaganda and public opinion manipulation will be recognized as an admission of the failure to get the figures to go their way.
You do not just accidentally create a crappy device the throws out 1000 times the normally allowed power
Actually, that's pretty easy to do. Its not a matter of 1000 times the 2 Watt allowable transmitter power. Its 1000 times over the -43 dB (or more) maximum allowable out of band emission. That's still down in the milliwatt range.
This will separate the losers who "have to" stay up late to party, get stoned, play video games or whatever from the students who have learned time management, good studying skills and have set some priorities in their lives. The losers will fall asleep during class and eventually fail. They will go on to jobs involving the flipping of burgers (or whatever it is you Europeans eat) while the genetically superior specimens will go on to college and higher paying careers.
Unfortunately, this appears to be EU only. So the USA will continue on its reversion to the mean.
I didn't know these things were banned during flight. I've used my Kindle many times without an issue being raised by the cabin crew.
Of course, this means using them in air mode (no radio transceivers operating) and not during takeoff and landing. The reasons for a ban during these flight mode is two fold: These are the most critical (and dangerous) parts of flight and distractions from cabin crew instructions or PA announcements need to be minimized. Also, its not so much the nav equipment that interference might harm, its the VHF comm. between the flight crew and ground control. Navigation beacons, due to their steady state nature, are relatively immune to momentary interference (like GSM buzz). But voice communications can be momentarily blocked. This can be a problem during critical parts of a flight, particularly if there is an emergency or some other unusual situation requiring clear and prompt communications. The
crash at Tenerife airport was caused in part by interference with cockpit/controller communications.
So, my point is: tablets and laptops don't seem to be banned during all flight modes. If you can't refrain from using them during takeoff and landing, or you must call or tweet continuously, don't fly. Seek mental help. I don't want to share the cabin with crazy people.
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At least cancer may give me a few more years to live.
What do you do about corporations that are owned by other corporations or offshore trusts? Eventually, you have an entire economic ecosystem evolving that will be made of non persons, all beyond the reach of the tax collector.
The shareholders are overseas.
Right. Because if I can show that there is a significant error rate, even if the map is reliable in some locations, we don't know where those are beforehand. So, if you are from out of town and you are betting your life on them to go into the outback, or Death Valley, or get stuck in the snow in the Cascade mountains, think again.
Step 30: Abandon ship.
Its not the cost of the missile. Its the cost of the infrastructure (or potential damage) it protects.
Flawless?
I don't know about that. If I put "King County Washington" into both Google maps and Open Street Maps, I get a point somewhere south of I-90, near North bend (for OSM) or Issaquah (for Google). Both points appear to be an estimate of the geographic center of the county. Both points are near enough local roads to make unintentional navigation to them possible (although not nearly as life threatening as the Australian outback or Death Valley).
I suppose one solution would be for the mapping companies to make the stored point the county seat (located about 20 miles to the West, in Seattle). Or to have the GPS s/w treat counties as large areas and announce arrival whenever their political boundaries have been reached.
Spread a rumor that python meat is an aphrodisiac. They'll be extinct in no time.
Yeah. You'd think natural selection would produce a raccoon that was un-squishable by cars. Not yet. Not in my neighborhood.
except for the conscription part,
That point isn't a trivial one to be overlooked.
Also known as a HARM target.
First of all, when a dam is built the consequences for the upstream residents are pretty easy to determine. A better analogy would be like building a dam and a fish hatchery and then refusing to compensate some tribe a hundred miles downstream because they don't consider hatchery fish to be actual fish.
With dams, we compensate all the property owners upstream (or none). So, what will we be paying The Netherlands for sea level rise due to AGW? Or all the residents on Long Island when the hurricanes wash their ocean front properties away?
That's a good point. We've had meteorologists, oceanographers and a whole host of scientists available for years. The idea that we had to invent a category of 'climate science' to understand the physics of this problem is absurd.
And that creates two issues: Admission into the climate science group is controlled by those who define the curriculum and graduation requirements. And then there's the one of 'this subject is just too complex for the average person to understand'. Maybe, but the average physicist? It's just like computers used to be in the '60s through the '80s, until PCs hit the scene. Computing was just too complex for anyone not wearing the white coats in the raised floor area to understand. Until people started banging out their own spreadsheets and calling 'bullshit' on the priesthood.
People may not understand the details, but the 75% can smell the PR campaigns at work.
How about just relying on the science to speak for itself?
A figure of 75 percent unconvinced is encouraging in one sense. I means that the majority of the people aren't buying either argument yet. That's fine. We don't have anywhere near a clear understanding of how climate change is working (or not), who or what is responsible and what, if anything, we can do about it. The fact that the majority remains skeptical is a healthy sign.
We can only hope that the group that actually does the science and gets it right will sway the majority. And that the group who is giving up on the science and switching over to propaganda and public opinion manipulation will be recognized as an admission of the failure to get the figures to go their way.
I don't think they understand the dire straights this has placed our climate of innovation in.
You do not just accidentally create a crappy device the throws out 1000 times the normally allowed power
Actually, that's pretty easy to do. Its not a matter of 1000 times the 2 Watt allowable transmitter power. Its 1000 times over the -43 dB (or more) maximum allowable out of band emission. That's still down in the milliwatt range.
Darwin at work.
This will separate the losers who "have to" stay up late to party, get stoned, play video games or whatever from the students who have learned time management, good studying skills and have set some priorities in their lives. The losers will fall asleep during class and eventually fail. They will go on to jobs involving the flipping of burgers (or whatever it is you Europeans eat) while the genetically superior specimens will go on to college and higher paying careers.
Unfortunately, this appears to be EU only. So the USA will continue on its reversion to the mean.
If a random normal everyday wireless signal
Define "normal". And then try to get your everyday wireless device certified to RTCA DO-160 standards.
I didn't know these things were banned during flight. I've used my Kindle many times without an issue being raised by the cabin crew.
Of course, this means using them in air mode (no radio transceivers operating) and not during takeoff and landing. The reasons for a ban during these flight mode is two fold: These are the most critical (and dangerous) parts of flight and distractions from cabin crew instructions or PA announcements need to be minimized. Also, its not so much the nav equipment that interference might harm, its the VHF comm. between the flight crew and ground control. Navigation beacons, due to their steady state nature, are relatively immune to momentary interference (like GSM buzz). But voice communications can be momentarily blocked. This can be a problem during critical parts of a flight, particularly if there is an emergency or some other unusual situation requiring clear and prompt communications. The crash at Tenerife airport was caused in part by interference with cockpit/controller communications.
So, my point is: tablets and laptops don't seem to be banned during all flight modes. If you can't refrain from using them during takeoff and landing, or you must call or tweet continuously, don't fly. Seek mental help. I don't want to share the cabin with crazy people.
Bloody yanks!
that means it's only halfway done after 88 years.
So, at approximately one Slashdot article every three months on the same topic, this should last us about .....
Wait! Do the article repeats decay over time along with the Plutonium?
find ... | grep ...
Smells like ..... hagfish.