By definition and law, no. Pedophilia is for prepubescent children. Post pubescent, as you mention, would be ephebophilia. Normally the break point is considered 13/14.
Prototypes do exist and the PR is somewhat coming from the engineers. Part of the 50mpg figure deals with using an aerodynamic frame. The current public pictures designs are being reworked as they weren't very aerodynamic. The VP in charge joked it might have been more aerodynamic if they put it in the wind tunnel backwards. 50mpg is possible. The gasoline generator will always see a steady load. It won't have to rev up or down during use and so will be able to run at it's most efficient RPM at it's most efficient load. Remember, it's generating electricity, not a direct drive.
Some figures based on the expected specs of the Volt:
40miles on 8kwh. 5 miles/kwh. 10kwh/gallon gas. Gas 125,000 BTU/gallon=36.15kwh. 10kwh/3615kwh=28% efficiency. That is possible on Gasoline and it doesn't even include power recovered from regenerative breaking, which would further decrease the required generator efficiency. It's getting the 5miles/kwh that is the harder part.
Three wheels means less resistance on the road than four tires.
Less resistance on the road is a bad thing. It decreases top braking and acceleration power as otherwise the wheels would slip.
Also, 3-wheeled vehicles in many states count as "motorcycles" and are way cheaper to insure as a result
Legally, most people can not drive a motorcycle (which, as you say, 3 wheels count as) due to the licenses they have. They only have non-commercial licenses for cars/trucks. My guess is they want one that will people will be able to drive under existing laws as well.
I remember hearing about this before. It's not energy from nothing, it's an increase in engine efficiency. This is being used in Diesel engines to increase the efficiency of the engine. The power required to perform the electrolysis is less than the increase in fuel efficiency the engine receives by putting a little bit of hydrogen into the engine.
From the original article: "We sent initial communications to Verizon three weeks ago," Ravicher said. "They never responded. Thus, there are no negotiations underway with them. That is what forced us to file the lawsuit, because it was our only last option to get Verizon to address our clients' concerns."
Nor, in the legal complaint, does it say Verizon ever responded.
And technically, the presence of the word "copyright", the circle-C symbol, the author's name, and
the date, constitute "notice".
And where was this? It certainly didn't sound like it was in the software from the contractor Verizon was given.
It isn't like Verizon couldn't see that the code was under the GPL, or what the GPL says.
Only if Verizon saw the original code. If you read the article: Actiontec supplied Verizon with wireless routers for its FiOS broadband service that use an open source program called BusyBox.
looks to me like Verizon never saw the original code. They contracted out for routers. They didn't make the routers themselves.
Everything. People run as administrator because they have to.
Not to run, usually just to install.
It's different in that a user does not have to run as root in Linux to get useful work done.
A user doesn't have to run as admin in windows, just ask anyone who works in IT.
Ever tried to debug as an unprivileged user on W2K? Ever tried to install software? Just what is the Windows equivalent of sudo that ships standard with Windows XP?
Let me correct that for you: Windows won't let you do anything of substance once you're running as non-administrator. That is the problem.
Wrong. It will. It just won't let you install programs into certain areas. Us IT guys like it that way. It lets us prevent users from messing up the systems.
Disclaimer: this situation has changed somewhat in recent years. However, considering the number of Windows user still running W2K or Windows XP (and for good reason), it's still concerning.
And yet you still know nothing about them. Come back when you've actually got a case to make against running as a user in windows.
I've heard of freeze dried ice cream on several occasions, there are even places you can buy it here on earth. I have no idea how the process works, but it makes ice cream that does not need to be frozen.
They sell it at the Smithsonian National Air & Space museum. I've eaten it. Three flavors, Vanilla Strawberry and Chocolate, all in one cosmopolitan package. It doesn't taste very good and it doesn't 'feel' like regular ice cream. If you want to try some, go here: http://www.thespaceshop.com/neopicecream.html
So the alleged boogeyman will fashion a boom-boom device so that it looks like a spare battery into a spare battery or looks like a power adapter into a power adapter to the x-ray machine and operator. You could even fashion a box cutter into a spare battery and have it look like a spare battery.
From the outside you could make it look like a battery/power adapter. But would you be able to make it look the exact same through the x-ray machine? Power adapters tend to have the same x-ray look. Modified ones like you are talking about, not so much.
What about pens? Didn't they see the Mythbusters episode where a pen with 3 CCs of content could blow things up real good? What are they going to do next - ban pens?
Care to provide a link or something to this episode? I haven't heard of this one.
Pan-Am had explosives and they were in the cargo hold as you say. I'm guessing they started looking for knives and so on that were going to be a carry-on. Slightly different situation.
The problem is not seeing through the bags. It's seeing through the laptop and the cables/adapters/other simultaneously that is the problem. Remember, metal blocks X-Rays. Laptops and the other assorted cables contain a lot of metal. Separating the two makes it easier for them to make sure that there is nothing in the laptop that isn't supposed to be in a laptop. Airport security in the U.S. didn't used to require laptops be taken out of the case. I'm guessing that changed sometime after 9/11. I've been carrying a laptop on planes since roughly 95/96, so I've seen several different policies on it. Originally, you had to turn it on and they put it in a bomb sniffing machine. Later, they required X-raying (after 9/11). A few years later, they started requiring it go into the X-Ray machine separate from the bag.
They are trying to have bags such that the laptop is on one side, and the cables and such are on the other. How, exactly, would you propose modifying X-Ray scanners such that they can make two pictures from one scan of two overlaying objects? I'm pretty sure you could make a lot of money if you had an answer to that.
Because where something is located in times of peace is also where it is located in times of war? Knowing where most of your potential enemies high value targets are in times of peace means you know where they are most likely to be in times of war. Further, if you strike first, it means you have a pretty good chance of catching them in that place too.
During the Cold War the approximate locations of Ballistic Missile Submarines were kept secret at all times. (note, that didn't prevent the other side from finding them periodically, just made it a hell of a lot harder) If either wanted to go to war with the other, the first thing would be to torpedo the missile subs to prevent a retaliation from them, for starters. Preventing the other side from knowing that keeps them safer. (note, not safe, just safer)
Keeping the location of buildings on base from others makes them harder to target with conventional weapons.
I never said 5 to 1. I said there was a case of 5 men marrying 1 woman. More realistic estimates are 55:45. Ah, current imbalance is male 143,527,634/female 126,607,344 for the under 14 age group. So 55:45 is about right,currently.
Got any proof that it's an urban myth? Every single figure I've seen supports a combination of female infanticide and selective abortion to insure the child is a son. Now, if you have any actual proof that supports another reason, I'd love to hear it.
I was suprised when I recently discovered that it is illegal in China for parents to be told the sex of their unborn child and has been so for some time. It looks like this potential problem was seen a decade or two ago.
Unfortunately, this has led to infanticide, where girls are usually killed shortly after birth and never registered with the government. Hence the current imbalance.
Seconded. I taught a few people at work this so they could come up with and remember passwords that would meet the security policy. So, for a girl, turning CareBears into C@reB3ar$ or C@reB3arz is probably easier to remember.
You must be part of some kind of military deception! Any fighter pilot will be more than willing to tell you how they are God and don't make mistakes. That's right, they don't make mistakes. They don't get to make two, only one.
GPS sats are 12600 km up, that's not exactly "low orbit". Pedantic note: I believe their orbit is 12,600 miles, ~20,000 km. Pedantic note: 1 kilometer = 0.621371192 mile
If you don't get it, see what 20,000km is equal to in miles.
Different types of weapons, different types of yields. And you forgot the Trinity Test. Most of the later weapons were more efficient, more powerful and of different designs than the three used during WWII.
Hydrogen (Fusion) Bombs were different, they managed to make a more efficient uranium bomb (64kg was used in the Hiroshima bomb, the required amount for a supercritical explosion, they were able to shrink this later to a fraction of the amount by using explosives to compress the uranium at time of detonation), and a few other things. Then there were several variable strength explosions that used a moderator to decrease the explosive strength, allowing for "programmable" explosions (1 bomb, multiple choices for the yield) and a few other things that were developed during that time.
Like the fact that because of one-child and the preference for male babies they are going to have tens of millions more men then women within a generation. Such an imbalance is virtually unknown in human history and nobody has a clue what the end result will be.
Off topic, I know, but you have a bunch of good points. I would like to point out that there is a very similar situation to this one that has occurred at various points throughout history. Look at any place/time where you have bigamy as a norm. You wind up with a good chunk of the male population without a wife. (Although I think I remember reading about 5 men marrying the same woman in China a year or two ago.)
Alternatively, China could just annex another country again and move their population into it. I wonder if the world would be less forgiving this time.
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By definition and law, no. Pedophilia is for prepubescent children. Post pubescent, as you mention, would be ephebophilia. Normally the break point is considered 13/14.
Prototypes do exist and the PR is somewhat coming from the engineers. Part of the 50mpg figure deals with using an aerodynamic frame. The current public pictures designs are being reworked as they weren't very aerodynamic. The VP in charge joked it might have been more aerodynamic if they put it in the wind tunnel backwards. 50mpg is possible. The gasoline generator will always see a steady load. It won't have to rev up or down during use and so will be able to run at it's most efficient RPM at it's most efficient load. Remember, it's generating electricity, not a direct drive.
Some figures based on the expected specs of the Volt:
40miles on 8kwh. 5 miles/kwh. 10kwh/gallon gas. Gas 125,000 BTU/gallon=36.15kwh. 10kwh/3615kwh=28% efficiency. That is possible on Gasoline and it doesn't even include power recovered from regenerative breaking, which would further decrease the required generator efficiency. It's getting the 5miles/kwh that is the harder part.
many designers will take structural inspiration from modern aluminum beer can technology.
Sounds like a great way to make a car that is easily crushed.
Can you check or post your link for that 60mpg figure? From what I remember, it's supposed to be 50mpg and I've been following it as much as I can.
Three wheels means less resistance on the road than four tires.
Less resistance on the road is a bad thing. It decreases top braking and acceleration power as otherwise the wheels would slip.
Also, 3-wheeled vehicles in many states count as "motorcycles" and are way cheaper to insure as a result
Legally, most people can not drive a motorcycle (which, as you say, 3 wheels count as) due to the licenses they have. They only have non-commercial licenses for cars/trucks. My guess is they want one that will people will be able to drive under existing laws as well.
I remember hearing about this before. It's not energy from nothing, it's an increase in engine efficiency. This is being used in Diesel engines to increase the efficiency of the engine. The power required to perform the electrolysis is less than the increase in fuel efficiency the engine receives by putting a little bit of hydrogen into the engine.
Sorry, but what response?
From the original article:
"We sent initial communications to Verizon three weeks ago," Ravicher said. "They never responded. Thus, there are no negotiations underway with them. That is what forced us to file the lawsuit, because it was our only last option to get Verizon to address our clients' concerns."
Nor, in the legal complaint, does it say Verizon ever responded.
And technically, the presence of the word "copyright", the circle-C symbol, the author's name, and the date, constitute "notice".
And where was this? It certainly didn't sound like it was in the software from the contractor Verizon was given.
It isn't like Verizon couldn't see that the code was under the GPL, or what the GPL says.
Only if Verizon saw the original code. If you read the article:
Actiontec supplied Verizon with wireless routers for its FiOS broadband service that use an open source program called BusyBox.
looks to me like Verizon never saw the original code. They contracted out for routers. They didn't make the routers themselves.
Everything. People run as administrator because they have to.
Not to run, usually just to install.
It's different in that a user does not have to run as root in Linux to get useful work done.
A user doesn't have to run as admin in windows, just ask anyone who works in IT.
Ever tried to debug as an unprivileged user on W2K? Ever tried to install software? Just what is the Windows equivalent of sudo that ships standard with Windows XP?
Yes. Yes. RunAs.
Let me correct that for you: Windows won't let you do anything of substance once you're running as non-administrator. That is the problem.
Wrong. It will. It just won't let you install programs into certain areas. Us IT guys like it that way. It lets us prevent users from messing up the systems.
Disclaimer: this situation has changed somewhat in recent years. However, considering the number of Windows user still running W2K or Windows XP (and for good reason), it's still concerning.
And yet you still know nothing about them. Come back when you've actually got a case to make against running as a user in windows.
I've heard of freeze dried ice cream on several occasions, there are even places you can buy it here on earth. I have no idea how the process works, but it makes ice cream that does not need to be frozen.
They sell it at the Smithsonian National Air & Space museum. I've eaten it. Three flavors, Vanilla Strawberry and Chocolate, all in one cosmopolitan package. It doesn't taste very good and it doesn't 'feel' like regular ice cream. If you want to try some, go here: http://www.thespaceshop.com/neopicecream.html
So the alleged boogeyman will fashion a boom-boom device so that it looks like a spare battery into a spare battery or looks like a power adapter into a power adapter to the x-ray machine and operator. You could even fashion a box cutter into a spare battery and have it look like a spare battery.
From the outside you could make it look like a battery/power adapter. But would you be able to make it look the exact same through the x-ray machine? Power adapters tend to have the same x-ray look. Modified ones like you are talking about, not so much.
What about pens? Didn't they see the Mythbusters episode where a pen with 3 CCs of content could blow things up real good? What are they going to do next - ban pens?
Care to provide a link or something to this episode? I haven't heard of this one.
Don't forget 'quickly', too.
Pan-Am had explosives and they were in the cargo hold as you say. I'm guessing they started looking for knives and so on that were going to be a carry-on. Slightly different situation.
The problem is not seeing through the bags. It's seeing through the laptop and the cables/adapters/other simultaneously that is the problem. Remember, metal blocks X-Rays. Laptops and the other assorted cables contain a lot of metal. Separating the two makes it easier for them to make sure that there is nothing in the laptop that isn't supposed to be in a laptop. Airport security in the U.S. didn't used to require laptops be taken out of the case. I'm guessing that changed sometime after 9/11. I've been carrying a laptop on planes since roughly 95/96, so I've seen several different policies on it. Originally, you had to turn it on and they put it in a bomb sniffing machine. Later, they required X-raying (after 9/11). A few years later, they started requiring it go into the X-Ray machine separate from the bag.
They are trying to have bags such that the laptop is on one side, and the cables and such are on the other. How, exactly, would you propose modifying X-Ray scanners such that they can make two pictures from one scan of two overlaying objects? I'm pretty sure you could make a lot of money if you had an answer to that.
Because where something is located in times of peace is also where it is located in times of war? Knowing where most of your potential enemies high value targets are in times of peace means you know where they are most likely to be in times of war. Further, if you strike first, it means you have a pretty good chance of catching them in that place too.
During the Cold War the approximate locations of Ballistic Missile Submarines were kept secret at all times. (note, that didn't prevent the other side from finding them periodically, just made it a hell of a lot harder) If either wanted to go to war with the other, the first thing would be to torpedo the missile subs to prevent a retaliation from them, for starters. Preventing the other side from knowing that keeps them safer. (note, not safe, just safer)
Keeping the location of buildings on base from others makes them harder to target with conventional weapons.
I never said 5 to 1. I said there was a case of 5 men marrying 1 woman. More realistic estimates are 55:45. Ah, current imbalance is male 143,527,634/female 126,607,344 for the under 14 age group. So 55:45 is about right,currently.
Got any proof that it's an urban myth? Every single figure I've seen supports a combination of female infanticide and selective abortion to insure the child is a son. Now, if you have any actual proof that supports another reason, I'd love to hear it.
I was suprised when I recently discovered that it is illegal in China for parents to be told the sex of their unborn child and has been so for some time. It looks like this potential problem was seen a decade or two ago.
Unfortunately, this has led to infanticide, where girls are usually killed shortly after birth and never registered with the government. Hence the current imbalance.
Seconded. I taught a few people at work this so they could come up with and remember passwords that would meet the security policy. So, for a girl, turning CareBears into C@reB3ar$ or C@reB3arz is probably easier to remember.
ARG! Dammit, I misread what was written. I thought the original poster said 12600miles, and you said no, it was 20,000km. My bad.
If you don't get it, see what 20,000km is equal to in miles.
Different types of weapons, different types of yields. And you forgot the Trinity Test. Most of the later weapons were more efficient, more powerful and of different designs than the three used during WWII.
Hydrogen (Fusion) Bombs were different, they managed to make a more efficient uranium bomb (64kg was used in the Hiroshima bomb, the required amount for a supercritical explosion, they were able to shrink this later to a fraction of the amount by using explosives to compress the uranium at time of detonation), and a few other things. Then there were several variable strength explosions that used a moderator to decrease the explosive strength, allowing for "programmable" explosions (1 bomb, multiple choices for the yield) and a few other things that were developed during that time.
Like the fact that because of one-child and the preference for male babies they are going to have tens of millions more men then women within a generation. Such an imbalance is virtually unknown in human history and nobody has a clue what the end result will be.
Off topic, I know, but you have a bunch of good points. I would like to point out that there is a very similar situation to this one that has occurred at various points throughout history. Look at any place/time where you have bigamy as a norm. You wind up with a good chunk of the male population without a wife. (Although I think I remember reading about 5 men marrying the same woman in China a year or two ago.)
Alternatively, China could just annex another country again and move their population into it. I wonder if the world would be less forgiving this time.