You know what's funny about the Itaipu dam? It is located in the state of Parana and, still, it does not provide a single watt for that state (all Parana's eletricity is produced in smaller and local dams). If you see the Itaipu's power lines traject, it goes straight to the state of Sao Paulo (which does not pay a dime to Parana for that energy).
It's because the bastards linked Sao Paulo's power grid to Parana's, so when Itaipu is not enough (or have problems like the one yesterday), they suck energy which is created and supposed to be provided to Parana.
So if the power lines go straight to Sao Paulo, how is Sao Paulo's grid connected to Parana's? You contradict yourself here. Also, why should Sao Paulo get any money from Parana? The Brazil and Paraguay own the dam, not the state of Parana.
What you suffered was a brown out, where your voltage dropped. Essentially, you had about twice the power load as your source was capable of supplying. This is bad for a number of reasons, and the electric grid should have cut you off entirely. It also might have damaged some of your household devices. Power supplies and other things don't like being run at low voltage, it can actually be worse than over voltage in some cases.
Realistically, it depends on the network. If I have a dedicated network and control all the terminals and there are no external access points, you're not going to have unauthorized access. If you have something like that except you have a connection to the internet where you have no controlled access, then your axiom is true.
How does letting a company fail, instead of being bought out by a competitor, protect consumer welfare? Either way there is one less player in the market.
Actually, it does suggest class and type names. Start here Now, show me more than 15 lines and I'll start to believe it was copied. Say, show me what called RealLogicalDescriptor (and all of RealLogicalDescriptor too) in combination with all of UdfReader.cs. Preferably in text and not in an image. Actually, just give me the MS code and I'll line it up to the ImageMaster code myself.
Seriously, what he shows to be evidence looks like code that was written straight from reading the ISO disk image specification. Next up, school math class accused of mass cheating for solving math problems in similar ways.
Easy way to get that reaction and only that reaction would be to use only He3 as the fuel source. No other fuel means no other reactions.
As to "All current fusion designs", that's because we're still trying to make it work in the first place and neutron producing reactions are easier to start with right now. If they could eliminate neutrons from the process now, they would, as it would increase reactor life. Also, energy is not purely extracted by neutrons. If it was, the plasma would heat up indefinitely (Energy, not just neutrons, are produced in fusion) until containment was lost and it exploded. Energy has to be extracted thermally as well.
No joke, but it wasn't 'launch codes'. It was the codes for nuclear bombs that get dropped out of airplanes, not the ICBMs. They did it on purpose a few times in case they couldn't send out the actual launch codes in time, such as during the cuban missile crisis.
Based on what I've seen elsewhere, here's probably what happened: The radar system that went with the patriot battery was already in existence and that is what they used. They wouldn't be able to modify all the systems, so they used them as was. The designers of the patriot battery had the interface specification of the radar system and implemented the patriot software as they choose. While this may not have been a problem for the initial use of shooting down bombers, which fly considerably slower, it became a problem for SCUDS which fly much much faster.
Also, from here we see that the system wasn't originally intended to be turned on for more than a few hours at a time. So, the added functionality of being able to shoot down SCUDS was due to a waterfall design (which is still in use today), but the knowledge of the clock error was probably lost at that point.
So in a system that should have clocks synchronized to less than a microsecond nobody bothered to run "ntpdate" even once in hundred days ? And surely the military has better clock synch than a stupid home pc ? This is stupidity, also known as "human error", causing those deaths. It's a case of "the correct answer to the wrong question".
It was 100 hours and this was back in the first gulf war. I'm also pretty sure the computers involved didn't have ntpdate. The incident being referenced was in 1991. Unfortunately, the software fix wasn't available until the next day.
False. I wish people would stop repeating this oft-stated lie. The ~2000 TV stations plus ~10,000 lowpower/clear air neighborhood stations all pay a lease for their spectrum (called a license fee).
Can you provide some evidence of this? I can find application fees, but not spectrum license fees for the TV stations.
Well, if you're going to play it that way, it isn't 11 trillion dollars, it's much less. Social Security holds about $5 trillion, so if you're not going to cut SS taxes, it just increases the portion of the 11 trillion held by SS. Similarly, Medicare doesn't go into the general revenue fund, either. It goes straight to the medicare program. What is supposed to happen when it runs a surplus, I don't know. Neither are supposed to be use to pay down the national debt.
By the way, it's $800 billion of Chinese loans, not the full 11 trillion.
In fact, it the other way around, only retard spend like crazy in goods times then save in the bads.
You save when posible, for be the bad days.
US Politicians spend like drunken fools in good times and then say 'But we can't cut spending!' in the bad times and use it to justify raising taxes. Seriously, my county board raised spending by over 10% a year, in an already prosperous county, during the late 90's through a few years ago.
So far it looks like a slightly higher mortality rate and a different mortality distribution. Statistically significantly different, but from a practical stand point, only the distribution is different. Not that mortality and distribution are consistent year to year with the seasonal flu anyway. My question for the OP was because he seemed to be saying all vaccines should be required of hospital workers, regardless of alternatives.
This whole H1N1 strain has groups trying to require them getting the H1N1 vaccine when the regular vaccine has never been required before. I do not see a practical difference between the two, only a statistical difference.
Not to mention that some people are allergic to the flu shot. As it is made using eggs, anyone allergic to eggs can get a severe allergic reaction to the flu shot, including death. Some how I doubt all hospital workers are not allergic to eggs.
Probably, but have you looked at the size of the military? Infantry can beat tanks if they have the right weapons and sufficient numbers. I doubt we could ever compete with China when it comes to infantry.
A gasoline tank can not release all the energy at once. You would need to have a fuel air mixture do to so. A battery still takes time to fully discharge, due to internal resistance. Your worst case is a fire due to overheating. A capacitor will discharge all the energy in under a second. Welcome to instant barbecue.
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You know what's funny about the Itaipu dam? It is located in the state of Parana and, still, it does not provide a single watt for that state (all Parana's eletricity is produced in smaller and local dams). If you see the Itaipu's power lines traject, it goes straight to the state of Sao Paulo (which does not pay a dime to Parana for that energy).
It's because the bastards linked Sao Paulo's power grid to Parana's, so when Itaipu is not enough (or have problems like the one yesterday), they suck energy which is created and supposed to be provided to Parana.
So if the power lines go straight to Sao Paulo, how is Sao Paulo's grid connected to Parana's? You contradict yourself here. Also, why should Sao Paulo get any money from Parana? The Brazil and Paraguay own the dam, not the state of Parana.
What you suffered was a brown out, where your voltage dropped. Essentially, you had about twice the power load as your source was capable of supplying. This is bad for a number of reasons, and the electric grid should have cut you off entirely. It also might have damaged some of your household devices. Power supplies and other things don't like being run at low voltage, it can actually be worse than over voltage in some cases.
Realistically, it depends on the network. If I have a dedicated network and control all the terminals and there are no external access points, you're not going to have unauthorized access. If you have something like that except you have a connection to the internet where you have no controlled access, then your axiom is true.
How does letting a company fail, instead of being bought out by a competitor, protect consumer welfare? Either way there is one less player in the market.
Cripes. I had even looked at that page before and didn't notice that it was free. Thanks.
Actually, it does suggest class and type names. Start here Now, show me more than 15 lines and I'll start to believe it was copied. Say, show me what called RealLogicalDescriptor (and all of RealLogicalDescriptor too) in combination with all of UdfReader.cs. Preferably in text and not in an image. Actually, just give me the MS code and I'll line it up to the ImageMaster code myself.
Seriously, what he shows to be evidence looks like code that was written straight from reading the ISO disk image specification. Next up, school math class accused of mass cheating for solving math problems in similar ways.
Cisco only supports Cisco. No Standard interfaces, nothing.
So, they don't support IPv4, IPv6, RJ-45 or RS-232?
Easy way to get that reaction and only that reaction would be to use only He3 as the fuel source. No other fuel means no other reactions.
As to "All current fusion designs", that's because we're still trying to make it work in the first place and neutron producing reactions are easier to start with right now. If they could eliminate neutrons from the process now, they would, as it would increase reactor life. Also, energy is not purely extracted by neutrons. If it was, the plasma would heat up indefinitely (Energy, not just neutrons, are produced in fusion) until containment was lost and it exploded. Energy has to be extracted thermally as well.
Yes, but it's not as clean as direct annihilation would be. It generates neutrons which make the materials used for containment radioactive.
Depends on the starting elements. Among others, He3+He3->He4+2p+E. No free neutrons generated, only protons and energy.
There are also a few other UAVs already deployed, such as the Honeywell T-Hawk.
No joke, but it wasn't 'launch codes'. It was the codes for nuclear bombs that get dropped out of airplanes, not the ICBMs. They did it on purpose a few times in case they couldn't send out the actual launch codes in time, such as during the cuban missile crisis.
Based on what I've seen elsewhere, here's probably what happened: The radar system that went with the patriot battery was already in existence and that is what they used. They wouldn't be able to modify all the systems, so they used them as was. The designers of the patriot battery had the interface specification of the radar system and implemented the patriot software as they choose. While this may not have been a problem for the initial use of shooting down bombers, which fly considerably slower, it became a problem for SCUDS which fly much much faster.
Also, from here we see that the system wasn't originally intended to be turned on for more than a few hours at a time. So, the added functionality of being able to shoot down SCUDS was due to a waterfall design (which is still in use today), but the knowledge of the clock error was probably lost at that point.
So in a system that should have clocks synchronized to less than a microsecond nobody bothered to run "ntpdate" even once in hundred days ? And surely the military has better clock synch than a stupid home pc ? This is stupidity, also known as "human error", causing those deaths. It's a case of "the correct answer to the wrong question".
It was 100 hours and this was back in the first gulf war. I'm also pretty sure the computers involved didn't have ntpdate. The incident being referenced was in 1991. Unfortunately, the software fix wasn't available until the next day.
False. I wish people would stop repeating this oft-stated lie. The ~2000 TV stations plus ~10,000 lowpower/clear air neighborhood stations all pay a lease for their spectrum (called a license fee).
Can you provide some evidence of this? I can find application fees, but not spectrum license fees for the TV stations.
Well, if you're going to play it that way, it isn't 11 trillion dollars, it's much less. Social Security holds about $5 trillion, so if you're not going to cut SS taxes, it just increases the portion of the 11 trillion held by SS. Similarly, Medicare doesn't go into the general revenue fund, either. It goes straight to the medicare program. What is supposed to happen when it runs a surplus, I don't know. Neither are supposed to be use to pay down the national debt.
By the way, it's $800 billion of Chinese loans, not the full 11 trillion.
The U.S. and EU are going to tax themselves into serfdom. It's what the Roman Empire did in the 300s and 400s.
We tax people's houses. If they don't pay the tax, they lose their house. Sounds a lot like serfdom.
In fact, it the other way around, only retard spend like crazy in goods times then save in the bads. You save when posible, for be the bad days.
US Politicians spend like drunken fools in good times and then say 'But we can't cut spending!' in the bad times and use it to justify raising taxes. Seriously, my county board raised spending by over 10% a year, in an already prosperous county, during the late 90's through a few years ago.
- convert Medicare where only poor people get checks (i.e. not middle class people like me) - 0.1 trillion saved
You sure that's only 0.1 Trillion? I'd also ask that for both Medicare and SS you likewise reduce the payroll taxes that go towards them.
Netscape 4.x came with something like that. It's latest descendant, SeaMonkey, has it too.
So far it looks like a slightly higher mortality rate and a different mortality distribution. Statistically significantly different, but from a practical stand point, only the distribution is different. Not that mortality and distribution are consistent year to year with the seasonal flu anyway. My question for the OP was because he seemed to be saying all vaccines should be required of hospital workers, regardless of alternatives.
This whole H1N1 strain has groups trying to require them getting the H1N1 vaccine when the regular vaccine has never been required before. I do not see a practical difference between the two, only a statistical difference.
Not to mention that some people are allergic to the flu shot. As it is made using eggs, anyone allergic to eggs can get a severe allergic reaction to the flu shot, including death. Some how I doubt all hospital workers are not allergic to eggs.
Question for you. Do you believe that the regular flu shout should be mandatory for "front-line hospital workers"?
Probably, but have you looked at the size of the military? Infantry can beat tanks if they have the right weapons and sufficient numbers. I doubt we could ever compete with China when it comes to infantry.
A gasoline tank can not release all the energy at once. You would need to have a fuel air mixture do to so. A battery still takes time to fully discharge, due to internal resistance. Your worst case is a fire due to overheating. A capacitor will discharge all the energy in under a second. Welcome to instant barbecue.