The fact that the Hindenburg's paint pigments are the same compounds that are now the two main active ingredients in the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters has more to do with the fire than anything else. And, according to a Popular Mechanics article from sometime around 1996, the same thing happened in California in 1936 to another airship--this time filled with helium. So the hydrogen in the Hindenburg didn't do anything but exacerbate the existing fire.
No, gordguide has it right for World War Two. Japan wasn't in World War One, which we entered in 1917 because we were sick of the Germans sinking our ships with their U-boats when we were semi-secretly doing anti-U-boat reconnaissance for the British.
Well, it'll keep working when the clock ticks past 30 days, but the next time you start X-Chat after that, it doesn't let you use it without either registering or doing the uninstall-regedit-reinstall hokey-pokey.
I haven't gone through the whole list yet (it is quite long), but X-Chat won't make the cut for the site because the windows build is timebombed to 30 days, unless you register. Despite that, it's still my favorite irc client.
Everything else that I've used on that list checks out though.
There's one thing I always wonder about these things...what's to stop me from giving them n+1 different sets of randomly generated identity and demographic info, where n is the number of friends you need to rope into this to get your free ipod? Use a civilized browser, clean out the relevant cookies in between sessions, and use a different IP each time, and what's to stop me (aside from a personal sense of ethics and the fact that i don't particularly want an ipod)?
There are a couple problems with using hydrogen as a fuel right now though.
First, the engine. If you try to use it in a largely unmodified gasoline engine, you'll get knocking as soon as the pistons and cylinder head warm up. So you are limited to either direct injection and subsequent detonation at TDC (like all modern diesels use) or wankel rotary engines (which need tiny amounts of oil injected to lubricate the various sliding seals). Neither of these is optimal: the former requires a stronger and therefore heavier block and head(s), while the latter is not as thermodynamically efficient as reciprocating engines because the combustion chamber is comparatively long and narrow. And before you flame me for not mentioning fuel cells, those have significant reliability and durability problems (not to mention cost) right now, so they are effectively eliminated.
The other problem is where the hydrogen comes from. The most efficient way to generate it directly is from fossil fuels. This doesn't gain us anything, in terms of easing dependence on them. Nor does electrolysis of water, because most (~75%, according to DoE figures) power plants in the US run on fossil fuels, and nearly all commercial production recently has been combined-cycle gas turbines (which can be modified to run petroleum products or coal gas, but that still doesn't gain us anything). If renewable power sources and pebble-bed nuclear reactors prove commercially viable, that may well change, but it will take a while before those become significant contributors.
Based on the gif linked to by the gp, it seems that the moon will be on the opposite side of the earth from the asteroid when it either hits something or hurtles past us unharmed, so it's a moot point how big of an impact the moon could take (with this asteroid at least).
He said it was acoustically coupled to the sensor's support bar. I take that to mean it's transmitting the sound through the support arm to the sensor, so the air pressure differences are irrelevant.
Okay, so you lose most of your precious system tray icons and all your windows explorer windows, too. You can get those back, too, though, with a bit of effort.
But that's it (at least with xp pro sp1 and 2k pro sp2/sp3; i can't speak for any other flavors of windows).
It depends on where the code originated. If it came from LGPL'd or BSD'd code, it's legally in the clear (ethics are too subjective to say for sure), but if it came from GPL'd code, it is illegal.
They aren't going after BitTorrent itself though, so the "substantial noninfringing uses" part of the Betamax verdict wouldn't apply, even if this was in the US (as the sig says, IANAL though). They're going after sites that aggregate.torrents for illegal files.
On the subject of passwords, it would probably be a good idea to remember half the passphrase as something you can easily remember, and put another 10 or 12 random characters/digits on something easily destroy-able like a stick of chewing gum. If you're ever grabbed by unfriendly agents, pop the gum in your mouth, chew a few times, and all possibility of data being recovered is gone. And you have some extremely good plausible denyability for the password....and probably a really easy conviction for destruction of evidence, so that's not going to be beneficial unless you have something even more dangerous concealed behind the encryption.
Actually, there are quite a few oil-fired power plants in the US (according to DoE figures, they make 3-4% of the electricity in the US). They're being phased out in much of the country by more efficient (and cleaner) combined-cycle natural gas plants though.
On winxp, it didn't work in firefox 0.10 (with tabbrowser and adblock extensions), nor in opera 7.54 (with these options set in quick preferences: block unwanted popups, gif animation on, javascript on, cookies on, and identify as opera).
It worked on gentoo with firefox 1.0 though (that's still largely at default settings though, so that's probably why).
Looking around the internet, the VAST majority of forum posts and, in particular, instant messages and irc chats have been detrimental to language skills.
Sturgeon's law falls an order of magnitude short for electronic discourse.
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The fact that the Hindenburg's paint pigments are the same compounds that are now the two main active ingredients in the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters has more to do with the fire than anything else. And, according to a Popular Mechanics article from sometime around 1996, the same thing happened in California in 1936 to another airship--this time filled with helium. So the hydrogen in the Hindenburg didn't do anything but exacerbate the existing fire.
Wouldn't that be twartable by having a tungsten plate as one of the layers of the safe?
No, gordguide has it right for World War Two. Japan wasn't in World War One, which we entered in 1917 because we were sick of the Germans sinking our ships with their U-boats when we were semi-secretly doing anti-U-boat reconnaissance for the British.
Your math is wrong. For one box, $8/month is $96/year. For additional boxes, this usually scales linearly.
The rest of your points are valid though. Not to mention the flexibility to do what you want with the things you've recorded on your PVR.
Well, it'll keep working when the clock ticks past 30 days, but the next time you start X-Chat after that, it doesn't let you use it without either registering or doing the uninstall-regedit-reinstall hokey-pokey.
I haven't gone through the whole list yet (it is quite long), but X-Chat won't make the cut for the site because the windows build is timebombed to 30 days, unless you register. Despite that, it's still my favorite irc client.
Everything else that I've used on that list checks out though.
There's one thing I always wonder about these things...what's to stop me from giving them n+1 different sets of randomly generated identity and demographic info, where n is the number of friends you need to rope into this to get your free ipod? Use a civilized browser, clean out the relevant cookies in between sessions, and use a different IP each time, and what's to stop me (aside from a personal sense of ethics and the fact that i don't particularly want an ipod)?
There are a couple problems with using hydrogen as a fuel right now though.
First, the engine. If you try to use it in a largely unmodified gasoline engine, you'll get knocking as soon as the pistons and cylinder head warm up. So you are limited to either direct injection and subsequent detonation at TDC (like all modern diesels use) or wankel rotary engines (which need tiny amounts of oil injected to lubricate the various sliding seals). Neither of these is optimal: the former requires a stronger and therefore heavier block and head(s), while the latter is not as thermodynamically efficient as reciprocating engines because the combustion chamber is comparatively long and narrow. And before you flame me for not mentioning fuel cells, those have significant reliability and durability problems (not to mention cost) right now, so they are effectively eliminated.
The other problem is where the hydrogen comes from. The most efficient way to generate it directly is from fossil fuels. This doesn't gain us anything, in terms of easing dependence on them. Nor does electrolysis of water, because most (~75%, according to DoE figures) power plants in the US run on fossil fuels, and nearly all commercial production recently has been combined-cycle gas turbines (which can be modified to run petroleum products or coal gas, but that still doesn't gain us anything). If renewable power sources and pebble-bed nuclear reactors prove commercially viable, that may well change, but it will take a while before those become significant contributors.
Based on the gif linked to by the gp, it seems that the moon will be on the opposite side of the earth from the asteroid when it either hits something or hurtles past us unharmed, so it's a moot point how big of an impact the moon could take (with this asteroid at least).
...and those who understand that this is functionally no different from the Viewscreens in 1984. I'll pass on this idea, thankyouverymuch.
I can't let you do that, Dave....
And if you blindly install new patches on everything without testing them first, you deserve everything you get.
He said it was acoustically coupled to the sensor's support bar. I take that to mean it's transmitting the sound through the support arm to the sensor, so the air pressure differences are irrelevant.
Okay, so you lose most of your precious system tray icons and all your windows explorer windows, too. You can get those back, too, though, with a bit of effort.
But that's it (at least with xp pro sp1 and 2k pro sp2/sp3; i can't speak for any other flavors of windows).
It depends on where the code originated. If it came from LGPL'd or BSD'd code, it's legally in the clear (ethics are too subjective to say for sure), but if it came from GPL'd code, it is illegal.
Let's be honest... yro.slashdot.org is uglier. it.slashdot.org isn't exactly fine art either though.
They aren't going after BitTorrent itself though, so the "substantial noninfringing uses" part of the Betamax verdict wouldn't apply, even if this was in the US (as the sig says, IANAL though). They're going after sites that aggregate .torrents for illegal files.
You can buy independent-label CDs, too. Those, by definition, are not part of the RIAA empire.
On the subject of passwords, it would probably be a good idea to remember half the passphrase as something you can easily remember, and put another 10 or 12 random characters/digits on something easily destroy-able like a stick of chewing gum. If you're ever grabbed by unfriendly agents, pop the gum in your mouth, chew a few times, and all possibility of data being recovered is gone. And you have some extremely good plausible denyability for the password. ...and probably a really easy conviction for destruction of evidence, so that's not going to be beneficial unless you have something even more dangerous concealed behind the encryption.
We should all band together and find a good psychaitrist for AOL.
Eliza should suffice.
Actually, there are quite a few oil-fired power plants in the US (according to DoE figures, they make 3-4% of the electricity in the US). They're being phased out in much of the country by more efficient (and cleaner) combined-cycle natural gas plants though.
1.0 is pretty stable for me, and file receive works fine through NAT (haven't tried file sending in it yet).
On winxp, it didn't work in firefox 0.10 (with tabbrowser and adblock extensions), nor in opera 7.54 (with these options set in quick preferences: block unwanted popups, gif animation on, javascript on, cookies on, and identify as opera).
It worked on gentoo with firefox 1.0 though (that's still largely at default settings though, so that's probably why).
What holes remain that can't be plugged with technology will be plugged with lawyers.
Looking around the internet, the VAST majority of forum posts and, in particular, instant messages and irc chats have been detrimental to language skills.
Sturgeon's law falls an order of magnitude short for electronic discourse.