Are you seriously saying that just because one man who's well known CIA wife was recently "re-outed" claims that Iraq was not seeking yellowcake from Niger that that disproves the Bush (CIA) asertion that Hussein was seeking uranium from africa?
I suppose next you're going to say that none of europe participated in the war because France didn't since as we all know, there's no Europe outside of France.
Bah.. just count the number of unique IPs querying google. If you're 'online' you're going to use a search engine at some point and so very many people use google. Not sure what to do about IP spoofing, but whatever there is that differentiates the different sub-addresses should be able to differentiate different users as well.
Unless they're decent quality. Try to find some overflight pictures instead. If you're mapping a small area, you could even do it yourself perhaps.
Hire a bush pilot and make several passes over the villages, say one color, one near-IR and one UV. Stitch the photos together later. Make sure you have a large diameter lens so you can use a fast shutter speed. (I think UV is what the makers of topo maps use to map buildings)
Even poor-man's aerial photography is going to be better than satellite pictures.
The language is not as forcefull as ammendment I
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See that's the thing, in the US, we have a document that plainly states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Then follows up with ammendment 10, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
and 9, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
To specifically deny certain powers to the government. It does not explicitely state what the rights of the people are, only that there are certain rights endowed by the creator, which the document is designed to protect.
The article you mentioned implies that the source of the rights is the document itself, which grants the signors a certain elasticity wrt changing those rights for you.
That is the difference between the US constitution and so many other founding documents worldwide; It is there delineate the bounds beyond which government may not go. Other documents seek to declare certain rights to the people.
Impossible. Unless the car of the future is one of those waifish solar racers.
You really can't hope to get more than about 1 kW (maybe 2 in the mysterious future) out of the solar panels. Since the average car needs about 35 kW to plow through the air at highway speed, you'll be charging it for a while between uses.
Without superconductors, grid-charging will get quite expensive: consider the efficiency of the electric plant, efficiency of the transmission lines, efficiency of the step-down transformer and DC converter, efficiency of the charging circuit, and the charging efficiency of the batteries themselves. Multiply all those numbers together.
It turns out that one of the most useful ways to store and transport hydrogen is by chemically bonding it in long chain carbon molecules. The resulting liquid has a high energy density (per volume) and is relatively easy to store.
It is a conflict of interest to have lawyers in charge of making laws. They are the one group that benefits not from the content of laws written but from the sheer volume. Like tax preparers, they have a vested interest in increasing the complexity and volume of the body of law, but not the quality thereof.
Putting lawyers in charge of lawmaking is a recipe for bad law. The only thing that won't happen is the outright repeal of any law. If there's a problem, an ambiguous ammendment can certainly deal with it.
Unfortunately for us, lawyers are about the only people with enough time and resources to actually run for office...
(speaking of ammendments, has anyone else noticed that they tend to get longer and less legible with increasing number? )
Drudge is like slashdot: he collects news from other sources and posts links to it on his web page. Somehow he has connections with various reporters and can sometimes scoop scoops that aren't being properly scooped. For instance, he broke the Monica Lewinsky story that was being sat on. Usually his scoops are of the 'tomorrow, newspaper X is going to report this'
His dupes are intentional and usually because something has been added to the story.
He does not have commentary (but he does have a huge number of links to professional editorialists)
Sometimes his headlines are almost as sensational as slashdot headlines would be. (I've seen nerd news on drudge that never appeared on/.: instead another roland pick-a-pay-eh piece was run)
The future of hard disk platters probably involves ceramic substrates. In that case, we will again be putting our data onto pottery. rust covered pottery.
I can remember a couple of holds for "flocks of birds" over the no-fly area and one for moron in a cessna who got too close. FYI they scramble fighters for that kind of thing. I think one actually had to be scrubbed because of a boat in the no-boating area. When I used to go down to see the launches it was about 50/50 whether they would launch that day or not..
As long as there aren't any birds immediately surrounding, I think they're above "seagull flight ceiling" pretty quick.
Buy a canon i{anything} or for that matter, a canon pretty much anything. replaceable heads, separate ink from heads, separate ink for each color. (up to six i think on the dedicated photo-printers) The software that comes with isn't bad either (I haven't found anything better at photo-stitching that doesn't take hours to do)
A turbocharger increases the backpressure, which increases the engine load. It would probably be just as effective (though more geometrically challenging) to run the turbo-charger directly off the shaft.
The turbo is not running off of unspent fuel (and if it were, some kind of system for preventing that.. say a turbo of some kind... would be appropriate) So no, you're not getting 'free power' from the spent gasses.
US lifted the highway limit years ago and left it up to the states to determine the speed limit on their segments. Oddly the federal limit came down at around the same time that Montana removed its autobahn-like 'reasonable and prudent' limit on some state highways. Both the Interstate and the State highways near me (out here on the east coast) have speed limits of 75 mph. I have not seen 80 or higher, but there is no reason it cannot exist.
But yah.. I'd sure hate to crash one of those solar cars. Or drive it over a poorly maintained highway. or drive it at all really.
Solar races are particular disheartening when you realise that they ARE the state of the art. There will never be a solar powered minivan or even a solar sedan. There simply is not enough insolation to move that profile at reasonable highway speeds. There might still be some speed improvements in the racers, but solar vehicles that could fit on a highway are always going to be flimsy 1-2 passenger deathbikes.
Of course, that's the whole reason some people (namely me) even go to Imax films.. and forget these big square things everyone thinks is imax. They're just big movie screens. visit the Museum of Science in Boston, MA for their Mugar Omni Imax Theater.. nearly full FOV wraparound screen.
although they are specifically designed to avoid injury, has anyone actually done a study as to the rates of injury using these keyboards vs. standard 104-key or what have you? It's been my understanding that the causes of, for instance carpal tunnel, are as yet undetermined.
for an impactor, it needs to be nudged so that it will be at escape velocity relative to earth as it grazes by.
Space stations as you say are useless for 'not having all the eggs in one basket' but full-blown colonies may not be. step one to full blown self-supporting colonies (fully self sufficient as in need to import nothing, but still do if it's cheaper than making it) is space stations. Kind of like historical ships: step one to colonizing the new world was ships. the ships themselves are useless as population sinks or as backup population, but another entire continent full of people is a nice thing to have.
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Are you seriously saying that just because one man who's well known CIA wife was recently "re-outed" claims that Iraq was not seeking yellowcake from Niger that that disproves the Bush (CIA) asertion that Hussein was seeking uranium from africa?
I suppose next you're going to say that none of europe participated in the war because France didn't since as we all know, there's no Europe outside of France.
Bah.. just count the number of unique IPs querying google. If you're 'online' you're going to use a search engine at some point and so very many people use google. Not sure what to do about IP spoofing, but whatever there is that differentiates the different sub-addresses should be able to differentiate different users as well.
Debian: 38% unpatched 69% remotely exploited
WinXP pro: 25% unpatched only 61% remotely exploited
Pay no attention to the totals...
Unless they're decent quality. Try to find some overflight pictures instead. If you're mapping a small area, you could even do it yourself perhaps.
Hire a bush pilot and make several passes over the villages, say one color, one near-IR and one UV. Stitch the photos together later. Make sure you have a large diameter lens so you can use a fast shutter speed. (I think UV is what the makers of topo maps use to map buildings)
Even poor-man's aerial photography is going to be better than satellite pictures.
See that's the thing, in the US, we have a document that plainly states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Then follows up with ammendment 10,
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
and 9,
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
To specifically deny certain powers to the government. It does not explicitely state what the rights of the people are, only that there are certain rights endowed by the creator, which the document is designed to protect.
The article you mentioned implies that the source of the rights is the document itself, which grants the signors a certain elasticity wrt changing those rights for you.
That is the difference between the US constitution and so many other founding documents worldwide; It is there delineate the bounds beyond which government may not go. Other documents seek to declare certain rights to the people.
Why would casinos want to keep compulsive gamblers out? Unless they're also compulsive winners...
Impossible. Unless the car of the future is one of those waifish solar racers.
You really can't hope to get more than about 1 kW (maybe 2 in the mysterious future) out of the solar panels. Since the average car needs about 35 kW to plow through the air at highway speed, you'll be charging it for a while between uses.
Without superconductors, grid-charging will get quite expensive: consider the efficiency of the electric plant, efficiency of the transmission lines, efficiency of the step-down transformer and DC converter, efficiency of the charging circuit, and the charging efficiency of the batteries themselves. Multiply all those numbers together.
Two words: hydrogen embrittlement.
It turns out that one of the most useful ways to store and transport hydrogen is by chemically bonding it in long chain carbon molecules. The resulting liquid has a high energy density (per volume) and is relatively easy to store.
It is a conflict of interest to have lawyers in charge of making laws. They are the one group that benefits not from the content of laws written but from the sheer volume. Like tax preparers, they have a vested interest in increasing the complexity and volume of the body of law, but not the quality thereof.
Putting lawyers in charge of lawmaking is a recipe for bad law. The only thing that won't happen is the outright repeal of any law. If there's a problem, an ambiguous ammendment can certainly deal with it.
Unfortunately for us, lawyers are about the only people with enough time and resources to actually run for office...
(speaking of ammendments, has anyone else noticed that they tend to get longer and less legible with increasing number? )
make sleep suck on a PC.
Drudge is like slashdot: he collects news from other sources and posts links to it on his web page. Somehow he has connections with various reporters and can sometimes scoop scoops that aren't being properly scooped. For instance, he broke the Monica Lewinsky story that was being sat on. Usually his scoops are of the 'tomorrow, newspaper X is going to report this'
/.: instead another roland pick-a-pay-eh piece was run)
His dupes are intentional and usually because something has been added to the story.
He does not have commentary (but he does have a huge number of links to professional editorialists)
Sometimes his headlines are almost as sensational as slashdot headlines would be. (I've seen nerd news on drudge that never appeared on
The future of hard disk platters probably involves ceramic substrates. In that case, we will again be putting our data onto pottery. rust covered pottery.
wasn't that an episode of sliders?
You could fit a whole laptop in this one: http://www.trainweb.org/tgvpages/acela.html#diagra ms
interesting. Why can't they put that sticky junk that race car drivers use to avoid having wipers?
I can remember a couple of holds for "flocks of birds" over the no-fly area and one for moron in a cessna who got too close. FYI they scramble fighters for that kind of thing. I think one actually had to be scrubbed because of a boat in the no-boating area. When I used to go down to see the launches it was about 50/50 whether they would launch that day or not..
As long as there aren't any birds immediately surrounding, I think they're above "seagull flight ceiling" pretty quick.
Buy a canon i{anything} or for that matter, a canon pretty much anything. replaceable heads, separate ink from heads, separate ink for each color. (up to six i think on the dedicated photo-printers)
The software that comes with isn't bad either (I haven't found anything better at photo-stitching that doesn't take hours to do)
A turbocharger increases the backpressure, which increases the engine load. It would probably be just as effective (though more geometrically challenging) to run the turbo-charger directly off the shaft.
The turbo is not running off of unspent fuel (and if it were, some kind of system for preventing that.. say a turbo of some kind... would be appropriate) So no, you're not getting 'free power' from the spent gasses.
US lifted the highway limit years ago and left it up to the states to determine the speed limit on their segments. Oddly the federal limit came down at around the same time that Montana removed its autobahn-like 'reasonable and prudent' limit on some state highways. Both the Interstate and the State highways near me (out here on the east coast) have speed limits of 75 mph. I have not seen 80 or higher, but there is no reason it cannot exist.
But yah.. I'd sure hate to crash one of those solar cars. Or drive it over a poorly maintained highway. or drive it at all really.
Solar races are particular disheartening when you realise that they ARE the state of the art. There will never be a solar powered minivan or even a solar sedan. There simply is not enough insolation to move that profile at reasonable highway speeds. There might still be some speed improvements in the racers, but solar vehicles that could fit on a highway are always going to be flimsy 1-2 passenger deathbikes.
Of course, that's the whole reason some people (namely me) even go to Imax films.. and forget these big square things everyone thinks is imax. They're just big movie screens. visit the Museum of Science in Boston, MA for their Mugar Omni Imax Theater.. nearly full FOV wraparound screen.
Why is it ok for linux to include everything but the kitchen sink (and beta drivers for that too), but microsoft is evil if it includes a web browser?
although they are specifically designed to avoid injury, has anyone actually done a study as to the rates of injury using these keyboards vs. standard 104-key or what have you? It's been my understanding that the causes of, for instance carpal tunnel, are as yet undetermined.
If you ask a farmer, "do you have any cows?" then "do you mind if i kill and eat one?" he'll probably have the same reaction.
1) Do you have a car? 2)do you mind if I melt it for scrap?
for an impactor, it needs to be nudged so that it will be at escape velocity relative to earth as it grazes by.
Space stations as you say are useless for 'not having all the eggs in one basket' but full-blown colonies may not be. step one to full blown self-supporting colonies (fully self sufficient as in need to import nothing, but still do if it's cheaper than making it) is space stations. Kind of like historical ships: step one to colonizing the new world was ships. the ships themselves are useless as population sinks or as backup population, but another entire continent full of people is a nice thing to have.
You can't have an eclipse at night. the earth is already doing all the eclipsing possible.