It's akin to being an executioner. You may not do your job ever but once in your life, but once you've done it you're never going to want to do it again. That's what you're getting paid for.
Executioners often do their task repeatedly. Some countries even had what were basically family dynasties of executioners. It supposedly takes considerable skill to chop off a head, hang someone, or run an electric chair.
You know, if you are going to have destruct switches... they really should look like that. A big turn key, solid, metal, single function panel that does nothing else. Heavy clunky switches that tell you you've done something.
Actually, before I saw the picture, I'd pictured it as something like a missile launch panel. Two keys, far enough apart to not be operable by one person, and both people have to turn the key to execute the action.
(I'm sure the conspiracy theorists could come up with something about NASA using captured German scientists to design the destruct systems.):-)
Except we didn't end up shooting Von Braun (though the British wouldn't have minded, since he invented the V-missiles) -- we hired him and made him head of NASA:)
Is this a serious question? What gives them the right is that they were there first, they have lots of nuclear weapons and powerful conventional armies.
In which case, one can only HOPE and pray for more proliferation. So that the poorer countries can defend themselves against bullying from the established nuclear powers.
BTW, what exactly gives the members of the nuclear "club" -- US, Russia, China, UK, France, India, Pakistan (Israel/Japan) and their friends the right to reprocess their fuel and have a viable nuclear industry, while growing economies are not given that right? Reprocessing fuel does NOT have to be for the purpose of producing nuclear weapons -- if the fuel is reprocessed, they don't have to buy as much new fuel from other countries, and the quantity of waste also goes down. This is a ploy by certain countries to control the energy industries of developing economies, in addition to a way to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
PS- guess which county was the ONLY one to use nuclear weapons in anger so far?
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Some reactor designs, like CANDU and RBMK have separate water channels for each fuel rod, so they can be refuelled whilst in operation. So this device will only affect a limited subset of reactors. Same thing with the new pebble-bed reactors -- the fuel "pebbles" are continuously recycled -- being removed out the bottom and readded.
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Ironically, a homemade device would be less accurate than a calibrated Geiger counter.
BTW, beta radiation can also be detected using a leaf electroscope.
http://www.nfinity.com/~exile/electro.htm
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An urban legend without a shred of truth to it. Rickover in fact was initially in favor of sodium cooled reactors - because, in theory, they would allow plants that were more compact and higher power than water cooled reactors. However, as usually happens, theory and reality failed to jibe.
Didn't one of the Russian sub classes (Alfa?) use a lead-bismuth cooled reactor? That allowed the reactor to run hotter and hence more efficiently, but without the explosion risks of sodium + water.
I hope this means sftp and https -- insecure WebDAV and FTP over the public Internet is one thing we do NOT need. Or maybe they should include a VPN server since some OS's don't have good support for WebDAV over HTTPs (XP tsk tsk).
I hope that they include something like OpenVPN that allows clients from almost every platform and is very flexible as far as setup. Secure remote access is very important.
All I can say is that both my grandmother and my sister were sick for about two weeks; fever, chills, etc, after getting the flu vaccine this year. Coincidence? Who knows -- I wasn't vaccinated and I trust my immune system to beat the flu by itself. That which won't kill it will only make it stronger...
Good point. But don't you still have the option of not testifying in an eventual court case?
In the USA, you're protected against giving testimony that's damaging to yourself (or your spouse). This same protection does not apply to testimony damaging to OTHERS. So yes, you could be required to testify or risk jail or fines for contempt of court.
Why not go with genocide right out of the gate? That should teach 'em!
Further injuring a man in a diabetic coma (who would look ill to any sane person) qualifies as attempted murder. Genocide is killing of multiple people. What kind of moron would first think that a person who doesn't respond to them is resisting them? Only someone with the mentality of an insecure little boy.
You can't torture someone in a coma by doing things that are not felt or perceived upon recovery from the coma.
You're right; let's not charge them with assault and battery. Let's charge them with attempted murder and give them the rest of their lives by themselves to think about what they have done.
I'm less pissed about the handgun. At least you know that anyone who you use it on is likely to be killed, and if you use it without VERY good justification, you'll be brought up on charges of manslaughter or murder. With a Taser, since it's perceived as non-lethal and doesn't leave long-lasting marks on the body, you'll be much less sparing in using it.
I'm sorry, but why are we supposed to have any feelings for a person who attacks a police officer?
Cops are human, too, and some may well do things that make them deserving of being attacked. In fact, cops who abuse their power (and thereby betray the public trust) deserve a good stomping followed by throwing in the gutter to calm down.
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Executioners often do their task repeatedly. Some countries even had what were basically family dynasties of executioners. It supposedly takes considerable skill to chop off a head, hang someone, or run an electric chair.
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Actually, before I saw the picture, I'd pictured it as something like a missile launch panel. Two keys, far enough apart to not be operable by one person, and both people have to turn the key to execute the action.
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Except we didn't end up shooting Von Braun (though the British wouldn't have minded, since he invented the V-missiles) -- we hired him and made him head of NASA :)
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In which case, one can only HOPE and pray for more proliferation. So that the poorer countries can defend themselves against bullying from the established nuclear powers.
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By "poison", it's meant that it absorbs neutrons and discourages fission, not that it's toxic to life.
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BTW, what exactly gives the members of the nuclear "club" -- US, Russia, China, UK, France, India, Pakistan (Israel/Japan) and their friends the right to reprocess their fuel and have a viable nuclear industry, while growing economies are not given that right? Reprocessing fuel does NOT have to be for the purpose of producing nuclear weapons -- if the fuel is reprocessed, they don't have to buy as much new fuel from other countries, and the quantity of waste also goes down. This is a ploy by certain countries to control the energy industries of developing economies, in addition to a way to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. PS- guess which county was the ONLY one to use nuclear weapons in anger so far? -b.
Some reactor designs, like CANDU and RBMK have separate water channels for each fuel rod, so they can be refuelled whilst in operation. So this device will only affect a limited subset of reactors. Same thing with the new pebble-bed reactors -- the fuel "pebbles" are continuously recycled -- being removed out the bottom and readded. -b.
mod down kthx
Especially, since "torch" in the King's English, means "flashlight."
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The irony is that this law is likely to encourage the use of LESS accurate devices, so there's MORE likelihood of a false alarm/panic starting.
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Ironically, a homemade device would be less accurate than a calibrated Geiger counter. BTW, beta radiation can also be detected using a leaf electroscope. http://www.nfinity.com/~exile/electro.htm -b.
Didn't one of the Russian sub classes (Alfa?) use a lead-bismuth cooled reactor? That allowed the reactor to run hotter and hence more efficiently, but without the explosion risks of sodium + water.
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I've found DD-WRT's implementation to be a pain to set up correctly -- far better to have it running on a server device IMHO.
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I hope this means sftp and https -- insecure WebDAV and FTP over the public Internet is one thing we do NOT need. Or maybe they should include a VPN server since some OS's don't have good support for WebDAV over HTTPs (XP tsk tsk).
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not sure what the thing linked to is, but it's NOT relevant and needs to be modded down as such.
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In NJ -- sure. Tasers are actually illegal here, even for police use. Shot on the other hand...
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If the older person is concerned about catching it, THEY can get the jab; no one is stopping them.
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In the USA, you're protected against giving testimony that's damaging to yourself (or your spouse). This same protection does not apply to testimony damaging to OTHERS. So yes, you could be required to testify or risk jail or fines for contempt of court.
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Further injuring a man in a diabetic coma (who would look ill to any sane person) qualifies as attempted murder. Genocide is killing of multiple people. What kind of moron would first think that a person who doesn't respond to them is resisting them? Only someone with the mentality of an insecure little boy.
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You're right; let's not charge them with assault and battery. Let's charge them with attempted murder and give them the rest of their lives by themselves to think about what they have done.
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Cops are human, too, and some may well do things that make them deserving of being attacked. In fact, cops who abuse their power (and thereby betray the public trust) deserve a good stomping followed by throwing in the gutter to calm down.
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You're right, I was wrong. The electric chair is too much like torture. May I suggest hanging instead?