Desomorphine itself, while highly addictive, doesn't seem to be the cause of the horrific symptoms of "krocodil" use. Like many other street drugs, the worst of the negative effects are caused by the lack of regulation and dodgy manufacturing conditions.
If pharmaceutical grade opiates were available to addicts, nobody would willingly inject this gasoline-laden crap into their body.
Use in Life Support and Other Critical Applications
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I'm pretty sure that any smartphone app-based system isn't exactly going to be a critical care/life support type of device, though.
Every interview I have seen with him since the show started said that the show by its very nature (terminal cancer) was going to be kind of self-limiting as far as length of run. Do you have a source where he says that there were ever plans for a full-length season 6?
It is one of the exceedingly rare things on TV that actually deserves the hype that it generates.
Equal parts riveting drama, tense action, and Shakespearean tragedy, with just enough black comedy to keep viewers sane. Quite possibly the greatest show in the history of the medium. No exaggeration.
Will be really hard to see it gone after this Sunday's finale, but kudos to the writers and actors for going out at the top of their game, rather than milking a great show into mediocrity ala M*A*S*H*.
They are adding one additional episode to split the season into 2 runs of 7 episodes each. But unlike Breaking Bad, all the episodes will be filmed in one run, with AMC sitting on the last 7 for a year before airing them.
Breaking Bad originally was slated for 13 episodes in the final season, but was granted 3 additional episodes at the time the split was decided on. They were filmed over 2 years, though.
Apple wasn't responsible for this clusterfuck. It was Sony Pictures TV and AMC.
AMC decided to split Season 5 into 2 halves, to extend Emmy eligibility for another year. But Sony insisted on referring to the 2 years as Season 5A and Season 5B, because that would allow them to get around having to give the actors and production staff the contractually mandated pay increase for each new season.
So we have 2 separate definitions for what constitutes a "season", depending on what provides the corporate interests the maximum benefit. They figured that they will make more money separating the DVD sets into 2 releases, so that's what they did.
Somebody really needs to go all Heisenberg on their asses....
Parked on the side of a street I can sort of understand, but parked in their own (presumably private) driveway?
That isn't a public road, so how do the DUI laws apply? As far as I know, you don't even need to have a driver's license, insurance, or vehicle registration if the car isn't operated on public roads. You should be able to drive as drunk as you want to if the vehicle stays on your own property...
if the phone has another connection to earth ground (say, through the audio jack connected to another piece of equipment), a damaging current could then flow to ground THROUGH the phone's internal circuitry.
, and they contain a bit more than a simple transformer and regulator.
They take the AC line voltage, rectify it to high voltage DC, chop the DC up into high frequency pulses with a MOSFET, step the pulsed voltage down with a specially designed transformer, then rectify the output to low voltage DC. A sample of the output DC is then fed back to the primary side circuitry to achieve closed loop regulation.
Because the primary side of the system is at line potential, the insulation in the switching transformer (and the optocoupler used in the feedback loop) is all that prevents the output side from presenting a shock hazard with respect to earth ground. The quality of construction of many of the Chinese knockoff chargers is downright terrible, and I could easily believe that an insulation breakdown. Dave Jones "EEVBlog" did a teardown of one of these a while back. Scary stuff if you know what you are looking at:
This is a fuel cell, not a simple primary cell like you make from a lemon and a couple coins. The urine isn't acting as a simple electrolyte here.
The urine acts as the fuel, and a fuel cell will keep producing power as long as it has fuel and oxygen. Unlike a primary electrochemical cell, the electrodes are not consumed as part of the reaction.
If executions were more of a public spectacle, they would both serve a stronger deterrent purpose, and force people to acknowledge what the government is doing in their name -- both of which would likely have net positive effects on society at large.
Maybe. But the prospect of being the "star" of a big flashy public spectacle seems just as likely to encourage certain types of sociopaths, though. And while public executions might provoke more thoughtfulness about what our government is doing in our names, it seems just as likely to become "reality TV on steroids" for a large percentage of the US populace.
I had a couple iPhone 3GS that I didn't want anymore, so I tried one of those ecoATM things once. They do require a scan of a drivers license as a form of ID, for whatever that is worth. But the big issue is how much they lowball the offered price compared to what you can get almost anywhere else. The machine offered $20 each for the 8GB phones (in near mint shape), so I declined the offer, and sold them myself on eBay for a bit over $100 each.
Even a desperate thief should be able to find a place to fence a stolen phone that gives them more money than those scam machines...
Why would they "spend MANY thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on investigation, arrest, booking, court hearing/trial, and imprisonment for a $500 piece of electronics" when they could spend MANY thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on investigation, arrest, booking, court hearing/trial, and imprisonment for a $10 bag of weed?
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and without the cops having to put their donuts down long enough to search the car by hand!
Nothing like the march of progress, right?
The only one I can see is that it works from a couple inches away, and doesn't need an electrical ground return connection to the workpiece.
Other than that, a plasma cutter is cheaper, less hazardous, and can cut thicker materials.
Desomorphine itself, while highly addictive, doesn't seem to be the cause of the horrific symptoms of "krocodil" use. Like many other street drugs, the worst of the negative effects are caused by the lack of regulation and dodgy manufacturing conditions.
If pharmaceutical grade opiates were available to addicts, nobody would willingly inject this gasoline-laden crap into their body.
FWIW, most of the electronic components IN a phone are also sold with a disclaimer like that. Typical example here:
http://www.analog.com/en/content/analog_devices_terms_and_conditions/fca.html
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I'm pretty sure that any smartphone app-based system isn't exactly going to be a critical care/life support type of device, though.
Vince Gilligan himself thought that 4 seasons would be enough to tell the story he wanted to tell, as late as 2010:
http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/interview-breaking-bad-creator-vince-gilligan-post-mortems-season-three
Every interview I have seen with him since the show started said that the show by its very nature (terminal cancer) was going to be kind of self-limiting as far as length of run. Do you have a source where he says that there were ever plans for a full-length season 6?
It is one of the exceedingly rare things on TV that actually deserves the hype that it generates.
Equal parts riveting drama, tense action, and Shakespearean tragedy, with just enough black comedy to keep viewers sane. Quite possibly the greatest show in the history of the medium. No exaggeration.
Will be really hard to see it gone after this Sunday's finale, but kudos to the writers and actors for going out at the top of their game, rather than milking a great show into mediocrity ala M*A*S*H*.
If you paid attention in physics class, you would get the connection between "Heisenberg" and uncertainty...
They are adding one additional episode to split the season into 2 runs of 7 episodes each. But unlike Breaking Bad, all the episodes will be filmed in one run, with AMC sitting on the last 7 for a year before airing them.
Breaking Bad originally was slated for 13 episodes in the final season, but was granted 3 additional episodes at the time the split was decided on. They were filmed over 2 years, though.
AMC just announced that they are pulling this same crap with Mad Men next year, as well....
Apple wasn't responsible for this clusterfuck. It was Sony Pictures TV and AMC.
AMC decided to split Season 5 into 2 halves, to extend Emmy eligibility for another year. But Sony insisted on referring to the 2 years as Season 5A and Season 5B, because that would allow them to get around having to give the actors and production staff the contractually mandated pay increase for each new season.
So we have 2 separate definitions for what constitutes a "season", depending on what provides the corporate interests the maximum benefit. They figured that they will make more money separating the DVD sets into 2 releases, so that's what they did.
Somebody really needs to go all Heisenberg on their asses....
Parked on the side of a street I can sort of understand, but parked in their own (presumably private) driveway?
That isn't a public road, so how do the DUI laws apply? As far as I know, you don't even need to have a driver's license, insurance, or vehicle registration if the car isn't operated on public roads. You should be able to drive as drunk as you want to if the vehicle stays on your own property...
if the phone has another connection to earth ground (say, through the audio jack connected to another piece of equipment), a damaging current could then flow to ground THROUGH the phone's internal circuitry.
in the illegal spying. game. They just need to have the company install a networked trace metabolite and flushed contraband detector.
Mushrooms aren't "brain pods", they are the reproductive organs, releasing spores into the soil and air.
Not that fungal genitalia popping up everywhere is any less freaky if you think about it...
They champion selfishness AND reject evolution, so stay the course, I guess.
, and they contain a bit more than a simple transformer and regulator.
They take the AC line voltage, rectify it to high voltage DC, chop the DC up into high frequency pulses with a MOSFET, step the pulsed voltage down with a specially designed transformer, then rectify the output to low voltage DC. A sample of the output DC is then fed back to the primary side circuitry to achieve closed loop regulation.
Because the primary side of the system is at line potential, the insulation in the switching transformer (and the optocoupler used in the feedback loop) is all that prevents the output side from presenting a shock hazard with respect to earth ground. The quality of construction of many of the Chinese knockoff chargers is downright terrible, and I could easily believe that an insulation breakdown. Dave Jones "EEVBlog" did a teardown of one of these a while back. Scary stuff if you know what you are looking at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-b9k-0KfE
inside the phones.
No, I didn't drop the phone in water, I just pissed on it to charge it up. Honest!
This is a fuel cell, not a simple primary cell like you make from a lemon and a couple coins. The urine isn't acting as a simple electrolyte here.
The urine acts as the fuel, and a fuel cell will keep producing power as long as it has fuel and oxygen. Unlike a primary electrochemical cell, the electrodes are not consumed as part of the reaction.
which plowed into the desert floor without deploying any parachutes because a G-switch was installed backwards...
http://www.universetoday.com/73/genesis-accident-report-released/
telephone sanitizers who will be put out of work?
And one unexpectedly dirty phone could doom our society....
If executions were more of a public spectacle, they would both serve a stronger deterrent purpose, and force people to acknowledge what the government is doing in their name -- both of which would likely have net positive effects on society at large.
Maybe. But the prospect of being the "star" of a big flashy public spectacle seems just as likely to encourage certain types of sociopaths, though. And while public executions might provoke more thoughtfulness about what our government is doing in our names, it seems just as likely to become "reality TV on steroids" for a large percentage of the US populace.
The damper only sees several kV pulses, not enough to generate X-rays strong enough to get out of the tube.
The culprits in old color TVs were the HV rectifier, the HV shunt regulator, and the CRT itself.
Good article on the TV X-ray issue in the April 1968 issue of Popular Science, available on Google Books.
They find nothing, but decide to plant some evidence (drugs, weapon, whatever).
I had a couple iPhone 3GS that I didn't want anymore, so I tried one of those ecoATM things once. They do require a scan of a drivers license as a form of ID, for whatever that is worth. But the big issue is how much they lowball the offered price compared to what you can get almost anywhere else. The machine offered $20 each for the 8GB phones (in near mint shape), so I declined the offer, and sold them myself on eBay for a bit over $100 each.
Even a desperate thief should be able to find a place to fence a stolen phone that gives them more money than those scam machines...
Why would they "spend MANY thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on investigation, arrest, booking, court hearing/trial, and imprisonment for a $500 piece of electronics" when they could spend MANY thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on investigation, arrest, booking, court hearing/trial, and imprisonment for a $10 bag of weed?