It's too late for him to do it now. If he knows in advance what the CD will do to his system that would seriously weaken his case. What this needs is some raging libertarian litigant to have run it and THEN find out about it.
Regarding the diabetes, have you tried taking a regular dose of cinnamon - 1/4 to 1 tsp a day depending on your weight/condition. It has an effect on the efficiency of the insulin that your body produces and can both lower and stabilise blood sugar levels. (Anecdotally it seems to be best taken in the morning.)
The photo looks fake, like those ones where you hang something up close to the camera and pretend it is further away and bigger. This is probably a feral cat, something there is no shortage of in the bush. By the time the DNA results come back they will have had their 15 minutes of fun.
The Office of State Revenue is part of the fucking Government.
If you send them a document they can't read they will ignore it and the consequences (refiling fees, late penalties, etc.) will come back on you. You think they will give a shit that you want to use a TCP program? Their response will be "Provide it in readable form or pay the penalties."
Three Patents for the Apple-kings under the sky,
seven for the IBM-lords in their halls of stone,
nine for Microsoft Men doomed to die,
one for the Commodore on his dark throne
in the Land of Silicon where the Salesdroids lie.
One Amiga to rule them all,
one Amiga to find them,
one Amiga to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them
If it was just the platform you'd build it on land in a concrete bunker. It may be a hellaciously strong string, but it is also very long, has a huge surface to volume ratio and is also subject to unwanted resonances. Hanging it out in a 60 ~ 100 Kt wind is possibly going to add enough stress to break it. Assuming a storm reaches 10,000 ft high (a conservative guess) and 60 Kt (fairly mild really), what is the lateral force on a two mile high, 1 mm wide ribbon (just to mix units:) ) ? And what does that translate into in terms of increased tension in the cable? This whole structure sits on the edge of what is reasonably possible. ANYTHING that lets you reduce the stress on the cable will be incorporated, because of the huge effect that it has on the taper ratio, and the huge effect that then has on the amount of mass you need to lift to orbit. If you can find it, Charles Sheffield wrote a fairly good article on the physics and structure of "beanstalks" about 30 years ago, in "Far Frontiers" ed by James Baen/Jerry Pornelle. It still applies.
Hal Clement is one of my favorite authors.
Having an alian protagonist was a definite forte. - "mission of gravity" is still regarded as a classic.
With the standard exceptions for the plot (FTL travel and sometimes gravity control) his science was rock hard and his writing terrific.
The only times I have had problems with toner flaking are when using coated art papers in machines that weren't meant to take it. The old hp laserjets were beasts of machines (in a good way, built like tanks and ran forever). If you had problems with flaking toner either you were using clay-coated paper or your printer's fuser was under-temperature (probably a faulty temp sensor on it, reading high)
For archiving you should use rag or hemp uncoated paper.
Back in the late nineties Xerox rated the toner in their Docutech / 6135 range at four hundred years.
Interestingly, in the same document that they guaranteed this, they only rated their archival paper at three hundred years.
This was for printing archival Govt. documents back then. I don't know what their current standards are.
Oil rigs don't move because they are attached to oil wells. It's rather difficult to move a hole that can be a couple of kilometres deep:)
Being off the equator adds extra stress to the cable/ribbon. Given that strength of material is borderline achievable you don't want to add any stess you can avoid, hence it will almost certainly be on the equator. You could drift east/west no problem, and a limited distance north/south - especially if the lower part of the cable wasn't carrying climbers - in order to avoid things. The lower section is essentially a 32000 km hanging string. At the bottom it will initially have a sub mm^2 cross-section. Dragging the end of string like that a few hundred km isn't that difficult.
Realistically the security will be necessary only against destructive attempts. This WILL be either Govt./Industry co-op (most likely) or solely Govt., either way military protection and area interdiction will be available. This is too big both financially and in political impact to avoid Govt. involvement.
You build a large floating platform in the middle of the Pacific.
1. With sufficient warning you can move it to avoid things, e.g storms.
2. It the worst happens and the cable breaks and comes down you don't hit any land. (I know how long the cable is, but most of it will burn up on re-entry, only the bottom couple of thousand miles have any chance of making it to ground.
3. One of the things your climbers do is add more ribbon to make the cable stronger. Eventually you may be transporting enough that ocean shipping is desirable. 4. It's fairly easy to declare a few hundred square miles of ocean off limits and have the US Navy blow any intruders out of the water. (This will be regarded as a national asset, regardless of ownership.)
5. You could start cheap and do it by welding a couple of obsolete supertankers together. This also give you the engines to move it.
You forgot to say that if you reverse the field polarity you can use the resultant raleigh scattering to produce uncrackable encryption via p-shell electron quantum transfers in the neutronium-alloy conduction band.
200 million years is actually quite a long time.
Given daily twice daily tides thats sufficient for 146000000000 mixing cycles and 73000000000 heat/cool cyles in a chemical bath the size of all of Earth's coastlines. That gives a pretty good chance of developing a simple chemical replicator, and once you have that evolution takes care of the rest.
The answer is obviously OTEC generators. Cool the surface of the ocean slightly while generating large amounts of electricity. This won't stop hurricanes completely - you still want the rainfall - but it will greatly reduce the severity. win/win.
The gravitational force between two things smaller than 1/100 mm is pretty damn small unless they are micro black holes. It might be just a tad difficult to measure.
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I think you misunderstood Frogbert. You write the law first, THEN you organize the explosion.
It's too late for him to do it now. If he knows in advance what the CD will do to his system that would seriously weaken his case.
What this needs is some raging libertarian litigant to have run it and THEN find out about it.
Isn't there one that starts "The right of the people to keep and bear arms..."
Regarding the diabetes, have you tried taking a regular dose of cinnamon - 1/4 to 1 tsp a day depending on your weight/condition. It has an effect on the efficiency of the insulin that your body produces and can both lower and stabilise blood sugar levels. (Anecdotally it seems to be best taken in the morning.)
The photo looks fake, like those ones where you hang something up close to the camera and pretend it is further away and bigger.
This is probably a feral cat, something there is no shortage of in the bush. By the time the DNA results come back they will have had their 15 minutes of fun.
No actual feline species, but the Quoll is pretty much the marsupial equivalent. Cute animals :)
Implant the pickup coil of v. fine wire under the scalp just above whichever ear the patient most likes to use their mobile phone on.
The Office of State Revenue is part of the fucking Government.
If you send them a document they can't read they will ignore it and the consequences (refiling fees, late penalties, etc.) will come back on you.
You think they will give a shit that you want to use a TCP program? Their response will be "Provide it in readable form or pay the penalties."
No, i don't think you would. You would probably find it a bit of a resource hog.
On your current machine, sure. But give moore a few more years and it will start to look possible.
Three Patents for the Apple-kings under the sky,
seven for the IBM-lords in their halls of stone,
nine for Microsoft Men doomed to die,
one for the Commodore on his dark throne
in the Land of Silicon where the Salesdroids lie.
One Amiga to rule them all,
one Amiga to find them,
one Amiga to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them
in the Land of Silicon where the Salesdroids lie.
If it was just the platform you'd build it on land in a concrete bunker. :) ) ?
It may be a hellaciously strong string, but it is also very long, has a huge surface to volume ratio and is also subject to unwanted resonances.
Hanging it out in a 60 ~ 100 Kt wind is possibly going to add enough stress to break it.
Assuming a storm reaches 10,000 ft high (a conservative guess) and 60 Kt (fairly mild really), what is the lateral force on a two mile high, 1 mm wide ribbon (just to mix units
And what does that translate into in terms of increased tension in the cable?
This whole structure sits on the edge of what is reasonably possible. ANYTHING that lets you reduce the stress on the cable will be incorporated, because of the huge effect that it has on the taper ratio, and the huge effect that then has on the amount of mass you need to lift to orbit.
If you can find it, Charles Sheffield wrote a fairly good article on the physics and structure of "beanstalks" about 30 years ago, in "Far Frontiers" ed by James Baen/Jerry Pornelle. It still applies.
Hal Clement is one of my favorite authors.
Having an alian protagonist was a definite forte. - "mission of gravity" is still regarded as a classic.
With the standard exceptions for the plot (FTL travel and sometimes gravity control) his science was rock hard and his writing terrific.
No religion is either a delusion (if you believe it) or a con (if you pretend to believe it).
The only times I have had problems with toner flaking are when using coated art papers in machines that weren't meant to take it.
The old hp laserjets were beasts of machines (in a good way, built like tanks and ran forever).
If you had problems with flaking toner either you were using clay-coated paper or your printer's fuser was under-temperature (probably a faulty temp sensor on it, reading high)
For archiving you should use rag or hemp uncoated paper.
Back in the late nineties Xerox rated the toner in their Docutech / 6135 range at four hundred years.
Interestingly, in the same document that they guaranteed this, they only rated their archival paper at three hundred years.
This was for printing archival Govt. documents back then. I don't know what their current standards are.
Oil rigs don't move because they are attached to oil wells. It's rather difficult to move a hole that can be a couple of kilometres deep :)
Being off the equator adds extra stress to the cable/ribbon. Given that strength of material is borderline achievable you don't want to add any stess you can avoid, hence it will almost certainly be on the equator. You could drift east/west no problem, and a limited distance north/south - especially if the lower part of the cable wasn't carrying climbers - in order to avoid things. The lower section is essentially a 32000 km hanging string. At the bottom it will initially have a sub mm^2 cross-section. Dragging the end of string like that a few hundred km isn't that difficult.
Realistically the security will be necessary only against destructive attempts. This WILL be either Govt./Industry co-op (most likely) or solely Govt., either way military protection and area interdiction will be available. This is too big both financially and in political impact to avoid Govt. involvement.
It's a lot of work to make the first chicken, but then you get your eggs for chickenfeed.
Why does that sound like a nasty name to call someone?
:)
Why you 'stichting thuiskopie'....
You build a large floating platform in the middle of the Pacific.
1. With sufficient warning you can move it to avoid things, e.g storms.
2. It the worst happens and the cable breaks and comes down you don't hit any land. (I know how long the cable is, but most of it will burn up on re-entry, only the bottom couple of thousand miles have any chance of making it to ground.
3. One of the things your climbers do is add more ribbon to make the cable stronger. Eventually you may be transporting enough that ocean shipping is desirable.
4. It's fairly easy to declare a few hundred square miles of ocean off limits and have the US Navy blow any intruders out of the water. (This will be regarded as a national asset, regardless of ownership.)
5. You could start cheap and do it by welding a couple of obsolete supertankers together. This also give you the engines to move it.
You forgot to say that if you reverse the field polarity you can use the resultant raleigh scattering to produce uncrackable encryption via p-shell electron quantum transfers in the neutronium-alloy conduction band.
200 million years is actually quite a long time.
Given daily twice daily tides thats sufficient for 146000000000 mixing cycles and 73000000000 heat/cool cyles in a chemical bath the size of all of Earth's coastlines. That gives a pretty good chance of developing a simple chemical replicator, and once you have that evolution takes care of the rest.
The answer is obviously OTEC generators. Cool the surface of the ocean slightly while generating large amounts of electricity. This won't stop hurricanes completely - you still want the rainfall - but it will greatly reduce the severity.
win/win.
Where do you think the fucking money for that gas is going? Nobody said they were getting YOU cheap oil.
Probably that's 60 MW electricity as well as 58 MW of waste heat, which would make the efficiency just over 50%.
The gravitational force between two things smaller than 1/100 mm is pretty damn small unless they are micro black holes. It might be just a tad difficult to measure.