Once my wife asked me about the blue light in the instrument panel of her car. I took her out to the car and showed her the switch for the high beam. She asked me what it was for. She explained that a man knocked on her window at a red light and suggested that she turn her high beam off, and when she didn't understand just said to turn the blue light off and left it at that. She I explained high beams and she said well if you get more light with high beam why not leave it on all the time. So I said blue light bad. If you see that light on, press this stalk so it goes away.
I mean: when managing our planet we should err on the side of caution. The last century has seen a massive increase in the energy consumption of the human race, both because of population increase and increased personal energy use. The atmosphere responds slowly to stress, so there has not been enough time for us to observe the result of the stress which we are placing on it. Sensible, conservative, behaviour should be to be careful, lest we break something which can not be easily fixed.
If we were doing the right thing we would stop burning brown coal tomorrow and live without power for a while. The carbon tax is very nearly the least the Government could do. What should happen is that polluters should pay the full cost of the pollution they create so that cleaner energy generators can compete. The carbon tax is a small step in that direction.
Isn't there a some sort of police force in Australia that can set traps, look at e-mail and phone records and find those criminals?
Sure, but there is always the risk that the dangerous offender is the person for whom action speaks louder than words, while the person who makes the threat is all talk.
There's a dislike of fudged numbers, BS, doom and gloom, including the usual "If we don't..." and "we'll be drowning in 10 years, no wait 30 years, no wait 80 years!!11!" that people get tired of
Good thing you don't ride a bike to work like me then because its a never ending stream of "if I don't do something now things could be really bad for me in about five seconds".
For me managing the planet should be like riding a bike. I keep an eye out for developing problems and take action when I think something might kill me. The fact that it hasn't so far doesn't invalidate the assumptions I make.
The stone tablets were a big mistake. My money was always on papyrus. You could carry it around with you and if you had enough, you could sail it across the pacific.
Random foreign nations have nothing on insiders with an axe to grind. But of course the US military already has a lot of sensitive electronic records. Medical records probably rate fairly low.
Yeah thats why I said a barely subcritical mass, not a normal fission bomb. And yes, I know that this is pretty unlikely. Such a mass would be sensitive to other factors such as humidity.
The fusor is used to send a neutron beam through the package under test. If it contains enriched uranium or plutonium, the interaction with neutrons will cause it to emit far higher levels of neutron flux and gamma radiation than most other materials
And if he does that trick on a barely subcritical mass of uranium 235 or plutonium, it goes bang.
I really just meant the general idea that living things had never been beyond the atmosphere and it would have been hard to convince some people to change their thinking enough to accept the idea. A bit like how when the first trains were built which could do 20, 30 miles per hour, some people believed that it would be impossible for humans to live while doing that. The Iranians know that people live in space. The details (like how much air do they need, how much acceleration can they take) are well understood.
So this bit about sending a monkey is just a show, and one in poor taste at that.
And back then no humans had gone into space so it made sense to send animals first. Now that people are living in space long term there is no way Iran can justify sending an animal. If they want to measure acceleration, temperature, vibration, life support, etc, then they can do that with instruments.
Citation? Also how do you implode a guys bags? If they are packed tight there shouldn't be much empty space in there. Exploding, on the other hand would probably work quite well.
Makes me wonder if the recent earthquakes put their aim off, possibly requiring recalibration at the sending end. I know this happens to radars after large quakes.
The article is actually pretty comprehensive and gives specific examples. I can easily see how this can turn into a nightmare. Everything in the hospital has to understand the new language. It has to be in the administrators excel spreadsheets, and the laptops used by the ambulance drivers, and the x-ray equipment. All the interfaces need to be validated because fuckups cost lives.
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Once my wife asked me about the blue light in the instrument panel of her car. I took her out to the car and showed her the switch for the high beam. She asked me what it was for. She explained that a man knocked on her window at a red light and suggested that she turn her high beam off, and when she didn't understand just said to turn the blue light off and left it at that. She I explained high beams and she said well if you get more light with high beam why not leave it on all the time. So I said blue light bad. If you see that light on, press this stalk so it goes away.
I mean: when managing our planet we should err on the side of caution. The last century has seen a massive increase in the energy consumption of the human race, both because of population increase and increased personal energy use. The atmosphere responds slowly to stress, so there has not been enough time for us to observe the result of the stress which we are placing on it. Sensible, conservative, behaviour should be to be careful, lest we break something which can not be easily fixed.
If we were doing the right thing we would stop burning brown coal tomorrow and live without power for a while. The carbon tax is very nearly the least the Government could do. What should happen is that polluters should pay the full cost of the pollution they create so that cleaner energy generators can compete. The carbon tax is a small step in that direction.
Isn't there a some sort of police force in Australia that can set traps, look at e-mail and phone records and find those criminals?
Sure, but there is always the risk that the dangerous offender is the person for whom action speaks louder than words, while the person who makes the threat is all talk.
There's a dislike of fudged numbers, BS, doom and gloom, including the usual "If we don't..." and "we'll be drowning in 10 years, no wait 30 years, no wait 80 years!!11!" that people get tired of
Good thing you don't ride a bike to work like me then because its a never ending stream of "if I don't do something now things could be really bad for me in about five seconds".
For me managing the planet should be like riding a bike. I keep an eye out for developing problems and take action when I think something might kill me. The fact that it hasn't so far doesn't invalidate the assumptions I make.
...a guy isn't safe checking his wet dry hygrometer in the morning.
Keep in mind that in one sense you will actually be having sex with her mother. I wonder if that is going to put her partner off the idea?
The stone tablets were a big mistake. My money was always on papyrus. You could carry it around with you and if you had enough, you could sail it across the pacific.
Random foreign nations have nothing on insiders with an axe to grind. But of course the US military already has a lot of sensitive electronic records. Medical records probably rate fairly low.
Will hasn't posted here since 2009 but you could try reddit...
On the upside, $10M a day is going mostly to our military industrial complex, which pumps some money into the economy
...and keep significant group of voters happy, employees of said military industrial complex.
Computers should be safe to operate without expensive add on software.
Yeah thats why I said a barely subcritical mass, not a normal fission bomb. And yes, I know that this is pretty unlikely. Such a mass would be sensitive to other factors such as humidity.
One shot windows executables are pretty much a standard espionage tool these days. Used only once a virus checker will never recognise them.
The fusor is used to send a neutron beam through the package under test. If it contains enriched uranium or plutonium, the interaction with neutrons will cause it to emit far higher levels of neutron flux and gamma radiation than most other materials
And if he does that trick on a barely subcritical mass of uranium 235 or plutonium, it goes bang.
I really just meant the general idea that living things had never been beyond the atmosphere and it would have been hard to convince some people to change their thinking enough to accept the idea. A bit like how when the first trains were built which could do 20, 30 miles per hour, some people believed that it would be impossible for humans to live while doing that. The Iranians know that people live in space. The details (like how much air do they need, how much acceleration can they take) are well understood.
So this bit about sending a monkey is just a show, and one in poor taste at that.
And back then no humans had gone into space so it made sense to send animals first. Now that people are living in space long term there is no way Iran can justify sending an animal. If they want to measure acceleration, temperature, vibration, life support, etc, then they can do that with instruments.
Citation? Also how do you implode a guys bags? If they are packed tight there shouldn't be much empty space in there. Exploding, on the other hand would probably work quite well.
This regularly happens to Virgin in Australia.
not exactly too far away from Fukushima
Makes me wonder if the recent earthquakes put their aim off, possibly requiring recalibration at the sending end. I know this happens to radars after large quakes.
This is so that if the hackers are caught the police can actually charge them with something.
Beat me to it. This is the obvious benefit. I doubt it will ever be the marketing coup that "astronaut ice cream" was, though.
This could be "astronaut soft serve"
But now that the shuttle isn't launching any more the soft serve option may be in short supply.
They should log the entire country on to Eve Online and debate their constitution there.
Gee that takes me back. I haven't read cracked since digg imploded.
The article is actually pretty comprehensive and gives specific examples. I can easily see how this can turn into a nightmare. Everything in the hospital has to understand the new language. It has to be in the administrators excel spreadsheets, and the laptops used by the ambulance drivers, and the x-ray equipment. All the interfaces need to be validated because fuckups cost lives.