To get to the power output that will stop a vehicle from distances usually seen in car chases would require a massive arrangement, capacitor bank, and a dedicated power supply to keep the HERF pulses sustained. This certainly will not be the kind of device that will be mounted on police cars any time soon.
I have to also wonder how effective it would be in an actual car chase (assuming they could find as way of making it mobile). They would typically be shooting it at the rear of the car where the bodywork would act as shielding for the engine computer, and there is nothing to stop portions of the RF pulses reflecting off the metal bodywork and disabling chasing police cars.
Strap it to a police helicopter (or a police UAV, in 10 years).
While reading the article, Roth's ideas seemed familiar to me. After using Google for a few minutes, I was able to remember where: some articles about heart attack treatment. When someone has a heart attack, the current(?) practice is to give them oxygen through a face mask. The thinking is that with more oxygen, the heart doesn't have to work as hard, and can recover from the attack better.
However, some people have been looking into cell death from lack of oxygen, and it looks like the rate of cell death is quite low until oxygen re-enters the system, at which point it spikes up.
When a person has a heart attack, their cells are deprived of oxygen. So Dr. Becker began studying oxygen deprivation in cells.
What we found when we studied oxygen deprivation in cells astounded us, explained Becker. When cells are deprived of oxygen for an hour there is only 4% cell death. After four hours, cell death is only around 16%. Both of these numbers are low. The amazing thing was once we re-introduced oxygen to the cells they died off rapidly to almost 60% cell death. This re-oxygenation injury we termed reperfusion injury. We concluded that the re-introduction of oxygen must be handled carefully for the majority of cells to survive. Our studies will be concentrating on ways to prepare cells deprived of oxygen for the re-introduction of oxygen.
There is a process for voting yea or nay on line items; it's called an amendment. What you call "corruption" is actually just compromise.
This mechanism is entirely necessary to the functioning of any legislature. Suppose the Democrats want to legislate mandatory abortions, and the Republicans want to make sodomy a capital crime. If both sides are willing to trade, then the two issues must necessarily be coupled. Otherwise, the abortion thing goes up first for a vote, and the Republicans begrudgingly support it, but when the sodomy issue comes up next, the Democrats can say "We got ours; fuck off." Then the system falls apart and nothing gets accomplished without a 60 vote supermajority.
When you send in political donations, they have to take down who your employer is. That's how they calculate donations by industry.
Realize, though, that not every donation is an attempt to curry favor. I donated a few hundred to Obama, and I develop a website for an online travel company, but that doesn't mean Obama is in the pocket of Big Travel or Big Internet. Similarly, if 1000 gas station attendants donate $20 to McCain, that will be logged as $20,000 coming from the oil industry, but don't tell me those attendants are buying influence.
$7 million from the entertainment and computer industries sounds suspicious, but it's not like the RIAA just cut him a seven-figure check. Obama is an inspiring liberal (as opposed to Kerry in '04 and Gore in '00), and he has really strong support amongst Democrats with higher education. This translates to affluent Hollywood actors and Silicon Valley professionals donating and fund-raising on Obama's behalf.
I'm not saying Obama is going to turn a blind eye to his financial backers; nobody is ignorant of where their support is coming from. But when both candidates are refusing money from federal lobbyists (I know Obama is, pretty sure McCain is) and taking it in small amounts from individual contributors, this kind of tallying isn't damning.
Millions of people have donated to Barack's campaign, mostly in small denominations. How much more legit can hard-money donations from private individuals get? What, should only people who don't have employment be able to donate?
Mass-market appeal is a good thing. FanPro is making the game to make money, not to make your circle-jerk gaming community happy.
I'm new to Shadowrun 4th, and the system is very easy to pick up and learn. It makes sense. This is good because it doesn't make it a pain in the ass to introduce people to the game, thereby increasing the size of the audience, the size of the hobby, and the probability for future supplements.
I'm not familiar with the previous tone of Shadowrun setting material, but there's some stuff to like about the new setting. I like the update of the tech level, and Augmented Reality is a lot of fun to think about.
In regards to the system, the unified dicing mechanics make it easier on new GMs, and hacker-types are reputedly playable now. I'm sorry not everyone can be as hardcore as you, but the rest of us would like to enjoy Shadowrun too.
Opera's UI is extremely customizable. Skinnable interface and lots of flexibility with toolbar and button placement, on the output side. On the input side, you can set up your own keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures if you don't like the default ones.
There aren't as many games as open-ended as Deus Ex. It's still the finest game I've ever played, and I still consider it a standard unchallenged in PC gaming.
My finest moment with the game came while trying to play through the game without killing any enemies.
Spoilers: Although if you haven't played the game by now, who even cares.....
I was trying to sneak out of the UNATCO base after turning rogue, and had cleared the basement of hostile threats. Alex Jacobsen, the UNATCO tech guy, wouldn't give me the key to leave unless I kill Anna Navarre. Anna Navarre is a mechanically-augmented agent for UNATCO, which compounded with her ruthless-bitch-ness means that if I escaped Alex would be in a world of pain.
Well, I'm not a fan of killing, but Anna is pretty evil so I guess it's OK. But, she's flanked by two normal fleshy UNATCO MPs. I kind of feel bad for them; we've had some good conversations in the past. So, I need a way to seperate them...
...time passes...
I charge up the stairs to Anna and the two guards and fire my pistol in the air to get their attention. "What the..?" "Kill him!" Tracers whizz past my head. I turn on my ballistic shields and turbo-legs and leap down three flights of stairs. Anna and her two lackeys are no match for my nanoaugmentations, plus they're computer AIs and don't know how to jump, so they take the stairs one at a time.
By the time they even reach the stairwell, I'm already in the basement. A couch blocks the entrance to the stairwell, and I'm carefully hidden behind a potted plant for cover. I hear the chirping of one of my proximity grenades go off, and then an explosion. Coughing. The tear gas has the two guards wracked with pain, but they're not going anywhere anytime soon. Navarre, on the other hand, literally has iron lungs; no gas is going to stop her.
However, she blithely runs into my EMP grenade on the stairs. A blue glow washes over the stairwell as her energy for her augmentations (like her own ballistic shield) is dissipated. Now for the coup de grace! Navarre reaches the bottom of the stairwell, smacks into the couch, and smirks as she sees me behind my obvious cover. I smirk because she doesn't realize there's an explosive proximity mine on the ceiling just over that couch!
The smirk quickly disappears. Instead of the chirping of the proximity detector, I only hear the ricochet of the bullets from Anna's assault rifle. The leaves on my potted plant start shredding. Gack! The EMP blast disabled my explosive mine! I'm a sitting duck!
I take out my 9mm pistol. I've never used the damned thing, much less put experience into it. My hand quakes as I steady my aim on the stairwell. The plant has disintegrated by now, but Anna has to reload.
BANG
BANG Two misses. Make this one count.
BANG-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
I manage to nick the explosive mine with a bullet, setting it off. Anna and the couch disintegrate, leaving only tattered upholstry and a motor oil stain on the floor.
I head upstairs, tranquilize the two coughing guards, and quickly make my exit with Alex's key.
Nope. I've watched competition matches of Tribes 2 and Tribes:Vengeance Shoutcasted to Winamp 5. Even before the advent of video casts, you could listen to audio casts of games.
Of course, there was also T2TV, which let you watch games in the Tribes 2 engine. You could even get recorded demos of matches and watch them in the engine, while a synched mp3 of the commentator's shoutcast played on top of it.
The vast majority of the country was tired of being ruled by Saddam and his religious minority. The only way he stayed in power was by intimidation, and the people he intimidated are very happy he's gone.
First of all, thank you for your service.
Now, I'll make fun of you. Saddam wasn't particularly religious; he was merely a self-interested and petty tyrant. Bin Laden doesn't miss him, and never liked him. Hussein would only wrap himself in a cloak of Islam if he thought it'd win him some popularity or credibility, with his people at home and with Iraq's neighbors.
Besides, how is "Saddam was bad" an argument for invading Iraq? How eager are you to ship back out to Africa or North Korea or Iran? What, you're not rushing? We have freedom to spread, man! Saddam is neither the last nor the greatest tyrant, and I don't see what we stand to gain by invading a friendless country (save for France, Russia, and China, and then only in the most self-interested sense) with a crap military.
Saddam was only a threat to his own people. If that justifies the war, then we're witnessing a monumental foreign policy undertaking. Roll up your sleeves, gentlemen, because we have work do to. We won't rest until there's no bad people in the world.
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Strap it to a police helicopter (or a police UAV, in 10 years).
However, some people have been looking into cell death from lack of oxygen, and it looks like the rate of cell death is quite low until oxygen re-enters the system, at which point it spikes up.
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/apr07/resuscitation-center.html
This article also seems salient: Severe heart attack damage limited by hydrogen sulfide
This mechanism is entirely necessary to the functioning of any legislature. Suppose the Democrats want to legislate mandatory abortions, and the Republicans want to make sodomy a capital crime. If both sides are willing to trade, then the two issues must necessarily be coupled. Otherwise, the abortion thing goes up first for a vote, and the Republicans begrudgingly support it, but when the sodomy issue comes up next, the Democrats can say "We got ours; fuck off." Then the system falls apart and nothing gets accomplished without a 60 vote supermajority.
Realize, though, that not every donation is an attempt to curry favor. I donated a few hundred to Obama, and I develop a website for an online travel company, but that doesn't mean Obama is in the pocket of Big Travel or Big Internet. Similarly, if 1000 gas station attendants donate $20 to McCain, that will be logged as $20,000 coming from the oil industry, but don't tell me those attendants are buying influence.
$7 million from the entertainment and computer industries sounds suspicious, but it's not like the RIAA just cut him a seven-figure check. Obama is an inspiring liberal (as opposed to Kerry in '04 and Gore in '00), and he has really strong support amongst Democrats with higher education. This translates to affluent Hollywood actors and Silicon Valley professionals donating and fund-raising on Obama's behalf.
I'm not saying Obama is going to turn a blind eye to his financial backers; nobody is ignorant of where their support is coming from. But when both candidates are refusing money from federal lobbyists (I know Obama is, pretty sure McCain is) and taking it in small amounts from individual contributors, this kind of tallying isn't damning.
Millions of people have donated to Barack's campaign, mostly in small denominations. How much more legit can hard-money donations from private individuals get? What, should only people who don't have employment be able to donate?
Satoru Iwata doesnt' care about white people.
Anyone care to speculate what kinds of wiimote gestures will make pages refresh, go forward/back, etc? This has the potential to be really slick.
I'm new to Shadowrun 4th, and the system is very easy to pick up and learn. It makes sense. This is good because it doesn't make it a pain in the ass to introduce people to the game, thereby increasing the size of the audience, the size of the hobby, and the probability for future supplements.
I'm not familiar with the previous tone of Shadowrun setting material, but there's some stuff to like about the new setting. I like the update of the tech level, and Augmented Reality is a lot of fun to think about.
In regards to the system, the unified dicing mechanics make it easier on new GMs, and hacker-types are reputedly playable now. I'm sorry not everyone can be as hardcore as you, but the rest of us would like to enjoy Shadowrun too.
Tools > Appearance > Skin > Windows Native
Opera's UI is extremely customizable. Skinnable interface and lots of flexibility with toolbar and button placement, on the output side. On the input side, you can set up your own keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures if you don't like the default ones.
Care to call it a draw?
...but I don't think I've ever seen a buffer overflow being celebrated before.
My finest moment with the game came while trying to play through the game without killing any enemies.
Spoilers: Although if you haven't played the game by now, who even cares.....
I was trying to sneak out of the UNATCO base after turning rogue, and had cleared the basement of hostile threats. Alex Jacobsen, the UNATCO tech guy, wouldn't give me the key to leave unless I kill Anna Navarre. Anna Navarre is a mechanically-augmented agent for UNATCO, which compounded with her ruthless-bitch-ness means that if I escaped Alex would be in a world of pain.
Well, I'm not a fan of killing, but Anna is pretty evil so I guess it's OK. But, she's flanked by two normal fleshy UNATCO MPs. I kind of feel bad for them; we've had some good conversations in the past. So, I need a way to seperate them...
I charge up the stairs to Anna and the two guards and fire my pistol in the air to get their attention. "What the..?" "Kill him!" Tracers whizz past my head. I turn on my ballistic shields and turbo-legs and leap down three flights of stairs. Anna and her two lackeys are no match for my nanoaugmentations, plus they're computer AIs and don't know how to jump, so they take the stairs one at a time.
By the time they even reach the stairwell, I'm already in the basement. A couch blocks the entrance to the stairwell, and I'm carefully hidden behind a potted plant for cover. I hear the chirping of one of my proximity grenades go off, and then an explosion. Coughing. The tear gas has the two guards wracked with pain, but they're not going anywhere anytime soon. Navarre, on the other hand, literally has iron lungs; no gas is going to stop her.
However, she blithely runs into my EMP grenade on the stairs. A blue glow washes over the stairwell as her energy for her augmentations (like her own ballistic shield) is dissipated. Now for the coup de grace! Navarre reaches the bottom of the stairwell, smacks into the couch, and smirks as she sees me behind my obvious cover. I smirk because she doesn't realize there's an explosive proximity mine on the ceiling just over that couch!
The smirk quickly disappears. Instead of the chirping of the proximity detector, I only hear the ricochet of the bullets from Anna's assault rifle. The leaves on my potted plant start shredding. Gack! The EMP blast disabled my explosive mine! I'm a sitting duck!
I take out my 9mm pistol. I've never used the damned thing, much less put experience into it. My hand quakes as I steady my aim on the stairwell. The plant has disintegrated by now, but Anna has to reload.
BANG
BANG
Two misses. Make this one count.
BANG-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
I manage to nick the explosive mine with a bullet, setting it off. Anna and the couch disintegrate, leaving only tattered upholstry and a motor oil stain on the floor.
I head upstairs, tranquilize the two coughing guards, and quickly make my exit with Alex's key.
Of course, there was also T2TV, which let you watch games in the Tribes 2 engine. You could even get recorded demos of matches and watch them in the engine, while a synched mp3 of the commentator's shoutcast played on top of it.
I thought Harvey Smith ran that into the ground, while Spector just watched.
Please?
What if there were a P2P torrent tracker? Filesharing didn't die with Napster. Can't torrents learn to "go guerilla" and decentralize?
It blows your cover to player enemies, if they notice this tiny squirrel just meandering in no particular direction and figure it out in time....
BUT, once the monster starts running back into position, he's invulnerable and heals almost instantly.
First of all, thank you for your service.
Now, I'll make fun of you. Saddam wasn't particularly religious; he was merely a self-interested and petty tyrant. Bin Laden doesn't miss him, and never liked him. Hussein would only wrap himself in a cloak of Islam if he thought it'd win him some popularity or credibility, with his people at home and with Iraq's neighbors.
Besides, how is "Saddam was bad" an argument for invading Iraq? How eager are you to ship back out to Africa or North Korea or Iran? What, you're not rushing? We have freedom to spread, man! Saddam is neither the last nor the greatest tyrant, and I don't see what we stand to gain by invading a friendless country (save for France, Russia, and China, and then only in the most self-interested sense) with a crap military.
Saddam was only a threat to his own people. If that justifies the war, then we're witnessing a monumental foreign policy undertaking. Roll up your sleeves, gentlemen, because we have work do to. We won't rest until there's no bad people in the world.