No, you don't swap out the battery. It's too build into the car to easily remove and would take a lot of structural integrity out of the chassis to make one removable.
Instead, what you do is swap out the whole car. Drive to the next station, move your luggage and CD's and change, and everything into another car and continue on your way. That sounds about as reasonable as battery swap. And much more easy to do.
The Phalanx CIWS system when set on full auto will scan, detect and track, use IFF to determine if friendly, decide to fire, then fire all on it's own. It is a defensive weapon rather than offensive. And typically it is used in a semi-auto mode where it notifies a user that it would like to fire and the operator then hits the fire button. It still sounds pretty autonomous to me.
To repeal the second amendment you have to take away the right to life. If I have the right to live then I have the right to keep myself alive when someone else is trying to take my life. Waiting 15 minutes for the paperwork filers (police) does not cut it.
We just need to recognize that no matter how tragic, that number can not, and will not ever be non-zero until one removes the source of accidents and negligence in general: the human factor.
What about below-zero? Can we get to negative numbers of gun deaths? That's an improvement, right? [sarcasm]
This is exactly how I feel. Once the police and military have been using it for a few decades, then you can allow civilians to have it. Although it should only be required for the police.
You cannot make lasting changes to a person's behavior through threats, manipulation, guilt, and shame. Temporary, yes. But it wears off, and you're left with the situation of having to increase the level of abuse repeatedly, creating a vicious cycle that demoralizes people and makes them resentful.
What if you are able to instill the habit of hand washing that then continues even if the monitoring is stopped. You sound like you think they are deliberately deciding to not wash their hands. It's most likely something that slips their mind because they are busy. If they form a well established habit then they don't need to think about it anymore. They will do it on auto-pilot without thinking.
If you don't have control you pretty soon find then doing things like FTPing schematics home to work on then there.
So what are you saying? You would much rather have them copy the schematics to their laptop or USB key and bring them home that way? I don't really see how FTP makes things any less secure, just less convenient.
Yep, the great TRS 80! I got mine around 6 or 7 also. And I remember the huge BASIC programming book that came with it. I remember having russian roulette programs and some with graphics. It was in color, so maybe another model? I eventually did get a tape recorder to work, but it was slow and clunky and would sometimes fail.
I agree with the main idea you are trying to convey. I just wanted to point out one thing I have learned since having a child (still young). It is not wise to judge other parents and their methods. It also does not help to think you would never do that. I do agree that many parents are complete and lazy ass's that don't know what the hell they are doing and they don't even seem to care. But I have found myself in situations that I thought would go one way but don't work out that way. The kids do have their own personality and your plans only go so far. The most recent was using bribery to get my daughter to use the toilet. Before that I would have scoffed at bribery as being lazy and likely to lead to problems later on such as spoiled children and temper tantrums. In this case it was the motivation she needed to learn to use the toilet consistently. Now she uses the toilet 100% and does not ask for the potty presents any more. There are other similar examples that have taught me this wisdom.
There are many situations where I see an unruly child and think the parent sucks and that won't happen to me. And even though my child is very well behaved I stop and remember that I don't know the whole situation and I very well could find myself in that very position some day.
All that being said, I still think it is ridiculous to blame others for your own failings and to run to the law and courts for things you should be taking responsibility for. So I guess I think this parent sucks. And even if I stop to remember that I could find myself in their situation I still don't think I would react in the same way they are.
Yeah, if you are a hardcore gamer you should be on a PC. Much better for gaming. The consoles are best for people sitting in the room together and playing a game. This is where Nintendo beats the others.
PETA's position is that we ought not kill any animals any where. But they kill 95% of the pets entrusted to their care.
No, their position is that we ought not to own animals anywhere. They think that all pets should be killed, even if in loving, caring homes. So when you understand their true beliefs then killing 95% makes much more sense. I am surprised that they let 5% live. Those must be the ones that escape somehow.
If you think they only kill abandoned and unadoptable pets, then you are ignorant of their actual stance on animals. They believe that every pet is better off dead that being in the home of a loving and caring family. There is no case where they would save the life of a cat or dog. I don't even see how they can consider themselves to be thinking for animal welfare. They really just want to tell other people what they cannot do. They cannot be considered ethical in anyway when you learn about their beliefs.
I am also a PC gamer with a Wii. My PC is so out of date that I have to go to my brother's house to play any cool games though. I find the Wii great for playing with people together in the same room. PC games rarely have multiplayer mode on the same screen. They usually require internet connection and everyone has their own computer, TV, and copy of the game. Those games are fun, but during a party or playing with my wife and kids the Wii wins there. I also like the Wii for the novel game play in some of the games. The wiimote and now the touch enabled game-pad on the WiiU (old Wii disk drive broke and it wasn't cheap to repair) give some interesting new ways to play games. Boom Blocks is a lot of fun with the motion controller. ZombiU is pretty awesome, I like the scanner on the game-pad as well as using it to access coded doors and your inventory. The multiplayer for that game is cool also as the two people are playing different games. One is the first person shooter, while the other is the zombie king playing with a map and dropping zombies of different types and managing their resources. It still needs more games, but like I mentioned before, it was that or pay a lot to repair the old one anyway.
I saw an article about a new edition of Thief coming out soon. That may be the trigger to get back into PC gaming. My wife also loved those games before, so I think we can both agree to spend the money on a new gaming PC. And from what I have seen, they aren't as pricey as they used to be. It also seems like they last a bit longer, as far as the capabilities of the graphics cards and CPU power being able to play new games several years later.
I find it very upsetting that the police have no problem with breaking the law. It is already illegal to manufacture an unlicensed firearm. And the police just go ahead and do just that. When the police are held responsible for the laws they break, then they can regain some of the respect the have lost. Until that day I rejoice at every cop killing I hear about in the news. Each and every cop has chosen their profession and lives in that corrupt environment every day. If they had any decency they would have quit. So when they are killed I find that the killer has done a good thing for society.
I do think you have a very good point about putting out wild guesses to what is happening at the quantum level without an understanding of the math being pretty useless. It seems that quantum mechanics is pretty non-intuitive and trying to think about what is happening does not work. You just have to look at the math and equations and see what it does. Even QM physicists don't "understand" it. But on the other hand, perhaps we don't understand it because we are looking at in the wrong way. It could be that learning the math to do QM correctly will give you too many incorrect paradigms that will keep you locked into the current way of thinking and you won't come up with the paradigm shift needed to make a breakthrough. I saw someone post an interesting way to think about the speed of light and how it is constant no matter what speed you are traveling. Think about the horizon, it moves away from you at the same speed no matter how fast you move towards it. Instead of thinking about time changing with your speed, you can imagine a new way of thinking about it that is less intuitive, but still gets to the heart of the matter at another way. I think QM or physics in general will need a paradigm shift before things like these experiments make sense. Once we think about what is happening with entanglement in a different way we may start understanding how that affects the macro world and may start to understand time and gravity better.
The only way you know if they are entangled or not is to communicate at slower than light speeds as to whether your measurements match up or not. If you broke the entanglement the other person could not tell until you talked to them to tell them you did.
Except they proved that it is not due to unknown variables like you are stating. I think the experiment where the two photons pass through a half-silvered mirror and cross to two detectors. Non-entangled photons travel to random detectors while entangled ones always go to the same detectors. If you put a polarization twist into one of the photons so you can see which one took which path they go back to the random paths. If you remove the twist after they have passed through the half-mirror, so they have already decided if they will go to the same detector or not, they still always go to the same detector. In a certain way this experiment shows that time is unrelated to the entanglement, or at least the behaviour of the photons. It seems to our mind that they made the decision before the twist was removed so they must have gone back in time to change their path. The way I understand it is the entire path of both photons is part of the quantum configuration and it resolves at the detector so it doesn't matter that the twist removal was after the branching decision.
This started because you have gross negligence about people and kids. The ones who grew up in the country shooting as kids do not accidentally shoot their sisters. It's the ones that don't know anything about them that are dangerous. The people who grow up with guns everywhere do not decide to use them to go on shooting sprees. It's people who view them as some scary dangerous thing that decide they want to scare other people with them. People who grow up with them around find them to be a common tool. As common as a knife or a hammer. More people are killed by hammers than guns anyway. So should hammers be banned also. Guns exist, they are not going to disappear. You can dream and live in your fantasy land all you want. But in the real world, I have a right to keep myself and my family safe and alive. Guns are an equalizer. When my wife saw some strange guy in an unmarked truck taking her mother from across the street to the back of the house she was concerned. The fact that she owns a gun and knows how to use it gives her confidence that she can defend herself and protect her mother. Otherwise it is cower in the bathroom and wait the 15 minutes for the police to show up. You can live in cowering fear if you want. Like I said, that is your choice. When you want to enforce your choices on others, that is where you become more than a moron and start being a problem. You, if you had your way, would cause more death and pain than any number of school shootings will. If you don't want to live where people are free, then don't. Move to a place where guns are not legal. Again, it's your choice. But you don't get to enforce your will on others like some sort of holier than thou Hitler type!
Yeah, and the talk of switching away from the show or movie by reaching up and grabbing at the TV! I hope it is accurate enough to not switch away from a big football game when you throw your hands up into the air during an exciting play. And you have to be careful of what you say, or it might do something else also.You get your friends over to watch a really cool movie, but you have to inform them to all sit very still and don't say anything at all or the Xbox might change the channel on you. Nice!
The WiiU also has lockups when using Netflix. I think their app has some room for improvement. But I did find the Wii to be a better Netflix experience. The touchpad is more clunky for scrolling through the show to a spot you are looking for than the wiimotes are. And it's battery dies much quicker, so you have to keep charging it.
Right..... Because before guns were invented we didn't have marauding bands of raping, pillaging, murderers. You are showing that you lack any thought process at all.
The NRA is really short for "the National Retards of America", simply put, no one has a need for a gun for any reason. It's a pointless amendment and should be taken out.
Sure, once you get the guns out of the huge criminal organization called The Police, then you can see about getting rid of the rest of the guns. But I bet you think the police are good to have guns. You do know that police have just as high of a rate of criminal use of guns as the general population don't you? I would think it is even higher as they cover up for each other so the stats don't count all the cases where it was deemed to be a justified shooting of an unarmed guy lying on his stomach! Right to life means I have the right to defend myself against aggressors. You don't have the right to take my rights away. If you want to put your survival in the hands of other people who may or may not save you that is your choice. But to me that sounds really irresponsible. If you or your kind die then it is just an improvement of the gene pool, so it isn't a real big loss anyway.
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Seriously; Japan won't allow the import of GM'ed wheat, but this is the country that created square (seedless) watermelon?
That's done by growing them in a square box. Quite a different situation there as there is nothing in the genes that makes it square.
No, you don't swap out the battery. It's too build into the car to easily remove and would take a lot of structural integrity out of the chassis to make one removable.
Instead, what you do is swap out the whole car. Drive to the next station, move your luggage and CD's and change, and everything into another car and continue on your way. That sounds about as reasonable as battery swap. And much more easy to do.
The Phalanx CIWS system when set on full auto will scan, detect and track, use IFF to determine if friendly, decide to fire, then fire all on it's own. It is a defensive weapon rather than offensive. And typically it is used in a semi-auto mode where it notifies a user that it would like to fire and the operator then hits the fire button. It still sounds pretty autonomous to me.
To repeal the second amendment you have to take away the right to life. If I have the right to live then I have the right to keep myself alive when someone else is trying to take my life. Waiting 15 minutes for the paperwork filers (police) does not cut it.
We just need to recognize that no matter how tragic, that number can not, and will not ever be non-zero until one removes the source of accidents and negligence in general: the human factor.
What about below-zero? Can we get to negative numbers of gun deaths? That's an improvement, right? [sarcasm]
This is exactly how I feel. Once the police and military have been using it for a few decades, then you can allow civilians to have it. Although it should only be required for the police.
I think this applies to police also.
You cannot make lasting changes to a person's behavior through threats, manipulation, guilt, and shame. Temporary, yes. But it wears off, and you're left with the situation of having to increase the level of abuse repeatedly, creating a vicious cycle that demoralizes people and makes them resentful.
What if you are able to instill the habit of hand washing that then continues even if the monitoring is stopped. You sound like you think they are deliberately deciding to not wash their hands. It's most likely something that slips their mind because they are busy. If they form a well established habit then they don't need to think about it anymore. They will do it on auto-pilot without thinking.
If you don't have control you pretty soon find then doing things like FTPing schematics home to work on then there.
So what are you saying? You would much rather have them copy the schematics to their laptop or USB key and bring them home that way? I don't really see how FTP makes things any less secure, just less convenient.
Yep, the great TRS 80! I got mine around 6 or 7 also. And I remember the huge BASIC programming book that came with it. I remember having russian roulette programs and some with graphics. It was in color, so maybe another model? I eventually did get a tape recorder to work, but it was slow and clunky and would sometimes fail.
I agree with the main idea you are trying to convey. I just wanted to point out one thing I have learned since having a child (still young). It is not wise to judge other parents and their methods. It also does not help to think you would never do that. I do agree that many parents are complete and lazy ass's that don't know what the hell they are doing and they don't even seem to care. But I have found myself in situations that I thought would go one way but don't work out that way. The kids do have their own personality and your plans only go so far. The most recent was using bribery to get my daughter to use the toilet. Before that I would have scoffed at bribery as being lazy and likely to lead to problems later on such as spoiled children and temper tantrums. In this case it was the motivation she needed to learn to use the toilet consistently. Now she uses the toilet 100% and does not ask for the potty presents any more. There are other similar examples that have taught me this wisdom.
There are many situations where I see an unruly child and think the parent sucks and that won't happen to me. And even though my child is very well behaved I stop and remember that I don't know the whole situation and I very well could find myself in that very position some day.
All that being said, I still think it is ridiculous to blame others for your own failings and to run to the law and courts for things you should be taking responsibility for. So I guess I think this parent sucks. And even if I stop to remember that I could find myself in their situation I still don't think I would react in the same way they are.
And we are all still watching the Star Wars Kid all day, every day.[sarcasm]
Even videos fade with time.
Yeah, if you are a hardcore gamer you should be on a PC. Much better for gaming. The consoles are best for people sitting in the room together and playing a game. This is where Nintendo beats the others.
PETA's position is that we ought not kill any animals any where. But they kill 95% of the pets entrusted to their care.
No, their position is that we ought not to own animals anywhere. They think that all pets should be killed, even if in loving, caring homes. So when you understand their true beliefs then killing 95% makes much more sense. I am surprised that they let 5% live. Those must be the ones that escape somehow.
If you think they only kill abandoned and unadoptable pets, then you are ignorant of their actual stance on animals. They believe that every pet is better off dead that being in the home of a loving and caring family. There is no case where they would save the life of a cat or dog. I don't even see how they can consider themselves to be thinking for animal welfare. They really just want to tell other people what they cannot do. They cannot be considered ethical in anyway when you learn about their beliefs.
I am also a PC gamer with a Wii. My PC is so out of date that I have to go to my brother's house to play any cool games though. I find the Wii great for playing with people together in the same room. PC games rarely have multiplayer mode on the same screen. They usually require internet connection and everyone has their own computer, TV, and copy of the game. Those games are fun, but during a party or playing with my wife and kids the Wii wins there. I also like the Wii for the novel game play in some of the games. The wiimote and now the touch enabled game-pad on the WiiU (old Wii disk drive broke and it wasn't cheap to repair) give some interesting new ways to play games. Boom Blocks is a lot of fun with the motion controller. ZombiU is pretty awesome, I like the scanner on the game-pad as well as using it to access coded doors and your inventory. The multiplayer for that game is cool also as the two people are playing different games. One is the first person shooter, while the other is the zombie king playing with a map and dropping zombies of different types and managing their resources. It still needs more games, but like I mentioned before, it was that or pay a lot to repair the old one anyway.
I saw an article about a new edition of Thief coming out soon. That may be the trigger to get back into PC gaming. My wife also loved those games before, so I think we can both agree to spend the money on a new gaming PC. And from what I have seen, they aren't as pricey as they used to be. It also seems like they last a bit longer, as far as the capabilities of the graphics cards and CPU power being able to play new games several years later.
I find it very upsetting that the police have no problem with breaking the law. It is already illegal to manufacture an unlicensed firearm. And the police just go ahead and do just that. When the police are held responsible for the laws they break, then they can regain some of the respect the have lost. Until that day I rejoice at every cop killing I hear about in the news. Each and every cop has chosen their profession and lives in that corrupt environment every day. If they had any decency they would have quit. So when they are killed I find that the killer has done a good thing for society.
I do think you have a very good point about putting out wild guesses to what is happening at the quantum level without an understanding of the math being pretty useless. It seems that quantum mechanics is pretty non-intuitive and trying to think about what is happening does not work. You just have to look at the math and equations and see what it does. Even QM physicists don't "understand" it. But on the other hand, perhaps we don't understand it because we are looking at in the wrong way. It could be that learning the math to do QM correctly will give you too many incorrect paradigms that will keep you locked into the current way of thinking and you won't come up with the paradigm shift needed to make a breakthrough. I saw someone post an interesting way to think about the speed of light and how it is constant no matter what speed you are traveling. Think about the horizon, it moves away from you at the same speed no matter how fast you move towards it. Instead of thinking about time changing with your speed, you can imagine a new way of thinking about it that is less intuitive, but still gets to the heart of the matter at another way. I think QM or physics in general will need a paradigm shift before things like these experiments make sense. Once we think about what is happening with entanglement in a different way we may start understanding how that affects the macro world and may start to understand time and gravity better.
The only way you know if they are entangled or not is to communicate at slower than light speeds as to whether your measurements match up or not. If you broke the entanglement the other person could not tell until you talked to them to tell them you did.
Except they proved that it is not due to unknown variables like you are stating. I think the experiment where the two photons pass through a half-silvered mirror and cross to two detectors. Non-entangled photons travel to random detectors while entangled ones always go to the same detectors. If you put a polarization twist into one of the photons so you can see which one took which path they go back to the random paths. If you remove the twist after they have passed through the half-mirror, so they have already decided if they will go to the same detector or not, they still always go to the same detector. In a certain way this experiment shows that time is unrelated to the entanglement, or at least the behaviour of the photons. It seems to our mind that they made the decision before the twist was removed so they must have gone back in time to change their path. The way I understand it is the entire path of both photons is part of the quantum configuration and it resolves at the detector so it doesn't matter that the twist removal was after the branching decision.
This started because you have gross negligence about people and kids. The ones who grew up in the country shooting as kids do not accidentally shoot their sisters. It's the ones that don't know anything about them that are dangerous. The people who grow up with guns everywhere do not decide to use them to go on shooting sprees. It's people who view them as some scary dangerous thing that decide they want to scare other people with them. People who grow up with them around find them to be a common tool. As common as a knife or a hammer. More people are killed by hammers than guns anyway. So should hammers be banned also. Guns exist, they are not going to disappear. You can dream and live in your fantasy land all you want. But in the real world, I have a right to keep myself and my family safe and alive. Guns are an equalizer. When my wife saw some strange guy in an unmarked truck taking her mother from across the street to the back of the house she was concerned. The fact that she owns a gun and knows how to use it gives her confidence that she can defend herself and protect her mother. Otherwise it is cower in the bathroom and wait the 15 minutes for the police to show up. You can live in cowering fear if you want. Like I said, that is your choice. When you want to enforce your choices on others, that is where you become more than a moron and start being a problem. You, if you had your way, would cause more death and pain than any number of school shootings will. If you don't want to live where people are free, then don't. Move to a place where guns are not legal. Again, it's your choice. But you don't get to enforce your will on others like some sort of holier than thou Hitler type!
Yeah, and the talk of switching away from the show or movie by reaching up and grabbing at the TV! I hope it is accurate enough to not switch away from a big football game when you throw your hands up into the air during an exciting play. And you have to be careful of what you say, or it might do something else also.You get your friends over to watch a really cool movie, but you have to inform them to all sit very still and don't say anything at all or the Xbox might change the channel on you. Nice!
The WiiU also has lockups when using Netflix. I think their app has some room for improvement. But I did find the Wii to be a better Netflix experience. The touchpad is more clunky for scrolling through the show to a spot you are looking for than the wiimotes are. And it's battery dies much quicker, so you have to keep charging it.
Right ..... Because before guns were invented we didn't have marauding bands of raping, pillaging, murderers. You are showing that you lack any thought process at all.
The NRA is really short for "the National Retards of America", simply put, no one has a need for a gun for any reason. It's a pointless amendment and should be taken out.
Sure, once you get the guns out of the huge criminal organization called The Police, then you can see about getting rid of the rest of the guns. But I bet you think the police are good to have guns. You do know that police have just as high of a rate of criminal use of guns as the general population don't you? I would think it is even higher as they cover up for each other so the stats don't count all the cases where it was deemed to be a justified shooting of an unarmed guy lying on his stomach! Right to life means I have the right to defend myself against aggressors. You don't have the right to take my rights away. If you want to put your survival in the hands of other people who may or may not save you that is your choice. But to me that sounds really irresponsible. If you or your kind die then it is just an improvement of the gene pool, so it isn't a real big loss anyway.