During the cold war, NASA made sense as an ICBM/anti-russki R&D department that had the beneficial side-effect of space exploration.
Now, despite $1.5 Tn being available to invade a single country, there's no military fiscal connection.
There's a subtle but definite trend by governments to paint cash as the currency of criminals.
Like the 'war on terror', the 'war on cash' always cites some form of morality as its justification. In the UK we recently had a political storm about cash payments to tradespeople being 'morally wrong'.
It's clear to my mind that this position goes beyond tax-collection benefits, and moves into the realm of ensuring all financial transactions fall into the uniquely-identifiable big-data indexable kind for just-in-case future use by law-enforecement. (Along with telecoms data, and all the other interesting information governments like to collect.)
Should be pointed out that human eyes automatically white balance anyway. It's the reason white always looks white to the naked eye, whether under tungsten or halogen light, but look different in photographs.
Alice, in the UK, makes sure all her passwords are too long to remember. So she stores them with Trent, in the USA.
Trent has been told only to reveal Alice's passwords if she has phoned him with her daily dead man's handle.
Plod, also in the UK, asks Alice for her passwords citing RIPA 2000. Alice is held at Plod's luxurious police station for a day, then tells Plod that she hasn't stored them in the UK because they're too long to remember and that Trent has them. Plod calls Trent, who not having received yesterday's dead man's handle, pleads the 5th.
Just pointing out that the 150dB figure is at one meter rather than the recipient's position (and obviously the sound falls off according to inverse square law).
The 120dB quoted rock concert figure would be the amplitude at the listener's position.
Cinematic motion blur is related to shutter angle, normally 180 degrees, which hasn't changed for decades, except for notable particular stroboscopic effects, the most famous of which is the opening sequence of
Saving Private Ryan
The shutter timing was set to 90 or 45 degrees for many of the battle sequences, as opposed to the standard of 180 degree timing. Kamiski clarifies
A normal 180 degree shutter gives an exposure time of 1/48th second.
With the proliferation of video and photographic 'evidence', people seem much more ready to believe an event didn't happen nowadays if there isn't visual 'smoking gun' evidence to prove it.
The person (Natasha MacBryde) whose tribute site he defaced had committed suicide by throwing herself under a train. She had committed suicide because of online cyber bullying.
He defaced her family's memorial page with the altered train photo knowing that her family would see the connection between the altered train and the cause of her death. A reasonable person could be expected to know that would be grossly offensive to her family.
In the UK sending a message that is grossly offensive is considered an offence under the Communications Act 2003 section 127.
Let's face it, Copyright didn't exist in Mozart's days did it?
First British copyright law: 1709 The British Statute of Anne 1709, full title "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned".
The fact it was Thomas the tank engine rather than Thomas the tank has legal significance when the person's face plastered on the front of it died by being run over by a passenger train.
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During the cold war, NASA made sense as an ICBM/anti-russki R&D department that had the beneficial side-effect of space exploration. Now, despite $1.5 Tn being available to invade a single country, there's no military fiscal connection.
You shoot the wrong thing. LIke a Wedding Party
There's a subtle but definite trend by governments to paint cash as the currency of criminals.
Like the 'war on terror', the 'war on cash' always cites some form of morality as its justification. In the UK we recently had a political storm about cash payments to tradespeople being 'morally wrong'.
It's clear to my mind that this position goes beyond tax-collection benefits, and moves into the realm of ensuring all financial transactions fall into the uniquely-identifiable big-data indexable kind for just-in-case future use by law-enforecement. (Along with telecoms data, and all the other interesting information governments like to collect.)
Should be pointed out that human eyes automatically white balance anyway. It's the reason white always looks white to the naked eye, whether under tungsten or halogen light, but look different in photographs.
The British have a way round this:
Alice, in the UK, makes sure all her passwords are too long to remember. So she stores them with Trent, in the USA.
Trent has been told only to reveal Alice's passwords if she has phoned him with her daily dead man's handle.
Plod, also in the UK, asks Alice for her passwords citing RIPA 2000. Alice is held at Plod's luxurious police station for a day, then tells Plod that she hasn't stored them in the UK because they're too long to remember and that Trent has them. Plod calls Trent, who not having received yesterday's dead man's handle, pleads the 5th.
Okay. So it could blow up London in about an hour.
Not if our spiffy rapier missiles have anything to do with it!
Which nowadays effectively means she can't bring her phone into school. Try telling that to a British kid nowadays!
Surely the XKCD reference should be google velociraptors
Not trying to defend the use of these weapons...
Just pointing out that the 150dB figure is at one meter rather than the recipient's position (and obviously the sound falls off according to inverse square law).
The 120dB quoted rock concert figure would be the amplitude at the listener's position.
One is a free, voluntary service that you can sign up to, at the expense of your privacy.
The other is a law, that applies to everyone, whether you like it or not.
Slight difference.
Ah, I understand your confusion.
I'm British.
The difference is that most military decorations are for bravery, valour and honour. For helping others rather than putting yourself first.
Whereas competitive awards within a workplace award the individual triumphing over others.
They moved to newzbin2, which is now also blocked in the UK. (Not that it's hard to circumvent.)
Cinematic motion blur is related to shutter angle, normally 180 degrees, which hasn't changed for decades, except for notable particular stroboscopic effects, the most famous of which is the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan
The shutter timing was set to 90 or 45 degrees for many of the battle sequences, as opposed to the standard of 180 degree timing. Kamiski clarifies
A normal 180 degree shutter gives an exposure time of 1/48th second.
What does 'whoosh' sound like in space?
You mean Sergeant Pepper Spray.
This isn't 'Nam, there are rules...
With the proliferation of video and photographic 'evidence', people seem much more ready to believe an event didn't happen nowadays if there isn't visual 'smoking gun' evidence to prove it.
I'm being lazy due to the lateness of the hour in my geographic location.
That's ok. I'm being lazy because of my skin colour.
I mean color.
Pardon?
Yarrr.
The one with the Ninjas.
The person (Natasha MacBryde) whose tribute site he defaced had committed suicide by throwing herself under a train. She had committed suicide because of online cyber bullying.
He defaced her family's memorial page with the altered train photo knowing that her family would see the connection between the altered train and the cause of her death. A reasonable person could be expected to know that would be grossly offensive to her family.
In the UK sending a message that is grossly offensive is considered an offence under the Communications Act 2003 section 127.
That is why the parody has legal significance.
Let's face it, Copyright didn't exist in Mozart's days did it?
First British copyright law: 1709
The British Statute of Anne 1709, full title "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned".
Mozart: 27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791
The fact it was Thomas the tank engine rather than Thomas the tank has legal significance when the person's face plastered on the front of it died by being run over by a passenger train.