Simply stated, upholding the principles of basic human rights and freedoms to all persons worldwide should supercede the civil and criminal laws implemented by any one nation. It is not a matter of legal jurisdiction, as that is pretty clear cut (i.e. the US does not have any inside China).
I seem to recall that Kasparov conceded the game. While still technically a win for Big Blue, is this not somewhat different than an actual checkmate? Was a checkmate imminent?
You do realize that "pop" music is an abbreviated form of "popular" music? - meaning that whatever genre or style of music is popular at the time constitutes "pop". Ergo, pop music cannot die, except possibly under the extremely small but non-zero probability that at some point in the future, all genres of music will just happen to be equally popular for some length of time, in which case pop music would cease to exist for as long as that condition exists.
Just wanted to chime in with a similar sentiment. Though perhaps not as life-threatening as yours, I am a professional who often travels to the US on short notice to respond to machinery failures in the energy sector (oil, mining, etc.) Theoretically, such heavy industries (and by extension, the US economy) stand to lose significantly by restricting business travel in such a manner.
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At the risk of taking this thread way off on a tangent, ensuring that gas is properly mixed is not really a problem - it just requires a bit of diligence to do properly - i.e. patience, thorough analysis, and willingness to dump the gas at considerable expense and start over if you screw up.
Yes, the risks of diving air are well known and can be managed. Specifically:
For deep dives:
1) Risk of narcosis - managed by replacing nitrogen with helium. (i.e. using trimix)
2) Risk of oxygen toxicity - managed by replacing oxygen with an inert gas such as helium (i.e. using trimix)
3) Risk of elevated work of breathing and associated CO2 buildup due to gas density - managed by replacing nitrogen with a less dense gas such as helium (i.e. using trimix)
For shallow dives:
4) Risk of incurring a decompression obligation greater than the bottom time necessitates due to an inert gas fraction that is greater than necessary given the oxygen partial pressure at the depth in question - managed by replacing some of the inert gas with oxygen (i.e. using hyperoxic trimix or nitrox)
Seems pretty clear cut to me.
I think the story is not the ROV, but rather the fact that the famed sinkhole was finally mapped after years of exploration and at least 1 tragic death.
Crazy. I've done ~380 fsw on trimix, with four different decompression gases, and it was a logistical headache. I know that one team has done the Edmund Fitzgerald on SCUBA, but at those depths the logistical issues, risks and costs escalate to the point that you have to wonder what you are gaining over surface supported surface supply or saturation diving - a much safer option than SCUBA. Stunts like the one Sheck pulled, or those by Jim Bowden, etc., are nothing more than showboating for the sake of setting records. Problem is, the record you set might not be the one you were shooting for. (Most preventable death award goes to...)
With trimix being so accessable now, it doesn't make any sense to me why anyone would continue to endanger themselves by doing deep dives on air. Actually, considering the widespread availability of nitrox, using air for any diving whatsoever doesn't really make sense anymore. I don't.
As for 1000' deep sinkholes, using a ROV is probably the right idea.
Disregarding the fact that a recordable media levy is not a representative means of collecting royalties, it is a key thing that Canadians can point to in justification of their fair use rights over digital media - essentially, legitimizing copying of copyright protected material since we pay, through the levy, for that right. (i.e. the levy is a de facto assumption that all purchased media will be used for the purpose of copyright infringement, ergo we can use such media for that purpose with impunity as long as we continue to pay). The reduction of the levy is quite possibly the first step towards its complete elimination, which when it occurs would remove the inherent right to use recordable media in this fashion, and open ourselves up to the possible implementation (under US pressure) of draconian DMCA type legislation. As much as I agree with the assertion that the collected levies are not appropriately distributed, I would much rather continue to pay them and enjoy my fair use rights, than to allow our lawmakers to abolish the levy and then have nothing to counter the American copyright lobby with.
Little do they know that it's the two dollar coin that is the surveillance device. It's obvious if you think about it - the dissimilar metals in the coin form a galvanic cell to power the transmitter. Furthermore - oh, wait a sec, I think I see a CSIS truck in my driveway...
That one day, the RIAA will be sued or counter-sued for not only attorney's fees, but for compensation for harassment, and have to pay punitive damages appropriate in comparison to the RIAA bottom line. Furthermore, that the punitive damages in question not be awarded to the plaintiff, but rather be diverted to a charity of their choosing - naturally, a fund existing for the purpose of assisting struggling independent artists.
One can dream.
A Vic 20 was the first, followed by the C64, an Apple II where I really dug my teeth into BASIC, then an 8086 and every Intel x86 from then on to the Pentium III, before switching to AMD. Now running an AMD64 X2 4400+ with Debian Linux... quite a long way from the trusty old Vic.
I didn't buy into laserdiscs when they came out, waiting instead for the technology to mature a bit. Then laserdisc was superceded by DVD, so again I waited. Now, years later, I am shopping around for a DVD player when I see this article on/., and again have to put my technological aspirations on hold until the technology stabilizes.
They can pry my VCR from my cold, dead hands.
The entire do-not-call registry should be scrapped and replaced with a DO-call registry - making the process opt-in instead of opt-out. Such a system would eliminate questionable "existing business relationship" determination, and place the control of telemarketing back where it belongs.
I have been intermittently following the voyager program with some interest. Much more detail is available at the NASA JPL website, including transcripts of communication efforts with the spacecraft, as well as info about the program and the spacecraft themselves. It's quite the interesting story, given that the program was never expected to continue as long as it has.
What about making it a crime to purchase products advertised via spam? The spammers may not care about enforcement, but John Q. Public might give it a second thought if he could be held accountable for supporting the industry.
When I used to watch TV regularly, it was during the work week, to relax a bit before sleeping. Ads did not help that at all. I would get interested in a program, until the advertisements came on, at which point I would start flipping channels. Inevitably I would stop on something else that I found entertaining, until it got to ads, where I would start flipping again, and often return to the original program I was watching. Of course, this habit led me to watch three or four different programs simultaneously, and not really understanding any of them. To address this, I started staying on one channel, but would mute the ads as soon as they came on. I kept a novel at hand to read while the ads were on, and would periodically glance up to see if my programming was back on. More often than not, I got absorbed in the book I was reading and ended up ignoring the TV. Now, my television sits on a shelf collecting dust. I read more, I get my news from the BBC and CBC websites, and I seem to be much better insulated from the juvenile and nonsensical drivel that is popular culture. The television medium needs to improve, or die.
Here I am, with a brain the size of the universe, and they've got me welding cars together. Don't mind me, I'll just stand here in a corner and rust for the next ten million years. Should I pick up that piece of paper, first?...
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Not quite. The cell in that case just reads 99,999.999998263, when it should be 65,534.99994721.
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Linux on the iPod? Hmmm. Could you imagine a Beowulf cluster of...
Simply stated, upholding the principles of basic human rights and freedoms to all persons worldwide should supercede the civil and criminal laws implemented by any one nation. It is not a matter of legal jurisdiction, as that is pretty clear cut (i.e. the US does not have any inside China).
I seem to recall that Kasparov conceded the game. While still technically a win for Big Blue, is this not somewhat different than an actual checkmate? Was a checkmate imminent?
You do realize that "pop" music is an abbreviated form of "popular" music? - meaning that whatever genre or style of music is popular at the time constitutes "pop". Ergo, pop music cannot die, except possibly under the extremely small but non-zero probability that at some point in the future, all genres of music will just happen to be equally popular for some length of time, in which case pop music would cease to exist for as long as that condition exists.
Just wanted to chime in with a similar sentiment. Though perhaps not as life-threatening as yours, I am a professional who often travels to the US on short notice to respond to machinery failures in the energy sector (oil, mining, etc.) Theoretically, such heavy industries (and by extension, the US economy) stand to lose significantly by restricting business travel in such a manner.
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At the risk of taking this thread way off on a tangent, ensuring that gas is properly mixed is not really a problem - it just requires a bit of diligence to do properly - i.e. patience, thorough analysis, and willingness to dump the gas at considerable expense and start over if you screw up. Yes, the risks of diving air are well known and can be managed. Specifically: For deep dives: 1) Risk of narcosis - managed by replacing nitrogen with helium. (i.e. using trimix) 2) Risk of oxygen toxicity - managed by replacing oxygen with an inert gas such as helium (i.e. using trimix) 3) Risk of elevated work of breathing and associated CO2 buildup due to gas density - managed by replacing nitrogen with a less dense gas such as helium (i.e. using trimix) For shallow dives: 4) Risk of incurring a decompression obligation greater than the bottom time necessitates due to an inert gas fraction that is greater than necessary given the oxygen partial pressure at the depth in question - managed by replacing some of the inert gas with oxygen (i.e. using hyperoxic trimix or nitrox) Seems pretty clear cut to me.
I think the story is not the ROV, but rather the fact that the famed sinkhole was finally mapped after years of exploration and at least 1 tragic death.
Crazy. I've done ~380 fsw on trimix, with four different decompression gases, and it was a logistical headache. I know that one team has done the Edmund Fitzgerald on SCUBA, but at those depths the logistical issues, risks and costs escalate to the point that you have to wonder what you are gaining over surface supported surface supply or saturation diving - a much safer option than SCUBA. Stunts like the one Sheck pulled, or those by Jim Bowden, etc., are nothing more than showboating for the sake of setting records. Problem is, the record you set might not be the one you were shooting for. (Most preventable death award goes to...)
With trimix being so accessable now, it doesn't make any sense to me why anyone would continue to endanger themselves by doing deep dives on air. Actually, considering the widespread availability of nitrox, using air for any diving whatsoever doesn't really make sense anymore. I don't.
As for 1000' deep sinkholes, using a ROV is probably the right idea.
Disregarding the fact that a recordable media levy is not a representative means of collecting royalties, it is a key thing that Canadians can point to in justification of their fair use rights over digital media - essentially, legitimizing copying of copyright protected material since we pay, through the levy, for that right. (i.e. the levy is a de facto assumption that all purchased media will be used for the purpose of copyright infringement, ergo we can use such media for that purpose with impunity as long as we continue to pay). The reduction of the levy is quite possibly the first step towards its complete elimination, which when it occurs would remove the inherent right to use recordable media in this fashion, and open ourselves up to the possible implementation (under US pressure) of draconian DMCA type legislation. As much as I agree with the assertion that the collected levies are not appropriately distributed, I would much rather continue to pay them and enjoy my fair use rights, than to allow our lawmakers to abolish the levy and then have nothing to counter the American copyright lobby with.
Little do they know that it's the two dollar coin that is the surveillance device. It's obvious if you think about it - the dissimilar metals in the coin form a galvanic cell to power the transmitter. Furthermore - oh, wait a sec, I think I see a CSIS truck in my driveway...
Why is this a problem? Just hire a couple more crew. This has "Mission Specialist" written all over it.
They could sue, and they could win, but that doesn't mean the US would comply with the judgement. (Ref: softwood lumber)
That one day, the RIAA will be sued or counter-sued for not only attorney's fees, but for compensation for harassment, and have to pay punitive damages appropriate in comparison to the RIAA bottom line. Furthermore, that the punitive damages in question not be awarded to the plaintiff, but rather be diverted to a charity of their choosing - naturally, a fund existing for the purpose of assisting struggling independent artists. One can dream.
Could you send a copy of the hard drive in 15 kb chunks by email?
A Vic 20 was the first, followed by the C64, an Apple II where I really dug my teeth into BASIC, then an 8086 and every Intel x86 from then on to the Pentium III, before switching to AMD. Now running an AMD64 X2 4400+ with Debian Linux... quite a long way from the trusty old Vic.
I didn't buy into laserdiscs when they came out, waiting instead for the technology to mature a bit. Then laserdisc was superceded by DVD, so again I waited. Now, years later, I am shopping around for a DVD player when I see this article on /., and again have to put my technological aspirations on hold until the technology stabilizes.
They can pry my VCR from my cold, dead hands.
The entire do-not-call registry should be scrapped and replaced with a DO-call registry - making the process opt-in instead of opt-out. Such a system would eliminate questionable "existing business relationship" determination, and place the control of telemarketing back where it belongs.
I have been intermittently following the voyager program with some interest. Much more detail is available at the NASA JPL website, including transcripts of communication efforts with the spacecraft, as well as info about the program and the spacecraft themselves. It's quite the interesting story, given that the program was never expected to continue as long as it has.
What about making it a crime to purchase products advertised via spam? The spammers may not care about enforcement, but John Q. Public might give it a second thought if he could be held accountable for supporting the industry.
When I used to watch TV regularly, it was during the work week, to relax a bit before sleeping. Ads did not help that at all. I would get interested in a program, until the advertisements came on, at which point I would start flipping channels. Inevitably I would stop on something else that I found entertaining, until it got to ads, where I would start flipping again, and often return to the original program I was watching. Of course, this habit led me to watch three or four different programs simultaneously, and not really understanding any of them. To address this, I started staying on one channel, but would mute the ads as soon as they came on. I kept a novel at hand to read while the ads were on, and would periodically glance up to see if my programming was back on. More often than not, I got absorbed in the book I was reading and ended up ignoring the TV. Now, my television sits on a shelf collecting dust. I read more, I get my news from the BBC and CBC websites, and I seem to be much better insulated from the juvenile and nonsensical drivel that is popular culture. The television medium needs to improve, or die.
Here I am, with a brain the size of the universe, and they've got me welding cars together. Don't mind me, I'll just stand here in a corner and rust for the next ten million years. Should I pick up that piece of paper, first?...