Not just tensile strength. 10km of head of pressure is not insignificant, and would require one hell of a pump to push it up there, and a lot of strength to hold it in.
What is wrong, in principle with a killswitch, if the correct checks and balances are in place?
Because the guy with his finger on the button is judge, jury, and executioner. Checks and balances are fine until the government grants themselves "special powers" and does whatever the hell it was going to do anyway.
But apart from that, no, nothing is wrong with it.
No that's the appearance of muscle growth, not actual muscle growth, and doesn't sound anything like what I was describing. Try Double Muscle Mutation which is a growth of muscle due to a change to the production of myostatin which would otherwise inhibit muscle growth.
There's a genetic anomaly present in some people/animals that causes muscle mass to bulk up with little to no exercise. IIRC it was some myostatin 'flaw'. I'm sure they're hard at work to try and muck around with the genetics to literally just grow it in a vat. No exercise, no electroshock, nothing.
But whether the environmental crisis is a political or economical one, the solution is going to be scientific. People are just not going to stop eating meat and the way we currently grow it is a huge waste of... well everything.
If we environmentally taxed everything properly (eg tax = the cost of fixing the damage done in making the product) then while people in the supermarket might be thinking "vat meat... ew!", they also be thinking "hmmm... steak from cow, $49.99/kg... vat meat, $9.99/kg... I guess i've eaten worse".
I don't get that either. If you are caught drink driving then you are firstly lead into a police car, which all the passers by will see. Then once you are at the police station your privacy is invaded even further. I don't know if they take fingerprints for a dui but they most likely take a blood test.
I'm not sure if they are proposing this for everyone or just convicted drunk drivers. If it's the latter then I can't see how anyone could complain about it.
Still... this would be a good case for "let the lawmakers trial this for 6 months before it becomes mandatory for everyone".
People passionately involved in political or social issues are often _very_ political and social.
And there's the solution. Get a couple of passionate people on staff with lots of muscle. Make sure they are present at the exit interview, and do lots of muscle flexing and glowering. Also mention that they would do anything for 'the cause', including following someone to the ends of the earth if necessary.
I was thinking about this exact point the other day. You think it's hard to keep a boom microphone off the screen now! People close to the bottom or the side of the image will be able to look up or around and see all sorts of things they weren't supposed to see. If they project (not quite the right word I know) the hologram onto a flat screen then it's like the screen is a window. Exactly like a window. You could put your face right up near the window and see way off to the side.
You can define a species as a group of animals that can reproduce sexually with one another,
It's not even that simple even for animals that reproduce sexually. Horses and Donkeys can breed together, as can certain other pairs of animals of close but definitely different 'species'. You might then decide to add a sub-clause that the offspring must also be able to reproduce sexually, but in some cases even that doesn't clear things up. And even worse, you can have groups A, B, and C where A and B can breed together, B and C can breed together, but A and C can't.
It's a bit like the idea of 'race'. Before people started mixing it up, there were often very defining physical characteristics of people from different parts of the world and you could mostly tell one from the other, but even then there were cases where whatever set of parameters you used there were exceptions. And these days with everyone getting it on with each other it's pretty much useless to even try apart from a few medical scenarios (some 'races' are more likely than others to suffer from certain diseases etc).
People love to classify things, it's how our brains work, but sometimes nature just doesn't cooperate.
I think that the OP's point was that they are manufacturing a situation that requires more people rather than giving 5 people a job that one could do, which is more like the West than the East.
It's not quite prostitution because the parties don't quite line up.
But at least when the undercover cop had to go back to headquarters for a meeting or something he could just tell the bad guys that he's going for a meeting with his pimp.
For sure. It completely baffles me how anyone can have a strong opinion on any issue when they are only fed the information via the mainstream media. War on Terrorism is the main one that springs to mind - so many people wanting the US (and everyone else) out of there and obviously feeling very strongly about it, having only read about it in mainstream media and maybe a few forums. Maybe they're right, maybe there are a whole load of valid reasons why we shouldn't be over there, but how can they know for sure when they are just repeating 'popular opinion'???
Even wikileaks leaves itself wide open to astroturfing with manufactured 'leaks' to suit someone's agenda. It doesn't even have to go that far if someone somewhere is deciding what to leak and what to bury.
I don't have a better solution, but it does kind of bug me...
Maybe that's next after Stuxnet. Program target IP, launch, fire, forget.
You are more likely to die as a result of a gun if you carry one yourself. I can't find the study, but you are also more likely to end up being shot by your own gun than you are to ever shoot a bad guy with it (which makes sense - we hear of accidental self shootings all the time and most people who own a gun never actually use it in self defence).
If those statistics even roughly translated to IP address seeking missiles then we are going to have a problem.
BTW, I think there is a problem with my server. Can you please do a portscan for me? My IP address is 127.0.0.1
Depending on the nature of the attack, it might be easy to spoof. If A wants to attack C then all they need to do is attack B pretending the attack is coming from C, then sit back and enjoy the show:)
If everyone clicked the link in those "work from home" scams 100 times, or replied to every "your webmail account is about expire" email with bogus details then it would drown the enemy in useless information.
If you then take it a step further and have an automated system that clicks links a million times automatically and replies to the emails with bogus information a million times then it would be even better.
Some ISP's are giving only private IPv4 addresses to customers right now, NATting it at the ISP level. The games most people play are back to a central server, not direct to each other. The only shortcoming I can see is that getting your (externally visible) IP banned no longer just affects you.
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Not just tensile strength. 10km of head of pressure is not insignificant, and would require one hell of a pump to push it up there, and a lot of strength to hold it in.
10-20km of hose would be kind of heavy. Especially the top of the hose which has to hold up the rest...
What is wrong, in principle with a killswitch, if the correct checks and balances are in place?
Because the guy with his finger on the button is judge, jury, and executioner. Checks and balances are fine until the government grants themselves "special powers" and does whatever the hell it was going to do anyway.
But apart from that, no, nothing is wrong with it.
Not really that smart - just look for the people with burnt clothes!
No that's the appearance of muscle growth, not actual muscle growth, and doesn't sound anything like what I was describing. Try Double Muscle Mutation which is a growth of muscle due to a change to the production of myostatin which would otherwise inhibit muscle growth.
They can save a heap on advertising with existing Kenny Everett footage
There's a genetic anomaly present in some people/animals that causes muscle mass to bulk up with little to no exercise. IIRC it was some myostatin 'flaw'. I'm sure they're hard at work to try and muck around with the genetics to literally just grow it in a vat. No exercise, no electroshock, nothing.
Myself, I can't wait :)
But whether the environmental crisis is a political or economical one, the solution is going to be scientific. People are just not going to stop eating meat and the way we currently grow it is a huge waste of... well everything.
If we environmentally taxed everything properly (eg tax = the cost of fixing the damage done in making the product) then while people in the supermarket might be thinking "vat meat... ew!", they also be thinking "hmmm... steak from cow, $49.99/kg... vat meat, $9.99/kg... I guess i've eaten worse".
I don't get that either. If you are caught drink driving then you are firstly lead into a police car, which all the passers by will see. Then once you are at the police station your privacy is invaded even further. I don't know if they take fingerprints for a dui but they most likely take a blood test.
I'm not sure if they are proposing this for everyone or just convicted drunk drivers. If it's the latter then I can't see how anyone could complain about it.
Still... this would be a good case for "let the lawmakers trial this for 6 months before it becomes mandatory for everyone".
People passionately involved in political or social issues are often _very_ political and social.
And there's the solution. Get a couple of passionate people on staff with lots of muscle. Make sure they are present at the exit interview, and do lots of muscle flexing and glowering. Also mention that they would do anything for 'the cause', including following someone to the ends of the earth if necessary.
I was thinking about this exact point the other day. You think it's hard to keep a boom microphone off the screen now! People close to the bottom or the side of the image will be able to look up or around and see all sorts of things they weren't supposed to see. If they project (not quite the right word I know) the hologram onto a flat screen then it's like the screen is a window. Exactly like a window. You could put your face right up near the window and see way off to the side.
And even worse, I don't think that's the real Princess Leia. The accent is a dead giveaway!
You can define a species as a group of animals that can reproduce sexually with one another,
It's not even that simple even for animals that reproduce sexually. Horses and Donkeys can breed together, as can certain other pairs of animals of close but definitely different 'species'. You might then decide to add a sub-clause that the offspring must also be able to reproduce sexually, but in some cases even that doesn't clear things up. And even worse, you can have groups A, B, and C where A and B can breed together, B and C can breed together, but A and C can't.
It's a bit like the idea of 'race'. Before people started mixing it up, there were often very defining physical characteristics of people from different parts of the world and you could mostly tell one from the other, but even then there were cases where whatever set of parameters you used there were exceptions. And these days with everyone getting it on with each other it's pretty much useless to even try apart from a few medical scenarios (some 'races' are more likely than others to suffer from certain diseases etc).
People love to classify things, it's how our brains work, but sometimes nature just doesn't cooperate.
I think that the OP's point was that they are manufacturing a situation that requires more people rather than giving 5 people a job that one could do, which is more like the West than the East.
Guess which way is better?
Funnily enough, it could very much be not just strategic but also of value as a raw source of minerals.
And if some of those raw minerals were accidentally dropped on America's enemies... well that couldn't be helped could it?
titillating
*snigger*
That said, I'm more than a wee bit skeptical that this works. But if it does...well, I'm gonna go long in nickel and short the copper market ;)
I haven't RTFA, but what are the chances that the copper coming out is a stable isotope?
Maybe hang on to your copper shares until you find out :)
It's not quite prostitution because the parties don't quite line up.
But at least when the undercover cop had to go back to headquarters for a meeting or something he could just tell the bad guys that he's going for a meeting with his pimp.
For sure. It completely baffles me how anyone can have a strong opinion on any issue when they are only fed the information via the mainstream media. War on Terrorism is the main one that springs to mind - so many people wanting the US (and everyone else) out of there and obviously feeling very strongly about it, having only read about it in mainstream media and maybe a few forums. Maybe they're right, maybe there are a whole load of valid reasons why we shouldn't be over there, but how can they know for sure when they are just repeating 'popular opinion'???
Even wikileaks leaves itself wide open to astroturfing with manufactured 'leaks' to suit someone's agenda. It doesn't even have to go that far if someone somewhere is deciding what to leak and what to bury.
I don't have a better solution, but it does kind of bug me...
It means they are going to give 110%
Maybe that's next after Stuxnet. Program target IP, launch, fire, forget.
You are more likely to die as a result of a gun if you carry one yourself. I can't find the study, but you are also more likely to end up being shot by your own gun than you are to ever shoot a bad guy with it (which makes sense - we hear of accidental self shootings all the time and most people who own a gun never actually use it in self defence).
If those statistics even roughly translated to IP address seeking missiles then we are going to have a problem.
BTW, I think there is a problem with my server. Can you please do a portscan for me? My IP address is 127.0.0.1
Depending on the nature of the attack, it might be easy to spoof. If A wants to attack C then all they need to do is attack B pretending the attack is coming from C, then sit back and enjoy the show :)
If everyone clicked the link in those "work from home" scams 100 times, or replied to every "your webmail account is about expire" email with bogus details then it would drown the enemy in useless information.
If you then take it a step further and have an automated system that clicks links a million times automatically and replies to the emails with bogus information a million times then it would be even better.
Until someone gets the idea to send out a "I made a billion $$$ working from home. Click http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.bz2 for details!" and you're suddenly part of the problem.
Wrapping IPV4 ain't the problem
It's the problem being discussed in this thread. All the other crap you are sprouting belongs in a different thread.
Some ISP's are giving only private IPv4 addresses to customers right now, NATting it at the ISP level. The games most people play are back to a central server, not direct to each other. The only shortcoming I can see is that getting your (externally visible) IP banned no longer just affects you.