The first thing you need to know when bonding anything is the material you are bonding, most Lego bricks are made of ABS plastic and I would assume the ones you had are as well. The way you bond ABS is by chemically welding it, you can find the solvent glue at most hardware stores (plumbing section). The glue will be black because there will be abs filler in there to fill voids because it is used in plumbing and must be water tight. The second option is to use MEK (methyl ethyl ketone) to chemically weld it, MEK is clear and has no filler. Most hardware stores don't sell MEK anymore but a MEK alternative that may not work. MEK is some nasty stuff wear gloves when you use it and work in a well ventilated area with a respirator, if you get any on your gloves change them as the MEK will be eating through them shortly.
Big companies need protection the same way all companies need protection. They invest lots of R&D money into projects, and have to make it back. Under your wild wild west system inventors will have to make back half their investment in the first year, in the following years the market will shrink because people have all ready bought their product and now there is competition in the remaining market forcing prices down. Patent protection is so important to the success of the country that it is in the constitution.
Upper level mathematics comes down to understanding why you do a certain step. Unfortunately most teachers put almost all of the emphasis on memorizing the steps instead of understanding why you do them. My roommate went from failing calculus to getting a B because I was able to get him to understand the why.
If I remember correctly balloons that have a diameter less then 6 feet are exempt, it was about 10 years ago when I was using weather balloons to lift calibration targets so I could be wrong.
He was doing the same thing to my other neighbors too, they were both young women living together. They wouldn't even use their back yard so their mental distress could be proven, the prosecutor still wouldn't do anything. When they went to get a protection order because they couldn't get him charged their lawyer advised them that dumping refuse and walking by their house was not enough and advised them to settle on a civil no contact agreement (basically a toothless agreement that will agitate the magistrate enough that they might lower the bar for a protection order).
You should read the actual law not somebody on the internet's interpretation of it. Below is the relevant section of the actual law.
No person by engaging in a pattern of conduct shall knowingly cause another person to believe that the offender will cause physical harm to the other person or cause mental distress to the other person.
If you read carefully you will see that the person must knowingly cause mental distress which is defined here.
"Mental distress" means any of the following:
(a) Any mental illness or condition that involves some temporary substantial incapacity;
(b) Any mental illness or condition that would normally require psychiatric treatment, psychological treatment, or other mental health services, whether or not any person requested or received psychiatric treatment, psychological treatment, or other mental health services.
That means the prosecutor must prove that you were following a person with the intent to intimidate or cause mental harm. I am intimately familiar with this law as I live in Ohio and have a crazy neighbor (back yard) that would drive by my house and dump trash in my yard, walk by my house dump trash and put tree branches behind my car, dump soda on my car, which I caught on camera. The prosecutor said that they could only get him for littering because he didn't cause mental distress or threaten me.
Sure, legally. At some point such behavior by an actual human being would creep the shit out of you and fulfill the definition of stalking, which is definitely illegal in the US (specifics vary by state). If only such laws could be applied to automated cameras and databases...
If all you do if follow someone on public property you are not stalking them in a legal sense. Trespassing, vandalism, threats,... must be present for there to be stalking. A protection order would not be written for simply following someone unless it was uncontested.
Legally there is not and trying to separate the two without stepping on 1st amendment rights would be next to impossible. Also note that the cameras are simply mounted near intersections or other busy areas and plate numbers are extracted. There is no way to differentiate recording at intersections and a gas station on the corner having security cameras, the only way is to make tracking information of a person or their property the property of that person then it can only be released by that person.
Well, in this case it's some capitalists taking advantage of a business opportunity to spy on you. What bothers me is I don't recall signing any sort of release on this, when someone wants to look where I've been driving my car.
You don't have to sign a release to be recorded in public as you have no expectation of privacy. Unless a law is passed making it illegal use public images to track an individual or vehicle there is nothing to stop this sort of thing.
I believe a screw up by the PTO was the initial cause of this issue but once the PTO realized they had screwed up and the ramifications of their screw up they decided the best course of action was to delay.
Unfortunately if his application were so trivial to reject they would simply do so. I imagine his patent got lost then rediscovered 20 years later, at that point the PTO realized he had a valid patient that would give him rights over a huge sector of the market and decided sitting on it was the best thing to do. All we can do is speculate as to the validity of his patent because his application is simply not available to view.
Should casino's be shut down because some people spend more then $10,000 a month gambling, should the NFL be dismantled because some people paid $10,000 for two seats to the Superbowl? People are paying for entertainment, just because some value it more then you or I, does not make it stealing.
The biggest issue with this phone is not weather it can be tampered with without the owners knowledge, but that anyone that has one of these phones will be instantly noticeable as a high value target. The only people that this device makes sense for are public figures, senators, congressmen, CEO's of large defense contractors,... Everyone else will be better protected by following simple security precautions and not carrying around a large flag that says I'm worth the effort.
The people that would use this phone are probably no as worried about someone taking their phone and attempting to access their encrypted data, rather they are worried about compromising their phone and any other systems their phone connects to.
What technical implications were so hard to understand? You permit people to buy guns illegally, stop agents from arresting the smugglers and straw buyers with the cache of illegally purchased weapons, watch the weapons disappear over the boarder, but do not inform the Mexican police. How can anyone be shocked when these weapons are found at crime scenes? Multiple field agents are on record of questioning this tactic.
You are making the assumption that ignorance was the culprit is very naive. The delaying by the DOJ to release documents subpenaed by congress, then the issuing of executive privilege to stop those documents from being released even though Eric Holder claimed under oath that he nor the white house was aware of the operation, indicates otherwise. I would say giving guns to criminals certainly makes all parties involved in the operation accomplices to any crimes committed with those guns.
Traditional investigational work would have some sort of mechanism for recovering these guns or being able to track them to the end buyers then making arrests/dismantling the drug cartels, which was the stated mission objective. The problem is that nobody informed Mexican police or shared the intel with them which is suspicious since the objective was to dismantle drug cartels in Mexico. They let 1,600 guns go and had no mechanism to track them beyond the straw purchasers. Either the people running the operation were grossly incompetent and had no oversight from the DOJ or the operation had ulterior motives, either way this debacle deserved the attention it got.
Walmart and McDonalds pay more in taxes then benefits they receive, even when you include moronic notion that the government is subsidizing them because some of their employees are on welfare.
Your analogy is bad, the fuel powers you to get there, the roads get you there. It would be like the government charging sears a percentage of all the sales sears made because their customers use the government roads.
Honey is not bee poo, it's partially dehydrated chewed bee vomit. The pollen jock bee drinks the nectar and it is stored in the honey stomach and they return to the hive, the worker bee opens his mouth and the pollen jock bee vomits into the workers mouth. The worker bee then chews the vomited nectar for a half an hour which breaks down the nectar into simple sugars, the worker bees then spits the chewed nectar into multiple honeycombs so it can dry, other worker bees flap their wings in the hive to create airflow to dry the honey out even quicker.
Even though I know all of this I still love honey.
Obama's approval rating is 40% while his disapproval rating is 53%. His approval with 18-29 year olds is 42% with 50% disapproval. So most people don't think he is doing a doing a good job.
When the Navy reaches its laser goal of a 1MW laser it will be cut through 2,000 feet of steal per second. Even with aluminum, which is more reflective to light and better at dissipating heat the dwell time needed to cut through the skin is probably less then a 1/100 of a second. At mach 5 that's only tracking for 60 feet. The 1MW laser if far off but by the time seedier countries have hypersonic missiles the navy will have their Mega-Watt laser.
Slashdot was dieing before, fewer people were turning to Slashdot before the beta in favor of other aggregate site like Reddit. Dice's answer to this problem is to make it look more like Reddit. The thing Dice doesn't understand is that change for the sake of change irritates their users, Digg changed their interface and people left in droves. Slashdot will never be able to compete with Reddit by being like Reddit instead they will be alienating their loyal followers, for a chance at new users. Betting a dollar to win a cent is a bad plan.
You may believe in the laws of thermodynamics, but it doesn't seem like you understand them. There is no evidence that there is a divine creator nor is there any that there is not. There is however evidence that spontaneous generation did not occur on earth, if spontaneous generation did not occur then divine creation or seeding from another planet are the only two explanations for the origins of life.
How exactly does a decrease of entropy in a closed system never being observed have any correlation to intelligent creation? You are making the false assumption that there is always increasing entropy in closed systems.
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The first thing you need to know when bonding anything is the material you are bonding, most Lego bricks are made of ABS plastic and I would assume the ones you had are as well. The way you bond ABS is by chemically welding it, you can find the solvent glue at most hardware stores (plumbing section). The glue will be black because there will be abs filler in there to fill voids because it is used in plumbing and must be water tight. The second option is to use MEK (methyl ethyl ketone) to chemically weld it, MEK is clear and has no filler. Most hardware stores don't sell MEK anymore but a MEK alternative that may not work. MEK is some nasty stuff wear gloves when you use it and work in a well ventilated area with a respirator, if you get any on your gloves change them as the MEK will be eating through them shortly.
Big companies need protection the same way all companies need protection. They invest lots of R&D money into projects, and have to make it back. Under your wild wild west system inventors will have to make back half their investment in the first year, in the following years the market will shrink because people have all ready bought their product and now there is competition in the remaining market forcing prices down. Patent protection is so important to the success of the country that it is in the constitution.
Upper level mathematics comes down to understanding why you do a certain step. Unfortunately most teachers put almost all of the emphasis on memorizing the steps instead of understanding why you do them. My roommate went from failing calculus to getting a B because I was able to get him to understand the why.
If I remember correctly balloons that have a diameter less then 6 feet are exempt, it was about 10 years ago when I was using weather balloons to lift calibration targets so I could be wrong.
He was doing the same thing to my other neighbors too, they were both young women living together. They wouldn't even use their back yard so their mental distress could be proven, the prosecutor still wouldn't do anything. When they went to get a protection order because they couldn't get him charged their lawyer advised them that dumping refuse and walking by their house was not enough and advised them to settle on a civil no contact agreement (basically a toothless agreement that will agitate the magistrate enough that they might lower the bar for a protection order).
No person by engaging in a pattern of conduct shall knowingly cause another person to believe that the offender will cause physical harm to the other person or cause mental distress to the other person.
If you read carefully you will see that the person must knowingly cause mental distress which is defined here.
"Mental distress" means any of the following:
(a) Any mental illness or condition that involves some temporary substantial incapacity;
(b) Any mental illness or condition that would normally require psychiatric treatment, psychological treatment, or other mental health services, whether or not any person requested or received psychiatric treatment, psychological treatment, or other mental health services.
That means the prosecutor must prove that you were following a person with the intent to intimidate or cause mental harm. I am intimately familiar with this law as I live in Ohio and have a crazy neighbor (back yard) that would drive by my house and dump trash in my yard, walk by my house dump trash and put tree branches behind my car, dump soda on my car, which I caught on camera. The prosecutor said that they could only get him for littering because he didn't cause mental distress or threaten me.
Sure, legally. At some point such behavior by an actual human being would creep the shit out of you and fulfill the definition of stalking, which is definitely illegal in the US (specifics vary by state). If only such laws could be applied to automated cameras and databases...
If all you do if follow someone on public property you are not stalking them in a legal sense. Trespassing, vandalism, threats, ... must be present for there to be stalking. A protection order would not be written for simply following someone unless it was uncontested.
Legally there is not and trying to separate the two without stepping on 1st amendment rights would be next to impossible. Also note that the cameras are simply mounted near intersections or other busy areas and plate numbers are extracted. There is no way to differentiate recording at intersections and a gas station on the corner having security cameras, the only way is to make tracking information of a person or their property the property of that person then it can only be released by that person.
Well, in this case it's some capitalists taking advantage of a business opportunity to spy on you. What bothers me is I don't recall signing any sort of release on this, when someone wants to look where I've been driving my car.
You don't have to sign a release to be recorded in public as you have no expectation of privacy. Unless a law is passed making it illegal use public images to track an individual or vehicle there is nothing to stop this sort of thing.
I believe a screw up by the PTO was the initial cause of this issue but once the PTO realized they had screwed up and the ramifications of their screw up they decided the best course of action was to delay.
Unfortunately if his application were so trivial to reject they would simply do so. I imagine his patent got lost then rediscovered 20 years later, at that point the PTO realized he had a valid patient that would give him rights over a huge sector of the market and decided sitting on it was the best thing to do. All we can do is speculate as to the validity of his patent because his application is simply not available to view.
Should casino's be shut down because some people spend more then $10,000 a month gambling, should the NFL be dismantled because some people paid $10,000 for two seats to the Superbowl? People are paying for entertainment, just because some value it more then you or I, does not make it stealing.
The biggest issue with this phone is not weather it can be tampered with without the owners knowledge, but that anyone that has one of these phones will be instantly noticeable as a high value target. The only people that this device makes sense for are public figures, senators, congressmen, CEO's of large defense contractors, ... Everyone else will be better protected by following simple security precautions and not carrying around a large flag that says I'm worth the effort.
A tamper coating like that will get gradually damaged just through normal wear and tear...
Requiring the owner to buy a new $10,000 phone every year, it's brilliant.
The people that would use this phone are probably no as worried about someone taking their phone and attempting to access their encrypted data, rather they are worried about compromising their phone and any other systems their phone connects to.
What technical implications were so hard to understand? You permit people to buy guns illegally, stop agents from arresting the smugglers and straw buyers with the cache of illegally purchased weapons, watch the weapons disappear over the boarder, but do not inform the Mexican police. How can anyone be shocked when these weapons are found at crime scenes? Multiple field agents are on record of questioning this tactic.
You are making the assumption that ignorance was the culprit is very naive. The delaying by the DOJ to release documents subpenaed by congress, then the issuing of executive privilege to stop those documents from being released even though Eric Holder claimed under oath that he nor the white house was aware of the operation, indicates otherwise. I would say giving guns to criminals certainly makes all parties involved in the operation accomplices to any crimes committed with those guns.
Traditional investigational work would have some sort of mechanism for recovering these guns or being able to track them to the end buyers then making arrests/dismantling the drug cartels, which was the stated mission objective. The problem is that nobody informed Mexican police or shared the intel with them which is suspicious since the objective was to dismantle drug cartels in Mexico. They let 1,600 guns go and had no mechanism to track them beyond the straw purchasers. Either the people running the operation were grossly incompetent and had no oversight from the DOJ or the operation had ulterior motives, either way this debacle deserved the attention it got.
Walmart and McDonalds pay more in taxes then benefits they receive, even when you include moronic notion that the government is subsidizing them because some of their employees are on welfare.
Your analogy is bad, the fuel powers you to get there, the roads get you there. It would be like the government charging sears a percentage of all the sales sears made because their customers use the government roads.
Honey is not bee poo, it's partially dehydrated chewed bee vomit. The pollen jock bee drinks the nectar and it is stored in the honey stomach and they return to the hive, the worker bee opens his mouth and the pollen jock bee vomits into the workers mouth. The worker bee then chews the vomited nectar for a half an hour which breaks down the nectar into simple sugars, the worker bees then spits the chewed nectar into multiple honeycombs so it can dry, other worker bees flap their wings in the hive to create airflow to dry the honey out even quicker.
Even though I know all of this I still love honey.
Obama's approval rating is 40% while his disapproval rating is 53%. His approval with 18-29 year olds is 42% with 50% disapproval. So most people don't think he is doing a doing a good job.
When the Navy reaches its laser goal of a 1MW laser it will be cut through 2,000 feet of steal per second. Even with aluminum, which is more reflective to light and better at dissipating heat the dwell time needed to cut through the skin is probably less then a 1/100 of a second. At mach 5 that's only tracking for 60 feet. The 1MW laser if far off but by the time seedier countries have hypersonic missiles the navy will have their Mega-Watt laser.
Slashdot was dieing before, fewer people were turning to Slashdot before the beta in favor of other aggregate site like Reddit. Dice's answer to this problem is to make it look more like Reddit. The thing Dice doesn't understand is that change for the sake of change irritates their users, Digg changed their interface and people left in droves. Slashdot will never be able to compete with Reddit by being like Reddit instead they will be alienating their loyal followers, for a chance at new users. Betting a dollar to win a cent is a bad plan.
You may believe in the laws of thermodynamics, but it doesn't seem like you understand them. There is no evidence that there is a divine creator nor is there any that there is not. There is however evidence that spontaneous generation did not occur on earth, if spontaneous generation did not occur then divine creation or seeding from another planet are the only two explanations for the origins of life.
How exactly does a decrease of entropy in a closed system never being observed have any correlation to intelligent creation? You are making the false assumption that there is always increasing entropy in closed systems.