The choice for this is the same as any other environmental question: What is more important, human life or wild life?
More often than not (though not in this case), the question is "What is more important, human (profit/convenience) or wildlife?"
In this case, the fundamental question would be "What is more important, a quick fix for the malaria problem or not having to deal with potential side effects of DDT?"
The stuff is an endocrine disruptor - it and its metabolites are antiandrogenic and have estrogen-like effects on mammals.
No sane government would ever jail operatives following orders and breaking laws in a foreign country.
However, removing operatives who break rule number one in the spy game, "Thou shalt not get caught.", from the spying program could actually improve its quality.
So how do you suppose extradition treaties should work? "Sure - you can come in and grab our citizens".
No. "We're going to extradite anyone who isn't our citizen, and we will put our citizens on trial for crimes commited abroad as long as what they did would be crime within our borders. At least that's how it works where I live.
Or do you not believe there are common grounds in law on which friendly countries can cooperate?
Friendly countries will have fairly similar legal systems (for example, they will know the crimes of murder, theft, burglary, etc), so an offender can be put on trial for these crimes in his own country. However, not every country will recognize the crimes of "offending the great head honcho" or "blasphemy against his noodly appendage" - would you want to be extradited from your country to some obscure nation because of them ?
Would you have a boarding pass for an international flight become a license to steal?
Nope, not at all. It would merely become a chance to pick between two prison systems.
So you say that the Belgians should just sit and do nothing?
I am quite sure murder is illegal in Poland.
And it is quite easy to provide legal provisions to put citiziens on trial for crimes commited abroad, as long as they are also considered crimes in their home country. So, a murderer could easily be put on trial in his home country, while someone who, say, "insulted the chairman" and managed to get home would probably get away unscathed.
Ha ha.
Judging from this comment, you don't really know a lot about the technical and economic aspects of space flight. Usually, it has to be inexpensive and "good enoug", because even inexpensive space flight costs a helluva lot. Try going for expensive and the best money can buy, and you'll be broke before even getting anything on the launch pad.
Being military, I think two walls, with a minefield in between would be good.
Sorry, you are thinking military. You measures are intended to slow down a surprise ground assault, but they are inadequate for keeping scores of often desparate people with lots of time and ingenuity (and sometimes little regard for human life on the side of the smugglers) on "their" side of the border.
The following items need to be added to your design:
* guard dog patrol facilities (they basically let the dog patrol on a fixed route, with no immediate need for a human supervisor).
* guard towers.
* regular patrols. Any purely "technical" security measure will sooner or later be disabled or circumvented. Therefo * More than just two walls, and of course lots of barbed wire.
* Electrified fences would be nice. Set to "well done", of course.
* floodlights. More for the psychological impact than for lighting.
* a cleared, cover-free security zone at least 1500' wide.
As an example of how to do it right, have a look at the German-German border (especially before 1983, when the guard dog facilities and anti-personell mines were still in place). Of course, the commies had it a lot easier with only a few hundred miles of border.
Any household with a monthly 2.5k$ electricity bill is probably making at least ten times this amount by selling the weed grown in the basement, so there's no need to lower the electricity bill.
... to make lot of $$$ from people who have no clue about physics (that means: lots of people) and/or economics.
(The company also offers a lower-capacity version designed for homes, which costs $10,000.)
Reality check: How many kWh of electricity does 10k$ buy ? Lots. Several years' worth for most households.
A built-in computer powered by a Pentium chip will make intelligent purchase decisions,
Ugh. Wonder why they need a Pentium chip for that. Either it's an expensive low-power thingy (which still eats more power than some real embedded processor), or it's something that will eat a lot of power itself (as it is always on).
Do they really need a PC processor for an algorithm that could probably be easily implemented on some microcontroller, which would be much better suited for the task ? Or does it need to run some fancy operating system and colorful user interface ?
buying when prices are low, then storing the electricity for later use.
NEWS FLASH: Electrical energy is notoriously difficult to store efficiently. Basically any way of doing so has an efficiency significantly below 1. I think it says a lot about the "technology" if they aren't even telling _how_ they intend to store several kWh of electricity.
Depends on the type of engine. Don't try that with a modern common rail or pump-nozzle-injection diesel engine, since it will seriously fsck up the injector.
I'm quite sure that there are plenty of concrete walls the thing can't break. It is just a matter of having enough concrete.
If not, being in another car would not make a difference, either.
Yes it would. Because the thing is designed _not_ to crumple on impact, the passengers will be squished if it doesn't break through the obstacle. Vehicles designed for passenger survivability (outside war zones) will subject the passengers to lower forces in case of a crash, so the car will get squished instead of the passengers.
The Humvee is not designed to crumple in an impact. It is designed to break through that obstacle or roll over it.
... anf if it can't do these things (i.e. it hits something too large or heavy, like a concrete wall or simply another humvee), it'll squish anyone inside like a bug.... bugger.
A company may soon offer American motorists a new option to save on high gas prices.
Oh ?
How about:
a) Invest in oil companies.
b) Don't pick the largest engine displacement when buying a new car.
Don't patent - publish.
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Which means you'll usually never see someone patent an idea just so that it can be public domain.
That's what publishing is for (in some magazine, journal, whatever). If someone tries to patent the idea later on, it should be easy to prove that the idea was not original and prior art exists.
The interesting part is that a large (but obviously non-lethal) dose in a short time, like radiation therapy, can heal you from cancer,... and it can also give you cancer, later on. But since you already have cancer at that point, you'll probably accept dying from cancer later if it means you don't die from cancer sooner.
That's nonsense.
No, it's not. Spreading out the same dose over a larger time gives tissue a chance to repair the damage.
Coincidentially, cancer tissue is worse at repairing this damage than normal tissue, which is one of the reasons why radiation therapy works on cancer.
I really liked last years task but this years, um...
It depends way too much on things like the compiler being used, the optimization level, the actual hardware (how do they compare program run-time if the two OSes in question run on very different CPUs ?), and so on, than on actual C.
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What is more important, human life or wild life?
More often than not (though not in this case), the question is "What is more important, human (profit/convenience) or wildlife?"
In this case, the fundamental question would be "What is more important, a quick fix for the malaria problem or not having to deal with potential side effects of DDT?"
The stuff is an endocrine disruptor - it and its metabolites are antiandrogenic and have estrogen-like effects on mammals.
However, removing operatives who break rule number one in the spy game, "Thou shalt not get caught.", from the spying program could actually improve its quality.
No. "We're going to extradite anyone who isn't our citizen, and we will put our citizens on trial for crimes commited abroad as long as what they did would be crime within our borders. At least that's how it works where I live.
Or do you not believe there are common grounds in law on which friendly countries can cooperate?
Friendly countries will have fairly similar legal systems (for example, they will know the crimes of murder, theft, burglary, etc), so an offender can be put on trial for these crimes in his own country. However, not every country will recognize the crimes of "offending the great head honcho" or "blasphemy against his noodly appendage" - would you want to be extradited from your country to some obscure nation because of them ?
Would you have a boarding pass for an international flight become a license to steal?
Nope, not at all. It would merely become a chance to pick between two prison systems.
And it is quite easy to provide legal provisions to put citiziens on trial for crimes commited abroad, as long as they are also considered crimes in their home country. So, a murderer could easily be put on trial in his home country, while someone who, say, "insulted the chairman" and managed to get home would probably get away unscathed.
... should consider itself a vassal.
Ha ha. Judging from this comment, you don't really know a lot about the technical and economic aspects of space flight. Usually, it has to be inexpensive and "good enoug", because even inexpensive space flight costs a helluva lot. Try going for expensive and the best money can buy, and you'll be broke before even getting anything on the launch pad.
Yeah, sure, it just
Oh, and here's the kicker - lack of sleep causes people to eat more. Can you say "really really nasty positive feedback loop a.k.a. vicious circle" ?
(1) Obesity -> Sleep Apnea -> Lack of restful sleep -> increased food intake -> (1)
Repeat until heart attack or fatal road accident after falling asleep behind the steering wheel.
Sorry, you are thinking military. You measures are intended to slow down a surprise ground assault, but they are inadequate for keeping scores of often desparate people with lots of time and ingenuity (and sometimes little regard for human life on the side of the smugglers) on "their" side of the border.
The following items need to be added to your design:
* guard dog patrol facilities (they basically let the dog patrol on a fixed route, with no immediate need for a human supervisor).
* guard towers.
* regular patrols. Any purely "technical" security measure will sooner or later be disabled or circumvented. Therefo
* More than just two walls, and of course lots of barbed wire.
* Electrified fences would be nice. Set to "well done", of course.
* floodlights. More for the psychological impact than for lighting.
* a cleared, cover-free security zone at least 1500' wide.
As an example of how to do it right, have a look at the German-German border (especially before 1983, when the guard dog facilities and anti-personell mines were still in place). Of course, the commies had it a lot easier with only a few hundred miles of border.
Why
Any household with a monthly 2.5k$ electricity bill is probably making at least ten times this amount by selling the weed grown in the basement, so there's no need to lower the electricity bill.
(The company also offers a lower-capacity version designed for homes, which costs $10,000.)
Reality check: How many kWh of electricity does 10k$ buy ? Lots. Several years' worth for most households.
A built-in computer powered by a Pentium chip will make intelligent purchase decisions,
Ugh. Wonder why they need a Pentium chip for that. Either it's an expensive low-power thingy (which still eats more power than some real embedded processor), or it's something that will eat a lot of power itself (as it is always on).
Do they really need a PC processor for an algorithm that could probably be easily implemented on some microcontroller, which would be much better suited for the task ? Or does it need to run some fancy operating system and colorful user interface ?
buying when prices are low, then storing the electricity for later use.
NEWS FLASH: Electrical energy is notoriously difficult to store efficiently. Basically any way of doing so has an efficiency significantly below 1. I think it says a lot about the "technology" if they aren't even telling _how_ they intend to store several kWh of electricity.
Depends on the type of engine. Don't try that with a modern common rail or pump-nozzle-injection diesel engine, since it will seriously fsck up the injector.
I'm quite sure that there are plenty of concrete walls the thing can't break. It is just a matter of having enough concrete.
If not, being in another car would not make a difference, either.
Yes it would. Because the thing is designed _not_ to crumple on impact, the passengers will be squished if it doesn't break through the obstacle. Vehicles designed for passenger survivability (outside war zones) will subject the passengers to lower forces in case of a crash, so the car will get squished instead of the passengers.
a small plastic SMART car It might look like plastic, but there's actually quite a lot of steel in these things. That's why they weigh about ~700 kg.
Oh ?
How about:
a) Invest in oil companies.
b) Don't pick the largest engine displacement when buying a new car.
Which means you'll usually never see someone patent an idea just so that it can be public domain.
That's what publishing is for (in some magazine, journal, whatever). If someone tries to patent the idea later on, it should be easy to prove that the idea was not original and prior art exists.
Why, it already is !
Why do you think the US are spending so much time, money and general effort to acquire huge quantities of the stuff and waste^h^h^h^h^hdestroy it ?
The interesting part is that a large (but obviously non-lethal) dose in a short time, like radiation therapy, can heal you from cancer, ... and it can also give you cancer, later on. But since you already have cancer at that point, you'll probably accept dying from cancer later if it means you don't die from cancer sooner.
3. Display "This is a test" right after Mr. Terrorists luggage containing dangerous items has passed through the X-Ray machine.
Coincidentially, cancer tissue is worse at repairing this damage than normal tissue, which is one of the reasons why radiation therapy works on cancer.
That's a bit like believing that spitting into the ocean is going to disrupt the maritime ecosystem.
I think you forgot every second from 0:00:00 to 23:59:59.
00:00:00 Profit !
00:00:01 PROFIT !
00:00:02 Pr0f17 !!!!
23:59:57 ProFIT !!
23:59:58 pRoFiT !!!!!
23:59:59 profit
I really liked last years task but this years, um ...
It depends way too much on things like the compiler being used, the optimization level, the actual hardware (how do they compare program run-time if the two OSes in question run on very different CPUs ?), and so on, than on actual C.