aussie excise tax on alcohol is 75 bucks per ethanol litre.
putting that in perspective, if you're making a wine in a 30 litre fermenter, you'll be using about 5 kg of fermentables. this will yield about 4.5kg of ethanol, which will run you about 428 bucks of excise for 6 bucks worth of ingredients.
nuclear regulation became ridiculous precisely because of non proliferation.
the weapons focused designs are almost all but decommissioned (one of them decommissioned itself spectacularly in 1986...). the UK still has a few running. their distinguishing feature is the ability to hot-swap fuel while keeping it running. you can't do that with a PWR or BWR - you fuel it all in one go, you leave it a couple of years (viable pu239 production takes a couple of weeks, not years. if you let it cook too long it all ends up being pu240 which is not at all useful for weapons, as the north koreans could tell you).
please do a little reading on the subject. i'm a little tired of the "todays reactors are shit because they were made to make weapons". it is in fact the opposite of the truth - they were made to make weapons impossible to all but military reactors.
maybe a detective should be granted access? as a part of due process, that kind of thing?
the mob can not and should not even be put in a place where it alone can determine a person's innocence or guilt.
especially when that mob has yet to come up with anything that satisfies a judge's bullshit detector (and remember, they spend their LIVES dealing with people's bullshit).
how the fuck do you think YOU personally have a right to read the correspondence of someone you've never met, because his bread and butter is important enough for a government to pay for some of it? that shit's NOWHERE in the constitution.
if a cop pulls you over, do you FOI his personal email for the duration of his tenure as a cop? would you consider this to be reasonable? would a court?
it's quite likely he doesn't wish to make his email public for personal reasons - like some of the things he says to colleagues about people like you. i'm sure that would not look good.
the public funding issue is complicated when you look at the university setup - it's not all public funding, a big chunk (most?) of it comes from the university generating it's own income. there's also the issue of just what is in the public interest. the fruits of public funding should absolutely belong to the public, but the email correspondence involved in sowing that fruit may not necessarily be something that's mandated.
people swear, people express opinion, people make personal emails that are not always work related using their work addresses simply because they're more convenient to use. over the years that have been FOI'd, i'm sure Mann's done all these things, and who the hell hasn't?
try take on the science, if you can. the sources are all referenced and backed up, or he'd have failed peer review.
just get the fuck over your worldview and try to see that all this AGW hogwash might actually be happening. and if you can't accept that, shut up and try to disprove it.
what a stupid headline. i'm not even going to read the article after that.
besides, the word "consumer" means things are going to be shit. when i think of "hardware", i tend to thing of big expensive workhorse machines used in production that come with a service contract and a high build quality.
i wonder when people will clue in to the fact that you can buy good, reliable things for the price of a mid-level to high-end consumer thing of equivalent function if you approach a trade outlet? there's one for any product you could find use with.
that's not my point at all. the dumbphone remark was part of a list of possible phones in phone-feature-space. i listed other permutations.
my point is that apple only offers the 1 phone, and if you have different needs or use patterns, you're shit out of luck with apple - you have to buy something else.
so it's not really valid for people to insist that you can do anything on an iphone, and then when someone says "what about buttons i can press", they say "well shit, why do you want that?". there's a bit of flawed logic there.
by the way, Ferrari offer several models. sure there isn't a pickup truck (though as legend has it, they used to use parts from tractors at one point - the man behind Lamborghini used to make farm equipment and found that his Ferrari used some of the same parts. when he got on Ferrari's case about it, they simply said "why don't you go make your own supercar then, smart guy?").
modern print stock is about as good as it gets. even better if they can find black and white print stock.
but yeah, they could have done the scan with a fancy lightbox (integration sphere), that gate contraption and a really good digital camera and got more precision than the 10-bit you get from a film scanner (at most 16-bit linear with dual-flash scanning on a 12-bit sensor). they could even adapt the film scanner lenses to fit a DSLR...
but archivists make film based copies as a matter of procedure i think. it's certainly safer for an operator to deal with new stock than old stock. fire and accidental destruction are things lowly operators don't want to take the rap for.
most companies will release one with features, one with battery life, one for people who browse, one for people who use it as a _phone_, one for media and games, and one for the fat-fingered.
apple only releases 1 of anything, and dangles the update like a carrot through their ridiculous press managed "leaks" and rumours.
smoothness comes from being pin-registered. and being careful to deal with film shrinkage (while making sure it doesn't catch fire as it was undoubtedly Nitrate base film - which is probably why they copied it to bog standard 35mm first).
you can squeeze extra dynamic range by reducing the density of the filter. you can correct for it with channel subtraction or in LAB space (so you can banish the noise to the chroma planes and keep a clean luma plane, where the detail is).
nah, if you're able to build a pin-registered gate at all (and run it at 24 fps without destroying the film), you've already got the skills necessary to add a filter wheel at the same speed.
the engineering in old film gear is just phenomenal. awe inspiring that they could make all this stuff work together.
even the capstan-servo telecine machines of the 70s (and still today) are incredible. they could get 1200 feet of heavy film to move at _exactly_ the right constant speed to get exactly 576 lines per film picture height as it moved through the gate, illuminated by a CRT synced to a black video input, and could do it even while letting the user zoom in and out and rotate the picture by tweaking the scanning pattern of that CRT. the film could even be stopped and the picture would remain the same (live, not buffered in memory) because the CRT knew when to switch to different scanning to get the same output picture on a still frame.
and it did this without so much as going out by a fraction of a pixel, and it could do it day in, day out, for decades with little maintenance and with rough jerks like me using it.
maintenance was done by jiggling or re-seating the huge circuit boards. occasionally a (huge) capacitor would blow up.
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aussie excise tax on alcohol is 75 bucks per ethanol litre.
putting that in perspective, if you're making a wine in a 30 litre fermenter, you'll be using about 5 kg of fermentables. this will yield about 4.5kg of ethanol, which will run you about 428 bucks of excise for 6 bucks worth of ingredients.
a voice said "use the force, let go". so i turned off the computer.
(granted, the fuel cycle infrastructure can certainly be used to enrich uranium beyond the small amount needed for commercial reactors).
not even slightly true.
nuclear regulation became ridiculous precisely because of non proliferation.
the weapons focused designs are almost all but decommissioned (one of them decommissioned itself spectacularly in 1986...). the UK still has a few running. their distinguishing feature is the ability to hot-swap fuel while keeping it running. you can't do that with a PWR or BWR - you fuel it all in one go, you leave it a couple of years (viable pu239 production takes a couple of weeks, not years. if you let it cook too long it all ends up being pu240 which is not at all useful for weapons, as the north koreans could tell you).
please do a little reading on the subject. i'm a little tired of the "todays reactors are shit because they were made to make weapons". it is in fact the opposite of the truth - they were made to make weapons impossible to all but military reactors.
showing your work and submitting your notebook with your work are not the same thing.
Fucking idiot.
accountable... i think you should look this up.
maybe a detective should be granted access? as a part of due process, that kind of thing?
the mob can not and should not even be put in a place where it alone can determine a person's innocence or guilt.
especially when that mob has yet to come up with anything that satisfies a judge's bullshit detector (and remember, they spend their LIVES dealing with people's bullshit).
how the fuck do you think YOU personally have a right to read the correspondence of someone you've never met, because his bread and butter is important enough for a government to pay for some of it? that shit's NOWHERE in the constitution.
if a cop pulls you over, do you FOI his personal email for the duration of his tenure as a cop? would you consider this to be reasonable? would a court?
fuck this shit, next topic.
further == more of the same nothing.
cause there's no win like GODwin!
don't accept anything without a reference. this is the internet, and hyperlinks are a thing.
yes, it's all a conspiracy.
may i see your email for the last 6 years, then?
it's quite likely he doesn't wish to make his email public for personal reasons - like some of the things he says to colleagues about people like you. i'm sure that would not look good.
the public funding issue is complicated when you look at the university setup - it's not all public funding, a big chunk (most?) of it comes from the university generating it's own income. there's also the issue of just what is in the public interest. the fruits of public funding should absolutely belong to the public, but the email correspondence involved in sowing that fruit may not necessarily be something that's mandated.
people swear, people express opinion, people make personal emails that are not always work related using their work addresses simply because they're more convenient to use. over the years that have been FOI'd, i'm sure Mann's done all these things, and who the hell hasn't?
try take on the science, if you can. the sources are all referenced and backed up, or he'd have failed peer review.
just get the fuck over your worldview and try to see that all this AGW hogwash might actually be happening. and if you can't accept that, shut up and try to disprove it.
this also applies to govt emails.
bring on the litigation.
send it back to china to melt down and make more things.
hardware == tablets.
what a stupid headline. i'm not even going to read the article after that.
besides, the word "consumer" means things are going to be shit. when i think of "hardware", i tend to thing of big expensive workhorse machines used in production that come with a service contract and a high build quality.
i wonder when people will clue in to the fact that you can buy good, reliable things for the price of a mid-level to high-end consumer thing of equivalent function if you approach a trade outlet? there's one for any product you could find use with.
that's not my point at all. the dumbphone remark was part of a list of possible phones in phone-feature-space. i listed other permutations.
my point is that apple only offers the 1 phone, and if you have different needs or use patterns, you're shit out of luck with apple - you have to buy something else.
so it's not really valid for people to insist that you can do anything on an iphone, and then when someone says "what about buttons i can press", they say "well shit, why do you want that?". there's a bit of flawed logic there.
by the way, Ferrari offer several models. sure there isn't a pickup truck (though as legend has it, they used to use parts from tractors at one point - the man behind Lamborghini used to make farm equipment and found that his Ferrari used some of the same parts. when he got on Ferrari's case about it, they simply said "why don't you go make your own supercar then, smart guy?").
the best an Anon can do is send pizzas and black faxes...
oh, cool. i'll go buy Apple's dumb phone then.
fucking idiot.
modern print stock is about as good as it gets. even better if they can find black and white print stock.
but yeah, they could have done the scan with a fancy lightbox (integration sphere), that gate contraption and a really good digital camera and got more precision than the 10-bit you get from a film scanner (at most 16-bit linear with dual-flash scanning on a 12-bit sensor). they could even adapt the film scanner lenses to fit a DSLR...
but archivists make film based copies as a matter of procedure i think. it's certainly safer for an operator to deal with new stock than old stock. fire and accidental destruction are things lowly operators don't want to take the rap for.
most companies will release one with features, one with battery life, one for people who browse, one for people who use it as a _phone_, one for media and games, and one for the fat-fingered.
apple only releases 1 of anything, and dangles the update like a carrot through their ridiculous press managed "leaks" and rumours.
no, that would be Volts.
linky?
if it's loud music and video, then it was the vidicon sensor physically shuddering as it resonated with the sound.
smoothness comes from being pin-registered. and being careful to deal with film shrinkage (while making sure it doesn't catch fire as it was undoubtedly Nitrate base film - which is probably why they copied it to bog standard 35mm first).
you can squeeze extra dynamic range by reducing the density of the filter. you can correct for it with channel subtraction or in LAB space (so you can banish the noise to the chroma planes and keep a clean luma plane, where the detail is).
nope. other way round.
but the problem is we're shooting negative film...
however, light is light, and on it's way into the camera it has to go through RGB filters.
film is developed, and you end up with the negative (CMY).
film is _printed_ for viewing, and you're in RGB again.
nah, if you're able to build a pin-registered gate at all (and run it at 24 fps without destroying the film), you've already got the skills necessary to add a filter wheel at the same speed.
the engineering in old film gear is just phenomenal. awe inspiring that they could make all this stuff work together.
even the capstan-servo telecine machines of the 70s (and still today) are incredible. they could get 1200 feet of heavy film to move at _exactly_ the right constant speed to get exactly 576 lines per film picture height as it moved through the gate, illuminated by a CRT synced to a black video input, and could do it even while letting the user zoom in and out and rotate the picture by tweaking the scanning pattern of that CRT. the film could even be stopped and the picture would remain the same (live, not buffered in memory) because the CRT knew when to switch to different scanning to get the same output picture on a still frame.
and it did this without so much as going out by a fraction of a pixel, and it could do it day in, day out, for decades with little maintenance and with rough jerks like me using it.
maintenance was done by jiggling or re-seating the huge circuit boards. occasionally a (huge) capacitor would blow up.
film techies are Gods of precision engineering.