1/ did not measure the temperature. I was relying on my thermostat. Checked the weather via cell phone/weather channel app 2/ home depot was out of generators pretty quickly 3/ i did not have any consequences, I have got workarounds (I am young, only in my mid 40s) 4/ when power is back on, I shield all the windows. I have "duck taped" (foil from grocery store) one of windows to increase the reflective coefficient. It works. 5/ how prepared? I did not prepare anything, except a flashlight and a kitchen lighter for the gas stove(normally, goes of the spark). 6/ "are you keeping more water" No. US is not there yet. At least in the DC area. They better keep the metropolitan area in shape, like Soviets did in their time with Moscow. 7/ "are you taking any steps to protect electronics and data from outages or extreme heat" power is out. Electronics is not working what the heck are you talking about? 8/ "what are you doing to find some relief from this summer's heat, other than cranking up the AC" nothing
If you have AC there is no difference for me. I do not spend much time outdoors.
Has been out of power 2 days. Having multilevel housing helps the temperature distribution vua wide vertical passage through the stairway. Spent it in the first level.
Most pressing was having cellphone powered. Did it in the mosque (only two buildings in the area were left powered: mosque and McDonalds), thanks to Allah, I go there for all five prayers.
Two of my friends (Virginia, Maryland) did not have it today. One of them got it today.
Small detail. Monday morning during commute hours noticed police car in the ambush at the unpowered intersection with major road/minor road scenario), checking for rollers. Really, police? Really?
I am originally from the steppe area of Russia, so we have derecho-shmerecho all the time, only it was called strong wind. Short after I left, there was the most serious hurricane that broke half of the trees in my parents town. The power was restored within few hours. That was 90s, the time of lawlessness and collapse in Russia, black years of Yeltsin, organized crime and disorganized government.
>I *hope* you can only piss off the people so much before they realize "Hey, that's pretty dumb."
That's the definition of pipe dream. When you people stop believing in "people"? What level of public manipulation by exponentially increasing power of technology needs to be achieved before you stop this insanity of belief in "democracy", before you say to yourself: "we played this game long enough for China to surpass us in GDP, what's really the risk of getting another moron on our asses via technocracy, while we had so many of them in the past via democracy?"
People with common sense are minority. They should rule. People without common sense, dumb people, idiots, hillbillies, their name is Legion, should not have ANY say. That's all there is to it.
That's a valid point. But first, I have never heard of what will be the punishment for not having insurance?
You see, one can hire transportation if he needs it, but will can one be able to hire a doctor without insurance? I haven't heard anything on this either. My impression that public is focusing on few of elements of this dramatic change while important details are remaining under radar.
Each grade of magnitude was considered twice the brightness of the following grade (a logarithmic scale).
2^19=500K difference - far from 1.2%. But that's only slightly relevant since you mentioned neutron output.
So the real question is, what is neutron intensity of supernovae?
> In stars there is a relatively low neutron flux on the order of 10^5 to 10^11 neutrons per cm2 per second > By contrast, after a core-collapse supernova, there is an extremely high neutron flux, on the order of 10^22 neutrons per cm per second >The neutron flux is a quantity used in nuclear reactor physics corresponding to the total length travelled by all neutrons per unit time and volume
I am assuming this is extensive characteristics of the star which needs to be normalized by r^2. Distance to SN-182 is 2,800 pc = 577 541 457 au = 5 10^8
r^2 factor is 10^17.
So depending on what neutron flux of the Sun is (I couln't find the data) and SN-182 (assuming the quoted number 10^22), the neutron flux of SN-182 could be from 100% of the sun to 10^-6 of the Sun. Which covers 1.2% number.
>Otherwise, it's pretty much like car insurance, so was the game already over decades ago
No. It's not pretty much like car insurance. You can choose not to drive, use public transportation or hired private transportation. In fact, many aspects of government action are in this direction.
You cannot choose not to have health problems.
This legislation is making us similar to UK, where people pay tax to get care. We will get taxed too, but we will have a choice of "IRS" - insurance company, that's extra for us.
From the other hand, obligatory giving money to a private company without public option is also quite corrupting.
There are many factors that can sway cost of insurance both ways:
1/ obligation can incrrease price 2/ since now government will subsidize the poor, not hospitals, that could lead to reduction of cost
"The increase in 14C levels is so clear that the scientists, led by Fusa Miyake, a cosmic-ray physicist from Nagoya University in Japan, conclude that the atmospheric level of 14C must have jumped by 1.2% over the course of no longer than a year, about 20 times more than the normal rate of variation"
Does this mean that new supernova contributed 1.2% of radiation of all stars, including Sun? Does Sun contribute to Carbon 14 contents in tree rings?
Were similar tree ring changes has been detected during known supernova events in history?
bq. both men's and women's magazines have sexy women on the covers.. because publishers want target audience to buy it. This target audience and people who want to do science have practically zero intersection. In fact, being a reader of "men's and women's magazines " would be a deterrent for any admission through the Gate of Science, if I were in fact at that Gate. I would make it a trick question: "have you seen a recent issue of Vanity Fair?", and after positive answer I would say: "Thank you for coming, we will call you".
I lived on 27K in 1996 (postdocs don't get much more than 27K in 1996 dollars nowadays as well). Every month I was given a check and every month before getting that checked, I enjoyed an exclusive delicious damned banana diet. When my family needed extra $3K, I had to enter a testee program.
Postdocs are extremely underpaid compared to their education.
Nobody wants women there, including women themselves, who can find much better prospects elsewhere, except the bureaucracy who needs to justify of existence of PC-ridden useless entities.
Do you really think that Dorothy Hodgkin or her pupil, Margaret Thatcher, or recently knighted or damed, whatever that silly Monty Pythonesque title is, formidable Janet Thornton, needed advertisement?
Screw the gap.
Instead of defining what is this, this sacred entity, notion, that the army must die for, the same bureaucrats working on eliminating "gaps" in women, gays, all kind of useless PC-notions that only distract institutions from fulfilling their goals.
In my 25 years working in different scientific laboratories, I have never seen any anti-women bias, in contrary, they got preferential treatment.
Enough already. Pick some other PC-project to work on.
Does science career needs THIS type or any type of advertising?
People who go to science and people who science need to go into science, have completely different channels of getting into science, being highborn for example (science is one of the most hereditary professions in the world).
Science does not need extra people, science does not need advertising.
If science had a want in people, postdocs won't be living on meager 50K a year salary, grown 35 old men with beards and wives.
Why don't European commission advertise food serving industry, the situation seems quite deplorable there?
Take government as employer. Since 2008 developers have been leaving our group and no hiring occurred because the wages offered were too low. I personally passed several resumes of excellent developers that were not hired, because of ridiculous salary offers (like 70K for 5-year experience, that is much less than I got in 1998 money when I moved from academy to industry).
Contactless MSD cards are similar to magnetic stripe cards in terms of the data they share across the contactless interface. They are only distributed in the USA. Payment occurs in a similar fashion to mag-stripe, without a PIN and often in off-line mode (depending on parameters of the terminal). The security level of such a transaction is better than a mag-stripe card, as the chip cryptographically generates a code which can be verified by the card issuer's systems.
I am actually working to convert my brain to non-artificial brute-force machine without a trace of intelligence applying brute force approach to futoshiki and kakuro.
>No machine, for the next 50-100 years at least, will be able to hold even quite a boring conversation with you
"boring". You overestimate people a whole bunch of whom are fascinated by conversations with cleverbot, etc.
You are absolutely right on the matter of AI being absent in present computers, you just omitting the fact that I (artificial or natural) is absent in a lot of people as well.
Let's try first to do it with a chemical laboratory or physical laboratory. Let's see how long it will take you to get your government interested in your research. I am sure as a result of such interest you will be able to apply for a 10-year 3-meal-a-day grant.
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Who are "they"? "They" are not "keeping" them. "They" are selling them internally only, and that is against free market.
So you found epithets for everything except for the subject: technocracy and democracy.
Sorry forgot to answer questions while ranting.
1/ did not measure the temperature. I was relying on my thermostat. Checked the weather via cell phone/weather channel app
2/ home depot was out of generators pretty quickly
3/ i did not have any consequences, I have got workarounds (I am young, only in my mid 40s)
4/ when power is back on, I shield all the windows. I have "duck taped" (foil from grocery store) one of windows to increase the reflective coefficient. It works.
5/ how prepared? I did not prepare anything, except a flashlight and a kitchen lighter for the gas stove(normally, goes of the spark).
6/ "are you keeping more water" No. US is not there yet. At least in the DC area. They better keep the metropolitan area in shape, like Soviets did in their time with Moscow.
7/ "are you taking any steps to protect electronics and data from outages or extreme heat" power is out. Electronics is not working what the heck are you talking about?
8/ "what are you doing to find some relief from this summer's heat, other than cranking up the AC" nothing
If you have AC there is no difference for me. I do not spend much time outdoors.
Has been out of power 2 days. Having multilevel housing helps the temperature distribution vua wide vertical passage through the stairway. Spent it in the first level.
Most pressing was having cellphone powered. Did it in the mosque (only two buildings in the area were left powered: mosque and McDonalds), thanks to Allah, I go there for all five prayers.
Two of my friends (Virginia, Maryland) did not have it today. One of them got it today.
Small detail. Monday morning during commute hours noticed police car in the ambush at the unpowered intersection with major road/minor road scenario), checking for rollers. Really, police? Really?
I am originally from the steppe area of Russia, so we have derecho-shmerecho all the time, only it was called strong wind. Short after I left, there was the most serious hurricane that broke half of the trees in my parents town. The power was restored within few hours. That was 90s, the time of lawlessness and collapse in Russia, black years of Yeltsin, organized crime and disorganized government.
This country is going down.
>China is still a shithole in every imaginable way compared to the USA and you want us to be like them
Being a shithole is not related to the path they have chosen AFTER shithole was created by commies.
The technocracy implies objective thresholds: right now we have age only and may be some other little restrictions.
My technocracy suggestion is: males of 30 years and older that have all of this
1/ wife and children
2/ wealth more than a median
3/ income more than a median
4/ college degree
>I *hope* you can only piss off the people so much before they realize "Hey, that's pretty dumb."
That's the definition of pipe dream. When you people stop believing in "people"? What level of public manipulation by exponentially increasing power of technology needs to be achieved before you stop this insanity of belief in "democracy", before you say to yourself: "we played this game long enough for China to surpass us in GDP, what's really the risk of getting another moron on our asses via technocracy, while we had so many of them in the past via democracy?"
People with common sense are minority. They should rule. People without common sense, dumb people, idiots, hillbillies, their name is Legion, should not have ANY say. That's all there is to it.
>They've lost their former power
Being a metropolitan DC resident, I take that literally after this weekend :-)
>you can and always can hire a doctor without insurance
According to new law? Are you sure it somehow was not made illegal?
For a moment I thought slashdot went passive-aggressive on Soviet cosmonautics.
>hiring private transportation
That's a valid point. But first, I have never heard of what will be the punishment for not having insurance?
You see, one can hire transportation if he needs it, but will can one be able to hire a doctor without insurance? I haven't heard anything on this either. My impression that public is focusing on few of elements of this dramatic change while important details are remaining under radar.
Elaborating on your useful comment :
>as the rest of the Universe isn't really relevant for calculations
>that means the supernova contributed to 1.2% of the neutron radiation of the Sun
eaeliest supernova recorded in history: earliest, because that correlates with brightness. It's brightness -8. Brightness of Sun is -27
2^19=500K difference - far from 1.2%. But that's only slightly relevant since you mentioned neutron output.
So the real question is, what is neutron intensity of supernovae?
> In stars there is a relatively low neutron flux on the order of 10^5 to 10^11 neutrons per cm2 per second
> By contrast, after a core-collapse supernova, there is an extremely high neutron flux, on the order of 10^22 neutrons per cm per second
>The neutron flux is a quantity used in nuclear reactor physics corresponding to the total length travelled by all neutrons per unit time and volume
I am assuming this is extensive characteristics of the star which needs to be normalized by r^2. Distance to SN-182 is 2,800 pc = 577 541 457 au = 5 10^8
r^2 factor is 10^17.
So depending on what neutron flux of the Sun is (I couln't find the data) and SN-182 (assuming the quoted number 10^22), the neutron flux of SN-182 could be from 100% of the sun to 10^-6 of the Sun. Which covers 1.2% number.
>Otherwise, it's pretty much like car insurance, so was the game already over decades ago
No. It's not pretty much like car insurance. You can choose not to drive, use public transportation or hired private transportation. In fact, many aspects of government action are in this direction.
You cannot choose not to have health problems.
This legislation is making us similar to UK, where people pay tax to get care. We will get taxed too, but we will have a choice of "IRS" - insurance company, that's extra for us.
From the other hand, obligatory giving money to a private company without public option is also quite corrupting.
There are many factors that can sway cost of insurance both ways:
1/ obligation can incrrease price
2/ since now government will subsidize the poor, not hospitals, that could lead to reduction of cost
Time will tell. Or not.
>Question headlines have always been a trademark of poor article writing.
broad generalization
"The increase in 14C levels is so clear that the scientists, led by Fusa Miyake, a cosmic-ray physicist from Nagoya University in Japan, conclude that the atmospheric level of 14C must have jumped by 1.2% over the course of no longer than a year, about 20 times more than the normal rate of variation"
Does this mean that new supernova contributed 1.2% of radiation of all stars, including Sun? Does Sun contribute to Carbon 14 contents in tree rings?
Were similar tree ring changes has been detected during known supernova events in history?
He proposed an explanation more plausible than people before.
bq. both men's and women's magazines have sexy women on the covers .. because publishers want target audience to buy it. This target audience and people who want to do science have practically zero intersection. In fact, being a reader of "men's and women's magazines " would be a deterrent for any admission through the Gate of Science, if I were in fact at that Gate. I would make it a trick question: "have you seen a recent issue of Vanity Fair?", and after positive answer I would say: "Thank you for coming, we will call you".
I lived on 27K in 1996 (postdocs don't get much more than 27K in 1996 dollars nowadays as well). Every month I was given a check and every month before getting that checked, I enjoyed an exclusive delicious damned banana diet. When my family needed extra $3K, I had to enter a testee program.
Postdocs are extremely underpaid compared to their education.
Nobody wants women there, including women themselves, who can find much better prospects elsewhere, except the bureaucracy who needs to justify of existence of PC-ridden useless entities.
Do you really think that Dorothy Hodgkin or her pupil, Margaret Thatcher, or recently knighted or damed, whatever that silly Monty Pythonesque title is, formidable Janet Thornton, needed advertisement?
Screw the gap.
Instead of defining what is this, this sacred entity, notion, that the army must die for, the same bureaucrats working on eliminating "gaps" in women, gays, all kind of useless PC-notions that only distract institutions from fulfilling their goals.
In my 25 years working in different scientific laboratories, I have never seen any anti-women bias, in contrary, they got preferential treatment.
Enough already. Pick some other PC-project to work on.
Why does anybody want to advertise this way?
Does science career needs THIS type or any type of advertising?
People who go to science and people who science need to go into science, have completely different channels of getting into science, being highborn for example (science is one of the most hereditary professions in the world).
Science does not need extra people, science does not need advertising.
If science had a want in people, postdocs won't be living on meager 50K a year salary, grown 35 old men with beards and wives.
Why don't European commission advertise food serving industry, the situation seems quite deplorable there?
Take government as employer. Since 2008 developers have been leaving our group and no hiring occurred because the wages offered were too low. I personally passed several resumes of excellent developers that were not hired, because of ridiculous salary offers (like 70K for 5-year experience, that is much less than I got in 1998 money when I moved from academy to industry).
It's not that bad, some type of cards are more protected:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contactless_smart_card#Contactless_bank_cards
I am actually working to convert my brain to non-artificial brute-force machine without a trace of intelligence applying brute force approach to futoshiki and kakuro.
>No machine, for the next 50-100 years at least, will be able to hold even quite a boring conversation with you
"boring". You overestimate people a whole bunch of whom are fascinated by conversations with cleverbot, etc.
You are absolutely right on the matter of AI being absent in present computers, you just omitting the fact that I (artificial or natural) is absent in a lot of people as well.
Let's try first to do it with a chemical laboratory or physical laboratory. Let's see how long it will take you to get your government interested in your research. I am sure as a result of such interest you will be able to apply for a 10-year 3-meal-a-day grant.