"consider that police officers miss nearly 90% of the time when they discharge their weapons. They have lots of training up front and ongoing training in firearms use which you almost certainly do not have. What makes you think your skills are better than theirs?"
I'd say because most of them are normal balanced human being who try not to kill if they don't absolutely have to. Shooting in the general direction of an armed criminal is usualy a good way of forcing him to seek a cover in which you could trap him or surrender instead of firing back efficiently so the bullet hit ratio is rarely a good metric, the outcome of the incidents is (criminal arested, no one hurt=very good; violent criminal shot down=good; criminal at large=bad; policeman or bystander hurt=very bad).
I'll want to add to the other problems (not that much energy available and the probable rapid wear of the equipments) that, if we do that on a large scale, we may all die from cancer because there is a theory that lightnings participate in the earth radiation shield (in particular the Van Hallen Belt).
To be honest, like a concept car, a concept computer was never meant to be actually used, it's only purpose is to show how cool its architect is by only using ideas so radical that no sane hardware engineer, industrial designer or marketing moron would ever think of using it in an actual product, no matter if the technology is available.
I don't think there will be any problem since a GSM phone does not always tries to go to the strongest signal, it only does that when it lose the base station on which it was. Since the plane signal will be the only stable station, it will rapidly gather all the phones and keep them until it is turned off or the people leave the plane.
Putting a red lens over a blue light... Are you a member of the Kansas education board? Some black duct tape will do exactly the same job (blocking almost of the blue light going out but not magically changing it into red one) for next to nothing.
As someone who design on both FPGA(VHDL) and DSP/uC(C/C++), I totally agree. The things are so differents I can't work on both during the same day. Only a good night of sleep allow me to reset my mind in the other mode and avoid madness.
However, it is interesting to note that both major FPGA manufacturers (Altera and Xilinx) now propose hybrid chips composed of one or few uC/uP cores embedded in the FPGA logic array, it allows to quickly build a custom chip with dedicated HW controlers driven by high level language running on a real OS.
Like any other research, it is only wasted as long as it doesn't work. Too bad you can't tell if it eventually going to work until you try hard enough (or if you know that your competitors are no longer trying so that you can safely give up too).
Real human monster do actually exist, and they are called psychopaths, some of them are violent and usually die young or spend their life in jail, but many more are clever enough to understand that hurting others is bad for them and live a rather normal life. Except that they can't understand things like good, evil, empathy or love, only their profit and their safety.
A friend of my parents was a psychiatrist expert and he told me he preffered working on violent criminals instead of manipulative psychopaths because the former were damaged humans while the laters were not human at all.
Moreover, it is well known that photoshop is a standard and commonly used tool for professional studio photography anyway. I think the tool purpose is limited to check that a "genuine" photography used to prove a crime or the existence of UFO/Bigfoot is not a blatant fake.
Except for the very famous, smart and powerfull ones, the artists who sign with the big record compagnies do not own the rights to their creation and usually only get monkey points, that is nothing if they are lucky. In the past, record compagnies controled everything because they were the only way to get your music published and therefore had the upper hand. Now, they control everything because they say so.
Yes, but the VIP stance is only one side of the CoS coin. For 99.9% of the follower, it's not "you're a god", it's "you could be a god someday if you give your life and soul to the cult". People like Tom Cruise already have far enouth people ready to tell them they're the best in exchange of some of their money, but only the CoS can give them real slaves without any real legal risk, moreover, I wouldn't bet that those people have to pay the CoS for anything, their public support of the cult is already valuable enough.
Even for a human being, that's perfectly bearable since it's approximatively the acceleration you get on a rollercoaster. Over 50 years ago, Dr Stapp totally recovered from a self-inflicted 46G decelration, proving the interest of seatbelts in plane (and car) crashes.
Not to be paranoid, but it might explain why the writers strike lasted so long: the MPAA needs a very bad year to ask the next president the right to shoot pirates on sight.
It reminds me of an UN study performed in an affrican country I read some time ago that said that if sending boys to school does increase the community wealth, sending girls to school was far more efficient. The reason: having an educated worker brings in money, but having an educated mother saves a lot more because her children will have less diseases and do better in school.
The problem is that a bully who attacks someone who is more than half his weight or practice any sport is stupid to the point it can't be called bullying anymore. What do you want to tell a 7yo victim of a teenager football player? "Don't be a sissy, fight like a man and don't worry, I'll pay you a visit when you'll be in hospital for the next couple of monthes" or "No one will help you, so if you want to live, you'd better grab a gun and shoot him in the back"?
From my experience, solidarity from the authority is the only good way to fight bullying.
I guess you didn't read the article, the law is not against the bullies, it's against the cyber-bullies. In modern America, it's perfectly normal to beat up smaller children and steal their money, but it will soon be a crime to write that someone is mean or stupid.
He also understoood that, in that case (an overloaded plane), having 3 engines did no longer mean redundancy but extra risk (and extra weight). That's why he opted for a single robust engine instead of the normal 3-engines design of every other long range plane used at that time.
Moreover, the DMCA makes a criminal offense to enter into computer systems without the approval of the owner, so maybe they can't show their proofs because they could go to jail too if they do.
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Are you saying that 100% of people interrogated under torture tell lies? Come on, I'd say 95% at best.
"consider that police officers miss nearly 90% of the time when they discharge their weapons. They have lots of training up front and ongoing training in firearms use which you almost certainly do not have. What makes you think your skills are better than theirs?"
I'd say because most of them are normal balanced human being who try not to kill if they don't absolutely have to. Shooting in the general direction of an armed criminal is usualy a good way of forcing him to seek a cover in which you could trap him or surrender instead of firing back efficiently so the bullet hit ratio is rarely a good metric, the outcome of the incidents is (criminal arested, no one hurt=very good; violent criminal shot down=good; criminal at large=bad; policeman or bystander hurt=very bad).
And it's hardly new...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v._Apple_Computer
Shut up and buy what the study sponsor wants to sell you.
I'll want to add to the other problems (not that much energy available and the probable rapid wear of the equipments) that, if we do that on a large scale, we may all die from cancer because there is a theory that lightnings participate in the earth radiation shield (in particular the Van Hallen Belt).
Wasn't there a CSI:Manhatan episode with an armed RC helicopter already?
To be honest, like a concept car, a concept computer was never meant to be actually used, it's only purpose is to show how cool its architect is by only using ideas so radical that no sane hardware engineer, industrial designer or marketing moron would ever think of using it in an actual product, no matter if the technology is available.
I don't think there will be any problem since a GSM phone does not always tries to go to the strongest signal, it only does that when it lose the base station on which it was. Since the plane signal will be the only stable station, it will rapidly gather all the phones and keep them until it is turned off or the people leave the plane.
Putting a red lens over a blue light... Are you a member of the Kansas education board? Some black duct tape will do exactly the same job (blocking almost of the blue light going out but not magically changing it into red one) for next to nothing.
As someone who design on both FPGA(VHDL) and DSP/uC(C/C++), I totally agree. The things are so differents I can't work on both during the same day. Only a good night of sleep allow me to reset my mind in the other mode and avoid madness.
However, it is interesting to note that both major FPGA manufacturers (Altera and Xilinx) now propose hybrid chips composed of one or few uC/uP cores embedded in the FPGA logic array, it allows to quickly build a custom chip with dedicated HW controlers driven by high level language running on a real OS.
Like any other research, it is only wasted as long as it doesn't work. Too bad you can't tell if it eventually going to work until you try hard enough (or if you know that your competitors are no longer trying so that you can safely give up too).
Indeed.
Real human monster do actually exist, and they are called psychopaths, some of them are violent and usually die young or spend their life in jail, but many more are clever enough to understand that hurting others is bad for them and live a rather normal life. Except that they can't understand things like good, evil, empathy or love, only their profit and their safety.
A friend of my parents was a psychiatrist expert and he told me he preffered working on violent criminals instead of manipulative psychopaths because the former were damaged humans while the laters were not human at all.
Moreover, it is well known that photoshop is a standard and commonly used tool for professional studio photography anyway. I think the tool purpose is limited to check that a "genuine" photography used to prove a crime or the existence of UFO/Bigfoot is not a blatant fake.
Except for the very famous, smart and powerfull ones, the artists who sign with the big record compagnies do not own the rights to their creation and usually only get monkey points, that is nothing if they are lucky.
In the past, record compagnies controled everything because they were the only way to get your music published and therefore had the upper hand. Now, they control everything because they say so.
Yes, but the VIP stance is only one side of the CoS coin. For 99.9% of the follower, it's not "you're a god", it's "you could be a god someday if you give your life and soul to the cult". People like Tom Cruise already have far enouth people ready to tell them they're the best in exchange of some of their money, but only the CoS can give them real slaves without any real legal risk, moreover, I wouldn't bet that those people have to pay the CoS for anything, their public support of the cult is already valuable enough.
Even for a human being, that's perfectly bearable since it's approximatively the acceleration you get on a rollercoaster. Over 50 years ago, Dr Stapp totally recovered from a self-inflicted 46G decelration, proving the interest of seatbelts in plane (and car) crashes.
Not to be paranoid, but it might explain why the writers strike lasted so long: the MPAA needs a very bad year to ask the next president the right to shoot pirates on sight.
It reminds me of an UN study performed in an affrican country I read some time ago that said that if sending boys to school does increase the community wealth, sending girls to school was far more efficient. The reason: having an educated worker brings in money, but having an educated mother saves a lot more because her children will have less diseases and do better in school.
Well, the real question is more "If a woman is 100% rational, what are the chances she could choose to date any of us?"
The problem is that a bully who attacks someone who is more than half his weight or practice any sport is stupid to the point it can't be called bullying anymore.
What do you want to tell a 7yo victim of a teenager football player? "Don't be a sissy, fight like a man and don't worry, I'll pay you a visit when you'll be in hospital for the next couple of monthes" or "No one will help you, so if you want to live, you'd better grab a gun and shoot him in the back"?
From my experience, solidarity from the authority is the only good way to fight bullying.
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I guess you didn't read the article, the law is not against the bullies, it's against the cyber-bullies.
In modern America, it's perfectly normal to beat up smaller children and steal their money, but it will soon be a crime to write that someone is mean or stupid.
"I've only ever heard of about 3 situations where it was actually ECONOMICAL (both time and money) to take a private plane"
How many of them did not involve drugs?
He also understoood that, in that case (an overloaded plane), having 3 engines did no longer mean redundancy but extra risk (and extra weight). That's why he opted for a single robust engine instead of the normal 3-engines design of every other long range plane used at that time.
Moreover, the DMCA makes a criminal offense to enter into computer systems without the approval of the owner, so maybe they can't show their proofs because they could go to jail too if they do.