Good, slowly you are realizing that, once the government is shrunk small enough to be drowned in a bathtub, the first thug who could, would. After that who is going to protect you, Mr Individual Q Liberty? Yourself? Armed gangs? Would these armed gangs who could take down a thug who could drown a government will respect YOUR rights?
In almost all the species the germ line cells, the ones that will become sperm or egg, are sequestered very very early in the development of the fetus. They are also protected more by burying deep in the body, and they undergo fewer cell division compared to other cells. The whole idea is to protect these cells from impact due to life time experience and damage. So it is unlikely the hysteresis on the DNA gets passed on to the progeny.
Microsoft had a nice coffin and a burial site carefully planned for XP. When sub 100$ notebooks with Linux appeared in the market and it was clear the designated successor Vista would not run on such puny machine, they hastily cut the noose and brought it down from the gallows and gave it another lease on life. Wonder what would have happened if that 100$ notebook had come after XP death process had moved too far to be rescued.
I used to be like you, never bothered about it. Further I went to Christian schools, and in the rural south India, even the Christian teachers did not know A.D stands for Anno Domini, the Year of the Lord. They claimed A.D stands for After Death. That confused the heck out of me. If BC is Before Christ, and AD is after death what is the 33 year of his (lack of capitalization intentional) alleged[*] life?
Anyway, I never thought much about it, till I read a column by William Safire. He used to write a column on etymology and origin of words and phrases etc in NYT. Later I learnt that he was a speechwriter for Nixon. In one of his NYT English language column he was bragging that he was instrumental in inserting the letters "A.D. 1970" into the wording etched on the gold plate carried by one of the Voyager spacecraft. He was proud that the spacecraft is carrying a reference to Jesus Christ, and he was able smuggle that reference aboard that spacecraft evading the watchful eyes the evil atheistic NASA scientists, who had no clue.
Compared to the intellect of the NASA scientists who could design a spacecraft like that, this guy is a little political hack, a bigoted one at that. If he is proud of A.D that is reason enough to oppose it.
Were you braking? Engine braking might not work in a light car with huge engine. But the OP was talking about fighting an engine with your brake. Try this, since you seem to like doing such things. Floor both the accelerator and the brake at the same time. See who wins. Or floor the accelerator first, get it to some serious speed. Then brake, gently first and then increase the pressure till the brake also floors. Keep the accelerator floored all the time. See if the brake is able to bring the car to rest. You might warp the rotors, ruin the brakes and lose the treads on the tire but you will safely come to rest. That is what the OP was talking about.
Any chance of breaking the Indus valley script? It is probably 3000 years old. Or the word frequency analysis works only for familiar variants of European languages?
Nice in theory. But once you shrink the government small enough to be drowned in a bath tub, the first thug who could will drown it. Then who is going to defend you, individual? Time to take your head off the clouds and talk some real sense.
Already corporations have been ruled people, except they don't need visa and they can't be executed or imprisoned, and they can be created out of thin air to be saddled with the liabilities while the CEO and his gang walk away with all the assets in their personal portfolio.
Even in the best case scenario where all the students are able to pay back all the loans, that will be 1 trillion dollars NOT invested in starter homes, better cars. They will start their families later, if at all, the impact reverberating through rest of the consumer economy.
We should also look at the debt levels of the non-profit and for-profit colleges. Even the most expensive "non-profit" private univs graduate students with an average debt of about 20K, and they are in very good position to snag the few jobs that open. But the for-profit colleges lure the people who can least afford and pile them on with so much of debt, and graduate them without much skills to get them any better jobs. We have to separate the debt load from for-profit college grads and the debt load of nominally non-profilt college grads.
The best I could make out from the description was that it is basically radar. But the echos have small difference in frequency compared to the original radiated signal. They use a band-pass filter, must be a very good one, to filter out the echo from the wall, and then amplify the faint echos from objects behind the wall. The array of radar would each get a "2D" view, and it is synthesized into a three D image using image processing. Sort of like X-Ray tomography in the image reconstruction process.
The whole scheme depends on the wall reflecting in a slightly altered frequency uniformly. If you are not able to subtract the echo from the wall, you can't amplify the fainter echos from beyond the wall. Systems to thwart it would be to "roughen" the wall, interior or exterior to make the wall echo difficult to subtract. Other ways would be to have very bright echo returns that mess up and saturate the amplification of the faint echos. Also the standard stealth technologies like faceted body producing vastly different images for different elements of the array to thwart the image processing and synthesizing the scene behind the wall.
I think the resolution is poor, and is useful for hostage, military situations only. Dont have to worry about your creepy peeping tom neighbor buying this off the shelf to ogle your bath/bedroom.
No matter how hard they tried, they could not complete the recording because someone or the other, the conductor, or the piano guy or the viola lady or the recording engineer kept nodding off and messed up the taping.
Some scientist, Carl Sagan I think, predicted that after about a billion digits we will see some unusual sequences like long strings of 0s followed by long strings of 1 and then there will be a coded message from God. Did they find it?
The security camera does not have high resolution. Criminals can make use of this and fake alibi and to throw suspicion on others. Already some high school kids photographed the license plate of the teachers they disliked, printed them at real size, stuck it on their own cars and went through camera-equipped red lights. The teachers are getting hundreds of dollars of fines and they have hard time fighting it. With this technology, crime fighting is going to get very very complicated.
There are three parties involved in a crime/crime fighting. The criminal, the victim and the government. Crime fighting is possible only when the victim cooperates with the Government against the criminal. That is why it is possible to keep burglary, theft, assault, murder [*0] etc under reasonable control. There are other "crimes" [*1], like drug use, smuggling, black market, prostitution etc etc. There the victim cooperates with the criminal, and it is very very difficult to fight these crimes.
[*0] The near and dear of the dead are victims and proxies of the dead victim.
[*1] Government has to define what activities are crime
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Good, slowly you are realizing that, once the government is shrunk small enough to be drowned in a bathtub, the first thug who could, would. After that who is going to protect you, Mr Individual Q Liberty? Yourself? Armed gangs? Would these armed gangs who could take down a thug who could drown a government will respect YOUR rights?
In almost all the species the germ line cells, the ones that will become sperm or egg, are sequestered very very early in the development of the fetus. They are also protected more by burying deep in the body, and they undergo fewer cell division compared to other cells. The whole idea is to protect these cells from impact due to life time experience and damage. So it is unlikely the hysteresis on the DNA gets passed on to the progeny.
Microsoft had a nice coffin and a burial site carefully planned for XP. When sub 100$ notebooks with Linux appeared in the market and it was clear the designated successor Vista would not run on such puny machine, they hastily cut the noose and brought it down from the gallows and gave it another lease on life. Wonder what would have happened if that 100$ notebook had come after XP death process had moved too far to be rescued.
Anyway, I never thought much about it, till I read a column by William Safire. He used to write a column on etymology and origin of words and phrases etc in NYT. Later I learnt that he was a speechwriter for Nixon. In one of his NYT English language column he was bragging that he was instrumental in inserting the letters "A.D. 1970" into the wording etched on the gold plate carried by one of the Voyager spacecraft. He was proud that the spacecraft is carrying a reference to Jesus Christ, and he was able smuggle that reference aboard that spacecraft evading the watchful eyes the evil atheistic NASA scientists, who had no clue.
Compared to the intellect of the NASA scientists who could design a spacecraft like that, this guy is a little political hack, a bigoted one at that. If he is proud of A.D that is reason enough to oppose it.
CE stands for Common Era, which is the preferred notation now a days. And BCE for the years before that.
Children in Amarillo are advised not to shout "boo" too loudly, lest they startle the workers just as they are disassembling B53.
Were you braking? Engine braking might not work in a light car with huge engine. But the OP was talking about fighting an engine with your brake. Try this, since you seem to like doing such things. Floor both the accelerator and the brake at the same time. See who wins. Or floor the accelerator first, get it to some serious speed. Then brake, gently first and then increase the pressure till the brake also floors. Keep the accelerator floored all the time. See if the brake is able to bring the car to rest. You might warp the rotors, ruin the brakes and lose the treads on the tire but you will safely come to rest. That is what the OP was talking about.
Any chance of breaking the Indus valley script? It is probably 3000 years old. Or the word frequency analysis works only for familiar variants of European languages?
Already corporations have been ruled people, except they don't need visa and they can't be executed or imprisoned, and they can be created out of thin air to be saddled with the liabilities while the CEO and his gang walk away with all the assets in their personal portfolio.
We should also look at the debt levels of the non-profit and for-profit colleges. Even the most expensive "non-profit" private univs graduate students with an average debt of about 20K, and they are in very good position to snag the few jobs that open. But the for-profit colleges lure the people who can least afford and pile them on with so much of debt, and graduate them without much skills to get them any better jobs. We have to separate the debt load from for-profit college grads and the debt load of nominally non-profilt college grads.
The whole scheme depends on the wall reflecting in a slightly altered frequency uniformly. If you are not able to subtract the echo from the wall, you can't amplify the fainter echos from beyond the wall. Systems to thwart it would be to "roughen" the wall, interior or exterior to make the wall echo difficult to subtract. Other ways would be to have very bright echo returns that mess up and saturate the amplification of the faint echos. Also the standard stealth technologies like faceted body producing vastly different images for different elements of the array to thwart the image processing and synthesizing the scene behind the wall.
I think the resolution is poor, and is useful for hostage, military situations only. Dont have to worry about your creepy peeping tom neighbor buying this off the shelf to ogle your bath/bedroom.
No matter how hard they tried, they could not complete the recording because someone or the other, the conductor, or the piano guy or the viola lady or the recording engineer kept nodding off and messed up the taping.
Is there a noscript option block this javascript from being executed?
These were simply the spaceships coming to pick the Heavens Gate people. It just came about 150 years too early. That is all.
Guys finally when you get to doing the "Will it blend?" test on Mango, please use some yogurt too, and make a Mango Lassi.
Some scientist, Carl Sagan I think, predicted that after about a billion digits we will see some unusual sequences like long strings of 0s followed by long strings of 1 and then there will be a coded message from God. Did they find it?
Gringotts is the bank where Harry Potter's inheritance was deposited. It was run by gnomes or some such species of beings, to my best recollection.
What is the big deal? My college classmate got his own day in Neveda too.
Hope you have changed the location and dates in your plea for help so that the thief reading Slashdot would not be tipped off.
Hello, speech analysis, I am proud to welcome you to the select club of phrenology, graphology, astrology and numerology.
All I'm sayin' is, take it with a pinch of salt.
This app should have the option to shout, "Don't taze me bro" repeatedly at maximum volume too.
Here you learn what to do to avoid being tagged.
The security camera does not have high resolution. Criminals can make use of this and fake alibi and to throw suspicion on others. Already some high school kids photographed the license plate of the teachers they disliked, printed them at real size, stuck it on their own cars and went through camera-equipped red lights. The teachers are getting hundreds of dollars of fines and they have hard time fighting it. With this technology, crime fighting is going to get very very complicated.
[*0] The near and dear of the dead are victims and proxies of the dead victim.
[*1] Government has to define what activities are crime