Do you mean that the treated nylon re-twisted spontaneously upon heating? I already know that to make a tight knot on a stiff material you can soften it with heat, but this is about "shape memory" - twist, heat, relax; then it will coil up actively when heated:
Spinks says they attached the fishing line to an electric drill and applied tension to the thread.
As it twists, the fibre forms tight coils in a spring-like arrangement. Once heat is applied to the coils it permanently fixes that spring-like shape.
Spinks says to use these springs as artificial muscles heat is again applied, causing the whole coil to contract.
Venezuela is just about the safest place for dissidents in Latin America, not the worst. For a start, consider "reporters without borders", they're a US-funded "freedom" lobby group. Very anti-communist.
The Colombian journalists problems are all murder, threats, intimidation by pro-government fascist death-squads.
The Venezuelan journalists problems are more along the lines of politics and bureaucratic red tape. And those are the WORST abuses that Reporters without Borders can highlight about Venezuela.
I don't know much about the threats on Colombia's journalism but I can tell you a few things about Venezuela. Trust me or call me a liar at your discretion:
* There are laws regarding "truthful and opportune information" and making "disquieting" and "destabilizing" speech a felony. Of course, no definitions for these fuzzy adjectives. * Detention and/or beatings by military and govt-friendly gangs; it is not unusual for both to confiscate the memory cards and tapes. There's some mention of this in the RSF link you posted. * One columnist was fined heavily for writing one of his pieces as a letter to Chavez's young daughter. Mind you, he didn't attack her in any way - he sympathized with the burden of being Chavez's daughter. * The main opposition TV station, Globovisión, was accosted with fines (a recent amount was 10% of their gross revenue) for everything from donating airtime to broadcasting "disquieting" spots by NGOs. Eventually the station claimed being financially inviable and was sold to friendlier investors with a new editorial line, which has caused most reporters, interviewers and anchors to resign over the last year. * In the months after the telecom regulator discretionarily revoked the broadcast license to another station, the gov't summoned the owners of two other stations with a milder but also critical stance. One became neutral-favorable, and the other came just short of a lap-dog. * I hope you're aware about the tight controls on currency exchange. Well, every newspaper is facing a heavy shortage of currency for importing newsprint except state-sponsored and friendly ones. Maduro himself has yelled in public "not a single dollar more for the bourgeoisie!".
Now, ask yourself since Colombia is so much WORSE than Venezuela in protecting journalists, why do you never hear a peep in the media about how bad it is? Perhaps because there is no oil there?
Maduro is just the fall guy to Chávez's irresponsible borrowing and waste of the country's reserves. Chávez died at about the right time to preserve the myth, so many chavistas blame Maduro for the train wreck since early 2013.
Here's a test from the state-owned ISP (CANTV) mentioned in TFA: $ for host in lapatilla.com pastebin.com anonymouse.org; do ping -w 3 -c 4 $host; done PING lapatilla.com (141.101.113.240) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 141.101.113.240: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=133 ms
--- lapatilla.com ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 133.576/133.576/133.576/0.000 ms PING pastebin.com (190.93.241.15) 56(84) bytes of data.
La Patilla is a popular opposition news site (slow but not actually blocked). Pastebin was used to distribute the links to some leaked emails last year. Anonymouse is quite popular with opposition Venezuelans trying to circumvent actual or perceived blockings.
It's faster than the scanned rule lists in iptables, and the remaining alternative is compiling to native code into a module every time you change a rule.
I know that seeing "bloat" everywhere and griping is an honored/. tradition, but someone has to add a dash of reality.
*All* network infrastructure is oversubscribed, in the sense that there's no way in hell that they can give everyone the rated speed at the same time. Same as with electricity (something about everyone turning their on hair dryer) or roads.
If I had to guess I'd say polystyrene is slower to compress and returns some of the energy (elastic deformation), while cardboard tends to deform permanently, absorbing all of the energy. As for being "disposable", I've read that conventional helmets should be discarded after an impact; these make sure you do.
They were ordered in June to comply with the French Data Protection Act within three months. Specifically, to:
* Define specified and explicit purposes to allow users to understand practically the processing of their personal data; * Inform users by application of the provisions of Article 32 of the French Data Protection Act, in particular with regard to the purposes pursued by the controller of the processing implemented; * Define retention periods for the personal data processed that do not exceed the period necessary for the purposes for which they are collected; * Not proceed, without legal basis, with the potentially unlimited combination of users’ data; * Fairly collect and process passive users’ data, in particular with regard to data collected using the “Doubleclick” and “Analytics” cookies, “+1” buttons or any other Google service available on the visited page; * Inform users and then obtain their consent in particular before storing cookies in their terminal.
It's common for the National Guard in Venezuela to carry assault rifles even on urban duty, thus it was natural to have them there. Of course it's overkill, and given the historically high insecurity it's likely a crude attempt at making the city look safer.
And yes, the whole thing started because “the prices are too high” - words like “usury” and “speculation” are (mis)used to describe prices you don't like.
There's not unrest in the streets, but individual stores were looted in the first two days; there are pictures of people carrying even the demonstration TVs too quickly for the 3-4 cashiers present at these stores to have checked them out, in front of passive National Guards (who have also been photographed carrying merchandise in their patrol pick-up trucks). In the following days, other appliance stores haved cut their prices down to prevent similar incidents and queues have formed at their doors while the NG oversees the “controlled sales”.
Some of these people are hoping to resell the goods for a bit of profit; others are just taking advantage of the “fire sale”; and yet others want to do *something* with their money before it loses value to the rampant inflation (54% over the last 12 months).
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Good to know this. Still, isn't it a bit like starting your car to play some music on the stereo?
Just imagine one's proverbial parent firing up Blender just to edit some Little League videos.
One would hope it could be run as a standalone program.
Eating. Beer. Coffee. Hardware for building & testing.
Perhaps hiring freelancers to help or not having to work freelance themselves.
But most likely beer.
Do you mean that the treated nylon re-twisted spontaneously upon heating? I already know that to make a tight knot on a stiff material you can soften it with heat, but this is about "shape memory" - twist, heat, relax; then it will coil up actively when heated:
Spinks says they attached the fishing line to an electric drill and applied tension to the thread.
As it twists, the fibre forms tight coils in a spring-like arrangement. Once heat is applied to the coils it permanently fixes that spring-like shape.
Spinks says to use these springs as artificial muscles heat is again applied, causing the whole coil to contract.
Venezuela is just about the safest place for dissidents in Latin America, not the worst. For a start, consider "reporters without borders", they're a US-funded "freedom" lobby group. Very anti-communist.
Read their headlines about Colombia:
https://en.rsf.org/colombia.ht...
Now read their headlines for Venezuela:
https://en.rsf.org/venezuela.h...
The Colombian journalists problems are all murder, threats, intimidation by pro-government fascist death-squads.
The Venezuelan journalists problems are more along the lines of politics and bureaucratic red tape. And those are the WORST abuses that Reporters without Borders can highlight about Venezuela.
I don't know much about the threats on Colombia's journalism but I can tell you a few things about Venezuela. Trust me or call me a liar at your discretion:
* There are laws regarding "truthful and opportune information" and making "disquieting" and "destabilizing" speech a felony. Of course, no definitions for these fuzzy adjectives.
* Detention and/or beatings by military and govt-friendly gangs; it is not unusual for both to confiscate the memory cards and tapes. There's some mention of this in the RSF link you posted.
* One columnist was fined heavily for writing one of his pieces as a letter to Chavez's young daughter. Mind you, he didn't attack her in any way - he sympathized with the burden of being Chavez's daughter.
* The main opposition TV station, Globovisión, was accosted with fines (a recent amount was 10% of their gross revenue) for everything from donating airtime to broadcasting "disquieting" spots by NGOs. Eventually the station claimed being financially inviable and was sold to friendlier investors with a new editorial line, which has caused most reporters, interviewers and anchors to resign over the last year.
* In the months after the telecom regulator discretionarily revoked the broadcast license to another station, the gov't summoned the owners of two other stations with a milder but also critical stance. One became neutral-favorable, and the other came just short of a lap-dog.
* I hope you're aware about the tight controls on currency exchange. Well, every newspaper is facing a heavy shortage of currency for importing newsprint except state-sponsored and friendly ones. Maduro himself has yelled in public "not a single dollar more for the bourgeoisie!".
Now, ask yourself since Colombia is so much WORSE than Venezuela in protecting journalists, why do you never hear a peep in the media about how bad it is? Perhaps because there is no oil there?
*Ahem*
Oil - production: 588,000 bbl/d (93,500 m3/d) (2008 est.)
Oil - consumption: 267,000 bbl/d (42,400 m3/d) (2007 est.)
Oil - exports: 294,000 bbl/d (46,700 m3/d) (2008 est.)
Oil - imports: 12,480 bbl/d (1,984 m3/d) (2005)
Oil - proved reserves: 1,323,000,000 bbl (210,300,000 m3) (1 January 2008 est.)
Economy of Colombia
And oil shipments from Venezuela have been always on time, in spite of all the rhetoric.
My computer, perhaps?
Maduro is just the fall guy to Chávez's irresponsible borrowing and waste of the country's reserves. Chávez died at about the right time to preserve the myth, so many chavistas blame Maduro for the train wreck since early 2013.
Here's a test from the state-owned ISP (CANTV) mentioned in TFA:
$ for host in lapatilla.com pastebin.com anonymouse.org; do ping -w 3 -c 4 $host; done
PING lapatilla.com (141.101.113.240) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 141.101.113.240: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=133 ms
--- lapatilla.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 133.576/133.576/133.576/0.000 ms
PING pastebin.com (190.93.241.15) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- pastebin.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2014ms
PING anonymouse.org (193.200.150.137) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- anonymouse.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2016ms
La Patilla is a popular opposition news site (slow but not actually blocked). Pastebin was used to distribute the links to some leaked emails last year. Anonymouse is quite popular with opposition Venezuelans trying to circumvent actual or perceived blockings.
So, do whatever everybody else does ... rent porn, order pizza and drink scotch.
Or, is that just me?
Rent? For the last 10 years or so, maybe it's been just you.
It's a job for the Ananthropomorphic Infiltration Suit: http://i.imgur.com/ilwyj.jpg
No way I'm getting into that again. I drew the line at resetting.
That's the reason for the second phrase - to warn the suffering Reader. (:
Aisen Caro Chacin. Wacky but nothing you haven't heard of before.
Oh, yes, it's bored "hacker" o'clock!
The NSA's job is to spy, so it makes sense to hire SIGINT people. The recent problem is who they've been spying on.
Swell! Now they've got 'bout tree fiddy.
C is for Cookie, and your browsers store them for me! (Omnom nom, nom)
It's faster than the scanned rule lists in iptables, and the remaining alternative is compiling to native code into a module every time you change a rule.
I know that seeing "bloat" everywhere and griping is an honored /. tradition, but someone has to add a dash of reality.
*All* network infrastructure is oversubscribed, in the sense that there's no way in hell that they can give everyone the rated speed at the same time. Same as with electricity (something about everyone turning their on hair dryer) or roads.
Bottom fucking line is: morons should not be asked for judgment because they do not even know when they are way out of line.
Problem is those morons, by virtue of genetically being H. sapiens and breathing, have the same voting power as you and I.
May I remind you that said idiots, by virtue of genetically being H. sapiens and breathing, have the same voting power as you and I?
Yeah, that furry fat alien was the scourge of the Tanners.
If I had to guess I'd say polystyrene is slower to compress and returns some of the energy (elastic deformation), while cardboard tends to deform permanently, absorbing all of the energy. As for being "disposable", I've read that conventional helmets should be discarded after an impact; these make sure you do.
They were ordered in June to comply with the French Data Protection Act within three months. Specifically, to:
* Define specified and explicit purposes to allow users to understand practically the processing of their personal data;
* Inform users by application of the provisions of Article 32 of the French Data Protection Act, in particular with regard to the purposes pursued by the controller of the processing implemented;
* Define retention periods for the personal data processed that do not exceed the period necessary for the purposes for which they are collected;
* Not proceed, without legal basis, with the potentially unlimited combination of users’ data;
* Fairly collect and process passive users’ data, in particular with regard to data collected using the “Doubleclick” and “Analytics” cookies, “+1” buttons or any other Google service available on the visited page;
* Inform users and then obtain their consent in particular before storing cookies in their terminal.
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It's common for the National Guard in Venezuela to carry assault rifles even on urban duty, thus it was natural to have them there. Of course it's overkill, and given the historically high insecurity it's likely a crude attempt at making the city look safer.
And yes, the whole thing started because “the prices are too high” - words like “usury” and “speculation” are (mis)used to describe prices you don't like.
What about videos from random witnesses, and outrageous speech by Maduro himself? The “don't leave anything on the shelves” quote in TFS is there.
There's not unrest in the streets, but individual stores were looted in the first two days; there are pictures of people carrying even the demonstration TVs too quickly for the 3-4 cashiers present at these stores to have checked them out, in front of passive National Guards (who have also been photographed carrying merchandise in their patrol pick-up trucks). In the following days, other appliance stores haved cut their prices down to prevent similar incidents and queues have formed at their doors while the NG oversees the “controlled sales”.
Some of these people are hoping to resell the goods for a bit of profit; others are just taking advantage of the “fire sale”; and yet others want to do *something* with their money before it loses value to the rampant inflation (54% over the last 12 months).