Comment Re:Here is a sheet of useful tips (Score 1) 259
oops, here are all 4 pages as an album
oops, here are all 4 pages as an album
They are all images, so you will have to type the links.
yes, hidden in plain sight...
that is why I directed it upwards, to minimize street level light.
If it gets popular, so many will have them....
Just buy some invisible IR light units, and shine them into the camera eyes of any spying device. Placed outside on the window ledge with a slight up angle, they will not illuminate anything on the ground, but anyone who wants to peer into your widows with night vision (NV) will find the bright IR lamps will desense their NV.
These are often used to hinder attacking enemies with NV goggles, although this has developed into a spy vs counter spy among the various national forces that use NV.
At first this will happen, but then judges will request a fee bond from these numbered companies, which will pay the fees to the winner if the troll loses.
Well, If you build a new house in Toronto as part of a development you are forced to pay an infrastructure fee = huge cost. If you build on an existing infill lot it is a lot less, and cheapest is if you buy a house, tear it down and build a new one.
This process can take years because it is part of a scheme to increase housing costs
People seem to feel that money spent on exploration has no valuable return! Yet they spend countless billions on food stamps and welfare, yet these also have no tangible return.
They lose sight of the fact that 99% of the money spent on exploration is for the purchase of items made on earth and represents the labor expended to produce whatever item.
Take gold - it is free in the earth, but we pay the miners to drill, dig, break rocks, extract etc, and ever stage is almost totally for wages to deal with a raw material. Same for wood products, fibers. plastics, metals etc.
Research means we pay thousands of people to do intellectually challenging and technically difficult tasks to gain knowledge. Welfare and food stamps means we pay millions of people to sit on their bums and do nothing. Welfare and food stamps are a $$ sink. Sure they allow people to live without effort, without intellectual challenge, yet why do we spend more and more to grow this welfare and food stamp industry? We have given excess voting power to non-productive elements of society. In Roman times, only citizens of the city of Rome had the vote - none in the others could vote, to get these few votes, the voters were bribed by the senators (the only politicians of the age) with food and entertainment, which came to be called "Bread and Circuses" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
The huge empire of Rome declined and fell due to various forms of mismanagement and some say, lead in the wine? The USA is not immune to this.
If the research that underpinned all the gains the USA and the world have made in the past 100 years is not continued, we will decline into a morass of welfare grubs. It might take a while, but the decline has begun and will accelerate. We need both democrats and republicans to be isolated from the lack of a private ballot.
We thing that seeing how a politicians votes gives us accountability - it does not, it gives the lobbyist accountability - he sees his bribes at work.
We need to break this pathway. Can we? The politicians have grown used to their well feathered nests and will peck at the hands of those who want to change things.
True, the speed trap mentality will never die. It might have to be state run via data base access as the cams take the pix. The old manual method can co-exist with it?
but perhaps voter outrage will help with this
On the basis that the directing mind of the car pays for the transgressions, a small fine , in the $10-15 area is not worth fighting, yet it will act as a coercive pressure to cause that mind to limit the motion of the car to be within limits. Of course, andone can make their robotic car exceed a limit - unless these limirs are hard wired in, with location data and the settings of these limits in all dirveable areas is also hard wired in or acessable from a central data base via the computer to adapt to time and other changes (like no left turn from 4:30 to 6:30 PM, Mon to Fri).
We know that all modern cars can have their chips accessed to change the performance curves to accelerate quicker. The OEM chip is patterened for conformity with emission limits. We know it is illegal to change them. We also see the brisk sales of 'modded' chips and programmers to 'mod' these chips. We also know that the police are not equipped to easily inspect a car to determine if it has been modded, and so these mods excape the law. Will driverless cars also get modded, to go faster, make left turns at all hours, or whatever? One might expect a power on self test would stop this, but, if the test procedure has been hacked - what then? We will then need anti-hacker laws and sealed boxes to control this aberrant behaviour, or have we reached the millenium and none of us will do this in the future? I expect a sealed data unit will deter most, but some will fiddle.
They ticket the car, if the person wants to challenge in court, he must admit to driving the car. If he defeats it, he has spent a few hours to save $10-15 = the purpose of the ticket has been met.
That is why I sad no points etc, and $10-15 set fine
As we speak, we have large penalties for all the driving offences, speeding, not stopping, bad lane changes and signal failures. The main reason is the large cost of the police and court system.
I suggest they impose a summary fine amount, with no points or other consequences, of $10 on each offence and use traffic cams to impose them. The ticket would have a choice of $10 pay and be done with it or $300 for a court appearance, plus driver demerit points and insurer notification of a trial discovers guilt. Usually guilt with a cam is quite easy to establish = sure to lose.
I feel most people with pay the $10 and it will act as a deterrent. They could also mandate a court appearance if over 5 of these occurred within 30 days to eliminate rich scofflaws.
As it is now, people are forced to fight and win/lose, the system costs rise.
Japanese women, from what I read, simply do not want the aggravation of childbearing, now it is fully within their control. In time the last Japanese female will grow too old to bear a child and the race will pass into extinction as the elders pass on.
Will all women, once freed of mandatory pregnancy follow the same path?
Could Japan grow children in an animal uterus, or an artificial one? Would any chemicals from the mother cross the placental barrier and affect the child if the uterine animal was a pig or sheep, or cow? Is mammalian chemistry sufficiently plastic to tolerate these cross species internal fostering? We know that chemicals from the foetus trigger child birth in humans - will the same signal work with foster animals? Are there brain development chemicals in the mothers blood that are essential to normal human brain development?
An animal would be a lot less costly than a fully artificial uterus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
more here http://bit.ly/1mOsaw7
Wyoming coal is as white as the driven snow....
Yes, usually they start into an equatorial orbit at launch and head downrange of the launch pad, so any safe abort would involve a downrange foot print of some kind. There will be varied aborts, depending on where they are which can save anything from the whole rocket to the payload. It all depends on these later stages having soft landing capability. Having soft landing for all stages will invoke a payload penalty, and might mean only a limited safe abort capability. The lightest part is the payload and a parachute save with floats might be affordeable in efficiency for that, but it is also the lightest, so a lander might be doable.
At some point the weight penalty gets too big for a rocket landing and a parachute descent is the only viable way.
I am sure paceX and the others will be optimizing all these choices over the next 5 years.
Air pollution is really making us pay through the nose.
