If we made it illegal to be stupid, where would we find politicians?
If we made it illegal to be stupid, who would be left to vote for them?
One of the main things required for a functioning US style democracy is a crappy education system.
Or just use a power of 2 chunk size?
What idiot configuration did someone have to have to trigger this bug?
Our current vaccination rate for measles is not really adequate which allowed an introduced infection to spread a bit and even find a second epicenter due to travel. However, we do have a sufficient immunization rate that it died out fairly quickly. The empirical evidence proves that.
If you are correct, why isn't measles spreading in a big wave across the country right now? Most of the population has never had the measles.
It's not spreading all over because infected people from hot zones like the Philippines are not really doing a lot of traveling to the U.S., and, as I said, after onset of symptoms, people self-quarantine, and after an outbreak, people avoid other people they don't personally know, and avoid large gatherings of people where transmission is more likely.
Vaccination is not 100% effective, but strong border controls on people traveling from hot zones and strict quarantine rules are 100% effective.
Can't have an outbreak without a patient zero...
Yeah... it's a pretty genius tautology.
In related news, the major cost of creating new software is in the creation, and the major cost in deploying new software is in deployment.
What enemy is on Greeces border?? Turkey is a Greek ally, they are pledged to defend each other
Russia does not border with Greece, but Kaliningrad is right near to Germany, just a quick hop over the Baltic
Turkey and Greece are both members of NATO but, while being NATO member states have still almost gone to war! The border is still full of land mines.
Greece has 353 Leopard 2 MBTs. Russia has 930 T-90s, 4500 T-80s in reserve, 8000 T-72 MBTs in reserve.
Russia also has 443 Su-27 derived aircraft.
Greece actually has an enemy right on its border that it might plausibly go to war with in the not too distant future... Germany not so much.
I have always maintained that the missing mass of the Universe is AOL discs.
In atmosphere, nukes produce blast because of high energy x-rays igniting atmosphere. This won't happen in space.
So how would letting off a nuke near or on an asteroid produce reaction and change the course of the asteroid?
Basically, the x-rays will ignite the surface of the asteroid instead. If the material in the asteroid is sub-optimal for this purpose, there have been designs of turning a nuclear bomb into a kinetic weapon that should work in this regard. Basically the bomb sits in an x-ray reflective shell, and when the bomb explodes, the x-rays bounce around the shell before the exploded bits of the bomb destroy it and exit an aperture. At the end of the aperture is a large, dense block of x-ray absorbing material. This material is vaporized by the x-rays and is all traveling in a similar direction as the x-rays were all going in that general direction. This plasma moving at relativistic speeds then slams into the target like a nuclear shot gun blast. IIRC, this design was built for using nuclear bombs against space ships and it was estimated that it could direct 95% of the energy of the bomb at the intended target.
Thanks, thats a nice explanation!
Politicians hate freedom. Full story at 11.
When it comes to Internet freedom, you are either for it or against it, there is no middle ground.
You are either on the side of Freedom or you are on the side of the terrorists.
I have a really cleaver proof that this is not possible, which regrettably does not fit within this 8 seconds to typ
'Cleaver proof', is that like Occams Razor?
What kind of goldfish? An African one, or a European? Or a demented goldfish living in a bowl of cheap tequila?
We should start giving goldfish smartphones.
people do insane things. all the time. if your argument depends upon how someone you don't know is perfectly sane and rational, your argument sucks
Ah-hah, that means the FBI must admit he has a perfect defense. If he did it, he was insane at the time.
The glove doesn't fit. You must acquit. Why would Chewbacca live on Endor?
Chewbacca lives on Endor because he is a closet paedophile; Ewoks can pass as prepubescent Wookies!
Wouldn't it be a simple matter to check the flight data recorder to see if the engine in question actually did what the FIB (intentionally written that way) said it did?
You might miss out on the opportunity to plead guilty to a crime you didn't commit in order to take a short cut through an otherwise long and expensive legal process. I believe this is called a 'plea bargain' where the US legal system accepts your blatant lie in exchange for improving their case closed statistics. Ie a corrupt practice.
My money is on the FBI flat-out lying. It's what cops do. But of course I'm speculating and haven't seen the evidence. If it gets to court, a jury will make the call, and if they find the FBI's actual evidence convincing, that's what matters. OTOH if the FBI drops the case then we'll know this was all BS.
Indeed, lying is the main method that cops use to secure a confession. Especially in the context of an interrogation never believe anything that a cop or fed says, assume its a lie trying to trick you into revealing something.
In atmosphere, nukes produce blast because of high energy x-rays igniting atmosphere. This won't happen in space.
So how would letting off a nuke near or on an asteroid produce reaction and change the course of the asteroid?
Chemist who falls in acid is absorbed in work.
