...it's quite simple to show that the EM drive would be a perpetual motion machine if it worked...
How? My understanding is that a whole lot of energy goes in and very little "comes out", that the mystery/debate/possible fraud is entirely around conversion of energy to thrust.
If only people didn't, you know, travel...
Yes, and that would mean it's a perpetual motion machine too.
Be careful, that may be a useful analogy, but it's not literally true--the actual definition of a perpetual motion machine is that it moves forever without energy input.
If you truly wanted to see pompous assholes engaged in furious self-justification, you'd vote Clinton, not Trump
Email threading, and duplication detection / dedupe are standard tasks that are performed on a daily basis on huge datasets. (As part of the Processing phase of the EDRM model.)
Hell, thanks to a massive screw-up with OS X upgrade, I actually needed to check for dups this weekend. A half-hour to write the script, about 30 seconds running time for 250,000 emails on a 5-year-old laptop with an old-fashioned spinning disk--single core only, no need to break the job across cores...
I would assume the FBI to be vastly better at this than I am
I would put lots of money on the proposition that the State Department does, in fact, have a classified email system that is email in every sense except being behind an air gap.
The state department has important offices all around the world (hint: they're called "embassies"). How exactly would email function behind an "air gap" for such an organization???
Assange never gives out details about who his leakers are, but even he took the time to state categorically that the Podesta leakers are did not come from the Russian government
What on earth makes you think that Assange is truthful, or even that he necessarily knows for certain the original source of the hacked emails???
Instead of setting up a hair-trigger response shouldn't we first have an investigation, and then approach this through diplomatic channels?
What on earth makes you think there has been no investigation and no approach through diplomatic channels???
And in other news, we have Obama encouraging illegals to vote...
I watched the video and that is ABSOLUTELY NOT what he said, not at all. When he says "when you vote you're a citizen" he means that only citizens get to vote, it's insanely addle-headed nonsense to spin it as though he meant, "if you can manage to sneak into a polling booth illegally, *poof* you become a citizen".
Ahem...
The federal government has exclusive sovereignty of U.S. airspace. Congress delegated to the FAA the ability to define “navigable airspace” and the authority to regulate “navigable airspace” of aircraft by regulation or order. 49 U.S.C. 40103(b)(1). While it is clear that navigable airspace falls under the purview of the FAA, the boundaries of that airspace remain unclear.
According to Federal Aviation Regulations, “navigable airspace” is defined as “airspace at and above the minimum flight altitudes prescribed by or under this chapter.... For airplanes, the minimum flight altitude while flying over congested areas or open air assemblies of persons is 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle.... Over uncongested areas, airplanes can operate at an altitude of 500 feet above the surface. However, airplanes can operate even lower when over “open water or sparsely populated areas.” When flying over those areas, aircraft may not operate closer than 500 feet to any person, vehicle, or structure....
At no point, anywhere, does the FAA indicate the altitude below which you "own" the airspace around private property.
Of course not, the FAA has absolutely no authority over ownership of airspace above private property. You might as well assert that setbacks don't exist because the FAA does not indicate so...
WTF? Of course not, Emacs will embed systemd!
enough said...
And the decline of the USA continues. Experience shits all over youth. At 22 I couldn't code for shit. At 31 I can do 20x what I could at 22...
Well sure, but by the time you're 40 you'll be so senile you'll barely be able to log in
No, if Trump wins, so will the most radical far-right candidates for Congress--consider the kind of angry ignoramuses voting for Trump, if enough of them turn out to elect him, whom do you think they will vote for in all the congressional races?
It's a joke that someone can put 40 hours in per week with one employer and still need to work a 2nd job or require government assistance simply to pay the bills and put food on the table.
That's only the setup. The punchline is that thanks to computerized "optimization" of shifts, those kinds of workers don't get told what their schedule is until a few days before, and you know if they miss a shift they're fired, the result of which is that one cannot hold two such jobs.
Well, yeah, you can both be right. Taxes went down, but spending didn't. And of course WHAT we spend on matters, and we spend a lot more of our GDP on social programs than we used to.
Repeat after me: 4 trillion dollars wasted in Iraq, 4 trillion dollars wasted in Iraq...
You know those pie charts showing how government spending is distributed? The GOP ones always show military spending as a minor thing; because the GOP assholes count veteran's "benefits", ie medical care for people who are disabled while serving their country, as entitlements instead of as military spending.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
