You shoot the wrong thing. LIke a Wedding Party

There's a subtle but definite trend by governments to paint cash as the currency of criminals.

Like the 'war on terror', the 'war on cash' always cites some form of morality as its justification. In the UK we recently had a political storm about cash payments to tradespeople being 'morally wrong'.

It's clear to my mind that this position goes beyond tax-collection benefits, and moves into the realm of ensuring all financial transactions fall into the uniquely-identifiable big-data indexable kind for just-in-case future use by law-enforecement. (Along with telecoms data, and all the other interesting information governments like to collect.)

Should be pointed out that human eyes automatically white balance anyway. It's the reason white always looks white to the naked eye, whether under tungsten or halogen light, but look different in photographs.

The British have a way round this:

Alice, in the UK, makes sure all her passwords are too long to remember. So she stores them with Trent, in the USA.

Trent has been told only to reveal Alice's passwords if she has phoned him with her daily dead man's handle.

Plod, also in the UK, asks Alice for her passwords citing RIPA 2000. Alice is held at Plod's luxurious police station for a day, then tells Plod that she hasn't stored them in the UK because they're too long to remember and that Trent has them. Plod calls Trent, who not having received yesterday's dead man's handle, pleads the 5th.

Not if our spiffy rapier missiles have anything to do with it!

Which nowadays effectively means she can't bring her phone into school. Try telling that to a British kid nowadays!

Surely the XKCD reference should be google velociraptors

Not trying to defend the use of these weapons...

Just pointing out that the 150dB figure is at one meter rather than the recipient's position (and obviously the sound falls off according to inverse square law).

The 120dB quoted rock concert figure would be the amplitude at the listener's position.

One is a free, voluntary service that you can sign up to, at the expense of your privacy.

The other is a law, that applies to everyone, whether you like it or not.

Slight difference.

Ah, I understand your confusion.

I'm British.

The difference is that most military decorations are for bravery, valour and honour. For helping others rather than putting yourself first.

Whereas competitive awards within a workplace award the individual triumphing over others.

They moved to newzbin2, which is now also blocked in the UK. (Not that it's hard to circumvent.)

I'm sorry, but that is just absolutely wrong.

Cinematic motion blur is related to shutter angle, normally 180 degrees, which hasn't changed for decades, except for notable particular stroboscopic effects, the most famous of which is the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan

A normal 180 degree shutter gives an exposure time of 1/48th second.

What does 'whoosh' sound like in space?

You mean Sergeant Pepper Spray.