You can make a gun-type bomb with impure plutonium, what you can't do is make one short enough to deliver in a missile or a plane. Built diagonally on the 100th floor of an office building or more feasibly at ground level in a dockside warehouse however....
You "just" need to increase the assembly velocity, and there are ways of doing that which are simpler than building an implosion device. And as you point out a fizzle is still a significant yield, and much dirtier.
Give a final year physics student a mechanical workshop and the plutonium, all they'd need is the funding.
when their bottle supplier decides to call it a day
Unlikely to change for that reason. Cheap beers might come in standard bottles but premium beers tend to have custom bottles anyway with brand names and logos in the glass. As long as they see a benefit in branded bottles they can have them made any size they like at no change in the cost.
Canned beer is virtually all in 330ml quantities
I assume you're Australian then? In the UK canned beer is 440 ml or 500 ml. Only soft drinks tend to come in 330 ml cans. 250 ml bottles are very rare here but 330 ml is common for many imported beers.
Can someone please explain what this distinction is that Americans are making between holidays and vacation days? It's not something that's familiar to me.
I get 5 (usually) bank holidays in a year, i.e. public holidays when the vast majority of people are off work, 25 days paid holiday and I can build up 8 days worth of flexi leave in a year. By default I can only carry 5 days over and use them within 2 months but in practise if there's a good justification, like that it benefits the project, then I can carry over whatever I like.
Pounds are a measure of force. The mass unit you are looking for is the slug.
It's not so bad until people start using pounds force and pounds mass interchangeably and cancelling quantities against each other that are not dimensionally equivalent
I would like to include rape for the death penalty but the Supreme Court has said no, that's too cruel.
You absolutely should not have the same punishment for rape as for murder. Doing so gives rapists a big incentive to kill their victims: without the victim as a witness they're much less likely to get caught and if the penalty is identical....
This should hold true whether you think the death penalty is a good idea or not.
I think I've had 4 keyboards in the last ten years. I started with a Dell "Quietkey" (it isn't) that I think is late 90s, then I switched to the keyboard that came with my new PC, went through it in under a year, got through a couple more cheap ones and now I'm back with the (not-so-)Quietkey. I'll change that when it breaks.
I'm curious now, and having to resist the temptation to take it apart to find something with a date code.
The IMEI is not just "easily readable" it's sent unencrypted whenever a call is made. This was a deliberate design choice, it could have been sent after the encrypted connection was established but the writers of the specification chose otherwise - the motivations for this have never been explained but a lot of people have drawn their own conclusions.
In any case my point is that it's even easier than TFA suggests to obtain someone's IMEI.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
