Re: How effective are they...
"Doesn't the US Government have enough ways of killing people yet?"
It's the military.
There are never enough ways to kill people or vehicles (and of course the ones you most want are never around when you need them)
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At 128m I get about 5secs of pure zero g, 77m gives about 3.9s.
Both of which are not bad (there are not too many buildings >100 in the Midlands).
I'm surprised they haven't had calls from aeronautics and physics departments in the region.
Thumbs up for a most impressive erection.
No obviously they won't say that.
But while Openreach is a BT tightly controlled BT division instead of something more like National Grid that's
exactly what ISP's are.
There is the illusion of competition, but their is only 1 gatekeeper for most UK homes.
Don't get me wrong. It would take a very brave ISP to start to lay their own network, either the last mile as a "fibre only" service and its growth would be slow. So far they all bowed down (except Virgin).
"Just a thought, would probably be better than smashing them all. Less fun perhaps, but certainly cheaper."
For the really malicious I imagine it would be possible to re-program them to whisper some other semi-subliminal message into the poor commuters head.
I'll leave others to suggest what that might be.
"Who's read 'I Will Fear No Evil'..."
Well, after I got past my avoidance of any book that refuses to give any description of the plot.
Very much more "Stranger in a strange land" than "Starship Troopers."
And of course likely to create a new range of profits for the legal fraternity.
The downside of this is that it will probably be limited to the very rich.
Balmer could be leading Microsoft into the next Millennium. Trump could still be hosting The Apprentice while on his 50th wife and Branson could be working his way through the stock of jumpers he had made when he bought the entire years supply of the UK wool industry.
Yay. We are truly in an age of excitement.
Implanted neural radio telemetry active brain structure changes. Dr Delgardo (late 50s to early 70s. Still alive).
Head transplants done in both USA and Soviet Union.
1st human incubator 1965.
Cutting edge medical technology but all extremely creepy. the human incubator item really floored me (Life magazine cover). I had thought we were decades away from trying this (and I mean in the future).
Cautious (very cautious) thumbs up.
"Sorry old chap but we need to a supplier with the necessary "financial stability" to give us security of delivery."
And other such BS.
So (surprise, surprise) only a few of companies have the financial stamina to handle years of procurement processes.
And as for that "In depth experience" that such outfits usually boast about their most useful asset is their phone book of specialist contractors or SME's that can actually do the work.
Does the UK Govt have the skills to partition systems into more manageable pieces. Who knows.
Black Male 23, inner city, - please report to nearest police station, we expect to accuse you of something shortly
Now that's just plain wrong.
May (Theresa, not James) says only 10% of all stop and searches result in arrests.
She wants it to be much higher.
How this is to be achieved has been left in the hands of the senior plods.
What could possibly go wrong?
That's some tricky optical engineering. Check the number of reflections going on those light paths.
Thumbs up for this. But I see just one small difficulty.
What proportion of codgers seniors wear contact lenses?
Only it seems a bit fiddly for those whose eye/hand coordination is not quite what it was.
Logic says this is a stupid move.
After all old owner acts as "advisor" and company goes from $10m -> $1m is not too impressive "advice."
Unless of course he was setting them up to sell him it knowing exactly (in principal) how to fix those problems.
Which makes him a sneaky f**ker and therefor exactly what's needed to bring a business back to life.
Ladies & gentlemen. Collect your popcorn bowls, sit back and enjoy the fun.
"In fact, I would be surprise if he hadn't taken a lead in creating this program. "
GW Bush, System Architect.
I think not.
Although something along the lines of "Wouldn't it be great if we knew what everyone was saying everywhere" would not be beyond his ability. The rest is a detail, and AFAIK shrubs not really a "detail" guy.
Between career members of the Legislature (with 70+ years in office), religious nutters and other assorted SEL's the US political system needs an enema.
""Ultimately, history will judge the decisions I made.""
He says that a lot.
So far history is calling him a either a dumbass stooge for much smarter businessmen or an actual just-don't-give-a-f**k psychopath with bags of the sort of good 'ol boy charm that comes from being a true vacuum.
Still who knows, endow a couple of libraries (no I don't think a good book is exactly his idea of entertainment either) and they might be kinder.
Countries have no permanent friends, only permanent interests.
You might hope for friendly treatment, but you should not rely on it.
BTW Suez was the point at which both the UK realized it no longer ruled the waves and the US did.
The behavior of all parties in the matter shaped a large part of the 20th century.
"> bugging friends is unacceptable
Isn't that exactly what citizens keep telling their governments whenever a new, more intrusive, form of surveillance is announced."
But that's different.
Under the Newspeak dictionary the term "Citizen," is replaced by "Suspect."
Your assistance (or lack of) in this matter will be noted citizen suspect.
(Signed) MinLove.
"But since the miners strike, Hillsborough and so on there has been a real renaissance in the quality of northern gestapo and now - except in the matter of talking to journalists - S Yorks police can hold their head up with the best of S America's finest. It makes you proud to be from Sheffield."
They not the originators of the legendary gag that goes.
Cop. If someone kicked in your front door, beat up your kids and raped your wife who you gonna call?
Miner. Not the S. Yorks police for sure, they're already round my house.
"I often wonder what would happen if the Cullen report was made public now. Sadly it's too obscure for Anonymous and the like to bother ferretting it out."
100 Years.
I smell a very large cowpat indeed under this skin.
I maybe being paranoid but my instinct is Hamilton was known quite well to the McPlod in the area and you can imagine them seething at their inability to actually arrest him on anything substantial .
Previously IE for the 10 years after Dunblaine if you were refused a gun license by one force you could apply to others around you and they could not check if you had done so and might give it to you.
I think you could have got multiple licenses to hold different weapons as well.
IOW the usual games you can play with multiple paper databases held by different organisations.
It's a good idea. Should it have taken Dunblaine and 10 years to get it. No. Did the UK need even stricter gun control laws. No. Let's say I smell something funny about the local cops involvement with Thomas Hamilton. Predatory paedophile wakes up one morning and decides to attack a primary school. No one putting him under pressure, he just does.
Yeah right.
"Well, that's an interesting new bit of spin. "Our employee screwed up, but then we sacked her, so the fact that she's not part of our organisation now means the screw-up was nothing to do with our organisation back when she still worked for us.""
Indeed. The cutting edge of blame avoidance of management technology.
Funny they did not throw the book at her. She is after all a)A woman, b)Not able to give the Masonic high five and c)They are the South Yorkshire Police.
But you'd trust them with being able to get a complete dump of all your phone, text, IM and email traffic, right?
Well you'd better, cause they want it.
"One of the main questions is whether the democratic excesses of the period immediately after the Al Qaida attack on New York City and Washington exceeded the bounds set by the Constitution and Bill of Rights."
"democratic excesses"
That would be the Legislature passing THE PATRIOT Act without reading it first I take while shrub played the old "If you don't vote for this you're a terrorist" care?
"democratic excesses" I'll have to remember that one for the Book of Euphemisms.
I'd suggest the "excesses" were very far from being "democratic"
It's good to question assumptions because the history of science is littered with stuff that turned out not to be as assumed.
Although in this case it looks more like a case of "We thought it would be too difficult to make a fibre that can do this. Turns out it was quite easy."
Thumbs up for this new technique.
"it was a joke..... funny ha ha......btw..and i know you know this I really hate being called anything but Allison. Maty"
He does come across as a bit humour impaired at the best of times. I also thought of that old Blackadder line about "Still worshipping God, eh Melchett? Last time I heard he was worshipping me, woof"
Probably best to include the Joke icon.
And I'm b***ered if I can tell you what that's in poundals or any of those other stupid former Imperial units.
I'll note that the SP100 space reactor was designed to deliver 100Kw of electricity and it's resulting power to weight ratio was around 46kg/Kwe.
Sadly RTG's don't really cut it for this sort of power level. Large thin film solar arrays (with or without concentrators), full scale reactors or beamed power (yes JPL have looked at this) are viable.
The question is when will it be used on a mission?