They are, but clouds disproportionately reflect IR. Basically the energy comes in as a mix of high, medium and low energy light. The earth re-radiates as low energy IR. Clouds trap this keeping the warmth (and energy) in.
Clouds and CO2 act in a similar way.
This only works if the group size exceeds the Dunbar number. Below that, you will quickly be kicked out.
The answer is quite mundane. I’ve a few friends in a (non-US) police force. The answer is that the rich/powerful are annoying as hell to go against.
They either know the law, or pay someone to know it for them. They can make obviously illegal things legal on paper. They can also nitpick everything. E.g. spending £5K on lawyers to get out of a £100 fine, since they don’t want to get the points. Any procedural mistakes, or paperwork errors can kill a case, or at least drag it out for years.
They also have contacts that can apply pressure. When their wife knows your boss’s, boss’s boss’s wife, they can make your life and career VERY uncomfortable.
End result, most officers learn to pick their battles with the rich and powerful. They will make your life hard, and will get away without everything being perfect.
In practice this can easily turn into taking the easy road. Even when the rich aren’t even technically in the right.
In terms of old money politics, they’ve thrown him to the wolves.
He’s effectively gotten old fashioned parole (old European, rather than American). If he disappears, everyone will assume they are involved. They won’t want him making them look bad, so will not let him use their resources to flee.
A line I’ve used before is “It won’t be your fault, but it will be your problem.”
Pedestrians should be able to walk on the roads. It should be down to cars to not hit them. However, when they screw up. The car owner has a dented car, you have shatter bones and organs.
It’s against the grain here, but my personal view is that all school kits should be given a family size pack of high Vis strap vests and taught the risks. It’s amazing how effective an educated 8 year old can be at changing behaviours.
We also need to make sure we don’t accidentally witch hunt. While I think most of the Epstein files are genuine, there is a possibility of fakes. It would be entirely in his MO to create fake or misleading evidence, when he couldn’t get the real thing. The charges need to be backed by other evidence as well, which takes time to gather.
The default in the UK is to be released on bail. The current charges are for leaking documents, and the royals have made it clear they are not going to get in the way. His lawyers would have a field day with the police for not allowing bail, given what he’s currently been charged with.
Hopefully that will change, now the investigation is officially open, but it’s the nature of our legal system.
What would you replace it with? While it’s not a good metric for individuals, in group studies, it’s a useful proxy for information processing intelligence.
The rule of thumb with servers is
The trick is to remember you don’t actually need much performance. A home server isn’t generally a powerful machine. What matters is that it is always there.
A raspberry pi would actually make a wonderful server. It’s power efficient, small and quiet, with enough grunt to do most jobs. Unfortunately, it falls down on reliability. Arm servers seem more prone to issues than x64 servers. Pis also seems particularly crash prone. Crashing every 3-6 months isn’t an issue for most pi usages. When it’s running your smart home, it’s a pain in the arse.
I eventually settled on a intel NUC system. It’s a proper computer (no HDD on usb etc), with a very low power draw. It also seems particularly stable. Mine has done several years at this point, without a crash.
Bigger servers are only needed when you have too much demand for a low powered option, or need specialist capabilities 24/7. Very few home labbers will need one, in practice.
It’s also worth noting that you can slave a powerful, but power hungry system, to a smaller, efficient one. Only power it on when a highly demanding task requires sorting.
There is always the option for gorilla node deployment. They need very little power, so solar etc is an option, and the hardware is relatively cheap.
A cheap drone could easily place nodes in hard to reach locations e.g. top of telephone poles. You now have an anonymous node that is trivial to connect to but harder to disable.
It’s far from perfect, but a good option.
I also now have the image of a node built into a drone. Then it bolting, like a startled sparrow, when they try to remove it…
A friend had a radio isotope cancer treatment. He also built a geiger counter (for his own amusement). It was quite scary how much he set the thing off getting close to it!
Instructions were to not sleep in the same bed as anyone else for 2 nights, and limit closeness to people or pets for the same period.
Protests serve 2 purposes. They act to spread a message and connect people.
They also act as a warning. We are willing to invest effort in this to change things. If you don’t change, some of us will put the effort into other methods, some of which are… far more unpleasant for you. We also act as support to the people doing this.
The latter is important. For a good example, look at the Northern Ireland troubles.
True love is being willing to give almost anything for the other person. It is also being unwilling to accept that, because you would also be willing to do the same.
Somewhere in the middle you find what is best for both of you.
It puts the hand in a neutral, stable position and ensures it doesn’t move and affect their position/balance. It would let them focus totally on their aim with the other hand.
I believe most are chemically pumped. Producing an electrically pumped laser, of sufficient power is not an easy task. Making it small enough to be useful is even harder.
The problem is that each shot costs more in materials than the drone. Lasers are also quite easy to counter, if deployed in mass (mostly by adding reflective foil coatings).
The uses of “ACHOO syndrome”!
Aka the photic sneeze reflex.
Apparently not everyone has this reflex.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. It’s also a good reminder that a lot of historical people were not as nice as history makes them out to be.
A place in the UK dealt with this well. They had statues of their major founders. Those founders made their fortunes shipping slaves.
Rater than just destroying the statues, they were moved to an out of the way part of the garden. They also gained plaques explaining, while they did some good with their money that money was built on the lives and suffering of fellow men. Their good deeds are remembered, but also their bad.
The other option is a “barbeque roll” a favourite of sci-fi starships, from authors who have done some homework.
You’re basically trying to balance half way up a waterfall.
Different parts of the government. Charles has all but kicked him out of the royals themselves. This would just be finishing the job.
Neither group has any real say in prosecution etc. This is just an additional ceremonial “Fuck you for making us look bad!”