Looking for ways to make your bicycle safe and at the same time conspicuous? A site in Germany claims to have developed “the most secure bike lock in the world“.
It is based upon a wireless remote (Conrad 433 MHz transmitter SHT-7) and receiver module (Conrad 433 MHz SHR-7).
Some obvious security issues are the security of the radio signal, resistance to a long hook that could simply drag the lock down or lift the bike off the elevator, another device sent up to prevent the lock coming down…
Dan Froomkin at the Huffington Post has put together an excellent report called The Two Most Essential, Abhorrent, Intolerable Lies Of George W. Bush’s Memoir
In the period during which Bush claims he was wringing his hands about whether or not to attack, he and his aides were instead intensely focused on building the public case for what was, in their minds, an inevitability.
Although they call out two lies “among the many”, it seems to me they may be two parts of the same lie. There is a hint in the above quote. Here are the two:
History is likely to judge Bush most harshly for two things in particular: Launching a war against a country that had not attacked us, and approving the use of cruel and inhumane interrogation techniques.
I call it one lie because it seems to be two phases of the same general issue. Approving war crimes is a second phase, directly related to Iraq invasion. In other words, the cruel and inhumane interrogation of prisoners in the US was intended to prove, through confession, that Iraq had in fact attacked the US.
In “Decision Points,” Bush describes the invasion of Iraq as something he came to support only reluctantly and after a long period of reflection. This is a flat-out lie. Anyone who paid any attention to the news at the time knew Bush was dead-set on war long before he sent in the troops in March 2003. And there is now an abundant amount of documentation, in the form of leaks, unclassified memos, witness interviews and other people’s memoirs to prove it.
While the US President pulled “questionable intelligence” and forgeries from others to justify the initial invasion, in the first phase, he later followed-up by generating questionable intelligence later through his illegal interrogation methods to complete the lie.
Whether you call it all the same lie or two “most essential, abhorrent, intolerable lies”, the memoir is a study in how this President seriously, and carelessly damaged National Security.
Cheney’s life since leaving office has given additional clues. It has been pointed out to me that his presence is always known because the civilian airports in some areas are shutdown and a giant SAM (surface to air missile) unit is stationed at the runway from touchdown until he flies out again.
Similarly, you can tell when Cheney goes fishing because two black military helicopters buzz an otherwise quiet countryside. I assume one helicopter is to deliver him to the exact spot in the river he prefers and the other is to stock the river upstream with fish that he likes to catch.
These men continue to exhibit a habit or removing themselves so far from reality — creating a coddled life with heavily-subsidized (by taxpayer) security blankets and cherry-picked yes men — that they probably will never understand or appreciate the damage that their lies do to their country.
The Dutch Atennebureau is studying the effects of Wifi on Trees. The results are inconclusive; Ash might be affected, but the report is unable to prove causation and says more research is necessary.
In een uitgebreider en langer durend onderzoek naar de invloed van vergelijkbare WIFI signalen is geen invloed gevonden op de ontwikkeling van sparren en beuken. Bij enkele onderzoeken zijn wel effecten gevonden, maar daar werden dusdanige sterke blootstellingen gebruikt dat warmte-effecten aannemelijk zijn.
(A broader, longer-term study of the influence of comparable WIFI signals found no effect on the development of spruce and beech. Some studies have found effects, but there were such high exposures used that heat effects are likely.)
You know you have a strong WiFi signal when leaves on trees around you burst into flames. You may need to worry about other security risks first, however, at that point.
Mammals are known to reduce in size in response to environmental risks. It has been studied in great detail.
The icecap may not be the only thing shrinking in the Arctic. The genitals of polar bears in east Greenland are apparently dwindling in size due to industrial pollutants.
That might not be the best example; it has been known for some time that polar bears are losing weight overall.
A new ecology study now says mammals are not the only species. It turns out even fish can shrink under harsh living conditions
In examining how juvenile salmonid fish responded to harsh environmental conditions, we were faced with unexpected and previously undocumented observations in terms of growth performance, indicating that fish do shrink in harsh winter conditions. Young salmonids showed significant shrinking of individual body length, up to 10% of the body length, over the course of winter. The dynamics of the growth in length of these fish can be explained by a combination of anorectic stress and environmental conditions. Under stable, sheltered underwater conditions fish were best able to maintain positive growth in length.