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No, they are usually different things.

Robbery is theft using force or the immediate threat of force. The article you linked to says that much of the phone theft is done by pickpocketing.


Oh then of course robbery is down, why bother sticking someone up for pocket change no one carries when you can just steal their phone and escape on an ebike?

Why not also add a requirement to receive NOAA Weather Radio, too?

Because there isn't an infrastructure, as there is with AM radio, to have a radiation hardered transmitter and backup power in every geographic area.

Gee, if only we had some sort of other high-availability comms system we could use. Maybe divide the country up into geographic cells and put a transmitter in each one that sends out alerts to portable devices that people carry on them. You could even make the comms two-way so you could call for help if required. I wonder why no-one's ever thought of that?

Incidentally, I have never in my entire life received any kind of alert over AM radio. I have however received several on my phone, generally over incoming severe weather.


The mistake they made with these stations was to put them only on VHF around 160-170 MHz, which leaves massive gaps in coverage.

Stirling’s approximation is mentioned in the article.

I know that, that was my point. I'm saying I don't see much point in restating it without adding something; it's been known for 300 years.

Neither, the biggest danger is being a chiropractor (her main job), taking people's money and wasting their time with useless treatments.

I guess you could fork it and add support for retro systems.

It looks like much of the engine uses fixed-width types (for example, int32_t), so maybe you don’t need to change that code at all.


*cues


The Department of War was split into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force in 1947. The Department of War didn't include the Navy.


Here are some features, common in other simulator games, that could now be added to these games:

• Custom control panels, with various switches and levers, and lights and displays.

• Multiple displays.

• Virtual reality.

• Mixed reality that shows your hands and your custom control panel, combined with the VR display outside your craft.

• Speech recognition for giving commands to your allies.

• Cockpit motion control and seat rumble.


It's Robert F. Kennedy Jr., not John.


It's actually about 4x10^19 (exponent 19, not 9).


Typo, but this just shows the extreme inequity when one cube amasses so many states.


Imagine being so well off that you don't even notice being off by ten orders of magnitude. Meanwhile, there are people dealing with negative exponents.


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