They can quit anytime they want. In fact, they've quit 4 times this year already.
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I thought I had gotten rid of cheques, but I had to get a book specifically to get my passport.
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/degraw2/
Medical devices is an obvious potential application for beta decay power. In the past, nuclear power sources were at a major size disadvantage and chemically powered cells can also provide very long service life at such small power draw.
So this definitely isn't nearly as much of a new concept as the media is suggesting. The question is whether they have achieved a compact enough design to be preferential over competing chemically powered cells.
Another application would be cmos batteries for holding memory states. Using ssds in external enclosures is compelling to reduce the amount of time it takes to actually read and write a full drive. But ssds need to be powered every once in a while. If their internal power storage depletes they lose data. Backup ssd drives with an indefinite power source would definitely be a compelling option. I do however doubt if this technology could ever be cheap enough for such an application. The materials used seem rather expensive.
Yeah reality and satire are getting close enough that I almost wonder if I should add a disclaimer that's more obvious than the video link.
One of my friends thought I was quoting an interview with Susan Collins.
Interviewer: This airplane that was involved in the incident off Western Oregon this week...
Senator Collins: The one the door plug fell off?
Interviewer: Yeah.
Senator Collins: Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
Interviewer: Well, how was it un-typical?
Senator Collins: Well there are a lot of these airplanes going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that 737 max 9's aren’t safe.
...
Senator Collins: Well, some of them are built so that the door plug doesn’t fall off at all.
Interviewer: Wasn’t this built so that the door plug wouldn’t fall off?
Senator Collins: Well, obviously not.
Interviewer: How do you know?
Senator Collins: Well, because the door plug fell off at 20,000 feet and all the air spilled out. It’s a bit of a giveaway. I’d just like to make the point that that is not normal.
Interviewer: Well what sort of engineering standards are these 737 MAX 9's built to?
Senator Collins: Oh, very rigorous aerospace engineering standards.
Interviewer: What sort of thing?
Senator Collins: Well, the door plug's not supposed to fall off for a start.
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Interviewer: So the allegations that they’re just designed to carry as many passengers as possible no matter the consequences, I mean that’s ludicrous isn’t it?
Senator Collins: Absolutely ludicrous, these are very very strong vessels.
Interviewer: So what happened in this case?
Senator Collins: Well, the door fell off in this case by all means, but it’s very unusual.
Interviewer: But Senator Collins, why did the door plug fall off?
Senator Collins: Well air hit it.
Interviewer: Air hit it?
Senator Collins: Air hit the plane.
Interviewer: Is that unusual?
Senator Collins: Oh yeah. At altitude? Chance in a million!
Swap it with the windows key and put the windows key as the function modified keypress. As long as I can still disable that key, it would be fine.
I'm still waiting for hexagon monitors as they are clearly the bestagon.
And to blowing up children for being born to the wrong group of people.
Did you miss the Sci fi shows that taught us that we have to let the tech tycoons enjoy new technology exclusively for a good decade or so before it can be sold to the masses? So your smart contacts are probably in Tim Cook or Satya Nadella's secret lab in a mountain valley.