There's no privacy anymore. Not even for an atom now that scientists have a quantum camera:
AN ATOM'S electrons are an ever-shifting quantum melee, but it turns out you can still take their photograph as if they were standing still. A quantum-style microscope has imaged the hydrogen atom's wave function, the equation that determines its electrons' positions – and in turn the atom's properties. [...]
how on earth do you make an image of such an object? Measuring the position of a single electron "collapses" the wave function, forcing it to pick a particular position, but that alone is not representative of its normal, quantum presence in the atom. "Wave functions are difficult to measure. They're exquisite quantum objects that change their appearance upon observation," says Aneta Stodolna of the FOM Institute AMOLF in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Her team decided to make a picture using a technique dreamed up 30 years ago that can be thought of as a quantum microscope. Rather than taking an image of a single atom, they sampled a bunch of atoms. This removes the quantum nature of each individual atom's electron, forcing it to choose a particular location from those it is allowed to reside in. Do it with enough atoms and the number choosing each spot will reflect the quantum probabilities laid out by the wave function.
Lisa Grossman of New Scientist explains: Link
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Ted- I wouldn't call heart problems and diabetes laziness...
After years of fighting with the USPS about requesting non-delivery of the "pizza papers", I discovered a database of their regulations. I used the USPS own rules and regulations against them to stop getting the "pizza papers" in my box. They didn't take it well though.
The employees did not even know of this rule. I am betting that he did not know of it either. If he had, he probably would have told the people on his route about it.
More power to ya buddy
Plus, I bet if you supporters were the business owners who paid money to create these ads, you would be upset.
I think it was because he was lazy and not for the good of it all, because as Ali stated he could have put these ads in a recycling bin.
Frau, if you figured a way to keep the stuff that annoys you out of your mailbox with the legalese of the USPS, that is fabulous! Share with others, please! My own personal pet peeve is people other than my carrier slipping stuff into my mailbox. I find that many religious organizations are prone to doing that, and I've complained formally about it. People put strange things in the mail. Every spring brings baby chickens, ducks, and bees. Once a full grown peacock went through our local PO. How would you like to deliver that?
Doing something "wrong" is sometimes necessary to get a point across, and if he were my mailman, I would have definitely stood up for him.
I still call laziness. That's not pointing out the rules like a five-year-old. That's just stating the obvious.
yeah like a Zombie is alive.