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Actually, it should make a HUGE difference.
NY is a fairly tiny state. It is in the bottom 1/2 (almost bottom 1/3) and only around 47,000 sq miles. However, HUGE population. There are almost 9 million in NYC ALONE, vs 20M in the New York state. So, adding in the surrounding areas of NYC and you are looking at 1/2 of the state being in NYC area (SWAG). Even though most of the ppl outside of NYC will have further to drive, they are mostly SHORT SHORT distances (here in Colorado, I used to drive >200 miles / day just to get to/from work). So, I would say, it is safe to assume that at least 1/2 of the gasoline consumed there is in the city. New York is 4th largest consumer of fuel in America.
Note that this one has CA off by a magnitude. It is #1, so NY moves down to 4 This indicates around 129K barrels for 2016 So, giving half, that would be around 64K barrels of gas, which does not include the diesel or the commercial stuff. So, with 42 gal/barrel that would give ~ 2688000 gal of gas. Note that it is about 20 lbs / gal of gas, which is around 27K tons of CO2 / year.
That is just the gas portion for regular cars. It does not include the diesel, which is even worse.

One nice thing about NY is that they have a varied electricity matrix. Basically, Hydro, Nuke, and nat gas. And they are working towards killing off most of their nat gas. So, if they kill the nat gas electricity AND kill the ICE, they will be one of the cleanest population in terms of CO2.

Kansas consumes 40 thousand megawatts of electricity in a year, I want to know when Kansas can produce that much electricity over the course of twelve months - I never said they couldn't use any storage technology to use today's solar electricity tomorrow or tonight, I meant they need to provide enough energy to power the state via renewables for a year. This article celebrates the two times a year renewables can supply 10% of their needs, laudable, but not really earth-shattering news, since they can't replicate that level of success outside of two very small windows per year.

Heck, I'd be impressed if Kansas could produce 10% of it's annual needs via renewables, 4 thousand megawatts, but sadly that isn't even what this article is about - it's about a couple times a year when their renewable energy production peaks...

Both home and industrial scale energy storage with days of full-load capacity are already here and affordable.

Define "affordable".

My "demand" about 100% energy from renewables includes energy storage, which is to say it doesn't exclude them specifically - it simply means that currently Kansas consumes about 40 thousand megawatts of electricity a year (aprox.), let me know when renewables (solar, wind, hydro, etc.) can produce those 40 thousand megawatts over the course of 365 days (1 year). You can use any storage mechanism you want to store renewable energy until it is used.

Gotcha covered.

Tell that to the people arrested for not getting the police officers to consent to being recorded.

Well, I guess "flat" is a relative term. If you consider a change in elevation from one end of Kansas to another end of almost 3400 feet (from 679 ft above sealevel to 4039 ft above sealevel, then relatively speaking yes Kansas is flat. Boring, maybe, but flat not. I think everyone is confusing Kansas for Nebraska. Kansas is not remotely flat. Take it from a New Yorker who moved to Missouri and drives across Kansas to get to Colorado. Or look at a topological map.

And the other, well the other publishes peer reviewed research

Their lifestyles are supported by the taxpayers. They must convince us (our government, rather), that their research is valuable to obtain grants. They may be perfectly sincere, but the conflict of interest is stupendous — and can not be denied...

The bottom line is that you exemplify one of the biggest problems America faces today

Ah, an ad hominem. How refreshing... Please, don't hate.

No. The markets already exist so there is no need to implement them.

Considering the amount of annual damage to infrastructure and use-costs associated with trucks (Seriously, it's 99+% of the total), they pay far, far less than their "fair share" in taxes to use the interstate highway system.

Tax them at a fair rate; I'd have no problem with manufacturers and shippers adding the additional cost to the price of their products, since it would be a far more equitable way of spreading out the costs to the average American for actual costs generated by their consumption than by individual taxes on motorists.

remember way back when (before bacteria was the bad guy)?: "For many, many years, ulcers within the stomach were thought to be caused entirely by emotional stress". http://people.ku.edu/~jbrown/ulcer.html well, cancer, for many, many years was thought to be non-contagious. until it's not. this is the next breakthrough for the courageous researcher.

Yeah, and for this you need not only math, but an intuitive understanding of modern computer architecture. You've discovered, as many previously have as well, that memory is much slower than most computation. Doing a few adds and multiplies is almost always faster than pulling in a fresh cache line. This especially if your lookup table access is sparse and you're paying the penalty of fetching an entire cache line just to look up one number (a float is just 1/16th of a cache line). Sparse table lookup of floats generates 16x higher memory bandwidth that what one may naively expect.

Memory is slow. Adders and multipliers are pretty damn fast. You're also possibly reinventing the wheel :)

The Personal System glasses from "Norbert and the System", a short story by Timons Esaias from 1993, may anticipate some of the features of this system. I haven't read the patent, but the overlay of contextual social information sounds a lot like what the original poster describes.

(Here's a link: http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/Sci-Tech-Society/Esaias-Norbert.pdf)

They call it water because it is about 97% water by volume, with the remainder being made up of surfactants, disinfectants, gelling agents, friction reducers, proppant, and possibly inhibitors and acid, depending on the reservoir properties. Of those, scale and corrosion inhibitors are the ones most likely to be present at sufficient concentrations to represent any significant levels of toxicity, however, these inhibitors are not always used.

SPE paper concerning this topic:
http://www.kgs.ku.edu/PRS/Fracturing/Frac_Paper_SPE_152596.pdf

Funny! (But ... grammar nitpick)

Mostly because the Internet - and the world wide web - existed prior to 1993. In fact, in 1990 the amateur radio operators in the Puget Sound area used a tcp/ip over 2-meter network that was linked to the Internet through one ham's occupation at a major industrial corporation in the area. Most of us weren't using a GUI web browser but we were using Lynx ( http://people.cc.ku.edu/~grobe/early-lynx.html ).

Awlaki, a US citizen, was murdered basically because he expressed certain views. Those views might have been repugnant, but palatability is not really a consideration in free speech, and we are certainly not the bastion of free speech we once were. See for example, the court case from the 70s involving Nazis being allowed to march in Skokie: http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/strwhe.html

I'm not sure I would consider the KKK or Nazis to be far left. I guess we all have our own views, though.

http://www.channel3000.com/news/381962/detail.html

http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/strwhe.html

Citation please for police resources being used more often in wealthier neighborhoods than poor ones. I would be curious to see a police report break down in terms of volume and type of crimes. Are more police resources used in rich neighborhoods, or is it because the rich are sequestered away from the poor (and supported by their own private security forces?) which leads to less crime?

The majority of wear on roads is by trucks, not sports cars of the rich.
See http://www2.ku.edu/~iri/publications/HighwayDamageCosts.pdf One of the reaons we see more road wear in the US is because we build our roads cheaply and thinner than other countries.

The SEC is a FEE FUNDED agency funded by transaction charges made on trades similar to how the Patent Office is a fee funded agency funded by application charges, they are not a fully tax funded agency. In fact congress does not even return the entirety of fees back to them in their budget. The excess goes into the general fund!
see: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aCGM.3vStcjU

The wealthy already pay a disproportonate share of taxes simply because they have more money. Its hard to collect a lot of taxes from people that have no money.

People who study historical records, geological strata, human migratorial patterns, etc. . You know. Scientists.

In other words, 3-4 organizations including two organizations with bias problems, the CRU and NASA's GISS. Everyone else is just providing data.

No, there are entire areas of science dedicated to understanding geological strata, history, human migration, etc. It is not primarily CRU and NASA. For example, here's a conference on human migration. And it is not primarily based on CRU and NASA. In fact, they don't seem to be involved at all. However, these guys are.

Actually, this conference is probably more up your alley.

You are wrong my friend, very wrong. For example, Missourians have plenty of different pronunciations when compared to the North East, the South, California, the other Midwestern states, etc. Here in Missouri, many people say "nookyuler" 9or whoever you want to phoneticize it). We also have pronunciations such as "Da-ad" for "dad," "Missour-uh," and we drop are G's as often as the East and West Coasters use the term "fly-over states." (Another example of elitist BS.) There ain't nothin' wrong with th' way we speak.

I'm not trying to say GW was an intelligent person. (Are any politicians very bright? You'd have to do a lot to convince me.) I'm saying he wasn't an idiot because of his accent. I hate elitist crap like that. And frankly, it is sad you can't see the inherent prejudice and ignorance in statements such as the one we are discussing. It upsets me, but I get some satisfaction when I see arrogant people get intellectually sucker-punched when they underestimate "us poor country folk" and end up showing who is the real idiot. I'm not directing that at you, I'm sure it's just an honest mistake on your part, but again, you have an ill-conceived notion that has no basis in reality.

http://web.ku.edu/~idea/northamerica/usa/missouri/missouri.htm

I'm not exactly sure you know how to use "whom" :
http://web.ku.edu/~edit/whom.html

Of course the problem with photosynthesis is it doesn't produce energy that quickly so it'd probably be used by slow moving animals like that. Here's a link http://www.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/ebooks/intro.html

James Gunn and Chris McKitterick run the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. They have a summer seminar for educators which revolves around using SF in the classroom. They also have other materials available. The Center's webpage is: http://www2.ku.edu/~sfcenter/index.html They'll be glad to help you out.

If this is really a serious course in SF/F lit, what texts are you using from the analysis side? They'll give you a good guide to what stories/novels you should be looking at.

It's been a long time since I took such a course, so I don't know if Hartwell's 1984 Age of Wonders ("a penetrating exploration of the realities behind the history, development and current popularity of science fiction") or Ketterer's New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction, and American Literature (1974) are still in print. They're authors worth looking for, anyway. There are also more popular studies such as Brian Aldiss's Billion Year Spree or James Gunn's various works on the history of science fiction. Speaking of the latter, you might also check with the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, seems like an excellent resource for what you want.

(Personally I'd argue that unless you're doing a compare-and-contrast, the science fiction and fantasy genres are so different (excluding space fantasy like Star Wars, here) that they probably ought not be studied together. It's almost like a course on "Romances and Thrillers" - yeah there are some common elements, but....)

http://web.ku.edu/~edit/whom.html Try fixing it for yourself.

â"pronoun 1. the objective case of who: Whom did you call? Of whom are you speaking? With whom did you stay? 2. the dative case of who: You gave whom the book?

http://web.ku.edu/~edit/whom.html
Try fixing it for yourself.

This article got me thinking about birds' ability to see in the UV waveband, and I scrounged up this somewhat dated link which notes "the vast majority of male and female birds that look alike to humans--blue jays, for example-- may actually look entirely different to the birds themselves because of their ability to see UV light, which humans are blind to." [Emphasis mine]
I wonder how the nanostructures self-assemble with such apparent precision?

No, he's making a statement.

For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares?"

I'm from Missouri (and happen to speak the St. Louis variation of the Bostonian dialect) and we don't say farty far, you insensitive clod! It sounds more like "forty far". Which you drive down to get your warsher, from tha super Wal-Marts. Of course, you can listen to the dialect yourself.

AT&T and Verizon both have one 25 MHz 850 MHz Cellular license: http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/west.html Verizon has a single 10 MHz PCS 1900 block: http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/vzw_pcs_block.html AT&T has the PCS B3 and D blocks. The D block came from old AT&T Wireless, while the B3 block came from Cingular/Pac Bell Wireless. On the AWS side, AT&T won a 10 MHz block covering the west region, plus a 20 MHz block for the LA area, making 30 MHz, while Verizon got nothing: http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/aws/index.php?p=m Then in the 700 MHz auction, AT&T got an additional 12 MHz, and Verizon got 46 MHz: http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=187&p=231 http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=187&p=230

AT&T and Verizon both have one 25 MHz 850 MHz Cellular license: http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/west.html Verizon has a single 10 MHz PCS 1900 block: http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/vzw_pcs_block.html AT&T has the PCS B3 and D blocks. The D block came from old AT&T Wireless, while the B3 block came from Cingular/Pac Bell Wireless. On the AWS side, AT&T won a 10 MHz block covering the west region, plus a 20 MHz block for the LA area, making 30 MHz, while Verizon got nothing: http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/aws/index.php?p=m Then in the 700 MHz auction, AT&T got an additional 12 MHz, and Verizon got 46 MHz: http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=187&p=231 http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=187&p=230

The closest nature seems to have got to the wheel is the flagellum (a bacterium's tail that rotates through chemical reactions)

Like the parent said, the EECS department, especially the radar and robotics sections, have definitely put a lot of research and work into CReSIS. My robotics professor this semester, Dr. Agah, has helped put together a lot of autonomous rovers that crawled across Greenland and scanned the ice sheets. One of the biggest successes they had was a robot called MARVIN. The UAV approach is definitely one that should help the field dramatically since even tread-mounted robots cannot go everywhere on the ice. I'm especially glad that the research my institution is doing is finally getting some recognition.

If you want to know more about the work of CReSIS, an extensive list of presentations on their research is available. I think there are some software limitations in terms of browsers you can use to look at them, but the website has a lot of information if you don't want to just look at the presentations.

While it is possible to cause these issues, if that statement were patently true then TV stations would cause interference with each other. If a signal only uses a portion of the adjacent channel then it can operate without interference. Furthermore in the rural areas that much of this is targetted at 2nd and even 3rd adjacent channels are wide open.

http://www.ittc.ku.edu/publications/documents/pett y2007_Dyspan07.pdf
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/quan tifying_the_impact_of_unlicensed_devices_on_digita l_tv_receivers

The students or the cooperations? I kinda would have thought that Universities would do everything in their power to aid thei students en masse.

Hardly. Their policy at http://www.dmca.ku.edu/ states that...
University officials reserve the right to access, examine, intercept, monitor and copy the files and/or sessions of any user
Copyright apparantly doesn't mean a damn thing to them.

This is typical slashdot behavior. Take everything out of context so everybody can get riled up about it. Sure the front page says 'copyrighted material', you think they'd put the full legalese on the frontpage or just a blurb saying "Its Bad, mkay"?
But if anybody would take the time to actually *READ* the subject at hand, you would find this paragraph:

And if you would take the time to actually read http://www.dmca.ku.edu/, you'd see the following.
University officials reserve the right to access, examine, intercept, monitor and copy the files and/or sessions of any user
Isn't that nice? Under the same "agreement", they can rifle through the contents or your hard drives and copy your files for shits and giggles. Looks like these people are really concerned about copyright.

several comments on this issue! obviously, students have no hand in university policy. we abide by it, thats about it. punishing graduates from our school (like not hiring them? what a joke) on these grounds just doesnt make sense. http://resnet.ku.edu/arrive.jsp - this page says the semester rate, which is not $150 and yeah, that intelligent design comment was nice. then lastly, lets see some more discussion on this. go on over the the ResNet forum at http://www.resnet.ku.edu/forum/ anyone can post anonymously post, as ResNet Residential Communications Consultants (RCCs) have access to our own restricted area. go for it!

several comments on this issue! obviously, students have no hand in university policy. we abide by it, thats about it. punishing graduates from our school (like not hiring them? what a joke) on these grounds just doesnt make sense. http://resnet.ku.edu/arrive.jsp - this page says the semester rate, which is not $150 and yeah, that intelligent design comment was nice. then lastly, lets see some more discussion on this. go on over the the ResNet forum at http://www.resnet.ku.edu/forum/ anyone can post anonymously post, as ResNet Residential Communications Consultants (RCCs) have access to our own restricted area. go for it!

Their DMCA Policy Page.

You're right about the appeal (although I have my doubts about any appeal process that, as this one does, follows a guilty-until-proven-innocent approach and requires "written documentation" as proof of innocence).

I should just note that my mistake was also made by both the summary and TFA, and was not corrected by "multiple previous posts." To figure out that you were right I had to find KU's DMCA page, which is not linked from any of the above.

Welcome to ResNet. We provide network connectivity, voice service and cable TV to the University's students, faculty and staff. Violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is against the law. If you are caught downloading copyrighted material, you will lose your ResNet privileges forever. No second notices, no excuses, no refunds. One violation and your ResNet internet access is gone for as long as you reside on campus.

Will they kick out students simply because the MAFIAA sent them a strongly worded letter?

No, might try reading their policies next time.

Will they kick out students simply because the MAFIAA sent them a strongly worded letter?

No, might try reading their policies next time.

The term digital native is being applied to individuals who have grown up immersed in technology.

That introduces the concept of the ultimate library, the computer. So far, at least, librarians know the computer largely as a replacement for the card catalog, but the computer as a library in itself sits in the future like the Sphinx demanding the answer to its riddle. And if you don't give the right response it will bite your head off--or at least sit there blocking the way to all the information it contains.

Some of us are trying to figure out what to do about this. Questions like "how long do we have?" and "how much ice is there" and even "how fast is the ice melting" are all questions that researchers at the Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) are trying to answer. They've done a huge amount of work and have even more coming. Not all of us Americans are backwards and ignorant of our environment.

"About Zionist agendas in WWII and other weird stuff: http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/righitpix.html [ku.edu] http://christianparty.net/hitlerfounderisrael.htm [christianparty.net] http://christianparty.net/nazi.htm [christianparty.net]"

You are most helpful. I really did want to know what the KKK had to say about it.

About Palestine: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eCL6WdnuNp4 http://youtube.com/watch?v=mo2HW4T7wK4&mode=relate d&search= About Jews against Zionism: http://www.amazon.com/Zionist-connection-What-pric e-peace/dp/0396075649 http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/ People can be against Israel and extremo-zionism without being antisemetic, unless of course you somehow think jews against zionism are antisemetic? Your Godwin dogma doesn't work so well on jews, does it?

About Zionist agendas in WWII and other weird stuff: http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/righitpix.html http://christianparty.net/hitlerfounderisrael.htm http://christianparty.net/nazi.htm

I would be curious to know how many jobs were created in the same span. Stories like this tend to misstate the case. Every time say, Boeing lays off 10,000 people, or Ford, or (insert company here), or there is an uptick in offshoring, the press goes nuts.

Unemployment was at 4.7% in August, per the US Dept. of Labor. Offshoring is hardly new, so one would expect it to skew the percentages over time - yet, 3-6% unemployment has been pretty much the trend every year since WWII, witha few notable spikes (oil shock in the 1970's).

Yes, morale may suck, yes, there might be overwork - welcome to white-collar work. If you came into IT in the 90s', it's probably a nasty shock. I suspect that the older ./-ers out there have seen this kind of thing before.

When I see geeks working in Burger King, I'll worry. Now, off to finish my grad degree in IS since IT is still a great place to earn above-average wages...

Google Is Your Friend. Try Googling "Information technology earnings site:.edu" - you'll get lots of the following:

http://www2.ku.edu/~econsem/Friday/papers(0506)/Pi tts%20-%20Kansas1.pdf#search=%22Information%20tech nology%20earnings%20site%3A.edu%22