Hah,
I was just trying to point out that it was written long before it become fashionable to attach the word "cyber" to everything
The comment
" but I once flew so fast and so far that I broke through space and met two odd green creatures who were looking down at the universe within a globe"
reminds me of one of the short stories within that book. Found it online, I think this is the one:
http://themindi.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-18-seventh-sally-or-how-trurls.html but buy the whole book...
Or Thrul and Klaupacius (Stanislaw Lem -- if you haven't read "The Cyberiad" you should, I know "Cyberiad" seems kinda cheesy, but it was written in the early 70s... )
How exactly is burning fuel that was transferred to the plant by burning fuel in order to produce steam to produce kinetic energy to produce electricity that's transferred hundreds of miles that produces a charge in a battery that's used to produce kinetic energy again..... more efficient?
does your car have a smokestack scrubber?
and a full-time staff of engineers to make sure your plant is in good working order (one poorly tuned combustion engine can throw out more pollution than the next hundred)?
and a massive thermally efficient turbine that is an order of magnitude more efficient than any piston engine?
Considering the alternative, I say we keep working on this
That or bring back to 10+ megaton class warheads so that everyone knows we can and will incinerate the fuck out of anyone who attacks us, spreading enough fallout that even nearby countries would be inclined to rat out their neighbors should they find out they are planning something.
Correct, the retail portion of the petroleum business is the absolute ass-end, redheaded stepchild part of the business..
Like my Republican friends who think they can make some stand against hugo chavez by boycotting Citgo.. Yes, I suppose you are denying him those last few pennies of retail markup, but newsflash, you're still buying his oil..
Compressed natural gas vehicles already exist, and they work just fine. You don't get quite the range you do out of a gasoline car, but its still pretty good, better than any electric vehicle. You can get this range without relying on any hyper-advanced compression/liquification/storage technologies.
You do get CO2 out the tailpipe, but pretty much nothing else, with very little emission control technology (which adds a lot to the price of a car BTW) needed.
Nat gas can too, of course, be used to do silly things, like heat our homes, make electricity in combined cycle power plants, make fertilizer...
And in the late 1800s it was proposed that we would soon have to shut down the patent office, because everything would soon be invented.
Somehow, I think the issuer of such a proclamation would feel right at home on slashdot
Yes, virtually all of these ideas, prototypes, theories, etc.. won't pan out. But if one idea in a million pans out, that one idea can still end up changing the world in ways unimagined.
So yah, keep up the scoffing cynicism, odds are you will be right 99.99% of the time.
Sure, lets do it, suck all the water out of the great lakes and pour it into the desert. What effect could that possibly have? I'm sure the canucks won't mind
All of the major cities of antiquity sprung up near sources of water, but we're too hip for that, we want to live in a desert, god damn the consequences...
The Hoover dam paid back all its loans, with interest ( took 50 years and a relatively low interest rate but they did), and is now operating at a profit. And that doesn't count all the salaries of all the employees that make the dam run, and all the employees that aid in the administration/distribution of the electricity.
And that doesn't count all the wealth/jobs, created with the aid of the electricity, by the consumers of the electricity..
Government enterprises never work, except when they do....
Absolutely, and considering the human race has denuded the landscape of trees in many places, the Earth is undoubtedly much slicker than it would be had we not existed
We could litter the landscape with millions more turbines and I would suspect we would still not be back to the break even point..
A few things have come together to make Texas a wind powerhouse:
1) Texas has a lot of wind
2) Modern wind turbine technology has made wind power competitive, from a purely economic standpoint, with other generation technologies.
3) Much lower regulatory hurdles for doing just about anything (except maybe marrying someone of the same sex as you)
4) The kind of "I drive a Priius and contribute to NPR, wind power is great, just not in my backyard" faction that will hold up wind farms (and just as importantly the transmission lines to bring the power from the farms to populated areas) is suppressed/nonexistent
No, it isn't..
Just because one douche tried to cash in on this issue, doesn't mean that its entirely not an issue. There very much was a problem with several toyota vehicles, that they first denied, then blamed on something else, and now have begrudingly accepted after the NHTSTA stepped in...
So again, this isn't "all hype", this isn't a repeat of the Audi 5000... Toyota messed up...
All of you tea-partiers have missed your true calling, you need to become political consultants for overseas elections.
I mean, since its so obvious the residents of foreign countries hate their healthcare systems so much, and are suffering so much, a "let's do healthcare like they do it in the United States" political platform ought to be a shoe-in for victory!!!!
Yes, the rich and the powerful will occasionally come to the United States for treatment, because yes, we have the most advanced healthcare tech in the world. The rich and the powerful will always have the best treatment options, and don't think anyone is pollyannish enough to think that they will get the same access to healthcare as someone like Bill Gates or Steve jobs.
But, for the day-to-day routine health care procedures, like hernias, appendectomies, respiratory therapy, etc.., does anyone think the idea of ruining a person financially (including draining all 401ks, savings accounts, and in many states taking homes... yes, collection agencies will do all of this) is the best way to treat a person who is insolent enough to have a burst appendix when they are unemployed...
Thats a personal anecdote BTW. Not myself, but a good friend, had appendicitis with no health insurance, got turned away at several places, and did not get treated until it was partially (I didn't even realize they could partially tear) ruptured.. Now's he's got over 90k of bills for a condition that could have been treated with a 20 minute outpatient surgery... Luckily we live in a state with a homestead exemption, but not all states are like this
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I wouldn't be so sure about that proclamation, the new Malibu is one hell of a car, and I say that as an import owner
The new Buick Lacrose is amazingly nice too, really not the typical oldfartmobile when you think of Buick
Ok, I'll take one for the "knows a lot less about this stuff than my friends/relatives think I do" team
How do you do this?
Is it something you install locally, or on your router/firewall?
Yep, I spent last weekend getting one of these fake av's off my wife's spare laptop ( an old p4 that refuses to die)..
I got the main scareware off easily, but Malwarebytes, MSE, and a few other programs could not get rid of the underlying Aleuron.h root kit
end result, gave up , blew up the xp home and didn't reinstall, its now an ubuntu machine exclusively..
Hah, I was just trying to point out that it was written long before it become fashionable to attach the word "cyber" to everything
The comment
" but I once flew so fast and so far that I broke through space and met two odd green creatures who were looking down at the universe within a globe"
reminds me of one of the short stories within that book. Found it online, I think this is the one:
http://themindi.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-18-seventh-sally-or-how-trurls.html but buy the whole book...
Kang and Konos?
Or Thrul and Klaupacius (Stanislaw Lem -- if you haven't read "The Cyberiad" you should, I know "Cyberiad" seems kinda cheesy, but it was written in the early 70s... )
I've been trying to get the family to switch from IE to chrome. And no bookmark sidebar is precisely why they refuse.
How exactly is burning fuel that was transferred to the plant by burning fuel in order to produce steam to produce kinetic energy to produce electricity that's transferred hundreds of miles that produces a charge in a battery that's used to produce kinetic energy again..... more efficient?
does your car have a smokestack scrubber?
and a full-time staff of engineers to make sure your plant is in good working order (one poorly tuned combustion engine can throw out more pollution than the next hundred)?
and a massive thermally efficient turbine that is an order of magnitude more efficient than any piston engine?
The batteries wear out and have to be replaced every few years.... It's just that those darn batteries are real expensive and don't last long.
Citation needed...
Considering the alternative, I say we keep working on this
That or bring back to 10+ megaton class warheads so that everyone knows we can and will incinerate the fuck out of anyone who attacks us, spreading enough fallout that even nearby countries would be inclined to rat out their neighbors should they find out they are planning something.
http://www.orbitz.com/flight-info/AF/AF-CDG-LAX.html
20 seconds of googling to not be wrong
Newer model 747s, 777s, and the larger Airbuses can do LAX to CDG (Paris) without a problem
Correct, the retail portion of the petroleum business is the absolute ass-end, redheaded stepchild part of the business..
Like my Republican friends who think they can make some stand against hugo chavez by boycotting Citgo.. Yes, I suppose you are denying him those last few pennies of retail markup, but newsflash, you're still buying his oil..
Did this ever get green lit?
Put your hands up, and step slowly away from the crack pipe....
Correct
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Compressed natural gas vehicles already exist, and they work just fine. You don't get quite the range you do out of a gasoline car, but its still pretty good, better than any electric vehicle. You can get this range without relying on any hyper-advanced compression/liquification/storage technologies.
You do get CO2 out the tailpipe, but pretty much nothing else, with very little emission control technology (which adds a lot to the price of a car BTW) needed.
Nat gas can too, of course, be used to do silly things, like heat our homes, make electricity in combined cycle power plants, make fertilizer
And in the late 1800s it was proposed that we would soon have to shut down the patent office, because everything would soon be invented.
Somehow, I think the issuer of such a proclamation would feel right at home on slashdot
Yes, virtually all of these ideas, prototypes, theories, etc.. won't pan out. But if one idea in a million pans out, that one idea can still end up changing the world in ways unimagined.
So yah, keep up the scoffing cynicism, odds are you will be right 99.99% of the time.
I'd rather think/dream/imagine
Sure, lets do it, suck all the water out of the great lakes and pour it into the desert. What effect could that possibly have? I'm sure the canucks won't mind All of the major cities of antiquity sprung up near sources of water, but we're too hip for that, we want to live in a desert, god damn the consequences...
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0504/russian-paper-suggests-nuclear-explosion-cut-gulf-oil-geyser/ this would be so cool
The Hoover dam paid back all its loans, with interest ( took 50 years and a relatively low interest rate but they did), and is now operating at a profit.
And that doesn't count all the salaries of all the employees that make the dam run, and all the employees that aid in the administration/distribution of the electricity.
And that doesn't count all the wealth/jobs, created with the aid of the electricity, by the consumers of the electricity..
Government enterprises never work, except when they do....
Absolutely, and considering the human race has denuded the landscape of trees in many places, the Earth is undoubtedly much slicker than it would be had we not existed
We could litter the landscape with millions more turbines and I would suspect we would still not be back to the break even point..
A few things have come together to make Texas a wind powerhouse:
1) Texas has a lot of wind
2) Modern wind turbine technology has made wind power competitive, from a purely economic standpoint, with other generation technologies.
3) Much lower regulatory hurdles for doing just about anything (except maybe marrying someone of the same sex as you)
4) The kind of "I drive a Priius and contribute to NPR, wind power is great, just not in my backyard" faction that will hold up wind farms (and just as importantly the transmission lines to bring the power from the farms to populated areas) is suppressed/nonexistent
Howie Mandel called, he wants his joke back
I need more pictures of the face, and Kermit the Frog
No, it isn't.. Just because one douche tried to cash in on this issue, doesn't mean that its entirely not an issue. There very much was a problem with several toyota vehicles, that they first denied, then blamed on something else, and now have begrudingly accepted after the NHTSTA stepped in... So again, this isn't "all hype", this isn't a repeat of the Audi 5000... Toyota messed up...
All of you tea-partiers have missed your true calling, you need to become political consultants for overseas elections.
I mean, since its so obvious the residents of foreign countries hate their healthcare systems so much, and are suffering so much, a "let's do healthcare like they do it in the United States" political platform ought to be a shoe-in for victory!!!!
Yes, the rich and the powerful will occasionally come to the United States for treatment, because yes, we have the most advanced healthcare tech in the world. The rich and the powerful will always have the best treatment options, and don't think anyone is pollyannish enough to think that they will get the same access to healthcare as someone like Bill Gates or Steve jobs.
But, for the day-to-day routine health care procedures, like hernias, appendectomies, respiratory therapy, etc.., does anyone think the idea of ruining a person financially (including draining all 401ks, savings accounts, and in many states taking homes... yes, collection agencies will do all of this) is the best way to treat a person who is insolent enough to have a burst appendix when they are unemployed...
Thats a personal anecdote BTW. Not myself, but a good friend, had appendicitis with no health insurance, got turned away at several places, and did not get treated until it was partially (I didn't even realize they could partially tear) ruptured.. Now's he's got over 90k of bills for a condition that could have been treated with a 20 minute outpatient surgery... Luckily we live in a state with a homestead exemption, but not all states are like this
is it simply too late to get people to give up their Facebook accounts for something that gives them more freedom?
Yes.
Next thread please...
Surely, I'm not joking. Yes they do.. I guess this is just another case of facts having a well-established liberal bias.. http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=14560 http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=103625013.html