> As heat loss to the environment..... And then heat loss to space. Unless, of course, we insulate our environment by surrounding ourselves with greenhouse gases.
If we want to cool off, removing our blanket will probably help more than turning off our electricity.
> the most annoying sound in the world (Joan Rivers' voice) Joan Rivers is definitely in the top ten, but I think a St. Bernard with a hairball is worse.
> they might run into problems if the duck calls are made with the purpose of closely imitating natural sounds, though... Fortunately, duck calls are fictitious works. Any resemblance to actual animals, whether living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Me, I'm trademarking tourists blowing dog whistles that are inaudible to humans.
... literally. But why limit yourself to PC cooling? Turn the slab into a big radiator and pump air from the upstairs/attic through - you can moderate the temperature of your whole house.
> I see your point - users should have a voice, That's not my point at all. Users shouldn't have "a voice," they should have the whole damn phone line that they are paying for.
> I think that we're agreed that arbitrarily throttling downloads to x Kb/s is wrong. I wouldn't agree with "arbitrarily" throttling, but bandwidth limiting is perfectly fair, especially if that's part of the contract.
> IF there isn't enough bandwidth to go around...then the ISP needs to add more bandwidth. Or sell bandwidth-capped packages. But they don't get to overbook the airliner, and then, when too many passengers show up, open customers' luggage and decide which of their belongings can fly.
> Should, or should not, interactive applications have priority? I say, "Yes". You can prioritize your own bandwidth however you want. But I don't see why my bandwidth should be reduced so somebody else can play a game.
> I can understand prioritizing some protocols I'm all for it - as long as I'm the one setting the priorities. All the ISP should do is provide a pipe, and enforce bandwidth limits and quality of service as specified in our service level agreement. I don't want them sticking their hands in my traffic and deciding what to do with it.
> all the male athletes that are faster and you exclude from your league to give it a reason to exist.
I agree. There really is no cause for having women's leagues in athletics. For decades, male athletes have sincerely reached out to women, futilely attempting to get women to join them. Women have obstinately refused to participate with the men, snubbing invitations from the NFL, NBA, MLB, and the NHL.
Instead these fascist women have gone and created their own exclusive leagues, for the express purpose of justifying their own exclusive leagues.
I for one think women should soften their stance, and consider participating with these male athletes that have been sidelined as first class citizens for so long.
> The secrets of the universe are not in what it does, or how it works; but who made it If "who made it" is a secret, how does one study it?
> If there is a God, then studying what He/She/It created > is of far lesser importance than studying God Himself.
Why is that? That's like saying that rather than studying Newton's Laws, we should just study Sir Isaac Newton. Or rather than studying how a mechanical watch works, we should research its inventor.
If there is a Creator, it's unclear how one could study "God Himself." I'm sure "He/She/It" would be a very interesting being, but this Creator hasn't seen fit to allow Himself/Herself/Itself to be studied with any sort of clinical rigor. In some religions He goes so far as to denounce seekers of signs. He/She/It hasn't seen fit to clarify the confusion from the many and varied theologies of the world; we don't know if we should study him in the Q'uran or the Rig Veda or the stars or music or psychedelic drugs or special recipes of Kool-Aid.
Whatever we may be missing, it isn't hive mentality. As Monty Python (in "Life of Brian") put it:
Brian: Please, please, please listen! I've got one or two things to say. The Crowd: Tell us! Tell us both of them! Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED to follow ME, You don't NEED to follow ANYBODY! You've got to think for your selves! You're ALL individuals! The Crowd: Yes! We're all individuals! Brian: You're all different! The Crowd: Yes, we ARE all different! Man in crowd: I'm not... The Crowd: Sch!
Wow, what a free-your-mind moment I had reading that.
A similar scenario could be that the sun somehow turned upside down. Maybe the sun spins in two dimensions: around the expected axis perpendicular to the orbital plane, and also an axis parallel to the orbital plane.
Let me know when there's a large jet that runs off hydrogen, solar, or electric. Nice job moving the goalpost. It used to be "airplanes", now it's airliners.
But it's irrelevant. Airplanes need thrust. They get thrust from engines. Today's commercially-available engines burn fossil/carbon fuels, but in no way does that prevent us from putting a different engine on future planes.
> I don't know of any energy source that can power airplanes other than carbon-based fuels. Your unawareness of alternatives doesn't mean that carbon is a requirement for flight. Consider these planes: Hydrogen Solar Electric
> if you are looking to use a carbon based fuel
I don't think we're looking for that these days.
> methane or methanol are the best you can hope for
Methane? Seriously? From the US EPA:
Methane (CH4) is a greenhouse gas that remains in the atmosphere for approximately 9-15 years. Methane is over 20 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2)
> I thought we were talking about a feature missing in an FOSS package. But aren't we?
AFAIK there's no reason any joe off the street can't go do photosynthesis research and post his findings. Funding and specialized advanced degrees are real nice to have, but they're technically not part of the scientific method.
Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, carbinol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha or wood spirits, is a chemical compound with chemical formula CH3OH (often abbreviated MeOH). It is the simplest alcohol, and is a light, volatile, colourless, flammable, poisonous liquid
Sounds like a carbon-based fuel to me. Not sure why it's considered "clean". But at least we're not digging the carbon out of the bowels of the earth before we spew it into the sky.
I was tired of my lady, We've been together too long. Like a worn-out recording, Of a favorite song. So while she lay there sleeping, I read the paper in bed. And in the personals column, There was this letter I read:
"If you like Pina Coladas, And getting caught in the rain. If you're not into yoga, If you have half-a-brain. If you like making love at midnight, In the dunes of the cape. I'm the lady you've looked for, Write to me, and escape."
Just hang the pre-assembled windmill upside down, run electricity backwards through the generator, and voila! - You've got a nice powerful propeller to drive it.
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IBM seriously expects me to believe the twisted logic that Software Patents help free software
No, IBM seriously expects the Supreme Court will believe the twisted logic.
> As heat loss to the environment.....
And then heat loss to space. Unless, of course, we insulate our environment by surrounding ourselves with greenhouse gases.
If we want to cool off, removing our blanket will probably help more than turning off our electricity.
> the most annoying sound in the world (Joan Rivers' voice)
Joan Rivers is definitely in the top ten, but I think a St. Bernard with a hairball is worse.
> they might run into problems if the duck calls are made with the purpose of closely imitating natural sounds, though...
Fortunately, duck calls are fictitious works. Any resemblance to actual animals, whether living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Me, I'm trademarking tourists blowing dog whistles that are inaudible to humans.
I don't get it - are you suggesting that geothermal exchange violates the laws of thermodynamics? If so, please explain your reasoning.
... literally. But why limit yourself to PC cooling? Turn the slab into a big radiator and pump air from the upstairs/attic through - you can moderate the temperature of your whole house.
> I see your point - users should have a voice,
That's not my point at all. Users shouldn't have "a voice," they should have the whole damn phone line that they are paying for.
> I think that we're agreed that arbitrarily throttling downloads to x Kb/s is wrong.
I wouldn't agree with "arbitrarily" throttling, but bandwidth limiting is perfectly fair, especially if that's part of the contract.
> IF there isn't enough bandwidth to go around ...then the ISP needs to add more bandwidth. Or sell bandwidth-capped packages. But they don't get to overbook the airliner, and then, when too many passengers show up, open customers' luggage and decide which of their belongings can fly.
> Should, or should not, interactive applications have priority? I say, "Yes".
You can prioritize your own bandwidth however you want. But I don't see why my bandwidth should be reduced so somebody else can play a game.
> I can understand prioritizing some protocols
I'm all for it - as long as I'm the one setting the priorities. All the ISP should do is provide a pipe, and enforce bandwidth limits and quality of service as specified in our service level agreement. I don't want them sticking their hands in my traffic and deciding what to do with it.
> all the male athletes that are faster and you exclude from your league to give it a reason to exist.
I agree. There really is no cause for having women's leagues in athletics. For decades, male athletes have sincerely reached out to women, futilely attempting to get women to join them. Women have obstinately refused to participate with the men, snubbing invitations from the NFL, NBA, MLB, and the NHL.
Instead these fascist women have gone and created their own exclusive leagues, for the express purpose of justifying their own exclusive leagues.
I for one think women should soften their stance, and consider participating with these male athletes that have been sidelined as first class citizens for so long.
> The secrets of the universe are not in what it does, or how it works; but who made it
If "who made it" is a secret, how does one study it?
> If there is a God, then studying what He/She/It created
> is of far lesser importance than studying God Himself.
Why is that? That's like saying that rather than studying Newton's Laws, we should just study Sir Isaac Newton. Or rather than studying how a mechanical watch works, we should research its inventor.
If there is a Creator, it's unclear how one could study "God Himself." I'm sure "He/She/It" would be a very interesting being, but this Creator hasn't seen fit to allow Himself/Herself/Itself to be studied with any sort of clinical rigor. In some religions He goes so far as to denounce seekers of signs. He/She/It hasn't seen fit to clarify the confusion from the many and varied theologies of the world; we don't know if we should study him in the Q'uran or the Rig Veda or the stars or music or psychedelic drugs or special recipes of Kool-Aid.
Whatever we may be missing, it isn't hive mentality. As Monty Python (in "Life of Brian") put it:
Brian: Please, please, please listen! I've got one or two things to say.
The Crowd: Tell us! Tell us both of them!
Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED to follow ME, You don't NEED to follow ANYBODY! You've got to think for your selves! You're ALL individuals!
The Crowd: Yes! We're all individuals!
Brian: You're all different!
The Crowd: Yes, we ARE all different!
Man in crowd: I'm not...
The Crowd: Sch!
Wow, what a free-your-mind moment I had reading that.
A similar scenario could be that the sun somehow turned upside down. Maybe the sun spins in two dimensions: around the expected axis perpendicular to the orbital plane, and also an axis parallel to the orbital plane.
Maybe the sun reversed its spin.
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> other forms of energy do not have as high an energy density
Here are some numbers, in MegaJoules per kilogram, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density:
[Solar approaches infinity ] .................143
Natural Uranium....24,000,000
Hydrogen
Aviation Fuel..............42.8
SuperCapacitor.............10.8
Aviation Fuel is powerful stuff, but there are carbon-free alternatives that compare quite favorably.
Let me know when there's a large jet that runs off hydrogen, solar, or electric.
Nice job moving the goalpost. It used to be "airplanes", now it's airliners.
But it's irrelevant. Airplanes need thrust. They get thrust from engines. Today's commercially-available engines burn fossil/carbon fuels, but in no way does that prevent us from putting a different engine on future planes.
> I don't know of any energy source that can power airplanes other than carbon-based fuels.
Your unawareness of alternatives doesn't mean that carbon is a requirement for flight. Consider these planes:
Hydrogen
Solar
Electric
I don't think we're looking for that these days.
> methane or methanol are the best you can hope for
Methane? Seriously? From the US EPA:
Methane (CH4) is a greenhouse gas that remains in the atmosphere for approximately 9-15 years. Methane is over 20 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2)
> I thought we were talking about a feature missing in an FOSS package.
But aren't we?
AFAIK there's no reason any joe off the street can't go do photosynthesis research and post his findings. Funding and specialized advanced degrees are real nice to have, but they're technically not part of the scientific method.
From World of Molecules:
Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, carbinol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha or wood spirits, is a chemical compound with chemical formula CH3OH (often abbreviated MeOH). It is the simplest alcohol, and is a light, volatile, colourless, flammable, poisonous liquid
Sounds like a carbon-based fuel to me. Not sure why it's considered "clean". But at least we're not digging the carbon out of the bowels of the earth before we spew it into the sky.
No, around the xbox I put the yellowjackets.
.. but if you prefer something more aggressive than passive, you can't beat tennis racket bug zappers. Keeps the kids off the xbox for hours.
I was tired of my lady,
We've been together too long.
Like a worn-out recording,
Of a favorite song.
So while she lay there sleeping,
I read the paper in bed.
And in the personals column,
There was this letter I read:
"If you like Pina Coladas,
And getting caught in the rain.
If you're not into yoga,
If you have half-a-brain.
If you like making love at midnight,
In the dunes of the cape.
I'm the lady you've looked for,
Write to me, and escape."
Why wouldn't they be?
Just hang the pre-assembled windmill upside down, run electricity backwards through the generator, and voila! - You've got a nice powerful propeller to drive it.
Thanks for the laugh.
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