1.5 MWh over what, 32 days? Which is 46.9 kWh per day. Which means a continuous power supply of ~1.95 kW. Which is less then a standard 220VAC socket in an ordinary household can deliver, and less then an electric bar heater.
Don't pass them out? Just keep building more for yourself, and once you're the owner of a sizeable, amazingly cheap power plant, then hire some lawyers if you're so concerned?
Steam engines needed infrastructure, but he also still actually sold them.
It's a device which compounds and bootstraps itself if it's so simple. Just sell the power - it's passive income, apparently, once you do, and keep building more. I mean, it does generate electricity right? Because grid feed in is pretty easy to get setup with, and small towns go into the power generation business all the time. So what's holding him up?
Someone becoming symptomatic with Ebola isn't going to be feeling physically well enough after 1 day to do anything.
They're not going to look well enough to get near anybody. This isn't a disease where you have a cough and runny nose for a long time. This is a disease where after a couple of hours you're bleeding internally and will barely be able to move. The time frame of the Texas patient was he went to the hospital, got sent home and then started vomiting blood before he got in the door.
Which is bad, but again: no one's going to touch it and it can all be removed by spraying everything with bleach.
The aid workers who picked it up despite taking precautions will sure be comforted by your sentiment.
Even in modern hospitals, disease outbreaks happen despite precautions.
Which aid workers? You mean all the nurses in Africa who don't even have basic medical supplies like latex gloves?
People aren't catching it in spite of precautions, they're catching it due to tragic but predictable mistakes which happen when working in close contact with a deadly disease. But they're not then going to go on and spread it to others from that contact.
If they're contagious when they get off the plane, you're in a buttload of hurt. Now you have to find everyone else who was on the plane and monitor them for symptoms, because some are now infected too.
The only way this can possibly work is to prevent them from boarding the plane.
Are you seriously suggesting that determining if someone may have had Ebola while on a plane is useless because it would be better to do it before they got on the plane? Seriously?
Bingo. Anti-AGW people go "ah hah! It's not warming see! Nothing to worry about!"
Which should actually be about as comforting as discovering that your septic tank has gone from full to empty without any actually needing to pump it out.
To be fair Bitcoin people are there own special brand of crazy. There's a whole bunch of "bitcoin to kill X" schemes out there. One can only hope that law enforcement crushes them for conspiracy to murder (would be an interesting prosecution to say the least).
The silent majority can man up and do the development work. Or fork Gnome and maintain the changes. But that might involve learning to play nice with others to coordinate such an effort, rather then flaming one developer who by definition can't actually be responsible for distro-uptake of it.
If we were going to practically do this, we'd be doing it here, in a hospital first. We'd have to take a bunch of people, and have them asleep for 180 days under the same conditions as the trick, and see what the effects - physical and psychological, actually were.
This to me has always seemed like what happened with the Ribbon in MS Office as well. The tech talk they gave about developing it doesn't really parse against what they actually did, and how amazingly uncustomizable it actually is.
Actually its just that orbit is the ultimate high ground. You absolutely can't negotiate with someone who can resolve their problems by sniping you with X-Ray lasers from 150km up.
Acceleration conversely does matter and would dictate maneuverability. Fighter ships with low mass and high thrust would be able to run circles around larger ships, but conversely would have almost no range compared to say, something with ion engines.
There's a fair amount of scope for interesting limitations on ship combat based on realistic physics.
They do if they want mindshare of application developers. Otherwise, who is going to buy a phone that can't run the apps on which he depends?
It seems pretty likely that Ubuntu smartphones would be able to be shimmed to run Android apps, since that's already happening for regular Linux desktops.
The environmental cost is simple: less mercury emitted into the environment then will be emitted by a coal power plant burning the amount of coal needed to supply a regular incandescent over the same period, notionally more controllable because with proper disposal you can recycle them.
And for that matter, everything about the hummer being better then a hybrid was thoroughly debunked. For one thing, nobody just "throws away" those batteries into landfill.
The reality here is almost every house and a lot of businesses have chronically been installing underpowered lighting. But that looks "normal" so no one complains. Then they go and put a natural white CFL or LED in, of the exact same "equivalent" and complain it's too dim. It was too dim before. Check out those power savings and put 2-3x the incandescent equivalent in, and see how much happier you are.
The single greatest thing about CFL and LED lighting is that I've been able to go through my house and install dramatically brighter lights, and get it up to actual acceptable values and it makes everything nicer. Moreover, since I can pick my color temps easily, I can get what I want where I want it - warm for the living room, cool white for laundry/bathroom/work rooms to give nice crisp visibility.
That's uh, kind of the point of this research. Verifying black box chip functionality is a huge concern for the military, who has a standing policy to use consumer hardware off-the-shelf where possible. With chips made in China and all. Beyond that, there's a big problem in just regular supply runs with counterfeit chips.
I can confirm there's an application design issue there: both me and my girlfriend made the mistake of running backwards in the Tuscany demo, and when you do that you can pretty much feel your stomach lurch forwards. There's definitely a learning curve there where VR games are not going to be able to have sudden accelerations like we do with current movement systems. Though conversely, I felt great playing HL2:DM in VR - getting blown about by fans and the like just felt...like well I was being thrown about, but didn't make me feel sick at all.
Allowing the security services to *monitor* the whole country looks like a panicky move and leaves the door wide open to abuse.
Curtailing the freedom of speech of journalists and bloggers, as in:
The legislation makes it an offence if a person "discloses information... [that] relates to a special intelligence operation" and does not state any public interest exemptions, meaning it could apply to anyone including journalists.
Those who disclosed such information would face up to 10 years' jail.
veers into police-state territory, given the vague way in which it's phrased. I think that the balance between on the one hand safeguarding the effectiveness of anti-terrorism measures and on preventing miscreants from benefiting from bloggers and journalists and a general gag-order on the other has been upset.
Oh that's not what it's about. See, Australia's policy on boat-arrival asylum seekers was recently all categorized (and its funding transferred) to the defense department, so the whole thing is now a military operation with a budget put out of sight behind general defense spending (which you can increase effectively without limit or consideration).
Which makes everything about it "operational security". Like you know, the number of boats that arrived, how many sank, where the people are being taken...
So this operation has all the hallmarks of a false flag to get bad laws passed on a wave of fear based support... Lo and behold, this appears in parliament.
That...isn't what false flag means.
Almost certainly there was a real investigation going on. Someone (probably Abbott himself) just put the call down that they wanted it closed up, asked for a worst case scenario (which would've been dutifully given) and then they were told to go ahead with arrests on the basis of that.
All a colossal waste of money which I'm sure a bunch of analysts and intelligence officers were probably pretty pissed about because any actual leads they might've been following would've gotten a huge "go to ground" flag and they're probably the ones getting the blowback for it not yielding terrorists that they themselves could've told you wouldn't be found at that time.
What doesn't get said about this type of BS, is that at the end of the day we don't end up being any safer because intelligence is being pushed to create a narrative, not actual results.
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He's claimed to have built 1MW sized devices. Why hasn't he hooked them up to the grid? Where are they? What are they doing all this time?
1.5 MWh over what, 32 days? Which is 46.9 kWh per day. Which means a continuous power supply of ~1.95 kW. Which is less then a standard 220VAC socket in an ordinary household can deliver, and less then an electric bar heater.
Don't pass them out? Just keep building more for yourself, and once you're the owner of a sizeable, amazingly cheap power plant, then hire some lawyers if you're so concerned?
Steam engines needed infrastructure, but he also still actually sold them.
It's a device which compounds and bootstraps itself if it's so simple. Just sell the power - it's passive income, apparently, once you do, and keep building more. I mean, it does generate electricity right? Because grid feed in is pretty easy to get setup with, and small towns go into the power generation business all the time. So what's holding him up?
Someone becoming symptomatic with Ebola isn't going to be feeling physically well enough after 1 day to do anything.
They're not going to look well enough to get near anybody. This isn't a disease where you have a cough and runny nose for a long time. This is a disease where after a couple of hours you're bleeding internally and will barely be able to move. The time frame of the Texas patient was he went to the hospital, got sent home and then started vomiting blood before he got in the door.
Which is bad, but again: no one's going to touch it and it can all be removed by spraying everything with bleach.
The aid workers who picked it up despite taking precautions will sure be comforted by your sentiment.
Even in modern hospitals, disease outbreaks happen despite precautions.
Which aid workers? You mean all the nurses in Africa who don't even have basic medical supplies like latex gloves?
People aren't catching it in spite of precautions, they're catching it due to tragic but predictable mistakes which happen when working in close contact with a deadly disease. But they're not then going to go on and spread it to others from that contact.
If they're contagious when they get off the plane, you're in a buttload of hurt. Now you have to find everyone else who was on the plane and monitor them for symptoms, because some are now infected too.
The only way this can possibly work is to prevent them from boarding the plane.
Are you seriously suggesting that determining if someone may have had Ebola while on a plane is useless because it would be better to do it before they got on the plane? Seriously?
Bingo. Anti-AGW people go "ah hah! It's not warming see! Nothing to worry about!"
Which should actually be about as comforting as discovering that your septic tank has gone from full to empty without any actually needing to pump it out.
So what's the problem then?
To be fair Bitcoin people are there own special brand of crazy. There's a whole bunch of "bitcoin to kill X" schemes out there. One can only hope that law enforcement crushes them for conspiracy to murder (would be an interesting prosecution to say the least).
The silent majority can man up and do the development work. Or fork Gnome and maintain the changes. But that might involve learning to play nice with others to coordinate such an effort, rather then flaming one developer who by definition can't actually be responsible for distro-uptake of it.
Or you know, Earth.
If we were going to practically do this, we'd be doing it here, in a hospital first. We'd have to take a bunch of people, and have them asleep for 180 days under the same conditions as the trick, and see what the effects - physical and psychological, actually were.
This to me has always seemed like what happened with the Ribbon in MS Office as well. The tech talk they gave about developing it doesn't really parse against what they actually did, and how amazingly uncustomizable it actually is.
Pretty much. Take some of those space-based masers you're using to beam electrical power down, and point them up.
Actually its just that orbit is the ultimate high ground. You absolutely can't negotiate with someone who can resolve their problems by sniping you with X-Ray lasers from 150km up.
Acceleration conversely does matter and would dictate maneuverability. Fighter ships with low mass and high thrust would be able to run circles around larger ships, but conversely would have almost no range compared to say, something with ion engines.
There's a fair amount of scope for interesting limitations on ship combat based on realistic physics.
Ubuntu phones don't have to battle with anybody
They do if they want mindshare of application developers. Otherwise, who is going to buy a phone that can't run the apps on which he depends?
It seems pretty likely that Ubuntu smartphones would be able to be shimmed to run Android apps, since that's already happening for regular Linux desktops.
Wrong question: fundamentally it's neurological damage. How many resources should we dedicate to helping people who suffer it by some means?
The environmental cost is simple: less mercury emitted into the environment then will be emitted by a coal power plant burning the amount of coal needed to supply a regular incandescent over the same period, notionally more controllable because with proper disposal you can recycle them.
And for that matter, everything about the hummer being better then a hybrid was thoroughly debunked. For one thing, nobody just "throws away" those batteries into landfill.
Learn to size your lighting plan.
The reality here is almost every house and a lot of businesses have chronically been installing underpowered lighting. But that looks "normal" so no one complains. Then they go and put a natural white CFL or LED in, of the exact same "equivalent" and complain it's too dim. It was too dim before. Check out those power savings and put 2-3x the incandescent equivalent in, and see how much happier you are.
The single greatest thing about CFL and LED lighting is that I've been able to go through my house and install dramatically brighter lights, and get it up to actual acceptable values and it makes everything nicer. Moreover, since I can pick my color temps easily, I can get what I want where I want it - warm for the living room, cool white for laundry/bathroom/work rooms to give nice crisp visibility.
Listening to the talk now, and it's just a joy to hear a great low level discussion of all these things with no marketing BS.
That's uh, kind of the point of this research. Verifying black box chip functionality is a huge concern for the military, who has a standing policy to use consumer hardware off-the-shelf where possible. With chips made in China and all. Beyond that, there's a big problem in just regular supply runs with counterfeit chips.
I can confirm there's an application design issue there: both me and my girlfriend made the mistake of running backwards in the Tuscany demo, and when you do that you can pretty much feel your stomach lurch forwards. There's definitely a learning curve there where VR games are not going to be able to have sudden accelerations like we do with current movement systems. Though conversely, I felt great playing HL2:DM in VR - getting blown about by fans and the like just felt...like well I was being thrown about, but didn't make me feel sick at all.
Or simply an overreaction? I really wonder.
Allowing the security services to *monitor* the whole country looks like a panicky move and leaves the door wide open to abuse.
Curtailing the freedom of speech of journalists and bloggers, as in :
veers into police-state territory, given the vague way in which it's phrased. I think that the balance between on the one hand safeguarding the effectiveness of anti-terrorism measures and on preventing miscreants from benefiting from bloggers and journalists and a general gag-order on the other has been upset.
Oh that's not what it's about. See, Australia's policy on boat-arrival asylum seekers was recently all categorized (and its funding transferred) to the defense department, so the whole thing is now a military operation with a budget put out of sight behind general defense spending (which you can increase effectively without limit or consideration).
Which makes everything about it "operational security". Like you know, the number of boats that arrived, how many sank, where the people are being taken...
So this operation has all the hallmarks of a false flag to get bad laws passed on a wave of fear based support... Lo and behold, this appears in parliament.
That...isn't what false flag means.
Almost certainly there was a real investigation going on. Someone (probably Abbott himself) just put the call down that they wanted it closed up, asked for a worst case scenario (which would've been dutifully given) and then they were told to go ahead with arrests on the basis of that.
All a colossal waste of money which I'm sure a bunch of analysts and intelligence officers were probably pretty pissed about because any actual leads they might've been following would've gotten a huge "go to ground" flag and they're probably the ones getting the blowback for it not yielding terrorists that they themselves could've told you wouldn't be found at that time.
What doesn't get said about this type of BS, is that at the end of the day we don't end up being any safer because intelligence is being pushed to create a narrative, not actual results.