I was going to criticize this, but actually this seems like it would work. You could feed a single spool into a common melt chamber, and then use needle valves on the heads to control whether specific points extruded. All the benefits of a small nozzle diameter without the draw back when filling in large items.
75 m/year buys the US intellectual property rights to any technology which comes out of ITER.
That 75 m/year is literally the cost of the patents and technology which will be required for practical fusion power. It's the cost of getting US physicists and engineers experience and expertise with tokamak-based fusion technology.
The problem with the military budget is it never gets cut in sensible places. The people at the sharp-end get hit first, the VA gets hit, the bazillion-dollar do-everything weapon system nobody really needs or wants? Mysteriously continues.
You could cut the military budget by a bunch and get a better military by cutting out the inefficency and corruption.
So we'll spend some or your tax dollars on this which will help us ensure the tax department is efficient and TAXES? TAXES ARE THEFT. DOWN WITH THE GOVERNMENT!!!
These problems don't just happen, and don't require conspiracy. It's been plainly obvious the IRS is underfunded since it returns 7-to-1 on recovered revenue when they get a budget increase.
You should probably go read the article of "objectivity". If you need to start out labelling your informtion as "something-ism" then it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia.
Moreover, Wikipedia's stated goal has always been to be an encyclopedia, not an archive of content.
Encyclopedia's are meant to present a reasonably concise overview of all topics, with links to further in-depth information. They're a starting point not the totality of one.
Wikipedia is built on a foundation which works "on average". If you want a different system, you're asking for a different type of thing. It's always going to be a problem.
I want a high-speed wired interface on my phone. Like, if you can fit a 10g ethernet port in there, I want that. I also want a mini-display port connector.
Radios are for differential transfer and continuity. If I need to move data on and off the device, I want that done as fast as possible.
You do realize we can do both these things. They are both worth doing if they save money and lives. But we do not have driverless cars yet - and their are different obstacles to their implementation. If we can build a wall and go "yep, that'll save us 3 times it's cost" then we absolutely should do that.
We do not need to tear down one in favor of the other. My point was solely that there are very sensible reasons to think tornado prevention with giga-engineering would be economically viable.
What is with this policy? We've killed it - repeatedly and it just won't stay dead.
I mean we know they're doing intercepts of some sort anyway, and we know they retain probably quite a bit, but the big benefit at the moment is none of this can be used in court.
And for the types of things it's worth stopping, you don't need to use it since if you grab some terrorists with a couple kilograms of fertilizer and diesel in a truck, then you've got all your evidence.
What seems way more likely to me is that this is being pushed hard by the copyright lobby, who, once they can legally obtain the data, will want to use it to go after people.
What's the economic damage of shutdowns due to tornados?
A lot of talk about a city's traffic problems essentially focuses on the fact that a major car accident can wipe out productivity for an entire morning or day in a metropolis. How much productivity is being lost due to tornados? If you could prevent them entirely, then it could easily pay back many, many times the construction cost.
Mythbusters debunks this. Every single pressure vessel explosion they've ever done has involved having to disable 2-3 different safety features in dramatic ways, and then subjecting the whole thing to absurdly extreme conditions before anything happens.
Which would be relevant if SUV's were remotely safe...
As it stood for a long time, SUVs were big...and little else. Any car with a decent roll cage and side-airbags was likely going to come out of all but the most disasterous scrapes much better, since it wouldn't be rolling and caving in the roof on it's occupants.
CO2 sequestration as conventionally imagined is just a huge hand out to the coal industry though. Depending on geological strata which no one's even sure can reliably hold that much CO2 as an energy plan is just absurd. It's a plan we don't know will work, which has a limited range of viability to start with, and the results to date are not promising.
That said, Orico and the CSIRO in Australia have been doing something much cooler with the idea: chemical reactors where heat and CO2 is reacted with minerals to permanently sequester it as carbonate rock which can be dumped (or as they propose: refined into concrete). That process I fully support, since they're proposing running it as a retrofit to pretty much any fossil fuel powerplant, anywhere.
The point is that hydrogen is very light. It doesn't easily accumulate in rooms since it's much lighter then air - when it leaks it disperses. Unlike say, heavy petroleum fumes, which hang around and accumulate near the ground.
You do realize that the newer systems simply autoland when they lose control, and that new thing with GPS will simply move to dead hover until the RF interference passes.
Meanwhile, as you obliterate parts of the cellband nearby, the FCC is going to be pretty highly motivated to find you.
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I was going to criticize this, but actually this seems like it would work. You could feed a single spool into a common melt chamber, and then use needle valves on the heads to control whether specific points extruded. All the benefits of a small nozzle diameter without the draw back when filling in large items.
That's not sticking to the man. That's making the hysterical NSA alarmists go nuts. So, quite the opposite.
75 m/year buys the US intellectual property rights to any technology which comes out of ITER.
That 75 m/year is literally the cost of the patents and technology which will be required for practical fusion power. It's the cost of getting US physicists and engineers experience and expertise with tokamak-based fusion technology.
The problem with the military budget is it never gets cut in sensible places. The people at the sharp-end get hit first, the VA gets hit, the bazillion-dollar do-everything weapon system nobody really needs or wants? Mysteriously continues.
You could cut the military budget by a bunch and get a better military by cutting out the inefficency and corruption.
And here I was thinking we'd finally killed defacto indentured servitude/slavery via company scrip.
This is a stupid act, and it's going to have very real consequences in the future before long.
And Bitcoin will still be just as irrelevant regardless.
So we'll spend some or your tax dollars on this which will help us ensure the tax department is efficient and TAXES? TAXES ARE THEFT. DOWN WITH THE GOVERNMENT!!!
These problems don't just happen, and don't require conspiracy. It's been plainly obvious the IRS is underfunded since it returns 7-to-1 on recovered revenue when they get a budget increase.
You should probably go read the article of "objectivity". If you need to start out labelling your informtion as "something-ism" then it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia.
Moreover, Wikipedia's stated goal has always been to be an encyclopedia, not an archive of content.
Encyclopedia's are meant to present a reasonably concise overview of all topics, with links to further in-depth information. They're a starting point not the totality of one.
Wikipedia is built on a foundation which works "on average". If you want a different system, you're asking for a different type of thing. It's always going to be a problem.
You can design a metal contact based port which is dust and water proof. We just currently don't but it's hardly an insurmountable challenge.
God no, the trend to wireless only is the worst.
I want a high-speed wired interface on my phone. Like, if you can fit a 10g ethernet port in there, I want that. I also want a mini-display port connector.
Radios are for differential transfer and continuity. If I need to move data on and off the device, I want that done as fast as possible.
It was C4.
NHTSA: Economic costs of car crashes $277 billion
I've provided two links now. Where are yours?
You do realize we can do both these things. They are both worth doing if they save money and lives. But we do not have driverless cars yet - and their are different obstacles to their implementation. If we can build a wall and go "yep, that'll save us 3 times it's cost" then we absolutely should do that.
We do not need to tear down one in favor of the other. My point was solely that there are very sensible reasons to think tornado prevention with giga-engineering would be economically viable.
What is with this policy? We've killed it - repeatedly and it just won't stay dead.
I mean we know they're doing intercepts of some sort anyway, and we know they retain probably quite a bit, but the big benefit at the moment is none of this can be used in court.
And for the types of things it's worth stopping, you don't need to use it since if you grab some terrorists with a couple kilograms of fertilizer and diesel in a truck, then you've got all your evidence.
What seems way more likely to me is that this is being pushed hard by the copyright lobby, who, once they can legally obtain the data, will want to use it to go after people.
What's the economic damage of shutdowns due to tornados?
A lot of talk about a city's traffic problems essentially focuses on the fact that a major car accident can wipe out productivity for an entire morning or day in a metropolis. How much productivity is being lost due to tornados? If you could prevent them entirely, then it could easily pay back many, many times the construction cost.
The Slashdot armchair physicist brigade is out in force I see...
...kaiju protection.
Mythbusters debunks this. Every single pressure vessel explosion they've ever done has involved having to disable 2-3 different safety features in dramatic ways, and then subjecting the whole thing to absurdly extreme conditions before anything happens.
Which would be relevant if SUV's were remotely safe...
As it stood for a long time, SUVs were big...and little else. Any car with a decent roll cage and side-airbags was likely going to come out of all but the most disasterous scrapes much better, since it wouldn't be rolling and caving in the roof on it's occupants.
Diesels cannot, in anyway, be scalably filled with carbon neutral fuel. Biodiesel and it's ilk have all the same problems as ethanol.
CO2 sequestration as conventionally imagined is just a huge hand out to the coal industry though. Depending on geological strata which no one's even sure can reliably hold that much CO2 as an energy plan is just absurd. It's a plan we don't know will work, which has a limited range of viability to start with, and the results to date are not promising.
That said, Orico and the CSIRO in Australia have been doing something much cooler with the idea: chemical reactors where heat and CO2 is reacted with minerals to permanently sequester it as carbonate rock which can be dumped (or as they propose: refined into concrete). That process I fully support, since they're proposing running it as a retrofit to pretty much any fossil fuel powerplant, anywhere.
The point is that hydrogen is very light. It doesn't easily accumulate in rooms since it's much lighter then air - when it leaks it disperses. Unlike say, heavy petroleum fumes, which hang around and accumulate near the ground.
Please outline the evil Google has done.
In all honesty, this comment astounds me. Have you been living in a cardboard box?
The number of responses restating that "no they're evil, you're stupid if you can't see it" is exactly my point.
Given that the cartels build submarines for this, the thing I'm surprised is that there's never been "drug smuggling by ballistic rocket".
You do realize that the newer systems simply autoland when they lose control, and that new thing with GPS will simply move to dead hover until the RF interference passes.
Meanwhile, as you obliterate parts of the cellband nearby, the FCC is going to be pretty highly motivated to find you.