Back on the subject, the two processes are special because they would never have been discovered until someone played around with numbers in the theoretical domain. The processes are non-obvious. In fact, both only work inside of a very small envelope of conditions.
Someone didn't tinker with a device an BAM out came a refriderator. Someone actually looked at the equations and realized "hey wait a minute". And 50 years of R&D later people were installing the damn thing in their kitchen.
We manipulate the compression, liquification, and evaporation process of a gas to pump heat from one area to another. That doesn't happen in nature. It requires a rather complex differential equation to describe properly.
If it requires a higher math than algebra, it's magic to the general public.
The Haber process achieves the impossible in nature. We take N2 in a stable form, and get it to break "up" into a less stable form through a set of energy reactions and feedback loops.
Again, it requires a complex set of differential equations to describe properly. (See Above.)
In nature you can't make "cold", and in chemistry you can't get a molecule to go from a stable form to a less stable form. Ergo, loopholes.
So you consider everyone without technical knowledge to have the intellectual and emotional development of 7 year old? Newpapers are written at a 5th grade reading level, so they at least assume your are 10 years old.
Laymans terms. Will this crap give me cancer (or at least any more than anything else I use)? If this stuff leaks into the environment, what will happen? If a shipment of this stuff spills on the freeway, can you clean it up with a hose, or do you need the guys in MOP suits? What would happen if my toddler swallows the stuff? How long can I store it on the shelf? Can I throw it out with my regular garbage.
If you can't answer these basic questions, you are worthless as an engineer.
Sulphiric Acid? You probably mean "Sulphuric Acid".
The reason they can use it is because its effects are immediate. It has this neat property of killing or disfiguring, on contact, anyone who doesn't handle it properly.
I don't know where you get off saying H2SO4 has not been thoroughly investigated. What do you want, a guy in a labcoat with an eyedropper blinding mice?
No. Regulation means that everyone is bound by the same rules, and there is not "profit motive" for taking the low road. We have regulations on child labor so it does not become the model of efficiency. We have regulations on dumping so that piles of trash are not models of efficiency.
Regulations keep everyone honest. How? Because entreprenuers are REALLY good at knowing what is in the rules and not in the rules. And there is no rule about X (no matter how morally repugnant), and if X means bigger profits, do X with abandon.
Engineers do the same with the laws of physics. Things like refrideration and the haber process exploit loopholes in thermodynamics and chemistry.
Having trained as an engineer, I can tell you that every independent review system is designed to do preciesly that.
Einstein once said "You don't really understand something until you can explain it to your grandmother."
If the techies can't put it in layman's terms, they don't understand the material well enough themselves. And considering that the people who have to live in the world with this stuff ARE John and Jane Q. Public, if you don't want them showing up at your doorstep with pitchforks and torches, you need their buy in early.
If a technology is safe and effective, consumer resistance is as long as their attention span. The technology will be used, it may just be 20 years later.
Hey, look what "deregulation" has done for the airlines. It used to be they made billions in profits. Today, taxpayers are "charged" billions in bailouts.
Changing the rules by which airlines ass rape the customer does not change the price of aircraft. the cost of fuel, or the fact that someone needs to pay to maintain airports and security.
What it did do is allow certain entities to push the cost off onto other entities.
There are plenty of examples where nanotech versions of certain chemicals behave in a radically different manner than conventional material.
Take carbon nanotubes. Companies allowed to treat it, according to OSHA standards, as graphite. Technically, yes, it is pure carbon. But there are some exotic, and potentially carcinogenic, reactions that nanotubes can create in the human body. Particularly when inhaled.
We apologise for the early release of the episode. Those responsible have been sacked. [Then it becomes known the released episode is higher quality that what you'll get on TV] We apologise again for the accidental release of such a high-quality version. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
In fact the whole team responsible has been sacked, and the episode was re-done at the last minute, and at great expense, buy a bunch of Peruvian Llamas.
I believe it will be the Waterloo of the Anti-Piracy Comission's battles. For the rest of their existance they will be asking the courts to "Take a chance on me."
The problem I run into with a porn stash is that cracking the website and pulling the goods is the fun part.
Once I have the pile of images and videos, they are really kinda boring. Well, boring after they are filed by sexual position, cup size, and security exploit.
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I'll bet you don't even understand the engineering principles you are trying to start an argument about. I do. You don't. It's magic to you.
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Back on the subject, the two processes are special because they would never have been discovered until someone played around with numbers in the theoretical domain. The processes are non-obvious. In fact, both only work inside of a very small envelope of conditions.
Someone didn't tinker with a device an BAM out came a refriderator. Someone actually looked at the equations and realized "hey wait a minute". And 50 years of R&D later people were installing the damn thing in their kitchen.
That's magic to me. And I DO grok the math.
If it requires a higher math than algebra, it's magic to the general public.
The Haber process achieves the impossible in nature. We take N2 in a stable form, and get it to break "up" into a less stable form through a set of energy reactions and feedback loops.
Again, it requires a complex set of differential equations to describe properly. (See Above.)
In nature you can't make "cold", and in chemistry you can't get a molecule to go from a stable form to a less stable form. Ergo, loopholes.
Laymans terms. Will this crap give me cancer (or at least any more than anything else I use)? If this stuff leaks into the environment, what will happen? If a shipment of this stuff spills on the freeway, can you clean it up with a hose, or do you need the guys in MOP suits? What would happen if my toddler swallows the stuff? How long can I store it on the shelf? Can I throw it out with my regular garbage.
If you can't answer these basic questions, you are worthless as an engineer.
The reason they can use it is because its effects are immediate. It has this neat property of killing or disfiguring, on contact, anyone who doesn't handle it properly.
I don't know where you get off saying H2SO4 has not been thoroughly investigated. What do you want, a guy in a labcoat with an eyedropper blinding mice?
No the problem with regulation is that it keeps everyone honest. If there is not rule, it's never wrong to break it.
Regulations keep everyone honest. How? Because entreprenuers are REALLY good at knowing what is in the rules and not in the rules. And there is no rule about X (no matter how morally repugnant), and if X means bigger profits, do X with abandon.
Engineers do the same with the laws of physics. Things like refrideration and the haber process exploit loopholes in thermodynamics and chemistry.
Einstein once said "You don't really understand something until you can explain it to your grandmother."
If the techies can't put it in layman's terms, they don't understand the material well enough themselves. And considering that the people who have to live in the world with this stuff ARE John and Jane Q. Public, if you don't want them showing up at your doorstep with pitchforks and torches, you need their buy in early.
If a technology is safe and effective, consumer resistance is as long as their attention span. The technology will be used, it may just be 20 years later.
Changing the rules by which airlines ass rape the customer does not change the price of aircraft. the cost of fuel, or the fact that someone needs to pay to maintain airports and security.
What it did do is allow certain entities to push the cost off onto other entities.
Take carbon nanotubes. Companies allowed to treat it, according to OSHA standards, as graphite. Technically, yes, it is pure carbon. But there are some exotic, and potentially carcinogenic, reactions that nanotubes can create in the human body. Particularly when inhaled.
7. Hire a bunch of Peruvian llamas to finish the edition at the last minute and at great expense.
I think the photoshop of Elian was a nice touch.
I helped my uncle Jack[,] off a horse.
Did he dismount, or did he send the horse to the glue factory?
Wait a minute... how on earth are we supposed to know it is Doctor Who?
In fact the whole team responsible has been sacked, and the episode was re-done at the last minute, and at great expense, buy a bunch of Peruvian Llamas.
- Hanlon's Razor
As a matter of fact they were changint EX-TERM-I-NATE (eks-term-eh-naete)
Next you will be telling us how paper books cannot compete with pirated e-books...
iDont Think that was very funny.
A pirate parrot's mouth should be as filthy as his infected piercings.
You have to wave your arm when you say that.
I believe it will be the Waterloo of the Anti-Piracy Comission's battles. For the rest of their existance they will be asking the courts to "Take a chance on me."
They'll never run out of space. They simply send users off to the carosel once they turn 30.
Once I have the pile of images and videos, they are really kinda boring. Well, boring after they are filed by sexual position, cup size, and security exploit.
Badly.