So far so good with the Intel ones I got almost 2 years ago. Got 2 120GB drives for OS and application drives and they have been chugging along just fine. I went for the reliability instead of max performance and didn't want to pay more for the Samsung drives which now looks like it was the better move.
Well now I understand the somewhat cryptic letter about the passenger side airbag recall I received a few weeks back. It just mentioned there was a problem with the passenger side airbag with my car and that the dealer did not have the parts on had at the moment to service the recall for all vehicles and that I would be sent a letter later informing me of when I should schedule an appointment to take care of the issue. And for those wondering this is for an E46 BMW ('98-'05 3 series). So go pester your dealership instead they will know if your vehicle is affected.
Without finding more details other than it is a different engine manufacturer(MAN instead of Wärtsilä) it looks like it is still a giant low speed diesel. The ultra long stroke diesels are very slow engines (the Wärtsilä I mentioned previously had an RPM range of 22 to 102) even in the low speed diesel engine category. I would imagine that it is the standard one-ups-man-ship from the various manufactures since being able to produce one more efficient drives sales to your company until someone beats you out.
Personally I would love to see one of these guys up close in operation after getting to see an old 2 stroke 5 cylinder diesel Fairbanks engine (~13,000 cu in displacement) start and run. It wasn't loud in the traditional sense but was a you felt it in your chest loud as it shook the concrete floor and building. That one was a medium speed engines that ran at like 200 RPM peak and put out ~300 hp but was a pre war engine from a factory.
Probably around $200k-250k per year. From what I can tell to maintain my current lifestyle with a similar wage to yours in one of those high expense areas would require that level of pay. I find it hard to believe that I would be able to afford a half acre plot with an ~1900 sq. ft. house with a back yard that backs up a 10 acre city park with playground and woods in any of those areas. This also neglects things like outdoor activities like hunting, fishing, and camping which I do a lot of and unless I am out in the boondocks of NY or CA (not where the high paying jobs are) I doubt I would be able to drive 15 minutes to do those
While they emit a large amount of CO2 they make much better use of their fuel than smaller ships. The correct metric is how many tons of cargo can be moved 1 mile on one gallon of fuel. This is the best way to gauge such things and given that this is suppose to release 50% less CO2 than other ships I would assume it is based off of that metric.
Without knowing exactly what engine it is using but based off of previous engines put in these ships and from the pictures in the article it looks like the engine is one of these but uses 2 8 cylinder ones instead of 1 14 cylinder one. And yes these engines run on heavy fuel oil, aka bunker oil.
I was curious about the engine as well and after looking at the article it appears that they are just using the 8 cylinder version of the engine that they were putting into single engine ships (14 cylinders). Some truly impressive engines.
As far as energy at the muzzle goes a.44 mag is a little bit below that of a 7.62x39mm round, granted the.44 mag is a larger bullet but bleeds energy fast. A.303 packs about 25% more energy than the 7.62x39mm round with a heavier bullet and 7.62 NATO,.30-06, or 7.62x54r all having even more punch. A side arm is really only useful for close encounters with large critters as a last ditch effort.
7.62NATO,.30-06, and 7.62x54r are all considered highly effective rounds against all large game in North America. I wouldn't expect to be taking dangerous African game with them but for big animals like moose, grizzly, and polar bears they will get the job done without issue. Also most of those rounds would have a 180+ grain option hollow or soft point option which is what you would want. I use 7.62x54r 203 grain soft points when hunting and it has not problem going through a decent buck or black bear with a large exit wound.
Bottom line: Stand me in the world's best gun shop, give me unlimited credit, and tell me I can take one - and ONLY one weapon. I'll take the Lee-Enfield, every time. And I'll still be using it when every other weapon there has died of old age or just disintegrated because of the environment.
There are some other rifles that will be kicking around with those old Enfields, although they will all be about the same age and comparable in power. Personally I would take the Finnish M39 (I like Mosin-Nagents) and there would be people who would take the K98s. They all are effective hunting and military weapons and should have no problem with the abuse, although I don't know about the K98s. As far as long serving weapons the Finns are still using rifle build on 100+ year old receivers so those old Mosin-Nagents can't be that bad.
So running a deficit that is ~80% to 95% of the current budget is ok? $200 billion is a lot of money but the federal budgets have been sitting around 4 trillion. Or put another way taking in ~1/2 to 2x the amount of money paid on the interest on the national debt.
Not really get a warrant and for you to decrypt in all cases. Right now they can only do that provided that you would not be further incriminating your self. The case in question is the In re Boucher case. Here border guards had already seen the portions of the drive's contents . Then there is the later US v. Kischner case that ruled it was a violation of a person's 5th Amendment right to force them to divulge their encryption password to produce evidence that could be used against them in that case. To further muddy the waters there is also the mess that is the US v. Fricosu case where a judge order the defendant to produce the password but a list of probable password was produced by her ex husband so the constitutionality of the order from the judge still remains in question since that issue was bypassed.
IANAL YMMV. So what we can glean from these 3 cases is:
1. Don't cross a border with your encrypted device on so encrypted material can be seen.
2. Don't piss off your ex
3. Don't be a pedo (why do all cases involving encryption seem to be pedo ones, yes I understand they are easy targets everyone hates)
4. This issue isn't decided and it seems the government doesn't want it resolved.
Gattaca was a cautionary tale, not a blueprint for future eugenics.
This makes me wonder how "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was originally received. But after a quick check it looks like it got a better reception than GATTACA but I wonder about the initial sales.
[gets out tinfoil] Maybe big brother just got better at conditioning people. Bread and circuses. [tinfoil off]
The best and probably most relevant quote would be this:
Believe me we have enough imperfection built in already. Your child doesn't need any additional burdens. Keep in mind this child is still you, only the best of you. You could conceive a thousand times and never get such a result.
Too bad the film was a box office flop since it was sci-fi film without explosions, lens flares, buxom scantily clad green women, and/or laser swords. Also at this point there are probably a lot of people who haven't seen the movie since it is 17 years old (and now I feel old) and it hasn't been that popular. Good story, wonderfully shot, well acted, and explores topics that are becoming prescient, just not what people think of when they hear it is a sci-fi movie. Just tell someone it is a drama and it is usually much more readily received.
With this technology I would think it would substantially push prices down. There would still be costs associated with distribution and new capital outlays for plants and maintenance but generation costs would fall to almost nothing. The savings on bills would be substantial, another poster mentioned a number around 40%. If one were to instead use one of these in a factory to provide power for what ever is being done it would eliminate the distribution costs. I would think that places like aluminum smelters would love this.
Given the dimensions of the reactor it also seems like it would be able to be put into largeminingequipment. Basically these could probably be used any place where large 2 stroke diesel engines are currently in operation. Given the power output quoted these would produce significantly more than the current engines which are mostly in the 3-10MW range so who knows what they would do with the extra power.
It really is a weapon of last resort when you are on the retreat as you are basically fucked (individually) if you use it, especially if you are down wind. A similar but tiny warhead was also used in the US US W48 nuclear artillery shell. These very small nukes are all very dirty and very inefficient. The Atomic Testing Museum just off the strip in Las Vegas had on display the Mk-54 (I assume just the casing) and a W48 with the W48 disassembled so you could see inside of it. The Atomic Testing Museum is a really neat place to go if you get the chance, especially since it is quiet compared to all the other tourist things in Vegas.
Well there sure seems to be a large number of them graduating now. And every one of them believes that they are gods gift to management. Add in the ones who have a 4 year management degree and I think we have several generations worth of supply on hand currently.
I might worry about this shortly before I start to worry about the heat death of the universe. If we look at one of the largest lakes on earth which contains about 3,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water and extracted water out of it for the purposes of using the hydrogen in it for fusion reactors at the average rate we have been extracting oil out of the ground for the last 100 years it would take about 5000 years to drain the thing assuming no new water entered it. Now add in that this is one lake representing about 10% of the available fresh water and that most of the water on earth by a very substantial margin is sea water and we should be good for at least the next half a million years or so. This also assumes that we would extract the water at the rate we do for oil even though fusion would be providing orders of magnitude more power for the same volume of fuel. So that pushes it off for at least a few 10s of millions of years. If in that time we haven't managed to get off this rock, I say fuck it we all deserve to die.
With excess energy lots of things become worthwhile to make. We already know how to convert CO2 into hydrocarbons it is just really energy intensive. With excess energy this becomes a non issue if the excess energy is cheap enough. Also given the dimensions of the reactor it could probably be used on jets thus eliminating their fossil fuel use.
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So far so good with the Intel ones I got almost 2 years ago. Got 2 120GB drives for OS and application drives and they have been chugging along just fine. I went for the reliability instead of max performance and didn't want to pay more for the Samsung drives which now looks like it was the better move.
Well now I understand the somewhat cryptic letter about the passenger side airbag recall I received a few weeks back. It just mentioned there was a problem with the passenger side airbag with my car and that the dealer did not have the parts on had at the moment to service the recall for all vehicles and that I would be sent a letter later informing me of when I should schedule an appointment to take care of the issue. And for those wondering this is for an E46 BMW ('98-'05 3 series). So go pester your dealership instead they will know if your vehicle is affected.
I want to take the city of Brussels to court over one of their most famous landmarks. That city has some wealth so I should be set for life.
Without finding more details other than it is a different engine manufacturer(MAN instead of Wärtsilä) it looks like it is still a giant low speed diesel. The ultra long stroke diesels are very slow engines (the Wärtsilä I mentioned previously had an RPM range of 22 to 102) even in the low speed diesel engine category. I would imagine that it is the standard one-ups-man-ship from the various manufactures since being able to produce one more efficient drives sales to your company until someone beats you out.
Personally I would love to see one of these guys up close in operation after getting to see an old 2 stroke 5 cylinder diesel Fairbanks engine (~13,000 cu in displacement) start and run. It wasn't loud in the traditional sense but was a you felt it in your chest loud as it shook the concrete floor and building. That one was a medium speed engines that ran at like 200 RPM peak and put out ~300 hp but was a pre war engine from a factory.
But that simple solution wouldn't require Bennett's painfully long convoluted opining on the subject with clickbait teaser.
Probably around $200k-250k per year. From what I can tell to maintain my current lifestyle with a similar wage to yours in one of those high expense areas would require that level of pay. I find it hard to believe that I would be able to afford a half acre plot with an ~1900 sq. ft. house with a back yard that backs up a 10 acre city park with playground and woods in any of those areas. This also neglects things like outdoor activities like hunting, fishing, and camping which I do a lot of and unless I am out in the boondocks of NY or CA (not where the high paying jobs are) I doubt I would be able to drive 15 minutes to do those
While they emit a large amount of CO2 they make much better use of their fuel than smaller ships. The correct metric is how many tons of cargo can be moved 1 mile on one gallon of fuel. This is the best way to gauge such things and given that this is suppose to release 50% less CO2 than other ships I would assume it is based off of that metric.
Without knowing exactly what engine it is using but based off of previous engines put in these ships and from the pictures in the article it looks like the engine is one of these but uses 2 8 cylinder ones instead of 1 14 cylinder one. And yes these engines run on heavy fuel oil, aka bunker oil.
I was curious about the engine as well and after looking at the article it appears that they are just using the 8 cylinder version of the engine that they were putting into single engine ships (14 cylinders). Some truly impressive engines.
As far as energy at the muzzle goes a .44 mag is a little bit below that of a 7.62x39mm round, granted the .44 mag is a larger bullet but bleeds energy fast. A .303 packs about 25% more energy than the 7.62x39mm round with a heavier bullet and 7.62 NATO, .30-06, or 7.62x54r all having even more punch. A side arm is really only useful for close encounters with large critters as a last ditch effort.
7.62NATO, .30-06, and 7.62x54r are all considered highly effective rounds against all large game in North America. I wouldn't expect to be taking dangerous African game with them but for big animals like moose, grizzly, and polar bears they will get the job done without issue. Also most of those rounds would have a 180+ grain option hollow or soft point option which is what you would want. I use 7.62x54r 203 grain soft points when hunting and it has not problem going through a decent buck or black bear with a large exit wound.
Bottom line: Stand me in the world's best gun shop, give me unlimited credit, and tell me I can take one - and ONLY one weapon. I'll take the Lee-Enfield, every time. And I'll still be using it when every other weapon there has died of old age or just disintegrated because of the environment.
There are some other rifles that will be kicking around with those old Enfields, although they will all be about the same age and comparable in power. Personally I would take the Finnish M39 (I like Mosin-Nagents) and there would be people who would take the K98s. They all are effective hunting and military weapons and should have no problem with the abuse, although I don't know about the K98s. As far as long serving weapons the Finns are still using rifle build on 100+ year old receivers so those old Mosin-Nagents can't be that bad.
So running a deficit that is ~80% to 95% of the current budget is ok? $200 billion is a lot of money but the federal budgets have been sitting around 4 trillion. Or put another way taking in ~1/2 to 2x the amount of money paid on the interest on the national debt.
Those probably kill the fungi all by themselves.
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Not really get a warrant and for you to decrypt in all cases. Right now they can only do that provided that you would not be further incriminating your self. The case in question is the In re Boucher case. Here border guards had already seen the portions of the drive's contents . Then there is the later US v. Kischner case that ruled it was a violation of a person's 5th Amendment right to force them to divulge their encryption password to produce evidence that could be used against them in that case. To further muddy the waters there is also the mess that is the US v. Fricosu case where a judge order the defendant to produce the password but a list of probable password was produced by her ex husband so the constitutionality of the order from the judge still remains in question since that issue was bypassed.
IANAL YMMV.
So what we can glean from these 3 cases is:
1. Don't cross a border with your encrypted device on so encrypted material can be seen.
2. Don't piss off your ex
3. Don't be a pedo (why do all cases involving encryption seem to be pedo ones, yes I understand they are easy targets everyone hates) 4. This issue isn't decided and it seems the government doesn't want it resolved.
Short term yes. Long term maybe or maybe not, it depends on if we decide to make crap here again or not.
Just wait until the get into a discussion over text editors. It would paralyze them for centuries.
Gattaca was a cautionary tale, not a blueprint for future eugenics.
This makes me wonder how "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was originally received. But after a quick check it looks like it got a better reception than GATTACA but I wonder about the initial sales.
[gets out tinfoil]
Maybe big brother just got better at conditioning people. Bread and circuses.
[tinfoil off]
Believe me we have enough imperfection built in already. Your child doesn't need any additional burdens. Keep in mind this child is still you, only the best of you. You could conceive a thousand times and never get such a result.
Too bad the film was a box office flop since it was sci-fi film without explosions, lens flares, buxom scantily clad green women, and/or laser swords. Also at this point there are probably a lot of people who haven't seen the movie since it is 17 years old (and now I feel old) and it hasn't been that popular. Good story, wonderfully shot, well acted, and explores topics that are becoming prescient, just not what people think of when they hear it is a sci-fi movie. Just tell someone it is a drama and it is usually much more readily received.
With this technology I would think it would substantially push prices down. There would still be costs associated with distribution and new capital outlays for plants and maintenance but generation costs would fall to almost nothing. The savings on bills would be substantial, another poster mentioned a number around 40%. If one were to instead use one of these in a factory to provide power for what ever is being done it would eliminate the distribution costs. I would think that places like aluminum smelters would love this.
Given the dimensions of the reactor it also seems like it would be able to be put into large mining equipment. Basically these could probably be used any place where large 2 stroke diesel engines are currently in operation. Given the power output quoted these would produce significantly more than the current engines which are mostly in the 3-10MW range so who knows what they would do with the extra power.
It really is a weapon of last resort when you are on the retreat as you are basically fucked (individually) if you use it, especially if you are down wind. A similar but tiny warhead was also used in the US US W48 nuclear artillery shell. These very small nukes are all very dirty and very inefficient. The Atomic Testing Museum just off the strip in Las Vegas had on display the Mk-54 (I assume just the casing) and a W48 with the W48 disassembled so you could see inside of it. The Atomic Testing Museum is a really neat place to go if you get the chance, especially since it is quiet compared to all the other tourist things in Vegas.
Well there sure seems to be a large number of them graduating now. And every one of them believes that they are gods gift to management. Add in the ones who have a 4 year management degree and I think we have several generations worth of supply on hand currently.
I might worry about this shortly before I start to worry about the heat death of the universe. If we look at one of the largest lakes on earth which contains about 3,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water and extracted water out of it for the purposes of using the hydrogen in it for fusion reactors at the average rate we have been extracting oil out of the ground for the last 100 years it would take about 5000 years to drain the thing assuming no new water entered it. Now add in that this is one lake representing about 10% of the available fresh water and that most of the water on earth by a very substantial margin is sea water and we should be good for at least the next half a million years or so. This also assumes that we would extract the water at the rate we do for oil even though fusion would be providing orders of magnitude more power for the same volume of fuel. So that pushes it off for at least a few 10s of millions of years. If in that time we haven't managed to get off this rock, I say fuck it we all deserve to die.
With excess energy lots of things become worthwhile to make. We already know how to convert CO2 into hydrocarbons it is just really energy intensive. With excess energy this becomes a non issue if the excess energy is cheap enough. Also given the dimensions of the reactor it could probably be used on jets thus eliminating their fossil fuel use.