My water supply comes from the Severn basin. My local basin is the Trent which drains into the Humber. Before the installation of the municipal water system, there were no flood plains where I live. Now there are hardly any floods in the Severn basin (which used to flood regularly), and the Trent breaches its banks several times a year. I think I know something about water.
No, yes. The larger the better, for obvious reasons (in case they aren't, one is the potential to capture more solar energy overall, another is to produce more water). Oman is probably the world's largest greenhouse desalinisation producer. For those without that kind of patience, there's reverse osmosis technology (as used in Spain), nuclear heat exchange distillation (Russia), cogenerative plants (which use traditional methods to generate their own power and the waste water is purified for circulation), vacuum distillation, multi-stage flash distillation (Bahrain), and freezing.
1. As far as I'm aware desalination plants use pumps to move seawater into the evaporation plants. 2. There's your chock for desalinisation. People want clean water but they don't want to know where it comes from. Or they're ignorant of the process to the point where they think it magically falls out of the sky! (wait, what?) 3. Post treatment for turning distilled water into drinking water on a commercial scale adds mineral salts and gases to the distillate. I don't know where you got the FUD about distilled water being deadly from; hospitals use distilled water all the time in intravenous drips which might also contain salts, glucose, and drugs. I use distilled water from a homebuilt plant in my greenhouse. I also keep and use personal water treatment equipment which purifies water using filters, ion exchange resins and chemicals. That said, *too much* water (of any flavour or lack thereof) at once can be toxic - and it's a lot easier to recover from dehydration than from hydrotoxicity.
heh... just heard on the radio that someone's gone started moaning about fledging a viable biodiesel industry in the States, claiming that it'd exacerbate the "food crisis". Like every other "crisis" we face, the cause isn't the amount we have but how it is DISTRIBUTED.
but it is a viable option in India because the infrastructure is cheaper to install than several hundred massive electrically-powered or oil-powered pumps across vast tracts of desert and upwards through several thousand feet - and from your quote, it does produce even at desert-level humidity.
You're adding a step where there doesn't need to be one: solar stills are basically greenhouses with pools in. The condensate runs off into side channels for utilisation, the salts and effluent are left in the pool to be scraped and disposed of.
When you pump water out of the ground, it leaves a void. When you don't backfill, the void eventually collapses. The oil industry is aware of this problem (that and oil doesn't tend to want to just lift itself out of the ground once the initial pressure does its thing), which is why they use seawater to displace the oil: seawater is pumped in, oil flows out or is pumped out leaving the void which is then backfilled under gravity through a strategically placed hole or two.
Back to the topic: the stable system of rain=>aquifer is disrupted to greater or lesser degrees by human activity. That's obvious. The amount of rain remains constant (more or less), which means the amount of water removed from the aquifer is gone. Simple as. The global water industry has a few options to try and deal with this problem before we start seeing entire cities disappearing into sinkholes:
1. Backfilling. Something not currently done, but it begs the question as to what to backfill with? 2. Alternative sources. We have viable desalination technology (geothermal, solar stills, seat salt extraction plants(!))... we have made great strides in atmospheric water extraction to the point where a plant in the middle of a desert can turn sand into golf course. One option that I don't think has been properly explored is a wide area water grid, possibly national or international in scale. We have the technology, we have the capability, the chock under that wheel is politics.
@Mitreya: the police can and do seize cell location data without warrant, I've seen it happen (in the referred instance it did put a man away for 18-to-life for burning down his parent's house, nearly killing his entire family. When information like that is referred to in a court of Law, warrant or not the jury can't unhear what's been said no matter how adamantly the judge insists on it. That unwarranted seizure is the ONLY thing that put the guy away).
Which is why the cellphone stays HOME. Where I go and what I do is my business. Take it as read that my activities are completely lawful. I carry a simplex personal mobile radio in case I need to communicate with anyone out of earshot. The people I need to talk to have similar equipment. The only time the thing transmits is when I key that button.
that page is lying, I just tried playing a DVD (completely at random I just put in The Full Monty, DVD9 Region 2 PAL) and it complained about not having a licensed playback component.
Stock Windows does NOT have a functioning DVD player.
I toyed with the idea of torrenting drivers for obsolete hardware. I have PCI cards that still work, and drivers for them that still run under XPSP3 - those that still prove useful are even now plugged into my museum piece of an Athlon running almost on a daily basis. The problem is, when you're beyond the realms of graphics cards and into RAID controllers, composite video capture cards, professional soundcards, multiport network controllers, SATA arrays, IDE stacks, printers, scanners, faxes, jukeboxes, et cetera, then you're going from a few hundred MB or a GB or two (if that) of data to several Terabytes (my basic repair kit consisted of four (yes, 4) dual layer DVDs containing common/generic drivers for a wide range of devices). Rapidly the collection (as has been my experience) becomes unmanageable and it becomes easier once again to simply Google it. I've even tried using a database of FCC identification tags, which every PCI device has printed on the card track, but building the database has proven too much for my poor fingers... time to rethink... may be a good time to clear out that pile of drives and reclaim the space. An extra 3TB would come in handy...
um... yes. The 1844 Treaty is still valid, notwithstanding the declaration made in DeLima -v- Bidwell (1901), in which the Supreme Court asserted the right of Congress to annex any territory it chooses - examples in that case being Hawai'i and Texas. This slightly dodgy precedent has and continues to fuel debate on the legal status of both regions as sovereign entities, which strikes me as somewhat odd as we only have the word of Congress (and no other party) that the annexation is in accordance with International Law - and no corroboration from *any other State entity* that this is in fact the case.
Mod parent up. I've run a Public Domain Torrent mirror for years. It has the entire Project Gutenberg archive on there (as of May this year), and a significant chunk of the eTree LMO. If you've downloaded anything off either of those two sites over BitTorrent over the last five years or so, chances are good you got some of that data off of my server.
um... bad blocks aren't generally propagated; my client junks the bad block and rejects any further packets from the source, and looks elsewhere for a good version of that block. Hashes are good. Poisoned torrents usually start off like that and are initially seeded by people intent on poisoning the torrent pool from the off (ie null files or malware designed to fuck up your day, seeded by **AA agencies on farms to look like insanely popular movies/albums. I've seen this happen, those torrents don't live long).
I read a story several years ago about a company (I can't remember who it was) that refused to sell a product that would have made an absolute killing. Another company decided to take up the slack and fill the hole in the market with a similar product, which the first company took upon itself to litigate. Sometime during the court process, the first company then did release the product, but at such a high unit price it was basically unsellable.
Had the court missed this tactic the first company would have won its suit hands down. The court didn't miss the tactic, and ordered the litigious jerks to pay the defendant's costs and compensation for malicious slander.
High five to Parent! I'm also a creator, and happily post under my handle because I like a little recognition every now and again.
What really bugs me is the fact that when I release stuff into the Public Domain these days I have to coat it with a generous helping of licenses that tell people they can basically do what they want with the content - in my opinion, this is a natural right, not something that can be taken with one litigious hand and grudgingly *sold* back with the other. This I believe distracts the consumer from the real message of the content: the aesthetic value of whatever medium the content happens to take. How do I make my money then, I hear some naysayers ask... simple really: I let my public domain work speak for itself and get paid through commissioned work (which, because I already have a brand. I don't mind transferring ownership of that work to the client because the idea is theirs, I just point the camera or hit the "record" button and capture their content for them. Art as a service).
Hash matching provides that fault tolerance. If segment hashes don't match then the file corrupts. The Bittorrent protocol is written to deal with that by rejecting segments with unmatched hashes. Freenet not needed, because anonymity is not required here.
I kid. I've used IA a lot. Their movie archive is awesome, I've discovered some real gems on there, and even managed to make a living making and selling compilations (yes, you can actually do that legally with the material on there, and a lot of other people do!)
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what, no Turtles?
nooo... it was a planet (Alderaan). Nice try.
erm.. .what?
My water supply comes from the Severn basin. My local basin is the Trent which drains into the Humber. Before the installation of the municipal water system, there were no flood plains where I live. Now there are hardly any floods in the Severn basin (which used to flood regularly), and the Trent breaches its banks several times a year. I think I know something about water.
No, yes. The larger the better, for obvious reasons (in case they aren't, one is the potential to capture more solar energy overall, another is to produce more water). Oman is probably the world's largest greenhouse desalinisation producer. For those without that kind of patience, there's reverse osmosis technology (as used in Spain), nuclear heat exchange distillation (Russia), cogenerative plants (which use traditional methods to generate their own power and the waste water is purified for circulation), vacuum distillation, multi-stage flash distillation (Bahrain), and freezing.
1. As far as I'm aware desalination plants use pumps to move seawater into the evaporation plants.
2. There's your chock for desalinisation. People want clean water but they don't want to know where it comes from. Or they're ignorant of the process to the point where they think it magically falls out of the sky! (wait, what?)
3. Post treatment for turning distilled water into drinking water on a commercial scale adds mineral salts and gases to the distillate. I don't know where you got the FUD about distilled water being deadly from; hospitals use distilled water all the time in intravenous drips which might also contain salts, glucose, and drugs. I use distilled water from a homebuilt plant in my greenhouse. I also keep and use personal water treatment equipment which purifies water using filters, ion exchange resins and chemicals. That said, *too much* water (of any flavour or lack thereof) at once can be toxic - and it's a lot easier to recover from dehydration than from hydrotoxicity.
heh... just heard on the radio that someone's gone started moaning about fledging a viable biodiesel industry in the States, claiming that it'd exacerbate the "food crisis". Like every other "crisis" we face, the cause isn't the amount we have but how it is DISTRIBUTED.
but it is a viable option in India because the infrastructure is cheaper to install than several hundred massive electrically-powered or oil-powered pumps across vast tracts of desert and upwards through several thousand feet - and from your quote, it does produce even at desert-level humidity.
You're adding a step where there doesn't need to be one: solar stills are basically greenhouses with pools in. The condensate runs off into side channels for utilisation, the salts and effluent are left in the pool to be scraped and disposed of.
Don't do math. Talk to Frank.
Physics 101.
When you pump water out of the ground, it leaves a void. When you don't backfill, the void eventually collapses. The oil industry is aware of this problem (that and oil doesn't tend to want to just lift itself out of the ground once the initial pressure does its thing), which is why they use seawater to displace the oil: seawater is pumped in, oil flows out or is pumped out leaving the void which is then backfilled under gravity through a strategically placed hole or two.
Back to the topic: the stable system of rain=>aquifer is disrupted to greater or lesser degrees by human activity. That's obvious. The amount of rain remains constant (more or less), which means the amount of water removed from the aquifer is gone. Simple as. The global water industry has a few options to try and deal with this problem before we start seeing entire cities disappearing into sinkholes:
1. Backfilling. Something not currently done, but it begs the question as to what to backfill with?
2. Alternative sources. We have viable desalination technology (geothermal, solar stills, seat salt extraction plants(!))... we have made great strides in atmospheric water extraction to the point where a plant in the middle of a desert can turn sand into golf course. One option that I don't think has been properly explored is a wide area water grid, possibly national or international in scale. We have the technology, we have the capability, the chock under that wheel is politics.
@Mitreya: the police can and do seize cell location data without warrant, I've seen it happen (in the referred instance it did put a man away for 18-to-life for burning down his parent's house, nearly killing his entire family. When information like that is referred to in a court of Law, warrant or not the jury can't unhear what's been said no matter how adamantly the judge insists on it. That unwarranted seizure is the ONLY thing that put the guy away).
Which is why the cellphone stays HOME. Where I go and what I do is my business. Take it as read that my activities are completely lawful.
I carry a simplex personal mobile radio in case I need to communicate with anyone out of earshot. The people I need to talk to have similar equipment. The only time the thing transmits is when I key that button.
addendum: I'm using Win7 Home Premium OEM, Service Pack 1
that page is lying, I just tried playing a DVD (completely at random I just put in The Full Monty, DVD9 Region 2 PAL) and it complained about not having a licensed playback component.
Stock Windows does NOT have a functioning DVD player.
I toyed with the idea of torrenting drivers for obsolete hardware. I have PCI cards that still work, and drivers for them that still run under XPSP3 - those that still prove useful are even now plugged into my museum piece of an Athlon running almost on a daily basis. The problem is, when you're beyond the realms of graphics cards and into RAID controllers, composite video capture cards, professional soundcards, multiport network controllers, SATA arrays, IDE stacks, printers, scanners, faxes, jukeboxes, et cetera, then you're going from a few hundred MB or a GB or two (if that) of data to several Terabytes (my basic repair kit consisted of four (yes, 4) dual layer DVDs containing common/generic drivers for a wide range of devices). Rapidly the collection (as has been my experience) becomes unmanageable and it becomes easier once again to simply Google it. I've even tried using a database of FCC identification tags, which every PCI device has printed on the card track, but building the database has proven too much for my poor fingers... time to rethink... may be a good time to clear out that pile of drives and reclaim the space. An extra 3TB would come in handy...
I don't think there is a DVD/BD player shipped with Windows 7 either...? At least, I've not found one in fifteen months of looking...
um... yes. The 1844 Treaty is still valid, notwithstanding the declaration made in DeLima -v- Bidwell (1901), in which the Supreme Court asserted the right of Congress to annex any territory it chooses - examples in that case being Hawai'i and Texas. This slightly dodgy precedent has and continues to fuel debate on the legal status of both regions as sovereign entities, which strikes me as somewhat odd as we only have the word of Congress (and no other party) that the annexation is in accordance with International Law - and no corroboration from *any other State entity* that this is in fact the case.
Mod parent up. I've run a Public Domain Torrent mirror for years. It has the entire Project Gutenberg archive on there (as of May this year), and a significant chunk of the eTree LMO. If you've downloaded anything off either of those two sites over BitTorrent over the last five years or so, chances are good you got some of that data off of my server.
um... bad blocks aren't generally propagated; my client junks the bad block and rejects any further packets from the source, and looks elsewhere for a good version of that block. Hashes are good. Poisoned torrents usually start off like that and are initially seeded by people intent on poisoning the torrent pool from the off (ie null files or malware designed to fuck up your day, seeded by **AA agencies on farms to look like insanely popular movies/albums. I've seen this happen, those torrents don't live long).
I read a story several years ago about a company (I can't remember who it was) that refused to sell a product that would have made an absolute killing. Another company decided to take up the slack and fill the hole in the market with a similar product, which the first company took upon itself to litigate. Sometime during the court process, the first company then did release the product, but at such a high unit price it was basically unsellable.
Had the court missed this tactic the first company would have won its suit hands down. The court didn't miss the tactic, and ordered the litigious jerks to pay the defendant's costs and compensation for malicious slander.
High five to Parent! I'm also a creator, and happily post under my handle because I like a little recognition every now and again.
What really bugs me is the fact that when I release stuff into the Public Domain these days I have to coat it with a generous helping of licenses that tell people they can basically do what they want with the content - in my opinion, this is a natural right, not something that can be taken with one litigious hand and grudgingly *sold* back with the other. This I believe distracts the consumer from the real message of the content: the aesthetic value of whatever medium the content happens to take. How do I make my money then, I hear some naysayers ask... simple really: I let my public domain work speak for itself and get paid through commissioned work (which, because I already have a brand. I don't mind transferring ownership of that work to the client because the idea is theirs, I just point the camera or hit the "record" button and capture their content for them. Art as a service).
Hash matching provides that fault tolerance. If segment hashes don't match then the file corrupts. The Bittorrent protocol is written to deal with that by rejecting segments with unmatched hashes. Freenet not needed, because anonymity is not required here.
"To no man shall be sold or denied natural justice."
One of the core principles of the oldest written constitutional document in existence: Magna Carta.
If you have to bankrupt yourself to fight a lawsuit then you're not doing it right.
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I kid. I've used IA a lot. Their movie archive is awesome, I've discovered some real gems on there, and even managed to make a living making and selling compilations (yes, you can actually do that legally with the material on there, and a lot of other people do!)
It is true.
President Assad was killed.
But he got better.