It is dirty... all energy production is. Nuclear is one of the least carbon intensive ways to produce energy. Solar is one of the worst due to Silver, aluminum and nickle mining required to produce the panels. Specifically, silver is off the charts. Silver mining and smelting is a very dirty business. Wind is more in-line with nuclear but still produces more carbon due to the special alloys used in turbine construction. Ironically natural gas and oil release the least amount of carbon when being produced... although, obviously, once they are burned they release huge amounts of it.
If your goal is less carbon, then nuclear is the way to go. It is expensive, and there are the obvious risks, but it is by far and away the best choice.
Really, teaching kids about "intelligent design" isn't so bad, depending on the teacher of course. My highschool biology teacher had an entire week where we compared evolution and intelligent designed (this was 20 years ago) and he didn't present either as fact. It was more of a "what do you guys think? argue your point!" type of exercise and I think it was great. It was one of few times in my highschool experience where everyone had an opinion and they were all interesting.
The real question is... why, if it is a taxi service, is it treated any differently? Taxis rip you off.. I've been ripped off by Taxi drivers that are highly regulated in NYC and then, less than 20 hours later treated excellently in a completely unregulated taxi in Africa.
In particle physics, the concept of a particle is one of several concepts inherited from classical physics. This describes the world we experience, and (for example) describes how matter and energy behave at the molecular scales of quantum mechanics. For physicists, the word "particle" means something rather different from the common meaning of the term, reflecting the modern understanding that at the quantum scale particles behave very differently from what much of everyday experience would lead us to expect.
The idea of a particle underwent serious rethinking in light of experiments that showed that light could behave like a stream of particles (called photons) as well as exhibit wave-like properties. This led to the new concept of wave-particle duality to reflect that quantum-scale "particles" behave like both particles and waves. Another new concept, the uncertainty principle, states that analysis of particles at these scales requires a statistical approach. In more recent times, wave-particle duality has been shown to apply not only to photons but to increasingly massive particles.[5]
All of these factors ultimately combined to replace the notion of discrete "particles" with the concept of "wave-packets" of uncertain boundaries, whose properties are known only in terms of probabilities, and whose interactions with other "particles" remain largely a mystery, even 80 years after the establishment of quantum mechanics.
Think of it like this: How could it be a "particle" if we do not know its position, speed, direction, charge, but instead we know probabilities of these values? How could a real object exist in 2 places simultaneously? Or teleport? It couldn't... sub-atomic particles are not particles. They are something else entirely that we are still trying to figure out.
Uh... its miles down, under millions of PSI. The CO2 is in liquid form under that kind of pressure. The kind of earthquake it would take to release that would be so large, the CO2 would be the least of our worries.
There are conditions on Europa very similar to the conditions in certain places on earth that contain life. There are large chunks of shit that have been flying back and forth between there and here for billions of years. They've retrieved man made objects that have been in space for decades with bacteria on it that survived and re-animated after being thawed on earth. It would be more astonishing if there we didn't find life on Europa... and pretty much every other planetary body in our system.
You say this as desktops outside the corporate environment are dieing... I even see corporate environments turning to SASS terminal stations in the future. The future of Linux is the architecture all those terminals connect to.
Since the majority of supported phones didn't have their support implemented by the cyanogen mod team (They only built support for the most popular phones) how on earth can they claim the project is theirs to go public with? There were literally thousands of people that rebuilt packages and redesigned interfaces so they could get it onto other phones. I even created a release for my phone a few years ago because Cyanogen didn't support it. This seems shady to me. They were already making significant money from their apps, as was made clear when one of their team went rouge last year, why now? I guess we'll have to wait and see, but I don't think this is a good turn of events at all.
The phone company is obligated to provide them in clean blocks because most PBX equipment used in hospitals expect full clean blocks. Modern soft switches usually don't have a problem but there are lots of hospitals expansion projects and such in which they are not upgrading their equipment. Again, this is regulated by the government. All of this is regulatory nonsense... much of it proposed and written by lobbyists from AT&T as they have the most to gain from regulatory red tape and high fees. Notice that lately there are fewer alternative carriers in your area? That's because AT&T lobbied congress to let them raise inter-carrier rates to the point that its no longer profitable to lease lines in their territory.
This is the same old argument people always had about free speech and the radio. Why would the radio sensor music on their station? Doesn't the artist have free speech rights? Well yes... but someone owns that radio station and they have free speech rights to. You can't infringe on one groups rights to promote anothers. The constitution guarantees you freedom of speech, it does not guarantee you a soap box from which to speak it.
having worked for a phone company, in the very department that handles number portability, I can tell you that moving your number around is a huge pain in the ass for the phone company. And no, it's not because their systems are in the dark ages. It's because the PSC gives out number blocks in groups of 10,000. (think 555-555-0000 through 9999) and they ONLY give you so many. Now imagine your blocks of numbers filled with people that don't even have services with you... so now you have maybe 5 numbers in use in a block of numbers... and a major hospital gets built and needs 10,000 phone numbers. You go to the PSC and ask for more numbers, and they say "No, you already have 100k numbers in that area and you are only using 45% of them. Use the other numbers!" But the hospital needs them consecutive and many of those blocks are contaminated with non-customers. There are entire departments dedicated to dealing with these sorts of issues,
The only real problem I see is driver support. Other than that, most windows problems revolved around security vulnerabilities and malware which simply don't exist in Linux. Well they do, but the likelihood of them showing up in the average users experience is pretty low.
The problem has to due with a chemical contaminating the wine... it has nothing to do with the cork. That's just the common term people use to describe the problem. There are plenty of wines that use rubber stoppers or twist offs. You're welcome to buy them. It seems however, that when buying a $40 beverage people tend to expect artistic packaging.
Yes, I'm immediately taking this map to my drug dealer. I've been wondering for years why he will only let me make buys on Easter island... now it's become rather clear that I'm being ripped off.
I agree on the ass-covering but the bulling IS the schools fault. I was very much a victim of it in highschool. I was "The guy" that got bullied. Every school has one. The kids knew it, the teachers knew it, the principle knew it. For some reason the adults in charged seemed to thing it was somehow my fault. I was hyperactive (annoying) and I didn't fight back... the perfect target. I reached a tipping point late in my senior year and proceeded to beat the shit out of anyone that even remotely tried to bully me. That's when I learned the truth... The school didn't do anything to you for assaulting another student. I took one bully by the back of the head and repeatedly smashed his face into a urinal and the gym teacher walked in and said "come on guys, knock it off" that was it...
To this day I still cannot fathom how my children are safer in a biker bar than they are a public school. If you punch someone in a bar, the police are called and you go to jail. If you do it in a public school, at worst, you spend some time in the principles office or get suspended. Physical violence in a public school should involve the police... every time.
um... you should see what they had to build underwater. What they are doing is having signifigant environmental impact already. There are enormous steel girders underneath her supporting her weight as they roll her out onto them. They aren't cutting her in half because she contains huge amounts of diesel fuel and oil.
The patriot act made buying anything overseas without a credit card that's registered in your name very difficult. Yes, you can mail cash in an envelope but our crooked postal workers often just steal it. The best defense against this sort of thing is: Vote for someone that's not in the D/R parties. Anyone... I don't care if you vote for the fucking Nazis just get the current Reich out of office asap. There are plenty of alternative parties out there... Libertarian, Green, even the communist party. I'd rather not be governed by most of them but if we can get enough disagreement into congress things may change. It's basically our only hope short of an insurrection and I'm personally moving to Canada if that happens.
If it (a patent) were held in perpetuity, it would lead to the opposite of the very principle on which it is based: it would lead, not to the earned reward of achievement, but to the unearned support of parasitism. It would become a cumulative lien on the production of unborn generations, which would ultimately paralyze them. Consider what would happen if, in producing an automobile, we had to pay royalties to the descendants of all the inventors involved, starting with the inventor of the wheel and on up. Apart from the impossibility of keeping such records, consider the accidental status of such descendants and the unreality of their unearned claims.
-- Ayn Rand
Just pointing out you don't know shit about the people you're bitching about. At least understand your opponents point of view before you start spouting off nonsense.
There already is such a thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerGuardian It's been around for years and there is a "Government IP blocklist" The problems with these lists are they are overly broad. You end up blocking a lot of ranges that really aren't what you think they are. And the NSA/FBI/CIA can just get new IP's at a whim. They likely have compromised equipment in nearly every company out there as well so they could make it look like they were coming from just about anywhere.
The anonymity of the internet is one of their greatest weapons despite the fact it's what they're trying to destroy.
If the police came to your house and walked through looking for drugs and then told you it wasn't a "search" because they hadn't found what they were looking for... would you agree that wasn't a search? This is unconstitutional in every way.
I gave you the solution to your problem. Stop voting for the parties. It's as simple as that... and the parties haven't diverged on any major policy since WW2, so don't give me that shit. They disagree on some non-issues that get people hot under the collar like abortion, gun rights, carbon taxes... but nothing that would really change anything. Improve the economy and women wont need as many abortions, people wont rob as many banks and maybe we'd all be able to afford electric cars. The problems in this country are tiny, easily fixable, but the process has been subverted by a single group of people that pretend to be separated by party. And they all have the same common goal... to retain power.
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Better question: Who cares?
It is dirty... all energy production is. Nuclear is one of the least carbon intensive ways to produce energy. Solar is one of the worst due to Silver, aluminum and nickle mining required to produce the panels. Specifically, silver is off the charts. Silver mining and smelting is a very dirty business. Wind is more in-line with nuclear but still produces more carbon due to the special alloys used in turbine construction. Ironically natural gas and oil release the least amount of carbon when being produced... although, obviously, once they are burned they release huge amounts of it.
If your goal is less carbon, then nuclear is the way to go. It is expensive, and there are the obvious risks, but it is by far and away the best choice.
Really, teaching kids about "intelligent design" isn't so bad, depending on the teacher of course. My highschool biology teacher had an entire week where we compared evolution and intelligent designed (this was 20 years ago) and he didn't present either as fact. It was more of a "what do you guys think? argue your point!" type of exercise and I think it was great. It was one of few times in my highschool experience where everyone had an opinion and they were all interesting.
The real question is... why, if it is a taxi service, is it treated any differently? Taxis rip you off.. I've been ripped off by Taxi drivers that are highly regulated in NYC and then, less than 20 hours later treated excellently in a completely unregulated taxi in Africa.
In particle physics, the concept of a particle is one of several concepts inherited from classical physics. This describes the world we experience, and (for example) describes how matter and energy behave at the molecular scales of quantum mechanics. For physicists, the word "particle" means something rather different from the common meaning of the term, reflecting the modern understanding that at the quantum scale particles behave very differently from what much of everyday experience would lead us to expect.
The idea of a particle underwent serious rethinking in light of experiments that showed that light could behave like a stream of particles (called photons) as well as exhibit wave-like properties. This led to the new concept of wave-particle duality to reflect that quantum-scale "particles" behave like both particles and waves. Another new concept, the uncertainty principle, states that analysis of particles at these scales requires a statistical approach. In more recent times, wave-particle duality has been shown to apply not only to photons but to increasingly massive particles.[5]
All of these factors ultimately combined to replace the notion of discrete "particles" with the concept of "wave-packets" of uncertain boundaries, whose properties are known only in terms of probabilities, and whose interactions with other "particles" remain largely a mystery, even 80 years after the establishment of quantum mechanics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subatomic_particle
This is the simplest explanation I could find.
Think of it like this: How could it be a "particle" if we do not know its position, speed, direction, charge, but instead we know probabilities of these values? How could a real object exist in 2 places simultaneously? Or teleport? It couldn't... sub-atomic particles are not particles. They are something else entirely that we are still trying to figure out.
Uh... its miles down, under millions of PSI. The CO2 is in liquid form under that kind of pressure. The kind of earthquake it would take to release that would be so large, the CO2 would be the least of our worries.
There are conditions on Europa very similar to the conditions in certain places on earth that contain life. There are large chunks of shit that have been flying back and forth between there and here for billions of years. They've retrieved man made objects that have been in space for decades with bacteria on it that survived and re-animated after being thawed on earth. It would be more astonishing if there we didn't find life on Europa... and pretty much every other planetary body in our system.
You say this as desktops outside the corporate environment are dieing... I even see corporate environments turning to SASS terminal stations in the future. The future of Linux is the architecture all those terminals connect to.
The biggest problem with particle physics is that we call them particles when they clearly are not.
Since the majority of supported phones didn't have their support implemented by the cyanogen mod team (They only built support for the most popular phones) how on earth can they claim the project is theirs to go public with? There were literally thousands of people that rebuilt packages and redesigned interfaces so they could get it onto other phones. I even created a release for my phone a few years ago because Cyanogen didn't support it. This seems shady to me. They were already making significant money from their apps, as was made clear when one of their team went rouge last year, why now? I guess we'll have to wait and see, but I don't think this is a good turn of events at all.
The phone company is obligated to provide them in clean blocks because most PBX equipment used in hospitals expect full clean blocks. Modern soft switches usually don't have a problem but there are lots of hospitals expansion projects and such in which they are not upgrading their equipment. Again, this is regulated by the government. All of this is regulatory nonsense... much of it proposed and written by lobbyists from AT&T as they have the most to gain from regulatory red tape and high fees. Notice that lately there are fewer alternative carriers in your area? That's because AT&T lobbied congress to let them raise inter-carrier rates to the point that its no longer profitable to lease lines in their territory.
This is the same old argument people always had about free speech and the radio. Why would the radio sensor music on their station? Doesn't the artist have free speech rights? Well yes... but someone owns that radio station and they have free speech rights to. You can't infringe on one groups rights to promote anothers. The constitution guarantees you freedom of speech, it does not guarantee you a soap box from which to speak it.
having worked for a phone company, in the very department that handles number portability, I can tell you that moving your number around is a huge pain in the ass for the phone company. And no, it's not because their systems are in the dark ages. It's because the PSC gives out number blocks in groups of 10,000. (think 555-555-0000 through 9999) and they ONLY give you so many. Now imagine your blocks of numbers filled with people that don't even have services with you... so now you have maybe 5 numbers in use in a block of numbers... and a major hospital gets built and needs 10,000 phone numbers. You go to the PSC and ask for more numbers, and they say "No, you already have 100k numbers in that area and you are only using 45% of them. Use the other numbers!" But the hospital needs them consecutive and many of those blocks are contaminated with non-customers. There are entire departments dedicated to dealing with these sorts of issues,
The only real problem I see is driver support. Other than that, most windows problems revolved around security vulnerabilities and malware which simply don't exist in Linux. Well they do, but the likelihood of them showing up in the average users experience is pretty low.
The problem has to due with a chemical contaminating the wine... it has nothing to do with the cork. That's just the common term people use to describe the problem. There are plenty of wines that use rubber stoppers or twist offs. You're welcome to buy them. It seems however, that when buying a $40 beverage people tend to expect artistic packaging.
Yes, I'm immediately taking this map to my drug dealer. I've been wondering for years why he will only let me make buys on Easter island... now it's become rather clear that I'm being ripped off.
I agree on the ass-covering but the bulling IS the schools fault. I was very much a victim of it in highschool. I was "The guy" that got bullied. Every school has one. The kids knew it, the teachers knew it, the principle knew it. For some reason the adults in charged seemed to thing it was somehow my fault. I was hyperactive (annoying) and I didn't fight back... the perfect target. I reached a tipping point late in my senior year and proceeded to beat the shit out of anyone that even remotely tried to bully me. That's when I learned the truth... The school didn't do anything to you for assaulting another student. I took one bully by the back of the head and repeatedly smashed his face into a urinal and the gym teacher walked in and said "come on guys, knock it off" that was it...
To this day I still cannot fathom how my children are safer in a biker bar than they are a public school. If you punch someone in a bar, the police are called and you go to jail. If you do it in a public school, at worst, you spend some time in the principles office or get suspended. Physical violence in a public school should involve the police... every time.
Swiss army knife.
um... you should see what they had to build underwater. What they are doing is having signifigant environmental impact already. There are enormous steel girders underneath her supporting her weight as they roll her out onto them. They aren't cutting her in half because she contains huge amounts of diesel fuel and oil.
The patriot act made buying anything overseas without a credit card that's registered in your name very difficult. Yes, you can mail cash in an envelope but our crooked postal workers often just steal it. The best defense against this sort of thing is: Vote for someone that's not in the D/R parties. Anyone... I don't care if you vote for the fucking Nazis just get the current Reich out of office asap. There are plenty of alternative parties out there... Libertarian, Green, even the communist party. I'd rather not be governed by most of them but if we can get enough disagreement into congress things may change. It's basically our only hope short of an insurrection and I'm personally moving to Canada if that happens.
If it (a patent) were held in perpetuity, it would lead to the opposite of the very principle on which it is based: it would lead, not to the earned reward of achievement, but to the unearned support of parasitism. It would become a cumulative lien on the production of unborn generations, which would ultimately paralyze them. Consider what would happen if, in producing an automobile, we had to pay royalties to the descendants of all the inventors involved, starting with the inventor of the wheel and on up. Apart from the impossibility of keeping such records, consider the accidental status of such descendants and the unreality of their unearned claims.
-- Ayn Rand
Just pointing out you don't know shit about the people you're bitching about. At least understand your opponents point of view before you start spouting off nonsense.
There already is such a thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerGuardian
It's been around for years and there is a "Government IP blocklist"
The problems with these lists are they are overly broad. You end up blocking a lot of ranges that really aren't what you think they are.
And the NSA/FBI/CIA can just get new IP's at a whim. They likely have compromised equipment in nearly every company out there as well so they could make it look like they were coming from just about anywhere.
The anonymity of the internet is one of their greatest weapons despite the fact it's what they're trying to destroy.
Iraq was co-operating and disarming? Gotta love that revisionist history.
But yes, becoming a nuclear power is THE way to prevent invasion. Irrelevant of any other factors.
If the police came to your house and walked through looking for drugs and then told you it wasn't a "search" because they hadn't found what they were looking for... would you agree that wasn't a search? This is unconstitutional in every way.
I gave you the solution to your problem. Stop voting for the parties. It's as simple as that... and the parties haven't diverged on any major policy since WW2, so don't give me that shit. They disagree on some non-issues that get people hot under the collar like abortion, gun rights, carbon taxes... but nothing that would really change anything. Improve the economy and women wont need as many abortions, people wont rob as many banks and maybe we'd all be able to afford electric cars. The problems in this country are tiny, easily fixable, but the process has been subverted by a single group of people that pretend to be separated by party. And they all have the same common goal... to retain power.