I think you are confusing THC with LSD. I suppose the world as we know it could "end" due to everyone lounging on their couches eating chips to satisfy their munchies all day though.
And even after all of that, how do we know that, once we send a generational ship, their civilization will even be standing by the time we get there. Or since the generation that invited us will (possibly) be long dead, will their descendants still be keen on the idea of a bunch of ship born ape descendants arriving on a one way trip to consume resources? Since those on a generational ship will be more or less technology stagnant and isolated, who knows what kind of superstitions they may develop, or how primitive they would seem to be once they arrived.
Besides the big Woosh the statement could be read as three sixty degree turns, which would be totaled as one-hundred eighty degrees. Or a step in the opposite direction. Of course it's a little difficult to turn 180 degrees and go where no one has gone before. Still, it makes about as much sense as most marketing speak. Every time I hear a company talking about their new product being a "quantum leap" I have to laugh.
Cadmium, indium, gallium, lead, and selenium are all used in solar panel production.
Silane gas is used in the production of Si wafers. There are several silane leaks reported each year in the US during the production of silicon wafers. Silane can spontaneously explode.Manufacturing of silane and trichlorosilane results in waste silicon tetrachloride, which is nasty stuff.
Sulfur hexafluoride is used in cleaning the reaction chambers that silicone is produced in. It's a very potent green house gas. In fact, it's 25,000 times more potent than CO2.
sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide are used on the cut edges of silicone wafers. Hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid and hydrogen fluoride are used to clean the silicone wafers during production. Phosphine or arsine gas is used in the doping of the semiconductor. Phosphorous oxychloride, phosphorous trichloride, boron bromide and boron trichloride are also used during the doping process.
Do I really need to go on? Or is there any point as you obviously choose to ignore reality.
I'd like an engineer to take a look at his plans. Claiming it is "feasible", and that it "should" be easier than a skyscraper does not exactly instill confidence.
This guy is also a physicist. It would be nice to know what a geologist would think adding a man made mountain, or three, would do to the bedrock in the mid-west.
Has he consulted with a climatologist? I suspect it would affect the local weather patterns at the very least. It would probably drastically change the weather pasterns on the east coat as well.
My mistake. That's what I meant, but when I think of travel I generally think of the TSA regarding all things bad. CBP has always been courteous and professional with me. However they should not be allowed to do this.
"Expensive" is very different from "too expensive". Some countries (probably most of them other than America) value things other than money. Things like "not risking dying from radiation sickness" and "not poisoning the world for future generations" are often high on that list.
While I agree with you. "Clean" energy production is very important. I also feel that solar is not the all benevolent perfect energy source we want it to be. It is closer to what nuclear was in the 1950's/1960's. Solar panel production is very messy and creates tons of extremely toxic waste. With China trying to corner the market on solar panel production, do you really believe that they are taking great care in clean up?
It's also not been around in any meaningful way until recently. We don't know what the hell we will do with millions of tons of EOL panels. We won't know until 25 years later. Except unlike nuclear, solar panels are not limited to just a few companies.
Obviously nuclear plants can experience catastrophic failures the likes of which we should never see with solar. But unlike the disposal of fissile material, solar panel disposal is not nearly as regulated. After 25 years of use, your neighbor in West Virginia, or Nebraska may simply bury them in their back yard. Or just toss them in their field. Then it may take another 25 years or more until the heavy metals make their way into the water table. I expect they will be treated in much the same way that the old 2 meter C-band satellite dishes are. Simply left in place to rot, or cut off of their mounts and tossed on the ground to decay.
The TSA? Can they still require you to give them passwords? Or copy data from your phone?
What's to stop the police from searching a phone once in their possession in a different room once a person has been arrested? Granted, they will need a warrant to make anything they find admissible, but a warrant can be requested later once they decide it's worth the trouble.
Does this also apply to the monitoring programs that the US marshals have coached local law enforcement to lie about to judges?
If you do not enjoy work then that is the problem to be fixed. Find a job you love.
After several decades I've decided it's better to work at something you enjoy. Every time I've done something I loved for a living, someone found a way to make me hate it.
The state of the education system in the US has become pathetic. I've seen it for years in the primary education system. I'm a little shocked that it is now at the university level too. Especially with the prices of tuition these days. It's even more surprising when you read stories like this
I didn't RTFA, but this is/. so that's a given. As I recall, plastic is the leftover waste from refining oil. That was one of the reasons it was so revolutionary to begin with. No one knew what to do with all of those tons of leftover sludge created by the refining process. If this process can convert plastic into some kind of useful fuel, I would think it would be more efficient to do so prior to creating the plastic to begin with.
Not at all... The word is not offensive. The simple collection of letters is not offensive. It's the intent behind the use of the word that is offensive.
That's what you would think. However as I stated in my original post, people are so afraid of this one word that they will not say it even when it is appropriate and not being used in a derogatory manner. Such as quoting someone.
And so, when you put on your pointy white hat and call a black guy the n-word, it's highly offensive, because you intend it to be. When the same black guy calls his friend that, it's not offensive, because he does not intend it to be.
I hope your are speaking figuratively and not literally claiming that I I own a "pointy white hat" thus inferring that I am a member of the KKK.
Actually, you're the one that sounds like a whiny biatch: "Oh, woe is me! I'm so white and anglo-saxon, and I don't get to use terms that are highly offensive to people without being thought of as highly offensive! Boo hoo! Boo hoo! I'll just have to cry myself to sleep on my bed made of unearned privileges, dreaming of encountering police without trepidation, and earning 10-20% more the same work! Boo hoo!" Get over yourself. You're whining about the fact that you can't call people names that you know will offend them with impunity. That's one of the most pathetic things I've ever heard.
Way to make assumptions. While I'm part "Anglo", I'll certainly never be welcomed by the KKK you so kindly mentioned earlier. Additionally, I'm not whining that I can't call someone a derogatory name. I simply wish we as a people wold stop trying to segregate ourselves from each other. Either a term is OK for everyone to use, or it's not. I worked 50 hours a week on the night shift to support myself during my last two years of high school, and did the same through college and worked my ass of in the summers to pay for it. I knew so little about "the system" that I didn't even know about scholarships and grants until after I graduated. NOTHING was handed to me. And certainly nothing I've done was due to "unearned privileges". Being on your own at 15 also has issue of not having the greatest of judgement at times. So I had my fair share of run ins with the law as well in my youth.
But please, feel free to keep making assumptions of how superior you are.
Words would be either offensive or not if we were all binary beings and all thought and felt the same way about everything. Two black guys calling each other "nigger" while hanging out is much different than a white guy calling a black guy "nigger" after being cut off while in traffic, for example.
I completely agree. However it becomes murkier when it's a white, or say a Chinese guy referring to their friend as "nigga" I've had many friends who were black over the years. And have been referred to as "nigga" by a few of them. Not as a derogatory statement, but in a friendly manner. However I would never call anyone that. Being friendly or otherwise. And for what it's worth, there is a difference between "nigger" and "nigga". Even so, I find it insane how even news reporters will not quote someone directly when it comes to this term. Out of fear of getting in some kind of trouble I suppose. But if it's not being used in a derogatory manner, why does anyone care? Instead they sound like a kindergartener, "ahhh he said the N-word!". It's childish.
I've also been called a "cracka" and years ago a "honkey". As well as "kike" and a whole slew of other slurs. Frankly I've found it humorous more than anything.
And on a secondary point, I find it hugely hypocritical to complain that people are being "whiny little bitches" over something as petty as a name, but you yourself are complaining about that same thing. If getting offended about the name issue makes someone a "whiny little bitch," then you, sir, are a grade A whiny little bitch.
I realize that irony and humor often times does not translate well in text. But I figured most on/. would be smart enough to pick up on that.
I'm not sure that's in the same league as Redskin. The Blackhawks were name after a Sauk chief. Redskin has been a derogatory term for Native Americans.
Yep, Red Mesa High School calls themselves the Redskins.
It's on a Navajo reservation.
Kinda blows up that "derogatory" claim, doesn't that?
Yes, just like the rap group NWA (Nigga's With Attitude). Or that the term "nigga" has been embraced by many in poorer parts of the black community. Please feel free to use that term to describe someone while in any inner city. I'm sure once you make this rational argument everything will be fine.
Actually the term "nigger" has become so offensive that just stating it is somehow offensive. Even when not using it as derogatory term but to quote someone. I'll probably be modded a troll or flamebait just for pointing this out. Grown educated people have gotten to the point that they now sound like 6 year old children. I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I here people call it "The N-word".
Many younger people of the Jewish faith refer to each other as "heeb". There's even a "Heeb Magazine" But you can't be a (black or white) non-Hebrew and use this term.
Gays are allowed to, and do you the term "fag". But if you're heterosexual, and refer to someone as a "fag" it's homophobic.
I really hate this kind of crap. If it's alright for one group of people to use a term, but not another it's racist. Either the term is offensive, or it isn't. There's no modifier because of the color of your skin, your ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. And what ever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me"? We've turned into a society of whiny little bitches. Oh damn, someone is going to accuse me of being discriminatory toward female canines and claim that I kill puppies.(/sarcasm)
What part of "no single position within the company over the CEO" did I not state clearly? Additionally, Ms. Mayer is on the board of directors So unless she catches a case of schizophrenia, it would be pretty heard for her to disagree with herself.
Insinuating that female workers "fare worse" at Yahoo is akin to insinuating that there is rampant sexism and a glass ceiling going on there, which is most likely simply untrue.
It's a little difficult to believe there is a "glass ceiling" at Yahoo considering Marissa Mayer is in the highest position in the company. I'm pretty sure she's a woman, and there is no single position within the company over the CEO.
Unless Domino's is offering baby seal chunks and fried panda bear slices as toppings, I'm no sure how this is worth ten cents, let alone what they are asking for. Other than the embarrassment of having inadequate security. But that's already out of the bag.
It comes at a time when President Barack Obama has said he welcomes a debate on government surveillance and called for more transparency about spying in the wake of disclosures about classified federal surveillance programs.
It's pretty easy to welcome "debate" when you've already determined the outcome before a single word has been spoken. It also looks like "transparency" now means the opposite of its traditional meaning. Kind of like how literally can mean figuratively, bad is good, etc.
It's not really that surprising. Rats are pretty smart. Especially compared to many other rodents. My daughter had a pet rat, it was pretty surprising how attached my wife got to it. We had originally planned to let her get two rats because they are very social and do better in pairs. But the one my daughter picked did not like other rats at all. The people at the pet store said that she got into some pretty nasty fights with any other rats, even the ones from her original litter. But she really craved human interaction. My daughter forgot to lock her cage once. It was within the first two week of her getting the rat. It was not even five minutes later that my wife looked down because she felt something on her foot. The rat almost immediately found my wife and was trying to climb her leg.
Food is the best way to train a rat. we noticed that the one my daughter had would often times turn down food it liked if it thought we had something else that it liked better. I don't think I've seen too many other animals that would do that.
Its a Mercedes-Benz. After the one-percenter who originally ordered it is done with it, it gets sold to a limo company, who spends the next 5 years driving it into the ground.
It then gets shredded and recycled for the 10 tons of scrap steel that it contains.
I don't think so. Most limos are Cadillacs in the US. Granted there are obviously some specialty ones that are not, but certainly not enough to account for every Mercedes. Even so, cars like these will not be used by transportation companies very often as the overhead on gimmicky suspension stuff like this is not a money maker and too expensive to keep it going. Many cars that limo companies use get sold at auctions, and certainly do not contain anywhere near "10 tons of scrap."
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I think you are confusing THC with LSD. I suppose the world as we know it could "end" due to everyone lounging on their couches eating chips to satisfy their munchies all day though.
And even after all of that, how do we know that, once we send a generational ship, their civilization will even be standing by the time we get there. Or since the generation that invited us will (possibly) be long dead, will their descendants still be keen on the idea of a bunch of ship born ape descendants arriving on a one way trip to consume resources? Since those on a generational ship will be more or less technology stagnant and isolated, who knows what kind of superstitions they may develop, or how primitive they would seem to be once they arrived.
Besides the big Woosh the statement could be read as three sixty degree turns, which would be totaled as one-hundred eighty degrees. Or a step in the opposite direction. Of course it's a little difficult to turn 180 degrees and go where no one has gone before. Still, it makes about as much sense as most marketing speak. Every time I hear a company talking about their new product being a "quantum leap" I have to laugh.
Cadmium, indium, gallium, lead, and selenium are all used in solar panel production.
Silane gas is used in the production of Si wafers. There are several silane leaks reported each year in the US during the production of silicon wafers. Silane can spontaneously explode.Manufacturing of silane and trichlorosilane results in waste silicon tetrachloride, which is nasty stuff.
Sulfur hexafluoride is used in cleaning the reaction chambers that silicone is produced in. It's a very potent green house gas. In fact, it's 25,000 times more potent than CO2.
sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide are used on the cut edges of silicone wafers. Hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid and hydrogen fluoride are used to clean the silicone wafers during production. Phosphine or arsine gas is used in the doping of the semiconductor. Phosphorous oxychloride, phosphorous trichloride, boron bromide and boron trichloride are also used during the doping process.
Do I really need to go on? Or is there any point as you obviously choose to ignore reality.
I'd like an engineer to take a look at his plans. Claiming it is "feasible", and that it "should" be easier than a skyscraper does not exactly instill confidence.
This guy is also a physicist. It would be nice to know what a geologist would think adding a man made mountain, or three, would do to the bedrock in the mid-west.
Has he consulted with a climatologist? I suspect it would affect the local weather patterns at the very least. It would probably drastically change the weather pasterns on the east coat as well.
What about migratory birds and such?
My mistake. That's what I meant, but when I think of travel I generally think of the TSA regarding all things bad. CBP has always been courteous and professional with me. However they should not be allowed to do this.
"Expensive" is very different from "too expensive". Some countries (probably most of them other than America) value things other than money. Things like "not risking dying from radiation sickness" and "not poisoning the world for future generations" are often high on that list.
While I agree with you. "Clean" energy production is very important. I also feel that solar is not the all benevolent perfect energy source we want it to be. It is closer to what nuclear was in the 1950's/1960's. Solar panel production is very messy and creates tons of extremely toxic waste. With China trying to corner the market on solar panel production, do you really believe that they are taking great care in clean up?
It's also not been around in any meaningful way until recently. We don't know what the hell we will do with millions of tons of EOL panels. We won't know until 25 years later. Except unlike nuclear, solar panels are not limited to just a few companies.
Obviously nuclear plants can experience catastrophic failures the likes of which we should never see with solar. But unlike the disposal of fissile material, solar panel disposal is not nearly as regulated. After 25 years of use, your neighbor in West Virginia, or Nebraska may simply bury them in their back yard. Or just toss them in their field. Then it may take another 25 years or more until the heavy metals make their way into the water table. I expect they will be treated in much the same way that the old 2 meter C-band satellite dishes are. Simply left in place to rot, or cut off of their mounts and tossed on the ground to decay.
The TSA? Can they still require you to give them passwords? Or copy data from your phone?
What's to stop the police from searching a phone once in their possession in a different room once a person has been arrested? Granted, they will need a warrant to make anything they find admissible, but a warrant can be requested later once they decide it's worth the trouble.
Does this also apply to the monitoring programs that the US marshals have coached local law enforcement to lie about to judges?
"pushing the Higgs field over the energy hill and deep into the neighboring valleyâ(TM)s precipice!"
If you do not enjoy work then that is the problem to be fixed. Find a job you love.
After several decades I've decided it's better to work at something you enjoy. Every time I've done something I loved for a living, someone found a way to make me hate it.
YMMV.
It's difficult to explain as it's a fuzzy thin line. ;-)
Did the timeframe for the tournament coincide with Ballmer's time at the helm?
The state of the education system in the US has become pathetic. I've seen it for years in the primary education system. I'm a little shocked that it is now at the university level too. Especially with the prices of tuition these days. It's even more surprising when you read stories like this
I didn't RTFA, but this is /. so that's a given. As I recall, plastic is the leftover waste from refining oil. That was one of the reasons it was so revolutionary to begin with. No one knew what to do with all of those tons of leftover sludge created by the refining process. If this process can convert plastic into some kind of useful fuel, I would think it would be more efficient to do so prior to creating the plastic to begin with.
Not at all... The word is not offensive. The simple collection of letters is not offensive. It's the intent behind the use of the word that is offensive.
That's what you would think. However as I stated in my original post, people are so afraid of this one word that they will not say it even when it is appropriate and not being used in a derogatory manner. Such as quoting someone.
And so, when you put on your pointy white hat and call a black guy the n-word, it's highly offensive, because you intend it to be. When the same black guy calls his friend that, it's not offensive, because he does not intend it to be.
I hope your are speaking figuratively and not literally claiming that I I own a "pointy white hat" thus inferring that I am a member of the KKK.
Actually, you're the one that sounds like a whiny biatch: "Oh, woe is me! I'm so white and anglo-saxon, and I don't get to use terms that are highly offensive to people without being thought of as highly offensive! Boo hoo! Boo hoo! I'll just have to cry myself to sleep on my bed made of unearned privileges, dreaming of encountering police without trepidation, and earning 10-20% more the same work! Boo hoo!" Get over yourself. You're whining about the fact that you can't call people names that you know will offend them with impunity. That's one of the most pathetic things I've ever heard.
Way to make assumptions. While I'm part "Anglo", I'll certainly never be welcomed by the KKK you so kindly mentioned earlier. Additionally, I'm not whining that I can't call someone a derogatory name. I simply wish we as a people wold stop trying to segregate ourselves from each other. Either a term is OK for everyone to use, or it's not. I worked 50 hours a week on the night shift to support myself during my last two years of high school, and did the same through college and worked my ass of in the summers to pay for it. I knew so little about "the system" that I didn't even know about scholarships and grants until after I graduated. NOTHING was handed to me. And certainly nothing I've done was due to "unearned privileges". Being on your own at 15 also has issue of not having the greatest of judgement at times. So I had my fair share of run ins with the law as well in my youth.
But please, feel free to keep making assumptions of how superior you are.
Words would be either offensive or not if we were all binary beings and all thought and felt the same way about everything. Two black guys calling each other "nigger" while hanging out is much different than a white guy calling a black guy "nigger" after being cut off while in traffic, for example.
I completely agree. However it becomes murkier when it's a white, or say a Chinese guy referring to their friend as "nigga" I've had many friends who were black over the years. And have been referred to as "nigga" by a few of them. Not as a derogatory statement, but in a friendly manner. However I would never call anyone that. Being friendly or otherwise. And for what it's worth, there is a difference between "nigger" and "nigga". Even so, I find it insane how even news reporters will not quote someone directly when it comes to this term. Out of fear of getting in some kind of trouble I suppose. But if it's not being used in a derogatory manner, why does anyone care? Instead they sound like a kindergartener, "ahhh he said the N-word!". It's childish.
I've also been called a "cracka" and years ago a "honkey". As well as "kike" and a whole slew of other slurs. Frankly I've found it humorous more than anything.
And on a secondary point, I find it hugely hypocritical to complain that people are being "whiny little bitches" over something as petty as a name, but you yourself are complaining about that same thing. If getting offended about the name issue makes someone a "whiny little bitch," then you, sir, are a grade A whiny little bitch.
I realize that irony and humor often times does not translate well in text. But I figured most on /. would be smart enough to pick up on that.
I'll probably be modded a troll or flamebait just for pointing this out.
Translation: I expect and hope to be modded up now that I've said this.
Translation: Mod me on the merits of what I've stated. Not out of a knee-jerk reaction to the fnords you've been trained to react combatively to.
I'm not sure that's in the same league as Redskin. The Blackhawks were name after a Sauk chief. Redskin has been a derogatory term for Native Americans.
What about Red Mesa High School?
Yep, Red Mesa High School calls themselves the Redskins.
It's on a Navajo reservation.
Kinda blows up that "derogatory" claim, doesn't that?
Yes, just like the rap group NWA (Nigga's With Attitude). Or that the term "nigga" has been embraced by many in poorer parts of the black community. Please feel free to use that term to describe someone while in any inner city. I'm sure once you make this rational argument everything will be fine.
Actually the term "nigger" has become so offensive that just stating it is somehow offensive. Even when not using it as derogatory term but to quote someone. I'll probably be modded a troll or flamebait just for pointing this out. Grown educated people have gotten to the point that they now sound like 6 year old children. I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I here people call it "The N-word".
Many younger people of the Jewish faith refer to each other as "heeb". There's even a "Heeb Magazine" But you can't be a (black or white) non-Hebrew and use this term.
Gays are allowed to, and do you the term "fag". But if you're heterosexual, and refer to someone as a "fag" it's homophobic.
I really hate this kind of crap. If it's alright for one group of people to use a term, but not another it's racist. Either the term is offensive, or it isn't. There's no modifier because of the color of your skin, your ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. And what ever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me"? We've turned into a society of whiny little bitches. Oh damn, someone is going to accuse me of being discriminatory toward female canines and claim that I kill puppies.(/sarcasm)
The board of directors might disagree.
What part of "no single position within the company over the CEO" did I not state clearly? Additionally, Ms. Mayer is on the board of directors So unless she catches a case of schizophrenia, it would be pretty heard for her to disagree with herself.
Insinuating that female workers "fare worse" at Yahoo is akin to insinuating that there is rampant sexism and a glass ceiling going on there, which is most likely simply untrue.
It's a little difficult to believe there is a "glass ceiling" at Yahoo considering Marissa Mayer is in the highest position in the company. I'm pretty sure she's a woman, and there is no single position within the company over the CEO.
Unless Domino's is offering baby seal chunks and fried panda bear slices as toppings, I'm no sure how this is worth ten cents, let alone what they are asking for. Other than the embarrassment of having inadequate security. But that's already out of the bag.
It comes at a time when President Barack Obama has said he welcomes a debate on government surveillance and called for more transparency about spying in the wake of disclosures about classified federal surveillance programs.
It's pretty easy to welcome "debate" when you've already determined the outcome before a single word has been spoken. It also looks like "transparency" now means the opposite of its traditional meaning. Kind of like how literally can mean figuratively, bad is good, etc.
It's not really that surprising. Rats are pretty smart. Especially compared to many other rodents. My daughter had a pet rat, it was pretty surprising how attached my wife got to it. We had originally planned to let her get two rats because they are very social and do better in pairs. But the one my daughter picked did not like other rats at all. The people at the pet store said that she got into some pretty nasty fights with any other rats, even the ones from her original litter. But she really craved human interaction. My daughter forgot to lock her cage once. It was within the first two week of her getting the rat. It was not even five minutes later that my wife looked down because she felt something on her foot. The rat almost immediately found my wife and was trying to climb her leg.
Food is the best way to train a rat. we noticed that the one my daughter had would often times turn down food it liked if it thought we had something else that it liked better. I don't think I've seen too many other animals that would do that.
Its a Mercedes-Benz. After the one-percenter who originally ordered it is done with it, it gets sold to a limo company, who spends the next 5 years driving it into the ground.
It then gets shredded and recycled for the 10 tons of scrap steel that it contains.
I don't think so. Most limos are Cadillacs in the US. Granted there are obviously some specialty ones that are not, but certainly not enough to account for every Mercedes. Even so, cars like these will not be used by transportation companies very often as the overhead on gimmicky suspension stuff like this is not a money maker and too expensive to keep it going. Many cars that limo companies use get sold at auctions, and certainly do not contain anywhere near "10 tons of scrap."
American SUVs have been leaning over while turning for decades!
FTFY