A little, see this table for details. Southern California is densely populated due to its ideal climate. Unfortunately, the climate is also one of the reasons for its terrible air pollution.
in Cali apparently you just crank the AC a little higher and wonder why the power bill is so high.
Depending on the part of California you are talking about, many parts of Southern California have a Mediterranean climate. This means the ambient air temperature is near typical room temperature for most of the year, and makes heat an air conditioning unnecessary.
Now that you've confirmed it, what are your thoughts?
I think she was trying to say that there are people out there like Timothy McVeigh and David Koresh, that we should worry about. This has always been the case. Unfortunately, her description was so broad it ended up describing everyone in the USA.
I also think that when the right wing is in control, there tends to be more left wing extremism, and vise versa. If she explained it that way, more people would understand.
I agree that the document should be redacted. It really serves no purpose, as everyone knows those kinds of people exist. Her poor choice of words only made things worse.
Better aricles: US News and World Report. Washington Post Associated Press
It took me a while to find as some of the spelling is different than above. No offense, but I need to hear something that inflammatory from a source other than a blog.
the recent homeland security advisory painting people who support the right to own firearms and who object to the outrageous spending going on as "rightwing extremists" and "potential terrorists"
You wouldn't happen to have a citation for this information, do you?
The devices are very capable and some are quite inexpensive
Speaking of capable and inexpensive, did anybody notice the way those robots were watering the tomatoes? Does anybody else think that was an overcomplicated way of doing that? Why do the robots have to drive over to each plant to water it? Can't they just have some hoses going to each plant, with a valve that opens when the sensor says the soil is dry? Heck, you can build an EarthTrainer out of stuff laying around the house that will water your tomatoes automatically without any electronics.
The reason why we can't do this separation is because we don't want to encourage rogue nations like Iran and North Korea from developing nuclear weapons.
From what I understand, doing this separation would inadvertently violate a section of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Currently, several nations, including the US are looking for a solution. The most promising appears to be a third party (IAEA?) reprocessing facility, in which all nations could send their spent fuel to be reprocessed and returned.
We should put nuclear waste on rockets and shoot them into space.
<sarcasm > Yeah, and we can use the nuclear waste to shoot down all of those defunct satellites floating out there too. Two birds with one stone! </sarcasm>
Lets take this a bit further and say that if certain groups haven't scared the hell out of people about nuclear, we wouldn't have so many coal plants in the US.
I think the problem with carbon sequestration is that most of the schemes don't pass a sense check. Perhaps if someone were to present a detailed proposal about how it works, I might buy it. However, all of the proposals I've read don't make any sense.
Examples:
Bury the CO2 - Why won't it leak back up to the surface?
Bury Plant Matter - Why not burn the plants instead of coal?
Convert CO2 into some other chemical, and bury that - The laws of thermodynamics would like to have a word with you.
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Does it cool down much overnight?
A little, see this table for details. Southern California is densely populated due to its ideal climate. Unfortunately, the climate is also one of the reasons for its terrible air pollution.
probably the first of such satellites they admit having launched
That would imply the first satellite India admits launching. I'm talking about any country.
In other words, none of these are worthwhile unless you absolutely can not throw up one big windmill instead of five small.
I'd like to know how the Windbelt would fair in this test.
Popular Mechanics article on the Windbelt.
in Cali apparently you just crank the AC a little higher and wonder why the power bill is so high.
Depending on the part of California you are talking about, many parts of Southern California have a Mediterranean climate. This means the ambient air temperature is near typical room temperature for most of the year, and makes heat an air conditioning unnecessary.
India Launches Its First All-Weather Spy Satellite
How are they so sure? They're probably just the first country to admit having one.
...something tells me that neither Geithner nor Ruffini understand deeply what venture capital is all about.
Ponzi schemes... Duh!
Straight out of Public Relations 101.
Now that you've confirmed it, what are your thoughts?
I think she was trying to say that there are people out there like Timothy McVeigh and David Koresh, that we should worry about. This has always been the case. Unfortunately, her description was so broad it ended up describing everyone in the USA.
I also think that when the right wing is in control, there tends to be more left wing extremism, and vise versa. If she explained it that way, more people would understand.
I agree that the document should be redacted. It really serves no purpose, as everyone knows those kinds of people exist. Her poor choice of words only made things worse.
Better aricles:
US News and World Report.
Washington Post
Associated Press
It took me a while to find as some of the spelling is different than above. No offense, but I need to hear something that inflammatory from a source other than a blog.
only use software on OS X that is bought from the Apple store. It's not a practical or useful policy at this point.
Apple tells you to do exactly that, and people do it!
Here's the best part of that document for anyone that thinks you are being paranoid:
I ran a search on the text of that "document." All I found were a bunch of right wing political blogs. Do you have a verifiable source?
Sure, it blocks Google... but it does it safely.
the recent homeland security advisory painting people who support the right to own firearms and who object to the outrageous spending going on as "rightwing extremists" and "potential terrorists"
You wouldn't happen to have a citation for this information, do you?
Sorry, how does conficker spread again?
Conflicker wasn't spread by users, it was spread by superusers.
For trojans such as we're discussing, no OS has a good solution in place, excepting maybe SELinux...
If you use the Debian/Ubuntu repositories, I guarantee you won't get a trojan. Unfortunately, not everyone does...
The 7000 lumen one like he's playing around with would be nice if you want to build a projector that doesn't require a light-controlled environment
Screw a projector, I'm using it to burn out the CCDs on those infernal red light cameras!
Intoxicating enemas are the next big thing.
Dude, I think it's time to seek some help. Actually, I think it's WAY past that point.
This is just another reason why DRM is not a benefit to the consumer and why consumers should *not* support DRM.
Which reminds me, anybody know the status on TechCrunch's open source tablet?
The devices are very capable and some are quite inexpensive
Speaking of capable and inexpensive, did anybody notice the way those robots were watering the tomatoes? Does anybody else think that was an overcomplicated way of doing that? Why do the robots have to drive over to each plant to water it? Can't they just have some hoses going to each plant, with a valve that opens when the sensor says the soil is dry? Heck, you can build an EarthTrainer out of stuff laying around the house that will water your tomatoes automatically without any electronics.
All of the parts appear to be readily available off-the-shelf parts.
The base is an iRobot Create.
The arm appears to be a modified Lynxmotion AL5C.
Plus a generic laptop, webcam, etc.
The reason why we can't do this separation is because we don't want to encourage rogue nations like Iran and North Korea from developing nuclear weapons.
From what I understand, doing this separation would inadvertently violate a section of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Currently, several nations, including the US are looking for a solution. The most promising appears to be a third party (IAEA?) reprocessing facility, in which all nations could send their spent fuel to be reprocessed and returned.
We should put nuclear waste on rockets and shoot them into space.
<sarcasm > Yeah, and we can use the nuclear waste to shoot down all of those defunct satellites floating out there too. Two birds with one stone! </sarcasm>
Lets take this a bit further and say that if certain groups haven't scared the hell out of people about nuclear, we wouldn't have so many coal plants in the US.
Certain Groups?
While I agree that we should take another look at nuclear, I think nuclear did the scaring all by itself.
China is going to keep burning coal until there's no coal left to burn or something cheaper is found.
True, but there is something to be said for the old adage, "lead by example."
See Carbon sequestration
I think the problem with carbon sequestration is that most of the schemes don't pass a sense check. Perhaps if someone were to present a detailed proposal about how it works, I might buy it. However, all of the proposals I've read don't make any sense.
Examples:
Bury the CO2 - Why won't it leak back up to the surface?
Bury Plant Matter - Why not burn the plants instead of coal?
Convert CO2 into some other chemical, and bury that - The laws of thermodynamics would like to have a word with you.