Would have been nice to post a screenshot since the ads change with every page load. As far as I can tell this is completely made up.
Also, the idea that you can get Facebook to post lies by paying them is their entire business model. OK, OK, the 99% of marketing that is lies give the other 1% a bad name, sure, but really - any advertising-based business is the business of displaying lies for money.
Whipslash really seems to like his "daily story about why you shouldn't use Facebook" though, so I guess we're doomed to repeat this discussion.
You go back and forth between energy and power, in some of your posts that's in a way that would make it look like an ordinary rocket engine also failed to conserve energy, at some speed.
Conflating energy and power confuses the issue, and it's the sort of confusion that led to any discussions of airplanes on a treadmill getting you banned for trolling on a lot of forums back then that was a meme.
One way to think about power is momentum * acceleration. If momentum is not conserved, the fact that you get an odd result when calculating power does not imply that energy is not conserved.
Maybe there's some clever roundabout way that you could use an engine that doesn't conserve momentum to break conservation of energy (e.g., the demonstration that wormholes violate causality is so roundabout that most people can't follow it), but arguing from power isn't the way.
All of which is a moot point, because the math behind conservation of momentum is too solid. A device that appears to violate conservation of momentum tells us that there's something fundamental we're missing about momentum, not that momentum is not conserved.
The discovery that photons have momentum overturned no Newtonian experiments. The discovery that what is conserved is not actually momentum, but relativistic 4-momementum overturned no Newtonian experiments.
Conservation of energy is even messier, BTW. There's lots of ways to argue from GR, or from the expansion of the universe, that energy isn't technically conserved - but those arguments don't overturn any experiments either, nor are they going to let me build a perpetual motion machine.
Conservation of energy and momentum are a consequence of Noether's theorem applied to time and space.
Conservation of momentum can only be wrong if there's something different about the universe based on position. Seems unlikely, but if so, this drive would only work in certain orientations.
Vastly more likely: if this thing works, we once again need to widen our understanding of "momentum", just as we did with relativity and with QM.
You're trying to argue "we don't understand how it could work, so it can't possibly work." That's full of shit. You can argue that we should be highly skeptical, sure, that's fine, but experiment trumps theory. Always.
"One experiment trumps a thousand expert opinions." - Feynman
If it works, it works. In any case, it's not a perpetual motion machine. As long as the total gain in kinetic energy remains less than the required electrical energy, it's not over unity.
"Performance bonus" is nominally a different thing than "salary", though of course both get paid no matter what. Winterkorn is an executive, not a manager. An since he was chairman of the board and thus could set his own compensation, it's hardly surprising he decided he was worth that much even as a failure.
Citigroup paid out $5.3 billion in "performance bonuses" in 2008, the same year the federal government had to bail them out because the company at $39 billion dollars in sub-prime mortgage backed securities
The sub-prime bailout were nothing but handing taxpayer money to banking executives. They had no other purpose, and achieved no other goal.
The idea that "performance bonuses" have anything to do with accountability for results is ludicrous. They have everything to do with that these people are powerful enough to write the rules for themselves.
Well, yeah, so what kind of idiot would own stock in a financial company?
So then you haven't been directly involved in something journalists were reporting on. MAKING SHIT UP is 90% of journalism. It's creative writing inspired by real events. The only 10% that's not is the sports page.
The Breitbart site, just so you know, is a bit of an embarassment to the mainstream internet-savvy right. Breitbart was a hero, exposing the lies of the left (and mostly, the unwillingness to cover any story that hurts the left in any way). I think he'd be appalled at the web site's low bar for editorial fact-checking.
I think it will take another 10 years or so before it happens: people stop giving clicks to clickbait sites. Once the financial incentive to constantly invent clickbaity stories dies, integrity will climb.
Sadly the modern RPGs have mostly forked into storytelling games and combat simulators. Neither of which teaches map reading, nor critical thinking and cost benefit analysis (beyond googling build optimization for the combat games).
I still love the old school though, and the success of Pathfinder shows that D&D 3x still has staying power for a system that can teach useful things, even if it's not as crazy open-eneded as really old school RPGs.
I print something about once a month, and it is almost always needed to interact with either the government or a lawyer. Otherwise, my office is paperless. There are appropriate uses for paper, but business documents are not one of them.
Same here. The only physical paper I interact with is government forms - and those are increasingly going electronic. I also had no physical paper involved in leasing my current apartment, other than a cashier's check at the beginning.
All business workflows are electronic. Audit trails are everywhere, and protected well enough to satisfy government auditors.
Well, metal is banned by the HAs that most people live under the iron rule of these days. But if he's not comparing to mainstream fask-asphalt roofing, that's certainly cheating.
"Managers" don't get millions in salary anywhere. The word you want is "executives", and even then it's very rare for anyone to have more than a million in salary. Heck, it's very rare for anyone beyond the CEO and CFO to make more than a million in total comp.
Which does wonders when sharing scripts with your team/friends.
Heck, think of this in terms of what you're going to have to repeat 3 times over the phone to elderly relatives. (OK, I just tell them "get a Mac" and then "oh, I know nothing about Mac, try my brother", but my solution may not be general.)
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People think there is something perverse about anything related to Hugh Hefner.
No, really, if you find Hugh Hefner sexy you're working a fairly bizarre fetish there.
Would have been nice to post a screenshot since the ads change with every page load. As far as I can tell this is completely made up.
Also, the idea that you can get Facebook to post lies by paying them is their entire business model. OK, OK, the 99% of marketing that is lies give the other 1% a bad name, sure, but really - any advertising-based business is the business of displaying lies for money.
Whipslash really seems to like his "daily story about why you shouldn't use Facebook" though, so I guess we're doomed to repeat this discussion.
You go back and forth between energy and power, in some of your posts that's in a way that would make it look like an ordinary rocket engine also failed to conserve energy, at some speed.
Conflating energy and power confuses the issue, and it's the sort of confusion that led to any discussions of airplanes on a treadmill getting you banned for trolling on a lot of forums back then that was a meme.
One way to think about power is momentum * acceleration. If momentum is not conserved, the fact that you get an odd result when calculating power does not imply that energy is not conserved.
Maybe there's some clever roundabout way that you could use an engine that doesn't conserve momentum to break conservation of energy (e.g., the demonstration that wormholes violate causality is so roundabout that most people can't follow it), but arguing from power isn't the way.
All of which is a moot point, because the math behind conservation of momentum is too solid. A device that appears to violate conservation of momentum tells us that there's something fundamental we're missing about momentum, not that momentum is not conserved.
The discovery that photons have momentum overturned no Newtonian experiments. The discovery that what is conserved is not actually momentum, but relativistic 4-momementum overturned no Newtonian experiments.
Conservation of energy is even messier, BTW. There's lots of ways to argue from GR, or from the expansion of the universe, that energy isn't technically conserved - but those arguments don't overturn any experiments either, nor are they going to let me build a perpetual motion machine.
Conservation of energy and momentum are a consequence of Noether's theorem applied to time and space.
Conservation of momentum can only be wrong if there's something different about the universe based on position. Seems unlikely, but if so, this drive would only work in certain orientations.
Vastly more likely: if this thing works, we once again need to widen our understanding of "momentum", just as we did with relativity and with QM.
You're trying to argue "we don't understand how it could work, so it can't possibly work." That's full of shit. You can argue that we should be highly skeptical, sure, that's fine, but experiment trumps theory. Always.
Your entire post is nonsense. You're "not even wrong".
If it works at all, then presumably the prototype didn't stumble on the most efficient possible design.
At what point does an airplane on a treadmill cause 0.99999 to equal 1. Stop trolling, you're in too deep.
"One experiment trumps a thousand expert opinions." - Feynman
If it works, it works. In any case, it's not a perpetual motion machine. As long as the total gain in kinetic energy remains less than the required electrical energy, it's not over unity.
There's no problem with conservation of energy - the thing is plenty power hungry.
"Performance bonus" is nominally a different thing than "salary", though of course both get paid no matter what. Winterkorn is an executive, not a manager. An since he was chairman of the board and thus could set his own compensation, it's hardly surprising he decided he was worth that much even as a failure.
Citigroup paid out $5.3 billion in "performance bonuses" in 2008, the same year the federal government had to bail them out because the company at $39 billion dollars in sub-prime mortgage backed securities
The sub-prime bailout were nothing but handing taxpayer money to banking executives. They had no other purpose, and achieved no other goal.
The idea that "performance bonuses" have anything to do with accountability for results is ludicrous. They have everything to do with that these people are powerful enough to write the rules for themselves.
Well, yeah, so what kind of idiot would own stock in a financial company?
http://i.imgur.com/fsMzsS8.png
You have a problem. The walls of your echo chamber have become impermeable. This will make you increasingly unhappy and unsuccessful over time.
http://i.imgur.com/fsMzsS8.png
So then you haven't been directly involved in something journalists were reporting on. MAKING SHIT UP is 90% of journalism. It's creative writing inspired by real events. The only 10% that's not is the sports page.
http://i.imgur.com/fsMzsS8.png
The other news sites are simply the DNC propaganda division.
The Breitbart site, just so you know, is a bit of an embarassment to the mainstream internet-savvy right. Breitbart was a hero, exposing the lies of the left (and mostly, the unwillingness to cover any story that hurts the left in any way). I think he'd be appalled at the web site's low bar for editorial fact-checking.
I think it will take another 10 years or so before it happens: people stop giving clicks to clickbait sites. Once the financial incentive to constantly invent clickbaity stories dies, integrity will climb.
Sadly the modern RPGs have mostly forked into storytelling games and combat simulators. Neither of which teaches map reading, nor critical thinking and cost benefit analysis (beyond googling build optimization for the combat games).
I still love the old school though, and the success of Pathfinder shows that D&D 3x still has staying power for a system that can teach useful things, even if it's not as crazy open-eneded as really old school RPGs.
I print something about once a month, and it is almost always needed to interact with either the government or a lawyer. Otherwise, my office is paperless. There are appropriate uses for paper, but business documents are not one of them.
Same here. The only physical paper I interact with is government forms - and those are increasingly going electronic. I also had no physical paper involved in leasing my current apartment, other than a cashier's check at the beginning.
All business workflows are electronic. Audit trails are everywhere, and protected well enough to satisfy government auditors.
Well, metal is banned by the HAs that most people live under the iron rule of these days. But if he's not comparing to mainstream fask-asphalt roofing, that's certainly cheating.
"Managers" don't get millions in salary anywhere. The word you want is "executives", and even then it's very rare for anyone to have more than a million in salary. Heck, it's very rare for anyone beyond the CEO and CFO to make more than a million in total comp.
Yet Volkswagen Group has sold more cars in the first ten months of 2016 than they did in the first ten months of 2015.
Volkswagon Group owns many car brands. Each is more-or-less its own company that has to justify its existence on that basis.
You can always set aliases for any cmdlet.
Which does wonders when sharing scripts with your team/friends.
Heck, think of this in terms of what you're going to have to repeat 3 times over the phone to elderly relatives. (OK, I just tell them "get a Mac" and then "oh, I know nothing about Mac, try my brother", but my solution may not be general.)
It's fair to limit it to fireproof roof products, since the old "burn the neighborhood down" kind are increasingly banned for new buildings.
Usable!
Now MS has reached the level of usability of naming commands intuitive things like "grep", only with lots more typing.
Curiously, the tracker went down only a couple hours after the new Metallica album showed up on the site.
Coincidence?
LAAAAAAAARS!
Money gooood!