Yes, but 10 sec would be better, eh?
I don't expect to see this at anybody's home, but a commercial charging system that could refuel an electric vehicle faster than you could refuel an ICE vehicle would be a huge boon to electric vehicles. It would answer a lot (but not all) of the 'what happens if I go too far?' questions. Right now, if you go too far, you end up begging someone to plug in your vehicle in their wall socket or get towed. If a charging system were available at traditional gas stations, then you could pull in and be ready to go in under a minute.
If the powers of the government are not those listed in the constitution, then what are the powers? Can they do literally anything they (the government currently in power) want to do?
Yes, things have changed in a few hundred years. That's why the constitution can be amended. You know, someone proposes an amendment, we talk about it, people vote on it, etc. You can't just say 'things are different' and then ignore it because then there is no basis for discussion of what the government can or should do.
It's all terminology, but you sound like weak atheist, meaning without belief in god. Agnostic means that you can't know. Strong atheist is believing there is no god.
I think that you missed his point. I love Dawkin's writings. They are clear and amusing, even when I don't agree with him.
But, I hate listening to his talks. His voice is annoying, he's prissy, he's rude. He is, in the words of the GP "callously disrespectful" of questioners.
He is, unfortunately, a poor spokesman for atheists. I think when he gives talks he is counterproductive to his own mission.
You have scientific works done by Young earth scientists which is now actually the accepted idea for the creation of some canyons and low lands in western the United states that were created in weeks and days instead of millions of years.
As a long-time anti-creationist, this is news to me. The history of the fights about the Channeled Scablands are fascinating, but I don't think that Bretz was a YEC. Like Wegener's continental drift or Joseph Hart's idea's about iron deficiency, it has taken decades and decades to establish accurate scientific understanding. Is that what you are referring to?
I really don't know of any creationist ideas that contributed to the advancement of science.
Point of order: The proposed amendment was about non-human primates, not specifically monkeys. The chimpanzee that attacked a woman and was shot was not a monkey, it was an ape.
I know, I know, you don't care, but monkey != ape. Thank you, and now back to arguing about how stupid and corrupt Illinois is.
Well, a grid-tied inverter is just a bunch of power electronics, right?
And so the cost should drop dramatically when we start producing more of them and more companies get into the business of producing them, right?
If you were producing only a small number of cell phones, the price would be ridiculously high, but since they are producing millions, the price is pretty low.
I find it hard to believe that it's much of a financial burden in the long term either.
Yes, a month's salary is a 'lot' of money, but compared to a corporation's income, it's just not much. The cost to a company to have the internal reputation of firing people when they have a miscarriage is worse. The morale and dedication of the employees is important enough (at least in the companies that I have been in) to warrant a month or two extra pay to gracefully move someone out.
First, we have to determine 1) if it is worth spending so much money and, likely, lives to go visit. And for that you can send a robot and 2) where to go when you send a human, and for that you can send a robot.
Yes, we will have send a person, but it makes sense to send a robot first, and send an orbiter to map the crap out of it. I'm as impatient as anyone, but a robot first makes more sense.
Now that we have decided that it's pretty interesting and have some data about what is where, _now_ is the time that we should be figuring out where to send the person and start doing it.
I just don't see robot versus human exploration as an either-or proposition.
It is a reasonable idea that somebody distributing nude pictures as advertisements should be ruled after the same standards as somebody distributing these as content of the magazine.
No, it is not reasonable.
The rights and responsibilities for primary producers of material are different than those that perform 3rd party distribution for others. Slashdot does not have the same responsibility for the content of the posters that the LA Times does for its reporters. You cannot sue Slashdot because a third person posts libel.
Also for example, EBay and Craigslist do not have the same responsibility to control the sale of stolen items that someone who is doing the selling does. Similarly, an amateur porn site does not have the same responsibility to verify the age of the people on the site that a primary porn producer does. The fact that it is porn (or advertisements for 3-ways) doesn't change the person responsible for the material.
Also see www.tinaja.com/glib/hack64.pdf for a review of the dismal Carnot efficiency of modest temperature drops.
It's pretty well understood that you need a big temperature drop. That's why they don't use a small temperature drop. If it doesn't work then what are these people doing?
Frankly, solar thermal makes more sense to me (see Nevada Solar One, or the Solel project), but sterling engines work too.
The problem with that is that there is no way Congressmen/Congresswomen would want their wireless logs and their lobbyist's wireless logs out in the public domain. You can be certain of that. Trust congressional self-interest to keep a bill such as this from ever seeing the light of day.
But, it is easy enough for them to write themselves a loophole. If you are the government, then you don't need to keep the log. See?
Why on earth do you think that 'simply sending the girl to detention' would result in the student doing anything? The student just says 'no' and sits there. What then? You have already lost teaching time for the entire class. Arguing with the student just lowers respect for the teacher / emphasizes the powerlessness of the teacher. The teacher really cannot lay a hand on the student and if the child does not move, then it takes the school cop to come in and enforce. And you're back to the exact same situation, with the cops taking the student off.
The teacher did the only thing that can be done, call in someone who can enforce discipline.
We already have to justify experiments on chimpanzees, gorillas, and other (non-human) animals. And we have to go through all sorts of hoops to do experiments on humans. The question would be which of the justification procedures we would need to go through.
I second this. He has some really great columns, including some about the Bell numbers, topology of Moebius strips and crypto.
Also, I've recently finished 'How Round Is Your Circle' subtitled 'Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet'. If you students can learn that mathematics is not purely abstract, it might keep them more interested.
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Yes, but 10 sec would be better, eh? I don't expect to see this at anybody's home, but a commercial charging system that could refuel an electric vehicle faster than you could refuel an ICE vehicle would be a huge boon to electric vehicles. It would answer a lot (but not all) of the 'what happens if I go too far?' questions. Right now, if you go too far, you end up begging someone to plug in your vehicle in their wall socket or get towed. If a charging system were available at traditional gas stations, then you could pull in and be ready to go in under a minute.
If the powers of the government are not those listed in the constitution, then what are the powers? Can they do literally anything they (the government currently in power) want to do?
Yes, things have changed in a few hundred years. That's why the constitution can be amended. You know, someone proposes an amendment, we talk about it, people vote on it, etc. You can't just say 'things are different' and then ignore it because then there is no basis for discussion of what the government can or should do.
For the love of gawd, mod this up, fanboys!
It's all terminology, but you sound like weak atheist, meaning without belief in god. Agnostic means that you can't know. Strong atheist is believing there is no god.
I think that you missed his point. I love Dawkin's writings. They are clear and amusing, even when I don't agree with him.
But, I hate listening to his talks. His voice is annoying, he's prissy, he's rude. He is, in the words of the GP "callously disrespectful" of questioners.
He is, unfortunately, a poor spokesman for atheists. I think when he gives talks he is counterproductive to his own mission.
I"m not sure that's a good way to put it. I'd put it:
Religion makes up stories that explain the unknown, and then complains when Science comes along and makes them known.
You have scientific works done by Young earth scientists which is now actually the accepted idea for the creation of some canyons and low lands in western the United states that were created in weeks and days instead of millions of years.
As a long-time anti-creationist, this is news to me. The history of the fights about the Channeled Scablands are fascinating, but I don't think that Bretz was a YEC. Like Wegener's continental drift or Joseph Hart's idea's about iron deficiency, it has taken decades and decades to establish accurate scientific understanding. Is that what you are referring to?
I really don't know of any creationist ideas that contributed to the advancement of science.
Point of order: The proposed amendment was about non-human primates, not specifically monkeys. The chimpanzee that attacked a woman and was shot was not a monkey, it was an ape.
I know, I know, you don't care, but monkey != ape. Thank you, and now back to arguing about how stupid and corrupt Illinois is.
Well, a grid-tied inverter is just a bunch of power electronics, right?
And so the cost should drop dramatically when we start producing more of them and more companies get into the business of producing them, right?
If you were producing only a small number of cell phones, the price would be ridiculously high, but since they are producing millions, the price is pretty low.
I find it hard to believe that it's much of a financial burden in the long term either.
Yes, a month's salary is a 'lot' of money, but compared to a corporation's income, it's just not much. The cost to a company to have the internal reputation of firing people when they have a miscarriage is worse. The morale and dedication of the employees is important enough (at least in the companies that I have been in) to warrant a month or two extra pay to gracefully move someone out.
I'd do them, but in reverse order. After not washing my hands.
Because most of their work is PR?
First, we have to determine 1) if it is worth spending so much money and, likely, lives to go visit. And for that you can send a robot and 2) where to go when you send a human, and for that you can send a robot.
Yes, we will have send a person, but it makes sense to send a robot first, and send an orbiter to map the crap out of it. I'm as impatient as anyone, but a robot first makes more sense.
Now that we have decided that it's pretty interesting and have some data about what is where, _now_ is the time that we should be figuring out where to send the person and start doing it.
I just don't see robot versus human exploration as an either-or proposition.
It is a reasonable idea that somebody distributing nude pictures as advertisements should be ruled after the same standards as somebody distributing these as content of the magazine.
No, it is not reasonable.
The rights and responsibilities for primary producers of material are different than those that perform 3rd party distribution for others. Slashdot does not have the same responsibility for the content of the posters that the LA Times does for its reporters. You cannot sue Slashdot because a third person posts libel.
Also for example, EBay and Craigslist do not have the same responsibility to control the sale of stolen items that someone who is doing the selling does. Similarly, an amateur porn site does not have the same responsibility to verify the age of the people on the site that a primary porn producer does. The fact that it is porn (or advertisements for 3-ways) doesn't change the person responsible for the material.
Stirling engines will never be economical.
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Also see www.tinaja.com/glib/hack64.pdf for a review of the dismal Carnot efficiency of modest temperature drops.
It's pretty well understood that you need a big temperature drop. That's why they don't use a small temperature drop. If it doesn't work then what are these people doing?
Frankly, solar thermal makes more sense to me (see Nevada Solar One, or the Solel project), but sterling engines work too.
The problem with that is that there is no way Congressmen/Congresswomen would want their wireless logs and their lobbyist's wireless logs out in the public domain. You can be certain of that. Trust congressional self-interest to keep a bill such as this from ever seeing the light of day.
But, it is easy enough for them to write themselves a loophole. If you are the government, then you don't need to keep the log. See?
While this may or not be true, why on earth do you think that you'll get access to them after your version gets corrupted?
If you don't test the backup periodically, then you aren't doing a real backup. You're just copying random stuff.
Bad analogy. In this case, the student was shoplifting, and shoved the cucumber in her pants, and ....um...where was I?
Oh, yes, seen shoplifting, lied about it, and would not return the item. then the cops were called.
Kids don't show up, and if you try to bring the parents in, they complain that it messes up their schedule. They are busy, for goodness sake!
Why on earth do you think that 'simply sending the girl to detention' would result in the student doing anything? The student just says 'no' and sits there. What then? You have already lost teaching time for the entire class. Arguing with the student just lowers respect for the teacher / emphasizes the powerlessness of the teacher. The teacher really cannot lay a hand on the student and if the child does not move, then it takes the school cop to come in and enforce. And you're back to the exact same situation, with the cops taking the student off.
The teacher did the only thing that can be done, call in someone who can enforce discipline.
And, no, calling the parents doesn't work either.
I'll take obscure movie references for $500, Alex.
We already have to justify experiments on chimpanzees, gorillas, and other (non-human) animals. And we have to go through all sorts of hoops to do experiments on humans. The question would be which of the justification procedures we would need to go through.
Citation needed.
Consider, for example:
http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/Genetic/guide/activity2-1.htm
It says 0.1% between individuals.
And so does http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_variation
I second this. He has some really great columns, including some about the Bell numbers, topology of Moebius strips and crypto.
Also, I've recently finished 'How Round Is Your Circle' subtitled 'Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet'. If you students can learn that mathematics is not purely abstract, it might keep them more interested.