Presumably the core is still hot, even if there isn't active volcanism and plate tectonics
The core being hot is one of the causes, not an effect, of plate tectonics.
Planets such as Mars and Earth have hot cores because of the decomposition of radioactive isotopes. That's also what causes helium to appear in underground deposits of gas and oil.
In a physics lab course I took in college we measured the amount of radioactive gases emitted by the walls in a basement. We put a fan blowing air through a filter paper for two weeks in a sealed basement room, then measured the amount of radioactive substances in that paper. Another piece of paper from the same batch that had been kept in an envelope was used as control.
For a system that won't be in beta until next year, you are quite positive. Were these the same predictions you made before Vista went into beta? Just curious.
where can you escape to now ? Our multinational overlords are everywhere.
Not satisfied with the Ford overlord? Escape to the Toyota overlord. What's the point you're trying to argue?
The post you replied to mentioned that a single world government would be bad because there would be no alternative governments. You replied with a tired 19th century meme of Marxist ideology that some mods thought insightful.
It's not a valid analogy at all. A single world government would be like a single multinational corporation. The current system of many countries is equivalent to the current system of many corporations. Governments have alliances among themselves, like corporations have joint ventures, but they are different entities with different priorities.
Please learn to get your analogies right. And get rid of that Marxist set of dogmas. An ideology created for the industrial environment of 1849 is definitely out of date today. Victorian bric-a-brac may be charming for tea parties, but not practical for everyday use.
I have an old Popular Mechanics magazine from the 1940s showing a trick they used while building the Grand Coulee dam. They tied a string to a cat's tail, put the cat into the gallery, and scared it with a blast of compressed air. Cats hate the hissing sound that compressed air makes.
Perhaps a robot would be more reliable, no danger of it stopping midways to take a nap, but using cats to pull CAT5 cables seem very appropriate to me.
we'd all chip in to give you the bare necessities of life
The poorest person in the USA gets much more than the bare necessities by digging in trash dumpsters. That is, if you define "bare necessities" as surviving.
When you get as much food as you need not to starve, as much clothes as you need not to freeze, you want more. It's human nature, no one is ever satisfied.
If it were defined by law that the government had to supply the bare necessities, very soon there would be pressure to include perfumes, because being socially acceptable is a necessity, and video games, you cannot live without entertainment.
If rich and poor in the US had an equal chance of winning elections then Congress wouldn't consist almost exclusively of multimillionaires.
How many times have you seen the sentence "correlation is not causation"?
If someone has the drive and persistence needed to succeed at winning an election for Congress then it's reasonable to assume that this person would also succeed at becoming a rich person.
I can just see a telecom sending a disabled vet a notice saying that he has exceeded his data cap for his wireless network and will now be charged $20 per each additional MB.
If it gets heavily regulated he could be arrested for masturbating himself, because if he pays for sex it's prostitution.
Unfortunately that means you have to wear a spandex bodysuit all the time. That's not going to be desirable to someone who just wants to wear shorts and go for a walk in the park without looking weird.
If only there existed a way to make skin-colored spandex...
Sometimes you just want to use a tool for a simple task, it's not about getting a degree. I'll give you one example: I recently built a computer desk with an aluminum frame. Not having aluminum welding equipment, I had to assemble it with bolts and rivets. Besides being unsightly, those joints aren't as strong as welded joints would be. If I had a MIG or TIG welding rig for a couple of hours I could have a much better desk.
The word "internet" does not appear even once in the US Constitution.... As such Congress is perfectly able legislate restrictions on internet use
Ahem... wrong!
Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
If it's not in the Constitution, Congress cannot make any laws about it. AFAIK, that's why abortion is legal in the USA, because it's not mentioned in the Constitution.
I'm in central Europe... There's going to be snow on Christmas
Unless this "Europe" you are referring to is some village in Africa, what's so strange about that? Even in the warmest parts of Europe, in the southern part of that continent, it occasionally snows on Christmas.
the porn industry is beginning to self-regulate as it naturally discovering that booby-trap sites tend to quickly turn into financial drag
The porn industry has the means to get profit from the most unbelievable practices.
There are sites with thumbnail galleries where you click on a thumbnail to get a page with porn pictures. These are usually ads for paid porn, usually low-res versions of pictures or trailers of videos.
Now, some of those thumbnails send you to another thumbnail page. This new page sends you to yet another thumbnail page and so on, in a seemingly infinite loop. Where do they get profit from those endless loops?
it isn't clear what Bell's theorem implies as soon as you make quantum mechanics properly relativistic and time reversible within a closed physical universe, so that the measurement process it relies on no longer involves entropy in the form of an uncontrolled interaction with a classical measuring apparatus in an unknown microstate.
Bell's theorem does raise an interesting question. Assuming two distant particles are quantum entangled, they may become disentangled by some interaction at one of the locations. At this moment the other particle also becomes disentangled from that state. How does this affect simultaneity?
Even if this process is not capable of transmitting FTL information, the fact is that there existed two simultaneous events in one frame of reference. How about the other frames of reference? Could they register non-simultaneous quantum disentanglement of two particles?
Run on the supermarket for bread? That's a problem.
Do you really think there's any probability of that ever happening?
Let me ask you this: does your city have food subsidies? Because those nation-wide subsidies only work over the whole country. What regulations are there to make sure there will be no lack of food in your city?
When you consider the amount of food that a big city consumes and how well balanced supply and demand are you see how well the market works without any government intervention. Think of this, there's no planning, no coordination to determine how much food will be brought into a big city. A small error of a fraction of a percent would either generate a big amount of garbage or widespread hunger in the city.
It's a self adjusted system that spontaneously fine tunes itself. There's no lack of food in the supermarket and they don't need to throw away too much unsold merchandise either. Free market, it works!
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I wonder how much a 2 degree change in average temperatures will cost Canadians?
They are assuming that the desert in the Southwest USA will never reach them.
That's the attitude normally called "hubris"
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Presumably the core is still hot, even if there isn't active volcanism and plate tectonics
The core being hot is one of the causes, not an effect, of plate tectonics.
Planets such as Mars and Earth have hot cores because of the decomposition of radioactive isotopes. That's also what causes helium to appear in underground deposits of gas and oil.
In a physics lab course I took in college we measured the amount of radioactive gases emitted by the walls in a basement. We put a fan blowing air through a filter paper for two weeks in a sealed basement room, then measured the amount of radioactive substances in that paper. Another piece of paper from the same batch that had been kept in an envelope was used as control.
For someone who lives in bars, 56 seems to be a quite average natural life span.
really amazing advances
vastly improved
faster boot times
faster/better file copies
For a system that won't be in beta until next year, you are quite positive. Were these the same predictions you made before Vista went into beta? Just curious.
where can you escape to now ? Our multinational overlords are everywhere.
Not satisfied with the Ford overlord? Escape to the Toyota overlord. What's the point you're trying to argue?
The post you replied to mentioned that a single world government would be bad because there would be no alternative governments. You replied with a tired 19th century meme of Marxist ideology that some mods thought insightful.
It's not a valid analogy at all. A single world government would be like a single multinational corporation. The current system of many countries is equivalent to the current system of many corporations. Governments have alliances among themselves, like corporations have joint ventures, but they are different entities with different priorities.
Please learn to get your analogies right. And get rid of that Marxist set of dogmas. An ideology created for the industrial environment of 1849 is definitely out of date today. Victorian bric-a-brac may be charming for tea parties, but not practical for everyday use.
I have an old Popular Mechanics magazine from the 1940s showing a trick they used while building the Grand Coulee dam. They tied a string to a cat's tail, put the cat into the gallery, and scared it with a blast of compressed air. Cats hate the hissing sound that compressed air makes.
Perhaps a robot would be more reliable, no danger of it stopping midways to take a nap, but using cats to pull CAT5 cables seem very appropriate to me.
You try putting out a lithium fire by throwing water on it - I dare you.
Your fire will be extinguished by the hydrogen + air explosion. Even if it doesn't, the original fire will be the least of your concerns.
we'd all chip in to give you the bare necessities of life
The poorest person in the USA gets much more than the bare necessities by digging in trash dumpsters. That is, if you define "bare necessities" as surviving.
When you get as much food as you need not to starve, as much clothes as you need not to freeze, you want more. It's human nature, no one is ever satisfied.
If it were defined by law that the government had to supply the bare necessities, very soon there would be pressure to include perfumes, because being socially acceptable is a necessity, and video games, you cannot live without entertainment.
If rich and poor in the US had an equal chance of winning elections then Congress wouldn't consist almost exclusively of multimillionaires.
How many times have you seen the sentence "correlation is not causation"?
If someone has the drive and persistence needed to succeed at winning an election for Congress then it's reasonable to assume that this person would also succeed at becoming a rich person.
The meters can't even record accurate use if your house wiring is over 20 years old. ... They've found meters read 1kWh for an entire week.
Metering has nothing to do with the age of the wiring. If what you said is true it only means the meter is being bypassed by some parallel wiring.
before that they were selected by those very same corporations.
Is there any corporation holding you from running for office? How do they do that?
I can just see a telecom sending a disabled vet a notice saying that he has exceeded his data cap for his wireless network and will now be charged $20 per each additional MB.
If it gets heavily regulated he could be arrested for masturbating himself, because if he pays for sex it's prostitution.
Unfortunately that means you have to wear a spandex bodysuit all the time. That's not going to be desirable to someone who just wants to wear shorts and go for a walk in the park without looking weird.
If only there existed a way to make skin-colored spandex...
They trendsourced it.
Pheww! At first I read it as transsourced and thought, but, but, there is no word such as transsource. A quick search confirmed this.
But OK, if it's trendsource then that's a real word.
Oh, wait...
Sometimes you just want to use a tool for a simple task, it's not about getting a degree. I'll give you one example: I recently built a computer desk with an aluminum frame. Not having aluminum welding equipment, I had to assemble it with bolts and rivets. Besides being unsightly, those joints aren't as strong as welded joints would be. If I had a MIG or TIG welding rig for a couple of hours I could have a much better desk.
Just the TIG (or MIG) would do for me. I hate having to bolt or rivet aluminum just because I don't have the proper welding equipment.
The word "internet" does not appear even once in the US Constitution. ... As such Congress is perfectly able legislate restrictions on internet use
Ahem... wrong!
Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
If it's not in the Constitution, Congress cannot make any laws about it. AFAIK, that's why abortion is legal in the USA, because it's not mentioned in the Constitution.
That will be good for them. Some expressions are much funnier when replaced by euphemisms.
My favorite: "putting Mike Tyson to swim". Explanation: it involves dropping a brownish colored thing into a body of water.
A French guy once told me they abolished "septante" in France in shame after their defeat to Germany in World War 0 in 1870.
OK, I get it now. It becomes looser after an athlete inserts his foot there.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority seems to have a weird taste for porn...
I'm in central Europe ... There's going to be snow on Christmas
Unless this "Europe" you are referring to is some village in Africa, what's so strange about that? Even in the warmest parts of Europe, in the southern part of that continent, it occasionally snows on Christmas.
the porn industry is beginning to self-regulate as it naturally discovering that booby-trap sites tend to quickly turn into financial drag
The porn industry has the means to get profit from the most unbelievable practices.
There are sites with thumbnail galleries where you click on a thumbnail to get a page with porn pictures. These are usually ads for paid porn, usually low-res versions of pictures or trailers of videos.
Now, some of those thumbnails send you to another thumbnail page. This new page sends you to yet another thumbnail page and so on, in a seemingly infinite loop. Where do they get profit from those endless loops?
Supernovas are universal antibiotics.
it isn't clear what Bell's theorem implies as soon as you make quantum mechanics properly relativistic and time reversible within a closed physical universe, so that the measurement process it relies on no longer involves entropy in the form of an uncontrolled interaction with a classical measuring apparatus in an unknown microstate.
Bell's theorem does raise an interesting question. Assuming two distant particles are quantum entangled, they may become disentangled by some interaction at one of the locations. At this moment the other particle also becomes disentangled from that state. How does this affect simultaneity?
Even if this process is not capable of transmitting FTL information, the fact is that there existed two simultaneous events in one frame of reference. How about the other frames of reference? Could they register non-simultaneous quantum disentanglement of two particles?
Run on the supermarket for bread? That's a problem.
Do you really think there's any probability of that ever happening?
Let me ask you this: does your city have food subsidies? Because those nation-wide subsidies only work over the whole country. What regulations are there to make sure there will be no lack of food in your city?
When you consider the amount of food that a big city consumes and how well balanced supply and demand are you see how well the market works without any government intervention. Think of this, there's no planning, no coordination to determine how much food will be brought into a big city. A small error of a fraction of a percent would either generate a big amount of garbage or widespread hunger in the city.
It's a self adjusted system that spontaneously fine tunes itself. There's no lack of food in the supermarket and they don't need to throw away too much unsold merchandise either. Free market, it works!