This leaves us with various solar technologies. And geothermal. And hydro that isn't based on a dam, like tidal generators and sea floor turbines. And, while it does have its drawback, nuclear really belongs here, too.
The problem here is that there's a lot of manufacturing to be done before you start to see solar contribute significant energy to the grid. If we use solar thermal in addition to photovoltaics (hopefully, those will be concentrated on rooftop applications), that's mechanical manufacturing, not just semiconductor, plus construction work. Isn't the government trying to shovel money back into the economy ("economic stimulus"), anyway?
Anyway, this doesn't have to be an all-at-once thing. Our initial goal should be to use renewables to cover the overall shortage in capacity people are already talking about. Then we can phase out our few oil-burning plants to save the oil for cars, and start in on the coal plants.
However there is quite a large segment of fuel demand that is completely inelastic. The fuel needed to transport goods from A to B. Trains.
The fuel needed to create electricity. That's a different fuel. That's what I don't quite get about Pickens' proposal: electricity is not generated with foreign fuels, for the most part. Granted, it would be nice to start using electric cars and electric heat without burning more coal.
Why is that bizzare? You must have missed the ancestor thread. The game was banned until the ability to pay a prostitute was removed, but doing that in real life is legal.
Huh? If this is true, why would most of the "popular" bloggers have paid good money for a personal domain name? Because they're popular. If you have a professional-level blog that's someplace you can seriously promote and people will specifically look for, sure, you want your own site. If you're just some guy and you'd like 50-100 of your friends and acquaintances to see your posts among the general list of "what have my friends posted recently?", you really need to be on Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal or maybe one or two others.
A few dozen SUBURBS of chicago have more than 56k people in them... Detroit, too. I grew up in Shelby Township, which is a bit under 6 miles square and doesn't even call itself a city -- it had 76,000 last I checked.
Detroit also has at least two suburbs (Warren and Sterling Heights) with more white people than the city itself.
Why not Stradivarius was the best violin craftsmen? Ever. Because there were several other people living in the same town at the same time who made comparable violins.
Even with electric guitars weight and density are considered a good thing. You'll find people complaining how heavy their Les Paul Custom is yet still play it for the sustain the extra weight provides. That sustain comes at the expense of having a very simple clean tone. They're great for distortion, though.
And Swamp Ash is a preferred material for Stratocasters and Telecasters because it is very hard while not being as heavy. A swamp ash Stratocaster is my ideal guitar for playing clean, since it brings out the fundamental note and higher harmonics without so much midrange -- that's great for getting an ominous sound when you want it. I suspect it's the hardness that lets the higher frequencies reverberate so well.
You have to remember, though, that Fender sells many times more Stratocasters made of Alder than made of ash. Not everyone wants that sound.
The notion that some revolutionary compiler or IDE is going to solve this problem is just wrong. Tell it to Itanic, that was based on exactly these assumptions and failed miserably because of them. With Itanium, they were trying to say compiler improvements could handle it invisibly, with no work from the application programmers. Taking advantage of more than two cores (since one can take care of other programs that would have slowed down your app) is going to take conscious thought about what can and can't be parallel. Taking advantage of more than a handful is going to take more fundamental shifts in how we program. They're asking a lot more this time.
On the other hand, you could easily opt out of Itanium. Now, this is the only way your programs are going to get much future processing improvement. Ever. No matter who you're buying CPUs from.
"They" is incorrect, though it is commonly used, since it refers to a third-person plural. Just like "you" is always second person plural. Thou art correct to point this out, and I thank thee.
There are five doctors and a nurse practitioner at the office I go to, and I usually see the NP. She's one of the three I personally like the best, one of the others is wrong a lot more often than she is, and the third is never available.
But yes, her prescriptions are signed by one of the doctors.
The rule of law has to come before other things I'd like to see politically -- like national healthcare and so on. And the Republican party has taken the position that the notion of three equal branches of government was a mistake. So, because the rule of law has to come first, I will only be voting for Democrats for president until the Republican knock off the "activist judges" crap.
The main issue with the Atlantis story is that (a) Plato invented it himself While Plato was certainly prone to pulling things out of his ass, doesn't it seem more plausible that he was just writing down a popular legend? There had been a lot of little societies in the area for quite some time, some more advanced than others, and some certainly took the occasional (sometime fatal) whuppin' from natural phenomena. I expect the legend was probably inspired by more than one such place.
he dates it to about 9400 BCE So he was wrong. As long as the list of potential inspiring events are from before any of the Greeks really started keeping organized records, I don't think this is a big deal.
I'm not aware of any group which denies Jesus was a real person. Although it's rather annoying and manipulative in other aspects, "The God Who Wasn't There" makes a pretty convincing argument that Saul/Paul didn't believe that Jesus had existed as a real person, and his were probably the earliest writings to make it into the bible.
Because it is such a private and special act Does it really have to be the same every time? Even with just me and my wife, sometimes it's intimate and cuddly, sometimes it's silly and sometimes it's just plain carnal. I'd only call the first "private and special".
I know single women up to their thirties thinking like this, much like the men. Maybe it's just the groups I hang out with, but while I do know some women like that who are my age (32) or thereabouts, I know more in their 40s and 50s. Usually divorced with grown children.
This is about freedom (liberty). Progressives tend to take from people when it is expedient, as does conservatives. Which is why people ought to vote libertarian where governmental taking is just plain frowned upon. It's not possible to avoid taxation entirely, though, so the government will always have first dibs on your assets. Any freedom you might have wanted is already gone, so you might as well go with pragmatism.
It just kills me every time I see HDCP as a marketing bullet point, and not on the defects list where it belongs... Your choice is having it work in some circumstances with HDCP, or having it not work at all without. It sucks, but working sometimes is better than working never.
Even if the performs were related, are they over 18? If so, is there even a law against it? Consensual adult incest may or may not be legal, depending on the state. Recording it and selling it is likely to run into trouble with obscenity prosecutions, though.
anyone driving a dodge neon (or a comparable car) with *any* aftermarket "bling" parts. Does the duck tape holding the driver's side mirror onto my wife's Neon count?
I called in a drunk driver once and was HEAVILY involved for the next 6 hours. My wife and I once called in an obviously drunk driver and followed him for a while while staying on the phone with 911. Once the cops were close enough, the 911 operator told us to turn onto a cross street, and they'd take it from there. We never heard anything further about it.
However you could leverage the fact that men and women think different to gain fault tolerance. Maybe there are trends by gender, but you need to look at the actual styles. I've been paired with two other programmers with whom their strengths and weaknesses complemented mine very well. They were very similar to each other as programmers, if not socially. One is male, the other is female.
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This leaves us with various solar technologies.
And geothermal. And hydro that isn't based on a dam, like tidal generators and sea floor turbines. And, while it does have its drawback, nuclear really belongs here, too.
The problem here is that there's a lot of manufacturing to be done before you start to see solar contribute significant energy to the grid.
If we use solar thermal in addition to photovoltaics (hopefully, those will be concentrated on rooftop applications), that's mechanical manufacturing, not just semiconductor, plus construction work. Isn't the government trying to shovel money back into the economy ("economic stimulus"), anyway?
Anyway, this doesn't have to be an all-at-once thing. Our initial goal should be to use renewables to cover the overall shortage in capacity people are already talking about. Then we can phase out our few oil-burning plants to save the oil for cars, and start in on the coal plants.
However there is quite a large segment of fuel demand that is completely inelastic. The fuel needed to transport goods from A to B.
Trains.
The fuel needed to create electricity.
That's a different fuel. That's what I don't quite get about Pickens' proposal: electricity is not generated with foreign fuels, for the most part. Granted, it would be nice to start using electric cars and electric heat without burning more coal.
If you want people to start using it before they're too broke to do anything else, add internet access.
Why is that bizzare?
You must have missed the ancestor thread. The game was banned until the ability to pay a prostitute was removed, but doing that in real life is legal.
Huh? If this is true, why would most of the "popular" bloggers have paid good money for a personal domain name?
Because they're popular. If you have a professional-level blog that's someplace you can seriously promote and people will specifically look for, sure, you want your own site. If you're just some guy and you'd like 50-100 of your friends and acquaintances to see your posts among the general list of "what have my friends posted recently?", you really need to be on Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal or maybe one or two others.
and host it on your own servers
And then your registrar will take you down.
Also, no one will see your blog postings if you're not on one of the big sites.
A few dozen SUBURBS of chicago have more than 56k people in them...
Detroit, too. I grew up in Shelby Township, which is a bit under 6 miles square and doesn't even call itself a city -- it had 76,000 last I checked.
Detroit also has at least two suburbs (Warren and Sterling Heights) with more white people than the city itself.
Why not Stradivarius was the best violin craftsmen? Ever.
Because there were several other people living in the same town at the same time who made comparable violins.
Even with electric guitars weight and density are considered a good thing. You'll find people complaining how heavy their Les Paul Custom is yet still play it for the sustain the extra weight provides.
That sustain comes at the expense of having a very simple clean tone. They're great for distortion, though.
And Swamp Ash is a preferred material for Stratocasters and Telecasters because it is very hard while not being as heavy.
A swamp ash Stratocaster is my ideal guitar for playing clean, since it brings out the fundamental note and higher harmonics without so much midrange -- that's great for getting an ominous sound when you want it. I suspect it's the hardness that lets the higher frequencies reverberate so well.
You have to remember, though, that Fender sells many times more Stratocasters made of Alder than made of ash. Not everyone wants that sound.
The notion that some revolutionary compiler or IDE is going to solve this problem is just wrong. Tell it to Itanic, that was based on exactly these assumptions and failed miserably because of them.
With Itanium, they were trying to say compiler improvements could handle it invisibly, with no work from the application programmers. Taking advantage of more than two cores (since one can take care of other programs that would have slowed down your app) is going to take conscious thought about what can and can't be parallel. Taking advantage of more than a handful is going to take more fundamental shifts in how we program. They're asking a lot more this time.
On the other hand, you could easily opt out of Itanium. Now, this is the only way your programs are going to get much future processing improvement. Ever. No matter who you're buying CPUs from.
And The State. I never really got into Kids in the Hall, because The State was on at the same time, doing the same kind of humor, better.
"They" is incorrect, though it is commonly used, since it refers to a third-person plural.
Just like "you" is always second person plural. Thou art correct to point this out, and I thank thee.
There are five doctors and a nurse practitioner at the office I go to, and I usually see the NP. She's one of the three I personally like the best, one of the others is wrong a lot more often than she is, and the third is never available.
But yes, her prescriptions are signed by one of the doctors.
About 150 miles west, you can take I-69 to Climax (where it meets I-94).
I mostly just took I-94 to and from Kalamazoo, but everyone in the car always had lots of fun "approaching Climax".
The rule of law has to come before other things I'd like to see politically -- like national healthcare and so on.
And the Republican party has taken the position that the notion of three equal branches of government was a mistake. So, because the rule of law has to come first, I will only be voting for Democrats for president until the Republican knock off the "activist judges" crap.
The main issue with the Atlantis story is that (a) Plato invented it himself
While Plato was certainly prone to pulling things out of his ass, doesn't it seem more plausible that he was just writing down a popular legend? There had been a lot of little societies in the area for quite some time, some more advanced than others, and some certainly took the occasional (sometime fatal) whuppin' from natural phenomena. I expect the legend was probably inspired by more than one such place.
he dates it to about 9400 BCE
So he was wrong. As long as the list of potential inspiring events are from before any of the Greeks really started keeping organized records, I don't think this is a big deal.
I'm not aware of any group which denies Jesus was a real person.
Although it's rather annoying and manipulative in other aspects, "The God Who Wasn't There" makes a pretty convincing argument that Saul/Paul didn't believe that Jesus had existed as a real person, and his were probably the earliest writings to make it into the bible.
Because it is such a private and special act
Does it really have to be the same every time? Even with just me and my wife, sometimes it's intimate and cuddly, sometimes it's silly and sometimes it's just plain carnal. I'd only call the first "private and special".
I know single women up to their thirties thinking like this, much like the men.
Maybe it's just the groups I hang out with, but while I do know some women like that who are my age (32) or thereabouts, I know more in their 40s and 50s. Usually divorced with grown children.
This is about freedom (liberty). Progressives tend to take from people when it is expedient, as does conservatives. Which is why people ought to vote libertarian where governmental taking is just plain frowned upon.
It's not possible to avoid taxation entirely, though, so the government will always have first dibs on your assets. Any freedom you might have wanted is already gone, so you might as well go with pragmatism.
It just kills me every time I see HDCP as a marketing bullet point, and not on the defects list where it belongs...
Your choice is having it work in some circumstances with HDCP, or having it not work at all without. It sucks, but working sometimes is better than working never.
Even if the performs were related, are they over 18? If so, is there even a law against it?
Consensual adult incest may or may not be legal, depending on the state. Recording it and selling it is likely to run into trouble with obscenity prosecutions, though.
anyone driving a dodge neon (or a comparable car) with *any* aftermarket "bling" parts.
Does the duck tape holding the driver's side mirror onto my wife's Neon count?
I called in a drunk driver once and was HEAVILY involved for the next 6 hours.
My wife and I once called in an obviously drunk driver and followed him for a while while staying on the phone with 911. Once the cops were close enough, the 911 operator told us to turn onto a cross street, and they'd take it from there. We never heard anything further about it.
It probably varies with jurisdiction.
However you could leverage the fact that men and women think different to gain fault tolerance.
Maybe there are trends by gender, but you need to look at the actual styles. I've been paired with two other programmers with whom their strengths and weaknesses complemented mine very well. They were very similar to each other as programmers, if not socially. One is male, the other is female.