Storing and transporting that energy are the distant fantasies in your "hypothetical". I'm not sure how that shows that solar providing base load is possible.
Unless you are some sort of "little person" children are going to have a hard time flinging themselves above your centre of balance. They also lack certain properties of a 16 foot 4x4 (which is approximately how long a 4x4 has to be to be 70 pounds). If a 70 pound child unexpectedly flies into you at head level there is a very good chance you are going down. They don't do that though do they? They run into your waist or possibly jump off a couch into your arms. The amount of force needed to heave a 70 pound object at head level gives it a great deal of momentum. This isn't dropping it to you; this isn't lobbing it a foot into your arms.
Maybe you should shift the goal posts some more- that might give you more credibility.
Catching an expected object tossed toward / dropped into your centre of gravity is wholly different than catching an unexpected object thrown at your head. Can a fit human toss a 70 pound object? Yes- that's not too difficult. Can they throw it at someone's face? A little harder but still not difficult. Can you spin around and catch such a flying object? Certainly not reliably.
If people are regularly hurling 70 pound beams at others on a construction site they are probably stupid and a liability (note: throwing them into a pile doesn't count is not the same thing). 70 pounds is over half your claimed weight. Very easy to be knocked off balance by half your weight. If they are consistently throwing heavy objects at your head I think that maybe you just aren't taking the hint that they don't like you.
Maybe you should get over it and socialize even though not everyone is exactly like you? Instead of going all prohibition on everyone try drinking water. Everyone around you will be a lot happier if you don't insist everything be about special little you.
Except the system is in an infinite recursion of: Can't afford more cops => Issue more traffic tickets to pay for more cops => Need more cops to catch more traffic violations.
Typing anything more than a simple sentence with TXT speak on a phone is unbearable to anyone used to typing quickly. Swype bridges that gap a little and makes it annoying but bearable.
And if you had have paid attention pretty much anywhere you might have learned that your and you're aren't the same words. Nothing better than stating the humanities give rise to greater literacy while not even being able to keep up the facade for a measly two sentences.
"Your a fool" may be my favourite statement to read. It makes me laugh every time.
That is an assertion that I just do not believe. The subset of STEM educated people that frown on foreign language is probably no higher than the subset of STEM educated that frown on math. Though both subsets are non empty it is absurd to say STEM people dislike foreign languages. There are almost definitely less of them in the STEM group than there are in the general population.
Allow me to blow your mind. Those same pieces can be used to build what ever you can imagine. Then they can be taken apart and used to build something totally different. The instructions are only a suggestion.
That's true but how much would these other jobs pay with a sudden influx of ex-miners? It's pretty difficult- if not impossible- to simply reassign an entire industry of workers. Especially one as large as coal mining.
You can't simply reassign all these people to do any work that requires high levels of skill (welding does require a fair bit of skill and lots of practice). Most people simply won't put the effort in because they're not cut out for it, they're not interested in it, they lack the foresight etc.
This isn't an attack on their intelligence it's just how people work. If software development became obsolete tomorrow you'd find the same problem trying to retrain that work force.
There is most likely no good solution to this problem. Cataclysmic changes are cataclysmic.
That's a bad assumption. Any coal miner would almost certainly think that a McDonald's job is a shittier job than mining. Mining is physically demanding but some people don't mind that. It also tends to pay better than other "unskilled" jobs. Most people judge the suckiness of a job partially based on the pay.
Defend her from what? She's getting hired- not fired (or having to resign for the good of the company). Are there campaigns to try and get her forced out that I am unaware of?
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Unfortunately shooting a burger has very little influence on its cholesterol content.
Well in the case of a car it is "steer and floor it" but the concept is fairly similar.
I don't think I have ever seen a grammar pedant fail as badly as this before. Even by Slashdot standards this is bad.
Another fool that thinks power lines are lossless.
Yes, everyone must put $20000+ worth of solar panels on their roofs. Totally feasible at all let alone in the next decade.
Storing and transporting that energy are the distant fantasies in your "hypothetical". I'm not sure how that shows that solar providing base load is possible.
Religious people would be the answer to your question. Why they tend to lean conservative is a different question.
Unless you are some sort of "little person" children are going to have a hard time flinging themselves above your centre of balance. They also lack certain properties of a 16 foot 4x4 (which is approximately how long a 4x4 has to be to be 70 pounds). If a 70 pound child unexpectedly flies into you at head level there is a very good chance you are going down. They don't do that though do they? They run into your waist or possibly jump off a couch into your arms. The amount of force needed to heave a 70 pound object at head level gives it a great deal of momentum. This isn't dropping it to you; this isn't lobbing it a foot into your arms.
Maybe you should shift the goal posts some more- that might give you more credibility.
Almost half your weight damnit.
Catching an expected object tossed toward / dropped into your centre of gravity is wholly different than catching an unexpected object thrown at your head. Can a fit human toss a 70 pound object? Yes- that's not too difficult. Can they throw it at someone's face? A little harder but still not difficult. Can you spin around and catch such a flying object? Certainly not reliably.
If people are regularly hurling 70 pound beams at others on a construction site they are probably stupid and a liability (note: throwing them into a pile doesn't count is not the same thing). 70 pounds is over half your claimed weight. Very easy to be knocked off balance by half your weight. If they are consistently throwing heavy objects at your head I think that maybe you just aren't taking the hint that they don't like you.
Maybe you should get over it and socialize even though not everyone is exactly like you? Instead of going all prohibition on everyone try drinking water. Everyone around you will be a lot happier if you don't insist everything be about special little you.
Except the system is in an infinite recursion of: Can't afford more cops => Issue more traffic tickets to pay for more cops => Need more cops to catch more traffic violations.
Typing anything more than a simple sentence with TXT speak on a phone is unbearable to anyone used to typing quickly. Swype bridges that gap a little and makes it annoying but bearable.
And if you had have paid attention pretty much anywhere you might have learned that your and you're aren't the same words. Nothing better than stating the humanities give rise to greater literacy while not even being able to keep up the facade for a measly two sentences.
"Your a fool" may be my favourite statement to read. It makes me laugh every time.
That is an assertion that I just do not believe. The subset of STEM educated people that frown on foreign language is probably no higher than the subset of STEM educated that frown on math. Though both subsets are non empty it is absurd to say STEM people dislike foreign languages. There are almost definitely less of them in the STEM group than there are in the general population.
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Unless you buy a Nexus of course.
That's why they were attributed to being often nothing but a weapon of revenge.
Yes, everyone that does not act exactly how you want them to act right now is misogynistic. And people wonder why that term gets laughed at.
People treat people in many different ways. What an asinine statement.
I could quit any time I wanted to- I just really want to smoke. It's not like it's addictive or anything.
You do realize how cliche it is for a smoker to say "I could quit if I wanted to", right?
You have every right to smoke if you want to but don't try to kid yourself that you aren't suffering from a massive addiction.
Allow me to blow your mind. Those same pieces can be used to build what ever you can imagine. Then they can be taken apart and used to build something totally different. The instructions are only a suggestion.
An analogy you disagree with is not a strawman... I'll leave the hilarity of your sig as an activity for the reader.
You and I and Bloomberg all seem to essentially agree on this. It seems a lot of people don't though.
That's true but how much would these other jobs pay with a sudden influx of ex-miners? It's pretty difficult- if not impossible- to simply reassign an entire industry of workers. Especially one as large as coal mining.
You can't simply reassign all these people to do any work that requires high levels of skill (welding does require a fair bit of skill and lots of practice). Most people simply won't put the effort in because they're not cut out for it, they're not interested in it, they lack the foresight etc.
This isn't an attack on their intelligence it's just how people work. If software development became obsolete tomorrow you'd find the same problem trying to retrain that work force.
There is most likely no good solution to this problem. Cataclysmic changes are cataclysmic.
He didn't assume they can't be retrained. In fact he specifically said they could- it's right in the summary.
That's a bad assumption. Any coal miner would almost certainly think that a McDonald's job is a shittier job than mining. Mining is physically demanding but some people don't mind that. It also tends to pay better than other "unskilled" jobs. Most people judge the suckiness of a job partially based on the pay.
Defend her from what? She's getting hired- not fired (or having to resign for the good of the company). Are there campaigns to try and get her forced out that I am unaware of?