Are the condescending 'you should have had insurance' comments necessary?
Insurance is a really fucking good idea if you drive and could face effectively unlimited liability if you kill or, worse, injure someone. It's also a good idea in some other situations where $replacement_cost >> $personal_liquidity.
This doesn't look like one of those situations. It sounds more like this guy wants to catch the criminal than that he wants reimbursement for his $1000 laptop.
Yes. Millions of batteries connected to the power system is a good thing. In some way it's like building massive amounts of pumped storage.
No wind blowing at the moment? Then don't charge the 90% of cars which are on 'economy-charger' setting. Lots of wind blowing? Charge every car to full and use that wind!
They'll still be worthwhile. Do some calcs. CFLs are an amazingly sensible investment compared to almost anything else.
From memory it's about an 18 fold return. Even if your 'off-peak' (btw evening isn't off-peak) power price is half the average price you're still looking at a 9:1 ROI.
This might surprise you but often the coal plant will be paying to keep running. The costs of shutting down and starting up again are large for coal plants, so it's in their interests to keep generating around the clock, even if it means they have to pay, rather than get paid, sometimes.
De Rossi clearly dived, but the New Zealand defender did grab his shirt, which is against the rules. I would resolve it by awarding the penalty, like the referee did. Then I would also yellow card De Rossi for diving. This could be done either when the dive occurred or afterwards, using the extensive footage available after the match.
- Low pressure flirting during awkward teenage years.
Calling up someone is a pretty big deal, you'll say the wrong thing, there will be awkward silences. If you're just text messaging, you've got minutes to figure out the coolest thing to say and you're not expected to write more than a couple of sentences.
In the 1970s, it was known that solar panels would pay back the energy cost of their production in less than seven years
And what relevance does that have to whether we should build them? Just because something is eventually a net energy gain doesn't mean that it's sensible to build it.
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Are the condescending 'you should have had insurance' comments necessary?
Insurance is a really fucking good idea if you drive and could face effectively unlimited liability if you kill or, worse, injure someone. It's also a good idea in some other situations where $replacement_cost >> $personal_liquidity.
This doesn't look like one of those situations. It sounds more like this guy wants to catch the criminal than that he wants reimbursement for his $1000 laptop.
Yes. Millions of batteries connected to the power system is a good thing. In some way it's like building massive amounts of pumped storage.
No wind blowing at the moment? Then don't charge the 90% of cars which are on 'economy-charger' setting. Lots of wind blowing? Charge every car to full and use that wind!
They'll still be worthwhile. Do some calcs. CFLs are an amazingly sensible investment compared to almost anything else.
From memory it's about an 18 fold return. Even if your 'off-peak' (btw evening isn't off-peak) power price is half the average price you're still looking at a 9:1 ROI.
You learn to drive in school? (serious question)
Did anyone else double take on this guy's username?
Analogies like this are why I come to /.
No wait there's no car involved.
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Of course it depends on how you find new music, but I often find stuff I like that is independently distributed.
Beat me to it.
Furthermore, how is this news?
CCGT (runs on natural gas) ~ 400 Tonnes CO2/GWh
Coal steam = ~1000 Tonnes CO2/GWh
These are readily available numbers from a quick google. Ta da.
This might surprise you but often the coal plant will be paying to keep running. The costs of shutting down and starting up again are large for coal plants, so it's in their interests to keep generating around the clock, even if it means they have to pay, rather than get paid, sometimes.
De Rossi clearly dived, but the New Zealand defender did grab his shirt, which is against the rules. I would resolve it by awarding the penalty, like the referee did. Then I would also yellow card De Rossi for diving. This could be done either when the dive occurred or afterwards, using the extensive footage available after the match.
well into double digits to replace the instrument
Unless this is in "Pu"s I wouldn't think it would be too much trouble.
I think you missed the main one.
- Low pressure flirting during awkward teenage years.
Calling up someone is a pretty big deal, you'll say the wrong thing, there will be awkward silences. If you're just text messaging, you've got minutes to figure out the coolest thing to say and you're not expected to write more than a couple of sentences.
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Lots of bad shit happens in the world. The best way to combat it isn't to commit more bad shit yourself.
And those damn file-sharers too!
Yeah, if I want to hear some pro-Obama propaganda I just turn on fox news.
Why you think the net was born?
Well, probably Italian, but good point.
Well I don't know who "ben folds" is,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTwJetox_tU
He calls himself Merton, but people think it's Ben Folds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Folds
In the second one that he released he says he's not Ben Folds, but that doesn't stop rumours.
Their monitoring has had one possibly correct hit. Therefore it was justified and it is a Good Thing (tm).
It saddens me that so many people I talk to have this exact thought process.
It's no different to the IOC dropping sports/disciplines from the Olympic lineup. It happens every time.
Am I automatically less intelligent because I chose a career that isn't in the field of medicine, or that doesn't require a few extra years of school?
Well at the least you don't understand basic logic.
He's not saying everyone who didn't got to medical school is an idiot, he's saying people who go to medical school are smart.
A->B is equivalent to !B->!A.
A->B is not equivalent to !A->!B
It's a common mistake in first year logic courses.
We know the Maoris did the same to the Moa in New Zealand, and there seem to be a lot of similarities here.
In the 1970s, it was known that solar panels would pay back the energy cost of their production in less than seven years
And what relevance does that have to whether we should build them? Just because something is eventually a net energy gain doesn't mean that it's sensible to build it.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=aotearoa
Ah, good point.
See my OP for an example of Slashdot: Where you can get +1 interesting for a completely wrong post.