I dunno, I was overhearing a breakfast conversation by a group of very conservative men (probably Jehovas witnesses or somesuch), and the Alpha Male of the group was railing the rest of his pack on the opinion that GWB just plain aint' conservative enough! This was exactly the subject of his rantings. They'd probably be most pleased if the government did no less than hook their balls up to electrodes and give 'em a good zap if they thought of anything remotely sinful.
Needless to say they agreed with him on such a level that they nearly kowtowed and chanted "We're not worthy!".
This is the same bunch that had enforcers scare people out of Wings Over the Rockies museum during a "town hall conference" (read staged event) because they didn't look republican. I.E. white male driving a Mercedes.
These guys are so desperate to keep up the smoke and mirrors act that I believe they'll stop at nothing. This comes at no suprise.
A traffic cop near me regularly brings home his 90's Saturn equiped with police gear (radar, hidden lights, etc) Supposedly it's got a souped up engine also, but he's not a gearhead at all and dosen't know what it is. If you didn't pay very close attention to it, you'd never know it had lights.
It's also kinda funny, because there's been a guy going around pretending to be an officer giving people tickets, and in general being a creep. Can't trust anyone anymore I guess.
Not only that, but Walmart (and Walgreens and a number of other retail chains) have a nasty habit of using eminent domain, basically bribing the counties and city councils (with promises of more tax dollars) to screw over the little guy, get rights to property for pennies on the dollar, and scare away local business.
Actually, I'm quite amazed that Wal-Mart finally decided against their neighborhood store at Elitches (this is in the North Denver, Colorado area). I guess their potential consumers were too much of a thorn. It's the only time that I've ever heard of a Wal-Mart being ousted by the residents! GG Wallymart!
Those aren't usage dates, they're recertification dates, wherein a gas supply is supposed to refuse to fill it again until it has been recertified.
The process for this (at the last time I understood the DOT regulations and MSCE guidelines) is that they remove the valve, and then perform a visual inspection with a borescope. If all is well (it isn't rust-pitted), then a hydrostatic test is performed.
If the operating pressure of the cylinder is 3000psi, the hydrotest pushes the pressure up to around 5000psi. This is done in a pool of water, just so that if there is a rupture the operator's arm dosen't get cut off by a jet of water. If the cylinder passes, the cylinder is dried and cleaned out, the valve is replaced, it's stamped with a new date, and it's filled again. IIRC the retesting procedure is required every 10 years. A pressure vessel installed in a car is no different.
A cylinder (oxygen, nitrogen, CO2, whatever) can pretty well be used indefinitely. About the only time that a cylinder is no good is if it's design has obsolesced (and this dosen't happen very often), or it's just plain been rusted out.
Indeed, I've seen videos of natural gas cylinders that held upwards of 3000psi dropped from cranes to simulate 80MPH impacts(in a car, mind you), shot with pistol and rifle rounds (the pistol rounds hardly chipped away at the fiberglass wrapping, the rifle round went through to no catastrophic effect), had full sticks of dynamite detonated right against them, cooked on top of bonfires, and all sorts of crazy stuff.
Mind you, this was before the wide use of kevlar and carbon composites (the tanks used fiberglass as I said earlier), and still these tanks are damn tough.
Still, compared to liquid gas tanks, they're pretty heavy. If you're to have a tank of any considerable size to hold 4000psi, it's going to be heavy, which is more weight to move around. If they make it work that's great, though!
Oh yes it would. On cubic foot is a lot of uranium byproducts. If it was pu or u235 it would be many many critical masses. A cubic foot of uranium would probably power many thousands of homes for a few years.
Yeah, you're right, that just goes to show my ignoracne of the issue (and also how big a cubic foot is) A cubic foot of u235 would weigh about 1200lbs, which is good for about 11 critical masses (according to a cursory googling)... That's quite alot.
A critical mass being about 157 cubic inches, roughly the size of a 5" cube... Still I have no idea how hot a pure cube of uranium about that size would be. I guess if I were interested enough I could find the decay constants and that that sort of stuff and work it out, but hey I'm too lazy. Of course, that's just uranium and not the byproducts, but there goes that lazy thing again.
Still, I know that most (at least 90%) of the stuff they want to bury is yellow cake material, mixed with the occasional piece of really hot stuff. What I'd be interested to know is why they don't actually use the reactors to produce more fuel from the U-238 that was basically just along the ride... I mean, they go through the effort of digging it up and extracting the few percentages of u-235 that they want, and the rest goes back into the earth. Seems pretty wasteful.
I'm guessing it's probably because of treaties or some such, what with the rest of the world upset at anyone creating plutonium. Agian, too lazy.
At any rate, I'd much rather have whatever byproducts of my consumption of electricity be of the nuclear sort, contained in a little box, rather than up in the air. That soot would be a bitch to dust off (not to mention all of the radioacive stuff that could be in the ash that isn't contained)
I absolutely agree, that comment was directed at the moronic AC that replied to you.
Most households probably have enough radioactive materials within 20 feet of their house to power it for a year... And you don't we don't exactly see that stuff going critical mass even in huge quantities that exist naturally.
I'm no nuclear physicist, but I doubt that even a cubic foot of uranium fission byproducts would be enough to cause considerable heat.
Problem is that as a house type person, you don't get a good bulk rate to feed power back to the grid since your primary role is that of consumer.
If one's solar (or other energy) generators produce something in excess of what you use, it would probably make good sense to use it for driving instead of selling it back to your provider for 1/10s of pennies on the kw/h.
The one problem I see with the idea of charging at home via solar is that most people are gone during the day. So, instead of charging directly to the car you've got to store the charge in another battery or fuel cell until the car can be plugged in. And this, of course, it less than efficient, plus it means more wear on your home batteries, etc. etc.
You see, you do need the pringles can, but for a different reason.
All you have to do is place an RFID reader in the Pringles can, become friends with him, and offer the guy some marijuana.. Since he totally looks like he dopes up once in a while (or at the very least might not be afraid to try it)... You've got him.
When he gets the munchies, you offer him your booby trapped Pringles. What pothead can resist Pringles? None! This is what we call "pwnt".
They charged you $200? Bastards charged me $650 for IRIX 6.5 upgraded from 6.3, and this was the "educational priced" version quite a few years back (if there ever were such a thing, that is).
If there were ever a question about why SGI was never adopted more widely, my answer would be "insane pricing". Because unless you absolutely needed an SGI, you probably couldn't afford it.
Heh, I was just thinking about Bill Nye earlier today... For some reason the opening song poped into my head. I was thinking that it's too bad that kids don't have any fun and inteligent shows on anymore.
What I want are 5-10 gig or larger "drives" that are made up of cheaper 66mhz SDRAM modules, yet have an IDE/SATA/SCSI/(Whatever) interface, and use one of those for swap.
Indeed, they do have such things. I'm not sure about the exact size of them, because last time I saw one, it was probably ten years ago.. At which time they had 2GB of storage, a 2GB SCSI disk and a battery backup--In case the power went out, the drive's controller would dump the contents of memory into the mechanical drive. The whole thing cost like 5 grand, and took two 5 1/4' drive bays. Of course, the performance was amazing.
I know there's Flash based solid state drives today, but they suffer all of the shortcomings of flash (they wear out, and they're not super fast on writing)... Anyway...
Except a heliocentric solar system has been proven.
And the man that suggested it, well after it was known and then forgotten by the Greeks, was excommunicated and placed under house arrest for the remainder of his life on the charge of heresy--and by all accounts he was VERY lucky.
Tell me now, have we come very far? Maybe we should start putting "here be monsters" on our maps again and forget all that we've learned.
If I could get up on stage, fart to the Star-Spangled Banner, crash plates in a semi-rythmical fashion, and compose a twisted enough crowd to enjoy it, then it's music. It's also art--the two walk hand in hand.
Do you enjoy listening to DJ mixes? If so, it's music, then. That's all there is to it.
If you listen to DJ mixes because you appreciate the skill and mastery of the person performing the act, but otherwise find the actual sound to be a lesson in masochism, then perhaps, to you, it's not music.
It may not be illegal, but it sure as hell is unethical to detain people for years and years with no charges, or evidence. It flies in the face of the 5th, 6th, and 8th amendments. Sure, many of them are not citizens of our country, but the practice is still contrary to the spirit of the law, and of our country--but I guess the spirit of our country has changed since then, which is even more disturbing...
And people don't realize just how little the Geneva Convention applies. Most probably, the people that are detained were not uniformed soldiers at the time of their capture. They have no rights, human or otherwise, under the convention.
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I dunno, I was overhearing a breakfast conversation by a group of very conservative men (probably Jehovas witnesses or somesuch), and the Alpha Male of the group was railing the rest of his pack on the opinion that GWB just plain aint' conservative enough! This was exactly the subject of his rantings. They'd probably be most pleased if the government did no less than hook their balls up to electrodes and give 'em a good zap if they thought of anything remotely sinful.
Needless to say they agreed with him on such a level that they nearly kowtowed and chanted "We're not worthy!".
This is the same bunch that had enforcers scare people out of Wings Over the Rockies museum during a "town hall conference" (read staged event) because they didn't look republican. I.E. white male driving a Mercedes.
These guys are so desperate to keep up the smoke and mirrors act that I believe they'll stop at nothing. This comes at no suprise.
A traffic cop near me regularly brings home his 90's Saturn equiped with police gear (radar, hidden lights, etc) Supposedly it's got a souped up engine also, but he's not a gearhead at all and dosen't know what it is. If you didn't pay very close attention to it, you'd never know it had lights.
It's also kinda funny, because there's been a guy going around pretending to be an officer giving people tickets, and in general being a creep. Can't trust anyone anymore I guess.
If nothing else, their combined efforts could knock out Mike Tyson. What a bastard with that one punch knockout stuff. Let's see the prez do that!
MIT would so win if they made their USB controlled LED disco dance floor play John Conway's The Game of Life.
Hands down.
Sad thing is that I'd be excited about it.
Not only that, but Walmart (and Walgreens and a number of other retail chains) have a nasty habit of using eminent domain, basically bribing the counties and city councils (with promises of more tax dollars) to screw over the little guy, get rights to property for pennies on the dollar, and scare away local business.
Actually, I'm quite amazed that Wal-Mart finally decided against their neighborhood store at Elitches (this is in the North Denver, Colorado area). I guess their potential consumers were too much of a thorn. It's the only time that I've ever heard of a Wal-Mart being ousted by the residents! GG Wallymart!
Those aren't usage dates, they're recertification dates, wherein a gas supply is supposed to refuse to fill it again until it has been recertified.
The process for this (at the last time I understood the DOT regulations and MSCE guidelines) is that they remove the valve, and then perform a visual inspection with a borescope. If all is well (it isn't rust-pitted), then a hydrostatic test is performed.
If the operating pressure of the cylinder is 3000psi, the hydrotest pushes the pressure up to around 5000psi. This is done in a pool of water, just so that if there is a rupture the operator's arm dosen't get cut off by a jet of water. If the cylinder passes, the cylinder is dried and cleaned out, the valve is replaced, it's stamped with a new date, and it's filled again. IIRC the retesting procedure is required every 10 years. A pressure vessel installed in a car is no different.
A cylinder (oxygen, nitrogen, CO2, whatever) can pretty well be used indefinitely. About the only time that a cylinder is no good is if it's design has obsolesced (and this dosen't happen very often), or it's just plain been rusted out.
Indeed, I've seen videos of natural gas cylinders that held upwards of 3000psi dropped from cranes to simulate 80MPH impacts(in a car, mind you), shot with pistol and rifle rounds (the pistol rounds hardly chipped away at the fiberglass wrapping, the rifle round went through to no catastrophic effect), had full sticks of dynamite detonated right against them, cooked on top of bonfires, and all sorts of crazy stuff.
Mind you, this was before the wide use of kevlar and carbon composites (the tanks used fiberglass as I said earlier), and still these tanks are damn tough.
Still, compared to liquid gas tanks, they're pretty heavy. If you're to have a tank of any considerable size to hold 4000psi, it's going to be heavy, which is more weight to move around. If they make it work that's great, though!
Oh yes it would. On cubic foot is a lot of uranium byproducts. If it was pu or u235 it would be many many critical masses. A cubic foot of uranium would probably power many thousands of homes for a few years.
Yeah, you're right, that just goes to show my ignoracne of the issue (and also how big a cubic foot is) A cubic foot of u235 would weigh about 1200lbs, which is good for about 11 critical masses (according to a cursory googling)... That's quite alot.
A critical mass being about 157 cubic inches, roughly the size of a 5" cube... Still I have no idea how hot a pure cube of uranium about that size would be. I guess if I were interested enough I could find the decay constants and that that sort of stuff and work it out, but hey I'm too lazy. Of course, that's just uranium and not the byproducts, but there goes that lazy thing again.
Still, I know that most (at least 90%) of the stuff they want to bury is yellow cake material, mixed with the occasional piece of really hot stuff. What I'd be interested to know is why they don't actually use the reactors to produce more fuel from the U-238 that was basically just along the ride... I mean, they go through the effort of digging it up and extracting the few percentages of u-235 that they want, and the rest goes back into the earth. Seems pretty wasteful.
I'm guessing it's probably because of treaties or some such, what with the rest of the world upset at anyone creating plutonium. Agian, too lazy.
At any rate, I'd much rather have whatever byproducts of my consumption of electricity be of the nuclear sort, contained in a little box, rather than up in the air. That soot would be a bitch to dust off (not to mention all of the radioacive stuff that could be in the ash that isn't contained)
I absolutely agree, that comment was directed at the moronic AC that replied to you.
Most households probably have enough radioactive materials within 20 feet of their house to power it for a year... And you don't we don't exactly see that stuff going critical mass even in huge quantities that exist naturally.
I'm no nuclear physicist, but I doubt that even a cubic foot of uranium fission byproducts would be enough to cause considerable heat.
What educational system brought up someone who could spew out something so inane?
Problem is that as a house type person, you don't get a good bulk rate to feed power back to the grid since your primary role is that of consumer.
If one's solar (or other energy) generators produce something in excess of what you use, it would probably make good sense to use it for driving instead of selling it back to your provider for 1/10s of pennies on the kw/h.
The one problem I see with the idea of charging at home via solar is that most people are gone during the day. So, instead of charging directly to the car you've got to store the charge in another battery or fuel cell until the car can be plugged in. And this, of course, it less than efficient, plus it means more wear on your home batteries, etc. etc.
You see, you do need the pringles can, but for a different reason.
All you have to do is place an RFID reader in the Pringles can, become friends with him, and offer the guy some marijuana.. Since he totally looks like he dopes up once in a while (or at the very least might not be afraid to try it)... You've got him.
When he gets the munchies, you offer him your booby trapped Pringles. What pothead can resist Pringles? None! This is what we call "pwnt".
They charged you $200? Bastards charged me $650 for IRIX 6.5 upgraded from 6.3, and this was the "educational priced" version quite a few years back (if there ever were such a thing, that is).
If there were ever a question about why SGI was never adopted more widely, my answer would be "insane pricing". Because unless you absolutely needed an SGI, you probably couldn't afford it.
Will it also allow us to synergize and leverage the paradigm shift?
'Cause if so, I'm totally there.
Who on earth would name a female "Mitchell", though? That's definitely a non-ambiguous male name--unlike Chris, or Morgan, or similar.
Seriously, I think people who've been named badly should be able to beat their parents silly once they're able to do so...
Anyone else out there who's never heard roblimo's voice thinking he sounds a lot like Ben Stein? I know I am.
Heh, I was just thinking about Bill Nye earlier today... For some reason the opening song poped into my head. I was thinking that it's too bad that kids don't have any fun and inteligent shows on anymore.
Anyway, Bill Nye rocks.
What I want are 5-10 gig or larger "drives" that are made up of cheaper 66mhz SDRAM modules, yet have an IDE/SATA/SCSI/(Whatever) interface, and use one of those for swap.
Indeed, they do have such things. I'm not sure about the exact size of them, because last time I saw one, it was probably ten years ago.. At which time they had 2GB of storage, a 2GB SCSI disk and a battery backup--In case the power went out, the drive's controller would dump the contents of memory into the mechanical drive.
The whole thing cost like 5 grand, and took two 5 1/4' drive bays. Of course, the performance was amazing.
I know there's Flash based solid state drives today, but they suffer all of the shortcomings of flash (they wear out, and they're not super fast on writing)... Anyway...
Except a heliocentric solar system has been proven.
And the man that suggested it, well after it was known and then forgotten by the Greeks, was excommunicated and placed under house arrest for the remainder of his life on the charge of heresy--and by all accounts he was VERY lucky.
Tell me now, have we come very far? Maybe we should start putting "here be monsters" on our maps again and forget all that we've learned.
If I could get up on stage, fart to the Star-Spangled Banner, crash plates in a semi-rythmical fashion, and compose a twisted enough crowd to enjoy it, then it's music. It's also art--the two walk hand in hand.
Do you enjoy listening to DJ mixes? If so, it's music, then. That's all there is to it.
If you listen to DJ mixes because you appreciate the skill and mastery of the person performing the act, but otherwise find the actual sound to be a lesson in masochism, then perhaps, to you, it's not music.
"Hopefully we'll all meet again in StarWars 3D: The Quest for More Money"
What, like getting it stuck in a door?
It may not be illegal, but it sure as hell is unethical to detain people for years and years with no charges, or evidence. It flies in the face of the 5th, 6th, and 8th amendments. Sure, many of them are not citizens of our country, but the practice is still contrary to the spirit of the law, and of our country--but I guess the spirit of our country has changed since then, which is even more disturbing...
And people don't realize just how little the Geneva Convention applies. Most probably, the people that are detained were not uniformed soldiers at the time of their capture. They have no rights, human or otherwise, under the convention.
Depends on what video system, I say.
I'd go as far to say that each color space is it's own pair of dimensions.