Actually BYU would if anything have a vested interest in showing that things from the old world arrived in the new world prior to Columbus, not so much the other way around. The Later Day Saints (Mormons) believe that several groups of people traveled from the old world at different times to inhabit the America's. In their teachings there is only one instance I can think of where a group possibly leaves the America's, but they never return which would be required for trade. And those mummies were supposedly from a very wide time frame.
They'd probably be excellent for teaching children to read and write. Just combine it with software that reads or tries to read the words the child spells by combining the letters. The child could be given a specific set of letters and rewarded by how many words they can spell correctly using the set. Or you could have the program pronounce words and the child then reproduces the word with the blocks.
Granted these are all things you could do with a computer now, but this obviously allows for easier manipulation by the child and is more intuitive than using a keyboard. Not to mention it might be indistinguishable from a game in the childs eyes. And getting kids to enjoy and actively seek out learning is probably the biggest hurdle in our educational system.
I honestly can't remember that bug happening more than a handful of times while I was playing it. I let me account lapes last month because my friends weren't playing anymore and my free time doesn't fit with a MMO anymore. I played two characters to the high 20's, another to 21, and several more in the high teens. Maybe five mobs that bugged out that whole time.
Mythbusters pretty much showed that a firearm isn't going to cause a plane to dangerously decompress. You will still need an oxygen mask but nobody is going to get sucked out of the plane. An explosive device could certainly do it though.
The largest danger I'd see of having people with firearms on a plane is accidentally hitting woundign or killing another passenger that isn't your target. Or possibly damaging a control surface, engine or control device.
Sadly enough many commercials are of better quality than the regular programing. For instance I really get a kick out of the humor in the freecreditreport.com commercials.
Look up www.Zipcar.com
My sister has been using their service for several years and it's been a big boon for her. If everyone just owned an electric vehicle or two that met their normal daily needs, services like Zipcar would spring up all over the place and the prices would likely get even more attractive through competition.
I've rented a number of cars in the last four years and never had a problem with how long it took. In most cases I called to ask if they had a vehicle that fit my requirements then bummed a ride from a friend over to pick it up. The paper work usually takes under five minutes and I am out the door.
I think you might have missed what the parent was getting at.
If the children who took pictures of themselves are tried as adults, then is the action they are on trial for actually a crime. The whole point of being tried as an adult is that the accussed is of sufficient mental faculties to be considered an adult. But if they are adult enough to be tried as an adult then weren't they taking pictures of an adult according to the court?
The cost of housing in the bay area isn't something the government can really control unless they step in and tell people they can't sell their property for more than some cap.
The prices are through the roof because the amount of wealth introduced to the area and the number of people willing to leverage that wealth, or their next 30 years of productivity, in order to live there. If the cost of housing is too hgih for you to stomach don't live their. You can buy two or three times the house for a fifth of the money elsewhere in the country.
I live in Alabama. My 1800 sq ft home was just over $120k three years ago. Today it's worth about the same amount as my area wasn't affected by the housing bubble. My Salary is $60k. I am by no means a superstar employee and am actually on the low end of the totem pole at my tech job. I have a less than fifteen minute commute through residential neighborhoods every morning. If I lived in San Jose I'd probably need between two to three times the salary just to scrape by and likely have a much longer and less pleasant commute.
The religous conservative side argues that to them marriage has always meant a man and a woman.
The group of people pushing for prop 8 want it to now mean two people, possibly of the same sex.
The religous group finds this offensive because it would in their eyes devalue the term marriage.
The pro-prop 8 group says this is silly and that the religous right should change their fundamental beliefs to accept them as equals.
Another poster suggested that the Federal government and all the state governments should simply remove all instances of the word "marriage" and replace it with "civil union" and only issue "Civil Union" licenses from here on out. Convert all existing marriages to civil unions in the records. Let the religous people afraid of their term for a civil union between a man and a woman, marriage, from being altered and move on as a society. There are bigger things we can be debating than quibbling over the usage of a word.
I work for a cantractor at a DoD facility. We got permission to operate on the 9/80 schedule a couple months after I started working here. I absolutely love it.
I have 8 days that I work 9 hours and a short day that is the standard 8 hours. My day off is decided by me and my boss, who co-ordinates it with the rest of the office. This way we don't end up with entire sections being absent at the same time. The day off is supposed to be the same day each time though you are allowed to switch it with approval of your boss and the bosses boss on occasion if necessary.
I picked the Monday after payday as my day off. My short day is the payday/friday preceeding the day off. My wife has family close enough that we can now get in reasonable visits every once in awhile over the weekend without having to take any time off. And being able to get all my appointments with doctor's dentists optometrists and such out of the way on a weekday without taking time off is sweet for saving those precious vacation hours.
This probably isn't the kind of answer that you want. I enlisted in the Air Force. That option or becoming a commissioned officer in one of the branches may not be as easy as it was when I signed up though. I still don't have my degree but I got out with a Top Secret clearance and six years of mixed programming and DBA experience. I had a job within two weeks of starting my job search and almost a month before my pay from the military stopped coming in.
Most plans to grow algae commercially actually include locating them immediately next to existing CO2 producing installations like powerplants. The plan is to use capture the CO2 waste from those plants and pipe it into the tanks of ponds of algae. This actually works as a fertilizer for the algae and increases production hugely. The waste material from squeezing the oil out of the algae can be fed back to the tanks as fertilizer. We will probably need to suplement this with other nutrients but it's a far more efficient process than anything you would grown on land since there is no wasted fertilizer. So in short the algae would recapture CO2, which is then released when it's burned. But that makes it carbon nuetral since no new CO2 is being produced.
The land used to produce the algae would depend on how it's grown. Growing it in large shallow ponds would be the simplest way of doing it but also possibly the least efficient all around so far as land use and other resources go. Growing it vertically in large tanks is probably the best choice since it takes up a much smaller footprint for a couple orders of magnitude more biomass produced.
One of the issues I see with the plastic bag method is this. Most all plastics breakdown with exposure to sunlight. How often would the bags have to be replaced. Making plastic bags requires oil, so would they produce enough to compensate for having to use plastic bags? Also the larger they get the more likely to fail they are so scaling them up could be a big issue.
As for growing them in a tank or reactor I'm currious how they go about getting enough sunlight into the tank without the algae blocking it's own light.
What you say isn't entirely true from what I have read.
The Algae is usually seperated from the water through filtration or skimming of some sort and then pressed to extract the oil. The waste product can then be dried out and broken up to be used as food stuff for the algae that you still have growing. So while the algae isn't generating as much waste as the other options it's not 100% production either.
The big difficulties I seem to remember were in getting useful amounts of oil out of the strains of algae they could easily grow. While there are millions of different strains of algae there are only maybe a couple hundred that can produce enough oil to be worthwhile. They need to find a hardy strain of algae that won't easily be displaced by an invading strain that doesn't produce enough fuel. And at the same time that won't wipe out all other algae strains in the area.
I didn't specifically mention farm subsidies though I can see where you think I might have. I was simply reffering to you obtaining something from another person who did take direct advantage of infrastructure and such funded atleast in part through government programs.
By the way I don't in general approve of the farm subsidies. I'm sorry if someone wants to farm as a way of life they'll need to be more productive doing it than they were previously if they want to do it for a living.
It seems your base line complaint is that you are paying for more than you actually benefit. That's a perfectly understandable gripe to have. My point is that you are probably getting more out of it than you think, even if it is still less monetarily than you put in. And saying that you will never take advantage of something like unemployment or medicare isn't valid because you don't know what situation you will be in within even the next few months that could leave you with no other alternatives.
Abolishing government programs enmasse just because they are often poorly implemented and managed is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We as a society need to be more involved in what our government does with our resources. Luckily we have a system that allows for that even if it's getting worse and worse from neglect.
Whether or not you travel yourself, go to public schools, or ever visit Egypt, those spent tax dollars benefit you in some small way. That isn't to say that you gain directly from those things though.
For instance: If you live entirely off the grid and craft, grow or raise everything you use you might never gain from the things taxes are spent on. But as soon as you take advantage of something so simple as produce grown by a local farmer you've benefited from a slew of tax funded programs all at once, because odds are that farmer relied on equipment and supplies he didn't make himself.
The inefficiencies of government spending are inherent to every society. Societies exist to improve the overall quality of life of it's members. That can't be accomplished evenly, not even in a perfect world. The Governments job should be to provide as many of these programs as efficiently as it can without going bankrupt. Most of the problems we see today are from mismanagement and the attitude of entitlement to a freeride.
Foreign Aid is a humanitarian effort to hopefully improve other societies so that they can better participate in the Global society.
Interstate highway system? Granted some have benefited more than others but I can't see where you could argue that it has not been of benefit to pretty much the entire population.
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Actually BYU would if anything have a vested interest in showing that things from the old world arrived in the new world prior to Columbus, not so much the other way around. The Later Day Saints (Mormons) believe that several groups of people traveled from the old world at different times to inhabit the America's. In their teachings there is only one instance I can think of where a group possibly leaves the America's, but they never return which would be required for trade. And those mummies were supposedly from a very wide time frame.
I was thinking along the same lines.
They'd probably be excellent for teaching children to read and write. Just combine it with software that reads or tries to read the words the child spells by combining the letters. The child could be given a specific set of letters and rewarded by how many words they can spell correctly using the set. Or you could have the program pronounce words and the child then reproduces the word with the blocks.
Granted these are all things you could do with a computer now, but this obviously allows for easier manipulation by the child and is more intuitive than using a keyboard. Not to mention it might be indistinguishable from a game in the childs eyes. And getting kids to enjoy and actively seek out learning is probably the biggest hurdle in our educational system.
Depends on how well fed the rats are. I haven't seen any 12 pound rats in my lifetime, but I have seen a number of no-pet rats.
I honestly can't remember that bug happening more than a handful of times while I was playing it. I let me account lapes last month because my friends weren't playing anymore and my free time doesn't fit with a MMO anymore. I played two characters to the high 20's, another to 21, and several more in the high teens. Maybe five mobs that bugged out that whole time.
Mythbusters pretty much showed that a firearm isn't going to cause a plane to dangerously decompress. You will still need an oxygen mask but nobody is going to get sucked out of the plane. An explosive device could certainly do it though.
The largest danger I'd see of having people with firearms on a plane is accidentally hitting woundign or killing another passenger that isn't your target. Or possibly damaging a control surface, engine or control device.
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Our two main weapons are Fear, Suprise and a nearly fanatical devotion to NRTFA!
Sadly enough many commercials are of better quality than the regular programing. For instance I really get a kick out of the humor in the freecreditreport.com commercials.
Look up www.Zipcar.com My sister has been using their service for several years and it's been a big boon for her. If everyone just owned an electric vehicle or two that met their normal daily needs, services like Zipcar would spring up all over the place and the prices would likely get even more attractive through competition.
I've rented a number of cars in the last four years and never had a problem with how long it took. In most cases I called to ask if they had a vehicle that fit my requirements then bummed a ride from a friend over to pick it up. The paper work usually takes under five minutes and I am out the door.
Mom's vehicle is likely already rather fuel efficient when you break it down to miles per occupant.
Actually you will please note that he said he has a 6TB collection of porn.
I think you might have missed what the parent was getting at.
If the children who took pictures of themselves are tried as adults, then is the action they are on trial for actually a crime. The whole point of being tried as an adult is that the accussed is of sufficient mental faculties to be considered an adult. But if they are adult enough to be tried as an adult then weren't they taking pictures of an adult according to the court?
Gawdamnit, why don't I have mod points today?!?!
The cost of housing in the bay area isn't something the government can really control unless they step in and tell people they can't sell their property for more than some cap.
The prices are through the roof because the amount of wealth introduced to the area and the number of people willing to leverage that wealth, or their next 30 years of productivity, in order to live there. If the cost of housing is too hgih for you to stomach don't live their. You can buy two or three times the house for a fifth of the money elsewhere in the country.
I live in Alabama. My 1800 sq ft home was just over $120k three years ago. Today it's worth about the same amount as my area wasn't affected by the housing bubble. My Salary is $60k. I am by no means a superstar employee and am actually on the low end of the totem pole at my tech job. I have a less than fifteen minute commute through residential neighborhoods every morning. If I lived in San Jose I'd probably need between two to three times the salary just to scrape by and likely have a much longer and less pleasant commute.
The religous conservative side argues that to them marriage has always meant a man and a woman.
The group of people pushing for prop 8 want it to now mean two people, possibly of the same sex.
The religous group finds this offensive because it would in their eyes devalue the term marriage.
The pro-prop 8 group says this is silly and that the religous right should change their fundamental beliefs to accept them as equals.
Another poster suggested that the Federal government and all the state governments should simply remove all instances of the word "marriage" and replace it with "civil union" and only issue "Civil Union" licenses from here on out. Convert all existing marriages to civil unions in the records. Let the religous people afraid of their term for a civil union between a man and a woman, marriage, from being altered and move on as a society. There are bigger things we can be debating than quibbling over the usage of a word.
There is plenty of good reason to. A computer or remotely controlled plane can react more quickly and manuever better than one with a fleshbag pilot.
I work for a cantractor at a DoD facility. We got permission to operate on the 9/80 schedule a couple months after I started working here. I absolutely love it.
I have 8 days that I work 9 hours and a short day that is the standard 8 hours. My day off is decided by me and my boss, who co-ordinates it with the rest of the office. This way we don't end up with entire sections being absent at the same time. The day off is supposed to be the same day each time though you are allowed to switch it with approval of your boss and the bosses boss on occasion if necessary.
I picked the Monday after payday as my day off. My short day is the payday/friday preceeding the day off. My wife has family close enough that we can now get in reasonable visits every once in awhile over the weekend without having to take any time off. And being able to get all my appointments with doctor's dentists optometrists and such out of the way on a weekday without taking time off is sweet for saving those precious vacation hours.
This probably isn't the kind of answer that you want. I enlisted in the Air Force. That option or becoming a commissioned officer in one of the branches may not be as easy as it was when I signed up though. I still don't have my degree but I got out with a Top Secret clearance and six years of mixed programming and DBA experience. I had a job within two weeks of starting my job search and almost a month before my pay from the military stopped coming in.
To answer yoru questions.
Most plans to grow algae commercially actually include locating them immediately next to existing CO2 producing installations like powerplants. The plan is to use capture the CO2 waste from those plants and pipe it into the tanks of ponds of algae. This actually works as a fertilizer for the algae and increases production hugely. The waste material from squeezing the oil out of the algae can be fed back to the tanks as fertilizer. We will probably need to suplement this with other nutrients but it's a far more efficient process than anything you would grown on land since there is no wasted fertilizer. So in short the algae would recapture CO2, which is then released when it's burned. But that makes it carbon nuetral since no new CO2 is being produced.
The land used to produce the algae would depend on how it's grown. Growing it in large shallow ponds would be the simplest way of doing it but also possibly the least efficient all around so far as land use and other resources go. Growing it vertically in large tanks is probably the best choice since it takes up a much smaller footprint for a couple orders of magnitude more biomass produced.
One of the issues I see with the plastic bag method is this. Most all plastics breakdown with exposure to sunlight. How often would the bags have to be replaced. Making plastic bags requires oil, so would they produce enough to compensate for having to use plastic bags? Also the larger they get the more likely to fail they are so scaling them up could be a big issue. As for growing them in a tank or reactor I'm currious how they go about getting enough sunlight into the tank without the algae blocking it's own light.
What you say isn't entirely true from what I have read.
The Algae is usually seperated from the water through filtration or skimming of some sort and then pressed to extract the oil. The waste product can then be dried out and broken up to be used as food stuff for the algae that you still have growing. So while the algae isn't generating as much waste as the other options it's not 100% production either.
The big difficulties I seem to remember were in getting useful amounts of oil out of the strains of algae they could easily grow. While there are millions of different strains of algae there are only maybe a couple hundred that can produce enough oil to be worthwhile. They need to find a hardy strain of algae that won't easily be displaced by an invading strain that doesn't produce enough fuel. And at the same time that won't wipe out all other algae strains in the area.
Except doing that would halve your resolution wouldn't it?
I didn't specifically mention farm subsidies though I can see where you think I might have. I was simply reffering to you obtaining something from another person who did take direct advantage of infrastructure and such funded atleast in part through government programs.
By the way I don't in general approve of the farm subsidies. I'm sorry if someone wants to farm as a way of life they'll need to be more productive doing it than they were previously if they want to do it for a living.
It seems your base line complaint is that you are paying for more than you actually benefit. That's a perfectly understandable gripe to have. My point is that you are probably getting more out of it than you think, even if it is still less monetarily than you put in. And saying that you will never take advantage of something like unemployment or medicare isn't valid because you don't know what situation you will be in within even the next few months that could leave you with no other alternatives.
Abolishing government programs enmasse just because they are often poorly implemented and managed is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We as a society need to be more involved in what our government does with our resources. Luckily we have a system that allows for that even if it's getting worse and worse from neglect.
Whether or not you travel yourself, go to public schools, or ever visit Egypt, those spent tax dollars benefit you in some small way. That isn't to say that you gain directly from those things though. For instance: If you live entirely off the grid and craft, grow or raise everything you use you might never gain from the things taxes are spent on. But as soon as you take advantage of something so simple as produce grown by a local farmer you've benefited from a slew of tax funded programs all at once, because odds are that farmer relied on equipment and supplies he didn't make himself. The inefficiencies of government spending are inherent to every society. Societies exist to improve the overall quality of life of it's members. That can't be accomplished evenly, not even in a perfect world. The Governments job should be to provide as many of these programs as efficiently as it can without going bankrupt. Most of the problems we see today are from mismanagement and the attitude of entitlement to a freeride. Foreign Aid is a humanitarian effort to hopefully improve other societies so that they can better participate in the Global society.
Interstate highway system? Granted some have benefited more than others but I can't see where you could argue that it has not been of benefit to pretty much the entire population.