This is a HELL of a lot better than when Obama got the prize, just for being elected. An unknown nobody who had run a successful campaign got a peace prize just for moving into the White House? Totally bogus.
Maybe the committee has decided that they would like to have some credibility.
I'm all for Snowden getting the prize. To bad it has been cheapened with some of the past awards.
Yes, you should be absolutely loyal to your owner/master cat. Remember, that feline has at least 9 lives, and you only have one. Piss the cat off, and she may come back as a saber toothed tiger in her next life. The wife's cat warned me of that possibility. No, I'm not anthropomorphizing the cat. There was nothing human about the threat. She claims to have kept a couple of pharaohs as pets, and I'm not arguing with her!
Awesome post. And, I love your * addon. Partisan politics allows people to approve of increased power while their own fair haired child occupies the Oval Office. None of the nitwits gives a thought to eight years down the road, when some redheaded stepchild occupies that same office.
The bleating seemed to me to be coming from Washington. The thousand or so most powerful people in the United States, and their assorted staff, were stampeding around, in fear for their lives. The people? Ehhh - they were edgy, maybe a little fearful, but I saw nothing like Washington's panic elsewhere in the nation.
The man risked everything, including his life. I think he deserves a bit more than that. He deserves an award from congress, and either a modest reward, or a small lifetime stipend. By "modest reward", I have in mind something equivalent to the annual bonuses tossed around by bankster CEO's - maybe five million dollars.
Your post piqued my curiosity. I've worked my share of concrete and mortar, but didn't really understand what you meant. A google search fed me a video of a semi-automated brick production, but I wasn't satisfied with that. This video looks a lot more like traditional brick making. Still haven't found the specs for "adobe" - so, another google - - -
Ahhh - finding and choosing, and testing the soil for suitability: http://www.doityourself.com/st... I noticed that in the first link they were mixing in what appears to be portland cement. Basically, I guess there are lots of recipes, and the craftsmen doing the work will adjust to whatever might be available.
Jet B[edit] Jet B is a fuel in the naphtha-kerosene region that is used for its enhanced cold-weather performance. However, Jet B's lighter composition makes it more dangerous to handle.[8] For this reason it is rarely used, except in very cold climates. A blend of approximately 30% kerosene and 70% gasoline, it is known as wide-cut fuel. It has a very low freezing point of 60 C (76 F) and a low flash point as well. It is primarily used in the US and some military aircraft.
Dangerous to handle - - - rarely used - - - low flash point - - -
So, tell us Nick, how much of this fuel have you used, and in what applications? Isn't it safe to ASSume that the engines using this fuel are special purpose, specially built, and pretty rare? I can see that they may be using a Jet B electrical generator in Antarctica, but it seems pretty unlikely that they are using them in the continental US.
What is the primary difference between gasoline, and any diesel or kero fuel? Gasoline is explosive, whereas all of the heavier oil fuels burn instead of exploding. Just about the last thing that any operator of an oil based combustion engine wants, is an explosive fuel. Gasoline will readily destroy any of those engines in pretty short order.
Tractor trailer operators on the highway often put a gallon of gasoline in their fuel tanks when it is extremely cold, to make the engine run warmer. A gallon of gasoline in 200 gallons of diesel fuel is sufficient to raise the operating temperature of the engine noticeably. I leave it to you to extrapolate the results of using a higher mix.
Great post - that little buzzword, "jet fuel" really doesn't mean what the uninformed think that it means.
A couple points: There are various grades of jet fuel, and those various grades are suitable for a number of uses. Aboard ship, we burned JP4 in our boilers. JP5 would burn just as well, with less soot, but it was more expensive so we always specified JP4 in our fuel requirements.
I've often read stories of aviation facilities rejecting fuel deliveries when it failed one test or other. That fuel is invariable accepted as a lower quality fuel, and used in less demanding aircraft, or used for power generation, or even used for diesel fuel.
As for TFS, the reference to " an unconventional fuel" is completely off target. Following the links, one discovers that the generation plants have turbine powered generators ready to go online at a moment's notice. There is nothing "unconventional" about their use, other than the economic pressures which dictated their use. It is simply unusual for jet fuel to become more available and/or economical to use than natural gas. In short - the generation companies were ready at a moment's notice to fire up these jet fuel generators, which really are quite "conventional".
Sometimes I almost hate kids. My youngest son taught himself how to solder, I guess he was about 11 at the time. Nice neat soldering work, unlike the clumps and globs that I do. "Mommy, Daddy, look what I can do!" Mommy says, "That's great son! Honey, why can't you do that?" Grrrrrr . . .
Another twelve years later, I've gotten over that. Now, when I need something soldered, I just give it to the kid. He likes showing off, so it's kinda win-win.
And, you should see my welding. I simply do NOT have a talent for making molten metal flow where it needs to go. Basically, I just stab the electrode where I want the filler to go, build it up as far as I can, then grind away all the ugly. Smack the finished product with a hammer, if it doesn't fall apart, I pretend that it's a good weld.
The kid? He has almost no experience, but makes nice pretty welds that need almost no grinding.
Not a "bad idea", no. But - how do you choose, and how much do you teach? Horse drawn carriages, for instance. How many people realize how MANY kinds of horse drawn vehicles there were? How closely do you want to examine the suspension systems of each class of carriage? The wheels? The braking system? The harness?
No, I'm not being facetious here. Or, not entirely, anyway. Carriages were pretty complex back in the day. Wheels broke, the tongues got damaged, harness had to be maintained full time. A significant portion of the population earned it's living by building and maintaining the various wagons, carriages, and coaches.
Today, we take pneumatic rubber wheels for granted. How many of us could build or repair, or even properly maintain a wheel from centuries ago?
A Mexican is an immigrant, or a migrant, and likely an illegal alien. An American citizen was either born here, with a US birth certificate, or a naturalized citizen. The difference is a legal status.
No way. Couldn't happen here! Not in a million years. Someone is smoking some really strange shit to think we could just lose some radioactive material here in the US of A.
Oh, cry me a river. Companies bending over backward? Wooo-hoo. You're hallucinating. THE COMPANIES HAVE YOU BENT OVER A BARREL, AND YOU LIKE IT!
The thieves are those who have gone to Congress to get copyright law changed, so that copyright will never expire. In effect, they have bribed congress to grant them a monopoly on music into perpetuity.
I don't see historical data for rainfall levels in those links. I see allusions to scientific research, but I see no actual scientific research on those pages. No historic data such as I seek.
Of course water disappears after use. It swirls down the drain, flows down a pipe, into a sewer, pumped into a sewerage station, treated, then dumped back into a river, where it flows downstream, into the sea. It just disappears there, until it just happens to be in the right spot on the surface one day, to be evaporated into the atmosphere, where it can become rain again.
The problem is, we've been using water faster than water can evaporate and fall as rainfall. We've been drying out the land for decades. Give us time, and we'll figure out how to dry the ocean as well.
So, let me ask - historically speaking, what has California's rainfall averaged, since the white man first came on the scene?
The funny thing is, I do a Google search to check that out. I click several links, and none show the information I am looking for. In 1849, what was the rainfall? Nothing. 1850? Nothing. 1851? Still more nothing. Where do I find the historical data?
Now, is there REALLY this remarkable drought, or have we simply been over using the available water for several decades already? There are a number of places where we have millions of people, but the land historically only supported hundreds or thousands. Even with tens of thousands, the weather and the land supplied plenty of water for survival, and some thrown in for waste and recreation. But, MILLIONS? Oh-oh - not enough water to go around.
We have been pumping lakes, rivers, and aquifers dry for decades now. We pump water from wherever we can find it, not caring about where it came from, or whether it will ever be replaced, or how it might be replaced.
Do we really have exceptional droughts today, or are we simply running out of water to waste?
Show me the historical data, please. Does it actually support this climate change theory?
Bingo. In those years that I ran Windows, I always had a good idea of how my machine was running, how it was using resources, and what was calling for those resources. In the earlier days of virus infections, I seldom recognized a virus, and virus detectors failed to identify viruses. But, the fact that 60%+ of system resources were devoted to something that I couldn't identify was a sure tipoff.
I did catch that. But, it got me wondering. Did the UK not have any founding fathers? How about founding mothers? Maybe some founding SOB's? Where did England come from? Did it spring forth from the primordial soup? Which came first, the soup or the crown? Questions, questions, questions, all of which only lead to yet more questions!
That seems to depend on your definition of "population". I think it's been established that the US hosts more of almost everything than any other country. For the population of "internet facing servers", it seems that the US may have the highest population in the world. If not, we certainly rank up there alongside the highest. Who might have more than the US?
Yep. Exactly. Mine is not THE most locked down computer in the world, but nothing runs without my explicit permission. Nothing downloads without my explicit permission. Nothing comes from third party sites, without my explicit permission. It gets a little irritating sometimes. Popup reminders, asking me if I really want to permit application X to run code from site Y. But, in the long run, it's worth it. I always get the opportunity to block something that I don't think is right.
When I read the title, I just started laughing. I have actually given a thought or two to capturing a screenshot to see what the hell the code meant. Just a thought, now and then, I've never taken it seriously enough to do it. If I had, I could have posted here, "Hey, Slashdot! The code in 'The Matrix' actually does mean something, almost, except, they screwed up right here and made it meaningless after all!" Or, whatever I actually found.
Problem is, I'm not a programmer, and it would have taken me hours to figure out what a programmer could have figured out in ten minutes. Better to just let all those cool looking squiggles remain cool looking squiggles I guess.
Show us some 20+ year old software that still works, is still used, is compatible with today's hardware, and meets stringent security standards today. Almost everything has been rewritten, forked, cloned, or whatever. Copyright doesn't cover concepts and ideas either. Copyright only covers a specific work. Tables and graphs for instance can be copyrighted, but that doesn't prevent someone creating a very similar table or graph to essentially convey the same and/or similar information.
Linux and Gnu are filled with re-ported software. Credit is given where credit is due, but ported software seldom runs afoul of copyright. Patents are an entirely different ballgame. Every dick weed in thirty countries claims to have a patent on a shopping cart concept, and they all want a piece of the pie from anyone who uses any concept that vaguely resembles a shopping cart.
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This is a HELL of a lot better than when Obama got the prize, just for being elected. An unknown nobody who had run a successful campaign got a peace prize just for moving into the White House? Totally bogus.
Maybe the committee has decided that they would like to have some credibility.
I'm all for Snowden getting the prize. To bad it has been cheapened with some of the past awards.
Yes, you should be absolutely loyal to your owner/master cat. Remember, that feline has at least 9 lives, and you only have one. Piss the cat off, and she may come back as a saber toothed tiger in her next life. The wife's cat warned me of that possibility. No, I'm not anthropomorphizing the cat. There was nothing human about the threat. She claims to have kept a couple of pharaohs as pets, and I'm not arguing with her!
Awesome post. And, I love your * addon. Partisan politics allows people to approve of increased power while their own fair haired child occupies the Oval Office. None of the nitwits gives a thought to eight years down the road, when some redheaded stepchild occupies that same office.
The bleating seemed to me to be coming from Washington. The thousand or so most powerful people in the United States, and their assorted staff, were stampeding around, in fear for their lives. The people? Ehhh - they were edgy, maybe a little fearful, but I saw nothing like Washington's panic elsewhere in the nation.
The man risked everything, including his life. I think he deserves a bit more than that. He deserves an award from congress, and either a modest reward, or a small lifetime stipend. By "modest reward", I have in mind something equivalent to the annual bonuses tossed around by bankster CEO's - maybe five million dollars.
"We watch adobes being made"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Your post piqued my curiosity. I've worked my share of concrete and mortar, but didn't really understand what you meant. A google search fed me a video of a semi-automated brick production, but I wasn't satisfied with that. This video looks a lot more like traditional brick making. Still haven't found the specs for "adobe" - so, another google - - -
Ahhh - finding and choosing, and testing the soil for suitability: http://www.doityourself.com/st... I noticed that in the first link they were mixing in what appears to be portland cement. Basically, I guess there are lots of recipes, and the craftsmen doing the work will adjust to whatever might be available.
Thanks for your post, Cusco!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
Jet B[edit]
Jet B is a fuel in the naphtha-kerosene region that is used for its enhanced cold-weather performance. However, Jet B's lighter composition makes it more dangerous to handle.[8] For this reason it is rarely used, except in very cold climates. A blend of approximately 30% kerosene and 70% gasoline, it is known as wide-cut fuel. It has a very low freezing point of 60 C (76 F) and a low flash point as well. It is primarily used in the US and some military aircraft.
Dangerous to handle - - - rarely used - - - low flash point - - -
So, tell us Nick, how much of this fuel have you used, and in what applications? Isn't it safe to ASSume that the engines using this fuel are special purpose, specially built, and pretty rare? I can see that they may be using a Jet B electrical generator in Antarctica, but it seems pretty unlikely that they are using them in the continental US.
What is the primary difference between gasoline, and any diesel or kero fuel? Gasoline is explosive, whereas all of the heavier oil fuels burn instead of exploding. Just about the last thing that any operator of an oil based combustion engine wants, is an explosive fuel. Gasoline will readily destroy any of those engines in pretty short order.
Tractor trailer operators on the highway often put a gallon of gasoline in their fuel tanks when it is extremely cold, to make the engine run warmer. A gallon of gasoline in 200 gallons of diesel fuel is sufficient to raise the operating temperature of the engine noticeably. I leave it to you to extrapolate the results of using a higher mix.
Great post - that little buzzword, "jet fuel" really doesn't mean what the uninformed think that it means.
A couple points:
There are various grades of jet fuel, and those various grades are suitable for a number of uses. Aboard ship, we burned JP4 in our boilers. JP5 would burn just as well, with less soot, but it was more expensive so we always specified JP4 in our fuel requirements.
I've often read stories of aviation facilities rejecting fuel deliveries when it failed one test or other. That fuel is invariable accepted as a lower quality fuel, and used in less demanding aircraft, or used for power generation, or even used for diesel fuel.
As for TFS, the reference to " an unconventional fuel" is completely off target. Following the links, one discovers that the generation plants have turbine powered generators ready to go online at a moment's notice. There is nothing "unconventional" about their use, other than the economic pressures which dictated their use. It is simply unusual for jet fuel to become more available and/or economical to use than natural gas. In short - the generation companies were ready at a moment's notice to fire up these jet fuel generators, which really are quite "conventional".
*sigh*
Sometimes I almost hate kids. My youngest son taught himself how to solder, I guess he was about 11 at the time. Nice neat soldering work, unlike the clumps and globs that I do. "Mommy, Daddy, look what I can do!" Mommy says, "That's great son! Honey, why can't you do that?" Grrrrrr . . .
Another twelve years later, I've gotten over that. Now, when I need something soldered, I just give it to the kid. He likes showing off, so it's kinda win-win.
And, you should see my welding. I simply do NOT have a talent for making molten metal flow where it needs to go. Basically, I just stab the electrode where I want the filler to go, build it up as far as I can, then grind away all the ugly. Smack the finished product with a hammer, if it doesn't fall apart, I pretend that it's a good weld.
The kid? He has almost no experience, but makes nice pretty welds that need almost no grinding.
Did I mention that sometimes I almost hate kids?
Not a "bad idea", no. But - how do you choose, and how much do you teach? Horse drawn carriages, for instance. How many people realize how MANY kinds of horse drawn vehicles there were? How closely do you want to examine the suspension systems of each class of carriage? The wheels? The braking system? The harness?
No, I'm not being facetious here. Or, not entirely, anyway. Carriages were pretty complex back in the day. Wheels broke, the tongues got damaged, harness had to be maintained full time. A significant portion of the population earned it's living by building and maintaining the various wagons, carriages, and coaches.
Today, we take pneumatic rubber wheels for granted. How many of us could build or repair, or even properly maintain a wheel from centuries ago?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
A Mexican is an immigrant, or a migrant, and likely an illegal alien. An American citizen was either born here, with a US birth certificate, or a naturalized citizen. The difference is a legal status.
No way. Couldn't happen here! Not in a million years. Someone is smoking some really strange shit to think we could just lose some radioactive material here in the US of A.
Oh - wait. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...
Oh, cry me a river. Companies bending over backward? Wooo-hoo. You're hallucinating. THE COMPANIES HAVE YOU BENT OVER A BARREL, AND YOU LIKE IT!
The thieves are those who have gone to Congress to get copyright law changed, so that copyright will never expire. In effect, they have bribed congress to grant them a monopoly on music into perpetuity.
I don't see historical data for rainfall levels in those links. I see allusions to scientific research, but I see no actual scientific research on those pages. No historic data such as I seek.
Of course water disappears after use. It swirls down the drain, flows down a pipe, into a sewer, pumped into a sewerage station, treated, then dumped back into a river, where it flows downstream, into the sea. It just disappears there, until it just happens to be in the right spot on the surface one day, to be evaporated into the atmosphere, where it can become rain again.
The problem is, we've been using water faster than water can evaporate and fall as rainfall. We've been drying out the land for decades. Give us time, and we'll figure out how to dry the ocean as well.
So, let me ask - historically speaking, what has California's rainfall averaged, since the white man first came on the scene?
The funny thing is, I do a Google search to check that out. I click several links, and none show the information I am looking for. In 1849, what was the rainfall? Nothing. 1850? Nothing. 1851? Still more nothing. Where do I find the historical data?
Now, is there REALLY this remarkable drought, or have we simply been over using the available water for several decades already? There are a number of places where we have millions of people, but the land historically only supported hundreds or thousands. Even with tens of thousands, the weather and the land supplied plenty of water for survival, and some thrown in for waste and recreation. But, MILLIONS? Oh-oh - not enough water to go around.
We have been pumping lakes, rivers, and aquifers dry for decades now. We pump water from wherever we can find it, not caring about where it came from, or whether it will ever be replaced, or how it might be replaced.
Do we really have exceptional droughts today, or are we simply running out of water to waste?
Show me the historical data, please. Does it actually support this climate change theory?
Bingo. In those years that I ran Windows, I always had a good idea of how my machine was running, how it was using resources, and what was calling for those resources. In the earlier days of virus infections, I seldom recognized a virus, and virus detectors failed to identify viruses. But, the fact that 60%+ of system resources were devoted to something that I couldn't identify was a sure tipoff.
I did catch that. But, it got me wondering. Did the UK not have any founding fathers? How about founding mothers? Maybe some founding SOB's? Where did England come from? Did it spring forth from the primordial soup? Which came first, the soup or the crown? Questions, questions, questions, all of which only lead to yet more questions!
From TFS: "already serving time for helping to plot attacks against UK targets"
You didn't even need TFA.
That seems to depend on your definition of "population". I think it's been established that the US hosts more of almost everything than any other country. For the population of "internet facing servers", it seems that the US may have the highest population in the world. If not, we certainly rank up there alongside the highest. Who might have more than the US?
Yep. Exactly. Mine is not THE most locked down computer in the world, but nothing runs without my explicit permission. Nothing downloads without my explicit permission. Nothing comes from third party sites, without my explicit permission. It gets a little irritating sometimes. Popup reminders, asking me if I really want to permit application X to run code from site Y. But, in the long run, it's worth it. I always get the opportunity to block something that I don't think is right.
When I read the title, I just started laughing. I have actually given a thought or two to capturing a screenshot to see what the hell the code meant. Just a thought, now and then, I've never taken it seriously enough to do it. If I had, I could have posted here, "Hey, Slashdot! The code in 'The Matrix' actually does mean something, almost, except, they screwed up right here and made it meaningless after all!" Or, whatever I actually found.
Problem is, I'm not a programmer, and it would have taken me hours to figure out what a programmer could have figured out in ten minutes. Better to just let all those cool looking squiggles remain cool looking squiggles I guess.
touché
Show us some 20+ year old software that still works, is still used, is compatible with today's hardware, and meets stringent security standards today. Almost everything has been rewritten, forked, cloned, or whatever. Copyright doesn't cover concepts and ideas either. Copyright only covers a specific work. Tables and graphs for instance can be copyrighted, but that doesn't prevent someone creating a very similar table or graph to essentially convey the same and/or similar information.
Linux and Gnu are filled with re-ported software. Credit is given where credit is due, but ported software seldom runs afoul of copyright. Patents are an entirely different ballgame. Every dick weed in thirty countries claims to have a patent on a shopping cart concept, and they all want a piece of the pie from anyone who uses any concept that vaguely resembles a shopping cart.