The Liberals are not "very un-liberal conservatives" they are for economic liberalism (when compared with the labor party anyway) hence the name. If you want to use the American definition of liberal (social liberalism - center left) rather than the Australian definition (economic liberalism - center right) then obviously the names of Australian political parties won't make sense.
That would depend on who's running in your electorate. In the senate you can Langer vote below the line and stop your preference flow when you have exhausted the candidates who won't bow down to the US. For the house you'll have to find some way to rank the candidates that will bow down to the US or reach an agreement with some other people you trust to arrange your preferences so that your votes cancel out once you reach the bad candidates (if there are a lot of house candidates that will take a lot of people though).
The decay of C14 to N14 is beta decay, but C14 production isn't the reverse of that - it's a thermal neutron knocking out a proton (well to over simplify).
Hitting an N14 nucleus with a neutron would be the usual method in the atmosphere. Though you could hit C13 with a neutron too amongst other things, but there's a lot of N14 in the atmosphere so that path is the overwhelming mechanism.
...or we can cut out the inefficient middle man and use that power directly instead of converting it into hydrocarbons.
How do you propose to use wind farms to directly power my 2004 corolla?
It seems extremely unlikely that petrol is the most efficient way to move energy around, however, it is a way we have plenty of experience with and we have existing infrastructure that supports it. So that seems a reasonable method.
Sure you could plug your electric car into the a socket and chlarge the batteries from the grid and then use those batteries to power the car (note you are already indirect), but batteries take longer to charge than filling a gas tank.
Why would having gas stations equipied with such a plant and generating gas on site be any worse than having charging stations that they charge electric cars at? Sure if you generate elsewhere and ship you now have transport costs, then again it costs to transmit power as well (and the process might have other features that make it undesirable in some locations).
But that has nothing to do with them being "as thin as paper" and having "no real weight" - if the Romans had used cubic inch gold blocks as coins they'd still be more valuable as artifacts than as bullion.
Whether melting them down and keeping $40,000 is more foolish than having the Crown declared as the owner and hoping they determine you should get the reward is another matter.
So a subsidiary company with next to zero revenue will own the patents and license them to the real company (for cheap to keep that revenue down). They might even pay the real company to represent them in patent enforcement actions.
He's going to vote for the tax increases to pay for training teachers in multiple fields or employing more teachers to cover all those areas, right? He won't mind the 6 fold increase in his taxes when each class has 5 students who decided they liked that particular subject?
When I was at school (which wasn't in the US) there were mandatory subjects in years 7-10, science being one of them, that made up the bulk of the time and there were about 20 electives to pick from as well - though a given school mightn't offer them all due to staffing.
Then in years 11 and 12 it was all electives with some restrictions on them if you actually wanted to qualify university entrance (had to do English and math I think). Again staffing limits might mean a given school can't offer a given elective - the school hasn't got a teacher who can teach the advanced Latin class or not enough students wanting to do it to make a class.
The 7 day pass is now $29. 2002 was the tail of a price segment, the 7 day pass went up to $21 in 2003, so yes it was cheaper when you used it last. But not because it's gone *WAY* up now, it just had a few years of inflation baked in at that point.
Second Avenue Subway.
Sure there's a handful of silly light rails but the vast bulk of njtransit and LIRR lines are not light rail.
to JFK airport, is a giant PITA and requires either a horribly expensive cab ride (esp. if you need to cross any bridges--holy shit, $20 to cross a bridge?) or a special bus or a light rail that only leaves every couple hours.
Seriously, the A train runs every 20 minutes (every 5 at peak) as does the LIRR to Jamaica, both of which get you to the Airtrain to JFK which runs every 5-10 minutes. The LIRR ends up costing about $15 and taking 30 minutes.
Why on earth is there not a subway line straight to every airport in the area? When was the last time they built a new subway for that matter? The prices have gone WAY up since I was there last, but there's no increase in service at all. It doesn't seem like they've bothered investing in any new construction for 70 years
Because the airports aren't actually a common destinition for commuters, and are better services by lower capacity but very frequent light rail options. The SAS is being built right now, so the last time they built a new subway was about 2 seconds ago.
And the current $2.25 is *WAY* up since you were last there? Just how long ago was that?
The universe didn't snap into being ten years ago when GPS navigation systems started showing up in cars.
In which case the argument that it was "TRIED the other way" is invalid since there are some large differences since it was tried.
Oh, and all the cab drivers looking at their GPS all the time in NYC traffic would lead to a lot of dead pedestrians.
Usable GPS units use sound to tell the driver where to go - just like a passenger giving directions does. They only have to look at the GPS when entering the destinition - you know when they are stopped because someone just got into the car. And of course the areas with large numbers of pedestrians are the very areas that a 5 year can navigate because it's a numbered grid (and it's 5 year olds instead of 4 year olds because you do have to remember that the one way streets alternate direction).
Everything is easy to argue if you are willing to revise history to match your fantasy.
In actual fact the medallions were introduced in the great depression in order to restrict the number of taxis since supply was dwarfing demand resulting in drivers not making enough money and hence working stupidly long hours and skipping maintenance and so on. You know, the opposite problem to costing passengers more money.
Slashdot Mirror
The Liberals are not "very un-liberal conservatives" they are for economic liberalism (when compared with the labor party anyway) hence the name. If you want to use the American definition of liberal (social liberalism - center left) rather than the Australian definition (economic liberalism - center right) then obviously the names of Australian political parties won't make sense.
That would depend on who's running in your electorate. In the senate you can Langer vote below the line and stop your preference flow when you have exhausted the candidates who won't bow down to the US. For the house you'll have to find some way to rank the candidates that will bow down to the US or reach an agreement with some other people you trust to arrange your preferences so that your votes cancel out once you reach the bad candidates (if there are a lot of house candidates that will take a lot of people though).
Not dumb, misinformed. It's
N14 + neutron -> C14 + proton
The decay of C14 to N14 is beta decay, but C14 production isn't the reverse of that - it's a thermal neutron knocking out a proton (well to over simplify).
Wow that's highly original. No one has ever noticed that before, well other than all the people who ranted about it in 2009 of course.
Hitting an N14 nucleus with a neutron would be the usual method in the atmosphere. Though you could hit C13 with a neutron too amongst other things, but there's a lot of N14 in the atmosphere so that path is the overwhelming mechanism.
You're right (well not about the beta particle bit). I misunderstood the misunderstanding :)
You think we are going to make a bunch of gasoline and then store it forever? Rather than say burning it in an engine?
How do you propose to use wind farms to directly power my 2004 corolla?
It seems extremely unlikely that petrol is the most efficient way to move energy around, however, it is a way we have plenty of experience with and we have existing infrastructure that supports it. So that seems a reasonable method.
Sure you could plug your electric car into the a socket and chlarge the batteries from the grid and then use those batteries to power the car (note you are already indirect), but batteries take longer to charge than filling a gas tank.
Why would having gas stations equipied with such a plant and generating gas on site be any worse than having charging stations that they charge electric cars at? Sure if you generate elsewhere and ship you now have transport costs, then again it costs to transmit power as well (and the process might have other features that make it undesirable in some locations).
Maybe if you knew what a half life was you wouldn't find it so confusing?
104,000 according to "two distinct sediment layers have formed in the lake every summer and winter ".
But that has nothing to do with them being "as thin as paper" and having "no real weight" - if the Romans had used cubic inch gold blocks as coins they'd still be more valuable as artifacts than as bullion.
Whether melting them down and keeping $40,000 is more foolish than having the Crown declared as the owner and hoping they determine you should get the reward is another matter.
Yeah these ones would only be worth $40,000. Worthless I say!
Maybe learn English? Pay particular attention to the meanings of "one of" and "coin".
Because you know he didn't have any higher priorities than a stupid feel good "oh look I dug up some treasure!" story?
So a subsidiary company with next to zero revenue will own the patents and license them to the real company (for cheap to keep that revenue down). They might even pay the real company to represent them in patent enforcement actions.
He's going to vote for the tax increases to pay for training teachers in multiple fields or employing more teachers to cover all those areas, right? He won't mind the 6 fold increase in his taxes when each class has 5 students who decided they liked that particular subject?
When I was at school (which wasn't in the US) there were mandatory subjects in years 7-10, science being one of them, that made up the bulk of the time and there were about 20 electives to pick from as well - though a given school mightn't offer them all due to staffing.
Then in years 11 and 12 it was all electives with some restrictions on them if you actually wanted to qualify university entrance (had to do English and math I think). Again staffing limits might mean a given school can't offer a given elective - the school hasn't got a teacher who can teach the advanced Latin class or not enough students wanting to do it to make a class.
The 7 day pass is now $29. 2002 was the tail of a price segment, the 7 day pass went up to $21 in 2003, so yes it was cheaper when you used it last. But not because it's gone *WAY* up now, it just had a few years of inflation baked in at that point.
Second Avenue Subway.
Sure there's a handful of silly light rails but the vast bulk of njtransit and LIRR lines are not light rail.
You can't order a cab in NYC.
It's a "great" system, you can't book a taxi you have to hail one.
And you can't hail hire car service, you have to book one.
The don't control the number of cabs by making the cost high. They make the cost high by controlling the number of cabs.
In the 1930s when the system was introduced there were about 17000 medallions, now there are about 13000.
Seriously, the A train runs every 20 minutes (every 5 at peak) as does the LIRR to Jamaica, both of which get you to the Airtrain to JFK which runs every 5-10 minutes. The LIRR ends up costing about $15 and taking 30 minutes.
Because the airports aren't actually a common destinition for commuters, and are better services by lower capacity but very frequent light rail options. The SAS is being built right now, so the last time they built a new subway was about 2 seconds ago.
And the current $2.25 is *WAY* up since you were last there? Just how long ago was that?
In which case the argument that it was "TRIED the other way" is invalid since there are some large differences since it was tried.
Usable GPS units use sound to tell the driver where to go - just like a passenger giving directions does. They only have to look at the GPS when entering the destinition - you know when they are stopped because someone just got into the car. And of course the areas with large numbers of pedestrians are the very areas that a 5 year can navigate because it's a numbered grid (and it's 5 year olds instead of 4 year olds because you do have to remember that the one way streets alternate direction).
Everything is easy to argue if you are willing to revise history to match your fantasy.
In actual fact the medallions were introduced in the great depression in order to restrict the number of taxis since supply was dwarfing demand resulting in drivers not making enough money and hence working stupidly long hours and skipping maintenance and so on. You know, the opposite problem to costing passengers more money.
Impossible.
Retributive justice is a perfectly valid theory of justice, thus revenge is justice (at least under one extremely popular version of justice).
You need more GMO.