If you want to be real efficient, I guess you gotta take some clues from the usual "Passive House" concepts. Now, passive house in it's original form is more geared towards temperate to cold climates, but the key element should be the same in a hot climate, namely controlling the ventilation in the house tightly and insulating as good as possible. Exchange humidity and heat between incoming and outgoing air using ERV, cool the incoming air in a second stage with an air-to-ground heat exchanger and in a third stage with a solar driven absorption heat pump. Combine that with passive measures like painting the roof white or planting stuff on it, and providing ample shade for the sun side, and you should be set.
I give you the resource thing, but I am not really sure if any meaningful amount of arable land would be gained by the thawing of Siberia's permafrost. I'd rather suspect that you end up with a vast, stinking, mosquito-infested swamp. Of course you could drain that, but that again takes work, so no immediate benefit. As for the European part of Russia, the continental climate might actually see more pronounced extremes - even harsher winters and hotter and drier summers. That might not be good at all for Russian agriculture. Of course, such localized predictions are to be taken with a huge grain of salt.
Or, perhaps, they misinterpreted toothmarks left by serrated predator teeth as toolmarks, chose to stick with their hypothesis in the light of an overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary, thereby planting themselves firmly in the crackpot camp, and THEN lost their jobs?
The interesting thing is Monsanto's strategy behind this. Ultimately, these farmers are not getting sued so that Monsanto can make some additional cash - these farmers are getting sued, because they dared NOT to use Monsanto seed. They are trying to remove everyone from the market who uses "open source" seeds. The most interesting case cited in Food Inc was the guy with the soy seed treatment machine, who got sued for contributory infringement, because it *could* be used to treat Monsanto soy to prepare it for illegal re-seeding.
Give this shit 10 years and we end up with complete mono-cultures of our most important food plants. And then, let one epidemic destroy the whole corn or wheat harvest of North America... Fun times ahead.
Any alien with half a brain-analogue would limit the reproduction of Von Neumann probes, so perhaps each probe in some way "tags" the system it arrives at, so that no other probe would replicate in there. Who says that there isn't already one watching us from the Kuiper belt? Heck, with less strict regulations on their replication, their could be millions of probes scattered throughout the system without us knowing the slightest bit about it.
Linguistics nerd alert! Where do you get that meaning of "Ries"? That must be a local thing. Grimm's dictionary does not document any use of "Ries" for meadow, wet or not. It might be a local pars pro toto, as "Ries" used to be a name for cane or rush, which tends to grow on such meadows.
Unfortunately, you are dead wrong. Patents are strictly territorial and are only enforceable in the country where they are issued. If a US patent holder wants protection in, say, France, he has to file for a French patent in addition to the US one - a process which is simplified by the Patent Cooperation Treaty. Until he does that, he has no legal power over anyone producing his protected product in France - unless they import it to the US. In the case of software, you of course can assume that simply by putting it on the internet, he makes it available to the US market and therefor infringes locally.
Actually, aircraft are not that well insulated, given that during all the time they spend in -50 C air, they tend to have those big-ass engines running, giving you as much waste heat as you wish. They keep warm by circulating bleed air from the engines, not by superior insulation. Ever had to spent time on the tarmac in a plane with its engines not running in winter? It cools down fast as hell.
Medical MRIs probably have no recovery systems these days. Lots of lab-use NMR spectrometers already are fitted with recovery systems, though. The losses are not that huge, but it is already viable to recover it. On a side note - I had a 18 T magnet quench on me once. I do not want to stand close to such a quench when we have to use hydrogen as coolant.
Ok, this is the fifth post of you spewing the same bullshit in this thread. The moratorium is about exploratory wells. They have not hit a payzone yet, if they had, they would be in the process of capping already. Exploratory rigs do not produce, they cap the well, move off and get replaced by a production rig. So, to repeat, the rigs that are being shut down have not hit reservoirs - they are dry. Capping their wells is in no way comparable to the operation on the DH and does NOT increase the likelihood of a second spill. That likelihood is increased by letting them go on until they have to cap off their wells after hitting the payzone.
Second, the moratorium forces them to shut down their operation. Not to a) fail to check a cement job correctly; b) displace heavy mud with seawater under unknown conditions downhole; c) neglect to monitor mud return flows during the displacement; and all this while d) the BOP is probably not in best working condition. The DH blowout was a consequence of at least these 4 factors.
If our conservatives would concern themselves mainly with the conservation of weak isospin, they'd get my vote in an instant. I am all for that. Unfortunately, they concern themselves mostly with the conservation of the wealth of the already wealthy.
And I'm still paying. I don't care what the reasons are, I'm a taxpayer and I'm paying for your fucking science project. I OWN the results motherfuckers. Get outa your babyseats and give me what I'm paying for. End.
Given that you only paid for a fraction of the project with your personal taxes, you only own a fraction of the results. I estimate that at about 2 bit. Here they are: 01. Enjoy, but don't spend them all at once.
That is actually not new research. From geological data it has been clear for a long time that the early atmosphere was reducing, as compared to the oxygen-rich atmosphere we have now, and which is mostly an artifact of life. The earliest atmosphere was probably mostly nitrogen with a mix of CO2, methane and ammonia. That was very early, even before the formation of continents and oceans. With the cooling of the molten Earth, the composition switched to a more water-vapor rich N2/CO2 atmosphere. The true revolution in atmospheric chemistry started with the advent of photosynthesis-capable life. The oxygen it produced began to dominate the atmospheric chemistry and also allowed ozone production, which led to a reduction in UV imission, ultimately allowing life to conquer the land.
All he is saying is that over geological timescales, enough impact events ejecting material out of the atmosphere happen that the resulting debris cloud in space is big enough for a certain mass of material transferred between Earth and Mars per year. Where exactly is it necessary that there is one big impact per year? You think an impact produces straight trajectories of ejected rock from Earth to Mars? There is a shitload of ejected rocks floating around in space, and a certain amount gets captured on a yearly basis. I suggest you think before posting your arrogant tripe next time.
Good question. I wouldn't think that video game sessions help, as you probably enjoy the process and find it stimulating, so focusing is no problem. You gotta find something that definitely needs focus to succeed, is annoying (to you) in the process so you keep being tempted to lose focus, but is rewarding in the result so you have enough motivation to stick with it. I don't think there is a general solution - you gotta find something that fulfills the above criteria for you.
Meaningless spamming? That's the understatement of the week. This will go down in flames and tears even before 4chan gets their hands on it. The police servers will melt to a slag under that shitstorm of useless reports, rivulets of molten metal streaming from the racks, burning their way through the server room floors, running down the stairwells, the halon system helpless against the conflagration, panicked admins running through the smoke-filled, dimly emergency-lit corridors, desperately trying to escape, their beards and ponytails smoldering, their screams mingling with the siren's blare! Armageddon, man, it'll be Armageddon!
You illustrate the problem. In that libertarian utopia, every problem is solved by the courts. If you fuck up, you get sued and you have to pay compensation. No regulation, everything is done ex post facto within the court system. Not taking into account the inherent asymmetry in power which fixes the legal game in favour of the corporations, ex post solutions are no solutions at all. For example, if company X spills crap into the environment that gives me cancer, I don't give a flying fuck about "someone paying the damage". I rather have regulations PREVENTING the crap in the first place. As for your last sentence - holy false dichotomy, batman!
A disaster like this is going on daily in Nigeria. Mostly caused by Shell instead of BP. Your question, of course, answers itself. Nothing, Nada. Zilch. And that is the wet dream of the "libertarians" - unlimited power to the OWNING class, in the vague hope that they might, themselves, become part of it one day and have the license to fuck everyone over.
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If I want them to have temporary access (right now, just now), what should I do?
In an ideal world, you should give them a temporary authentication token with a set expiry date.
If you want to be real efficient, I guess you gotta take some clues from the usual "Passive House" concepts. Now, passive house in it's original form is more geared towards temperate to cold climates, but the key element should be the same in a hot climate, namely controlling the ventilation in the house tightly and insulating as good as possible. Exchange humidity and heat between incoming and outgoing air using ERV, cool the incoming air in a second stage with an air-to-ground heat exchanger and in a third stage with a solar driven absorption heat pump. Combine that with passive measures like painting the roof white or planting stuff on it, and providing ample shade for the sun side, and you should be set.
I give you the resource thing, but I am not really sure if any meaningful amount of arable land would be gained by the thawing of Siberia's permafrost. I'd rather suspect that you end up with a vast, stinking, mosquito-infested swamp. Of course you could drain that, but that again takes work, so no immediate benefit. As for the European part of Russia, the continental climate might actually see more pronounced extremes - even harsher winters and hotter and drier summers. That might not be good at all for Russian agriculture. Of course, such localized predictions are to be taken with a huge grain of salt.
sharpens Occam's Razor
Or, perhaps, they misinterpreted toothmarks left by serrated predator teeth as toolmarks, chose to stick with their hypothesis in the light of an overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary, thereby planting themselves firmly in the crackpot camp, and THEN lost their jobs?
Give this shit 10 years and we end up with complete mono-cultures of our most important food plants. And then, let one epidemic destroy the whole corn or wheat harvest of North America... Fun times ahead.
Any alien with half a brain-analogue would limit the reproduction of Von Neumann probes, so perhaps each probe in some way "tags" the system it arrives at, so that no other probe would replicate in there. Who says that there isn't already one watching us from the Kuiper belt? Heck, with less strict regulations on their replication, their could be millions of probes scattered throughout the system without us knowing the slightest bit about it.
Linguistics nerd alert! Where do you get that meaning of "Ries"? That must be a local thing. Grimm's dictionary does not document any use of "Ries" for meadow, wet or not. It might be a local pars pro toto, as "Ries" used to be a name for cane or rush, which tends to grow on such meadows.
Unfortunately, you are dead wrong. Patents are strictly territorial and are only enforceable in the country where they are issued. If a US patent holder wants protection in, say, France, he has to file for a French patent in addition to the US one - a process which is simplified by the Patent Cooperation Treaty. Until he does that, he has no legal power over anyone producing his protected product in France - unless they import it to the US. In the case of software, you of course can assume that simply by putting it on the internet, he makes it available to the US market and therefor infringes locally.
Actually, aircraft are not that well insulated, given that during all the time they spend in -50 C air, they tend to have those big-ass engines running, giving you as much waste heat as you wish. They keep warm by circulating bleed air from the engines, not by superior insulation. Ever had to spent time on the tarmac in a plane with its engines not running in winter? It cools down fast as hell.
Medical MRIs probably have no recovery systems these days. Lots of lab-use NMR spectrometers already are fitted with recovery systems, though. The losses are not that huge, but it is already viable to recover it. On a side note - I had a 18 T magnet quench on me once. I do not want to stand close to such a quench when we have to use hydrogen as coolant.
Ok, this is the fifth post of you spewing the same bullshit in this thread. The moratorium is about exploratory wells. They have not hit a payzone yet, if they had, they would be in the process of capping already. Exploratory rigs do not produce, they cap the well, move off and get replaced by a production rig. So, to repeat, the rigs that are being shut down have not hit reservoirs - they are dry. Capping their wells is in no way comparable to the operation on the DH and does NOT increase the likelihood of a second spill. That likelihood is increased by letting them go on until they have to cap off their wells after hitting the payzone.
Second, the moratorium forces them to shut down their operation. Not to a) fail to check a cement job correctly; b) displace heavy mud with seawater under unknown conditions downhole; c) neglect to monitor mud return flows during the displacement; and all this while d) the BOP is probably not in best working condition. The DH blowout was a consequence of at least these 4 factors.
Given that Conway's Game of Life is Turing-complete, it is definitely possible. Thanks for the link, gotta check this out more closely tonight.
Ya really.
Deinococcus radioduransshrugs of acute doses of 10000 Gy and thrives under a constant 60 Gy/h. That's way beyond what your puny machine will offer...
If our conservatives would concern themselves mainly with the conservation of weak isospin, they'd get my vote in an instant. I am all for that. Unfortunately, they concern themselves mostly with the conservation of the wealth of the already wealthy.
And I'm still paying. I don't care what the reasons are, I'm a taxpayer and I'm paying for your fucking science project. I OWN the results motherfuckers. Get outa your babyseats and give me what I'm paying for. End.
Given that you only paid for a fraction of the project with your personal taxes, you only own a fraction of the results. I estimate that at about 2 bit. Here they are: 01. Enjoy, but don't spend them all at once.
You forgot:
Step 4.5. Journal demands "publishing fee" per page published from scientist, plus fee per figure plus extra fee per color figure.
Not sure if you gotta pay for publishing in Nature, but with many journals, that is the case. Parasites indeed.
That is actually not new research. From geological data it has been clear for a long time that the early atmosphere was reducing, as compared to the oxygen-rich atmosphere we have now, and which is mostly an artifact of life. The earliest atmosphere was probably mostly nitrogen with a mix of CO2, methane and ammonia. That was very early, even before the formation of continents and oceans. With the cooling of the molten Earth, the composition switched to a more water-vapor rich N2/CO2 atmosphere. The true revolution in atmospheric chemistry started with the advent of photosynthesis-capable life. The oxygen it produced began to dominate the atmospheric chemistry and also allowed ozone production, which led to a reduction in UV imission, ultimately allowing life to conquer the land.
All he is saying is that over geological timescales, enough impact events ejecting material out of the atmosphere happen that the resulting debris cloud in space is big enough for a certain mass of material transferred between Earth and Mars per year. Where exactly is it necessary that there is one big impact per year? You think an impact produces straight trajectories of ejected rock from Earth to Mars? There is a shitload of ejected rocks floating around in space, and a certain amount gets captured on a yearly basis. I suggest you think before posting your arrogant tripe next time.
Good question. I wouldn't think that video game sessions help, as you probably enjoy the process and find it stimulating, so focusing is no problem. You gotta find something that definitely needs focus to succeed, is annoying (to you) in the process so you keep being tempted to lose focus, but is rewarding in the result so you have enough motivation to stick with it. I don't think there is a general solution - you gotta find something that fulfills the above criteria for you.
Meaningless spamming? That's the understatement of the week. This will go down in flames and tears even before 4chan gets their hands on it. The police servers will melt to a slag under that shitstorm of useless reports, rivulets of molten metal streaming from the racks, burning their way through the server room floors, running down the stairwells, the halon system helpless against the conflagration, panicked admins running through the smoke-filled, dimly emergency-lit corridors, desperately trying to escape, their beards and ponytails smoldering, their screams mingling with the siren's blare! Armageddon, man, it'll be Armageddon!
You illustrate the problem. In that libertarian utopia, every problem is solved by the courts. If you fuck up, you get sued and you have to pay compensation. No regulation, everything is done ex post facto within the court system. Not taking into account the inherent asymmetry in power which fixes the legal game in favour of the corporations, ex post solutions are no solutions at all. For example, if company X spills crap into the environment that gives me cancer, I don't give a flying fuck about "someone paying the damage". I rather have regulations PREVENTING the crap in the first place. As for your last sentence - holy false dichotomy, batman!
A disaster like this is going on daily in Nigeria. Mostly caused by Shell instead of BP. Your question, of course, answers itself. Nothing, Nada. Zilch. And that is the wet dream of the "libertarians" - unlimited power to the OWNING class, in the vague hope that they might, themselves, become part of it one day and have the license to fuck everyone over.
Thanks for the clarification that your constant moaning while jerking off to the Holy Constitution is just to barely cover your racism.
If anyone needs additional proof for last week's article about the dramatic loss of empathy among the latest generation - just read these comments.
Different? Not at all. The strawman is the fact that "we are not supposed to talk about it".