Americans have none. How many people are killed with firearms by criminals or the mentally ill in this country? How many are killed by Islamic terrorists? A rounding error basically. Yet it is enough to to terrify people into giving up the building blocks of liberty.
The risk of getting blown up is an acceptable price for not living in an Orwellian world.
And because you *would* do that is why you likely *won't* be in the position to do it.
That Relentless Dull Predator Workaholic personality type is generally required to get the wealth that can unlock the yacht/missiles/models achievement. But that kind of person doesn't know how to enjoy it like the rest of us would.
Its more accurate to say they share a common ancestor. They've got quite a bit of distance between them now. To ignore that is a way of making a (weak) argument.
And with movements methods become ideology. The Brotherhood are political players and are evolving towards the being able to cope with the realities of power, compromise etc. Yes albeit with an authoritarian bent.
They are not pro-radical Islam they are pro Muslim Brotherhood. There is a difference. The Brotherhood are purveyors of political Islam but they are hardly radical. Not compared to the wild eyed Salafi/Wahabbi types anyways.
The compressed air designation is very misleading. This is a hydraulic hybrid, using a hydraulic pump/motor the same way a normal hybrid uses a battery - for acceleration and storing braking energy.
Hydraulic hybrid vehicle (HHV) technology has been slowly maturing and is very promising. It is already in use for some advanced heavy trucks. Garbage trucks in particular, with their stop and go usage profile benefit from their efficiencies. UPS is trying some out. Manufacturers like Navistar and Eaton are on board
In the U.S the EPA has been at the forefront of the research. See their page about it: Hydraulic Hybrid Research
In 2011 the EPA announced a partnership with Chrysler to produce an HHV minivan that would give you a 60% improvement in city driving fuel economy.
Hybrid Batteries are expensive and can't handle the braking energy a truck generates. Hydraulic technology is cheap, well understood, and gives you more bang for your buck.
You are being deliberately disingenuous. Abbas and his government are focused on a 2 state solution - for years now. The 2 states being Palestine and Israel, thus implying he is not trying to destroy it.
Ex-Israeli PM Olmert said he felt he and Abbas were close to a deal before he was booted from office. Do you think he would say that about a Ahmadinejad wannabe?
Do you really need this explained to you? Are these facts getting in the way of your opinions?
Mahmoud Abbas is the most reasonable, most pragmatic Palestinian leader Israel has ever dealt with. Yet he has gotten no where in advancing the peace process. The question is when will Israel show any interest in a peace deal. The answer is never.
Why, you may ask? (Or may not, if as I suspect, your prejudices are set in stone). Because a peace deal will invariably involve some reasonable compromises, and any pullback on settlements however minor will rip Israeli society apart. Easier to keep the Palestinians bottled up and deal with their periodic tantrums.
I think your analysis would make a lot of sense in the Western context. In the Russian/E. European context the cultural differences are enough to make it useless.
Basically it comes down to this: you don't have to be a weirdo to do this kind of thing over there.
No, some came about because the U.S considered itself so strong that it felt the world affairs must go the way it wanted them to. i.e Vietnam and the whole Domino strategy in S.E Asia.
Post-Reagan the invasion of Iraq would have never have happened if the U.S didn't have so much military overcapacity hanging around. It wasn't a defensive war after all.
In America there is enough land that wind can do 25% and solar can do another 25%
Wind is under a million per megawatt. Competitive with new natural gas or coal capacity - and without fuel input costs.
Solar is dropping fast. First Solar says its manufacturing costs are $.73 a watt or $730,000 per megawatt. Don't know what the installation & profit margin is but the point is alternative energy has a bigger role to play than you might think.
I see a lot of technological determinism on Slashdot. Talk about energy and everybody turns into a Soviet technocrat. They contrast dozens of elegant nuclear plants with the hundreds of thousands of wind turbines and solar panels needed and decide that former will be a better bet for the next 5 Year Plan. But the bottom line is nuclear is horrendously expensive. I recall the new Areva plant in Finland costing $5 million a megawatt. What a joke. Plus nuclear capacity is not modular enough. Utilities can't just plunk down 5 megawatts the way they can with wind or solar. The *financial* flexibility is just not there.
(The hyped mini-nuclear reactors are still unproven and undeployed after years of talk)
Finally nuclear requires a lot of smart people to keep it safe, and they are in short supply.
All of my objections to nuclear have answers, answers that depend on unproven technology, subsidies, or transformation of Congress into a bunch of engineers.
Meanwhile new wind, solar and nat gas capacity is coming online everyday.
Slashdot Mirror
America has effectively criminalized teenage hijinks and curiosity. Non conformist behavior is cracked down upon - hard.
I've said it before: the country is unhinged and more than a little crazed.
Americans have none. How many people are killed with firearms by criminals or the mentally ill in this country?
How many are killed by Islamic terrorists?
A rounding error basically. Yet it is enough to to terrify people into giving up the building blocks of liberty.
The risk of getting blown up is an acceptable price for not living in an Orwellian world.
And because you *would* do that is why you likely *won't* be in the position to do it.
That Relentless Dull Predator Workaholic personality type is generally required to get the wealth that can unlock the yacht/missiles/models achievement. But that kind of person doesn't know how to enjoy it like the rest of us would.
Right up until you to have to harvest them and then an old guy comes out with a shotgun and says 'get off my land'.
Its more accurate to say they share a common ancestor. They've got quite a bit of distance between them now. To ignore that is a way of making a (weak) argument.
And with movements methods become ideology. The Brotherhood are political players and are evolving towards the being able to cope with the realities of power, compromise etc. Yes albeit with an authoritarian bent.
So your conclusion is unnecessarily hyperbolic.
They are not pro-radical Islam they are pro Muslim Brotherhood. There is a difference. The Brotherhood are purveyors of political Islam but they are hardly radical. Not compared to the wild eyed Salafi/Wahabbi types anyways.
Lets see what Human Rights Watch has to say:
In Cold Blood:
Summary Executions by Syrian Security Forces and Pro-Government Militias
Torture Archipelago
Arbitrary Arrests, Torture, and Enforced Disappearances in Syria;s Underground Prisons since March 2011
Syria: Mounting Casualties from Cluster Munitions
We've Never Seen Such Horror:
Crimes against Humanity by Syrian Security Forces
The lack of concrete action against NK might be a lesson for Iran.
If you don't want to be fucked with, actually having nukes is the best bet.
I think the effect is for lead in gasoline more than paint, no?
Hacker News is interesting. As for the community, at its best it is very well informed, at its worst it is insufferably smug
The compressed air designation is very misleading. This is a hydraulic hybrid, using a hydraulic pump/motor the same way a normal hybrid uses a battery - for acceleration and storing braking energy.
Hydraulic hybrid vehicle (HHV) technology has been slowly maturing and is very promising. It is already in use for some advanced heavy trucks. Garbage trucks in particular, with their stop and go usage profile benefit from their efficiencies.
UPS is trying some out. Manufacturers like Navistar and Eaton are on board
In the U.S the EPA has been at the forefront of the research. See their page about it: Hydraulic Hybrid Research
In 2011 the EPA announced a partnership with Chrysler to produce an HHV minivan that would give you a 60% improvement in city driving fuel economy.
Hybrid Batteries are expensive and can't handle the braking energy a truck generates. Hydraulic technology is cheap, well understood, and gives you more bang for your buck.
Not to interfere with your soapbox rant, but the birth rate in Brazil is declining, dramatically. It is actually lower than that of the U.S now.
The most common phrase used by Brazilian women on the subject of children is "the factory is closed".
Zimbra, Zarafa, Scalix
I can not recommend Ghostery enough. More pragmatic than NoScript.
You are being deliberately disingenuous. Abbas and his government are focused on a 2 state solution - for years now. The 2 states being Palestine and Israel, thus implying he is not trying to destroy it.
Ex-Israeli PM Olmert said he felt he and Abbas were close to a deal before he was booted from office. Do you think he would say that about a Ahmadinejad wannabe?
Do you really need this explained to you?
Are these facts getting in the way of your opinions?
Mahmoud Abbas is the most reasonable, most pragmatic Palestinian leader Israel has ever dealt with. Yet he has gotten no where in advancing the peace process.
The question is when will Israel show any interest in a peace deal. The answer is never.
Why, you may ask? (Or may not, if as I suspect, your prejudices are set in stone). Because a peace deal will invariably involve some reasonable compromises, and any pullback on settlements however minor will rip Israeli society apart.
Easier to keep the Palestinians bottled up and deal with their periodic tantrums.
I think your analysis would make a lot of sense in the Western context. In the Russian/E. European context the cultural differences are enough to make it useless.
Basically it comes down to this: you don't have to be a weirdo to do this kind of thing over there.
You could say the same thing about seat belts. Would you? Would all the people who agree with you?
Wrong! Wales became rich from trading options BEFORE starting Wikipedia/Nupedia
No, some came about because the U.S considered itself so strong that it felt the world affairs must go the way it wanted them to. i.e Vietnam and the whole Domino strategy in S.E Asia.
Post-Reagan the invasion of Iraq would have never have happened if the U.S didn't have so much military overcapacity hanging around. It wasn't a defensive war after all.
The problem is their rather loose definition of what constitutes their intellectual property.
Try Opera. Seriously.
-1 wackjob
In America there is enough land that wind can do 25% and solar can do another 25%
Wind is under a million per megawatt. Competitive with new natural gas or coal capacity - and without fuel input costs.
Solar is dropping fast. First Solar says its manufacturing costs are $.73 a watt or $730,000 per megawatt. Don't know what the installation & profit margin is but the point is alternative energy has a bigger role to play than you might think.
I see a lot of technological determinism on Slashdot. Talk about energy and everybody turns into a Soviet technocrat. They contrast dozens of elegant nuclear plants with the hundreds of thousands of wind turbines and solar panels needed and decide that former will be a better bet for the next 5 Year Plan. But the bottom line is nuclear is horrendously expensive. I recall the new Areva plant in Finland costing $5 million a megawatt. What a joke. Plus nuclear capacity is not modular enough. Utilities can't just plunk down 5 megawatts the way they can with wind or solar. The *financial* flexibility is just not there.
(The hyped mini-nuclear reactors are still unproven and undeployed after years of talk)
Finally nuclear requires a lot of smart people to keep it safe, and they are in short supply.
All of my objections to nuclear have answers, answers that depend on unproven technology, subsidies, or transformation of Congress into a bunch of engineers.
Meanwhile new wind, solar and nat gas capacity is coming online everyday.
Their hot water systems are getting efficient. Very efficient. See EcoCute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoCute
"The EcoCute derives two units of energy from ambient air temperature for every unit of electrical power it requires"