The ones who drink the koolaide that comes from BOTH parties.. Its becoming apparent that none of the media, better known now as the defacto US Department of Propaganda, is telling the truth.. oh sure, they tell *their* "version" of the "truth", but not the TRUTH..
What qualifications do you have that allow you to reliably discern the TRUTH from the lies?
Are you 100% sure you aren't drinking someone else's brand of koolaid?
What makes your sources of information more reliable than other peoples'?
Often when someone is pushing a story about a vast conspiracy, the conspiracy is fictional, or at least highly exaggerated, and the people pushing the conspiracy narrative have their own political reasons for pushing it.
autonomous cars make no sense either. wheres the nexus?
Isn't it obvious? Few people will pay $100,000 extra for a self-driving car... but lots of people would pay $100,000 for a bipedal robot that not only chauffeurs you around town in your existing car, but also does light housecleaning and yard work.;)
LOL. What some people (mainly americans) fail to see is that China could quite happily not have you as an economic partner? Why? Because you never actually pay, you're just racking up credit.
As the aphorism goes: If you owe your bank $10,000, you have a problem. If you owe your bank $10,000,000, your bank has a problem.
I doubt the Chinese are going to do anything that might significantly increase the risk of a default on their loans to the USA.
I had the same problem. Intentionally left a ShopVac outside, worked perfectly, cosmetic condition was A+ (sign said, 'works').... Just (maybe) needed a filter (Home Depot). They took the copper coils out of the motor, left the unit behind - useless unit now. That is why I did the 24 pair Cat 3 copper on top of the fiber... hopefully they broke their backs loading the spool on to the pick up truck.
It's hard to specify terms of use for items that you leave on the sidewalk. If you'd like a little more control over how your hand-me-downs get re-used, I recommend something like FreeCycle.org. I've had good results there.
The moment guilt is obvious, what's the point of spending 15 years on death row and cost millions in tax dollars?
I won't comment on North Korea, but in the USA there have been at least 311 cases where "guilt was obvious" but in fact the person had not committed the crime they were convicted of.
If you're willing to accept that your proposal would cause the state-sponsored killing of hundreds of innocent people, okay, but you should say so explicitly.
Wouldn't they still need pumps to circulate the water through the reactor to absorb the heat?
Assuming they designed it well, the convection currents caused by the heating of the water would be sufficient to circulate the water through the reactor.
Just out of curiosity: Given a "black box" implementation of a random number generator, is it possible to test its output sufficiently to gain some faith in its proper randomness?
Seeing as such a piece of hardware need not (and hopefully would not) have any inputs, only an output, it's hard to imagine how someone might hide (and later trigger) a back-door mechanism that could change its behavior post-testing. (But I'm sure there is some way to do it that I'm not thinking of;))
...and they shall beat their swords into plowshares... That's what $14 Billion can buy.
Note that the estimated cost of a single nuclear attack by terrorists is between $250 billion and $1 trillion.
So never mind the electricity by-product; if this program kept nuclear weapons out of the wrong hands, then it was well worth it for that reason alone.
hey, dickheads keep the economy going by supplying customers and cash to
Sure, but I don't think this particular invention is going to help -- the moment a burnout becomes easy for anyone to do, it will cease being useful as a way to impress anyone.
In fact, this may poison the dickhead well, as now whenever someone does a burnout they will be under suspicion of being the dickhead equivalent of a script kiddie.
Considering the price of energy and the whole economic crisis, a lot of people would probably rather plug in manually if the losses are any more than a couple of percent. Even 1% would probably put a lot of people off if they were aware of it.
Would they? I'm not so sure. According to Wikipedia, the cost of power to drive 25 miles in an electric car is in the $1-$2 range. So even a 10% inefficiency would only cost drivers an additional 10 to 20 cents per commute. Would people spend that extra money to avoid the hassle of plugging and unplugging their car every day? Based on the number of dimes I see abandoned on the ground because nobody can be bothered to pick them up, I think many people would -- especially those who are wealthy enough to afford an electric car in the first place.
If this device recharges more slowly than the plug-in method, OTOH, that could be a problem.
No. The american dream is to become wealthy. It is not dependent upon someone else becoming poor. The economy is not a zero sum game.
That's true, but the divvying up of a company's income is a zero sum game. Reduced pay/benefits for the employees means more money left over for the CEO and the shareholders, and vice versa. Given that (and a weak job market), it's not surprising that (non-elite) people end up working harder every year for less compensation. That's not widely considered to be a desirable outcome.
It is telling executives, you cannot make more then a certain amount. Once that is in place, there is absolutely nothing preventing it from being done on any job period.
It's not clear how a maximum-wage law is any worse (from a moral or ideological standpoint) than a minimum-wage law, and those are widely considered acceptable.
I can place a "cue sheet" on my handlebars in any of half a dozen different ways. Clips, clear plastic holders, you name it.
I do this as well; the problem is that by the time I've looked down at the cue sheet and located the next turn-instruction, my eyes have been off the road for 5-10 seconds. It's long enough that I don't feel safe doing it very often, which means I either ignore the cue sheet (and possibly end up taking a wrong turn) or pull over and stop every time I need to check the sheet (which is inconvenient -- doing it at red lights helps, but sometimes you need to make a decision at a place where you don't really want to stop).
Most everyone I know, including if not especially beginners, consult Google Maps and think carefully about their route because of safety concerns. By the time we're on our bike, we probably know where we're going and how to get there.
The above is true when I'm riding by myself to a familiar destination, but often I'm on a group ride where there is a set route, and if I want to stay on the route I need to know not just how to get to the destination, but which streets to use to get there. Typically the route has several dozen turns on it, so it's not something I'm going to easily memorize before the ride.
I could see this device being useful for me, although it would be best if it had a way to read the route sheet file automatically, since entering in the route instructions manually before every ride would be tedious.
Yes.... but typically a Tesla has no gasoline on board. You'd think that a lack of chance of fire would be a Tesla selling point.
Accelerating a car takes energy. That energy has to be stored on board the car. Whenever you store a lot of energy in a small space, there is a risk that the energy could be released. Gasoline is not uniquely dangerous in that respect.
Doing 70 on the freeway and running over some debris is neither high speed, nor a collision.
70 miles per hour is high speed. The car collided with the debris.
An excellent description of the remainder of your post. Unless you've actually talked to the people involved in making that decision, or conducted your own equivalent investigation, you have no idea whether it's justified or not. Your knee is jerking because you've found an excuse to grind your favorite axe.
If Tesla gains enough 'momentum' and mainstream acceptance (industry is large enough to gain its own power brokers), you will start seeing sensational articles about how great the Tesla is.
I hate to ruin a beautiful theory with facts, but we've already seen plenty of sensational articles about how great the Tesla is.
That's really a distortion of how dangerous skydiving is. The vast majority of skydiving deaths aren't really accidents but rather someone doing something stupid under a perfectly good canopy.
I don't see the distortion -- deaths caused by stupidity are just a real as any other kind of death. In that case, the risk is that you'll make a bad decision, rather than a risk of equipment failure, but it's still a risk.
Stop crying about being treated like a wholesale power supplier.
Wholesale power has to be transported quite a distance from the generating facility to the customer.
Residential solar power, OTOH, is generated very close to its point of use (as it gets fed directly to your neighbors), and therefore it doesn't increase the load on the long-distance electrical lines.
Given that, it should command a higher-than-wholesale price.
Then wire up your house so that the PV panel doesn't pump any power back into the grid. Run the fridge on a separate circuit with a flywheel to store the panel's energy.
That is a good idea, and I think at some point more people will start doing it (or something equivalent), but it does come with some limitations:
- You have to pay for the energy storage system - You have to maintain the energy storage system - You have to accept any risks that come with storing a large amount of energy in or near your home - The energy storage system will have a finite storage capacity. That means that whenever you are generating surplus power and the storage is full, you'll have to throw the "extra" power away. Also, whenever you're not generating enough power and the storage goes empty, your lights will go out.
The grid, OTOH, solves all of those problems for you (although it adds the problem of having to deal with the local power company instead).
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The ones who drink the koolaide that comes from BOTH parties.. Its becoming apparent that none of the media, better known now as the defacto US Department of Propaganda, is telling the truth.. oh sure, they tell *their* "version" of the "truth", but not the TRUTH..
What qualifications do you have that allow you to reliably discern the TRUTH from the lies?
Are you 100% sure you aren't drinking someone else's brand of koolaid?
What makes your sources of information more reliable than other peoples'?
Often when someone is pushing a story about a vast conspiracy, the conspiracy is fictional, or at least highly exaggerated, and the people pushing the conspiracy narrative have their own political reasons for pushing it.
autonomous cars make no sense either. wheres the nexus?
Isn't it obvious? Few people will pay $100,000 extra for a self-driving car... but lots of people would pay $100,000 for a bipedal robot that not only chauffeurs you around town in your existing car, but also does light housecleaning and yard work. ;)
LOL. What some people (mainly americans) fail to see is that China could quite happily not have you as an economic partner? Why? Because you never actually pay, you're just racking up credit.
As the aphorism goes: If you owe your bank $10,000, you have a problem. If you owe your bank $10,000,000, your bank has a problem.
I doubt the Chinese are going to do anything that might significantly increase the risk of a default on their loans to the USA.
I had the same problem. Intentionally left a ShopVac outside, worked perfectly, cosmetic condition was A+ (sign said, 'works').... Just (maybe) needed a filter (Home Depot). They took the copper coils out of the motor, left the unit behind - useless unit now. That is why I did the 24 pair Cat 3 copper on top of the fiber... hopefully they broke their backs loading the spool on to the pick up truck.
It's hard to specify terms of use for items that you leave on the sidewalk. If you'd like a little more control over how your hand-me-downs get re-used, I recommend something like FreeCycle.org. I've had good results there.
The moment guilt is obvious, what's the point of spending 15 years on death row and cost millions in tax dollars?
I won't comment on North Korea, but in the USA there have been at least 311 cases where "guilt was obvious" but in fact the person had not committed the crime they were convicted of.
If you're willing to accept that your proposal would cause the state-sponsored killing of hundreds of innocent people, okay, but you should say so explicitly.
Wouldn't they still need pumps to circulate the water through the reactor to absorb the heat?
Assuming they designed it well, the convection currents caused by the heating of the water would be sufficient to circulate the water through the reactor.
Just out of curiosity: Given a "black box" implementation of a random number generator, is it possible to test its output sufficiently to gain some faith in its proper randomness?
Seeing as such a piece of hardware need not (and hopefully would not) have any inputs, only an output, it's hard to imagine how someone might hide (and later trigger) a back-door mechanism that could change its behavior post-testing. (But I'm sure there is some way to do it that I'm not thinking of ;))
...and they shall beat their swords into plowshares... That's what $14 Billion can buy.
Note that the estimated cost of a single nuclear attack by terrorists is between $250 billion and $1 trillion.
So never mind the electricity by-product; if this program kept nuclear weapons out of the wrong hands, then it was well worth it for that reason alone.
hey, dickheads keep the economy going by supplying customers and cash to
Sure, but I don't think this particular invention is going to help -- the moment a burnout becomes easy for anyone to do, it will cease being useful as a way to impress anyone.
In fact, this may poison the dickhead well, as now whenever someone does a burnout they will be under suspicion of being the dickhead equivalent of a script kiddie.
I don't agree. I think the karma is spot on. The karma is not for what they did but what they could have done with it.
That would only make sense if they knew what they were stealing, and they knew the implications of stealing it, and they stole it anyway.
Considering the price of energy and the whole economic crisis, a lot of people would probably rather plug in manually if the losses are any more than a couple of percent. Even 1% would probably put a lot of people off if they were aware of it.
Would they? I'm not so sure. According to Wikipedia, the cost of power to drive 25 miles in an electric car is in the $1-$2 range. So even a 10% inefficiency would only cost drivers an additional 10 to 20 cents per commute. Would people spend that extra money to avoid the hassle of plugging and unplugging their car every day? Based on the number of dimes I see abandoned on the ground because nobody can be bothered to pick them up, I think many people would -- especially those who are wealthy enough to afford an electric car in the first place.
If this device recharges more slowly than the plug-in method, OTOH, that could be a problem.
At some point the amount of morphine required would exceed a lethal dose.
So, mission accomplished then?
We've seen artists impressions of flying wind turbines in PopSci and PopMec , nobody has actually built one that works yetâ¦
Actually, they have. (Whether it will ever be economically competitive is another thing, but it does "work")
, do you really think they're going to waste a lot of time enforcing ordinances against overnight parking?
Sure, why wouldn't they? In many cities, parking tickets are a significant profit center.
Of course there is learning without teaching. It's just commonly referred to by another name: science.
No. The american dream is to become wealthy. It is not dependent upon someone else becoming poor. The economy is not a zero sum game.
That's true, but the divvying up of a company's income is a zero sum game. Reduced pay/benefits for the employees means more money left over for the CEO and the shareholders, and vice versa. Given that (and a weak job market), it's not surprising that (non-elite) people end up working harder every year for less compensation. That's not widely considered to be a desirable outcome.
It is telling executives, you cannot make more then a certain amount. Once that is in place, there is absolutely nothing preventing it from being done on any job period.
It's not clear how a maximum-wage law is any worse (from a moral or ideological standpoint) than a minimum-wage law, and those are widely considered acceptable.
I can place a "cue sheet" on my handlebars in any of half a dozen different ways. Clips, clear plastic holders, you name it.
I do this as well; the problem is that by the time I've looked down at the cue sheet and located the next turn-instruction, my eyes have been off the road for 5-10 seconds. It's long enough that I don't feel safe doing it very often, which means I either ignore the cue sheet (and possibly end up taking a wrong turn) or pull over and stop every time I need to check the sheet (which is inconvenient -- doing it at red lights helps, but sometimes you need to make a decision at a place where you don't really want to stop).
Most everyone I know, including if not especially beginners, consult Google Maps and think carefully about their route because of safety concerns. By the time we're on our bike, we probably know where we're going and how to get there.
The above is true when I'm riding by myself to a familiar destination, but often I'm on a group ride where there is a set route, and if I want to stay on the route I need to know not just how to get to the destination, but which streets to use to get there. Typically the route has several dozen turns on it, so it's not something I'm going to easily memorize before the ride.
I could see this device being useful for me, although it would be best if it had a way to read the route sheet file automatically, since entering in the route instructions manually before every ride would be tedious.
Eh, I liked this version.
Yes.... but typically a Tesla has no gasoline on board. You'd think that a lack of chance of fire would be a Tesla selling point.
Accelerating a car takes energy. That energy has to be stored on board the car. Whenever you store a lot of energy in a small space, there is a risk that the energy could be released. Gasoline is not uniquely dangerous in that respect.
Doing 70 on the freeway and running over some debris is neither high speed, nor a collision.
70 miles per hour is high speed. The car collided with the debris.
This is probably all a stupid kneejerk reaction.
An excellent description of the remainder of your post. Unless you've actually talked to the people involved in making that decision, or conducted your own equivalent investigation, you have no idea whether it's justified or not. Your knee is jerking because you've found an excuse to grind your favorite axe.
If Tesla gains enough 'momentum' and mainstream acceptance (industry is large enough to gain its own power brokers), you will start seeing sensational articles about how great the Tesla is.
I hate to ruin a beautiful theory with facts, but we've already seen plenty of sensational articles about how great the Tesla is.
That's really a distortion of how dangerous skydiving is. The vast majority of skydiving deaths aren't really accidents but rather someone doing something stupid under a perfectly good canopy.
I don't see the distortion -- deaths caused by stupidity are just a real as any other kind of death. In that case, the risk is that you'll make a bad decision, rather than a risk of equipment failure, but it's still a risk.
Stop crying about being treated like a wholesale power supplier.
Wholesale power has to be transported quite a distance from the generating facility to the customer.
Residential solar power, OTOH, is generated very close to its point of use (as it gets fed directly to your neighbors), and therefore it doesn't increase the load on the long-distance electrical lines.
Given that, it should command a higher-than-wholesale price.
Then wire up your house so that the PV panel doesn't pump any power back into the grid. Run the fridge on a separate circuit with a flywheel to store the panel's energy.
That is a good idea, and I think at some point more people will start doing it (or something equivalent), but it does come with some limitations:
- You have to pay for the energy storage system
- You have to maintain the energy storage system
- You have to accept any risks that come with storing a large amount of energy in or near your home
- The energy storage system will have a finite storage capacity. That means that whenever you are generating surplus power and the storage is full, you'll have to throw the "extra" power away. Also, whenever you're not generating enough power and the storage goes empty, your lights will go out.
The grid, OTOH, solves all of those problems for you (although it adds the problem of having to deal with the local power company instead).