Sure, the spy may have a license to speed, but if he doesn't have to follow the speed limit, another driver on the same road is going to be correspondingly less able to anticipate how to react safely to another driver who may be cruising at over double the speed limit.
And this is a good thing, citizen: the terrorists won't be able to anticipate it either. Don't you feel safer already?
"New study shows traffic accidents and speed related injuries have increased 50% since the law excusing government agents from the speed limit was enacted. GCHQ responded by saying the law is essential to thwart terrorist activities."
Wrong. Statistics of traffic speed incidents will be classified to maintain the antiterrorist operational integrity.
If the Secret Intelligence Service tries to get away with speeding, they have to reveal who they are, then they aren't secret anymore. In fact anyone speeding might be revealing they're in the Secret Intelligence Service.
Doh... spies nowadays. I was told the KGB spies, under no matter the circumstances, were trained and able to break the speed limits in secret.
Paper had one characteristic that might make it less than suitable for use in rain. One foam helmet might be cheaper in the long run than a bunch of soggy paper helmets.
Your comment is moderated 2, on a more intelligent 0 statement. I will explain. Koch brothers energy company makes money selling fossil fuels, Global Warning activism is a threat to that, therefore large amount of money are used as reality distortion field to suppress scientifically respectable Global Warming hypotheses. So think analogously with Big Bang replacing Global Warming.
Curiously, the author of non-consensus "The Big Bang Never Happened", Eric Lerner, has his own fusion energy research company. He put his effort where his mouth is. lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com
My comment is actually a question asking for some clarifications. Rationale - the original comment (with my emphasis):
If the Koch brothers find out a way to make money out of SOMETHING ELSE...
may be interpreted as suggesting that Koch brothers make money on the base of Big Bang. An ambiguity I wanted clarified and, if no metaphor/forced analogy was involved, I was curious about how.
Be prepared to touch a range starting from cold cosmic dust clouds to the zillions of Kelvins or so of neutron stars.
But... avoid the black holes experience if you can.
I use about 16kWh/day, around 40% of that at night. This flow battery takes around 20kg of reactant for a kilowatt hour, so I'd need around 120kg to meet current (ha) needs.
So, for my (probably not wildly atypical) situation, a battery like this would save me around $400/yr.
My (probably not wildly atypical situation): I'm differentially charged based on the hour of consumption: 30c/kWh off-peak, 38 (or 42) c/kWh (based on the total 3-month-based consumption) for peak.
It would make sense for me to suck power from the grid at night time and push it back in the grid during the day; it would make sense for the producers as well - can reduce their excess capacity they need to provision to deal with on-peak - this should worth something for them, even if considering only the maintenance costs for the excess capacity.
(this disregarding the solar panels I have to save me the energy costs, as I'm billed or paid only for the balance at the end of the period).
One litre of reactants lets you store 50Wh of energy (i.e. 20kg for a kilowatt hour)
To put in in perspective, a random pick: the 1.4L engine of the current version of Volkswagen Golf (a city car, rather) generates 59kW - to power it up using the "rhubarb flow battery" and keep its performance unchanged (also assuming 100% efficiency of the power train), one would need about in excess of 100 liters of reactant per hour.
Me thinks:
* lotsa room for improvement
* even so, the more likely scenario for the next 10 years is the "renewable energy power plant buffering energy using flow batteries" one rather than an "electric car filling its reactant tanks"
We're hitting temperatures not seen since the 1990's. And that's it. And last summer wasn't particularly hot. Where are the dramatic weather extremes we've been told would occur?
(Adding something like 1" of topsoil to America's farm land would sequester more CO2 than man has ever emitted, IIRC, and we could actually do that simultaneously with growing bio-fuels...!)
AGW (whether true or false) is just something for people to argue about while governments and corporations make the biggest power grab in the history of power grabs. Divide and conquer at work.
Nothing bad could result from a crippled intelligence system, could it?
There are better chances (than dying in a terrorist attack) that something bad will happen every time I drive the car to the office (instead of working from home), should I be affraid too?
Gambling casinos make an extraordinary amount of money based on a minor advantage in the odds, and the extremists have much better odds now with the Snowden leaks.
You mean... the extemists will make an extraordinary amount of money? Well, so do Goldman Sachs.
(if you wonder what extremists have to do with Goldman Sachs, you are on the right track: it's called critical thinking. That would be the same relation as between extremists and casinoes, be them of the gambling kind or... wait, are there non-gambling casinoes?).
The rules of humor state that simply linking to a porn site is too plain and crass, but variations can be acceptable:
- Linking to something that looks like a porn site from the address, but is actually not. Eg, penisland.net
- Linking to something that is porn, but not in the sense most would expect. Eg, fchan.us, https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wetriffs&tbm=isch
In 1841 about 216,000 people were employed in the mines. Women and children worked underground for 11 or 12 hours a day for smaller wages than men ... Lord Ashley deliberately appealed to Victorian prudery, focussing on girls and women wearing trousers and working bare breasted in the presence of boys and men which "made girls unsuitable for marriage and unfit to be mothers". Such an affront to Victorian morality ensured the bill was passed.
Do something productive with your life, develop a real skill. Like cure the sick, help the poor, etc.
Why stop at this? I mean, there's endless possibilities, like: heal the sick, cure all disease, drive out demons, open blind eyes, heal the broken hearted, walk on the water, turn water into wine, raise the dead, etc.
Some say there was someone that did all of the above. How's the world better now because of it?
(my point: you are free to consider it a waste of time for yourself. But why cast stones on those who see it otherwise?)
If I had a nickel for every time I stuffed a quarter in that game...
Just sayin'... (not that is relevant in any way, but... hey... its precise; precision should worth something, aint it?:)... So what was I saying? Oh yes.
if you'd have that nickel back, you'd still had spent 2 dimes per game.
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Sure, the spy may have a license to speed, but if he doesn't have to follow the speed limit, another driver on the same road is going to be correspondingly less able to anticipate how to react safely to another driver who may be cruising at over double the speed limit.
And this is a good thing, citizen: the terrorists won't be able to anticipate it either.
Don't you feel safer already?
"New study shows traffic accidents and speed related injuries have increased 50% since the law excusing government agents from the speed limit was enacted. GCHQ responded by saying the law is essential to thwart terrorist activities."
Wrong. Statistics of traffic speed incidents will be classified to maintain the antiterrorist operational integrity.
If the Secret Intelligence Service tries to get away with speeding, they have to reveal who they are, then they aren't secret anymore. In fact anyone speeding might be revealing they're in the Secret Intelligence Service.
Doh... spies nowadays.
I was told the KGB spies, under no matter the circumstances, were trained and able to break the speed limits in secret.
Paper had one characteristic that might make it less than suitable for use in rain. One foam helmet might be cheaper in the long run than a bunch of soggy paper helmets.
Try some guinit helmets
What did they do with the rest of their day?
Not (enough) sex, otherwise they wouldn't be extinct
seem to me they didn't survive well enough
Your comment is moderated 2, on a more intelligent 0 statement. I will explain. Koch brothers energy company makes money selling fossil fuels, Global Warning activism is a threat to that, therefore large amount of money are used as reality distortion field to suppress scientifically respectable Global Warming hypotheses. So think analogously with Big Bang replacing Global Warming.
Curiously, the author of non-consensus "The Big Bang Never Happened", Eric Lerner, has his own fusion energy research company. He put his effort where his mouth is. lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com
My comment is actually a question asking for some clarifications. Rationale - the original comment (with my emphasis):
If the Koch brothers find out a way to make money out of SOMETHING ELSE ...
may be interpreted as suggesting that Koch brothers make money on the base of Big Bang.
An ambiguity I wanted clarified and, if no metaphor/forced analogy was involved, I was curious about how.
"It's generally accepted that the Universe's history is best described by the Big Bang model"
If the Koch brothers find out a way to make money out of something else ...
You imply the Big Bang is generaly accepted nowadays because Koch brothers managed to make money of it?
What's a "floppy"?
Less than you can download in a second.
Something that took a day to download in the mid '90 over a dialup connection (if it stayed connected that long).
Be prepared to touch a range starting from cold cosmic dust clouds to the zillions of Kelvins or so of neutron stars.
But... avoid the black holes experience if you can.
I use about 16kWh/day, around 40% of that at night. This flow battery takes around 20kg of reactant for a kilowatt hour, so I'd need around 120kg to meet current (ha) needs.
So, for my (probably not wildly atypical) situation, a battery like this would save me around $400/yr.
My (probably not wildly atypical situation): I'm differentially charged based on the hour of consumption: 30c/kWh off-peak, 38 (or 42) c/kWh (based on the total 3-month-based consumption) for peak.
It would make sense for me to suck power from the grid at night time and push it back in the grid during the day; it would make sense for the producers as well - can reduce their excess capacity they need to provision to deal with on-peak - this should worth something for them, even if considering only the maintenance costs for the excess capacity.
(this disregarding the solar panels I have to save me the energy costs, as I'm billed or paid only for the balance at the end of the period).
One litre of reactants lets you store 50Wh of energy (i.e. 20kg for a kilowatt hour)
To put in in perspective, a random pick: the 1.4L engine of the current version of Volkswagen Golf (a city car, rather) generates 59kW - to power it up using the "rhubarb flow battery" and keep its performance unchanged (also assuming 100% efficiency of the power train), one would need about in excess of 100 liters of reactant per hour.
Me thinks:
* lotsa room for improvement
* even so, the more likely scenario for the next 10 years is the "renewable energy power plant buffering energy using flow batteries" one rather than an "electric car filling its reactant tanks"
Of course in England, they are even more willing to give up what's rightfully theirs to Americans.
FTFY
TFS doesn't sound like any part actually involved in flight was printed.
Here's one made entirely of printed parts
(ducks)
We're hitting temperatures not seen since the 1990's. And that's it. And last summer wasn't particularly hot. Where are the dramatic weather extremes we've been told would occur?
Here
(Adding something like 1" of topsoil to America's farm land would sequester more CO2 than man has ever emitted, IIRC, and we could actually do that simultaneously with growing bio-fuels...!)
AGW (whether true or false) is just something for people to argue about while governments and corporations make the biggest power grab in the history of power grabs. Divide and conquer at work.
Hang on, buddy!
Can't follow you, Telstra doesn't sell smart surf boards.
Nothing bad could result from a crippled intelligence system, could it?
There are better chances (than dying in a terrorist attack) that something bad will happen every time I drive the car to the office (instead of working from home), should I be affraid too?
"It will take years, if not decades, for us to return to the position that we had prior to his disclosures." - Michael Hayden
One can only hope the later.
Well, I can do more than only hope for the later. How about hoping to never to return to the position prior to Snowden's discolusres?
Gambling casinos make an extraordinary amount of money based on a minor advantage in the odds, and the extremists have much better odds now with the Snowden leaks.
You mean... the extemists will make an extraordinary amount of money? Well, so do Goldman Sachs.
(if you wonder what extremists have to do with Goldman Sachs, you are on the right track: it's called critical thinking. That would be the same relation as between extremists and casinoes, be them of the gambling kind or... wait, are there non-gambling casinoes?).
The rules of humor state that simply linking to a porn site is too plain and crass, but variations can be acceptable: - Linking to something that looks like a porn site from the address, but is actually not. Eg, penisland.net - Linking to something that is porn, but not in the sense most would expect. Eg, fchan.us, https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wetriffs&tbm=isch
Got it. In a single go, like this porn site.
Are you suggesting modern "sex education" web sites should roll it back to the 1950's?
1950's you say? What's wrong with 1850?
Rationale the second link:
In 1841 about 216,000 people were employed in the mines. Women and children worked underground for 11 or 12 hours a day for smaller wages than men
...
Lord Ashley deliberately appealed to Victorian prudery, focussing on girls and women wearing trousers and working bare breasted in the presence of boys and men which "made girls unsuitable for marriage and unfit to be mothers". Such an affront to Victorian morality ensured the bill was passed.
Do something productive with your life, develop a real skill. Like cure the sick, help the poor, etc.
Why stop at this?
I mean, there's endless possibilities, like: heal the sick, cure all disease, drive out demons, open blind eyes, heal the broken hearted, walk on the water, turn water into wine, raise the dead, etc.
Some say there was someone that did all of the above. How's the world better now because of it?
(my point: you are free to consider it a waste of time for yourself. But why cast stones on those who see it otherwise?)
If you're going to go old school, do it right.
Do it right, you say? Let me try...
The New Pings of Pong
Hey, whaddya know??!! As worthy of /. as the current title
/. bein' good at it, looks like)
(killin' time...
If I had a nickel for every time I stuffed a quarter in that game...
Just sayin' ... (not that is relevant in any way, but ... hey... its precise; precision should worth something, aint it? :)... So what was I saying? Oh yes.
if you'd have that nickel back, you'd still had spent 2 dimes per game.