The problem is that the industry doesn't produce anything near a sizable fraction of the power requirements. In 2003, the total worldwide production was 732MW equivalents. Shipments from 1971 total 3,145MW.
World power consumption is 13.94 trillion kWh.
Even if all of those cells were in production today, it would still fall short by a factor of about 500, if my calculations are correct. It would take more than a century to replace everything, and that's assuming an annual 25% growth in shipped capacity with only 10% being replaced each year and zero growth in annual energy usage. As countries like China and India come into the modern ages as a rule, worldwide energy demand is going to grow even faster than its current (IIRC) 5% rate.
Thank you for so clearly elucidating this point. There is no such thing, under current proven technology, as an energy mechanism that has no drawbacks. Examples:
Wind: Dead birds, intermittency in many areas, large surface areas, noise
Solar: Sigificant chemical wastes, large surface areas
Tidal: Beach erosion, corrosion of power units
Hydroelectric: Large loss of land, high greenhouse gas releases
You have to choose your evils. If you want to avoid radiation, fine, but don't complain when you have to deal with other forms of pollution to compensate for the energy-thirsty needs of modern society.
The first thing I thought of was an expandable, self-switching/routing patch panel architecture. I haven't put a great deal of thought into it (and maybe it shows:) ), but perhaps some sort of distributed computing architecture could help make that a reality for smaller implementations.
The other thought that I had was per-port firewalls, but security maintenance is complex enough as it is without tracking things per interface.
Slightly off-topic, but how worthwhile do you feel LPIC is? I've been kicking around getting a piece of paper of my own, and not sure if I should go the RHCE or LPIC route. RHCE has wider recognition, but LPIC covers non-RH materials, so I'm not sure which route to go, at least to start.
Priceline dropped him? I just caught a commercial last week with Shatner in it. I don't recall specifically if it was radio or TV, but I did see something.
I know of professional photographers that make scads more than that. I know graphic artists that fall in the middle of them, making pretty comfortable money and being able to turn down jobs. If you're good enough, you can justify the price.
Good point. Even in the heyday of the Soviet era, there were numerous competing design bureaus in the aviation industry: Antonov, Illyushin, Mikoyan-Guryevich, Sukhoi, Tupolev... No one bureau held a monopoly on a given aircraft type.
When they were in California (November 1990 to January 1991), it was to see if some then-new experimental therapies would work to improve her condition. When they didn't work, she was returned to Florida, where she underwent further therapy until 1992 or 1993. Michael's petition to remove the feeding tube didn't come until 1998, and was filed in -- and never left until the federal filings were allowed -- Florida courts.
Nine courtrooms encompassing nearly three dozen judges have determined that Terri Schiavo's wishes would be that she would not want to live this way. Two of the Florida lower court judges were assisted by court-appointed guardians at litem, who took temporary guardianship of Terri for the durations of the trials and assisted the courts in determining her wishes.
As for why Michael is following through on this, maybe it's because he does love her and is trying to respect her wishes, whereas her family's love for her is not allowing them to respect her wishes. There is little or no money left from the malpractice awards (which totaled a little over a million dollars, not "millions"), because it's been spent on her therapy, hospice, and legal costs. Michael spends a great deal of time at her side even now, with the attorneys handling courtroom appearances for the most part.
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Please point out to me where I mentioned piracy in my post.
What I was pointing out is that China has little resemblance anymore to a traditional communist country, aside from the entrenched power architecture and perhaps the corrupt bureaucracy. They're becoming a strongly capitalist nation, with barriers falling all the time -- including the outsourcing of low-skill manufacturing to other nations because the domestic production costs are too high.
Been to China lately? Maybe you've missed all the private enterprise that has popped up. Maybe you've missed the explosion in fashion, electronics, and various other "stuff" that one generally finds in a nation that is turning capitalist, and has been for twenty-plus years. Admittedly, it's mostly in the cities, but even out in the rural areas this is becoming more common.
The communist foundations of mainland China are being replaced, brick by brick, with capitalist ideas. The political hierarchy may end up being the last part to go, but eventually it, too, must fall.
I've done similar things in Fry's, but I'm polite enough to not do it in front of store people. I also only do it when the person is so absolutely frustrated with Fry's people that they're about ready to kill (about once every third visit). It pays for an occasional new game.
The speed differences between the two are almost nil on current drives. The larger the drive, generally speaking, the better NTFS does in comparison to FAT32. However, the performance difference is usually so tiny that you have to measure it with benchmarking software to see a tiny difference, and then you're just getting pedantic. By going with FAT32, you lose out on security, robustness, and access speeds as fragmentation increases.
It's a seriously rare incident when a criminal uses an illegally obtained.50BMG rifle to commit a crime. Most sites I've seen can count a dozen, maybe 20, and that includes many that were mere possession by a felon with no proof of it being used in the commission of a violent act.
What police department uses a.50BMG rifle in their SWAT team? I've seen plenty of 5.56mm and 7.6Xmm rifles used, and a handful of other calibers, but never a.50 cal.
I'll see if I can find the information again. It's been several months since I looked it up in significant detail (and I should have bookmarked it), but a number of the rifles that have been used in crimes were actually illegally manufactured and sold by a gunsmith who had a felony rap sheet. They were high-quality weapons -- he just wasn't supposed to be making them, let alone selling them.
Not in this instance. Unlawful use by lawful owners is what I was referring to; if you're not supposed to have gun in the first place, merely possessing it is illegal. Cops have lost their guns to criminals who have gone on to kill people with them (sometimes the cop they just took it from), but we don't take guns away from the cops.
Browning Machine Gun. It's the round used in the M2 Browning Heavy Machine Gun, and also in weapons like the Barrett M82 line of sniper rifles used by various militaries for anti-materiel and certain (often extreme-range) hits where the standard M24 line isn't strong or accurate enough.
They've been confiscated from a couple of militiamen who were also convicted felons. Someone also tried to use one when shooting up a supermarket, but was using it as a close-range weapon to shoot at police cars. There was also some nutcase in the Midwest who, IIRC, called an ambulance to his place and shot at it as it arrived, and then shot at the cops as they arrived. He was, as I recall, a felon, and ended up taking his own life (with another gun).
I'm not sure that anyone has ever been killed in the US by a civilian-owned.50BMG rifle.
Seems like what California passed is not unconstitutional, because it involves plenty of safeguards. This is typical unresearched crap getting past submitters and editors that makes Slashdotters get all up in arms.
The law was passed as Prop 69 last year. Yes, it requires that eventually all people convicted of felony charges and certain misdemeanor charges provide DNA samples, and all persons convicted of a felony under the care or direction of the California Penal System (in custody or on parole or probation) provide samples. In addition, it laid out very specific rules for what to do with DNA of people not charged or found not guilty. Of note from California Penal Code Section 299:
(a) A person whose DNA profile has been included in the data bank pursuant to this chapter shall have his or her DNA specimen and sample destroyed and searchable database profile expunged from the data bank program pursuant to the procedures set forth in subdivision (b) if the person has no past or present offense or pending charge which qualifies that person for inclusion within the state's DNA and Forensic Identification Database and Data Bank Program and there otherwise is no legal basis for retaining the specimen or sample or searchable profile.
(b) Pursuant to subdivision (a), a person who has no past or present qualifying offense, and for whom there otherwise is no legal basis for retaining the specimen or sample or searchable profile, may make a written request to have his or her specimen and sample destroyed and searchable database profile expunged from the data bank program if:
(1) Following arrest, no accusatory pleading has been filed within the applicable period allowed by law charging the person with a qualifying offense as set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 296 or if the charges which served as the basis for including the DNA profile in the state's DNA Database and Data Bank Identification Program have been dismissed prior to adjudication by a trier of fact;
(2) The underlying conviction or disposition serving as the basis for including the DNA profile has been reversed and the case dismissed;
(3) The person has been found factually innocent of the underlying offense pursuant to Section 851.8, or Section 781.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code; or
(4) The defendant has been found not guilty or the defendant has been acquitted of the underlying offense.
Basically, if a person is found not guilty or acquitted, or charges have been dropped for at least 180 days and there is no retrial or appeal pending (this is covered later), then the person may submit a written request to have the record expunged and the sample destroyed. The law basically requires that the request be granted as long as a few things are included, none of which are easily avoided because of the wording of the law.
California banned sales of weapons using.50BMG ammunition effective the first of this year. Ammunition itself may still be sold.
The gun has been used in crimes very sporadically, but I don't believe ever by lawful owners, and I'm not sure anyone has ever been killed by someone using one.
If he's playing the courts, he's doing so better than anyone else in US history.
Terry Schiavo received therapy for at least a few years after the incident which produced no discernable results, and it wasn't until 1998 -- five years after the jury verdict that provided $750K to Terry and $300,000 to Michael -- that Michael asked the court to decide whether to remove the feeding tube, since he believed that she wouldn't want to live like that and her parents believed that she would want to live. Since 2000, the parents' only victories have been extensions when new evidence was reconsidered, or when stays were ordered pending new trials or appeals. It has been in the courtroom for more than six years, has survived appeals to the Florida Second District Court of Appeals, the Florida Supreme Court, and the US Supreme Court. Three judges have dealt with it at the trial level, meaning that six courts have either found that Terry would not have chosen to be this way, or have found that lower courts did not err in their judgements sufficiently to turn the whole thing over.
I have read in a few places that the actual decision to end life support for Terry was made by the court, and not (explicitly) by Michael, so he technically may not have the power to reverse it. He does believe that she wouldn't want to live this way, and the courts have sided with him on multiple occasions (he's not the only one to have come forward to claim that Terry had said words to that effect before her heart attack).
Might want to notify Jack-In-The-Box and Taco Bell, then, as well as a few others. For small amounts, they no longer ask for signatures. The card is run, and a single receipt is printed -- the one that is handed to you. No signature is ever requested, and there is no space on the receipt for it. This happens for both MasterCard and Visa.
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The problem is that the industry doesn't produce anything near a sizable fraction of the power requirements. In 2003, the total worldwide production was 732MW equivalents. Shipments from 1971 total 3,145MW.
World power consumption is 13.94 trillion kWh.
Even if all of those cells were in production today, it would still fall short by a factor of about 500, if my calculations are correct. It would take more than a century to replace everything, and that's assuming an annual 25% growth in shipped capacity with only 10% being replaced each year and zero growth in annual energy usage. As countries like China and India come into the modern ages as a rule, worldwide energy demand is going to grow even faster than its current (IIRC) 5% rate.
You have to choose your evils. If you want to avoid radiation, fine, but don't complain when you have to deal with other forms of pollution to compensate for the energy-thirsty needs of modern society.
The first thing I thought of was an expandable, self-switching/routing patch panel architecture. I haven't put a great deal of thought into it (and maybe it shows :) ), but perhaps some sort of distributed computing architecture could help make that a reality for smaller implementations.
The other thought that I had was per-port firewalls, but security maintenance is complex enough as it is without tracking things per interface.
Sometimes you just have to make sacrifices in order to stick it to The Man!
Slightly off-topic, but how worthwhile do you feel LPIC is? I've been kicking around getting a piece of paper of my own, and not sure if I should go the RHCE or LPIC route. RHCE has wider recognition, but LPIC covers non-RH materials, so I'm not sure which route to go, at least to start.
Priceline dropped him? I just caught a commercial last week with Shatner in it. I don't recall specifically if it was radio or TV, but I did see something.
I know of professional photographers that make scads more than that. I know graphic artists that fall in the middle of them, making pretty comfortable money and being able to turn down jobs. If you're good enough, you can justify the price.
Good point. Even in the heyday of the Soviet era, there were numerous competing design bureaus in the aviation industry: Antonov, Illyushin, Mikoyan-Guryevich, Sukhoi, Tupolev... No one bureau held a monopoly on a given aircraft type.
You, sir, are a fascist for thinking in such terms. :P
Your "facts" are way off.
When they were in California (November 1990 to January 1991), it was to see if some then-new experimental therapies would work to improve her condition. When they didn't work, she was returned to Florida, where she underwent further therapy until 1992 or 1993. Michael's petition to remove the feeding tube didn't come until 1998, and was filed in -- and never left until the federal filings were allowed -- Florida courts.
Nine courtrooms encompassing nearly three dozen judges have determined that Terri Schiavo's wishes would be that she would not want to live this way. Two of the Florida lower court judges were assisted by court-appointed guardians at litem, who took temporary guardianship of Terri for the durations of the trials and assisted the courts in determining her wishes.
As for why Michael is following through on this, maybe it's because he does love her and is trying to respect her wishes, whereas her family's love for her is not allowing them to respect her wishes. There is little or no money left from the malpractice awards (which totaled a little over a million dollars, not "millions"), because it's been spent on her therapy, hospice, and legal costs. Michael spends a great deal of time at her side even now, with the attorneys handling courtroom appearances for the most part.
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Please point out to me where I mentioned piracy in my post.
What I was pointing out is that China has little resemblance anymore to a traditional communist country, aside from the entrenched power architecture and perhaps the corrupt bureaucracy. They're becoming a strongly capitalist nation, with barriers falling all the time -- including the outsourcing of low-skill manufacturing to other nations because the domestic production costs are too high.
Been to China lately? Maybe you've missed all the private enterprise that has popped up. Maybe you've missed the explosion in fashion, electronics, and various other "stuff" that one generally finds in a nation that is turning capitalist, and has been for twenty-plus years. Admittedly, it's mostly in the cities, but even out in the rural areas this is becoming more common.
The communist foundations of mainland China are being replaced, brick by brick, with capitalist ideas. The political hierarchy may end up being the last part to go, but eventually it, too, must fall.
I've done similar things in Fry's, but I'm polite enough to not do it in front of store people. I also only do it when the person is so absolutely frustrated with Fry's people that they're about ready to kill (about once every third visit). It pays for an occasional new game.
The speed differences between the two are almost nil on current drives. The larger the drive, generally speaking, the better NTFS does in comparison to FAT32. However, the performance difference is usually so tiny that you have to measure it with benchmarking software to see a tiny difference, and then you're just getting pedantic. By going with FAT32, you lose out on security, robustness, and access speeds as fragmentation increases.
It's a seriously rare incident when a criminal uses an illegally obtained .50BMG rifle to commit a crime. Most sites I've seen can count a dozen, maybe 20, and that includes many that were mere possession by a felon with no proof of it being used in the commission of a violent act.
What police department uses a .50BMG rifle in their SWAT team? I've seen plenty of 5.56mm and 7.6Xmm rifles used, and a handful of other calibers, but never a .50 cal.
I'll see if I can find the information again. It's been several months since I looked it up in significant detail (and I should have bookmarked it), but a number of the rifles that have been used in crimes were actually illegally manufactured and sold by a gunsmith who had a felony rap sheet. They were high-quality weapons -- he just wasn't supposed to be making them, let alone selling them.
Not in this instance. Unlawful use by lawful owners is what I was referring to; if you're not supposed to have gun in the first place, merely possessing it is illegal. Cops have lost their guns to criminals who have gone on to kill people with them (sometimes the cop they just took it from), but we don't take guns away from the cops.
Browning Machine Gun. It's the round used in the M2 Browning Heavy Machine Gun, and also in weapons like the Barrett M82 line of sniper rifles used by various militaries for anti-materiel and certain (often extreme-range) hits where the standard M24 line isn't strong or accurate enough.
They've been confiscated from a couple of militiamen who were also convicted felons. Someone also tried to use one when shooting up a supermarket, but was using it as a close-range weapon to shoot at police cars. There was also some nutcase in the Midwest who, IIRC, called an ambulance to his place and shot at it as it arrived, and then shot at the cops as they arrived. He was, as I recall, a felon, and ended up taking his own life (with another gun).
.50BMG rifle.
I'm not sure that anyone has ever been killed in the US by a civilian-owned
The law was passed as Prop 69 last year. Yes, it requires that eventually all people convicted of felony charges and certain misdemeanor charges provide DNA samples, and all persons convicted of a felony under the care or direction of the California Penal System (in custody or on parole or probation) provide samples. In addition, it laid out very specific rules for what to do with DNA of people not charged or found not guilty. Of note from California Penal Code Section 299:
Basically, if a person is found not guilty or acquitted, or charges have been dropped for at least 180 days and there is no retrial or appeal pending (this is covered later), then the person may submit a written request to have the record expunged and the sample destroyed. The law basically requires that the request be granted as long as a few things are included, none of which are easily avoided because of the wording of the law.
California banned sales of weapons using .50BMG ammunition effective the first of this year. Ammunition itself may still be sold.
The gun has been used in crimes very sporadically, but I don't believe ever by lawful owners, and I'm not sure anyone has ever been killed by someone using one.
If he's playing the courts, he's doing so better than anyone else in US history.
Terry Schiavo received therapy for at least a few years after the incident which produced no discernable results, and it wasn't until 1998 -- five years after the jury verdict that provided $750K to Terry and $300,000 to Michael -- that Michael asked the court to decide whether to remove the feeding tube, since he believed that she wouldn't want to live like that and her parents believed that she would want to live. Since 2000, the parents' only victories have been extensions when new evidence was reconsidered, or when stays were ordered pending new trials or appeals. It has been in the courtroom for more than six years, has survived appeals to the Florida Second District Court of Appeals, the Florida Supreme Court, and the US Supreme Court. Three judges have dealt with it at the trial level, meaning that six courts have either found that Terry would not have chosen to be this way, or have found that lower courts did not err in their judgements sufficiently to turn the whole thing over.
I have read in a few places that the actual decision to end life support for Terry was made by the court, and not (explicitly) by Michael, so he technically may not have the power to reverse it. He does believe that she wouldn't want to live this way, and the courts have sided with him on multiple occasions (he's not the only one to have come forward to claim that Terry had said words to that effect before her heart attack).
Might want to notify Jack-In-The-Box and Taco Bell, then, as well as a few others. For small amounts, they no longer ask for signatures. The card is run, and a single receipt is printed -- the one that is handed to you. No signature is ever requested, and there is no space on the receipt for it. This happens for both MasterCard and Visa.