Let's say the bomb did explode over NC. Millions died.
Using some rough and ready assumptions about the distribution of people in North Carolina (an area I'm unlikely to ever need to know much about ; swampy and Southern, wasn't it?), I get around 1.3 million dead, just under 14% of the population.
A substantial number. It's around the number of American civilians killed by guns since 1960. 20-odd years of traffic deaths. Less than a year of cancer deaths. Substantial ; but hardly devastating.
Fracking is used to improve the permeability of low-permeability reservoirs - "shales", though I hate the excessive and inappropriate use of that word. But to dispose of CO2 rapidly and easily (with low wellhead injection pressures, to counter one thread asking about energy usage in pumping CO2 into the formations), you want a target formation with as high a permeability as is available. You'd also want a good, unfractured "cap rock", if you want your CO2 to stay down there for any worthwhile length of time (10^5 years or longer).
Potentially, many wells drilled for fracking could also be used as CO2 disposal wells. But you'd need to work the fracked well over (i.e., remove the hydrocarbon production and shut-in equipment) and minimally cement the fracking perforations while re-perfing into a reservoir rock formation ; a lot of the time you'd need to drill out of the bottom of your post-fracking well. Which ain't going to be cheap. Well, certainly it isn't going to be free.
Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it SuperMan? Is it an RC plane with wireless near-real-time transmission from it's sensors, or is it a drone? I'm not sure that the terms are greatly different in meaning. One, however, is a short, convenient buzz-word.
Back in the early 1990s some of my friends experimented with sites carrying light-weight film cameras for searching for caves to explore. Civilian drone prototypers, or hackers scratching at their itches? Yes.
I've never heard of anyone contemplating, for a moment, attempting to treat a rabid animal. I'd doubt the sanity of anyone considering it (including "Granny," who doesn't believe that "Darling Little Benjy Toohmonster" could possibly be a threat).
Rabies treatment for humans is rough enough, with pre-applied prophyllactic vaccination (the vaccine is a rough one too - days of fever and joint pain, headaches), and even then a significant number of people treated early, still die. Amongst the un-vaccinated, death is by far the commonest response. So you kill a suspected rabid animal in sight, and then treat it's corpse like the highly dangerous biological warfare instrument that it is.
Yeah, sorry, everybody does that. We went through a bout about 5-8 years ago where every second "high" capacity USB flash drive (1/4 gig and upwards) would trigger alarms on the USB bus and often fail to be recognise bcause it couldn't draw enough current to operate. USB hard drives were even worse, often requiring those double-A plugs to provide enough power.
OK, you may have been using chicken-shit controllers in crap machines ; we had to buy reasonable quality machines (mid-range Dells, HPs, ThinkPads) because of the battering they received in the helicopter hold, and the filthiness of the AC power supply where megawatt DC supplies are switched and controlled by silicon-controlled rectifiers.
What seems to me to be the point that makes "drones" interestingly different to conventional RC aircraft is that the drones can send back to the operator in near real-time, That capability is (relatively) new, and very much a game-changer for RC aircraft. With it comes the capability, for example, to fly "over the horizon" from the operator.
unless scientists discover that the underground reservoirs of petroleum are reducing the Earth's density and are the only thing keeping our planet floating in space.
Trying to restrict your analogies to the physics that you learned in the classroom and not what you learned while smoking a waterpipe and watching Star Trek on an unside-down TV would help you give an impression of credibility.
Why would we need to accurately predict what will happen in the future from analysis of small-scale events. Can't we, like, look back into the historical record and see what happens in the past when large amounts of carbon are put into the atmosphere (e.g., the end-Palaeocene ; the late Albian ; end-Permian) and see what happens (major global warming ; major environmental change ; large to massive extinctions) and anticipate that much the same will happen this time.
Of course, this does violate certain religous precepts, particularly the 6000-year age of the Earth ; but since that requires breaking pretty much all the laws of physics and other sciences, only cavemen freezing in the dark and dieing of measles could possibly believe that shit. It might interfere with your personal freedom (and mine) to make money by ass-fucking the rest of the world. But I'm willing to make the change to making money by saving the world instead. The underlying physics should work, but it'll require careful implementation, and I've got a thick CV in support of that.
(Bloody router dropped out half-way through that. Hope the reply connects to Fatwilbur's mesage.)
(If you're going to roll out "fluoride", then you'd probably need to dig out variations in head/ neck squamous cancers between regions with different natural fluoride contents in water.)
I grew up less than 30 miles from "lester" and we always pronounced it "lester", not "layesster" or anything else. It's possible that they call it something weird up in the sheep-shagging country of the Peak, or the Wolds, but not down on the Plains of Central Englandshire. But that would imply that you're a sheep shagger, hich is not a fate I'd wish on any sheep.
Yep, if in the slightest doubt, stick a UPS in there and let that die before the important stuff does.
I was running an experimental computer (OS 9000? Long time ago, and this tablet isn't good for flipping tabs to research stuff) years ago on an industrial site with an under-powered, over-loaded desisel genset. When the big machines switched on, the fluorescent lights would flicker and die ; 250V nominal AC dropped to under 100V, and the supply was absolutely filthy with noise from the SCRs. We used a low-pass filter to try to take out the high spikes, and a high-pass filter to soften some of the sags, feeding a UPS, feeding a second different type of UPS, feeding power to the computer.
We burned out 3 UPS devices in under a week (and replaced each one; fortunately we were on shore not at sea), and then the computer's power supply burned and we went back to pencil and paper.
I suggested just getting our own generator, but that fell foul of the flammable atmosphere regulations.
Gates' contributions to funding malaria research are about the only thing that makes me uncomfportable about bashing Micro$oft ; I have to double-think and be careful to criticise Gates' business practices and software, but not the man himself.
Not comfortable. Can Gates just go back to fricasseeing baby penguins, so we can get on with a thorough-going hate-night?
What do they need to prove? That you don't have a valid passport? They can tell that with the RFID reader. Yes, you do have a piece of paper with writing on it ; no, you do not have a passport, the RFID reader doesn't recognise it as a passport.
You wanted to go somewhere? Please hand over your passport.
I don't know how this works in America, but in Britain a ticket (speeding, parking, red light jumping...) is issued to the "registered keeper" of the vehicle, and they are personally liable for it, unless they enter a defence that some other named person was driving the vehicle at that time. If they do, the fine and license endorsement point get applied to that person. Yes, there have been "he said, she said" cases, most noticeably a recent one where a Member of Parliament, a surgeon and a barrister all got jail time or fines for "attempting to pervert the course of justice" in such a case.
"license endorsement points" significant traffic offences e.g. speeding will attract a number of points reflecting the severity. Say 3 or 4 points for normal speeding. These are applied to your personal license, but expire after so-many years (typically 3 or 4). If you end up accumulating 12 points, that's it, you're not licensed to drive any more, until some of your points expire. Yes, the police do check this for the keepers of vehicles ID'd by automated number plate readers.
Every fingerprint-reading system that I've used has strongly advised the user to configer several fingers prints to allow entry. But of course, you'd have to RTFM to know that, so the feature is protected by the profoundest level of security through obscurity.
Just for your information, barium is now, has always been, and will always be (for the foreseeable future) a moderately poisonous accumulative heavy metal poison. It's biggest reason for not being a severe poison is the very low solubility of it's sulphate salt, which tends to keep blood concentrations low. On the other hand, this makes it extremely slow to clear.
It's not impossible that genetic engineering could produce a compound that chelates with barium (to prevent it contacting sulphate ions) but can still pass through the kidney and be pissed away. But avoiding contact with the chemical is much much easier.
So why are multi-national companies hiring or promoting people who have the severe disability of being vulnerable to pressure from this most pernicious of countries? It is just plain dangerous to your business model.
Not considering their trunks, when talking about elephants, is a pretty major omission. All that brain needs something to supply it with sensation and to demand it's attention. Not being a proboscidian biologist by trade, I don't know how much of an elephant's brain power goes to it's trunk ; but I bet it's a lot.
Elephants -- close relatives of the mammoth -- are not grass grazers. They eat trees.
Not all elephants eat trees. In fact, not all elephants eat the same type of food all year round. They have behaviorial plasticity, and a relatively broad range of dietary possibilities. This helps them survive once-in-a-decade dry years (or wet years), which would occur in most elephant's lifetimes once between birth and sexual maturity.
Also, as you say, elephants are "close relatives" of mammoths ; not identical twins. So you wouldn't expect them to be identical in behaviour and dietary ranges. Polar bears and grizzly bears are also close relatives, in fact in the wild and in captivity they are known to interbreed occasionally, but have quite different anatomy, diet and behaviours.
A mammoth sure doesn't seem to be constructed in a way that is conducive to grazing.
A significant number of modern elephants get routine nutrition by pulling up grasses with their trunk, dusting off the soil against their feet, then eating it. and when the trees are more digestible, they eat them. And when there's fruit, they'll eat that. They're flexible.
The names of individuals or events principally known for political or military activities are unsuitable until 100 years after the death of the individual or the occurrence of the event.
The poster didn't just post a link to Dwolla; he posted a referral link, which likely placed a cookie on your computer so he'll make money if you sign up.
So?
Right-click ; copy link location ; then delete the referral codes to get :
http://dwolla.com
And if that doesn't work properly, then whoever these Dwolla people aren't worth further consideration. (I don't know if they're worth consideration at all ; no association with them whatsoever. No interest in them. Oh fuck it... looks at website... Money is only mentioned in dollars and cents, so most likely it's an American-owned and American-regulated bank. No further consideration.)
Snowden released documents ONCE, to journalists ; the journalists are the ones publishing them in dribs and drabs.
Your (plural "you") repeated calls for Snowden's execution are going to just make it harder to get him extradited legally. Not that it appears that you Americans give a shit about legality.
Oh, incidentally, if you fancy claiming that the journalists are traitors too, I'll give you Wallaces' (mythical) answer : "I can not be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance. He is not my Sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he never shall receive it." They're not Americans,so they can't be traitors to America.
Yes, the releases are being calculated to continue embarrassing American spies. That's what people who hate what the American spy agencies are doing (including many Americans) do, to try to stop American spy agencies from fucking with the rest of the world.
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Using some rough and ready assumptions about the distribution of people in North Carolina (an area I'm unlikely to ever need to know much about ; swampy and Southern, wasn't it?), I get around 1.3 million dead, just under 14% of the population.
A substantial number. It's around the number of American civilians killed by guns since 1960. 20-odd years of traffic deaths. Less than a year of cancer deaths. Substantial ; but hardly devastating.
Potentially, many wells drilled for fracking could also be used as CO2 disposal wells. But you'd need to work the fracked well over (i.e., remove the hydrocarbon production and shut-in equipment) and minimally cement the fracking perforations while re-perfing into a reservoir rock formation ; a lot of the time you'd need to drill out of the bottom of your post-fracking well. Which ain't going to be cheap. Well, certainly it isn't going to be free.
Back in the early 1990s some of my friends experimented with sites carrying light-weight film cameras for searching for caves to explore. Civilian drone prototypers, or hackers scratching at their itches? Yes.
Rabies treatment for humans is rough enough, with pre-applied prophyllactic vaccination (the vaccine is a rough one too - days of fever and joint pain, headaches), and even then a significant number of people treated early, still die. Amongst the un-vaccinated, death is by far the commonest response. So you kill a suspected rabid animal in sight, and then treat it's corpse like the highly dangerous biological warfare instrument that it is.
OK, you may have been using chicken-shit controllers in crap machines ; we had to buy reasonable quality machines (mid-range Dells, HPs, ThinkPads) because of the battering they received in the helicopter hold, and the filthiness of the AC power supply where megawatt DC supplies are switched and controlled by silicon-controlled rectifiers.
What seems to me to be the point that makes "drones" interestingly different to conventional RC aircraft is that the drones can send back to the operator in near real-time, That capability is (relatively) new, and very much a game-changer for RC aircraft. With it comes the capability, for example, to fly "over the horizon" from the operator.
Trying to restrict your analogies to the physics that you learned in the classroom and not what you learned while smoking a waterpipe and watching Star Trek on an unside-down TV would help you give an impression of credibility.
Of course, this does violate certain religous precepts, particularly the 6000-year age of the Earth ; but since that requires breaking pretty much all the laws of physics and other sciences, only cavemen freezing in the dark and dieing of measles could possibly believe that shit. It might interfere with your personal freedom (and mine) to make money by ass-fucking the rest of the world. But I'm willing to make the change to making money by saving the world instead. The underlying physics should work, but it'll require careful implementation, and I've got a thick CV in support of that.
(Bloody router dropped out half-way through that. Hope the reply connects to Fatwilbur's mesage.)
(If you're going to roll out "fluoride", then you'd probably need to dig out variations in head/ neck squamous cancers between regions with different natural fluoride contents in water.)
Apart from professional musicians?
Oh, shriekingly funny!
I grew up less than 30 miles from "lester" and we always pronounced it "lester", not "layesster" or anything else. It's possible that they call it something weird up in the sheep-shagging country of the Peak, or the Wolds, but not down on the Plains of Central Englandshire. But that would imply that you're a sheep shagger, hich is not a fate I'd wish on any sheep.
I was running an experimental computer (OS 9000? Long time ago, and this tablet isn't good for flipping tabs to research stuff) years ago on an industrial site with an under-powered, over-loaded desisel genset. When the big machines switched on, the fluorescent lights would flicker and die ; 250V nominal AC dropped to under 100V, and the supply was absolutely filthy with noise from the SCRs. We used a low-pass filter to try to take out the high spikes, and a high-pass filter to soften some of the sags, feeding a UPS, feeding a second different type of UPS, feeding power to the computer.
We burned out 3 UPS devices in under a week (and replaced each one; fortunately we were on shore not at sea), and then the computer's power supply burned and we went back to pencil and paper.
I suggested just getting our own generator, but that fell foul of the flammable atmosphere regulations.
Not comfortable. Can Gates just go back to fricasseeing baby penguins, so we can get on with a thorough-going hate-night?
You wanted to go somewhere? Please hand over your passport.
"license endorsement points" significant traffic offences e.g. speeding will attract a number of points reflecting the severity. Say 3 or 4 points for normal speeding. These are applied to your personal license, but expire after so-many years (typically 3 or 4). If you end up accumulating 12 points, that's it, you're not licensed to drive any more, until some of your points expire. Yes, the police do check this for the keepers of vehicles ID'd by automated number plate readers.
Every fingerprint-reading system that I've used has strongly advised the user to configer several fingers prints to allow entry. But of course, you'd have to RTFM to know that, so the feature is protected by the profoundest level of security through obscurity.
So, you're only going to ever use your computer where there is cellphone coverage? How prescient of you.
It's not impossible that genetic engineering could produce a compound that chelates with barium (to prevent it contacting sulphate ions) but can still pass through the kidney and be pissed away. But avoiding contact with the chemical is much much easier.
So why are multi-national companies hiring or promoting people who have the severe disability of being vulnerable to pressure from this most pernicious of countries? It is just plain dangerous to your business model.
Not considering their trunks, when talking about elephants, is a pretty major omission. All that brain needs something to supply it with sensation and to demand it's attention. Not being a proboscidian biologist by trade, I don't know how much of an elephant's brain power goes to it's trunk ; but I bet it's a lot.
Not all elephants eat trees. In fact, not all elephants eat the same type of food all year round. They have behaviorial plasticity, and a relatively broad range of dietary possibilities. This helps them survive once-in-a-decade dry years (or wet years), which would occur in most elephant's lifetimes once between birth and sexual maturity.
Also, as you say, elephants are "close relatives" of mammoths ; not identical twins. So you wouldn't expect them to be identical in behaviour and dietary ranges. Polar bears and grizzly bears are also close relatives, in fact in the wild and in captivity they are known to interbreed occasionally, but have quite different anatomy, diet and behaviours.
A significant number of modern elephants get routine nutrition by pulling up grasses with their trunk, dusting off the soil against their feet, then eating it. and when the trees are more digestible, they eat them. And when there's fruit, they'll eat that. They're flexible.
Better go and read the guidelines. https://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming/
In particular,
So?
Right-click ; copy link location ; then delete the referral codes to get : ... looks at website ... Money is only mentioned in dollars and cents, so most likely it's an American-owned and American-regulated bank. No further consideration.)
http://dwolla.com
And if that doesn't work properly, then whoever these Dwolla people aren't worth further consideration. (I don't know if they're worth consideration at all ; no association with them whatsoever. No interest in them. Oh fuck it
Your (plural "you") repeated calls for Snowden's execution are going to just make it harder to get him extradited legally. Not that it appears that you Americans give a shit about legality.
Oh, incidentally, if you fancy claiming that the journalists are traitors too, I'll give you Wallaces' (mythical) answer : "I can not be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance. He is not my Sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he never shall receive it." They're not Americans,so they can't be traitors to America.
Yes, the releases are being calculated to continue embarrassing American spies. That's what people who hate what the American spy agencies are doing (including many Americans) do, to try to stop American spy agencies from fucking with the rest of the world.