About everyone in the World had heard of Windows, especially ones sat in front of a PC. More likely they don't know what a virtual machine or Linux is.
The last time I bothered to wind the fuckers up, after telling them that I don't have a button in the bottom left saying "Start" but had a bar across the screen top starting "Applications", I heard muffled cries from the other end of "Macintosh! Macintosh! Give me Mac list!"
Which suggests to me that there may be a Mac screen that looks like that - actually, it may have done on a Mac][ , I have a vague memory - OR, more likely, that the script kiddies understand the world as being full of Windows machines or Mac machines, and the "start" button is the quickest way of differentiating the two. Which is... well, it's not right, for sure, but it's not a terrible approximation to the truth.
I think it's practice for Mars. The Martian ground offers conveniently available radiation shielding.
How's it going to help testing the equipment on Earth? On Mars it'll be operating in about 0.3776 of Earth gravity, less than 1% of the atmospheric pressure, and around 100(K/C) lower temperatures. That's going to affect everything from sparking in electrical motors, to viscosity of hydraulics, to bending of structural members under the weight. So you're going to have to re--design it considerably once you get experience on Mars itself.
I don't believe it's going to happen, or be needed, but we're already certain that there are appreciable natural lava-tube caves on Mars, which would give you the radiation and micrometeoroid protection for essentially free. That'll be enough for a Mars-based science mission. Terraforming isn't going to happen - because living in space will be easier than terraforming by many orders of magnitude.
if it's just a few gals using the Anonymous meme to make a buck, in which case I agree they can stick around and milk it some more.
Sorry, chum ; I've seen lactation videos. I'd prefer them to not milk it any more. Milk is for putting straight into babies not washing the cum off the other tit.
But after all this time, the deniers & the clueless don't understand what tipping points are, that once certain events are triggered, there's no quick path back to what we used to consider normal
Oh, there is a quick way back. We've got the records of the last time something like this happened. I have steered 30 or 40 oil wells to their target using those records. Nice clear marker horizons.
100 to 120 millennia. That's the quick way back. If you consider ~10^5 years to be a short period of time, which as a geologist, I do. I've got a rock specimen in my front garden that represents a 1,300,000 millennia hiatus in a line in the rock. A hundred millennia is less than the endurance (so far) of human beings.
How do you do pumped storage against gravity? Pressure?
I suspect, as you clearly do too, that the OP is conflating "pumped hydroelectric storage" with "compressed air storage". The latter has been used at a number of sites, using cavities made by solution in rock salt bodies (not fracking, as the OP suggests).
I'd concede that it would be possible to use a good "gas sand" with high porosity and permeability as a "pumped (compressed air) storage" site. Of course, if you had a good sand, then you wouldn't need to frack your rock (in fact, it would probably be impossible). Naturally, as you suggest, it would be advantageous to use a working fluid of as low a viscosity as possible. So gas rather than liquid.
On the down-side, although the top of the storage rock formation would be tight against the gas you inject, the bottom side would not be tight. Over a period on the order of days, your pumped-down gas would dissipate by dissolution into the pore-space liquids, as well as pushing the GWC (gas-water contact) down. Now, that might not be a big problem if you're pumping up by day and decompressing by night (heating ; vice versa for AC), but it's certainly something that you'd have to consider in the reservoir engineering (yes - it is a profession ; one I'm only marginally qualified for) for your proposed "pumped (compressed air) storage" project. The answers in one formation + structure + pressure regime may well not be the same for the same formation in the next structure along the basin trend. Oh, did I mention the likely effects of pumping large volumes of gas one way through a set of pore throats, then reversing the flow, then reversing the flow... the magic word you're looking for is "fatigue" ; it's not a problem I've head of for gas-storage wells (because they load up on gas in summer and release it in winter ; not 360-odd cycles/year), but there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of wells around the world that produce significant amounts of "sand" along with their oil or gas flow. It's another issue the reservoir engineer has to consider - and addressing it is why horizontal drilling was developed years before being put to use in fracking.
I can see why the reported sites used specially-made salt-dissolution caverns.
Pumped (compressed air) storage is certainly doable. But the environments in which it's likely to be a workable solution are much more restricted than anyone who thinks of it as a panacea is going to like. Of the oil province I've spent most of the last 30 years drilling in, only about 1/3 has rock salt at depth, and over 95% of that is tens to hundreds of miles out to sea. Which raises the costs by a factor of about 10.
a big problem if there's a supermarket somewhere far away and you do shopping once a week. Maybe you do that in the states,
I'm not in the USA, don't have a car in this country, and get my "messages" every couple of days. Which reminds me that I need poo paper, bread and milk today. But for things like fruit and veg, I have to store it in the fridge if it's going to remain good for more than a couple of days on the shelf. Which is feasible for me - need a fridge for the milk anyway - but not feasible for the supermarket, which only gets a half-lorry load every couple of days. They do have a real problem with shelf life.
Don't tell the voters. Apart from the vanishingly small population of people with telescopes (let's give them a name - like the "Illuminati" for their enhanced lighting), who's going to notice? Even if we extend life spans to give us a "Thousand Year dryeo," you'd need the records of a lifetime to see what is going on.
My point, however, is should the government collect and keep such information?
Who else? A for-profit organisation? (It's going to be centuries before a US government can do anything with it's "profits" other than pay down the national debt ; and the same is probably true for every other government).
By living in the country and not moving to a more congenial one (doing what you need to do make yourself acceptable to their government), you're acceding to their control over public land, public roads, public laws.
The US government has a valid warrant for the e-mail as part of a drug investigation.
And in another part,
According to the article, the U.S. government told the court that national security was at risk.
So, either the US government has started lieing, or stopped lieing and started telling the truth ; same difference for their shredded credibility.
Not that they've had any credibility for decades anyway. That probably went with Tricky Dicky (though I know enough people who distrusted them before Tricky became president).
The Sun isn't "banned" from Liverpool. It's just that selling the paper will probably get your shop bankrupted, carrying the paper likely get you a kicking, and being found in the city while working for the paper get you a lynching from the nearest lamp post. But that's not banning the paper - you're free to take on all of those risks if you think the pay worth the risk.
That 'salting' was symbolic only, after all Roman soldiers were paid in salt, that's where the word 'salary' comes from.
To expand on angel'o'sphere's comment, the Roman soldiers pay included a specific allowance for salt, in an overall pay-and-conditions package that included citizenship (after 25 years service, with honourable discharge), land enough to raise a family on, and various other (variable) benefits.
You're doing it wrong. I don't know about you, but when I have anal sex I don't experience pain or bleeding, and the woman I'm sodomising likes it too.
Try coming in her pussy, then going for doggy-style anal. That way you've got plenty of fresh lubricant immediately to, ummm, hand in a convenient container.
1. Ensuring Linux ran on low spec hardware (at least in the 90's),
Woah - hang on. At about the same time that Linus was just getting into working in "protected mode" and the flat memory model that 386 CPUs could do (but didn't in DOS, or Windows), I was trying to decide what to buy for my first computer. The price premium for a 386 over (say) a 386-sx (386 processor with a 16-bit data bus instead of 32-bit) was pretty close to 100%. These were not, in 1989, "low spec hardware". By 1994, they were, but not in 1989.
At about the same time, I was considering if I should move from Windows (which came with the machine ; I'd backed up the 10 floppies it came on) to either SCO-Unix (yes, "SCO" ; no daemons here) or the MS Unix, Xenix (which I was using at work). There was another contender... oh yes, Coherent - who at least had a simple cash-on-the-nail pricing structure. And then, as I thought about this question, I heard about this mad Finn and his Dutch-derived software.
if everyone who used religion as their excuse for why they should vote for some law were struck dead by lightning.
Using an engineered version of an existing virus, which evades current vaccines but is easy to develop a new vaccine for would achieve a considerably greater selectivity. I'd go for something like a cowpox or monkeypox with some high lethality and high transmissibility factors from elsewhere in the poxvirus family Easy enough to vaccinate against, but if it's fast-acting you can get a good rate of hits on the religiously-infected (and fellow-travellers, like Vaxxers) while allowing the literate population a good chance of survival.
Lightning is too random to be useful. As an educational tool, it sounds like something that the religious would think of without a shred of supporting evidence.
Yeah, I was thinking much the same. What a tediously narrow selection of animals he talks to.
dogs, cats, sheep, horses, cows, goats, and chickens," a
I mean, they're all vertebrates, FFS!
Me, I was hoping to get a unique view of the universe from a hard-ass tardigrade. Or to learn to speak to the nematodes, because there are nematodes everywhere (including on and in you, dear reader) ; if I could interrogate nematodes in a meaningful way, I'd be able to know what everything in sunlight is doing.
No, it's the temptation to collectvand use The data for other things that don't involve illegal acts. Use it to gets and delete data from complaints rivers, fine, but once government has the data then the temptation to keep it is too great.
Hang on, there are three pieces of data here :
(1) a driver's registration details (well, strictly the details of the registered keeper of the vehicle, but I gather that is more complex in America (if it's not the keeper driving, then the registered keeper needs to provide those details, or pay the fine and take the penalty points/ ban themselves) ;
(2) the presence or absence of a contract of insurance between the driver in question and an insurance company ; and
(3) the location of the vehicle (and driver) at a particular place and time.
(1) is data that the government already have, and have had since you applied for your trainee driving license. If you haven't kept the government up to date, then you've voided your license to drive and are no longer licensed to drive. Big fucking deal ; your problem.
(2) is data that is covered by the contract you read before signing - including the bit where they said they'd share the data with other bodies. You read it, you agreed to it, and you signed the contract ; they've already given the information to the government.
(3) is an event in public space. "Public" means that you have no "reasonable expectation of privacy". That's the same legal concept that allows, for example, doorstepping journalists to harass politicians at their doorstep - to use a much less contentious example. Or the ever-popular genre of watching OJ in a 20mph car chase.
You lost this data privacy fight when you applied for a driving license.
Don't forget to build your own airfield and somehow get someone to man the air traffic control station.
Without a shred of regard for legal niceties, an airport can impose additional requirements on someone wanting to use (taxi on) their private property. Little requirements like having an appropriate license, having appropriate insurance for collision with their property, having paid your fuel and hanger fees.
Not exactly an uncommon situation on this side of the pond either.
Good luck getting that illegal alien to show up in court.
More often than not, it'll be a legal immigrant and/ or native, but that's your racism showing and doesn't matter for the most part. If they've failed to verify your identity through driving license (this country or foreign, doesn't matter) or other means, then you'll be appearing in court from custody. Or being released from custody with a warrant requiring you to answer charges in court, if they do identify you while you're in custody.
If you're caught by the police committing an offence, you're not going anywhere without proving your identity to their satisfaction.
To be precise, if you've got CFA coins in your pocket, then the carts will want Euros. When you've put Euros in your pocket from the last experience, then you'll find that the next cart requires pounds and actually jams solid with Euros. The next time, you find that pounds and Euros don't fit at Toronto, and by then, you've given up and are carrying your baggage. It's quicker than wasting time trying.
The only times I've gone over 10 or so were (1) when I had 20kg of SCUBA gear with me,
Hmmm, prescription mask : 1kg (including case) ; left gag and contents ~2.5kg, right gag set same; 2:1 DIN adaptor ~0.5kg ; helmet with straps for torches ~0.7kg ; camera+housing ~3.5kg ; computer ~0.3 kg ; wrist console, +1kg. Yeah, I get up to about 12kg if I don't want to trust rental gags. If I took my dual-mount backpack/ wing without bottles, I'd be well over 20kg too.
Boots, hard hat, coveralls, second coveralls (for when the pair that got covered in crap when you were called to a problem at 03:00, haven't been washed and dried for the start of your shift t 06:00), safety spectacles (glass, not plastic ; plastic prescriptions don't last for shit), spare spectacles. There's your next 10kg already.
Fortunately, I don't need to carry my flying suit too. But having been to places where they don't provide a flight suit even during mid-winter snowstorms, I'd add that for some countries.
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Maybe they've been using Apple iKangaroos but they're just holding them wrong?
The last time I bothered to wind the fuckers up, after telling them that I don't have a button in the bottom left saying "Start" but had a bar across the screen top starting "Applications", I heard muffled cries from the other end of "Macintosh! Macintosh! Give me Mac list!"
Which suggests to me that there may be a Mac screen that looks like that - actually, it may have done on a Mac][ , I have a vague memory - OR, more likely, that the script kiddies understand the world as being full of Windows machines or Mac machines, and the "start" button is the quickest way of differentiating the two. Which is ... well, it's not right, for sure, but it's not a terrible approximation to the truth.
Those guys had some idea of what they were doing.
How's it going to help testing the equipment on Earth? On Mars it'll be operating in about 0.3776 of Earth gravity, less than 1% of the atmospheric pressure, and around 100(K/C) lower temperatures. That's going to affect everything from sparking in electrical motors, to viscosity of hydraulics, to bending of structural members under the weight. So you're going to have to re--design it considerably once you get experience on Mars itself.
I don't believe it's going to happen, or be needed, but we're already certain that there are appreciable natural lava-tube caves on Mars, which would give you the radiation and micrometeoroid protection for essentially free. That'll be enough for a Mars-based science mission. Terraforming isn't going to happen - because living in space will be easier than terraforming by many orders of magnitude.
Why do Bulgarian Secret Policemen go around in threes?
One can read.
One can write.
- And one is there to keep an eye on those two suspicious intellectuals.
Sorry, chum ; I've seen lactation videos. I'd prefer them to not milk it any more. Milk is for putting straight into babies not washing the cum off the other tit.
It's a damned sight bigger than that. Hell, that's of the order of decommissioning costs for the UKCS only.
Oh, there is a quick way back. We've got the records of the last time something like this happened. I have steered 30 or 40 oil wells to their target using those records. Nice clear marker horizons.
100 to 120 millennia. That's the quick way back. If you consider ~10^5 years to be a short period of time, which as a geologist, I do. I've got a rock specimen in my front garden that represents a 1,300,000 millennia hiatus in a line in the rock. A hundred millennia is less than the endurance (so far) of human beings.
I suspect, as you clearly do too, that the OP is conflating "pumped hydroelectric storage" with "compressed air storage". The latter has been used at a number of sites, using cavities made by solution in rock salt bodies (not fracking, as the OP suggests).
I'd concede that it would be possible to use a good "gas sand" with high porosity and permeability as a "pumped (compressed air) storage" site. Of course, if you had a good sand, then you wouldn't need to frack your rock (in fact, it would probably be impossible). Naturally, as you suggest, it would be advantageous to use a working fluid of as low a viscosity as possible. So gas rather than liquid.
On the down-side, although the top of the storage rock formation would be tight against the gas you inject, the bottom side would not be tight. Over a period on the order of days, your pumped-down gas would dissipate by dissolution into the pore-space liquids, as well as pushing the GWC (gas-water contact) down. Now, that might not be a big problem if you're pumping up by day and decompressing by night (heating ; vice versa for AC), but it's certainly something that you'd have to consider in the reservoir engineering (yes - it is a profession ; one I'm only marginally qualified for) for your proposed "pumped (compressed air) storage" project. The answers in one formation + structure + pressure regime may well not be the same for the same formation in the next structure along the basin trend. Oh, did I mention the likely effects of pumping large volumes of gas one way through a set of pore throats, then reversing the flow, then reversing the flow ... the magic word you're looking for is "fatigue" ; it's not a problem I've head of for gas-storage wells (because they load up on gas in summer and release it in winter ; not 360-odd cycles/year), but there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of wells around the world that produce significant amounts of "sand" along with their oil or gas flow. It's another issue the reservoir engineer has to consider - and addressing it is why horizontal drilling was developed years before being put to use in fracking.
I can see why the reported sites used specially-made salt-dissolution caverns.
Pumped (compressed air) storage is certainly doable. But the environments in which it's likely to be a workable solution are much more restricted than anyone who thinks of it as a panacea is going to like. Of the oil province I've spent most of the last 30 years drilling in, only about 1/3 has rock salt at depth, and over 95% of that is tens to hundreds of miles out to sea. Which raises the costs by a factor of about 10.
I'm not in the USA, don't have a car in this country, and get my "messages" every couple of days. Which reminds me that I need poo paper, bread and milk today. But for things like fruit and veg, I have to store it in the fridge if it's going to remain good for more than a couple of days on the shelf. Which is feasible for me - need a fridge for the milk anyway - but not feasible for the supermarket, which only gets a half-lorry load every couple of days. They do have a real problem with shelf life.
Small town living.
Don't tell the voters. Apart from the vanishingly small population of people with telescopes (let's give them a name - like the "Illuminati" for their enhanced lighting), who's going to notice? Even if we extend life spans to give us a "Thousand Year dryeo," you'd need the records of a lifetime to see what is going on.
Who else? A for-profit organisation? (It's going to be centuries before a US government can do anything with it's "profits" other than pay down the national debt ; and the same is probably true for every other government).
By living in the country and not moving to a more congenial one (doing what you need to do make yourself acceptable to their government), you're acceding to their control over public land, public roads, public laws.
And in another part,
So, either the US government has started lieing, or stopped lieing and started telling the truth ; same difference for their shredded credibility.
Not that they've had any credibility for decades anyway. That probably went with Tricky Dicky (though I know enough people who distrusted them before Tricky became president).
The Sun isn't "banned" from Liverpool. It's just that selling the paper will probably get your shop bankrupted, carrying the paper likely get you a kicking, and being found in the city while working for the paper get you a lynching from the nearest lamp post. But that's not banning the paper - you're free to take on all of those risks if you think the pay worth the risk.
To expand on angel'o'sphere's comment, the Roman soldiers pay included a specific allowance for salt, in an overall pay-and-conditions package that included citizenship (after 25 years service, with honourable discharge), land enough to raise a family on, and various other (variable) benefits.
Try coming in her pussy, then going for doggy-style anal. That way you've got plenty of fresh lubricant immediately to, ummm, hand in a convenient container.
Woah - hang on. At about the same time that Linus was just getting into working in "protected mode" and the flat memory model that 386 CPUs could do (but didn't in DOS, or Windows), I was trying to decide what to buy for my first computer. The price premium for a 386 over (say) a 386-sx (386 processor with a 16-bit data bus instead of 32-bit) was pretty close to 100%. These were not, in 1989, "low spec hardware". By 1994, they were, but not in 1989.
At about the same time, I was considering if I should move from Windows (which came with the machine ; I'd backed up the 10 floppies it came on) to either SCO-Unix (yes, "SCO" ; no daemons here) or the MS Unix, Xenix (which I was using at work). There was another contender ... oh yes, Coherent - who at least had a simple cash-on-the-nail pricing structure. And then, as I thought about this question, I heard about this mad Finn and his Dutch-derived software.
Using an engineered version of an existing virus, which evades current vaccines but is easy to develop a new vaccine for would achieve a considerably greater selectivity. I'd go for something like a cowpox or monkeypox with some high lethality and high transmissibility factors from elsewhere in the poxvirus family Easy enough to vaccinate against, but if it's fast-acting you can get a good rate of hits on the religiously-infected (and fellow-travellers, like Vaxxers) while allowing the literate population a good chance of survival.
Lightning is too random to be useful. As an educational tool, it sounds like something that the religious would think of without a shred of supporting evidence.
I mean, they're all vertebrates, FFS!
Me, I was hoping to get a unique view of the universe from a hard-ass tardigrade. Or to learn to speak to the nematodes, because there are nematodes everywhere (including on and in you, dear reader) ; if I could interrogate nematodes in a meaningful way, I'd be able to know what everything in sunlight is doing.
Hang on, there are three pieces of data here :
(1) a driver's registration details (well, strictly the details of the registered keeper of the vehicle, but I gather that is more complex in America (if it's not the keeper driving, then the registered keeper needs to provide those details, or pay the fine and take the penalty points/ ban themselves) ;
(2) the presence or absence of a contract of insurance between the driver in question and an insurance company ; and
(3) the location of the vehicle (and driver) at a particular place and time.
(1) is data that the government already have, and have had since you applied for your trainee driving license. If you haven't kept the government up to date, then you've voided your license to drive and are no longer licensed to drive. Big fucking deal ; your problem.
(2) is data that is covered by the contract you read before signing - including the bit where they said they'd share the data with other bodies. You read it, you agreed to it, and you signed the contract ; they've already given the information to the government.
(3) is an event in public space. "Public" means that you have no "reasonable expectation of privacy". That's the same legal concept that allows, for example, doorstepping journalists to harass politicians at their doorstep - to use a much less contentious example. Or the ever-popular genre of watching OJ in a 20mph car chase.
You lost this data privacy fight when you applied for a driving license.
Without a shred of regard for legal niceties, an airport can impose additional requirements on someone wanting to use (taxi on) their private property. Little requirements like having an appropriate license, having appropriate insurance for collision with their property, having paid your fuel and hanger fees.
Not exactly an uncommon situation on this side of the pond either.
More often than not, it'll be a legal immigrant and/ or native, but that's your racism showing and doesn't matter for the most part. If they've failed to verify your identity through driving license (this country or foreign, doesn't matter) or other means, then you'll be appearing in court from custody. Or being released from custody with a warrant requiring you to answer charges in court, if they do identify you while you're in custody.
If you're caught by the police committing an offence, you're not going anywhere without proving your identity to their satisfaction.
Aren't there at least a couple of licensed chiropractors who can lick their own balls and bark at the Moon?
(I may be confusing homeopaths and chiropractors here. No great distinction.)
To be precise, if you've got CFA coins in your pocket, then the carts will want Euros. When you've put Euros in your pocket from the last experience, then you'll find that the next cart requires pounds and actually jams solid with Euros. The next time, you find that pounds and Euros don't fit at Toronto, and by then, you've given up and are carrying your baggage. It's quicker than wasting time trying.
Hmmm, prescription mask : 1kg (including case) ; left gag and contents ~2.5kg, right gag set same; 2:1 DIN adaptor ~0.5kg ; helmet with straps for torches ~0.7kg ; camera+housing ~3.5kg ; computer ~0.3 kg ; wrist console, +1kg. Yeah, I get up to about 12kg if I don't want to trust rental gags. If I took my dual-mount backpack/ wing without bottles, I'd be well over 20kg too.
Boots, hard hat, coveralls, second coveralls (for when the pair that got covered in crap when you were called to a problem at 03:00, haven't been washed and dried for the start of your shift t 06:00), safety spectacles (glass, not plastic ; plastic prescriptions don't last for shit), spare spectacles. There's your next 10kg already.
Fortunately, I don't need to carry my flying suit too. But having been to places where they don't provide a flight suit even during mid-winter snowstorms, I'd add that for some countries.