How exactly do you propose controlling the population?
Easy, provide better access to birth control and abortions. The current administration is trying to stop abortions and prevent cheap access to birth control. In many health plans, it is easier to get Viagra covered than birth control. By law US funding cannot go to any NGO program that advocates abortion as a form of birth control (but they can fund programs adovcating abstenence). Congress prohibits female soldiers from having an abortion in a military hospital.
There are plenty of ways to easily and cheaping reduce population growth without China style rules.
I am a linuxfund card holder too. You actually pay a higher rate than normal MBNA cards. I called MBNA and asked about lowering my rate last year. They lowered it, but said I could get even 1 point lower if I dropped the LinuxFund card and went with a standard MBNA card. I kept the LinuxFund card because it gave me warm fuzzies and I get lots of compliments on the penguin ("Oh that is so cute").
From the article it sounds like they don't have any current plans to discontinue the card. The question is do switch to a regular MBNA card or keep the LinuxFund card and hope the money goes to a good cause?
At 50%, you'll need two tubes per gallon. Standard tanker trucks carry 5000 gallons, so you'll need 10000 tubes to fill a truck per day. Assume a 2.25 m^2 footprint (to make the math easy), that's a 22500 m^2 tube farm, or an area 150 m on a side. A little more than five and a half acres, or exactly 2.25 hectares.
Here is a little perspective. I am visiting my parents in Texas. My dad just took me out to a well site that just went online. The well produces 24 barrels of oil per day. (55 gallons per barrel * 24 = 1320 gallons). They cleared about 3 acres of land for the well site. The actual pumpjack takes up much less space, but they cleared that much land to have room work while drilling the well. So as far as land mass is concerned, those tubes seem to be at least as land efficient as a mediocre US oil well.
What's wrong with just a small contribution to our transport fuel needs?
If biodiesel can only produce say 2% of our diesel, that is 2% less we have to import. It is a silly arugment to say that it is a waste of time because it can only make a small contribution. Under that line of thinking why not stop growing strawberries? After all they only a make a small contribution to our nutrional diet. Lets drop brocoli, because only a few people eat it.
Why is it when someone comes up with an alternative fuel source, it gets berated because it can't produce 100% of our fuel needs. Diversity is a good thing remember.
But, in saying this, growing crops for fuel is just not sustainable, for one thing it requires a lot of land, for another it sucks up all of the soil nutrients and so you can't continue to grow crops in the same location indefinitely.
But, in saying this, growing crops for FOOD is just not sustainable, for one thing it requires a lot of land, for another it sucks up all of the soil nutrients and so you can't continue to grow crops in the same location indefinitely.
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He said he was married, so I think frequent sex is already out of the picture.
Each settlement is a win. When the GPL is fully tested in court the number of prior settlements in favor of the GPL will be evidence that the GPL is an accepted industry contract. When a style of contract is widely accepted, judges are less likely to break them.
So even though this is not binding case law, it still helps in the long run.
There is a difference. An "old boy network" is basically a network that not everyone can get into. Thats why they use the term "boy", girls need not apply. Just look at the court cases saying that women have to be allowed membership to certain organizations. My local astronomy club allows anyone, no test required. Just like girls couldn't get into the "old boys network", low IQ people can't get into the "high iq network" that is Mensa. I personally don't think Mensa has much of a network. But anyone that is how their network is more like the "old boys network" than your astronomy club is.
Maybe a better criteria would be how much science was produce from Mir, Skylab, ISS, and space shuttle missions versus robotic missions.
Maybe ISS is just the bad egg of the bunch.
There are a ton things you could do. Rember the slashdot story about the guy with the weather balloon. He used a soekris board running linux to fire a digital camera. Most camera have 10 second shutter timer, but do not give you a time lapse option (because 99% of people don't need it). If the hardware were open you could probably add that feature.
By design buildings ussually have a only moderate effect on the wind, their main purpose is to hold people. Wind mills are designed to suck energy out of them
I don't know about the physics of wind so I may be totally off base. A building has a surface area of X. Most are square (not curved for the wind to flow around them). So when the wind hits the building the energy must either be absorbed by the building or bounce back in the opposide direction. So is a windmill really more disruptive per square foot of area?
On a windmill the blade is your surface area. How many hundred windmill blades would equal the surface area of one side of the empire state building? The empire state building is 381m high, if you say it is an average 40m wide, that is 15.2km^2. That adds up to a lot of windmills.
I agree that windmills could effect the wind, but has their been any study's that say if we got say 5% of our power from wind, they would effect wind patterns more than the tall buildings we already have in place?
they change wind patters, absorb the kinetic energy from the wind
Wouldn't a tall building, say the empire state building, absorb more energy than a windmill? Their are many thousands more tall buildings than there are windmills, but I never hear anyone saying, "Don't build a 20 story building because you will change the wind patern."
We have been building tall buildings for the last one hundred years and no one metioned problems from changing wind patterns, so isn't it a red herring to bring this argument up ONLY in the context of windmills?
It's almost always more 'friendly' in the long run to use existing systems until they naturally expire than it is to replace them with new systems before that time.
I doubt this statement is entirely true. What people need to do is look at update gross polluters. Cars that put out a disprortionate amount of pollution. An example, my 1969 GMC truck runs fine. It also only gets 9mpg, has no catalytic converter and is an environmentalist nightmare. I could drive it for many more miles. From an enviromental standpoint, it would probably be cleaner to build a new Toyota Prius that gets 60mpg.
I thought the same thing about my Sharp 5500. If there was some way I could plug in a full size keyboard in monitor, then I wouldn't need to carry my laptop home. Just plug the Zaurus into some old monitor and keyboard for intense work.
You might look at getting a Palm Streetfinder GPS off of ebay. You can get them real cheap. It is easy to addon on a serial port cable to the GPS then you can hook it straight into your PC. Here is a url on how to do that:
http://www.chadphillips.org/zaurus/palmgps.html
Hum, scams designed to steal the life savings of old people (Nigeria scam), selling possibly tainted drugs (presciption drug scams). What would you consider a "serious crime." If a smart guys steals $20,000 from elderly womam by way of an internet scam (using spam to find the victims), how is that any less serious than say sneaking into her bank and robbing the money?
Their ruling was based on reasonableness given the circumstances of some apartments with balconies
The import part of that line is their. The University can say what they want, but the FCC has the final say. I don't see how having an access point inside of a dorm room is more unreasonable than puting a satellite dish up on a balcony.
hey have EVERY right to tell you not to use a legally licensed device in *their* apartment.
Except they don't. Federal law trumps them. Study up on basic government sometimes. In the past the FCC has ruled that apartments CAN NOT ban satellite. If you want to read that ruling go here. If you don't like it then move to Russia.
The FCC regulates spectrum and trumps all state laws on this issue. In the past the FCC even ruled that apartments COULD NOT ban sattellite dishes.
http://www.nmhc.org/Content/ServeContent.cfm?Conte ntItemID=882&IssueID=164
WASHINGTON, DC - The National Multi Housing Council (NMHC), American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA) and National Apartment Association (NAA), the leading advocates for the apartment and seniors housing industries, have submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) documenting the dangerous and unworkable nature of the November 20, 1998 FCC ruling (Order 98-273) that grants apartment residents the right to install an individual satellite dish or antenna on their balconies without the approval of the building owner/manager.
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Easy, provide better access to birth control and abortions. The current administration is trying to stop abortions and prevent cheap access to birth control. In many health plans, it is easier to get Viagra covered than birth control. By law US funding cannot go to any NGO program that advocates abortion as a form of birth control (but they can fund programs adovcating abstenence). Congress prohibits female soldiers from having an abortion in a military hospital.
There are plenty of ways to easily and cheaping reduce population growth without China style rules.
Why do so many christians support the death penalty?
I am a linuxfund card holder too. You actually pay a higher rate than normal MBNA cards. I called MBNA and asked about lowering my rate last year. They lowered it, but said I could get even 1 point lower if I dropped the LinuxFund card and went with a standard MBNA card. I kept the LinuxFund card because it gave me warm fuzzies and I get lots of compliments on the penguin ("Oh that is so cute").
From the article it sounds like they don't have any current plans to discontinue the card. The question is do switch to a regular MBNA card or keep the LinuxFund card and hope the money goes to a good cause?
Here is a little perspective. I am visiting my parents in Texas. My dad just took me out to a well site that just went online. The well produces 24 barrels of oil per day. (55 gallons per barrel * 24 = 1320 gallons). They cleared about 3 acres of land for the well site. The actual pumpjack takes up much less space, but they cleared that much land to have room work while drilling the well. So as far as land mass is concerned, those tubes seem to be at least as land efficient as a mediocre US oil well.
What's wrong with just a small contribution to our transport fuel needs?
If biodiesel can only produce say 2% of our diesel, that is 2% less we have to import. It is a silly arugment to say that it is a waste of time because it can only make a small contribution. Under that line of thinking why not stop growing strawberries? After all they only a make a small contribution to our nutrional diet. Lets drop brocoli, because only a few people eat it.
Why is it when someone comes up with an alternative fuel source, it gets berated because it can't produce 100% of our fuel needs. Diversity is a good thing remember.
But, in saying this, growing crops for fuel is just not sustainable, for one thing it requires a lot of land, for another it sucks up all of the soil nutrients and so you can't continue to grow crops in the same location indefinitely.
But, in saying this, growing crops for FOOD is just not sustainable, for one thing it requires a lot of land, for another it sucks up all of the soil nutrients and so you can't continue to grow crops in the same location indefinitely.
He said he was married, so I think frequent sex is already out of the picture.
Each settlement is a win. When the GPL is fully tested in court the number of prior settlements in favor of the GPL will be evidence that the GPL is an accepted industry contract. When a style of contract is widely accepted, judges are less likely to break them. So even though this is not binding case law, it still helps in the long run.
There is a difference. An "old boy network" is basically a network that not everyone can get into. Thats why they use the term "boy", girls need not apply. Just look at the court cases saying that women have to be allowed membership to certain organizations. My local astronomy club allows anyone, no test required. Just like girls couldn't get into the "old boys network", low IQ people can't get into the "high iq network" that is Mensa. I personally don't think Mensa has much of a network. But anyone that is how their network is more like the "old boys network" than your astronomy club is.
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Didn't you get the Bush tax cut? I got a check in the mail.
Maybe a better criteria would be how much science was produce from Mir, Skylab, ISS, and space shuttle missions versus robotic missions. Maybe ISS is just the bad egg of the bunch.
How much science is being done on the space station versus time spent just keeping the thing going?
There are a ton things you could do. Rember the slashdot story about the guy with the weather balloon. He used a soekris board running linux to fire a digital camera. Most camera have 10 second shutter timer, but do not give you a time lapse option (because 99% of people don't need it). If the hardware were open you could probably add that feature.
Isn't that about what they said about the Titanic?
I don't know about the physics of wind so I may be totally off base. A building has a surface area of X. Most are square (not curved for the wind to flow around them). So when the wind hits the building the energy must either be absorbed by the building or bounce back in the opposide direction. So is a windmill really more disruptive per square foot of area?
On a windmill the blade is your surface area. How many hundred windmill blades would equal the surface area of one side of the empire state building? The empire state building is 381m high, if you say it is an average 40m wide, that is 15.2km^2. That adds up to a lot of windmills.
I agree that windmills could effect the wind, but has their been any study's that say if we got say 5% of our power from wind, they would effect wind patterns more than the tall buildings we already have in place?
Wouldn't a tall building, say the empire state building, absorb more energy than a windmill? Their are many thousands more tall buildings than there are windmills, but I never hear anyone saying, "Don't build a 20 story building because you will change the wind patern."
We have been building tall buildings for the last one hundred years and no one metioned problems from changing wind patterns, so isn't it a red herring to bring this argument up ONLY in the context of windmills?
I doubt this statement is entirely true. What people need to do is look at update gross polluters. Cars that put out a disprortionate amount of pollution. An example, my 1969 GMC truck runs fine. It also only gets 9mpg, has no catalytic converter and is an environmentalist nightmare. I could drive it for many more miles. From an enviromental standpoint, it would probably be cleaner to build a new Toyota Prius that gets 60mpg.
I thought the same thing about my Sharp 5500. If there was some way I could plug in a full size keyboard in monitor, then I wouldn't need to carry my laptop home. Just plug the Zaurus into some old monitor and keyboard for intense work.
You might look at getting a Palm Streetfinder GPS off of ebay. You can get them real cheap. It is easy to addon on a serial port cable to the GPS then you can hook it straight into your PC. Here is a url on how to do that: http://www.chadphillips.org/zaurus/palmgps.html
So, are you a real doctor or do you just play one on slashdot?
Hum, scams designed to steal the life savings of old people (Nigeria scam), selling possibly tainted drugs (presciption drug scams). What would you consider a "serious crime." If a smart guys steals $20,000 from elderly womam by way of an internet scam (using spam to find the victims), how is that any less serious than say sneaking into her bank and robbing the money?
The import part of that line is their. The University can say what they want, but the FCC has the final say. I don't see how having an access point inside of a dorm room is more unreasonable than puting a satellite dish up on a balcony.
Except they don't. Federal law trumps them. Study up on basic government sometimes. In the past the FCC has ruled that apartments CAN NOT ban satellite. If you want to read that ruling go here. If you don't like it then move to Russia.
WASHINGTON, DC - The National Multi Housing Council (NMHC), American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA) and National Apartment Association (NAA), the leading advocates for the apartment and seniors housing industries, have submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) documenting the dangerous and unworkable nature of the November 20, 1998 FCC ruling (Order 98-273) that grants apartment residents the right to install an individual satellite dish or antenna on their balconies without the approval of the building owner/manager.