Actually he's defending Bill Clinton's firing of all the attorneys, some of whom just happened to be investigating Bill Clinton. But it's not okay to fire attorneys, who had been getting poor job reviews.
It's what's commonly called 'Intellectual Dishonesty'. Or more commonly: Hypocracy.
Internal combustion sure as hell isn't anywhere near as efficient as a hydrogen fuel cell.
No, but internal combustion does deliver several orders of magnitude more energy than a hydrogen fuel cell. Of course I was talking about gasoline Fuel Cells a technology trend that has apparently been abandoned due to the focus of grant money on hydrogen, thus stifling a far superior product. Gasoline has few higher energy density than hydrogen (even if you compare equal amounts in the same state). Efficency is not the issue.
Gasoline is currently cheaper, no question, but it's going up all the time, and the idea is that developing better and newer methods of hydrogen production will lower prices
A nice theory, however one that isn't backed by any facts. Gasoline prices are due to politics, not supply. There are vast amounts of oil reserves in the world that are not being used. We have enough oil reserves to keep going for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Even at 100 dollars a barrel, Hydrogen will never become cheap enough to replace it.
Furthermore, if you're one of those global warming people, hydrogen releases far more dangerous global warming gases than the internal combustion engine. Water vapor is about 266 times more warming than CO2.
Look, the ability to make hydrogen has been known for over 100 years. Why hasn't anyone used it? Because it costs more! Plain and simple. And it's never going to cost -less-. People writing papers about well known chemical reactions and trying to claim they're new doesn't change anything. You can't get something for nothing. It will always take energy to make energy. Even LPG is considerable cheaper (and more powerful) than hydrogen. It's also even more plentiful than gasoline. Cheaper too.
As an energy storage medium, hydrogen sucks. That's why no one uses it. Or didn't until federal grants came along to try and force the idea. It doesn't have the energy density neccesary.
I'm constantly amazed by people like you. You take a half assed lousey idea and back it to the hilt, screaming at anyone who expose the flaws in your halfwit ideas. You embrace technologies that cannot even begin to support the standard of living that you're currently at, much less the one of your childhood.
You're a follower, not a leader. You do not advance the race or the discussion, you will never invent anything of value, or even try to support the advance of knowledge and mankind. And you call me a moron? I'm not sure you're even smart enough to be one.
Actually, you're the one without the knowledge here. Even at 60 to 80 percent efficency you're getting more energy out of the gasoline (which was refined, not made) than the hydrogen, (which is energy poor). Add into that the fact that you have to MAKE the hydrogen, and the overall effieceny of hydrogen drops even further.
Also work on the reading comprehension, I was talking about gasoline fuel cells, not gasoline internal combustion engines. There was a lot of research being done on gasoline fuel cells before all the grant money went to hydrogen for political purposes. Much more energy than hydrogen, much less pollution than internal combustion.
Wow, you must have slept through all of physics class. If hydrogen was better and cheaper, we wouldn't have to have the government forcing it on us, would we?
Hydrogen cars are junk science. Sorry folks, but hydrogen takes MORE energy to make than you get back. A lot more. And Hydrogen is energy poor. Burning gas is cheaper, cleaner and more efficent in a hummer or any SUV. But because you've moved the pollution someplace else (just like the prius) you don't notice that you're paying more, and doing more ecological damage than the exxon valdez did.
Hydrogen power is a JOKE people. Doesn't anyone study physics anymore? What kind of geeks are you if you don't even understand the basics of thermodynamics? Everytime energy changes state you lose some. Fuel cells burning gasoline already generate a couple of orders of magnitude greater power than Hydrogen is capable of. Also we already have the infrastructure to deliver it in place.
I know a gal who's got one of her images selling on a very popular shirt in Austrailia and (I think) China or Taiwan as well. She's not getting a dime for it of course, the T-Shirt company just ripped off the print. She's a poor starving artist so she can't afford to sue a foreign company, which has probably made a rather large amount of money, after all, the shirt was very popular two years ago (she saw it on a tourist here in the states I believe).
Heck there is even a 'famous' T-Shirt company/artist in LA that's been ripping off all his material from other people on the net. This is the result of all those people who steal art and cross post it everywhere, the original authors (who are often poor) get screwed.
And why hate crime laws are wrong. You get people arrested solely for saying things others think are wrong. It's called thought control and religions like scientology are all for that! It's how they make their money.
Maybe I'm just applying real life experince to a situation that all of you are talking about without any real experience.
You all seem to think that group sex in a closed dynamic environment with the kind of people who become astronauts won't be an issue.
You're rather bizzarely naive. (as well as cowardly for being anonymous).
Remember that astronaut just a few months ago who tried to kidnap and murder a rival? You all seem to have conveniently forgotten that little incident.
Now that is purest nonsense. The army's policies on gays are the kindergarden level group-think of morons Umm No. The rules are there for several valid reasons. Not the least of which is to cut down on sex between enlisted members (as well as rape). When you are living with a large number of other men in communal settings, VERY closely together mind you, how do you think a straight man would react to a gay man leering at him sexually while in the showers? Why he'd kill him of course. What if the gay men outnumbered the straight men in a unit? Possible Rape situation.
They don't bunk male and female members together for the same reasons. You have a bunch of very young men at the height of their sexuality. It's a powderkeg.
As for the peter principle, well in war time militaries, peter gets shot and dies. Peter only survies in peacetime militaries.
I have since heard that the real reason for this was to stop soldiers from criticizing Senator Harry Reid. They've been calling him all sorts of rather nasty things, along with pointing out he's a traitor.
Ah I see. So you're saying 'Yes, it's Rape' but we'll call it something else because it's 'necessary'. I suppose then that your next proposal will be to enslave women to the desires of men? After all, 'we're not a cute and cuddly Serenity or Enterprise out there'.
No maybe not. But unlike you Mr. Thirteen year old with rape fanasties after reading too many Gor novels, we are still Men, and we still have ideals and morals and beliefs that separate us from the animals. Thinking that everyone will so easily be so willing to just make it be one big sex party and everything will work out fine shows that you haven't ever actually lived in such a dynamic.
Not once you get that wonderful piece of paper known as a discharge. Though under certain circumstances you can forcibly be recalled to duty and tried. But only if it is discovered that you committed a major crime, and even then it's rare.
Life is different in the military, and the rules are different. But everything is done for a reason, and if it's not a good reason, it gets dumped.
That's not what it's about. They're more worried about people giving away information that might be helpful to the enemy. A valid concern really. And that's the kind of stuff you're not allowed to tell your spouse anyways.
Really. He's just trying to respect the copyright law and intellectual property. Yeah it's all so nice for everyone -else- to come along and say he should take a stand. But everyone -else- is anonymous and won't have to pay the legal bills, and the fines.
It's easy to be brave when you're anonymous. When it won't cost you anything.
I'm not a big fan of Kevin's, but I can't bag on him for trying to protect not only his own skin over something that isn't his fight, but for trying to protect his baby (Digg.com) from rampant clueless anonymous cowardly morons.
And I'm not just talking about the juvenal replies by all the nerds in this thread who sound like they've never gotten laid before.
The British Navy, the Spanish Navy, the French Navy, (et al) dealt with this issue for hundreds of years. Back in the days of sailing ships and even after it was not uncommon for ships to go on several year long cruises. Furthermore may commercial sailing ships (like whalers) also engaged in these exercises.
How did they do it? Why did they sale only unisex ships? I suspect the history books (and you know how military's love to keep records - especially the Brits) have all sorts of wonder factual data on what works and what doesn't. Maybe NASA needs to do a little research? (Novel idea that, research). There is nothing new here.
I can't believe this got marked 'insightful'. The social dynamics will make the LJ drama look lame. There's a reason why for hundreds of years military and other ships only had men onboard. Doesn't anyone around here read history anymore?
WoW's class/character balancing stinks. So I sure hope they didn't copy that! Yes WoW's UI is nice, and the terrain/graphics aren't too bad. But the game balance has always been the pits, that's why they keep having to tinker with it, and why all the uber gamers play Shamans.
Balance was the one big thing WoW didn't understand.
Considering the 'gold seller' market, I'm not surprised in the slightest that they decided to kill the money and not have an economy. The economies in MMO's always gets horrendously abused by gil farmers and most companies (Well actually, ALL companies except for FF) ignore it.
I also have to agree that as someone who only plays a few hours a day, a few nights a week (Sorry, I have a job AND a life), that I don't want to see all these uber players (basically 13 yo's without a life) running around pretty much ruining the game with all their smack talking and 'leet hacks'.
It's supposed to be about Role PLAYING, not CRACK WHORE LEVEL GRINDING. If this keeps the 'leet' players out, well so much the better!
The only question I have at this point is will I have to get together with ridiculous sized parties of 30 or so, for 15 hour non-stop quests in order to enjoy the game? WoW lost me at the endgame, because I just don't have the time to do those quests, there was really nothing much in it for me, a person who can't be on more than 3 or 4 hours at a time usually.
But when you have the Dev's and other employees breaking the rules and cheating by using their special priviledges, well that is a whole different story. If you're paying RL money to play in Eve, I wouldn't be surprised if this constituted as fraud (IANAL).
CCP is at fault here (Big Time) for letting their Dev's and GM's play in the game as regular players and not making sure they didn't cheat. They're more at fault for not dealing with the cheating (by firing said Dev's and GM's) when the people paying to play the game complained.
Why people are playing Eve anymore now that this has been exposed is beyond me.
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Actually he's defending Bill Clinton's firing of all the attorneys, some of whom just happened to be investigating Bill Clinton. But it's not okay to fire attorneys, who had been getting poor job reviews.
It's what's commonly called 'Intellectual Dishonesty'. Or more commonly: Hypocracy.
You know that A, B, C, all began prior to Bush, right?
Litmus tests? What president? and CONGRESS hasn't? Remember all those judges asked by democrats about abortion? That's a litmus test too.
The wiretaps were not illegal. Sorry.
Gitmo? Nothing illegal there, been done in EVERY SINGLE WAR we've ever been in.
The only obvious thing here is that your memory doesn't predate Bush's election and that you've never read any history.
Oh I love it when people use facts :-)
No, but internal combustion does deliver several orders of magnitude more energy than a hydrogen fuel cell. Of course I was talking about gasoline Fuel Cells a technology trend that has apparently been abandoned due to the focus of grant money on hydrogen, thus stifling a far superior product. Gasoline has few higher energy density than hydrogen (even if you compare equal amounts in the same state). Efficency is not the issue.
A nice theory, however one that isn't backed by any facts. Gasoline prices are due to politics, not supply. There are vast amounts of oil reserves in the world that are not being used. We have enough oil reserves to keep going for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Even at 100 dollars a barrel, Hydrogen will never become cheap enough to replace it.
Furthermore, if you're one of those global warming people, hydrogen releases far more dangerous global warming gases than the internal combustion engine. Water vapor is about 266 times more warming than CO2.
Look, the ability to make hydrogen has been known for over 100 years. Why hasn't anyone used it? Because it costs more! Plain and simple. And it's never going to cost -less-. People writing papers about well known chemical reactions and trying to claim they're new doesn't change anything. You can't get something for nothing. It will always take energy to make energy. Even LPG is considerable cheaper (and more powerful) than hydrogen. It's also even more plentiful than gasoline. Cheaper too.
As an energy storage medium, hydrogen sucks. That's why no one uses it. Or didn't until federal grants came along to try and force the idea. It doesn't have the energy density neccesary.
I'm constantly amazed by people like you. You take a half assed lousey idea and back it to the hilt, screaming at anyone who expose the flaws in your halfwit ideas. You embrace technologies that cannot even begin to support the standard of living that you're currently at, much less the one of your childhood.
You're a follower, not a leader. You do not advance the race or the discussion, you will never invent anything of value, or even try to support the advance of knowledge and mankind. And you call me a moron? I'm not sure you're even smart enough to be one.
Actually, you're the one without the knowledge here. Even at 60 to 80 percent efficency you're getting more energy out of the gasoline (which was refined, not made) than the hydrogen, (which is energy poor). Add into that the fact that you have to MAKE the hydrogen, and the overall effieceny of hydrogen drops even further.
Also work on the reading comprehension, I was talking about gasoline fuel cells, not gasoline internal combustion engines. There was a lot of research being done on gasoline fuel cells before all the grant money went to hydrogen for political purposes. Much more energy than hydrogen, much less pollution than internal combustion.
You need to get rid of the tunnel vision.
Wow, you must have slept through all of physics class.
If hydrogen was better and cheaper, we wouldn't have to have the government forcing it on us, would we?
Have you looked into the amount of damage done to the ecology to make the batteries in the Prius? Or to dispose of them?
Hydrogen cars are junk science. Sorry folks, but hydrogen takes MORE energy to make than you get back. A lot more. And Hydrogen is energy poor. Burning gas is cheaper, cleaner and more efficent in a hummer or any SUV. But because you've moved the pollution someplace else (just like the prius) you don't notice that you're paying more, and doing more ecological damage than the exxon valdez did.
Hydrogen power is a JOKE people. Doesn't anyone study physics anymore? What kind of geeks are you if you don't even understand the basics of thermodynamics? Everytime energy changes state you lose some. Fuel cells burning gasoline already generate a couple of orders of magnitude greater power than Hydrogen is capable of. Also we already have the infrastructure to deliver it in place.
I know a gal who's got one of her images selling on a very popular shirt in Austrailia and (I think) China or Taiwan as well. She's not getting a dime for it of course, the T-Shirt company just ripped off the print. She's a poor starving artist so she can't afford to sue a foreign company, which has probably made a rather large amount of money, after all, the shirt was very popular two years ago (she saw it on a tourist here in the states I believe).
Heck there is even a 'famous' T-Shirt company/artist in LA that's been ripping off all his material from other people on the net. This is the result of all those people who steal art and cross post it everywhere, the original authors (who are often poor) get screwed.
And why hate crime laws are wrong. You get people arrested solely for saying things others think are wrong. It's called thought control and religions like scientology are all for that! It's how they make their money.
Maybe I'm just applying real life experince to a situation that all of you are talking about without any real experience.
You all seem to think that group sex in a closed dynamic environment with the kind of people who become astronauts won't be an issue.
You're rather bizzarely naive. (as well as cowardly for being anonymous).
Remember that astronaut just a few months ago who tried to kidnap and murder a rival? You all seem to have conveniently forgotten that little incident.
Now that is purest nonsense. The army's policies on gays are the kindergarden level group-think of morons
Umm No. The rules are there for several valid reasons. Not the least of which is to cut down on sex between enlisted members (as well as rape). When you are living with a large number of other men in communal settings, VERY closely together mind you, how do you think a straight man would react to a gay man leering at him sexually while in the showers? Why he'd kill him of course. What if the gay men outnumbered the straight men in a unit? Possible Rape situation.
They don't bunk male and female members together for the same reasons. You have a bunch of very young men at the height of their sexuality. It's a powderkeg.
As for the peter principle, well in war time militaries, peter gets shot and dies. Peter only survies in peacetime militaries.
I have since heard that the real reason for this was to stop soldiers from criticizing Senator Harry Reid. They've been calling him all sorts of rather nasty things, along with pointing out he's a traitor.
Ah I see. So you're saying 'Yes, it's Rape' but we'll call it something else because it's 'necessary'. I suppose then that your next proposal will be to enslave women to the desires of men? After all, 'we're not a cute and cuddly Serenity or Enterprise out there'.
No maybe not. But unlike you Mr. Thirteen year old with rape fanasties after reading too many Gor novels, we are still Men, and we still have ideals and morals and beliefs that separate us from the animals. Thinking that everyone will so easily be so willing to just make it be one big sex party and everything will work out fine shows that you haven't ever actually lived in such a dynamic.
Not once you get that wonderful piece of paper known as a discharge. Though under certain circumstances you can forcibly be recalled to duty and tried. But only if it is discovered that you committed a major crime, and even then it's rare.
Life is different in the military, and the rules are different. But everything is done for a reason, and if it's not a good reason, it gets dumped.
That's not what it's about. They're more worried about people giving away information that might be helpful to the enemy. A valid concern really. And that's the kind of stuff you're not allowed to tell your spouse anyways.
Really. He's just trying to respect the copyright law and intellectual property. Yeah it's all so nice for everyone -else- to come along and say he should take a stand. But everyone -else- is anonymous and won't have to pay the legal bills, and the fines.
It's easy to be brave when you're anonymous. When it won't cost you anything.
I'm not a big fan of Kevin's, but I can't bag on him for trying to protect not only his own skin over something that isn't his fight, but for trying to protect his baby (Digg.com) from rampant clueless anonymous cowardly morons.
And I'm not just talking about the juvenal replies by all the nerds in this thread who sound like they've never gotten laid before.
The British Navy, the Spanish Navy, the French Navy, (et al) dealt with this issue for hundreds of years. Back in the days of sailing ships and even after it was not uncommon for ships to go on several year long cruises. Furthermore may commercial sailing ships (like whalers) also engaged in these exercises.
How did they do it? Why did they sale only unisex ships? I suspect the history books (and you know how military's love to keep records - especially the Brits) have all sorts of wonder factual data on what works and what doesn't. Maybe NASA needs to do a little research? (Novel idea that, research). There is nothing new here.
So what happens when you have say a male astronaut who none of the women astronauts want to sleep with?
RAPE?
Obviously you haven't thought this through. Nor have you dealt with group dynamics.
I can't believe this got marked 'insightful'. The social dynamics will make the LJ drama look lame. There's a reason why for hundreds of years military and other ships only had men onboard. Doesn't anyone around here read history anymore?
WoW's class/character balancing stinks. So I sure hope they didn't copy that! Yes WoW's UI is nice, and the terrain/graphics aren't too bad. But the game balance has always been the pits, that's why they keep having to tinker with it, and why all the uber gamers play Shamans.
Balance was the one big thing WoW didn't understand.
Considering the 'gold seller' market, I'm not surprised in the slightest that they decided to kill the money and not have an economy. The economies in MMO's always gets horrendously abused by gil farmers and most companies (Well actually, ALL companies except for FF) ignore it.
I also have to agree that as someone who only plays a few hours a day, a few nights a week (Sorry, I have a job AND a life), that I don't want to see all these uber players (basically 13 yo's without a life) running around pretty much ruining the game with all their smack talking and 'leet hacks'.
It's supposed to be about Role PLAYING, not CRACK WHORE LEVEL GRINDING. If this keeps the 'leet' players out, well so much the better!
The only question I have at this point is will I have to get together with ridiculous sized parties of 30 or so, for 15 hour non-stop quests in order to enjoy the game? WoW lost me at the endgame, because I just don't have the time to do those quests, there was really nothing much in it for me, a person who can't be on more than 3 or 4 hours at a time usually.
Really. All games have 'out of game' issues.
But when you have the Dev's and other employees breaking the rules and cheating by using their special priviledges, well that is a whole different story. If you're paying RL money to play in Eve, I wouldn't be surprised if this constituted as fraud (IANAL).
CCP is at fault here (Big Time) for letting their Dev's and GM's play in the game as regular players and not making sure they didn't cheat. They're more at fault for not dealing with the cheating (by firing said Dev's and GM's) when the people paying to play the game complained.
Why people are playing Eve anymore now that this has been exposed is beyond me.