The geothermal CO2 would have been released anyway due to the vulcanic activity. So the CO2 balance is zero. There are other issues with geothermal energy, which are more severe for Japan: It seems to make the region more prone to earthquakes. The geothermal tests around Basel (Switzerland) have been stopped after the seismic activity increased.
And in countries other than the U.S. you get an android phone for free with a two year contract costing you 15 €/month including 1000 minutes. So the total cost will be 24x15 € = 360 € + whatever the system uses for electrical energy during two years.
If the reader's comments on the article are any indication, this suspension grows out to be a mayor PR disaster for school and school board. Not a single positive remark for the decision, as far as I can tell. Maybe next time they will be more careful.
As the latin saying goes: HOMO SAPIENS NON URINAT IN VENTUM.
The jaywalking law has other functions than to prosecute people. It's there to establish legal responsibility. If an accident happens while jaywalking, the jaywalker is presumed to be the offending party. I don't know exactly about the U.S. traffic laws, but at least in the European countries I know of, the first law in the traffic law code is always of the type: "It's everyones responsibility to behave in traffic so no other gets harmed or endangered and that hindrance and disturbation of others is kept at a minimum given the circumstances."
Jaywalking laws are there to define how to behave at a stop light to achieve minimum danger, hindrance and disturbation. If you don't break Rule 1, all other rules are unimportant.
PS: The Rule 1 in the german traffic law code for instance:
1 Grundregeln (1) Die Teilnahme am Straßenverkehr erfordert ständige Vorsicht und gegenseitige Rücksicht. (2) Jeder Verkehrsteilnehmer hat sich so zu verhalten, daß kein Anderer geschädigt, gefährdet oder mehr, als nach den Umständen unvermeidbar, behindert oder belästigt wird.
Article 1:
Basic Rules (1) Taking part in road traffic requires ongoing attention and mutual respect. (2) Every road user has to behave in a way that no other gets harmed, endangered or, given the circumstances, more than unavoidably hindered or disturbed.
Mercy can only be given after the guilt was established. You can't pre-pardon people who aren't even considered guilty yet. Selectively accusing and prosecuting people is incompatible with the rule of law.
That's always the problem -- being outstanding enough to make a difference and not so extremist to still go along. No person on earth is able to correctly access all scientific papers affecting the own persuasions and beliefs, not even the most of it. Every single person on earth, as smart and educated she might be, is still completely ignorant and uneducated about most topics of science, and thus prone to act stupid on things she could know better. There are two ways to cope with it: one is to adhere to the opinion that gets voiced most often and loudly and take this for a majority opinion, or to just follow the own gut feeling and hope not to be wrong too often and about too dangerous things.
It's obvious the Earth is flat, why waste Isabell's gold "proving" someone can sail West and end up back home from the East? Duh.
This is actually a case of a Non-Duh. Columbus' pretense was not to prove the Earth is round. That was common knowledge for the last 2000 years at the end of the 15th century, and no one actually doubted it in 1492. Columbus was trying to prove that the Earth's circumfence was about 17.000 mls and not 26.000 mls, as the portugese sailors and navigators claimed. As we know, he was wrong. And it took him two further expeditions to actually understand how wrong he was. Other people were faster on the uptake, especially a fellow Italian named Amerigo Vespucci, who understood that Columbus had to have discovered an hitherto unknown continent. And now we call this new continent America and not Columbia.
There is a small difference between customizing a program (e.g. breeding special traits of a species) and copying source code from other programs into the program (genetically modifying livings).
Breeding is no genetic engineering, you don't introduce new genes into the genome of a domesticated animal or plant. You just select the part of the offspring whose genes are expressed in the allels you like. And even hybridization of different species is different from genetically modifying a species, because the parents of a hybrid come from the same genus and are very closely related. And often even the natural limits between two species of a genus are gradual or geographical, not genetic.
People who say "we do genetical modifications since the late stone age" have no idea what breeding is and no clue what genetical modifications are. They probably will also fall for the old claim, blondes would die out because the blonde allels are recessive.
The 2002 floods are still in everyones memory. They were higher than any flood in recorded history, and flood recording goes back about 150-300 years in Germany. Luckily the floods were not at the rivers the nuclear reactors are located. But no one can be sure that the Rhine will not have a flood as non-expected than the one at Elbe and Donau in 2002.
But the Ukraine and Belorus combined have just about 55 mio inhabitants compared to more than 300 mio in the U.S. The mortality from Chernobyl is 200.000 out of 55 mio, (one from 275) while the mortality of Coal is about 300.000 out of 300 mio. (or one from 1000) Looks to me as if Chernobyl was the greater disaster.
Every mobile phone knows a "conference call", where the phone is connected to two other phones at the same time and all three are talking to each other. This can be expanded at both ends to add more phones to the same conference.
But in the attempt to create one anyway they can cause enough havoc to really bother us. We might be rightly convinced that a global caliphate won't exist for long and will break down due to internal conflicts and feuds. But that's no reason not to be irritated about all the little and big disruptions to our normal life.
You don't understand the argument:) If I have to pay extra for long trips with a rental car, it doesn't look attractive for me to buy an electric car. If I only had the car for long trips, it would actually make sense to rent it. The charme lies in the fact that I have a car for weekly short trips which can do long distances at no extra charge. A gasoline powered car is just more useful than an electric one. It will change if I can recharge the electric one as fast as an gasoline powered one. I wouldn't mind shorter distances of 200 or 300 mls per charge, if the recharge was faster though. Super has about 12 kWh/kg, which amounts to about 36 kWh/gallon. A tank pump can fill up with 10 gallons/min, so a recharge for 300 mls takes about one minute and will charge my car with 360 kWh or about 6 kWh/s. This amounts to a charging power of 21600 kW -- if I charge the car with 110 V, there will be a current of 20 kA!
I don't do them too often, but a few times per year. But for me they were the argument to buy a car in the first place, because just for the short trips, the car would have been too expensive. The savings I get from the long distance trips together with the convenience for the short ones were argument enough to go shopping for a car.
None of the properties alone, e.g. being very handy for the weekly shopping or being an agreable means to go long distances if necessary would have done it. Only because it can both, has seduced me to buy a car. And that's not solved by having two cars, one for short trips and another one for long distances - because then I would have to pay for two cars. So yes, I want a car with short recharge times, otherwise I won't need it enough to buy one.
If you are designing a consumer car you can ignore criteria that are important for racing but not consumer cars (like fast charge time).
I beg to differ. I need a fast charge time in a consumer car. My parents live 400 mls from my home, my brother about 600 mls, and the other grandma of my children about 500 mls. There are no direct flights, and flying with changing planes takes about 5 hrs. to each of the places, and it is expensive (about 800 € for the family last time I checked). So it's either going by train or by car. And then it pays to have a car that can be refilled in less than one hour, or to have a car that can go the whole distance without recharging. And to have a car just for hauling home the shopping bags is too expensive. Until then an electric car is completely useless for me.
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The geothermal CO2 would have been released anyway due to the vulcanic activity. So the CO2 balance is zero. There are other issues with geothermal energy, which are more severe for Japan: It seems to make the region more prone to earthquakes. The geothermal tests around Basel (Switzerland) have been stopped after the seismic activity increased.
And in countries other than the U.S. you get an android phone for free with a two year contract costing you 15 €/month including 1000 minutes. So the total cost will be 24x15 € = 360 € + whatever the system uses for electrical energy during two years.
The wise man does not urinate in the wind. That's what happened to the school - they were pissing, and now everything flows in their face.
Lets rephrase: It will always converge to the eternal sequence 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1...
If the reader's comments on the article are any indication, this suspension grows out to be a mayor PR disaster for school and school board. Not a single positive remark for the decision, as far as I can tell. Maybe next time they will be more careful.
As the latin saying goes: HOMO SAPIENS NON URINAT IN VENTUM.
The jaywalking law has other functions than to prosecute people. It's there to establish legal responsibility. If an accident happens while jaywalking, the jaywalker is presumed to be the offending party. I don't know exactly about the U.S. traffic laws, but at least in the European countries I know of, the first law in the traffic law code is always of the type: "It's everyones responsibility to behave in traffic so no other gets harmed or endangered and that hindrance and disturbation of others is kept at a minimum given the circumstances."
Jaywalking laws are there to define how to behave at a stop light to achieve minimum danger, hindrance and disturbation. If you don't break Rule 1, all other rules are unimportant.
PS: The Rule 1 in the german traffic law code for instance:
1
Grundregeln
(1) Die Teilnahme am Straßenverkehr erfordert ständige Vorsicht und gegenseitige Rücksicht.
(2) Jeder Verkehrsteilnehmer hat sich so zu verhalten, daß kein Anderer geschädigt, gefährdet oder mehr, als nach den Umständen unvermeidbar, behindert oder belästigt wird.
Article 1:
Basic Rules
(1) Taking part in road traffic requires ongoing attention and mutual respect.
(2) Every road user has to behave in a way that no other gets harmed, endangered or, given the circumstances, more than unavoidably hindered or disturbed.
Mercy can only be given after the guilt was established. You can't pre-pardon people who aren't even considered guilty yet. Selectively accusing and prosecuting people is incompatible with the rule of law.
That's always the problem -- being outstanding enough to make a difference and not so extremist to still go along. No person on earth is able to correctly access all scientific papers affecting the own persuasions and beliefs, not even the most of it. Every single person on earth, as smart and educated she might be, is still completely ignorant and uneducated about most topics of science, and thus prone to act stupid on things she could know better. There are two ways to cope with it: one is to adhere to the opinion that gets voiced most often and loudly and take this for a majority opinion, or to just follow the own gut feeling and hope not to be wrong too often and about too dangerous things.
It's obvious the Earth is flat, why waste Isabell's gold "proving" someone can sail West and end up back home from the East? Duh.
This is actually a case of a Non-Duh. Columbus' pretense was not to prove the Earth is round. That was common knowledge for the last 2000 years at the end of the 15th century, and no one actually doubted it in 1492. Columbus was trying to prove that the Earth's circumfence was about 17.000 mls and not 26.000 mls, as the portugese sailors and navigators claimed. As we know, he was wrong. And it took him two further expeditions to actually understand how wrong he was. Other people were faster on the uptake, especially a fellow Italian named Amerigo Vespucci, who understood that Columbus had to have discovered an hitherto unknown continent. And now we call this new continent America and not Columbia.
See Ayn Rand as a prime example for a person who didn't believe into the scientific studies until she developed cancer from too much smoking.
There is a small difference between customizing a program (e.g. breeding special traits of a species) and copying source code from other programs into the program (genetically modifying livings).
Breeding is no genetic engineering, you don't introduce new genes into the genome of a domesticated animal or plant. You just select the part of the offspring whose genes are expressed in the allels you like. And even hybridization of different species is different from genetically modifying a species, because the parents of a hybrid come from the same genus and are very closely related. And often even the natural limits between two species of a genus are gradual or geographical, not genetic.
People who say "we do genetical modifications since the late stone age" have no idea what breeding is and no clue what genetical modifications are. They probably will also fall for the old claim, blondes would die out because the blonde allels are recessive.
The 2002 floods are still in everyones memory. They were higher than any flood in recorded history, and flood recording goes back about 150-300 years in Germany. Luckily the floods were not at the rivers the nuclear reactors are located. But no one can be sure that the Rhine will not have a flood as non-expected than the one at Elbe and Donau in 2002.
But the Ukraine and Belorus combined have just about 55 mio inhabitants compared to more than 300 mio in the U.S. The mortality from Chernobyl is 200.000 out of 55 mio, (one from 275) while the mortality of Coal is about 300.000 out of 300 mio. (or one from 1000) Looks to me as if Chernobyl was the greater disaster.
Every mobile phone knows a "conference call", where the phone is connected to two other phones at the same time and all three are talking to each other. This can be expanded at both ends to add more phones to the same conference.
So if I start to talk about "Carolina"; it's always obvious that I am talking about the whole U.S.?
To be more specific: Helmond is in North Brabant, not in North or South Holland. All three are provinties in The Netherlands.
Sorry... Zuidholland's capital is Den Haag. :)
Holland are in fact two provinties in the Netherlands, one is called Noordholland (capital Haarlem) and the other one Zuidholland (capital Rotterdam).
I would trust WiFi more than the tired trucker or the drunk driver in the other lane.
But in the attempt to create one anyway they can cause enough havoc to really bother us.
We might be rightly convinced that a global caliphate won't exist for long and will break down due to internal conflicts and feuds. But that's no reason not to be irritated about all the little and big disruptions to our normal life.
Any sugar would do, so the fructose, the lactose, the maltose, the saccharose and the glycose producing industry would sponsor this study too.
You don't understand the argument :) If I have to pay extra for long trips with a rental car, it doesn't look attractive for me to buy an electric car. If I only had the car for long trips, it would actually make sense to rent it. The charme lies in the fact that I have a car for weekly short trips which can do long distances at no extra charge. A gasoline powered car is just more useful than an electric one. It will change if I can recharge the electric one as fast as an gasoline powered one. I wouldn't mind shorter distances of 200 or 300 mls per charge, if the recharge was faster though. Super has about 12 kWh/kg, which amounts to about 36 kWh/gallon. A tank pump can fill up with 10 gallons/min, so a recharge for 300 mls takes about one minute and will charge my car with 360 kWh or about 6 kWh/s. This amounts to a charging power of 21600 kW -- if I charge the car with 110 V, there will be a current of 20 kA!
My car has a 20 gallon tank, so it's one filling per single trip.
I don't do them too often, but a few times per year. But for me they were the argument to buy a car in the first place, because just for the short trips, the car would have been too expensive. The savings I get from the long distance trips together with the convenience for the short ones were argument enough to go shopping for a car.
None of the properties alone, e.g. being very handy for the weekly shopping or being an agreable means to go long distances if necessary would have done it. Only because it can both, has seduced me to buy a car. And that's not solved by having two cars, one for short trips and another one for long distances - because then I would have to pay for two cars. So yes, I want a car with short recharge times, otherwise I won't need it enough to buy one.
If you are designing a consumer car you can ignore criteria that are important for racing but not consumer cars (like fast charge time).
I beg to differ. I need a fast charge time in a consumer car. My parents live 400 mls from my home, my brother about 600 mls, and the other grandma of my children about 500 mls. There are no direct flights, and flying with changing planes takes about 5 hrs. to each of the places, and it is expensive (about 800 € for the family last time I checked). So it's either going by train or by car. And then it pays to have a car that can be refilled in less than one hour, or to have a car that can go the whole distance without recharging. And to have a car just for hauling home the shopping bags is too expensive. Until then an electric car is completely useless for me.