I find that many of the family members of US military personnel make claims for exceptional treatment that they never extend to anyone else.
I find that this is pretty much endemic to the human condition.
You can subsitute in pretty much anything you like for 'family members of US military personnel' and find people trying to exploit it. Black, Female, Mexican, European, firefighter, cop, low income, high income, whatever...
I didn't read the article, but, the legislation actually has to work. Does it?
This would actually be fairly easy. I'm not a rancher, don't have the studies and such.
Basically, Cattle farmers raise cattle the way they do because it maximizes their profits. I'm hesitant to say whether it does short, mid, or long term optimization. Probably short term.
By banning this method of raising cattle, farmers who utilize this method of raising cattle will have to find other ways. This will, in general, raise the cost of meat, but hopefully lower the social cost of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Alternatives I can think of would include: 1. Accepting a certain lower growth rate, increase in loss of sellable meat from sick cattle. 2. Engage in alternative disease control or prevention strategies. Probably cost more for less effect than the antibiotics 2a. Washing pens out more might be one 2b. Altering diet to increase immune response while maintaining growth(assumed more expensive) 2c. Giving cattle more room, keeping in smaller herds, lower disease transmission rates.
DHCP is unlikely to get much used in IPv6. It works otherwise...
Then how does the new-out of the box computer bought by my grandparents get it's IPv6 address? What about the fridge/toaster they keep proposing to network?
I'll fully admit that I haven't thouroughly studied the issue.
Learn copy and paste.
Which I tend to do now, except for the tendency to use four fields to store the address so I can't just paste it in.
We have discovered that 90% of kids are "advanced for their age" or at least that's what is said about the children when they are being shopped for.
Probably because so many toys have their 'appropriate age' groups set assuming the tyke is an idiot.
I gave a toy computer that was intended for 4 year olds to my 2 year old nephew. It's his favorite toy. It's got functionality he doesn't use yet, but he's already past the 'age 4 appropriate' functions.
It's a lot like dress size, I guess. The more upscale you go the bigger a 'size 8' ends up being.
not a toy intended for kids older than the "lets eat random crap" stage.
Part of the problem is that legislation is also intended to address the idea that parents tend to have multiple kids of multiple ages, and a toddler may very well get ahold of a toy intended for an 8 year old and try to eat it because 8 year olds aren't really known for picking up after themselves. Remember, lowest common denominator.
People who have been privately educated in the US seem to be good at sports and have bits and pieces of "rote" learning,
Depends upon the private school. There are 'private' schools that are sports training camps in all but name, there are boarding schools, reform schools, religous schools, etc...
Basically US schools, private or public, are all over the map. On average, private beats public though it's not always due to how well the school teaches compared to seperating out the bad ones. But many public schools have problems when even the REFORM private school, that specializes in teaching student kicked out of public school due to various violations*, produces kids who perform better.
*Like bringing weapons to school, fighting, skipping, whatever.
The primary concern of schools is not giving the best education, it's giving the education that scores the highest on tests. These are not the same thing.
That's only really true for 'lower class' schools. 'Rich' public schools have the benefits of both an interested parental body and enough income from property taxes to not be dependent upon federal funding as a make/break for their budget.
At that point they're trying to please the parents, not the fed.gov.
DHCP does not necessarily work with IPv6. Microsoft's IPv6 (Teredo) platform doesn't support for example, at least Win2k+IPv6, XP+IPv6, Vista, and W2k3 (I don't know about Win2k8 or Win7, but they probably are using the same IPv6 stack).
What the frack? And they expect this to roll mainstream?
No one wants to memorize or type 128 bit addresses
How often do you actually need to do this though, DHCP works, DNS works, etc...
Personally, I think the problem is one of 'who's first?', in that it's not a straightforward process for an IPv6 address to send a packet to an IPv4 address and vice versa.
So you end up with the problem that you'd need EVERYBODY to switch at the same time, because once all your users have IPv4 addresses(possibly behind a NAT) so they can reach IPv4 servers, and all the servers have IPv4 addresses so they can communicate with clients that haven't upgraded yet, you might as well send packets via IPv4, as it's actually a little more efficient.
Sorta like how a 32bit system is a little more efficient as long as you're not busting the address limits compared to a 64bit system.
You'd have to beat on a camera really really hard to mess up an SD card inside to the point where it was unreadable.
In the semi-near future you might not even have and SD card to attack to destroy a recording, in Iran there are people actually helping to create fixes for this I understand. Given that they actively protest even though their cops are much more known to destroy stuff(including people), they're already developing countermeasures like having the camera(normally on a cell phone) be automatically uploading even as it's recording.
Then by all means then, get your camera and quit whining. You lose the right to complain when your too freaking lazy to do something about it.
I'm reminded of the phrase 'Evil wins when good men do nothing'. I'm probably butchering the statement, but ignoring an injustice like this doesn't help end it.
Unless the victims sue and start winning big judgments, this behavior isn't going to change.
Even then it doesn't always help, as the police simply pay the judgment and take it out of their budget, the offending officers never have to pay a cent. Then the department goes to whatever level of government that funds them and goes 'we need more money or we can't do our jobs!', and everybody in the area ends up paying more taxes as a result.
Big judgments, in my opinion, are less than optimal when it comes to affecting the behavior of government organizations. There are better options.
Simple enough. Just like air conditioning in reverse, you use 100 watts of electricity to move 130 watts worth of 'heat' to the hot side(the inside of your house in this case), along with the heat produced by the system, totaling the 230 watts.
It works because you're getting energy from outside the system(the electricity).
Now, this is great for heating, but in the end the temperature difference isn't enough to pull enough power off the resulting temperature differential to produce the energy used to make the differential, so it doesn't violate the laws of thermodynamics.
I can't believe this post was modded 5 insightful. How is remarking that we are still in Afghanistan and Iraq as an example of how Bush and Obama are similar insightful, maybe 5 obvious. While it is obviously true we are still in Afghanistan and in Iraq the strategies for both these two conflicts have changed drastically since Obama has taken office.
You think that Obama's plan to recreate the Bush's surge in Iraq in Afghanistan is 'changed drastically'? Heck, he's pretty much moved the general who handled the surge and stabilization of Iraq over to do the same job in Afghanistan.
Don't get me wrong, if what the general is doing is working I'm not going to stop him, but he was still originally a Bush appointee.
The reason I discount the draw-down in Iraq for being 'different' than Bush is that he would have been doing the same thing according to his own plan and the status of Iraq.
A BIG part of stabilizing Iraq and forming a new government can be compared to building a brand new army. Sure, you can train a basic foot-pounder in under a year, whether he be army, police, or bureaucrat. What you don't get that first year are many good NCOs, detectives, or managers. You start getting them around year five, if you're lucky. Around a decade to start getting Colonels, Station Chiefs, and executives. Even longer for generals, city commissioners, and division secretaries.
The second factor would be getting people to 'believe' in the government. With the support of the people, without their belief in it's legitimacy, a government is going nowhere. And establishing that takes time as well.
Compare this with statements McCain has said about staying in Iraq for 100 years.
Look around, how many countries where the USA has 'successfully' staged a military intervention don't we have troops in? We still have troops in most of Europe, South Korea, Japan, etc...
As for Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Democrats are the only people in the Senate who support its repeal. McCain no longer supports its repeal.
The deficit is an issue that both parties have a problem with.
Like I said, not happy with either party, though some of the reasons differ...
Yes, they are. They're also down to the the levels Bush was planning on when Iraq reached the status it has. Basically, Obama has been following Bush's plan with the exception that Obama goes 'We'll be out at X date(unless they haven't met the goals)', while Bush was 'We'll draw down when X goals are met, regardless of how long that takes'.
Don't ask, don't tell is on its last legs, something that would not have occurred under McCain.
Can we truly say that? I mean, the issue is pretty much dead for this congress, and if the democrats lose a number of seats, as they're predicted to, it'll be gone until Obama is up for re-election.
Perception trends put a time limit on DADT anyways, but I'm not willing to say how long, not having quite enough statistical information. Younger people are substantially more supporting, but older people are shifting towards more supporting as well. IE the 40 year olds of today are more supporting of gay rights than the 30 year olds of a decade ago. Same with gay marriage and such.
The NRA has had a history of supporting pro-gun rights candidates irregardless of party. I've paid attention. While there hasn't been a lot of movement on the federal level, there's been quite a bit at the state level. We're down to, what, 2 states that don't allow concealed carry at some level? Then again, speaking of federal level there was the strike-down of the DC gun ban. But I wouldn't associate supreme court judges with parties...
The problem, as I see it, is that the Democrats for the longest time seemed to insist on putting gun control advocates up for election, not to mention making gun control a party plank. I can't blame the NRA for taking the party at it's word and assuming that a candidate, unless he or she has stated differently, follows their party's platform, to include the gun control bits. You have some of the most vehement gun grabbers in the democrat party. Feinstein, for example. Kennedy, before his passing, was recorded proposing banning all rifles capable of penetrating soft body armor - He listed the '30-30' as an example of a gun caliber to be banned. The.30-30 was developed on the cusp of the widespread replacement of black powder with smokeless. It's primarily for lever action rifles, and was never intended for military use. It's generally considered on the bottom end of cartridges suitable for deer hunting today. Yes, it'll cut through soft body armor like butter, but so won't pretty much every other center-fire rifle round.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that Obama hasn't touched gun control stuff. Because, frankly speaking, he's a politician from Chicago and doesn't have the best record.
Obama is not the same as the Old Boss. Educate yourself.
Sure, he's not identical. Sure, he changed a couple policies. Policies that studies were showing were ineffective. But he's held the same course in so many OTHER areas that you can stay he's much the same.
For example, we're still in Iraq. We're still in Afghanistan. We're still spending borrowed money like crazy. Gun control hasn't changed, and don't ask don't tell still stands.
Personally I think that we need to 'finish the job' in Iraq and Afghanistan, which to me means a functional government able to defend itself from extremists and foreign powers. Able to represent the people, etc... At this point the reason we went in is almost moot.
I'm very much FOR balanced budgets. I think that gays should be able to openly serve in the military, it's only a source of friction right now. As for gun control, well, check out my sig for my thoughts on that...
Some people claim that the declassified or otherwise published data has not been altered and has pretty precise blueprints, but until someone verifies that through a DIY atol removal, I think there's a decent chance that at least some of the information has been cleverly and subtly altered before public release. Otherwise I'd have expected quite a few more nuclear powers given the easy information.
From everything I've heard, building a nuclear bomb isn't that hard. The hard part is getting the enriched uranium or plutonium.
Even terrorists know this. That is why ships and trains have rarely been hijacked. There is no urgency.
The pirates in Somalia would like a word with you...
I'd be willing to be that there have been more ships hijacked in the last 20 years than planes.
What happens to a plane whose engines stops? It crashes into the ground.
Assuming that that's all that's wrong, the plane doesn't immediately crash into the ground. It instead becomes a glider of varying efficiency.
Airliners fly so high and fast and have a good enough glide slope that I believe that, at least in the USA, they're pretty much always within range of some runway if their engines stop.
Actual incident, involving Air Canada and a 767-200. Got a 12:1 glide ratio.
In these cases prison does work, but so do a lot of other harsh punishments (reparations, curfew, large fines if they can afford it).
I'd argue that alternative punishments often work BETTER, because putting them in prison tends to create the very 'hardened criminals' we're trying to avoid.
It's also why I think that, in specific situations, caning might not be a bad punishment.
I'll note that I think that the cruelest punishment is perhaps one that doesn't work.
Look at it medical terms - which would you rather have, a pin-prick w/5 minutes of 'burning' sensation that doesn't work for curing your cancer, or a brutal, agonizing surgury that DOES work? Especially if, because the pin-prick doesn't work, we go to do it every day, in the hope that it does?
I'll be honest here. While I want to see justice done, the perpetrator to pay for his or her crimes, I think that a core issue is making sure they don't do it again, making them a productive member of society(again, for the first time), etc...
Basically, reforming them. I know that can be an expensive process, but I'd rather a dude be earning $30k in a productive job and paying a little in taxes than costing the state $30k a year to warehouse him with other violent individuals where his violent tendencies can be reinforced.
this heat is not being recovered in typical plants AFAIK.
I believe the equation that said plastic jugs are cheaper than sterilizing glass ones was done quite some time ago without significant heat recovery from the water anyways. Equations can change.
Anyways, let's do some math. Most sites recommend boiling, and when you're talking about sterilizing bottles that aren't going to go back to the same consumer you have to be paranoid, so let's use 100C/212F. Let's also use 16C/60F for the source water.
Temp difference: 84C/152F. It takes 1 BTU to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water 1F. 1 pound of water~1 pint~.5L. Sounds about right for an industrial wash/rinse system, and it's convienent.
So we'd need 152 BTUs for our wash. Maybe more, maybe less. More would be heating different water for the wash and rinse, less would be lower temperatures, heat reclamation, etc...
There's around 1k BTU per 'cubic foot' of Natural gas, enough to wash 6.6 bottles. Around 17 grams of NG, after some searching. Some quick research shows that they were typically quart sized, so equivalent to 1.65 gallon jugs.
After a bunch of searching, I found 'less than 60 grams'. So you might indeed be right; still have the matter of how long would glass jugs would last, on average, because making the glass is a much, much, higher energy cost.
I'm lucky where I live now that I can go and see the municipal-owned electronics disassembly and recycling center in operation.
I'm curious as to how far does this go? You metion disassmebly AND recycling; are they running a smelting operation to recover the copper? Chemical extraction of gold? Or do they outsource for those functions?
Perhaps that's because in my old home town the concrete business was the mob's racket, not trash, I dunno.
It's not even necessary for the Mob to get involved. Many of these companies specialize in 'sweetheart deals' by signing long term exclusive contracts with various municipalities.
Some areas can recycle effectively; they generally generate a lot more waste than my area and are closer to the plants, or at least the ports for cheap shipping to the recycling plants.
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I find that many of the family members of US military personnel make claims for exceptional treatment that they never extend to anyone else.
I find that this is pretty much endemic to the human condition.
You can subsitute in pretty much anything you like for 'family members of US military personnel' and find people trying to exploit it. Black, Female, Mexican, European, firefighter, cop, low income, high income, whatever...
I didn't read the article, but, the legislation actually has to work. Does it?
This would actually be fairly easy. I'm not a rancher, don't have the studies and such.
Basically, Cattle farmers raise cattle the way they do because it maximizes their profits. I'm hesitant to say whether it does short, mid, or long term optimization. Probably short term.
By banning this method of raising cattle, farmers who utilize this method of raising cattle will have to find other ways. This will, in general, raise the cost of meat, but hopefully lower the social cost of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Alternatives I can think of would include:
1. Accepting a certain lower growth rate, increase in loss of sellable meat from sick cattle.
2. Engage in alternative disease control or prevention strategies. Probably cost more for less effect than the antibiotics
2a. Washing pens out more might be one
2b. Altering diet to increase immune response while maintaining growth(assumed more expensive)
2c. Giving cattle more room, keeping in smaller herds, lower disease transmission rates.
Okay, that sounds workable, as long as you have massive amounts of empty addresses in the subnet. Which IPv6 provides.
Still, if we go with 8 octets for prefix and 8 for suffix, we're still talking about 'So many more addresses' I don't want to think about it.
DHCP is unlikely to get much used in IPv6. It works otherwise...
Then how does the new-out of the box computer bought by my grandparents get it's IPv6 address? What about the fridge/toaster they keep proposing to network?
I'll fully admit that I haven't thouroughly studied the issue.
Learn copy and paste.
Which I tend to do now, except for the tendency to use four fields to store the address so I can't just paste it in.
We have discovered that 90% of kids are "advanced for their age" or at least that's what is said about the children when they are being shopped for.
Probably because so many toys have their 'appropriate age' groups set assuming the tyke is an idiot.
I gave a toy computer that was intended for 4 year olds to my 2 year old nephew. It's his favorite toy. It's got functionality he doesn't use yet, but he's already past the 'age 4 appropriate' functions.
It's a lot like dress size, I guess. The more upscale you go the bigger a 'size 8' ends up being.
not a toy intended for kids older than the "lets eat random crap" stage.
Part of the problem is that legislation is also intended to address the idea that parents tend to have multiple kids of multiple ages, and a toddler may very well get ahold of a toy intended for an 8 year old and try to eat it because 8 year olds aren't really known for picking up after themselves. Remember, lowest common denominator.
People who have been privately educated in the US seem to be good at sports and have bits and pieces of "rote" learning,
Depends upon the private school. There are 'private' schools that are sports training camps in all but name, there are boarding schools, reform schools, religous schools, etc...
Basically US schools, private or public, are all over the map. On average, private beats public though it's not always due to how well the school teaches compared to seperating out the bad ones. But many public schools have problems when even the REFORM private school, that specializes in teaching student kicked out of public school due to various violations*, produces kids who perform better.
*Like bringing weapons to school, fighting, skipping, whatever.
The primary concern of schools is not giving the best education, it's giving the education that scores the highest on tests. These are not the same thing.
That's only really true for 'lower class' schools. 'Rich' public schools have the benefits of both an interested parental body and enough income from property taxes to not be dependent upon federal funding as a make/break for their budget.
At that point they're trying to please the parents, not the fed.gov.
DHCP does not necessarily work with IPv6. Microsoft's IPv6 (Teredo) platform doesn't support for example, at least Win2k+IPv6, XP+IPv6, Vista, and W2k3 (I don't know about Win2k8 or Win7, but they probably are using the same IPv6 stack).
What the frack? And they expect this to roll mainstream?
No one wants to memorize or type 128 bit addresses
How often do you actually need to do this though, DHCP works, DNS works, etc...
Personally, I think the problem is one of 'who's first?', in that it's not a straightforward process for an IPv6 address to send a packet to an IPv4 address and vice versa.
So you end up with the problem that you'd need EVERYBODY to switch at the same time, because once all your users have IPv4 addresses(possibly behind a NAT) so they can reach IPv4 servers, and all the servers have IPv4 addresses so they can communicate with clients that haven't upgraded yet, you might as well send packets via IPv4, as it's actually a little more efficient.
Sorta like how a 32bit system is a little more efficient as long as you're not busting the address limits compared to a 64bit system.
You'd have to beat on a camera really really hard to mess up an SD card inside to the point where it was unreadable.
In the semi-near future you might not even have and SD card to attack to destroy a recording, in Iran there are people actually helping to create fixes for this I understand. Given that they actively protest even though their cops are much more known to destroy stuff(including people), they're already developing countermeasures like having the camera(normally on a cell phone) be automatically uploading even as it's recording.
Then by all means then, get your camera and quit whining. You lose the right to complain when your too freaking lazy to do something about it.
I'm reminded of the phrase 'Evil wins when good men do nothing'. I'm probably butchering the statement, but ignoring an injustice like this doesn't help end it.
Unless the victims sue and start winning big judgments, this behavior isn't going to change.
Even then it doesn't always help, as the police simply pay the judgment and take it out of their budget, the offending officers never have to pay a cent. Then the department goes to whatever level of government that funds them and goes 'we need more money or we can't do our jobs!', and everybody in the area ends up paying more taxes as a result.
Big judgments, in my opinion, are less than optimal when it comes to affecting the behavior of government organizations. There are better options.
Simple enough. Just like air conditioning in reverse, you use 100 watts of electricity to move 130 watts worth of 'heat' to the hot side(the inside of your house in this case), along with the heat produced by the system, totaling the 230 watts.
It works because you're getting energy from outside the system(the electricity).
Now, this is great for heating, but in the end the temperature difference isn't enough to pull enough power off the resulting temperature differential to produce the energy used to make the differential, so it doesn't violate the laws of thermodynamics.
I can't believe this post was modded 5 insightful. How is remarking that we are still in Afghanistan and Iraq as an example of how Bush and Obama are similar insightful, maybe 5 obvious. While it is obviously true we are still in Afghanistan and in Iraq the strategies for both these two conflicts have changed drastically since Obama has taken office.
You think that Obama's plan to recreate the Bush's surge in Iraq in Afghanistan is 'changed drastically'? Heck, he's pretty much moved the general who handled the surge and stabilization of Iraq over to do the same job in Afghanistan.
Don't get me wrong, if what the general is doing is working I'm not going to stop him, but he was still originally a Bush appointee.
The reason I discount the draw-down in Iraq for being 'different' than Bush is that he would have been doing the same thing according to his own plan and the status of Iraq.
A BIG part of stabilizing Iraq and forming a new government can be compared to building a brand new army. Sure, you can train a basic foot-pounder in under a year, whether he be army, police, or bureaucrat. What you don't get that first year are many good NCOs, detectives, or managers. You start getting them around year five, if you're lucky. Around a decade to start getting Colonels, Station Chiefs, and executives. Even longer for generals, city commissioners, and division secretaries.
The second factor would be getting people to 'believe' in the government. With the support of the people, without their belief in it's legitimacy, a government is going nowhere. And establishing that takes time as well.
Compare this with statements McCain has said about staying in Iraq for 100 years.
Look around, how many countries where the USA has 'successfully' staged a military intervention don't we have troops in? We still have troops in most of Europe, South Korea, Japan, etc...
As for Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Democrats are the only people in the Senate who support its repeal. McCain no longer supports its repeal.
The deficit is an issue that both parties have a problem with.
Like I said, not happy with either party, though some of the reasons differ...
Troop levels are down a lot in Iraq.
Yes, they are. They're also down to the the levels Bush was planning on when Iraq reached the status it has. Basically, Obama has been following Bush's plan with the exception that Obama goes 'We'll be out at X date(unless they haven't met the goals)', while Bush was 'We'll draw down when X goals are met, regardless of how long that takes'.
Don't ask, don't tell is on its last legs, something that would not have occurred under McCain.
Can we truly say that? I mean, the issue is pretty much dead for this congress, and if the democrats lose a number of seats, as they're predicted to, it'll be gone until Obama is up for re-election.
Perception trends put a time limit on DADT anyways, but I'm not willing to say how long, not having quite enough statistical information. Younger people are substantially more supporting, but older people are shifting towards more supporting as well. IE the 40 year olds of today are more supporting of gay rights than the 30 year olds of a decade ago. Same with gay marriage and such.
The NRA has had a history of supporting pro-gun rights candidates irregardless of party. I've paid attention. While there hasn't been a lot of movement on the federal level, there's been quite a bit at the state level. We're down to, what, 2 states that don't allow concealed carry at some level? Then again, speaking of federal level there was the strike-down of the DC gun ban. But I wouldn't associate supreme court judges with parties...
The problem, as I see it, is that the Democrats for the longest time seemed to insist on putting gun control advocates up for election, not to mention making gun control a party plank. I can't blame the NRA for taking the party at it's word and assuming that a candidate, unless he or she has stated differently, follows their party's platform, to include the gun control bits. You have some of the most vehement gun grabbers in the democrat party. Feinstein, for example. Kennedy, before his passing, was recorded proposing banning all rifles capable of penetrating soft body armor - He listed the '30-30' as an example of a gun caliber to be banned. The .30-30 was developed on the cusp of the widespread replacement of black powder with smokeless. It's primarily for lever action rifles, and was never intended for military use. It's generally considered on the bottom end of cartridges suitable for deer hunting today. Yes, it'll cut through soft body armor like butter, but so won't pretty much every other center-fire rifle round.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that Obama hasn't touched gun control stuff. Because, frankly speaking, he's a politician from Chicago and doesn't have the best record.
Obama is not the same as the Old Boss. Educate yourself.
Sure, he's not identical. Sure, he changed a couple policies. Policies that studies were showing were ineffective. But he's held the same course in so many OTHER areas that you can stay he's much the same.
For example, we're still in Iraq. We're still in Afghanistan. We're still spending borrowed money like crazy. Gun control hasn't changed, and don't ask don't tell still stands.
Personally I think that we need to 'finish the job' in Iraq and Afghanistan, which to me means a functional government able to defend itself from extremists and foreign powers. Able to represent the people, etc... At this point the reason we went in is almost moot.
I'm very much FOR balanced budgets. I think that gays should be able to openly serve in the military, it's only a source of friction right now. As for gun control, well, check out my sig for my thoughts on that...
For the record, I'm not happy with either party.
Well, next-day air would rather tend to be the worst situation, though I figure most of the trucks are diesel, not gasoline.
Best case would probably be USPS or it's equivalent. Ground transport with lots of other objects.
Still, most of my online purchases are for items I can't get locally, so I don't think it matters that much.
Some people claim that the declassified or otherwise published data has not been altered and has pretty precise blueprints, but until someone verifies that through a DIY atol removal, I think there's a decent chance that at least some of the information has been cleverly and subtly altered before public release. Otherwise I'd have expected quite a few more nuclear powers given the easy information.
From everything I've heard, building a nuclear bomb isn't that hard. The hard part is getting the enriched uranium or plutonium.
Even terrorists know this. That is why ships and trains have rarely been hijacked. There is no urgency.
The pirates in Somalia would like a word with you...
I'd be willing to be that there have been more ships hijacked in the last 20 years than planes.
What happens to a plane whose engines stops? It crashes into the ground.
Assuming that that's all that's wrong, the plane doesn't immediately crash into the ground. It instead becomes a glider of varying efficiency.
Airliners fly so high and fast and have a good enough glide slope that I believe that, at least in the USA, they're pretty much always within range of some runway if their engines stop.
Actual incident, involving Air Canada and a 767-200. Got a 12:1 glide ratio.
That wouldn't just be the salary. An employee costs the company far more than just their salary.
Common figures are 30-60% of salary in benefits.
Consider healthcare, training, per diem, taxes, middle management for the extra pilots, recruitment, equipping, etc...
In these cases prison does work, but so do a lot of other harsh punishments (reparations, curfew, large fines if they can afford it).
I'd argue that alternative punishments often work BETTER, because putting them in prison tends to create the very 'hardened criminals' we're trying to avoid.
It's also why I think that, in specific situations, caning might not be a bad punishment.
I'll note that I think that the cruelest punishment is perhaps one that doesn't work.
Look at it medical terms - which would you rather have, a pin-prick w/5 minutes of 'burning' sensation that doesn't work for curing your cancer, or a brutal, agonizing surgury that DOES work? Especially if, because the pin-prick doesn't work, we go to do it every day, in the hope that it does?
I'll be honest here. While I want to see justice done, the perpetrator to pay for his or her crimes, I think that a core issue is making sure they don't do it again, making them a productive member of society(again, for the first time), etc...
Basically, reforming them. I know that can be an expensive process, but I'd rather a dude be earning $30k in a productive job and paying a little in taxes than costing the state $30k a year to warehouse him with other violent individuals where his violent tendencies can be reinforced.
this heat is not being recovered in typical plants AFAIK.
I believe the equation that said plastic jugs are cheaper than sterilizing glass ones was done quite some time ago without significant heat recovery from the water anyways. Equations can change.
Anyways, let's do some math. Most sites recommend boiling, and when you're talking about sterilizing bottles that aren't going to go back to the same consumer you have to be paranoid, so let's use 100C/212F. Let's also use 16C/60F for the source water.
Temp difference: 84C/152F. It takes 1 BTU to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water 1F. 1 pound of water~1 pint~ .5L. Sounds about right for an industrial wash/rinse system, and it's convienent.
So we'd need 152 BTUs for our wash. Maybe more, maybe less. More would be heating different water for the wash and rinse, less would be lower temperatures, heat reclamation, etc...
There's around 1k BTU per 'cubic foot' of Natural gas, enough to wash 6.6 bottles. Around 17 grams of NG, after some searching. Some quick research shows that they were typically quart sized, so equivalent to 1.65 gallon jugs.
After a bunch of searching, I found 'less than 60 grams'. So you might indeed be right; still have the matter of how long would glass jugs would last, on average, because making the glass is a much, much, higher energy cost.
I'm lucky where I live now that I can go and see the municipal-owned electronics disassembly and recycling center in operation.
I'm curious as to how far does this go? You metion disassmebly AND recycling; are they running a smelting operation to recover the copper? Chemical extraction of gold? Or do they outsource for those functions?
Perhaps that's because in my old home town the concrete business was the mob's racket, not trash, I dunno.
It's not even necessary for the Mob to get involved. Many of these companies specialize in 'sweetheart deals' by signing long term exclusive contracts with various municipalities.
Some areas can recycle effectively; they generally generate a lot more waste than my area and are closer to the plants, or at least the ports for cheap shipping to the recycling plants.