And by the way, being environmentally clean costs money. I don't get how you claim that products are going to be cheaper when they're "green."
In this case thye're able to go 'green' without significant expense because they're shutting down their worst plants.
It'd be like replacing half a dozen model-Ts with three civics. Sure, the civics cost new capital, but you experience payback because the Model-Ts are so outdated you don't have the parts availability, they're breaking down all the time, use more fuel per mile*, pollute more**, etc...
*Though the T's aren't bad at fuel mileage, they do this mostly by being lighter than modern cars. **At some point the ruling elite want to clean china up because it's affecting *THEIR* health.
Seems to me that diesel has about 50% market in private personal cars in Europe, but I'm not sure on the exact figures. Of course diesel has problems too. sucks in extreme cold, still pollutes, etc. But it's a pretty damn good option at the current time.
Yes, but I'd expect that 'most' gasoline vehicles would be shifting towards hybrids. Heck, there's nothing preventing you from putting a diesel engine in a hybrid instead of a gasoline - they make some really tiny, really efficient diesels. Wouldn't be powerful enough for decent acceleration, but that's what the hybrid parts are for.
Yes, that doesn't work well. Which is why research is being done on better binding agents
Yeah... 2% storage density, goal of 6.5%. That still means that you're looking at your tank weighing 50X your fuel. The goal is 15X.
Hydrogen has 143 MJ/kg. Gasoline has 46.4. 18 gallon fuel tank - 19 lbs. 18 gallons gasoline@6lbs/gallon = 108lbs=49kg
You'd need 16 kg of Hydrogen to replace it. Current tech is 795kg to store the energy of 58kg worth of gasoline + tank. The goal would 'only' be 240kg. You'd need your fuel cell technology to be triple the efficiency(meaning you only need 1/3rd as much), in order to come close.
Which is expensive. Which is why research is important to make that much cheaper:
Interesting; though I think the cheapest overall system I saw involved a high temperature nuclear plant - heat the water into steam, provide only a 'minor' kick with electricity in the presence of a catalyst, most energy efficient system for cracking hydrogen to date(IE takes the fewest joules for a given amount of hydrogen).
With the system you posted, you still have to pay for the windmills/solar plants, and they haven't come down in cost enough either.
But if you can find a way to get hydrogen out of water that's far more plentiful and easier to create locally.
Or we can set up algae farms next to power plants or other CO2 producers, in the desert, produce ethanol, oil, diesel, etc...
Which is why binding solutions are important, so the hydrogen "wants" to stay.
Then you end up spending energy to get it *OUT*
Battery systems I think have had a ton of research put into them already, so we can only see marginal gains going forward. Hydrogen still has a lot of research headroom for interesting developments.
In what? We still have a ways to go in a number of categories; there's nothing wrong with battery EVs that can't be fixed by a battery that provides twice the power at half the cost.
True, but people are stupid, and they also may be cash-strapped.
That would last for a while, as well as conservatism, but if the payback period was within 5 years people would be able to do the math rather easily - trade an extra $100 on the car loan monthly payment for $150 in savings on gasoline.
Plus gas and hybrid vehicles are not fungible commodities -- they differ in more than just fuel consumption.
Enough to be significant? Both are powered by gasoline, both generally have similar acceleration(within a class), storage room, seating capacity, etc... You have the tradeoff between saving engine maintenance in exchange for battery replacement.
Hybrids makes sense for the 'Inner city cab driver' profile at this time. There are better options for most other people.
I am really hoping we shift to hydrogen for green cars, as California started to do.
I have some issues with this. Hydrogen is an energy storage system, there are no hydrogen 'mines'. With that in mind, I'll point out some problems -
1. Hydrogen has lower energy by volume even at quite high pressures - you suffer the same problem as with batteries, the containment system weighs more than the fuel. 2. The most common method of obtaining hydrogen today is by cracking natural gas 2a. It's more efficient to just burn the natural gas. And they even have fuel cells for it 2b. NG is more power dense volume wise, and only slightly less by weight. LNG doesn't require quite the pressure vessel, so probably weighs a vehicle down less as well. 3. To my knowledge we still don't have a hydrogen tight valve.
If the market didn't do this, an arbitrage opportunity would exist... and arbitrageurs would act upon it, which would have the effect of raising the price of the hybrids anyway.
I think there's a mistake in your arbitrage idea. Unless you're thinking about importing hybrids from the USA into Europe and other high fuel cost areas?
Of course, I always wonder why I don't hear about double digit shifts over to hybrids over in Europe. Their significantly higher fuel costs make them economical far more quickly than in the USA.
Both standard cars and hybrids are manufactured goods. Assuming a perfectly competitive market, if hybrids were truly cheaper over their lifetime, you'd expect hybrid manufacturers to enjoy a competitive advantage - they'd be able to charge more comparitivly than gasoline vehicles, but that would only last until other hybrid manufacturers came in with sufficient quantities to satisfy demand.
Ah, but there most certainly is! People with degrees in their field make, on average, more money than people who do not.
It's statistically true, that people with degrees earn more.
However, for many individuals, an earlier entry into the job market, the subsequent seniority, extra 4-6 years of work, and lack of student debt can mean that the (smart) teenager that skipped college to go directly to work can be better off well into his forties. Remember, Bill Gates was a college dropout.
Still, I'll shift this a bit: We need to, as much as possible, make our high schools relevant again. You used to graduate high school with almost the equivalent of today's 2 year degree. You still can, but it's no longer 'standard'. We need to bring back vocational schools. Perhaps emphasize continuing education over directly to college from high school.
I would not be surprised if those sorts of people make up a significant fraction of those who pirated the game - and Machinarium is awesome enough that this $5 piracy amnesty offer might cause some of them to pay up.
In which case I'm distorting their stats still; played the demo, never downloaded the full version, didn't even play it until today.
$20 at steam-no way. $5 for the amnesty? SOLD!
Chalk up one never pirate for buying it as a pirate.
As a military robot you may not have a 'need to know', but how about as a human being?
The concept of 'need to know' spreads far beyond just the military. Just look at 'secret shoppers', surprise promotions, etc...
I'm far from being a 'military robot'.
And in that case, are we talking about 'need to know' or 'want to know' ?
I'm vaguely curious as to what's in the documents; I have a feeling I know the gist of most of them though.
Not being assigned to work intel or in the area, I don't have a 'need' - IE my knowing won't help me succeed in my part of the mission, nor help the mission overall.
In which case I'm just one more potential leak if I know it, intentional or not.
Administrative discharge isn't quite as bad as Dishonorable, but still causes you to lose all your benefits and sticks you with the "Conditions other than honorable" stigma for the rest of your life.
Uh, no. It doesn't. Dishonorable is Dishonorable, nothing else comes close. Dishonorable discharge is the equivalent of a FELONY CONVICTION.
Admin discharge is effectively honorable in most cases, just that you're not suitable for the military. You might not have enough service time in for all benefits, but you can still qualify for quite a few.
Medical is definitely honorable, and should include discharge for psych reasons.
The military could stop it. They have the weapons to do so if they choose.
Sure we could...
Let's see - we can go after Julian Assange, who is an Australian citizen. Apparently still in Australia. Attacking an ally's citizen, in that country? Yeah, that'd go over real good...
The servers? They're located around the world, as far as I can tell. Lots of bad press if we bomb those. Hacking them might work better, but I'm sure they have backups.
Remember, the military doesn't operate under the same rules system as civilians do. The UCMJ system is more flexible. It does NOT look kindly upon circumvention attempts like this.
For example, they can now hit you for deliberately inciting the transmission of classified over unsecure telephone lines...
I know of military members who were convicted under the UCMJ for having nudie pics sent to their military email address by non-military friends.
Step 1 is call the security folks Step 2 is to disconnect everything Step 3 is to follow the security folk's instructions on how to destroy/remove everything.
Why this order? Deleting/destroying the stuff could destroy any evidence on HOW the classified got where it was, who put it there, etc...
Anyone in the defense world in possession of classified documents they shouldn't have is in violation of employment agreements and potentially laws.
It's been a few years, but at one point the major networks put up a document marked 'secret', something about a senator's aide sneaking out classified in his socks then claiming 'I didn't know I wasn't supposed to do that'.
As a result, we blocked the major news networks for a few days - CNN, Fox, NBC, etc...
We've also had issues where we block the sites of hostile parties(or perceived hostile parties) such as the Taliban, Al Jazeera, etc...
It's mostly a Knee-jerk reaction among the higher ups.
If you don't want to be there, shouldn't you be allowed to leave?
It's been decided that we can't afford to have military members leaving unexpectedly, much less during wartime/before combat, etc...
I'll note that if you TRULY don't want to be in the military anymore, there's plenty of options to get out. You just have to accept the consequences. Some are worse than others. Faking/revealing you're gay at least used to be popular, but it's a bit uneven today as in many areas they more or less ignore the 'don't tell' part of don't ask/don't tell, as you'd practically have to do it IN the commander's office, with him there, to get them to care. At which point there's other UCMJ laws they can make your life unpleasant with.
Generally the easiest is to simply let your enlistment run out. Nets you the most benefits and doesn't burn any bridges.
Give me 10-15 minutes to explain, and they'll know. I have to explain it to non-technical higher ups all the time.
"It's software that allows somebody at a distant location to covertly take control of the computer without the owner/user knowing, allowing them to move files/data, steal the user's information, or even perform attacks on other computers."
More techical stuff is explained all the time; and you should make time to explain it in a misdemeanor trial, much less a felony one.
There was another man who was killed because the previous occupant of the apartment was a registered sex offender and had moved out six months earlier. The killers didn't check that hard.
I understand they're now very sorry that they aren't around to protect their children anymore...
Personally, I think sex offender lists are a bad thing - if they're still dangerous, don't release them. As has been mentioned before, most offenders that target children go after kids whose parent's know and trust them.
You also get the problem that the list is contaminated - bad addresses, drunk pissers, slightly too-young girlfriends, non-pedophiles, etc...
What if they put it on an unencrypted partition? Maybe just toss a thumbdrive into your stuff, then report it to police?
Heck, the case that resulted in conviction that I know of was the result of a rootkit - it was mere luck that somebody finally noticed that the machine was making requests it shouldn't. Even then it was something of an uphill battle.
I can guarantee people are pulling this off successfully. I know of a case where it wasn't until the 2nd appeal that they figured out that the computer was infected with a rootkit that was downloading/uploading the stuff.
My only thought is that, generally speaking, most people can cause 'probable doubt'.
A benefit is that 'most' people don't know how to get the CP in the first place without leaving tracks. It takes more effort than simply crying 'rape', that most people don't think of it.
Are you sure about that? Pay particular attention the link that says "technology."
It's part of the 'usually'. Most bikes still don't come with entertainment systems, and it'd be rather tough for me to even try to text while on my bike.
Of course, I have a stock V-Star classic 650. No cruise control/throttle lock*, no radio, not even a fuel gauge.
*IE it's not actually a 'cruise control' in that it maintains a custom speed. It maintains a constant throttle, allowing you to remove your right hand for brief periods without slowing.
Florida is a home for retirees specifically because going to Florida permits them to evade debts.
There's more to it than that. It's also got a tax structure that is favorable to them. Many are looking to 'get out of the cold', which is why they aren't going to Alaska. Better cost of living than AK as well.
Thing is, this isn't a heat resistant or heavily built balloon. It'll burn up before the satellite. Remember - Higher drag = more heat. If anything, it'll slow the sat MORE, resulting in a steeper entry more likely to break the craft up.
That's the thing about space recycling. Once we have actual industry up there, we can afford to get tricky and cheap to bring the mass from space junk to our factory. Don't forget that we're also cleaning up our orbits at the same time, so it also counts as recycling.
Even if the Mark 1 factory is more or less only a 'fusing' unit that turns old satellites into supplemental shielding for our manned craft to mars.
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And by the way, being environmentally clean costs money. I don't get how you claim that products are going to be cheaper when they're "green."
In this case thye're able to go 'green' without significant expense because they're shutting down their worst plants.
It'd be like replacing half a dozen model-Ts with three civics. Sure, the civics cost new capital, but you experience payback because the Model-Ts are so outdated you don't have the parts availability, they're breaking down all the time, use more fuel per mile*, pollute more**, etc...
*Though the T's aren't bad at fuel mileage, they do this mostly by being lighter than modern cars.
**At some point the ruling elite want to clean china up because it's affecting *THEIR* health.
Seems to me that diesel has about 50% market in private personal cars in Europe, but I'm not sure on the exact figures. Of course diesel has problems too. sucks in extreme cold, still pollutes, etc. But it's a pretty damn good option at the current time.
Yes, but I'd expect that 'most' gasoline vehicles would be shifting towards hybrids. Heck, there's nothing preventing you from putting a diesel engine in a hybrid instead of a gasoline - they make some really tiny, really efficient diesels. Wouldn't be powerful enough for decent acceleration, but that's what the hybrid parts are for.
Yes, that doesn't work well. Which is why research is being done on better binding agents
Yeah... 2% storage density, goal of 6.5%. That still means that you're looking at your tank weighing 50X your fuel. The goal is 15X.
Hydrogen has 143 MJ/kg. Gasoline has 46.4.
18 gallon fuel tank - 19 lbs. 18 gallons gasoline@6lbs/gallon = 108lbs=49kg
You'd need 16 kg of Hydrogen to replace it. Current tech is 795kg to store the energy of 58kg worth of gasoline + tank. The goal would 'only' be 240kg. You'd need your fuel cell technology to be triple the efficiency(meaning you only need 1/3rd as much), in order to come close.
Which is expensive. Which is why research is important to make that much cheaper:
Interesting; though I think the cheapest overall system I saw involved a high temperature nuclear plant - heat the water into steam, provide only a 'minor' kick with electricity in the presence of a catalyst, most energy efficient system for cracking hydrogen to date(IE takes the fewest joules for a given amount of hydrogen).
With the system you posted, you still have to pay for the windmills/solar plants, and they haven't come down in cost enough either.
But if you can find a way to get hydrogen out of water that's far more plentiful and easier to create locally.
Or we can set up algae farms next to power plants or other CO2 producers, in the desert, produce ethanol, oil, diesel, etc...
Which is why binding solutions are important, so the hydrogen "wants" to stay.
Then you end up spending energy to get it *OUT*
Battery systems I think have had a ton of research put into them already, so we can only see marginal gains going forward. Hydrogen still has a lot of research headroom for interesting developments.
In what? We still have a ways to go in a number of categories; there's nothing wrong with battery EVs that can't be fixed by a battery that provides twice the power at half the cost.
True, but people are stupid, and they also may be cash-strapped.
That would last for a while, as well as conservatism, but if the payback period was within 5 years people would be able to do the math rather easily - trade an extra $100 on the car loan monthly payment for $150 in savings on gasoline.
Plus gas and hybrid vehicles are not fungible commodities -- they differ in more than just fuel consumption.
Enough to be significant? Both are powered by gasoline, both generally have similar acceleration(within a class), storage room, seating capacity, etc... You have the tradeoff between saving engine maintenance in exchange for battery replacement.
Hybrids makes sense for the 'Inner city cab driver' profile at this time. There are better options for most other people.
Maybe it's to make the hybrids look better; a lot of figures I've seen have a hybrid's battery lasting ~5-7 years.
Even if you drop the cost of replacing the battery with a recycled one to $3k, that's a significant expense and often a deal breaker.
I am really hoping we shift to hydrogen for green cars, as California started to do.
I have some issues with this. Hydrogen is an energy storage system, there are no hydrogen 'mines'. With that in mind, I'll point out some problems -
1. Hydrogen has lower energy by volume even at quite high pressures - you suffer the same problem as with batteries, the containment system weighs more than the fuel.
2. The most common method of obtaining hydrogen today is by cracking natural gas
2a. It's more efficient to just burn the natural gas. And they even have fuel cells for it
2b. NG is more power dense volume wise, and only slightly less by weight. LNG doesn't require quite the pressure vessel, so probably weighs a vehicle down less as well.
3. To my knowledge we still don't have a hydrogen tight valve.
If the market didn't do this, an arbitrage opportunity would exist... and arbitrageurs would act upon it, which would have the effect of raising the price of the hybrids anyway.
I think there's a mistake in your arbitrage idea. Unless you're thinking about importing hybrids from the USA into Europe and other high fuel cost areas?
Of course, I always wonder why I don't hear about double digit shifts over to hybrids over in Europe. Their significantly higher fuel costs make them economical far more quickly than in the USA.
Both standard cars and hybrids are manufactured goods. Assuming a perfectly competitive market, if hybrids were truly cheaper over their lifetime, you'd expect hybrid manufacturers to enjoy a competitive advantage - they'd be able to charge more comparitivly than gasoline vehicles, but that would only last until other hybrid manufacturers came in with sufficient quantities to satisfy demand.
Ah, but there most certainly is! People with degrees in their field make, on average, more money than people who do not.
It's statistically true, that people with degrees earn more.
However, for many individuals, an earlier entry into the job market, the subsequent seniority, extra 4-6 years of work, and lack of student debt can mean that the (smart) teenager that skipped college to go directly to work can be better off well into his forties. Remember, Bill Gates was a college dropout.
Still, I'll shift this a bit: We need to, as much as possible, make our high schools relevant again. You used to graduate high school with almost the equivalent of today's 2 year degree. You still can, but it's no longer 'standard'. We need to bring back vocational schools. Perhaps emphasize continuing education over directly to college from high school.
I would not be surprised if those sorts of people make up a significant fraction of those who pirated the game - and Machinarium is awesome enough that this $5 piracy amnesty offer might cause some of them to pay up.
In which case I'm distorting their stats still; played the demo, never downloaded the full version, didn't even play it until today.
$20 at steam-no way. $5 for the amnesty? SOLD!
Chalk up one never pirate for buying it as a pirate.
As a military robot you may not have a 'need to know', but how about as a human being?
The concept of 'need to know' spreads far beyond just the military. Just look at 'secret shoppers', surprise promotions, etc...
I'm far from being a 'military robot'.
And in that case, are we talking about 'need to know' or 'want to know' ?
I'm vaguely curious as to what's in the documents; I have a feeling I know the gist of most of them though.
Not being assigned to work intel or in the area, I don't have a 'need' - IE my knowing won't help me succeed in my part of the mission, nor help the mission overall.
In which case I'm just one more potential leak if I know it, intentional or not.
Administrative discharge isn't quite as bad as Dishonorable, but still causes you to lose all your benefits and sticks you with the "Conditions other than honorable" stigma for the rest of your life.
Uh, no. It doesn't. Dishonorable is Dishonorable, nothing else comes close. Dishonorable discharge is the equivalent of a FELONY CONVICTION.
Admin discharge is effectively honorable in most cases, just that you're not suitable for the military. You might not have enough service time in for all benefits, but you can still qualify for quite a few.
Medical is definitely honorable, and should include discharge for psych reasons.
The military could stop it. They have the weapons to do so if they choose.
Sure we could...
Let's see - we can go after Julian Assange, who is an Australian citizen. Apparently still in Australia. Attacking an ally's citizen, in that country? Yeah, that'd go over real good...
The servers? They're located around the world, as far as I can tell. Lots of bad press if we bomb those. Hacking them might work better, but I'm sure they have backups.
Lawsuit? Again, multiple countries, multiple jurisdictions, volunteer organization(limited funds at risk), 1st ammendment concerns.
As dan mentioned, this would make things WORSE.
Remember, the military doesn't operate under the same rules system as civilians do. The UCMJ system is more flexible. It does NOT look kindly upon circumvention attempts like this.
For example, they can now hit you for deliberately inciting the transmission of classified over unsecure telephone lines...
I know of military members who were convicted under the UCMJ for having nudie pics sent to their military email address by non-military friends.
The clearance is only half of it - you also have need to know.
I don't have any need to know for the documents on wikileaks. Most military types don't.
You got it backwards.
Step 1 is call the security folks
Step 2 is to disconnect everything
Step 3 is to follow the security folk's instructions on how to destroy/remove everything.
Why this order? Deleting/destroying the stuff could destroy any evidence on HOW the classified got where it was, who put it there, etc...
Anyone in the defense world in possession of classified documents they shouldn't have is in violation of employment agreements and potentially laws.
Depends on how they got it...
It's been a few years, but at one point the major networks put up a document marked 'secret', something about a senator's aide sneaking out classified in his socks then claiming 'I didn't know I wasn't supposed to do that'.
As a result, we blocked the major news networks for a few days - CNN, Fox, NBC, etc...
We've also had issues where we block the sites of hostile parties(or perceived hostile parties) such as the Taliban, Al Jazeera, etc...
It's mostly a Knee-jerk reaction among the higher ups.
If you don't want to be there, shouldn't you be allowed to leave?
It's been decided that we can't afford to have military members leaving unexpectedly, much less during wartime/before combat, etc...
I'll note that if you TRULY don't want to be in the military anymore, there's plenty of options to get out. You just have to accept the consequences. Some are worse than others. Faking/revealing you're gay at least used to be popular, but it's a bit uneven today as in many areas they more or less ignore the 'don't tell' part of don't ask/don't tell, as you'd practically have to do it IN the commander's office, with him there, to get them to care. At which point there's other UCMJ laws they can make your life unpleasant with.
Generally the easiest is to simply let your enlistment run out. Nets you the most benefits and doesn't burn any bridges.
Give me 10-15 minutes to explain, and they'll know. I have to explain it to non-technical higher ups all the time.
"It's software that allows somebody at a distant location to covertly take control of the computer without the owner/user knowing, allowing them to move files/data, steal the user's information, or even perform attacks on other computers."
More techical stuff is explained all the time; and you should make time to explain it in a misdemeanor trial, much less a felony one.
So the guy was killed for taking a leak outside.
There was another man who was killed because the previous occupant of the apartment was a registered sex offender and had moved out six months earlier. The killers didn't check that hard.
I understand they're now very sorry that they aren't around to protect their children anymore...
Personally, I think sex offender lists are a bad thing - if they're still dangerous, don't release them. As has been mentioned before, most offenders that target children go after kids whose parent's know and trust them.
You also get the problem that the list is contaminated - bad addresses, drunk pissers, slightly too-young girlfriends, non-pedophiles, etc...
What if they put it on an unencrypted partition? Maybe just toss a thumbdrive into your stuff, then report it to police?
Heck, the case that resulted in conviction that I know of was the result of a rootkit - it was mere luck that somebody finally noticed that the machine was making requests it shouldn't. Even then it was something of an uphill battle.
I can guarantee people are pulling this off successfully. I know of a case where it wasn't until the 2nd appeal that they figured out that the computer was infected with a rootkit that was downloading/uploading the stuff.
My only thought is that, generally speaking, most people can cause 'probable doubt'.
A benefit is that 'most' people don't know how to get the CP in the first place without leaving tracks. It takes more effort than simply crying 'rape', that most people don't think of it.
Are you sure about that? Pay particular attention the link that says "technology."
It's part of the 'usually'. Most bikes still don't come with entertainment systems, and it'd be rather tough for me to even try to text while on my bike.
Of course, I have a stock V-Star classic 650. No cruise control/throttle lock*, no radio, not even a fuel gauge.
*IE it's not actually a 'cruise control' in that it maintains a custom speed. It maintains a constant throttle, allowing you to remove your right hand for brief periods without slowing.
Florida is a home for retirees specifically because going to Florida permits them to evade debts.
There's more to it than that. It's also got a tax structure that is favorable to them. Many are looking to 'get out of the cold', which is why they aren't going to Alaska. Better cost of living than AK as well.
Thing is, this isn't a heat resistant or heavily built balloon. It'll burn up before the satellite. Remember - Higher drag = more heat. If anything, it'll slow the sat MORE, resulting in a steeper entry more likely to break the craft up.
That's the thing about space recycling. Once we have actual industry up there, we can afford to get tricky and cheap to bring the mass from space junk to our factory. Don't forget that we're also cleaning up our orbits at the same time, so it also counts as recycling.
Even if the Mark 1 factory is more or less only a 'fusing' unit that turns old satellites into supplemental shielding for our manned craft to mars.