Saudi (Arabia) doesn't have oil? Damn, never knew. The reason the US doesn't invade is because the royalty there was put in place by the US and doesn't have any big qualms with them. They do support Al Quaida, but they haven't threatened to cut the oil flow for years. And that's what really matters of course.
There were similar comments on sound and color. Once, a long time ago, movies like Metropolis were created. They didn't need sound to carry their meaning. Sound could even have been a distraction. This doesn't mean we should turn the clock back many years. When technology progressed, sound became the default. This doesn't mean all films with sound are better than all films without it. The same counts for color. The difference is: the first color movies sucked in their representation of color. Some of the first 3D movies suck at 3D. Clash of the titans was a bad movie without 3D. The low quality 3d subtracted even more from that, but even with a good 3D the movie would have sucked. Piranha 3D was even worse. But there is a difference between that shit and Avatar. Avatar had a good story with beautiful images that were boosted by the 3d effects.
There is also the (small) part of humankind who get real dizziness effects from seeing a 3d movie. The cause of this is due to the fact that each human brain is different: Each processes the information from the retinas in a different way. Different brains have different values for different sources of information. Compare it with seasickness: some brains can work with a difference in information between the eyes (I am standing still in my environment, the boat) and the vestibular system (I am moving) and some brains can't. This should not be a reason to stop making 3D movies: Did deaf people stop the making of movies with sound? They could not follow the story of these movies, so going to the cinema's was useless for them. I have the feeling Roger Ebert is in the category that can't handle the difference in the angle between the eyes and the focus distance. It's to bad for the 3D movies that he's a well known critic.
source: Kijk (a dutch magazine), somewhere in the fall of 2010
It appears posts deeper than the Yo Dawg post by MachDelta disappear. I preferred the old way: place them under each other. Although difficult to read, it was possible to read.
Here's a hint: Nickel-Hydride, chemical. Something elemental and heavier than nickel, fusion. Something elemental and lighter than nickel, fission. A nickel-hydrogen reaction that results in less of both nickel and hydrogen is definitely some sort of fusion; if it results in something lighter than copper, it's probably fission (of nickel) and fusion (of hydrogen with whatever else).
Up to now you had a good roll. From here it declines to below 0 Kelvin.
Sometimes I'm surprised scientists are so stupid, really. They have that whole mass-energy conservation bullshit, but both fission and fusion apparently produce tons of energy. So if you can get the energy to cause the reaction in one direction, it's exothermic; if you can do it in the other direction, it's also exothermic. If you can make it oscillate, it produces a run-away exothermic process that self-feeds and turns the universe into a ball of molten liquefied thermal radiation expanding at the speed of light.
Do you see it?
I see it. You don't, but I will try to help:
Both fusion and fission products are lighter than the fuel. There is real mass converted to energy. The Hiroshima bomb had 0.6 grams more uranium in it than the reaction products combined. The conversion of weight goes by the E=MC2 formula, so you can calculate the resulting energy: E=0.6*300,000,000^2= 54,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That's what destroyed an entire city and irradiated the surroundings: 0.6 grams of mass converted to energy. Fusion and fission work so well because a little bit of mass represents a hell of a lot of energy. This caused you not to understand what happens.
The elements that can have a chain fission reaction (exothermic) are different elements than the elements that can fuse. To get the same elements again you'd have to blast them with at least as much energy as you got out of it in the first place. Fusion chain reactions work on different elements, you can't fuse 92Kr and 141Ba to 236U (reversing the uranium fission reaction) again without putting in a shitload of energy. You can fuse 2H and 3H to 4He and a spare neutron and gain energy of it, but to split the 4He to 2H and 3H you need not only a neutron, but also a shitload of energy.
There is a reason some hospitals have their own cyclotrons. They need to speed up the ions to get them to fuse to the isotopes they want. It costs a lot of energy, but they can't put just anything radioactive in your body (see radiocontrast).
Fusion adds the protons of two atoms. Since Ni(28 protons) + H(1 proton) add up to Cu (29 protons) the reaction product copper is a strong indication of fusion. If it were a radiothermal generator it would work on fission. This would decrease the proton count in the reaction product. IE: Ni (28) splits to 2 atoms of Si (14), or launch a He (2) core and decrease to Fe (26) depending on things I have no knowledge of. In each case of fusion the reaction products would have a lower number of protons and in neither case the reaction would consume hydrogen The radiation generated could also indicate whether it was fusion or fission. To conclude: the scientists can probably see whether it is fusion or fission as easily as you can determine whether something running down the street is a cat or a dog. Disclaimer: IANANS
There is one problem with banning high powered lasers. An EUR 16 DVD burner has one and you can built it in a mini mag-lite for convinience. While the MAFIAA would support the banning of DVD and blu-ray burners I believe this is not feasible. Disclaimer: dunno about the range of the damn things. It may only be a few meters due to cheap optics.
Mexico could be used for the same purpose. It would even create a better balance. The US can use cheap Mexican electricity during the day and expensive African electricity during the night (expensive due to long submarinal cables).
You could use (part of) the solar energy to create fuels, which you can burn during the night
Most predictions are like a machine gun. If you try 10M times you may have a few hits. If you focus just on those hits it will seem like you predicted correctly. The people who believe in the Bible tend to focus on the hits. The book of Revelation is 22 chapters thick, with, according to some, multiple predictions per chapter. Most are vague enough to count as buckshot themselves. No wonder some of them seem like true.
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
By the way: it would be unworkable to have a democracy like the ancient Greek. That was a good start, but we think now that all the people should be allowed to vote. If all the people would spend several hours a day in politics (as the ancient greeks did, at least those who were allowed to vote) society would collapse. opening governance is a bad plan for the common folk and a good plan for the corporations. They would simply pay more people to vote what they want to vote and have it pass always. Don't forget that the group who would actually be involved would be small, only those interested now would vote. See Switzerland In most cases about 25% turns up, even with a EUR 3 penalty for not voting. Combine that with even more subjects to vote on and a strong corporate system (at least lightly corrupt).
Adblock doesn't really stop tracking. The tool was designed to protect your eyes, not your privacy. If a flash ad does contain tracking tools it may help. NoScript blocks all tracking attempts, but it's a bit obnoxious.
The best thing of Vista I noticed in my short experience was that it required rights escalation at every important change. I was shocked (although I should have expected it) to read people were disabling it, or even that there was an easy option to do so. I am happy that the OS asks me whether I want to install something, for that increases the chance it will also ask me when it starts installing a virus. I am unhappy that it is possible to disable this. It should be so deep in the OS that a simple one point allow all screwups is impossible.
But God is almighty, so he could have created these bacteria with an lower C-14 carbon fraction so the scientist would be fooled into thinking they were 34000 yo. He would of course do this because only the really faithfull will survive the (zombi)Apocalypse. He is just to lazy to pick all their brains and find it out for real.
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Saudi (Arabia) doesn't have oil? Damn, never knew.
The reason the US doesn't invade is because the royalty there was put in place by the US and doesn't have any big qualms with them. They do support Al Quaida, but they haven't threatened to cut the oil flow for years. And that's what really matters of course.
There were similar comments on sound and color. Once, a long time ago, movies like Metropolis were created. They didn't need sound to carry their meaning. Sound could even have been a distraction. This doesn't mean we should turn the clock back many years. When technology progressed, sound became the default. This doesn't mean all films with sound are better than all films without it.
The same counts for color. The difference is: the first color movies sucked in their representation of color. Some of the first 3D movies suck at 3D. Clash of the titans was a bad movie without 3D. The low quality 3d subtracted even more from that, but even with a good 3D the movie would have sucked. Piranha 3D was even worse. But there is a difference between that shit and Avatar. Avatar had a good story with beautiful images that were boosted by the 3d effects.
There is also the (small) part of humankind who get real dizziness effects from seeing a 3d movie. The cause of this is due to the fact that each human brain is different: Each processes the information from the retinas in a different way. Different brains have different values for different sources of information. Compare it with seasickness: some brains can work with a difference in information between the eyes (I am standing still in my environment, the boat) and the vestibular system (I am moving) and some brains can't.
This should not be a reason to stop making 3D movies: Did deaf people stop the making of movies with sound? They could not follow the story of these movies, so going to the cinema's was useless for them.
I have the feeling Roger Ebert is in the category that can't handle the difference in the angle between the eyes and the focus distance. It's to bad for the 3D movies that he's a well known critic.
source: Kijk (a dutch magazine), somewhere in the fall of 2010
It appears posts deeper than the Yo Dawg post by MachDelta disappear. I preferred the old way: place them under each other. Although difficult to read, it was possible to read.
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Only non-dairy coffee creamer can have unexpected and catastrophical results.
Well, there has been a court summons to two Hindu Gods
Here's a hint: Nickel-Hydride, chemical. Something elemental and heavier than nickel, fusion. Something elemental and lighter than nickel, fission. A nickel-hydrogen reaction that results in less of both nickel and hydrogen is definitely some sort of fusion; if it results in something lighter than copper, it's probably fission (of nickel) and fusion (of hydrogen with whatever else).
Up to now you had a good roll. From here it declines to below 0 Kelvin.
Sometimes I'm surprised scientists are so stupid, really. They have that whole mass-energy conservation bullshit, but both fission and fusion apparently produce tons of energy. So if you can get the energy to cause the reaction in one direction, it's exothermic; if you can do it in the other direction, it's also exothermic. If you can make it oscillate, it produces a run-away exothermic process that self-feeds and turns the universe into a ball of molten liquefied thermal radiation expanding at the speed of light.
Do you see it?
I see it.
You don't, but I will try to help:
Both fusion and fission products are lighter than the fuel. There is real mass converted to energy. The Hiroshima bomb had 0.6 grams more uranium in it than the reaction products combined. The conversion of weight goes by the E=MC2 formula, so you can calculate the resulting energy: E=0.6*300,000,000^2= 54,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That's what destroyed an entire city and irradiated the surroundings: 0.6 grams of mass converted to energy.
Fusion and fission work so well because a little bit of mass represents a hell of a lot of energy. This caused you not to understand what happens.
The elements that can have a chain fission reaction (exothermic) are different elements than the elements that can fuse. To get the same elements again you'd have to blast them with at least as much energy as you got out of it in the first place. Fusion chain reactions work on different elements, you can't fuse 92Kr and 141Ba to 236U (reversing the uranium fission reaction) again without putting in a shitload of energy.
You can fuse 2H and 3H to 4He and a spare neutron and gain energy of it, but to split the 4He to 2H and 3H you need not only a neutron, but also a shitload of energy.
There is a reason some hospitals have their own cyclotrons. They need to speed up the ions to get them to fuse to the isotopes they want. It costs a lot of energy, but they can't put just anything radioactive in your body (see radiocontrast).
Fusion adds the protons of two atoms. Since Ni(28 protons) + H(1 proton) add up to Cu (29 protons) the reaction product copper is a strong indication of fusion.
If it were a radiothermal generator it would work on fission. This would decrease the proton count in the reaction product. IE: Ni (28) splits to 2 atoms of Si (14), or launch a He (2) core and decrease to Fe (26) depending on things I have no knowledge of.
In each case of fusion the reaction products would have a lower number of protons and in neither case the reaction would consume hydrogen
The radiation generated could also indicate whether it was fusion or fission.
To conclude: the scientists can probably see whether it is fusion or fission as easily as you can determine whether something running down the street is a cat or a dog.
Disclaimer: IANANS
There is one problem with banning high powered lasers. An EUR 16 DVD burner has one and you can built it in a mini mag-lite for convinience. While the MAFIAA would support the banning of DVD and blu-ray burners I believe this is not feasible.
Disclaimer: dunno about the range of the damn things. It may only be a few meters due to cheap optics.
Disclaimer: Can't read norwegian and the translation is blocked at work for some reason.
So if the disk was part of a raid 5 system the cops would have been screwed? If they only took 1 harddisk...
Most predictions are like a machine gun. If you try 10M times you may have a few hits. If you focus just on those hits it will seem like you predicted correctly.
The people who believe in the Bible tend to focus on the hits. The book of Revelation is 22 chapters thick, with, according to some, multiple predictions per chapter. Most are vague enough to count as buckshot themselves. No wonder some of them seem like true.
Why not? They did it that way for a short period of time in Chernobyl....
Nope. I have never given Apple the benefit of the doubt. So at the least "Everyone" is an overstatement.
"Most people" may also be an overstatement.
Damn, now I can't mod you up!
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
By the way: it would be unworkable to have a democracy like the ancient Greek. That was a good start, but we think now that all the people should be allowed to vote. If all the people would spend several hours a day in politics (as the ancient greeks did, at least those who were allowed to vote) society would collapse.
opening governance is a bad plan for the common folk and a good plan for the corporations. They would simply pay more people to vote what they want to vote and have it pass always. Don't forget that the group who would actually be involved would be small, only those interested now would vote. See Switzerland In most cases about 25% turns up, even with a EUR 3 penalty for not voting. Combine that with even more subjects to vote on and a strong corporate system (at least lightly corrupt).
yes, but releasing water AND NOx AND CO2 (which the current planes do) is even worse.
Yes it can, but if you know why it's fun you can milk it and become rich!
Adblock doesn't really stop tracking. The tool was designed to protect your eyes, not your privacy. If a flash ad does contain tracking tools it may help.
NoScript blocks all tracking attempts, but it's a bit obnoxious.
Chrome OS would be quite useless because large areas of 3rd world countries do not have a reliable internet connection.
The best thing of Vista I noticed in my short experience was that it required rights escalation at every important change. I was shocked (although I should have expected it) to read people were disabling it, or even that there was an easy option to do so.
I am happy that the OS asks me whether I want to install something, for that increases the chance it will also ask me when it starts installing a virus. I am unhappy that it is possible to disable this. It should be so deep in the OS that a simple one point allow all screwups is impossible.
The words in the bible ARE unimportant, so no false advertising there.
To easy, you'll never remember anything. Use one of these!
But God is almighty, so he could have created these bacteria with an lower C-14 carbon fraction so the scientist would be fooled into thinking they were 34000 yo. He would of course do this because only the really faithfull will survive the (zombi)Apocalypse. He is just to lazy to pick all their brains and find it out for real.