When you burn a fossil fuel (or anything actually) you don't lose any mass. Any energy released comes from the chemical reactions which are the bonds between electrons being broken and created. Fires are able to occur when there are reaction(s) that are exothermic (heat releasing) enough.
It is an unfortunate phrasing that nuclear physicists and engineers use the term burning in a nuclear reaction even though it has nothing to do with fires as most people understand it.
My city drops larvicide down all the storm sewers three times a year in order to prevent West Nile Virus. (We've had no cases here and no positive tests in mosquitoes either this year.) So the bugs are gone and the job is done. But the flies are the worst they have been in at least 12 yeast (I can't say any further because I've only lived in this house for 12 years). The problem is that there are no predators in my suburb to eat flying insects anymore. Before the city started dropping the larvicide down the storm sewers there were plenty of swifts, purple martins, bats, and other flying animals that would eat insects. There was only parcel of land where some swifts managed to live until a last year when houses started being built on it. Now none of those animals exist in the suburb. The city could have encouraged more of those birds and bats to thrive here by giving away homes for them. It would have been cheaper in the long run instead of having to apply chemicals three times a year, every year.
Now we are seeing parts of the city where insect populations are getting out of control because there are no predators around. The city has to respond with chemicals because that's the only response left to them. The ecosystem is much more complex than what you think, even if you think it's complex. This plan isn't just taking out a particular insect. It has a purpose in the web or else it would exist.
No other civilization is going to use a Dyson sphere. Their products are so user unfriendly. I bought one of their fans and had to return it because it was so badly thought out. There's no way that company could design a sphere to enclose a sun properly.
A nuclear plant takes a lot more concrete and steel than a natural gas plant. A NG plant can range from a small building containing a single turbine upwards. The nuclear plant will contain the reactor dome, fuel storage, control area, and if there isn't a large source of water nearby, a cooling tower. And the reactor dome will use lots of specialized concrete to deal with radiation and contain any possible releases. Of course new ones now have to handle attacks such as an airplane being flown into them.
The big problem with nuclear is the cost. Four years ago the province of Ontario put out a request for two new reactors and the lowest cost came back at $13B per reactor. That's not out of line with what the proposed cost for the new reactor in the UK. That money can buy a lot of windmills, solar panels, and energy conservation measures which can be put in place well before a nuclear reactor can be built.
Not that I think that it's locking the processors to Windows 10+ but if Intel and AMD did do something stupid like that then all Apple would do is move to another processor. They did it before when moving from the PowerPC to Intel and that went fairly smoothly. Apple would probably just start packing their machines with ARM processors, something that's been rumoured for years anyways, and roll out Rosetta v2.0 to do the transition.
The various Linux and BSD distributions would be basically okay too. They are already available for different platforms. The commercial developers would have to provide binaries for the new processor that would take over to replace x86 and x86-64.
I'm not saying that there won't be a refresh just that I think that it won't be called the iPhone 7. It'll go something like 6 -> 6S -> 6X and then next year will be 7. Of course they could go 7 this year and 8 next year.
And take a look at a newspaper now. Most of the articles come off a newswire service. Many papers don't create a lot of their own content. The exceptions are the very large papers or the smaller papers that focus on local events.
In Ontario you used to have to go our version of the DMV for drivers licenses and to another office to get the health card (with picture). I don't know where you went to get the age of majority card if you didn't drive. Now they have places that do just about everything in the one spot (with the big exception being the driving tests) instead of each department having their own service centre.
If the rumours of Apple moving to a three year cycle for the design of the iPhone are true then I'd be surprised if they brought out the iPhone 7 this year. Especially with next year being the 10th anniversary of the iPhone which will probably bring a big design refresh.
Not that I care because all I want is the smaller screen with all of the features that the larger phones have. Since Apple isn't making that phone I'm staying with my 5s.
Most of the places I've worked have been open plan offices but two places had offices for everyone. It was great at those two places because it was much quieter so you could concentrate better. If you really needed some time to work on a problem you could close the door and stop interruptions. Paired programming in an open office environment is noisy and doesn't work well for trying to think about a problem.
What was missing from these offices were places where you could meet up with a couple of people to sit down and talk over a problem. Sometimes the offices were shared and you didn't want to bug your office mate or would be crowded with four or five people in them. Or a change of scenery is nice to talk over a problem.
For an onsite option I bought an NAS that has room for two drives which I mirrored. (I would have liked a larger one that I could have gone with RAID-5 or RAID-6 but money prevented that.) I have my computers use Time Machine to back up to the NAS. I also use my NAS for BitTorrent Sync and other services (mail, DNS, proxy).
Ideally you would want an offsite option too in case something happened to your house.
So if I'm in an apartment building I'm going to have to go down to the entrance of the building to meet the drone instead of ringing in the delivery person to bring the pizza up. How convenient.
They may be good at coming up with some things but their implementation sucks.
I bought one of their tower fans for my bedroom. The infrared sensor for the remote is at the bottom of the unit so I had to sit up and reach my arm up in order for the remote to be in line with the sensor. It would also be a problem if any room with furniture in the way. Put the sensor at the top of the fan so it can be easily be seen by the remote.
The other big thing that bugged me about that fan was that it didn't remember if the oscillation was turned on or not. When you turned on the fan you always had to turn on the oscillation. I had bought the fan for $350 on sale and when you charge that much it should remember the state it was in when the fan was turned off. It remembered the power level. I have a 14 year old $50 fan that remembers if it was turning back and forth but a fan that costs hundreds more than the next expensive one doesn't.
I wrote the company about it and they said that's how it was designed. Well, they need someone to look at the user design of their products. I told Dyson that that I won't be buying any of their products because the human interface was flawed and I took the fan back to the store.
I'm sure that if someone committed suicide then it's pretty safe to leave the pills, a knife, a gun, alcohol, a toaster, and anything else dangerous on the nightstand. If they survived an attempt to commit suicide then you might want to be a bit more careful.
Are you being treated, or received treatment, for your depression? If so that could explain your variety of photos, assuming that the treatment has produced some positive results (medications are working, CBT has changed thinking patterns). Or you just could be part of the group that this algorithm doesn't pick up.
Since they are talking about many devices connecting to multiple routers it's not going to do much for the average home user then. I may have a couple of devices but only the one router. They haven't found a new Wi-Fi but a method for coordinating the routers to handle the load as they say their method could be applied to cell stations too.
Nothing is stopping them from starting their own ride hailing services with their own AI-driven cars. Probably more than one of them is working on such a venture.
Around here calling a taxi also involves a ton of waiting. Unless you are downtown or a few other select spots around town then you are unlikely to be able to hail a taxi.
It's not just protecting the results it's also about protecting your right to vote. If you can't vote for who you want to then you have lost your right.
Most elections don't work like the Brexit referendum so that isn't the best example. In the last federal election when many people wanted the Conservative Party out of power a group formed trying to get people to pledge not to vote for them and vote for the person most likely to beat the Conservative person running in their riding. This group (I forget the name) didn't do this in every riding across the country. There are some ridings that have almost always stuck with a certain party. So they used polling data to find out which ridings had the closest races and concentrated on those by running ads, putting up flyers, door to door, phone calls, etc.
Then not every election is a national one. A small one industry town could be holding their local elections and the company could want the employees to vote for a particular candidate. Or the union could. Imagine if how you voted was in the public. You might not get that raise or promotion, crap jobs might start coming your way, or they just might find a reason to fire you.
My point was that not everyone had the luxury of being able to tell the world how they voted. An employer may not come out and say that you will be fired if you don't vote for someone but if you work in a completely terrible place and posters saying "Vote for Mary" start appearing you are probably going to get the hint.
What about people who live or work in areas in which voting for the wrong person could have consequences? Someone working at a coal mine who wants to vote Democrat? A person with an abusive spouse who doesn't want to vote they way they were told to? Just because you are comfortable telling people who you vote for not everyone else has such luxury.
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When you burn a fossil fuel (or anything actually) you don't lose any mass. Any energy released comes from the chemical reactions which are the bonds between electrons being broken and created. Fires are able to occur when there are reaction(s) that are exothermic (heat releasing) enough.
It is an unfortunate phrasing that nuclear physicists and engineers use the term burning in a nuclear reaction even though it has nothing to do with fires as most people understand it.
My city drops larvicide down all the storm sewers three times a year in order to prevent West Nile Virus. (We've had no cases here and no positive tests in mosquitoes either this year.) So the bugs are gone and the job is done. But the flies are the worst they have been in at least 12 yeast (I can't say any further because I've only lived in this house for 12 years). The problem is that there are no predators in my suburb to eat flying insects anymore. Before the city started dropping the larvicide down the storm sewers there were plenty of swifts, purple martins, bats, and other flying animals that would eat insects. There was only parcel of land where some swifts managed to live until a last year when houses started being built on it. Now none of those animals exist in the suburb. The city could have encouraged more of those birds and bats to thrive here by giving away homes for them. It would have been cheaper in the long run instead of having to apply chemicals three times a year, every year.
Now we are seeing parts of the city where insect populations are getting out of control because there are no predators around. The city has to respond with chemicals because that's the only response left to them. The ecosystem is much more complex than what you think, even if you think it's complex. This plan isn't just taking out a particular insect. It has a purpose in the web or else it would exist.
No other civilization is going to use a Dyson sphere. Their products are so user unfriendly. I bought one of their fans and had to return it because it was so badly thought out. There's no way that company could design a sphere to enclose a sun properly.
A nuclear plant takes a lot more concrete and steel than a natural gas plant. A NG plant can range from a small building containing a single turbine upwards. The nuclear plant will contain the reactor dome, fuel storage, control area, and if there isn't a large source of water nearby, a cooling tower. And the reactor dome will use lots of specialized concrete to deal with radiation and contain any possible releases. Of course new ones now have to handle attacks such as an airplane being flown into them.
The big problem with nuclear is the cost. Four years ago the province of Ontario put out a request for two new reactors and the lowest cost came back at $13B per reactor. That's not out of line with what the proposed cost for the new reactor in the UK. That money can buy a lot of windmills, solar panels, and energy conservation measures which can be put in place well before a nuclear reactor can be built.
Not that I think that it's locking the processors to Windows 10+ but if Intel and AMD did do something stupid like that then all Apple would do is move to another processor. They did it before when moving from the PowerPC to Intel and that went fairly smoothly. Apple would probably just start packing their machines with ARM processors, something that's been rumoured for years anyways, and roll out Rosetta v2.0 to do the transition.
The various Linux and BSD distributions would be basically okay too. They are already available for different platforms. The commercial developers would have to provide binaries for the new processor that would take over to replace x86 and x86-64.
It was probably left unattended on a park bench and someone shot it.
I'm not saying that there won't be a refresh just that I think that it won't be called the iPhone 7. It'll go something like 6 -> 6S -> 6X and then next year will be 7. Of course they could go 7 this year and 8 next year.
And take a look at a newspaper now. Most of the articles come off a newswire service. Many papers don't create a lot of their own content. The exceptions are the very large papers or the smaller papers that focus on local events.
In Ontario you used to have to go our version of the DMV for drivers licenses and to another office to get the health card (with picture). I don't know where you went to get the age of majority card if you didn't drive. Now they have places that do just about everything in the one spot (with the big exception being the driving tests) instead of each department having their own service centre.
If the rumours of Apple moving to a three year cycle for the design of the iPhone are true then I'd be surprised if they brought out the iPhone 7 this year. Especially with next year being the 10th anniversary of the iPhone which will probably bring a big design refresh.
Not that I care because all I want is the smaller screen with all of the features that the larger phones have. Since Apple isn't making that phone I'm staying with my 5s.
Most of the places I've worked have been open plan offices but two places had offices for everyone. It was great at those two places because it was much quieter so you could concentrate better. If you really needed some time to work on a problem you could close the door and stop interruptions. Paired programming in an open office environment is noisy and doesn't work well for trying to think about a problem.
What was missing from these offices were places where you could meet up with a couple of people to sit down and talk over a problem. Sometimes the offices were shared and you didn't want to bug your office mate or would be crowded with four or five people in them. Or a change of scenery is nice to talk over a problem.
For an onsite option I bought an NAS that has room for two drives which I mirrored. (I would have liked a larger one that I could have gone with RAID-5 or RAID-6 but money prevented that.) I have my computers use Time Machine to back up to the NAS. I also use my NAS for BitTorrent Sync and other services (mail, DNS, proxy).
Ideally you would want an offsite option too in case something happened to your house.
The same people who keep buying from Electronic Arts?
So if I'm in an apartment building I'm going to have to go down to the entrance of the building to meet the drone instead of ringing in the delivery person to bring the pizza up. How convenient.
Just waiting for something worth stealing to be delivered. Dominos... ugh.
They may be good at coming up with some things but their implementation sucks.
I bought one of their tower fans for my bedroom. The infrared sensor for the remote is at the bottom of the unit so I had to sit up and reach my arm up in order for the remote to be in line with the sensor. It would also be a problem if any room with furniture in the way. Put the sensor at the top of the fan so it can be easily be seen by the remote.
The other big thing that bugged me about that fan was that it didn't remember if the oscillation was turned on or not. When you turned on the fan you always had to turn on the oscillation. I had bought the fan for $350 on sale and when you charge that much it should remember the state it was in when the fan was turned off. It remembered the power level. I have a 14 year old $50 fan that remembers if it was turning back and forth but a fan that costs hundreds more than the next expensive one doesn't.
I wrote the company about it and they said that's how it was designed. Well, they need someone to look at the user design of their products. I told Dyson that that I won't be buying any of their products because the human interface was flawed and I took the fan back to the store.
But if the driver had an iPhone and couldn't change the battery then the cyclist would be alive. /s
I'm sure that if someone committed suicide then it's pretty safe to leave the pills, a knife, a gun, alcohol, a toaster, and anything else dangerous on the nightstand. If they survived an attempt to commit suicide then you might want to be a bit more careful.
Are you being treated, or received treatment, for your depression? If so that could explain your variety of photos, assuming that the treatment has produced some positive results (medications are working, CBT has changed thinking patterns). Or you just could be part of the group that this algorithm doesn't pick up.
Since they are talking about many devices connecting to multiple routers it's not going to do much for the average home user then. I may have a couple of devices but only the one router. They haven't found a new Wi-Fi but a method for coordinating the routers to handle the load as they say their method could be applied to cell stations too.
Nothing is stopping them from starting their own ride hailing services with their own AI-driven cars. Probably more than one of them is working on such a venture.
Unless they can't afford a smartphone because they take too many taxis.
Around here calling a taxi also involves a ton of waiting. Unless you are downtown or a few other select spots around town then you are unlikely to be able to hail a taxi.
It's not just protecting the results it's also about protecting your right to vote. If you can't vote for who you want to then you have lost your right.
Most elections don't work like the Brexit referendum so that isn't the best example. In the last federal election when many people wanted the Conservative Party out of power a group formed trying to get people to pledge not to vote for them and vote for the person most likely to beat the Conservative person running in their riding. This group (I forget the name) didn't do this in every riding across the country. There are some ridings that have almost always stuck with a certain party. So they used polling data to find out which ridings had the closest races and concentrated on those by running ads, putting up flyers, door to door, phone calls, etc.
Then not every election is a national one. A small one industry town could be holding their local elections and the company could want the employees to vote for a particular candidate. Or the union could. Imagine if how you voted was in the public. You might not get that raise or promotion, crap jobs might start coming your way, or they just might find a reason to fire you.
My point was that not everyone had the luxury of being able to tell the world how they voted. An employer may not come out and say that you will be fired if you don't vote for someone but if you work in a completely terrible place and posters saying "Vote for Mary" start appearing you are probably going to get the hint.
What about people who live or work in areas in which voting for the wrong person could have consequences? Someone working at a coal mine who wants to vote Democrat? A person with an abusive spouse who doesn't want to vote they way they were told to? Just because you are comfortable telling people who you vote for not everyone else has such luxury.