The noise can get annoying if you're exposed to it for an extended period of time, such as trying to read a book in a quiet room, but it's no worse than having the guy who lives in the apartment upstairs from you leaving his radio on all the time just loud enough to know it's on but not loud enough to make out what's playing.
All of the ones I've been around have been erected within the past 10 years, most within the past five. They're part of windfarms for electricity along some of the ridges in the area. They're not huge by windmill standards, but they're still several hundred feet tall.
For a great deal of items, local is better because you A) can see what shape it's in before you buy it and B) don't have to pay shipping. That makes it ideal for a great many items that aren't practical to sell online otherwise. It doesn't mean it's perfect for everybody, nor does it mean it's perfect for every item. Cars are one example of items people are willing to expand their search radius beyond CL's means, but even then, a good majority of people prefer to buy cars within a few dozen miles of home - especially if it's from a private party. CL fills a niche left by eBays business model and does it quite well.
In order to answer this, I plugged "size" into a dictionary and used the result easiest to work with.
"2. each of the classes, typically numbered, into which garments or other articles are divided according to how large they are. "I can never find anything in my size""
In other words, if Jupiter wears size 10 pants, this new planet wears size 110. Fatass spacerock needs to lay off the Mars bars.
Jupiter's volume is 1,321 times Earth, but its diameter is only a little over 11 times Earth's. I believe diameter is what you're thinking when you say Gallifrey appears five times the size of Earth. If its volume was five times the size of Earth, the diameter (assuming perfect spheres for the sake of simplicity) would be about 1.71 times the size of the Earth. It's hard to find a good picture of Gallifrey next to Earth from that episode in which the two are equidistant from the observer, but based on the one linked below, I'd say Gallifrey is, at a minimum, 2.5 Earth diameters, giving it a volume of at least 65 Earths and a surface area. Of course, it's a fictional planet, so the real answer is that it's however big they tell us it is and everything else is a trick of the light.
If it's 11 times the diameter, then gravity would be pretty tame at the surface unless it's extremely dense. For example, Jupiter's diameter is 11.2 times that of Earth, but the surface gravity is only 2.64 times that of Earth. Saturn and Uranus both have equatorial surface gravities roughly equal to Venus, in spite of being 9.44 and 4 Earth diameters, respectively.
I've always had better experiences both buying and selling on Amazon than on eBay. eBay still has its niche for that hard to find whatever that only one person has to offer, out of Taiwan, but it's just a niche - and a declining one as more people turn to Craigslist for many used items they would have previously gotten on eBay because CL is free to sell and localized (read: no shipping charges so much better for heavy items)
No, he's comparing "What can I do right now with the available technology?" with "What can I do in five years that I should start working on today?"
When Blockbuster was king, streaming media on the level it is now was a dream. However, if Blockbuster tried developing something along the lines of what Netflix ended up doing, they might not be seen as a dinosaur now. Blockbuster stuck with "What can I do right now?" for too long, to the point where they couldn't catch up with what competitors had started planning for in advance.
The difference between delivering information and delivering physical goods has absolutely nothing to do with his comparison. So I think it's safe to say that you're the one with no idea what you're talking about.
That's the gist of it. Although Amazon has a ton of third party sellers, they're still the main vendor. eBay, however, is built to facilitate third party sellers. Amazon owning drones would be like any company having it's own fleet of delivery vehicles that go from centralized warehouses to individual consumers. eBay owning drones would be like competing the USPS, with completely decentralized pickup/dropoff points. If I order from Amazon, there's an excellent chance it's coming from a relatively nearby warehouse. If I order from eBay, there's an excellent chance it's coming from across the country. Right now, consumers might see ordering from eBay and Amazon the same because they're both delivered by FedEx/UPS/USPS, but the logistics before that last-mile delivery are completely different and that affects the viability of why Amazon is looking at drones (IE: delivery within X minutes/hours of ordering)
They still make noise. It's a quiet, but persistent thunk-thunk-thunk. Just because the air moves them doesn't make them silent any more than leaves on a tree are silent in the wind.
Source: I've been around some goddamn wind turbines.
I don't know... for most people it comes down to maple syrup and hockey vs tacos, burritos, salsa and donkey shows. Mexico makes a pretty good case for second place.
I used to listen to music a lot more (although not nearly as much as many others in my generation), but that sort of waned after college. Now it's mostly just longer car trips and the odd weekend that I'll get through more than three or four songs in one sitting - even then, it's from CD/mp3 player as often as not.
Historically, securing public hotspots been less about the costs to provide it and more about A) liability and B) not oversaturating it. B isn't too much of a concern these days, but A can still be depending on local and national laws. Of course, there has been a C) people are in it for the money, but that's fairly rare now.
Never said it made it ok, was just saying that "Fuck you USA" is kind of an idiotic response to something that's likely much more widespread than just one country. It'd be like saying "Fuck you Toyota" because you don't like cars with four wheels.
Possible meanings of that quote: 1 - We're collecting it unintentionally 2 - We're collecting it without authority 3 - We're not doing it in bulk, each one is individually collected 4 - We're not doing it in the US, only everywhere else 5 - We're collecting information, just not location information 6 - We're using subcontractors that are not part of the "intelligence community" 7 - We're considering the entity doing it something other than an "element" 8 - We're collecting it from devices other than cellphones 9 - We're collecting location information about people, not about cellphones 10 - I am the very model of a modern major-general.
Plants provide multiple benefits beyond just food. They recycle CO2 into oxygen, and they look damned pretty, which will probably help ward off a case of the crazies better than a storage room full of foil wrappers.
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The noise can get annoying if you're exposed to it for an extended period of time, such as trying to read a book in a quiet room, but it's no worse than having the guy who lives in the apartment upstairs from you leaving his radio on all the time just loud enough to know it's on but not loud enough to make out what's playing.
All of the ones I've been around have been erected within the past 10 years, most within the past five. They're part of windfarms for electricity along some of the ridges in the area. They're not huge by windmill standards, but they're still several hundred feet tall.
For a great deal of items, local is better because you A) can see what shape it's in before you buy it and B) don't have to pay shipping. That makes it ideal for a great many items that aren't practical to sell online otherwise. It doesn't mean it's perfect for everybody, nor does it mean it's perfect for every item. Cars are one example of items people are willing to expand their search radius beyond CL's means, but even then, a good majority of people prefer to buy cars within a few dozen miles of home - especially if it's from a private party. CL fills a niche left by eBays business model and does it quite well.
"If it ever gets big enough to become a star and achieve fusion then the pressure pushes it out and then it gets better."
Unless you live there. Then it gets worse. Much worse.
In order to answer this, I plugged "size" into a dictionary and used the result easiest to work with.
"2. each of the classes, typically numbered, into which garments or other articles are divided according to how large they are.
"I can never find anything in my size""
In other words, if Jupiter wears size 10 pants, this new planet wears size 110. Fatass spacerock needs to lay off the Mars bars.
Looking back, I think I mixed up radius and diameter in a few calculations, so... bonus points and cookies to anyone that corrects them.
Jupiter's volume is 1,321 times Earth, but its diameter is only a little over 11 times Earth's. I believe diameter is what you're thinking when you say Gallifrey appears five times the size of Earth. If its volume was five times the size of Earth, the diameter (assuming perfect spheres for the sake of simplicity) would be about 1.71 times the size of the Earth. It's hard to find a good picture of Gallifrey next to Earth from that episode in which the two are equidistant from the observer, but based on the one linked below, I'd say Gallifrey is, at a minimum, 2.5 Earth diameters, giving it a volume of at least 65 Earths and a surface area. Of course, it's a fictional planet, so the real answer is that it's however big they tell us it is and everything else is a trick of the light.
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If it's 11 times the diameter, then gravity would be pretty tame at the surface unless it's extremely dense. For example, Jupiter's diameter is 11.2 times that of Earth, but the surface gravity is only 2.64 times that of Earth. Saturn and Uranus both have equatorial surface gravities roughly equal to Venus, in spite of being 9.44 and 4 Earth diameters, respectively.
Source: http://www.windows2universe.org/our_solar_system/planets_table.html
I've always had better experiences both buying and selling on Amazon than on eBay. eBay still has its niche for that hard to find whatever that only one person has to offer, out of Taiwan, but it's just a niche - and a declining one as more people turn to Craigslist for many used items they would have previously gotten on eBay because CL is free to sell and localized (read: no shipping charges so much better for heavy items)
No, he's comparing "What can I do right now with the available technology?" with "What can I do in five years that I should start working on today?"
When Blockbuster was king, streaming media on the level it is now was a dream. However, if Blockbuster tried developing something along the lines of what Netflix ended up doing, they might not be seen as a dinosaur now. Blockbuster stuck with "What can I do right now?" for too long, to the point where they couldn't catch up with what competitors had started planning for in advance.
The difference between delivering information and delivering physical goods has absolutely nothing to do with his comparison. So I think it's safe to say that you're the one with no idea what you're talking about.
"Then again eBay sell stuff differently."
That's the gist of it. Although Amazon has a ton of third party sellers, they're still the main vendor. eBay, however, is built to facilitate third party sellers. Amazon owning drones would be like any company having it's own fleet of delivery vehicles that go from centralized warehouses to individual consumers. eBay owning drones would be like competing the USPS, with completely decentralized pickup/dropoff points. If I order from Amazon, there's an excellent chance it's coming from a relatively nearby warehouse. If I order from eBay, there's an excellent chance it's coming from across the country. Right now, consumers might see ordering from eBay and Amazon the same because they're both delivered by FedEx/UPS/USPS, but the logistics before that last-mile delivery are completely different and that affects the viability of why Amazon is looking at drones (IE: delivery within X minutes/hours of ordering)
They still make noise. It's a quiet, but persistent thunk-thunk-thunk. Just because the air moves them doesn't make them silent any more than leaves on a tree are silent in the wind.
Source: I've been around some goddamn wind turbines.
I don't know... for most people it comes down to maple syrup and hockey vs tacos, burritos, salsa and donkey shows. Mexico makes a pretty good case for second place.
I used to listen to music a lot more (although not nearly as much as many others in my generation), but that sort of waned after college. Now it's mostly just longer car trips and the odd weekend that I'll get through more than three or four songs in one sitting - even then, it's from CD/mp3 player as often as not.
You zap me, and sure, I'll be motivated to do whatever the hell you're zapping me to make me do.
Historically, securing public hotspots been less about the costs to provide it and more about A) liability and B) not oversaturating it. B isn't too much of a concern these days, but A can still be depending on local and national laws. Of course, there has been a C) people are in it for the money, but that's fairly rare now.
Damnit, I drive right past there on my way home from work every day.
Never said it made it ok, was just saying that "Fuck you USA" is kind of an idiotic response to something that's likely much more widespread than just one country. It'd be like saying "Fuck you Toyota" because you don't like cars with four wheels.
Possible meanings of that quote:
1 - We're collecting it unintentionally
2 - We're collecting it without authority
3 - We're not doing it in bulk, each one is individually collected
4 - We're not doing it in the US, only everywhere else
5 - We're collecting information, just not location information
6 - We're using subcontractors that are not part of the "intelligence community"
7 - We're considering the entity doing it something other than an "element"
8 - We're collecting it from devices other than cellphones
9 - We're collecting location information about people, not about cellphones
10 - I am the very model of a modern major-general.
What makes you so sure the USA is the only country doing this? Maybe we're just the worst at hiding it...
My mother made dandelion wine one year. It took us eight years to get through two gallons of it. Hella potent stuff. Just what the moon needs.
How much light would the moon get from earthshine during lunar night? Would it be enough for low-light species to get by?
Plants provide multiple benefits beyond just food. They recycle CO2 into oxygen, and they look damned pretty, which will probably help ward off a case of the crazies better than a storage room full of foil wrappers.
"Revenge is a dish best served cold. It's very well insulated in space" Just doesn't have the same effect.
Soylent greens are people too!