The IRS is still collecting taxes, but has suspended audits and answering questions, among other things. They might consider the website essential to the tax collection thing.
Helium isn't produced from natural gas, it's found trapped underground in natural gas fields. So unless you can power a hydrogen fusion plant with renewable natural gas, we only have what we can find in the ground for the time being.
My point was that cheese and milk are somewhat related, but definitely not interchangeable. Much like gasoline and natural gas. I don't know how the hell you pulled the rest of that out of your ass. You sure you're not a politician and/or CEO?
I took microbiology as my science elective in college. We did a variety of things with E. coli. Our final project was a little gene splicing to make it change color.
Of course, as I was the only one in the class taking it as an elective, I had a bit more fun with it than most people. Notably, petri culture smiley faces with blue eyes, green nose and yellow lips.
Yes, but this is at least carbon-neutral gasoline (carbon in the air is re-used, rather than releasing carbon trapped in the ground), so it's still a huge step in right direction for clean energy.
We could use only plants that are relatively unchanged over millions of years and whose only close relatives are fossils. We could call it living fossil fuel!
I've had numerous bad driving experience with: - Women in general - Asians - College students - Old people - Teenagers - Men in general - Animals - Bicyclists - Prius drivers - Lexus drivers - BMW drivers - Chevy drivers - And one helicopter on the Thruway
It ain't just one demographic that makes driving a bad experience in general.
The Streisand Effect is when the act of trying to hide or cover something makes it even more widely known than it otherwise would be. I don't see how that applies here.
When has global warming predicted huge temperature increases? That's like saying evolution has predicted that a species will evolve into a new species every generation.
Global warming says an average of one or two degrees change over the course of decades. On the short term scale, not much a difference... local weather patterns are still dominant and can cause a harsh winter one year and no snow the following year. Like evolution, global warming is a very slow change over a fairly large (by human standards) time scale.
It's not a linguistic fault, it's the difference between milk and cheese. Both are dairy, but I don't tend to pour milk on my pizza nor do I dunk my Oreos in a glass of cheese. Gasoline and natural gas aren't transported in the same manner, used in the same applications or even measured in the same units.
You're right about Obama not having any direct influence... but you'd be incorrect in saying that gas prices are 100% controlled by the gas companies. Get gas in Binghamton, NY and then jump the border to Pennsylvania for gas, just a few miles away, and you'll find the price is roughly $0.20/gal cheaper. The difference has almost nothing to do with gas companies and everything to do with state taxes. A lot of times, if gas prices make a sudden jump up or down, it's because of a change in the state tax rather than a gas company decision.
So sure, gas companies can change prices at will, but if they raise it too much, people will stop buying as much and look to alternatives. We've seen it every time there's been a spike in the price of crude. Likewise, gas companies are not the only thing affecting what the consumer pays for gas... around 10 to 20 percent of it goes to the state.
Also, you're kind of reaching here just to rant about something that's off-topic. Gasoline isn't really used in power plants.
I used to live a half hour from the Oswego county plant and now I live a half hour from the Wayne county plant. I've heard people bitch and moan about fracking, wind farms and even hydro in the area but never once have I heard a complaint about nuclear like you hear elsewhere.
That's how it was with the TI-83's the school distributed to us... a handful of us figured out how to make them do more than just classwork within a few days at most, but it didn't get to the rest of the kids or teachers until near the end of the school year.
By thermo, I assume you mean geothermal? My understanding is that geothermal is limited to places that are somewhat geologically active. While there are plenty of northern locations with geoactivity (notably Iceland), there's plenty more than are geologically quiet.
Likewise, not all cloudy areas have abundant water to use for hydro plants, at least not on the scale required to replace fossil fuels. Wind is also very unpredictable and often follows both daily and seasonal patterns, making it a better supplement than a full solution. Solar also follows daily and seasonal patterns. Both of which also require energy storage on a scale we don't have to be practical as a primary power source. Where I'm from, we have people combining wind, solar and hydro and it still doesn't make a big dent compared to fossil/nuclear because it's cloudy more often than not, days are very short in winter, wind patterns are unpredictable, strong winds are confined to fairly small areas due to topography and there aren't all that many rivers that are remotely suitable for hydro. There's no hot springers or other geothermal sources for a very long distance. Yet, it's still the third most populated state in the third most populated country, so it's not exactly a remote part of the planet.
The panel only determined an upper limit for avoiding the worst of global warming... they never said anything about it being some kind of physical limit. How about a bad car analogy? If you're driving down the highway in an area with a lot of speed traps, 60mph might be the upper limit to avoiding speeding tickets. There's nothing preventing you from doing 80mph, but 60mph is roughly what you can expect to get away without any major consequences (IE: getting pulled over and ticketed). Now you can argue that we're more in control of a car than we are of global warming, but the truth is that we still have a fair bit of control over how much carbon is tossed into the atmosphere.
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Anyone who fought over pizza knows that not all 1/8ths are created equal.
The IRS is still collecting taxes, but has suspended audits and answering questions, among other things. They might consider the website essential to the tax collection thing.
No, that's from their D&D department, not their R&D department...
But how did they know to come up with that without an R&D department to do the R&D on creating an R&D department?
Helium isn't produced from natural gas, it's found trapped underground in natural gas fields. So unless you can power a hydrogen fusion plant with renewable natural gas, we only have what we can find in the ground for the time being.
We should sneak in at night and scoop it up. The sun will never know.
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My point was that cheese and milk are somewhat related, but definitely not interchangeable. Much like gasoline and natural gas. I don't know how the hell you pulled the rest of that out of your ass. You sure you're not a politician and/or CEO?
Low light? $200? I think you're looking for a low-end strip club.
I also misread the person's name as Sally Gotta Wiener rather than Sally Wiener Grotta.
Isn't that what it really boils down to, anyway?
I took microbiology as my science elective in college. We did a variety of things with E. coli. Our final project was a little gene splicing to make it change color.
Of course, as I was the only one in the class taking it as an elective, I had a bit more fun with it than most people. Notably, petri culture smiley faces with blue eyes, green nose and yellow lips.
Yes, but this is at least carbon-neutral gasoline (carbon in the air is re-used, rather than releasing carbon trapped in the ground), so it's still a huge step in right direction for clean energy.
We could use only plants that are relatively unchanged over millions of years and whose only close relatives are fossils. We could call it living fossil fuel!
I've had numerous bad driving experience with:
- Women in general
- Asians
- College students
- Old people
- Teenagers
- Men in general
- Animals
- Bicyclists
- Prius drivers
- Lexus drivers
- BMW drivers
- Chevy drivers
- And one helicopter on the Thruway
It ain't just one demographic that makes driving a bad experience in general.
Dude, it's Slashdot. Don't expect them to be on time. Or even from the most recent season. Or decade.
The Streisand Effect is when the act of trying to hide or cover something makes it even more widely known than it otherwise would be. I don't see how that applies here.
When has global warming predicted huge temperature increases? That's like saying evolution has predicted that a species will evolve into a new species every generation.
Global warming says an average of one or two degrees change over the course of decades. On the short term scale, not much a difference... local weather patterns are still dominant and can cause a harsh winter one year and no snow the following year. Like evolution, global warming is a very slow change over a fairly large (by human standards) time scale.
It's not a linguistic fault, it's the difference between milk and cheese. Both are dairy, but I don't tend to pour milk on my pizza nor do I dunk my Oreos in a glass of cheese. Gasoline and natural gas aren't transported in the same manner, used in the same applications or even measured in the same units.
You're right about Obama not having any direct influence... but you'd be incorrect in saying that gas prices are 100% controlled by the gas companies. Get gas in Binghamton, NY and then jump the border to Pennsylvania for gas, just a few miles away, and you'll find the price is roughly $0.20/gal cheaper. The difference has almost nothing to do with gas companies and everything to do with state taxes. A lot of times, if gas prices make a sudden jump up or down, it's because of a change in the state tax rather than a gas company decision.
So sure, gas companies can change prices at will, but if they raise it too much, people will stop buying as much and look to alternatives. We've seen it every time there's been a spike in the price of crude. Likewise, gas companies are not the only thing affecting what the consumer pays for gas... around 10 to 20 percent of it goes to the state.
Also, you're kind of reaching here just to rant about something that's off-topic. Gasoline isn't really used in power plants.
I used to live a half hour from the Oswego county plant and now I live a half hour from the Wayne county plant. I've heard people bitch and moan about fracking, wind farms and even hydro in the area but never once have I heard a complaint about nuclear like you hear elsewhere.
That's how it was with the TI-83's the school distributed to us... a handful of us figured out how to make them do more than just classwork within a few days at most, but it didn't get to the rest of the kids or teachers until near the end of the school year.
Same shit, different generation.
"One thing about Martha, she isn't about to take any crap off anyone"
She may not be taking the crap off anyone herself, but she's certainly willing to help.
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By thermo, I assume you mean geothermal? My understanding is that geothermal is limited to places that are somewhat geologically active. While there are plenty of northern locations with geoactivity (notably Iceland), there's plenty more than are geologically quiet.
Likewise, not all cloudy areas have abundant water to use for hydro plants, at least not on the scale required to replace fossil fuels. Wind is also very unpredictable and often follows both daily and seasonal patterns, making it a better supplement than a full solution. Solar also follows daily and seasonal patterns. Both of which also require energy storage on a scale we don't have to be practical as a primary power source. Where I'm from, we have people combining wind, solar and hydro and it still doesn't make a big dent compared to fossil/nuclear because it's cloudy more often than not, days are very short in winter, wind patterns are unpredictable, strong winds are confined to fairly small areas due to topography and there aren't all that many rivers that are remotely suitable for hydro. There's no hot springers or other geothermal sources for a very long distance. Yet, it's still the third most populated state in the third most populated country, so it's not exactly a remote part of the planet.
The panel only determined an upper limit for avoiding the worst of global warming... they never said anything about it being some kind of physical limit. How about a bad car analogy? If you're driving down the highway in an area with a lot of speed traps, 60mph might be the upper limit to avoiding speeding tickets. There's nothing preventing you from doing 80mph, but 60mph is roughly what you can expect to get away without any major consequences (IE: getting pulled over and ticketed). Now you can argue that we're more in control of a car than we are of global warming, but the truth is that we still have a fair bit of control over how much carbon is tossed into the atmosphere.