Why not an adiabatic diesel engine? Some time ago DARPA had a project for a ceramic diesel engine; by reducing heat loss to the environment by running the ting with no cooling system they were predicting about 80% efficiency.
I don't know why they gave up on it but it seems to me this would put an end to electric vehicles permanently.
Hear Hear. I paid off the mortgage on my house three years ago, always pay cash for cars (never had a car loan) and use debit cards or PayPal linked to a bank account when I shop online. I don't care about my credit rating because I DON'T USE CREDIT.
My kids graduated college debt-free thanks to some good old fashioned hard work and good planning.
This bailout baloney has me really torqued off. There is a simple way to avoid needing to be bailed out - don't accumulate debt in the first place.
In the vein of discourse without reference I will claim that nuclear has the lowest life cycle cost for a continuous power generation technology.
Wind and solar have to be backed up by this type of facility because they are intermittent.
This life cycle cost is calculated on a total emissions basis - all emitted carbon must be sequestered permanently, and all radioactive isotopes must be held until gamma emissions are below background.
Ahh. Last week I picked out a new phone for my T-Mobile service. Sidekicks were offered. When I looked up the details and saw it ran an MS OS I moved on.
It is amazing how often not choosing Microsoft pays off.
I've pretty much given up on watching series on TV because of the commercials making it a so hard to enjoy. If I want to see a series I generally now just wait until it comes out on DVD or Blu-Ray and rent it on Netflix.
No commercials, watch it at my convenience, no cable TV glitches, and in the case of Blu-Ray, higher quality picture.
It has been a precedent for a long time (like since 1789) because the early US got most of it's tax revenues from import tariffs. As you might imagine that would place a premium on the enforcement of customs regulations which of course leads to the idea that searches by customs and border agents are per se "reasonable".
The problem is of course this legal precedent has morphed and expanded over time to become far less reasonable than most people would agree to.
Good, since that is what I want Chrome for. I need IE's container to do stupid stuff like authentication to Active Directory (barf) and Chrome can do what MS seemingly can't - render pages quickly and according to standards.
"But there are plenty of cases of farmers having to pay license fees for "stealing" monsanto GM seeds and being unable to prove that they're innocent despite the distinct possibility of cross-pollination."
Yes, but at one time "terminator" genes were considered to be a safety feature because if the GMO cropturned out to be undesirable it wouldn't propagate and spread itself throughout the ecology.
It's pretty unfair to criticize something that started out a safety feature and morphed into something that turned into a way of enforcing a license agreement.
Agreed, but this is simply a matter of restraining the rights of the IP holder to not include inadvertent practice due to accidental dispersal of the invention. It has nothing to due with whether or not there is a negative environmental impact.
Well yes, but we have always had the low level conflicts; from the time when man became sociable enough to form foraging bands. And some of these have been running wounds for a very long time indeed. I wouldn't be surprised if conflicts running for thousands of years could be documented.
It is only world wars that are new because of technological enablement. Maybe now we have enough deterrent to stop these, but I am not that optimistic.
"The US authorities claim he deleted critical files from operating systems, which shut down the US Army's Military District of Washington network of 2,000 computers for 24 hours, as well as deleting US Navy Weapons logs, rendering a naval base's network of 300 computers inoperable after the September 11th terrorist attacks. They claim the cost of tracking and correcting the problems he caused was $700,000.[15]"
So I don't see where the idea that the claim the $700,000 is merely to secure previously unsecured systems originates from.
If you break into a networkof military computers, it seems reasonable that the owners of the computers would feel that a complete audit of the network to asses damages would be necessary.
No problem with learning to write, but cursive is not a useful skill as far as I can tell. Printing will get you through life just fine.
If you want a real writing skill that is of some use, learn shorthand.
As far as doing away with a keyboard in favor of handwriting recognition, this is silly. Typing is far faster and easier to implement across all sorts of devices. With handwriting recognition it is inevitable that you will suffer from varying implementations of the recognition program.
In Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment applies to the states by way of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
So you are driving down the street with aftermarket spoilers and an obviously modified exhaust and other clearly visible or audible mods, racing decals, etc. and think that doesn't give the police probable cause to search your vehicle for other illegal mods. I don't think so. This is firmly established law.
Look, I don't know you or how you behave. But I have a neighbor whose teenage daughter was killed practically in their front yard by a couple of street racers going over 100 mph in a residential neighborhood (Speed limit 25 mph). It could have easily been one of my family members. As far as I am concerned the laws against excessive speed, driving modified cars of that nature and so forth are far too leniently enforced. Nip that behavior in the bud and the serious incidents will occur far less often.
And exactly what kind of power plants do the crazy hippie laws in CA allow?
Not my problem.
What are the options? 1) Move closer to work? 2) Buy a new car? 3) Public transit? 4) Get a new job?
Or car pool. That's one that doesn't actually cost any money and will work for almost everyone.
What we need are LONG TERM solutions to power consumption, we need someone to bite the bullet and finally start building some nuclear plants. FORGET about gas, once we can convert everyone over to an electric economy run on clean power everyone will switch to EV cars anyway.
California can't supply power enough power for TV's and you are talking electric cars?
California doesn't have anything like the grid infrastructure to support EV cars and it isn't going to happen anytime soon.
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Why not an adiabatic diesel engine? Some time ago DARPA had a project for a ceramic diesel engine; by reducing heat loss to the environment by running the ting with no cooling system they were predicting about 80% efficiency.
I don't know why they gave up on it but it seems to me this would put an end to electric vehicles permanently.
Free? Or are you saying instead that it is not charged directly to the student but rather it is paid for out of tax revenues?
Perhaps that partially accounts for the fact Finns and Europeans in general pay 20% more of their income in taxes than Americans.
There is not "free", just taking from one person and giving to another.
Hear Hear. I paid off the mortgage on my house three years ago, always pay cash for cars (never had a car loan) and use debit cards or PayPal linked to a bank account when I shop online. I don't care about my credit rating because I DON'T USE CREDIT.
My kids graduated college debt-free thanks to some good old fashioned hard work and good planning.
This bailout baloney has me really torqued off. There is a simple way to avoid needing to be bailed out - don't accumulate debt in the first place.
Except of course you can get a private insurance plan as a supplement, like approximately 7 million Brits do - mostly through their employers.
In the vein of discourse without reference I will claim that nuclear has the lowest life cycle cost for a continuous power generation technology.
Wind and solar have to be backed up by this type of facility because they are intermittent.
This life cycle cost is calculated on a total emissions basis - all emitted carbon must be sequestered permanently, and all radioactive isotopes must be held until gamma emissions are below background.
Ahh. Last week I picked out a new phone for my T-Mobile service. Sidekicks were offered. When I looked up the details and saw it ran an MS OS I moved on.
It is amazing how often not choosing Microsoft pays off.
I've pretty much given up on watching series on TV because of the commercials making it a so hard to enjoy. If I want to see a series I generally now just wait until it comes out on DVD or Blu-Ray and rent it on Netflix.
No commercials, watch it at my convenience, no cable TV glitches, and in the case of Blu-Ray, higher quality picture.
The guy got sued because he intentionally selected seeds from the resulting plants and planted his entire crops with the result.
The contaminated crop would have to replace 100% of the other crop for that to be true.
The odds against that are nearly infinite.
An old but all too often true observation:
How do you tell if a politician is lying?
His lips are moving.
Not that hard to reverse engineer the schema.
This fellow has open sourced a tool to crack it open:
http://blog.dreamdevil.com/index.php/2007/03/13/sharepoint_2003_database_exporter/
It has been a precedent for a long time (like since 1789) because the early US got most of it's tax revenues from import tariffs. As you might imagine that would place a premium on the enforcement of customs regulations which of course leads to the idea that searches by customs and border agents are per se "reasonable".
The problem is of course this legal precedent has morphed and expanded over time to become far less reasonable than most people would agree to.
It is quite disgusting now.
Good, since that is what I want Chrome for. I need IE's container to do stupid stuff like authentication to Active Directory (barf) and Chrome can do what MS seemingly can't - render pages quickly and according to standards.
Please provide a link to documentation of your claim.
"But there are plenty of cases of farmers having to pay license fees for "stealing" monsanto GM seeds and being unable to prove that they're innocent despite the distinct possibility of cross-pollination."
Please cite some example cases.
Yes, but nobody has ever shown that there is any negative effect from spreading the pollen. It is pure poppycock.
Yes, but at one time "terminator" genes were considered to be a safety feature because if the GMO cropturned out to be undesirable it wouldn't propagate and spread itself throughout the ecology.
It's pretty unfair to criticize something that started out a safety feature and morphed into something that turned into a way of enforcing a license agreement.
Didn't you know that companies are currently patenting parts of the human genome/DNA that they don't even know what it does
No they are not.
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54911/
As far as I can tell that is actually a myth. I have not been able to find any where a farmer had to pay license fees due to wind spread pollen.
Agreed, but this is simply a matter of restraining the rights of the IP holder to not include inadvertent practice due to accidental dispersal of the invention. It has nothing to due with whether or not there is a negative environmental impact.
Well yes, but we have always had the low level conflicts; from the time when man became sociable enough to form foraging bands. And some of these have been running wounds for a very long time indeed. I wouldn't be surprised if conflicts running for thousands of years could be documented.
It is only world wars that are new because of technological enablement. Maybe now we have enough deterrent to stop these, but I am not that optimistic.
The whole point of the doomsday machine is lost...if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?!"
From Wikipedia
"The US authorities claim he deleted critical files from operating systems, which shut down the US Army's Military District of Washington network of 2,000 computers for 24 hours, as well as deleting US Navy Weapons logs, rendering a naval base's network of 300 computers inoperable after the September 11th terrorist attacks. They claim the cost of tracking and correcting the problems he caused was $700,000.[15]"
So I don't see where the idea that the claim the $700,000 is merely to secure previously unsecured systems originates from.
If you break into a networkof military computers, it seems reasonable that the owners of the computers would feel that a complete audit of the network to asses damages would be necessary.
No problem with learning to write, but cursive is not a useful skill as far as I can tell. Printing will get you through life just fine.
If you want a real writing skill that is of some use, learn shorthand.
As far as doing away with a keyboard in favor of handwriting recognition, this is silly. Typing is far faster and easier to implement across all sorts of devices. With handwriting recognition it is inevitable that you will suffer from varying implementations of the recognition program.
In Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment applies to the states by way of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
So you are driving down the street with aftermarket spoilers and an obviously modified exhaust and other clearly visible or audible mods, racing decals, etc. and think that doesn't give the police probable cause to search your vehicle for other illegal mods. I don't think so. This is firmly established law.
Look, I don't know you or how you behave. But I have a neighbor whose teenage daughter was killed practically in their front yard by a couple of street racers going over 100 mph in a residential neighborhood (Speed limit 25 mph). It could have easily been one of my family members. As far as I am concerned the laws against excessive speed, driving modified cars of that nature and so forth are far too leniently enforced. Nip that behavior in the bud and the serious incidents will occur far less often.
And exactly what kind of power plants do the crazy hippie laws in CA allow?
Not my problem.
What are the options?
1) Move closer to work?
2) Buy a new car?
3) Public transit?
4) Get a new job?
Or car pool. That's one that doesn't actually cost any money and will work for almost everyone.
What we need are LONG TERM solutions to power consumption, we need someone to bite the bullet and finally start building some nuclear plants.
FORGET about gas, once we can convert everyone over to an electric economy run on clean power everyone will switch to EV cars anyway.
California can't supply power enough power for TV's and you are talking electric cars?
California doesn't have anything like the grid infrastructure to support EV cars and it isn't going to happen anytime soon.