I'm not saying that he was doing any of that shit. I'm just saying that if you're going to do some larger home brew experiments, living in a rural area is probably best.
I'm impressed. People stepped up when someone was carting chemistry equipment into their home. Hopefully an understanding will be reached, and he'll be allowed to continue his research.
Home experimentalist types should live in a more rural area though. Especially if you're bringing in barrels of chemicals, blowing shit up or operating high power RF equipment.
Wow for proving my point even further. Straight from that article:
" But even as these aerosols reduce by as much as 10 percent the amount of sunlight reaching the surface, they increase the solar energy absorbed in the atmosphere by 50 percent -- thus making it possible to both cool the surface and warm the atmosphere. "
"Most natural aerosols scatter and reflect sunlight back to space, thereby making our planet brighter. However, human-produced black carbon aerosol absorbs more light than it reflects, thereby making our planet darker."
Do we even know soot makes it to altitudes where it has an effect in reducing average global temperature?
If you're going to point at something like a volcano, that's not a realistic example to compare with industrial soot production. In one case you've got this large active heat source that's exploding making the soot likely to reach upper parts of the atmosphere. But in a urban industrial environment, you've got distributed soot production. Heavier particulate should remain at lower altitudes from these sources. That won't help with this problem at all.
"Soot (and other opaque particulate matter) reflect heat before it reaches us."
That sounds like a whole lot of hogwash. It totally depends on particulate size, what it's made of, then it's absorption of wavelengths, and then finally the lower energy reemission of radiation.
A lot of that might be true, but at the same time, counter-terrorism efforts involve trying to prevent any terrorist act from occurring, not just Islamic jihad-type attacks. You know, Timothy McVeigh types...
You can't rely on profiling in cases like this. Once the people plotting a terrorist act find out the DHS is doing racial/ethnic profiling, they would just go out of their way to not fit the profile.
World of Warcraft servers would probably be crashing because of the sheer volume of nerds logging in unexpectedly. But those people should be on strike too. Soooo... a nerd strike would really suck.
This is probably when Job's reality distortion field began to wear off on these employees.
I'd imagine the effect of such field would be similar to that of the Force.
Employees:"Hey - when are you going to pay us for all that overtime we worked!?"
Steve Jobs: *waves hand once* "You don't need to be paid for working overtime."
*Employees talking amongst each other*
Employees:"That's right, thank you Steve for asking us to consume more of our personal time for your benefit. We are grateful for such an experience and opportunity, and hope only the best for you."
Steve Jobs: "Now back to work my loyal, naive, fan boy staff."
It just comes down to poor strategy in North America. The big 3 had just built plants maybe 10 years ago to pump out trucks, SUVs and minivans, and found themselves scrambling because consumers started demanding cars again. So they will be losing money due to those investments made not too long ago - building a plant is certainly not cheap.
All the major passenger aircrafts depend on high frequency AC sources from the turbines to power the aircraft. Most of the equipment on-board should be shielded/designed to handle high frequency RF for that reason alone. If the shielding/design provides the equivalent of a low-pass filter to the equipment, then higher RF sources like cell phones should also be shielded against by default.
Hell, I imagine the cabin would act like a giant waveguide anyway. Just make sure there's no communication, control, power cables within a wavelength spacing or two from the cabin walls. Just-in-case of some sort of evanescent wave coupling between the cabin and the cables. Aside from that, I can't think of any other reason besides the overall cost of inspecting all these aircraft for problems like this.
Obviously someone should be paid to sit testing electrical leads with an oscilloscope for a wide variety of aircraft before anything like this should be approved.
Well, go read the piece of legislation, find out if there's no hidden sections that restrict the use of other data transfer technologies, and either submit an article to/. explaining what you found or go make a million dollars.
Are you seriously trying to argue that having to hear some teenager ramble on for hours is not worth having the ability to use your own cell phone on a flight?
Just put some headphones on otherwise, there's some nice noise cancellation ones out there...
I think you're seriously underestimating the work time loss, and personal time losses, traveling business people have to absorb. Keeping in touch with other people, being able to call governmental organizations, other businesses,... all these reasons should be important enough to ignore the rambling airhead.
Oh yeah, nerds don't have a life outside of work, so they wouldn't be trying to make last second plans for where they're traveling to.
My favourite is when you're at a hub for an airline, and your layover wait time for the connecting flight is the same or longer than the time to drive to your destination from that airport.
Maybe I think it would be a good thing to see a group of people on a flight confront an obnoxious cell phone user.
People - this is a grandpa law. Just because grandpa doesn't have a cell phone or a social life doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have one. Welcome to what people have been doing on the subway and the bus for years.
In-flight cell phones would be an excellent and easy economic productivity stimulus. Meanwhile they're talking about gas holidays! Are your politicians retarded!? Don't answer that question please.
No, feeding the trolls is different. What this person was doing before was feeding the trolls. This is simply stating you will no longer tolerate their behaviour on the forum.
grcumb did come up with a pretty clever answer though. I suggest telling them to fuck off, and hiding the trolls posts from anyone but themselves.
"As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:
(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.
a) You attacked us in Palestine: "
Even if you weren't burning gasoline in your cars, you'd still be consuming oil for plastics, lubrication, vasoline, and any other petroleum based product or process.
Yeah - to sell what the market is buying. They need to predict these things years in advance, and after seeing several plants closing shop or doing massive layoffs, they did a rather poor job of it. They are only recently producing vehicles such as hybrids. Toyota is making a killing right now, and it's because they predicted correctly that demand for larger vehicles will go down. I thought it was obvious even 10 years ago just from the simple observation that gas prices continually climb.
And sure, Japanese auto companies are manufacturing in North America, but they are still a foreign corporation, and seem to have a much better financial position in comparison to GM and Ford.
I don't think you can deny that Ford and GM fucked up.
People have DIED for your right to vote!! If you abuse your right to vote, you deserve to die too!!! EXECUTE THE BOY!!
Come on, 5 years and $10k in fines... that's fucking ridiculous. People who have been convicted of rape and manslaughter have been handed lesser penalties than that.
"If some grey suit doesn't hire some girl just because she or someone posted a pic of her half naked and drunk on facebook, despite her proven skills in the line of work, she's probably better off working elsewhere."
It doesn't work that way. You end up not keeping a job anywhere...
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I'm not saying that he was doing any of that shit. I'm just saying that if you're going to do some larger home brew experiments, living in a rural area is probably best.
I'm impressed. People stepped up when someone was carting chemistry equipment into their home. Hopefully an understanding will be reached, and he'll be allowed to continue his research.
Home experimentalist types should live in a more rural area though. Especially if you're bringing in barrels of chemicals, blowing shit up or operating high power RF equipment.
Wow for proving my point even further. Straight from that article:
" But even as these aerosols reduce by as much as 10 percent the amount of sunlight reaching the surface, they increase the solar energy absorbed in the atmosphere by 50 percent -- thus making it possible to both cool the surface and warm the atmosphere. "
"Most natural aerosols scatter and reflect sunlight back to space, thereby making our planet brighter. However, human-produced black carbon aerosol absorbs more light than it reflects, thereby making our planet darker."
The tags of Republicans and Democrats on this article is just awesome.
Do we even know soot makes it to altitudes where it has an effect in reducing average global temperature?
If you're going to point at something like a volcano, that's not a realistic example to compare with industrial soot production. In one case you've got this large active heat source that's exploding making the soot likely to reach upper parts of the atmosphere. But in a urban industrial environment, you've got distributed soot production. Heavier particulate should remain at lower altitudes from these sources. That won't help with this problem at all.
"Soot (and other opaque particulate matter) reflect heat before it reaches us."
That sounds like a whole lot of hogwash. It totally depends on particulate size, what it's made of, then it's absorption of wavelengths, and then finally the lower energy reemission of radiation.
Soot can just as easily absorb radiation.
A lot of that might be true, but at the same time, counter-terrorism efforts involve trying to prevent any terrorist act from occurring, not just Islamic jihad-type attacks. You know, Timothy McVeigh types...
You can't rely on profiling in cases like this. Once the people plotting a terrorist act find out the DHS is doing racial/ethnic profiling, they would just go out of their way to not fit the profile.
Maybe it's time for a general nerd strike then.
LOL
World of Warcraft servers would probably be crashing because of the sheer volume of nerds logging in unexpectedly. But those people should be on strike too. Soooo ... a nerd strike would really suck.
This is probably when Job's reality distortion field began to wear off on these employees.
I'd imagine the effect of such field would be similar to that of the Force.
Employees:"Hey - when are you going to pay us for all that overtime we worked!?"
Steve Jobs: *waves hand once* "You don't need to be paid for working overtime."
*Employees talking amongst each other*
Employees:"That's right, thank you Steve for asking us to consume more of our personal time for your benefit. We are grateful for such an experience and opportunity, and hope only the best for you."
Steve Jobs: "Now back to work my loyal, naive, fan boy staff."
It just comes down to poor strategy in North America. The big 3 had just built plants maybe 10 years ago to pump out trucks, SUVs and minivans, and found themselves scrambling because consumers started demanding cars again. So they will be losing money due to those investments made not too long ago - building a plant is certainly not cheap.
Labels shouldn't be copyright owners of the work.
Simple as that.
If they want a cut for doing promotion, then they should be doing so as a partner, not as a boss.
It's a device named to make you think they're conspiring to build a massive time machine.
Meanwhile it's probably something benign like a detector to map out the path particles take over time.
I can't say safety is a strong argument anymore.
All the major passenger aircrafts depend on high frequency AC sources from the turbines to power the aircraft. Most of the equipment on-board should be shielded/designed to handle high frequency RF for that reason alone. If the shielding/design provides the equivalent of a low-pass filter to the equipment, then higher RF sources like cell phones should also be shielded against by default.
Hell, I imagine the cabin would act like a giant waveguide anyway. Just make sure there's no communication, control, power cables within a wavelength spacing or two from the cabin walls. Just-in-case of some sort of evanescent wave coupling between the cabin and the cables. Aside from that, I can't think of any other reason besides the overall cost of inspecting all these aircraft for problems like this.
Obviously someone should be paid to sit testing electrical leads with an oscilloscope for a wide variety of aircraft before anything like this should be approved.
Well, go read the piece of legislation, find out if there's no hidden sections that restrict the use of other data transfer technologies, and either submit an article to /. explaining what you found or go make a million dollars.
Are you seriously trying to argue that having to hear some teenager ramble on for hours is not worth having the ability to use your own cell phone on a flight?
Just put some headphones on otherwise, there's some nice noise cancellation ones out there...
I think you're seriously underestimating the work time loss, and personal time losses, traveling business people have to absorb. Keeping in touch with other people, being able to call governmental organizations, other businesses, ... all these reasons should be important enough to ignore the rambling airhead.
Oh yeah, nerds don't have a life outside of work, so they wouldn't be trying to make last second plans for where they're traveling to.
My favourite is when you're at a hub for an airline, and your layover wait time for the connecting flight is the same or longer than the time to drive to your destination from that airport.
Maybe I think it would be a good thing to see a group of people on a flight confront an obnoxious cell phone user.
People - this is a grandpa law. Just because grandpa doesn't have a cell phone or a social life doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have one. Welcome to what people have been doing on the subway and the bus for years.
In-flight cell phones would be an excellent and easy economic productivity stimulus. Meanwhile they're talking about gas holidays! Are your politicians retarded!? Don't answer that question please.
No, feeding the trolls is different. What this person was doing before was feeding the trolls. This is simply stating you will no longer tolerate their behaviour on the forum.
grcumb did come up with a pretty clever answer though. I suggest telling them to fuck off, and hiding the trolls posts from anyone but themselves.
FUCK OFF!!!
It's not hard to say (or type), gets the point across you do not like said person or their argument, and helps end the debate.
People seriously need to make more use of profane language.
At first I was doubting this article as News for Nerds, but no - it really is - since enough nerds are awkward about dealing with things like this.
Fuck off works quite well, try it sometime.
That was a well prescribed dose of shut-the-fuck-up.
"If we didn't need oil, we wouldn't have troops in the ME. If we didn't have troops in the ME to begin with, 9/11 would never have happened."
As long as Israel continues to exist, and receives funding from the United States, Al-Qaeda would have reason to attack the United States.
Read Bin Laden's letter to America, it explains all of this.
You don't even need to go far in the letter:
"As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:
(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.
a) You attacked us in Palestine: "
Even if you weren't burning gasoline in your cars, you'd still be consuming oil for plastics, lubrication, vasoline, and any other petroleum based product or process.
Yeah - to sell what the market is buying. They need to predict these things years in advance, and after seeing several plants closing shop or doing massive layoffs, they did a rather poor job of it. They are only recently producing vehicles such as hybrids. Toyota is making a killing right now, and it's because they predicted correctly that demand for larger vehicles will go down. I thought it was obvious even 10 years ago just from the simple observation that gas prices continually climb.
And sure, Japanese auto companies are manufacturing in North America, but they are still a foreign corporation, and seem to have a much better financial position in comparison to GM and Ford.
I don't think you can deny that Ford and GM fucked up.
Good ole blue angels; makes for a great show after some beers and beans.
I hope the engineers at GM have fun making this expensive car. Might as well enjoy the work you do while you still have a job.
Domestic manufacturers still haven't figured it out.
You must be a suicidal moron to jump towards a person with a gun, even if you outnumber them.
Firing one shot off should make all 10 opponents back off and shut the fuck up.
People have DIED for your right to vote!! If you abuse your right to vote, you deserve to die too!!! EXECUTE THE BOY!!
Come on, 5 years and $10k in fines... that's fucking ridiculous. People who have been convicted of rape and manslaughter have been handed lesser penalties than that.
"If some grey suit doesn't hire some girl just because she or someone posted a pic of her half naked and drunk on facebook, despite her proven skills in the line of work, she's probably better off working elsewhere."
It doesn't work that way. You end up not keeping a job anywhere...
You are so deluded with this belief that it's a behavioral issue.
I think there's a bunch of Libyan kids who'd like to crack you across the head with a crowbar.