They already have a solution to this problem. Under new policy, the drone operators will have the right to take out backyard hobbyists on U.S. soil, just like they currently do overseas. Try to test an interference device, and you'll soon be at the unpleasant end of a hellfire missile trajectory.
Nine hours of storage is "surprisingly little"? The island from TFA will store a few minutes of Belgium's energy consumption (assuming a few km^2 lake area, and a depth of fifty meters or so.)
Also, if you actually read the article you quote, you'll see that the fluctuations in wind power output are much greater than the fluctuations in power demand. That means the cost of storage more than doubles when using wind power instead of nuclear.
I wish "environmentalists" would stop downplaying the costs of renewable energy. There is already a political will to switch to renewables in almost every country in Europe. What's stopping the process is the people who feel they have been promised cheper energy after the switch. They make it politically impossible to take any measures that increase the cost of energy.
Better import from Germany!... That's because they have lots of solar power and wind turbines.
So you're saying, instead of building an energy storage system, the Belgians should just buy solar and wind power from Germany when there's no sun or wind in Belgium?
(FYI: Night falls nearly on the same time in Germany as in Belgium.)
You can't have wind power on any serious scale without storage. Storage built off-shore - near the wind-farm - also lessens the load on the link to the mainland.
Only question is: Will the polulation accept the high price, or will they prefer to import cheaper nuclear energy from France?
The possibility to change the affiliate id is the only reason for installing the lens (that I can think of), so yeah, I think most people who install the lens are going to do that. (If, for example, you want to give money to the Electronic Frontier Foundation every time you shop at amazon, then you enter their affiliate ID, as TFA explains.)
If you don't care about the affiliate ID, then it's more efficient to have a shortcut to open amazon in a web browser instead of this lens.
Value is value. US dollars is simply one way of storing it.
The difference is: One billion US dollars can quite easily be converted into other goods. One billion dollars "worth" of stock in a small-cap company cannot. Especially if you're and insider and thus prohibited from selling your stock in secret.
In Sweden, the law states quite plainly that this is a tax, paid to copyright holders in exchange for the right to make copies for private use, including giving to friends and family. (The law is unclear on what counts as "friends", but apparently random bt peers don't count.)
No. In most countries, the tax is only levied on private individuals (in exchange for the right to store copyrighted material on the blank media, and share with friends and family). Professional users don't pay the tax, because they are assumed to store their own data.
But even if the tax were levied on companies like Dropbox, hardware purchases are not proportional to the number of "copies" stored. If a million users store the same movie file on Dropbox, there will only be one copiy (plus backups) on their hard drives, thanks to data deduplication.
I'm all for this tax, because at least where I live, it would mean I'd have the right to share (legally bought) music and movies with my friends and family via Dropbox, rather than having to physically hand them a copy on a USB stick. This is very convenient, since some of my friends live far away.
Thinking has everything to do with it. Their monoploy is based on the fact that almost every new computer ships with the latest Windows installed. If every version was ok (or if you had the option of getting the latest non-sucky Windows when you buy a new computer), then nobody would ever need to buy an upgrade.
If you're scanning to save physical space, you don't need this contraption. Just cut off the back of the book and put the pages in a regular scanner with a sheet feeder. (You can get an excellent one for about $400, including OCR software.)
TFA gives the impression that individual students will be treated differently according to race, which would indeed be racism if it were true.
What they are actually talking about is the target that schools shools have to meet before NCLB "corrective actions" (such as replacing the staff and hring a private company to run the school) are implemented. Holding all schools to the same standards would lead to forced privatization of most schools is poor neigbourhods, which is probably what the Bush adminstration intended, but something that most states want to avoid.
Unless you want to give all your flight details to some random web server operator, you're better off installing something like http://sourceforge.net/projects/zbar/ and decoding yourself.
The elecric energy that can be recovered from one tonne of waste (0.5 MWh) is approximately sufficient to transport one tonne of cargo the circumference of the Earth by rail or sea. The distances discussed here are significantly shorter than that.
(In addition, incineration generates about 2 MWh of heat per tonne, but that can only be used for applications like domestic heating, not for transport.)
Is it worth taking civilian deaths on our side, through terrorism, to avoid civilians deaths on the other side?
The question that needs to be answer first is: Does killing people with drones reduce terrorism at all?
Let's assume that 10 % of people killed by drones are terrorists. (This is probably generous. The estimate from stanford is 2 %) Let's further assume that each person that is killed has 10 close relatives/friends.
Now if more than 1 % of those whose close relatives/friends are killed by done strikes are turned against the U.S. by that event, then drone attacks actually increase terrorism. This makes them a bad idea regardless of how little value you place on foreign civilian lives compared to American.
So the real question is: If a foreign nation invades your country (removing a previous leader that you probably didn't like) and that nation then sends a drone to kill your son, daugher, brother, father, mother, lover or best friend. How likely is that to make you start fighting them? Is the probablility higher than one percent?
The fact that "most everyone" believes something, doesn't make it true. It really bugs me that a lot of causes that I agree with (human rights activists, envionmentalists, and others) are filled with very vocal, very naîve, mostly young pepole who will repeat anyting they percieve to support their cause, weather true or not. This severely hurts the cause, and in a time when a simple Google fact check takes only seconds to do, there is no excuse for repeating untruths. (Unless you consider "being an idiot" an excuse for any kind of behavior.)
The extradition treaty between Sweden and the UK means that Assange can not be extradited from Sweden to a third country unless the UK agrees. So it would be much easier for the US to request extradition directly from the UK (requres consent only from a UK court) than from Sweden (requires consent from a UK court and a Swedish court.) (Sources are linked from this article wich took me only a few seconds to find on Google.)
how can plug-design speed up charge time 24 times?
The on-board AC-to-DC converter is not very powerful (or it would be too heavy). If the charging station can deliver DC current at the voltage that the battery demands (which it can with the new standard), then charging speed is limited only by the battery, not the on-board electronics.
I don't think they mean "immune" in the sense that police raids will never happen. More likely, they mean, when a police raid happens, then a new virtual macine, hosted on a dfferent service provider, and which already holds an encrypted copy of the database, is ready to take over.
You didn't get paid to write that, and you did it anyway, just because you like to tell other people what you think.
While/. comments are for people who like to tell others their opinions about nerd stuff, facebook posts are for people who like to tell others what they like, or what they had for breakfast. It's not that different really.
I think the "want" buton might work well with fb's target demographic, but I'd still not buy any of their stock until it has dropped at least another 99.7 %.
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They already have a solution to this problem. Under new policy, the drone operators will have the right to take out backyard hobbyists on U.S. soil, just like they currently do overseas. Try to test an interference device, and you'll soon be at the unpleasant end of a hellfire missile trajectory.
Nine hours of storage is "surprisingly little"? The island from TFA will store a few minutes of Belgium's energy consumption (assuming a few km^2 lake area, and a depth of fifty meters or so.)
Also, if you actually read the article you quote, you'll see that the fluctuations in wind power output are much greater than the fluctuations in power demand. That means the cost of storage more than doubles when using wind power instead of nuclear.
I wish "environmentalists" would stop downplaying the costs of renewable energy. There is already a political will to switch to renewables in almost every country in Europe. What's stopping the process is the people who feel they have been promised cheper energy after the switch. They make it politically impossible to take any measures that increase the cost of energy.
Better import from Germany! ... That's because they have lots of solar power and wind turbines.
So you're saying, instead of building an energy storage system, the Belgians should just buy solar and wind power from Germany when there's no sun or wind in Belgium?
(FYI: Night falls nearly on the same time in Germany as in Belgium.)
You can't have wind power on any serious scale without storage. Storage built off-shore - near the wind-farm - also lessens the load on the link to the mainland.
Only question is: Will the polulation accept the high price, or will they prefer to import cheaper nuclear energy from France?
It doesn't cost 25k to build a relatively good personal cinema, you can do it for less than 5k
That's less than 21 years of subscription. A no-brainer, really.
The possibility to change the affiliate id is the only reason for installing the lens (that I can think of), so yeah, I think most people who install the lens are going to do that. (If, for example, you want to give money to the Electronic Frontier Foundation every time you shop at amazon, then you enter their affiliate ID, as TFA explains.)
If you don't care about the affiliate ID, then it's more efficient to have a shortcut to open amazon in a web browser instead of this lens.
Value is value. US dollars is simply one way of storing it.
The difference is: One billion US dollars can quite easily be converted into other goods. One billion dollars "worth" of stock in a small-cap company cannot. Especially if you're and insider and thus prohibited from selling your stock in secret.
In Sweden, the law states quite plainly that this is a tax, paid to copyright holders in exchange for the right to make copies for private use, including giving to friends and family. (The law is unclear on what counts as "friends", but apparently random bt peers don't count.)
No. In most countries, the tax is only levied on private individuals (in exchange for the right to store copyrighted material on the blank media, and share with friends and family). Professional users don't pay the tax, because they are assumed to store their own data.
But even if the tax were levied on companies like Dropbox, hardware purchases are not proportional to the number of "copies" stored. If a million users store the same movie file on Dropbox, there will only be one copiy (plus backups) on their hard drives, thanks to data deduplication.
I'm all for this tax, because at least where I live, it would mean I'd have the right to share (legally bought) music and movies with my friends and family via Dropbox, rather than having to physically hand them a copy on a USB stick. This is very convenient, since some of my friends live far away.
Thinking has everything to do with it. Their monoploy is based on the fact that almost every new computer ships with the latest Windows installed. If every version was ok (or if you had the option of getting the latest non-sucky Windows when you buy a new computer), then nobody would ever need to buy an upgrade.
If you're scanning to save physical space, you don't need this contraption. Just cut off the back of the book and put the pages in a regular scanner with a sheet feeder. (You can get an excellent one for about $400, including OCR software.)
TFA gives the impression that individual students will be treated differently according to race, which would indeed be racism if it were true.
What they are actually talking about is the target that schools shools have to meet before NCLB "corrective actions" (such as replacing the staff and hring a private company to run the school) are implemented. Holding all schools to the same standards would lead to forced privatization of most schools is poor neigbourhods, which is probably what the Bush adminstration intended, but something that most states want to avoid.
Unless you want to give all your flight details to some random web server operator, you're better off installing something like http://sourceforge.net/projects/zbar/ and decoding yourself.
Science has come a long way since the 1990's. Modern incinerators have better efficiency, lower operating costs, and much lower emissions.
I made a mistake in my calculation. The electric energy is only enough to go half the circumference of the Earth. The conclusion still holds, tough.
The elecric energy that can be recovered from one tonne of waste (0.5 MWh) is approximately sufficient to transport one tonne of cargo the circumference of the Earth by rail or sea. The distances discussed here are significantly shorter than that.
(In addition, incineration generates about 2 MWh of heat per tonne, but that can only be used for applications like domestic heating, not for transport.)
...or Google "slit scan camera". There's a smartphone app for this.
http://xkcd.com/774/
Is it worth taking civilian deaths on our side, through terrorism, to avoid civilians deaths on the other side?
The question that needs to be answer first is: Does killing people with drones reduce terrorism at all?
Let's assume that 10 % of people killed by drones are terrorists. (This is probably generous. The estimate from stanford is 2 %) Let's further assume that each person that is killed has 10 close relatives/friends.
Now if more than 1 % of those whose close relatives/friends are killed by done strikes are turned against the U.S. by that event, then drone attacks actually increase terrorism. This makes them a bad idea regardless of how little value you place on foreign civilian lives compared to American.
So the real question is: If a foreign nation invades your country (removing a previous leader that you probably didn't like) and that nation then sends a drone to kill your son, daugher, brother, father, mother, lover or best friend. How likely is that to make you start fighting them? Is the probablility higher than one percent?
The fact that "most everyone" believes something, doesn't make it true. It really bugs me that a lot of causes that I agree with (human rights activists, envionmentalists, and others) are filled with very vocal, very naîve, mostly young pepole who will repeat anyting they percieve to support their cause, weather true or not. This severely hurts the cause, and in a time when a simple Google fact check takes only seconds to do, there is no excuse for repeating untruths. (Unless you consider "being an idiot" an excuse for any kind of behavior.)
The extradition treaty between Sweden and the UK means that Assange can not be extradited from Sweden to a third country unless the UK agrees. So it would be much easier for the US to request extradition directly from the UK (requres consent only from a UK court) than from Sweden (requires consent from a UK court and a Swedish court.) (Sources are linked from this article wich took me only a few seconds to find on Google.)
If a company requres that you submit your resumé as a .doc then you don't want to work there! Google is just helping you improve your quality of life.
how can plug-design speed up charge time 24 times?
The on-board AC-to-DC converter is not very powerful (or it would be too heavy). If the charging station can deliver DC current at the voltage that the battery demands (which it can with the new standard), then charging speed is limited only by the battery, not the on-board electronics.
Actually, it's:
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /
That way, you get to stay in the search index, while being excluded from news. (source)
I don't think they mean "immune" in the sense that police raids will never happen. More likely, they mean, when a police raid happens, then a new virtual macine, hosted on a dfferent service provider, and which already holds an encrypted copy of the database, is ready to take over.
You didn't get paid to write that, and you did it anyway, just because you like to tell other people what you think.
While /. comments are for people who like to tell others their opinions about nerd stuff, facebook posts are for people who like to tell others what they like, or what they had for breakfast. It's not that different really.
I think the "want" buton might work well with fb's target demographic, but I'd still not buy any of their stock until it has dropped at least another 99.7 %.