i'd say you'd have the same problem with the system in the story, with a turbine and all.
as for a stirling dish-solar system, they would work alright in the city; one would easily fit on the roof of my rowhouse (since a satellite dish would fit just fine). it actually has a smaller footprint, per kwh, than solar cells. however, if you're talking about the suburbs, you're right; solar roof shingles etc are a much more usable option.
what's wrong with a reflective dish and a stirling engine, anyways? much higher efficiency, materials aren't as expensive as solar panels and not nearly as bad for the environment.
yes, but he's talking about the goverment. we have 4th amendment rights. the government does not.
our consitutional rights protect our right to keep things to ourselves (or at least they're supposed to). the government, technically, does not have that right except in special circumstances such as secrecy acts.
personally, i kinda like turning the right-wingers language back on them.
brushless DC motors are similar in design to AC traction motors, true. but the DC ones aren't scaling too well currently. that should change in a few years tho.
If you believe in God, and God doesn't exist, then you've lost what? Next to nothing
if you call your entire life 'next to nothing', sure.
A little time hanging out with nice people who have high morals?
yeah, cause only people who believe in god have high morals. like those crazy religious fundamentalists in the middle east. i'll go hang out with them. they believe in god, so they're alright.
Hanging out with people who believe in a hard days' work, who are willing to feed themselves and raise their children with a good education and proper values?
exactly. look at the crime statistics in america. every single crime is committed by agnostics and athiests. those bastards never learned of a hard day's work in athiest school.
Good luck in hell
you too. i mean, i'm not religious, but i do know that god really hates when you do his judging for him. i doubt he's going to have kind words for someone like you after you die. we'll save you a seat at the buffet.
man, what a crappy link. yeah, the information totally wasn't really public cause we know for a fact that terrorists don't read UN sites. totally. but they do read the times, through and through every day. and even if they did read it, they wouldn't have really figured out that swift was being monitored cause well, we know for a fact that terrorists 'don't read good'.
god, like i needed more evidence that powerline is full of crap.
yeah, and it'll all be information previously completely available on public sites on the internet, but right wingers will still claim it's proof that the times is committing treason.
cause y'know, republishing public data is totally treasonous.
but remember, the japanese eat much healthier than americans.
personally, i think its a combination of work/work-related stress on top of crappy diet/lack of excercise. the two seem to add up to something greater than the sum of their parts.
Since moving to Prague from the US, I have gone from almost never sick to getting sick at least twice per year
i don't get sick too often anymore, but i do after i travel. when you live in one place for a while, you get accustomed to local things like allergens and after suffering through local strains of diseases (colds, flu etc) you don't catch them again. that's why so many people (myself included) typically get sick after vacationing overseas.
For over 30 years, Barry Fox has trawled through the world's weird and wonderful patent applications, uncovering the most exciting, bizarre or even terrifying new ideas.
too bad he still can't tell the difference between a patent and a patent application. you'd think he'd get that after 30 years.
It used to be that people would use "suspension of disbelief" to immerse themselves into a story.
Now it seems like everyone is in need of "suspension of suspension of disbelief." Since when did it become fashonable to read fiction and believe all the hype therein?
used to be fiction novelists admitted that their writings were just that, fiction. but when they start to throw around a bunch of cites in a long bibliography like crichton did and going around acting as if the story is supported by rock-solid science, they themselves are destroying the suspension of disbelief. it invited criticism of the reality of the story.
The sun IS burning hotter. NASA is detecting upward temperature trends on Mars and I really don't think that is amendable to human intervention. The temprature on Mars doesn't depend on our CO2 emission levels, whether or not you drive a hybrid car or if we ratify the Kyoto Treaty.
uh, mars has some very complicated warming/cooling trends due to it's wacky rotation. you can't just point to mars' weather getting warmer as proof that its the sun's fault.
The US has now installed both Roberts and Alito onto our Supreme Court with their "judicial philosophy" of a "unitary executive" [google.com]. That is, the president runs the entire government from his Executive Branch, the Judicial Branch just finds ways to interpret the president's decisions, and Congress is a medium to the public, to be informed of policy details when it suits the president
yeah, i'm sure they'll keep that attitude when a democrat is elected president.
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i'd say you'd have the same problem with the system in the story, with a turbine and all.
as for a stirling dish-solar system, they would work alright in the city; one would easily fit on the roof of my rowhouse (since a satellite dish would fit just fine). it actually has a smaller footprint, per kwh, than solar cells. however, if you're talking about the suburbs, you're right; solar roof shingles etc are a much more usable option.
~5% efficiency.
what's wrong with a reflective dish and a stirling engine, anyways? much higher efficiency, materials aren't as expensive as solar panels and not nearly as bad for the environment.
yes, but he's talking about the goverment. we have 4th amendment rights. the government does not.
our consitutional rights protect our right to keep things to ourselves (or at least they're supposed to). the government, technically, does not have that right except in special circumstances such as secrecy acts.
personally, i kinda like turning the right-wingers language back on them.
brushless DC motors are similar in design to AC traction motors, true. but the DC ones aren't scaling too well currently. that should change in a few years tho.
If you believe in God, and God doesn't exist, then you've lost what? Next to nothing
if you call your entire life 'next to nothing', sure.
A little time hanging out with nice people who have high morals?
yeah, cause only people who believe in god have high morals. like those crazy religious fundamentalists in the middle east. i'll go hang out with them. they believe in god, so they're alright.
Hanging out with people who believe in a hard days' work, who are willing to feed themselves and raise their children with a good education and proper values?
exactly. look at the crime statistics in america. every single crime is committed by agnostics and athiests. those bastards never learned of a hard day's work in athiest school.
Good luck in hell
you too. i mean, i'm not religious, but i do know that god really hates when you do his judging for him. i doubt he's going to have kind words for someone like you after you die. we'll save you a seat at the buffet.
but the message as a whole contradicted the supposed sarcasm
the whole post was sarcasm, dumbass. seriously, go take a nap.
dude, the bit about them not reading so good was sarcasm. sarcasm. s..a..r..c..aw, forget it.
man, what a crappy link. yeah, the information totally wasn't really public cause we know for a fact that terrorists don't read UN sites. totally. but they do read the times, through and through every day. and even if they did read it, they wouldn't have really figured out that swift was being monitored cause well, we know for a fact that terrorists 'don't read good'.
god, like i needed more evidence that powerline is full of crap.
yeah, and it'll all be information previously completely available on public sites on the internet, but right wingers will still claim it's proof that the times is committing treason.
cause y'know, republishing public data is totally treasonous.
no you aren't. that's just plain goofy. patent protection only begins when a patent is granted.
i love it. "the navy patents the firewall!!!one!". and they include a link to a Patent Application.
here's a tip: an application aint a patent.
fine, it's the youtube murderer.
first we'd have to stop being idiots.
not nearly as bad as this dude tho.
yeah, those crafty hobos and their winches.
i think the issue is pretty radioactive.
this whole thread is so kafka-esque.
oops, there go a few hipsters.
it's an all-porpoise identifier.
but remember, the japanese eat much healthier than americans.
personally, i think its a combination of work/work-related stress on top of crappy diet/lack of excercise. the two seem to add up to something greater than the sum of their parts.
Since moving to Prague from the US, I have gone from almost never sick to getting sick at least twice per year
i don't get sick too often anymore, but i do after i travel. when you live in one place for a while, you get accustomed to local things like allergens and after suffering through local strains of diseases (colds, flu etc) you don't catch them again. that's why so many people (myself included) typically get sick after vacationing overseas.
For over 30 years, Barry Fox has trawled through the world's weird and wonderful patent applications, uncovering the most exciting, bizarre or even terrifying new ideas.
too bad he still can't tell the difference between a patent and a patent application. you'd think he'd get that after 30 years.
It used to be that people would use "suspension of disbelief" to immerse themselves into a story.
Now it seems like everyone is in need of "suspension of suspension of disbelief." Since when did it become fashonable to read fiction and believe all the hype therein?
used to be fiction novelists admitted that their writings were just that, fiction. but when they start to throw around a bunch of cites in a long bibliography like crichton did and going around acting as if the story is supported by rock-solid science, they themselves are destroying the suspension of disbelief. it invited criticism of the reality of the story.
dumbass, mars's axis isn't stable, it wobbles and rolls all over the place.
The sun IS burning hotter. NASA is detecting upward temperature trends on Mars and I really don't think that is amendable to human intervention. The temprature on Mars doesn't depend on our CO2 emission levels, whether or not you drive a hybrid car or if we ratify the Kyoto Treaty.
uh, mars has some very complicated warming/cooling trends due to it's wacky rotation. you can't just point to mars' weather getting warmer as proof that its the sun's fault.
The US has now installed both Roberts and Alito onto our Supreme Court with their "judicial philosophy" of a "unitary executive" [google.com]. That is, the president runs the entire government from his Executive Branch, the Judicial Branch just finds ways to interpret the president's decisions, and Congress is a medium to the public, to be informed of policy details when it suits the president
yeah, i'm sure they'll keep that attitude when a democrat is elected president.