But fat can also be made into bio-diesel with the addition of lye and methanol. (Lye is supposedly what Brad Pitt dropped onto Ed Norton's hand to make it burn).
So I'm assuming that they can collect all the waste product that goes into processed chicken plants (that's a lot, since the USA processes about 100 million chickens per day), add lye and methanol to the mix, and then process it further into some form of Kerosene, as that's what turbines (aka jet engines) tend to burn, although it could also be methane.
But if it was Methane, they could get it easier from Pig shit than from chicken fat, so I'm betting they found a way to "crack" the biodiesel into Kerosene.
Just to put that in perspective $130 Billion is still only 1/4th what we spent to bail out the banks 2 years ago. It's only 1/5th what we spent in Iraq ALONE.
And frankly, if that money had not been spent on a useless war, and not spent on bailing out corrupt banks who's CEOs gave themselves big fat paychecks for bankrupting the country, we'd HAVE that money to spend on energy.
Just imagine what kind of development towards new energy sources we'd have by spending almost TWO TRILLION DOLLARS.
I'm constantly reminded of the opening to the "The Road Warrior" where the narrator proclaims that 'While the gas ran out, our leaders talked and talked 'til the machines ground to a halt. Civilization crumbled.'
I seen a zillion scams posted on slashdot, where some company claims to have invented some new scheme to magically get energy out of thin air.
Bloombox for example, has a fuel cell that they can "print" and they are talking a $3000 box that will run your house, just feed it natural gas, and it will efficiently create electricity. We're not going to see this in our lifetimes.
EEstor keeps talking about an Ultracapacitor. While not being able to create energy, if it was to work, we'd have super efficient electric cars that can charge up in 5 minutes and run for 300 miles. We're not going to see this in our lifetimes.
Heck, I'd settle for the 30% more efficient, super-cheap solar cells we were promised in 5 years, 5-years AGO. Well, where are they? Can I cover my roof in 'em for less than $25,000? Apparently not. We're not going to see this in our lifetimes.
The point is: The oil is running out, and our leaders talk and talk, and worse, corporations that spring up to supposedly solve the energy crisis are just scams, there don't seem to be any REAL solutions. They are just taking money from suckers.
Which means our post-apocalyptic film-making friends in Australia were right on the money. So start building your "last of the V-8's" with two 50-gal drums in the back while you roam the wastes in search of guzzeline.
You wrote: As much as google as a company says don't be evil, what happens when their algorithms decide on a course of action that gives the best results for a goal while being a more than questionable action?
See my subject. Basically, this was covered in a piece of Sci-Fi written in the 50's... People start "googling" How to rob a bank and not get caught kind of stuff. And the computer tells them how to do it.
Unfortunately; history gets munged, and the only way to have any kind of context is to simplify things, aka, dumb it down to the average person.
Which is the way *everything* works. You're going to find that that almost everything taught to you in school was as wrong as "inventor of the internet".
Now, you can either accept that everything is wrong and just get on with your day, or you can go around and correct EVERYONE, on every point. Because just about everything is factually incorrect. Good luck being Sheldon Cooper, I've learned that people get tired of being corrected, even though I'm wasting my lunchtime to correct you as well.
Example" "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" came out the same summer. Each studio heard the other was doing a "rock from outer space" movie, so, they had to do the same movie.
Then there was "Red Planet" and that other Mars movie (can't remember the title, but they were both out same summer and both sucked).
When Dreamworks heard that Pixar was doing "Bugs", they came out with "Ants" -- they aren't even copycat films, they are productions that are literally greenlighted because of the other guy's PRESS RELEASE, before shooting even starts!
In short, there isn't an ounce of creativity. Heck, TV isn't even any better if fact it can be worse. StarGate SG-1 and Star Trek Voyager used the same script around the same time as each other about the crew being brainwashed to be cheap labor for some other planet. I swear, it's like the scriptwriter comes up with a plot and then sells it four times to various people. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder had it right, you have to sell 250% of every production.
So, you know why everyone's doing "origin" stories? Because the other guy's doing origin stories! OMG We gotta do origin stories too!
Eventually, they'll all latch onto something else, and it'll be all at the same time. So next summer we'll have 3 movies about genetically enhanced athletes that are secret agents in their spare time....
Is it just me, or does that summary make absolutely no sense whatsoever? Almost everything about it sounds just plain idiotic. I can't tell if it was dumbed down for the press, or if the Slashdot submitter/editor (sic), just got everything wrong.
Right. My prediction is that this will have to be a chat-bot, since real women are extremely unlikely to be on this system. It's like those lava-life phone chat systems. No one is on them except for other guys looking around for the ladies and not finding any.
No, TV is interlaced because if you started "painting" the image on the screen linearly, the top half would be fading before the bottom half was finished. It had to do with the phosphor on the inside of the tube versus an acceptable frame rate/image decay rate that wouldn't shear the image if the camera panned. Also, not all TV is 60/30, as PAL/SECAM are differing standards from NTSC.
It's pretty much only the Russians still launching men/women into space. The US Space program is essentially, over.
NASA's plans are up in the air, muddled and without focus, liable to change on political whim, and even when they go forward, it will be hopelessly underfunded and probably a disaster.
Meanwhile, the Russians are using pretty much the exact same technology they were 50 years ago, and continuing to launch. NASA has to buy seats on the next few years of flights if we want to get anybody into or out of the ISS.
Maybe SpaceX will change things for the better, but what I find so sad is that the USA went to the moon, and now our country is just a shadow of it's former self, bloated, dull, and stupid. We're the Roman Empire waiting to fall. Nero is fiddling.
Here's to Yuri and Valentina though. I remember pointing out on Slashdot years ago, when Star Trek Enterprise premeired, how the title sequence avoided the Russians, even though it was trying to show the advancement of human space flight.
I suggest someone change that title sequence, because all the advancement in that area is coming from someplace else, Russia, China, India -- but likely NOT the USA.
I'd like to remind people that scientists as recently as the 1940's said that flight faster than the speed of sound was impossible. That flight beyond the atmosphere was impossible.
Before that, they said that flight was impossible, and anyone travelling faster than 35mph would kill the occupant.
Just ask any top-fuel dragster jockey about what's impossible. Engineers were swearing up and down that they had reached the limit of what internal combustion engines could do in the 60's, but the guys building the dragsters kept proving them wrong.
I'm sure as far back as cavemen, there was a 'scientist' that was positive that man-made fire was impossible.
The point is: Sooner or later, anyone that says that anything is impossible is proven wrong. Don't be a naysayer, be that someone that changes the world. Find the way to achieve the impossible.
Next time come through the Mexican border, and speak Spanish... They let you right in, no questions asked. You can even apply for a fake social security number.
So lemme get this straight? A minimum wage animal working at the border can seize your laptop without due cause, and ship it off someplace else to be "investigated" , likely never to be seen again?
Sounds like a good scam to score a whole bunch of free laptops!
This is starting to sound like the jocks against the nerds all over again, taking your lunch money.
I've never heard of ANYONE ever getting their equipment back (Isn't Steve Jackson Games still waiting after Operation Sun Devil?) after it's been taken by the authorities, and even in the unlikely event you get it back, it won't be in useable condition. Think about all those cops shows where they gleefully cut apart someone's car looking for drugs. They will send your computer back in a envelope and all you'll see are little black and silver shavings.
Anyone who sings the Star Spangeled Banner at this point is just kidding themselves. Land of the Free? Home of the Brave? Oy vey.
I can't wait to see this lawsuit turn up somewhere in the bible belt, where a student sues for getting an "F" on a test, and submits that because God told him that 2+2=5 the teacher has no right to dispute that knowledge as false.
Only after we get some incredibly stupid shit will people see the error of their ways. However, I've *already* seen some incredibly stupid shit, and frankly, it seems to be getting stupider with no sign of abating. Perhaps some time in the suture 2+2=5 will be accepted as fact, and no one will even bother trying to correct anyone.
We are truly headed for 'Idiocracy" where "ass" wins the academy award for best script.
Where is the FSM in all this? Can *that* theory also be taught in Tennessee Schools?
Fuel costs will make it so prohibitively expensive to fly that only the "jet set" will ever be able to travel by air.
Not to mention the three hour wait going through security, because by then the TSA will have to strip every passenger and perform full cavity searches and screen your blood before you can walk onto an aircraft. Also, buying an airline ticket allows the company to perform a full credit-history on you, so, really, they'll know everything about you anyhow before your flight is canceled.
By 2030, most people in the world will be limited to a 100-mile radius, not just because that's still the limit on their electric cars, but because of security. Not from terrorism, but due to class warfare.
By then, the rich will clamp down on the rest of us (and if you look around you can already see this in progress), so that we're essentially serfs.
And don't forget food wars, since the world population will be over 10 billion by that point.... Jet engines? Please, by 2030, people will be shooting each other in the street for bottles of fresh water.
I've heard about people being snuck into various countries by being "loaded" into shipping containers. I now have to wonder how many are at the bottom of the ocean whether by choice (illegal immigration), or not (human trafficking). Whoops sorry, your Filipino Mail-Order Bride was lost at sea. No refunds.
Blogs are a monster that needs to be constantly fed. I have one friend with a blog who is lucky to post something once a month, another friend is paying other people to write posts for him. We all have lives and there's only so many original thoughts in the world. It's hard to keep feeding the beast.
So, it comes as no surprise that even professional writers will take the easy way out if they are having a bad day, or just hit a wall on writer's block, or, they have too many other projects on their plate, or whatever. Plagarism is now the nature of the web, and half the blogs on the internet point to other blogs on the internet for their stories.
Here in the USA, we've been relatively isolated from most natural disasters, and most man-made disasters.
Think about it: How disrupted would your life be if planes were bombing the crap out of your country, and there was random gunfire in the streets all the time?
On the west coast, there's more of a building code, but let's face it. If New York City were hit by a 9.0 earthquake, nuclear reactors would be the last thing we'd be worried about. Loss of life would be in the millions if the quake hit during the day. There's not a single skyscraper in Manhattan built to withstand that kind of shock. Try an imagine 9/11, but laying waste to the entire island. There's what, 20 million in Manhattan during the day? You're looking at at least 10 million dead. From the quake.
Then if there's a Tsunami to follow, there could be another 10 million (at least) killed from that. Because DC, Baltimore, Phildelphia Newark, and Boston would also be affected. The Northeast has a lot of major cities within a close proximity, and absolutely no building code regarding quake management.
And yet Americans are worried about the reactor? Ignorance truly is bliss. Americans have NO CLUE about what's really going to kill them. We are a fortunate lot to live in a politically and geologically stable environment. But neither of those conditions are going to last forever.
Slashdot Mirror
The anime film "Summer Wars" predicted this EXACT scenario, except a little more extreme and with more dire consequences, but pretty darn close.
http://www.anime.com/Summer_Wars/
Translation :
newbie outsourced tech typed "sudo rm -rf *.*" and we don't have a backup.
If Sony ran a supermarket: if one guy was caught shoplifting, they'd close down the supermarket and deny an entire neighborhood any food.
This is their rootkit fiasco all over again. Deny, deny, deny, blame it on "hackers", don't admit that THEY fucked up.
If Sony had never removed "other OS" feature, they would never have encountered the focused rage of the entire enthusiast community.
Now, it's possible that the Playstation Network, and possibly the entire PS3 platform, is finished.
You reap what you sow, Sony....
Unless it's Monsanto genetically modified rainwater, in which case, if it falls on your property, they'll sue you.
In Fight Club, they made soap from human fat.
But fat can also be made into bio-diesel with the addition of lye and methanol. (Lye is supposedly what Brad Pitt dropped onto Ed Norton's hand to make it burn).
So I'm assuming that they can collect all the waste product that goes into processed chicken plants (that's a lot, since the USA processes about 100 million chickens per day), add lye and methanol to the mix, and then process it further into some form of Kerosene, as that's what turbines (aka jet engines) tend to burn, although it could also be methane.
But if it was Methane, they could get it easier from Pig shit than from chicken fat, so I'm betting they found a way to "crack" the biodiesel into Kerosene.
Just to put that in perspective $130 Billion is still only 1/4th what we spent to bail out the banks 2 years ago. It's only 1/5th what we spent in Iraq ALONE.
And frankly, if that money had not been spent on a useless war, and not spent on bailing out corrupt banks who's CEOs gave themselves big fat paychecks for bankrupting the country, we'd HAVE that money to spend on energy.
Just imagine what kind of development towards new energy sources we'd have by spending almost TWO TRILLION DOLLARS.
I'm constantly reminded of the opening to the "The Road Warrior" where the narrator proclaims that 'While the gas ran out, our leaders talked and talked 'til the machines ground to a halt. Civilization crumbled.'
I seen a zillion scams posted on slashdot, where some company claims to have invented some new scheme to magically get energy out of thin air.
Bloombox for example, has a fuel cell that they can "print" and they are talking a $3000 box that will run your house, just feed it natural gas, and it will efficiently create electricity. We're not going to see this in our lifetimes.
EEstor keeps talking about an Ultracapacitor. While not being able to create energy, if it was to work, we'd have super efficient electric cars that can charge up in 5 minutes and run for 300 miles. We're not going to see this in our lifetimes.
Heck, I'd settle for the 30% more efficient, super-cheap solar cells we were promised in 5 years, 5-years AGO. Well, where are they? Can I cover my roof in 'em for less than $25,000? Apparently not. We're not going to see this in our lifetimes.
The point is: The oil is running out, and our leaders talk and talk, and worse, corporations that spring up to supposedly solve the energy crisis are just scams, there don't seem to be any REAL solutions. They are just taking money from suckers.
Which means our post-apocalyptic film-making friends in Australia were right on the money. So start building your "last of the V-8's" with two 50-gal drums in the back while you roam the wastes in search of guzzeline.
You wrote:
As much as google as a company says don't be evil, what happens when their algorithms decide on a course of action that gives the best results for a goal while being a more than questionable action?
See my subject. Basically, this was covered in a piece of Sci-Fi written in the 50's ... People start "googling" How to rob a bank and not get caught kind of stuff. And the computer tells them how to do it.
I think this post is just to promote that Terminator: the Sarah Conner Chronicles starts Thursday night on Syfy.
But on a related note, later that same night Syfy is running Star Blazers (Space Cruiser Yamato), my favorite show as a kid. I'm so excited!
Unfortunately; history gets munged, and the only way to have any kind of context is to simplify things, aka, dumb it down to the average person.
Which is the way *everything* works. You're going to find that that almost everything taught to you in school was as wrong as "inventor of the internet".
Now, you can either accept that everything is wrong and just get on with your day, or you can go around and correct EVERYONE, on every point. Because just about everything is factually incorrect. Good luck being Sheldon Cooper, I've learned that people get tired of being corrected, even though I'm wasting my lunchtime to correct you as well.
Ugh. I've become what I hate. Thanks.
Example" "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" came out the same summer. Each studio heard the other was doing a "rock from outer space" movie, so, they had to do the same movie.
Then there was "Red Planet" and that other Mars movie (can't remember the title, but they were both out same summer and both sucked).
When Dreamworks heard that Pixar was doing "Bugs", they came out with "Ants" -- they aren't even copycat films, they are productions that are literally greenlighted because of the other guy's PRESS RELEASE, before shooting even starts!
In short, there isn't an ounce of creativity. Heck, TV isn't even any better if fact it can be worse. StarGate SG-1 and Star Trek Voyager used the same script around the same time as each other about the crew being brainwashed to be cheap labor for some other planet. I swear, it's like the scriptwriter comes up with a plot and then sells it four times to various people. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder had it right, you have to sell 250% of every production.
So, you know why everyone's doing "origin" stories? Because the other guy's doing origin stories! OMG We gotta do origin stories too!
Eventually, they'll all latch onto something else, and it'll be all at the same time. So next summer we'll have 3 movies about genetically enhanced athletes that are secret agents in their spare time....
Is it just me, or does that summary make absolutely no sense whatsoever? Almost everything about it sounds just plain idiotic. I can't tell if it was dumbed down for the press, or if the Slashdot submitter/editor (sic), just got everything wrong.
Right. My prediction is that this will have to be a chat-bot, since real women are extremely unlikely to be on this system. It's like those lava-life phone chat systems. No one is on them except for other guys looking around for the ladies and not finding any.
No, TV is interlaced because if you started "painting" the image on the screen linearly, the top half would be fading before the bottom half was finished. It had to do with the phosphor on the inside of the tube versus an acceptable frame rate/image decay rate that wouldn't shear the image if the camera panned. Also, not all TV is 60/30, as PAL/SECAM are differing standards from NTSC.
It's pretty much only the Russians still launching men/women into space. The US Space program is essentially, over.
NASA's plans are up in the air, muddled and without focus, liable to change on political whim, and even when they go forward, it will be hopelessly underfunded and probably a disaster.
Meanwhile, the Russians are using pretty much the exact same technology they were 50 years ago, and continuing to launch. NASA has to buy seats on the next few years of flights if we want to get anybody into or out of the ISS.
Maybe SpaceX will change things for the better, but what I find so sad is that the USA went to the moon, and now our country is just a shadow of it's former self, bloated, dull, and stupid. We're the Roman Empire waiting to fall. Nero is fiddling.
Here's to Yuri and Valentina though. I remember pointing out on Slashdot years ago, when Star Trek Enterprise premeired, how the title sequence avoided the Russians, even though it was trying to show the advancement of human space flight.
I suggest someone change that title sequence, because all the advancement in that area is coming from someplace else, Russia, China, India -- but likely NOT the USA.
I'd like to remind people that scientists as recently as the 1940's said that flight faster than the speed of sound was impossible. That flight beyond the atmosphere was impossible.
Before that, they said that flight was impossible, and anyone travelling faster than 35mph would kill the occupant.
Just ask any top-fuel dragster jockey about what's impossible. Engineers were swearing up and down that they had reached the limit of what internal combustion engines could do in the 60's, but the guys building the dragsters kept proving them wrong.
I'm sure as far back as cavemen, there was a 'scientist' that was positive that man-made fire was impossible.
The point is: Sooner or later, anyone that says that anything is impossible is proven wrong. Don't be a naysayer, be that someone that changes the world. Find the way to achieve the impossible.
You wrote:
"You don't have a right to enter US, it's a privilege."
It's not a privilege. It's more like a punishment..
Next time come through the Mexican border, and speak Spanish... They let you right in, no questions asked. You can even apply for a fake social security number.
You get to keep YOUR laptop!
So lemme get this straight? A minimum wage animal working at the border can seize your laptop without due cause, and ship it off someplace else to be "investigated" , likely never to be seen again?
Sounds like a good scam to score a whole bunch of free laptops!
This is starting to sound like the jocks against the nerds all over again, taking your lunch money.
I've never heard of ANYONE ever getting their equipment back (Isn't Steve Jackson Games still waiting after Operation Sun Devil?) after it's been taken by the authorities, and even in the unlikely event you get it back, it won't be in useable condition. Think about all those cops shows where they gleefully cut apart someone's car looking for drugs. They will send your computer back in a envelope and all you'll see are little black and silver shavings.
Anyone who sings the Star Spangeled Banner at this point is just kidding themselves. Land of the Free? Home of the Brave? Oy vey.
Because God told me it's true.
I can't wait to see this lawsuit turn up somewhere in the bible belt, where a student sues for getting an "F" on a test, and submits that because God told him that 2+2=5 the teacher has no right to dispute that knowledge as false.
Only after we get some incredibly stupid shit will people see the error of their ways. However, I've *already* seen some incredibly stupid shit, and frankly, it seems to be getting stupider with no sign of abating. Perhaps some time in the suture 2+2=5 will be accepted as fact, and no one will even bother trying to correct anyone.
We are truly headed for 'Idiocracy" where "ass" wins the academy award for best script.
Where is the FSM in all this? Can *that* theory also be taught in Tennessee Schools?
Fuel costs will make it so prohibitively expensive to fly that only the "jet set" will ever be able to travel by air.
Not to mention the three hour wait going through security, because by then the TSA will have to strip every passenger and perform full cavity searches and screen your blood before you can walk onto an aircraft. Also, buying an airline ticket allows the company to perform a full credit-history on you, so, really, they'll know everything about you anyhow before your flight is canceled.
By 2030, most people in the world will be limited to a 100-mile radius, not just because that's still the limit on their electric cars, but because of security. Not from terrorism, but due to class warfare.
By then, the rich will clamp down on the rest of us (and if you look around you can already see this in progress), so that we're essentially serfs.
And don't forget food wars, since the world population will be over 10 billion by that point.... Jet engines? Please, by 2030, people will be shooting each other in the street for bottles of fresh water.
I've heard about people being snuck into various countries by being "loaded" into shipping containers. I now have to wonder how many are at the bottom of the ocean whether by choice (illegal immigration), or not (human trafficking). Whoops sorry, your Filipino Mail-Order Bride was lost at sea. No refunds.
Blogs are a monster that needs to be constantly fed. I have one friend with a blog who is lucky to post something once a month, another friend is paying other people to write posts for him. We all have lives and there's only so many original thoughts in the world. It's hard to keep feeding the beast.
So, it comes as no surprise that even professional writers will take the easy way out if they are having a bad day, or just hit a wall on writer's block, or, they have too many other projects on their plate, or whatever. Plagarism is now the nature of the web, and half the blogs on the internet point to other blogs on the internet for their stories.
Welcome to dot-com 3.0, *the echo chamber*.
Not the nuclear reactors....
Here in the USA, we've been relatively isolated from most natural disasters, and most man-made disasters.
Think about it: How disrupted would your life be if planes were bombing the crap out of your country, and there was random gunfire in the streets all the time?
On the west coast, there's more of a building code, but let's face it. If New York City were hit by a 9.0 earthquake, nuclear reactors would be the last thing we'd be worried about. Loss of life would be in the millions if the quake hit during the day. There's not a single skyscraper in Manhattan built to withstand that kind of shock. Try an imagine 9/11, but laying waste to the entire island. There's what, 20 million in Manhattan during the day? You're looking at at least 10 million dead. From the quake.
Then if there's a Tsunami to follow, there could be another 10 million (at least) killed from that. Because DC, Baltimore, Phildelphia Newark, and Boston would also be affected. The Northeast has a lot of major cities within a close proximity, and absolutely no building code regarding quake management.
And yet Americans are worried about the reactor? Ignorance truly is bliss. Americans have NO CLUE about what's really going to kill them. We are a fortunate lot to live in a politically and geologically stable environment. But neither of those conditions are going to last forever.