Also, here in Ohio, a moped is legally defined as a motorized bicycle limited to 20 MPH, with a maximum of 1 hp and 50 cc displacement. This has almost 9 hp and 300 cc displacement, and is designed to go a lot faster than 20.;)
Wait, what?
How fast is a non-motorized bicycle allowed to go under Ohio law? Because I've hit over 20 mph without a motor on my bike, and I'm nowhere near as powerful as some bicyclists.
But the price of gallium will affect the availability of gallium in a form that humans find easily useable.
An increase in price means an increase in resources that can be devoted to extracting gallium and still leave the extractor with a profit.
An increase in price also means that alternatives that used to be more expensive could be less expensive now, which lowers demand for gallium.
Economics isn't a perfect science, and it often heavily relies on imperfect data from a biased world. But I wouldn't put it in the same realm as reading tea leaves.
The rich can only horde wealth if the amount of wealth in the world is fixed.
I don't believe that. The amount of potential wealth in the world is probably directly related to energy and raw materials. While some raw materials and energy sources may be becoming more scarce, as a whole, humanity has only begun to tap the potential, even if we limit our field to this one planet. For example, a random bit of earth's crust is about 16% aluminum oxide, 7% iron oxide, and 5% magnesium oxide, with slightly under 1% titanium oxide. Given enough energy, that's a valid source of 4 rather commonly used metals. For energy, in addition to breeder reactors that we currently have, thorium-cycle breeders should work without a large technological leap.
And who honestly believes that in 1000 years, we'll be using the same energy sources as today? Solar energy becomes a lot more practical in space, for example, and transmitting energy wirelessly is possible. Once we're in space, the raw material issue becomes much less of a non-issue as well, due to the ability to mine other bodies in the solar system.
I lost some weight when I became vegan (going from omni), but I later went back to my normal weight.
I attribute to not knowing what junk food was vegan in the beginning, and later learning.:D
For losing weight, the Hacker's Diet (google it) and exercise is working for me, but I'm never more than 20-25 lbs above my ideal body weight. It is rare I stray outside of a "healthy" BMI -- but I do tend to keep a little fat around my middle even if the BMI says I'm healthy.
Assume, for example, that part of your summer heating cost is due to A/C.
What prevents you from buying a cheap thermometer and having the renewable-energy circuit power an A/C system that is electrically and mechanically isolated from the mains A/C system?
If the mains A/C system only kicks in at 5 degrees above the renewable-energy circuit, than the renewable circuit will cool first.
Lots of weird stuff that could plausibly, but not conclusively, be construed as Hans covering up moving her bloody body in his car: removing the passenger seat, hosing out the interior, a 6" bloodstain on a sleeping bag cover kept in the car.
Or the same as it affected Union Carbide when they poisoned a whole town killing everyone. (the former president will be jailed for life if he ever sets foot in India).
Technically it was an Indian subsidary of UC that had the plant, and 49% of that subsidary was owned by the Indian authorities.
That doesn't diminish UC's role in the accident, but it seems that the trial was more about finding a scapegoat and less about discovering whose decisions played a direct or indirect role in the accident.
It'd be kinda like ozzy remixing a britney spears song.
Now that I would pay for.
I can't give you Ozzy covering Spears, but there are some weird metal covers out there.
For example, Type O Negative has a cover of Summer Breeze. (One of their few covers I don't care for, btw -- their Sabbath covers are quite good, as well as their cover of "Cinnamon Girl")
Blind Guardian has a cover of "Dream a Little Dream of Me".
There's some strange, strange metal covers out there.
Gimp does suffer if you are used to windows and its tendency to 1. encourage maximized windows and 2. autoraise any focused window.
However, in my WM of choice, it works quite well. I can have a maximized image taking up the entire screen, in focus, and have the tool window on top of it.:)
Your marine aquarium is probably less than a few hundred meters deep.:p
Part of the reason why this is done in deep water is that, in theory, the plankton sinks to the deeper part of the ocean where oxygen levels are low. (Well, some do. Say about 20% or so.)
I'd like 7.1, but only if it was possible to divide it up into 3 seperate stereo channels -- one for the TV, one for my computer speakers, and one for my headphones.
I like to use different outputs for different purposes...
There's some speculation that nuclear winter wouldn't have happened -- the models that predicted it are relatively simplistic, especially by modern standards, and considering that the majority of the bombs will be airbursts.
OTOH, who is going to argue that a nuclear war is safe? It's like the statistics that there are enough weapons to destroy the earth x times over. Bullshit. The dinokiller astroid was 100 million megatons. At the peak, the nuclear weapon stockpile was.02 million megatons. At the best, you can wipe out humanity, and that is something I doubt -- the exchange is going to happen in the northern hemisphere, and humans are damn resistant animals. (Question left for the student: assuming a 20,000 megaton stockpile, purely fission weapons, how muchc more will a global exchange increase the total background radioactivity on the earth?)
In the last couple of years with GarageBand etc providing the ability for anyone to make reasonable music at home, the iTunes Music Store and it's ilk providing the ability for almost anyone to publish their work, and social networking sites providing the marketing (often viral), it's time these commercial dinosaurs went the way of their reptilian cousins did millions of years ago.
Don't forget the other side of it -- internet music sharing facilitates the spread of rival labels as well.
When I hear about a band I don't know of, I'll check Youtube for a video. If I like the band, I'll end up hitting either the local record store or Amazon to buy a copy.
Here's the labels for my last few purchases: Locomotive Records, Nuclear Blast, and Candlelight Records. According to RIAA-Radar, none of them are members of the RIAA. Woopsie, there goes a few sales for the big four.
I noticed the other day that Nuclear Blast had decent quality uploads to Youtube. Looks like they figured out how to get cheap publicity.
The 'War against the Rull' by A. E. Van Vogt had that idea as well.
"As he turned away, quite incidentally, accidentally, he glanced at the
rock behind which he had shielded himself from possible direct fire.
Glanced at and saw the lines on it. Intricate lines, based on an
profound and inhuman study of human neurons. He recognized them for what
they were and stiffened in horror. He thought, Where--where am I being
directed?
"That much had been discovered after his return from Mira 23, with his
report of how he had been apparently, instantly, hypnotized; the lines
impelled movement to somewhere. Here, on this fantastic mountain, it
could only be to a cliff. But which one?
"With a desparate will, he fought to retain his senses a moment longer.
he strove to see the lines again. He saw briefly, flashingly, five
wavering verticals and above them three lines that pointed east with
their wavering ends. The pressure built up inside him, but still he
fought to keep his thoughts self-motivated. Fought to remember if there
were wide ledges near the top of the east cliff."....
That work was from either the 40s or 50s, which would predate Langford.:D
I guess this makes me a pro-Scientology astroturfer (woot, Xenu will be proud!) but just because Scientology has a history of engaging in illegal behavior doesn't mean they did it. (It *does* make them a suspect. It doesn't prove anything.)
The tongue-in-cheek title may have killed its chances of success, but it reflected the innocence with which the game approached mindless violence. Published by Konami, this genuine cult classic was the precursor of the amazing Silent Hill games.
How is a game that is a parody of the horror movie genre a precursor to a game that was solidly in the horror genre of video games?
Did they miss the joke of the game? You ran around killing zombies with a squirt gun full of holy water! You killed the alien plant thingie with a weedwacker! All the level titles were some parody of classic horror movie titles. I thought it was obvious that game was not taking itself seriously.
I really don't think it matters. Due to the American public's lack of science education and a media that is dying to create a story, I suspect finding a much-higher-than-average radioactive area of the country, grabbing some soil, and throwing that around a regular ol' chemical bomb and calling it a dirty bomb is enough to make the media run with the story and the public panic.
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Wait, what?
How fast is a non-motorized bicycle allowed to go under Ohio law? Because I've hit over 20 mph without a motor on my bike, and I'm nowhere near as powerful as some bicyclists.
But the price of gallium will affect the availability of gallium in a form that humans find easily useable.
An increase in price means an increase in resources that can be devoted to extracting gallium and still leave the extractor with a profit.
An increase in price also means that alternatives that used to be more expensive could be less expensive now, which lowers demand for gallium.
Economics isn't a perfect science, and it often heavily relies on imperfect data from a biased world. But I wouldn't put it in the same realm as reading tea leaves.
The rich can only horde wealth if the amount of wealth in the world is fixed.
I don't believe that. The amount of potential wealth in the world is probably directly related to energy and raw materials. While some raw materials and energy sources may be becoming more scarce, as a whole, humanity has only begun to tap the potential, even if we limit our field to this one planet. For example, a random bit of earth's crust is about 16% aluminum oxide, 7% iron oxide, and 5% magnesium oxide, with slightly under 1% titanium oxide. Given enough energy, that's a valid source of 4 rather commonly used metals. For energy, in addition to breeder reactors that we currently have, thorium-cycle breeders should work without a large technological leap.
And who honestly believes that in 1000 years, we'll be using the same energy sources as today? Solar energy becomes a lot more practical in space, for example, and transmitting energy wirelessly is possible. Once we're in space, the raw material issue becomes much less of a non-issue as well, due to the ability to mine other bodies in the solar system.
A family member of mine who is roughly double my age is more likely to vote for Obama than I am.
People can become more liberal or more conservative as they age. And they can change their opinions.
I lost some weight when I became vegan (going from omni), but I later went back to my normal weight.
I attribute to not knowing what junk food was vegan in the beginning, and later learning. :D
For losing weight, the Hacker's Diet (google it) and exercise is working for me, but I'm never more than 20-25 lbs above my ideal body weight. It is rare I stray outside of a "healthy" BMI -- but I do tend to keep a little fat around my middle even if the BMI says I'm healthy.
Or if you want people to use less energy, just tax energy more.
Assume, for example, that part of your summer heating cost is due to A/C.
What prevents you from buying a cheap thermometer and having the renewable-energy circuit power an A/C system that is electrically and mechanically isolated from the mains A/C system?
If the mains A/C system only kicks in at 5 degrees above the renewable-energy circuit, than the renewable circuit will cool first.
Was this bloodstain tested? Who did it belong to?
Technically it was an Indian subsidary of UC that had the plant, and 49% of that subsidary was owned by the Indian authorities.
That doesn't diminish UC's role in the accident, but it seems that the trial was more about finding a scapegoat and less about discovering whose decisions played a direct or indirect role in the accident.
I can't give you Ozzy covering Spears, but there are some weird metal covers out there.
For example, Type O Negative has a cover of Summer Breeze. (One of their few covers I don't care for, btw -- their Sabbath covers are quite good, as well as their cover of "Cinnamon Girl")
Blind Guardian has a cover of "Dream a Little Dream of Me".
There's some strange, strange metal covers out there.You forgot the most entertaining part -- genres.
FreeDB is like having the idiot know-it-all-friend that provides hours of conversation after he's gone.
Gimp does suffer if you are used to windows and its tendency to 1. encourage maximized windows and 2. autoraise any focused window.
However, in my WM of choice, it works quite well. I can have a maximized image taking up the entire screen, in focus, and have the tool window on top of it. :)
You can have free will and still have an omniscient deity if the deity's consciousness transcends time.
Or, to put it another way, it is free will that will decide what you will do tomorrow, but God knows because he's already there.
Your marine aquarium is probably less than a few hundred meters deep. :p
Part of the reason why this is done in deep water is that, in theory, the plankton sinks to the deeper part of the ocean where oxygen levels are low. (Well, some do. Say about 20% or so.)
As usual, Wikipedia has an article on it, with some of the more interesting criticisms listed as well.
One of the more intriguing ideas I've heard is to seed the deep ocean with iron.
Iron is a limiting factor in the growth of plankton, especially in the resource poor areas of the ocean.
Add iron, plankton grows. Plankton absorbs CO2, then dies, sinking.
I'd like 7.1, but only if it was possible to divide it up into 3 seperate stereo channels -- one for the TV, one for my computer speakers, and one for my headphones.
I like to use different outputs for different purposes...
The Milky way is only 100,000 lightyears across.
At .1c average speed, that's a colonization of the entire galaxy in a million years.
The local group of galaxies is about 10 million lightyears across. That's 100 million years to reach one end of it to the other at .1c.
There's roughly 200 to 400 billion stars.
Lightspeed isn't really a limitation.
Actually, it is disturbing...
If Sol-like systems are common, with earth planets, then why isn't the universe overrun with one or more sentient lifeforms?
There's some speculation that nuclear winter wouldn't have happened -- the models that predicted it are relatively simplistic, especially by modern standards, and considering that the majority of the bombs will be airbursts.
OTOH, who is going to argue that a nuclear war is safe? It's like the statistics that there are enough weapons to destroy the earth x times over. Bullshit. The dinokiller astroid was 100 million megatons. At the peak, the nuclear weapon stockpile was .02 million megatons. At the best, you can wipe out humanity, and that is something I doubt -- the exchange is going to happen in the northern hemisphere, and humans are damn resistant animals. (Question left for the student: assuming a 20,000 megaton stockpile, purely fission weapons, how muchc more will a global exchange increase the total background radioactivity on the earth?)
Don't forget the other side of it -- internet music sharing facilitates the spread of rival labels as well.
When I hear about a band I don't know of, I'll check Youtube for a video. If I like the band, I'll end up hitting either the local record store or Amazon to buy a copy.
Here's the labels for my last few purchases: Locomotive Records, Nuclear Blast, and Candlelight Records. According to RIAA-Radar, none of them are members of the RIAA. Woopsie, there goes a few sales for the big four.
I noticed the other day that Nuclear Blast had decent quality uploads to Youtube. Looks like they figured out how to get cheap publicity.
The 'War against the Rull' by A. E. Van Vogt had that idea as well.
That work was from either the 40s or 50s, which would predate Langford. :D
I guess this makes me a pro-Scientology astroturfer (woot, Xenu will be proud!) but just because Scientology has a history of engaging in illegal behavior doesn't mean they did it. (It *does* make them a suspect. It doesn't prove anything.)
How is a game that is a parody of the horror movie genre a precursor to a game that was solidly in the horror genre of video games?
Did they miss the joke of the game? You ran around killing zombies with a squirt gun full of holy water! You killed the alien plant thingie with a weedwacker! All the level titles were some parody of classic horror movie titles. I thought it was obvious that game was not taking itself seriously.
And it still had pretty decent gameplay. :D
When compared to other high-density substances, how unsafe is DU?
In a war zone, there is something to be said for KE, and density does help increase KE.
Not smoke detectors?
I really don't think it matters. Due to the American public's lack of science education and a media that is dying to create a story, I suspect finding a much-higher-than-average radioactive area of the country, grabbing some soil, and throwing that around a regular ol' chemical bomb and calling it a dirty bomb is enough to make the media run with the story and the public panic.