If they were to give me a choice of where my taxes went, I'd tell them to take all that money that is being spent "protecting" us in Iraq and send it down to protect one of the most beautiful and unique cities in the world.
There is nothing wrong with people devoting their time, energy and money preserving New Orleans. It's your life after all. The problem is when you discover that you don't have enough and need to take some of my money too.
That is why the federal government shouldn't be in the disaster insurance business.
Let private insurers charge market rates based on their own risk analysis.
Unless the disaster was caused be the federal government, or by an invading army people should buy their own insurance. If the people of a particular state decide to subsidize insurance then they can work that out themselves.
We can't force millions of people to move, but they can't force millions of taxpayers in other regions of the country to fund their decision to live there either.
But does it need to be viable to be worthy of protection?
I would say that "protection" is not an either-or proposition. In the normal 9 month gestation period, a fetus starts from a single cell and ends up as an infant. This is an inherantly analog process. You can't apply a digital person/not person model to this situation.
None of this means a bit to people who believe in immortal souls granted by God upon conception. I think that's where the real argument lies.
Too bad these people can't see that they'd eliminate a lot more abortions by supporting sex education and contraception then by pushing for absolute prohibition.
to impose your religious beliefs on me or any unborn child that I might have.
I don't have any religious beliefs, but I have no problem with the state using force to prevent you (or anyone else) from murdering other human beings.
Suggesting that an unborn child has no human rights until the instant of birth is absurd.
Suggesting that an egg gains full legal rights at the instant of conception is equally absurd.
This isn't an either-or situation. The answer isn't "pro-choice" or "pro-life".
I think that most all of us can agree that a clump of cells too small to be seen with the naked eye doesn't deserve any particular legal recogintion.
On the other hand, a unborn child that has developed enough that it could expect to survive outside the womb probably should have the same rights inside the womb as it would have outside.
In between these two points we can have reasonable laws the balance the interests of the mother with the interests of the unborn child.
If we'd quit listening to the people who say there is no middle ground then we could actually solve this argument and move on with life.
I think you got it backwards. They think that neutrino flux slows down radioactive decay. As probe gets farther away from the sun, then it will decay faster.
There are far fewer locomotives and tracks than there are cars and roads
It seams like 90% of the interstates are under construction at any given time anyway... would anyone even notice yet another construction project on the highways?
Moreover, the topology of the rails follows the food distribution routes, which generally goes through the same routes that you want electricity from wind to go through from the midwest to the coasts.
I don't know what a rail map of the US looks like, but the interstates connect everything.
The best part is that we already have a place to put the lines.
The interstate highway system already covers most of the country and links all the major population centers. They should bury all the superconductors in the median between the lanes.
It's not like anyone is using that land right now alway
can you imagine laser smelting of steel? i know you need carbon to make steel, but you also need intense heat, if the intense heat comes from industrial sized Infrared lasers, then you produce a lot less toxic waste producing steel. the price of big industrial lasers is big, but they last a long long time, and they might negate the need for big smoke stacks and big scrubbers and what to do with the toxic remnants afterwards... ahh i can dream can't i?
I would imagine that you can melt iron ore quite a bit more efficiently by just passing the electricity through it instead of converting electricity to light and then back to heat.
Synthetic oil is oil consisting of chemical compounds which were not originally present in crude oil (petroleum), but were artificially made (synthesized) from other compounds.
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
In a non-theoretical DC motor, you have different curves for shunt wound vs. series wound vs. permanent magnet, etc. They don't always peak at intuitive spots.
Except for very small motors, DC motors are becoming more rare every day. One upon a time every variable-speed motor was DC by necessity, but now that variable frequency inverters are cheap, efficient and reliable there is very little reason to use a DC motor outside of household applications.
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If that much trade passes through the port, then tax those goods to fund the necessary infrastructure.
Let the true cost of doing buisiness through the port be reflected in the cost of the products so that the free market can do its job.
There is nothing wrong with people devoting their time, energy and money preserving New Orleans. It's your life after all. The problem is when you discover that you don't have enough and need to take some of my money too.
That is why the federal government shouldn't be in the disaster insurance business.
Let private insurers charge market rates based on their own risk analysis.
Unless the disaster was caused be the federal government, or by an invading army people should buy their own insurance. If the people of a particular state decide to subsidize insurance then they can work that out themselves.
We can't force millions of people to move, but they can't force millions of taxpayers in other regions of the country to fund their decision to live there either.
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I said person, not human
Every single cell in your body is human. Are they all persons?
Hint: "human" is a biological term, "person" is a legal term
I would say that "protection" is not an either-or proposition. In the normal 9 month gestation period, a fetus starts from a single cell and ends up as an infant. This is an inherantly analog process. You can't apply a digital person/not person model to this situation.
Too bad these people can't see that they'd eliminate a lot more abortions by supporting sex education and contraception then by pushing for absolute prohibition.
I don't have any religious beliefs, but I have no problem with the state using force to prevent you (or anyone else) from murdering other human beings.
Suggesting that an unborn child has no human rights until the instant of birth is absurd.
Suggesting that an egg gains full legal rights at the instant of conception is equally absurd.
This isn't an either-or situation. The answer isn't "pro-choice" or "pro-life".
I think that most all of us can agree that a clump of cells too small to be seen with the naked eye doesn't deserve any particular legal recogintion.
On the other hand, a unborn child that has developed enough that it could expect to survive outside the womb probably should have the same rights inside the womb as it would have outside.
In between these two points we can have reasonable laws the balance the interests of the mother with the interests of the unborn child.
If we'd quit listening to the people who say there is no middle ground then we could actually solve this argument and move on with life.
That's how science works. All scientific conclusions are subject to change based on new information. (it's called progress)
Only religion makes claims of absolute truth independent of evidence.
I think you got it backwards. They think that neutrino flux slows down radioactive decay. As probe gets farther away from the sun, then it will decay faster.
It seams like 90% of the interstates are under construction at any given time anyway... would anyone even notice yet another construction project on the highways?
I don't know what a rail map of the US looks like, but the interstates connect everything.
Most of that applies to the interstate highway system as well
You can do it with semiconductors now. Power electronics have advanced enough that they are equally or sometimes more efficient than transformers.
The best part is that we already have a place to put the lines.
The interstate highway system already covers most of the country and links all the major population centers. They should bury all the superconductors in the median between the lanes.
It's not like anyone is using that land right now alway
Obviously some moderator never has never seen this.
can you imagine laser smelting of steel? i know you need carbon to make steel, but you also need intense heat, if the intense heat comes from industrial sized Infrared lasers, then you produce a lot less toxic waste producing steel. the price of big industrial lasers is big, but they last a long long time, and they might negate the need for big smoke stacks and big scrubbers and what to do with the toxic remnants afterwards... ahh i can dream can't i?
I would imagine that you can melt iron ore quite a bit more efficiently by just passing the electricity through it instead of converting electricity to light and then back to heat.
and synthetic lubricants are made from ... ?
synthetic oil:
Synthetic oil is oil consisting of chemical compounds which were not originally present in crude oil (petroleum), but were artificially made (synthesized) from other compounds.
if
Vast swaths of the Western US need to get covered with wind farms.
, how are you going to
not spend another penny aiding and abetting the Petroleum industry
and lubricate those wing turbines ?
Synthetic oil
Well, this is the State of Massachusetts, not Congress...
They already fixed that loophole
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
The dissonance between your post and your sig is making my brain hurt.
Nothing lives on the Moon,
The toast king lives on the moon.
You can pick those up pretty cheap in the spring after everyone has given up on their new year's resolutions.
In a non-theoretical DC motor, you have different curves for shunt wound vs. series wound vs. permanent magnet, etc. They don't always peak at intuitive spots.
Except for very small motors, DC motors are becoming more rare every day. One upon a time every variable-speed motor was DC by necessity, but now that variable frequency inverters are cheap, efficient and reliable there is very little reason to use a DC motor outside of household applications.
Close, but not quite. I don't exactly remember why the curve looks like that, something do to with inductive reactance.