Exactly. Martin would have been justified under Florida law in killing Zimmerman. The other way around is not the case because Zimmerman approached and threatened Martin, not the other way around. But in Bizzarro World, Zimmerman was supposedly OK to approach Martin, challenge him, provoke a fight and shoot him dead because...
It's true that you only get peak at solar noon, but your power doesn't drop to zero at 3PM. My estimate at 6 hours is equivalent to saying that the year round average is sort of close to 25% of peak power. To get an exact solution, you have to integrate a complicated equation, for which I do not have the time nor inclination. (That's too much like serious work that I won't do for free.) However, this site has a different method of estimation: http://www.solar-estimate.org/?page=solar-calculations.
They recommend estimating 5 hours per day of output, so if you have a 137 acre patch (352MW peak insolation) an optimal use of that acreage would produce peak power of 70.2 MW at 20% efficiency and on a sunny day would produce about (using 5h instead of 6h), produce 352MWh of electric power. In Reno, every day is a sunny day (almost), and 43.5GWh represents about 123 sunny days. So I'm still mystified. Are they thinking to use low-efficiency panels, or install a system that only utilizes less than half of the acreage for actual panels? Are they thinking there are going to be high conversion losses? There's no reason why any of those needs to be true. It's quite feasible to design a system that has near 100% of the area used for PV, high conversion efficiency and 20% efficient panels.
IANAL but your legal rationale seems sound. But good luck getting a court to agree that you have standing to sue since SCOTUS won't listen to reason.
The only cure is replace Congress and have them impeach the current SCOTUS and replace them with people who take the 4th Amendment to mean what it says.
43.5kWh is at least an amount of energy in engineering units. But now we've got a new unit: cars-of-the-road. Apparently a car-off-the-road is a unit of energy, equal to about 6800 kWh.
Let's see if this car-off-the-road unit makes any sense. Cars are usually powered with gasoline. A gallon of gas has 33.4kWh of energy, according to the DOE. 6800kWh therefore sound like about 203 gallons of gas. If an average car gets 24 miles per gallon, that represents about 4800 vehicle miles. Most people drive their cars much more than that.
Quantities do not check out. Proposed unit "car-of-the-road" is hereby rejected.
I don't see how that's optimistic. At 39.5 degrees north latitude (Reno), 137 acres (half a million square meters) of solar farm has peak insolation of about 352MW. (Actually, more in the summer and less in the winter, but that would be close to peak on an average day.) Figuring they get about 6 hours usable sunlight per day, that comes to about 2.11GWh per day. Multiply that by the efficiency of the panels. If they're 20% efficient, they could produce about 422,000 kWh on a good day.
The 43.5million kWh figure is therefore mystifying. It seems to indicate something like 100 days worth of output.
Then you have one guy who made public a lot of the details of how the US government is spying on its own citizens, (and I'm glad he did it although I feel sorry for him because he's getting fucked) and he's being punished by the current gov't bringing the full weight of diplomatic pressure to make sure he can't get anywhere, even as they lie through their teeth and claim there's nothing special about his case and no backdoor dealing is being done to get "some hacker."
There is "nothing special" about how they're treating him compared to other international fugitives. If you're on the run from your government, they're going to revoke your passport to make it harder for you to travel. Grow up already. In the real world, that's what governments do when trying to get their hands on fugitives.
The hard thing for me to believe is how stupid he's being. Flee America which has become too oppressive and seek asylum in RUSSIA? He's in Russia and complaining about how intrusive American government can be? It beggars the imagination.
OK, that's not the only thing that's hard to believe. I also have trouble believing the NSA and Booz Allen Hamilton thought a computer security guy in Hawaii needed secret documents about the bugging of embassies and other intelligence operations he had nothing to do with. In short, the utter incompetence of the NSA and its contractors about keeping secrets seems to have gone completely missing.
What it means is that they're using other than the TEM mode of multimode fiber. It can be done but it has problems with dispersion and decoherence with distance. Every optical and probably ever electromagnetics engineer learned about this in school and most of us concluded that single-mode fiber was preferable because it doesn't have those issues.
The standard method for multiplexing signals on fiber is therefore to put it on different colors instead of into different excitation modes. That way they can be used over very long distances and there's zero bleed-over from one channel to another.
This is just a dumb idea and a waste of investors' money. The technology already exists to put many colors on the same fiber and unlike optical modes (which is what they're really talking about) colors don't change over distance or bleed into one another.
So aside from making your body work at all, it's totally superfluous... The truth is, we have little clue if different mitochondrial cells have effects physical or mental attributes. But if I had to bet, I'd bet that they do because they're all over the cell doing shit.
Yes, and this only helps with the tiny fraction of genetic diseases that are due to defective mitochondria. But maybe some day, we'll be able to deal with other diseases in a similar fashion. Pick out the chromosome that contains the defective gene, replace it with a normal chromosome from the other parent who does not have the genetic disease. Or pull a good chromosome from an unrelated person (safer, because a matched set of chromosomes can bring recessive defects out of the woodwork).
Because what they really need is a whole cell. Pulling mitochondria from a somatic cell and putting it in an egg is probably possible, but they haven't worked that out yet.
For that matter, a human egg may not be necessary. Maybe they can use bonobo eggs. Bonobos like to get it on.
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If another plaintiff sues, maybe. I don't think if this plaintiff sues over the same monitoring, the courts would touch the case.
So, if someone is walking around in a place where they should not be, you are not allowed to get out of your car? Why don't we just lock up the law
MARTIN WAS NOT WALKING AROUND IN A PLACE WHERE HE SHOULD NOT BE.
Exactly. Martin would have been justified under Florida law in killing Zimmerman. The other way around is not the case because Zimmerman approached and threatened Martin, not the other way around. But in Bizzarro World, Zimmerman was supposedly OK to approach Martin, challenge him, provoke a fight and shoot him dead because...
It's true that you only get peak at solar noon, but your power doesn't drop to zero at 3PM. My estimate at 6 hours is equivalent to saying that the year round average is sort of close to 25% of peak power. To get an exact solution, you have to integrate a complicated equation, for which I do not have the time nor inclination. (That's too much like serious work that I won't do for free.) However, this site has a different method of estimation: http://www.solar-estimate.org/?page=solar-calculations.
They recommend estimating 5 hours per day of output, so if you have a 137 acre patch (352MW peak insolation) an optimal use of that acreage would produce peak power of 70.2 MW at 20% efficiency and on a sunny day would produce about (using 5h instead of 6h), produce 352MWh of electric power. In Reno, every day is a sunny day (almost), and 43.5GWh represents about 123 sunny days. So I'm still mystified. Are they thinking to use low-efficiency panels, or install a system that only utilizes less than half of the acreage for actual panels? Are they thinking there are going to be high conversion losses? There's no reason why any of those needs to be true. It's quite feasible to design a system that has near 100% of the area used for PV, high conversion efficiency and 20% efficient panels.
IANAL but your legal rationale seems sound. But good luck getting a court to agree that you have standing to sue since SCOTUS won't listen to reason. The only cure is replace Congress and have them impeach the current SCOTUS and replace them with people who take the 4th Amendment to mean what it says.
43.5kWh is at least an amount of energy in engineering units. But now we've got a new unit: cars-of-the-road. Apparently a car-off-the-road is a unit of energy, equal to about 6800 kWh.
Let's see if this car-off-the-road unit makes any sense. Cars are usually powered with gasoline. A gallon of gas has 33.4kWh of energy, according to the DOE. 6800kWh therefore sound like about 203 gallons of gas. If an average car gets 24 miles per gallon, that represents about 4800 vehicle miles. Most people drive their cars much more than that.
Quantities do not check out. Proposed unit "car-of-the-road" is hereby rejected.
I don't see how that's optimistic. At 39.5 degrees north latitude (Reno), 137 acres (half a million square meters) of solar farm has peak insolation of about 352MW. (Actually, more in the summer and less in the winter, but that would be close to peak on an average day.) Figuring they get about 6 hours usable sunlight per day, that comes to about 2.11GWh per day. Multiply that by the efficiency of the panels. If they're 20% efficient, they could produce about 422,000 kWh on a good day. The 43.5million kWh figure is therefore mystifying. It seems to indicate something like 100 days worth of output.
My car has a heat based engine. So did the Stanley Steamer.
Then you have one guy who made public a lot of the details of how the US government is spying on its own citizens, (and I'm glad he did it although I feel sorry for him because he's getting fucked) and he's being punished by the current gov't bringing the full weight of diplomatic pressure to make sure he can't get anywhere, even as they lie through their teeth and claim there's nothing special about his case and no backdoor dealing is being done to get "some hacker."
There is "nothing special" about how they're treating him compared to other international fugitives. If you're on the run from your government, they're going to revoke your passport to make it harder for you to travel. Grow up already. In the real world, that's what governments do when trying to get their hands on fugitives.
The hard thing for me to believe is how stupid he's being. Flee America which has become too oppressive and seek asylum in RUSSIA? He's in Russia and complaining about how intrusive American government can be? It beggars the imagination.
OK, that's not the only thing that's hard to believe. I also have trouble believing the NSA and Booz Allen Hamilton thought a computer security guy in Hawaii needed secret documents about the bugging of embassies and other intelligence operations he had nothing to do with. In short, the utter incompetence of the NSA and its contractors about keeping secrets seems to have gone completely missing.
Not a problem. We'll just fire up some coal-fired electric plants and achieve a fine balance between Nuclear Winter and Global Warming.
How much for a Facebook Like?
US law doesn't apply in the EU embassy.
There is, but every government does both kinds.
Or just adopt.
I won't propose technical solutions to your social problems if you don't propose social solutions to my technical problems.
More or less. More detail here: http://stanwir.seecs.nust.edu.pk/Lectures/FOCS/Modes%20in%20Optical%20Fibers.pdf
What it means is that they're using other than the TEM mode of multimode fiber. It can be done but it has problems with dispersion and decoherence with distance. Every optical and probably ever electromagnetics engineer learned about this in school and most of us concluded that single-mode fiber was preferable because it doesn't have those issues.
The standard method for multiplexing signals on fiber is therefore to put it on different colors instead of into different excitation modes. That way they can be used over very long distances and there's zero bleed-over from one channel to another.
This is just a dumb idea and a waste of investors' money. The technology already exists to put many colors on the same fiber and unlike optical modes (which is what they're really talking about) colors don't change over distance or bleed into one another.
That's in a galaxy far, far away. Life here evolved independently.
He's going to have Mummy's eyes, Daddy's smile and mtDNA donor's energy.
So aside from making your body work at all, it's totally superfluous... The truth is, we have little clue if different mitochondrial cells have effects physical or mental attributes. But if I had to bet, I'd bet that they do because they're all over the cell doing shit.
No, because egg+egg doesn't make an embryo. I don't think scientists know why yet.
Yes, and this only helps with the tiny fraction of genetic diseases that are due to defective mitochondria. But maybe some day, we'll be able to deal with other diseases in a similar fashion. Pick out the chromosome that contains the defective gene, replace it with a normal chromosome from the other parent who does not have the genetic disease. Or pull a good chromosome from an unrelated person (safer, because a matched set of chromosomes can bring recessive defects out of the woodwork).
Because what they really need is a whole cell. Pulling mitochondria from a somatic cell and putting it in an egg is probably possible, but they haven't worked that out yet.
For that matter, a human egg may not be necessary. Maybe they can use bonobo eggs. Bonobos like to get it on.
Only the female scientists who can donate eggs will really get in on the action though.
No it hasn't.