I would also expect that losing one LED doesn't knock out the whole array. If a truck loses a taillight on the road, the driver pulls over and calls for an emergency repair truck, a very expensive proposition but losing one LED out of a 50 LED array is no big deal.
I bought some expensive name brand reflectorized CFL bulbs to go into the ceiling fan we installed in the kitchen, and they have startup issues and the 27 watt CFL's outside start slow in mid-winter, but other than that I have had no problem with moderately priced store-brand CFLs. These bulbs seem to be very much a YMMV thing. Sooner or later the problems will be resolved, perhaps due to the hypersensitive being rendered incapable of reproducing under CFL light.
Electricity use is the main source of mercury emissions in the U.S. CFLs use less electricity than incandescent lights, meaning CFLs reduce the amount of mercury into the environment. As shown in the table below, a 13-watt, 8,000-rated-hour-life CFL (60-watt equivalent; a common light bulb type) will save 376 kWh over its lifetime, thus avoiding 4.5 mg of mercury. If the bulb goes to a landfill, overall emissions savings would drop a little, to 4.2 mg. Frequently Asked Questions Information on Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFLs) and Mercury
That's all well and good but you would be surprised at how much mercury gets into the environment from dental fillings and how few people will pay the extra $15.00 to get composite fillings!
I swear, the USA is one lost staring contest away from a bloodless military coup. I mean, if it hasn't already happened. How would we tell the difference?
First you'd notice a rapid increase in government efficiency, then you'd notice the government actually following the constitution and the laws; trust me you'd notice.
First, a good leader should try to have as accurate an understanding as possible of what things are like for the followers. In this case, the leaders are going out of their way to avoid first hand experience of what it's like for the followers. Basically, they're going out of their way to remain ignorant.
That part your forgetting is they don't get hired in at that level, it's not like getting a MBA from Harvard and hiring in as an Assistant Vice President for a fortune 100 corp, They start out as an O-1 which means lower than whale shit in civilian speak. Most of those Generals in the Army have not only ridden around in cargo planes sitting in web seats, most have also jumped out of them.
actually they said the capsules were intended for 4-stars and assistant secretaries
There are currently 37 active duty four-star officers in the uniformed services of the United States: 10 in the Army, 10 in the Navy, 11 in the Air Force, 4 in the Marine Corps, 1 in the Coast Guard, and 1 in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. List of active duty United States four-star officers
so we're not talking about a lot of people here from the military.
I ran into one instance back arround 1978 or 79, none since and I retired in 1998. The Military is big and diverse, you'll run into anything you'll run into in society there yet for the most part the military is more progressive than society in general.
I thought the commissioning of officers was a congressional responsibility anyway, the saying we had was "Officer and Gentleman by act of Congress" and was used as a pejorative phrase.
Generals typically tend to stay away from the front lines because they know what a monumental pain in the ass their staff entourage is for the guys actually trying to do some work. The reality is in order to become a General or Admiral you need not only exemplary military skills but phenomenal people skills.
for use by four-star generals, fleet admirals and federal officials at the level of assistant secretary and above.
; You honestly don't think they are going to ferry Obama for 36 hours inside on of these C-17 Globemaster III sitting on nylon webbing seats and staring at palletized cargo in the center isle.
Another small piece of Einstein history that few people know is the terms of his divorce from his first wife (The woman mentioned above) was that she received all prize money when he wins a Nobel prize for the theory of relativity. He agreed to this and in fact Einstein never saw any of the money when he won the Nobel prize.
Einstein didn't win a Nobel prize for any of the Relativity theories, because Noble prizes are given for practical discoveries and Relativity is impractical. Einstein did win a Nobel prize for his work in Quantum Mechanics which is the basis for just about everything that makes modern life modern and is therefore quite practical.
More likely Yellowstone will pop it's cork and bury every nuclear waste repository in North America under an extra hundred feet of shielding volcanic ash
Radioactive decay is exponential so in ten thousand years, the radiation given off by our "nuclear waste" will be about the same as the ore would have been if we hadn't done anything with it!
Thats... typically american. "Don't do anything, it'll fix itself"... *sigh*
I suppose that means you've tested your tap water for radioactive and toxic heavy minerals and your home for radon gas.
We've used 100MPH tape more than once in space. In the Army we had a variant we call missile tape which we used to cover the leading edges of the missiles elevons.
... the proposal will allow works to enter the public domain if neither a record label nor a performer "shows any interest in marketing the sound recording" in the first year after the extension passes (assuming that it does).
which leads me to wonder how "interest" would be shown, would a publisher be required to keep a work in print and distribution to maintain copyright protection? If that's the case then shouldn't it apply to all works at all times, or is that where the EU is heading? Maybe they are just pimping for some sort of ongoing registration maintenance fees.
I'm calling bullshit, the Indians are too smart to export their best and brightest to do scab work for American companies. Yes you might see a few sharp ones honing their skills on an American dime, but not many.
This is precedent setting. Never before has the FCC mandated traffic management practices for private networks. We're not talking about broadcast traffic on public spectrum anymore.
my first objection is that comcast isn't just managing their network, they are sending forged packets not only to my computer attached to their network but also to other computers attached to non-comcast networks. My second objection is that the justification for the FCC's authority is that the frequency spectrum is a form of interstate commerce, the telephones are also a form of interstate commerce and although I'm basically libertarian I don't see why the same arguments don't equally apply to interstate computer networks and internetworks.
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I would also expect that losing one LED doesn't knock out the whole array. If a truck loses a taillight on the road, the driver pulls over and calls for an emergency repair truck, a very expensive proposition but losing one LED out of a 50 LED array is no big deal.
I bought some expensive name brand reflectorized CFL bulbs to go into the ceiling fan we installed in the kitchen, and they have startup issues and the 27 watt CFL's outside start slow in mid-winter, but other than that I have had no problem with moderately priced store-brand CFLs. These bulbs seem to be very much a YMMV thing. Sooner or later the problems will be resolved, perhaps due to the hypersensitive being rendered incapable of reproducing under CFL light.
Electricity use is the main source of mercury emissions in the U.S. CFLs use less electricity than incandescent
lights, meaning CFLs reduce the amount of mercury into the environment. As shown in the table below, a 13-watt,
8,000-rated-hour-life CFL (60-watt equivalent; a common light bulb type) will save 376 kWh over its lifetime, thus
avoiding 4.5 mg of mercury. If the bulb goes to a landfill, overall emissions savings would drop a little, to 4.2 mg. Frequently Asked Questions Information on Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFLs) and Mercury
That's all well and good but you would be surprised at how much mercury gets into the environment from dental fillings and how few people will pay the extra $15.00 to get composite fillings!
I swear, the USA is one lost staring contest away from a bloodless military coup. I mean, if it hasn't already happened. How would we tell the difference?
First you'd notice a rapid increase in government efficiency, then you'd notice the government actually following the constitution and the laws; trust me you'd notice.
First, a good leader should try to have as accurate an understanding as possible of what things are like for the followers. In this case, the leaders are going out of their way to avoid first hand experience of what it's like for the followers. Basically, they're going out of their way to remain ignorant.
That part your forgetting is they don't get hired in at that level, it's not like getting a MBA from Harvard and hiring in as an Assistant Vice President for a fortune 100 corp, They start out as an O-1 which means lower than whale shit in civilian speak. Most of those Generals in the Army have not only ridden around in cargo planes sitting in web seats, most have also jumped out of them.
actually they said the capsules were intended for 4-stars and assistant secretaries
There are currently 37 active duty four-star officers in the uniformed services of the United States: 10 in the Army, 10 in the Navy, 11 in the Air Force, 4 in the Marine Corps, 1 in the Coast Guard, and 1 in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. List of active duty United States four-star officers
so we're not talking about a lot of people here from the military.
when I was in the Army, the aircraft approached along the golf course to land at the helipad; the rotor wash could sure screw up your drives too.
I ran into one instance back arround 1978 or 79, none since and I retired in 1998. The Military is big and diverse, you'll run into anything you'll run into in society there yet for the most part the military is more progressive than society in general.
I thought the commissioning of officers was a congressional responsibility anyway, the saying we had was "Officer and Gentleman by act of Congress" and was used as a pejorative phrase.
No they just transfer them into a broom-closet sized office in the bowels of the Pentagon and yank their assigned parking.
Ever been on a 36 hour flight?
Generals typically tend to stay away from the front lines because they know what a monumental pain in the ass their staff entourage is for the guys actually trying to do some work. The reality is in order to become a General or Admiral you need not only exemplary military skills but phenomenal people skills.
actually I visualized on a modern version of Caligula's orgy ships used on lake Nemi
This isn't for those guys this is for
for use by four-star generals, fleet admirals and federal officials at the level of assistant secretary and above.
; You honestly don't think they are going to ferry Obama for 36 hours inside on of these C-17 Globemaster III sitting on nylon webbing seats and staring at palletized cargo in the center isle.
Another small piece of Einstein history that few people know is the terms of his divorce from his first wife (The woman mentioned above) was that she received all prize money when he wins a Nobel prize for the theory of relativity. He agreed to this and in fact Einstein never saw any of the money when he won the Nobel prize.
Einstein didn't win a Nobel prize for any of the Relativity theories, because Noble prizes are given for practical discoveries and Relativity is impractical. Einstein did win a Nobel prize for his work in Quantum Mechanics which is the basis for just about everything that makes modern life modern and is therefore quite practical.
More likely Yellowstone will pop it's cork and bury every nuclear waste repository in North America under an extra hundred feet of shielding volcanic ash
Radioactive decay is exponential so in ten thousand years, the radiation given off by our "nuclear waste" will be about the same as the ore would have been if we hadn't done anything with it!
Thats ... typically american. "Don't do anything, it'll fix itself" ... *sigh*
I suppose that means you've tested your tap water for radioactive and toxic heavy minerals and your home for radon gas.
To be fair,NASCAR does run a few road courses and a lot of the teams actually hire a GT driver to turn the wheel in both direction.
it's much more complicated than NASCAR, NASCAR just turns LEFT!
We've used 100MPH tape more than once in space. In the Army we had a variant we call missile tape which we used to cover the leading edges of the missiles elevons.
I found this snipet at the very end interesting,
... the proposal will allow works to enter the public domain if neither a record label nor a performer "shows any interest in marketing the sound recording" in the first year after the extension passes (assuming that it does).
which leads me to wonder how "interest" would be shown, would a publisher be required to keep a work in print and distribution to maintain copyright protection? If that's the case then shouldn't it apply to all works at all times, or is that where the EU is heading? Maybe they are just pimping for some sort of ongoing registration maintenance fees.
probably not the stupid sap probably sold his rights decades ago to support his heroin or cocaine habit.
I remember a guy named Adam Osborne was alleged to have sketched the first luggable computer the Osborne 1 on the back of a napkin.
I'm calling bullshit, the Indians are too smart to export their best and brightest to do scab work for American companies. Yes you might see a few sharp ones honing their skills on an American dime, but not many.
This is precedent setting. Never before has the FCC mandated traffic management practices for private networks. We're not talking about broadcast traffic on public spectrum anymore.
my first objection is that comcast isn't just managing their network, they are sending forged packets not only to my computer attached to their network but also to other computers attached to non-comcast networks. My second objection is that the justification for the FCC's authority is that the frequency spectrum is a form of interstate commerce, the telephones are also a form of interstate commerce and although I'm basically libertarian I don't see why the same arguments don't equally apply to interstate computer networks and internetworks.