No seriously it it hasn't, in fact because the US is a first to conceive instead of first to file, they will not file an patent application until it's everybody is using it!
It's just that everyone else forges the part in two pieces and welds them together on site, welding steel 12 inches thick has got to be a pain in the ass and a QC nightmare, weld some, grind some, magnaflux 11 and a half inches to go!
why not just take a Farnsworth fusor line the reaction chamber with a graphite reflector and a liner of thorium and be done with it simpley; one house, one reactor.
Another alternative is to turn back the technological clock and weld together two smaller forgings, said John Fees, CEO of McDermott International Inc.'s Babcock & Wilcox Co., which built the Three Mile Island reactor. That technique was used over the past 40 years in the U.S. and France and is still applied in China.
Doing it with one piece forgings saves a company from the Quality Control nightmare that getting a near perfect weld on a piece of steel 30cm thick must entail.
Of course, the labels would be fools to accept this. I'm sure that would eat into their profits significantly. Yeah that's why they offer 7 DVDs for 49 cents each and half off each months selection. what will get hurt is artist's royalties which are likely to range from half to none in the flat rate scheme.
Don't worry, the taxes were paid, they were just paid by the wholly owned subsidiaries of the studios rather than the production company. It's like the old shell game where a pea is shuffled under the shell, no matter how convoluted the shuffle, sooner or later you have to show the pea. Now what I think might be interesting would be a tax on dividends paid to foreign entities. The foreign entities don't pay US income taxes so just take 17% off the top if they don't have a TIN or a SSN.
If the team moves so far away that the local fans can't support it, that just opens up an opportunity for someone to start a new team. except the team needs other teams to play and the leagues survive on artificial scarcity of teams and the teams often have trouble obtaining the services of talented players. Our city is Hockey town, we are the permanent home of the International Silver Stick hockey tournament, 65,000 players and coaches participate in the international amature hockey tournament. I doubt there is more than a handfull of NHL hockey players who haven't played hockey in Port Huron, we'll probably loose our third minor-league Hockey team real soon.
why not? Look at OSS, Open Source Software, it an example of an abundance economy. The more people who use OSS, the more there is, more bug reports to help developers to fix thing and add features, more incentive to right more code to attract more users, wash, rinse, repeat. The poorest people in the US is middle class in a lot of countries, imagine a world where the poorest people are what was once the middle class, that's what free power would do for the rest of the world. Look at how much we spend on security, when somebody has nothing, the risk of losing it all isn't much, when that same person has a home, doesn't worry about starving to death everyday because he now in the middle class, losing it all is much more of a risk; so we win because he wins. Free energy would't cost us, it would pay us.
Actually there is a very good chance the problem isn't the batteries, Any lithium ion battery will "explode" when it shorted out so it's very possible that device the battery shorted out via the tin whiskers growing out of the "green" lead-free solder used in most modern electronics. While an individual whisker is optically invisible, when it shorts out it creates an ion bridge that can conduct 100's of amperes of electricity.
In many countries their is a severe need for cheap plentiful energy to do things that we take for granted like water purification. It's a given that before a country starts receiving these reactors that they will have to ratchet up a lot of the infra-structures to distribute the energy and maintain security. I can't help but see this has the potential to help everyone involved.
The Canadians like to protect the environment by shipping their trash from Toronto to Michigan in trucks spewing GHG along the way and entering through the second busiest land-boarder crossing into the US. One of our patients is a customs agent on that crossing and he told me that after the radiation detectors were installed to spot radiological weapons, it took the Canadians two days to clean-up the trucks and the trash in them enough to get them across the boarder. Seems that throwing nuclear hospital wastes in the trash dumpster is a lot cheaper than the nuclear waste container.
We need to look at efficient, cheap energy storage. well the night-time consumption drops off quite a bit, especially on residential circuits so that helps quite a bit, so I'm going to say something most with bristle at at first and that's screw efficiency and go for cheap. I think the good old NiFe battery is the way to go. This is a really good battery to hook-up to keep you off the grid, it's cheap, tolerant of abuse and long-lived, it's not good for large surge current or at cold temperates so it will not replace your car's lead-acid battery but it's ideal for storing electricity from a PV array in your basement.
Generals have to get a bunch of people with real big egos to cooperate and function like a well oiled machine; the tend to have exceptional people skills and are well liked and highly respected. A Generals career is pretty well set in stone when he becomes a general so don't worry about the General, the guy that follows him around is a Lt Col.(with a real big ego too), the Col. is hungry he still has to get that last promotion and will jack you up in a blink of an eye.
You are a genuine fucktard if you think the pay has anything to due with the reward. Do you honestly think that any amount on money is reward for having your ass in some shithole where half the local people hate your guts because of something a foreign king did a thousand years before your country even existed, while your kid takes his first steps or says his first words? My Son has finally gotten his first non-combat arms unit after after 3 combat tours and 2 hostile fire assignments, of course that means his rotation schedule is out of sync with Wife's so if he doesn't get a transfer into the Cavalry unit she is in, he will not see her for 4 1/2 years.
Monotheism is unique to the Abrahamic religions; How about
Many Kemetic Reconstructionists, including members of the large House of Netjer, define their form of polytheism as monolatry, a term coined by Egyptologists. This means that the many individual deities are regarded as parts of an ultimately unknowable self-created Oneness, known in ancient texts as Netjer, "being of divine power," or as Atum, "the complete one/the one who is not." Kemetic Reconstructionism
or
The Zoroastrian concept of God incorporates both monotheism and dualism. In his visions, Zarathustra was taken up to heaven, where Ahura Mazda revealed that he had an opponent, Aura Mainyu, the spirit and promoter of evil. Ahura Mazda charged Zarathustra with the task of inviting all human beings to choose between him (good) and Aura Mainyu (evil). Zoroastrianism
or
Mithraism was a Roman mystery religion that flourished in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. Much is still unknown about this secretive sect, but it involved the worship of the ancient Persian god Mithras in caves, a communal meal, and initiation through seven stages of an astrologically-themed hierarchy. Mithraism
or even
There is significant variation within the Rastafari movement and no formal organization. Some Rastafarians see Rasta more as a way of life than a religion. But uniting the diverse movement is belief in the divinity and/or messiahship of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, the influence of Jamaican culture, resistance of oppression, and pride in African heritage.Rastafari
another point is with the emphasis on Trinitarianism some may argue that Abrahamic religions, especialy Christianity isn't monotheistic
Your right, Hinduism is a perfectly valid example of a mainstream religion in modern times that isn't monotheistic or bitheistic. I was specifically thinking of Hinduism when I chose the word typically. If you really wanted to blow me out of the water you should have mentioned Confucianism
I just read the article, and if the the "good press" that $5000 buys on Wikipedia, I'd recommend that people just not spend the money because he didn't seem to get much bang for the buck there.
dude get rid of the tinfoil hat, tinfoil grows metal whiskers that can penetrate the skull and make a direct connection to the brain for the mind-control rays beamed from outer-space by Xenu; for goodness sake use aluminum or tin-lead alloy foil for your hat!
Modern day religions typically have a single benevolent deity the is normally credited with creation that extols it's followers to behave in a moral and kindly manner. Scientologist on the other hand behave as others are either prey (even their own) or minions, and they have no deity. Modern religions have a theology or a philosophy and they actively share that with their peers and others, while a particular translation of a religions holy book may be copyrighted, the original is not, a person can typically obtain the holy book of any modern religion simply by asking; scientology text are copyrighted and the copyrights, trademarks and servicemarks are vigorously defended, the only way to legally obtain scientology texts are to purchase them and not even the CoS members in good standing have access to the totality of the "religion" Scientology is secretive rather than open like modern religions. Scientology just doesn't fit any definition of religion that applies to modern religions, it's a form of shammanism or which doctor-ism where only the annoited have the secret knowledge reveled to them who then shake their beads and rattles for the unwashed masses.
My ability to down/up-load torrents has increased quite a bit since a little while before the FCC hearings, I also find that using Miro or Vuse runs better than using Pirate Bay as a tracker does. Comcast is much more careful to only sabotage bittorrent transfers during peak hours rather than around the clock like they did before. My last big one was 9.8 GB and it took 2 weeks off and on.
and sometimes the dog learns to run not quite at the end of his chain and just knows sooner or later his tormentor is going to stray in a little too close; that's when we find out if the dog really has teeth.
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No seriously it it hasn't, in fact because the US is a first to conceive instead of first to file, they will not file an patent application until it's everybody is using it!
It's just that everyone else forges the part in two pieces and welds them together on site, welding steel 12 inches thick has got to be a pain in the ass and a QC nightmare, weld some, grind some, magnaflux 11 and a half inches to go!
why not just take a Farnsworth fusor line the reaction chamber with a graphite reflector and a liner of thorium and be done with it simpley; one house, one reactor.
Doing it with one piece forgings saves a company from the Quality Control nightmare that getting a near perfect weld on a piece of steel 30cm thick must entail.
Of course, the labels would be fools to accept this. I'm sure that would eat into their profits significantly.
Yeah that's why they offer 7 DVDs for 49 cents each and half off each months selection. what will get hurt is artist's royalties which are likely to range from half to none in the flat rate scheme.
Let their neighbors know what they're up
Oh yeah, the sub-prime mortgage broker living next door is really going to think the *IAA exec is a scumbag!
Don't worry, the taxes were paid, they were just paid by the wholly owned subsidiaries of the studios rather than the production company. It's like the old shell game where a pea is shuffled under the shell, no matter how convoluted the shuffle, sooner or later you have to show the pea. Now what I think might be interesting would be a tax on dividends paid to foreign entities. The foreign entities don't pay US income taxes so just take 17% off the top if they don't have a TIN or a SSN.
Dude, losing and loosing are not equivalent to each other
If the team moves so far away that the local fans can't support it, that just opens up an opportunity for someone to start a new team.
except the team needs other teams to play and the leagues survive on artificial scarcity of teams and the teams often have trouble obtaining the services of talented players. Our city is Hockey town, we are the permanent home of the International Silver Stick hockey tournament, 65,000 players and coaches participate in the international amature hockey tournament. I doubt there is more than a handfull of NHL hockey players who haven't played hockey in Port Huron, we'll probably loose our third minor-league Hockey team real soon.
why not? Look at OSS, Open Source Software, it an example of an abundance economy. The more people who use OSS, the more there is, more bug reports to help developers to fix thing and add features, more incentive to right more code to attract more users, wash, rinse, repeat. The poorest people in the US is middle class in a lot of countries, imagine a world where the poorest people are what was once the middle class, that's what free power would do for the rest of the world. Look at how much we spend on security, when somebody has nothing, the risk of losing it all isn't much, when that same person has a home, doesn't worry about starving to death everyday because he now in the middle class, losing it all is much more of a risk; so we win because he wins. Free energy would't cost us, it would pay us.
Actually there is a very good chance the problem isn't the batteries, Any lithium ion battery will "explode" when it shorted out so it's very possible that device the battery shorted out via the tin whiskers growing out of the "green" lead-free solder used in most modern electronics. While an individual whisker is optically invisible, when it shorts out it creates an ion bridge that can conduct 100's of amperes of electricity.
In many countries their is a severe need for cheap plentiful energy to do things that we take for granted like water purification. It's a given that before a country starts receiving these reactors that they will have to ratchet up a lot of the infra-structures to distribute the energy and maintain security. I can't help but see this has the potential to help everyone involved.
The Canadians like to protect the environment by shipping their trash from Toronto to Michigan in trucks spewing GHG along the way and entering through the second busiest land-boarder crossing into the US. One of our patients is a customs agent on that crossing and he told me that after the radiation detectors were installed to spot radiological weapons, it took the Canadians two days to clean-up the trucks and the trash in them enough to get them across the boarder. Seems that throwing nuclear hospital wastes in the trash dumpster is a lot cheaper than the nuclear waste container.
We need to look at efficient, cheap energy storage.
well the night-time consumption drops off quite a bit, especially on residential circuits so that helps quite a bit, so I'm going to say something most with bristle at at first and that's screw efficiency and go for cheap. I think the good old NiFe battery is the way to go. This is a really good battery to hook-up to keep you off the grid, it's cheap, tolerant of abuse and long-lived, it's not good for large surge current or at cold temperates so it will not replace your car's lead-acid battery but it's ideal for storing electricity from a PV array in your basement.
Generals have to get a bunch of people with real big egos to cooperate and function like a well oiled machine; the tend to have exceptional people skills and are well liked and highly respected. A Generals career is pretty well set in stone when he becomes a general so don't worry about the General, the guy that follows him around is a Lt Col.(with a real big ego too), the Col. is hungry he still has to get that last promotion and will jack you up in a blink of an eye.
You don't get that close when there is shooting to be done, when shooting was done you you didn't hear about it.
You are a genuine fucktard if you think the pay has anything to due with the reward. Do you honestly think that any amount on money is reward for having your ass in some shithole where half the local people hate your guts because of something a foreign king did a thousand years before your country even existed, while your kid takes his first steps or says his first words? My Son has finally gotten his first non-combat arms unit after after 3 combat tours and 2 hostile fire assignments, of course that means his rotation schedule is out of sync with Wife's so if he doesn't get a transfer into the Cavalry unit she is in, he will not see her for 4 1/2 years.
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another point is with the emphasis on Trinitarianism some may argue that Abrahamic religions, especialy Christianity isn't monotheistic
Your right, Hinduism is a perfectly valid example of a mainstream religion in modern times that isn't monotheistic or bitheistic. I was specifically thinking of Hinduism when I chose the word typically. If you really wanted to blow me out of the water you should have mentioned Confucianism
I just read the article, and if the the "good press" that $5000 buys on Wikipedia, I'd recommend that people just not spend the money because he didn't seem to get much bang for the buck there.
dude get rid of the tinfoil hat, tinfoil grows metal whiskers that can penetrate the skull and make a direct connection to the brain for the mind-control rays beamed from outer-space by Xenu; for goodness sake use aluminum or tin-lead alloy foil for your hat!
the link I followed was slashdotted and the squid proxy substituted an info page telling the requester the sever was overloaded.
Modern day religions typically have a single benevolent deity the is normally credited with creation that extols it's followers to behave in a moral and kindly manner. Scientologist on the other hand behave as others are either prey (even their own) or minions, and they have no deity.
Modern religions have a theology or a philosophy and they actively share that with their peers and others, while a particular translation of a religions holy book may be copyrighted, the original is not, a person can typically obtain the holy book of any modern religion simply by asking; scientology text are copyrighted and the copyrights, trademarks and servicemarks are vigorously defended, the only way to legally obtain scientology texts are to purchase them and not even the CoS members in good standing have access to the totality of the "religion" Scientology is secretive rather than open like modern religions. Scientology just doesn't fit any definition of religion that applies to modern religions, it's a form of shammanism or which doctor-ism where only the annoited have the secret knowledge reveled to them who then shake their beads and rattles for the unwashed masses.
My ability to down/up-load torrents has increased quite a bit since a little while before the FCC hearings, I also find that using Miro or Vuse runs better than using Pirate Bay as a tracker does. Comcast is much more careful to only sabotage bittorrent transfers during peak hours rather than around the clock like they did before. My last big one was 9.8 GB and it took 2 weeks off and on.
and sometimes the dog learns to run not quite at the end of his chain and just knows sooner or later his tormentor is going to stray in a little too close; that's when we find out if the dog really has teeth.