DST made sense in the era before artificial lighting.
It's time to move into the twenty-first century. Time is the standard, I propose individual organizations adjust "business hours" to accommodate whatever local energy policy is the best fit for their situation.
It's apparently not a constant thing, but highly fluxuating, at one time 250MYA, it was a large quantity of gold, ocean floor measurements will tell what it is today. There is apparently a lot of mineral nodules on the abyssal planes.
All the gold in California lies in "A bank in middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else's name".
Oh wait back to the topic...
Most of the gold in California lies in "The Motherlode" mining district below 5,000' elevation between Downeyville, and Yosemite. It occupies just about all the streams in that region. Plus there is a north-south seam between Auburn and Jackson where we find the really deep hard rock mines (several thousand feet deep) There they mine gold bearing milky quartz in granite (only one mine is operating today). The Nevada side of the Sierras has a lot in alluvial deposits. Most of the small towns in the Motherlode district had 10-20 thousand people during the gold rush. Now most of the same area is bed-room community to Sacramento (with all the hell of people discovering their house is built atop a collapsing gold mine).
I have heard a theory that the gold was emitted by the mid oceanic ridge, and deposited on the sea floor. That sea floor was smashed onto the edge of California by accretion something like 250MYA (Million Years Ago). A lot if it was mixed into magma which intruded into the accreted crust as granite plumes, the gold being concentrated in quartz veins. The band being a portion of the sea floor that was not sub ducted, but instead acreted into the crust.
About the diamonds, yes being very hard, they persist well and are concentrated in streams. But unlike gold which is 6-8 times denser than granite and basalt, diamonds look like quartz, and aren't heavy enough to seperate from basalt by weight.
There are apparently diamonds almost everywhere, or some people think. Here in Northern California, they are reported to be found near where gold was discovered in Placerville California (Actually Smith Flat). I found what appears to be a kimberlite pipe in Northern Oregon. This is kind of a unique area, where volcanic islands were partially subducted and merged with the Coast. I don't know if diamonds will be found there, I've read they only appear in any meaningful quantities in about 2% of Kimberlites. Even then, the number of diamonds is really low.
If you are interested in searching for diamonds, join a local gem society. Ask the members about UV lights. They cost a few hundred, even for low power battery operated lamps, and there are some pretty crappy ones too. Be sure to wear eye protection, because UV light will trash your eyes. But most diamonds ( and a lot of other unique minerals ) fluoresce.
Mantle rock is not magma. Mantle material is usually very hot because it is (A) very heavy, and (B) usually covered by a layer of insulating lighter crust material. The crust is 3-18 miles thick. Magma is usually crust material that got pushed down into hot mantle material and melted. The crustal material magma being lighter than mantle wants to rise above the mantle magma. So usually we have an intrusion of lighter crustal magma being forced through the mantle. So we've never seen mantle material exposed before. Some small samples of solid mantle material have been carried up by some of the cooler type volcanoes. This is how we get diamonds and peridots. Read about Kimberlite pipes.
Of course Abdussamatov is a nutcase... Anyone who disagrees with the political truth is crazy, and will be unable to secure a political victory. Abdussamatov is a case study of someone who picks through the body of evidence seeking facts which counter the political truth which we all know and adore. For the sake of our civilized world, these kinds must be found out, and re-educated into accepting the political truth. To let these nut cases remain on the loose would be very damaging to the political base of the new world order which will tax and control the output very dangerous and harmful chemical compounds. The first dangerous chemical to be completely quarantined will be carbon, all forms of carbon will be safely stored in a government site. The second dangerous chemical to be completely controlled is dihydrogen monoxide. We all know that dihydrogen monoxide is much more dangerous than carbon dioxide, but the political truth is that carbon dioxide is much more in the mind of the proletariat, and therefore is much more important politically.
I agree with semiconductor R&D, as being very rewarding.
I started as a "validation tech", pushing parts through the handlers. This was destructive and non-destructive testing on big lots of parts. We get the parts straight out of the fab, test and keep only the good ones. Then we split this huge lot into several lots, and each sub-lot goes to a different "stress", maybe ESD, steam chamber (can we force moisture into the package), etc. Later we test the part to see how many we killed. It was a good place to start, and I dazzled some Engineers.
I was asked to move into a Product Engineering Group. In product engineering there are lots of different jobs. Right now, I do "Design Validation". Remember that transistors are 3-dimensional structures made with a photo-graphic process. So with just a little variation in the fab (Yes Virginia, this does happen), the transistors behave differently. My job is to measure different power, timing on different fab lots. This involves very high speed test equipment, and lots of PERL scripting. I run on three different types of testers. I setup the testing process and make it fully automated (PERL in UNIX). Running the actual job gets passed to a validation group (see the second paragraph), and I move on to incorporating a new test type (semiconductor R&D is never static). I still own the old jobs, and as long as they run fully automated, I just reduce the data, and publish a data report.
Semiconductor R&D has a large variety of tasks, in and out of different labs, lots of different testers, some programming, some data analysis, some teaching (test methods), some hardware work too.
If a semiconductor companies R&D ever becomes static, it's time to go short on that stock.
I have the old tube fluorescents in the garage, I've been there ten years, and only a few have failed. Yes, they're temperature sensitive, and poor quality light, but the price is right.
By the way, don't try to focus on anything small and shiny (like scope probes into CPU sockets) under fluorescent light, we have the day-lite type at work and it sucks for detail. We use incandescent or LED flash lights to clearly see tiny details on small shiny parts.
I tried two of the CF's in the house, and they failed after a few months. Never to be replaced again by CF lamps.
I live in a remote area in Northern California. The power is somewhat erratic. A friend of mine has a Solar to Grid power system, that routinely ( once a week) shuts off due to the grid voltage driving above the stated spec (120v RMS, +/- some small percentage).
I bought two CF bulbs, and neither lasted for more than a few months.
Funny that the free market forces are not causing a landslide in sales of CF...
Is there some possible critical variable that has not yet been identified?
Because if the light from CFs produce superior comfort, and CFs cost less to operate, CFs should rule the market place.
But instead CFs seem to be shoved down the throat of the consumer class, who is apparently quite happy to merely resist the current use of minor force.
I've got fluorescent in the garage ("The shed" for our Aussie and Kiwi friends). It really sucks... Since I don't regularly heat the garage (who does?), when it's cool, the lights don't want to come on, and when they do, there's a lot of flickering.
Then there is the whole disposal problem, how do you dispose of a four foot long fluorescent? Crush it up, pack the pieces in a heavy duty paper bag, and send it off to the local transfer station (It later ends up in a (probably un-regulated) land fill on a Nevada Indian Reservation).
Got mercury poisoning?
Is there a lamp monopoly or something going on? I don't understand the need for fluorescent junk... Replacement LED lamps for the household should cost less than an incandescent.
I'm still waiting for the ozone crisis of the 90's. And the global food shortage of the 80's, and the oxygen shortage of the 70's. Fad science still rules the air-waves. But it's important to see just what they signed on for. Not the "executive summary" that gets published later.
The thing no one has introduced, is the gene(s) added/removed from the potatoes. I'd imagine the desired enhancement was an anti-fungal property. Rot is the largest problem with potatoes. So the added gene(s) here are probably harmful to bacteria and or fungus. Maybe these anti-fungal properties are harmful to mice too.
The bane of technology, is the isolation it causes.
Communication via an avatar is impersonal, and often involves rude insults and poor behavior... Read/. with a filter of -1, and take a look at the first few posts.
Consider how people often use the cel-phone, palm-top or music-box, as a shield to ignore others.
Observe that regular TV watchers, equate viewing their favorite TV shows, the same as visiting friends. They begin to lose the distinction between reality and TV. Call them on it, and they become very irritated. But watch their conversations, telling others about the exciting things they saw on TV, almost as if they were there. Their real lives have little excitement or reality, because they spend the majority of their time in a pretend life.
Yes, I have three kids, and it's pretty hard to keep the reins on the Technology Genie, let alone try to get the damn thing back into the bottle.
I did kick the TV's and computers out of the house for three months (June-September) a few years back. Sibling fights went to zero... But I knuckled under to the threat of divorce.... I considered that a broken home would be worse on the children, than an intact home under the rule of the technology genie.
Around here, technology is the answer to EVERYTHING.
I work in a high tech company, where the majority of the Black employees are natives of Africa (Ghana, Nigeria). Think they started with technology? One guy told me he did not even see a car until he was 16 years old. He was 24 at the time.
He speaks better English than most Americans of any race.
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I see most businesses like to leave two-thirds of all their lights burning after hours
Why change the clocks at all. Just adjust the business hours to fit the individual business needs.
I've heard that the lights on at night is a thermal management thing. I don't know for sure though.
Hear - Hear...
DST made sense in the era before artificial lighting.
It's time to move into the twenty-first century. Time is the standard, I propose individual organizations adjust "business hours" to accommodate whatever local energy policy is the best fit for their situation.
It's apparently not a constant thing, but highly fluxuating, at one time 250MYA, it was a large quantity of gold, ocean floor measurements will tell what it is today. There is apparently a lot of mineral nodules on the abyssal planes.
The real solution is X-rays, but UV light is the poor mans way.
By that logic: Bill Gates is the richest man on earth, Microsoft windows must be the best product on earth...
Oh wait back to the topic...
Most of the gold in California lies in "The Motherlode" mining district below 5,000' elevation between Downeyville, and Yosemite. It occupies just about all the streams in that region. Plus there is a north-south seam between Auburn and Jackson where we find the really deep hard rock mines (several thousand feet deep) There they mine gold bearing milky quartz in granite (only one mine is operating today). The Nevada side of the Sierras has a lot in alluvial deposits. Most of the small towns in the Motherlode district had 10-20 thousand people during the gold rush. Now most of the same area is bed-room community to Sacramento (with all the hell of people discovering their house is built atop a collapsing gold mine).
I have heard a theory that the gold was emitted by the mid oceanic ridge, and deposited on the sea floor. That sea floor was smashed onto the edge of California by accretion something like 250MYA (Million Years Ago). A lot if it was mixed into magma which intruded into the accreted crust as granite plumes, the gold being concentrated in quartz veins. The band being a portion of the sea floor that was not sub ducted, but instead acreted into the crust.
About the diamonds, yes being very hard, they persist well and are concentrated in streams. But unlike gold which is 6-8 times denser than granite and basalt, diamonds look like quartz, and aren't heavy enough to seperate from basalt by weight.
Yeah, but they don't have the proper band width. I did a bunch of work on this a year ago, and promptly forgot all about it.
If you are interested in searching for diamonds, join a local gem society. Ask the members about UV lights. They cost a few hundred, even for low power battery operated lamps, and there are some pretty crappy ones too. Be sure to wear eye protection, because UV light will trash your eyes. But most diamonds ( and a lot of other unique minerals ) fluoresce.
Mantle rock is not magma. Mantle material is usually very hot because it is (A) very heavy, and (B) usually covered by a layer of insulating lighter crust material. The crust is 3-18 miles thick. Magma is usually crust material that got pushed down into hot mantle material and melted. The crustal material magma being lighter than mantle wants to rise above the mantle magma. So usually we have an intrusion of lighter crustal magma being forced through the mantle. So we've never seen mantle material exposed before. Some small samples of solid mantle material have been carried up by some of the cooler type volcanoes. This is how we get diamonds and peridots. Read about Kimberlite pipes.
Abdussamatov is a nutcase
Of course Abdussamatov is a nutcase... Anyone who disagrees with the political truth is crazy, and will be unable to secure a political victory. Abdussamatov is a case study of someone who picks through the body of evidence seeking facts which counter the political truth which we all know and adore. For the sake of our civilized world, these kinds must be found out, and re-educated into accepting the political truth. To let these nut cases remain on the loose would be very damaging to the political base of the new world order which will tax and control the output very dangerous and harmful chemical compounds. The first dangerous chemical to be completely quarantined will be carbon, all forms of carbon will be safely stored in a government site. The second dangerous chemical to be completely controlled is dihydrogen monoxide. We all know that dihydrogen monoxide is much more dangerous than carbon dioxide, but the political truth is that carbon dioxide is much more in the mind of the proletariat, and therefore is much more important politically.
I agree with semiconductor R&D, as being very rewarding.
I started as a "validation tech", pushing parts through the handlers. This was destructive and non-destructive testing on big lots of parts. We get the parts straight out of the fab, test and keep only the good ones. Then we split this huge lot into several lots, and each sub-lot goes to a different "stress", maybe ESD, steam chamber (can we force moisture into the package), etc. Later we test the part to see how many we killed. It was a good place to start, and I dazzled some Engineers.
I was asked to move into a Product Engineering Group. In product engineering there are lots of different jobs. Right now, I do "Design Validation". Remember that transistors are 3-dimensional structures made with a photo-graphic process. So with just a little variation in the fab (Yes Virginia, this does happen), the transistors behave differently. My job is to measure different power, timing on different fab lots. This involves very high speed test equipment, and lots of PERL scripting. I run on three different types of testers. I setup the testing process and make it fully automated (PERL in UNIX). Running the actual job gets passed to a validation group (see the second paragraph), and I move on to incorporating a new test type (semiconductor R&D is never static). I still own the old jobs, and as long as they run fully automated, I just reduce the data, and publish a data report.
Semiconductor R&D has a large variety of tasks, in and out of different labs, lots of different testers, some programming, some data analysis, some teaching (test methods), some hardware work too.
If a semiconductor companies R&D ever becomes static, it's time to go short on that stock.
By the way, don't try to focus on anything small and shiny (like scope probes into CPU sockets) under fluorescent light, we have the day-lite type at work and it sucks for detail. We use incandescent or LED flash lights to clearly see tiny details on small shiny parts.
I tried two of the CF's in the house, and they failed after a few months. Never to be replaced again by CF lamps.
I live in a remote area in Northern California. The power is somewhat erratic. A friend of mine has a Solar to Grid power system, that routinely ( once a week) shuts off due to the grid voltage driving above the stated spec (120v RMS, +/- some small percentage).
I bought two CF bulbs, and neither lasted for more than a few months.
Funny that the free market forces are not causing a landslide in sales of CF...
Is there some possible critical variable that has not yet been identified?
Because if the light from CFs produce superior comfort, and CFs cost less to operate, CFs should rule the market place.
But instead CFs seem to be shoved down the throat of the consumer class, who is apparently quite happy to merely resist the current use of minor force.
I really hate fluorescent lamps.
I've got fluorescent in the garage ("The shed" for our Aussie and Kiwi friends). It really sucks... Since I don't regularly heat the garage (who does?), when it's cool, the lights don't want to come on, and when they do, there's a lot of flickering.
Then there is the whole disposal problem, how do you dispose of a four foot long fluorescent? Crush it up, pack the pieces in a heavy duty paper bag, and send it off to the local transfer station (It later ends up in a (probably un-regulated) land fill on a Nevada Indian Reservation).
Got mercury poisoning?
Is there a lamp monopoly or something going on? I don't understand the need for fluorescent junk... Replacement LED lamps for the household should cost less than an incandescent.
"It's always September somewhere on the world wide web".
That's the quote... :)
30 years ago, it was Carl Sagan, who proudly supported the plan to broadcast soot on the ice caps to cause melting to slow the comming ice age.
I'm still waiting for the ozone crisis of the 90's. And the global food shortage of the 80's, and the oxygen shortage of the 70's. Fad science still rules the air-waves. But it's important to see just what they signed on for. Not the "executive summary" that gets published later.
We've know for the last 30 years, that were are emerging from a little ice age.
The temperature has changed ~1.2C in the last 200 years.
If you read the scholar.google.com papers, 1.1C is caused by increased solar activity. http://www.springerlink.com/content/r2n447034x15v0 87/
0.1C is attributed to atmospheric CO2.
Human activity is responsible for 50% of CO2, the other 50% is volcanic sources.
That makes human activity culpable for about 0.05C in two hundred years.
Of course this paper attributes global warming to cosmic forces http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleUR L&_udi=B6TJK-471854M-3&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F31 %2F2003&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c& _acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid= 10&md5=4df335c97179a6aebe85bacebd0679fe
We've reached the technological ability to see the change, and like Chicken Little run around declaring the "the sky is falling".
"Change, it's the only thing that stays the same" --Levar Burton.
Yeah, but in the open market, ya gotta stay current.
If 90% of the farmers get a better yield, the price of the commodity drops, and someone gets left out in the cold.
Wanna buy a SUV? The price is real low these days, and thousands are being laid off from GM and Ford factories.
The thing no one has introduced, is the gene(s) added/removed from the potatoes. I'd imagine the desired enhancement was an anti-fungal property. Rot is the largest problem with potatoes. So the added gene(s) here are probably harmful to bacteria and or fungus. Maybe these anti-fungal properties are harmful to mice too.
That's reminiscing... Some of us grew up before glue was non-toxic, and came in a plastic stick.
The bane of technology, is the isolation it causes.
Communication via an avatar is impersonal, and often involves rude insults and poor behavior... Read /. with a filter of -1, and take a look at the first few posts.
Consider how people often use the cel-phone, palm-top or music-box, as a shield to ignore others.
Observe that regular TV watchers, equate viewing their favorite TV shows, the same as visiting friends. They begin to lose the distinction between reality and TV. Call them on it, and they become very irritated. But watch their conversations, telling others about the exciting things they saw on TV, almost as if they were there. Their real lives have little excitement or reality, because they spend the majority of their time in a pretend life.
Yes, I have three kids, and it's pretty hard to keep the reins on the Technology Genie, let alone try to get the damn thing back into the bottle.
I did kick the TV's and computers out of the house for three months (June-September) a few years back. Sibling fights went to zero... But I knuckled under to the threat of divorce.... I considered that a broken home would be worse on the children, than an intact home under the rule of the technology genie.
I work in a high tech company, where the majority of the Black employees are natives of Africa (Ghana, Nigeria).
Think they started with technology? One guy told me he did not even see a car until he was 16 years old. He was 24 at the time.
He speaks better English than most Americans of any race.
How does one go about disposing of a black hole?
I guess it could be used to safely store radio active waste.