Join Majestic 12 and contribute to an alternative search engine. You can have your machines index a certain amount per day and contribute the result to the index.
Having alternatives is what keeps companies honest. Government regulation just makes the regulators a target to be corrupted.
Put in some terms, it comes back with some preliminary results, rate them as what you're after/not and it then starts rating sites by the match closeness.
Spamming becomes very difficult... Unless that's what you're searching for and ads on the search site could use the same corpus to determine which ads to display to the searcher.
Players have to be able to influence the "story" or plot, change it totally if they are capable. They have to be able to fail or succeed at inconvenient (to the GM) times, through chance, statistics, stupidity or genius.
Otherwise they are simply actors in the GamesMaster's pre-written play, not players in a freeform game.
This is why I was never a big fan of D&D, it tended towards linear plots and story telling. RuneQuest was the reverse, supplying vast amounts of background and motivation for NPCs but rarely linear plots which have to be followed to tell a good story. That was the player's job.
So you have chosen to simply draw your own conclusion, and argue through sheer verbiage that your position is the only rational one. To be rational you have to start from the assumption that there is nothing, null, nil, zero. Any other starting position is irrational.
Then you use reason, logic and observation to build from there.
Having said that, while atheism is the only rational position, it isn't a logical position. The logical position is that we don't and can't know if god exists. However this then opens you up to the additional irrational positions that you don't know if the tooth fairy exists, or the flying spaghetti monster or , or or.... and so on.
The agnostic position must acknowledge that any particular piece of made up nonsense spouted by anyone could be true. Logical, but not rational.
The electoral system in the US is First Past The Post. It penalises any parties which divide the vote and hands all the power to the single largest party. The result is that you inevitably end up with two large parties and a lot of insignificant ones.
Thirty levels instead of twenty basically means there's more headroom for higher-level adventuring before normal players have to worry about abtruse and convoluted 'epic character' rulesets/feats/whatever that often feel very non-canon. Is simply fiddling with a dumb rule. The very concept of levels is dumb.
Dice rolls were used and character stats noted, but often I'd just ignore the dice-rolls and get on with the narrative (to the advantage of the players, not because I felt like being a git). Not a story.
That's because so many people in Denmark are close enough to a power plant to run steam tunnels to their locations Hot water. They don't pipe steam.
The trend in the US over the past decades has been to build huge power plants in the middle of nowhere, so it just wouldn't work here. Well big centralised plants are an economic result of cheap fuel, not likely in the future. Pretty much any city could run a district heating network given a few decades. Hell, New York does and has for more than a century.
But who needs heat in the summer, and all the ACs are sucking up the electricity? Adsorption Chillers.
You can chill water using adsorption chillers (powered by the waste heat), then pump the cold water round , well whatever needs cooled. On a regional scale it's called District Cooling and can reduce AC requirements quite significantly.
I disagree that CHP plants can't be compared with pure electricity plants for efficiency. Either the energy in the fuel is used usefully or it's not.
We have a problem here where one poster is using a scientific definition of the word work (related to energy) and the other isn't Eh, no. We aren't talking about work. We're talking about efficiency.
A plant may be 40% efficient at producing electricity but 88% efficient overall. Overall, 88% of the energy in the fuel is used usefully to generate electricity and then heat homes or power chillers rather than pumped uselessly into the environment.
You are just playing word game with the definition of "efficient". No. I am not. It's energy used for a useful purpose.
There is a fundamental limit of how much work can be extracted by heat flow between two temperatures. And extracting work isn't the only use for heat...
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What you're looking for is "authoritarian" or "totalitarian" if they have a guiding dogma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(software)
Vendor lockin is the reason it isn't simple to migrate across all the sites.
It's called competition. At some point someone makes a bundle of money that the others don't make.
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Join Majestic 12 and contribute to an alternative search engine. You can have your machines index a certain amount per day and contribute the result to the index.
Having alternatives is what keeps companies honest. Government regulation just makes the regulators a target to be corrupted.
Bayesian searching.
Put in some terms, it comes back with some preliminary results, rate them as what you're after/not and it then starts rating sites by the match closeness.
Spamming becomes very difficult... Unless that's what you're searching for and ads on the search site could use the same corpus to determine which ads to display to the searcher.
You have a very good point.
However... Your money is based on debt. Debt increases exponentially and requires exponential growth in the economy to service it.
Don't tell me. You're in the electrical shielding business?
They'll just buy more bandwidth. Now. If it's ever nationalised it'll crash.
It blows it's rollback segments instead.
Players have to be able to influence the "story" or plot, change it totally if they are capable. They have to be able to fail or succeed at inconvenient (to the GM) times, through chance, statistics, stupidity or genius.
Otherwise they are simply actors in the GamesMaster's pre-written play, not players in a freeform game.
This is why I was never a big fan of D&D, it tended towards linear plots and story telling. RuneQuest was the reverse, supplying vast amounts of background and motivation for NPCs but rarely linear plots which have to be followed to tell a good story. That was the player's job.
Then you use reason, logic and observation to build from there.
Having said that, while atheism is the only rational position, it isn't a logical position. The logical position is that we don't and can't know if god exists. However this then opens you up to the additional irrational positions that you don't know if the tooth fairy exists, or the flying spaghetti monster or , or or.... and so on.
The agnostic position must acknowledge that any particular piece of made up nonsense spouted by anyone could be true. Logical, but not rational.
Well, I hope you make it clear to your players that their actions are irrelevant and you are the one directing the play and not them.
The electoral system in the US is First Past The Post. It penalises any parties which divide the vote and hands all the power to the single largest party. The result is that you inevitably end up with two large parties and a lot of insignificant ones.
It has to be a pen at least, and better one of those pressurised ones which can write under water (You never know).
Americans are going to have to show their papers before they are allowed to travel ...
Mmmm. 100 thousand buildings in the US vs 1.5 million in Denmark.
Not to belittle the achievement, but it's an order of magnitude difference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Edison_steam_ope
You can chill water using adsorption chillers (powered by the waste heat), then pump the cold water round , well whatever needs cooled. On a regional scale it's called District Cooling and can reduce AC requirements quite significantly.
I disagree that CHP plants can't be compared with pure electricity plants for efficiency. Either the energy in the fuel is used usefully or it's not.
A plant may be 40% efficient at producing electricity but 88% efficient overall. Overall, 88% of the energy in the fuel is used usefully to generate electricity and then heat homes or power chillers rather than pumped uselessly into the environment.
In Denmark they have a truly *huge* "district heating" network.
e.g.
http://www.dbdh.dk/