On a ship they'd probably use a passive system, like a sacrificial anode which needs replacing periodically. if you can plug it in, then cathodic protection would be just as good.
There are always openings at the Astronaut Ice Cream plant. i think nowadays you can just show your flight patch and they'll give you at least an interview.
it's interesting how both the Moon and the Earth will be getting electric vehicles at about the same time. That first lunar dealership will have a tough time with initial sales, but it should pick up when moon people realise it's one of the few places to get oxygen too.
it could be as easy as determining regional weak points, and a terrorist cell can launch BLU-114/B carbon filament warheads in enough areas simultaneously to cause a cascade blackout. the technology has already been in news in Taiwan.
(man i can't wait to get that phone call from Homeland Security tonight.)
Laboratories, museums, schools, libraries, web cafes, fast food outlets, movie kiosks, airport check-in, interactive art displays, elevators, bathroom stalls (with sanitiser), phone booths, subways or anything that needs large numbers of temporary computers in one spot?
Once the price of these start to creep down, something like this could be generic, ubiquitous hardware for all manners of information, transaction, and advertising. it could occupy any empty, flat space, and it's way cooler than that smoked plexiglass crap on Star Trek. Make it ruggedized so you can hose it down and it can be pretty much anywhere.
I would like to see a proper big projection touchscreen app though. if they give you a screen that big, i'd expect something really cool. Some sort of 8-way deathmatch Tetris game?
i think most of the most vehement responses were from hetro posters and moderators. i have no way of verifying their sexual preference of course, but there seems to be a general PC over-reaction to anything but a very narrow, but serious amount of deference to homosexuals. we can make all the sex jokes, ethnic jokes, slashdot girlfriend jokes, and penis jokes on slashdot and many times e modded funny, but nothing but the most tepid amount of humour is acceptable for the homos. This response feels more like hetro guilt driven overcompensation than gay anger.
first of all, i'd like to apologise for "grammar", and for derailing the discussion. this should really be about stabbing weapons and not about gays.
"how it works" is I was trying to make a deft parallel between this shortsighted knife policy by one Scouts organisation with a shortsighted sexual orientation policy by another Scouts organisation. partly tongue in cheek, and partly to show that these organisations have done some pretty backwards things before. Unfortunately, the discussion turned into mostly knee jerk reactions about how I am such a "hate monger". dont' shoot the messenger; i figuredit was coveredso extensively that it would be a short stretch for most to make the connection. i know that most of my gay friends would have, and chuckled.
Feel free to pick out all of my grammatical errors; they are legion, and it appears to calm some down.
Science is based on facts and does not require a consensus in the short run.
science does not require consensus in any run. Scientific discovery occur with or without approval, popular opinion, or national agenda. do you honestly think that stem cell research was retarded becuase of the Bush 2 years, or GMO research stops because the EU doesn't like them?
I've had the same frustrations as you with fools (usually religious nut-jobs) who can't fathom science. Climate change, stem cells, etc. They dislike something they don't even remotely understand and are unwilling to actually become educated on the known facts.
as much distain you show for the religious nut-jobs, if you turn science into a popular consensus, you are leaving science wide open the type of ideological infighting the humanities seem to enjoy so much. It doesn't take 10,000,000 bona fide scientists to agree that CO2 is a greenhouse gas; it take one person to be right. To properly inform society, we as scientists don't need incestuous consensus to line up with a political decisions; we have to instead show that science deals with facts, and one single person can be correct.
stop pandering to popular media by asking scientists to agree. it's watering down the value of "facts" and turning them into "beliefs".
the thing is, there is no such thing as "scientific consensus".
in the 1850s, Ignaz Semmelweis suggested sanitation with chlorine and handwashing in hospitals to reduce infections. "popular" consensus dismissed this because he was a Jew from Hungary. he was proven correct by Pasteur's germ theory.
GP was pointing out that physicists, the people that understand the theory and new technologies developed for fission plants highly in favour of building more nuclear plants. he's making the point that the less someone understands about the great potentials and advancements in nuclear fission technology, the more they support it. this may indicate that people disprove of nukes out of fear rather than "facts" (your quotes, not mine).
An axe, a knife, and a waterproof firestarter are the three things you need to survive in a wooded area. When i was in scouts, I learned how to survive and live when away from the comforting teat of metropolitan civilisation. I was taught that the knife and axe were essential tools, not weapons. Scouts provide unique opportunities for hetrosexual children to empower self sufficiency. By caving into a media-driven, ASBO fueled panic, UK Scouts have done a huge disservice by banning blades.
Break the "growing knife culture" by showing a generation how to use a pocket knife. What's next: kitchen knives banned from culinary schools? It makes me sad to think that MacGyver is the new Mary Whitehouse scapegoat.
note to UK Scouts: Teaching knot tying leads to bondage, teaching sharing leads to communism, and camping trips leads to underage buggery. What crusade will you champion next?
There are also Indian and Chinese attempts to utilise Thorium as nuclear fuel, which is much harder to weaponise, relatively abundant on the earth's crust, and can be recycled repeatedly resulting in less nuclear waste.
There have been many attempts of late to greenwash coal, this solar project and the "clean coal" concepts being the most recent incarnation. Even if 100% of coal plants can be made 100% carbon neutral, where do they get the coal from?
in December 2008, a 40 acre ash pond in tennessee broke through its walls and flooded millions of gallons of coal ash, potentially far worse than the Exxon Valdez. This is one of the largest environmental disasters that has happened in the US, and there has been little to no national coverage about this accident.
There are a lot of heavy hitters in the coal industry that want to put the best possible face on coal (e.g. Montana), and it is alarming that 'mountaintop removal', the laziest way to get coal, is frequently not discussed when considering how green a coal plant can be.
a bike collision involves different types and magnitude of force than a close explosion. the head also must be held in damping suspension to attenuate impact shock from bullets. take a look at the type of deformation that occurs when it takes a bullet. an explosive concussion would probably compress foam padding that would otherwise feel very secure on the head in normal wear.
Similar to improvements in body armour, more soldiers are returning crippled when they would have come home in body bags in past wars. The the TC2K is a much better helmet than the kevlar ones in the vietnam war. This "flaw" maybe blown out of proportion by the slashdot article; e.g. perhaps this is news because they started installing helmet sensors in 2008 to aid in helmet redesign. i don't think this is a design flaw, this is part of research that has been reported slightly out of context.
Another alternative would be to stop killing so many other people, and there'd probably be less explosions to worry about in the first place.
it's important as a symbol for people that download and don't give a shit what the law says. it's also a great way to divert attention and resources away from prosecuting other torrent sites by making tpb public enemy number 1. who cares if half the peers are hacking and the warez contains trojans; at least that's lawyer money that they can't throw at someone else. it keeps bittorrent, IP rights, and issues of net neutrality and surveillance in the public debate.
TPB works in several positive, intangible ways, and is important as a lawyer/enforcement magnet so other sites can stay under the radar that much longer. every day TPB is up and running, i think everyone that isn't an **AA crony can smile a bit inside.
Not when it's rendered on my computer. those are my CPU cycles, and that's my screen it's displayed on. it's actually a big hassle to click through all those pages, and as other people have pointed out, it's HTML. you're free to lay it out any way you want, and I can apply whatever filters or plugins to make your site finally readable to me.
it is actually because of this slashdot posting I found out about pagination firefox plugins. A lot of the Slashdot comments are about your formatting, partially becuase kdawson mentioned it, and partially I feel your layout is anachronistic and irritating. This has nothing to do with your content, which i find well researched.
Someone feel free to mod me troll again, but this is how I honestly feel about online ads. Next you'll be questioning the ethics of me using a pop-up blocker.
Your needs to make revenue from ads server side has absolutely NO bearing on what software i run on my client. that includes adblock software. you might be pissed off, but frankly, you don't have the right to determine if i watch ads or not. from my personal computer, I do. ads on eyeballs are like millionaires throwing rocks at your head.
thank you for your wonderful article, but understand you've marred your research with 12 pages of advertisements. i've published hundreds of pages of research and none of them had any banner ads on them at all.
Slashdot Mirror
all chinese people could jump up and down at the same time, for example.
woosh
On a ship they'd probably use a passive system, like a sacrificial anode which needs replacing periodically. if you can plug it in, then cathodic protection would be just as good.
There are always openings at the Astronaut Ice Cream plant. i think nowadays you can just show your flight patch and they'll give you at least an interview.
it's interesting how both the Moon and the Earth will be getting electric vehicles at about the same time. That first lunar dealership will have a tough time with initial sales, but it should pick up when moon people realise it's one of the few places to get oxygen too.
SUPPPLIES!!!!
it could be as easy as determining regional weak points, and a terrorist cell can launch BLU-114/B carbon filament warheads in enough areas simultaneously to cause a cascade blackout. the technology has already been in news in Taiwan.
(man i can't wait to get that phone call from Homeland Security tonight.)
Laboratories, museums, schools, libraries, web cafes, fast food outlets, movie kiosks, airport check-in, interactive art displays, elevators, bathroom stalls (with sanitiser), phone booths, subways or anything that needs large numbers of temporary computers in one spot?
Once the price of these start to creep down, something like this could be generic, ubiquitous hardware for all manners of information, transaction, and advertising. it could occupy any empty, flat space, and it's way cooler than that smoked plexiglass crap on Star Trek. Make it ruggedized so you can hose it down and it can be pretty much anywhere.
I would like to see a proper big projection touchscreen app though. if they give you a screen that big, i'd expect something really cool. Some sort of 8-way deathmatch Tetris game?
e.g. Deinococcus radiodurans
i think most of the most vehement responses were from hetro posters and moderators. i have no way of verifying their sexual preference of course, but there seems to be a general PC over-reaction to anything but a very narrow, but serious amount of deference to homosexuals. we can make all the sex jokes, ethnic jokes, slashdot girlfriend jokes, and penis jokes on slashdot and many times e modded funny, but nothing but the most tepid amount of humour is acceptable for the homos. This response feels more like hetro guilt driven overcompensation than gay anger.
Is that how it works?
first of all, i'd like to apologise for "grammar", and for derailing the discussion. this should really be about stabbing weapons and not about gays.
"how it works" is I was trying to make a deft parallel between this shortsighted knife policy by one Scouts organisation with a shortsighted sexual orientation policy by another Scouts organisation. partly tongue in cheek, and partly to show that these organisations have done some pretty backwards things before. Unfortunately, the discussion turned into mostly knee jerk reactions about how I am such a "hate monger". dont' shoot the messenger; i figured it was covered so extensively that it would be a short stretch for most to make the connection. i know that most of my gay friends would have, and chuckled.
Feel free to pick out all of my grammatical errors; they are legion, and it appears to calm some down.
Science is based on facts and does not require a consensus in the short run.
science does not require consensus in any run. Scientific discovery occur with or without approval, popular opinion, or national agenda. do you honestly think that stem cell research was retarded becuase of the Bush 2 years, or GMO research stops because the EU doesn't like them?
I've had the same frustrations as you with fools (usually religious nut-jobs) who can't fathom science. Climate change, stem cells, etc. They dislike something they don't even remotely understand and are unwilling to actually become educated on the known facts.
as much distain you show for the religious nut-jobs, if you turn science into a popular consensus, you are leaving science wide open the type of ideological infighting the humanities seem to enjoy so much. It doesn't take 10,000,000 bona fide scientists to agree that CO2 is a greenhouse gas; it take one person to be right. To properly inform society, we as scientists don't need incestuous consensus to line up with a political decisions; we have to instead show that science deals with facts, and one single person can be correct.
stop pandering to popular media by asking scientists to agree. it's watering down the value of "facts" and turning them into "beliefs".
That is NOWHERE near a scientific consensus.
the thing is, there is no such thing as "scientific consensus".
in the 1850s, Ignaz Semmelweis suggested sanitation with chlorine and handwashing in hospitals to reduce infections. "popular" consensus dismissed this because he was a Jew from Hungary. he was proven correct by Pasteur's germ theory.
GP was pointing out that physicists, the people that understand the theory and new technologies developed for fission plants highly in favour of building more nuclear plants. he's making the point that the less someone understands about the great potentials and advancements in nuclear fission technology, the more they support it. this may indicate that people disprove of nukes out of fear rather than "facts" (your quotes, not mine).
please take your politics out of my science.
Break the "growing knife culture" by showing a generation how to use a pocket knife. What's next: kitchen knives banned from culinary schools? It makes me sad to think that MacGyver is the new Mary Whitehouse scapegoat.
note to UK Scouts: Teaching knot tying leads to bondage, teaching sharing leads to communism, and camping trips leads to underage buggery. What crusade will you champion next?
Once again, a dramatic demonstration of Windows failure. I'm getting a little tired of these attack ads.
There are also Indian and Chinese attempts to utilise Thorium as nuclear fuel, which is much harder to weaponise, relatively abundant on the earth's crust, and can be recycled repeatedly resulting in less nuclear waste.
Google Talks: Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor
There have been many attempts of late to greenwash coal, this solar project and the "clean coal" concepts being the most recent incarnation. Even if 100% of coal plants can be made 100% carbon neutral, where do they get the coal from?
in December 2008, a 40 acre ash pond in tennessee broke through its walls and flooded millions of gallons of coal ash, potentially far worse than the Exxon Valdez. This is one of the largest environmental disasters that has happened in the US, and there has been little to no national coverage about this accident.
There are a lot of heavy hitters in the coal industry that want to put the best possible face on coal (e.g. Montana), and it is alarming that 'mountaintop removal', the laziest way to get coal, is frequently not discussed when considering how green a coal plant can be.
a bike collision involves different types and magnitude of force than a close explosion. the head also must be held in damping suspension to attenuate impact shock from bullets. take a look at the type of deformation that occurs when it takes a bullet. an explosive concussion would probably compress foam padding that would otherwise feel very secure on the head in normal wear.
Similar to improvements in body armour, more soldiers are returning crippled when they would have come home in body bags in past wars. The the TC2K is a much better helmet than the kevlar ones in the vietnam war. This "flaw" maybe blown out of proportion by the slashdot article; e.g. perhaps this is news because they started installing helmet sensors in 2008 to aid in helmet redesign. i don't think this is a design flaw, this is part of research that has been reported slightly out of context.
Another alternative would be to stop killing so many other people, and there'd probably be less explosions to worry about in the first place.
it's important as a symbol for people that download and don't give a shit what the law says. it's also a great way to divert attention and resources away from prosecuting other torrent sites by making tpb public enemy number 1. who cares if half the peers are hacking and the warez contains trojans; at least that's lawyer money that they can't throw at someone else. it keeps bittorrent, IP rights, and issues of net neutrality and surveillance in the public debate.
TPB works in several positive, intangible ways, and is important as a lawyer/enforcement magnet so other sites can stay under the radar that much longer. every day TPB is up and running, i think everyone that isn't an **AA crony can smile a bit inside.
Not when it's rendered on my computer. those are my CPU cycles, and that's my screen it's displayed on. it's actually a big hassle to click through all those pages, and as other people have pointed out, it's HTML. you're free to lay it out any way you want, and I can apply whatever filters or plugins to make your site finally readable to me.
it is actually because of this slashdot posting I found out about pagination firefox plugins. A lot of the Slashdot comments are about your formatting, partially becuase kdawson mentioned it, and partially I feel your layout is anachronistic and irritating. This has nothing to do with your content, which i find well researched.
Someone feel free to mod me troll again, but this is how I honestly feel about online ads. Next you'll be questioning the ethics of me using a pop-up blocker.
Your needs to make revenue from ads server side has absolutely NO bearing on what software i run on my client. that includes adblock software. you might be pissed off, but frankly, you don't have the right to determine if i watch ads or not. from my personal computer, I do. ads on eyeballs are like millionaires throwing rocks at your head.
thank you for your wonderful article, but understand you've marred your research with 12 pages of advertisements. i've published hundreds of pages of research and none of them had any banner ads on them at all.
Well if countries that do not like the US decide to embargo oil to the US and or supply lines are cut, then you have the choice of syngas or no gas.
There's always America's Hat, Canada.
ha ha win
The Carriers just need more Vespene Gas.
imagine half a beowulf cluster of these things!