The best passwords are the random ones generated by password managers, but the silly rules prevent you from using them. They also prevent people from using secure "personal words" like that weirdly named village you passed through once on vacation. All passwords-by-rule tend to deteriorate to obvious word with initial capital with a 0 or a 1 on the end.
"This also has the wonderful effect of constantly reminding me of roughly how many months i've worked for this shithole company, as if I needed a reminder."
But as your password pique causes its assets to shuffle off to Nigeria, you won't be working there much longer.
We're talking about a reboot from apocalypse but yes, dams are the most robust infrastructure our civilization has built so far, and most likely to survive major disaster somewhere in the world. Then there's always the "Lucifer's Hammer" scenario with some nuclear plant.
This would start with the same hydromechanical power that preceded the industrial revolution: small dams providing direct mechanical power for mills and machinery. At the same time, you can smelt metals with wood, After initial reboot, being able to machine metals and draw wire would lead to hydroelectricity.
Christianity has long ago admitted its past mistakes, and thrives in cultures whose secular liberals endlessly rake over the evils of the past. Not so with that other religion that dogs our headlines.
To bring in some News For Nerds relevance, the Vatican made up for its treatment of Galileo by setting up its own observatory, which in modern times has stayed on the front wave of astronomical technology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
The irony is that to get this very facility built, Rome had to wage another crusade against the pitchfork-waving Greens.
Does the algorithm account for the fact that the Troll designation is applied by some specific person who (a) has mod points, (b) strongly disagrees with a given post and (c) is in many cases part of a group who is looking for antagonists to some cause that group really believes in.
The true potential of GMO is changes to the human genome. Being able to update your genetic firmware in place - no waiting for your offspring to express a desired trait - is so cool that I totally wouldn't mind having to wear a tattooed label whenever I visit California.
If all porous materials required high osmotic pressure, MIT woud never have suggested graphene as an alternative membrane in the first place. This paper cites drastically reduced pressure requirements with nanoporous graphene: http://scitation.aip.org/conte... The highest hurdle to production is not pressure, but manufacturability of the nanoporous graphene itself.
The garbage patch is where it is in the Pacific because it's a gyre, currents funneling inward on the surface from all directions. Could this be concentrating warm water also?
Those are not tropical deserts, but on the 30-35-degree latitude lines, the hottest and driest places in the world. Between these lines is cooler, but a lot wetter.
The CO2 comparison makes no sense because a desalination system separates salt from water now, for use now and then reuniting them in the sea a relatively short time from now. Most of our CO2 comes from the burning of fossil fuels that were laid down millions of years ago. The CO2 will return as coal and oil more millions of years from now.
The high cost of desalination is for the current reverse osmosis process, which requires high pressure to force the water through separation membranes. Now that graphene manufacturing is starting up (watch for the brand name Perforene), the cost of desal will fall off a cliff.
We may also see the output brine become a revenue stream. Because it represents a superconcentration of minerals, we're going to see industrial minerals extracted from brine in addition to the salt itself, which has been an industrial commodity since ancient times. We may see a lot less salt returned to the sea than we take from it.
If you return the salt to the sea, it's not hard to disperse it into deep-sea currents so you don't get superconcentrations of salt in one place. All of that salt came from the sea, and all of the separated freshwater will return to it also.
Desalination is an ideal use for fluctuating power sources in general. Instead of spending trillions to put wind and sun on the grid, use them to provide water for California and Texas. At the same time, we won't be using energy-intensive R-O forever. Cheaper desalination tech improves the equation.
Since existing desalination methods produce brine as their "waste" product, couldn't we use this technology to increase the freshwater output of desal plants in sunny areas?
And the whole idea that desalination destroys the environment somehow is an example of why I have zero respect for environmentalists and will not listen to anything they say (to me, a real environmental problem is one pointed out by scientists working in their own fields). No human activity destroys water; it just gets shuffled around in non-natural ways before resuming its original form. Desalination produces brine that can be fed back at some careful rate into the ocean or retained onshore for the salt and minerals. One way or another, all of the freshwater and brine produced by man becomes the original seawater eventually.
Here in northern Arizona, corn cultivation destroyed the dentition of the Sinagua tribes in a totally different way. Grinding corn in metates, or stone depressions in rock, gave them a cornmeal laced with tiny particles of rock. This wore away their teeth by typically age 35, killing them before decay had a chance to act.
In any case, by approximately the year 1200 a practical means for the election of Republicans was discovered, making the climate hotter and drier, and the Sinagua had to leave the area.
" The fact of reality is that we don't need 7 billion people"
Notice how Greens ascribe no value to incremental human brains, nor to any civilization they may collectively produce. Small wonder that they are always looking for final solutions to the human being question.
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The best passwords are the random ones generated by password managers, but the silly rules prevent you from using them. They also prevent people from using secure "personal words" like that weirdly named village you passed through once on vacation. All passwords-by-rule tend to deteriorate to obvious word with initial capital with a 0 or a 1 on the end.
"This also has the wonderful effect of constantly reminding me of roughly how many months i've worked for this shithole company, as if I needed a reminder."
But as your password pique causes its assets to shuffle off to Nigeria, you won't be working there much longer.
What would keep an ocean on Pluto from freezing? On the icy moons of gas giants, there are tidal forces, but what is there to warm Pluto?
We don't need to stop watching their programs. We can torrent them.
We're talking about a reboot from apocalypse but yes, dams are the most robust infrastructure our civilization has built so far, and most likely to survive major disaster somewhere in the world. Then there's always the "Lucifer's Hammer" scenario with some nuclear plant.
You can get a huge, willing supply of them for almost nothing, and they're so easy to dispose of at the end of the project.
This employee is not going to be fired either, because that would offend still another precious little identity group.
This would start with the same hydromechanical power that preceded the industrial revolution: small dams providing direct mechanical power for mills and machinery. At the same time, you can smelt metals with wood, After initial reboot, being able to machine metals and draw wire would lead to hydroelectricity.
Christianity has long ago admitted its past mistakes, and thrives in cultures whose secular liberals endlessly rake over the evils of the past. Not so with that other religion that dogs our headlines.
To bring in some News For Nerds relevance, the Vatican made up for its treatment of Galileo by setting up its own observatory, which in modern times has stayed on the front wave of astronomical technology:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
The irony is that to get this very facility built, Rome had to wage another crusade against the pitchfork-waving Greens.
Does the algorithm account for the fact that the Troll designation is applied by some specific person who (a) has mod points, (b) strongly disagrees with a given post and (c) is in many cases part of a group who is looking for antagonists to some cause that group really believes in.
Tea bag?
Your Britishness permit is hereby revoked.
Clay tablets, then. Fire actually improves their durability.
The true potential of GMO is changes to the human genome. Being able to update your genetic firmware in place - no waiting for your offspring to express a desired trait - is so cool that I totally wouldn't mind having to wear a tattooed label whenever I visit California.
If all porous materials required high osmotic pressure, MIT woud never have suggested graphene as an alternative membrane in the first place. This paper cites drastically reduced pressure requirements with nanoporous graphene:
http://scitation.aip.org/conte...
The highest hurdle to production is not pressure, but manufacturability of the nanoporous graphene itself.
...Over the shirts ESA scientists wear.
The garbage patch is where it is in the Pacific because it's a gyre, currents funneling inward on the surface from all directions. Could this be concentrating warm water also?
Those are not tropical deserts, but on the 30-35-degree latitude lines, the hottest and driest places in the world. Between these lines is cooler, but a lot wetter.
As lower-pressure membranes succeed R-O, this will become less of a problem.
The CO2 comparison makes no sense because a desalination system separates salt from water now, for use now and then reuniting them in the sea a relatively short time from now. Most of our CO2 comes from the burning of fossil fuels that were laid down millions of years ago. The CO2 will return as coal and oil more millions of years from now.
The high cost of desalination is for the current reverse osmosis process, which requires high pressure to force the water through separation membranes. Now that graphene manufacturing is starting up (watch for the brand name Perforene), the cost of desal will fall off a cliff.
We may also see the output brine become a revenue stream. Because it represents a superconcentration of minerals, we're going to see industrial minerals extracted from brine in addition to the salt itself, which has been an industrial commodity since ancient times. We may see a lot less salt returned to the sea than we take from it.
If you return the salt to the sea, it's not hard to disperse it into deep-sea currents so you don't get superconcentrations of salt in one place. All of that salt came from the sea, and all of the separated freshwater will return to it also.
Desalination is an ideal use for fluctuating power sources in general. Instead of spending trillions to put wind and sun on the grid, use them to provide water for California and Texas. At the same time, we won't be using energy-intensive R-O forever. Cheaper desalination tech improves the equation.
Since existing desalination methods produce brine as their "waste" product, couldn't we use this technology to increase the freshwater output of desal plants in sunny areas?
And the whole idea that desalination destroys the environment somehow is an example of why I have zero respect for environmentalists and will not listen to anything they say (to me, a real environmental problem is one pointed out by scientists working in their own fields). No human activity destroys water; it just gets shuffled around in non-natural ways before resuming its original form. Desalination produces brine that can be fed back at some careful rate into the ocean or retained onshore for the salt and minerals. One way or another, all of the freshwater and brine produced by man becomes the original seawater eventually.
Here in northern Arizona, corn cultivation destroyed the dentition of the Sinagua tribes in a totally different way. Grinding corn in metates, or stone depressions in rock, gave them a cornmeal laced with tiny particles of rock. This wore away their teeth by typically age 35, killing them before decay had a chance to act.
In any case, by approximately the year 1200 a practical means for the election of Republicans was discovered, making the climate hotter and drier, and the Sinagua had to leave the area.
" The fact of reality is that we don't need 7 billion people"
Notice how Greens ascribe no value to incremental human brains, nor to any civilization they may collectively produce. Small wonder that they are always looking for final solutions to the human being question.