Who's "they"? Building a gigantic dome to capture methane from a lake isn't a practical idea, nor is it ecologically sound.
When I lived in the Phoenix urban area, we had a wash at the edge of our development, on the other side of which was a municipal golf course. The golf course had once been a landfill.
My nightly running course included the streets bordering the golf course, on the outside edge of which was a tank and pump that steadily accumulated the methane outgassed by the buried trash. Every few weeks, I would be going by when this apparatus detected enough pressure to flare off the accumulated gas with a long blue flame. This of course represented emission of CO2, but that is one-twentieth as potent a GHG as methane.
We can't have a collection and flaring system like this on wild lakes, but we could trigger fixed flamethrower-style igniters to go off whenever a flammable concentration of methane is detected.
Just log into your bank's online account management system (there is usually an app for doing this) and leave them a message. That's the standard way of handling things when you travel.
The problem with CAPTCHAs is that bots are now better than most humans at solving them, so they keep getting more and more difficult. The wiggly-text style was okay until they started putting in extraneous lines that look almost like letters. Do I count that skinny line as an I and that little bubble as an O?
Then they began using the images divided by a grid. "Click on all cars in this picture" seems simple enough, but do you include the frame that has the tiny bit of car roof at the bottom or one pixel of front bumper? I have tried them both ways, and every time I have to go through at least six images before I hit one that works. At random, they will slip in an image so dark and fuzzy that you can't tell what's in it. I have totally given up on using any form of Google account, purely because I can no longer solve their CAPTCHAs.
I want a USB hardware key that I can plug into whatever I'm using at the time, or something like having my iPhone act as my identification when it's on the same network as the device I'm using.
Nobody actually wants to go back to subsistence farming except for hippie moms who have never actually had to live that way. If we can add artificial intelligence to our own, everybody wins, in both the developed and developing world. New ideas, new methods, new forms organization to try out.
Evernote romped when it was unique in its field. You could build a hierarchy of notes and reminders, classified in whatever way you wanted, synchronized over all your devices and computers. You could embed web links. It was an ideal tool for developing research notes for any kind of writing project.
Then Apple upgraded its Notes app t include the same set of features in both macOS and iOS, and has recently added more. If Evernote went the way of Skype and traded out useful features for social media interfaces, it's not hard to figure out why it lost its popularity.
A fiat currency is one whose value in trade for goods is specified by some nation's central bank, which is supposed to manage the supply of that currency so that the ratio of coins to goods changes as little as possible in everyday life. Some countries do really well at this (Switzerland), most of them various degrees of less well, while a few (Zimbabwe, Venezuela) allow the money supply to explode as a politically easy way of raising government revenue.
The opposite of fiat currency is pegging the supply of money to some physical commodity. The US dollar was pegged to gold until it was switched to fiat by Franklin Roosevelt during the Depression, to allow for more cash to be made available. Basing a currency on gold worked for the centuries before industrial technology, when the value of goods exchangeable for money stayed the same century after century. But all through the 19th century, the US economy expanded rapidly through industry and exploitation of resources. Because the dollar was pegged to gold, there were never enough to go around, and the dollar kept rising ijn value all through the century. Games were played with this system by addin silver to gold as the monetary base, but deflation still occurred, widening the gap between rich and poor. The same thing would be happening today if everyone had to use Bitcoin for everyday transactions.
My point in the above posts is that, faced with currency deflation and hoarding of any one cryptocurrency, the crypto enthusiasts are creating new currencies, hoping to cash in through seignorage during the brief time that teach new crypto is easy to mine. This has created an overall, paradoxical situation of hyperinflation in all the cryptos added together.
Because I really liked having to accumulate long lists of things we needed buy on our bimonthly trips to Big City. And on those trips, the scavenger hunt from store to store to accumulate the items occupied a day that we now have to spend doing something else. And those dadratted low prices from online competition! So exploitative!
See - I'm thinking about this issue the European way. Reject improving technology, protect entrenched oligopolies, insist on "doing X locally" for all values of X.
...The other side sees these tickets as nothing more than a luxury item, in no need of being addressed.
And also, the entertainment industry is an important contributor to the party, equivalent to what oil and military contractors are to the Republicans. That's why Ticketmaster, RIAA and copyright unto the heat death of the universe get so much love from the Party Of The People.
How much are you being paid by the nuclear energy industry? Neither solar nor wind power can render an entire state too dangerous to live for the next 10 thousand years.
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And neither can wind or solar provide baseload power for industries and large cities. The only renewable that can do that is hydro, which in the developed world is fully built out.
If US nuclear waste really had only " less than 1% useable fuel" then it wouldn't stay radioactive for thousands of years, as you people are pulling for. C'mon already, at least decide which of the two contradictory lies you are going to broadcast to your audience of hippie moms.
If Trump were serious about promoting nuclear, he would open Yucca Mountain. Explain that a fuel recycling facility fed from this storage buffer would provide high-quality jobs for Nevadans.
Trump is pushing coal, not nuclear. Energy policy is a contentious subject, but the one policy that all activists agree on is that coal sucks the most.
When it comes to advanced nuclear, our nose is flattened on China's store window. Nothing will happen here until factory-built nukes start rolling off Chinese assembly lines. Then we will accuse them of stealing.
Fortnite is not special, neither is alcohol nor weed nor pills nor social networks. The only thing that IS special, is that our reality is intolerable for more and more people, and they find forms of escape. Can you blame them?
Actually I do blame them, because I’m old enough to remember how much worse life was fifty and sixty years ago compared to today. Racism everywhere, huge wars being fought over totally pointless causes (Ask your nail girl to describe her childhood), three billion people starving to death in India and China, massive urban air pollution, and the threat of thermonuclear annihilation hanging over our heads.
Those who forget the past are condemned to bitch about the present.
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But no problem, because now you own the hospital.
She was afraid that the lake might explode, yet she went on it and lit the methane. They don't make scientists like they used to.
By "explode" she meant a mass blowoff of methane. In this context, exploding it in the combustion sense would be a GOOD thing.
Who's "they"? Building a gigantic dome to capture methane from a lake isn't a practical idea, nor is it ecologically sound.
When I lived in the Phoenix urban area, we had a wash at the edge of our development, on the other side of which was a municipal golf course. The golf course had once been a landfill.
My nightly running course included the streets bordering the golf course, on the outside edge of which was a tank and pump that steadily accumulated the methane outgassed by the buried trash. Every few weeks, I would be going by when this apparatus detected enough pressure to flare off the accumulated gas with a long blue flame. This of course represented emission of CO2, but that is one-twentieth as potent a GHG as methane.
We can't have a collection and flaring system like this on wild lakes, but we could trigger fixed flamethrower-style igniters to go off whenever a flammable concentration of methane is detected.
OS X is built on Unix. OS 9 was built on being pointlessly different from Windows.
That shouldn't have consumed six hours, though. They probably shot someone at random and had to fill out paperwork.
You're thinking of Belarus, which is a big seller in the Central Valley.
Just log into your bank's online account management system (there is usually an app for doing this) and leave them a message. That's the standard way of handling things when you travel.
Do you want shootings? Because that's how you get shootings.
No, the US is the place where everybody calls meetings. This must have been one meeting too many.
The problem with CAPTCHAs is that bots are now better than most humans at solving them, so they keep getting more and more difficult. The wiggly-text style was okay until they started putting in extraneous lines that look almost like letters. Do I count that skinny line as an I and that little bubble as an O?
Then they began using the images divided by a grid. "Click on all cars in this picture" seems simple enough, but do you include the frame that has the tiny bit of car roof at the bottom or one pixel of front bumper? I have tried them both ways, and every time I have to go through at least six images before I hit one that works. At random, they will slip in an image so dark and fuzzy that you can't tell what's in it. I have totally given up on using any form of Google account, purely because I can no longer solve their CAPTCHAs.
I want a USB hardware key that I can plug into whatever I'm using at the time, or something like having my iPhone act as my identification when it's on the same network as the device I'm using.
Nobody actually wants to go back to subsistence farming except for hippie moms who have never actually had to live that way. If we can add artificial intelligence to our own, everybody wins, in both the developed and developing world. New ideas, new methods, new forms organization to try out.
Evernote romped when it was unique in its field. You could build a hierarchy of notes and reminders, classified in whatever way you wanted, synchronized over all your devices and computers. You could embed web links. It was an ideal tool for developing research notes for any kind of writing project.
Then Apple upgraded its Notes app t include the same set of features in both macOS and iOS, and has recently added more. If Evernote went the way of Skype and traded out useful features for social media interfaces, it's not hard to figure out why it lost its popularity.
A fiat currency is one whose value in trade for goods is specified by some nation's central bank, which is supposed to manage the supply of that currency so that the ratio of coins to goods changes as little as possible in everyday life. Some countries do really well at this (Switzerland), most of them various degrees of less well, while a few (Zimbabwe, Venezuela) allow the money supply to explode as a politically easy way of raising government revenue.
The opposite of fiat currency is pegging the supply of money to some physical commodity. The US dollar was pegged to gold until it was switched to fiat by Franklin Roosevelt during the Depression, to allow for more cash to be made available. Basing a currency on gold worked for the centuries before industrial technology, when the value of goods exchangeable for money stayed the same century after century. But all through the 19th century, the US economy expanded rapidly through industry and exploitation of resources. Because the dollar was pegged to gold, there were never enough to go around, and the dollar kept rising ijn value all through the century. Games were played with this system by addin silver to gold as the monetary base, but deflation still occurred, widening the gap between rich and poor. The same thing would be happening today if everyone had to use Bitcoin for everyday transactions.
My point in the above posts is that, faced with currency deflation and hoarding of any one cryptocurrency, the crypto enthusiasts are creating new currencies, hoping to cash in through seignorage during the brief time that teach new crypto is easy to mine. This has created an overall, paradoxical situation of hyperinflation in all the cryptos added together.
1. Golden Gate tolls are going to go to about ~$50...less commuters with these prices
Will that be each way or both ways?
Carve it up!
Because I really liked having to accumulate long lists of things we needed buy on our bimonthly trips to Big City. And on those trips, the scavenger hunt from store to store to accumulate the items occupied a day that we now have to spend doing something else. And those dadratted low prices from online competition! So exploitative!
See - I'm thinking about this issue the European way. Reject improving technology, protect entrenched oligopolies, insist on "doing X locally" for all values of X.
...The other side sees these tickets as nothing more than a luxury item, in no need of being addressed.
And also, the entertainment industry is an important contributor to the party, equivalent to what oil and military contractors are to the Republicans. That's why Ticketmaster, RIAA and copyright unto the heat death of the universe get so much love from the Party Of The People.
If you don't like Ticketmaster's ways, don't buy from them.
Since Ticket Bastard has a lock on concert tickets, that means don't go to any more concerts.
How much are you being paid by the nuclear energy industry? Neither solar nor wind power can render an entire state too dangerous to live for the next 10 thousand years.
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And neither can wind or solar provide baseload power for industries and large cities. The only renewable that can do that is hydro, which in the developed world is fully built out.
If US nuclear waste really had only " less than 1% useable fuel" then it wouldn't stay radioactive for thousands of years, as you people are pulling for. C'mon already, at least decide which of the two contradictory lies you are going to broadcast to your audience of hippie moms.
Waste must be "isolated for thousands of years" if we don't recycle it. That's why anti-science liberals don't want breeder reactors to be built.
If Trump were serious about promoting nuclear, he would open Yucca Mountain. Explain that a fuel recycling facility fed from this storage buffer would provide high-quality jobs for Nevadans.
Trump is pushing coal, not nuclear. Energy policy is a contentious subject, but the one policy that all activists agree on is that coal sucks the most.
When it comes to advanced nuclear, our nose is flattened on China's store window. Nothing will happen here until factory-built nukes start rolling off Chinese assembly lines. Then we will accuse them of stealing.
Who else is going to remember their passwords and be able to reboot their router during monsoon outages?
And in Bitcoin Cash!
If you can survive to be my age, it’s Surf City: two girls for every boy.
Fortnite is not special, neither is alcohol nor weed nor pills nor social networks. The only thing that IS special, is that our reality is intolerable for more and more people, and they find forms of escape. Can you blame them?
Actually I do blame them, because I’m old enough to remember how much worse life was fifty and sixty years ago compared to today. Racism everywhere, huge wars being fought over totally pointless causes (Ask your nail girl to describe her childhood), three billion people starving to death in India and China, massive urban air pollution, and the threat of thermonuclear annihilation hanging over our heads.
Those who forget the past are condemned to bitch about the present.