A Slashdotter caught making an extensive post from memory because it's a concept he understands all by himself, rather than cutting and pasting from Moonchild's EcoBlog? Burn the witch!
I feel the same way about Tor as I do about DuckDuckGo: if I were paranoid enough to use it, I would be paranoid enough to wonder how it gets along without a business model.
There are next to no birds to kill at Ivanpah. The flat-earth lobby is just whipping up yet another fake roadblock because they can. Small wonder that the only large-scale power source in California is Arizona.
I can see printed aercitecture leadng to standardized components of construction. Architects will be just as creative as they are today, but the ability to include standardized design elements, such as a leakproof and stress-qualified roof of a given type at a given size, into buildings will revolutionize the art.
No, the nation's most overpaid industry has developed a paper-centered mentality that is difficult to change not because it can't afford to, but because sealing off medical records in paper prisons helps maintain the monopoly status of providers. Whenever you go to a new specialist for the first time, note the wall of paper records behind the receptionist. At the opening of your visit you will have to sit down and fill out a history - this, in a century in which the needed information could easily be zipped over from your gateway practitioner. Each time you fill out one of these monstrosities, you run the risk of misremembering some part your lifetime record of symptoms and treatments, any of which might be critical to the procedure you are about to undergo.
The one part of the ACA that I really applaud is the mandate to digitize medical records. Long after we've gotten over the controversy about increased insurance rates and copays, this will be the part that we will look back on with affection.
That 1416 ha. is the total size of the mirror fields, not the small focus area that kills birds. These top ten airports by area: http://www.toptenstip.com/top-... are not only all much larger than the kill area at Ivanpah, but are located in heavily populated areas where there is a lot of water and birds. Ivanpah is located in the most featureless, unpopulated, wildlife-free area in the US.
It's the call to immediately stop construction, rather than "design a way of scaring off birds" that fingers this as the usual Green misanthropy. They identify problems with every technology out there, but never support approaches to actually solving them.
That's why settlements like this need to come directly out of the police budget. That's still the taxpayer's pocket, but taken from an amount already earmarked for police work. Let them be forced to prioritize, denominating the settlement charge in terms of pot busts foregone next year.
" Are you really saying that I must publicly disclose the terms of any private contract I am a party to, just because the "Public has a right to know""
Yes, because court actions are taken as legal precedent that gets studied for generations to come and cited whenever relevant cases arise. If we start keeping legal settlements secret, a huge chunk of case law drops out of the historical record.
If we had paused for conditions in Europe to be perfect before developoing the Americas, every casino on this continent would be sitting here still waiting for its first customer to show up.
Because when they have people over, there would be too much running back and forth between the kitchen and the backyard grill.
A modular design allows you to design and build modules, and even get them to the site, in parallel to deciding on the best arrangement of the modules.
Or just dig into the regolith. I like the hexagonal modules design, except that bringing something as heavy as depleted uranium to Mars in usable amounts will be impossible at first because of the weight. I picked up a chunk of DU once, the size and shape of a common brick; at first, I thought it was welded to the bench it was sitting on. No, it was just unbelievably heavy. I needed both hands to lift it.
So locate the hex design in a natural cave or make it earth-sheltered. If there are lava tubes on Mars like this one, they would be ideal:
That is why this story is so relevant to Slashdot. If there is the threat of another Tambora, the UN is prepared to start drafting and sacrificing virgins.
Hey li'l buddy. Get back on the tricycle, ride over there and shake Basil's hand, OK? Spend the rest of the afternoon without fighting, and I'll take you both to Pizza Heaven.
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"...proven and documented cases of specific harm caused by GM "food"."
Which do not actually exist. Care to cite any?
A Slashdotter caught making an extensive post from memory because it's a concept he understands all by himself, rather than cutting and pasting from Moonchild's EcoBlog? Burn the witch!
Golden rice is OPEN SOURCE. Monsanto and its lawyers are nowhere in sight. And no, golden rice has no magical effects on other species around it.
I feel the same way about Tor as I do about DuckDuckGo: if I were paranoid enough to use it, I would be paranoid enough to wonder how it gets along without a business model.
There are next to no birds to kill at Ivanpah. The flat-earth lobby is just whipping up yet another fake roadblock because they can. Small wonder that the only large-scale power source in California is Arizona.
Sorry. I accidentally bumped the ornate brass lever in my Wells Time Machine.
I can see printed aercitecture leadng to standardized components of construction. Architects will be just as creative as they are today, but the ability to include standardized design elements, such as a leakproof and stress-qualified roof of a given type at a given size, into buildings will revolutionize the art.
Clearly you have never driven a BMW.
The difference is that there's no global consortium of oil companies conspiring to eliminate 3-D printing.
No, the nation's most overpaid industry has developed a paper-centered mentality that is difficult to change not because it can't afford to, but because sealing off medical records in paper prisons helps maintain the monopoly status of providers. Whenever you go to a new specialist for the first time, note the wall of paper records behind the receptionist. At the opening of your visit you will have to sit down and fill out a history - this, in a century in which the needed information could easily be zipped over from your gateway practitioner. Each time you fill out one of these monstrosities, you run the risk of misremembering some part your lifetime record of symptoms and treatments, any of which might be critical to the procedure you are about to undergo.
The one part of the ACA that I really applaud is the mandate to digitize medical records. Long after we've gotten over the controversy about increased insurance rates and copays, this will be the part that we will look back on with affection.
All the way back in 1858: Arthur C Clarke, "A Slight Case of Sunstroke"
That 1416 ha. is the total size of the mirror fields, not the small focus area that kills birds. These top ten airports by area:
http://www.toptenstip.com/top-...
are not only all much larger than the kill area at Ivanpah, but are located in heavily populated areas where there is a lot of water and birds. Ivanpah is located in the most featureless, unpopulated, wildlife-free area in the US.
No, itzdandy was found guilty of using humor in an environmental thread.
It's the call to immediately stop construction, rather than "design a way of scaring off birds" that fingers this as the usual Green misanthropy. They identify problems with every technology out there, but never support approaches to actually solving them.
What type is the blood, and how do they get the organ and speakers compact enough to install in a call center?
That's why settlements like this need to come directly out of the police budget. That's still the taxpayer's pocket, but taken from an amount already earmarked for police work. Let them be forced to prioritize, denominating the settlement charge in terms of pot busts foregone next year.
" Are you really saying that I must publicly disclose the terms of any private contract I am a party to, just because the "Public has a right to know""
Yes, because court actions are taken as legal precedent that gets studied for generations to come and cited whenever relevant cases arise. If we start keeping legal settlements secret, a huge chunk of case law drops out of the historical record.
Actually they were launched from the coast and from the culture of Florida, like all the other non-Russian modules:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
If we had paused for conditions in Europe to be perfect before developoing the Americas, every casino on this continent would be sitting here still waiting for its first customer to show up.
Because when they have people over, there would be too much running back and forth between the kitchen and the backyard grill.
A modular design allows you to design and build modules, and even get them to the site, in parallel to deciding on the best arrangement of the modules.
Or just dig into the regolith. I like the hexagonal modules design, except that bringing something as heavy as depleted uranium to Mars in usable amounts will be impossible at first because of the weight. I picked up a chunk of DU once, the size and shape of a common brick; at first, I thought it was welded to the bench it was sitting on. No, it was just unbelievably heavy. I needed both hands to lift it.
So locate the hex design in a natural cave or make it earth-sheltered. If there are lava tubes on Mars like this one, they would be ideal:
http://www.fs.usda.gov/wps/por...
That is why this story is so relevant to Slashdot. If there is the threat of another Tambora, the UN is prepared to start drafting and sacrificing virgins.
I was not proposing that the Buy American policy change for the military. I was arguing for not having Buy American for nuclear construction.
Hey li'l buddy. Get back on the tricycle, ride over there and shake Basil's hand, OK? Spend the rest of the afternoon without fighting, and I'll take you both to Pizza Heaven.
Would this technique still work on OS X browsers? If so, Apple needs to get a patch effort going.