What? That he wasn't liberal enough? That he didn't close Gitmo and move the detainees to other prisons fast enough?
OTOH, the stand-in for Rachel Maddow was doing a piece on the idiot police officer that couldn't tell the difference between his service revolver and a taser. The commentator was going on about how abusive the policemen were being for putting their knee in the suspect's neck to hold the suspect on the ground. Obviously, the police were racist to be so brutal, at least according to the MSNBC commentator.
WTF, dude!!? Has he NEVER watched an episode of the "Cops" TV series? Everybody gets the knee in the neck...and I mean EVERYbody. It's a friggin' running joke between my wife and I. A guy comes out, lays face down on the ground with his arms extended and spread. The police runs up and drops his knee on the guys neck. White. Black. Chinese. Mexican. It don't matter who or how cooperative they're being. That damn knee is going straight to their neck.
But, to an MSNBC commentator, it is a white cop arresting a black man, so the knee to the neck is police brutality inspired by racism. Obviously, commentators have an agenda on the Rachel Maddow show.
Tell me this, have you heard anything about the New Black Panther Party or "killing cracker babies" on MSNBC, CNN, or ABC? How about the person spouting such garbage being accused, convicted and the let go from voter intimidation charges stemming from a video of him standing outside a polling booth with a club threatening people that he suspected of not being there to vote for Obama? Have these other news agencies told you about the President's appointee basically setting this nut case free?
You've never actually had anything stolen and tried to file a police report, have you? Yeah, they might dutifully act like they're taking notes, and may file some paperwork. But unless you provide them with evidence of who stole your stuff, they won't do a thing to get it back for you. Basically, the response you get is "Hey, that's just part of being an adult. There's nothing we can do about it."
It is baffling to you, because you are in a different environment.
It is baffling to me how during the American Revolutionary War, the soldiers would all stand in a line and let the opposing side take a shot at them. When watching the History Channel, I always yell, "Get DOWN you dumb fucks!! DUCK!!!". They never listen to me, BTW. And four or five always get taken out by a musket ball. (Dammit, if they had just DUCKED!!) The truth is, they were operating with different technology and with a different cultural ethos.
Same here. The Blizzard management has probably been inundated with requests to do something about the trolling. They read the studies that say that anonymity increases trolling activity. "Well, WTF, if you've got nothing to hide, you don't care who knows your name (or what you keep in your top left dresser drawer)."
But what if you only used the solar generated energy to augment the jet engine's intake system? For instance, build the first state of the intake with a ring of inductors? Increase range. Provide emergency electric/power backup. Possibly extend glide range. It would be a relatively cheap and easy retrofit.
Most light aircraft spend the vast amount of their lifetime sitting around in the sun on a airport tarmac some place. If you're going to make a battery powered solar plane, give it a two hour endurance and have it charged with thin film panels on the wings. The owner won't be back out to fly until the next weekend anyhow.
You could have the solar panels assist in driving the existing fans. Less fuel would be required to get the same cruise power. In this arrangement, no moving parts are added. The extra power from the solar panels basically becomes a solid state driver.
The question then breaks down to what is the payoff of layering the upper skin of the aircraft with solar panels. You would already have an aluminum substrate. Could one of the newer printing techonologies work? With the switch to composite technologies, could the solar panels simply be the last layer of the layup? There is a huge amount of wing and fuselage space pointing in the right direction up there.
How much fuel will the panels offset? Can this increase payload significantly? Could it provide an emergency backup for low fuel situations to at least extend the glide to the crash site?
In any case, there are a lot of issues to explore if you think in terms of augmenting the jet engine instead of replacing it.
Since it's cheaper, we can expect a reduction in the police budget and some lowering of taxes. Right?
Wrong. We can expect an expansion on surveillance activities, like UAV's patrolling the highways for speeders, or more patrols for people growing the wrong weed in their backyard. There will still be no budget for tracking wildlife herds or providing communication to remote settlements.
I don't see what the government could do after the fact, they have no expertise in the field, nor should they.
They could have gotten out of the way. Various countries offered incomparable resources to help contain the oil and speed the cleanup. The Feds kept pushing and continue to push red-tape in the way. Hurricanes are now threatening the efficacy of the help that was offered when it could do the most good.
We should provide government with tools that will obviously be used for coercive and oppressive purposes, and then later millions of citizens would fight back for deacades spread the message and do everything in their power to change the law.
Something fails in that logic. I'm not quite sure what it is.
If you have any doubt, try to offer food to one of them standing at a street corner with a sign saying that they will work for food.
You will be cursed for the entire time that you are stuck at the red light. They want cash, which they can use to buy alcohol or worse. They definitely will NOT work, for food or anything else. I've been there, done that, and know several others that have shared my experience. One was a restaurant owner in desperate need of kitchen help. He couldn't get any.
There have been a few news channel exposes on this idea that homeless people are starving in America. The various charities give away so much food that, again, the biggest health problem among the American "poor" is obesity.
I saw an article a bit ago doing the math about how many cars can move through a electric equivalent of a gas station, and something like 10x more gasoline powered cars are able to fuel up FULLY over the course of an hour.
So, just change your idea of what a "gas station" is.
In the past, the general store BECAME the "gas station". Later, "gas stations" became "convenience stores".
How about if your grocery store became a gas station? An RFID would make it easy to make micropayments for the charge you get while getting groceries. How about your local restaurant? Think they might like to tack on another revenue stream? You spend more than 3 minutes walking from the remote corner of the lot to the mall's front door. No reason there can be a few chargers placed around the mall parking lot.
Each of these options would allow for a much slower charging rate, which is much easier on the battery and the power grid, and require practically NO time from the driver.
Sure it makes sense. Batteries 30% as energy dense as gasoline will move your car further than the same mass of gasoline.
Do keep in mind that the typical ICE will injest 12 to 17 pounds of air for every pound of gasoline the vehicle carries. That is the air to fuel ratio. 12 lbs of air for every pound of gasoline when more power is required. 17 to 1, during efficiency cruise. On most of the Earth's surface, the vehicle doesn't need to carry the air with it. The engine just sucks in the air surrounding it.
Let me know when the batteries start carrying their oxidant, and we can start comparing EFFECTIVE energy densities in some sane manner.
Wait. You're saying that the same public that made movies about the dangers of cancer involved with living to close to power lines is going to happy drive next to an inductor that is emitting enough magnetic flux to power a car?
Will the car come with a warning to remove all metal objects from your person? Cause I could see a wedding band getting hot enough to permanently burn itself into place (not that I would ever consider removing it).
Or maybe Al Jazeera reports that the Big Endians are regrouping after a deadly surprise attack by the Little Endians in the Where-to-break-open-your-eggs war that is now going into its third year in Southeast Asia.
I AM a Native American with an allergy for egg yolks you insensitive clod!!
Krahar, as someone that watches family members suck off our welfare system, knowing full well that they are imminently able to work, I can tell you without a doubt that no one starves in America for lack of public aid. My mother and sister have been given separate apartments, and both eat exclusively from the benefits of the food stamp program.
The greatest health problem among America's poor population is...are you ready for this?.... OBESITY. In other countries, poor people die of starvation. In America, the poor bastards sit around in government bought apartments, stuffing their faces until they're to fat to move. Again, this is from personal experience with family members, whose finances I'm particularly familiar with, because I tried very hard to coach them on how to handle their money to stay independent.
Now there is a catch. To live off the public dole in the US requires that you go whole hog. You have to dodge any reasonable work, because trying to work your way out of the hole you've gotten yourself into will disqualify you from the aid long before the wages are enough to provide a lifestyle as comfortable as what the public dole offers. Many, many people prefer to be idle all day rather than work to improve themselves.
In short, your contention that the government leaves the poor to starve is laughable. I don't know what news source you listen to in order to get such ideas, but they are not even close to being realistic.
Heh, I voted for Bob Barr. It's all the people voting for "the lesser of two evils" that allow our honorable soldiers to be left in every armpit of a hellhole this world has to offer.
The money would be even better spent subsidizing converting federal building to solar. Giving money away to one particular company or another opens the door wide to graft and corruption. At the very least, it provides ample opportunity for the appearance of graft and corruption.
The Federal government has huge purchasing power, and lots of property that must be maintained. Require those building to convert to solar power (and provide the money to do it), and you not only subsidize the panel makers, but the converter makers, the installers, the distributors, etc. Solar needs more than manufacturers. It needs a whole infrastructure. A whole market, if you will.
Not we could expect the community organizer to understand that.
Then we don't have people who know how things work in Washington. What we should do is eliminate the appeal of sending a Byrd or Thurmond back to Washington. Committee chairs should be assigned randomly from the people assigned to the committee.
When the "powerful Chair of the Armed Services Committee" or the "powerful Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee" isn't automatically given to the guy with seniority, then that guy won't be automatically able to bring home the bacon. Then her election will depend on the strength of her arguments.
"And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet."
Would you forgive an unrepentant child molester, and then let him babysit your 5yr old daughter? Why would a just God not separate evil doers from those who are at least truly repentant? Is your imagination so limited that the only reason you can see for separating the just and unjust is that God is a "narcissistic bastard"?
The whole of the Old Testament is instruction that men cannot be righteous of their own accord, but the Christian Bible teaches that God is forgiving. That was the whole point of "I'll give the Jews a chance. Ok. Try again. Ok. One more time." That is the one overriding theme of the Old Testament.
With the New Testament, God decided that he would accept punishment for the sins of those people who would be repentant. It's a get out of hell free card, but not really. You have to truly have a change of heart and try to live a just life as described by God.
When I tell you homosexuality is a sin as described by God through the Bible, you can accept it or not. My commission is to inform you, not force you to accept any teaching. I realize that liberals like yourself can't stand for someone to disagree with you, and then not care that you're wrong, but it is what it is. I find your understanding of "love, compassion, [and] tolerance" to be extremely shallow. If your understanding of "tolerance" were not so shallow, you might be able to understand what it means to disagree with someone yet not be angry at them. To be clear, I've not damned you in any way, whatsoever. I have no power to damn you or anyone. Homosexuality is a sin. Willfully sinning is a rejection of the salvation offered by God. Your damnation lies in the choices you make with the information just offered. You have the power in your own hands. I've shaken the dust from my feet. I can walk away and not feel a need to throw insults over my shoulder at you.
If there were a ballot initiative, I would abstain. The government has no place in marriage. It is a religious establishment. Politically, marriage was originally an institution used to arbitrate parentage. Two people proclaimed in a public ceremony that they were wed, then everyone knew who was responsible for any kids that popped up. That application is antiquated, but marriage continues on the inertia of tradition. Parentage disagreements today should be settled on the basis of DNA tests (and welfare denied to unwed mothers until they've named the daddy, who'll then be held responsible for child support).
Frankly, yes, you are being an ass. Being a judgmental dick is no better than being an overly branded douchebag with a tattoo around his bicep. It's certainly nothing to be proud of (though you'll fit right in here at Slashdot...).
And yet earlier....
Then it's a shitty tattoo. Tramp stamps and bicep bands are the worst examples of trendy tattoo bullshit, IMHO.
I guess we're all asses on some level. I'm turned off by the appearance of facelifts, botox injections and silicon tits. It all just screams "FAKE" to me. From previous experience, I assume any conversation will be shallow and vapid.
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What? That he wasn't liberal enough? That he didn't close Gitmo and move the detainees to other prisons fast enough?
OTOH, the stand-in for Rachel Maddow was doing a piece on the idiot police officer that couldn't tell the difference between his service revolver and a taser. The commentator was going on about how abusive the policemen were being for putting their knee in the suspect's neck to hold the suspect on the ground. Obviously, the police were racist to be so brutal, at least according to the MSNBC commentator.
WTF, dude!!? Has he NEVER watched an episode of the "Cops" TV series? Everybody gets the knee in the neck...and I mean EVERYbody. It's a friggin' running joke between my wife and I. A guy comes out, lays face down on the ground with his arms extended and spread. The police runs up and drops his knee on the guys neck. White. Black. Chinese. Mexican. It don't matter who or how cooperative they're being. That damn knee is going straight to their neck.
But, to an MSNBC commentator, it is a white cop arresting a black man, so the knee to the neck is police brutality inspired by racism. Obviously, commentators have an agenda on the Rachel Maddow show.
Tell me this, have you heard anything about the New Black Panther Party or "killing cracker babies" on MSNBC, CNN, or ABC? How about the person spouting such garbage being accused, convicted and the let go from voter intimidation charges stemming from a video of him standing outside a polling booth with a club threatening people that he suspected of not being there to vote for Obama? Have these other news agencies told you about the President's appointee basically setting this nut case free?
Hence, the QotD tagline at the bottom of my Slashdot page:
"Look before you leap. -- Samuel Butler"
And just what would happen with a small nuke on top of the Yellowstone calderon.
Humans are still very capable of wiping themselves off the face of the earth.
You've never actually had anything stolen and tried to file a police report, have you? Yeah, they might dutifully act like they're taking notes, and may file some paperwork. But unless you provide them with evidence of who stole your stuff, they won't do a thing to get it back for you. Basically, the response you get is "Hey, that's just part of being an adult. There's nothing we can do about it."
It is baffling to you, because you are in a different environment.
It is baffling to me how during the American Revolutionary War, the soldiers would all stand in a line and let the opposing side take a shot at them. When watching the History Channel, I always yell, "Get DOWN you dumb fucks!! DUCK!!!". They never listen to me, BTW. And four or five always get taken out by a musket ball. (Dammit, if they had just DUCKED!!) The truth is, they were operating with different technology and with a different cultural ethos.
Same here. The Blizzard management has probably been inundated with requests to do something about the trolling. They read the studies that say that anonymity increases trolling activity. "Well, WTF, if you've got nothing to hide, you don't care who knows your name (or what you keep in your top left dresser drawer)."
But what if you only used the solar generated energy to augment the jet engine's intake system? For instance, build the first state of the intake with a ring of inductors? Increase range. Provide emergency electric/power backup. Possibly extend glide range. It would be a relatively cheap and easy retrofit.
Most light aircraft spend the vast amount of their lifetime sitting around in the sun on a airport tarmac some place. If you're going to make a battery powered solar plane, give it a two hour endurance and have it charged with thin film panels on the wings. The owner won't be back out to fly until the next weekend anyhow.
You could have the solar panels assist in driving the existing fans. Less fuel would be required to get the same cruise power. In this arrangement, no moving parts are added. The extra power from the solar panels basically becomes a solid state driver.
The question then breaks down to what is the payoff of layering the upper skin of the aircraft with solar panels. You would already have an aluminum substrate. Could one of the newer printing techonologies work? With the switch to composite technologies, could the solar panels simply be the last layer of the layup? There is a huge amount of wing and fuselage space pointing in the right direction up there.
How much fuel will the panels offset? Can this increase payload significantly? Could it provide an emergency backup for low fuel situations to at least extend the glide to the crash site?
In any case, there are a lot of issues to explore if you think in terms of augmenting the jet engine instead of replacing it.
Since it's cheaper, we can expect a reduction in the police budget and some lowering of taxes. Right?
Wrong. We can expect an expansion on surveillance activities, like UAV's patrolling the highways for speeders, or more patrols for people growing the wrong weed in their backyard. There will still be no budget for tracking wildlife herds or providing communication to remote settlements.
I don't see what the government could do after the fact, they have no expertise in the field, nor should they.
They could have gotten out of the way. Various countries offered incomparable resources to help contain the oil and speed the cleanup. The Feds kept pushing and continue to push red-tape in the way. Hurricanes are now threatening the efficacy of the help that was offered when it could do the most good.
So...let me get this straight.
We should provide government with tools that will obviously be used for coercive and oppressive purposes, and then later millions of citizens would fight back for deacades spread the message and do everything in their power to change the law.
Something fails in that logic. I'm not quite sure what it is.
If you have any doubt, try to offer food to one of them standing at a street corner with a sign saying that they will work for food.
You will be cursed for the entire time that you are stuck at the red light. They want cash, which they can use to buy alcohol or worse. They definitely will NOT work, for food or anything else. I've been there, done that, and know several others that have shared my experience. One was a restaurant owner in desperate need of kitchen help. He couldn't get any.
There have been a few news channel exposes on this idea that homeless people are starving in America. The various charities give away so much food that, again, the biggest health problem among the American "poor" is obesity.
I saw an article a bit ago doing the math about how many cars can move through a electric equivalent of a gas station, and something like 10x more gasoline powered cars are able to fuel up FULLY over the course of an hour.
So, just change your idea of what a "gas station" is.
In the past, the general store BECAME the "gas station". Later, "gas stations" became "convenience stores".
How about if your grocery store became a gas station? An RFID would make it easy to make micropayments for the charge you get while getting groceries. How about your local restaurant? Think they might like to tack on another revenue stream? You spend more than 3 minutes walking from the remote corner of the lot to the mall's front door. No reason there can be a few chargers placed around the mall parking lot.
Each of these options would allow for a much slower charging rate, which is much easier on the battery and the power grid, and require practically NO time from the driver.
Except that charging/discharging times are not linear. Google "RC constant".
Sure it makes sense. Batteries 30% as energy dense as gasoline will move your car further than the same mass of gasoline.
Do keep in mind that the typical ICE will injest 12 to 17 pounds of air for every pound of gasoline the vehicle carries. That is the air to fuel ratio. 12 lbs of air for every pound of gasoline when more power is required. 17 to 1, during efficiency cruise. On most of the Earth's surface, the vehicle doesn't need to carry the air with it. The engine just sucks in the air surrounding it.
Let me know when the batteries start carrying their oxidant, and we can start comparing EFFECTIVE energy densities in some sane manner.
Wait. You're saying that the same public that made movies about the dangers of cancer involved with living to close to power lines is going to happy drive next to an inductor that is emitting enough magnetic flux to power a car?
Will the car come with a warning to remove all metal objects from your person? Cause I could see a wedding band getting hot enough to permanently burn itself into place (not that I would ever consider removing it).
Or maybe Al Jazeera reports that the Big Endians are regrouping after a deadly surprise attack by the Little Endians in the Where-to-break-open-your-eggs war that is now going into its third year in Southeast Asia.
I AM a Native American with an allergy for egg yolks you insensitive clod!!
Krahar, as someone that watches family members suck off our welfare system, knowing full well that they are imminently able to work, I can tell you without a doubt that no one starves in America for lack of public aid. My mother and sister have been given separate apartments, and both eat exclusively from the benefits of the food stamp program.
The greatest health problem among America's poor population is...are you ready for this?.... OBESITY. In other countries, poor people die of starvation. In America, the poor bastards sit around in government bought apartments, stuffing their faces until they're to fat to move. Again, this is from personal experience with family members, whose finances I'm particularly familiar with, because I tried very hard to coach them on how to handle their money to stay independent.
Now there is a catch. To live off the public dole in the US requires that you go whole hog. You have to dodge any reasonable work, because trying to work your way out of the hole you've gotten yourself into will disqualify you from the aid long before the wages are enough to provide a lifestyle as comfortable as what the public dole offers. Many, many people prefer to be idle all day rather than work to improve themselves.
In short, your contention that the government leaves the poor to starve is laughable. I don't know what news source you listen to in order to get such ideas, but they are not even close to being realistic.
Heh, I voted for Bob Barr. It's all the people voting for "the lesser of two evils" that allow our honorable soldiers to be left in every armpit of a hellhole this world has to offer.
The money would be even better spent subsidizing converting federal building to solar. Giving money away to one particular company or another opens the door wide to graft and corruption. At the very least, it provides ample opportunity for the appearance of graft and corruption.
The Federal government has huge purchasing power, and lots of property that must be maintained. Require those building to convert to solar power (and provide the money to do it), and you not only subsidize the panel makers, but the converter makers, the installers, the distributors, etc. Solar needs more than manufacturers. It needs a whole infrastructure. A whole market, if you will.
Not we could expect the community organizer to understand that.
Then we don't have people who know how things work in Washington. What we should do is eliminate the appeal of sending a Byrd or Thurmond back to Washington. Committee chairs should be assigned randomly from the people assigned to the committee.
When the "powerful Chair of the Armed Services Committee" or the "powerful Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee" isn't automatically given to the guy with seniority, then that guy won't be automatically able to bring home the bacon. Then her election will depend on the strength of her arguments.
"Ooh! Ooh! Look at me! I can use naughty language on the internets without my mommy finding out."
Those are my apostrophes, not the greengrocers', and I'll go back to the 4th grade right after you hit puberty.
Wait. That won't work. You'll probably still be there. Well, at least they'll have you on the "short bus".
To answer SpeZek and pauljlucas at once:
"And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet."
Would you forgive an unrepentant child molester, and then let him babysit your 5yr old daughter? Why would a just God not separate evil doers from those who are at least truly repentant? Is your imagination so limited that the only reason you can see for separating the just and unjust is that God is a "narcissistic bastard"?
The whole of the Old Testament is instruction that men cannot be righteous of their own accord, but the Christian Bible teaches that God is forgiving. That was the whole point of "I'll give the Jews a chance. Ok. Try again. Ok. One more time." That is the one overriding theme of the Old Testament.
With the New Testament, God decided that he would accept punishment for the sins of those people who would be repentant. It's a get out of hell free card, but not really. You have to truly have a change of heart and try to live a just life as described by God.
When I tell you homosexuality is a sin as described by God through the Bible, you can accept it or not. My commission is to inform you, not force you to accept any teaching. I realize that liberals like yourself can't stand for someone to disagree with you, and then not care that you're wrong, but it is what it is. I find your understanding of "love, compassion, [and] tolerance" to be extremely shallow. If your understanding of "tolerance" were not so shallow, you might be able to understand what it means to disagree with someone yet not be angry at them. To be clear, I've not damned you in any way, whatsoever. I have no power to damn you or anyone. Homosexuality is a sin. Willfully sinning is a rejection of the salvation offered by God. Your damnation lies in the choices you make with the information just offered. You have the power in your own hands. I've shaken the dust from my feet. I can walk away and not feel a need to throw insults over my shoulder at you.
If there were a ballot initiative, I would abstain. The government has no place in marriage. It is a religious establishment. Politically, marriage was originally an institution used to arbitrate parentage. Two people proclaimed in a public ceremony that they were wed, then everyone knew who was responsible for any kids that popped up. That application is antiquated, but marriage continues on the inertia of tradition. Parentage disagreements today should be settled on the basis of DNA tests (and welfare denied to unwed mothers until they've named the daddy, who'll then be held responsible for child support).
Then you obviously weren't paying attention. He appoints the guy that is the "arbiter", which is to say, he controls the controller.
Frankly, yes, you are being an ass. Being a judgmental dick is no better than being an overly branded douchebag with a tattoo around his bicep. It's certainly nothing to be proud of (though you'll fit right in here at Slashdot...).
And yet earlier....
Then it's a shitty tattoo. Tramp stamps and bicep bands are the worst examples of trendy tattoo bullshit, IMHO.
I guess we're all asses on some level. I'm turned off by the appearance of facelifts, botox injections and silicon tits. It all just screams "FAKE" to me. From previous experience, I assume any conversation will be shallow and vapid.