The corresponding "English" engineering unit is the pound-mass, lbm. The normal pound is a unit of force (probably have Watt to nlame for that when he defined "horsepower"), and a pound-mass is the amount of mass that weighs one pound at standard gravity.
A lot of the common hardware (as in stuff bought from hardware stores) has been standardized in the US in inch/foot dimensions for decades, switching those to metric units would likely take several decades. Real estate (land) titles are almost always in traditional units and changing those would be incredibly expensive.
Note that the US residential standards for electricity are 117V/60Hz, compared to the European standard off 220V/50Hz - don't see either side changing anytime soon.
Finally, it would be nice to have a "true metric" system for temperature, i.e. one where the "degrees" would allow for simplified thermodynamic calculations. If I want to calculate how many joules or watt-hours to heat up a quantity of water, I have to look up the the appropriate conversion factors no matter whether the quantity is expressed in pounds or kg and temperature difference expressed in F or C.
In the late 1800's, several cities in the Northeastern US had balls that were dropped at noon as defined by the electric time service. Time standards were distributed by a special telegraph line from an observatory in the Alleghenies.
To make matters worse, the delivery was choked by an undersized transmission line in a corridor. This path 66 limited the amount of lower cost power that could be purchased from neighboring states. This made the local spot prices even more volatile.
Electric deregulation in California was was brain-dead from the start, being implemented by people with no fsck'ing clue about how electric power systems worked. IMBO, there were a couple of critical things missing from the deregulation plans.
#1 Time of day metering needed to be phased in before you could even think about having customers choose their generation supplier.
#2 The price that generation suppliers quoted should have been as delivered price, putting the onus on the supplier to ensure proper transmission capacity. This would have greatly reduced the gaming of the system by the likes of Enron.
Another issue was that there wasn't much way in the way of new generation being built due to the legacy of the Gov Moonbeam's administration - and Moonbeam's chief of staff was Gray Davis...
You got pretty close to one of the key issues here. Utilities (including government owned) generally do not own the land that the wires or pipes run over/under. Those lines/pipes are routed via an easement granted an appropriate government (typically city/county) because such service was considered to in the Public Interest, Convenience Or Necessity.
Especially in the Internet biz. For 99% of customers the choice is between a huge bloated government granted and regulated monopoly telco and the almost as bloated government grated and regulated cable company. Then there is a couple of wireless options here and there most of which are owned and operated by the monopoly telco and will never deliver enough bandwidth to matter.
The whole issue of ISP regulation would (mostly) go away if there was a functioning marketplace for internet service. This was pretty much the case during the dial-up era, but the capital demands for high-speed service makes it difficult to get a true competitive marketplace.
Maybe the solution is for a municipal utility to provide a fiber optic line from the residence to a C.O. It would then be up to the individual residents to contract with their preferred phone provider, TV provider and ISP for connection to the various services. Only problem is that this would rely on the utility being responsive to their customers.
Sounds like you have reasonable grounds for an excuse from jury duty due to economic hardship. My company only pays for two weeks of jury duty per year, which gives me an out for trials expected to last longer than two weeks.
I get a reminder of Kaypro every day when I drop my daughter off at school - get a very good view of the self-storage facility that used to be the Kaypro plant when leaving the drop-off point.
The study overlooks neutrino oscillations, the neutrinos from the gold have had little chance to oscillate. While it is probable that neutrinos don't affect decay rates, the study isn't as conclusive as the summary makes it out to be.
The decay rate for electron capture is mildly affected by pressure.
While OpenBSD doesn't have a perfect record for security, it is a heck of a lot better than Linux. OTOH, Linux is often the better choice for desktop usage when security is not an issue.
Theo seems enough of an anal-retentive to make sure a security patch stays in the source tree.
One problem with tapping Yellowstone is that the geothermal fields are almost entirely within Park boundaries. Do keep in mind that the reason for Yellowstone becoming the world's first national park was to preserve it by preventing development.
More than enough. The US should be ashamed, fuck, really ashamed, at the fact. And all you can say is that the US "just" used two.
There's no reason for the US to be ashamed - Japan attacked the US first (this was almost 10 years after Japan first invaded Manchuria - think "Rape of Nanking"), Japan was preparing to use biological weapons against the US (fortunately for Japan, the Japanese ship carrying these weapons was sunk en route - US retaliation would have been massive) and the bombing ended up saving a lot of Japanese lives (while there have been stories of Japanese peace feelers, Truman didn't think any were credible - remember what was going on just prior to Pearl Harbor).
The real bummer is that the Southwest Chief is running on a slower schedule than the Super Chief did back in the 1930's. Since then we had WW2 putting a several year halt on RR development, ICC ruling in 1948 requiring ATC or cab signalling to exceed 79 mph, interstate highway system and jet airliners.
Trains win in every densely populated region, hands down.
There's been a lot of discussion of the relative fuel efficiency of passenger trains versus other modes of transportation on the Trains.com forums, specifically the passenger section of the Trains magazine forum. The consensus answer is "It depends....".
One big difference is that the price of batteries has not gone down anywhere near as fast as the price of PC hardware. Bear in mind that we're still not close to the theoretical limit of what can be done with silicon, current batteries are at worst an order of magnitude away from the theoretical limit of capacity.
Having said that, THE key problem with electric car economics is the number of possible charge discharge cycles.
While not wanting to absolve M$ of the horrors of Windoze, EDLIN (EDitor of LINes) was written at Seattle Computer a year before M$ bought 86-DOS from SCP.
A bit more on-topic: The iPad was from the guys that brought us the Apple III and Lisa...
Force/area is a scientific/engineering definition of pressure, which is much narrower than the definition of pressure as used in the everyday English language. Using units of force in describing pressure is perfectly proper for non-technical writing.
Don't get me started about expressing force in units of grams or kilograms...
Only problem is that the attenuation of IR by CO2 is highly non-linear. An increase in attenuation from 1 to 1.35dB could have a significant impact, but an increase from 10 to 13.5 dB would have much less of an impact (saturation).
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The corresponding "English" engineering unit is the pound-mass, lbm. The normal pound is a unit of force (probably have Watt to nlame for that when he defined "horsepower"), and a pound-mass is the amount of mass that weighs one pound at standard gravity.
Are you talking about the OS or the DNF port to GNU Hurd???
Or the DB based filesystem that Bill the Gates promised for Cairo?
A lot of the common hardware (as in stuff bought from hardware stores) has been standardized in the US in inch/foot dimensions for decades, switching those to metric units would likely take several decades. Real estate (land) titles are almost always in traditional units and changing those would be incredibly expensive.
Note that the US residential standards for electricity are 117V/60Hz, compared to the European standard off 220V/50Hz - don't see either side changing anytime soon.
Finally, it would be nice to have a "true metric" system for temperature, i.e. one where the "degrees" would allow for simplified thermodynamic calculations. If I want to calculate how many joules or watt-hours to heat up a quantity of water, I have to look up the the appropriate conversion factors no matter whether the quantity is expressed in pounds or kg and temperature difference expressed in F or C.
In the late 1800's, several cities in the Northeastern US had balls that were dropped at noon as defined by the electric time service. Time standards were distributed by a special telegraph line from an observatory in the Alleghenies.
To make matters worse, the delivery was choked by an undersized transmission line in a corridor. This path 66 limited the amount of lower cost power that could be purchased from neighboring states. This made the local spot prices even more volatile.
Electric deregulation in California was was brain-dead from the start, being implemented by people with no fsck'ing clue about how electric power systems worked. IMBO, there were a couple of critical things missing from the deregulation plans.
#1 Time of day metering needed to be phased in before you could even think about having customers choose their generation supplier.
#2 The price that generation suppliers quoted should have been as delivered price, putting the onus on the supplier to ensure proper transmission capacity. This would have greatly reduced the gaming of the system by the likes of Enron.
Another issue was that there wasn't much way in the way of new generation being built due to the legacy of the Gov Moonbeam's administration - and Moonbeam's chief of staff was Gray Davis...
You got pretty close to one of the key issues here. Utilities (including government owned) generally do not own the land that the wires or pipes run over/under. Those lines/pipes are routed via an easement granted an appropriate government (typically city/county) because such service was considered to in the Public Interest, Convenience Or Necessity.
Especially in the Internet biz. For 99% of customers the choice is between a huge bloated government granted and regulated monopoly telco and the almost as bloated government grated and regulated cable company. Then there is a couple of wireless options here and there most of which are owned and operated by the monopoly telco and will never deliver enough bandwidth to matter.
The whole issue of ISP regulation would (mostly) go away if there was a functioning marketplace for internet service. This was pretty much the case during the dial-up era, but the capital demands for high-speed service makes it difficult to get a true competitive marketplace.
Maybe the solution is for a municipal utility to provide a fiber optic line from the residence to a C.O. It would then be up to the individual residents to contract with their preferred phone provider, TV provider and ISP for connection to the various services. Only problem is that this would rely on the utility being responsive to their customers.
The availability of public defenders also doesn't enter into it. They have a history of not providing a full and complete defense.
FWIW, public defenders are usually for criminal trials only, which does seem to violate "Equal protection under the law".
Sounds like you have reasonable grounds for an excuse from jury duty due to economic hardship. My company only pays for two weeks of jury duty per year, which gives me an out for trials expected to last longer than two weeks.
The story about Kodos was a good one about taking "the needs of the many outweighing the needs of a few" too far.
That's more of a problem with politics.
One of the simplest ways of demonstrating MacOS X is not UNIX is executing $ touch FOO foo and then doing a directory listing.
I get a reminder of Kaypro every day when I drop my daughter off at school - get a very good view of the self-storage facility that used to be the Kaypro plant when leaving the drop-off point.
The study overlooks neutrino oscillations, the neutrinos from the gold have had little chance to oscillate. While it is probable that neutrinos don't affect decay rates, the study isn't as conclusive as the summary makes it out to be.
The decay rate for electron capture is mildly affected by pressure.
While OpenBSD doesn't have a perfect record for security, it is a heck of a lot better than Linux. OTOH, Linux is often the better choice for desktop usage when security is not an issue.
Theo seems enough of an anal-retentive to make sure a security patch stays in the source tree.
One problem with tapping Yellowstone is that the geothermal fields are almost entirely within Park boundaries. Do keep in mind that the reason for Yellowstone becoming the world's first national park was to preserve it by preventing development.
We used two, "Fat man" and "Little Boy".
More than enough. The US should be ashamed, fuck, really ashamed, at the fact. And all you can say is that the US "just" used two.
There's no reason for the US to be ashamed - Japan attacked the US first (this was almost 10 years after Japan first invaded Manchuria - think "Rape of Nanking"), Japan was preparing to use biological weapons against the US (fortunately for Japan, the Japanese ship carrying these weapons was sunk en route - US retaliation would have been massive) and the bombing ended up saving a lot of Japanese lives (while there have been stories of Japanese peace feelers, Truman didn't think any were credible - remember what was going on just prior to Pearl Harbor).
The real bummer is that the Southwest Chief is running on a slower schedule than the Super Chief did back in the 1930's. Since then we had WW2 putting a several year halt on RR development, ICC ruling in 1948 requiring ATC or cab signalling to exceed 79 mph, interstate highway system and jet airliners.
Trains win in every densely populated region, hands down.
There's been a lot of discussion of the relative fuel efficiency of passenger trains versus other modes of transportation on the Trains.com forums, specifically the passenger section of the Trains magazine forum. The consensus answer is "It depends....".
Having said that, THE key problem with electric car economics is the number of possible charge discharge cycles.
Hiding a reactor is pretty easy if the cooling loop is closed. What is not easy is hiding reprocessing.
A bit more on-topic: The iPad was from the guys that brought us the Apple III and Lisa...
Don't get me started about expressing force in units of grams or kilograms...
Only problem is that the attenuation of IR by CO2 is highly non-linear. An increase in attenuation from 1 to 1.35dB could have a significant impact, but an increase from 10 to 13.5 dB would have much less of an impact (saturation).
2. Wind from the Sun.