If you're going to complain about the energy required to actually work the land (Equipment fuel), remember that you're making fuel.
Yes, that is where the inefficieny comes in, it has nothing to do with sunlight.
Recycling some of your product to perpetuate the process is all part of the package.
Imagine it this way: What would happen if it took 18 gallons of oil to produce 1 gallon of oil? Sounds pretty silly, but it is a pretty good analogy. But if you throw in the fact that that new 1 gallon of gas is a little more enviromentally friendly, well then it's a great idea! Biofuels should not be looked at as a primary source of energy, but as a way for farmers to use there extra crops to try and make a little bit of money.
And many of which are still very inefficient and harmful to the enviroment. Guess how much energy (in calories) it takes to produce 1 calorie of energy on a standard US farm... give up? Typically 16-18 calories.
I live in a state where they are heavily pushing ethanol (which I support) and strangely enough that fact is never brought up.
2. 100 years of weather records are insufficient to make accurate predictions of global climate patterns.
The 100 years by itself may not, but add to that the 150+ years (1850 - present) that were measured via more traditional means, and you start to have something a little bit more solid.
Very few foods are chemically simple: water, salt, sugar, vinegar, maybe grain alcohol-- that's probably it. Even these are a strech, as almost no one consumes straight salt, vinegar, or grain alcohol.
Maybe no one does, but I'm willing to give it a try. Off to the grocery store!
Thanks for the update from the department of redundancy department.
Actually, that's not redundant. It is apparent that the Beagle 2 hit Mars a little too hard. It is also apparent that the article missed that convergence. So there's no redundancy, and it's also not redundant.
What Larry Squire at UC San Diego has shown is that if human subjects are repeatedly given electro-convulsive shocks (several times a week for several weeks), they will have impaired global memory that goes back many months, but that memory will gradually recover. He did this in the late 1980s.
Man... who signed up for that study and how much did they get paid? Or, much more likely, did they get extra time off their sentence for "good behavior"?
Why can't those systems use the new powerline protocols to communicate?
Are you serious?
They're radio signals, they can be broadcast to cover large areas with no physical connection between sender and receiver. Power lines on the other hand... must have a direct connection (and a lot more non-readily available hardware) to communicate.
Satellite is expensive and still uses dial-up for upstream comm
Not true, they have two-way satellite connections. The up-stream is generally in the 64kbit range (so, about twice that of an average phone connection (which for the upstream ~32k))
Ughh... I really thought I was at slashdot, not Kuro5hin... anyways...
i might got some false information on this part but i for myself imagine rpgs as: take out the box aim fire
Except you're not firing explosive rounds. You think you just store biological or chemical agents in a plastic baggy? Or in a cup? Or in a jug?
But whatever, I'm done with posting on anything even slightly politcal on slashdot... what a waste of time. For fucks sake, I voted for Gore in 2000, I'm not some right-wing biggot, I married a very liberal wife who has openly socialist parents. My mother has donated tens of thousands of dollars to very left wing orgs. But trying to have a conversation with someone left of center about an issue they disagree with is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
so better grow up and ask yourself (or mor specifically good ole bush) about international rights! (wonder why no german, french, other anti iraq-war countries get NO contracts for rebuilding in iraq? search google for 'bush iraq halliburton' and check fo yourself)
And I can also search for "liberal satan ass cream" and I get results too, over 2000 in fact.
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that room would get me killed my wife would stab me...
It was also widely reported that this report was bullshit and that is why Tony Blair is in trouble
I think you are confusing the date the material was originally released (around sept 2002) and when this interview/story was conducted (about a week ago)
This is an Iraqi LT. Colonel stating that what was in that original report was true (and that he was the source of it)
Read the article. This was covered by every major news agency. You just seemed to have missed it.
Login for the telegraph: user: thetruthhurts@doesntit.com pass: wmds
Here's a few snippets for you: He said they were to be used by Saddam's Fedayeen paramilitaries and units of the Special Republican Guard when the war with coalition troops reached "a critical stage".
The containers, which came from a number of factories on the outskirts of Baghdad, were delivered to the army by the Fedayeen and were distributed to the front-line units under cover of darkness.
The devices, which were known by Iraqi officers as "the secret weapon", were made in Iraq and designed to be launched by hand-held rocket-propelled grenades. They could also have been launched sooner than the 45-minutes claimed in the dossier.
"Forget 45 minutes," said Col al-Dabbagh "we could have fired these within half-an-hour."
Local commanders were told that they could use the weapons only on the personal orders of Saddam. "We were told that when the war came we would only have a short time to use everything we had to defend ourselves, including the secret weapon," he said.
The only reason that these weapons were not used, said Col al-Dabbagh, was because the bulk of the Iraqi army did not want to fight for Saddam. "The West should thank God that the Iraqi army decided not to fight," he said.
"If the army had fought for Saddam Hussein and used these weapons there would have been terrible consequences."
Saddam was in a whole in the ground because he was a coward. He was captured alive! With a gun at his hip, and plenty of time to use it (being that he was in a whole that had to be uncovered, a process that surely took several minutes)
Gnomes steal your underwear. Trolls smell like your underwear.
It's very easy to get the two confused...
Although, now I'm confused. My definition directly relates them. They are connected through.... my underwear. Hmmm... must do more research on the subject.
If you have read the article, and still believe this, then it is you that suffers from a lack of technical knowledge.
I did read the article, as I stated, and when I read it much of the information that was there was shaky at best. Maybe now someone has posted a little bit better info and looked into it in a little more depth, which would be great, and would really back up what I said originally.
Sorry if I rumpled your feathers by disagreeing with you.
Read through the groklaw page earlier, and it was really based heavily upon lots of speculation and in some cases, as was pointed out by other posters, misinformation and lack of technical knowledge.(Stuff like: I can ping the ftp server, but not the www server, and their IP addresses are only off by 1 number, that means it is fake!)
Now, it may or may not be true, but it is total and absolute speculation at this point and some people seem to have already accepted it as fact.
Bill Gates truly is a very generous man (giving away billions through an orginization run by his father), and those that he has helped out I'm sure are very thankful he did help them... but it's time to focus on the big picture Bill!
Donate say, $20 - $30 billion to NASA (or hell, just donate a piddly $10 billion) for a mission to Mars. Hell, Microsoft has $40 billion in the bank, why not use some of that? Yeah, we'll have to have everything running Windows 2010, but as long as you don't require the computer to be named HAL (or BILL for that matter) I think everything will be ok.
Even though many contend you're evil, you'd be just slightly less evil in the eyes of every true geek out there.
I'm a pretty right wing, Iraq war supporting guy, so don't get this the wrong way, but that stat is most likely horribly wrong, I mean, did you look at how it was created?
Gallop asked 1178 Baghdad residents in August and September whether a member of their household had been executed by Saddam's regime. According to Gallup, 6.6 per cent said yes.
The polling firm took metropolitan Baghdad's population - 6.39 million - and average household size - 6.9 people - to calculate that 61,000 people were executed during Saddam's rule.
I mean, come on now. If you can't see at least one or two thing wrong with that survey, you just aren't looking hard enough. I'm sure it was a lot of people who truly were executed, but you shouldn't use stats from that survey.
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If you're going to complain about the energy required to actually work the land (Equipment fuel), remember that you're making fuel.
Yes, that is where the inefficieny comes in, it has nothing to do with sunlight.
Recycling some of your product to perpetuate the process is all part of the package.
Imagine it this way: What would happen if it took 18 gallons of oil to produce 1 gallon of oil? Sounds pretty silly, but it is a pretty good analogy. But if you throw in the fact that that new 1 gallon of gas is a little more enviromentally friendly, well then it's a great idea! Biofuels should not be looked at as a primary source of energy, but as a way for farmers to use there extra crops to try and make a little bit of money.
All viable ways to "grow" sources of energy...
And many of which are still very inefficient and harmful to the enviroment. Guess how much energy (in calories) it takes to produce 1 calorie of energy on a standard US farm... give up? Typically 16-18 calories.
I live in a state where they are heavily pushing ethanol (which I support) and strangely enough that fact is never brought up.
2. 100 years of weather records are insufficient to make accurate predictions of global climate patterns.
The 100 years by itself may not, but add to that the 150+ years (1850 - present) that were measured via more traditional means, and you start to have something a little bit more solid.
Very few foods are chemically simple: water, salt, sugar, vinegar, maybe grain alcohol-- that's probably it. Even these are a strech, as almost no one consumes straight salt, vinegar, or grain alcohol.
Maybe no one does, but I'm willing to give it a try. Off to the grocery store!
One closely guarded secret of the coailitian forces is their ability to cause earthquakes via microwave energy from LEO sattelites
:-p
Amazing "closely guarded secret" if it's being posted on slashdot. And it's NASA that can do that, and they do it from the space shuttle.
Watch "Conspiracy Theory" again (or whatever that Mel Gibson movie is) and get your "facts" straight.
Thanks for the update from the department of redundancy department.
Actually, that's not redundant. It is apparent that the Beagle 2 hit Mars a little too hard. It is also apparent that the article missed that convergence. So there's no redundancy, and it's also not redundant.
What Larry Squire at UC San Diego has shown is that if human subjects are repeatedly given electro-convulsive shocks (several times a week for several weeks), they will have impaired global memory that goes back many months, but that memory will gradually recover. He did this in the late 1980s.
Man... who signed up for that study and how much did they get paid? Or, much more likely, did they get extra time off their sentence for "good behavior"?
now that you don't have to pay all those extras.
But they did still have to pay extras for the LoTR trilogy, thousands of them in fact
Why can't those systems use the new powerline protocols to communicate?
Are you serious?
They're radio signals, they can be broadcast to cover large areas with no physical connection between sender and receiver. Power lines on the other hand... must have a direct connection (and a lot more non-readily available hardware) to communicate.
Satellite is expensive and still uses dial-up for upstream comm
Not true, they have two-way satellite connections. The up-stream is generally in the 64kbit range (so, about twice that of an average phone connection (which for the upstream ~32k))
Ughh... I really thought I was at slashdot, not Kuro5hin... anyways...
i might got some false information on this part but i for myself imagine rpgs as:
take out the box
aim
fire
Except you're not firing explosive rounds. You think you just store biological or chemical agents in a plastic baggy? Or in a cup? Or in a jug?
But whatever, I'm done with posting on anything even slightly politcal on slashdot... what a waste of time. For fucks sake, I voted for Gore in 2000, I'm not some right-wing biggot, I married a very liberal wife who has openly socialist parents. My mother has donated tens of thousands of dollars to very left wing orgs. But trying to have a conversation with someone left of center about an issue they disagree with is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
so better grow up and ask yourself (or mor specifically good ole bush) about international rights! (wonder why no german, french, other anti iraq-war countries get NO contracts for rebuilding in iraq? search google for 'bush iraq halliburton' and check fo yourself)
And I can also search for "liberal satan ass cream" and I get results too, over 2000 in fact.
that room would get me killed
my wife would stab me...
It was also widely reported that this report was bullshit and that is why Tony Blair is in trouble
I think you are confusing the date the material was originally released (around sept 2002) and when this interview/story was conducted (about a week ago)
This is an Iraqi LT. Colonel stating that what was in that original report was true (and that he was the source of it)
rghh...
whole = hole
blah
Iraqi colonel who told MI6 that Saddam could launch WMD within 45 minutes
Read the article. This was covered by every
major news agency. You just seemed to have missed it.
Login for the telegraph:
user: thetruthhurts@doesntit.com
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Here's a few snippets for you:
He said they were to be used by Saddam's Fedayeen paramilitaries and units of the Special Republican Guard when the war with coalition troops reached "a critical stage".
The containers, which came from a number of factories on the outskirts of Baghdad, were delivered to the army by the Fedayeen and were distributed to the front-line units under cover of darkness.
The devices, which were known by Iraqi officers as "the secret weapon", were made in Iraq and designed to be launched by hand-held rocket-propelled grenades. They could also have been launched sooner than the 45-minutes claimed in the dossier.
"Forget 45 minutes," said Col al-Dabbagh "we could have fired these within half-an-hour."
Local commanders were told that they could use the weapons only on the personal orders of Saddam. "We were told that when the war came we would only have a short time to use everything we had to defend ourselves, including the secret weapon," he said.
The only reason that these weapons were not used, said Col al-Dabbagh, was because the bulk of the Iraqi army did not want to fight for Saddam. "The West should thank God that the Iraqi army decided not to fight," he said.
"If the army had fought for Saddam Hussein and used these weapons there would have been terrible consequences."
Saddam was in a whole in the ground because he was a coward. He was captured alive! With a gun at his hip, and plenty of time to use it (being that he was in a whole that had to be uncovered, a process that surely took several minutes)
No no no...
Gnomes steal your underwear.
Trolls smell like your underwear.
It's very easy to get the two confused...
Although, now I'm confused. My definition directly relates them. They are connected through.... my underwear. Hmmm... must do more research on the subject.
no, not garden gnomes, just the regular kind
you know... gnome gnomes
but where will I go to get mine?
One is always free to take a stand, and even to look stupid in so doing
And one is free to be a jackass, and to do so anonymously on slashdot.
Isn't life grand?
of course, every reader of slashdot has at least done this once today:
ping ftp.sco.com
ping www.sco.com
traceroute ftp.sco.com
traceroute www.sco.com
If not more =)
If you have read the article, and still believe this, then it is you that suffers from a lack of technical knowledge.
I did read the article, as I stated, and when I read it much of the information that was there was shaky at best. Maybe now someone has posted a little bit better info and looked into it in a little more depth, which would be great, and would really back up what I said originally.
Sorry if I rumpled your feathers by disagreeing with you.
Read through the groklaw page earlier, and it was really based heavily upon lots of speculation and in some cases, as was pointed out by other posters, misinformation and lack of technical knowledge.(Stuff like: I can ping the ftp server, but not the www server, and their IP addresses are only off by 1 number, that means it is fake!)
Now, it may or may not be true, but it is total and absolute speculation at this point and some people seem to have already accepted it as fact.
Bill Gates truly is a very generous man (giving away billions through an orginization run by his father), and those that he has helped out I'm sure are very thankful he did help them... but it's time to focus on the big picture Bill!
Donate say, $20 - $30 billion to NASA (or hell, just donate a piddly $10 billion) for a mission to Mars. Hell, Microsoft has $40 billion in the bank, why not use some of that? Yeah, we'll have to have everything running Windows 2010, but as long as you don't require the computer to be named HAL (or BILL for that matter) I think everything will be ok.
Even though many contend you're evil, you'd be just slightly less evil in the eyes of every true geek out there.
I'm a pretty right wing, Iraq war supporting guy, so don't get this the wrong way, but that stat is most likely horribly wrong, I mean, did you look at how it was created?
Gallop asked 1178 Baghdad residents in August and September whether a member of their household had been executed by Saddam's regime. According to Gallup, 6.6 per cent said yes.
The polling firm took metropolitan Baghdad's population - 6.39 million - and average household size - 6.9 people - to calculate that 61,000 people were executed during Saddam's rule.
I mean, come on now. If you can't see at least one or two thing wrong with that survey, you just aren't looking hard enough. I'm sure it was a lot of people who truly were executed, but you shouldn't use stats from that survey.
but Calvin wore shorts, and you couldn't see his legs...
where do we go from there?