For everyone who has never been to a country like India, but just compares per capita pollution, let me tell you how wrong you are. The pollution in India will make your headspin, literally. I was caught in a bigger than usual traffic jam once, Literally _Gasping_ for air, wanting to leave the car right there and run for some breathable atmosphere, a reaction not unlike being held underwater. For the rest of the day I had numerous symptoms of CO poisoning, among other unpleasant things.
Vehicles there have no (enforced) emmissions controls, some barely have exhaust systems at all, on top of which almost everything is diesel, which means black smoke out the exhaust of everything. Vehicles, and the landscape around them in Calcutta literally have a black tinge to them, which is so consistant you don't even notice until you look up close and you can scrape it off with your fingernails.
Not that it should be an excuse for the US not to do everything it can.
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The author cautions about taking an existing UPS and trying to add more, bigger or extra batteries. The power supply inside is built (cheaply) to deliver only the amount of current required to charge the battery it was designed for, and no more.
Actually the problem is that they were designed to run only for 5-10 minutes at a time. Instead of heatsinks they just use blocks of metal that have enough thermal mass to keep it within operation temperatures for that period of time.
I found out the hard way.. wired up an additional 25Ah in parallel with the 10Ah that came with it (rated for 500VA). Ran fine for 30 minutes. Then a burning smell and beeping for no reason (battery meter at ~40%). Unplugged it and immediately opened it up (30 seconds), as soon as I did one of the heatsinks (err lob of metal) fell onto the hardwood floor, with the semiconductor still attached glowing white hot. In about 1/2 sec it burst into flames (Oxygen starved from inside case!) and the whole block started to burn into the floor. Luckily I had some pliers to pick it up so it wouldn't burn the house down. There is still a big black square burnt into the floor. Branded by my ex-UPS.
I got damned lucky because I didn't drop the heatsink on any part of myself, I imagine any clothing would have caught fire instantly, etc.
In retrospect I suppose I could just add large heatsinks and a fan and it should work. The semiconductors have to be rated for the current, but the wasted energy just has no where to go.
Just to add to this, sea floor vent temperatures are over 1000 C, with more than enough pressure to keep the water completely liquid. These are inconceivable conditions for life, to even scientists who deal with this stuff, yet life happens.
Do you really want the internet to turn into a place like that of our highways? No one takes the speed limit seriously, and everyone is in constant fear of getting a ticket. A radar setup on the median ends up causing heavy brake usage and accidents. After tickets are recieved, people that are affluent or are friends with a police officers or other public figures have the ticket magically vanish. It has turned into a revenue scheme for every small town, where you will see the speed limit artificially low for no other reason than to ticket people. Just for real world numbers I95 in mass, usual daytime speeds are at 75-85+, with the speed limit at 55.. unmarked cruisers whoosh by at near or above 100mph. They have the ability to pull _anyone_ on that road over, at _anytime_. Be carefull next time you look over at the next driver, he might be a cop, and he might not like the look on your face!
So we want a group to patrol the internet, obviously we are going to find many people "infringing" on copyright, we can't all send them to jail. So we will have to write tickets. And it will be a potential revenue scheme for many entities. A part of the backbone goes thru Craphole, Arkansas? Well they have a right to ticket anybody infringing on copyright thru that backbone.
Eventually the word "Free" will not be associated with the internet. Just as the freeway is anything but.
From what I've read, every time the poles have shifted there has been a great period of mutation/evolution, since the magnetic shield that protects us from solar radiation is weakend or dissappears completely until the pole settles into its new position. I think the next one or two generations will find out for sure:)
I don't have an sources to link to of the top of my head, anyone else?
Some say $50 is a fair value for a game. In some countries, this is enough money to feed a person for 3 months. How do you defend this price now?
Copyright and patent are enforced monopoly. We may be able to sustain brief bursts of productivity by it, but this can not be sustained. Its tyranny will be apparent to every person who manages to own a computer. In time.
They need beautiful people because of the title. If you've actually watched it with any bit of interest (I'm not talking one or two episodes) you would understand. This is not Star Trek, episodes do not stand on their own, you need to know the story.
Conflicts and issues don't resolve in the same episode, sometimes not even in the same season, if you're tuning in for the first time, you won't even see it.
It just struck me WHY this happened now, to DoD! The group released less than 1% of total releases last year, but they were the ones behind the DeCSS algorithm (though not the code). They couldn't get anything out of punishing a 16 year old foreign national, so this is their tactic. There is no other reason for the FBI to target DoD over other groups with _much_ higher volume.
Civil Disobedience has been the only real power The People hold. If the ability to do this is prevented it will be a great tragedy for America, and the begining of the end of the current Government. This is the _real_ need for Privacy, so you can do things which may not be wrong, but are illegal under current legislation. Illegal has no moral or ethical stance, it is an artificial creation.
What does this currently threaten? It is only through this avenue that I believe IP/Patent laws can or ever will be reformed. I certainly hope they do, so I don't have to explain to my grandchildren why knowledge and human creation built for thousands of years, their Birthright, the first creation of man that had no scarcity, enough for anyone willing to see, was caged and locked away only to be available to the richest, or at worst lost forever.
This is a direct attack to the defenses the people have against their rulers.
Overvaluation of.com's is what killed most of them, here you see a microcosm of the american economy. Do something, or be perpared.
America will not be able to sustain its present level of wealth or technological growth in the long term. Technology is the only reason we still have growth and wealth at all. It is the reason we decide to pay $7 an hour to flip burgers, while in many other countries you would get the equivalent of 2 cents an hour. The same goes for many other menial jobs that somehow people make careers out of, very little education, skill, or talent is required. This is why there are illegal immigrants en masse.
We can only support a limited number of these type of people, dependant of the creative output of the scientists and engineers. If we are in short supply of these producers, we have a definite problem.
This state has existed for a few decades, this is why you see so many asians that are scientists, engineers, and doctors. 2+ billion poor but educated and hard-working people, the few that can afford to come to america do. This trend cannot last forever, China and India are on the verge of becoming powerhouses, they have the same talent we have, X 100 for the same cost we pay for it!
This is all ignoring the fact that government won't work properly with these mal-educated people, shown by local governing bodies banning evolution. It is only a matter of time until this spreads to higher government, at which time we will filter out all important but secular information out of the internet. All scientific books will be banned because they can enable a person to question god, create explosives, toxic gases, or drugs. That is of course if current trends continue.;(
No, this is an outrageous abuse. If DirecTV don't have a business model which can earn them a profit as they beam their signal into EVERYONE'S airspace, then they shouldn't be in business, end of story. Or, as they would say, "game over".
This is the main problem, not just with them but with the MPAA and the RIAA. Economics is how to allocate scare resources amoung various competing consumers. Technology enables us to achieve an almost utopian state with some products, 0% scarcity. These companies are trying to apply old-world economics to new-world goods and servicies by creating an artificial scarcity. If evil exists, this is it.
Every instrument that makes a noise, including the human voice vibrates at many different frequencies. The fundamental frequency is the lowest of them all, so low that you can't hear it and it's not what you percieve the over frequency as being. This is not the part of the sound that characterizes what it is. The "overtones" are. They are notes produces simultaneously with the the note you hear, and the overtones's respective amplitudes give any note it's particular tone, or "timbre". Mp3's cut alot of these out as it is theorized that they are sufficiently small in comparison they are "masked" by the main note, and you cannot hear them. If you cut all of them out, what you will hear is a pure sinewave, no matter what instrument. The garbling sound mp3's produce is when the bitstream cannot support enough overtones, so all what we hear is a bunch of notes mushed together, this happenes easily with applause or white noise because there are ALOT of frequencies, just like if you consider a note from an instrument and all of it overtones.
The money put into scientific research is miniscule, compared to everything else, especially offensive/defensive forces (echelon, the military, etc) Last time I checked, US gov't funding of scientific research was shrinking.
Notice how the journalist capitalizes NUCLEAR. Just meant to stir up fear with those not in-the-know. All particle accelerators deal with some sort of nuclear particle.
The problem is called ground loop. Basically the ground of your cable system and the ground of the electrical circuit you are on are at different levels.. this results in a slight voltage potential at the audio inputs of the reciever, since household current in the us is 60hz, the sound you here is a 60hz hum. The different grounds are the cable which is earth ground (you should see a wire going into the dirt attached to a cable splitter somewhere), and the electric co's own ground). One way to eliminate this hum is to cut the ground of the cable and just have the inside copper make contact. However don't blame me if something blows up =). The second way is to find a 75-75 ohm transformer.
I can't remeber the hundreds of times I've felt like whipping out my bazooka and taking out everybody in sight because Quake told me it was ok and fun to do so.
If only bad parenting was a crime today, or if you could at least sue for it. Every parent nowdays is going sue crazy because their kid did something bad, it must be everybody else's fault, or just blaming the music or the video game, etc. There should be a law against this kind of behavior. Parents should need licenses and certification.
Any idiot with dick or an uterus should not be able to parent a child. This is protecting the rights of the child.
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For everyone who has never been to a country like India, but just compares per capita pollution, let me tell you how wrong you are. The pollution in India will make your headspin, literally. I was caught in a bigger than usual traffic jam once, Literally _Gasping_ for air, wanting to leave the car right there and run for some breathable atmosphere, a reaction not unlike being held underwater. For the rest of the day I had numerous symptoms of CO poisoning, among other unpleasant things.
Vehicles there have no (enforced) emmissions controls, some barely have exhaust systems at all, on top of which almost everything is diesel, which means black smoke out the exhaust of everything. Vehicles, and the landscape around them in Calcutta literally have a black tinge to them, which is so consistant you don't even notice until you look up close and you can scrape it off with your fingernails.
Not that it should be an excuse for the US not to do everything it can.
Actually the problem is that they were designed to run only for 5-10 minutes at a time. Instead of heatsinks they just use blocks of metal that have enough thermal mass to keep it within operation temperatures for that period of time.
I found out the hard way.. wired up an additional 25Ah in parallel with the 10Ah that came with it (rated for 500VA). Ran fine for 30 minutes. Then a burning smell and beeping for no reason (battery meter at ~40%). Unplugged it and immediately opened it up (30 seconds), as soon as I did one of the heatsinks (err lob of metal) fell onto the hardwood floor, with the semiconductor still attached glowing white hot. In about 1/2 sec it burst into flames (Oxygen starved from inside case!) and the whole block started to burn into the floor. Luckily I had some pliers to pick it up so it wouldn't burn the house down. There is still a big black square burnt into the floor. Branded by my ex-UPS.
I got damned lucky because I didn't drop the heatsink on any part of myself, I imagine any clothing would have caught fire instantly, etc.
In retrospect I suppose I could just add large heatsinks and a fan and it should work. The semiconductors have to be rated for the current, but the wasted energy just has no where to go.
Just to add to this, sea floor vent temperatures are over 1000 C, with more than enough pressure to keep the water completely liquid. These are inconceivable conditions for life, to even scientists who deal with this stuff, yet life happens.
Do you really want the internet to turn into a place like that of our highways? No one takes the speed limit seriously, and everyone is in constant fear of getting a ticket. A radar setup on the median ends up causing heavy brake usage and accidents. After tickets are recieved, people that are affluent or are friends with a police officers or other public figures have the ticket magically vanish. It has turned into a revenue scheme for every small town, where you will see the speed limit artificially low for no other reason than to ticket people. Just for real world numbers I95 in mass, usual daytime speeds are at 75-85+, with the speed limit at 55.. unmarked cruisers whoosh by at near or above 100mph. They have the ability to pull _anyone_ on that road over, at _anytime_. Be carefull next time you look over at the next driver, he might be a cop, and he might not like the look on your face!
So we want a group to patrol the internet, obviously we are going to find many people "infringing" on copyright, we can't all send them to jail. So we will have to write tickets. And it will be a potential revenue scheme for many entities. A part of the backbone goes thru Craphole, Arkansas? Well they have a right to ticket anybody infringing on copyright thru that backbone.
Eventually the word "Free" will not be associated with the internet. Just as the freeway is anything but.
"I'd like to donate $20,000 to your campaign fund. By the way, this CBDTPA bill will negatively impact my business"
From what I've read, every time the poles have shifted there has been a great period of mutation/evolution, since the magnetic shield that protects us from solar radiation is weakend or dissappears completely until the pole settles into its new position. I think the next one or two generations will find out for sure :)
I don't have an sources to link to of the top of my head, anyone else?
Some say $50 is a fair value for a game. In some countries, this is enough money to feed a person for 3 months. How do you defend this price now?
Copyright and patent are enforced monopoly. We may be able to sustain brief bursts of productivity by it, but this can not be sustained. Its tyranny will be apparent to every person who manages to own a computer. In time.
They need beautiful people because of the title. If you've actually watched it with any bit of interest (I'm not talking one or two episodes) you would understand. This is not Star Trek, episodes do not stand on their own, you need to know the story.
Conflicts and issues don't resolve in the same episode, sometimes not even in the same season, if you're tuning in for the first time, you won't even see it.
It just struck me WHY this happened now, to DoD! The group released less than 1% of total releases last year, but they were the ones behind the DeCSS algorithm (though not the code). They couldn't get anything out of punishing a 16 year old foreign national, so this is their tactic. There is no other reason for the FBI to target DoD over other groups with _much_ higher volume.
Welcome to the Corporate Republic.
Civil Disobedience has been the only real power The People hold. If the ability to do this is prevented it will be a great tragedy for America, and the begining of the end of the current Government. This is the _real_ need for Privacy, so you can do things which may not be wrong, but are illegal under current legislation. Illegal has no moral or ethical stance, it is an artificial creation.
What does this currently threaten? It is only through this avenue that I believe IP/Patent laws can or ever will be reformed. I certainly hope they do, so I don't have to explain to my grandchildren why knowledge and human creation built for thousands of years, their Birthright, the first creation of man that had no scarcity, enough for anyone willing to see, was caged and locked away only to be available to the richest, or at worst lost forever.
This is a direct attack to the defenses the people have against their rulers.
Overvaluation of .com's is what killed most of them, here you see a microcosm of the american economy. Do something, or be perpared.
;(
America will not be able to sustain its present level of wealth or technological growth in the long term. Technology is the only reason we still have growth and wealth at all. It is the reason we decide to pay $7 an hour to flip burgers, while in many other countries you would get the equivalent of 2 cents an hour. The same goes for many other menial jobs that somehow people make careers out of, very little education, skill, or talent is required. This is why there are illegal immigrants en masse.
We can only support a limited number of these type of people, dependant of the creative output of the scientists and engineers. If we are in short supply of these producers, we have a definite problem.
This state has existed for a few decades, this is why you see so many asians that are scientists, engineers, and doctors. 2+ billion poor but educated and hard-working people, the few that can afford to come to america do. This trend cannot last forever, China and India are on the verge of becoming powerhouses, they have the same talent we have, X 100 for the same cost we pay for it!
This is all ignoring the fact that government won't work properly with these mal-educated people, shown by local governing bodies banning evolution. It is only a matter of time until this spreads to higher government, at which time we will filter out all important but secular information out of the internet. All scientific books will be banned because they can enable a person to question god, create explosives, toxic gases, or drugs. That is of course if current trends continue.
No, this is an outrageous abuse. If DirecTV don't have a business model which can earn them a profit as they beam their signal into EVERYONE'S airspace, then they shouldn't be in business, end of story. Or, as they would say, "game over".
This is the main problem, not just with them but with the MPAA and the RIAA. Economics is how to allocate scare resources amoung various competing consumers. Technology enables us to achieve an almost utopian state with some products, 0% scarcity. These companies are trying to apply old-world economics to new-world goods and servicies by creating an artificial scarcity. If evil exists, this is it.
Every instrument that makes a noise, including the human voice vibrates at many different frequencies. The fundamental frequency is the lowest of them all, so low that you can't hear it and it's not what you percieve the over frequency as being. This is not the part of the sound that characterizes what it is. The "overtones" are. They are notes produces simultaneously with the the note you hear, and the overtones's respective amplitudes give any note it's particular tone, or "timbre". Mp3's cut alot of these out as it is theorized that they are sufficiently small in comparison they are "masked" by the main note, and you cannot hear them. If you cut all of them out, what you will hear is a pure sinewave, no matter what instrument. The garbling sound mp3's produce is when the bitstream cannot support enough overtones, so all what we hear is a bunch of notes mushed together, this happenes easily with applause or white noise because there are ALOT of frequencies, just like if you consider a note from an instrument and all of it overtones.
The money put into scientific research is miniscule, compared to everything else, especially offensive/defensive forces (echelon, the military, etc) Last time I checked, US gov't funding of scientific research was shrinking.
You're just afriad of what you don't know. Speaking of, they aren't trying to create a universe...
Notice how the journalist capitalizes NUCLEAR. Just meant to stir up fear with those not in-the-know. All particle accelerators deal with some sort of nuclear particle.
The problem is called ground loop. Basically the ground of your cable system and the ground of the electrical circuit you are on are at different levels.. this results in a slight voltage potential at the audio inputs of the reciever, since household current in the us is 60hz, the sound you here is a 60hz hum. The different grounds are the cable which is earth ground (you should see a wire going into the dirt attached to a cable splitter somewhere), and the electric co's own ground). One way to eliminate this hum is to cut the ground of the cable and just have the inside copper make contact. However don't blame me if something blows up =). The second way is to find a 75-75 ohm transformer.
I can't remeber the hundreds of times I've felt like whipping out my bazooka and taking out everybody in sight because Quake told me it was ok and fun to do so.
If only bad parenting was a crime today, or if you could at least sue for it. Every parent nowdays is going sue crazy because their kid did something bad, it must be everybody else's fault, or just blaming the music or the video game, etc. There should be a law against this kind of behavior. Parents should need licenses and certification.
Any idiot with dick or an uterus should not be able to parent a child. This is protecting the rights of the child.