Consumption of space is an efficiency in itself. For example, suppose your car engine could be made the size of a pack of cigarettes with the same power output. Even if that small engine was made of pure gold it would have less weight and therefore, your car would use less fuel. You could also reduce the frontal area and wind drag on the vehicle. Bulk almost always means less efficiency.
Getting sucked into pipes usually occurs near large passenger ships. They pay hell getting bodies out of their AC cooling systems. But that nuke is next to my home. Frankly, there is no easier way to send a reactor into an emergency than plugging up its cooling water intake. Imagine what a terrorist with a couple of self inflating life-boats could have done. Home- Land Security needs to be all over those intake pipes.
I am quite happy that Apple is resisting breaking into its own encryption. The US has gone out of balance in more ways than one. The public is very restricted on what we are allowed to know as well as how we can study or record the deeds and words of others. Yet the government demands more and more access into out lives. The power of the state vs. the power of the citizen is way out of balance. It is high time that we are allowed to know a lot more about what goes on in government and within corporations. And to make matters even worse the US now has a substantial number of citizens that are more dangerous than either Arab terrorists or our own government. I have no worries about a terrorist attack at all at this time. I do worry about a nation whose schools systems are so ineffectual that we actually have citizens that would vote for Donald Trump. Can you imagine what such a man could do if you could not encrypt your information and just how far he would go to abuse you?
Fuel and range are the real problems. VTOLs are the wrong idea to extend range and conserve fuel. Why not let a drone lift the jets straight up 500 feet or so and then lighting up the jet engine as it detaches from the drone? That same drone can carry fuel, weapons and even troops closer to the area of conflict as well as remove the injured.
So a cop walks into Tony's barber- shop and demands that Tony decrypt a phone. Tony has never owned or used a phone or touched a computer in his life. But if this law is actually worded the way it sounds old tony could be up the creek for five years.
In essence, a law is only as good as its worst use or worst interpretation allows it to be used. This can also include what happens when laws are combined. For example, a law banning sleeping on public property, combined with a law outlawing sleeping on private property without permission equals, for a homeless person, a law that demands that they never sleep at all. We see this with people on the sex offenders list which disallows them living near schools and play- grounds. In some cities, that means that it is illegal for them to live anywhere. In south Florida, that often means that living under a bridge is the only legal place for them to live. And it contorts into something even worse. The offenders just lay down and go to sleep when they get tired. When the cops roust them they simply say they live under the bridge and just fell asleep while walking about. That means they sleep in your hedges or under your bush or trees. And since few homes have proper no trespassing signs they can only be warned not to sleep in that lawn again.
There is ample and conspicuous proof that the US government can not hold information securely. Given a method to break into Apple phones, it is quite likely that the information would be exposed to the world and ruin the sales of Apple phones.
Further, any defense team would have to be allowed to hire experts to opine on whether a real decoding had taken place and whether the decoding was accurate or to what degree errors occurred. Over time, that means that quite a few people would be exposed to that decryption software.
It is vital, for people to get along with each other, that all students are required to do serious mathematics. Many people think that mathematicians and scientists do no real work at all. Many are also deluded and think that if they buckle down a bit they could excel at math. The simple truth is that if they dedicated every ounce of their being to being able to work as a mathematician or scientists that mostly could not cut it. The social effects are awful. High school math teachers are not highly paid nor are many college professors. After all, why would the public support them when the public opines that anyone can do this stuff well.
We also have such deep literacy issues that many parents want college to really degrade itself into being a trade school. The cost of education is so high that parents want to turn college into a get even, money- wise, experience.
I would like to see advanced mathematics as an absolute requirement for any high school diploma. Hopefully at least, to beginning calculus for all students. Students not capable of academic life need to be moved to job training or trade schools. We need to support our intellectuals at far higher levels than we currently do. It is tyhe whiz kids that will make America prosperous and strong. The rest can cook French fries as KFC or some other menial task.
We the people can speak freely as long as we allow the government to hear every word, at all times.
And then we must fall to our knees and chant that the government can secure information because we all know that the government has never, ever, lost control of the publication of information.
Then we must all agree that we are pudding heads to ever believe the crap we are fed from our system of laws and government. A few noble truths:
We do not have free speech.
We do not really have the right to bear arms.
All citizens are clearly not equal before our laws.
And our streets are not paved with gold. In fact, our standard of living is lower than in some nations.
Send such weapons to target with no outside communications what-so-ever. Any open port for communications makes hacking much more likely. But if it is a set it and forget it device,it will do what it is supposed to do.
Drones are now saving the lives of our soldiers and they are also saving the lives of innocents, If we did not use drones we would be bombing cities and suburbs and killing huge numbers of civilians to get the bad guys.
I am so very certain that a five-year- old will be disturbed for life if he finds a Playboy magazine and sees nude girls. Oh! the horrors, the agony, the moral outrage, are just too wicked to bear.
Really people, is it 1930 again?
A short warning of five minutes or so would do very little to moderate the crushing damage done by rogue waves. No matter what position a ship is in a 150 ft. high wave is going to do major damage. It is not like one could run from a rogue wave as ships are slow compared to waves. Smaller vessels have no hope at all.
The recent proof of gravity waves got me to wondering if a rogue gravity wave could ever take place. Imagine what that might entail.
Bloomberg is being very conservative on the date at which electric vehicles will replace liquid fueled vehicles. I also doubt that lithium ion will be the winner in the advanced battery contest.
Both the tragedy in Flint and the horrors that took place in New Orleans could have been stopped or moderated if really sudden responses had taken place. A nuclear power plant under suspicion of defect should be instantly shut down. If tat means evacuating New York City then so be it.
Sweeping up a couple of thousand drug dealers is not trivial. Those drug dealers may well take more lives than all of the lunatics in the terror organizations have taken. Selling or using illegal drugs kills millions and ruins even more.
We have a universe so large that it numbs the mind trying to consider just how many planets exist. It is unrealistic to think that our planet is somehow superior in producing life. The better odds would be that there are so many planets with intelligent life that we can not even hope to list them as a book large enough to write down each of them might be larger than our own solar system. And that does not include the planets that are seriously different from Earth that developed life forms that we have yet to even dream about. I suspect that life as well as advanced life is super bountiful in the universe.
Chicago is what many would call another failed city. Chicago has huge problems. Someone is shot in Chicago every three hours. They have numerous youth who need to be taught to use a knife and fork, not to shoot or stab others, and hopefully not to stick needles full of dope in their veins. For so many students, they are lucky to be potty trained before leaving high school. It is nice to provide computer science for human students but it will only further the vast rebellion - drop out rate, of the lesser mortals in their schools.
Here we have another outrage from Maricopa county. The simple fact is that our government can not secure information given to them. If Apple develops software to crack the encryption you put everyone at risk and you also damage Apple's ability top do business. And that doesn't reach the summit of the issue either. The government did not offer to pay for the work needed to develop the decryption method. And it also has equality issues as well. If we allow the government to crack encrypted devices how can we disallow an individuals right to do the same thing? This is not a kingdom in wich a monarch is allowed to do things that the public is not allowed to do. We are a nation dedicated to the notion of equality in which the rights of the person, the corporation and the government are identical. I do not argue that equality is a practical way of life but if we do not have equality then we need to declare what we really are as a nation.
Many people were on the ethanol bandwagon due to the notion that alcohol could be made and less oil used for fueling cars and machinery. But there was a huge issue not considered. Farmers raising crops to create ethanol caused the price of food to severely increase. After all the land once farmed for food was suddenly farmed for fuel. So the next idea was to use more land to make crops. That also penalized all of us. Less natural land meant more pollution, with bad effects on nature and human health and also involved the use of water which in some areas is in critical shortages.
Now suppose we simply use all the apples that don't look nice or have bad spots on them to help make electricity. You can bet that all those apples have been used to feed hogs and other livestock as well. Even orange peels are used to feed cattle.
The world is in a terrible bind and the crucial fact beneath it all is that we very much need to reduce the reproductive levels of the population. No matter how far we push science and technology we still have an urgent need to limit births are we simply will all perish.
As I type this, billions of gallons of fresh water, contaminated from sugar cane farming is being dumped into Florida's India River Lagoon, which is a salt water lagoon. The effect is so radical that we can not touch the water without risk of disease and the wildlife is being murdered in this huge lagoon. The reason the water is being dumped has to do with the farms being flooded with fresh water and the risk of the dyke around Lake Okeechobee collapsing and killing thousands of people. Yet there is very little choice but to farm that land due to our nation's need for food.
What's a criminal to do? Crime provides an income for a large segment of Americans. Can America actually afford to support the many millions who get by on the criminal lifestyle? Criminals should be considered a separate race of people born with brains not socialized in the same way that most other types of humans possess. We want farmers, waitresses, iron workers and everyone else to succeed. Why the great prejudice against criminals.
In Japan an elderly, traditional woman was complemented on her fine home. She smiled and replied, "Oh yes, my son is a wonderful criminal.". The notion that being a criminal is a bad thing does not permeate every culture in this world.
This type of justice could cause race riots. VW screws up big time in a very meaningful and harmful way and as a consequence is given a wonderful sales opportunity.
Meanwhile a black fellow, walking down the street, is stopped, searched and arrested for carrying a pocket knife and sent o jail or fined a fortune.
Our tradition of law in the US is always to punish offenders. But when the offender is a big company everything seems to change. A more usual response would be to disallow any sales of VW products in the US for a decade or so.
And making the situation even more complex ordering VW to build and sell a certain number of electric cars in the US is probably a better way to go than traditional thinking would allow.
Maybe we need to apply some of this enlightenment in punishments to the little guys and work from the bottom up as doing this amplifies the feeling of injustice that many already have.
How about some effective laws that would allow us to capture and punish people in foreign nations for acts that are illegal in the US such as the telemarketers who hide in China or God knows where instead of just concentrating on copyright issues? We could also demand the ability to round up people outside the US who ship dangerous products into the US such as that awful Chinese drywall that destroyed so many homes.
Every jury has to judge the quality of a law as well as the consequences of punishments. There are moral outrages in our system. There are actually people serving life with no hope of parole who have done next to nothing wrong at all. There are people serving very long sentences who had cops plant evidence to bury them alive.
Recently a man was released who had spent 40 years in an isolation cell in Louisiana. Cruel and unusual punishment leaps to mind. Here is why laws sometimes need to be ignored. Louisiana is listed as a state that applies torture due to the wretched conditions in their prisons. Amnesty International has listed them that way for decades. There was a prison riot in which a guard was killed. Three of those inmates were given life sentences although God only knows who did what in that prison riot. So the man was thrown into an isolation cell where they intended to keep him until he died. Lawyers got him released. Now imagine a man and just what such a man might do after being in isolation for 40 years. How much rage might a man carry after being mistreated in a very evil prison system and rioting, trying to preserve his basic human rights and needs and then being tossed into isolation for 40 years. And to put the frosting on the cake he had to agree to a plea stating that he had guilt to lesser charges in order to be released. By admitting some guilt the state gets away from having to pay him for being tortured all those miserable years.
The notion of collecting farts from cattle for use as fuel has been around for decades. Simply design a closed barn and separate the methane produced by the cattle from the air and you have fuel. Solid waste from cattle can also be used as a fuel. I have cooked over cow chips while camping as did many of our ancestors. The fuel produced by cattle may pay better than the selling of their meat and hides.
Everybody, please post this article all over the web. Do you know how many people think that wind power amounts to nothing and is just a popular phase that an ignorant public supports?
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Consumption of space is an efficiency in itself. For example, suppose your car engine could be made the size of a pack of cigarettes with the same power output. Even if that small engine was made of pure gold it would have less weight and therefore, your car would use less fuel. You could also reduce the frontal area and wind drag on the vehicle. Bulk almost always means less efficiency.
Getting sucked into pipes usually occurs near large passenger ships. They pay hell getting bodies out of their AC cooling systems. But that nuke is next to my home. Frankly, there is no easier way to send a reactor into an emergency than plugging up its cooling water intake. Imagine what a terrorist with a couple of self inflating life-boats could have done. Home- Land Security needs to be all over those intake pipes.
Would not the fans on a drone go into autorotation just like a helicopter if the propulsion failed?
I am quite happy that Apple is resisting breaking into its own encryption. The US has gone out of balance in more ways than one. The public is very restricted on what we are allowed to know as well as how we can study or record the deeds and words of others. Yet the government demands more and more access into out lives. The power of the state vs. the power of the citizen is way out of balance. It is high time that we are allowed to know a lot more about what goes on in government and within corporations. And to make matters even worse the US now has a substantial number of citizens that are more dangerous than either Arab terrorists or our own government. I have no worries about a terrorist attack at all at this time. I do worry about a nation whose schools systems are so ineffectual that we actually have citizens that would vote for Donald Trump. Can you imagine what such a man could do if you could not encrypt your information and just how far he would go to abuse you?
Fuel and range are the real problems. VTOLs are the wrong idea to extend range and conserve fuel. Why not let a drone lift the jets straight up 500 feet or so and then lighting up the jet engine as it detaches from the drone? That same drone can carry fuel, weapons and even troops closer to the area of conflict as well as remove the injured.
So a cop walks into Tony's barber- shop and demands that Tony decrypt a phone. Tony has never owned or used a phone or touched a computer in his life. But if this law is actually worded the way it sounds old tony could be up the creek for five years. In essence, a law is only as good as its worst use or worst interpretation allows it to be used. This can also include what happens when laws are combined. For example, a law banning sleeping on public property, combined with a law outlawing sleeping on private property without permission equals, for a homeless person, a law that demands that they never sleep at all. We see this with people on the sex offenders list which disallows them living near schools and play- grounds. In some cities, that means that it is illegal for them to live anywhere. In south Florida, that often means that living under a bridge is the only legal place for them to live. And it contorts into something even worse. The offenders just lay down and go to sleep when they get tired. When the cops roust them they simply say they live under the bridge and just fell asleep while walking about. That means they sleep in your hedges or under your bush or trees. And since few homes have proper no trespassing signs they can only be warned not to sleep in that lawn again.
There is ample and conspicuous proof that the US government can not hold information securely. Given a method to break into Apple phones, it is quite likely that the information would be exposed to the world and ruin the sales of Apple phones. Further, any defense team would have to be allowed to hire experts to opine on whether a real decoding had taken place and whether the decoding was accurate or to what degree errors occurred. Over time, that means that quite a few people would be exposed to that decryption software.
It is vital, for people to get along with each other, that all students are required to do serious mathematics. Many people think that mathematicians and scientists do no real work at all. Many are also deluded and think that if they buckle down a bit they could excel at math. The simple truth is that if they dedicated every ounce of their being to being able to work as a mathematician or scientists that mostly could not cut it. The social effects are awful. High school math teachers are not highly paid nor are many college professors. After all, why would the public support them when the public opines that anyone can do this stuff well. We also have such deep literacy issues that many parents want college to really degrade itself into being a trade school. The cost of education is so high that parents want to turn college into a get even, money- wise, experience. I would like to see advanced mathematics as an absolute requirement for any high school diploma. Hopefully at least, to beginning calculus for all students. Students not capable of academic life need to be moved to job training or trade schools. We need to support our intellectuals at far higher levels than we currently do. It is tyhe whiz kids that will make America prosperous and strong. The rest can cook French fries as KFC or some other menial task.
We the people can speak freely as long as we allow the government to hear every word, at all times. And then we must fall to our knees and chant that the government can secure information because we all know that the government has never, ever, lost control of the publication of information. Then we must all agree that we are pudding heads to ever believe the crap we are fed from our system of laws and government. A few noble truths: We do not have free speech. We do not really have the right to bear arms. All citizens are clearly not equal before our laws. And our streets are not paved with gold. In fact, our standard of living is lower than in some nations.
Send such weapons to target with no outside communications what-so-ever. Any open port for communications makes hacking much more likely. But if it is a set it and forget it device,it will do what it is supposed to do. Drones are now saving the lives of our soldiers and they are also saving the lives of innocents, If we did not use drones we would be bombing cities and suburbs and killing huge numbers of civilians to get the bad guys.
I am so very certain that a five-year- old will be disturbed for life if he finds a Playboy magazine and sees nude girls. Oh! the horrors, the agony, the moral outrage, are just too wicked to bear. Really people, is it 1930 again?
A short warning of five minutes or so would do very little to moderate the crushing damage done by rogue waves. No matter what position a ship is in a 150 ft. high wave is going to do major damage. It is not like one could run from a rogue wave as ships are slow compared to waves. Smaller vessels have no hope at all. The recent proof of gravity waves got me to wondering if a rogue gravity wave could ever take place. Imagine what that might entail.
Bloomberg is being very conservative on the date at which electric vehicles will replace liquid fueled vehicles. I also doubt that lithium ion will be the winner in the advanced battery contest.
Both the tragedy in Flint and the horrors that took place in New Orleans could have been stopped or moderated if really sudden responses had taken place. A nuclear power plant under suspicion of defect should be instantly shut down. If tat means evacuating New York City then so be it.
Sweeping up a couple of thousand drug dealers is not trivial. Those drug dealers may well take more lives than all of the lunatics in the terror organizations have taken. Selling or using illegal drugs kills millions and ruins even more.
We have a universe so large that it numbs the mind trying to consider just how many planets exist. It is unrealistic to think that our planet is somehow superior in producing life. The better odds would be that there are so many planets with intelligent life that we can not even hope to list them as a book large enough to write down each of them might be larger than our own solar system. And that does not include the planets that are seriously different from Earth that developed life forms that we have yet to even dream about. I suspect that life as well as advanced life is super bountiful in the universe.
Chicago is what many would call another failed city. Chicago has huge problems. Someone is shot in Chicago every three hours. They have numerous youth who need to be taught to use a knife and fork, not to shoot or stab others, and hopefully not to stick needles full of dope in their veins. For so many students, they are lucky to be potty trained before leaving high school. It is nice to provide computer science for human students but it will only further the vast rebellion - drop out rate, of the lesser mortals in their schools.
Here we have another outrage from Maricopa county. The simple fact is that our government can not secure information given to them. If Apple develops software to crack the encryption you put everyone at risk and you also damage Apple's ability top do business. And that doesn't reach the summit of the issue either. The government did not offer to pay for the work needed to develop the decryption method. And it also has equality issues as well. If we allow the government to crack encrypted devices how can we disallow an individuals right to do the same thing? This is not a kingdom in wich a monarch is allowed to do things that the public is not allowed to do. We are a nation dedicated to the notion of equality in which the rights of the person, the corporation and the government are identical. I do not argue that equality is a practical way of life but if we do not have equality then we need to declare what we really are as a nation.
Many people were on the ethanol bandwagon due to the notion that alcohol could be made and less oil used for fueling cars and machinery. But there was a huge issue not considered. Farmers raising crops to create ethanol caused the price of food to severely increase. After all the land once farmed for food was suddenly farmed for fuel. So the next idea was to use more land to make crops. That also penalized all of us. Less natural land meant more pollution, with bad effects on nature and human health and also involved the use of water which in some areas is in critical shortages. Now suppose we simply use all the apples that don't look nice or have bad spots on them to help make electricity. You can bet that all those apples have been used to feed hogs and other livestock as well. Even orange peels are used to feed cattle. The world is in a terrible bind and the crucial fact beneath it all is that we very much need to reduce the reproductive levels of the population. No matter how far we push science and technology we still have an urgent need to limit births are we simply will all perish. As I type this, billions of gallons of fresh water, contaminated from sugar cane farming is being dumped into Florida's India River Lagoon, which is a salt water lagoon. The effect is so radical that we can not touch the water without risk of disease and the wildlife is being murdered in this huge lagoon. The reason the water is being dumped has to do with the farms being flooded with fresh water and the risk of the dyke around Lake Okeechobee collapsing and killing thousands of people. Yet there is very little choice but to farm that land due to our nation's need for food.
What's a criminal to do? Crime provides an income for a large segment of Americans. Can America actually afford to support the many millions who get by on the criminal lifestyle? Criminals should be considered a separate race of people born with brains not socialized in the same way that most other types of humans possess. We want farmers, waitresses, iron workers and everyone else to succeed. Why the great prejudice against criminals. In Japan an elderly, traditional woman was complemented on her fine home. She smiled and replied, "Oh yes, my son is a wonderful criminal.". The notion that being a criminal is a bad thing does not permeate every culture in this world.
This type of justice could cause race riots. VW screws up big time in a very meaningful and harmful way and as a consequence is given a wonderful sales opportunity. Meanwhile a black fellow, walking down the street, is stopped, searched and arrested for carrying a pocket knife and sent o jail or fined a fortune. Our tradition of law in the US is always to punish offenders. But when the offender is a big company everything seems to change. A more usual response would be to disallow any sales of VW products in the US for a decade or so. And making the situation even more complex ordering VW to build and sell a certain number of electric cars in the US is probably a better way to go than traditional thinking would allow. Maybe we need to apply some of this enlightenment in punishments to the little guys and work from the bottom up as doing this amplifies the feeling of injustice that many already have.
How about some effective laws that would allow us to capture and punish people in foreign nations for acts that are illegal in the US such as the telemarketers who hide in China or God knows where instead of just concentrating on copyright issues? We could also demand the ability to round up people outside the US who ship dangerous products into the US such as that awful Chinese drywall that destroyed so many homes.
Every jury has to judge the quality of a law as well as the consequences of punishments. There are moral outrages in our system. There are actually people serving life with no hope of parole who have done next to nothing wrong at all. There are people serving very long sentences who had cops plant evidence to bury them alive. Recently a man was released who had spent 40 years in an isolation cell in Louisiana. Cruel and unusual punishment leaps to mind. Here is why laws sometimes need to be ignored. Louisiana is listed as a state that applies torture due to the wretched conditions in their prisons. Amnesty International has listed them that way for decades. There was a prison riot in which a guard was killed. Three of those inmates were given life sentences although God only knows who did what in that prison riot. So the man was thrown into an isolation cell where they intended to keep him until he died. Lawyers got him released. Now imagine a man and just what such a man might do after being in isolation for 40 years. How much rage might a man carry after being mistreated in a very evil prison system and rioting, trying to preserve his basic human rights and needs and then being tossed into isolation for 40 years. And to put the frosting on the cake he had to agree to a plea stating that he had guilt to lesser charges in order to be released. By admitting some guilt the state gets away from having to pay him for being tortured all those miserable years.
The notion of collecting farts from cattle for use as fuel has been around for decades. Simply design a closed barn and separate the methane produced by the cattle from the air and you have fuel. Solid waste from cattle can also be used as a fuel. I have cooked over cow chips while camping as did many of our ancestors. The fuel produced by cattle may pay better than the selling of their meat and hides.
Everybody, please post this article all over the web. Do you know how many people think that wind power amounts to nothing and is just a popular phase that an ignorant public supports?