There are a number of plants that are easier to process into ethanol than corn: hemp, sugar cane, eucalyptus....are but a few. Also from eucalyptus and hemp a vegetable oil that substitutes for diesel can be processed.
IIRC Rudolf Diesel and Frank Whittle originally used vegetable oil to fuel the engines they came up with. It was only Karl Benz who used a petrol chemical fuel from the start.
I worked for a few years in missile defense, and one of the big algorithms was determining *where* the inbounds were going to hit. If they were just going to splash, or hit something of no value*, we didn't bother scheduling an interceptor for them.
* "no value" is a subjective term, determined by the higher-ups.
Thus relying on these "higher-ups" knowing what they are doing. Which is likely to depend if they are "generals" or "politicians".
I'm quite surprised to see battery problems since they must have already run the batteries and charging system through many thousands of simulated takeoff/landing cycles both in bench tests and while installed in a test airframe.
Wouldn't be the first time that testing has failed to represent actual use though. Even Boeing's flight testing may no be representative of how an actual airline operates the plane.
"Your Cloud Provider (Probably) Isn't Spying On You"......
But your government probably is.
Quite possible several foreign governments. Either because your government trusts them or the CP is happy for them to do so. Especially if the CP is a transnational corporation...
The solution which is always repeated is to encrypt any sensitive data.
Actually you'd be better off encrypting ALL your data. Encrypting only some of it can give Eve all sorts of clues, even being able to guess part of the plaintext in some cases.
Large rockets are in no way stealthy. Do neither the US or the Russian Federation have the launch detection capabilities which existing in the Cold War?
Here in the U.S., I think we could benefit greatly from having politicians that come from a lower class background and who don't spend their time dreaming of gold plated toilets and that third summer home when they retire.
Probably applicable to more than just the US. In some places it would be an improvement if politicians waited til they retired...
Easy enough for a corporate giant to simply contract out most operations to smaller 'independant' companies for a token fee, acting as essentially subdivisions but with a clear legal distinction.
They might have such a system already in place for tax avoidance too.
.Unless there are sneaky ways to murder people, I don't think your conclusion holds.
The point about a "sneaky" murder is that it may well not be recognised as a murder in the first place. One fairly well known method is poisoning. There are cases of serial poisoners where law enforcement only got involved once the body count mounted up as well as cases of poisoning which have only been identified as such more or less by accident.
are the mental health professionals subjected to periodic and rigurous mental health checks ? are the results recorded in a database ?
This is more a case of "Who watches the watchers?". Should people such as politicians, police, lawyers, judges, social workers, etc. be routinely screened for mental health issues?
Many of the classic works now still under extended copyright were created when the term used to be much shorter (e.g. 28 years renewable on fee for another 28), and they just got a longer ride at the expense of all of us when the proprietary interests (not usually the authors) procured changes in the law to extend the terms and increase the range of restricted acts & crimes. The current range of criminalized activities to do with copyright has been _heavily_ extended since those days. So, no, the current penal legislation was _not_ needed to inspire or incentivize those works.
In many cases the original creators are long dead. Also extending copyright on existing works cannot possibly "inspire", "incentivize" or do anything else to make them more likely to exist. Whatever the situation in the past might have been was self evidently sufficient for the creation of these works. On the other hand it's quite possible that many works will cease to exist long before they'd ever become public domain. The original function of "copyright libraries" having been substantially eroded.
He broke into the MIT wring closet, installed his own computer, programed his computer to download files at a rate sometimes 100x the normal load for every legitimate user at MIT, hid his face from security cameras, and generally gave off every indication that he fully understood what he did was wrong/illegal, yet continued. Plain and simple, you don't have to work in the Ethics department to understand he comitted crimes.
But he didn't manage to escape with any of the data he came for and got caught. How does being an what amounts to an inept burglar posibly merit the fines and prison sentences being considered?
Why are you insisting that a laptop screen needs gorilla glass? Are you Edward Scissorhands or something? When a laptop isn't in use, it's folded and the screen's protected. When it is in use, you're not (or you shouldn't be) doing anything that's likely to scratch it.
So before use everyone will remove any rings and wash their hands to ensure that they are free of any grit? Quartz is harder than most glasses, it is also one of the most common minerals on the planet.
Now, consider that if gorilla glass for a cellphone or tablet is expensive, imagine how much it's going to cost for a 17" laptop screen. It won't be cheap.
Also you will still want it keep it away from gemstones. Phones, even tablets, are small enough that nobody is likely to try and place their whole hand on the screen.
The biggest objection to fracking is the unknown chemicals pumped into the ground, potentially contaminating the groundwater.
I'm sure they are not "unknown" to the people pumping them in.
These people pumped water down, not chemicals. There is no danger of contamination.
Water is a "chemical" it's also a very effective solvent which can disolve all sorts of things from the rocks it is passing through. Even utterly pure water containing only stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen. A contamination risk comes at least as much from what may come out as from what's going in.
- Resistive: It means adding an extra layer on top of the screen, reducing the brightness of the screen or increasing the backlight resulting in a lower battery life.
- Capacitive: As far I know, it is only possible on current screen's surface. It would need some sort of glass like on smartphones. This increases the price of the laptop and makes it more susceptible to breaking if the glass is of poor quality.
The end result in both cases is a higher price... for no purpose at all.
There's also the matter of the screen wearing out. Even perfectly clean fingers are abrasive. People also frequently wear jewelry containing very hard materials on their fingers. Never mind a layer of glass you'd really want mono-crystaline diamond!
Merely CORRECTLY filling out a complaint notice, is deemed sufficient evidence that an offense occurred if it goes to a tribunal
To put it another way, if someone accused me of downloading X song on Y day, and i didn't, i still have yet to find anyone who can show me a way to prove i didn't
Example:"Sir, you are accused of downloading one mp3 titled 'Justin Bieber - Baby', please prove you didn't if you wish to defend yourself"
If it's that simple then why are there only 11 cases? Also why are there not numerous corporations, politicans (even The Queen) facing such tribunals?
Back in the day my friend's dad used to fly 707's (yes, it's a very old story) and whilst taxiing, they managed to gouge a chunk out a wing. This was at a US airport. They needed to get the plane to Australia to get the replacement wing so they moved the plane somewhere quiet at the airport and duct taped up the wing. They were told to be careful no one saw what they were up to. They then had to take off at night when it was quiet so no one could spot the bodged up wing.
More likely "speed tape", which is intended for this kind of repair. You wouldn't replace the whole wing either.
My friend's dad was good at that sort of thing. Another time he lost 2 of the 4 engines flying over the UK and was told to dump most of his av-gas to lighten the load so he could land in France for repairs.
It this was a B707 would have been the wrong fuel...
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There are a number of plants that are easier to process into ethanol than corn: hemp, sugar cane, eucalyptus....are but a few. Also from eucalyptus and hemp a vegetable oil that substitutes for diesel can be processed.
IIRC Rudolf Diesel and Frank Whittle originally used vegetable oil to fuel the engines they came up with. It was only Karl Benz who used a petrol chemical fuel from the start.
Then add in what needs to be changed, improved, or retrofitted in vehicles to handle even the low ethanol we use...
As opposed to coming up with an alternative fuel which can be mixed in ANY ratio with existing fuel.
THEN add in what it does to our food prices since just about every processed food has corn in it somewhere.
Including meat. Since corn is commonly used to produce animal feed.
Termites are the only creatures that can live on cellulose.
AFAIK no animal can effectivly digest cellulose. Termites rely of bacterial symbiotes as do cattle...
Except that the magazine in question has 'just' managed a couple of hundred rounds before tanking. So we're back at the learning curve.
Someone planning mass murder only needs a magazine which can be used once though. Since they are never going to reload any of their magazines.
Some laptops have hardware switches for wireless, some have software swithches (thanks to airplane regulations), but many just leave it running.
In many cases laptops come with wireless on a separate card. Which can be removed/not fitted in the first place.
I worked for a few years in missile defense, and one of the big algorithms was determining *where* the inbounds were going to hit. If they were just going to splash, or hit something of no value*, we didn't bother scheduling an interceptor for them.
* "no value" is a subjective term, determined by the higher-ups.
Thus relying on these "higher-ups" knowing what they are doing. Which is likely to depend if they are "generals" or "politicians".
I'm quite surprised to see battery problems since they must have already run the batteries and charging system through many thousands of simulated takeoff/landing cycles both in bench tests and while installed in a test airframe.
Wouldn't be the first time that testing has failed to represent actual use though. Even Boeing's flight testing may no be representative of how an actual airline operates the plane.
"Your Cloud Provider (Probably) Isn't Spying On You"......
But your government probably is.
Quite possible several foreign governments. Either because your government trusts them or the CP is happy for them to do so. Especially if the CP is a transnational corporation...
The solution which is always repeated is to encrypt any sensitive data.
Actually you'd be better off encrypting ALL your data. Encrypting only some of it can give Eve all sorts of clues, even being able to guess part of the plaintext in some cases.
Large rockets are in no way stealthy. Do neither the US or the Russian Federation have the launch detection capabilities which existing in the Cold War?
Here in the U.S., I think we could benefit greatly from having politicians that come from a lower class background and who don't spend their time dreaming of gold plated toilets and that third summer home when they retire.
Probably applicable to more than just the US. In some places it would be an improvement if politicians waited til they retired...
Easy enough for a corporate giant to simply contract out most operations to smaller 'independant' companies for a token fee, acting as essentially subdivisions but with a clear legal distinction.
They might have such a system already in place for tax avoidance too.
.Unless there are sneaky ways to murder people, I don't think your conclusion holds.
The point about a "sneaky" murder is that it may well not be recognised as a murder in the first place. One fairly well known method is poisoning. There are cases of serial poisoners where law enforcement only got involved once the body count mounted up as well as cases of poisoning which have only been identified as such more or less by accident.
They will always state that Microsoft products somehow have a lower TCO than Linux.
Has anyone actually seen a TCO study where the T could actually mean "Total"?
are the mental health professionals subjected to periodic and rigurous mental health checks ? are the results recorded in a database ?
This is more a case of "Who watches the watchers?".
Should people such as politicians, police, lawyers, judges, social workers, etc. be routinely screened for mental health issues?
Many of the classic works now still under extended copyright were created when the term used to be much shorter (e.g. 28 years renewable on fee for another 28), and they just got a longer ride at the expense of all of us when the proprietary interests (not usually the authors) procured changes in the law to extend the terms and increase the range of restricted acts & crimes. The current range of criminalized activities to do with copyright has been _heavily_ extended since those days. So, no, the current penal legislation was _not_ needed to inspire or incentivize those works.
In many cases the original creators are long dead.
Also extending copyright on existing works cannot possibly "inspire", "incentivize" or do anything else to make them more likely to exist. Whatever the situation in the past might have been was self evidently sufficient for the creation of these works. On the other hand it's quite possible that many works will cease to exist long before they'd ever become public domain. The original function of "copyright libraries" having been substantially eroded.
He broke into the MIT wring closet, installed his own computer, programed his computer to download files at a rate sometimes 100x the normal load for every legitimate user at MIT, hid his face from security cameras, and generally gave off every indication that he fully understood what he did was wrong/illegal, yet continued. Plain and simple, you don't have to work in the Ethics department to understand he comitted crimes.
But he didn't manage to escape with any of the data he came for and got caught. How does being an what amounts to an inept burglar posibly merit the fines and prison sentences being considered?
Why are you insisting that a laptop screen needs gorilla glass? Are you Edward Scissorhands or something? When a laptop isn't in use, it's folded and the screen's protected. When it is in use, you're not (or you shouldn't be) doing anything that's likely to scratch it.
So before use everyone will remove any rings and wash their hands to ensure that they are free of any grit? Quartz is harder than most glasses, it is also one of the most common minerals on the planet.
Now, consider that if gorilla glass for a cellphone or tablet is expensive, imagine how much it's going to cost for a 17" laptop screen. It won't be cheap.
Also you will still want it keep it away from gemstones. Phones, even tablets, are small enough that nobody is likely to try and place their whole hand on the screen.
I take it you're aware that the grease on fingertips is actually secreted by the finger, not picked up from the environment?
It will however remove any grit from fingers. Also there are people who like to cover their fingers in greasy handcreams... So it will help.
The biggest objection to fracking is the unknown chemicals pumped into the ground, potentially contaminating the groundwater.
I'm sure they are not "unknown" to the people pumping them in.
These people pumped water down, not chemicals. There is no danger of contamination.
Water is a "chemical" it's also a very effective solvent which can disolve all sorts of things from the rocks it is passing through. Even utterly pure water containing only stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen.
A contamination risk comes at least as much from what may come out as from what's going in.
There are two technologies for touch screens:
... for no purpose at all.
- Resistive: It means adding an extra layer on top of the screen, reducing the brightness of the screen or increasing the backlight resulting in a lower battery life.
- Capacitive: As far I know, it is only possible on current screen's surface. It would need some sort of glass like on smartphones. This increases the price of the laptop and makes it more susceptible to breaking if the glass is of poor quality.
The end result in both cases is a higher price
There's also the matter of the screen wearing out. Even perfectly clean fingers are abrasive. People also frequently wear jewelry containing very hard materials on their fingers. Never mind a layer of glass you'd really want mono-crystaline diamond!
Merely CORRECTLY filling out a complaint notice, is deemed sufficient evidence that an offense occurred if it goes to a tribunal
To put it another way, if someone accused me of downloading X song on Y day, and i didn't, i still have yet to find anyone who can show me a way to prove i didn't
Example:"Sir, you are accused of downloading one mp3 titled 'Justin Bieber - Baby', please prove you didn't if you wish to defend yourself"
If it's that simple then why are there only 11 cases? Also why are there not numerous corporations, politicans (even The Queen) facing such tribunals?
If your A320 comment is related to the famous crash video, that had nothing to do with the aircraft - it was the pilot which screwed up there.
Rather pilots. There were two of them in the cockpit of that plane.
Back in the day my friend's dad used to fly 707's (yes, it's a very old story) and whilst taxiing, they managed to gouge a chunk out a wing. This was at a US airport. They needed to get the plane to Australia to get the replacement wing so they moved the plane somewhere quiet at the airport and duct taped up the wing. They were told to be careful no one saw what they were up to. They then had to take off at night when it was quiet so no one could spot the bodged up wing.
More likely "speed tape", which is intended for this kind of repair. You wouldn't replace the whole wing either.
My friend's dad was good at that sort of thing. Another time he lost 2 of the 4 engines flying over the UK and was told to dump most of his av-gas to lighten the load so he could land in France for repairs.
It this was a B707 would have been the wrong fuel...