No. The first one that tries it will find itself under the knife to correct this defect, or if unable to do so, sold off and its manufacturer put on my shitlist.
Well, yes. Stupidity. Madness. That's an accurate description of the mentality of a country that willingly steps down from most powerful on earth, in a most uncertain world (i.e. one in which--practically speaking--might DOES make right) full of dictators and dictatorships (i.e. Russia, China) who WILL take advantage of our weakness and stupidity to become our new masters. I mean, seriously, did you think the implications of this comment through at all?
I would only call that "addressed" if I were a fucking idiot. Since my IQ is above 90, I can see several flaws in your theory. What are you going to do, build a bunch of cities out in the middle of nowhere, and all of a sudden everybody is going to move there of their own accord, and presto chango, all our problems with illegal immigrants will be magically solved? You're saying the reason these Mexicans come to Marshall County in the first place is because there isn't room in the midwest? I mean did you even think through any of this at all before you posted?
With a proper government, people are a net resource - the more people we've got here, the bigger the economy and the greater the ability to overcome obstacles.
At this point somebody usually trots out an argument about "limited resources" - like not enough water, or land, or food, or some other bullshit that's patently not true. While some of those resources are limited in some areas, that's hardly the case across the country. And the great thing about having more people around is that you've got more people to restructure those resources so that they are available where they need to be.
Spoken like a typical ignorant fuck who hasn't been to Marshall County, Alabama, specifically the town of Kilpatrick. It used to be a beautiful little country town with green grassy fields, but now every square inch of it is covered in nasty old 1950s-1970s era single wide trailers thanks to all the illegal Mexican and other Hispanic immigrants moving in en masse and trashing the place out. They've also brought a lot of problems in with them; said county is also the #1 meth producing county in the nation. It won't be long before the first gangs start up and violence becomes a problem.
Maybe that's the kind of America you want for yourself, but we whose fathers have been living here for generations and who have built something worth having pride in don't want a third world culture moving in all at once, and destroying everything we've built or dragging it down to their low standards. I'm all about people immigrating here and merging gracefully into our culture, just not the entire damn nation coming at once like seems to be happening now.
We're talking about teens in the morning being able to get themselves to school an hour later without supervision when most parents have already gone to work.
OK, and what's your point? I would have killed to have been able to go to school at 10 am. It killed me having to wake up at 6 AM in the morning. My life would have just been a thousand times better if I could have got that extra sleep. But even so, tired as fuck as I was, I walked down to the highway to catch the bus by myself, without supervision. When I got home I stayed there by myself, without supervision. I remember being 7 or 8 years old and being responsible for looking after myself for an hour after school until my mom got home from work.
Why is it a surprise that when you give people responsibility, set standards and expect them to abide, they tend to learn responsibility as a result? This is common sense, people. The military does this all the time. They set standards and recruits are expected to follow them. Those who don't meet the standards are encouraged back in the right direction. By the time it's over you have a platoon of soldiers able to take care of themselves and their fellow soldiers, able to take responsibility and initiative, standing where once a gaggle of listless hipsters once stood only a few short weeks ago.
If adult human beings can be transformed in such a way, what effect do you think years of proper upbringing from a young age could do to a young man or woman when it comes to learn personal responsibility? Back in the old days, say the pioneer days with settlers moving in and building cabins and such, everybody in the family from the smallest up had a job to do. A little kid might not be able to do anything but pick up some rocks and twigs and do little jobs but it's something. As he grew older he would learn other tasks as he became able to master them. A young man or woman back in those days really was ready for adulthood by 15 or 16. Not so today with parents' overprotective coddling.
Wikipedia and Mozilla are "big players"? Exactly how much money do these two organizations make per year?
You're damn right Theora needs to be technically better if it wants to have a prayer of succeeding. Companies are going to use what's standard, and right now H264 is standard. There is all kinds of industry support for this codec. There isn't a fucking thing for Theora, AND Theora is a technically inferior codec. Why the hell would any sane company (i.e. one focused on the idea of making money) prefer to use Theora over H264?
The point is, idiot, those costs were already paid and accounted for long before Youtube came around. I guarantee that when Google laid in fiber, they laid in 100x what they ever thought they might need. I am sure they, of all people, have the foresight to see that the need for bandwidth is only going to increase and it's way cheaper to add more fiber now than to dig up and add more later. So I'm sure they have bundles of fibers in each of those datacenters that arent even connected to anything yet. The cost is already paid by the advertising department to install the fiber and maintain it. That's already accounted for. So when any new applications come along, like Youtube, the bandwidth provided to them is free. They have so much extra potential bandwidth sitting there untapped that practically speaking it is an unlimited resource to them. Therefore there is pretty much zero opportunity cost here.
what makes you think that drive by wire on an automated system could be safe?
The fact that automakers realize the potential dangers involved and thus spend millions of dollars making damn sure there are failsafes. The odds of you dying in a car crash as the result of a drive by wire failure are incredibly, infinitesimally low.
Apparently you dont know a damn thing about engines. Might want to educate yourself before posting more idiotic rants. Diesels don't use throttles, the air intake is wide ass open at all times. Engine power output is controlled by how much fuel is injected per cycle. The fuel is injected directly into the cylinder and ignites spontaneously. This is also why diesels do not need ignition systems. Now go read a book and quit running your mouth on slashdot.
It would be useless for me. Actually worse than useless as it would likely log that information and my insurance company would gladly use it to dump me if I was in anything more serious than a fender bender.
Oh, so your solution is just to purchase another vehicle without the heads up display, so that the data will get logged anyways, except you just won't have a display in front of your face telling you about it. Real smart. Sounds like you just have an irrational hatred of on-glass HUDs, and that's OK. 98% of America, when they drive a car with a well designed HUD, will most likely disagree with your opinion.
No, that's bullshit. Protecting ones privacy in regards to DNA comes down to a hell of a lot more than simple physical traits and health characteristics. If you sample everyone's DNA and use it to create unique fingerprints, what you've basically done is greatly reduced the ability of people to be anonymous.
I wonder if DNA sequencing can be automated, like a small scale industrial machine designed to be installed in a convenience store or other public places. It's tied in to the building's air filtration system so that all dust, etc containing genetic material has its genes sequenced, digitized, and transmitted to some government server somewhere. You'd never even know it was happening, yet whoever operated such a system--and had a vast, accurate central DNA "fingerprint" database to draw upon, such as the one being proposed here--could have the means to know the identity of almost every person who visits these locations.
Or even better (i.e. worse for you and me), integrate this technology into the credit card scanners so that any and all genetic material is automatically wiped and sampled. Such a system could be outwitted by someone who, but imagine how troublesome and worrying it'd be to have to do so on a daily basis.
And best of all? It's all completely automated, so you don't need to hire people to sit there and watch surveillance footage or monitor credit card transactions. They'll hire some unexployed BSD hacker to put together a shell script to pull data from two databases, make simple comparisons, put results into a third database if certain conditions are met. Then if your name comes up in the third database, i.e. the shitlist, you won't know it was because some dandruff flaked off your scalp and sucked into the ventilation/genetic analysis laboratory. Your name is flagged because, as a sex offender who was convicted of public urination as a teenager, you are not supposed to be within 1.5 km of a school at any time. The store is 1.4km as the crow flies or 6 km by road from the nearest school--which is on the other side of a big wooded, empty area and in a completely different part of town--yet you're still breaking the law, and The Law Don't Smile Too Warmly On Sex Offenders, Son. Next thing you know tear gas canisters are smashin through windows, and SWAT guys are popping up out of every crack and crevice like cockroaches and armed to the teeth.
I admit we are nowhere near the point of having mastered gene sequencing to the point of being able to do it in a small automated device like envisioned here. But at our rate of technological advancement, check back in 10 years and you just might be surprised what is possible then. If all of the above becomes possible, would you feel so carefree about voluntarily giving Big Brother a way to uniquely identify you?
Oh, and which states would you consider least likely to have fast broadband or numerous internet connections? (I just ran the test and my 6/1 meg cable connection tested out at 15/2.5.) Everybody and their mom here owns a laptop or desktop computer and everyone has at least some type of internet access, even if they can't get broadband out in the sticks. Can you guess what state I'm from or mine and my family's political leanings?
I, on the other hand, am paying for a 6/1 business cable plan (Comcast), and according to this broadband test, I am getting anywhere between 15-20 meg down and a consistent 2.5 meg up, with 20 ms ping +/- 1ms. Makes sense to me since I have seen downloads hit 1.6 MB/sec before. I know some people get the shit end of the stick with cable but I seem to have lucked out here. I earned it after so many years spent at my old place, out in the country with nothing but dialup.
Well, it's a bit like the 'tare' function on a scale. The important thing about sensations like touch and taste and smell is the successful detection and identification of new ones. The brain, powerful though it may be, only has so much processing power available to it. After you've been made aware of a new smell, if you continue to experience that same smell for a while eventually the brain is going to start filtering it out and ignoring it. So now, with a lot less "noise" on the line, the brain can devote more of its attention to observing transient sensory inputs.
I have a bit of insight into how this type of thing works, as I have Central Auditory Processing Disorder. Basically the part of my brain that processes speech is damaged or dysfunctional. The result is my brain has to work harder to process speech. So for instance if I talk to you in a loud, crowded room, I may have a really tough time making out what you're saying in some cases. Whereas in a quiet room, or say in a room with a loud but constant drone, I could hear you just fine. The mind can tune out the drone pretty easily but it's pretty damn hard to tune out a bunch of loud and random noise. The more sound there is to process, the harder the brain has to work and the more chance it could miss something important. Same thing with touch and taste as they work on similar principles. The brain is always interested in finding opportunities to tune out sensory input that it deems as unnecessary and distracting.
Regarding stress fractures: aircraft hulls are aluminum and aluminum is a problematic material in some ways. But pressure vessels are pretty damn simple, well known engineering. Aluminum can work but steel is a wonder metal, the only real downside is the weight. But in this application who cares how much it weighs? For larger scale, i.e. underground caverns, bring in some dam engineers and build the walls out of concrete and rebar. If you build it in a geologically stable area in bedrock, and build it right, it will outlast mankind.
Your point is well taken that there are other costs involved, but honestly, compressed air storage are pretty straightforward and simple and if designed right, it can be reasonably efficient while being dead simple to maintain.
I think the best way to do this is to use standard electric windmills. It'd be quite a headache to have to have gearing, driveshafts, pumps, etc for every single windmill. So just generate electricity as normal and use it to power a bank, or multiple banks of centrifugal blowers (which power on and off automatically as power is available to run them) to pump air into the containment vessel. Then you just ventilate the air through turbines to recover the energy.
I know there are big losses due to heat loss, but I bet you could recover most of that heat and put it work or convert it to electricity. With a smart system design you could probably make some big gains in efficiency.
So your solid assurance of "meh, there's nothing to worry about" should be enough for engineers who design precise, complicated, and extremely expensive high frequency circuits to just throw it into production without a single worry about possible unintended side effects? That's the point here. Having iron in the joints COULD introduce some sort of unknown problem. Who knows? That's all.
OK buddy, its your turn to design a V8 that makes 400 HP, gets 30 MPG on the highway, runs smooth enough to be in a Cadillac, and meets current Federal emissions standards. Good luck with that. Your comment makes it clear that you don't know the first thing about automotive engineering or what it REALLY takes to design a good engine. Making a lot of power is easy. Getting good fuel economy is easy. Burning extremely cleanly is easy. Doing everything all in one package, while continuing to meet tighter and tighter fuel economy and emissions regulations, is pretty damn tough.
Piston engines are fantastically complicated machines. It's not just about the mechanics and nuts and bolts of it, it's stuff like tuning intake and exhaust wave pulses to achieve optimum cylinder filling at a specific RPM--or with variable valve timing systems, across a range of operating speeds. Combustion chamber design is fantastically complicated due to the need to induce the proper amount of "swirl", i.e. turbulence in the combustion chamber to fully atomize and mix the fuel droplets into the air just before ignition, thus increasing burn speed, engine efficiency, and reduce the engine's tendency to ping. You would not believe the money that goes into things like super high speed cameras, pressure sensors, etc to watch and record combustion chamber events in real time so that engineers can tweak every last detail of engine performance.
It's just laughable to hear someone to compare engines from the 60s to modern engines and say there has not been much improvement. Technology has made a world of difference in combustion engine design, it's just that engines are FUCKING COMPLICATED and we're still learning new things about how they work and how to improve them.
t's considerably different. For one thing, merely crossing the border doesn't deny you of or remove any of your property or resources.
Bullshit. Soon as he crosses the border, he's breathing my air, drinking water, eating food, driving on roads, etc. He IS taking up resources simply by being there. A small amount, sure, but put him and his 20 million buddies in the U.S. side by side and suddenly the amount is not quite so small is it? When 20 million people drive over our roads, how much more quickly do they wear out, and who's paying to fix them? And when a van full of Mexicans driving at twice the speed limit (not a single valid drivers' license to be found amongst them) crashes and seriously injures all 23 inside, who gets to pay their $800k worth of surgery and medical charges? You and me of course, because the illegals damn sure aint paying for it.
There are definitely immigrants who steal and/or defraud the government, but those are crimes the justice system can handle. For another, concept of a domicile doesn't scale up to a state level because it's rooted in private ownership. Places accessible to the public are public and in a free country, that means anyone can travel there.
No, it doesn't mean "anyone can travel there." It means that property is owned by the public, i.e. the citizens. The people of the U.S. own this land, and we can come and go as we please. We reserve the right to allow others to visit our land as well provided certain conditions have met. Illegal immigrants are those who did not meet our requirements for immigration yet who snuck in anyway, or overstayed their welcome. I know times are tough in Mexico, but this is OUR fucking land, so go your ass home and make something happen there instead of running away from your problems like a coward.
Governments are neither private individuals, with living rooms to protect, nor corporations. They don't have owners or stockholders to whom they have an obligation to provide profit or gain to. Governments, specifically the US Government, are put in place to ensure the liberty and welfare of all they have jurisdiction over to the best of their ability.
One of the U.S. government's biggest and most important obligations is to PROTECT AND DEFEND this nation's property. Allowing anyone to come and go as they please, using up our nation's resources freely and limitlessly, living outside the law, is NOT acceptable to me or to the vast majority of American citizens who have any common sense.
You know what the difference between Americans back in Revolution days vs now is? It's like the difference between a 16 year old who, after saving up money from summer jobs for years, buys an old project car and fixes it up, vs the 16 year whose millionaire daddy buys him a Ferrari for his birthday. Which one do you think better appreciates what he's got? There are people in other countries who would give anything, risk it all to have what we have here in America. Despite what other governments may think, I can tell you there are a LOT of peoples in the world that look up to us and who want to follow our example.
What do you think they dream about when they imagine America? They think of beautiful homes and people, clean, sparkling cities, fabulous wealth. They don't dream about an L.A. ridden by gang problems (many of them immigrants, legally or not), outrageous health care costs (due in part to illegals), outrageous car insurance costs (due in part to illegals), higher taxes (needed to improve roads and other infrastructure worn by the extra use), etc, I'd imagine.
This nation has a lot of problems. Instead of lamely sitting by while they continue to pile up, it's time for our government to take action to solve some of them. Illegal immigration is a big problem, one that most Americans would be happy to see solved. This new legislation doesn't stand a chance, though, I can guarantee that. It will FAIL, or pass only against stiff opposition. Remember the big stink against the Real ID Act a few years ba
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No. The first one that tries it will find itself under the knife to correct this defect, or if unable to do so, sold off and its manufacturer put on my shitlist.
Well, yes. Stupidity. Madness. That's an accurate description of the mentality of a country that willingly steps down from most powerful on earth, in a most uncertain world (i.e. one in which--practically speaking--might DOES make right) full of dictators and dictatorships (i.e. Russia, China) who WILL take advantage of our weakness and stupidity to become our new masters. I mean, seriously, did you think the implications of this comment through at all?
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I would only call that "addressed" if I were a fucking idiot. Since my IQ is above 90, I can see several flaws in your theory. What are you going to do, build a bunch of cities out in the middle of nowhere, and all of a sudden everybody is going to move there of their own accord, and presto chango, all our problems with illegal immigrants will be magically solved? You're saying the reason these Mexicans come to Marshall County in the first place is because there isn't room in the midwest? I mean did you even think through any of this at all before you posted?
With a proper government, people are a net resource - the more people we've got here, the bigger the economy and the greater the ability to overcome obstacles.
At this point somebody usually trots out an argument about "limited resources" - like not enough water, or land, or food, or some other bullshit that's patently not true. While some of those resources are limited in some areas, that's hardly the case across the country. And the great thing about having more people around is that you've got more people to restructure those resources so that they are available where they need to be.
Spoken like a typical ignorant fuck who hasn't been to Marshall County, Alabama, specifically the town of Kilpatrick. It used to be a beautiful little country town with green grassy fields, but now every square inch of it is covered in nasty old 1950s-1970s era single wide trailers thanks to all the illegal Mexican and other Hispanic immigrants moving in en masse and trashing the place out. They've also brought a lot of problems in with them; said county is also the #1 meth producing county in the nation. It won't be long before the first gangs start up and violence becomes a problem.
Maybe that's the kind of America you want for yourself, but we whose fathers have been living here for generations and who have built something worth having pride in don't want a third world culture moving in all at once, and destroying everything we've built or dragging it down to their low standards. I'm all about people immigrating here and merging gracefully into our culture, just not the entire damn nation coming at once like seems to be happening now.
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We're talking about teens in the morning being able to get themselves to school an hour later without supervision when most parents have already gone to work.
OK, and what's your point? I would have killed to have been able to go to school at 10 am. It killed me having to wake up at 6 AM in the morning. My life would have just been a thousand times better if I could have got that extra sleep. But even so, tired as fuck as I was, I walked down to the highway to catch the bus by myself, without supervision. When I got home I stayed there by myself, without supervision. I remember being 7 or 8 years old and being responsible for looking after myself for an hour after school until my mom got home from work.
Why is it a surprise that when you give people responsibility, set standards and expect them to abide, they tend to learn responsibility as a result? This is common sense, people. The military does this all the time. They set standards and recruits are expected to follow them. Those who don't meet the standards are encouraged back in the right direction. By the time it's over you have a platoon of soldiers able to take care of themselves and their fellow soldiers, able to take responsibility and initiative, standing where once a gaggle of listless hipsters once stood only a few short weeks ago.
If adult human beings can be transformed in such a way, what effect do you think years of proper upbringing from a young age could do to a young man or woman when it comes to learn personal responsibility? Back in the old days, say the pioneer days with settlers moving in and building cabins and such, everybody in the family from the smallest up had a job to do. A little kid might not be able to do anything but pick up some rocks and twigs and do little jobs but it's something. As he grew older he would learn other tasks as he became able to master them. A young man or woman back in those days really was ready for adulthood by 15 or 16. Not so today with parents' overprotective coddling.
It's important to ask the question of "Why is this better/necessary?"
Is it not obvious why this is better?
Wikipedia and Mozilla are "big players"? Exactly how much money do these two organizations make per year?
You're damn right Theora needs to be technically better if it wants to have a prayer of succeeding. Companies are going to use what's standard, and right now H264 is standard. There is all kinds of industry support for this codec. There isn't a fucking thing for Theora, AND Theora is a technically inferior codec. Why the hell would any sane company (i.e. one focused on the idea of making money) prefer to use Theora over H264?
UP TO a year in prison. I imagine that would be reserved for the worst offenders.
The point is, idiot, those costs were already paid and accounted for long before Youtube came around. I guarantee that when Google laid in fiber, they laid in 100x what they ever thought they might need. I am sure they, of all people, have the foresight to see that the need for bandwidth is only going to increase and it's way cheaper to add more fiber now than to dig up and add more later. So I'm sure they have bundles of fibers in each of those datacenters that arent even connected to anything yet. The cost is already paid by the advertising department to install the fiber and maintain it. That's already accounted for. So when any new applications come along, like Youtube, the bandwidth provided to them is free. They have so much extra potential bandwidth sitting there untapped that practically speaking it is an unlimited resource to them. Therefore there is pretty much zero opportunity cost here.
what makes you think that drive by wire on an automated system could be safe?
The fact that automakers realize the potential dangers involved and thus spend millions of dollars making damn sure there are failsafes. The odds of you dying in a car crash as the result of a drive by wire failure are incredibly, infinitesimally low.
Apparently you dont know a damn thing about engines. Might want to educate yourself before posting more idiotic rants. Diesels don't use throttles, the air intake is wide ass open at all times. Engine power output is controlled by how much fuel is injected per cycle. The fuel is injected directly into the cylinder and ignites spontaneously. This is also why diesels do not need ignition systems. Now go read a book and quit running your mouth on slashdot.
It would be useless for me. Actually worse than useless as it would likely log that information and my insurance company would gladly use it to dump me if I was in anything more serious than a fender bender.
Oh, so your solution is just to purchase another vehicle without the heads up display, so that the data will get logged anyways, except you just won't have a display in front of your face telling you about it. Real smart. Sounds like you just have an irrational hatred of on-glass HUDs, and that's OK. 98% of America, when they drive a car with a well designed HUD, will most likely disagree with your opinion.
Is that your geek card? Hand that over this instant. Gregor will show you the door.
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No, that's bullshit. Protecting ones privacy in regards to DNA comes down to a hell of a lot more than simple physical traits and health characteristics. If you sample everyone's DNA and use it to create unique fingerprints, what you've basically done is greatly reduced the ability of people to be anonymous.
I wonder if DNA sequencing can be automated, like a small scale industrial machine designed to be installed in a convenience store or other public places. It's tied in to the building's air filtration system so that all dust, etc containing genetic material has its genes sequenced, digitized, and transmitted to some government server somewhere. You'd never even know it was happening, yet whoever operated such a system--and had a vast, accurate central DNA "fingerprint" database to draw upon, such as the one being proposed here--could have the means to know the identity of almost every person who visits these locations.
Or even better (i.e. worse for you and me), integrate this technology into the credit card scanners so that any and all genetic material is automatically wiped and sampled. Such a system could be outwitted by someone who, but imagine how troublesome and worrying it'd be to have to do so on a daily basis.
And best of all? It's all completely automated, so you don't need to hire people to sit there and watch surveillance footage or monitor credit card transactions. They'll hire some unexployed BSD hacker to put together a shell script to pull data from two databases, make simple comparisons, put results into a third database if certain conditions are met. Then if your name comes up in the third database, i.e. the shitlist, you won't know it was because some dandruff flaked off your scalp and sucked into the ventilation/genetic analysis laboratory. Your name is flagged because, as a sex offender who was convicted of public urination as a teenager, you are not supposed to be within 1.5 km of a school at any time. The store is 1.4km as the crow flies or 6 km by road from the nearest school--which is on the other side of a big wooded, empty area and in a completely different part of town--yet you're still breaking the law, and The Law Don't Smile Too Warmly On Sex Offenders, Son. Next thing you know tear gas canisters are smashin through windows, and SWAT guys are popping up out of every crack and crevice like cockroaches and armed to the teeth.
I admit we are nowhere near the point of having mastered gene sequencing to the point of being able to do it in a small automated device like envisioned here. But at our rate of technological advancement, check back in 10 years and you just might be surprised what is possible then. If all of the above becomes possible, would you feel so carefree about voluntarily giving Big Brother a way to uniquely identify you?
Oh, and which states would you consider least likely to have fast broadband or numerous internet connections? (I just ran the test and my 6/1 meg cable connection tested out at 15/2.5.) Everybody and their mom here owns a laptop or desktop computer and everyone has at least some type of internet access, even if they can't get broadband out in the sticks. Can you guess what state I'm from or mine and my family's political leanings?
I, on the other hand, am paying for a 6/1 business cable plan (Comcast), and according to this broadband test, I am getting anywhere between 15-20 meg down and a consistent 2.5 meg up, with 20 ms ping +/- 1ms. Makes sense to me since I have seen downloads hit 1.6 MB/sec before. I know some people get the shit end of the stick with cable but I seem to have lucked out here. I earned it after so many years spent at my old place, out in the country with nothing but dialup.
Well, it's a bit like the 'tare' function on a scale. The important thing about sensations like touch and taste and smell is the successful detection and identification of new ones. The brain, powerful though it may be, only has so much processing power available to it. After you've been made aware of a new smell, if you continue to experience that same smell for a while eventually the brain is going to start filtering it out and ignoring it. So now, with a lot less "noise" on the line, the brain can devote more of its attention to observing transient sensory inputs.
I have a bit of insight into how this type of thing works, as I have Central Auditory Processing Disorder. Basically the part of my brain that processes speech is damaged or dysfunctional. The result is my brain has to work harder to process speech. So for instance if I talk to you in a loud, crowded room, I may have a really tough time making out what you're saying in some cases. Whereas in a quiet room, or say in a room with a loud but constant drone, I could hear you just fine. The mind can tune out the drone pretty easily but it's pretty damn hard to tune out a bunch of loud and random noise. The more sound there is to process, the harder the brain has to work and the more chance it could miss something important. Same thing with touch and taste as they work on similar principles. The brain is always interested in finding opportunities to tune out sensory input that it deems as unnecessary and distracting.
+1, Funny
Regarding stress fractures: aircraft hulls are aluminum and aluminum is a problematic material in some ways. But pressure vessels are pretty damn simple, well known engineering. Aluminum can work but steel is a wonder metal, the only real downside is the weight. But in this application who cares how much it weighs? For larger scale, i.e. underground caverns, bring in some dam engineers and build the walls out of concrete and rebar. If you build it in a geologically stable area in bedrock, and build it right, it will outlast mankind.
Your point is well taken that there are other costs involved, but honestly, compressed air storage are pretty straightforward and simple and if designed right, it can be reasonably efficient while being dead simple to maintain.
I think the best way to do this is to use standard electric windmills. It'd be quite a headache to have to have gearing, driveshafts, pumps, etc for every single windmill. So just generate electricity as normal and use it to power a bank, or multiple banks of centrifugal blowers (which power on and off automatically as power is available to run them) to pump air into the containment vessel. Then you just ventilate the air through turbines to recover the energy.
I know there are big losses due to heat loss, but I bet you could recover most of that heat and put it work or convert it to electricity. With a smart system design you could probably make some big gains in efficiency.
So your solid assurance of "meh, there's nothing to worry about" should be enough for engineers who design precise, complicated, and extremely expensive high frequency circuits to just throw it into production without a single worry about possible unintended side effects? That's the point here. Having iron in the joints COULD introduce some sort of unknown problem. Who knows? That's all.
OK buddy, its your turn to design a V8 that makes 400 HP, gets 30 MPG on the highway, runs smooth enough to be in a Cadillac, and meets current Federal emissions standards. Good luck with that. Your comment makes it clear that you don't know the first thing about automotive engineering or what it REALLY takes to design a good engine. Making a lot of power is easy. Getting good fuel economy is easy. Burning extremely cleanly is easy. Doing everything all in one package, while continuing to meet tighter and tighter fuel economy and emissions regulations, is pretty damn tough.
Piston engines are fantastically complicated machines. It's not just about the mechanics and nuts and bolts of it, it's stuff like tuning intake and exhaust wave pulses to achieve optimum cylinder filling at a specific RPM--or with variable valve timing systems, across a range of operating speeds. Combustion chamber design is fantastically complicated due to the need to induce the proper amount of "swirl", i.e. turbulence in the combustion chamber to fully atomize and mix the fuel droplets into the air just before ignition, thus increasing burn speed, engine efficiency, and reduce the engine's tendency to ping. You would not believe the money that goes into things like super high speed cameras, pressure sensors, etc to watch and record combustion chamber events in real time so that engineers can tweak every last detail of engine performance.
It's just laughable to hear someone to compare engines from the 60s to modern engines and say there has not been much improvement. Technology has made a world of difference in combustion engine design, it's just that engines are FUCKING COMPLICATED and we're still learning new things about how they work and how to improve them.
t's considerably different. For one thing, merely crossing the border doesn't deny you of or remove any of your property or resources.
Bullshit. Soon as he crosses the border, he's breathing my air, drinking water, eating food, driving on roads, etc. He IS taking up resources simply by being there. A small amount, sure, but put him and his 20 million buddies in the U.S. side by side and suddenly the amount is not quite so small is it? When 20 million people drive over our roads, how much more quickly do they wear out, and who's paying to fix them? And when a van full of Mexicans driving at twice the speed limit (not a single valid drivers' license to be found amongst them) crashes and seriously injures all 23 inside, who gets to pay their $800k worth of surgery and medical charges? You and me of course, because the illegals damn sure aint paying for it.
There are definitely immigrants who steal and/or defraud the government, but those are crimes the justice system can handle. For another, concept of a domicile doesn't scale up to a state level because it's rooted in private ownership. Places accessible to the public are public and in a free country, that means anyone can travel there.
No, it doesn't mean "anyone can travel there." It means that property is owned by the public, i.e. the citizens. The people of the U.S. own this land, and we can come and go as we please. We reserve the right to allow others to visit our land as well provided certain conditions have met. Illegal immigrants are those who did not meet our requirements for immigration yet who snuck in anyway, or overstayed their welcome. I know times are tough in Mexico, but this is OUR fucking land, so go your ass home and make something happen there instead of running away from your problems like a coward.
Governments are neither private individuals, with living rooms to protect, nor corporations. They don't have owners or stockholders to whom they have an obligation to provide profit or gain to. Governments, specifically the US Government, are put in place to ensure the liberty and welfare of all they have jurisdiction over to the best of their ability.
One of the U.S. government's biggest and most important obligations is to PROTECT AND DEFEND this nation's property. Allowing anyone to come and go as they please, using up our nation's resources freely and limitlessly, living outside the law, is NOT acceptable to me or to the vast majority of American citizens who have any common sense.
You know what the difference between Americans back in Revolution days vs now is? It's like the difference between a 16 year old who, after saving up money from summer jobs for years, buys an old project car and fixes it up, vs the 16 year whose millionaire daddy buys him a Ferrari for his birthday. Which one do you think better appreciates what he's got? There are people in other countries who would give anything, risk it all to have what we have here in America. Despite what other governments may think, I can tell you there are a LOT of peoples in the world that look up to us and who want to follow our example.
What do you think they dream about when they imagine America? They think of beautiful homes and people, clean, sparkling cities, fabulous wealth. They don't dream about an L.A. ridden by gang problems (many of them immigrants, legally or not), outrageous health care costs (due in part to illegals), outrageous car insurance costs (due in part to illegals), higher taxes (needed to improve roads and other infrastructure worn by the extra use), etc, I'd imagine.
This nation has a lot of problems. Instead of lamely sitting by while they continue to pile up, it's time for our government to take action to solve some of them. Illegal immigration is a big problem, one that most Americans would be happy to see solved. This new legislation doesn't stand a chance, though, I can guarantee that. It will FAIL, or pass only against stiff opposition. Remember the big stink against the Real ID Act a few years ba