but seriously, what power lines are we talking about here? Distribution? Transmission? and what storm related damages are we talking about? Are we talking about preventing damage to the powerlines themselves from the storm and thus hopefully keeping power in service? or are we talking about just keeping the power on through a storm. If it is the latter, underground lines aren't going to do jackshit. If it's the former, no normal amount of maintenance costs is gonna outweigh the massive cost per mile of underground lines.
yeah overhead poles are vulnerable to the olde trees falling on wires bit but so what? get a crew out there, clear the tree and reconnect the lines!
If you're talking about having underground lines being more reliable in storms (ie not having blackouts) keep dreaming. powerlines do not exist in vacuum. If there's a frequency spike then your breakers are gonna trip out anyways and your powerlines are gonna be dead anyways. Then you have to wait until a crew recloses the breaker! what did the underground line do better than the overhead lines? JACK SHIT.
if the storm is large enough that it is tripping out whole feeders at the transmission level (ie whole neighborhoods) underground lines are not going to save you from anything. The overhead transmission line that feeds the substation is gonna trip out, then the substation breakers are gonna trip out, and then you're not gonna have power anyways.
the only thing you are really preventing by putting power lines underground are the tree-falls-into-wires faults. Really bad storms, massive flooding, hurricanes, etc etc will knock out the parts of the powergrid that are aboveground (substations, transmission lines, etc etc) anyways rendering expensive underground lines pointless.
If you want a real life example just look at Tropical Storm Allison that hit Houston in 2001. Downtown Houston's underground lines weren't of much help...
If IT is so great as a career field how come the IT department is the first to get laid off when the company "restructures" or "rightsizes" or whatever claptrap buzzword is used to mean dump jobs.
how is learning trigonometric functions more difficult than a math teacher laying down the word of god for finding the volume of a sphere.
sure in integral calculus we finally find out how we got those formulas for volumes but in high school we are just told it and we just Do It.
Is buckling down and just learning the formulas and concepts really that much more difficult than learning volume formulas or permutations or factorials or whatever math concepts teachers decide to teach?
In fact trig is even easier to understand than things like factorials.
There are very real and very direct real world applications for trig. I mean aside from solving for volume or area it's probably the easiest subject to make word problems for.
I agree with your argument if you were referring to the teaching of trigometry at a college level or in a calculus class. Understanding taylor series or infinite series can be a real bitch.
but as an argument for making trig easier for the layperson? Really how is this better?
Sure let's develop space weapons to take out enemy satellites. Hell why not throw in Orbital Ion cannons too?
This kind of shit is so like the military to do. How exactly will ASAT weapons be useful against terrorists? or Al-Qaida?
Meanwhile, our soldiers are driving around in humvees that even when armored are completely useless against IEDs. They are shooting Beretta pistols that are 20 years old. Not enough aimpoints to go around. Not enough of everything that's necessary for urban combat.
and yet the military wants to build and deploy ASAT weapons. Wow, color me shocked. The US military has a history of screwing the troops on the ground in favor of high tech shenanigans.
Hello Comanche helicopter. That 6 billion dollar boondoggle might pay for a fair amount of armor or new guns or NVGs or even ammo!
Are defense contractors worth more than the common soldier's life?
When I say automatic weapon I mean when the trigger is pulled, the sear is disengaged as long as the trigger is held or until engaged by some type of burst fire mechanism. Probably this is what you mean by full-automatic.
When you say automatic pistols, you are probably referring to single-action or double-action self-loading pistols. We usually call those semi-automatic pistols in the US.
whereas what you call full automatic pistols, we just simply call them automatic pistols or machine pistols.
all the types of weapons you listed in your comment would be considered machineguns in the US as long as there are fully automatic
Paired with an impact-resistant, graphite-composite cowl and spiked ninja-style gauntlets, it allows Batman to protect himself against everything from swords to machine guns.
Yeah right, just wait until batman takes his first 7.62x39mm round to his chest.
get real people. You have to wear very heavy vests for pistol protection. Call it III-A for safety in case you're fighting people that routinely carry magnum pistols.
Ok great, you can defeat most handguns. Now what about the AK clones that you can buy everywhere for $300 bucks.
Well if you want to go against that, better start buying rifle plates.
Level III or level IV if you're gonna be facing 30-06 deer rifles which hmm, are not that uncommon.
So there you go. 30 layers of kevlar and at least 2 plates for your back and your front.
And guess what. there is NO SUCH THING AS A 100% bulletproof vest. so everytime you go out and stalk around with all your gear you risk having your vest defeated at any time by the golden BB.
not including the fact that all that shit is heavy as hell and not very quiet, AND your mobility is limited.
TFA recommends the ProMax OTV which is III-A rated for most pistols. Of course you have to add the rifle plates which TFA didn't mention or include in the cost.
Call me when batman gets his first automatic burst in the chest from the thousands of NFA weapons ready to be stolen from private citizens or automatic weapons smuggled in from Mexico or overseas.
I know this article was written in jest but there are truly dumb people in America...
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I hope all the RKBA advocates are working to stop this idea now.
This is a BAD idea for Americans and gun ownership and it will hurt rather than help the 2nd Amendment advocacy.
Gun ownership is about responsibility. period.
Having a remote control gun for the video game generations is ludicrous. There is a serious lack of personal responsibility already in this society today. If you let people shoot things over the internet you're just removing another step of accountability.
that being said, i don't worry about who gets the blame if someone is accidentally shot and killed. the owner of the land, the gun, and the server would be criminally negligent for letting people on to the property to be shot at.
that should put a chilling effect on the proliferation of these kind of things in a hurry.
I was wondering when MMORPGs started reflecting the reality that people are shitty and we're all closet rascists, sexists, anti-homosexuals, or whatever your particular bigotry happens to be.
frankly i'm surprised this doesn't happen too often. I guess it's a testament to the speed and effectiveness of the admins of the corporate MMORPGs (ie sony) to quash the speech of such undesirables.
see this is why everyone should just play FPS games. everyone's a racist so just kill them.
frankly i'm surprised that there were actually enough women playing this game to riot. what is this world coming too? don't they have better things to do?
playing games should be relegated to the stupider gender. I thought women read books, helped others, and generally made a useful contribution to society.
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Yes people. America CAN and WILL keep an antiquated measuring system JUST for football.
I'm an engineering student and I use metric all the freaking time. I love metric. I get pissed when my professors don't use metric in their problems forcing me to convert.
But seriously, what does a car traveling at 88km/hr or 25m/s mean to you? I can tell you that it means nothing to me. I have no internal frame of reference for anything metric. But I do know what 55mph is and so does everyone else in America.
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but seriously, what power lines are we talking about here? Distribution? Transmission? and what storm related damages are we talking about? Are we talking about preventing damage to the powerlines themselves from the storm and thus hopefully keeping power in service? or are we talking about just keeping the power on through a storm. If it is the latter, underground lines aren't going to do jackshit. If it's the former, no normal amount of maintenance costs is gonna outweigh the massive cost per mile of underground lines.
yeah overhead poles are vulnerable to the olde trees falling on wires bit but so what? get a crew out there, clear the tree and reconnect the lines!
If you're talking about having underground lines being more reliable in storms (ie not having blackouts) keep dreaming. powerlines do not exist in vacuum. If there's a frequency spike then your breakers are gonna trip out anyways and your powerlines are gonna be dead anyways. Then you have to wait until a crew recloses the breaker! what did the underground line do better than the overhead lines? JACK SHIT.
if the storm is large enough that it is tripping out whole feeders at the transmission level (ie whole neighborhoods) underground lines are not going to save you from anything. The overhead transmission line that feeds the substation is gonna trip out, then the substation breakers are gonna trip out, and then you're not gonna have power anyways.
the only thing you are really preventing by putting power lines underground are the tree-falls-into-wires faults. Really bad storms, massive flooding, hurricanes, etc etc will knock out the parts of the powergrid that are aboveground (substations, transmission lines, etc etc) anyways rendering expensive underground lines pointless.
If you want a real life example just look at Tropical Storm Allison that hit Houston in 2001. Downtown Houston's underground lines weren't of much help...
If IT is so great as a career field how come the IT department is the first to get laid off when the company "restructures" or "rightsizes" or whatever claptrap buzzword is used to mean dump jobs.
how is learning trigonometric functions more difficult than a math teacher laying down the word of god for finding the volume of a sphere.
sure in integral calculus we finally find out how we got those formulas for volumes but in high school we are just told it and we just Do It.
Is buckling down and just learning the formulas and concepts really that much more difficult than learning volume formulas or permutations or factorials or whatever math concepts teachers decide to teach?
In fact trig is even easier to understand than things like factorials.
There are very real and very direct real world applications for trig. I mean aside from solving for volume or area it's probably the easiest subject to make word problems for.
I agree with your argument if you were referring to the teaching of trigometry at a college level or in a calculus class. Understanding taylor series or infinite series can be a real bitch.
but as an argument for making trig easier for the layperson? Really how is this better?
are trigonometric functions REALLY that hard to learn?
is trigonometry one of the root causes of the layman's hatred for math?
that's doubtful and even if it was true, his version of trigonometry still requires algebra which has a far greater hatred among joe sixpack.
Sure let's develop space weapons to take out enemy satellites. Hell why not throw in Orbital Ion cannons too?
This kind of shit is so like the military to do. How exactly will ASAT weapons be useful against terrorists? or Al-Qaida?
Meanwhile, our soldiers are driving around in humvees that even when armored are completely useless against IEDs. They are shooting Beretta pistols that are 20 years old. Not enough aimpoints to go around. Not enough of everything that's necessary for urban combat.
and yet the military wants to build and deploy ASAT weapons. Wow, color me shocked. The US military has a history of screwing the troops on the ground in favor of high tech shenanigans.
Hello Comanche helicopter. That 6 billion dollar boondoggle might pay for a fair amount of armor or new guns or NVGs or even ammo!
Are defense contractors worth more than the common soldier's life?
oh wait, i guess that's a rhetorical question.
So do you get to see any of Area 51?
if you try the Area 51 coordinates on
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
you just get a topo map!
wow does this mean we're all gonna have to go back to USENET for our warez, romz, and gamez?
or even worse, suffering through fserv queues...
perhaps it's the difference in terminology.
When I say automatic weapon I mean when the trigger is pulled, the sear is disengaged as long as the trigger is held or until engaged by some type of burst fire mechanism. Probably this is what you mean by full-automatic.
When you say automatic pistols, you are probably referring to single-action or double-action self-loading pistols. We usually call those semi-automatic pistols in the US.
whereas what you call full automatic pistols, we just simply call them automatic pistols or machine pistols.
all the types of weapons you listed in your comment would be considered machineguns in the US as long as there are fully automatic
depends on how you define machine gun
In the US, any automatic weapon is legally considered a machine gun.
but technically, machine gun covers a lot of ground. What would you call RPKs or M249s?
also, level III rifle plates will defeat 7.62x51
Paired with an impact-resistant, graphite-composite cowl and spiked ninja-style gauntlets, it allows Batman to protect himself against everything from swords to machine guns.
Yeah right, just wait until batman takes his first 7.62x39mm round to his chest.
get real people. You have to wear very heavy vests for pistol protection. Call it III-A for safety in case you're fighting people that routinely carry magnum pistols.
Ok great, you can defeat most handguns. Now what about the AK clones that you can buy everywhere for $300 bucks.
Well if you want to go against that, better start buying rifle plates.
Level III or level IV if you're gonna be facing 30-06 deer rifles which hmm, are not that uncommon.
So there you go. 30 layers of kevlar and at least 2 plates for your back and your front.
And guess what. there is NO SUCH THING AS A 100% bulletproof vest. so everytime you go out and stalk around with all your gear you risk having your vest defeated at any time by the golden BB.
not including the fact that all that shit is heavy as hell and not very quiet, AND your mobility is limited.
TFA recommends the ProMax OTV which is III-A rated for most pistols. Of course you have to add the rifle plates which TFA didn't mention or include in the cost.
Call me when batman gets his first automatic burst in the chest from the thousands of NFA weapons ready to be stolen from private citizens or automatic weapons smuggled in from Mexico or overseas.
I know this article was written in jest but there are truly dumb people in America...
I hope all the RKBA advocates are working to stop this idea now.
This is a BAD idea for Americans and gun ownership and it will hurt rather than help the 2nd Amendment advocacy.
Gun ownership is about responsibility. period.
Having a remote control gun for the video game generations is ludicrous. There is a serious lack of personal responsibility already in this society today. If you let people shoot things over the internet you're just removing another step of accountability.
that being said, i don't worry about who gets the blame if someone is accidentally shot and killed. the owner of the land, the gun, and the server would be criminally negligent for letting people on to the property to be shot at.
that should put a chilling effect on the proliferation of these kind of things in a hurry.
I was wondering when MMORPGs started reflecting the reality that people are shitty and we're all closet rascists, sexists, anti-homosexuals, or whatever your particular bigotry happens to be.
frankly i'm surprised this doesn't happen too often. I guess it's a testament to the speed and effectiveness of the admins of the corporate MMORPGs (ie sony) to quash the speech of such undesirables.
see this is why everyone should just play FPS games. everyone's a racist so just kill them.
frankly i'm surprised that there were actually enough women playing this game to riot. what is this world coming too? don't they have better things to do?
playing games should be relegated to the stupider gender. I thought women read books, helped others, and generally made a useful contribution to society.
leave the stupid shit like computer games, monster truck rallies, football, and the like to men. it suits our intelligence level.
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haha, the 9mm fans are celebrating like there is no tomorrow.
but it don't make no difference to the 1911 owners. 7+1 is all she wrote...
ain't that right ESR? http://www.catb.org/~esr/guns/rig.html/
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Yes people. America CAN and WILL keep an antiquated measuring system JUST for football.
I'm an engineering student and I use metric all the freaking time. I love metric. I get pissed when my professors don't use metric in their problems forcing me to convert.
But seriously, what does a car traveling at 88km/hr or 25m/s mean to you? I can tell you that it means nothing to me. I have no internal frame of reference for anything metric. But I do know what 55mph is and so does everyone else in America.
Metric will ALWAYS fail for that reason.
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If all you wanted for Christmas was to play Halo and what you got was a GameCube then the GameCube does suck
Yeap, this is exactly right.
A linux box for Christmas is all great until little Johnny wants to play Grand Theft Auto: Vice City that he got from his ill-informed mom.
then what Roblimo? Well at least he can make a resume and begin online dating
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