So here it is: We can make clean oil alternatives from Algae, less clean from coal; but the cost is ~$70 a barrel. $70 is high, but we've been there before, and we can manage, we stop selling SUV and start buying Hybrids for example; but the economy doesn't crash etc. So when Oil gets to and stays > $70. alternatives will comes in. The fear is that it will spike; but this fear is largely unfounded, because in order for oil to be unaffordable in the US, it would also be unaffordable everywhere else - reducing demand etc... So the current path is research on oil alternatives at the $70 level. Not unreasonable - better would be high-speed trains.
This is so true; I think in Africa you can pay via your cellphone - it virtually ends robbery and the violence attached to carrying money in poor countries. It can also curtail corruption. I submit that corruption is the last inefficiency of society, and we should expect real gains in living standards if we can reduce corruption.
Right, I saw this right away; so Insurance has to accept, but deadbeats and freeriders can opt-out? That's a recipe for financial ruin. But no worse than the current system in which Hospitals are compelled to treat.
Yeah, that ship sailed along time ago - in other words - to be Unconstitutional may have more to do with being unprecedented, than inconsistent with the black letter articles of the document.
If one were to track the arc of what is and isn't Constitutional, one finds the Supreme Court is largely on a reasonable track; on many issues it has set a high bar and a low bar - that is, it has heard two cases with different facts and found the one to be acceptable and the other a bridge to far, in such cases, we get the clearest picture.
Yeah, looking back is not a terribly attractive option. It is far more important that future versions are easy for existing users to understand. It is the User base, and not the software base that matters most; sure one leads the other, but after a critical point, the network of interconnected users is more valuable than the technology (facebook for example)
I saw an ad that says - in a menacing voice - "and now they for for us - and I thought, Isn't that exactly what is supposed to happen? The Chinese have been collecting dollars and not contributing to demand - exactly what is needed is for China to spend and put US companies to work, Well, here it is: US working for them, Intel and nvidia making some coin, paying some employees who pay some taxes, in a virtuous circle.
We should never have promised one dime of my Daughters taxes for the benefit of Iran - the only country to get a net boon from this offensive action. The instinct to withdraw is based on our experience in North Korea and Vietnam - which in neither case reflect poorly on the US. North Korea is responsible for its own atrocities, but in this case, the US is a silent co-conspirator in the religious hellhole, the "deep south" of Asia.
Really? is heat conduction by means of conductive materials and convection by moving liquids patentable? I've got this round thing that reduces friction!
It's a fair question, after consideration, I'm thinking that the difference between the two might be in the mass required to launch a steam-based device rather than a combustible device. Given that stream acceleration is quite small relative to combustion; one would need to process a great deal more of the available ice/matter as steam for the same thrust.
I believe Nuclear is the clear winner of this debate.
Wouldn't it be cool to hear her explain that? (actually I think you're half right). I would expect to find that certain code bits of HIV for example quite presumably did pre-exist in latent numbers; however, I would also expect to find that true success as in virus almost depends on evolving at a faster rate than your host. This is probably why sexual reproduction is a requirement for any organism complex enough to be a viral host; sexual reproduction allows for recombinant "evolution"; whilst the virus depends (does it not) on fairly random copying errors. So while both sides are digging in a toolchest for the wrench that best fits the nut at hand, the sexual organism has the advantage of combining the experience of two parents while the virus has the advantage of high frequency reproduction.
Perhaps; my point wasn't to agree or disagree on the justification of//increasing// our risks, but rather on the proportionality of the risk. I suggest it is numerically nonexistent given, the massive amount of natural experimentation which pervades the planet.
Generally yes; but being there allows for combustion - one might have to bring part of a combustible mix. Are ice asteroids a threat - given the tendency to burn up in atmosphere? With lasers, we can only hope to throw off some mass with the energy of sublimation; this I fear may be minimal. If we are facing a death star, we should employ the best means at our disposal (include lasers), but intercept and combust should be considered - including nuclear' this BS about ew, it will enter our atmos is tripe - we've had many nuclear events in our atmosphere, and while radiation is never pretty, we get by every day on a stiff dose from mother sol; and you might remember we depend on radiation for a little rejiggering of the DNA from time to time.:)
Well,I see your point, but I'm afraid you've missed mine - when one shakes hands, or plays tag, or collects test papers for the teacher, or turns a door knob, rides the bus, or raises chickens, fish, cats, mushrooms, or gerbils, or fails to bathe in alcohol on an hourly basis; one is certainly culturing bacteria and virii of all kinds; the human genome experimentation is only occurring at the millions per year rate, while bacteria are experimenting (with and without human involvement) at rates exponentially higher.
7 Billion people around the world are actively engaged in (unintentional) home-brew microbiological experimentation. I really doubt that a few hundred "intentional" experimenters are going to bend the curve of viral and bacteriological evolution.
Speaking of which; the next time Sarah Palin claims evolution is too slow, or that we should be able to "see" it happening; will not some idiot reporter remember that HIV, SARS, Swine Flu, and Bird Flu are all examples of evolution in her own lifetime?
I suppose one should calculate of what materials the Asteroid is made, and determine the least material necessary to make a combustion from those materials. If, for example, the Asteroid is ice; one could land, then use sunlight to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen, then fire off jets at optimal moments in the rotation. This isn't very complicated, and we've already intercepted an asteroid.
I hear your point; The flip argument might be that security is never an absolute, but rather a question of the time it takes to break it. (Safes are in fact rated in the hours it takes to breach them). One can emulate; however the emulation is often not as time-effective as the real; so I wonder if a reader could not detect the time difference of the emulation?
My daughter is - thus far - an atheist and she gets confronted by antiatheists (paid public school teachers). Everyone gets picked on for the aspects of their life which makes them different. The average jew in the world does not on balance face a life of disproportionate poverty - on the contrary, the average jew will hide behind history as an excuse to extort others (and mutilate babies).
What was the role of the chosen people in the Bank Fraud? yeah, right, let's not look for fear of being labeled antichosenite.
What are the jews doing building settlements on other people's property?
While I oppose much of what is done in the name of god, chosens, or allah; I do not treat individuals any differently simply because of the group into which they were born; moreover, I have escaped the bondages of my own birth (protestant) - so I have attained and believe in Individualism. Quit hiding behind the victim-hood card, or touting a medieval fraud of religion which claims superiority. we know where that leads...
So here you accuse one of antisemitism for noting that "the jews", whoever that means, and it isn't at all clear BTW, would benefit their own reputation by avoid even the appearance of assigning blame-by-association. You're generous reply includes both - a condemnation of bigotry, followed by bigotry.
I suggest you're wrong on both counts: 1. It is not bigotry to encourage a group to rein in their most radical elements - we should be so lucky to have both the jews and the arabs rein in their radicals - which are together a blight on our lifetimes, and 2. Your accusation that I was directly involved in murder is unspeakable and beyond the pail; if your goal is to turn people who take a balanced view of Judaism into antisemitism; just blame the average, protestant-raised atheistic as a murderer simply because he has had the temerity to live in Kyev.
Don't you have some baby genitals to mutilate in the name of god? remember god won't choose you if you don't choose mutilation.
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Read Phyrrhic victory. Everytime a jew "wins" by brutalizing an opponent which is inferior and powerless in every way, it gives back more in terms of the international goodwill marked "holocaust" than it gains.
Oh; and the homophobes in Brooklyn yesterday didn't do "the jews" any favors; especially when there was no condemnation from any other "jewish anti-defamation league".
Just sayin.
First the Jews came for the Palestinians, and I was quiet, because they wear towels on their head. Then the Jews came for the gays, and I said nothing because my best friend is a Jew. Then they came for the Jews, and I pretended they didn't have it coming...
The free pass your parents got doesn't extend to future generations -
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So here it is: We can make clean oil alternatives from Algae, less clean from coal; but the cost is ~$70 a barrel. $70 is high, but we've been there before, and we can manage, we stop selling SUV and start buying Hybrids for example; but the economy doesn't crash etc. So when Oil gets to and stays > $70. alternatives will comes in.
The fear is that it will spike; but this fear is largely unfounded, because in order for oil to be unaffordable in the US, it would also be unaffordable everywhere else - reducing demand etc... So the current path is research on oil alternatives at the $70 level. Not unreasonable - better would be high-speed trains.
This is so true; I think in Africa you can pay via your cellphone - it virtually ends robbery and the violence attached to carrying money in poor countries. It can also curtail corruption. I submit that corruption is the last inefficiency of society, and we should expect real gains in living standards if we can reduce corruption.
Why because its updated /daily/ !
Right, I saw this right away; so Insurance has to accept, but deadbeats and freeriders can opt-out?
That's a recipe for financial ruin. But no worse than the current system in which Hospitals are compelled to treat.
Yeah, that ship sailed along time ago - in other words - to be Unconstitutional may have more to do with being unprecedented, than inconsistent with the black letter articles of the document.
If one were to track the arc of what is and isn't Constitutional, one finds the Supreme Court is largely on a reasonable track; on many issues it has set a high bar and a low bar - that is, it has heard two cases with different facts and found the one to be acceptable and the other a bridge to far, in such cases, we get the clearest picture.
Yeah, looking back is not a terribly attractive option.
It is far more important that future versions are easy for existing users to understand. It is the User base, and not the software base that matters most; sure one leads the other, but after a critical point, the network of interconnected users is more valuable than the technology (facebook for example)
We should support Teachers; however, My 8 year old student should also have the benefit of a Union.
LOL. Thanks
I'm working with an international firm on Scada - we use a VPN to provide a secure private network.
I saw an ad that says - in a menacing voice - "and now they for for us - and I thought, Isn't that exactly what is supposed to happen? The Chinese have been collecting dollars and not contributing to demand - exactly what is needed is for China to spend and put US companies to work, Well, here it is: US working for them, Intel and nvidia making some coin, paying some employees who pay some taxes, in a virtuous circle.
We should never have promised one dime of my Daughters taxes for the benefit of Iran - the only country to get a net boon from this offensive action. The instinct to withdraw is based on our experience in North Korea and Vietnam - which in neither case reflect poorly on the US. North Korea is responsible for its own atrocities, but in this case, the US is a silent co-conspirator in the religious hellhole, the "deep south" of Asia.
Really? is heat conduction by means of conductive materials and convection by moving liquids patentable? I've got this round thing that reduces friction!
It's a fair question, after consideration, I'm thinking that the difference between the two might be in the mass required to launch a steam-based device rather than a combustible device. Given that stream acceleration is quite small relative to combustion; one would need to process a great deal more of the available ice/matter as steam for the same thrust.
I believe Nuclear is the clear winner of this debate.
Wouldn't it be cool to hear her explain that?
(actually I think you're half right). I would expect to find that certain code bits of HIV for example quite presumably did pre-exist in latent numbers; however, I would also expect to find that true success as in virus almost depends on evolving at a faster rate than your host. This is probably why sexual reproduction is a requirement for any organism complex enough to be a viral host; sexual reproduction allows for recombinant "evolution"; whilst the virus depends (does it not) on fairly random copying errors. So while both sides are digging in a toolchest for the wrench that best fits the nut at hand, the sexual organism has the advantage of combining the experience of two parents while the virus has the advantage of high frequency reproduction.
Perhaps; my point wasn't to agree or disagree on the justification of //increasing// our risks, but rather on the proportionality of the risk. I suggest it is numerically nonexistent given, the massive amount of natural experimentation which pervades the planet.
Generally yes; but being there allows for combustion - one might have to bring part of a combustible mix. Are ice asteroids a threat - given the tendency to burn up in atmosphere? :)
With lasers, we can only hope to throw off some mass with the energy of sublimation; this I fear may be minimal.
If we are facing a death star, we should employ the best means at our disposal (include lasers), but intercept and combust should be considered - including nuclear' this BS about ew, it will enter our atmos is tripe - we've had many nuclear events in our atmosphere, and while radiation is never pretty, we get by every day on a stiff dose from mother sol; and you might remember we depend on radiation for a little rejiggering of the DNA from time to time.
Well,I see your point, but I'm afraid you've missed mine - when one shakes hands, or plays tag, or collects test papers for the teacher, or turns a door knob, rides the bus, or raises chickens, fish, cats, mushrooms, or gerbils, or fails to bathe in alcohol on an hourly basis; one is certainly culturing bacteria and virii of all kinds; the human genome experimentation is only occurring at the millions per year rate, while bacteria are experimenting (with and without human involvement) at rates exponentially higher.
I like it - based no doubt on adding a glowing gene to toejam bacteria!
(bonus feature - glow in the dark Limburger.)
7 Billion people around the world are actively engaged in (unintentional) home-brew microbiological experimentation. I really doubt that a few hundred "intentional" experimenters are going to bend the curve of viral and bacteriological evolution.
Speaking of which; the next time Sarah Palin claims evolution is too slow, or that we should be able to "see" it happening; will not some idiot reporter remember that HIV, SARS, Swine Flu, and Bird Flu are all examples of evolution in her own lifetime?
I suppose one should calculate of what materials the Asteroid is made, and determine the least material necessary to make a combustion from those materials. If, for example, the Asteroid is ice; one could land, then use sunlight to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen, then fire off jets at optimal moments in the rotation. This isn't very complicated, and we've already intercepted an asteroid.
I hear your point; The flip argument might be that security is never an absolute, but rather a question of the time it takes to break it. (Safes are in fact rated in the hours it takes to breach them).
One can emulate; however the emulation is often not as time-effective as the real; so I wonder if a reader could not detect the time difference of the emulation?
My daughter is - thus far - an atheist and she gets confronted by antiatheists (paid public school teachers). Everyone gets picked on for the aspects of their life which makes them different. The average jew in the world does not on balance face a life of disproportionate poverty - on the contrary, the average jew will hide behind history as an excuse to extort others (and mutilate babies).
What was the role of the chosen people in the Bank Fraud? yeah, right, let's not look for fear of being labeled antichosenite.
What are the jews doing building settlements on other people's property?
While I oppose much of what is done in the name of god, chosens, or allah; I do not treat individuals any differently simply because of the group into which they were born; moreover, I have escaped the bondages of my own birth (protestant) - so I have attained and believe in Individualism. Quit hiding behind the victim-hood card, or touting a medieval fraud of religion which claims superiority. we know where that leads...
So here you accuse one of antisemitism for noting that "the jews", whoever that means, and it isn't at all clear BTW, would benefit their own reputation by avoid even the appearance of assigning blame-by-association. You're generous reply includes both - a condemnation of bigotry, followed by bigotry.
I suggest you're wrong on both counts:
1. It is not bigotry to encourage a group to rein in their most radical elements - we should be so lucky to have both the jews and the arabs rein in their radicals - which are together a blight on our lifetimes, and
2. Your accusation that I was directly involved in murder is unspeakable and beyond the pail; if your goal is to turn people who take a balanced view of Judaism into antisemitism; just blame the average, protestant-raised atheistic as a murderer simply because he has had the temerity to live in Kyev.
Don't you have some baby genitals to mutilate in the name of god? remember god won't choose you if you don't choose mutilation.
Read Phyrrhic victory. Everytime a jew "wins" by brutalizing an opponent which is inferior and powerless in every way, it gives back more in terms of the international goodwill marked "holocaust" than it gains.
Oh; and the homophobes in Brooklyn yesterday didn't do "the jews" any favors; especially when there was no condemnation from any other "jewish anti-defamation league".
Just sayin.
First the Jews came for the Palestinians, and I was quiet, because they wear towels on their head.
Then the Jews came for the gays, and I said nothing because my best friend is a Jew.
Then they came for the Jews, and I pretended they didn't have it coming...
The free pass your parents got doesn't extend to future generations -