Its not even a "private alternative". I can't pay someone to take these Google buses if I am not one of the sanctioned few who work in the pearly gates of Apple, Google, Yahoo, etc...
I can't help but think maybe you're not clear on what "private" means.
show me how to violate Big Oils patents in my backyard lab and grow a garden/solar array that will provide my family with enough energy to suit their needs, for free (or whatever it costs for us to personally harvest it), and I'll step off the Big Oil treadmill *today*
These guys built a 3KW wind turbine in their back yard. http://www.otherpower.com/ Not all projects on this site are as complicated as the big turbine on the front page. Lots of ideas for generation, storage, and reduced consumption of power on these pages. Join the forums, start a project, and quit bitching.
Trust me. "Big Oil" (every industry can be evil. just put "big" before it) does not have a patent on windmills. That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard.
In the sense that all religions should be respected, that's pure BS. While I personally feel no religions should be treated with any more special respect than other purveyors of escapism, scientology deserves special derision because of their ridiculously litigious practices and destructive capability both to memembers and rational others.
if you're in a meeting and are really paranoid -- to guarantee nobody's phone is transmitting. Make it a small room, randomly place multiple receivers around the room, etc. -- you only need one transmitter so that there's silence on the line
Are you for freaking real? "Paranoid that somebody may be listening in via your phone? Turn on a baby monitor transmitter to defeat the bug!
Uh, dude. That has got to be the dumbest damned thing I've read on/. in many moons. (And _THAT_ is saying something.)
With all due respect,
Someone who's sat up nights listening to the neighbors fuck via the baby monitor that they left on that happens to be the same freq as mine
If you double the available power (which doubling the displacement would not likely do) you are not going to simultaneously double the acceleration, top speed, and useful load. You _may_ be able to double _one_ of these things. Maybe even increase both acceleration and top speed (but not double) with some judicious gearing. Perhaps I'm way off on my math, but wouldn't you need at least 8x the power to double the load, top speed, and acceleration? maybe something like 5x power to do this with a decent gearbox? To double the doubles I think you'd end up needing somewhere like 18x the original power (again assuming you only doubled 2 and got the third for "free" with a good transmission). 18x Power means less than 1/18 Milage. That puts you in the neighborhood of 160 MPG. Would you really get that excited about a single-person vehicle that could achieve 50 or so MPH, got 145MPG and could accelerate fast enough to be safe on the road with other traffic?
...the relationship between the state and its people...
Heh. IIRC, we had a bit of a tussle over that one once. I think on our side of the pond we decided it should be "the people and their state".* I thought you lot had caught on.
* Notwithstanding that current events would make it appear otherwise
Now wait a minute. Explain this to me. How is it that electric heat systems defy the laws of physics by drawing a single kW and expelling 3-5kW into your living space? From whence do those 2-4 "extra" kW of engergy come? If the electric heater spins your meter by one kilowatt hour per hour, it only has 1kW to distribute into your room in the course of that hour. If a person uses of 1kW of power to run their oven over the course of an hour, one kilowatt has been distributed into the room. Now, with the electric heat there are line losses, so there will never be 1kW equivalent of heat generated per kW drawn. In an oven, there will be line losses so there will never be 1kW equivalent of heat that way, either. In the case of gas, there is only passive distribution after the heat is generated. the only "losses" would be the mass of the oven soaking up heat rather than distributing it, but over time, the oven will cool (distribute the heat) anyway, so how by God is an electric heater more efficient than an oven? A gas oven, there's no possible way. Even an electric oven I think you have your work cut out for you explaining the difference. Your mystery watts don't exist. Watts is watts. You only have available what you draw, and it all gets turned into heat anyway Even the line losses become heat.
Note that in the above I did not account for the possibility that you mean an electric heat system uses 1kW in distribution for every 3-5kW produced. That would seem to be contrary to your point and would seem to make the baseboard heat about 20-25% less efficient than the oven by your numbers.
Wait a minute. I think I've heard this somewhere before... Lemme see... Oh! That's right!
Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you. Dr. Peter Venkman: What? Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams. Dr. Peter Venkman: Why? Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad. Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad?" Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal. Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon
The answer? Do what Pearl Jam did a few years ago. Sell a bunch of "bootlegs" in the stores for $15 apiece, and watch as the rabid fan base eats it up. Sigh.
The dead has been doing that for years. That's what the whole "Dick's Picks" series is all about.
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Its not even a "private alternative". I can't pay someone to take these Google buses if I am not one of the sanctioned few who work in the pearly gates of Apple, Google, Yahoo, etc...
I can't help but think maybe you're not clear on what "private" means.
They must be new here. :-p
In order to ensure that an important news story shows up on /. on 1 Apr, wouldn't it have to be originally published sometime around 3 Feb?
show me how to violate Big Oils patents in my backyard lab and grow a garden/solar array that will provide my family with enough energy to suit their needs, for free (or whatever it costs for us to personally harvest it), and I'll step off the Big Oil treadmill *today*
These guys built a 3KW wind turbine in their back yard.
http://www.otherpower.com/
Not all projects on this site are as complicated as the big turbine on the front page. Lots of ideas for generation, storage, and reduced consumption of power on these pages. Join the forums, start a project, and quit bitching.
Trust me. "Big Oil" (every industry can be evil. just put "big" before it) does not have a patent on windmills. That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard.
In the sense that all religions should be respected, that's pure BS. While I personally feel no religions should be treated with any more special respect than other purveyors of escapism, scientology deserves special derision because of their ridiculously litigious practices and destructive capability both to memembers and rational others.
Like Disney!
LOLOMGWTFBBQROFL!!11
/. in many moons. (And _THAT_ is saying something.)
if you're in a meeting and are really paranoid -- to guarantee nobody's phone is transmitting. Make it a small room, randomly place multiple receivers around the room, etc. -- you only need one transmitter so that there's silence on the line
Are you for freaking real? "Paranoid that somebody may be listening in via your phone? Turn on a baby monitor transmitter to defeat the bug!
Uh, dude. That has got to be the dumbest damned thing I've read on
With all due respect,
Someone who's sat up nights listening to the neighbors fuck via the baby monitor that they left on that happens to be the same freq as mine
What if there's only one every four years?
And how does the voter know that the barcode indicates his choices?
Imagine China skewing the election in favor of their favorite candidate.
Last time, they just paid Perot to split the conservative ticket. No Problemo. Fancy-pants voting machines not required.
Hey, Mr. Physics:
If you double the available power (which doubling the displacement would not likely do) you are not going to simultaneously double the acceleration, top speed, and useful load. You _may_ be able to double _one_ of these things. Maybe even increase both acceleration and top speed (but not double) with some judicious gearing. Perhaps I'm way off on my math, but wouldn't you need at least 8x the power to double the load, top speed, and acceleration? maybe something like 5x power to do this with a decent gearbox? To double the doubles I think you'd end up needing somewhere like 18x the original power (again assuming you only doubled 2 and got the third for "free" with a good transmission). 18x Power means less than 1/18 Milage. That puts you in the neighborhood of 160 MPG. Would you really get that excited about a single-person vehicle that could achieve 50 or so MPH, got 145MPG and could accelerate fast enough to be safe on the road with other traffic?
If so, try this.
Novel?
There's this new thing. Everyone's using it. I know, let's tax it!
Yeah. Sure. Novel.
...the relationship between the state and its people...
Heh. IIRC, we had a bit of a tussle over that one once. I think on our side of the pond we decided it should be "the people and their state".* I thought you lot had caught on.
* Notwithstanding that current events would make it appear otherwise
It depends on if you are a criminal or an innocent person. If you are a criminal, there's no reason to be horrified ...
Phew!
Now wait a minute. Explain this to me. How is it that electric heat systems defy the laws of physics by drawing a single kW and expelling 3-5kW into your living space? From whence do those 2-4 "extra" kW of engergy come? If the electric heater spins your meter by one kilowatt hour per hour, it only has 1kW to distribute into your room in the course of that hour. If a person uses of 1kW of power to run their oven over the course of an hour, one kilowatt has been distributed into the room. Now, with the electric heat there are line losses, so there will never be 1kW equivalent of heat generated per kW drawn. In an oven, there will be line losses so there will never be 1kW equivalent of heat that way, either. In the case of gas, there is only passive distribution after the heat is generated. the only "losses" would be the mass of the oven soaking up heat rather than distributing it, but over time, the oven will cool (distribute the heat) anyway, so how by God is an electric heater more efficient than an oven? A gas oven, there's no possible way. Even an electric oven I think you have your work cut out for you explaining the difference. Your mystery watts don't exist. Watts is watts. You only have available what you draw, and it all gets turned into heat anyway Even the line losses become heat.
Note that in the above I did not account for the possibility that you mean an electric heat system uses 1kW in distribution for every 3-5kW produced. That would seem to be contrary to your point and would seem to make the baseboard heat about 20-25% less efficient than the oven by your numbers.
Don't buy bottles, either. Homebrew! It's cheaper, you get better beer, and you'll get invited to all the parties. :D
Google isn't taking advantage of the labor situation in Third World countries
Hrm... Where do they get all those computers, then?
Heh... Heh heh...
You said...
Member.
Of course not! Though if they could find some editors...
China, apparently.
Heh.
Wait a minute. I think I've heard this somewhere before... Lemme see... Oh! That's right!
Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad?"
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon
Yeah, but that gets ugly once you add all the buttons for posting a trip, posting a quadrup, etc...
Heh. The mods don't seem to think so. I wonder why.
When I grow up to be a mad bomber, all the wires in my bombs will be white and there will be a ton of them for no reason.
The answer? Do what Pearl Jam did a few years ago. Sell a bunch of "bootlegs" in the stores for $15 apiece, and watch as the rabid fan base eats it up. Sigh.
The dead has been doing that for years. That's what the whole "Dick's Picks" series is all about.
Like, for example, their skills with a spelling checker. :D
How long have you been in marketing?