Missing it entirely:
One gram adsorbs 1.72 billionths of a mole of CO2. So a billion grams will absorb 1.72 moles of CO2. IIRC a billion grams is 1000kg, or one tonne. To absorb 75.68 grams (1.72 moles) of CO2. Yeah, that will work.
Neither is the Nobel committee a "great committee". I mean, if it were up to them you would only read one book per year, and your library would have 104 books.
Why is everyone assuming a small diameter fuel line? It's a rocket engine not a 5cc internal combustion motor. You need a certain amount of gallons per minute for it to work.
Every device in the house should be communicating with a computer.
Yes, a computer connected to the internet. With potential government backdoors and rootkits. Every device in your youse. 1984 here we come. You are the dead.
How many billion € are you spending yearly to get less than 5% of consumption
It's only euros. There are plenty of euros, and Germany can afford it. When the crunch comes, a mere 5% will make all the difference in the world. The Germans are being smart. They are survivors.
If you consent to it, I have every right to use you as my pony. If you do not consent and I force you to, then there are already laws against it. You don't need to make up the "involuntary pony riding laws". Nor do you need to pass the "guarantee to consensual piggy-backs" bill. Unless of course you are either a lawyer or politician, in which case you will want to do this as job creation - at the taxpayer's expense.
As for the law, international or otherwise, "I am free, no matter what rules surround me.
No, what you don't seem to get is you are only as free as those in power are willing to tolerate you to be. The minute your freedom becomes a problem it's just a matter of hiring/bribing/indoctrinating/terrorising goons into taking your freedom or your life from you. That's what power is. But on the bright side, the absolute worst thing they can do is take your life from you and that's going to happen sooner or later anyway. None of it matters on this pale blue dot. Enjoy what you can out of life while you can.
Rofl - you mean how much money is the government going to bill you the taxpayer for, for each picture. I figure $3 million per picture is a fair estimate.
we don't have a right to any particular mode of transportation
You have the right to every possible mode of transportation including ones that haven't even been invented yet, unless a law bars you from it. America started doing it wrong with the "Bill of Rights", and somehow you have gotten it into your heads that you need laws to grant you rights. No, laws take things away. They never give things - except to the government. By default you have the right to absolutely everything except what law prohibits you from doing. Even your "Bill of Rights" is a mistake because now you have lawyers and politicians arguing and nit-picking over words, trying to twist the meaning of those words to take things away from you. At one point it will have been better had it not been written because that same "Bill of Rights" will be used to enslave you. And if not, then there's always international law.
On the other hand there ARE laws that prevent the owner of the mode of transport from barring you from using it on the basis of color, religion, sex, etc. In the case of public transport the vehicle is designed to be used by the public, which includes you.
I believe that practicing law without a license is a crime in some jurisdictions too. You admitted you are not a lawyer, and yet you go on and offer legal advice...
IANAL but in the case of public transport, they have to make a pretty strong case that you are breaking the law or endangering others. Innocent until proven guilty and all that. Just because the TSA (and I love the abuse these words get nowadays) "out of an abundance of caution" thinks you are carrying a bomb does not mean that you are carrying a bomb.
Seems you don't understand the whole concept of "habeus corpus", people being allowed to go about their affairs without being searched or having their posessions seized, people not having to explain themselves to authority, etc. You know, all those hallmarks of a free society. No, it seems you think people are restricted to only those specific rights that are written down, and even these are modified over time. People must do as they are told, obtain permits and permissions, and be suspect of (insert crime here, but terrorism is vague enough that it will do nicely) if they do not conform. These are the hallmarks of a society of serfs, which is what the US has become in a surprisingly short time, in less than my lifetime in fact. Today there are children born who will never know the freedom I enjoyed only 30 years ago. I'm now glad that I don't live in the US. You have become everything you said the Soviets were.
Radios and records in general, sounded pretty poor.
But that's all you had, and that's all anyone else had. So we didn't really care about the sound quality. Your stuff sounded just as crappy as everyone else's. The trick was to stop the recording before the dumb DJ started speaking.
I think one major difference was that tapes and especially recordings from the radio sounded pretty poor (especially second and third generation copies) - and tapes wear out.
Sorry but I couldn't resist countering that today, it's the music itself that sounds pretty poor and the songs soon wear out.
Copyright infringement went mainstream in 1998-2002
Eh? I guess you're too young to remember casette tapes and taping songs from the radio, or using dual tape machines to copy a buddy's tapes. It was pretty mainstream in the 1960's and 70's too. Not everything has happened in recent history, young man.
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Missing it entirely: One gram adsorbs 1.72 billionths of a mole of CO2. So a billion grams will absorb 1.72 moles of CO2. IIRC a billion grams is 1000kg, or one tonne. To absorb 75.68 grams (1.72 moles) of CO2. Yeah, that will work.
Seconded. Judging by some of the comments here a lot of people nowadays would seem to have trouble reading street signs.
Neither is the Nobel committee a "great committee". I mean, if it were up to them you would only read one book per year, and your library would have 104 books.
Why is everyone assuming a small diameter fuel line? It's a rocket engine not a 5cc internal combustion motor. You need a certain amount of gallons per minute for it to work.
I don't solder, I suture living tissue. Now both of you behave.
Every device in the house should be communicating with a computer.
Yes, a computer connected to the internet. With potential government backdoors and rootkits. Every device in your youse. 1984 here we come. You are the dead.
If you think it's pointless, you're dead inside.
Or a humanities major.
It usually ends in pitchforks.
They are neither an Islamic nor Communist country
Yet. Give the CIA some time.
Kind of pushes you to be creative, doesn't it?
How many billion € are you spending yearly to get less than 5% of consumption
It's only euros. There are plenty of euros, and Germany can afford it. When the crunch comes, a mere 5% will make all the difference in the world. The Germans are being smart. They are survivors.
Now a tweet and a few images are considered legit news?
You're right. We're completely missing the celebrity angle here. What does Lady Gaga think about all this? /sarcasm
PGP... it's way past time.
Yeah that will work if they are reading your keystrokes.
As for the law, international or otherwise, "I am free, no matter what rules surround me.
No, what you don't seem to get is you are only as free as those in power are willing to tolerate you to be. The minute your freedom becomes a problem it's just a matter of hiring/bribing/indoctrinating/terrorising goons into taking your freedom or your life from you. That's what power is. But on the bright side, the absolute worst thing they can do is take your life from you and that's going to happen sooner or later anyway. None of it matters on this pale blue dot. Enjoy what you can out of life while you can.
How much money do I get for each pic I send them?
Rofl - you mean how much money is the government going to bill you the taxpayer for, for each picture. I figure $3 million per picture is a fair estimate.
we don't have a right to any particular mode of transportation
You have the right to every possible mode of transportation including ones that haven't even been invented yet, unless a law bars you from it. America started doing it wrong with the "Bill of Rights", and somehow you have gotten it into your heads that you need laws to grant you rights. No, laws take things away. They never give things - except to the government. By default you have the right to absolutely everything except what law prohibits you from doing. Even your "Bill of Rights" is a mistake because now you have lawyers and politicians arguing and nit-picking over words, trying to twist the meaning of those words to take things away from you. At one point it will have been better had it not been written because that same "Bill of Rights" will be used to enslave you. And if not, then there's always international law.
On the other hand there ARE laws that prevent the owner of the mode of transport from barring you from using it on the basis of color, religion, sex, etc. In the case of public transport the vehicle is designed to be used by the public, which includes you.
IANAL but
I believe that practicing law without a license is a crime in some jurisdictions too. You admitted you are not a lawyer, and yet you go on and offer legal advice...
have the right to refuse service to you as well.
IANAL but in the case of public transport, they have to make a pretty strong case that you are breaking the law or endangering others. Innocent until proven guilty and all that. Just because the TSA (and I love the abuse these words get nowadays) "out of an abundance of caution" thinks you are carrying a bomb does not mean that you are carrying a bomb.
No, but moving around from place to place IS a right.
Seems you don't understand the whole concept of "habeus corpus", people being allowed to go about their affairs without being searched or having their posessions seized, people not having to explain themselves to authority, etc. You know, all those hallmarks of a free society. No, it seems you think people are restricted to only those specific rights that are written down, and even these are modified over time. People must do as they are told, obtain permits and permissions, and be suspect of (insert crime here, but terrorism is vague enough that it will do nicely) if they do not conform. These are the hallmarks of a society of serfs, which is what the US has become in a surprisingly short time, in less than my lifetime in fact. Today there are children born who will never know the freedom I enjoyed only 30 years ago. I'm now glad that I don't live in the US. You have become everything you said the Soviets were.
To be fair you have to remember that this is the guy who mumbled his way through his oath of office. And you thought it was cute at the time.
It wasnt nearly at the scale of what it is today.
You're right. It used to be everybody, and now it's only 70-odd percent. Come on - everyone had mix tapes, and everyone made a copy for the car.
Radios and records in general, sounded pretty poor.
But that's all you had, and that's all anyone else had. So we didn't really care about the sound quality. Your stuff sounded just as crappy as everyone else's. The trick was to stop the recording before the dumb DJ started speaking.
I think one major difference was that tapes and especially recordings from the radio sounded pretty poor (especially second and third generation copies) - and tapes wear out.
Sorry but I couldn't resist countering that today, it's the music itself that sounds pretty poor and the songs soon wear out.
Copyright infringement went mainstream in 1998-2002
Eh? I guess you're too young to remember casette tapes and taping songs from the radio, or using dual tape machines to copy a buddy's tapes. It was pretty mainstream in the 1960's and 70's too. Not everything has happened in recent history, young man.