a fluctuating magnetic field created by an AC current through a solenoid inducing power in another solenoid.... Anyone care to enlighten me as to whether or not this is actually new?
killing someone is still going to have an effect on you.
May I suggest you visit some of the sites that host footage of the "war"... like liveleak, etc? There you will find out that "killing someone" is about as traumatic as watching a sporting event, complete with cheers, laughter and jokes. I can imagine someone yelling "fuck yeah" in a bunker in Nevada just as they do on a rooftop in Iraq.
It's easy to be smug when you work in the health industry
Actually I don't work in the health industry any more. I make far more money on Wall St., and no stock ever called me at 3 am because of a bout of diarrhea or a runny nose.
Not really. It's barely worth my time trying to dig up enough iron, aluminum and other metals, as well as finding the oil and manufacturing the plastics, in order to build my own automobile. I would spend my lifetime doing this, and would nowhere near approach the quality of car available on the market today. I have other things to do.
However the perceived cost of a "song" - especially in the information age where anything digital can be copied an amazing number of times for virtually no cost - is very close to zero. Therefore that's exactly what I am willing to pay for it. Sure, the band had to spend a few weeks writing the thing, and a lifetime learning to play their instruments properly - that's why they get to charge willing customers for concert performances. Just like I get to charge my patients for the skills I have honed over the decades. However I don't become an overnight multi-millionaire just because I made a successful diagnosis with a single patient. It takes work, you know? The "entertainment" industry is long overdue for a "correction".
I can think of a lot of times a group of soldiers might want to know what was going on within a mile of their location, say, over near that machinegun nest....
Are you NUTS? Yes the climate in the border area of North Dakota is the same as the border area of Manitoba... however if you want to compare Florida's climate to Yellowknife's, I wish you luck.
Yes it is, at any speed you're likely to witness. Read a little more - "until someone PROVES that something very similar to Darwinism only with a little twist we hadn't thought about is correct, Darwinism stands.".
Relativity does NOT disprove Newtonian mechanics. It ADDS to it by being a closer approximation to the truth in special circumstances./(sqrt(1-(v^2/C^2))) is 1, or very close to 1 at low speeds. If you divide by 1, you change nothing. All of Newton's formulas are still valid, until you approach important fractions of the speed of light. I would argue that the difference introduced by relativity at everyday speeds is far less than the error introduced by your measuring method.
Is Darwinism so sacrosanct that it can never be questioned?
No, it can't be "questioned". It's science. It's fact. You can't question fact. While Darwinism may not be the be-all and end all, until someone PROVES that something very similar to Darwinism only with a little twist we hadn't thought about is correct, Darwinism stands. Why? Because it has been PROVEN. It's a fact of life, just like gravity.
There are questions that Darwinism can't answer. Yes, Darwinism cannot explain quantum physics, for example. Darwinism isn't too good at predicting price levels in supply and demand situations. And Darwinism really sucks for wiring your house.
Now if you fail to grasp that - it's ok. You don't HAVE to be a rational person. But there's a place for people like you. Go back to your church where you're free to contemplate your navel and convince your neighbor that your sophisticated bullshit is right and his is wrong, and stop pretending to know anything about real science.
Do you think that you know something the market doesn't?
No. I AM the market - or at least part of it. That's how I earn my living, and I'm doing quite well.
You know you can buy securities that will appreciate if the S&P 500 goes down.
Yes. Or I could just short SPY.
If the market should be priced lower based on all available information today (public and private-most likely) why isn't it?
It is. What, you expect it to fall to zero in a day? No, there's always fools prepared to bet against the market, and people like me prepared to take their money. But all of this takes time and we're limited to 9:30 to 4pm 5 days a week. However if you're having trouble understanding which way the market is headed I recommend going back to school and learning how to read a graph. So far the doom-sayers are right. Oh it will come back. One day. Couple years perhaps?
Also, I think you'll find if you look at global market indices they've all been on the decline since last fall - it's a global economy you know.
Of course it is. And the whole world needs oil. Which is why the whole world is going to the crapper. But those who have risked more will lose more, and the US economy has been dragging behind the rest of the world for quite some time now, despite deficit-funded attempts at getting it going again. Oh dear, and now the US economy is mostly based on services. People with no money do not pay for services. When the middle class goes, that will collapse too.
Certainly we have more assets than debt, although much of them are illiquid.
Oh yes, if you add up the value of all the resources in the US it's still a very rich country indeed. However if you need to pay and you're not liquid, expect 10 cents on the dollar (for argument's sake) or less for your assets.
But no, the payment will come in the form of a redistribution of wealth. Corporations that are used to borrowing capital on inflated stock prices won't be able to borrow as much, and won't be able to invest as much into growth and technology. Those same corporations also have competitors on the global market now - from BRIC, who already produce cheaper (although inferior quality) goods. What happens if BRIC manage to increase their quality at a better price than the US? No one will want US goods then.
Finally if our central bank knows when it can't let a bank collapse (Bear Sterns,) then the rest of the world knows that it can't make a credit call on US debt without destroying their own capital markets.
Doesn't it scare you that a single bank (and not the biggest!) required government intervention to prevent an economic disaster in the US? No one will make a credit call on the US. But you can bet...well no, I'm betting, that more people are going to look at the US' competitors for their manufacturing/currency needs. Dealing with the US is becoming too much of a pain in the ass - dollar wise, environmental and god knows what else legislation wise, anti-terrorist/money laundering law wise and "IP" wise. So when all that's left in the US is McDonald's (tm) restaurants, what happens?
Prices will recede before they get that high..market can't sustain the demand at such prices and you'll see oil taper off and level off somewhere in between...
I agree that increased price will, sooner or later, start to curb demand. However fuel is VERY inelastic. Yes people are starting to cut back on their "holiday driving". Yes eventually the Indian and Chinese consumer won't be able to afford to drive. However there is quite a large segment of fuel demand that is completely inelastic. The fuel needed to transport goods from A to B. The fuel needed to create electricity. The fuel needed to create fertilizers, plastics, etc. These are VERY VERY inelastic and the demand will only increase, until the last drop of fuel is gone. They are a function of population, not willful recreational activity that can be curbed.
You see fuel prices leveling off. I agree. Where? $300 a barrel? $1500 a barrel? $60 a barrel? Whoever gets this right can become rich. Personally I think we have a long way to go yet. And economies that aren't based entirely on borrowing, credit and BS are going to fare much better than those that are. The US consumer has borrowed far too much, for too long. Soon we go back to only the rich being able to drive, and the poor being poor, and the middle class won't exist anymore. You see it otherwise, fair enough. Watch the stock market over the next few months.
this is not the proper channel for discussing energy policy.
He's got you talking about it, hasn't he? How hard will it be to push congress critters for the appropriate political backing when he's already convinced half the country that he's the man to follow?
Oh he might be wrong, and he might be full of crap, but he's playing politics. And in energy, you NEED politics. Otherwise your multi billion dollar wind farm gets killed by someone who is concerned about all the sparrows getting caught up in the turbine blades... poor little birdies...
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they can't swing a dead cat without finding one.
I suggest storing the cat in a freezer next time - it will get rid of the bugs.
a fluctuating magnetic field created by an AC current through a solenoid inducing power in another solenoid .... Anyone care to enlighten me as to whether or not this is actually new?
This one kills pigeons!
killing someone is still going to have an effect on you.
May I suggest you visit some of the sites that host footage of the "war"... like liveleak, etc? There you will find out that "killing someone" is about as traumatic as watching a sporting event, complete with cheers, laughter and jokes. I can imagine someone yelling "fuck yeah" in a bunker in Nevada just as they do on a rooftop in Iraq.
Personally I will wait for their up and coming hit, "Translate Server Error"...
As a biologist I take exception to the phrase "harmless nitrates"!
It may not have anything to do with greenhouse gasses, but more nitrates in rivers and ground-water is the last thing humanity needs.
It's easy to be smug when you work in the health industry
Actually I don't work in the health industry any more. I make far more money on Wall St., and no stock ever called me at 3 am because of a bout of diarrhea or a runny nose.
Every bit of data out there is for sale at this point. Its rather disgusting.
Hmm, let's see...
Price list:
Every b $5.99
Every bit of data $7.99
bit of data $4.99
data $2.99
for sale $7.99
data out there is for sale $24.99
Man's laws are no concern of his, he has bigger fish to fry.
Yes you tell yourself that man's laws are meaningless compared to an imaginary "heaven" when the lion is chewing on your leg.
People want *everything* for free.
Not really. It's barely worth my time trying to dig up enough iron, aluminum and other metals, as well as finding the oil and manufacturing the plastics, in order to build my own automobile. I would spend my lifetime doing this, and would nowhere near approach the quality of car available on the market today. I have other things to do.
However the perceived cost of a "song" - especially in the information age where anything digital can be copied an amazing number of times for virtually no cost - is very close to zero. Therefore that's exactly what I am willing to pay for it. Sure, the band had to spend a few weeks writing the thing, and a lifetime learning to play their instruments properly - that's why they get to charge willing customers for concert performances. Just like I get to charge my patients for the skills I have honed over the decades. However I don't become an overnight multi-millionaire just because I made a successful diagnosis with a single patient. It takes work, you know? The "entertainment" industry is long overdue for a "correction".
Personally I will wait to see what netcraft has to say about that.
If your ISP isn't patched, perhaps it is time to switch.
Thanks to the "free market economy" in my capitalist country I can't switch, you insensitive clod!
Yeah and people will claim that a jew walked on water and came back from the dead. People claim all sorts of shit, really.
I can think of a lot of times a group of soldiers might want to know what was going on within a mile of their location, say, over near that machinegun nest....
(One 500lb bomb later)
WHAT machine-gun nest?
Yes, take a single state with a population of around 600k and call it "The USA".
Take canada vs. usa - the climate is the same
Are you NUTS? Yes the climate in the border area of North Dakota is the same as the border area of Manitoba... however if you want to compare Florida's climate to Yellowknife's, I wish you luck.
I was wondering who he is that his blog on this subject is so important.
More to the point, why is anyone's blog important? Like "advertising" on the internet, blogging certainly needs a healthy dose of due diligence.
In other news Budweiser has pledged 500 billion gallons of their Bud Light Lime to be poured into the oceans in the fight against global warming.
The idea was adding lime to the oceans, not horse urine.
Cry me a fucking river.
Since when did slashdot turn into a site where assholes whine about not seeing the latest over-hyped hollywood trash?
If you're a real nerd, download it and quit your whining.
One thing that I've wondered is why can't the space shuttles be refit for moon missions? I know they are designed only for low orbit.
How to answer your own question.
You mean like how Newtonian mechanics is fact?
Yes it is, at any speed you're likely to witness. Read a little more - "until someone PROVES that something very similar to Darwinism only with a little twist we hadn't thought about is correct, Darwinism stands.".
Relativity does NOT disprove Newtonian mechanics. It ADDS to it by being a closer approximation to the truth in special circumstances. /(sqrt(1-(v^2/C^2))) is 1, or very close to 1 at low speeds. If you divide by 1, you change nothing. All of Newton's formulas are still valid, until you approach important fractions of the speed of light. I would argue that the difference introduced by relativity at everyday speeds is far less than the error introduced by your measuring method.
This is all backwards and wiki should know better. The site will be more popular with less jeans.
Is Darwinism so sacrosanct that it can never be questioned?
No, it can't be "questioned". It's science. It's fact. You can't question fact. While Darwinism may not be the be-all and end all, until someone PROVES that something very similar to Darwinism only with a little twist we hadn't thought about is correct, Darwinism stands. Why? Because it has been PROVEN. It's a fact of life, just like gravity.
There are questions that Darwinism can't answer. Yes, Darwinism cannot explain quantum physics, for example. Darwinism isn't too good at predicting price levels in supply and demand situations. And Darwinism really sucks for wiring your house.
Now if you fail to grasp that - it's ok. You don't HAVE to be a rational person. But there's a place for people like you. Go back to your church where you're free to contemplate your navel and convince your neighbor that your sophisticated bullshit is right and his is wrong, and stop pretending to know anything about real science.
Do you think that you know something the market doesn't?
No. I AM the market - or at least part of it. That's how I earn my living, and I'm doing quite well.
You know you can buy securities that will appreciate if the S&P 500 goes down.
Yes. Or I could just short SPY.
If the market should be priced lower based on all available information today (public and private-most likely) why isn't it?
It is. What, you expect it to fall to zero in a day? No, there's always fools prepared to bet against the market, and people like me prepared to take their money. But all of this takes time and we're limited to 9:30 to 4pm 5 days a week. However if you're having trouble understanding which way the market is headed I recommend going back to school and learning how to read a graph. So far the doom-sayers are right. Oh it will come back. One day. Couple years perhaps?
Also, I think you'll find if you look at global market indices they've all been on the decline since last fall - it's a global economy you know.
Of course it is. And the whole world needs oil. Which is why the whole world is going to the crapper. But those who have risked more will lose more, and the US economy has been dragging behind the rest of the world for quite some time now, despite deficit-funded attempts at getting it going again. Oh dear, and now the US economy is mostly based on services. People with no money do not pay for services. When the middle class goes, that will collapse too.
Certainly we have more assets than debt, although much of them are illiquid.
Oh yes, if you add up the value of all the resources in the US it's still a very rich country indeed. However if you need to pay and you're not liquid, expect 10 cents on the dollar (for argument's sake) or less for your assets.
But no, the payment will come in the form of a redistribution of wealth. Corporations that are used to borrowing capital on inflated stock prices won't be able to borrow as much, and won't be able to invest as much into growth and technology. Those same corporations also have competitors on the global market now - from BRIC, who already produce cheaper (although inferior quality) goods. What happens if BRIC manage to increase their quality at a better price than the US? No one will want US goods then.
Finally if our central bank knows when it can't let a bank collapse (Bear Sterns,) then the rest of the world knows that it can't make a credit call on US debt without destroying their own capital markets.
Doesn't it scare you that a single bank (and not the biggest!) required government intervention to prevent an economic disaster in the US? No one will make a credit call on the US. But you can bet...well no, I'm betting, that more people are going to look at the US' competitors for their manufacturing/currency needs. Dealing with the US is becoming too much of a pain in the ass - dollar wise, environmental and god knows what else legislation wise, anti-terrorist/money laundering law wise and "IP" wise. So when all that's left in the US is McDonald's (tm) restaurants, what happens?
Prices will recede before they get that high..market can't sustain the demand at such prices and you'll see oil taper off and level off somewhere in between...
I agree that increased price will, sooner or later, start to curb demand. However fuel is VERY inelastic. Yes people are starting to cut back on their "holiday driving". Yes eventually the Indian and Chinese consumer won't be able to afford to drive. However there is quite a large segment of fuel demand that is completely inelastic. The fuel needed to transport goods from A to B. The fuel needed to create electricity. The fuel needed to create fertilizers, plastics, etc. These are VERY VERY inelastic and the demand will only increase, until the last drop of fuel is gone. They are a function of population, not willful recreational activity that can be curbed.
You see fuel prices leveling off. I agree. Where? $300 a barrel? $1500 a barrel? $60 a barrel? Whoever gets this right can become rich. Personally I think we have a long way to go yet. And economies that aren't based entirely on borrowing, credit and BS are going to fare much better than those that are. The US consumer has borrowed far too much, for too long. Soon we go back to only the rich being able to drive, and the poor being poor, and the middle class won't exist anymore. You see it otherwise, fair enough. Watch the stock market over the next few months.
this is not the proper channel for discussing energy policy.
He's got you talking about it, hasn't he? How hard will it be to push congress critters for the appropriate political backing when he's already convinced half the country that he's the man to follow?
Oh he might be wrong, and he might be full of crap, but he's playing politics. And in energy, you NEED politics. Otherwise your multi billion dollar wind farm gets killed by someone who is concerned about all the sparrows getting caught up in the turbine blades... poor little birdies...