Every working small-dish is grounded, if they didn't bond outside or place it on a metal surface, then yeah the receiver is providing the ground, very bad if the dish builds a sudden charge (lightning lights up the coax cable.) Definitely SAT gets a much better signal, with a better ground. However to best protect the people/equipment I would think you would want something else to be your lightning rod. IE another structure higher up, with a better ground. Making your sat the best grounded path just intuitively seams like something to avoid when lightning is around.
voltage problems cleared up after I added an 8-foot vertical ground rod to the system.
Living in AZ, I can tell you all our radio towers, after installed, are then prepared with a large bag of salt then soaked deep into the ground with several waterings to get this good ground (and repeated every few years.)
However you should realize that current takes the path of least resistance. So by having the best ground path, I hope you have the best surge suppressor close by (IE not a 100' of 14G ground wire away from your ground), cause more of any surge is now coming your way (IMHO). The earth ground is mostly their to protect people, not equipment. IE if your computer has no earth ground path nearby, it wont care if their is a brief 1000Volt offset between earth ground, and the computer ground, as long as the computer ground, and line stay 120Volt apart. Now if a person is touching a metal desk, touching the computer, your body has a capacitance that would love to be charged by any spike... So having the best ground, will make your house safer for people. But may make your house the "lightning rod" of the neighborhood for your electronics.
you're pushing lots of electricity to the grid during the day and pulling a lot at night.
currently power generation is more valuable during the day, because thats when it is most used (especially in A/C dominated CA.) That is the likely reason for a retail price compensation OK for solar generated by day. The solar is likely displacing more pricey natural gas, for cheaper coal/nuclear. Also possibly reducing net line load from the factory during peak draw...
you bastard, all that exercise will likely make you live a longer more active life. You propose millions of people doing this? Or do you plan to start running them over with your SUV to save the earth? Not to mention all the extra methane produced from all these extra people being active, and farting. (also all the extra food consumed is all being raised burning tons of petrol products.)
the wording (didn't RTFA) may add some belief. I have lost a laptop in the airport and never recovered it. IE, the screen broke (usefulness gone = lost) It was never recovered (all data was backed up+cost more to repair than a new one) so I never recovered any thing. More dead from use than lost/stolen seams likely to me. If 600,000 laptops were stolen by travelers from travelers, it is clear most laptops used by travelers must already be stolen once. Therefore I can only conclude that only a few hundred laptops are stolen from their legit owners per year, the rest is just thief on thief crime.
make no sense if you live in an area that hard freezes
see: Antifreeze Living in one of those few areas, maybe I can't say how much effort it takes others. I get about 10 hard freeze nights a year, I simply plug in a (normally solar powered) 30 Watt pump to cycle through the home built system on those nights. If I instead got hard freeze weeks, The extent of the system change would be to add a $100 heat exchanger, a second $110 45 Watt solar panel, and a second $30 pump, as well as add antifreeze to this now separate loop (then no house power).
cost about $3K plus specialized installation
wow, my DIY system cost $3k, without the extra $250 to make it northern worthy. and only saves $30 a month (at last years electric prices.) So A 10 year (more likely 5) pay off isn't worth it?
(a large percentage of the US)
while maybe most of the US land, 36% of the population is considered in the south, throw in California, and Arizona that raises to over 50% the population in a sufficiently sunny area (for year around use.)
with a phone running Skype for Mobile or practically any VoIP...
the trick was "switching" the only way I can think of to do this, without telco support, is if you were to call a sip provider first, for all GSM calls, and they proxy your call to the final number. Thus when WiFi comes available your sip provider gets the SIP session started, and drops the GSM call. To switch back (if trying to save GSM minutes) I would assume it would need to see the WiFi getting weak, and call on GSM, before the WiFi call was dropped, again calling the SIP capable proxy, not the end number.
just because replacing a bunch of broken windows makes society worse off, the window installer still makes out better (90% lose, 2% win) So manufacturing jobs may come back to the US, everyone else gets to buy less stuff. But that is just talking the economy, quality of life can still improve. IE it may be possible that fewer work hours + fewer toys + less entertainment$ = more sex+ more family time. (MLK isn't the only one allowed to have a dream, right?)
if your supporters have friends... Email last week that went NRA->friend of mine->me That shock my faith in Obama (not enough to go McCain though.) He can't send one of them a week. But a couple a year is all that's needed. More targeted also, since many positions piss off half the people, it may be possible to target based on a profile, and avoid sending too many facts. (not good for the public, but...)
I would add couple things (that will out cost AC, currently):
1) DC has the advantage of a simple capacitor can handle startup surges, they can be spread around easily (don't need the wire sized for the surge then.)
2) You can run higher voltages of DC, split up your battery banks/solar cells to stack appropriately. 85% efficient 96Volt to 12 Volt @ 30 amp are available. They waste no energy during no/low load situations (AC inverters that shut off are becoming available, but can be a pain) If 96Volt DC devices became high volume, all the arguments you post disappear (except I am back to needing a permit for "high voltage" wiring.)
I would add, that although their efficiency is horrible, using air powered drills is the convenient way to go. IE my 3/4 Hp 1/2" air drill, weighs less than any 1/2 HP AC drill, has more torque, and the hose is not that much different than the AC extension cord. The expanding air, cools the drill keeping it much cooler. Except that it takes a 5HP motor at the compressor to run a 3/4 HP motor. (If I can just figure out how to solar power enough stored air, then their will be little need for AC in the shop.)
legality of hitting somebody with this *after* the job offer
under the thought of, not a contract when it is signed under threat, without compensation. I follow my dads logic. When given something to sign, simply asks HR, "do I have to sign this" HR has always said yes. Then he signs without reading. I guess copys to present to a new employer would be nice. Since at my non manager level, their isn't enough money in my wallet to pay for their lawyers time. Your next employer would be the logical target.
used sourceforge until their product was ready, then moved it onto their own site, changing the product
that doesn't sound like a GPL violation. IE the copyright owners can dual license their code, snd even pull the GPL license.) So if they weren't getting significant help from outside developers on sourceforge, then you remove (or pay the developer for a license) any outside contributions, and re-license the app. If you downloaded the GPL'd code, your still welcome to re-open the project on sourceforge.
I wasn't too impressed with that document, a little light on sources, and presented in a manner to twist the math even though thats not necessary. More importantly that math only applies to grid connect systems, this question is about a building with no grid power, and light power demands. I bought a 45 Watt system from harbor freight, for $120 only missing a battery, has 12 Volt lights, controller, etc. For a 120 V solution, I would need a $100 permit, $80 of wire, to get inside the building (next to my house with grid power.) A property with no existing grid power system to backbone off would be out thousands of dollars to connect, then a minimum monthly payment of maybe $20 for life.
man, all those games got prime product placement in a new game, and haven't paid for it? Damn right the studios need to pull this game until those old games pay Tri Synergy for the right to have that product placement in their new game.
seriously, I wonder how much they would have had to pay for the rights to these scenes? Obviously it made at least 2 reporters dust off their old games, and put a few games back in the highlight for another 5 minutes (this time for free.) This was too well handled for a budget marketing dept to have pulled off, otherwise I'd be reaching for the tinfoil hat.
should be smart enough to install their own distro. XP SP2 CDs are plentiful
yes, but drivers aren't. If you are smart enough to build your own drivers, it'll only cost you $2400 for the MSDN universal subscription (lowest sub to allow driver development.)
legally, (from wikipedia) the crime of sexual harassment is deemed to have occurred when the conduct is unwelcome and when a reasonable person would have considered such conduct sexual. (in the US)
HR/companies will act on what ever could "bother someone" to avoid the "sexually hostile work environment" presumably because with a "hostile work environment" a class action suit would b e possible from a single illegal incident.
so it takes unwelcome conduct (ie bothers someone) to be illegal, but almost every company will have some policy allowing them to discipline or fire you for any conduct that "could bother someone"
Never really bothered me, but did show me that sexism and sexual harassment rules are applied differently to men than to women.
You pretty much summed up harassment, since it is defined by what bothers others. It is treated equally when complaints are filed. IE men never complain about harassment (and trained by society to not complain about these type issues), so their opinions don't merit the same consideration (because were not bothered.) Of course in practice complaints by guys are treated differently, but that falls outside of the 99% of harassment complaints.
but he was smart enough to understand the proof. 1) don't waste your time asking, when it makes no difference if it is true; and more important stuff needs done first. (re-visit when more convenient.) 2) if you don't even understand the alleged fact, then you won't understand the proof. So first understand the statement/problem, then you can worry about how it could be (un)true. That applies more to those who have made up their minds something/someone is wrong before they even have most of the picture.
is it the "overdose of skepticism", or merely how one presents that skepticism that is obnoxious?
step 1) of skepticism training needs to be how and when to question authority. IE I work with a engineer who I don't trust a single thing he says. As long as it is not a safety hazard I will go along with whatever his theory is, right up to the point it becomes either 1) unsafe. 2) I have a proof, or another solution.
step 2) along the lines of "how to win a argument" (if I ever read that book, I might even recommend it)
step 3) now you can teach a hefty dose of skepticism.
I know it's a joke because I have been to the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. They have never had a trace of rain in the last 25 years (recorded history.) They (Chileans) will all tell you they can take you to where they staged the moon landing, and they mean it (they believe their telling the truth anyway.) Hard to believe their is a place with 0 discernible life, not even any mold to be found.
I think the confusion is the relationship of vegetable oil and biodiesel. And that it takes methanol, and lie (to correct the acidity of the vegetable oil) to convert from vegetable to bio-diesiel. of course the methanol is a catalyst, so then you can either directly sell the by-product, or add energy to get back your methanol.
Also I don't think all diesel engines are good donors to be converted to the burning of vegetable oils (or even mixes of vegetable oil.) I know of one person who was mixing just 2-3%, but without correcting PH of the used oil, it burned the valves (I guess the different viscosity is important too.)
my only point is, complete DIY solutions are risky, unless your really though in your research. And professional solutions are expensive, to the point of being barely worth the cost. (and the DIY solutions for sale, fall in the middle somewhere)
they are more about making sure their is a smooth flow across the airfoils to generate down force. Since these cars are race inspired where cornering at 100+ mph speeds are realistic, and trade-off of higher friction losses is worth it (except nascar avoiding time at a slow speed is more important than top speed, in racing) Agreed that the compensation affect is probably the main draw for off track purchasers.
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Every working small-dish is grounded, if they didn't bond outside or place it on a metal surface, then yeah the receiver is providing the ground, very bad if the dish builds a sudden charge (lightning lights up the coax cable.)
Definitely SAT gets a much better signal, with a better ground. However to best protect the people/equipment I would think you would want something else to be your lightning rod. IE another structure higher up, with a better ground. Making your sat the best grounded path just intuitively seams like something to avoid when lightning is around.
Living in AZ, I can tell you all our radio towers, after installed, are then prepared with a large bag of salt then soaked deep into the ground with several waterings to get this good ground (and repeated every few years.)
However you should realize that current takes the path of least resistance. So by having the best ground path, I hope you have the best surge suppressor close by (IE not a 100' of 14G ground wire away from your ground), cause more of any surge is now coming your way (IMHO). The earth ground is mostly their to protect people, not equipment. IE if your computer has no earth ground path nearby, it wont care if their is a brief 1000Volt offset between earth ground, and the computer ground, as long as the computer ground, and line stay 120Volt apart. Now if a person is touching a metal desk, touching the computer, your body has a capacitance that would love to be charged by any spike... So having the best ground, will make your house safer for people. But may make your house the "lightning rod" of the neighborhood for your electronics.
currently power generation is more valuable during the day, because thats when it is most used (especially in A/C dominated CA.)
That is the likely reason for a retail price compensation OK for solar generated by day. The solar is likely displacing more pricey natural gas, for cheaper coal/nuclear. Also possibly reducing net line load from the factory during peak draw...
you bastard, all that exercise will likely make you live a longer more active life. You propose millions of people doing this? Or do you plan to start running them over with your SUV to save the earth? Not to mention all the extra methane produced from all these extra people being active, and farting. (also all the extra food consumed is all being raised burning tons of petrol products.)
the wording (didn't RTFA) may add some belief. I have lost a laptop in the airport and never recovered it. IE, the screen broke (usefulness gone = lost) It was never recovered (all data was backed up+cost more to repair than a new one) so I never recovered any thing.
More dead from use than lost/stolen seams likely to me.
If 600,000 laptops were stolen by travelers from travelers, it is clear most laptops used by travelers must already be stolen once. Therefore I can only conclude that only a few hundred laptops are stolen from their legit owners per year, the rest is just thief on thief crime.
see: Antifreeze
Living in one of those few areas, maybe I can't say how much effort it takes others. I get about 10 hard freeze nights a year, I simply plug in a (normally solar powered) 30 Watt pump to cycle through the home built system on those nights. If I instead got hard freeze weeks, The extent of the system change would be to add a $100 heat exchanger, a second $110 45 Watt solar panel, and a second $30 pump, as well as add antifreeze to this now separate loop (then no house power).
wow, my DIY system cost $3k, without the extra $250 to make it northern worthy. and only saves $30 a month (at last years electric prices.) So A 10 year (more likely 5) pay off isn't worth it?
while maybe most of the US land, 36% of the population is considered in the south, throw in California, and Arizona that raises to over 50% the population in a sufficiently sunny area (for year around use.)
the trick was "switching" the only way I can think of to do this, without telco support, is if you were to call a sip provider first, for all GSM calls, and they proxy your call to the final number. Thus when WiFi comes available your sip provider gets the SIP session started, and drops the GSM call. To switch back (if trying to save GSM minutes) I would assume it would need to see the WiFi getting weak, and call on GSM, before the WiFi call was dropped, again calling the SIP capable proxy, not the end number.
So manufacturing jobs may come back to the US, everyone else gets to buy less stuff. But that is just talking the economy, quality of life can still improve. IE it may be possible that fewer work hours + fewer toys + less entertainment$ = more sex+ more family time. (MLK isn't the only one allowed to have a dream, right?)
He can't send one of them a week. But a couple a year is all that's needed. More targeted also, since many positions piss off half the people, it may be possible to target based on a profile, and avoid sending too many facts. (not good for the public, but...)
I would add couple things (that will out cost AC, currently):
1) DC has the advantage of a simple capacitor can handle startup surges, they can be spread around easily (don't need the wire sized for the surge then.)
2) You can run higher voltages of DC, split up your battery banks/solar cells to stack appropriately. 85% efficient 96Volt to 12 Volt @ 30 amp are available. They waste no energy during no/low load situations (AC inverters that shut off are becoming available, but can be a pain) If 96Volt DC devices became high volume, all the arguments you post disappear (except I am back to needing a permit for "high voltage" wiring.)
I would add, that although their efficiency is horrible, using air powered drills is the convenient way to go. IE my 3/4 Hp 1/2" air drill, weighs less than any 1/2 HP AC drill, has more torque, and the hose is not that much different than the AC extension cord. The expanding air, cools the drill keeping it much cooler. Except that it takes a 5HP motor at the compressor to run a 3/4 HP motor. (If I can just figure out how to solar power enough stored air, then their will be little need for AC in the shop.)
I guess copys to present to a new employer would be nice. Since at my non manager level, their isn't enough money in my wallet to pay for their lawyers time. Your next employer would be the logical target.
I wasn't too impressed with that document, a little light on sources, and presented in a manner to twist the math even though thats not necessary.
More importantly that math only applies to grid connect systems, this question is about a building with no grid power, and light power demands. I bought a 45 Watt system from harbor freight, for $120 only missing a battery, has 12 Volt lights, controller, etc. For a 120 V solution, I would need a $100 permit, $80 of wire, to get inside the building (next to my house with grid power.) A property with no existing grid power system to backbone off would be out thousands of dollars to connect, then a minimum monthly payment of maybe $20 for life.
man, all those games got prime product placement in a new game, and haven't paid for it? Damn right the studios need to pull this game until those old games pay Tri Synergy for the right to have that product placement in their new game.
seriously, I wonder how much they would have had to pay for the rights to these scenes? Obviously it made at least 2 reporters dust off their old games, and put a few games back in the highlight for another 5 minutes (this time for free.)
This was too well handled for a budget marketing dept to have pulled off, otherwise I'd be reaching for the tinfoil hat.
legally, (from wikipedia) the crime of sexual harassment is deemed to have occurred when the conduct is unwelcome and when a reasonable person would have considered such conduct sexual. (in the US)
HR/companies will act on what ever could "bother someone" to avoid the "sexually hostile work environment" presumably because with a "hostile work environment" a class action suit would b e possible from a single illegal incident.
so it takes unwelcome conduct (ie bothers someone) to be illegal, but almost every company will have some policy allowing them to discipline or fire you for any conduct that "could bother someone"
according to the article, that makes you a woman. whay you reading slashdot, did they block access to facebook at your work?
(ducks)
instead of ssh, synergy2.sourceforge.net I use this plus a EEE pc + DPG-1200 (dlink wireless video device)
zvbox would have been better, since my Tivo could then cache Netflix movies, and turn off the pc. it's definitly more costly.
but he was smart enough to understand the proof.
1) don't waste your time asking, when it makes no difference if it is true; and more important stuff needs done first. (re-visit when more convenient.)
2) if you don't even understand the alleged fact, then you won't understand the proof. So first understand the statement/problem, then you can worry about how it could be (un)true. That applies more to those who have made up their minds something/someone is wrong before they even have most of the picture.
is it the "overdose of skepticism", or merely how one presents that skepticism that is obnoxious?
step 1) of skepticism training needs to be how and when to question authority.
IE I work with a engineer who I don't trust a single thing he says. As long as it is not a safety hazard I will go along with whatever his theory is, right up to the point it becomes either 1) unsafe. 2) I have a proof, or another solution.
step 2) along the lines of "how to win a argument" (if I ever read that book, I might even recommend it)
step 3) now you can teach a hefty dose of skepticism.
I know it's a joke because I have been to the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. They have never had a trace of rain in the last 25 years (recorded history.) They (Chileans) will all tell you they can take you to where they staged the moon landing, and they mean it (they believe their telling the truth anyway.) Hard to believe their is a place with 0 discernible life, not even any mold to be found.
I think the confusion is the relationship of vegetable oil and biodiesel. And that it takes methanol, and lie (to correct the acidity of the vegetable oil) to convert from vegetable to bio-diesiel. of course the methanol is a catalyst, so then you can either directly sell the by-product, or add energy to get back your methanol.
Also I don't think all diesel engines are good donors to be converted to the burning of vegetable oils (or even mixes of vegetable oil.)
I know of one person who was mixing just 2-3%, but without correcting PH of the used oil, it burned the valves (I guess the different viscosity is important too.)
my only point is, complete DIY solutions are risky, unless your really though in your research. And professional solutions are expensive, to the point of being barely worth the cost.
(and the DIY solutions for sale, fall in the middle somewhere)