Besides my own personal interest in fusion, what really excites me, is the chance to finally destroy Saudi Arabia
Don't worry. With sub $40 oil Saudi Arabia has far less than 5 years of cash left. OPEC is gone, US frackers keep cutting production cost quickly moving shale oil from mid-price to low-price, and so the chance of seeing 60 oil (S.A.'s break-even point at the current level of government spending) before 2020 is slim slim slim.
It's not that S.A. can't produce oil and make money at $40, it's that they can't maintain their stability spending at $40. Love them or hate them, they are a stabilizing force in the region. With them gone or impotent the region is going to change, fast.
It would be a greater pressure differential than we can do here on earth -- 1 : near zero atmos vs N : 1 atmos.
1 atmosphere of pressure is trivial.
So insanely trivial that even come free energy and a space elevator it will be cheaper to pressurize a R.O. chamber on Earth to N+14psi than it will be to lift said chamber to where there is near zero atmospheric pressure.
I am that rail thin person who everybody thinks eats 4000 calories a day.
But everybody is wrong.
I work hard at maintaining my weight.
I count calories, and, yes, when I'm out to dinner with people I can and do eat large quantities of food, but those are large quantities I've made room for in my budget.
Science says that 60 year old good-life-living rail-thin man you're using as your "evidence" is most likely just like me. Unless you've spied on him for years you have absolutely no idea what his complete dietary habits are and your presumption that his weight comes to him easy is insulting.
If you're grossly overweight it's even worse! Only the most elite athletes can liberate and metabolize adipose tissue at 1/2 that rate, and so a morbidly obese individual losing weight at such rates is burning muscle.
Losing weight is far far easier than gaining strength. If the end goal is to be a fit individual and not just skinnyfat the easiest and fastest way is to lose weight more slowly and maintain the muscle.
As I said to the other person who brought up the same point:
The mountains are not free-floating on the mantle. They are attached to the entirety of the continental plate and thus not only are they supported by the plate the mantle displacement is not solely local.
The mountains are not simply floating on the mantle. The mountains are attached to, and forced into position by, the entirety of the crustal plate. The mantle displaced is not entirely local.
The drivers will brick chips which have not violated any IP laws.
Anyone is legally free to use any USB product / vendor ID they want.
Where you violate the standard is by using an unassigned (or not assigned to you) ID and slapping a USB logo on the device.
The killer drivers are not able to see if the chip is mislabeled or if the device is inappropriately using the USB logo. In other words the drivers can kill 100% non-counterfeit, 100% legal devices.
Why, do you have research to indicate that mental toughness is such an important factor, and that amateur high school kids have more of it than professional runners ?
amateur high school kids who are raised in a culture which, from birth, will punish them for outwardly showing any sign of weakness or intolerance for pain.
Do you understand just how severe their passage-to-adulthood rituals are?
What's truly amazing is how people try so hard to find any excuse to deny the genetic evidence. "Eugenics deniers" are far worse than "climate change deniers" in that the scientific evidence for eugenics is far greater than even that for anthropomorphic global warming.
It was nice of you to completely ignore the argument for "mental toughness" AKA "I had my penis mutilated as a grown-ass man and would have lost everything had I shown any sign of discomfort during the process".
If you've never competed in serious athletics (where there are a thousand people younger, stronger, and hungry waiting for you to fail so they can take your job) breathing down your neck you might not understand just how important a skill swallowing pain is.
Imagine having enough money to buy a small aircraft (and time to get a license to fly it) OR a new luxury car, but not really feeling rich enough to justify buying both
Except for the fact this car has the performance characteristics not of a private jet, but of a $40,000 used Cessna with half the seats removed and rocks in one of the fuel tanks. Anybody who can afford this can afford a comparable fixed-wing aircraft easily.
How is 'pride' anything more than a word we give to this emotional drive to maintain status?
It appears to me that you're nitpicking on the word GPP used for being overly broad, for not digging deep enough, though you dismiss it with a quite broad wave.
War is mate competition carried out by other means. There is no other rational for it (war is always economically irrational, although this is not generally understood because it "just makes sense" to so many people that war is somehow a good idea.)
You speak in bold assertive tones about studies and ideas (including kin selection) as if they were established truths.
You claim there is no other rational reason for war, while there is an entire rich field of study on the possible motivations for war amongst humans.
For example it was Ernest Becker who (if not developed at least) popularized the (widely held today) believe that humans war for reasons chimpanzees can't. That (and I'm going to grossly oversimplify here) our death-denial systems rely on an outsider, rely on an enemy, and if one looks past the economic value of many wars (and yes war is often economically rational too) what one will find is a clash of death-denial stories.
And, yea, let's get onto that untruth - that war is somehow always economically irrational. Seizing buffer lands, trade routes, ports, or natural resources is hardly irrational.
The subsidies for fossil fuels by first-world western nations (and China) (those in a position to fund green energy technologies) are a small percentage of the total. Most fossil fuel subsidies are done by oil producing nations as a form of population pacification. The idea that these funds are available for redirection is ludicrous.
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If only in major metro areas T-Mobile has good coverage.
If always within range of an interstate AT+T will cover you well and be compatible with most European devices.
If in rural North Dakota, etc Verizon's 3G is the only game in town.
Don't worry. With sub $40 oil Saudi Arabia has far less than 5 years of cash left. OPEC is gone, US frackers keep cutting production cost quickly moving shale oil from mid-price to low-price, and so the chance of seeing 60 oil (S.A.'s break-even point at the current level of government spending) before 2020 is slim slim slim.
It's not that S.A. can't produce oil and make money at $40, it's that they can't maintain their stability spending at $40. Love them or hate them, they are a stabilizing force in the region. With them gone or impotent the region is going to change, fast.
I am that rail thin person who everybody thinks eats 4000 calories a day.
But everybody is wrong.
I work hard at maintaining my weight.
I count calories, and, yes, when I'm out to dinner with people I can and do eat large quantities of food, but those are large quantities I've made room for in my budget.
Science says that 60 year old good-life-living rail-thin man you're using as your "evidence" is most likely just like me. Unless you've spied on him for years you have absolutely no idea what his complete dietary habits are and your presumption that his weight comes to him easy is insulting.
I'm lucky?
Are you not paying attention to who you are replying to?
Only in the frame. Most the body panels are in common.
If you're grossly overweight it's even worse! Only the most elite athletes can liberate and metabolize adipose tissue at 1/2 that rate, and so a morbidly obese individual losing weight at such rates is burning muscle.
Losing weight is far far easier than gaining strength. If the end goal is to be a fit individual and not just skinnyfat the easiest and fastest way is to lose weight more slowly and maintain the muscle.
You appear to be assuming some sort of mountain which consists of only up moving plate.
As I said to the other person who brought up the same point:
The mountains are not free-floating on the mantle. They are attached to the entirety of the continental plate and thus not only are they supported by the plate the mantle displacement is not solely local.
No.
The mountains are not simply floating on the mantle. The mountains are attached to, and forced into position by, the entirety of the crustal plate. The mantle displaced is not entirely local.
At best stomach acid is the electrolyte.
grumble grumble.
The drivers will brick chips which have not violated any IP laws.
Anyone is legally free to use any USB product / vendor ID they want.
Where you violate the standard is by using an unassigned (or not assigned to you) ID and slapping a USB logo on the device.
The killer drivers are not able to see if the chip is mislabeled or if the device is inappropriately using the USB logo. In other words the drivers can kill 100% non-counterfeit, 100% legal devices.
amateur high school kids who are raised in a culture which, from birth, will punish them for outwardly showing any sign of weakness or intolerance for pain.
Do you understand just how severe their passage-to-adulthood rituals are?
It was nice of you to completely ignore the argument for "mental toughness" AKA "I had my penis mutilated as a grown-ass man and would have lost everything had I shown any sign of discomfort during the process".
If you've never competed in serious athletics (where there are a thousand people younger, stronger, and hungry waiting for you to fail so they can take your job) breathing down your neck you might not understand just how important a skill swallowing pain is.
Except for the fact this car has the performance characteristics not of a private jet, but of a $40,000 used Cessna with half the seats removed and rocks in one of the fuel tanks. Anybody who can afford this can afford a comparable fixed-wing aircraft easily.
Are you dense or are you intentionally conflating the concept of mean time to failure with guaranteed (minimum) lifetime.
How is 'pride' anything more than a word we give to this emotional drive to maintain status?
It appears to me that you're nitpicking on the word GPP used for being overly broad, for not digging deep enough, though you dismiss it with a quite broad wave.
Hardly.
How is pride anything else than a costly signal that you're virile enough?
From an evolutionary perspective that would be very meaningful.
You speak in bold assertive tones about studies and ideas (including kin selection) as if they were established truths.
You claim there is no other rational reason for war, while there is an entire rich field of study on the possible motivations for war amongst humans.
For example it was Ernest Becker who (if not developed at least) popularized the (widely held today) believe that humans war for reasons chimpanzees can't. That (and I'm going to grossly oversimplify here) our death-denial systems rely on an outsider, rely on an enemy, and if one looks past the economic value of many wars (and yes war is often economically rational too) what one will find is a clash of death-denial stories.
And, yea, let's get onto that untruth - that war is somehow always economically irrational. Seizing buffer lands, trade routes, ports, or natural resources is hardly irrational.
This kettle is calling your pot out. I'm a noob.
Show me a city where the (wild and domestic) animal biomass approaches double-digit percentages of the human biomass.
The wild animals don't tend to piss and shit birth control hormones and other still quite bioactive medications.
This.
The subsidies for fossil fuels by first-world western nations (and China) (those in a position to fund green energy technologies) are a small percentage of the total. Most fossil fuel subsidies are done by oil producing nations as a form of population pacification. The idea that these funds are available for redirection is ludicrous.
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