I've avoided a crash that way myself. A large dual trailer truck suddenly switched lanes without seeing me. I was able to accelerate around the truck. Slowing down wouldn't have worked, as I was right beside the cab of the truck and likely wouldn't have been able to brake in time.
Specifically, Greenpeace (real quote), said: " At a time when it is universally recognized that we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Greenpeace considers it ridiculous to use resources and billions of euros on this project"
You know, because it would be horrible to have this as an emmissions-free source of energy. Incredible.
Green Peacers have never been the type to use calm logic. It is nuclear, therefore it is bad.
The whole article is a troll by WSJ; they're in cahoots with the crazy religious "right" and like to bash scientists, because this administration has angered the scientific community, so the GOP is in attack mode now on science and everything related; I saw a similar article the other day.
Uh, no they aren't. The WSJ is one of the finest publication in its own area (business news and analysis). Their Personal Journal (which contained this article) is just your average irrerevant newspaper section.
They aren't in cahoots with the crazy religious right. I read it daily, and I've never even seen an article involving religion. Of course it slants right wing, because it is pro-business, but to accuse the Journal of religious pandering is unfounded.
It's a pretty big difference. The Earth was shown to be round in ancient times rather than Descarte's era of the Enlightenment. It's like attributing geometry to Newton instead of Euclid.
Less dense materials rise in a fluid. Didn't you read anything about buoyancy in 2nd grade?
Hydrogen and helium compose a good chunk of the upper atmosphere. Because they are lighter. They also leak out into space. Again, because they are lighter than oxygen or nitrogen.
You need tight field lines to get coronal discharge - and if you use them, you'll probably see lightning coming from it in the dark. Tight field lines generally require fine wires. Also, the glow will be unicolor unless you outgas different gasses from your saber.
Not that I'd recommend using fluorescent light tubes filled with anything - that's a shatter risk. And while tritium isn't dangerous in most situations, that much tritium in a fragile container is asking for trouble - getting that much on your skin (where some may soak in) and in the air (which you'll breathe), you'll probably get a couple years to a couple decades of background radiation equivalent (based on the fact that drinking an entire tritium rifle sight is a two years dose).
If you are outdoors, you would probably be just fine. Tritium, after all, is hydrogen. It will rapidly ascend through the atmosphere. If it is inhaled, it is not metabolized by the body or taken into the bloodstream in significant quantities, so no huge problem there. The main with radioactivity is when you inhale a solid dust, and the material sits in your lungs, irradiating them for years on end. Tritium does not do this.
Also, the radiation can't penetrate the epidermis, which is a plus.
Uh, take a business class. Shareholders want profit. Anything else is contract infringement and can (and very often does) result in a shareholder's class action lawsuit.
We are talking about for-profit, publically traded companies. If shareholders want charity for its own sake, they can donate their gains to a nonprofit cause.
Europe's corporate regulations and owner's rights are much the same as the U.S. Management of European corporations are also charged with maximizing profit for their owners.
Because their corporate charter is a social contract, issued in the expectation of receiving some societal benefit, like employment for citizens.
No, it isn't. In the US, a publically traded corporation exists solely to produce the most profits possible for its shareholders within the law. Crown corporations 200 years ago may have existed to fulfill some national need. But corporate charters today are granted just to enhance economic growth.
Hundreds of thousands were being killed every month by the Japanese occupation. Such bombing brought the war to an end *years* more quickly that a bombing campaign that only targeted military facilities, thus saving thousands of lives.
Do a google for "Operation Olympic" and see how necessary Hiroshima and Nagasaki were.
28 billion LY is the diameter of the observable universe. But the universe is actually many, many times that size. Space itself, not matter, is expanding. If you graph recessional velocities of other galaxies versus their distance, you will see a very linear scatterplot showing that distant galaxies receed faster than closer ones.
Space is expanding by about 75 kilometers per second per megaparsec (give or take quite a bit. This means that much of the universe is not visible to us, as it is effectively expanding at superluminal velocies. By cancelling out units, we can get what is called the Hubble constant in inverse seconds. By taking the inverse of that, we get the age of the universe. If we assume 75 km/s, we get a value of about 13.25 billion years, if I remember correctly.
The age of the universe is the amount of time it took for those galaxies to move from the center of the universe, in our case, Earth, to their present locations.
In concurrence with the other poster, get Vonage. It really is wonderful. Unlimited local and long distance for $24.99. I've never had dropped calls and the clarity is just as good as a traditional land line. Comcast is already offering VOIP with their cable for $39.99, but why would you get that when you can get Vonage for much cheaper.
DVD is not twice NTSC resolution. DVD resolution is 720x480 NTSC or 720x576 PAL. NTSC resolution is the same, 720x480, although a few lines are always cut off.
Yeah, the bobbing up is only slight. Also, if the Greenland ice melted, the bobbing up would be only slight and take a long, long time. Since Greenland is land, it won't affect ocean levels at all.
He's right. There have actually been small earthquakes caused by things such as dam construction. The rock underneath us is under a lot of compression. A large reduction in weight can sometimes cause the crust to adjust. It won't be enough to cause the plate to sink into the mantle noticably deeper, though.
Plate flotation has quite a bit to do with geology. To take an example, in ocean-continent subduction zones, the oceanic plate will always be subducted under the continental plate because the oceanic plate is denser and floats lower in the plastic mantle.
The only time I have seen CRTs with burn-ins is on ATM screens (the same bank screen for years on end). You cannot burn in your CRT through normal television viewing.
I used to own a thirty five year old tv that had no burn-in, despite being used daily.
More like 900 times a 9R. A change of one will produce rougly thirty times more energy.
The logarithmic aspect of it is actually how much it causes the seismograph to move, not the amount of energy released. This most recent quake caused a 600 mile wide section of the Earth's crust to move 10-15 feet. A magnitude 11 earthquake is just not possible, at least with normal plate tectonics.
However I have tried hard to switch to OpenOffice. Even our business people have tried to use it. And the sad truth is that it just sucks. There is no way in hell that OpenOffice competes with Microsoft Office for usability. The PowerPoint clone is especially weak: in PP, common buttons like "make the font bigger" are prominently displayed, while in OO you have to hunt hard for the button in the customization menus, and even then it doesn't work right.
I agree. OOo is almost completely unusable for me. In my opinion, it tries to be too feature rich and tries to "do" too much for the user. It ends up being just annoying as hell with such features as insane autoformatting that is difficult to completely turn off. It reminds me of Word 97.
That is why I use AbiWord. It is a tiny, non-bloated program of 17.7 megabytes, and fulfills almost anyone's word processing requirements perfectly while leaving everything in the user's control.
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I've avoided a crash that way myself. A large dual trailer truck suddenly switched lanes without seeing me. I was able to accelerate around the truck. Slowing down wouldn't have worked, as I was right beside the cab of the truck and likely wouldn't have been able to brake in time.
Fullmetal is quite kiddish. Of the new shows, I am only a fan of Samurai Champloo, which is near-Bebop level, being from the same guy and everything.
Specifically, Greenpeace (real quote), said: " At a time when it is universally recognized that we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Greenpeace considers it ridiculous to use resources and billions of euros on this project"
You know, because it would be horrible to have this as an emmissions-free source of energy. Incredible.
Green Peacers have never been the type to use calm logic. It is nuclear, therefore it is bad.
How does it "loose" power? Do such clocks attach batteries to arrows and shoot them, or something?
The whole article is a troll by WSJ; they're in cahoots with the crazy religious "right" and like to bash scientists, because this administration has angered the scientific community, so the GOP is in attack mode now on science and everything related; I saw a similar article the other day.
Uh, no they aren't. The WSJ is one of the finest publication in its own area (business news and analysis). Their Personal Journal (which contained this article) is just your average irrerevant newspaper section.
They aren't in cahoots with the crazy religious right. I read it daily, and I've never even seen an article involving religion. Of course it slants right wing, because it is pro-business, but to accuse the Journal of religious pandering is unfounded.
It's a pretty big difference. The Earth was shown to be round in ancient times rather than Descarte's era of the Enlightenment. It's like attributing geometry to Newton instead of Euclid.
Most schools aren't associted with or running hospitals.
Most state colleges and notable private schools run hospitals.
Less dense materials rise in a fluid. Didn't you read anything about buoyancy in 2nd grade?
Hydrogen and helium compose a good chunk of the upper atmosphere. Because they are lighter. They also leak out into space. Again, because they are lighter than oxygen or nitrogen.
You need tight field lines to get coronal discharge - and if you use them, you'll probably see lightning coming from it in the dark. Tight field lines generally require fine wires. Also, the glow will be unicolor unless you outgas different gasses from your saber.
Not that I'd recommend using fluorescent light tubes filled with anything - that's a shatter risk. And while tritium isn't dangerous in most situations, that much tritium in a fragile container is asking for trouble - getting that much on your skin (where some may soak in) and in the air (which you'll breathe), you'll probably get a couple years to a couple decades of background radiation equivalent (based on the fact that drinking an entire tritium rifle sight is a two years dose).
If you are outdoors, you would probably be just fine. Tritium, after all, is hydrogen. It will rapidly ascend through the atmosphere. If it is inhaled, it is not metabolized by the body or taken into the bloodstream in significant quantities, so no huge problem there. The main with radioactivity is when you inhale a solid dust, and the material sits in your lungs, irradiating them for years on end. Tritium does not do this.
Also, the radiation can't penetrate the epidermis, which is a plus.
Uh, take a business class. Shareholders want profit. Anything else is contract infringement and can (and very often does) result in a shareholder's class action lawsuit.
We are talking about for-profit, publically traded companies. If shareholders want charity for its own sake, they can donate their gains to a nonprofit cause.
Europe's corporate regulations and owner's rights are much the same as the U.S. Management of European corporations are also charged with maximizing profit for their owners.
Because their corporate charter is a social contract, issued in the expectation of receiving some societal benefit, like employment for citizens.
No, it isn't. In the US, a publically traded corporation exists solely to produce the most profits possible for its shareholders within the law. Crown corporations 200 years ago may have existed to fulfill some national need. But corporate charters today are granted just to enhance economic growth.
Hundreds of thousands were being killed every month by the Japanese occupation. Such bombing brought the war to an end *years* more quickly that a bombing campaign that only targeted military facilities, thus saving thousands of lives.
Do a google for "Operation Olympic" and see how necessary Hiroshima and Nagasaki were.
No. This is an electric car. Electric cars have been around for over a century, and they have always gotten unparalleled gasoline mileage.
As the name implies, they often require electricity. That comes from coal, oil, or natural gas, typically.
28 billion LY is the diameter of the observable universe. But the universe is actually many, many times that size. Space itself, not matter, is expanding. If you graph recessional velocities of other galaxies versus their distance, you will see a very linear scatterplot showing that distant galaxies receed faster than closer ones.
Space is expanding by about 75 kilometers per second per megaparsec (give or take quite a bit. This means that much of the universe is not visible to us, as it is effectively expanding at superluminal velocies. By cancelling out units, we can get what is called the Hubble constant in inverse seconds. By taking the inverse of that, we get the age of the universe. If we assume 75 km/s, we get a value of about 13.25 billion years, if I remember correctly.
The age of the universe is the amount of time it took for those galaxies to move from the center of the universe, in our case, Earth, to their present locations.
In concurrence with the other poster, get Vonage. It really is wonderful. Unlimited local and long distance for $24.99. I've never had dropped calls and the clarity is just as good as a traditional land line. Comcast is already offering VOIP with their cable for $39.99, but why would you get that when you can get Vonage for much cheaper.
DVD is not twice NTSC resolution. DVD resolution is 720x480 NTSC or 720x576 PAL. NTSC resolution is the same, 720x480, although a few lines are always cut off.
I'd like to see more speed, but capacity hardly matters to anybody these days, now that 200+ gig drives can be had for ridiculously cheap.
One time I accidentally hit "fast forward" and it got caught in a servo motor.
Yeah, the bobbing up is only slight. Also, if the Greenland ice melted, the bobbing up would be only slight and take a long, long time. Since Greenland is land, it won't affect ocean levels at all.
He's right. There have actually been small earthquakes caused by things such as dam construction. The rock underneath us is under a lot of compression. A large reduction in weight can sometimes cause the crust to adjust. It won't be enough to cause the plate to sink into the mantle noticably deeper, though.
Plate flotation has quite a bit to do with geology. To take an example, in ocean-continent subduction zones, the oceanic plate will always be subducted under the continental plate because the oceanic plate is denser and floats lower in the plastic mantle.
The only time I have seen CRTs with burn-ins is on ATM screens (the same bank screen for years on end). You cannot burn in your CRT through normal television viewing.
I used to own a thirty five year old tv that had no burn-in, despite being used daily.
More like 900 times a 9R. A change of one will produce rougly thirty times more energy.
The logarithmic aspect of it is actually how much it causes the seismograph to move, not the amount of energy released. This most recent quake caused a 600 mile wide section of the Earth's crust to move 10-15 feet. A magnitude 11 earthquake is just not possible, at least with normal plate tectonics.
I wonder if this will be any worse than their previous integrations with IE.
However I have tried hard to switch to OpenOffice. Even our business people have tried to use it. And the sad truth is that it just sucks. There is no way in hell that OpenOffice competes with Microsoft Office for usability. The PowerPoint clone is especially weak: in PP, common buttons like "make the font bigger" are prominently displayed, while in OO you have to hunt hard for the button in the customization menus, and even then it doesn't work right.
I agree. OOo is almost completely unusable for me. In my opinion, it tries to be too feature rich and tries to "do" too much for the user. It ends up being just annoying as hell with such features as insane autoformatting that is difficult to completely turn off. It reminds me of Word 97.
That is why I use AbiWord. It is a tiny, non-bloated program of 17.7 megabytes, and fulfills almost anyone's word processing requirements perfectly while leaving everything in the user's control.