Same reason they can't use regular western style flush toilet: infrastructure. Building a saltwater distribution infrastructure doesn't make much sense, because saltwater is very corrosive and not useful for much. Conventional water and sewage distribution and treatment would be cheaper AND better, but of course they can't build that either.
I think the quest for a better toilet may be misguided. Sure, maybe the foundation pulls a rabbit out of a hat and makes a toilet which doesn't require external infrastructure (water in, sewage out, chemical replenishment, electricity, gas, oil, a regular honey truck route). But then they've solved just one problem. All the other problems resulting from an inability to build civil infrastructure are still there, and no less pressing.
There never was! There are new efficiency standards, which both GE and Osram Sylvania say they can meet with new incandescents.
Nope. GE said that, then abandoned their efforts shortly after the law passed (conspiracy theorists: have fun). Phillips is using halogen capsules (not quite the same, but still better than CFL). I don't know about Osram Sylvania.
I thought I just read a story here the other day about the DOJ going after sites that link to copyrighted materials
The DOJ is acting extrajudicially, though possibly with the figleaf of legitimacy provided by the 2600 case (in which linking to DeCSS was found to constitute a DMCA violation).
All you need to do to a heat-sink is rough up the surface enough that the boundary layer is turbulent. It's not like drag is an issue.
This was my thought also; seems to me that a surface treatment to create turbulent flow would be far easier than this thing, even if it does work (and I have no reason to believe it doesn't). But without doing the math there's no way to know if that would work either.
There should be penalties for patent holders who willfully allow infringement in the name of increased damages.
There should be even bigger penalties for patent holders who acquire obvious BS patents and try to make a fortune off of them. I'm thinking start with "death" and go up from there.
Past DMCA rulemakings by the Register of Copyrights show a pattern of deeming obsolescence a valid exception to anticircumvention laws.
That only applies to the act of circumvention; making the circumvention device is still a violation. So back to PMITA prison with them, only with one less charge.
The straw that broke the camel's back was trying to find a replacement onyx marble. Not wholesale. In the US, not India or China
The hard part is getting marbles (the round things used in the game) rather than other objects made of onyx marble. However, [onyx +marbles] does the trick, giving landofmarbles.com among other results. Bing seems a little harder; [onyx +marbles game] works, though.
While things like iPods aren't on the list things like high efficiency fluorescent lighting ballasts are.
Fortunately, it turns out there are other ways to make light. For instance, you can run electricity through a tungsten filament in a quartz envelope filled with krypton gas. We might need emergency legislation to allow such "halogen incandescent" bulbs to be used, but anything for national security, right?
I love how your phone is chinese, your clothes are chinese, your kitchen appliances are chinese and your furniture is chinese,
My phone is Korean, my appliances are Mexican, American, and Canadian, my furniture is Canadian and Danish, and the clothes I'm wearing are Honduran and Mexican.
Perhaps the supposed rise in temperature in recent decades isn't due to CO2 emission; perhaps our nasty coal plants in the west prior to that were holding off an increase by putting aerosols in the air, and cleaning them up unmasked that effect.
If coal plants really have this sort of major effect, and they aren't accounted for in the much-vaunted climate models, the models are pretty much junk. If they are accounted for, why is this news?
It's a crime just to make a joke about killing the President and it's federal time without parole.
Find me the statute which makes it a federal crime to joke about the president having been killed, and I'll find you the part of the Constitution which makes it invalid.
any traffic signal that losses power is to be treated as a 4 way stop. Yeah, right. That is going to happen
I've never seen any trouble with this - in some cases the self-organized traffic flow is more efficient than the regular light.
It works fine when the roads are of roughly equal size. But where a 6-lane arterial intersects with a 2-lane side road and the signal is out, few on the arterial will stop (and in some states, the law says they do not have to). The real mess comes when the intersection has restricted visibility, requiring anyone trying to get on or across the 6-laner to take a (often unwarranted) leap of faith.
There is a distinction between a traffic circle and a roundabout. Your objections are true for traffic circles, but not roundabouts.
I know that game. Rename the thing, claim it's completely different, and then when it's built, it turns out to be exactly the same.
The roundabout's advantages include fewer and less damaging accidents, fuel savings and the resultant environmental boost, and yes, less congestion.
The only way that'll be true is if they get drivers to stay home. Which is probably the idea; this is the same bunch of traffic engineers which brought us "traffic calming".
The faster you race to the red light, the longer you're going to sit still getting zero mpg and greatly reduced mileage overcoming inertia to get that mass of steel moving again.
If I beat the light, though, I might get into a pattern where I get through all the other lights too. The potential win is much greater than a minor mileage loss. There are plenty of sets of lights timed such that if you are stopped by one red, you're stopped by all the others in turn. (There are also sets of lights which are timed such that you can get through them all at the same phase -- provided you're doing 10mph over the limit).
Try looking up servitude. Serfs, peons, slaves.. It is all the same thing, and contract law outlaw selling yourself exactly to avoid people selling themselves into slavery.
Serfs and peons are pretty much the same thing. Slaves are in a worse position; peons and serfs can't be sold except along with the land, slaves can. An intern, not at all the same. An intern can quit at any time.
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Same reason they can't use regular western style flush toilet: infrastructure. Building a saltwater distribution infrastructure doesn't make much sense, because saltwater is very corrosive and not useful for much. Conventional water and sewage distribution and treatment would be cheaper AND better, but of course they can't build that either.
I think the quest for a better toilet may be misguided. Sure, maybe the foundation pulls a rabbit out of a hat and makes a toilet which doesn't require external infrastructure (water in, sewage out, chemical replenishment, electricity, gas, oil, a regular honey truck route). But then they've solved just one problem. All the other problems resulting from an inability to build civil infrastructure are still there, and no less pressing.
As the duty cycle gets smaller, you perceive the flicker at higher frequencies. And there's a limit to how high you can increase the frequency.
Hold on, there... 'Clean Coal' was an Obama talking point, and last I checked he still has a (D) after his name.
How about not passing more laws and REPEALING those that have passed?
Nope. GE said that, then abandoned their efforts shortly after the law passed (conspiracy theorists: have fun). Phillips is using halogen capsules (not quite the same, but still better than CFL). I don't know about Osram Sylvania.
The DOJ is acting extrajudicially, though possibly with the figleaf of legitimacy provided by the 2600 case (in which linking to DeCSS was found to constitute a DMCA violation).
This was my thought also; seems to me that a surface treatment to create turbulent flow would be far easier than this thing, even if it does work (and I have no reason to believe it doesn't). But without doing the math there's no way to know if that would work either.
There should be even bigger penalties for patent holders who acquire obvious BS patents and try to make a fortune off of them. I'm thinking start with "death" and go up from there.
That only applies to the act of circumvention; making the circumvention device is still a violation. So back to PMITA prison with them, only with one less charge.
The hard part is getting marbles (the round things used in the game) rather than other objects made of onyx marble. However, [onyx +marbles] does the trick, giving landofmarbles.com among other results. Bing seems a little harder; [onyx +marbles game] works, though.
Fortunately, it turns out there are other ways to make light. For instance, you can run electricity through a tungsten filament in a quartz envelope filled with krypton gas. We might need emergency legislation to allow such "halogen incandescent" bulbs to be used, but anything for national security, right?
The tomato and the banana are both berries; an apple is not a true fruit, botanically speaking.
Or Lexington or Concord?
Not for the worse, anyway.
My phone is Korean, my appliances are Mexican, American, and Canadian, my furniture is Canadian and Danish, and the clothes I'm wearing are Honduran and Mexican.
Perhaps the supposed rise in temperature in recent decades isn't due to CO2 emission; perhaps our nasty coal plants in the west prior to that were holding off an increase by putting aerosols in the air, and cleaning them up unmasked that effect.
If coal plants really have this sort of major effect, and they aren't accounted for in the much-vaunted climate models, the models are pretty much junk. If they are accounted for, why is this news?
I strongly disagree.
Find me the statute which makes it a federal crime to joke about the president having been killed, and I'll find you the part of the Constitution which makes it invalid.
It works fine when the roads are of roughly equal size. But where a 6-lane arterial intersects with a 2-lane side road and the signal is out, few on the arterial will stop (and in some states, the law says they do not have to). The real mess comes when the intersection has restricted visibility, requiring anyone trying to get on or across the 6-laner to take a (often unwarranted) leap of faith.
I know that game. Rename the thing, claim it's completely different, and then when it's built, it turns out to be exactly the same.
The only way that'll be true is if they get drivers to stay home. Which is probably the idea; this is the same bunch of traffic engineers which brought us "traffic calming".
If I beat the light, though, I might get into a pattern where I get through all the other lights too. The potential win is much greater than a minor mileage loss. There are plenty of sets of lights timed such that if you are stopped by one red, you're stopped by all the others in turn. (There are also sets of lights which are timed such that you can get through them all at the same phase -- provided you're doing 10mph over the limit).
Serfs and peons are pretty much the same thing. Slaves are in a worse position; peons and serfs can't be sold except along with the land, slaves can. An intern, not at all the same. An intern can quit at any time.
That's just playing whack-a-mole. Power corrupts, and already-corrupt people are attracted to power.
They lost in New York State court, which is pretty meaningless. "State court upholds state law against out of state company, film at 11"
NewEgg, on the other hand, simply stopped complying. Presumably the idea was to require NYS to go after them in Federal court.
Doesn't matter what's on the shelves, they're going to pull your booze from the well anyway.
Led to copyright infringement by the senior set.
Led to bicycle traffic violations
And right back to sex.
The bluenoses will always find something to object to.
Agreed. If you're old enough to enjoy porn, you're old enough to buy it. Now, stop trying to toss us down a slippery slope.