The mining and processing argument against nuclear power doesn't make sense. Greenhouse gases emitted during mining and processing are roughly proportional to energy spent in mining in processing (assuming, worst case, that all of it is from fossil fuels). But for nuclear power to be of any practical use, the amount of energy you get out of a unit of fuel must be orders of magnitude greater than the energy taken to mine and process it. This, fortunately, turns out to be the case. Thus, nuclear power produces orders of magnitude less greenhouse gasses than fossil fuels, even considering emissions during mining and processing.
I don't know what they are trying to prove with this crap here but I am not at all impressed by that video -- I mean the building is completely empty and naked! Wouldn't the siding, roofing, walls, doors, windows, people, and furnishings make the building more heavy (and more likely to collapse)? Wouldn't the plumbing make the building more rigid and again, more likely to collapse?
Not plumbing. Neither copper nor plastic (and I doubt they'll be using cast iron in new construction) has enough rigidity to make the building more rigid, particularly since it isn't even tied into the structure (it's just on sheet-metal hangars, unless that's different in earthquake areas).
Actually, my understanding is that the laws regarding reproductions are actually very similar. Corel v Bridgeman, for instance, was heard by a US court but the decision was based on UK law.
Bridgeman v. Corel was based on US law, though Judge Kaplan spent several paragraphs laying out his reasons that he believed the decision would have been the same under UK law. Obviously the US court decision is not in any way binding on UK courts.
In fact my newer fridge (Samsung) actually has a digital temperature readout in it accurate to 1/2 a degree. 1/2 degree adjustments are completely doable.
There's a difference between precise readouts and precise control, even assuming those precise readouts are accurate.
As for the dryer: who said middle of the night? I have no problems with that since my dryer is in the basement, but even for people who keep their dryer next to their bed delaying the drying to non-prime hours isn't that big of a deal. Example, running it during dinner time? 7-9pm?
7-9pm IS prime hours.
Ultimately the end result will be systems that don't impact lifestyle but when aggregated across communities will have significant impact on the usage of power.
No, ultimately the end result will be system which do impact lifestyle, but not enough for anyone to do anything about it.
In the mean time I'm sure you would prefer that the utility company turns off your neighbor's dryer to prevent a rolling blackout from striking during your football game.
If the utility can't supply enough power to meet customer demand, I'd rather they had only the coarse solution of rolling blackouts available. If they can simply turn off my AC and my dryer, they've got no reason to do anything about the shortage.
The US President is just running up a balloon to see how well his third term prospects are doing.
If the current US President, who seems intent on proving he's basically a version of George W. Bush except for environmental issues, doesn't watch out, he's not going to get a _second_ term.
Neither Soyuz case fit the conditions. Soyuz T-10-1 caught fire on the launch pad and the launch escape system fired from there; the SRB exploded on the ground a few seconds after the escape system fired. The ground explosion would significantly limit the range of the explosion compared to a mid-air explosion.
Soyuz 18-1 lasted over 4 minutes, and the SRB never detonated.
I don't think the Soyuz escape system would have worked during a mid-air abort (which as I understand it is done by blowing open the side casing of the solid rocket) in the first minute after launch. Isn't the Ares system based on the Soyuz one?
The fridge: YES: during peak times it can turn your fridge down 1/2 a degree and not spoil your food because you probably have the think cranked too high anyways
The thermostat isn't precise down to a half degree. And no, I do NOT have the thing cranked too high. The only thing on my fridge I might be willing to cede some control to the power company to is the defrost cycle. But delaying the defrost would likely lead to greater power usage in the short run.
Dryer: Yeah, totally doable, delay it a few hours and you can have dry clothes without mold.
So you're going to run your dryer in the middle of the night, putting out heat and noise when you're trying to sleep?
...but the very first damn thing is for power companies to start charging us different amounts for different times, because until there's some actual savings on the part of the consumers by implementing this, this is all mental masturbation on the part of electric companies, who'd really like us to use power at non-peak times but can't actually be bothered to, you know, give us any incentive at all to do that.
No. The real first step is to mandate it, before people have any experience with it. Because no voluntary program is going to solve the problem of peak residential power usage. Because it's not dishwashers, laundry, hot water, electronics, or lighting accounting for the majority of that peak. It's HVAC, particularly in the summer in warm areas. And a "smart meter" which shuts off the air conditioning when it's 100 degrees out is not going to be adopted voluntarily. (Nor the heat when it's 0, though in my area that's less of a problem as most people don't use electric heat).
Millions of people find our existing service so detestable that they turn to an illegal service to get what they want. Maybe, just maybe, there's a market for what they're looking for? Maybe we can make more money by selling them what they want instead of suing them?
That sort of reasoning makes far too much sense for the music industry. More likely they just want to have a pay service to point to when grandstanding, never mind that almost nobody uses it because it only works with one specific version of Microsoft Windows, requires you give them all sorts of personal information that they demand the right to share with everyone, is so filled with ads that it's hard to find the actual content, costs more than buying the CD, has DRM which often malfunctions and loses your music, and customer service that makes the IRS look courteous.
I'd be surprised if any manned launch system up to now would allow the crew to survive under the condtions specified. Apollo? Apollo 1 killed its crew before even getting off the ground. Probably back then it was better understood by the public that space travel is crazy dangerous.
Yeah, right, that's why you can enforce a copyright on characters and settings, even when you do not copy the work those characters and settings appear in. The idea/expression dichotomy is not particularly strong.
Anyone who thinks this is about anything other than a bunch of rich bastards exploiting a segment of the population is deluding themselves.
That was quite a rant, but you failed to mention which side you were on.... either side would make the same claim. (on the pro-copyright side, the "rich bastards" would be well-off computer owners and their offspring, and the exploited segment would be those poor performers and songwriters)
Why do you assume that the internal complaint procedure was not used? In my experience at Fortune 500 companies, almost all harassment complaints did use an internal complaint procedure, and were suitably resolved.
Ah, yes, the "internal complaint procedure". Criteria for responding: decide which party is most likely to sue or successfully make a stink in the press, and placate that party, regardless of fault. If neither party is, ignore or cause negative consequences to both, to make them go away.
The alternative being for the police to stand by, have a coffee and a doughnut while the organisers assemble the 30' high speaker silos and wait until there are 200 ravers on the site before intervening.
Yeah, it's inconvenient for the cops to actually wait for the law is broken, so they should be able to arrest for pre-crime.
What if the organizers brought only music _without_ a beat (weird, but possible)? What if they intended to stop playing the music before it became night (legal)?
Since they replaced their training manual with 1984 and their procedures manual with Monty Python's Flying Circus.
You don't understand. We in the US read those as over the top hyperbole. They never actually were more than _minor_ hyperbole. The thing in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about the plans for demolishing Arthur Dent's home being in a locked file cabinet in a disused bathroom in the basement of the council building, with a sign on the door which says "Beware of the Leopard"... only the leopard bit was exaggeration.
I'm sure that if the gentleman in question had followed the proper procedure for holding a party, likely something involving applying for a permit 60 days in advance at his local council during the hours of 10:30am and 11:15am on alternate tuesdays, there would have been no problem with the police.
If tun->sk is an array, then tun->sk is equivalent to &(tun->sk). That turns out not to be the case, though.
This optimization seems to be only useful for evil, though. How often does a programmer put in a test for null on something he's already dereferenced when it isn't an error? Maybe there's some common case where this happens, but I can't think of one off the top of my head. Redundant explicit tests for null are another matter, but that would be a different optimization.
I think the Sklyarov case would be the canonical Slashdot example. IIRC, in that case the guy was basically doing something that was a foreign citizen working in a foreign country (Russia) doing something that was legal in his country. Then he came to a conference in the US and was picked up by US authorities because his activities would be illegal under US law.
At least the US undeniably had personal jurisdiction over Sklyarov. If he'd been tried for violating the DMCA in abstentia without even entering the US, that'd be closer to the current case.
(BTW, to refresh the collective memory, Sklyarov was released in exchange for testimony against his employer, Elcomsoft. Elcomsoft itself was then, oddly, acquitted by a Federal jury. )
I always laugh at the silly self-proclaimed Libertarians who claim that "business" is always more efficient than "government", as if they are completely dissimilar hierarchies or something! What they fail to grasp is the illogic of their claim: show me a corporation that functions on the same SCALE as, say, the U.S. government with 400+ million "customers", and I'll show you a corporation that is every bit as inefficient. It's not "government" that is the problem, stupid, it's the scale!
There's no corporation on the scale of the US government, so that claim is a bit hard to verify. But compare smaller governments against similar sized corporations and you'll find the governments are typically a whole lot more inefficient. City governments prove this quite well. And the really inefficient corporations usually are completely tied up with government in some way or another -- they have to be, or they'd go under.
Assuming that market forces remain in action, causing the profit margin of the insurance company to remain constant (if their average policy price increases, they will lose more customers than they gain), they will have to lower some policy prices as others raise.
Market forces aren't in action. Auto insurance is mandatory. The only limit on what they can charge is at which level those with political influence get irritated and switch sides.
The question is whether it works the other way: would you have a better chance of reforming the behavior of an individual problem student if you placed him with the honors class?
More likely you'll corrupt some of the honors students (if they weren't already). Bad drives out good.
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He's got backers, I think. Al Queda is a possibility, but I suspect it's actually SPECTRE.
Nuclear and solar thermal share another major characteristic: enviromentalists hate 'em both.
The mining and processing argument against nuclear power doesn't make sense. Greenhouse gases emitted during mining and processing are roughly proportional to energy spent in mining in processing (assuming, worst case, that all of it is from fossil fuels). But for nuclear power to be of any practical use, the amount of energy you get out of a unit of fuel must be orders of magnitude greater than the energy taken to mine and process it. This, fortunately, turns out to be the case. Thus, nuclear power produces orders of magnitude less greenhouse gasses than fossil fuels, even considering emissions during mining and processing.
Not plumbing. Neither copper nor plastic (and I doubt they'll be using cast iron in new construction) has enough rigidity to make the building more rigid, particularly since it isn't even tied into the structure (it's just on sheet-metal hangars, unless that's different in earthquake areas).
Bridgeman v. Corel was based on US law, though Judge Kaplan spent several paragraphs laying out his reasons that he believed the decision would have been the same under UK law. Obviously the US court decision is not in any way binding on UK courts.
There's a difference between precise readouts and precise control, even assuming those precise readouts are accurate.
7-9pm IS prime hours.
No, ultimately the end result will be system which do impact lifestyle, but not enough for anyone to do anything about it.
If the utility can't supply enough power to meet customer demand, I'd rather they had only the coarse solution of rolling blackouts available. If they can simply turn off my AC and my dryer, they've got no reason to do anything about the shortage.
If the current US President, who seems intent on proving he's basically a version of George W. Bush except for environmental issues, doesn't watch out, he's not going to get a _second_ term.
Neither Soyuz case fit the conditions. Soyuz T-10-1 caught fire on the launch pad and the launch escape system fired from there; the SRB exploded on the ground a few seconds after the escape system fired. The ground explosion would significantly limit the range of the explosion compared to a mid-air explosion. Soyuz 18-1 lasted over 4 minutes, and the SRB never detonated. I don't think the Soyuz escape system would have worked during a mid-air abort (which as I understand it is done by blowing open the side casing of the solid rocket) in the first minute after launch. Isn't the Ares system based on the Soyuz one?
The thermostat isn't precise down to a half degree. And no, I do NOT have the thing cranked too high. The only thing on my fridge I might be willing to cede some control to the power company to is the defrost cycle. But delaying the defrost would likely lead to greater power usage in the short run.
So you're going to run your dryer in the middle of the night, putting out heat and noise when you're trying to sleep?
No. The real first step is to mandate it, before people have any experience with it. Because no voluntary program is going to solve the problem of peak residential power usage. Because it's not dishwashers, laundry, hot water, electronics, or lighting accounting for the majority of that peak. It's HVAC, particularly in the summer in warm areas. And a "smart meter" which shuts off the air conditioning when it's 100 degrees out is not going to be adopted voluntarily. (Nor the heat when it's 0, though in my area that's less of a problem as most people don't use electric heat).
Not to mention death by electrocution when people try to bypass the smart grid controls.
Eh? There was no nation of Italy at the time, but Columbus came from the area now known as Italy, as did Vespucci.
That sort of reasoning makes far too much sense for the music industry. More likely they just want to have a pay service to point to when grandstanding, never mind that almost nobody uses it because it only works with one specific version of Microsoft Windows, requires you give them all sorts of personal information that they demand the right to share with everyone, is so filled with ads that it's hard to find the actual content, costs more than buying the CD, has DRM which often malfunctions and loses your music, and customer service that makes the IRS look courteous.
I'd be surprised if any manned launch system up to now would allow the crew to survive under the condtions specified. Apollo? Apollo 1 killed its crew before even getting off the ground. Probably back then it was better understood by the public that space travel is crazy dangerous.
Yeah, right, that's why you can enforce a copyright on characters and settings, even when you do not copy the work those characters and settings appear in. The idea/expression dichotomy is not particularly strong.
That was quite a rant, but you failed to mention which side you were on.... either side would make the same claim. (on the pro-copyright side, the "rich bastards" would be well-off computer owners and their offspring, and the exploited segment would be those poor performers and songwriters)
Ah, yes, the "internal complaint procedure". Criteria for responding: decide which party is most likely to sue or successfully make a stink in the press, and placate that party, regardless of fault. If neither party is, ignore or cause negative consequences to both, to make them go away.
But gcc does indeed have such a specific test.
http://gcc.gnu.org/news/null.html
Yeah, it's inconvenient for the cops to actually wait for the law is broken, so they should be able to arrest for pre-crime.
What if the organizers brought only music _without_ a beat (weird, but possible)? What if they intended to stop playing the music before it became night (legal)?
You don't understand. We in the US read those as over the top hyperbole. They never actually were more than _minor_ hyperbole. The thing in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about the plans for demolishing Arthur Dent's home being in a locked file cabinet in a disused bathroom in the basement of the council building, with a sign on the door which says "Beware of the Leopard"... only the leopard bit was exaggeration.
I'm sure that if the gentleman in question had followed the proper procedure for holding a party, likely something involving applying for a permit 60 days in advance at his local council during the hours of 10:30am and 11:15am on alternate tuesdays, there would have been no problem with the police.
If tun->sk is an array, then tun->sk is equivalent to &(tun->sk). That turns out not to be the case, though.
This optimization seems to be only useful for evil, though. How often does a programmer put in a test for null on something he's already dereferenced when it isn't an error? Maybe there's some common case where this happens, but I can't think of one off the top of my head. Redundant explicit tests for null are another matter, but that would be a different optimization.
At least the US undeniably had personal jurisdiction over Sklyarov. If he'd been tried for violating the DMCA in abstentia without even entering the US, that'd be closer to the current case.
(BTW, to refresh the collective memory, Sklyarov was released in exchange for testimony against his employer, Elcomsoft. Elcomsoft itself was then, oddly, acquitted by a Federal jury. )
There's no corporation on the scale of the US government, so that claim is a bit hard to verify. But compare smaller governments against similar sized corporations and you'll find the governments are typically a whole lot more inefficient. City governments prove this quite well. And the really inefficient corporations usually are completely tied up with government in some way or another -- they have to be, or they'd go under.
Market forces aren't in action. Auto insurance is mandatory. The only limit on what they can charge is at which level those with political influence get irritated and switch sides.
More likely you'll corrupt some of the honors students (if they weren't already). Bad drives out good.