You typically do not get two of three hot phases. You get one phase, center tapped with the center tied to ground; the two hots are 180 degrees out of phase with respect to each other. You get two phases in some commercial circuits -- e.g. a lighting circuit might be two phases of a 3-phase wye with 208V between phases (120V between phase and center).
Yes, the whole premise is idiotic. Losses due to resistance would dwarf conversion losses; AC to DC conversion and DC to DC conversion are actually very efficient nowadays (if you care to spend the money; it's still cheaper to do it inefficiently)
No, addicts can survive for many years. Until you figure out some way of separating those who want lasting help and can be helped from those who just want their next fix, you'll never do much about the former problem; the latter will end up eating all your resources.
Do you really think that not teaching a subject to kids will get more of them to learn it?
Given the ability of schools to turn what should be joy into drudgery... it's not out of the question that teaching it is worse than not teaching it. Nothing can get a kid out of the habit of reading like a high school literature curriculum, for instance.
My babbysitter just went to college to study 'Women's Studies', if I have more kids in 4 years time, she will be well qualified as babbysitter, and have a load of debt which will insure she has to work lots of hours, a lower rate. You can't help some people, they just have experience it.
If she completes her Women's Studies degree, then under no circumstances let her anywhere near your kids.
There are plenty of addicts who want to get clean, but they can't do it on their own. There are plenty of alcoholics who want to get sober, but they too can't do it on their own. There are plenty of ex-cons who want to go straight, but they can't do it on their own when they're back in the 'hood and can't get a job because of their past (we just covered this a few days ago here).
There are plenty of addicts who just want to get their next fix. There are plenty of alcoholics who just want their next drink. There are plenty of ex-cons who would just as soon commit crimes rather than go straight. These people -- regardless of the existence of the people you mention -- constitute a bottomless pit of "need", and thus a limitless call on the resources of the more able.
However, as a society, we have decided that we are affluent enough to be able to help the less fortunate
Naa, you've decided that I'm affluent enough to be able to help the less fortunate. Of course, the "helping" never ends. If the people involved consisted of just me and an unemployed Robert Downey Jr, you'd note that Bob was homeless and hungry on the street. So you'd take some money from me and give it to Bob, and he'd put it up his nose. Then you'd look and you'd see that I still had a good deal of money and Bob was still homeless and hungry, and you'd take more money from me and give it to Bob, who would put it up his nose. Repeat until I'm homeless too.
With the rapidly rising influence of feminism on the Web and the related backlash movements, it seems like we could be having an interesting, intellectual discussion about what is going on, and how it's affecting tech culture.
Seriously? Have you ever tried to have a discussion with a (third-wave intersectional) feminist? First they yell mansplaining, then they yell derailing, then they yell for the authorities, and if that doesn't work they cut off communication.
Gasoline doesn't explode, it burns. Of course, as our resident expert in IEDs and Constitutional Law, you already knew that, right?
Pressure cookers neither explode nor burn, unless you pack them with explosives. Gasoline vapor mixed with air, however, explodes. If you want to make a car bomb, you don't need a pressure cooker. Ask Dateline NBC.
In New York State you can get expired registration and/or inspection citations while your car is parked.
Yes, but you can't get driving on a suspended/revoked license citations while the car is parked. There's a difference: expired registration/inspection applies to the car, revoked license applies to the driver. If my license is revoked, it's still legal for me to allow anyone else with a valid license to drive my car, and it is still legal for the car (assuming its registration and inspection remains valid) to be parked on public streets where parking is permitted. (There was a meter in front of the car, so parking was clearly permitted at least some of the time).
"Did you know that in the District of Columbia, the Mayor or his representative can revoke your license for any reason at all, and the only appeal is to the Mayor?" No. Could you please point us to the law that authorizes mayoral driver's license revocation? (I'm betting you can't.)
The great thing about a smell of gasoline in a car is that it can both be made to sound suspicious and that it's completely non-disprovable; if the cops claim to smell pot and they destructively search the car and not a microgram of pot is found, the cops look pretty foolish. But gasoline? If no one can smell it later, maybe it was just a bit of a spill which evaporated since... who could know?
Have you ever heard the expression, "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should?"
Yeah, usually from authoritarians who think it's perfectly OK to enforce laws which they couldn't be bothered to actually enact.
Fucking common sense says don't park your fucking car a block away from the United States Capitol with anything inside that could be misidentified as an explosive device.
Like its gas tank?
It also says you should keep your drivers license current and in good standing.
It was revoked. Did you know that in the District of Columbia, the Mayor or his representative can revoke your license for any reason at all, and the only appeal is to the Mayor?
You think they just cited him for that offense without checking to see that he was actually operating the vehicle?
Sure, why not? Now they can leverage dropping that charge against his not filing a lawsuit for the damage to his car.
He's not getting the book thrown at him in any of the media accounts I've read, he's getting the same treatment he would have received if he was pulled over for a routine traffic stop.
I don't know about you, but I've never been pulled over for a routine traffic stop when I wasn't driving.
Also, given the area described, it was parked more or less in front of the Capitol Reflecting Pool, which is not an area where people tend to park and sit for long periods of time.
They broke the rear window and blew up the pressure cooker outside the car. Reimburse? No, they didn't reimburse him; instead they arrested him for operating a vehicle after license revocation, just to cover up for their incompetence. Obviously if a car belonging to someone has moved, it must be that person who moved it, right?
According to Smith v. Maryland, Law enforcement doesn't need a warrant for pen registers, because people have no expectation of privacy in the numbers they called. That one decision has led to the entire NSA metadata collection, as well as unrestrained use of Stingrays and similar devices. Remember that next time someone sneers at the slippery slope.
Next up: someone who's programmed devices with less than 8KB of RAM.
Yep. 128 bytes. With 4K of flash, granted. And we did have to upgrade to the 16K version eventually (still 128 bytes of RAM, we got 256 in yet another revision though)
He's probably heard something somewhere and made a stupid assumption. Road wear is heavily influenced by the pressure between the tire and the road. (ie: the weight per square inch. Or pounds per square inch). And little to do with the pressure _inside_ the tire. (It has _some_ effect, higher tire pressures generally reduce the tire's footprint on the road, increasing the contact PSI.)
Pressure inside the tire and pressure between tire and the road are very close to equal. A 120psi bicycle tire really is putting 120psi on the contact patch. And this has a small practical effect: in very soft asphalt you can sometimes see ruts caused by bicycles.
But road damage isn't entirely dictated by tire pressure
David Sternlight is that you? You know you can legally buy both ski masks and crow bars, right? In fact, I think REI sells ski masks, crow bars (cleverly disguised as climbing hardware), and backpacks all in the same store, and they haven't been shut down yet.
A 5,000lb car causes more than twice the wear of two 2,500lb cars.
The oft-quoted 4th power law is a rule of thumb which holds only in the axle weight range of heavy trucks. On roads meant to handle heavy trucks, a 5,000lb car and two 2,500lb cars do just about the same amount of damage, which is none at all. A certain amount of light traffic actually reduces total damage by suppressing growth of vegetation.
On roads not meant to handle heavy trucks, damage by weight has as far as I know not been studied in a systemic manner.
So? You put an "autonomous drone" electronics package instead of an "RC aircraft" electronics package, and it's a hydrogen-powered drone. Maybe a little less range because the drone electronics are heavier and consume more power.
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You typically do not get two of three hot phases. You get one phase, center tapped with the center tied to ground; the two hots are 180 degrees out of phase with respect to each other. You get two phases in some commercial circuits -- e.g. a lighting circuit might be two phases of a 3-phase wye with 208V between phases (120V between phase and center).
Yes, the whole premise is idiotic. Losses due to resistance would dwarf conversion losses; AC to DC conversion and DC to DC conversion are actually very efficient nowadays (if you care to spend the money; it's still cheaper to do it inefficiently)
If this had been the law of the land in the 90's, the BSD case would have gone very differently. So no Linux and no BSD.
No, addicts can survive for many years. Until you figure out some way of separating those who want lasting help and can be helped from those who just want their next fix, you'll never do much about the former problem; the latter will end up eating all your resources.
Given the ability of schools to turn what should be joy into drudgery... it's not out of the question that teaching it is worse than not teaching it. Nothing can get a kid out of the habit of reading like a high school literature curriculum, for instance.
If she completes her Women's Studies degree, then under no circumstances let her anywhere near your kids.
You didn't read 50-1403.1(c) (concerning non-residents), obviously.
There are plenty of addicts who just want to get their next fix. There are plenty of alcoholics who just want their next drink. There are plenty of ex-cons who would just as soon commit crimes rather than go straight. These people -- regardless of the existence of the people you mention -- constitute a bottomless pit of "need", and thus a limitless call on the resources of the more able.
Sounds like he's been promoted into a position where he'll have more prestige but less say in what's going on. Is he being eased out?
Bob would rather do coke. And it would be an affront to his dignity or whatever to condition "helping" him on any change on his part.
Naa, you've decided that I'm affluent enough to be able to help the less fortunate. Of course, the "helping" never ends. If the people involved consisted of just me and an unemployed Robert Downey Jr, you'd note that Bob was homeless and hungry on the street. So you'd take some money from me and give it to Bob, and he'd put it up his nose. Then you'd look and you'd see that I still had a good deal of money and Bob was still homeless and hungry, and you'd take more money from me and give it to Bob, who would put it up his nose. Repeat until I'm homeless too.
Seriously? Have you ever tried to have a discussion with a (third-wave intersectional) feminist? First they yell mansplaining, then they yell derailing, then they yell for the authorities, and if that doesn't work they cut off communication.
Pressure cookers neither explode nor burn, unless you pack them with explosives. Gasoline vapor mixed with air, however, explodes. If you want to make a car bomb, you don't need a pressure cooker. Ask Dateline NBC.
Yes, but you can't get driving on a suspended/revoked license citations while the car is parked. There's a difference: expired registration/inspection applies to the car, revoked license applies to the driver. If my license is revoked, it's still legal for me to allow anyone else with a valid license to drive my car, and it is still legal for the car (assuming its registration and inspection remains valid) to be parked on public streets where parking is permitted. (There was a meter in front of the car, so parking was clearly permitted at least some of the time).
You lose. DC Code 50-1403.1(a) and (c).
The great thing about a smell of gasoline in a car is that it can both be made to sound suspicious and that it's completely non-disprovable; if the cops claim to smell pot and they destructively search the car and not a microgram of pot is found, the cops look pretty foolish. But gasoline? If no one can smell it later, maybe it was just a bit of a spill which evaporated since... who could know?
Yeah, usually from authoritarians who think it's perfectly OK to enforce laws which they couldn't be bothered to actually enact.
Like its gas tank?
It was revoked. Did you know that in the District of Columbia, the Mayor or his representative can revoke your license for any reason at all, and the only appeal is to the Mayor?
Sure, why not? Now they can leverage dropping that charge against his not filing a lawsuit for the damage to his car.
I don't know about you, but I've never been pulled over for a routine traffic stop when I wasn't driving.
Really? Then why was there a parking meter there?
They broke the rear window and blew up the pressure cooker outside the car. Reimburse? No, they didn't reimburse him; instead they arrested him for operating a vehicle after license revocation, just to cover up for their incompetence. Obviously if a car belonging to someone has moved, it must be that person who moved it, right?
According to Smith v. Maryland, Law enforcement doesn't need a warrant for pen registers, because people have no expectation of privacy in the numbers they called. That one decision has led to the entire NSA metadata collection, as well as unrestrained use of Stingrays and similar devices. Remember that next time someone sneers at the slippery slope.
It turns out that in countries where more scientists are men, more people associate men and scientists. Total shocker, I know.
Yep. 128 bytes. With 4K of flash, granted. And we did have to upgrade to the 16K version eventually (still 128 bytes of RAM, we got 256 in yet another revision though)
Pressure inside the tire and pressure between tire and the road are very close to equal. A 120psi bicycle tire really is putting 120psi on the contact patch. And this has a small practical effect: in very soft asphalt you can sometimes see ruts caused by bicycles.
But road damage isn't entirely dictated by tire pressure
David Sternlight is that you? You know you can legally buy both ski masks and crow bars, right? In fact, I think REI sells ski masks, crow bars (cleverly disguised as climbing hardware), and backpacks all in the same store, and they haven't been shut down yet.
The oft-quoted 4th power law is a rule of thumb which holds only in the axle weight range of heavy trucks. On roads meant to handle heavy trucks, a 5,000lb car and two 2,500lb cars do just about the same amount of damage, which is none at all. A certain amount of light traffic actually reduces total damage by suppressing growth of vegetation.
On roads not meant to handle heavy trucks, damage by weight has as far as I know not been studied in a systemic manner.
So? You put an "autonomous drone" electronics package instead of an "RC aircraft" electronics package, and it's a hydrogen-powered drone. Maybe a little less range because the drone electronics are heavier and consume more power.