But come on buddy, a little common sense, and remember you're a role model. *You* might have known what you're doing but lots of idiot teenagers would have been watching the footage of you doing this gig and other ones similar to it. They might take home the message that it's ok not to wear helmet and body armour. The fact that something did go wrong showed that you weren't completely in control.
Well fuck Jesus and God, bring on the tranny porn and show images of Jesus getting shit on. Amen brother, and pass the Bible so I can urinate on it!
Now, it's quite possible I'm going to get modded down, but that's fine, as this is a private site. But neither you, the Reverend Billy Graham or even God Almighty have any right in a free country that honors liberty telling me what I can say, or what movies I can watch or what video games I play. You are perfectly free to not partake of it, and keep it out of the hands of your children, but what you aren't free to do is to shove your standards on other people.
Now, it's quite possible I'm going to get modded down for this, but I'm going to have sex with you. You're free to your own opinion about me having sex with you, but I'm going to have sex with you anyway.
There's already a simple, monstrously expensive system for doing just that:
District heating
District heating is the process by which the low-exergy waste heat (and even some medium-exergy heat, when a higher thermal/electrical generation ratio is favored) is delivered to end users. Usually this involves transferring the heat from the plant's steam/water circuits via a heat exchanger to a water circuit that goes directly to the customer's home. Steam was used in older systems, and can still be found in New York's (from the 1880's, IIRC). From there, the heat is transfered via a heat exchanger to the customer's hot-water heater and radiator systems. In Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, this system is widely deployed. Besides minimizing the environmental impact of thermal power plants (coal, nuclear, biomass) on rivers and water tables (in areas without sufficient surface water), it also hinders the expansion of electric and gas heating--transmission mediums with highly volatile prices and supplies. In addition, it's also an adaptable technology. A district heating net doesn't care how the water gets hot, so long as it gets hot enough. If your district heating plant goes bork, the net can be fed by emergency thermal or electric boilers. If your natural gas supplier goes bork, well, let's hope that Angolan LNG tanker comes quickly.
Most of the US has a climate that requires large amounts of cooling in the summer and large amounts of heating in the winter, with low electrical demand in fall and spring. While a much less deployed technology--and, then, usually only in large apartment buildings and office blocks--district cooling can also be utilized by using the waste heat to run an evaporative cooler which then cools a circuit of near-freezing water. The details of this are too much for my poor brain to recite, but, in short, instead of throwing that ~30% of your plant's heat input which converted to electricity at the problem, you can use some of the ~70% that becomes waste heat to take care of at least part of your customers' cooling needs.
Unfortunately, the capital costs for these systems are immense, and mostly due to all the piping you need to lay. As a result, the technology only took off in Communist or mildly Socialist countries whose central planning did what finicky venture capitalists wouldn't. Another hurtle, besides the cost of the actual piping, is the amount of infrastructure a new net would need to plan around. This is undoubtedly the biggest hurtle for the locations which would benefit most from this technology (that is, places with high demand per unit area). Current labor costs and supplies are no small issue either.
However, there is one niche market for waste heat which has the potential for a great deal of expansion in the United States: biofuels. Most forms of ethanol and biodiesel plants consume large amounts of heat. A frequent feature in proposed ethanol plants is the siphoning of steam or hot waste water from a thermal power plant to cover some or all of the heat consumption of the plant. This can be problematic, since there are no simple correlations between the time of year, the power output, and the heat demand, as there are with district heating. As a result, some hybrid ethanol-power plants are proposed in which the power plant's electricity would be a salable by-product.
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This is very off-topic, but, about your sig: The last time I clicked on a.cx link on Slashdot was a long time ago, and it's going to be a long time until I do it again...
Specific fonts (or, correctly, "typefaces" - a given font is a particular incarnation of a typeface, including size, so Comic Sans 10pt is a different font to Comic Sans 12pt) shouldn't be necessary - families of typefaces maybe, if you're trying to achieve a particular style, but not fonts or even necessarily typefaces.
I spent a few years working with desktop publishing gurus turned web developers, and I heard this goddamn typeface/font distinction made all the time.
It drove me nuts, but, in the end, one of us was correct about the use of a common technical definition, and the other had sex with women.
Yeah, yeah - I know I am no Microsoft fan boy and this may get labelled as flame bait or a troll, but seriously - this is just another example of Microsoft's dirty tricks and using their weight to screw everyone else - including their very own fan boys.
Now, I'm not going to come out and say that I will rape you, but, if I was going to pay you for this post, it would be in rape dollars.
It's also fairly undemocratic to invalidate election results merely because they are consistent...
Why is it not possible for this to be the result of post-Colonial groupthink? Who is to say that the ruling party isn't just doing a smashing job selling itself to an ethnic group who, while having little economic power, has suddenly been given enormous political power? South Africa has a lively opposition, all things considered, but the ANC hasn't exactly been hurting for votes.
No one is going to argue that Malaysia has the same political liberalism of other states with representative governments, but it's still far more democratic than many countries with a consistent plurality.
I think the greatest asset we have in the US to prevent the creation of a dictatorship is inertia. Can you imagine how much work it would be to restructure the Federal government into a fully top-down model. Think of the practical implications of cutting out the representative channels. Who would answer to whom? How would federal administrative law function? Who would fill the non-representative duties of today's congressmen?
A dictatorship would be laughed out of Washington if it wasn't preceded by enormous amounts of planning. If we couldn't manage a state of emergency in a single city after Katrina, how could we manage a state of emergency in an entire layer of government--let alone the country.
The minority ethnic Chinese population operates large parts of Malaysia's economy. Naturally, this means it is difficult for ethnic Malays to move up in the economy as it stands. However, thanks to democracy, the political power lies in the hands of the Malays... who gladly elect populists.
These populists write affirmative action laws to control hiring and to limit government contracts with non-Malay companies. It's vaguely reminiscent of South Africa's populist ethnopolitics, but with the bizarre addition of a law outlawing the criticism of their affirmative action amendment.
If this was a game of SimCountry, you'd just have to move the "Prosperity" slider a few notches down to turn the country into another Uganda...
To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke's remarks on the "Baghdad battery":
If we had developed the technology for converting kudzu to energy in the 19th Century, we would now have colonized all the visible stars in the night sky.
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I dunno, getting raped by a latex-clad S&M slave sounds pretty exciting...
But come on buddy, a little common sense, and remember you're a role model. *You* might have known what you're doing but lots of idiot teenagers would have been watching the footage of you doing this gig and other ones similar to it. They might take home the message that it's ok not to wear helmet and body armour. The fact that something did go wrong showed that you weren't completely in control.
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the CHILDREN!!!???
Personally, I expected Agent Smith to suddenly break into a musical number...
Well fuck Jesus and God, bring on the tranny porn and show images of Jesus getting shit on. Amen brother, and pass the Bible so I can urinate on it!
Now, it's quite possible I'm going to get modded down, but that's fine, as this is a private site. But neither you, the Reverend Billy Graham or even God Almighty have any right in a free country that honors liberty telling me what I can say, or what movies I can watch or what video games I play. You are perfectly free to not partake of it, and keep it out of the hands of your children, but what you aren't free to do is to shove your standards on other people.
Now, it's quite possible I'm going to get modded down for this, but I'm going to have sex with you. You're free to your own opinion about me having sex with you, but I'm going to have sex with you anyway.
Sure it can be higher than 47%. Just conveniently neglect to mention where you're using the HHV and the LHV...
There's already a simple, monstrously expensive system for doing just that:
District heating
District heating is the process by which the low-exergy waste heat (and even some medium-exergy heat, when a higher thermal/electrical generation ratio is favored) is delivered to end users. Usually this involves transferring the heat from the plant's steam/water circuits via a heat exchanger to a water circuit that goes directly to the customer's home. Steam was used in older systems, and can still be found in New York's (from the 1880's, IIRC). From there, the heat is transfered via a heat exchanger to the customer's hot-water heater and radiator systems. In Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, this system is widely deployed. Besides minimizing the environmental impact of thermal power plants (coal, nuclear, biomass) on rivers and water tables (in areas without sufficient surface water), it also hinders the expansion of electric and gas heating--transmission mediums with highly volatile prices and supplies. In addition, it's also an adaptable technology. A district heating net doesn't care how the water gets hot, so long as it gets hot enough. If your district heating plant goes bork, the net can be fed by emergency thermal or electric boilers. If your natural gas supplier goes bork, well, let's hope that Angolan LNG tanker comes quickly.
Most of the US has a climate that requires large amounts of cooling in the summer and large amounts of heating in the winter, with low electrical demand in fall and spring. While a much less deployed technology--and, then, usually only in large apartment buildings and office blocks--district cooling can also be utilized by using the waste heat to run an evaporative cooler which then cools a circuit of near-freezing water. The details of this are too much for my poor brain to recite, but, in short, instead of throwing that ~30% of your plant's heat input which converted to electricity at the problem, you can use some of the ~70% that becomes waste heat to take care of at least part of your customers' cooling needs.
Unfortunately, the capital costs for these systems are immense, and mostly due to all the piping you need to lay. As a result, the technology only took off in Communist or mildly Socialist countries whose central planning did what finicky venture capitalists wouldn't. Another hurtle, besides the cost of the actual piping, is the amount of infrastructure a new net would need to plan around. This is undoubtedly the biggest hurtle for the locations which would benefit most from this technology (that is, places with high demand per unit area). Current labor costs and supplies are no small issue either.
However, there is one niche market for waste heat which has the potential for a great deal of expansion in the United States: biofuels. Most forms of ethanol and biodiesel plants consume large amounts of heat. A frequent feature in proposed ethanol plants is the siphoning of steam or hot waste water from a thermal power plant to cover some or all of the heat consumption of the plant. This can be problematic, since there are no simple correlations between the time of year, the power output, and the heat demand, as there are with district heating. As a result, some hybrid ethanol-power plants are proposed in which the power plant's electricity would be a salable by-product.
I'd just like to take this opportunity to thank the Good Lord above for the Federal government's inadequacy in advancing its own agenda.
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This is very off-topic, but, about your sig: The last time I clicked on a .cx link on Slashdot was a long time ago, and it's going to be a long time until I do it again...
Nah, Forbes is just so single minded it's super easy to guess their passwords (it's money, by the by... always money).
So, kind of like a flat tax?
I take great offense at the insinuation that we Shaftoes do not take pride in the contributions of our humbler ancestors.
Signed,
Arnold Q. Shaftoe
But, of all the places, why Forbes? Couldn't they have picked some respectable outlet?
Maybe Forbes was the only site they had any luck with, since, having alienated techies so thoroughly, they couldn't hire a competent webadmin.
...and filled with the hot air which powers the people in TFA.
As a fairly passionate Titanophile
Giantess fetish?
Specific fonts (or, correctly, "typefaces" - a given font is a particular incarnation of a typeface, including size, so Comic Sans 10pt is a different font to Comic Sans 12pt) shouldn't be necessary - families of typefaces maybe, if you're trying to achieve a particular style, but not fonts or even necessarily typefaces.
I spent a few years working with desktop publishing gurus turned web developers, and I heard this goddamn typeface/font distinction made all the time.
It drove me nuts, but, in the end, one of us was correct about the use of a common technical definition, and the other had sex with women.
Yeah, yeah - I know I am no Microsoft fan boy and this may get labelled as flame bait or a troll, but seriously - this is just another example of Microsoft's dirty tricks and using their weight to screw everyone else - including their very own fan boys.
Now, I'm not going to come out and say that I will rape you, but, if I was going to pay you for this post, it would be in rape dollars.
In Soviet Russia, whippet whips YOU!
Are you sure the footage just wasn't shot in Japan?
It's also fairly undemocratic to invalidate election results merely because they are consistent...
Why is it not possible for this to be the result of post-Colonial groupthink? Who is to say that the ruling party isn't just doing a smashing job selling itself to an ethnic group who, while having little economic power, has suddenly been given enormous political power? South Africa has a lively opposition, all things considered, but the ANC hasn't exactly been hurting for votes.
No one is going to argue that Malaysia has the same political liberalism of other states with representative governments, but it's still far more democratic than many countries with a consistent plurality.
I think the greatest asset we have in the US to prevent the creation of a dictatorship is inertia. Can you imagine how much work it would be to restructure the Federal government into a fully top-down model. Think of the practical implications of cutting out the representative channels. Who would answer to whom? How would federal administrative law function? Who would fill the non-representative duties of today's congressmen?
A dictatorship would be laughed out of Washington if it wasn't preceded by enormous amounts of planning. If we couldn't manage a state of emergency in a single city after Katrina, how could we manage a state of emergency in an entire layer of government--let alone the country.
Stop fucking the middle east.
History has clearly shown that the Middle East is a dom, not a sub.
The minority ethnic Chinese population operates large parts of Malaysia's economy. Naturally, this means it is difficult for ethnic Malays to move up in the economy as it stands. However, thanks to democracy, the political power lies in the hands of the Malays... who gladly elect populists.
These populists write affirmative action laws to control hiring and to limit government contracts with non-Malay companies. It's vaguely reminiscent of South Africa's populist ethnopolitics, but with the bizarre addition of a law outlawing the criticism of their affirmative action amendment.
If this was a game of SimCountry, you'd just have to move the "Prosperity" slider a few notches down to turn the country into another Uganda...
But fifties retro isn't that rare...
I posted and immediately remembered the Swing craze I'd suppressed.
Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks?
"Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, they had some cool-ass shit."
To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke's remarks on the "Baghdad battery":
If we had developed the technology for converting kudzu to energy in the 19th Century, we would now have colonized all the visible stars in the night sky.