going half a mile to get on the freeway easily takes me 15 minutes, just because there's a light every 50 yards,
Your freeways have lights?
Here in houston, Mayor Bill white put down an edict that said all the lights in downtown in each direction(e/w, n/s) would be green at the same time. This lasted about 2 months because people threw a fit, Basically with the timed wave approach you can get All the way across downtown without hitting a red light, I'm suprised
The thing is, Freedom of the press, being in an amendment, supersedes the power of congress to make laws protecting copyright, from the original document.,,,,,.!
It's always so fun with all the Americans on Slashdot speaking about how much oil/coal/energy they use in China without understanding that it's consumption of items/services which drives demand/resource usage and not actual production / out of nothing.
There's no fucking way the Chinese PEOPLE consume more resources or generate more waste than their American counterparts. Not per individual and I would be very surprised if they even did it on country level.
It's not the Chinese people who pollute / use up all resources / whatever... it's the consumers of the products produced under those conditions.
China builds items for more or less everyone, including the US.
If we talk electricity or heat generation in general I'm sure they build out their infrastructure and capabilities to produce more and cleaner energy in whatever way possible. Give them 10-20 years..
If China can turn one gallon of fuel into a few hundred miles of transport per person, and we can only turn one gallon of fuel into twenty miles per person, guess who wins.
While I don't dismiss your sentiments.
100 MPG/20 MPG = 5x MPG trip 1,337 B people / 309 B People = ~4.32 Number of trips required.
So even with an AVG 5X better MPG they would only have a 15% better efficiency of moving their population.
This is discounting the fact that there country really is a bit of a backwater when you look at energy efficiency. We may use ~2.7x more oil. But they use way more coal then us, And guess which one is more efficient?
Well that's how feudalism works - one set of laws for the serfs and another set for the masters. We need to go back to the ideals of the revolution, where everyone was treated equally under the law. WB should be fined several million dollars.
Wow, if that isn't The best reason I'v heard for putting G W Bush in jail, I don't know a better one.
Why do you think they are/were trying to "save the well"?
From the early days of the disaster, BP has (I think) said they were going to permanently cap the well with "concrete" via the relief wells. They started drilling the first relief well very quickly - I was surprised how soon they had a drill rig out there, those things aren't stocked on the shelf at WalMart.
For the right price I can have a semi-sub anywhere in the world tomorrow. do you realize how many rigs are already in the gulf?
In all fairness, we still have no idea what went wrong. I want BP to be dragged across the coals for this as much as the next guy, but the truth of the matter is that we still don't know why the BOP failed, given that it was designed and certified to protect against this very sort of disaster.
As others in this thread have mentioned, several aspects of this accident are unprecedented, and although the oil industry should be faulted for pushing too hard too quickly, this accident may simply have to serve as a learning experience, given that it's entirely possible that BP, Transocean, SLB, and Halliburton were all following the established safety protocols in conformance with past experience.
It's not the BOP. It's the Cementing job that was borked.
To give a car analogy, The Cement job is like your normal brakes. The BOP is like the Ebrake. Sure it might stop the car, but when both fail you really should be asking why the main brakes failed, not why the ebrake was only half effective.
You ever try to use a forum that didn't require registration? Within 24 hours, 95% of the posts are spam. While I don't LIKE keeping up with lots of logins for various forums, at this point they're a necessary evil.
Not true my forum lasted almost 6 months before getting it's first spam, also it's 10,000th spam, both on the same day.
That's because breathing CO2 just recycles CO2 that's already in the biosphere. Digging miles into the earth to burn fossil fuels releases CO2 that hasn't been part of the biosphere for tens of millions of years. As I've repeatedly explained, fossil fuel use can be causally linked to the skyrocketing CO2 concentration through the C-12/C-13 isotope ratio (among other techniques).
Oddly enough, the National Academy of Sciences is aware that humans exhale CO2. Imagine that.
But think of the Plants!
Without all that Co2 we'll be suffocating our children's crops.:P
Some phones never truly turn off, and have the ability to be turned on remotely. The government was pushing for this feature, and now it has turned around and bit them. The only way to be certain that the black box you are carrying cannot communicate with the outside world is to remove the battery or stick it in a Faraday cage. Both methods have advantages and disadvantages.
What's the disadvantage of a Faraday cage? Metal rooms get hot?
Completely agreed. I don't know which is worse - the fact that people can't accept that the risk from terrorism is minimal, or the fact that an awful lot of this is simply security theatre which probably won't be exposed as such because the threat is minimal.
I've mentioned it a few times before, but one of the major reasons I refuse to believe the sincerity of measures like this scanning technology is that one can purchase large glass bottles in any airport departure lounge. A glass bottle is a far more effective weapon than many of the other items that they'll confiscate from hand luggage, yet I've never even seen the issue mentioned.
With apologies to the late great comedian:
Personally I think we shouldn't let anyone with really big hands on an airplane.
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With a 320x240 display, you're better off using pretty much anything else for remote desktop (most smartphones are at least 480x320).
I guess you can have an 80x30 terminal though, with a 4x8 pixel font.
Otherwise, C64, Spectrum, CPC, Atari 8-bit, etc, emulators would be good because of the full keyboard.
The other thing is My g1, a slow phone by today's smartphone standards has a much better processor.
going half a mile to get on the freeway easily takes me 15 minutes, just because there's a light every 50 yards,
Your freeways have lights?
Here in houston, Mayor Bill white put down an edict that said all the lights in downtown in each direction(e/w, n/s) would be green at the same time. This lasted about 2 months because people threw a fit, Basically with the timed wave approach you can get All the way across downtown without hitting a red light, I'm suprised
The thing is, Freedom of the press, being in an amendment, supersedes the power of congress to make laws protecting copyright, from the original document.,,,,,.!
"... very single beetle with a slightly different coloration OBVIOUSLY counts as a new species ..."
Why obviously? The only definition of a species is that two organisms that cannot mate are, by definition, different species.
So by that definition, How many species of mules are out there?
I have one. Sue GM and Chevron to reclaim the NiMH battery patent, and bring back the fully electric car.
NiMH??
What is this, The 80's?
All communications should be opt-in; make opt-out communications a felony.
+1 I concur
It's always so fun with all the Americans on Slashdot speaking about how much oil/coal/energy they use in China without understanding that it's consumption of items/services which drives demand/resource usage and not actual production / out of nothing.
There's no fucking way the Chinese PEOPLE consume more resources or generate more waste than their American counterparts. Not per individual and I would be very surprised if they even did it on country level.
It's not the Chinese people who pollute / use up all resources / whatever ... it's the consumers of the products produced under those conditions.
China builds items for more or less everyone, including the US.
If we talk electricity or heat generation in general I'm sure they build out their infrastructure and capabilities to produce more and cleaner energy in whatever way possible. Give them 10-20 years ..
Just Saying....
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_coa_con-energy-coal-consumption
If China can turn one gallon of fuel into a few hundred miles of transport per person, and we can only turn one gallon of fuel into twenty miles per person, guess who wins.
While I don't dismiss your sentiments.
100 MPG /20 MPG = 5x MPG trip
1,337 B people / 309 B People = ~4.32 Number of trips required.
So even with an AVG 5X better MPG they would only have a 15% better efficiency of moving their population.
This is discounting the fact that there country really is a bit of a backwater when you look at energy efficiency. We may use ~2.7x more oil. But they use way more coal then us, And guess which one is more efficient?
IMHO Nukes are the only way forward.
Well that's how feudalism works - one set of laws for the serfs and another set for the masters. We need to go back to the ideals of the revolution, where everyone was treated equally under the law. WB should be fined several million dollars.
Wow, if that isn't The best reason I'v heard for putting G W Bush in jail, I don't know a better one.
You mean like Apple using the GMA950 and X3100 in their early intel Mac minis and MacBooks?
Starcraft II, Diablo 3, Steam on Mac OS X.... all great news except we can't use any of it because the intel integrated GPUs SUCK!
Starcraft 2 chokes on my radeon 5430
Please see subject... That is All.
Why do you think they are/were trying to "save the well"?
From the early days of the disaster, BP has (I think) said they were going to permanently cap the well with "concrete" via the relief wells. They started drilling the first relief well very quickly - I was surprised how soon they had a drill rig out there, those things aren't stocked on the shelf at WalMart.
For the right price I can have a semi-sub anywhere in the world tomorrow. do you realize how many rigs are already in the gulf?
In all fairness, we still have no idea what went wrong. I want BP to be dragged across the coals for this as much as the next guy, but the truth of the matter is that we still don't know why the BOP failed, given that it was designed and certified to protect against this very sort of disaster.
As others in this thread have mentioned, several aspects of this accident are unprecedented, and although the oil industry should be faulted for pushing too hard too quickly, this accident may simply have to serve as a learning experience, given that it's entirely possible that BP, Transocean, SLB, and Halliburton were all following the established safety protocols in conformance with past experience.
It's not the BOP. It's the Cementing job that was borked.
To give a car analogy, The Cement job is like your normal brakes. The BOP is like the Ebrake. Sure it might stop the car, but when both fail you really should be asking why the main brakes failed, not why the ebrake was only half effective.
My first thought was why can I bet on this at intrade?
You ever try to use a forum that didn't require registration? Within 24 hours, 95% of the posts are spam. While I don't LIKE keeping up with lots of logins for various forums, at this point they're a necessary evil.
Not true my forum lasted almost 6 months before getting it's first spam, also it's 10,000th spam, both on the same day.
So much for security through obscurity.
A wise man once said that 99% of Statistics are made up on the spot...
Hrmm. I always thought it was 87%
Next you will suggest geekqueen.
It would be cool for us geeks to have a self-appointed queen, though. But not a king. We're too arrogant.
I prefer the gender agnostic term, AlphaGeek
That's because breathing CO2 just recycles CO2 that's already in the biosphere. Digging miles into the earth to burn fossil fuels releases CO2 that hasn't been part of the biosphere for tens of millions of years. As I've repeatedly explained, fossil fuel use can be causally linked to the skyrocketing CO2 concentration through the C-12/C-13 isotope ratio (among other techniques).
Oddly enough, the National Academy of Sciences is aware that humans exhale CO2. Imagine that.
But think of the Plants!
Without all that Co2 we'll be suffocating our children's crops. :P
[who is going] to tax all the volcanos around the world for their CO2 production?
The CO2 out gassed by active volcanoes comes to about one percent of anthropogenic emissions.
Learn to be check the numbers when you hear outrageous claims like this.
Your right... We should Tax the Oceans!
I mean with That Terrible Greenhouse gas Dihydrogen monoxide that is being emitted by world's Ocean's just have to be stopped.
Some phones never truly turn off, and have the ability to be turned on remotely. The government was pushing for this feature, and now it has turned around and bit them. The only way to be certain that the black box you are carrying cannot communicate with the outside world is to remove the battery or stick it in a Faraday cage. Both methods have advantages and disadvantages.
What's the disadvantage of a Faraday cage? Metal rooms get hot?
Also would a cell jammer not work?
so can this help us map the antimatter in the universe?
And Here I was thinking 1080 lines of vertical resolution should be enough for anybody.
Completely agreed. I don't know which is worse - the fact that people can't accept that the risk from terrorism is minimal, or the fact that an awful lot of this is simply security theatre which probably won't be exposed as such because the threat is minimal.
I've mentioned it a few times before, but one of the major reasons I refuse to believe the sincerity of measures like this scanning technology is that one can purchase large glass bottles in any airport departure lounge. A glass bottle is a far more effective weapon than many of the other items that they'll confiscate from hand luggage, yet I've never even seen the issue mentioned.
With apologies to the late great comedian:
Personally I think we shouldn't let anyone with really big hands on an airplane.
Slashdot really needs a filter to replace fuck with frack,
well maybe not really needs, more like I'd like it to have an option for it in the preferences.
Better Question will windows 7 work with it?
Isn't their some stupid limit at 2TB for installing a non-server OS?