The power grid is just that, a grid. Even if 2000 homes did turn on their microwaves all at the same time, which as I stated is very unlikely (even at dinner time, which of course is not at all likely to be the same time for 2000 homes), the required energy in excess of this single generator's capacity would simply come from somewhere else on the grid where such excess capacity were available.
Where do I enlist? Seriously, we get most of our imported oil from Canada anyway, so it makes perfect economic sense to annex it. I think the only reason we don't annex Canada is because we don't want to have to pay to fix their shambled health care system.
I propose that any story about half-baked, pie-in-the-sky methods to generate power that will have disastrous unintended consequences be tagged "anacondas"
Awfully judgmental, don't you think? You propose to know how we are using the electricity we generate, but I doubt you have very much information on it. You are simply assuming that because we use more, we must be wasting it.
Have you actually compared the efficiency of the appliances? Can you give specific examples? Did you research data on what proportion of electricity consumed is used for productive purposes as opposed to "waste?" How are you defining "wasted" energy, anyway? Is electricity used to power a PC used to work at home and avoid commuting considered "waste?" How about for kid's homework? What are your standards? Where do you get your data to support your claim?
A 1500W microwave oven operated for 5 minutes/day has an average power consumption of 5.2 Watt-Days.
It is very unlikely that 2000 homes will be operating their microwave at the same time, and it is a certainty that the anaconda will not be the only power source providing energy to those homes.
It's not at all that simple. There are probably an array of moisture sensors in the field that provide data to the closed loop controller, which in turn controls an array of valves to various irrigation rigs. A PLC or PID controller like this probably costs on the order of $10K and may interface with a product like ExperionPKS or other supervisory DCS platform.
The stress of worrying about it is more likely to make you ill than a repeat infection from the original pathogen. Stress depresses immunity to unfamiliar pathogens, so chasing your family around the house with a can of lysol in a manic phobia of germs is only going to make you sick.
I'd just like to point out that humanity thrived for millenia upon millenia without the help of lysol, health insurance, or even Barack Hussein Obama.
I sure haven't used any... nor seen any... Is there a list somewhere of software that actually can use more than one core? Just once I'd like to see it in action. None of the software I use will escape a single core in my X2.
1) State requires all PC repair technicians to be PIs 2) State "hires" all PIs as investigators for the State by Mandate 3) All PIs mandated to image any hard drive they come across and give the image to the government 4) Government signs up as a participating state in the FBI Citizen Surveillance Program 5) Texas turns over all Hard Disk images to the FBI in exchange for certain monetary concessions from the Federal Gov't
The summary is incorrect. It is absolutely correct that sound does not travel in a vacuum. TFA is also full of wild inaccuracies.
After reading it, it became clear that this "discovery" is being used in attempt to get a bunch of grant money to build a new telescope. See, the whole world is in this mode of hysteria over spending trillions of dollars to solve imaginary problems that do not exist and that, even if they did exist, we could do absolutely nothing about. Global Warming is one example, and this "scream from Earth" is another. We must protect the hearing of our alien neighbors and not pollute their space with our noise, right?
1) Fabricate an imaginary problem 2) Blame Humans 3)... 4) Profit!
That's about as cheap as you are going to get by way of memory and processor time. If you got a halfway decent motherboard, it probably has an option to pipe the console to a serial port with no intervention from the O/S... I had a Tyan TigerMP board that did this back when I was doing computational electromagnetics.
The decision was way too razor-thin for my comfort. A 5-4 decision just means that whomever wins the Presidency in November is going to get to decide this issue once and for all.
You can bet that if we elect Obama, he will appoint a Liberal judge to the bench at his first opportunity, and someone will promptly attempt to re-visit this issue.
There is no excuse for this having been such a close decision largely along party lines.
GPS is only necessary to obtain current location of the JDAM once along the flight path. Once the position is known to a reasonable degree of accuracy, the on-board AHRS can take over and still deliver the payload to within about 1mm/km of distance traveled.
What's even worse is that those cheaters are often praised for their "creativity" and "out of the box" thinking and are rewarded with fat salaries and managerial positions. Their "moral flexibility" is what companies want because they want people who will break the rules to get ahead - that will make the company more money in the short term.
When I was teaching, I used to require random students to defend their work. Every student was guaranteed at least 6 assignment defenses over a 15 week semester. It was easy to see who was and was not doing their own homework and labs. I did something similar to what you are talking about as well. We had a test component, a lab component, and an independent work component. I required students achieve a passing grade in all three in order to receive a passing grade for the course, as well as successfully defend 6 assignments/labs.
I had zero tolerance for cheating. I once had two students from different lab sections turn in a lab that had the same data out to three decimal places for a table of voltage measurements. Talk about stupid. Both of those students were ultimately expelled from the University for academic misconduct. It was difficult to obtain the expulsion. I had to argue and argue and argue until I was blue in the face to convince the administration that we could not set the kind of precedent that tolerates that kind of behavior. The administrators worried about swamping their offices with work that would result from a complete University-wide zero-tolerance policy, and the subsequent soiling of the University's reputation in the World. *sigh*
You have good points here. His lack of popularity does affect how people feel about the health of the Nation in general, and while I don't disagree with most of Bush's policies, I think his blatant arrogance and apparent lack of ability to conduct himself in an outwardly intelligent way has caused irreparable harm to his Presidency. This is why we have term limits and a short term of office. We all feel better having a fresh start.
My only fear is that the two candidates we have are not really any better than Bush. Obama is a silver-tongued devil who really has a scary underlying agenda (he is, after all, an admitted and unabashed Marxist) and McCain is so desperate to be liked by both sides that he is destroying his own credibility.
One point, in your short 28 years, you don't have the pleasure of remembering the Carter administration. Carter was far worse than Bush will ever be in the eyes of history. Consider yourself lucky that you don't remember 10% unemployment, 25% interest rates on mortgages, 20% inflation, and a dollar that was barely worth the paper it was printed on.
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The power grid is just that, a grid. Even if 2000 homes did turn on their microwaves all at the same time, which as I stated is very unlikely (even at dinner time, which of course is not at all likely to be the same time for 2000 homes), the required energy in excess of this single generator's capacity would simply come from somewhere else on the grid where such excess capacity were available.
It is not a concern at all.
Where do I enlist? Seriously, we get most of our imported oil from Canada anyway, so it makes perfect economic sense to annex it. I think the only reason we don't annex Canada is because we don't want to have to pay to fix their shambled health care system.
I propose that any story about half-baked, pie-in-the-sky methods to generate power that will have disastrous unintended consequences be tagged "anacondas"
Awfully judgmental, don't you think? You propose to know how we are using the electricity we generate, but I doubt you have very much information on it. You are simply assuming that because we use more, we must be wasting it.
Have you actually compared the efficiency of the appliances? Can you give specific examples? Did you research data on what proportion of electricity consumed is used for productive purposes as opposed to "waste?" How are you defining "wasted" energy, anyway? Is electricity used to power a PC used to work at home and avoid commuting considered "waste?" How about for kid's homework? What are your standards? Where do you get your data to support your claim?
Best Mother****ing movie ever!
A 1500W microwave oven operated for 5 minutes/day has an average power consumption of 5.2 Watt-Days.
It is very unlikely that 2000 homes will be operating their microwave at the same time, and it is a certainty that the anaconda will not be the only power source providing energy to those homes.
You have to think about the big picture.
My firm has a global network, and each machine carries the name of a famous (or not-so-famous) cyclist from the country in which it is located.
I can think of dozens of better things to spend my tax money on than a project that searches for "little green men."
Our infrastructure is crumbling and we want to spend a ton of money on this? Absolutely insane, if you ask me...
I think amber is also going to be a color option...
Then, call your state's cyber-crime bureau. The local police do not care about non-violent property crimes except for car theft.
The police will be able to contact the ISP who owns the IP addresses... it's pretty simple.
It's not at all that simple. There are probably an array of moisture sensors in the field that provide data to the closed loop controller, which in turn controls an array of valves to various irrigation rigs. A PLC or PID controller like this probably costs on the order of $10K and may interface with a product like ExperionPKS or other supervisory DCS platform.
The stress of worrying about it is more likely to make you ill than a repeat infection from the original pathogen. Stress depresses immunity to unfamiliar pathogens, so chasing your family around the house with a can of lysol in a manic phobia of germs is only going to make you sick.
I'd just like to point out that humanity thrived for millenia upon millenia without the help of lysol, health insurance, or even Barack Hussein Obama.
I sure haven't used any... nor seen any... Is there a list somewhere of software that actually can use more than one core? Just once I'd like to see it in action. None of the software I use will escape a single core in my X2.
1) State requires all PC repair technicians to be PIs
2) State "hires" all PIs as investigators for the State by Mandate
3) All PIs mandated to image any hard drive they come across and give the image to the government
4) Government signs up as a participating state in the FBI Citizen Surveillance Program
5) Texas turns over all Hard Disk images to the FBI in exchange for certain monetary concessions from the Federal Gov't
www.truecrypt.org
The summary is incorrect. It is absolutely correct that sound does not travel in a vacuum. TFA is also full of wild inaccuracies.
After reading it, it became clear that this "discovery" is being used in attempt to get a bunch of grant money to build a new telescope. See, the whole world is in this mode of hysteria over spending trillions of dollars to solve imaginary problems that do not exist and that, even if they did exist, we could do absolutely nothing about. Global Warming is one example, and this "scream from Earth" is another. We must protect the hearing of our alien neighbors and not pollute their space with our noise, right?
1) Fabricate an imaginary problem ...
2) Blame Humans
3)
4) Profit!
There are thousands of precedents in contract law that establish very clearly that "unlimited" does not mean "without limit."
Google is your friend. Learn something before you spew.
but if it's not wireless, it's a complete waste of time, not to mention a nightmarish assault on style.
Wires are out, remember?
That's about as cheap as you are going to get by way of memory and processor time. If you got a halfway decent motherboard, it probably has an option to pipe the console to a serial port with no intervention from the O/S... I had a Tyan TigerMP board that did this back when I was doing computational electromagnetics.
I saw it, too, and honestly thought we could get there some day. Scary.
The decision was way too razor-thin for my comfort. A 5-4 decision just means that whomever wins the Presidency in November is going to get to decide this issue once and for all.
You can bet that if we elect Obama, he will appoint a Liberal judge to the bench at his first opportunity, and someone will promptly attempt to re-visit this issue.
There is no excuse for this having been such a close decision largely along party lines.
GPS is only necessary to obtain current location of the JDAM once along the flight path. Once the position is known to a reasonable degree of accuracy, the on-board AHRS can take over and still deliver the payload to within about 1mm/km of distance traveled.
What's even worse is that those cheaters are often praised for their "creativity" and "out of the box" thinking and are rewarded with fat salaries and managerial positions. Their "moral flexibility" is what companies want because they want people who will break the rules to get ahead - that will make the company more money in the short term.
When I was teaching, I used to require random students to defend their work. Every student was guaranteed at least 6 assignment defenses over a 15 week semester. It was easy to see who was and was not doing their own homework and labs. I did something similar to what you are talking about as well. We had a test component, a lab component, and an independent work component. I required students achieve a passing grade in all three in order to receive a passing grade for the course, as well as successfully defend 6 assignments/labs.
I had zero tolerance for cheating. I once had two students from different lab sections turn in a lab that had the same data out to three decimal places for a table of voltage measurements. Talk about stupid. Both of those students were ultimately expelled from the University for academic misconduct. It was difficult to obtain the expulsion. I had to argue and argue and argue until I was blue in the face to convince the administration that we could not set the kind of precedent that tolerates that kind of behavior. The administrators worried about swamping their offices with work that would result from a complete University-wide zero-tolerance policy, and the subsequent soiling of the University's reputation in the World. *sigh*
You have good points here. His lack of popularity does affect how people feel about the health of the Nation in general, and while I don't disagree with most of Bush's policies, I think his blatant arrogance and apparent lack of ability to conduct himself in an outwardly intelligent way has caused irreparable harm to his Presidency. This is why we have term limits and a short term of office. We all feel better having a fresh start.
My only fear is that the two candidates we have are not really any better than Bush. Obama is a silver-tongued devil who really has a scary underlying agenda (he is, after all, an admitted and unabashed Marxist) and McCain is so desperate to be liked by both sides that he is destroying his own credibility.
One point, in your short 28 years, you don't have the pleasure of remembering the Carter administration. Carter was far worse than Bush will ever be in the eyes of history. Consider yourself lucky that you don't remember 10% unemployment, 25% interest rates on mortgages, 20% inflation, and a dollar that was barely worth the paper it was printed on.
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