Want to talk about the Daily political machine (where even the dead got up to vote for the democrat).
The name is Daley.
Funny story. My last name is the same, but spelled diferently, and I grew up in Illinois. Before I turned 21 I got pulled over 15 times, and I was only ticketed twice. Part of me wonders if my name and fear of my namesakes political power got me off the hook...
As someone who was born in Louisiana ('78), and raised in downstate Illinois ('86-'00), I have to tell you that you are decribing the south, not the midwest.
Look at Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin. There is sanity parts of the midwest.
Perhaps New England and Quebec could each secede, and merge. All I know is that I want nothing -- nothing -- to do with any of the red states.
I share your sentiment...
Your statment got me thinking about the geography of red vs blue states, particularly when I saw the guy who replied to you about all of the nukes being in red states.
Every state that has been called for Kerry, in addition to Iowa and Ohio (which are purple), with the exception of Hawii, either shares a border with Canada, or is connected by a path of solid blue to Canada (for instance California to Oregon to Washington, or Illinois to Wisconson). They also have the majority of the economy...
We need to take all of them and go to Canada. Then we can forget about the parts of the US that suck, and keep the parts that are alright...
Isn't this the problem? Liberals (for whatever reason) that come from conservative environments concentrate in certain areas which has the effect of deluting their representation based on the electoral college system. Those that like the conservate environment move back to those areas, so you basically have a conservative minority dictating policy for a less conservative majority. Even though the electoral college was close, the number of states that went for Bush was way more than half. Those unoccopied states still get a minimum of 3 electors, which gives a small state voter more power than a large state dweller.
Most liberals are that aren't born in liberal areas are educated and like multicultural environments. They have to leave conservative areas (rural areas) to get jobs and culture (try finding a job that requires a graduate degree in a city where you can get Thai or Indian food in Montana). Very few are willing to sacrifice their quality of life to affect national politics by living in a sparce state.
As a side note, I just posted in my journal (see sig for link) about this topic... Please drop by and let me know what you think...
vote for lesser evil, but get your guy a vote too.
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That being said, where would the economy be if there were no tax cuts?
I recall hearing that the tax cuts were so large that many of the large banks and other financial drivers became more cautious (though the cuts would cause huge deficits that would be long term burdens on the economy) and played real conservative, slowing down the recovery.
Personally (nobody can prove anything in this fight, as there is no control economy available) I think the tax cuts have had no benificial effect on the economy...
Let me guess, you don't listen to NPR, but someone told you that they were part of the 'liberal media' and couldn't be trusted to report facts supporting both sides?
Here is the bias. These two issues are ones that are the focus of liberal resentment and complaints. They are a frequent topic of discussion by liberal pundits and politicians. Conservatives won this round and have moved on. Conservative pundits and politicians rarely talk about either issue and do so only in response to initial liberal charges.
Bull shit, Bush talks about both of those all the time... And points out that Kerry differs with him on these matters (particularly on the ICC part). Bush holds this up as one of the things that is wrong with liberals.
Based on what you know, do you think the US DOES or DOES NOT participate in the following treaties and agreements?
The Kyoto agreement to reduce global warming
Bush supporters 36% US does 49% US does not
Kerry supporters 31 US soes 58
International Criminal Court that tries individuals for war crimes, genocide, or crimes against humanity if their own country won't try them
Bush supporters 45% US does 42% US does not
Kerry supporters 39 US does 48
That is from the first page. I didn't have to dig deep to find that. These are issues that Bush mentions frequently, and still his supporters are more wrong than Kerry's? Unless you can point out some bias in these questions (none is apparant to me), I think you have to conclude that, on average, Kerry supporters are paying more attention.
But that's the point! With an appropriately chosen set of questions, you could demonstrate that NPR listeners were disproportionately likely to hold some particular misconceptions.
While this is true, you could engineer the questions, I think it would be hard to craft a set of questions that would cause the NPR/PBS crowd to underperform the FOX/CNN/MSNBC crowds, unless you ask about Robert Blake, Scott Peterson, and Britney Spears. Actually, I would love it if someone tried...
On the "Did Saddam Hussein recieve significant amounts of weaponry form the US?" question. I don't recall NPR ever telling me that he did, you got evidance to the contrary?
Remember not all liberals listen to NPR, and not all NPR listeners (though probably most) are liberal.
I am convinced that you can't actually listen to NPR and call it 'liberal media' unless you are such a rabid conservative that you think mentioning both sides is a liberal idea. Most people who bitch about NPR being too liberal, don't even know what is on NPR.
I will not comment on the NYT as I only occasionally read an article online...
A heat pump does work to transfer heat. If there is no compressor in the intermediate loop all you have is a fancy heat exchanger.
The reason you can't just use a smaller heat pump is that none of them are good at getting much of the available heat from the jet exhaust. It really takes a big heat exchanger of some kind (doesn't nesisarrily have to be fluid based) to get most of the heat.
Basically, in heat transfer, there are small, efficient, and good at scavanging, pick 2 and you can likely get the combo, but get all 3 my friend, and you will revolutionize many fields. And fail on any one of them, and it is useless for the application we are discussing here.
In the case of pumping from one fluid to another (the case of a secondary cycle) the source of heat (as far as the pump is conserned) is a heat exchanger sitting in the waste stream of your gas turbine taking heat from that waste stream and pumping it to another heat exchanger (the sink as far as the heat pump is concerned) sitting in your secondary cycle loop.
Hmm... a heat exchanger would definitely be problematic. How about a tiny heat pump? I've seen heat pump designs that could easily fit in a microchip design like this.
You do realize that heat pumps use heat exchangers, right?
You probably want to use the term "reciprocating piston engine" (or "reciprocating engine" or "piston engine") rather than "combustion engine", gas turbines (jets included) are (internal) combustion engines too...
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Want to talk about the Daily political machine (where even the dead got up to vote for the democrat).
The name is Daley.
Funny story. My last name is the same, but spelled diferently, and I grew up in Illinois. Before I turned 21 I got pulled over 15 times, and I was only ticketed twice. Part of me wonders if my name and fear of my namesakes political power got me off the hook...
As someone who was born in Louisiana ('78), and raised in downstate Illinois ('86-'00), I have to tell you that you are decribing the south, not the midwest.
Look at Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin. There is sanity parts of the midwest.
Yup, Iran is pleased with this outcome...
Anybody else?
Perhaps New England and Quebec could each secede, and merge. All I know is that I want nothing -- nothing -- to do with any of the red states.
I share your sentiment...
Your statment got me thinking about the geography of red vs blue states, particularly when I saw the guy who replied to you about all of the nukes being in red states.
Every state that has been called for Kerry, in addition to Iowa and Ohio (which are purple), with the exception of Hawii, either shares a border with Canada, or is connected by a path of solid blue to Canada (for instance California to Oregon to Washington, or Illinois to Wisconson). They also have the majority of the economy...
We need to take all of them and go to Canada. Then we can forget about the parts of the US that suck, and keep the parts that are alright...
Isn't this the problem? Liberals (for whatever reason) that come from conservative environments concentrate in certain areas which has the effect of deluting their representation based on the electoral college system. Those that like the conservate environment move back to those areas, so you basically have a conservative minority dictating policy for a less conservative majority. Even though the electoral college was close, the number of states that went for Bush was way more than half. Those unoccopied states still get a minimum of 3 electors, which gives a small state voter more power than a large state dweller.
Most liberals are that aren't born in liberal areas are educated and like multicultural environments. They have to leave conservative areas (rural areas) to get jobs and culture (try finding a job that requires a graduate degree in a city where you can get Thai or Indian food in Montana). Very few are willing to sacrifice their quality of life to affect national politics by living in a sparce state.
As a side note, I just posted in my journal (see sig for link) about this topic... Please drop by and let me know what you think...
www.votepair.org
(depending on who you think is less evil...)
So, you don't believe in separation of church and state?
what, 50 servicemen on the USS Cole?
17 killed 39 injured.
The most powerful part of this message is that it was sent on a video tape and not as Hijacked airplanes crashing into our buildings.
I have no doubt that if Bin Laden could attack us like he did on 9/11 that he would.
Bin Laden has always sent out tapes, and always had a long time between major attacks.
The fact that he is send ing out a video, is only indicating that he is alive, not that he is incapable of attack...
The fact that he hasn't been able to do this for over three years is why I am voting for Bush
Wow, Clinton kept him from attacking for about 5 years (first WTC till embassy bombings) , I guess we should vote democrat!
Probably the best place to look for the definition of marriage is your religious texts
How does that jive with keeping the state and church separate?
(do you see the point yet?)
That being said, where would the economy be if there were no tax cuts?
I recall hearing that the tax cuts were so large that many of the large banks and other financial drivers became more cautious (though the cuts would cause huge deficits that would be long term burdens on the economy) and played real conservative, slowing down the recovery.
Personally (nobody can prove anything in this fight, as there is no control economy available) I think the tax cuts have had no benificial effect on the economy...
Don't you remember Bush going on and on about the ICC a while back? It has NOT been just since the debates.
Don't listen to NPR much, do ya'?
listen here
The PBS/NPR crowd is quite aware of these shells.
Let me guess, you don't listen to NPR, but someone told you that they were part of the 'liberal media' and couldn't be trusted to report facts supporting both sides?
You are so ignorant...
Here is the bias. These two issues are ones that are the focus of liberal resentment and complaints. They are a frequent topic of discussion by liberal pundits and politicians. Conservatives won this round and have moved on. Conservative pundits and politicians rarely talk about either issue and do so only in response to initial liberal charges.
Bull shit, Bush talks about both of those all the time... And points out that Kerry differs with him on these matters (particularly on the ICC part). Bush holds this up as one of the things that is wrong with liberals.
But that's the point! With an appropriately chosen set of questions, you could demonstrate that NPR listeners were disproportionately likely to hold some particular misconceptions.
While this is true, you could engineer the questions, I think it would be hard to craft a set of questions that would cause the NPR/PBS crowd to underperform the FOX/CNN/MSNBC crowds, unless you ask about Robert Blake, Scott Peterson, and Britney Spears. Actually, I would love it if someone tried...
Somebody needs to mod you up.
I heard about this on NPR today, but they (of course) did not go to this level of detail.
thank you!
NPR is keen to point out that it is only the federal funding of embrionic stem cell research on new lines that is banned.
I can't remember how many times I have had to tell ignorant 'liberal media' types about all of the stories on NPR.
listen to these
On the "Did Saddam Hussein recieve significant amounts of weaponry form the US?" question. I don't recall NPR ever telling me that he did, you got evidance to the contrary?
Remember not all liberals listen to NPR, and not all NPR listeners (though probably most) are liberal.
I am convinced that you can't actually listen to NPR and call it 'liberal media' unless you are such a rabid conservative that you think mentioning both sides is a liberal idea. Most people who bitch about NPR being too liberal, don't even know what is on NPR.
I will not comment on the NYT as I only occasionally read an article online...
They said that UIUC doesn't provide Web pages, which they did do, at least from 96-00 when I was there.
Also, I currently work for one of the top 10, and it certainly doesn't seem as well connected as UIUC did...
A heat pump does work to transfer heat. If there is no compressor in the intermediate loop all you have is a fancy heat exchanger.
The reason you can't just use a smaller heat pump is that none of them are good at getting much of the available heat from the jet exhaust. It really takes a big heat exchanger of some kind (doesn't nesisarrily have to be fluid based) to get most of the heat.
Basically, in heat transfer, there are small, efficient, and good at scavanging, pick 2 and you can likely get the combo, but get all 3 my friend, and you will revolutionize many fields. And fail on any one of them, and it is useless for the application we are discussing here.
A heat exhanger is not a form of a heat pump.
In the case of pumping from one fluid to another (the case of a secondary cycle) the source of heat (as far as the pump is conserned) is a heat exchanger sitting in the waste stream of your gas turbine taking heat from that waste stream and pumping it to another heat exchanger (the sink as far as the heat pump is concerned) sitting in your secondary cycle loop.
When people talk about heat sources and heat sinks, what exactly do you think those are?
All you have to do to start these is pump a bunch gas through it.
At one of the talks I went to, they said they had a tube going into an early prototype that you blew into to get the engine stated.
And not exactly no polution... You still get NOx if you are burning at a high enough temperature to be even remotly efficient.
Hmm... a heat exchanger would definitely be problematic. How about a tiny heat pump? I've seen heat pump designs that could easily fit in a microchip design like this.
You do realize that heat pumps use heat exchangers, right?
You probably want to use the term "reciprocating piston engine" (or "reciprocating engine" or "piston engine") rather than "combustion engine", gas turbines (jets included) are (internal) combustion engines too...