I personally believe that disaster relief would be better off without government.
At what level? If a tree falls on your car, do you expect a public ambulance or not? If a cyclone devistates your city, where would you prefer to turn?
There are many very fine disaster relief programs that are totally volunteer based and they have the potential to do much better here than government bloated organizations.
Having the potential is very different from having the ability.
Why should the government be involved in small and minority business in any way?
The inordinate easy access to playing-field-tilting tax shelters by large corporations, and several centuries of exclusionary racism and slavery.
Clearly you and I have two totally different views of the commandment that says "thou shalt not kill".
Clearly! You, and apparently your church, are still living under the edicts of the Old Testament, apart from the grace of Jesus. When will you leave Numbers 31:17-18 behind and arrive at Matthew 5:38-39?
The men and women of our armed forces are willing to place their lives on the line everyday so that people like you and I can live in peace and freedom.
Firefighters and highway patrol officers have taken greater risks per hour of service than enlisted men and women since Viet Nam. They also serve the peace and for our continued healt essential to our freedom. That's still no reason to give them half of the federal budget.
There is only one fair tax structure and you probably wouldn't like it as you would then have to pay your fair share.
I'm in the top U.S. tax bracket and ashamed at how low my taxes are, except for the portion that pays for the military.
What is the only one fair tax structure? Steeply progressive brackets, like we had under Eisenhower in the '50s?
Octave, and all but the very latest version (i.e., of some months ago) of MATLAB are interpreters, and therefore very slow on everything with loops. Granted, there is a lot you can do with some expressions in MATLAB, but anything more complicated than eigenvectors is going to need a loop, and thus will be slowed by the interpreter.
On an economy-wide scale [electrolytic hydrogen] would not be competitive.
That may be true for traditional electrolysis, but proton-exchange membranes are very much like fuel cells "running in reverse," and much more efficient.
Proton Energy claims that medium-scale hydrogen storage of electric power costs 250% of input costs due to the inefficencies. If you have a isolated wind grid that needs to use hydrogen-stored electricity 20% of the time due to calm winds, that means you are paying 160%, or about 14.4 cents per kilowatt hour, just a little more than natural gas, and at about seven cents less than California's famous long-term contracts signed at the height of the manufactured "energy crisis."
Electrolysis is grossly noncompetitive as a source of hydrogen.
True, but with continental wind grids, virtually none is needed. The wind is always blowing somewhere, even at night.
I suspect that wind-electrolyzed hydrogen will become financially relevant before 2009. By that time, the scale of mass production of turbines will have rendered them less as expensive than a few dozen streetlamps, pushing the cost of their power down to direct competition with coal.
Keep in mind that some of the most favorable locations for wind power have been tapped already.
On the contrary, those are offshore.
The rate of increase for electric capacity provided by wind is far from guaranteed and isn't always driven by market forces, but government grants.
The unsubsidized cost of wind power is about nine cents per kilowatt hour. That makes it competitive with almost everything except coal, including natural gas.
Sometimes the wind won't blow.
Electrolysis, a method of generating hydrogen fuel from water and electricity, can be done at nearly any scale, to provide round-the-clock availability.
Its been well documented that communication problems between those who were researching the physics involved and those building the hardware for processing it (ie, at Oak Ridge) almost led to very bad design decisions that could've resulted in accidental "events".
Who needs Oak Ridge when you've got Pakistan, North Korea, China, and Iran? All are much farther along than Iraq.
When a surge in natural nuclear decomposition heat sets off Pakistan's bomb, how are they not going to think it was the Indians?
We would probably be in much worse shape as a country, if we didn't have such a well trained, well supplied military.
Bullshit. This year alone, the bloated defense budget is taking:
$189 million from higher education
$541 million from Training and Employment Services
$1.026 billion from Law Enforcement Assistance, Community Policing and other justice programs.
$223 million from Small and Minority Business Assistance, a 31% reduction
$227 million from disaster relief
$109 million from Small Business Administration Disaster loans, a 59% reduction
$338 million from Energy Supply programs
$354.1 million from clean up programs at former defense sites
$756 million from Water Resources programs, including flood prevention efforts
$498 million from Pollution control and abatement programs
$1.23 billion from Conservation and Land Management programs
$144 million from Animal and Plant inspection programs
If you think that folks like Hitler, Stalin, Hussien, etc. wouldn't already be over here, then you are crazy.
And if you think the likely source of that threat today is not from within, then you are crazy, or, more likely, just following orders.
I am a strong believer in a well prepared military and a well armed nation.
Clearly, you have greater belief in military and arms than in your God's commandment against killing. Remember your drill sergeant telling you to obey without question? You have made him very proud. I hope he is there to congratulate you when you receive your "heavenly reward" for your actions.
These two things are what will keep the U.S. free and at peace most of the time.
Then you are a fool. How many troops are worth one more student in your children's classes? How many bombs are worth one more undiagnosed tuberculosis patient in your town? How many bullets are worth one fewer book in your public library? How many rifles are worth one fewer ambulance in your neighborhood?
The Constitution you have sworn to uphold has been eroded to the point of unrecognizability. Are you such a coward that you refuse to see that "folks like Hitler, Stalin, Hussien, etc." are in your own backyard?
The main supporting inference requires considerable suspension of disbelief, and is presented as nothing more than conjecture. From Chapter 10, page 19:
Deliberate detonation of the carload of
Mk-47 bombs spotted at the No. 2 cargo hold of the E.A. Bryan with
the purpose to effect the detonation the Mark II fission bomb and to
conceal the detonation of that bomb within the larger explosion the
E.A. Bryan's massive cargo of TNT and torpex munitions was not
sabotage. But that is the means I impute as the origin of the Port
Chicago explosion. The Mark II weapon was concealed among the
cargo of crated aerial bomb tail vanes loaded 16 July 1944 into the No.
3 hold of the E.A. Bryan and was set with aerial depth bomb or depth
charge hydrostatic pressure-activated fuses to detonate the Mark II at a
pressure of 3-4 atmospheres in excess of sea level ambient atmospheric
pressure; that necessary pressure above the ambient was propagated by
the detonation of the carload of Mk-47 bombs.
The author thinks the thing was loaded concealed and armed with a 4 atm pressure depth charge fuse? Please.
Historians have found that the last invasion of the U.S. was in 1812, and except for an unsucsessful attack against Pearl Harbor, none have been attempted since. Nevertheless, fear mongering of such invasions have allowed the U.S. military to grow beyond reason against the best advice, taxing the freedoms of the Constitution away from citizens. The Department of Defense hopes that these facts will become unknown, and is covertly working toward that goal, months after renouncing it. Such military propaganda artists have long confounded peace- and freedom-loving citizens, although they often hear their noises, especially during the recent surfacing of the Bush-Bin Laden connection.
Navy engineers have found the source of their extensive increasing yearly funding. This funding has allowed them to build underwater microphones, submarines, ships, and everything else they have. The source was unknown until paperwork surfaced recently showing that the US taxpayer has been paying for all of it.
there are some social limitations. Namely the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) crowd.
Perhaps you are familiar with the Altamont Pass wind generators, which are quite noisy. Modern wind turbines are quiet (but not so quiet that birds can't hear them) and are generally not resisted by NIMBY-types, even in comparison to ordinary electrical wires. They coexist well with ordinary farmland, and probide the farmers with an extra source of income; in many cases exceeding that of their income from the crops and/or livestock on the same land. Free money makes the backyard wind turbine much more attractive.
And the Environazis have discovered that wind generators have been killing hand raised California Condors along with raptors
This is a myth. Birds have been naturally selected for hundreds of millions of years for their ability to avoid objects while flying. The many wind turbines already in California pose no significant risk to condors or any other endangered species. They do kill a few raptors now an then, but not even 1% of enough to impact their population.
Dr. Mitchell Swartz, who publishes the Cold Fusion Times, is able to procure and distribute heavy water for about $15/liter plus shipping and handling, I believe.
Fusion is dirty: you get neutrons and gammas irradiating things while in operation and activated reactor plant components. From what I hear the reactants and products are not radioactive.
Correct, except that the products are hot, too.
The Farnsworth fusor is very dirty producing lots of fast neutrons, which make everything in the vicinity a hot isotope of what it once was, including people. Be careful.
In 30 years world electricity requirements
will be ~3,500,000 MW (nameplate). Wind is now increasing at the rate of
~4,700 MW per year (nameplate). The average increase per year for the last
decade has been ~25%, and that rate is increasing. It will reach ~3.5
million MW in ~30 years. There are more than enough wind resources in North
America, China, and Europe to power the entire world. Offshore wind
resources in the North Sea could produce four times more energy than Europe
consumes. Wind-poor locations and peak-demand generators can be served with
wind-generated hydrogen fuel. The cost of wind generators is falling
rapidly. Taking into account the hidden costs of fossil fuel, such as
pollution and war, wind is already cheaper than any other source. There are
no technical limitations that would prevent wind from meeting all demand for
electricity.
certain regions of DNA are hypo/hypermethylated in a sex-related manner. But if you get both copies of the gene from your mother (or father in the case of a diploid sperm), this gene is improperly regulated.
On the contrary, please correct me if I'm wrong, but you are referring to a problem with the YY genotype, not the XX that would occur from a parthenogenic diploid ovum, as well as an ordinary female zygote.
The question is, how often do human diploid ova ovulate and parthenogenerate simultaneously into a receptive womb? I'm sure it's better than one in a billion over a 30 year fertility span.
human parthenogenesis - clones walk the Earth now?
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The whiptail lizard genus Cnemidophorus of the southwestern U.S. includes sexual species and parthenogenic strains, e.g., C. uniparens. Females of the parthenogenic strains can still mate.
Natural parthenogenesis in mammalian species is considerably more common than most people think, and is considered normal in certain breeds of mice, cattle, and camels, occuring as a result of defective egg cells. In the vast majority of cases, mammalian parthenogenesis fails to produce offspring and results in noncancerous ovarian tumors.
However, such parthenogenic ova can produce clones of their mother when (A) they are simultaniously ovulated into a receptive womb, e.g., shortly after an ordinary egg which became fertilized, and (B) contain a diploid nucleus. Although ova are supposed to be haploid some human haploid cells are naturally diploid. Presumably this is an ordinary kind of haploid mutation.
Although it is difficult to estimate the rate of occurance of natural human parthenogenic offspring, it is probably more common than one in a billion over the course of a modern human female lifespan, meaning that there are probably already a handful of clones on the planet. ["Wow, you really do look like your mother."]
it is first necessary to secure the operating system that most frequently is connected to it, ie Windows.
Since Windows' creator, Microsoft, has shown themselves incapable of making progress in this regard even after a year's concerted effort, why would anyone think the U.S. government stands a chance?
Such D.O.S. attacks as the parent post mentions are common, even if not visible, and will likely continue to be.
The artificial muscle, or polymer molecule actuator, comprises a plastic [resin that expands and contracts in response to electric signals] plate containing water sandwiched between two capped electrodes.
That's just entirely different than what MIT is doing, as MIT is actually using hydrogel polymer techniques, and these fish people just have some new kind of electrical plastic.
Slashdot Mirror
At what level? If a tree falls on your car, do you expect a public ambulance or not? If a cyclone devistates your city, where would you prefer to turn?
Having the potential is very different from having the ability.
The inordinate easy access to playing-field-tilting tax shelters by large corporations, and several centuries of exclusionary racism and slavery.
Clearly! You, and apparently your church, are still living under the edicts of the Old Testament, apart from the grace of Jesus. When will you leave Numbers 31:17-18 behind and arrive at Matthew 5:38-39?
Firefighters and highway patrol officers have taken greater risks per hour of service than enlisted men and women since Viet Nam. They also serve the peace and for our continued healt essential to our freedom. That's still no reason to give them half of the federal budget.
I'm in the top U.S. tax bracket and ashamed at how low my taxes are, except for the portion that pays for the military.
What is the only one fair tax structure? Steeply progressive brackets, like we had under Eisenhower in the '50s?
Octave, and all but the very latest version (i.e., of some months ago) of MATLAB are interpreters, and therefore very slow on everything with loops. Granted, there is a lot you can do with some expressions in MATLAB, but anything more complicated than eigenvectors is going to need a loop, and thus will be slowed by the interpreter.
Not yet; that regenerative cell endurance upgrade is scheduled for completion by Summer 2003.
That may be true for traditional electrolysis, but proton-exchange membranes are very much like fuel cells "running in reverse," and much more efficient.
Proton Energy claims that medium-scale hydrogen storage of electric power costs 250% of input costs due to the inefficencies. If you have a isolated wind grid that needs to use hydrogen-stored electricity 20% of the time due to calm winds, that means you are paying 160%, or about 14.4 cents per kilowatt hour, just a little more than natural gas, and at about seven cents less than California's famous long-term contracts signed at the height of the manufactured "energy crisis."
Fossil fuels are not renewable; therefore, that statement will only be true for a finite time. Who knows how long?
Electrolytic hydrogen production is already in use commercially.
True, but with continental wind grids, virtually none is needed. The wind is always blowing somewhere, even at night.
I suspect that wind-electrolyzed hydrogen will become financially relevant before 2009. By that time, the scale of mass production of turbines will have rendered them less as expensive than a few dozen streetlamps, pushing the cost of their power down to direct competition with coal.
On the contrary, those are offshore.
The unsubsidized cost of wind power is about nine cents per kilowatt hour. That makes it competitive with almost everything except coal, including natural gas.
Electrolysis, a method of generating hydrogen fuel from water and electricity, can be done at nearly any scale, to provide round-the-clock availability.Currently, the last comment I see is three days old: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpoli cy-comment/2002Dec/
I hope Slashdot's last-minute comments aren't headed into the bitbucket.
Who needs Oak Ridge when you've got Pakistan, North Korea, China, and Iran? All are much farther along than Iraq.
When a surge in natural nuclear decomposition heat sets off Pakistan's bomb, how are they not going to think it was the Indians?
And if you think the likely source of that threat today is not from within, then you are crazy, or, more likely, just following orders.
Clearly, you have greater belief in military and arms than in your God's commandment against killing. Remember your drill sergeant telling you to obey without question? You have made him very proud. I hope he is there to congratulate you when you receive your "heavenly reward" for your actions.
Then you are a fool. How many troops are worth one more student in your children's classes? How many bombs are worth one more undiagnosed tuberculosis patient in your town? How many bullets are worth one fewer book in your public library? How many rifles are worth one fewer ambulance in your neighborhood?
The Constitution you have sworn to uphold has been eroded to the point of unrecognizability. Are you such a coward that you refuse to see that "folks like Hitler, Stalin, Hussien, etc." are in your own backyard?
Good question. There isn't any. Case closed.
The main supporting inference requires considerable suspension of disbelief, and is presented as nothing more than conjecture. From Chapter 10, page 19:
The author thinks the thing was loaded concealed and armed with a 4 atm pressure depth charge fuse? Please.
Historians have found that the last invasion of the U.S. was in 1812, and except for an unsucsessful attack against Pearl Harbor, none have been attempted since. Nevertheless, fear mongering of such invasions have allowed the U.S. military to grow beyond reason against the best advice, taxing the freedoms of the Constitution away from citizens. The Department of Defense hopes that these facts will become unknown, and is covertly working toward that goal, months after renouncing it. Such military propaganda artists have long confounded peace- and freedom-loving citizens, although they often hear their noises, especially during the recent surfacing of the Bush-Bin Laden connection.
Navy engineers have found the source of their extensive increasing yearly funding. This funding has allowed them to build underwater microphones, submarines, ships, and everything else they have. The source was unknown until paperwork surfaced recently showing that the US taxpayer has been paying for all of it.
Anyone who thinks that product recommendation algorithms that work for books are going to work as well for clothes is in for a rude awakening.
Perhaps you are familiar with the Altamont Pass wind generators, which are quite noisy. Modern wind turbines are quiet (but not so quiet that birds can't hear them) and are generally not resisted by NIMBY-types, even in comparison to ordinary electrical wires. They coexist well with ordinary farmland, and probide the farmers with an extra source of income; in many cases exceeding that of their income from the crops and/or livestock on the same land. Free money makes the backyard wind turbine much more attractive.
This is a myth. Birds have been naturally selected for hundreds of millions of years for their ability to avoid objects while flying. The many wind turbines already in California pose no significant risk to condors or any other endangered species. They do kill a few raptors now an then, but not even 1% of enough to impact their population.
Dr. Mitchell Swartz, who publishes the Cold Fusion Times, is able to procure and distribute heavy water for about $15/liter plus shipping and handling, I believe.
Doh! I got the <p> in the wrong place; please see www.lenr-canr.org first.
Correct, except that the products are hot, too.
The Farnsworth fusor is very dirty producing lots of fast neutrons, which make everything in the vicinity a hot isotope of what it once was, including people. Be careful.
www.lenr-canr.org
(please see first) www.bovik.org/codeposition
www.bovik.org/codeposition/best.gif (confirmatory experiment you can do at home for less than the cost of building a Farnsworth fusor.)
The truth is that wind power is all we need, and perhaps all we will have in just 30 years.
On the contrary, please correct me if I'm wrong, but you are referring to a problem with the YY genotype, not the XX that would occur from a parthenogenic diploid ovum, as well as an ordinary female zygote.
The question is, how often do human diploid ova ovulate and parthenogenerate simultaneously into a receptive womb? I'm sure it's better than one in a billion over a 30 year fertility span.
Natural parthenogenesis in mammalian species is considerably more common than most people think, and is considered normal in certain breeds of mice, cattle, and camels, occuring as a result of defective egg cells. In the vast majority of cases, mammalian parthenogenesis fails to produce offspring and results in noncancerous ovarian tumors.
However, such parthenogenic ova can produce clones of their mother when (A) they are simultaniously ovulated into a receptive womb, e.g., shortly after an ordinary egg which became fertilized, and (B) contain a diploid nucleus. Although ova are supposed to be haploid some human haploid cells are naturally diploid. Presumably this is an ordinary kind of haploid mutation.
Although it is difficult to estimate the rate of occurance of natural human parthenogenic offspring, it is probably more common than one in a billion over the course of a modern human female lifespan, meaning that there are probably already a handful of clones on the planet. ["Wow, you really do look like your mother."]
Since Windows' creator, Microsoft, has shown themselves incapable of making progress in this regard even after a year's concerted effort, why would anyone think the U.S. government stands a chance?
Such D.O.S. attacks as the parent post mentions are common, even if not visible, and will likely continue to be.
doh! on closer inspection the two ARE the same. My parent article deserves to be modded into oblivion, please. Thank you.
That's just entirely different than what MIT is doing, as MIT is actually using hydrogel polymer techniques, and these fish people just have some new kind of electrical plastic.