Why don't people try to find if a name is already owned by someone else before they use it? Why are we continually subjected to news about such clownishness?
The earth is 200 million square miles. If there are 1000 nuclear plants uniformly distributed, that's 200,000 square miles per plant, or squares 450 miles on a side. The mean distance of random strikes and a plant would thus be (roughly) 180 miles. To figure 99.9999%, you'd need 1 million strikes. The even-odds distance for at least one strike being within that distance from the center of the strike is 0.18 miles, or 1000 feet. Plants aren't point size, so almost a direct hit. So your guess is wrong. However, your evaluation of the Tunguska-type event itself being more significant seems correct.
The typewrither sounds like a very interesting piece of technology, or maybe magic. I'd like to see one in action. Does the machine distort itself, or does the text change after it's written? If the latter, it would be of great use to politicians.
There's more job openings and research funded in the industrial military complex than in all the scientific research areas combined.
Just curious, is your grammar representative of your eduction?
I realize that "military industrial complex" is a popular catchphrase, but industry in general concentrates on making things, while the military concentrates on destroying things. They should not be regarded as a unit. Job openings and research for things that people actually use are what industry provides, and what people need to live. The idea that there ever could be or should be more job openings in scientific research than in industry is just silly. The idea that stolen money (tax money) should be used to make it so is profoundly immoral.
There's nothing in the summary about putting a living astronaut on Mars in 15 years. Hold an auction to be the first man buried on Mars to cover costs.
You are suffering from the fallacy that corporatism is the same thing as the existence of corporations. A corporation is an entity whose ownership may be separate from its management. When properly set into law, the owners and managers are immune to attacks on their assets outside the corporation, provided that malice is not proved. When you deal with a corporation, you go into that deal knowing that you can't sue the CEO if their product breaks, and choose to deal with the corporation or not based on that knowledge.
Corporations have the advantage that it is easier for them to get funding (through sale of stock).
Problems arise when corporations use government to separate management from the consequences of unethical actions. That is an aspect of corporatism, and it's wrong. But it's not the necessary consequence of the existence of corporations.
This is why representative democracy is doomed to eventual failure. It is impossible to find someone who is against all bad views and for all good views.
Your reason is irrelevant. The rightness or wrongness of the leaders is only partially related to the perseverance of a government (I'm assuming you mean by failure that the government ceases to exist in its current form.)
Bad people can run and ruin any sort of government, representative democracies are not unique in having that problem.
Certain aspects of both the government and the populace can help its the long term survival. In government, written restrictions on the actions of government help, as does having parts of government whose interests are opposed to other parts (and are thus likely to oppose their more obvious bad actions.) In the populace, good education and organizations active in opposing government misbehavior help.
The companies that make these should be sued out of existence. People who work for these companies or own them should be shunned and insulted, and people should refuse to do business with them. Those in government responsible for authorizing and installing these cameras should be treated the same way.
If you want to be free, you must be constantly vigilant.
I don't understand. How is that dial with painted marks for mph and kph going to need to be recalibrated when you shift your eye from one scale to the other?
Soft drinks in glass bottles were a hodgepodge. The traditional coke bottle was 6-1/4 oz. Many sodas came in 10 ounce bottles, 12 was common, and I think that 8 was also in use.
My guess is that deposits will tend to get burned off the lens surface. Consider that something that blocks the light propagation is going to absorb most of the energy in that light. If not, you're right, it's trouble.
BMW plugs are a well known and inexcusable ripoff. If the BMW needs such expensive plugs it's bad engineering, if it doesn't it's pure P.T.Barnum. I ran plugs on a Toyota about 100,00 miles, replacing only one when I cracked the insulator while cleaning it.
Plugs aren't terrible at their job, the improvement (if any) that the lasers make in practice is going to be small.
Tenneco did a study more than 40 years ago using as many as 10 spark plugs per cylinder. More is better, i.e. a more dispersed (bigger) starting point is better. To prevent detonation, a high pressure/ high temperature pulse must be prevented. In other words, you want the fuel to burn, not explode. Neglecting the effect of quenching areas, if you get the fuel to burn quickly, all the fuel will be burned before a pressure wave can traverse a large enough portion of the combustion chamber to explode some extra hot, extra-compressed unburned portion. Ideally, it's best if all the fuel burns instantaneously so that the pressure from that burning is applied to the piston at TDC.
The critical difference is not making combustion that is propagated by a shock wave. The shock wave means localized pressures higher than uniform instantaneous burning.
DVDs are smaller than tape, prerecorded DVDs have no inherent wear mechanism, and the machines can live a lot longer than VCRs (VCR heads have about an 8000 hour life.) Although DVDs can be scratched into uselessness, VCR tapes are more likely to be irrecoverably damaged. Blu-Ray has no usability advantage over DVD, and was actually designed to be physically compatible. More capacity is not enough to drive the change, and not everyone has a high definition TV yet.
When it becomes economically feasible to put movies on SSD, people will be happy to pay a premium to be able to put a dozen truly rugged movies in their pocket.
Physical media is something you can have around forever. You're not subject to a supplier's whim to discontinue (too many to mention) or "improve" (George Lucas) their product. Pride of ownership is not negligible.
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The sugar lobby has put its efforts into high import tariffs. The resulting high prices on cane sugar naturally led to a search for a cheaper source of sweetness, and corn sugar won.
Your reference to 3/4 million turns out to be less than half that, and the period of the problem is predicted to 100 years, which hardly amounts to "soon to be refugees".
Most book stores have "reading comprehension" self-help guides. Buy one.
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Why don't people try to find if a name is already owned by someone else before they use it? Why are we continually subjected to news about such clownishness?
That depends on whether the EU is considered one country or many.
The earth is 200 million square miles. If there are 1000 nuclear plants uniformly distributed, that's 200,000 square miles per plant, or squares 450 miles on a side. The mean distance of random strikes and a plant would thus be (roughly) 180 miles. To figure 99.9999%, you'd need 1 million strikes. The even-odds distance for at least one strike being within that distance from the center of the strike is 0.18 miles, or 1000 feet. Plants aren't point size, so almost a direct hit. So your guess is wrong. However, your evaluation of the Tunguska-type event itself being more significant seems correct.
The typewrither sounds like a very interesting piece of technology, or maybe magic. I'd like to see one in action. Does the machine distort itself, or does the text change after it's written? If the latter, it would be of great use to politicians.
Just curious, is your grammar representative of your eduction?
I realize that "military industrial complex" is a popular catchphrase, but industry in general concentrates on making things, while the military concentrates on destroying things. They should not be regarded as a unit. Job openings and research for things that people actually use are what industry provides, and what people need to live. The idea that there ever could be or should be more job openings in scientific research than in industry is just silly. The idea that stolen money (tax money) should be used to make it so is profoundly immoral.
The site you reference is obviously bogus, the Martian flag is wrong. Here is the correct flag: http://mediccopcom.tripod.com/mediccopcom0616/id8.html
Exactly how is the Outer Space Treaty going to be enforced against a Martian civilization?
There's nothing in the summary about putting a living astronaut on Mars in 15 years. Hold an auction to be the first man buried on Mars to cover costs.
You are suffering from the fallacy that corporatism is the same thing as the existence of corporations. A corporation is an entity whose ownership may be separate from its management. When properly set into law, the owners and managers are immune to attacks on their assets outside the corporation, provided that malice is not proved. When you deal with a corporation, you go into that deal knowing that you can't sue the CEO if their product breaks, and choose to deal with the corporation or not based on that knowledge.
Corporations have the advantage that it is easier for them to get funding (through sale of stock).
Problems arise when corporations use government to separate management from the consequences of unethical actions. That is an aspect of corporatism, and it's wrong. But it's not the necessary consequence of the existence of corporations.
Your reason is irrelevant. The rightness or wrongness of the leaders is only partially related to the perseverance of a government (I'm assuming you mean by failure that the government ceases to exist in its current form.)
Bad people can run and ruin any sort of government, representative democracies are not unique in having that problem.
Certain aspects of both the government and the populace can help its the long term survival. In government, written restrictions on the actions of government help, as does having parts of government whose interests are opposed to other parts (and are thus likely to oppose their more obvious bad actions.) In the populace, good education and organizations active in opposing government misbehavior help.
The companies that make these should be sued out of existence. People who work for these companies or own them should be shunned and insulted, and people should refuse to do business with them. Those in government responsible for authorizing and installing these cameras should be treated the same way. If you want to be free, you must be constantly vigilant.
Ångström is particularly convenient for thinking on the scale of individual atoms, since it's about the size of a small atom.
How many gauss in a Tesla? How many coulombs in an abcoulomb?
I don't understand. How is that dial with painted marks for mph and kph going to need to be recalibrated when you shift your eye from one scale to the other?
Please explain to me the reason for measuring nails in pennies.
Soft drinks in glass bottles were a hodgepodge. The traditional coke bottle was 6-1/4 oz. Many sodas came in 10 ounce bottles, 12 was common, and I think that 8 was also in use.
My guess is that deposits will tend to get burned off the lens surface. Consider that something that blocks the light propagation is going to absorb most of the energy in that light. If not, you're right, it's trouble.
And heavy. Don't forget heavy.
BMW plugs are a well known and inexcusable ripoff. If the BMW needs such expensive plugs it's bad engineering, if it doesn't it's pure P.T.Barnum. I ran plugs on a Toyota about 100,00 miles, replacing only one when I cracked the insulator while cleaning it.
Plugs aren't terrible at their job, the improvement (if any) that the lasers make in practice is going to be small.
Tenneco did a study more than 40 years ago using as many as 10 spark plugs per cylinder. More is better, i.e. a more dispersed (bigger) starting point is better. To prevent detonation, a high pressure/ high temperature pulse must be prevented. In other words, you want the fuel to burn, not explode. Neglecting the effect of quenching areas, if you get the fuel to burn quickly, all the fuel will be burned before a pressure wave can traverse a large enough portion of the combustion chamber to explode some extra hot, extra-compressed unburned portion. Ideally, it's best if all the fuel burns instantaneously so that the pressure from that burning is applied to the piston at TDC.
The critical difference is not making combustion that is propagated by a shock wave. The shock wave means localized pressures higher than uniform instantaneous burning.
DVDs are smaller than tape, prerecorded DVDs have no inherent wear mechanism, and the machines can live a lot longer than VCRs (VCR heads have about an 8000 hour life.) Although DVDs can be scratched into uselessness, VCR tapes are more likely to be irrecoverably damaged. Blu-Ray has no usability advantage over DVD, and was actually designed to be physically compatible. More capacity is not enough to drive the change, and not everyone has a high definition TV yet.
When it becomes economically feasible to put movies on SSD, people will be happy to pay a premium to be able to put a dozen truly rugged movies in their pocket.
Physical media is something you can have around forever. You're not subject to a supplier's whim to discontinue (too many to mention) or "improve" (George Lucas) their product. Pride of ownership is not negligible.
The sugar lobby has put its efforts into high import tariffs. The resulting high prices on cane sugar naturally led to a search for a cheaper source of sweetness, and corn sugar won.
And yes, the corn lobbyists have much more power.
Please show me the phosphorus atom in glucose or fructose.
Why be such morons? Why be counter-productive and childish? How is that different from all other religions?
Your reference to 3/4 million turns out to be less than half that, and the period of the problem is predicted to 100 years, which hardly amounts to "soon to be refugees".
Most book stores have "reading comprehension" self-help guides. Buy one.