There are those who claim that the acidification of ocean waters is a problem, although most of those complainers are worried about CO2 uptake by ocean water.
The weight of the raw materials always exceeds the weight of the finished product. From a transportation fuel consumption standpoint, the efficient method is to do production at the site of the raw materials that make up the most mass of the finished product (as a first approximation). But this is obviously too complicated for a self-proclaimed Marxist, and explains why Marxism is a disaster if your goal is good life for human beings.
The property that makes semiconductors necessary is the ability to change the rate of electron flow through the material by the application of electrical signals into or near the material. This is much more difficult to do in a useful manner with metals than with semiconductors.
Semiconductor fabricators are well-accustomed to handling toxic materials such as silane. LED manufacturers use arsenic in much larger quantities than the new technology requires. Quite simply, it is not a significant problem.
Arsenic is a solid. It's not going to leak away or evaporate into the atmosphere if a bottle of it cracks.
As of about 4 years ago, the formulation for copper-based wood preservatives was changed to eliminate arsenic; the arsenic compounds becoming illegal for residential use in the United States. New compounds are copper azide and other copper-organics.
Hydrogen-oxygen and hydrogen-fluorine systems have the highest specific impulse; no solid or hybrid chemical system comes close. Given that hydrogen-fluorine is toxic both before and after combustion, the only reasonable choice is hydrogen-oxygen (for a rocket that can be fueled shortly before launch). NASA is well within the letter of the law, just not the corrupt intent.
Under the right conditions, coat hangers can introduce clearly audible distortion. Coat hangers usually have a high iron content. The iron enhances the magnetic field inherent in any current flow, but if there's too much current flow, the iron saturates. Bingo, distortion.
Hard drives already do CRCs in hardware, so that they can detect errors themselves and reread if one is detected, or declare a failed read if repeated reads fail. How often is the extra complication of a software checksum going to help?
I'd sell you a bridge, but what you call money is worthless to me.
You have fallen for a fallacy that has no relation to reality.
Commerce was originally done by barter. To improve commerce, people needed something that could be saved for future use, something that would be durable, have high value density, be divisible, and have a fairly constant value over time. Gold has worked out to be the best thing, and it has been made in easily identified standard quantities called coins. This is money. It is not anti-debt, it is not a fiction based on someone else's faith that still other people will accept it in payment for goods.
If what you have doesn't have "intrinsic value" at least its face value, it isn't money. If what you have doesn't have a fixed relation to a valuable physical item, it isn't even in the same classification as money.
I'll second your Supermicro. I've a Supermicro motherboard in an Antec case/PS that's over eleven years old, averaging 12 hours of use a day. Hats off!
If you are working for the government, you are paid money taken from people under threat of imprisonment or murder if they do not give up their money. Such a job is inherently corrupt, and the persons who work such jobs are inescapably corrupt to the degree that they do not attempt to make their job permanently unnecessary, and when that happens, quit the job.
Restrictions on free markets inevitably become heavier and heavier, making it harder to make a profit, produce goods, pay your workers, ad infinitum. Those who oppose free markets, oppose freedom. Those who oppose free markets hold the self-contradictory position that the person who is living his own life is not the person who should decide how to run his life. Those who make such claims never seem to realize it applies to them, too.
Redefine all variables in LINPACK to be higher precision than available from any graphics processor. 128 bit floats, for example. (Requires writing a library to handle the new floats, obviously.)
Nope, you're reacting like a liberal, all emotion without accuracy or logic. Tree leaves were made to fluoresce in a two-stage and therefor inefficient process: UV (gold) blue (chlorophyll) red. They could much more easily have painted the tree with fluorescent paint. It isn't even phosphorescent, which implies some energy storage from day to night.
Yes, it's a neat trick, adds to our store of knowledge, and might make a good novelty gift. But it's not practical, and for street lighting would be a false hope and a massive money wasting fraud. Just like liberalism.
Electric company generators can regulate their output voltage by changing the exciting field. They aren't blindly dependent on their loads. As the load is reduced, the amount of fuel required to keep the generator speed constant is reduced. Similarly, substations can make some adjustments for varying loads. There are efficiency and other issues that aren't optimum if the load is very small, but claiming a need for street lights to load dump is inacurate.
The case of American Indians is quite complex and modern enough to be well documented. Much like many modern programs of attack on a particular group, there were people seeking financial advantage (land speculators and gold seekers, etc.) and people motivated by hatred (Andrew Jackson, a favorite of many Americans, especially Democrats, is a prime example). Of course, many people were dupes, didn't care, or actually opposed the attacks. The fact that the Amerinds were not particularly advanced ("savages") was more of an excuse for ignoring their rights than a reason for killing them.
There were many different tribes of Indians and they didn't all behave alike. A few were aggressive, and many had a much lower value for human life (particularly for those who weren't a member of their own tribe) than we take for granted today. One tribe's attack on a peaceful settlement was used to besmirch all; a behavior both understandable and despicable.
A large part of the crime rate in the US is due to repressive drug laws, which cause drug arrests directly, and violence and theft arrests indirectly. Absent that, the rate would probably still be high, but perhaps not the worst.
With regard to Vietnam, two things: Vietnam was fought mostly defensively. The killing rate increased sharply not long after we left, until all detected anticommunists were dead.
The problem with waiting for them to go to war and lose is that even in losing they cause a lot of damage, and in losing they are not all wiped out. Long term, Islam and civilization are mutually exclusive. Currently, civilization is losing.
"Besides, artificial sweeters [sic] are bad for you."
You overgeneralize.
Inositol looks, tastes, and feels like table sugar, although perhaps not as sweet. It is not only not harmful, it is beneficial enough that it was once considered a B-vitamin.
Why on earth is Red Hat giving a major feature of their new release the name SPICE, when that name is already taken by the most important piece of software for electrical engineers?
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There are those who claim that the acidification of ocean waters is a problem, although most of those complainers are worried about CO2 uptake by ocean water.
A European swallow or an African swallow?
The weight of the raw materials always exceeds the weight of the finished product. From a transportation fuel consumption standpoint, the efficient method is to do production at the site of the raw materials that make up the most mass of the finished product (as a first approximation). But this is obviously too complicated for a self-proclaimed Marxist, and explains why Marxism is a disaster if your goal is good life for human beings.
The property that makes semiconductors necessary is the ability to change the rate of electron flow through the material by the application of electrical signals into or near the material. This is much more difficult to do in a useful manner with metals than with semiconductors.
Semiconductor fabricators are well-accustomed to handling toxic materials such as silane. LED manufacturers use arsenic in much larger quantities than the new technology requires. Quite simply, it is not a significant problem.
Arsenic is a solid. It's not going to leak away or evaporate into the atmosphere if a bottle of it cracks.
As of about 4 years ago, the formulation for copper-based wood preservatives was changed to eliminate arsenic; the arsenic compounds becoming illegal for residential use in the United States. New compounds are copper azide and other copper-organics.
Hydrogen-oxygen and hydrogen-fluorine systems have the highest specific impulse; no solid or hybrid chemical system comes close. Given that hydrogen-fluorine is toxic both before and after combustion, the only reasonable choice is hydrogen-oxygen (for a rocket that can be fueled shortly before launch). NASA is well within the letter of the law, just not the corrupt intent.
Under the right conditions, coat hangers can introduce clearly audible distortion. Coat hangers usually have a high iron content. The iron enhances the magnetic field inherent in any current flow, but if there's too much current flow, the iron saturates. Bingo, distortion.
Hard drives already do CRCs in hardware, so that they can detect errors themselves and reread if one is detected, or declare a failed read if repeated reads fail. How often is the extra complication of a software checksum going to help?
I'd sell you a bridge, but what you call money is worthless to me.
You have fallen for a fallacy that has no relation to reality.
Commerce was originally done by barter. To improve commerce, people needed something that could be saved for future use, something that would be durable, have high value density, be divisible, and have a fairly constant value over time. Gold has worked out to be the best thing, and it has been made in easily identified standard quantities called coins. This is money . It is not anti-debt, it is not a fiction based on someone else's faith that still other people will accept it in payment for goods.
If what you have doesn't have "intrinsic value" at least its face value, it isn't money. If what you have doesn't have a fixed relation to a valuable physical item, it isn't even in the same classification as money.
And there's no such thing as automated assembly of PC boards, and William Edwards Deming was never born.
I'll second your Supermicro. I've a Supermicro motherboard in an Antec case/PS that's over eleven years old, averaging 12 hours of use a day. Hats off!
If you are working for the government, you are paid money taken from people under threat of imprisonment or murder if they do not give up their money. Such a job is inherently corrupt, and the persons who work such jobs are inescapably corrupt to the degree that they do not attempt to make their job permanently unnecessary, and when that happens, quit the job.
Restrictions on free markets inevitably become heavier and heavier, making it harder to make a profit, produce goods, pay your workers, ad infinitum. Those who oppose free markets, oppose freedom . Those who oppose free markets hold the self-contradictory position that the person who is living his own life is not the person who should decide how to run his life. Those who make such claims never seem to realize it applies to them, too.
A libertarian says "Don't impede anyone who trades honestly."
A totalitarian says "Put a .45 bullet through anyone who violates our arbtrary rules."
A moderate says "I'm reasonable. You must compromise. Put a .22 bullet through anyone who violates our arbitrary rules.
Using ideology means having a basis for decisions. Anything else is just flailing in the wind.
Redefine all variables in LINPACK to be higher precision than available from any graphics processor. 128 bit floats, for example. (Requires writing a library to handle the new floats, obviously.)
Bindi the Jungle Girl.
Nope, you're reacting like a liberal, all emotion without accuracy or logic. Tree leaves were made to fluoresce in a two-stage and therefor inefficient process: UV (gold) blue (chlorophyll) red. They could much more easily have painted the tree with fluorescent paint. It isn't even phosphorescent, which implies some energy storage from day to night.
Yes, it's a neat trick, adds to our store of knowledge, and might make a good novelty gift. But it's not practical, and for street lighting would be a false hope and a massive money wasting fraud. Just like liberalism.
Electric company generators can regulate their output voltage by changing the exciting field. They aren't blindly dependent on their loads. As the load is reduced, the amount of fuel required to keep the generator speed constant is reduced. Similarly, substations can make some adjustments for varying loads. There are efficiency and other issues that aren't optimum if the load is very small, but claiming a need for street lights to load dump is inacurate.
The case of American Indians is quite complex and modern enough to be well documented. Much like many modern programs of attack on a particular group, there were people seeking financial advantage (land speculators and gold seekers, etc.) and people motivated by hatred (Andrew Jackson, a favorite of many Americans, especially Democrats, is a prime example). Of course, many people were dupes, didn't care, or actually opposed the attacks. The fact that the Amerinds were not particularly advanced ("savages") was more of an excuse for ignoring their rights than a reason for killing them.
There were many different tribes of Indians and they didn't all behave alike. A few were aggressive, and many had a much lower value for human life (particularly for those who weren't a member of their own tribe) than we take for granted today. One tribe's attack on a peaceful settlement was used to besmirch all; a behavior both understandable and despicable.
A large part of the crime rate in the US is due to repressive drug laws, which cause drug arrests directly, and violence and theft arrests indirectly. Absent that, the rate would probably still be high, but perhaps not the worst.
With regard to Vietnam, two things: Vietnam was fought mostly defensively. The killing rate increased sharply not long after we left, until all detected anticommunists were dead.
Encouraging a democracy among people, the majority of which want to kill you, is not necessarily a wise thing to do.
The problem with waiting for them to go to war and lose is that even in losing they cause a lot of damage, and in losing they are not all wiped out. Long term, Islam and civilization are mutually exclusive. Currently, civilization is losing.
"Besides, artificial sweeters [sic] are bad for you."
You overgeneralize.
Inositol looks, tastes, and feels like table sugar, although perhaps not as sweet. It is not only not harmful, it is beneficial enough that it was once considered a B-vitamin.
Why on earth is Red Hat giving a major feature of their new release the name SPICE, when that name is already taken by the most important piece of software for electrical engineers?