Do you really hate the poor and the sick so much that you want to inflict government medicine upon them?
And to be precise, our insurance system is not "privatized", it is private. Privatization is the process of making a government orgnanization non-governmental. It is the reverse of "nationalization". The insurance industry has never been a government function.
There is no reason for the government at any level to be spending money on power plants of any sort. This is for private businesses. The most government should be doing is removing restrictions on building power plants and making it much more difficult to file lawsuits against power plant construction.
With regard to Cuba, sanctions were imposed because Cuba stole property belonging to people and corporations in the US. The purpose of the sanctions was to give Cuba the choice of returning (or paying for) the stolen property, or suffer the consequences. Cuba, or rather Castro, chose to suffer the consequences. So the sanctions have worked to punish Cuba, and the sanctions have weakened what would otherwise be a worse pain than it already is. Whether Castro has personally suffered on account of the sanctions is difficult to determine because it's not easy to determine what it is he actually wants.
GM sells what they think people will buy. Many of GM's economy efforts have been stupendous money losers -- consider the Vega and the Corvair (which that "great hero" Ralph Nader helped kill.) It isn't for lack of trying that GM's economy car efforts have been mostly unsuccessful. Don't forget, in your effort to libel GM, that the whole Saturn division is based on reliable economy cars.
In rural areas map accuracy may not be affordable or even possible. Some roads are flooded a significant portion of the year. Some dirt roads aren't maintained, and as years go by degrade from useable to 4WD only to impassible. Weeks go by before trees or large rocks are cleared from the road. Gated private roads need to be distinguished from public ways. "Residents only" areas need to be properly handled. Etc., etc., etc..
Pedestrian bridges and tunnels are expensive. Tunnels in particular are dangerous; they flood easily and are used as homeless housing (think urine) and ambush sites for muggers. 20 years ago a pedestrian tunnel on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood was gated shut for public safety reasons.
Laws can be changed, and often are. Fifty years ago, anything but sealed beam headlights were illegal in most states. The now common interchangable-bulb halogen headlight would have gotten you a ticket, and some bossy cops smashed them immediately.
The proper function of government is to protect your life and those things which make your life possible (primarily property). It is only just that you pay for what you get, hence a head tax for protecting your life and a property tax for protecting your property. This arrangement makes it more likely that taxes bear some relation to ability to pay, and also encourages the productive use of property.
It's difficult to get significant power out of a single straight wire with a few amps flowing through it at 60 Hz by induction. Generally, you want several hundred turns of wire around a magnetic core.
The likely technique is to make an ohmic contact to two wires at different voltages and have a charger able to accept a very wide range of voltages.
Cutting brakes lines is obviously malicious and should be considered attempted murder. The laser incident is less clear. I agree that $5000 is too low. There should be some jail time, and a fine appropriate to their ability to pay. Probably some "community service" also.
If they're stupid enough to point a laser at a helicopter, they're stupid enough to get caught. They probably don't think they've done something wrong.
I had a guy point a laser at my face (not a powerful one) and he thought it was funny. Some people are just dense.
Nuclear isn't like oil, where it's difficult to stockpile a large amount, and when it's gone, it's gone. With nuclear, one power plant is likely to have fuel on site to run the plant several years, and at reduced capacity for a while longer.
Furthermore, consider what is required for all nuclear fuel providers to refuse to sell more. Iran would have to be engaging in or threatening an agressive war, or something similar.
If Iran finds buying nuclear fuel unacceptable, I can only conclude that their plans are nasty.
58 meters at 10 million km is 5.8 nanoradians or 1.2 milli-arc-seconds. A ten meter telescope can only resolve about 10 milli-arc-seconds with visible light. So even if we had enough telescopes to scan all space every couple of days, we couldn't see and identify a 58 meter rock at much more than 1 million km. So for rocks this size, we're pretty much screwed.
By big oil I must assume you are referring to the major producers of petroleum whose marginal production rates affect the price of oil directly: Venuzuela, various middle eastern countries, Russia, Norway, and the many companies operating in Canada and the U.S.. They surely all have a common interest and are operating as a conspiracy.
Since Big Oil has decided to raise the prices to triple what it was 5 years ago, I see no reason why I can't expect my auto manufacturer to attempt at least double my MPG from 5 years ago.
That is an astonishing non sequitur; market forces don't affect what is technically possible (except very indirectly in the sense of the market pushing development nearer to technical limits).
While I agree that the market is the only way to go, the argument can be made that lag time is an imortant consideration. If gasoline suddenly became prohibitively expensive, the existing fleet of low-MPG cars could not be upgraded quickly. I'd estimate 5 years to replace enough to significantly affect gasoline demand.
It's been more than 20 years since I was in the inertial navigation business, but my recollection is that there should be no significant wearout mechanism for gyros. Mechanical gyros use air bearings (or possibly magnetic bearings): no contact, no wear. I suppose if they're using laser gyros they'll fail eventually due to problems with impurities or thermal stresses or something.
Are the control electronics associated with the gyros failing? What gyro technology are they using?
It's estimated human DNA can last roughly 250 years and remain relatively intact. Afterwards it begins to deteriorate.
That's in the context of a living organism, where temperature acts to degrade the DNA and the organism's repair mechanisms act to restore the DNA. Or perhaps a dead organism's DNA at room temperature in a pickle jar full of formaldehyde. It's completely divorced from the context of preserving the DNA of a dead organism using best possible techniques, which requires low temperature and a chemically and radiologically benign environment.
Making an entirely invalid extrapolation of the rule of thumb that chemical reactions procede twice as fast for every 10 degrees centigrade temperature increase, absolute zero should be adequate to preserve DNA for a few hundred million years.
Wiping out small species like cane toads is difficult because you can never be sure you got them all. Wiping out velociraptors is much easier because they're bigger: easier to track, easier to shoot, easier to be reasonably sure you got every last one.
Calling this a third degree burn is not the best possible description, because third degree burns are generally understood to include charring, which cannot occur at standard pressure with liquid water. A better description is severe scalding.
Original groundbreaking technical literature is often very difficult to understand. The author struggles to describe the new concepts. Many years later, other authors can simplify explanations and remove dead ends and needless excursions into side cases. Authors with skill at being authors instead of being researchers can choose more understandable language.
Newer texts are also likely to use modern terminology, whereas original papers may have obsolete or obscure terms. Consider trying read a text where derivatives are expressed with dots or apostrophes over letters instead of the modern dy/dx method.
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I am not aware of any state that doesn't allow write-ins.
And to be precise, our insurance system is not "privatized", it is private. Privatization is the process of making a government orgnanization non-governmental. It is the reverse of "nationalization". The insurance industry has never been a government function.
There is no reason for the government at any level to be spending money on power plants of any sort. This is for private businesses. The most government should be doing is removing restrictions on building power plants and making it much more difficult to file lawsuits against power plant construction.
With regard to Cuba, sanctions were imposed because Cuba stole property belonging to people and corporations in the US. The purpose of the sanctions was to give Cuba the choice of returning (or paying for) the stolen property, or suffer the consequences. Cuba, or rather Castro, chose to suffer the consequences. So the sanctions have worked to punish Cuba, and the sanctions have weakened what would otherwise be a worse pain than it already is. Whether Castro has personally suffered on account of the sanctions is difficult to determine because it's not easy to determine what it is he actually wants.
It's "bail out", like removing water from a boat, not "bale out", like removing hay from a barn.
GM sells what they think people will buy. Many of GM's economy efforts have been stupendous money losers -- consider the Vega and the Corvair (which that "great hero" Ralph Nader helped kill.) It isn't for lack of trying that GM's economy car efforts have been mostly unsuccessful. Don't forget, in your effort to libel GM, that the whole Saturn division is based on reliable economy cars.
In rural areas map accuracy may not be affordable or even possible. Some roads are flooded a significant portion of the year. Some dirt roads aren't maintained, and as years go by degrade from useable to 4WD only to impassible. Weeks go by before trees or large rocks are cleared from the road. Gated private roads need to be distinguished from public ways. "Residents only" areas need to be properly handled. Etc., etc., etc..
Pedestrian bridges and tunnels are expensive. Tunnels in particular are dangerous; they flood easily and are used as homeless housing (think urine) and ambush sites for muggers. 20 years ago a pedestrian tunnel on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood was gated shut for public safety reasons.
Laws can be changed, and often are. Fifty years ago, anything but sealed beam headlights were illegal in most states. The now common interchangable-bulb halogen headlight would have gotten you a ticket, and some bossy cops smashed them immediately.
The proper function of government is to protect your life and those things which make your life possible (primarily property). It is only just that you pay for what you get, hence a head tax for protecting your life and a property tax for protecting your property. This arrangement makes it more likely that taxes bear some relation to ability to pay, and also encourages the productive use of property.
The likely technique is to make an ohmic contact to two wires at different voltages and have a charger able to accept a very wide range of voltages.
Cutting brakes lines is obviously malicious and should be considered attempted murder. The laser incident is less clear. I agree that $5000 is too low. There should be some jail time, and a fine appropriate to their ability to pay. Probably some "community service" also.
I had a guy point a laser at my face (not a powerful one) and he thought it was funny. Some people are just dense.
Furthermore, consider what is required for all nuclear fuel providers to refuse to sell more. Iran would have to be engaging in or threatening an agressive war, or something similar.
If Iran finds buying nuclear fuel unacceptable, I can only conclude that their plans are nasty.
58 meters at 10 million km is 5.8 nanoradians or 1.2 milli-arc-seconds. A ten meter telescope can only resolve about 10 milli-arc-seconds with visible light. So even if we had enough telescopes to scan all space every couple of days, we couldn't see and identify a 58 meter rock at much more than 1 million km. So for rocks this size, we're pretty much screwed.
35 mpg is about 14.9*10^9 meters per cubic meter.
While I agree that the market is the only way to go, the argument can be made that lag time is an imortant consideration. If gasoline suddenly became prohibitively expensive, the existing fleet of low-MPG cars could not be upgraded quickly. I'd estimate 5 years to replace enough to significantly affect gasoline demand.
There's a lot of difference between -20 to -30 (TFA) and 20 to 30 (summary).
Are the control electronics associated with the gyros failing? What gyro technology are they using?
Making an entirely invalid extrapolation of the rule of thumb that chemical reactions procede twice as fast for every 10 degrees centigrade temperature increase, absolute zero should be adequate to preserve DNA for a few hundred million years.
Wiping out small species like cane toads is difficult because you can never be sure you got them all. Wiping out velociraptors is much easier because they're bigger: easier to track, easier to shoot, easier to be reasonably sure you got every last one.
Calling this a third degree burn is not the best possible description, because third degree burns are generally understood to include charring, which cannot occur at standard pressure with liquid water. A better description is severe scalding.
Newer texts are also likely to use modern terminology, whereas original papers may have obsolete or obscure terms. Consider trying read a text where derivatives are expressed with dots or apostrophes over letters instead of the modern dy/dx method.