The main thing ADM loves about corn-to-ethanol for fuel is huge government subsidies. Corn is a poor choice for energy-efficient ethanol creation. Brazil uses sugarcane, a much better choice where the climate is appropriate.
Election day in my town (pop. circa 1200) has as many as three ballots for each voter, often with more than thirty things to vote on. All paper and pencil. It's part of the justified cost of representative government.
English at a technical college? You should be competent at entry. They certainly don't train students to write effectively or read efficiently or wisely. In my experience (MIT) English (a.k.a. humanities) was about half classical literature (boring, did that in high school) and half modern literature (left-wing political propaganda and piss-on-humanity by Camus and Sartre).
It merely suggests a trend that every so often (18 months - 2 years) the amount of transistors on a chip doubles. In the past, that has meant speed because thinner wires produce less heat.
Wrong. Thinner wires have lower capacitance (helps) and higher resistance (hurts). Three things cause speedup with smaller geometries: thinner gate oxides (higher transconductance), shorter gates (higher transconductance), closer spacing (lower speed-of-light delay, lower capacitance). There are other effects, but these are the major ones.
Loosely wound transformers, cores with loose laminations, sheet metal near transformers all tend to vibrate audibly at the driving frequency and harmonics. At 60 Hz this can be annoying, at 1 kHz it would often be intolerable. 100 kHz might be somewhat unhealthy if it were intense enough (which seems unlikely.)
Higher voltages just mean that you don't have to have as good contact to get a lethal current. Leakage paths due to moisture and dust become more of a problem. Design of appliances becomes more difficult and expensive as flash and creep distances must be increased.
OK, let's assume your favorite gas station is next door to a crack house or a terrorist cell, and the local prosecutor or police chief doesn't like you. Consider the possibilities.
Sorry, you're wrong, and your explanation gives a clue as to why you're wrong. Higher speed films have a thicker emulsion layer with more silver which takes more chemicals to process. The additional chemical cost outweighs the value of reclaimed silver. If you buy hobbyist chemical kits for processing color negatives or slides, you'll see that capacities for high speed films are much lower than for low speed films.
What hurry? Much more than a year elapsed between 9-11 and the invasion, and before that Iraq had been impeding investigations for more than a decade. A year is a long time to play hide-and-go-seek with murderers.
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Laser printers are almost always more rugged than inkjets, regardless of brand. Dry toner (some laser plotters use liquid toner) is more concentrated and has fewer problems with drying out, leaking, smearing, etc..
Since the government counts government expenditures as part of the GDP, it's not possible for the long-term portion of GDP paid in taxes to exceed 50% of GDP. All income = taxes = government income = government expenditures ==> taxes = 50% of GDP.
A tax on revenue just gets added into the selling price of the company's products, like all other costs. Tax on profits is a leveling device, designed to hurt companies that can't hide their success.
How do you manage to spend $150 a month on clothes? I don't spend that much in a year.
Rights are kind of a negative thing, a protection against a positive evil. By what do you claim the RIGHT to strip a corporation of free speech, free press, free trade? These freedoms are a "state of nature" that governments can transgress, and the concept of rights helps protect against these transgressions.
The phrase "right to be taxed" is an oxymoron.
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There's a big difference between a few corrupt company heads and countries whose government is systematized corruption.
Not necessarily true. One person can only do so much. If a CEO knew what every one of his 500 employees knew, he still couldn't do all the work himself.
Some die from user abuse, such as static discharge. I killed my serial port by holding my trackball in my lap while wiping dust off my monitor with my hand. Some die from poor engineering; many computers die from inadequate power supplies. Chips do have wearout mechanisms: EPROMS and other programmable devices are likely to fail first. 20 years ago, EPROM data sheets typically claimed only 10 year data retention.
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The main thing ADM loves about corn-to-ethanol for fuel is huge government subsidies. Corn is a poor choice for energy-efficient ethanol creation. Brazil uses sugarcane, a much better choice where the climate is appropriate.
Election day in my town (pop. circa 1200) has as many as three ballots for each voter, often with more than thirty things to vote on. All paper and pencil. It's part of the justified cost of representative government.
Bah. Humbug.
Wrong. Thinner wires have lower capacitance (helps) and higher resistance (hurts). Three things cause speedup with smaller geometries: thinner gate oxides (higher transconductance), shorter gates (higher transconductance), closer spacing (lower speed-of-light delay, lower capacitance). There are other effects, but these are the major ones.
Higher voltages just mean that you don't have to have as good contact to get a lethal current. Leakage paths due to moisture and dust become more of a problem. Design of appliances becomes more difficult and expensive as flash and creep distances must be increased.
Modern standards are not unreasonable.
Hey, someone has to employ the idiots. Why shouldn't it be Wal*Mart?
OK, let's assume your favorite gas station is next door to a crack house or a terrorist cell, and the local prosecutor or police chief doesn't like you. Consider the possibilities.
Just about everything in Linux which looks at an ext2 filesystem relies upon case matching exactly.
Sorry, you're wrong, and your explanation gives a clue as to why you're wrong. Higher speed films have a thicker emulsion layer with more silver which takes more chemicals to process. The additional chemical cost outweighs the value of reclaimed silver. If you buy hobbyist chemical kits for processing color negatives or slides, you'll see that capacities for high speed films are much lower than for low speed films.
"Meant" by whom? "The meaning of life" is what you make it.
Garbage is a resource. Putting it into space is expensive and wasteful.
Your analogy is defective. Putting Focus badges on Yugos for sale could be fraud, and there is no fraud involved in improving a game machine.
The sentence is ambiguous. Does it mean "commercial use" is illegal, or does it mean "use" is illegal?
What hurry? Much more than a year elapsed between 9-11 and the invasion, and before that Iraq had been impeding investigations for more than a decade. A year is a long time to play hide-and-go-seek with murderers.
(1&2) Sounds like Martha, only worse.
Laser printers are almost always more rugged than inkjets, regardless of brand. Dry toner (some laser plotters use liquid toner) is more concentrated and has fewer problems with drying out, leaking, smearing, etc..
Since the government counts government expenditures as part of the GDP, it's not possible for the long-term portion of GDP paid in taxes to exceed 50% of GDP. All income = taxes = government income = government expenditures ==> taxes = 50% of GDP.
How do you manage to spend $150 a month on clothes? I don't spend that much in a year.
By right and by law, he goes to jail, not me.
The phrase "right to be taxed" is an oxymoron.
There's a big difference between a few corrupt company heads and countries whose government is systematized corruption.
Not necessarily true. One person can only do so much. If a CEO knew what every one of his 500 employees knew, he still couldn't do all the work himself.
WalMart is the leader in retail efficiency, which benefits its customers. Lots and lots of customers.
Some die from user abuse, such as static discharge. I killed my serial port by holding my trackball in my lap while wiping dust off my monitor with my hand. Some die from poor engineering; many computers die from inadequate power supplies. Chips do have wearout mechanisms: EPROMS and other programmable devices are likely to fail first. 20 years ago, EPROM data sheets typically claimed only 10 year data retention.
Refers to an episode of "Ed Edd and Eddy" wherein Jimmy is fed to obesity to become a Sumo wrestler because they are famous & catered to (in Japan).