Heinlein (The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress) had a simpler technology: drop rocks. I can't remember specific instances, but surely SF has even older references for gravity weapons, using asteroids.
Explosive propulsion must include both fuel and oxidizer. Half of that (the oxidizer) will be pulled from the air for railguns. Also (I'm not sure of this) the energy available from chemicals suitable for use as fuels is higher than the energy available from chemicals suitable for driving shells out of gun barrels.
Reputable manufacturers of expensive servers do not buy from storefront suppliers. They buy direct from Intel or AMD or from reputable distributors whose reputation would be destroyed if they remarked processors.
There were two Enron problems: Enron cheated California and Enron was too incompetent to stay out of bankruptcy. A large part of the first problem was caused by Enron gaming a government-crippled electric power industry. In this case, government oversight caused the disaster.
Capitalism in health care is a conflict of interest. There's no incentive for cures if you can make more money by alieviating symptoms instead.
And your solution to this is to remove incentives for both cures and alleviation.
In reality, much of the pressure for cures is demand-side. If I'm dangerously ill, I want to get well, dammit, not slide painlessly into death. And I'll pay well to get well. And in most cases, I can do the research to tell the difference between treatments that make me well and treatments that make me feel OK.
My guess is that the S.C. takes a brief look at many cases and says "The lower court was correct. We'd be wasting our time handling this. We have nothing new to say."
There is no formal definition of what constitutes a declaration of war for the US. There should be, but there isn't. The president was authorized by congress to act militarily against Iraq and Afganistan, and that's going to have to be good enough. It's not likely to change, because the way it is gives cowardly legislators a way to say "I didn't vote for that war!" and it gives other people the ability to make the cheap shot "war wasn't declared!"
We're at war, and saying otherwise doesn't make it so.
Hunger is a signal that it's time to eat. Why do you wish to get rid of this important function of human bodies? Malnutrition and starvation are things that are better to get rid of, but they have more syllables so they're hardy to use in demagoguery.
100% efficient in your house. However, it's only about 30% efficient at the power plant. You're better off, both economically and and as a system, to heat your house with fuel, possibly aided with sunshine.
There are also heat pumps, which operate at "efficiencies" of several hundred percent in your house.
Generating DC power directly is only possible by chemical or thermal means. All generators make AC.
There have been batteries made that use nuclear decay. Also, there are photovoltaic cells. And electrostatic generators like Van de Graff and Wimshurst.
Some generators make DC by using mechanical commutation. Whether this can be considered making DC, or making DC from AC, is arguable.
household 110V AC is not really alternating, it is pulse, the true AC in a home is only 220 V AC (the 110 lines are made up of half of a 220 V and a neutral, that is why you have polarized plugs on AC equipment)
That's one of the most confusing pieces of nonsense I've ever read. Household 110 V AC is a sine wave. Look at it with an oscilloscope, I have. 220 V AC is (usually) just two 110 V AC wires, one negative whenever the other is positive. They are polarized so that one blade (the larger one) is always neutral, if the socket has been wired correctly. The dependable neutral is a safety feature, and not necessary on some heavily insulated devices.
Your math is wrong by three orders of magnitude. 1/1.6 GHz is 6.25e-10 seconds, round trip. 3.125e-10 seconds each way. About three inches. But there's a lot more to take into consideration: speed of light on a PC board is lower, there are protocol and chip hardware delays, etc..
The 20 kHz figure is typical and does not apply to all people. Until I was 30 I could hear to about 30 kHz and found entering some stores with so-called ultrasonic burglar alarms a painful experience.
That doesn't mean you need response above 20 kHz to get a superb audio experience. The sounds above 20 kHz just don't add much to a performance, and in some cases are irritating.
Your knowledge of semiconductors is deficient. 120 dB SNR is not difficult under the proper conditions if you know what you're doing. Other factors are more limiting, such as CD dynamic range and microphone noise.
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How major? Many wars, particularly ancient wars, were land wars. Consider the fall of imperial Rome, for instance.
Heinlein (The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress) had a simpler technology: drop rocks. I can't remember specific instances, but surely SF has even older references for gravity weapons, using asteroids.
Explosive propulsion must include both fuel and oxidizer. Half of that (the oxidizer) will be pulled from the air for railguns. Also (I'm not sure of this) the energy available from chemicals suitable for use as fuels is higher than the energy available from chemicals suitable for driving shells out of gun barrels.
Ottawa is about 275 miles from the coast of Maine. That's not much of a margin against improved technology.
Reputable manufacturers of expensive servers do not buy from storefront suppliers. They buy direct from Intel or AMD or from reputable distributors whose reputation would be destroyed if they remarked processors.
You wish. Tom's Hardware points out that the Intel-supplied fan-heatsink is inadequate.
There were two Enron problems: Enron cheated California and Enron was too incompetent to stay out of bankruptcy. A large part of the first problem was caused by Enron gaming a government-crippled electric power industry. In this case, government oversight caused the disaster.
Before he can ask "Where are you going?" say "I'm lost. How do I get to (this place where I'm not going)?"
I researched Australia about 25 years ago. Personal taxes were higher. More recently, gun ownership became illegal in Australia. Look before you leap.
And your solution to this is to remove incentives for both cures and alleviation.
In reality, much of the pressure for cures is demand-side. If I'm dangerously ill, I want to get well, dammit, not slide painlessly into death. And I'll pay well to get well. And in most cases, I can do the research to tell the difference between treatments that make me well and treatments that make me feel OK.
My guess is that the S.C. takes a brief look at many cases and says "The lower court was correct. We'd be wasting our time handling this. We have nothing new to say."
That must be why O.J.Simpson was executed for murder. Oh .. wait.
Actually, the Simpson case is probably not representative. I'm sympathetic to your view and I don't see any likely solution to this problem.
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was two weeks in Philadelphia.
We're at war, and saying otherwise doesn't make it so.
And you're a cheap character assassin.
Hunger is a signal that it's time to eat. Why do you wish to get rid of this important function of human bodies? Malnutrition and starvation are things that are better to get rid of, but they have more syllables so they're hardy to use in demagoguery.
There are also heat pumps, which operate at "efficiencies" of several hundred percent in your house.
There have been batteries made that use nuclear decay. Also, there are photovoltaic cells. And electrostatic generators like Van de Graff and Wimshurst.
Some generators make DC by using mechanical commutation. Whether this can be considered making DC, or making DC from AC, is arguable.
That's one of the most confusing pieces of nonsense I've ever read. Household 110 V AC is a sine wave. Look at it with an oscilloscope, I have. 220 V AC is (usually) just two 110 V AC wires, one negative whenever the other is positive. They are polarized so that one blade (the larger one) is always neutral, if the socket has been wired correctly. The dependable neutral is a safety feature, and not necessary on some heavily insulated devices.
The RFI output of CFs is pretty bad. I have to turn them off to receive some weak AM stations. My CRT monitor causes the same problem.
Some CF's still use inductive ballasts. They weigh more than the switching variety.
Your math is wrong by three orders of magnitude. 1/1.6 GHz is 6.25e-10 seconds, round trip. 3.125e-10 seconds each way. About three inches. But there's a lot more to take into consideration: speed of light on a PC board is lower, there are protocol and chip hardware delays, etc..
That doesn't mean you need response above 20 kHz to get a superb audio experience. The sounds above 20 kHz just don't add much to a performance, and in some cases are irritating.
Your knowledge of semiconductors is deficient. 120 dB SNR is not difficult under the proper conditions if you know what you're doing. Other factors are more limiting, such as CD dynamic range and microphone noise.