Thats a very perceptive observation, maybe more than you know.
Canadian universal heath care began in a single province, Saskatchewan, under Tommy Douglas.
This was circa the Roosevelt New Deal era, so times were different then. But I'm like you, I wonder why some state, like Vermont for example, hasn't taken steps in this direction.
If this had been factored in to the scatter plots shown in TFA, it would have caused a compression of the results along the horizontal (price) axis. Which means yes, the lower priced processors would move away from the maximum price/performance tangent and the higher priced ones would move towards it.
It's a matter of terminology really...the microstructure of carbon fibers has both amorphous carbon and graphite-like structures, but it's the highly oriented graphite-like structures that make it strong. So I call it graphite but it's probably more common to call it carbon.
I happened to be working in a certain city when a little known incident happened to an A320. Ground crew did engine runups on tarmac, which is forbidden; it's only allowed on concrete. The engine exhaust lifted up parts of the tarmac and threw it into the graphite h-stab which was trashed.
The a/c in question was hidden away in a hanger until a Beluga-type airplane flew in with a new stab in the middle of the night. They changed out the whole stab, put the old one on the Beluga and took off.
I did a rough calc, and for the wings to touch it looks like the strain in the wing skins would be ROM 3%. Now, MMPDS lists the strain to failure of 7075-T6 (the classic wing alloy) as 8 or 9%. But we know aluminum wings don't touch during ult tests, which is explained by the fact that the failure mode of airplane bits is almost never material yield.
As someone pointed out previously, graphite is less nonlinear than aluminum and tends to have smaller strains to failure, and also has all sorts of non-yield failure modes. I would have to think graphite wings of similar geometry would be less likely to deform further than aluminum ones, not more. Since it was the 787 program manager who speculated about the tips touching there must be some substance to the claim, and I suspect the wing is so flexible because it's thin and highly engineered to avoid flutter, not because it's graphite. That's just a guess though.
Wish I could explain what I'm working on right now. Lets just say it's for something that flies and it's not silver.
Where do you get that information? Because the preamble to the ncix doc says it is aimed at "the widely diverse group of readers who visit the NCIX Web site", not those with clearances of any kind. And agent Bamford himself said his emphasis was on non-classified information.
It's not clear to me where pressesc gets the information that connects the DIA doc to Bamford's overture to the universities.
But most importantly, it seems to me people in intelligence are so worried they will be made to look bad by the next terrorist incident, they are doing absolutely everything they can think of as a CYA sort of approach. It doesn't look very professional.
Global radical Islam? What part of TFA or the DiA doc referenced that? I'll tell you which part, the implied part, the part that plays to your fears and prejudices that live in the FOX News (sic) part of your brain, that's which part. Because it's not stated explicitly.
Also, the FBI doesn't even aim this at classified positions. I quote: '"What we're most concerned about are those things that are not classified..." Warren Bamford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office, told the Boston Herald.'
So, according to the FBI, a grad student is not to be trusted if he comes in with a hangover, works until 3 am, shacks up with a girl from Canada, and is broke. Have any of those people ever SEEN a grad school? There is nothing BUT people like that.
One can go on and on about this. Love the section of the DIA's pocket guide to playing spy entitled "Why We Hesitate to Take Action" which lists "Fear of Being Paranoid" as a character flaw to be overcome. Funny, I thought paranoia was a mental illness. Does that mean mental illness is now a preq for working at the FBI?
What's ironic is that I also assumed something about you, which was that you were using your argument as an excuse to do nothing, which clearly isn't the case.
In the interest of keeping my post short I just stated the idea without saying how it might be done. You provided a nice summary of why it is so hard because of war, religion, ethnic conflict, logistics, and corruption. There is another side to the coin, however, but you don't always hear about it because it's not very interesting. Things like how infant mortality due to diarrhea has been drastically reduced in some countries. Not very sexy.
But anyway, you can't say nothing can be done. And the idea that a church, a church should spend millions and millions on a shrine to ignorance when they could have equally well build an irrigation system somewhere, I think that's more appalling than the silly things they think about prehistory.
Your main point is an excellent one and I'm glad you made it. My reply is this: starvation isn't necessary as a means of population control because an alternative exists and the alternative doesn't involve dead children. That alternative is wealth.
There is a strong inverse relationship between per capita GDP and birth rate. By helping the new generation be well fed so they can go to school, grow up, and get seriously involved in the economy we can help them solve their population crisis. I don't know, it seems obvious to me.
By doing this we help ourselves directly: we get to feel good, we address the world's population problem, and we reduce the number of angry young men in broken countries who mean us harm.
Your other implied objection is that the parents of the children somehow don't deserve our help. That's not something a good shrug can't solve.
Individuals make their own choices, such is freedom, and it's a fine thing.
However, a Christian church founded upon the teachings of Jesus, the guy who said that thing about camels, needles, rich people, and heaven, using it's extra money for such an ignorant thing as this, it's hypocritical.
Any interpretation of God that adheres to the basic tenets of sanity proscribes that He created free will along with everything else. Life, then, is some kind of test of our fitness for the afterlife, whatever that might be.
However, you don't have to believe in God to believe that right and wrong exist. Atheists too, have morals and ethical systems to implement them. People call it "having a conscience."
A person can choose to accept the suffering of others and do nothing, but to say that one must do so, well, I'd like to see the reasoning behind that.
There was a time in Quebec, pre-1960's, when the Catholic church ran things, leading eventually to the province's "dark ages" under Maurice Duplessis. What followed, the quiet revolution, was a complete rejection of the church's authority.
Religious authority may be on the ascendancy in America, but that will eventually lead to it's own downfall. When, exactly, that might happen is another story.
16,000 children under the age of 5 died yesterday because they didn't have enough to eat. This church, along with the rest of us, will have to answer some pointed questions in the afterlife about priorities.
Can't say I was really looking forward to seeing Oceans Thirteen. Twelve just struck me as party amongst the upper echelons of Really Really Really Good Looking® society flouncing around in their "aren't we simply FABULOUS darling?" way while deigning to let us watch. One also gets tired of Mr. Clooney being the Sexiest Man In The History of This Planet or Any Other Since His Personal Image Consultant Taught Him to Stop Wiggling His Head Like That.
More to the point, if Warner thinks they can push Canada around with their fabricated numbers they are in for a surprise. The US isn't necessarily every Canadian's favourite country right now and bully tactics are likely to backfire. Plus, if Harper caves he will be judged as an American tody-boy and his Conservatives will find themselves back in the political outhouse for another 15 years, the same way they were after Mulroney sang Danny Boy to Regan like some desperately sycophantic wiener. Harper knows that so he won't be able to make our laws Just Like America, much as he'd love to.
You have to realize that Canada gave away a lot to get the softwood lumber deal, just to see American industry continue to sue us us, obstruct business, and pay off the government to ignore it's own obligations under NAFTA. Canadians are cheesed about this, among other things, so the idea of a puffed up American lawyer dictating how we should run our country is...unwelcome.
So to my American friends, don't worry, we'll take care of business on our end. It would really help, though, if you could slap these Napoleonic dweebs down a bit yourselves.
There is a pretty good reason to carry data around on a removable drive. It's cheap bandwidth.
I know this because we used to do streaming backups to an offsite location (one of the guys' houses (we are a (very) small business)). The DSL we used had a download speed on his end of about 1Mb/s. That is.125MB/s. Carrying a 120GB drive home every night, assuming the drive is one hour, has a bandwidth of 34MB/s or about the speed of a T4 line. It's also essentially free because the amortized cost of the drive and caddy over a few years is about zero.
The Yin: genius multiple-PhD types figure out something about the sun. Good for them.
The Yang: irrelevant mention of a cabal of self-referential mouth breathers who don't know energy is not a discrete thing but is a property of other things.
Maybe Slashdot posts articles like this to give us a poke and see what our reaction will be. That reminds me of a certain thing I can't quite remember, I think it starts with a "t".
One thing I noticed about Slashdot's feigned ignorance as humour (if that's what it is), it's always about things other than IT. For example, let's see an article asserting that integrated circuits are actually an alien technology harvested from flying saucers the US Government has hidden away. Not funny because it's too ridiculous?
This illustrates the kind of employee I like to have. One who can talk about his mistakes the same way he talks about anything else work-related.
Some years ago I myself made a rather expensive mistake which involved the design of an aircraft structure. The fellow I was working for at the time had one of those razor-blade intellects and I got called into his office for a chat. When he asked me what happened I had two choices, weasel or turkey. In engineering it's always possible to talk the complicated talk and hope to obfusticate your way out of a situation, but fortunately I said "I make a mistake." And you know what? That was exactly the answer he was looking for.
You see, the most important thing is not to be perfect, it's to be honest. That's what a boss, of which I am one now, wants.
If you have a boss that doesn't want that, better watch out for yourself.
You have to remember this is all information about the first fusion device which was used in the Ivy Mike shot. Richard Rhodes revealed it in Dark Sun, it is the so-called fission-fusion-fission reaction.
First, a relatively small fission bomb detonates and the X-rays from it heat a sheath of plastic foam that surrounds a cylindrical vat of cryogenic deuterium (D). The foam is heated to a very high pressure plasma which compresses and heats the D. The Pu239 rod at the center of the vat is compressed to supercritical density and undergoes fission which further heats and compresses the D. The D undergoes fusion.
The casing of the device is natural Uranium U238. This isotope has no critical mass because it does not fission when hit with the "fast" neutrons emitted when it undergoes fission itself. However, the fusion reaction emits very very energetic neutrons at about 14MeV which cause the U238 shell to fission. That final fission reaction produced most of Mike's energy of 10MT.
The Castle Bravo shot used solid lithium deuteride instead of the vat of cryogenic deuterium. Under bombardment of the fusion neutrons the lithium breeds into tritium which gives rise to the D-T reaction in addition to the D-D reaction. The solid form of the fusion fuel was more practical for a weapon fuel.
One thing I don't quite understand in the OP is why large amounts of T need be created to support the fusion economy. Doesn't each reactor create as much as it needs for itself as it operates? I can see difficulties associated with separating the D from the lithium, but thats a chemical process and not in principle difficult. D is radioactive and lithium is nasty stuff, so it wouldn't be exactly easy, but probably doable.
Also, it's quite likely that modern weapons work like Teller's Super. That would be much more practical that the staged reactions of the early devices. Those super-geniuses at Sandia had decades and more computing power than Teller did to figure it out. So I would bet that someone somewhere has a pretty good understanding of how those little pellets work, especially under X-ray bombardment which must have been studied to death as a weapon technology.
To this day many people suspect the 1995 referendum that almost split Canada in two was nearly hijacked.
A former PQ cabinet minister named Le Hir quit the party after the referendum and claimed the PQ put "scrutineer shock troops" in non-francophone ridings with instructions to reject as many ballots as possible. There were reports of ballots being rejected if they had a X instead of a check mark, or if the mark touched the circle it was supposed to be inside.
Out of 4,757,509 total ballots, 86,501 were rejected while the margin of victory (for the no) was 54,288. The overall percentage of rejected ballots (1.82%) was about normal, but many suspect the way they were distributed was very suspicious.
English rights groups tried to get access to the ballots in the months that followed to see what had actually happened, but they couldn't get a judge to give them access.
Just for posterity's sake, I knew something was wrong with para 5.
The formula for energy density should be E=1/2mV^2=1/2*rho*V*V^2=rho/2*V^3 so the wind speed would be V=(20000/.4)^.333=36 m/s (132 kph). That makes more sense.
So energy density goes with the cube not the square of wind speed. The speed of the airflow on the back side of the turbine will be Vf=36/2^.333=28 m/s. Force per unit turbine area is F=.4*36*(36-28)=115.2N and Ftot=115.2*4000=460800N (103000 lbs).
So in terms of the forces involved it seems within the ballpark of the feasible.
a. Glad to see you admit you're just guessing.
b. Why do you care anyway?
c. So what do you think? Is the concept viable or not? Or did you forget what we were talking about and focused on the error in grammar.
d. When will I learn. To not to talk to people like you.
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Thats a very perceptive observation, maybe more than you know.
Canadian universal heath care began in a single province, Saskatchewan, under Tommy Douglas.
This was circa the Roosevelt New Deal era, so times were different then. But I'm like you, I wonder why some state, like Vermont for example, hasn't taken steps in this direction.
If this had been factored in to the scatter plots shown in TFA, it would have caused a compression of the results along the horizontal (price) axis. Which means yes, the lower priced processors would move away from the maximum price/performance tangent and the higher priced ones would move towards it.
It's a matter of terminology really...the microstructure of carbon fibers has both amorphous carbon and graphite-like structures, but it's the highly oriented graphite-like structures that make it strong. So I call it graphite but it's probably more common to call it carbon.
I happened to be working in a certain city when a little known incident happened to an A320. Ground crew did engine runups on tarmac, which is forbidden; it's only allowed on concrete. The engine exhaust lifted up parts of the tarmac and threw it into the graphite h-stab which was trashed.
The a/c in question was hidden away in a hanger until a Beluga-type airplane flew in with a new stab in the middle of the night. They changed out the whole stab, put the old one on the Beluga and took off.I did a rough calc, and for the wings to touch it looks like the strain in the wing skins would be ROM 3%. Now, MMPDS lists the strain to failure of 7075-T6 (the classic wing alloy) as 8 or 9%. But we know aluminum wings don't touch during ult tests, which is explained by the fact that the failure mode of airplane bits is almost never material yield.
As someone pointed out previously, graphite is less nonlinear than aluminum and tends to have smaller strains to failure, and also has all sorts of non-yield failure modes. I would have to think graphite wings of similar geometry would be less likely to deform further than aluminum ones, not more. Since it was the 787 program manager who speculated about the tips touching there must be some substance to the claim, and I suspect the wing is so flexible because it's thin and highly engineered to avoid flutter, not because it's graphite. That's just a guess though.
Wish I could explain what I'm working on right now. Lets just say it's for something that flies and it's not silver.Where do you get that information? Because the preamble to the ncix doc says it is aimed at "the widely diverse group of readers who visit the NCIX Web site", not those with clearances of any kind. And agent Bamford himself said his emphasis was on non-classified information.
It's not clear to me where pressesc gets the information that connects the DIA doc to Bamford's overture to the universities.
But most importantly, it seems to me people in intelligence are so worried they will be made to look bad by the next terrorist incident, they are doing absolutely everything they can think of as a CYA sort of approach. It doesn't look very professional.Global radical Islam? What part of TFA or the DiA doc referenced that? I'll tell you which part, the implied part, the part that plays to your fears and prejudices that live in the FOX News (sic) part of your brain, that's which part. Because it's not stated explicitly.
Also, the FBI doesn't even aim this at classified positions. I quote: '"What we're most concerned about are those things that are not classified..." Warren Bamford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office, told the Boston Herald.'
So, according to the FBI, a grad student is not to be trusted if he comes in with a hangover, works until 3 am, shacks up with a girl from Canada, and is broke. Have any of those people ever SEEN a grad school? There is nothing BUT people like that.
One can go on and on about this. Love the section of the DIA's pocket guide to playing spy entitled "Why We Hesitate to Take Action" which lists "Fear of Being Paranoid" as a character flaw to be overcome. Funny, I thought paranoia was a mental illness. Does that mean mental illness is now a preq for working at the FBI?
In soviet Russia you don't pick the fruit, the fruit picks OMG LETS GO RIDE BIKES!!1!!!
What's ironic is that I also assumed something about you, which was that you were using your argument as an excuse to do nothing, which clearly isn't the case.
In the interest of keeping my post short I just stated the idea without saying how it might be done. You provided a nice summary of why it is so hard because of war, religion, ethnic conflict, logistics, and corruption. There is another side to the coin, however, but you don't always hear about it because it's not very interesting. Things like how infant mortality due to diarrhea has been drastically reduced in some countries. Not very sexy.
But anyway, you can't say nothing can be done. And the idea that a church, a church should spend millions and millions on a shrine to ignorance when they could have equally well build an irrigation system somewhere, I think that's more appalling than the silly things they think about prehistory.Finally. A critique not written by a 12 year old.
Your main point is an excellent one and I'm glad you made it. My reply is this: starvation isn't necessary as a means of population control because an alternative exists and the alternative doesn't involve dead children. That alternative is wealth.
There is a strong inverse relationship between per capita GDP and birth rate. By helping the new generation be well fed so they can go to school, grow up, and get seriously involved in the economy we can help them solve their population crisis. I don't know, it seems obvious to me.
By doing this we help ourselves directly: we get to feel good, we address the world's population problem, and we reduce the number of angry young men in broken countries who mean us harm.
Your other implied objection is that the parents of the children somehow don't deserve our help. That's not something a good shrug can't solve.
Individuals make their own choices, such is freedom, and it's a fine thing.
However, a Christian church founded upon the teachings of Jesus, the guy who said that thing about camels, needles, rich people, and heaven, using it's extra money for such an ignorant thing as this, it's hypocritical.
Any interpretation of God that adheres to the basic tenets of sanity proscribes that He created free will along with everything else. Life, then, is some kind of test of our fitness for the afterlife, whatever that might be.
However, you don't have to believe in God to believe that right and wrong exist. Atheists too, have morals and ethical systems to implement them. People call it "having a conscience."
A person can choose to accept the suffering of others and do nothing, but to say that one must do so, well, I'd like to see the reasoning behind that.
There was a time in Quebec, pre-1960's, when the Catholic church ran things, leading eventually to the province's "dark ages" under Maurice Duplessis. What followed, the quiet revolution, was a complete rejection of the church's authority.
Religious authority may be on the ascendancy in America, but that will eventually lead to it's own downfall. When, exactly, that might happen is another story.16,000 children under the age of 5 died yesterday because they didn't have enough to eat. This church, along with the rest of us, will have to answer some pointed questions in the afterlife about priorities.
Can't say I was really looking forward to seeing Oceans Thirteen. Twelve just struck me as party amongst the upper echelons of Really Really Really Good Looking® society flouncing around in their "aren't we simply FABULOUS darling?" way while deigning to let us watch. One also gets tired of Mr. Clooney being the Sexiest Man In The History of This Planet or Any Other Since His Personal Image Consultant Taught Him to Stop Wiggling His Head Like That.
More to the point, if Warner thinks they can push Canada around with their fabricated numbers they are in for a surprise. The US isn't necessarily every Canadian's favourite country right now and bully tactics are likely to backfire. Plus, if Harper caves he will be judged as an American tody-boy and his Conservatives will find themselves back in the political outhouse for another 15 years, the same way they were after Mulroney sang Danny Boy to Regan like some desperately sycophantic wiener. Harper knows that so he won't be able to make our laws Just Like America, much as he'd love to.
You have to realize that Canada gave away a lot to get the softwood lumber deal, just to see American industry continue to sue us us, obstruct business, and pay off the government to ignore it's own obligations under NAFTA. Canadians are cheesed about this, among other things, so the idea of a puffed up American lawyer dictating how we should run our country is...unwelcome.
So to my American friends, don't worry, we'll take care of business on our end. It would really help, though, if you could slap these Napoleonic dweebs down a bit yourselves.
I have no fear of guns at all. Terrified of bullets though.
There is a pretty good reason to carry data around on a removable drive. It's cheap bandwidth.
I know this because we used to do streaming backups to an offsite location (one of the guys' houses (we are a (very) small business)). The DSL we used had a download speed on his end of about 1Mb/s. That is .125MB/s. Carrying a 120GB drive home every night, assuming the drive is one hour, has a bandwidth of 34MB/s or about the speed of a T4 line. It's also essentially free because the amortized cost of the drive and caddy over a few years is about zero.
The Yin: genius multiple-PhD types figure out something about the sun. Good for them.
The Yang: irrelevant mention of a cabal of self-referential mouth breathers who don't know energy is not a discrete thing but is a property of other things.
Maybe Slashdot posts articles like this to give us a poke and see what our reaction will be. That reminds me of a certain thing I can't quite remember, I think it starts with a "t".
One thing I noticed about Slashdot's feigned ignorance as humour (if that's what it is), it's always about things other than IT. For example, let's see an article asserting that integrated circuits are actually an alien technology harvested from flying saucers the US Government has hidden away. Not funny because it's too ridiculous?
This illustrates the kind of employee I like to have. One who can talk about his mistakes the same way he talks about anything else work-related.
Some years ago I myself made a rather expensive mistake which involved the design of an aircraft structure. The fellow I was working for at the time had one of those razor-blade intellects and I got called into his office for a chat. When he asked me what happened I had two choices, weasel or turkey. In engineering it's always possible to talk the complicated talk and hope to obfusticate your way out of a situation, but fortunately I said "I make a mistake." And you know what? That was exactly the answer he was looking for.
You see, the most important thing is not to be perfect, it's to be honest. That's what a boss, of which I am one now, wants.
If you have a boss that doesn't want that, better watch out for yourself.
You have to remember this is all information about the first fusion device which was used in the Ivy Mike shot. Richard Rhodes revealed it in Dark Sun, it is the so-called fission-fusion-fission reaction.
First, a relatively small fission bomb detonates and the X-rays from it heat a sheath of plastic foam that surrounds a cylindrical vat of cryogenic deuterium (D). The foam is heated to a very high pressure plasma which compresses and heats the D. The Pu239 rod at the center of the vat is compressed to supercritical density and undergoes fission which further heats and compresses the D. The D undergoes fusion.
The casing of the device is natural Uranium U238. This isotope has no critical mass because it does not fission when hit with the "fast" neutrons emitted when it undergoes fission itself. However, the fusion reaction emits very very energetic neutrons at about 14MeV which cause the U238 shell to fission. That final fission reaction produced most of Mike's energy of 10MT.
The Castle Bravo shot used solid lithium deuteride instead of the vat of cryogenic deuterium. Under bombardment of the fusion neutrons the lithium breeds into tritium which gives rise to the D-T reaction in addition to the D-D reaction. The solid form of the fusion fuel was more practical for a weapon fuel.
One thing I don't quite understand in the OP is why large amounts of T need be created to support the fusion economy. Doesn't each reactor create as much as it needs for itself as it operates? I can see difficulties associated with separating the D from the lithium, but thats a chemical process and not in principle difficult. D is radioactive and lithium is nasty stuff, so it wouldn't be exactly easy, but probably doable.
Also, it's quite likely that modern weapons work like Teller's Super. That would be much more practical that the staged reactions of the early devices. Those super-geniuses at Sandia had decades and more computing power than Teller did to figure it out. So I would bet that someone somewhere has a pretty good understanding of how those little pellets work, especially under X-ray bombardment which must have been studied to death as a weapon technology.
I discovered a feature! Underscores in URLs get deleted. 1995_quebec_referendum.
That link is http://1995quebecreferendum.totallyexplained.com/
To this day many people suspect the 1995 referendum that almost split Canada in two was nearly hijacked.
A former PQ cabinet minister named Le Hir quit the party after the referendum and claimed the PQ put "scrutineer shock troops" in non-francophone ridings with instructions to reject as many ballots as possible. There were reports of ballots being rejected if they had a X instead of a check mark, or if the mark touched the circle it was supposed to be inside.
Out of 4,757,509 total ballots, 86,501 were rejected while the margin of victory (for the no) was 54,288. The overall percentage of rejected ballots (1.82%) was about normal, but many suspect the way they were distributed was very suspicious.
English rights groups tried to get access to the ballots in the months that followed to see what had actually happened, but they couldn't get a judge to give them access.
Just for posterity's sake, I knew something was wrong with para 5.
The formula for energy density should be E=1/2mV^2=1/2*rho*V*V^2=rho/2*V^3 so the wind speed would be V=(20000/.4)^.333=36 m/s (132 kph). That makes more sense.
So energy density goes with the cube not the square of wind speed. The speed of the airflow on the back side of the turbine will be Vf=36/2^.333=28 m/s. Force per unit turbine area is F=.4*36*(36-28)=115.2N and Ftot=115.2*4000=460800N (103000 lbs).
So in terms of the forces involved it seems within the ballpark of the feasible.
a. Glad to see you admit you're just guessing. b. Why do you care anyway? c. So what do you think? Is the concept viable or not? Or did you forget what we were talking about and focused on the error in grammar. d. When will I learn. To not to talk to people like you.