Of course, then again, you could have actually watched the president's speech on the aircraft carrier when he declared and end to "major hostilities."
And, yes, that is an exact quote, because that is exactly what he said, and if you think what is going on in Iraq right now is major hostilities, I suggest you pick up a copy of the Big Red One, the Guns of August, or perhaps, considering the typical modern American who can't comprehend anything that isn't put in a picture, go see Saving Private Ryan.
From the article:...To determine how much ancient plant matter it took to eventually produce modern fossil fuels, Dukes calculated how much of the carbon in the original vegetation was lost during each stage of the multiple-step processes that create oil, gas and coal....
In other words, this guy calculated the efficiency of the formation of fossil fuels from the original plant material, then used his result to proclaim, with lots of exclamation marks, just how horrible automobiles are.
His whole argument suffers from the fallacies of false analogy and exclusion.
This is nothing more than a piece of propaganda by a guy who is most likely, from the title of the paper, one of these idiots who think that solar power is actually a workable alternative for a high-energy economy and civilization.
If these are the kinds of papers that pass for valid PhD work at the U of U, remind me to never send my kid there for an education in critical thought.
Both of these places sell used and refurb Mac. I've bought from macresq with mixed results. Two 5400s that served me perfectly for the past two years, and a 500 MHz TiBook that came with a busted AC adapter and broken V key on the keyboard, so, buyer beware. I've never bought from smalldog.
People have been saying for the last twenty-five years that the oil reserves will only last another twenty-five years.
Get some education. There is more oil available now than there was 25 years ago, thanks to improved technologies. Heck, we've got oil literally seeping out of the ocean floor all the time all over the world. We're practically swimming in the stuff.
These articles, opinions and rants are never about oil. They're about capitalism. If we shifted to a pure hydrogen economy, in fifteen years, these same people would be calling for the overthrow of the evil hydrogen cartel and fear mongering about the horrible climactic changes brought about by introducing millions of tons of water vapor into the atmospehre. Then they would call for government action to force people into a new lifestyle, and there's the key.
Note how these people always wind up arguing about how it should be the government forcing people to change their lives.
And the slashdot crowd, the same group who screams the Patriot Act is a police state waiting to happen, jump up and shout: Hallelujah! All praise to the government!
The tyranny that makes you feel morally superior is the tyranny you embrace.
Surface tension in a liquid applies to the liquid, not other objects that might contain the liquid.
In microgravity, water pulls itself into a sphere, because of surface tension (a sphere provides the minimum surface area for a given volume).
The water will push itself out of the glass in the act of forming the sphere and happily float through the air as a slightly oscillating sphere. It looks rather cool, actually.
I did better than read about Hiroshima. I talked with a lady who lived there. She was born there and lived there her entire twenty-one years. That's right, Hiroshima is a thriving port city with about half a million people living in it.
Most of what messed up Western Europe was the hysteria whipped up by the media. Please show me the mass cases of sterility, mutation, birth defects, etc. rampaging across that continent right now.
The fact is, the radioactivity in the atmosphere of Western Europe matched that of western Montanan for a few weeks after the disaster. That's it. End of story.
What causes fear is ignorant people like you who don't have a clue what you are talking about.
Fallacy of the Argument from Silence. There is no way to prove the massive regulation of nuclear plants has prevented accidents, because no one has ever built a plant in the US with less regulation to test the theory.
And guess what? We're all still alive. There are no huge mutant freaks running over the state of Idaho. No huge upspike in birth defects across the world. In fact, the effects were so minor, that 99% of the people on this board probably didn't even know what you were talking about. Even with a poorly designed reactor like this and Chernobyl, the serious stuff was very limited, and killed far fewer people than a coal gas explosion, say, in India.
Hey, guess what else? Life isn't safe and never will be, and what's worse, you can never be perfectly safe. Ever. That means life is about balancing risk and reward. The risk and reward for this reactor in Alaska looks very big on the reward side of the equation.
Excellent. Please do. The waste is only really dangerous for a few weeks, but it sits hot for a number of years. I'll sink it into a pit, put a heat exchange unit and make a killing selling power back to the grid.
There is no such place as rural, remote Japan. You've obviously never been to that country.
I wouldn't sweat it, though. I'm sure Russia will be more than happy to look into this technology and benefit from it after the US shouts chicken little and runs and hides from it.
Perfect logic. He's not talking about C02. He's talking about the gaseous uranium compounds released by burning coal. It's about six million tons a year if I remember right. That's six million tons of uranium, not C02.
90% of the problem with nuclear power is the tremendous ignorance of people regarding it.
Dangerous nuclear waste hangs around for a couple of weeks. The 50,000 year stuff is all low-level stuff. People living in Colorado will get more radiation mowing their yards.
We're constantly bombarded with radiation NOW. Everywhere. In the food we eat, in the water we drink, in the air we breathe.
A major nuclear disaster would be, well, like Chernobyl. Really bad in the surrounding area, Nothing at all a hundred miles away.
But Chernobyl does bring out the biggest danger with nuclear power. idiot bureaucrats running the reactors.
Yep. That crappy product thrown out to entice unsuspecting users into my trap works every time. Glad I don't have to write a quality product to lure people in.
So, download the app. It's a free download, and doesn't obligate you to anything. You don't have to migrate your music library, you don't have to make it your default player, you don't have to provide billing information.
Heck, you don't even have to give Apple any information at ALL to download the app. Just click the download button. How refreshing is that? For once, a company that doesn't require you to tell them all sorts of personal crap and fill out a survey just to download a free or try before you buy app.
Well, since the iTunes AAC files are encoded from the masters, it all depends on whether the AAC lossy encoding or the WAV lossy encoding is noticeably different.
I mean, you do realize that digitizing an analog input is a lossy process, right?
Oh, it's even better than that Aluminum IGNITES when you get it hot enough. Folks old enough to remember the Faulklands war will remember those burning aluminum British aircraft carriers...
It's about dependency. Make your enemy dependent on you, and he dare not attack you, but it's a dangerous game, because trading with your enemy makes your enemy more powerful, and soon he will not feel dependent on you.
And only a fool stops running a race just because he's far ahead of his opponents.
We went into Iraq before the lunatic got Nukes. Set aside your hatred for America for a moment, if you can. Do you really like the idea of Saddam Hussein with a nuclear arsenal? Be honest, if you can.
And let go of this pre-emptive crap. We told the guy what he had to do to avoid a conflict, and the U.N. agreed he didn't do it. So, the US is the bad guy because we had the cojones to do what the UN said should be done but wouldn't? Give it a rest.
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Yeah, right. Try modded as insightful. Half the crap on all these threads could have been written by Saddam himself.
Of course, then again, you could have actually watched the president's speech on the aircraft carrier when he declared and end to "major hostilities."
And, yes, that is an exact quote, because that is exactly what he said, and if you think what is going on in Iraq right now is major hostilities, I suggest you pick up a copy of the Big Red One, the Guns of August, or perhaps, considering the typical modern American who can't comprehend anything that isn't put in a picture, go see Saving Private Ryan.
From the article: ...To determine how much ancient plant matter it took to eventually produce modern fossil fuels, Dukes calculated how much of the carbon in the original vegetation was lost during each stage of the multiple-step processes that create oil, gas and coal... .
In other words, this guy calculated the efficiency of the formation of fossil fuels from the original plant material, then used his result to proclaim, with lots of exclamation marks, just how horrible automobiles are.
His whole argument suffers from the fallacies of false analogy and exclusion.
This is nothing more than a piece of propaganda by a guy who is most likely, from the title of the paper, one of these idiots who think that solar power is actually a workable alternative for a high-energy economy and civilization.
If these are the kinds of papers that pass for valid PhD work at the U of U, remind me to never send my kid there for an education in critical thought.
Yeah, I always lets the actions of other people make my decisions for me, too.
www.macresq.com
www.smalldog.com
Both of these places sell used and refurb Mac. I've bought from macresq with mixed results. Two 5400s that served me perfectly for the past two years, and a 500 MHz TiBook that came with a busted AC adapter and broken V key on the keyboard, so, buyer beware. I've never bought from smalldog.
People have been saying for the last twenty-five years that the oil reserves will only last another twenty-five years.
Get some education. There is more oil available now than there was 25 years ago, thanks to improved technologies. Heck, we've got oil literally seeping out of the ocean floor all the time all over the world. We're practically swimming in the stuff.
These articles, opinions and rants are never about oil. They're about capitalism. If we shifted to a pure hydrogen economy, in fifteen years, these same people would be calling for the overthrow of the evil hydrogen cartel and fear mongering about the horrible climactic changes brought about by introducing millions of tons of water vapor into the atmospehre. Then they would call for government action to force people into a new lifestyle, and there's the key.
Note how these people always wind up arguing about how it should be the government forcing people to change their lives.
And the slashdot crowd, the same group who screams the Patriot Act is a police state waiting to happen, jump up and shout: Hallelujah! All praise to the government!
The tyranny that makes you feel morally superior is the tyranny you embrace.
Surface tension in a liquid applies to the liquid, not other objects that might contain the liquid.
In microgravity, water pulls itself into a sphere, because of surface tension (a sphere provides the minimum surface area for a given volume).
The water will push itself out of the glass in the act of forming the sphere and happily float through the air as a slightly oscillating sphere. It looks rather cool, actually.
And let's just follow that up with a nice fallacy of False Analogy.
I did better than read about Hiroshima. I talked with a lady who lived there. She was born there and lived there her entire twenty-one years. That's right, Hiroshima is a thriving port city with about half a million people living in it.
Most of what messed up Western Europe was the hysteria whipped up by the media. Please show me the mass cases of sterility, mutation, birth defects, etc. rampaging across that continent right now.
The fact is, the radioactivity in the atmosphere of Western Europe matched that of western Montanan for a few weeks after the disaster. That's it. End of story.
What causes fear is ignorant people like you who don't have a clue what you are talking about.
Fallacy of the Argument from Silence. There is no way to prove the massive regulation of nuclear plants has prevented accidents, because no one has ever built a plant in the US with less regulation to test the theory.
And guess what? We're all still alive. There are no huge mutant freaks running over the state of Idaho. No huge upspike in birth defects across the world. In fact, the effects were so minor, that 99% of the people on this board probably didn't even know what you were talking about. Even with a poorly designed reactor like this and Chernobyl, the serious stuff was very limited, and killed far fewer people than a coal gas explosion, say, in India.
Hey, guess what else? Life isn't safe and never will be, and what's worse, you can never be perfectly safe. Ever. That means life is about balancing risk and reward. The risk and reward for this reactor in Alaska looks very big on the reward side of the equation.
There will be people on duty all the time to run the steam turbines.
Excellent. Please do. The waste is only really dangerous for a few weeks, but it sits hot for a number of years. I'll sink it into a pit, put a heat exchange unit and make a killing selling power back to the grid.
There is no such place as rural, remote Japan. You've obviously never been to that country.
I wouldn't sweat it, though. I'm sure Russia will be more than happy to look into this technology and benefit from it after the US shouts chicken little and runs and hides from it.
Perfect logic. He's not talking about C02. He's talking about the gaseous uranium compounds released by burning coal. It's about six million tons a year if I remember right. That's six million tons of uranium, not C02.
90% of the problem with nuclear power is the tremendous ignorance of people regarding it.
Dangerous nuclear waste hangs around for a couple of weeks. The 50,000 year stuff is all low-level stuff. People living in Colorado will get more radiation mowing their yards.
We're constantly bombarded with radiation NOW. Everywhere. In the food we eat, in the water we drink, in the air we breathe.
A major nuclear disaster would be, well, like Chernobyl. Really bad in the surrounding area, Nothing at all a hundred miles away.
But Chernobyl does bring out the biggest danger with nuclear power. idiot bureaucrats running the reactors.
Yep. That crappy product thrown out to entice unsuspecting users into my trap works every time. Glad I don't have to write a quality product to lure people in.
And, of course, because we live in a frozen moment of time in a snapshot universe, this will never, ever change.
Oh, man. Kiss the Karma good-bye. This is slashdot. People don't think, here. How dare you assault them with facts.
Oh, well. What's the point of having the karma if you can't use it periodically, eh?
So, download the app. It's a free download, and doesn't obligate you to anything. You don't have to migrate your music library, you don't have to make it your default player, you don't have to provide billing information.
Heck, you don't even have to give Apple any information at ALL to download the app. Just click the download button. How refreshing is that? For once, a company that doesn't require you to tell them all sorts of personal crap and fill out a survey just to download a free or try before you buy app.
Well, since the iTunes AAC files are encoded from the masters, it all depends on whether the AAC lossy encoding or the WAV lossy encoding is noticeably different.
I mean, you do realize that digitizing an analog input is a lossy process, right?
Oh, it's even better than that Aluminum IGNITES when you get it hot enough. Folks old enough to remember the Faulklands war will remember those burning aluminum British aircraft carriers...
It's about dependency. Make your enemy dependent on you, and he dare not attack you, but it's a dangerous game, because trading with your enemy makes your enemy more powerful, and soon he will not feel dependent on you.
And only a fool stops running a race just because he's far ahead of his opponents.
We went into Iraq before the lunatic got Nukes. Set aside your hatred for America for a moment, if you can. Do you really like the idea of Saddam Hussein with a nuclear arsenal? Be honest, if you can.
And let go of this pre-emptive crap. We told the guy what he had to do to avoid a conflict, and the U.N. agreed he didn't do it. So, the US is the bad guy because we had the cojones to do what the UN said should be done but wouldn't? Give it a rest.