I would absolutely use a car that had an auto-drive mode. If everyone did, then you wouldn't even need stop lights or other controls at intersections, or speed limits, as the vehicles would work together to melt traffic into a perfect flow. It might be a bit unnerving at first, watching traffic weaving through intersections, but we would get used to it.
because I simply don't like staring at my phone for long periods of time, eye problems I guess. I blame my job, staring at a computer screen all day.
wish I could do it, like reading in a car. If you can read in a moving car, more power to ya. Whenever I do it, people yell at me to keep my eyes on the road.
with the kindle app, and if Amazon decides you shouldn't own the book anymore, you lose it. I prefer to puchase books that can be kept, not purchase a license for a book that can be revoked. I guess that's really what it boils down to. (and no, I don't care that they've only done this N times, once is too many)
Anecdotal and all, but I certainly will gravitate towards their offerings. Immediately. The very reason I don't buy any ebooks for my wife's kindle is that we can't read them on anything else. I'm certainly not reading a 400 page tome on my phone.
So I say, "Good on them, and here's some money."
(posting to remove misplaced mod, because I'm an idiot and clicked the wrong text)
loads and loads of people drive between Florida on the I95 corridor to the North East or the other way, every year, many tens of thousands of people a month, likely, and many of those do it straight through, 1200+ miles, 20+ hours. I've done it a few times. Most of that trip is with a 65+ MPH speed limit and either route 81 or 95. With the exception of the big cities, I95 is 75+ MPH most of the time anyway.
Three charging stations placed conveniently would settle the trip and provide handy rest-stops and butt numb relief.
I'm wondering what these batteries could do for large trucks. Could a tractor trailer use several in parallel to complete the a 10 hour day? How about my plow truck, can I get one for the bed of the truck, recycle/sell the big diesel engine, and be ahead of the game? I know, this is years from commercial use.
OLED wall paper would be freaking awesome. I would hang it on the ceiling, closets, all over the place.. I like the night lights made out of the stuff, I've had some for around 10 years, they just keep working.
yeah, read the whole thing. Also read that multiple studies were done covering wide ranging areas such as animal reproduction, plant health and things like that, and again, nothing conclusive. Even with this study's conclusion, one or two additional cancer deaths? In the roughly million people in the area?
How many additional cancer deaths are there from the vehicles travelling north and south along route 15 or 81 near the plant? compared to an area without a major traffic corridor next to it?
So where's the terrible impact? This example is a lousy example because no one was hurt. Fukushima would be a better example. The sad thing is, there are safer designs out there than both those reactor designs, so even if we put one in the neighbourhood, it's still not a fair comparison to modern reactor design and certainly no reason to get hysterical or ban atomic power generation.
"An inter-agency analysis concluded that the accident did not raise radioactivity far enough above background levels to cause even one additional cancer death among the people in the area. The EPA found no contamination in water, soil, sediment or plant samples."
that's not particularly bad, let alone "spectacularly bad". Not one death? Not even a freaking heart attack?
And here's the rub. You don't want one that close, they don't want them that close or anywhere nearby.
I'll support wind power when they have turbines in the waters off the coast of every coastal city, when they're off Nantucket and in Lake Ontario South of Toronto (for the Canadian connection), Long Island Sound and San Francisco Bay.
Until then, large wind turbines have no business being out in the back woods.
just randomly sticking this reply here because it seems a good place (since you're following up on these research links so nicely)
I wonder if the food the baby gets has something to do with this, and wondering if there's a correlation between synthetic baby formula, breastfeeding and autism.
If the changes that cause the disorder start in the uterus maybe not so much, but if it starts postpartum, certainly seems like a possibility. If more kids are drinking baby forumula, or the chemicals in the formulas have changed over the years, you would think that would be a good place to start looking.
The CDC reports a slowly increasing rate of breastfeeding in the US year over year, with the same rise in exclusive through 3 months and exclusive through 6 months, and a slightly higher rate still in the "through 12 months" category. There's also a slight rise in the overall rate of postpartum breastfeeding from 2000 through now, though the rise is slight it represents quite a few more babies born during the period being breastfed postpartum.
So, no, more kids aren't drinking formula early on. So maybe look at chemical composition of the formulas. You know they're always changing those recipes and there could be some horrible toxic chemical in there causing this.
Imagine the brouhaha that would generate. All those parents supporting these children would demand heads-on-poles, and rightly so.
Caffeine makes me nuts. It starts out with the nice, jittery, high feeling we all love from the drug, but after ONE cup, I don't sleep well that night, and if I consume more than one cup of regular coffee per day, forget about sleeplessness, after a few days I start to get paranoid, nervous as hell, like there's a train bearing down on me, and then the heart palpitations start. After about a week I get heartburn to beat the band and get grumpy.
The heartburn stops after one day of ending caffeine intake, and the rest of the symptoms fade after a week or so.
And I LOVE the flavor of coffee. All kinds from different methods of brewing, I especially love being at a living history event and roasting the beans over an open fire, then grinding beans with a mortar and pestle, and boiling the water in my metal cup over the fire, then pouring the grounds right into the hot water, and after a minute or two of steeping, pouring cold water on top to settle the grains. There's nothing like it, you get the fresh roast, fresh ground coffee, the fresh processing like a french press, the full rich flavor and the background of fire smoke, Oh Dark Thirty, just about to play reveille. hmmmm.
The sad part is, even with decafe I can only drink one or two cups a day. Perhaps this new strain will help people like me. Incidentally, two of my three sisters also suffer from this, as did my paternal grandmother who was 1/4 American Indian...
we don't burry people naked, usually, we put shoes, rings, necklaces, ear-rings, even glasses on them. We dress the dead for a formal ceremony, which their burial is, and that stuff will be left in the casket long after the bearer is gone. Future archaeologists will discover this stuff, and see machine made goods, precious metals, gems, plastics and possibly leather and metal components of shoes and clothing. They'll learn quite a bit from that.
Then they'll smelt down the metals and continue on to the next cemetery.
Christian bashing, oh look, how new and novel. What a fun way to comment on something, yay.
First off, a huge number of scientists are Christians, nothing precludes science as a profession for Christians, and Christians regularly enjoy the fruit of science and engineering without a second thought. No one would have an issue with this in the Christian world except the few thousands of nut jobs who, by the way, are reflected in every sector of society, who won't take medicine of any kind.
Cripes. Just because Christians don't want scientists working with embryonic stem cells harvested from murdered babies doesn't make them anti-science. That's probably the biggest issue Christians have with anything in science land. That and human animal hybrids, but Christians are hardly the only group with a problem with that.
Hell, the most fundamentalist Christians I know would simply "thank God" for this breakthrough and be happy for the lives extended with treatments.
There are other groups who certainly have a greater volume of complete anti-science nut-jobs in them, but you won't rag on them because they'll blow your house up. I understand, Christians are the soft target.
understanding, of course, that metric is "mostly a random collection of measures based on fairly arbitrary things" just because these things are one ten millionth the distance from Peoria to Timbuktu (equator to north pole through Paris? whatever, exactly as arbitrary) doesn't make them any less arbitrary.
like 0 degrees to 100 degrees for water from freezing to boiling, at a certain temperature and pressure... they're no less arbitrary than the definition of degree ferenheit
The only thing going for it is the decimal nature of the system, but that's also no big deal because you can always use a decimal point in the US standard system too, or haven't you ever purchased 3.21 gallons of gas?
amen, the whole point of scouting is to get out and move and learn to build, fix and strengthen things. There's no way a video game should be part of a badge, unless the scout it writing one.
I was never a scout, but my son and daughters have been since they were old enough. I've been on many a campout with them, and as they get older, we'll go adventuring out in the big blue room together in canoes, with backpacks, rifles (though no firearms in scouts, so that'll be strictly civilian), sleep under the stars and leave the technology behind.
yeah I don't know how to do 4 miles in any city. You get there in your car before it's even warmed up. I had a 4 mile commute for a few years, loved it.
Too far to walk (it was a very hilly commute). Perfect for a motorcycle though.
food prices are pretty cheap in the US because fuel is cheap, and because we produce quite a bit of our own food with correspondingly lower transportation costs. We're not paying shipping from another continent.
In fact, if you look at the staples, only fish are imported in any sort of volume, meats, dairy, grains are imported on a very limited basis resulting in around 5% of those categories imported last I checked (this morning, in fact).
Even with our shitty weather (short growing season), New York State produces a shit-load of food, and the cost to bring that food to market is not very high, especially if that market is right here in New York (not counting the big city, that's a whole different world).
I don't see food costs in the US growing much beyond the current rates, adjusted for inflation and fuel costs, of course.
here in Rochester, NY the buses run relatively on-time, they're not over crowded, text or email the bus stop number to the transit authority and you'll get a reply with the next arrival time, most of the stations in the city have lighted signs indicating arrivals and departures, and it costs a buck, and has for 20 years. Add to that the day passes, electronic passes, and the fact that the system extends to all the suburbs you find many people riding these buses.
Many of the problems you mention still exist, the hour long commute most obviously, but it's not the worst place in the world to catch a bus.
Absolutely right. They want us to compare the costs too. OK. The loss to NK, what, a few million a year? That's nothing compared to the cost of overhead, that is, the cost per transaction for these electronic records. Hell, look how much Visa sucks out of the economy every year.
Why don't we just reciprocate and counterfeit NK money? (I kid, I kid)
I had a very long post questioning the very nature of the braintrusts that run Canadian universities, but then I thought, fuck it, if they're stupid enough to fall for this extortion, let them. Obviously they're corrupt. This third party company has some information on someone at the top of those two universities, or people at the top are getting kick backs. So what. Why should we concern our selves with petty corruption, or even grand corruption?
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I would absolutely use a car that had an auto-drive mode. If everyone did, then you wouldn't even need stop lights or other controls at intersections, or speed limits, as the vehicles would work together to melt traffic into a perfect flow. It might be a bit unnerving at first, watching traffic weaving through intersections, but we would get used to it.
Google or not.
because I simply don't like staring at my phone for long periods of time, eye problems I guess. I blame my job, staring at a computer screen all day.
wish I could do it, like reading in a car. If you can read in a moving car, more power to ya. Whenever I do it, people yell at me to keep my eyes on the road.
with the kindle app, and if Amazon decides you shouldn't own the book anymore, you lose it. I prefer to puchase books that can be kept, not purchase a license for a book that can be revoked. I guess that's really what it boils down to. (and no, I don't care that they've only done this N times, once is too many)
Anecdotal and all, but I certainly will gravitate towards their offerings. Immediately. The very reason I don't buy any ebooks for my wife's kindle is that we can't read them on anything else. I'm certainly not reading a 400 page tome on my phone.
So I say, "Good on them, and here's some money."
(posting to remove misplaced mod, because I'm an idiot and clicked the wrong text)
this is what I say, why not all of these solutions?
plug it in at home using either trickle charge or a buffer-battery in the shed out back
plug it in at work
plug it in while grocery shopping
swap the battery in a fast-change filling station
and finally, stand in line for 30 minutes at a "quick-charge" station?
I don't see why all these things couldn't be put to work.
loads and loads of people drive between Florida on the I95 corridor to the North East or the other way, every year, many tens of thousands of people a month, likely, and many of those do it straight through, 1200+ miles, 20+ hours. I've done it a few times. Most of that trip is with a 65+ MPH speed limit and either route 81 or 95. With the exception of the big cities, I95 is 75+ MPH most of the time anyway.
Three charging stations placed conveniently would settle the trip and provide handy rest-stops and butt numb relief.
I'm wondering what these batteries could do for large trucks. Could a tractor trailer use several in parallel to complete the a 10 hour day? How about my plow truck, can I get one for the bed of the truck, recycle/sell the big diesel engine, and be ahead of the game? I know, this is years from commercial use.
OLED wall paper would be freaking awesome. I would hang it on the ceiling, closets, all over the place.. I like the night lights made out of the stuff, I've had some for around 10 years, they just keep working.
yeah, read the whole thing. Also read that multiple studies were done covering wide ranging areas such as animal reproduction, plant health and things like that, and again, nothing conclusive. Even with this study's conclusion, one or two additional cancer deaths? In the roughly million people in the area?
How many additional cancer deaths are there from the vehicles travelling north and south along route 15 or 81 near the plant? compared to an area without a major traffic corridor next to it?
So where's the terrible impact? This example is a lousy example because no one was hurt. Fukushima would be a better example. The sad thing is, there are safer designs out there than both those reactor designs, so even if we put one in the neighbourhood, it's still not a fair comparison to modern reactor design and certainly no reason to get hysterical or ban atomic power generation.
quoted from your source:
"An inter-agency analysis concluded that the accident did not raise radioactivity far enough above background levels to cause even one additional cancer death among the people in the area. The EPA found no contamination in water, soil, sediment or plant samples."
that's not particularly bad, let alone "spectacularly bad". Not one death? Not even a freaking heart attack?
And here's the rub. You don't want one that close, they don't want them that close or anywhere nearby.
I'll support wind power when they have turbines in the waters off the coast of every coastal city, when they're off Nantucket and in Lake Ontario South of Toronto (for the Canadian connection), Long Island Sound and San Francisco Bay.
Until then, large wind turbines have no business being out in the back woods.
just randomly sticking this reply here because it seems a good place (since you're following up on these research links so nicely)
I wonder if the food the baby gets has something to do with this, and wondering if there's a correlation between synthetic baby formula, breastfeeding and autism.
If the changes that cause the disorder start in the uterus maybe not so much, but if it starts postpartum, certainly seems like a possibility. If more kids are drinking baby forumula, or the chemicals in the formulas have changed over the years, you would think that would be a good place to start looking.
The CDC reports a slowly increasing rate of breastfeeding in the US year over year, with the same rise in exclusive through 3 months and exclusive through 6 months, and a slightly higher rate still in the "through 12 months" category. There's also a slight rise in the overall rate of postpartum breastfeeding from 2000 through now, though the rise is slight it represents quite a few more babies born during the period being breastfed postpartum.
So, no, more kids aren't drinking formula early on. So maybe look at chemical composition of the formulas. You know they're always changing those recipes and there could be some horrible toxic chemical in there causing this.
Imagine the brouhaha that would generate. All those parents supporting these children would demand heads-on-poles, and rightly so.
grey water does not have toilet water in it, that's called black water, and should be completely different from grey water.
well played AC, well played.
Caffeine makes me nuts. It starts out with the nice, jittery, high feeling we all love from the drug, but after ONE cup, I don't sleep well that night, and if I consume more than one cup of regular coffee per day, forget about sleeplessness, after a few days I start to get paranoid, nervous as hell, like there's a train bearing down on me, and then the heart palpitations start. After about a week I get heartburn to beat the band and get grumpy.
The heartburn stops after one day of ending caffeine intake, and the rest of the symptoms fade after a week or so.
And I LOVE the flavor of coffee. All kinds from different methods of brewing, I especially love being at a living history event and roasting the beans over an open fire, then grinding beans with a mortar and pestle, and boiling the water in my metal cup over the fire, then pouring the grounds right into the hot water, and after a minute or two of steeping, pouring cold water on top to settle the grains. There's nothing like it, you get the fresh roast, fresh ground coffee, the fresh processing like a french press, the full rich flavor and the background of fire smoke, Oh Dark Thirty, just about to play reveille. hmmmm.
The sad part is, even with decafe I can only drink one or two cups a day. Perhaps this new strain will help people like me. Incidentally, two of my three sisters also suffer from this, as did my paternal grandmother who was 1/4 American Indian...
we don't burry people naked, usually, we put shoes, rings, necklaces, ear-rings, even glasses on them. We dress the dead for a formal ceremony, which their burial is, and that stuff will be left in the casket long after the bearer is gone. Future archaeologists will discover this stuff, and see machine made goods, precious metals, gems, plastics and possibly leather and metal components of shoes and clothing. They'll learn quite a bit from that.
Then they'll smelt down the metals and continue on to the next cemetery.
thank you. I came to this thread expecting a moose bit my sister joke and it wasn't until your post, almost 1/2 way down the page, until it struck.
good jorb.
Christian bashing, oh look, how new and novel. What a fun way to comment on something, yay.
First off, a huge number of scientists are Christians, nothing precludes science as a profession for Christians, and Christians regularly enjoy the fruit of science and engineering without a second thought. No one would have an issue with this in the Christian world except the few thousands of nut jobs who, by the way, are reflected in every sector of society, who won't take medicine of any kind.
Cripes. Just because Christians don't want scientists working with embryonic stem cells harvested from murdered babies doesn't make them anti-science. That's probably the biggest issue Christians have with anything in science land. That and human animal hybrids, but Christians are hardly the only group with a problem with that.
Hell, the most fundamentalist Christians I know would simply "thank God" for this breakthrough and be happy for the lives extended with treatments.
There are other groups who certainly have a greater volume of complete anti-science nut-jobs in them, but you won't rag on them because they'll blow your house up. I understand, Christians are the soft target.
When was the last time someone said "that washer must be three millionths of a mile thick"?
understanding, of course, that metric is "mostly a random collection of measures based on fairly arbitrary things" just because these things are one ten millionth the distance from Peoria to Timbuktu (equator to north pole through Paris? whatever, exactly as arbitrary) doesn't make them any less arbitrary.
like 0 degrees to 100 degrees for water from freezing to boiling, at a certain temperature and pressure... they're no less arbitrary than the definition of degree ferenheit
The only thing going for it is the decimal nature of the system, but that's also no big deal because you can always use a decimal point in the US standard system too, or haven't you ever purchased 3.21 gallons of gas?
amen, the whole point of scouting is to get out and move and learn to build, fix and strengthen things. There's no way a video game should be part of a badge, unless the scout it writing one.
I was never a scout, but my son and daughters have been since they were old enough. I've been on many a campout with them, and as they get older, we'll go adventuring out in the big blue room together in canoes, with backpacks, rifles (though no firearms in scouts, so that'll be strictly civilian), sleep under the stars and leave the technology behind.
yeah I don't know how to do 4 miles in any city. You get there in your car before it's even warmed up. I had a 4 mile commute for a few years, loved it.
Too far to walk (it was a very hilly commute). Perfect for a motorcycle though.
food prices are pretty cheap in the US because fuel is cheap, and because we produce quite a bit of our own food with correspondingly lower transportation costs. We're not paying shipping from another continent.
In fact, if you look at the staples, only fish are imported in any sort of volume, meats, dairy, grains are imported on a very limited basis resulting in around 5% of those categories imported last I checked (this morning, in fact).
Even with our shitty weather (short growing season), New York State produces a shit-load of food, and the cost to bring that food to market is not very high, especially if that market is right here in New York (not counting the big city, that's a whole different world).
I don't see food costs in the US growing much beyond the current rates, adjusted for inflation and fuel costs, of course.
here in Rochester, NY the buses run relatively on-time, they're not over crowded, text or email the bus stop number to the transit authority and you'll get a reply with the next arrival time, most of the stations in the city have lighted signs indicating arrivals and departures, and it costs a buck, and has for 20 years. Add to that the day passes, electronic passes, and the fact that the system extends to all the suburbs you find many people riding these buses.
Many of the problems you mention still exist, the hour long commute most obviously, but it's not the worst place in the world to catch a bus.
Absolutely right. They want us to compare the costs too. OK. The loss to NK, what, a few million a year? That's nothing compared to the cost of overhead, that is, the cost per transaction for these electronic records. Hell, look how much Visa sucks out of the economy every year.
Why don't we just reciprocate and counterfeit NK money? (I kid, I kid)
I had a very long post questioning the very nature of the braintrusts that run Canadian universities, but then I thought, fuck it, if they're stupid enough to fall for this extortion, let them. Obviously they're corrupt. This third party company has some information on someone at the top of those two universities, or people at the top are getting kick backs. So what. Why should we concern our selves with petty corruption, or even grand corruption?