The underlying issue: College is for academics. Trade schools are for workers. The EU accepted system of apprenticeships does not exist in the USA and that is a big problem (well it does a little bit within the few union trades.) Nearly all computer jobs should be in the apprenticeship model not in the college model. What we essentially have is the job market bucking the conventional "wisdom" and hiring experienced computer people regardless of education - which is an organic movement trying to mimic the apprenticeship model (but selfishly because they don't want people to train people, not loyal, ignorant etc.)
I know a few MBAs and HR people and their education was useless; there are so many experienced uneducated people who are far wiser at those professions...
Amazing how the public became anti union and thinks the way their corporate masters want them to. Corporations want everything for nothing and that is not really a new thing; except now they get what they wanted.
Capitalism capitalizes on human flaws for the benefit of society - too many believers forget the society part is PRIMARY purpose.
Propaganda (soft science) is mightier than Nukes (hard science.)
1) I pay a connection fee all the time its not installation.
2) I have a cabin. It has gone all year without some years and I STILL pay a connection fee for not using any power.
3) Xcel runs to the state to get tax payer money every time they do anything that SHOULD have been planned for as part of their private business; but they are essentially a sanctioned monopoly with regulations to keep the public suckered.
The power grid like the ROADS should be managed by the public; around here our roads are handled well, our bridges not so well. The one bridge that fell down you heard about in the news was actually part of the federal highway system and they should take part of the blame along with the low bid contractors involved. The public here was ALSO to blame for cutting funding for decades leading many of us to predict bridge collapses years in advance! Sadly, the public DID approve measures to restore some funding but it was too late.
Point is, a public run system like the roads can be run as well as the public's competence at democracy - regardless of the use of contractors or regulated privatization (think of the overhead: profit, regulation, enforcement, fines, corruption...all paid by the public.) The power lines, phone lines, and cable lines run over PUBLIC LAND and should be owned by the public which essentially PAYS for them; bad contractors can result in replacement contractors or government management. Rural phones, cable, power etc were forced by regulation and payed for by the users and tax payers. When a rare private investment pays for something like cable lines that is funded by the customers and quite often corporate welfare "incentives." The process encourages corruption and monopoly abuses. If Xcel merely sold power and another entity maintained the grid itself this would be much less of an issue.
FYI: In MN we have OLD OLD gas lines around the whole city and nobody wants to pay for it and naturally Xcel didn't plan long term because that is bad business since they can just force the state to pay it. You'd think a bridge falling would wake people up but we've had gas explosion accidents for many years ALREADY but nothing big enough and frequent enough to wake people up (or the local media which gets money from Xcel.) Want to know the solution? They wait for reports of gas leaks and then check that area or maybe the road to determine if they need to fix it-- they are too cheap to run plastic pipe in the old pipe in my area and continue to make a patchwork of the road on a house-by-house basis for the last decade.
Xcel won't listen until you have a significant amount of STOCK; you can't vote, you can't shop elsewhere, and you can't revoke any local contracts with them.
Wish I'd be around to laugh at all the silly people who thought humans mining space was so insignificant it'll never mess with the mass of the planet... When they alter the orbit of the moon or earth and screw the planet with the same idiocy that has prevented progress on global warming even now when a lot of people realize it is a problem.
Since when does SIGNED CODE solve the problem? who signs the code? Assuming that the whole thing could be flashed to change the keys you could have some malware get in and change the key in addition to any code they want to change. Say the code is FIXED into the chip, then all it takes is an upset employee to leak the key to everybody. Say its an upgradable key which is probable, then you have a situation similar to the Sat TV boxes where there is a community constantly keeping up with the chain of keys and master keys getting frequently changed.
No, the only decent solution is to require PHYSICAL ACTION. If your business hates this, then you pay extra for it. The rest the population can have a switch in the back of the computer or cheaper computers could have a DIP switch. I'm totally ok with a motherboard jumper although a few cents in price for an easier to access DIP switch would be worth it.
Simple stats are not enough to dismiss the issue on either side.
There are many real cases of women getting paid less for working the same amount. Its discriminatory to pay a woman less just because some women may take time off etc. A higher % of black men go to jail; so should we pay them less because they have a higher chance of getting jailed while on the job?
Age discrimination is even MORE common in modern times when the inhumane bean counters took over the businesses.
If we have to hurt the ass-kissers by making it fair, so be it! Most of us hate the ass-kissers anyhow.
I couldn't care less if regulation makes HR and middle managers have to actually WORK for their living. They are already quite good at screwing people out of retirement benefits without giving away their motives...or if you are SICK...
This stuff will get WORSE as big brother grows-- your opinion on facebook may cost you dearly decades from now - and that is just published info; advanced profiling will cause so much more harm than people can imagine... Buy the wrong gum one day and the computer lowers your % confidence level and you get fired.
I'd think with a big game release and online flash game promotion Disney might make threats to tons of tron like games and knock offs that are too much like the film.
I personally have relatives who DID get paid less for the same job; one was even a government employee with a PhD and had less experienced men get paid equal or more. My cousin married a coworker-- both had the same accounting job but she made 8% less than he did and she was smarter (she's now the one teaching at a college and was promoted when working at a different firm.)
The soul and abortions: as you stated with the abortion issue, its a matter of definition. Well, the soul is also a matter of definition and application / interpretation. Similar problem even if IMHO, its more about application of soul than definition.
If the soul exists after death, it does not matter when the body dies because the soul can not die by probably every definition of soul out there. Soul is rather vague making it much easier to accept and harder to prove or argue about. A definition of soul may not includeÂmany details:
When it comes into "existence" or may not have any of our concept of time.
When it attaches to a body (1 week, 9months, 3 years?)
What happens to a soul before attaching, during (forgets past lives?,) and after detaching (death)?
Does it have a limited existence or can it exist in multiple bodies at the same time? Is it unique or individualized or just a fragment of a single entity? (most likely this is partially addressed by the definition but not necessarily.)
Ha! Is there a soul soul?... who wants lots of soles? (ok that was lame.)
I've been told that unborn children go to heaven; in which case, abortion is the the safest path to heaven - I suppose you don't get any reward when you are hell bound anyway and decide to abort, masturbate, kill infants - as many possible so they can surely get into heaven?
Wouldn't it all be easier if we used that the other definition... "He's got rhythm but no soul."
When every cell in your body can be turned into stem cells and "LIFE" then we have a NEW problem! Its not strictly about reproduction anymore - your dead skin cells you shed by the millions are MURDER! Its not just sperm or eggs anymore. (Say, why don't I hear comments about women not trying to get pregnant every month being murder? Oh, men shed sperm inadvertently too. Neither one can avoid killing many potential humans.)
Should I feel sad when my dandruff doesn't have a fair shot at becoming a person?
We all know its only a matter of time when some rich people start having children that look too much like 1 parent. (GW Bush comes to mind.) Hopefully successive generations of clones get dumber instead of more cancer prone... Pretty sick to think you extend your mortality with a younger version of yourself. Also, quite ignorant since its just a twin and likely to develop to look different and different upbringing will result in a person not unlike just having a child the normal way. I leave it to the reader to ponder the procreation motives of some people.
Organ donation is a moot point. by the time cloning is ready we will already be growing cloned organs in weeks or months (which is ALREADY being done today.)
My father always wrote the same way he learned in the navy. Looked similar to the Technical font but it was ALL CAPS with the "lowercase" letters being just a bit smaller in size. It was actually easy to read, especially when etched into something; but not good for fast or heavy reading. Somehow it seemed to be better for directions; perhaps because it was a like a sign or headline or perhaps because he was a technical writer.
Science is not a religion; although, to some science types it seems to be. Science is not perfect or immune from humanity (if it was perfect, humans would prevent that from happening.)
Lawyers are not the only people who can twist something beyond recognition while being reasonable or at least appearing reasonable. Statistics probably has its fair share... Even honest work can be soundly and honestly criticized to the point it looks bad to the untrained or ignorant.
Politics 101: you won and will not do anything to undermine your position even if it does not appear to pose any threat-- in politics a small insignificant nothing can turn into a huge threat (ask Bill Clinton.) Politicians understand this quite well already just by being lawyers and self-advertisers.
Science will always clash with politics; only Religion or the Truth cause more conflict.
The best time is BEFORE the conflict has occurred; afterward there is plenty of FUD and vested interests involved. Be GLAD when the anti-science side resorts to logic and science (bad or otherwise) instead of emotion, religion, culture, hate, fear, etc. At least you know that that demographic of people have made it far enough that it takes some thinking to convince them. It is like a metric for the intelligence of a group-- Sara Palin for example uses emotion and religion with hardly any reasoning (and when she does it is poor. I'm excluding emotional or religious "reasoning.")
Funding and management are two BIG DIFFERENCES regardless.
The Federal government needs limitations. However, federal FUNDING does work and could work for many things. Social Security is federal and works well. Federal funding could provide per-student funding for education; like a voucher system. Federal limitations are possible but can not be maintained due to lack of state influence at a federal level. So idiotic plans like no child left behind would still happen... unless states could fight back for their right to decide.
Non-profit Healthcare and Co-operatives have been done and have failed to out perform government institutions.
Police and Fire work great. They are socialism too. They are also insurance; you pay for them to be there when something goes wrong and they indirectly serve you every day with prevention-- stopping crimes and fires elsewhere stops the spread of those to you or the impact of those getting out of hand on your local economy, friends, family, etc. People don't think of police or fire as a form of insurance because it is unthinkable to do otherwise-- and someday basic healthcare will be the in the same unthinkable situation. Many people pay for anti-virus software (that doesn't work well) which is a waste of money until it blocks something in the event you actually get a virus that it knows how to block. It is a form of insurance too; thankfully, it doesn't let you get the virus it could stop because you had previously had a virus 10 years ago on windows 95...
IF you get a dangerous disease they stick you in a hospital to stop harm to others - for free (well, it is deferred and if you have any money they take it all later.) This example is similar to criminals being put in jail to stop harm to others; which is done for "free" by the existing socialist system (leaving aside the fact the prison system "cures" very few people and hospitals cures many people.) Crime happens, Fires happen and diseases happen - we need to put money in a pool to deal with bad situations that inevitably arise which DOES NOT further victimize you for being unlucky.
Knowing that it can indirectly help us in the long run to do so even if we do not care about anybody other than ourselves we get police and fire-- and thinking longer term we even have free education which helps our economy. Healthcare has many indirect costs and the LACK of a system (which is what it is now: anarchy) is hugely impacting the US economy which is indirectly impacting us individually-- if you have any experience with the medical "systems" in the USA you likely have experienced being screwed directly.
The USA is past collapse and has been on global life support! We have far far far bigger problems than the economy of some corporations that make pointless products that do not contribute to the survival of the nation. Military survival is not a problem by a long shot even before people woke up to the economic disaster we created and the environmental disaster where we contributed the lion's share.
100 years ago Americans were smart enough to count the military as unemployed. Military spending doesn't produce anything, it is like insurance-- a losing investment best minimized only to extreme necessity. Those depression stats were calculated differently than they are today. It is worse than they are telling you. You don't need to be an expert to see it coming; I figure most this major stuff out years ahead of the "news". Research works, test sources out on a topic to measure their skill for future reference.
It is rather simple: Consumption wasn't enough to drive the economy a 100 years ago; we have over consumption supplemented with pointless military waste propping up an endless growth model that ended up so bad that personal/societal savings had to be converted into consumption -- to the point where they wanted to take our social security from us to prop up the model for a few more years. It wasn't really ideological, the move behind privatization of SS was calculated and sold using propaganda just as over consumption itself was for generations.
Madoff reflects the mentality of the system. A system we (the public) superstitiously are afraid to tamper with while other powerful forces are free to experiment at our expense.
RPM or Angular Speed are not the issue with propellers-- its a factor but it is not at all the problem. The center slowly spins around and the farther out from the center the faster it moves. Does not really matter much if you are moving 1 RPM or 100RPM. On the shaft, it is moving as little as possible-- theoretically, an exact center point (a point has no dimensions) would not move at all no matter the RPM. People who were able to play on the playground Merry-go-Round or "Twister" before lawsuits removed them have a 1st hand experience with Angular Velocity and Centripetal force (google those.) Further out from the center the more velocity you get.
The problem with a wind generator is not "slow" but how long the blades are. Bats and birds probably do not have troubles with the 1st few meters which are slow moving; its the 100s of kph speed of the rest of the blade.
To put it another way, a 1RPM blade moves as slow as a second hand of a clock. A second hand seems slow because its only a few cm long. Make that second hand 1 km long and then the tip of it travels 6.3 km in a minute while the 1st few cm are still the "slow" moving second hand. BTW, that tip would be moving at 378kph or 235mph.
a fun question: At what diameter does the blade length diminish the power? When the tips are causing sonic booms? don't spoil the question by going into tensile strength or temperature. Does it ever?
I heard that he wanted water and or mineral rights on the land for his generators... planning to get money in the future (not him personally) from the need for clean water (cheaper than desalination but for profit.)
The Dakotas are bigtime welfare states that is why. They have the largest airforce base and the largest concentration of nukes to take care of. The rest is farmland which also gets a lot of welfare. Take out the military spending and they'd have no economy outside the university towns.
Cool. I was wondering what the limitation could be and honestly never thought about resistance being a possible limitation. I thought it might be a heat issue due to the wire being too thin or something. Perhaps its a combo of all factors?? I don't see why a coating with enough resistance couldn't be found; but its cost or size might be a diminishing return problem.
What I'd like to find is some data from somebody trying to make an ideal motor for the situation-- lighter and with less copper being better (3 phase AC goes without saying. digitally switched DC 3 phase being ok; probably not ideal... point is what is the target to aim for?)
Power can be run distances just fine. The USA power grid is pathetically old fashioned. The smart grid is a PR thing by GE which adds considerable costs at all levels without much proof in terms of justification, IMHO.
A smartly DESIGNED grid would run insanely high voltage DC lines-- at lower heights (because its not AC height isn't a big issue.) To cut down on arcing situations, I've heard suggestions on pulsing the DC as well.
I couldn't care less about GE's smart grid making my fridge talk to the grid adding more cost to products no longer designed to last.... MORE IMPORTANTLY, the cost for the public to JOIN the distributed power grid should be lowered! I should sell back my power and the storage corp down the road can sell it back to me when there is no sunlight (rate pricing may have 2 change.)
"MODERN NUCLEAR POWER?" I'm highly skeptical. I've heard for decades about next gen stuff 5 years away and never happens. Nuclear is heavily welfare run and I don't think they'll ever get cost effective in my lifetime. France does ok because they are willing to take a LOSS on it (and they are honest about it - by having gov lose it instead of giving private owners false profits from the taxpayers.)
Anything can be 'profitable' if you can externalize enough costs.
I've been discussing such ideas with a physicist friend of mine for 10 years now! He actually built structures from compressed air for fun. 30cm thick Bridges that can hold trucks using steel cables wrapped (in a pattern) around essentially a balloon. Towers.... etc.
Some company even made an inflated airplane WING! yes-- a balloon airfoil for a wing. truly impressive-- (BTW they use a fair amount of structure in the balloon-- but its less material and weight than anything conventional.)
They should do more with tension structures and crash design. A good material scientist should help find the proper material for the impact areas--- if it doesn't burst/cut/tear on a crash then one can let out air in a controlled fashion - we were thinking this exhaust air could be transferred instead of lost to something like an air bag or some sort of safety foam or even to lift the driver up above the crash zone. We didn't find a material scientist to discuss this with.
Me, I thought if the shell was in panels or at least a little flexible the car could actually change shape slightly at different speeds. well it sounds cool anyways-- probably not worth it given the small range in speed; however, it would allow a factory to make many customized shapes without all the hard work.
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Wheel hub motors are a PROBLEM however. When exploring those we decided there is a problem with the bearings; the load on the bearings from essentially having a flywheel in the wheel; the weight and forces from a flywheel in the hub; etc. Turns out to be better in our opinion to NOT put motors in the wheels of a fast moving car. (smaller motor is ok, but then you have speed / power limits-- all 4 wheels helps with the power issue, but then you still have a speed issue; we didn't go further to try to determine how small and light the motor could be and if that was too heavy.) As much as I hate a gearbox, I think a small gearbox is probably needed to keep the motor rpm & inverter in an ideal range. Tesla seems to have concluded similarly.
What I'd like to know is why aren't there any custom motors operating higher than 3-phase around 400V? Would also like to know why we are so low on electronics experts that most are still stuck using DC motors...
Parent is totally correct. People need to take a deep breath and THINK before they start demanding irrational behavior from their government officials!
Simply take the emotional issue and switch the topic to another activity and think about how much sense it makes.
Its bad enough to be convicted of INTENT but to go after for IMPLIED intent is a thought crime. 1984. Even if you allow implied intent, there is more reasonable doubt in such a accusation which should make conviction nearly impossible (assuming the system even works.)
1) People who want to legally do it because IT IS EVERYWHERE and its usage seems quite high.
2) People who know somebody criminalized either in jail or were in jail who have a HARD time getting employment especially in this economy when about 1/5 are unemployed (don't believe the skewed stats, look it up.)
3) People who want LESS Crime in their area
4) Realists and True Libertarians (they are not the same thing.)
Not so simple. As I recall, it was NOT boaters that were the big factor it was the small businesses and fishermen who raised hell over the Cape Cod wind farm with funding from the rich pricks who don't want to see them. Kennedy was being the good representative he is by keeping his voters happy by doing what they want - a SIMILAR issue came up with the fishermen getting upset over federal fishing regulations limiting them on their overfishing. Kennedy got them what they demanded and now many are out of business because fish populations continued due to the predictable decrease from their overfishing. They got what they deserved BOTH TIMES and would have hated their representative for trying to inject any wisdom to the contrary.
I think its sad the way people shift blame to their representatives for THEIR OWN MISTAKES and wonder why the ones that tell them what they want to hear and throw a bone to the loudest groups. They get their power regardless of what they do on side issues (good or bad...) Some do good and some do bad but nearly ALL play politics where they must to get in and stay in. This is why you can't touch the corrupt farm lobbies or do much about all the welfare states (which are BTW all the 2004 "red" states.)
People SAY they don't want waste etc; but when their rep brings waste into town-- they REWARD them with re-election. Sure I want nuclear energy-- but not in my backyard...
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The underlying issue: College is for academics. Trade schools are for workers. The EU accepted system of apprenticeships does not exist in the USA and that is a big problem (well it does a little bit within the few union trades.) Nearly all computer jobs should be in the apprenticeship model not in the college model. What we essentially have is the job market bucking the conventional "wisdom" and hiring experienced computer people regardless of education - which is an organic movement trying to mimic the apprenticeship model (but selfishly because they don't want people to train people, not loyal, ignorant etc.)
I know a few MBAs and HR people and their education was useless; there are so many experienced uneducated people who are far wiser at those professions...
Amazing how the public became anti union and thinks the way their corporate masters want them to.
Corporations want everything for nothing and that is not really a new thing; except now they get what they wanted.
Capitalism capitalizes on human flaws for the benefit of society - too many believers forget the society part is PRIMARY purpose.
Propaganda (soft science) is mightier than Nukes (hard science.)
1) I pay a connection fee all the time its not installation.
2) I have a cabin. It has gone all year without some years and I STILL pay a connection fee for not using any power.
3) Xcel runs to the state to get tax payer money every time they do anything that SHOULD have been planned for as part of their private business; but they are essentially a sanctioned monopoly with regulations to keep the public suckered.
The power grid like the ROADS should be managed by the public; around here our roads are handled well, our bridges not so well. The one bridge that fell down you heard about in the news was actually part of the federal highway system and they should take part of the blame along with the low bid contractors involved. The public here was ALSO to blame for cutting funding for decades leading many of us to predict bridge collapses years in advance! Sadly, the public DID approve measures to restore some funding but it was too late.
Point is, a public run system like the roads can be run as well as the public's competence at democracy - regardless of the use of contractors or regulated privatization (think of the overhead: profit, regulation, enforcement, fines, corruption...all paid by the public.) The power lines, phone lines, and cable lines run over PUBLIC LAND and should be owned by the public which essentially PAYS for them; bad contractors can result in replacement contractors or government management. Rural phones, cable, power etc were forced by regulation and payed for by the users and tax payers. When a rare private investment pays for something like cable lines that is funded by the customers and quite often corporate welfare "incentives." The process encourages corruption and monopoly abuses. If Xcel merely sold power and another entity maintained the grid itself this would be much less of an issue.
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In MN we have OLD OLD gas lines around the whole city and nobody wants to pay for it and naturally Xcel didn't plan long term because that is bad business since they can just force the state to pay it. You'd think a bridge falling would wake people up but we've had gas explosion accidents for many years ALREADY but nothing big enough and frequent enough to wake people up (or the local media which gets money from Xcel.) Want to know the solution? They wait for reports of gas leaks and then check that area or maybe the road to determine if they need to fix it-- they are too cheap to run plastic pipe in the old pipe in my area and continue to make a patchwork of the road on a house-by-house basis for the last decade.
Xcel won't listen until you have a significant amount of STOCK; you can't vote, you can't shop elsewhere, and you can't revoke any local contracts with them.
Wish I'd be around to laugh at all the silly people who thought humans mining space was so insignificant it'll never mess with the mass of the planet... When they alter the orbit of the moon or earth and screw the planet with the same idiocy that has prevented progress on global warming even now when a lot of people realize it is a problem.
Since when does SIGNED CODE solve the problem? who signs the code? Assuming that the whole thing could be flashed to change the keys you could have some malware get in and change the key in addition to any code they want to change. Say the code is FIXED into the chip, then all it takes is an upset employee to leak the key to everybody. Say its an upgradable key which is probable, then you have a situation similar to the Sat TV boxes where there is a community constantly keeping up with the chain of keys and master keys getting frequently changed.
No, the only decent solution is to require PHYSICAL ACTION. If your business hates this, then you pay extra for it. The rest the population can have a switch in the back of the computer or cheaper computers could have a DIP switch. I'm totally ok with a motherboard jumper although a few cents in price for an easier to access DIP switch would be worth it.
Simple stats are not enough to dismiss the issue on either side.
There are many real cases of women getting paid less for working the same amount. Its discriminatory to pay a woman less just because some women may take time off etc. A higher % of black men go to jail; so should we pay them less because they have a higher chance of getting jailed while on the job?
Age discrimination is even MORE common in modern times when the inhumane bean counters took over the businesses.
If we have to hurt the ass-kissers by making it fair, so be it! Most of us hate the ass-kissers anyhow.
I couldn't care less if regulation makes HR and middle managers have to actually WORK for their living. They are already quite good at screwing people out of retirement benefits without giving away their motives...or if you are SICK...
This stuff will get WORSE as big brother grows-- your opinion on facebook may cost you dearly decades from now - and that is just published info; advanced profiling will cause so much more harm than people can imagine... Buy the wrong gum one day and the computer lowers your % confidence level and you get fired.
The banks "persuaded" "us," didn't they?
I'd think with a big game release and online flash game promotion Disney might make threats to tons of tron like games and knock offs that are too much like the film.
I personally have relatives who DID get paid less for the same job; one was even a government employee with a PhD and had less experienced men get paid equal or more. My cousin married a coworker-- both had the same accounting job but she made 8% less than he did and she was smarter (she's now the one teaching at a college and was promoted when working at a different firm.)
The soul and abortions: as you stated with the abortion issue, its a matter of definition.
Well, the soul is also a matter of definition and application / interpretation. Similar problem even if IMHO, its more about application of soul than definition.
If the soul exists after death, it does not matter when the body dies because the soul can not die by probably every definition of soul out there. Soul is rather vague making it much easier to accept and harder to prove or argue about. A definition of soul may not includeÂmany details:
When it comes into "existence" or may not have any of our concept of time.
When it attaches to a body (1 week, 9months, 3 years?)
What happens to a soul before attaching, during (forgets past lives?,) and after detaching (death)?
Does it have a limited existence or can it exist in multiple bodies at the same time?
Is it unique or individualized or just a fragment of a single entity? (most likely this is partially addressed by the definition but not necessarily.)
Ha! Is there a soul soul? ... who wants lots of soles? (ok that was lame.)
I've been told that unborn children go to heaven; in which case, abortion is the the safest path to heaven - I suppose you don't get any reward when you are hell bound anyway and decide to abort, masturbate, kill infants - as many possible so they can surely get into heaven?
Wouldn't it all be easier if we used that the other definition... "He's got rhythm but no soul."
When every cell in your body can be turned into stem cells and "LIFE" then we have a NEW problem!
Its not strictly about reproduction anymore - your dead skin cells you shed by the millions are MURDER! Its not just sperm or eggs anymore. (Say, why don't I hear comments about women not trying to get pregnant every month being murder? Oh, men shed sperm inadvertently too. Neither one can avoid killing many potential humans.)
Should I feel sad when my dandruff doesn't have a fair shot at becoming a person?
We all know its only a matter of time when some rich people start having children that look too much like 1 parent. (GW Bush comes to mind.)
Hopefully successive generations of clones get dumber instead of more cancer prone... Pretty sick to think you extend your mortality with a younger version of yourself. Also, quite ignorant since its just a twin and likely to develop to look different and different upbringing will result in a person not unlike just having a child the normal way. I leave it to the reader to ponder the procreation motives of some people.
Organ donation is a moot point. by the time cloning is ready we will already be growing cloned organs in weeks or months (which is ALREADY being done today.)
My father always wrote the same way he learned in the navy. Looked similar to the Technical font but it was ALL CAPS with the "lowercase" letters being just a bit smaller in size. It was actually easy to read, especially when etched into something; but not good for fast or heavy reading. Somehow it seemed to be better for directions; perhaps because it was a like a sign or headline or perhaps because he was a technical writer.
Science is not a religion; although, to some science types it seems to be. Science is not perfect or immune from humanity (if it was perfect, humans would prevent that from happening.)
Lawyers are not the only people who can twist something beyond recognition while being reasonable or at least appearing reasonable. Statistics probably has its fair share... Even honest work can be soundly and honestly criticized to the point it looks bad to the untrained or ignorant.
Politics 101: you won and will not do anything to undermine your position even if it does not appear to pose any threat-- in politics a small insignificant nothing can turn into a huge threat (ask Bill Clinton.) Politicians understand this quite well already just by being lawyers and self-advertisers.
Science will always clash with politics; only Religion or the Truth cause more conflict.
The best time is BEFORE the conflict has occurred; afterward there is plenty of FUD and vested interests involved. Be GLAD when the anti-science side resorts to logic and science (bad or otherwise) instead of emotion, religion, culture, hate, fear, etc. At least you know that that demographic of people have made it far enough that it takes some thinking to convince them. It is like a metric for the intelligence of a group-- Sara Palin for example uses emotion and religion with hardly any reasoning (and when she does it is poor. I'm excluding emotional or religious "reasoning.")
Funding and management are two BIG DIFFERENCES regardless.
The Federal government needs limitations. However, federal FUNDING does work and could work for many things. Social Security is federal and works well. Federal funding could provide per-student funding for education; like a voucher system. Federal limitations are possible but can not be maintained due to lack of state influence at a federal level. So idiotic plans like no child left behind would still happen... unless states could fight back for their right to decide.
Non-profit Healthcare and Co-operatives have been done and have failed to out perform government institutions.
Police and Fire work great. They are socialism too. They are also insurance; you pay for them to be there when something goes wrong and they indirectly serve you every day with prevention-- stopping crimes and fires elsewhere stops the spread of those to you or the impact of those getting out of hand on your local economy, friends, family, etc. People don't think of police or fire as a form of insurance because it is unthinkable to do otherwise-- and someday basic healthcare will be the in the same unthinkable situation.
Many people pay for anti-virus software (that doesn't work well) which is a waste of money until it blocks something in the event you actually get a virus that it knows how to block. It is a form of insurance too; thankfully, it doesn't let you get the virus it could stop because you had previously had a virus 10 years ago on windows 95...
IF you get a dangerous disease they stick you in a hospital to stop harm to others - for free (well, it is deferred and if you have any money they take it all later.) This example is similar to criminals being put in jail to stop harm to others; which is done for "free" by the existing socialist system (leaving aside the fact the prison system "cures" very few people and hospitals cures many people.) Crime happens, Fires happen and diseases happen - we need to put money in a pool to deal with bad situations that inevitably arise which DOES NOT further victimize you for being unlucky.
Knowing that it can indirectly help us in the long run to do so even if we do not care about anybody other than ourselves we get police and fire-- and thinking longer term we even have free education which helps our economy. Healthcare has many indirect costs and the LACK of a system (which is what it is now: anarchy) is hugely impacting the US economy which is indirectly impacting us individually-- if you have any experience with the medical "systems" in the USA you likely have experienced being screwed directly.
The USA is past collapse and has been on global life support! We have far far far bigger problems than the economy of some corporations that make pointless products that do not contribute to the survival of the nation. Military survival is not a problem by a long shot even before people woke up to the economic disaster we created and the environmental disaster where we contributed the lion's share.
100 years ago Americans were smart enough to count the military as unemployed. Military spending doesn't produce anything, it is like insurance-- a losing investment best minimized only to extreme necessity. Those depression stats were calculated differently than they are today. It is worse than they are telling you. You don't need to be an expert to see it coming; I figure most this major stuff out years ahead of the "news". Research works, test sources out on a topic to measure their skill for future reference.
It is rather simple: Consumption wasn't enough to drive the economy a 100 years ago; we have over consumption supplemented with pointless military waste propping up an endless growth model that ended up so bad that personal/societal savings had to be converted into consumption -- to the point where they wanted to take our social security from us to prop up the model for a few more years. It wasn't really ideological, the move behind privatization of SS was calculated and sold using propaganda just as over consumption itself was for generations.
Madoff reflects the mentality of the system. A system we (the public) superstitiously are afraid to tamper with while other powerful forces are free to experiment at our expense.
"Welcome to the Desert of the Real"
RPM or Angular Speed are not the issue with propellers-- its a factor but it is not at all the problem. The center slowly spins around and the farther out from the center the faster it moves. Does not really matter much if you are moving 1 RPM or 100RPM. On the shaft, it is moving as little as possible-- theoretically, an exact center point (a point has no dimensions) would not move at all no matter the RPM. People who were able to play on the playground Merry-go-Round or "Twister" before lawsuits removed them have a 1st hand experience with Angular Velocity and Centripetal force (google those.) Further out from the center the more velocity you get.
The problem with a wind generator is not "slow" but how long the blades are. Bats and birds probably do not have troubles with the 1st few meters which are slow moving; its the 100s of kph speed of the rest of the blade.
To put it another way, a 1RPM blade moves as slow as a second hand of a clock. A second hand seems slow because its only a few cm long. Make that second hand 1 km long and then the tip of it travels 6.3 km in a minute while the 1st few cm are still the "slow" moving second hand. BTW, that tip would be moving at 378kph or 235mph.
a fun question:
At what diameter does the blade length diminish the power?
When the tips are causing sonic booms? don't spoil the question by going into tensile strength or temperature. Does it ever?
I heard that he wanted water and or mineral rights on the land for his generators... planning to get money in the future (not him personally) from the need for clean water (cheaper than desalination but for profit.)
it is not a big deal. they act like it was a major leak or something. clearly it wasn't bigger than a 4 year punishment.
The Dakotas are bigtime welfare states that is why. They have the largest airforce base and the largest concentration of nukes to take care of. The rest is farmland which also gets a lot of welfare. Take out the military spending and they'd have no economy outside the university towns.
Cool. I was wondering what the limitation could be and honestly never thought about resistance being a possible limitation. I thought it might be a heat issue due to the wire being too thin or something. Perhaps its a combo of all factors?? I don't see why a coating with enough resistance couldn't be found; but its cost or size might be a diminishing return problem.
What I'd like to find is some data from somebody trying to make an ideal motor for the situation-- lighter and with less copper being better (3 phase AC goes without saying. digitally switched DC 3 phase being ok; probably not ideal... point is what is the target to aim for?)
Power can be run distances just fine. The USA power grid is pathetically old fashioned. The smart grid is a PR thing by GE which adds considerable costs at all levels without much proof in terms of justification, IMHO.
A smartly DESIGNED grid would run insanely high voltage DC lines-- at lower heights (because its not AC height isn't a big issue.) To cut down on arcing situations, I've heard suggestions on pulsing the DC as well.
I couldn't care less about GE's smart grid making my fridge talk to the grid adding more cost to products no longer designed to last.... MORE IMPORTANTLY, the cost for the public to JOIN the distributed power grid should be lowered! I should sell back my power and the storage corp down the road can sell it back to me when there is no sunlight (rate pricing may have 2 change.)
"MODERN NUCLEAR POWER?" I'm highly skeptical. I've heard for decades about next gen stuff 5 years away and never happens. Nuclear is heavily welfare run and I don't think they'll ever get cost effective in my lifetime. France does ok because they are willing to take a LOSS on it (and they are honest about it - by having gov lose it instead of giving private owners false profits from the taxpayers.)
Anything can be 'profitable' if you can externalize enough costs.
No No No. Higher voltage not more phases. Higher voltage for smaller lighter wire in the motor.
I've been discussing such ideas with a physicist friend of mine for 10 years now! He actually built structures from compressed air for fun.
30cm thick Bridges that can hold trucks using steel cables wrapped (in a pattern) around essentially a balloon. Towers.... etc.
Some company even made an inflated airplane WING! yes-- a balloon airfoil for a wing. truly impressive-- (BTW they use a fair amount of structure in the balloon-- but its less material and weight than anything conventional.)
They should do more with tension structures and crash design. A good material scientist should help find the proper material for the impact areas--- if it doesn't burst/cut/tear on a crash then one can let out air in a controlled fashion - we were thinking this exhaust air could be transferred instead of lost to something like an air bag or some sort of safety foam or even to lift the driver up above the crash zone. We didn't find a material scientist to discuss this with.
Me, I thought if the shell was in panels or at least a little flexible the car could actually change shape slightly at different speeds. well it sounds cool anyways-- probably not worth it given the small range in speed; however, it would allow a factory to make many customized shapes without all the hard work.
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Wheel hub motors are a PROBLEM however. When exploring those we decided there is a problem with the bearings; the load on the bearings from essentially having a flywheel in the wheel; the weight and forces from a flywheel in the hub; etc. Turns out to be better in our opinion to NOT put motors in the wheels of a fast moving car. (smaller motor is ok, but then you have speed / power limits-- all 4 wheels helps with the power issue, but then you still have a speed issue; we didn't go further to try to determine how small and light the motor could be and if that was too heavy.) As much as I hate a gearbox, I think a small gearbox is probably needed to keep the motor rpm & inverter in an ideal range. Tesla seems to have concluded similarly.
What I'd like to know is why aren't there any custom motors operating higher than 3-phase around 400V? Would also like to know why we are so low on electronics experts that most are still stuck using DC motors...
Parent is totally correct. People need to take a deep breath and THINK before they start demanding irrational behavior from their government officials!
Simply take the emotional issue and switch the topic to another activity and think about how much sense it makes.
Its bad enough to be convicted of INTENT but to go after for IMPLIED intent is a thought crime. 1984. Even if you allow implied intent, there is more reasonable doubt in such a accusation which should make conviction nearly impossible (assuming the system even works.)
I suspect that the reasons are:
1) People who want to legally do it because IT IS EVERYWHERE and its usage seems quite high.
2) People who know somebody criminalized either in jail or were in jail who have a HARD time getting employment especially in this economy when about 1/5 are unemployed (don't believe the skewed stats, look it up.)
3) People who want LESS Crime in their area
4) Realists and True Libertarians (they are not the same thing.)
5) People who want it for medical reasons
Not so simple. As I recall, it was NOT boaters that were the big factor it was the small businesses and fishermen who raised hell over the Cape Cod wind farm with funding from the rich pricks who don't want to see them. Kennedy was being the good representative he is by keeping his voters happy by doing what they want - a SIMILAR issue came up with the fishermen getting upset over federal fishing regulations limiting them on their overfishing. Kennedy got them what they demanded and now many are out of business because fish populations continued due to the predictable decrease from their overfishing. They got what they deserved BOTH TIMES and would have hated their representative for trying to inject any wisdom to the contrary.
I think its sad the way people shift blame to their representatives for THEIR OWN MISTAKES and wonder why the ones that tell them what they want to hear and throw a bone to the loudest groups. They get their power regardless of what they do on side issues (good or bad...) Some do good and some do bad but nearly ALL play politics where they must to get in and stay in. This is why you can't touch the corrupt farm lobbies or do much about all the welfare states (which are BTW all the 2004 "red" states.)
People SAY they don't want waste etc; but when their rep brings waste into town-- they REWARD them with re-election. Sure I want nuclear energy-- but not in my backyard...