It would solve plenty of problems...
It creates a loop whereby the co2 emitted by burning the fuel is then turned back into fuel, much faster than (although obviously similar to) the natural processes by which such fuels were traditionally formed.
That loop is a failure from the start. Suppose we have a power plant burning fossil fuels. We take the main combustion products - CO2, H2O - and pipe them next door to one of these fuel producing plants to close the loop and turn that stuff back into fuel. The problem is that you'll also need to channel ALL of the power plants output into the fuel plant and bring in external power as well. Un-burning fuel takes more energy than you get from burning the fuel - theoretically it takes the SAME energy, but the reality is that neither the fuel-to-energy process nor the atoms-to-fuel process are 100 percent efficient.
The possible advantage for this only exists in a world where clean electricity is vastly cheaper than pumping oil out of the ground AND we still need hydrocarbons as a transportation fuel. Also at that point, it may be better to leave the CO2 in the air to grow food.
GCompris. Yes, it's boring for an adult, but there is a wide variety of activities - some of which he'll like. It includes TuxPaint which teaches mouse use and drawing. You're late with TV. Get "The Letter Factory", "The Word Factory", and "The Storybook Factory". Let him digest them one at a time - each needs a few months to sink in, then introduce another - he'll be excited. Don't hesitate, if your kid can't read basic words already, your late with these videos.
Wordworld, Dinosaur Train, Sid the Science Kid. All on PBS (assuming US here). Also, get an antenna so you can get PBS Kids during more hours of the day (for scheduling, not additional watching) your cable company does not carry all the subchannels and Kids in not #1 all the time.
I'm a fan of limiting TV. We limited ours to 1 hour per day early on and have migrated to 2 hours (she's 6 now). The "Factory" DVDs are excellent and teach reading. If you're going to teach your kid anything "academic" it should be reading - everything in life is easier if you can read. There is nothing wrong with educational stuff, but free play and getting creative with physical objects/toys is also important. Education is not lame - you sure you're from around here?
And don't worry a bit. Your kid will know how to use tech stuff better than you by the time he's 5 regardless of what you do. But if you must, get him an iPod or iPad and get lots of puzzle games - Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, whatever that silly alligator game is.... But limit screen time per day.
This is NOT that "they refused me because I refused corporate donations". This is "I'm too small a candidate to be considered serious by their metric".
It may be that the other candidates didn't get 50K in non-corporate donations either. If he's refusing those donations on principal then he's being excluded because of what he stands for (assuming he really did reject that amount). Besides, who's to say they wouldn't raise the bar to 250 if he took the 50?
You shouldn't need corporate donations to reach the $50,000 mark. You could do it with $5000 people donating $10 each. That's 0.076% of the Massachusetts population. I think it is a fairly reasonable concept that if you can't do that you are not a serious candidate.
Perhaps if they hadn't excluded him, he'd become a serious candidate. Perhaps being on the ballot should be enough - there are some hoops to jump through, don't you need X number of supporters or some such? I can't imagine any old dork can just register and be on the ballot. He made the legal hurdles to be a candidate, so to exclude him is pure partisanship.
And really, I'd bet it's more of a "If you don't have $50k, you don't actually have a serious campaign" type of requirement, in their opinion. I don't think it's a conspiracy to make sure you have corporate overlords, it's to make sure they don't have 500 whackjobs on stage preaching about all manner of insanity.
I'm sure there are not 500 whackjobs on the ballot. This criteria along should get someone in the debate until the number of people on the ballot really does make that impractical. There is no excuse for the media not to include a local candidate for representative that is on the ballot. No reason other than blatant partisanship.
Detroit proper is a mess, but people are going there more these days for the Lions, Tigers, and Casinos - oh my. The burbs contain most of the people and most of the jobs and have never been a problem. The economic crisis was bad news - what's the first expensive thing you can "not buy" in a pinch? A new car. So those companies and the suppliers all tightened their belts at the same time. Some needed help not to go under, but we're all generally OK now. The area has been trying to diversify for a long time so that kind of thing won't be so hard in the future, but it's slow with the public perception of the area.
I hear there's tech stuff in Grand Rapids too. Nice place. "Small" city not far from Lake Michigan.
Anyone with a dog has probably seen it eat, literally, crap.
Heck, honey is basically bees throwing up for you.
Dogs are stupid. Cats and pigs don't eat their own shit.
Honey is quite safe - some people actually use it as an antibiotic on cuts.
Why not just point out that alcohol is yeast-piss?
We grow crops with shit too - ask yourself how that's different than swimming in it;-)
If you come to Detroit (don't knock it 'till you've been here - and Michigan is beautiful) you can use your existing C and Perl skills in-or-near the auto industry. Having used a micro controller or two is a big plus (makes a job almost a sure thing). You will probably need to do some contract work for a year because you lack the "automotive background". Once you understand how the CAN bus and associated tools are used in cars, you can get work for the rest of your life. C, Perl, CAN - you're in. Experience debugging vehicle level issues - your an expert.
Another way in with PC programming skills is to work for the tool vendors (CAN tools, or micros) which have a path to lower level stuff if you want to go there..
At least do the job search and see what's available. Unfortunately job postings have become buzzword mania and companies will "require" everything from driver development to CEO. Obviously a given position doesn't require all that. C and Perl together will likely get you a job somewhere here - there are several people with that pair of skills down the aisle from me who are gaining other experience on the job.
Adult stem cells FTW. Embryonic stem cells are not necessary.
Yes, but ever since "fetal stem cell research promotes abortion" there is really no distinction in politics. It will take a long time to brake the "stem cells = evil" connection in peoples minds - republicans in particular if you really want to stir the pot.
IIRC, it's the only rocket that can lose an engine or two and still complete it's primary mission. The last rocket that could do that was the Saturn V.
Great, but they've had 1 engine out in 2 launches. It's fantastic that they have demonstrated that redundancy but at this point in time it's a terrible demonstration of reliability. If we extrapolate a bit (and I'm not a great statistics guy) they should be expecting a dual engine failure about 1/4 of launches and a triple failure probably around 1/10 launches. I doubt they can cope with that.
Let's hope they find a cause (or strong suspect) and correct it, followed by a nice long string of successful launches.;-)
Except that Kelo was completely constitutional. It says right in the constitution that the government can seize property as long as they properly compensate the previous owner. If the government abuses this right, throw the bums out.
Nice. It says they can seize the property FOR PUBLIC USE as long as the properly compensate the owner. It does not say they can take it from one private owner and give it to another because the other will pay more in taxes. Although this is what SCOTUS has decided the correct interpretation should be.
Yep, the author doesn't investigate what agreements are in place between Nokia and MS. That could make an Apple purchase a poor choice (or not). This looks like some dude saw last weeks article about Nokias mapping efforts and decided he thinks Apple should buy them. Unfortunately he's got an audience.
Yes, except for those that are required and documented. Which is not what we're talking about here.
Personally, I'd find it very interesting as the developer to create a "bug" in the required intercept functionality so as to allow it's use by my own country. Nope, nobody would ever do that....
The fact is that US is quickly becoming irrelevant in hardware manufacturing, so it is a difficult call.
It's an easy call and should have been made years ago. You don't let other countries build your infrastructure be it telecoms, miltary, energy, etc...
And yes, it can be tough to bring the jobs back. But that's the battle you have after outsourcing everything including your own prosperity.
Scaled is now owned by Lockheed. So any strain in the relationship may have something to do with that. TSC is a separate company from Scaled as well - as you can see from the purchase. It makes perfect sense that Lockheed didn't really care about TSC. I'm sure moral has declined a notch with all the corporate shuffling too.
Why are we building space ships for rich tourists, while real science languishes in the land of budget cuts and resource shortages?
Because we still have not solved the problem of pairing investors with people who can solve problems. Even inside companies people are often not utilized in the best way. You'd think the term "human resources" would refer to people trying to solve this problem, but that is not the case.
Some cars have forward facing cameras already for lane keeping systems or lane departure warning. Some of these cameras can read signs and let you know if you're speeding, etc. Ultimately it may be the car companies who have the best maps which might be updated continuously by tens of millions of cars. Hmmm time for me to transfer to the driver assistance systems part of the company....
This may also explain why Google wants driverless cars, so they can fully automate the data collection.
Tell us all how a "free market" can remain "unmanipulated". The large company has the resources to do all those neat monopolistic things, as well as have their buddies run for office, or bribe the officials, or in some way manipulate the government that is supposed to referee the market as you say. In order to get to what you claim a free market should be we'd need to enstill values of fairness in every person (impossible) without getting that confused with entitlement (we all deserve the same regardless of what we do) which is also impossible. We need to stick to systems that acknowledge the realities of human behaviour, not try to live in some fantasy world. Granted, a real system needs to *try* to limit peoples bad behaviour (eliminate it is impossible), but you can't just bury your head in the sand. You say "It's pretty simple, really" but don't offer any system that can actually work other than your fantasy - which you also call a pipe-dream. So which is it?
What about the increased amounts of persistent drag that these clouds will present to later satelite deployments? Spraying the gas does not mean it magically disappears after it has done its job.
I had the same thought, but would it get ionized and then directed to the poles where it becomes part of the northern lights? Someone should patent that variation of the concept quick!
Slashdot Mirror
That loop is a failure from the start. Suppose we have a power plant burning fossil fuels. We take the main combustion products - CO2, H2O - and pipe them next door to one of these fuel producing plants to close the loop and turn that stuff back into fuel. The problem is that you'll also need to channel ALL of the power plants output into the fuel plant and bring in external power as well. Un-burning fuel takes more energy than you get from burning the fuel - theoretically it takes the SAME energy, but the reality is that neither the fuel-to-energy process nor the atoms-to-fuel process are 100 percent efficient.
The possible advantage for this only exists in a world where clean electricity is vastly cheaper than pumping oil out of the ground AND we still need hydrocarbons as a transportation fuel. Also at that point, it may be better to leave the CO2 in the air to grow food.
GCompris. Yes, it's boring for an adult, but there is a wide variety of activities - some of which he'll like. It includes TuxPaint which teaches mouse use and drawing. You're late with TV. Get "The Letter Factory", "The Word Factory", and "The Storybook Factory". Let him digest them one at a time - each needs a few months to sink in, then introduce another - he'll be excited. Don't hesitate, if your kid can't read basic words already, your late with these videos.
Wordworld, Dinosaur Train, Sid the Science Kid. All on PBS (assuming US here). Also, get an antenna so you can get PBS Kids during more hours of the day (for scheduling, not additional watching) your cable company does not carry all the subchannels and Kids in not #1 all the time.
I'm a fan of limiting TV. We limited ours to 1 hour per day early on and have migrated to 2 hours (she's 6 now). The "Factory" DVDs are excellent and teach reading. If you're going to teach your kid anything "academic" it should be reading - everything in life is easier if you can read. There is nothing wrong with educational stuff, but free play and getting creative with physical objects/toys is also important. Education is not lame - you sure you're from around here?
And don't worry a bit. Your kid will know how to use tech stuff better than you by the time he's 5 regardless of what you do. But if you must, get him an iPod or iPad and get lots of puzzle games - Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, whatever that silly alligator game is.... But limit screen time per day.
It may be that the other candidates didn't get 50K in non-corporate donations either. If he's refusing those donations on principal then he's being excluded because of what he stands for (assuming he really did reject that amount). Besides, who's to say they wouldn't raise the bar to 250 if he took the 50?
Not sure I agree, but the criteria in that case should be "everyone on the ballot".
Perhaps if they hadn't excluded him, he'd become a serious candidate. Perhaps being on the ballot should be enough - there are some hoops to jump through, don't you need X number of supporters or some such? I can't imagine any old dork can just register and be on the ballot. He made the legal hurdles to be a candidate, so to exclude him is pure partisanship.
That's true, but then they shouldn't claim to fair or unbiased.
I'm sure there are not 500 whackjobs on the ballot. This criteria along should get someone in the debate until the number of people on the ballot really does make that impractical. There is no excuse for the media not to include a local candidate for representative that is on the ballot. No reason other than blatant partisanship.
Detroit proper is a mess, but people are going there more these days for the Lions, Tigers, and Casinos - oh my. The burbs contain most of the people and most of the jobs and have never been a problem. The economic crisis was bad news - what's the first expensive thing you can "not buy" in a pinch? A new car. So those companies and the suppliers all tightened their belts at the same time. Some needed help not to go under, but we're all generally OK now. The area has been trying to diversify for a long time so that kind of thing won't be so hard in the future, but it's slow with the public perception of the area.
I hear there's tech stuff in Grand Rapids too. Nice place. "Small" city not far from Lake Michigan.
Dogs are stupid. Cats and pigs don't eat their own shit. ;-)
Honey is quite safe - some people actually use it as an antibiotic on cuts.
Why not just point out that alcohol is yeast-piss?
We grow crops with shit too - ask yourself how that's different than swimming in it
If you come to Detroit (don't knock it 'till you've been here - and Michigan is beautiful) you can use your existing C and Perl skills in-or-near the auto industry. Having used a micro controller or two is a big plus (makes a job almost a sure thing). You will probably need to do some contract work for a year because you lack the "automotive background". Once you understand how the CAN bus and associated tools are used in cars, you can get work for the rest of your life. C, Perl, CAN - you're in. Experience debugging vehicle level issues - your an expert.
Another way in with PC programming skills is to work for the tool vendors (CAN tools, or micros) which have a path to lower level stuff if you want to go there..
At least do the job search and see what's available. Unfortunately job postings have become buzzword mania and companies will "require" everything from driver development to CEO. Obviously a given position doesn't require all that. C and Perl together will likely get you a job somewhere here - there are several people with that pair of skills down the aisle from me who are gaining other experience on the job.
Yes, but ever since "fetal stem cell research promotes abortion" there is really no distinction in politics. It will take a long time to brake the "stem cells = evil" connection in peoples minds - republicans in particular if you really want to stir the pot.
Great, but they've had 1 engine out in 2 launches. It's fantastic that they have demonstrated that redundancy but at this point in time it's a terrible demonstration of reliability. If we extrapolate a bit (and I'm not a great statistics guy) they should be expecting a dual engine failure about 1/4 of launches and a triple failure probably around 1/10 launches. I doubt they can cope with that.
;-)
Let's hope they find a cause (or strong suspect) and correct it, followed by a nice long string of successful launches.
Nice. It says they can seize the property FOR PUBLIC USE as long as the properly compensate the owner. It does not say they can take it from one private owner and give it to another because the other will pay more in taxes. Although this is what SCOTUS has decided the correct interpretation should be.
Yep, the author doesn't investigate what agreements are in place between Nokia and MS. That could make an Apple purchase a poor choice (or not). This looks like some dude saw last weeks article about Nokias mapping efforts and decided he thinks Apple should buy them. Unfortunately he's got an audience.
If he were to ride down in a car.
Radar Rider
Sorry, it make me think of that scene for some reason...
Personally, I'd find it very interesting as the developer to create a "bug" in the required intercept functionality so as to allow it's use by my own country. Nope, nobody would ever do that....
So show me how turning the argument around makes it invalid? Of course each country has to evaluate these thing on their own. What's your point?
It's an easy call and should have been made years ago. You don't let other countries build your infrastructure be it telecoms, miltary, energy, etc...
And yes, it can be tough to bring the jobs back. But that's the battle you have after outsourcing everything including your own prosperity.
Scaled is now owned by Lockheed. So any strain in the relationship may have something to do with that. TSC is a separate company from Scaled as well - as you can see from the purchase. It makes perfect sense that Lockheed didn't really care about TSC. I'm sure moral has declined a notch with all the corporate shuffling too.
Because we still have not solved the problem of pairing investors with people who can solve problems. Even inside companies people are often not utilized in the best way. You'd think the term "human resources" would refer to people trying to solve this problem, but that is not the case.
Some cars have forward facing cameras already for lane keeping systems or lane departure warning. Some of these cameras can read signs and let you know if you're speeding, etc. Ultimately it may be the car companies who have the best maps which might be updated continuously by tens of millions of cars. Hmmm time for me to transfer to the driver assistance systems part of the company....
This may also explain why Google wants driverless cars, so they can fully automate the data collection.
Tell us all how a "free market" can remain "unmanipulated". The large company has the resources to do all those neat monopolistic things, as well as have their buddies run for office, or bribe the officials, or in some way manipulate the government that is supposed to referee the market as you say. In order to get to what you claim a free market should be we'd need to enstill values of fairness in every person (impossible) without getting that confused with entitlement (we all deserve the same regardless of what we do) which is also impossible. We need to stick to systems that acknowledge the realities of human behaviour, not try to live in some fantasy world. Granted, a real system needs to *try* to limit peoples bad behaviour (eliminate it is impossible), but you can't just bury your head in the sand. You say "It's pretty simple, really" but don't offer any system that can actually work other than your fantasy - which you also call a pipe-dream. So which is it?
I had the same thought, but would it get ionized and then directed to the poles where it becomes part of the northern lights? Someone should patent that variation of the concept quick!
Because It's not really all that unique
Why are the links so recent? Because after that collision 2 years ago they put out a request for people to think about this problem.
As a long time software guy, will solving all or most of these problems help me change fields?