If you have to heat your house for the majority of the year, that suggestion is idiocy.
Sure, if you happen to live in Canada. But most people don't need to heat their home 365days/year. Many even use airconditioning for several months a year to get rid of some heat.
The heat from the ~5% inefficiency of the clock radio or VCR's transformer radiates into your house as heat.
A 95% efficient clock radio? You mean a clock radio with a high quality switching mode power supply? I find that hard to believe. More likely it has a (cheaper) 60-75% efficient power supply.
Transformers are quite effective. 95% efficiency is likely. But PSs have quite a bit more components.
The VCR? Perhaps. Modern day VCRs are more efficient than older ones.
Price of heating doesn't depend on efficiency alone. In fact natural gas is the cheapest way to heat a house (Can be differend in other countries) even if it's less efficient than an electric heater.
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Flanders. North part of Belgium (Well, until the revolution comes).
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Don't leave your VCR, radio and all other electric devices on standby all the time. They use up a significant amount of power each year.
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Or rain water. You could save rain water for several purposes, like toilet water and watering your lawn.
It's even mandatory these days to install a rain water reservoir for new houses (here at least).
I don't understand why a massive class action lawsuit has not been brought against Microsoft
I do. For a lawsuit you'd need to document everything of their evilness. And I doubt we would have enough trees on the planet to produce the paper just to document the Windows related stuff.
That, or MS is too rich to deal with. Such a lawsuit would run for decades and cost significant more than could be claimed for damages. MS' Army of Darkness and Evil (its lawyers and cooperating people in high places) would make sure of that.
Now, how the hell did it endanger either the public, or their safety.
Because it's an example. If this guy gets away with it, there will be copycats who might do more damage.
Not to give people ideas, but 10 computers infected with a 911-DOS-virus in the same area, could do serieus damage. Those systems wouldn't be online for more than an (a few) hour(s), but they could do significant damage in that time.
The lesson is simple: 911 is Holy. Don't mess with it.
It's the same here. I've come to believe those red and green lights, shaped like a standing and a walking pedestrian are just some form of decoration.
On the other hand those traffic lights sometimes give me some sort of mind control power over other pedestrians. If I wait for a red light, the others wait as well. But a soon as I cross that street, ignoring the red light, many follow. ah, the power!
Sure. Only it wouldn't work. The clothing wouldn't rip but it would wrap around the bullet and follow it through your body.
I don't think that would be a pretty sight.
It could be used as a replacement for aramide fibers like those used in Kevlar(c) vests.
How is this hard to understand? If you have bills to pay, those bills were incurred by your free will.
I doubt many people would consider a house, food and water a luxury. You can live without a lot. But no matter how you turn it, there's plenty you'll need to pay for, no matter what.
If you are unskilled, you better be living at home and working hard to learn skills. If you gain skills, you can now gain additional higher bills.
That's very nice in theory. However not everyone can spend his evenings studying. Many people have children to take care of and cleaning to do and many have a second job, just to be able to pay for the rent or an ex-wife.
Your post is fraudulent in assuming that people with high bills are unskilled.
Why would people with high bills be unskilled? The point is everybody has bills and some of those are unavoidable. (Unless you prefere to live in a cardboard box and look for food in a dumbster)
Second "big bills" are relative. If your income is a minimum wage, then rent will be a big portion of your pay check.
That is not my problem, or an employer's, if you take on big bills and don't have a skill to market to pay for them.
Funny, you see, it actually is your problem as well. Those people who can't manage their finance force companies to higher their prices to compensate for those who don't pay their bills.
And you too might end up with financial problems. No matter how well educated and smart you are, there's no escape from simple bad luck.
Employers and employees really are on equal ground more than the general media wants you to believe.
Except that employees are easy to replace. How many people can afford to quit their job? Not too many. Most people have a family to support and bills to pay and don't live in their parents basement.
In theory employers and employees are on equal ground. But in practice an employe has to put up with whatever the employer decides. Unless he's got the support of a union.
Send them to a mandatory computer training.
IMO this should already be taught at schools, because in essence it's very simulare to traffic education.
I doubt we should count on laws to solve this, but on educating people (pretty much like burglary prevention campagnes)
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If you could isolate exactly one gold atom. I would say quite a lot.
Really pure metals are quite expensive, and these are usualy only 99.9999% pure (give or take a nine). These are only used in labs, more common materials have a purity near 99% or worse.
A FPS map of a Mars desert? Am I the only one who thinks that would be boring?
A desert is a collection of sandy hills with an occasional cactus and Mars even lacks the latter.
And there aren't any pictures of the secret Nazi Mars base, but don't worry, we've send our best Castle Wolfenstein player to deal with it.
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Besides the whole asteroid thing is fake. It's just a coverup. The dino's got extinct because Fred Flintstone and Barney ate too many of them.
Sure, if you happen to live in Canada. But most people don't need to heat their home 365days/year. Many even use airconditioning for several months a year to get rid of some heat. A 95% efficient clock radio? You mean a clock radio with a high quality switching mode power supply? I find that hard to believe. More likely it has a (cheaper) 60-75% efficient power supply.
Transformers are quite effective. 95% efficiency is likely. But PSs have quite a bit more components.
The VCR? Perhaps. Modern day VCRs are more efficient than older ones.
Price of heating doesn't depend on efficiency alone. In fact natural gas is the cheapest way to heat a house (Can be differend in other countries) even if it's less efficient than an electric heater.
Flanders. North part of Belgium (Well, until the revolution comes).
Don't leave your VCR, radio and all other electric devices on standby all the time. They use up a significant amount of power each year.
Or rain water. You could save rain water for several purposes, like toilet water and watering your lawn.
It's even mandatory these days to install a rain water reservoir for new houses (here at least).
That, or MS is too rich to deal with. Such a lawsuit would run for decades and cost significant more than could be claimed for damages. MS' Army of Darkness and Evil (its lawyers and cooperating people in high places) would make sure of that.
Not to give people ideas, but 10 computers infected with a 911-DOS-virus in the same area, could do serieus damage. Those systems wouldn't be online for more than an (a few) hour(s), but they could do significant damage in that time.
The lesson is simple: 911 is Holy. Don't mess with it.
It's the same here. I've come to believe those red and green lights, shaped like a standing and a walking pedestrian are just some form of decoration.
On the other hand those traffic lights sometimes give me some sort of mind control power over other pedestrians. If I wait for a red light, the others wait as well. But a soon as I cross that street, ignoring the red light, many follow. ah, the power!
Have you tried plugging her in first?
If that doesn't work, RTFM. You did get a manual, right?
Sure. Only it wouldn't work. The clothing wouldn't rip but it would wrap around the bullet and follow it through your body.
I don't think that would be a pretty sight.
It could be used as a replacement for aramide fibers like those used in Kevlar(c) vests.
Second "big bills" are relative. If your income is a minimum wage, then rent will be a big portion of your pay check. Funny, you see, it actually is your problem as well. Those people who can't manage their finance force companies to higher their prices to compensate for those who don't pay their bills.
And you too might end up with financial problems. No matter how well educated and smart you are, there's no escape from simple bad luck.
In theory employers and employees are on equal ground. But in practice an employe has to put up with whatever the employer decides. Unless he's got the support of a union.
IMO this should already be taught at schools, because in essence it's very simulare to traffic education.
I doubt we should count on laws to solve this, but on educating people (pretty much like burglary prevention campagnes)
More likely in a hospital.
Probably none of it. It's probably in a plasma state rather than solid.
It means one atom is for only 80% part of the attogram. The other 20% is part of the attogram next to it.
Or: 3056 gold atoms and a Gd atom (157.3ame ~80% of 197.0ame).
Or: I broke one of the gold atoms, there quite fragile, you know.
If you could isolate exactly one gold atom. I would say quite a lot.
Really pure metals are quite expensive, and these are usualy only 99.9999% pure (give or take a nine). These are only used in labs, more common materials have a purity near 99% or worse.
Au: 197g/mol
10E-18 / 197 = 5.076x10E-21 mol
5.076x10E-21 x 6.022x10E23 = 3056.8 gold atoms.
A FPS map of a Mars desert? Am I the only one who thinks that would be boring?
A desert is a collection of sandy hills with an occasional cactus and Mars even lacks the latter.
And there aren't any pictures of the secret Nazi Mars base, but don't worry, we've send our best Castle Wolfenstein player to deal with it.
Real moms don't clean webs, they remove them.
It sucks. Most of my spiders are homeless now.
0.9. Get an hexorcist
0.A. light candles in the form of a polygon around monitor. Pray to the Holy Electron (Or the Holy Proton if don't believe in Leptons)
0.B. Burn several Windows CD's (with fire that is)
0.C. Pull the plug, claim a power blackout and call it a day.
They solved it. Now they include an asbestos underpants with every laptop.