I think the world of Aspergers and other spectrum kids would be vastly improved if people generally would stop trying to get them to "act right." Put away the hammer, stop beating the square peg into the round hole, and things will improve dramatically.
The truth of the matter is that the public school teachers of the USA (and Canada!) collectively lack the ability to teach basic reading comprehension, basic arithmetic and basic interpersonal communication. We know this because the victims of their incompetence turn up in university year after year, unable to read, count or speak coherently.
Google is probably seeking an "arrangement" with the national teacher's union. Slide them some money, make another front in the Anti-Trump Crusade.
If the Republicans are smart, they will de-unionize teachers and eliminate the federal Dept. of Education. Sadly, I know they're not that smart. They'll try to Make A Deal, and get slaughtered. Again.
Hydrogen is stored in metal hydride powders inside the tanks, because the pure gas will walk through welded seams under pressure. Likewise acetylene is stored dissolved in acetone, because it behaves badly by itself. These indirect storage methods are industrial scale and common.
Liquid hydrogen has properties that destroy mild steel tanks and fittings by making them brittle. Therefore exotic and expensive alloys are used in rockets.
All of which is still "greener" than nanoscale aluminum powder and alumina dust released into the atmosphere. And easier than refining aluminum. Particularly in space.
Don't tell the greenies dude, they want to switch us all to hydrogen cars.
However you are incorrect. Pressurized hydrogen is certainly stored, its used as a welding gas and shipped in cylinders all over the place all the time. -Liquid- hydrogen is very difficult to handle compared to propane or gasoline. But compared to refining aluminum its easy. They have a huge tank of liquid hydrogen sitting on the shuttle launch site in Florida, its been there a looooong time.
And hey, when you burn it you get water. What do you get when you burn aluminum? Really abrasive dust.
I have an O2 cylinder in my garage that runs 3000psi when full. Welding gas, y'know. Every mechanic's shop has one. Hydrogen is also used as a welding gas, it is commonly stored and shipped in the same truck as the O2 cylinders. Along with propane, acetalene, MAP gas, etc.
Aluminum is -very- expensive to produce compared to liquefied gas. Its refined from bauxite by electrolysis. They put the Al refineries next to hydroelectric dams instead of next to the bauxite mine, that should tell you something eh?
Not saying it couldn't work nicely as a propellant for use on the moon or asteroids, where water ice and recoverable aluminum could be found. Thermite could too. Just saying calling it green is tripe.
Although I have to say, the thought of refining pure aluminum on the moon is PURE science fiction. Electrolysis of molten rock, hard to do in a space suit with a refiner unit hauled up from Earth, right? Electrolysis of the ice for use as a hydrogen/oxygen rocket would be easier, yes? Solar panel, couple plastic bags and a compressor pump.
In what universe is powdered aluminum "greener" than a hydrogen/oxygen rocket? Even hydrazine burns to an inert end product if I remember my chemistry right (no guarantees there), aluminum is anything but inert.
But on topic, 1. yes, samples come from somewhere but they don't escape to anywhere important if you crash on an isolated island. They do if you crash in Kansas. Or drop the sample box on the runway. 3. There's plenty enough people in the mid-west for an escaped bug to spread through. And isn't the point of a secure Level 5 lab to make people -safer-? 4. People will be expected to -live- in Kansas and drive to work. (Thereby radically increasing the chance of spreading bugs, btw.) No one will be expected to live full time on Dr. No's Pacific island. They will do rotations and live someplace where they want to be. 5. No, you didn't.
Isolated island good. Farmer's field in Kansas, bad.
Shazam! The governor of Kansas is...[drum roll]... a DEMOCRAT! And has indeed been lobbying for this. Sadly the two senators for Kansas who have also been lobbying are REPUBLICANS, which gets back to my less government is better government theme. Two parties, both populated by idiots. Awesome!
Actually I suggested that Democrats are the party of more government, which I take from this debacle to be a bad thing. Only government lobbying and wheeling/dealing can create situations this infernally stupid.
If you RTFA you'll discover that the governor of Kansas is indeed a Democrat, but the two Senators pushing the thing are REPUBLICANS, which only goes to show that the answer is not having the "right" party in power. The only solution is to have -less- government, with less money to create dangerous situations like this.
But don't feel too bad. The Canadian super duper bug lab is in Winnipeg. That's a city pretty much in the middle of the country. Government funded assholery is international.
1. All samples have to come from "someplace else" to the middle of the continental USA, where everybody lives. Plane crash? Car crash? Train derailment? Stupid screw up (oh that could never happen, right?) Your bug is loose in frickin' Kansas. The middle of the continent. Perfect set up for it to spread. 2. Any agriculture bug you're testing? You're surrounded by... agriculture! Better hope you don't have a test tube break. 3. People live right outside. See #2. 4. How many super duper Level 5 trained people want to move to Cow's Butt, Kansas? 5. Almost forgot, tornadoes.
I'm not even trained in this specialty, I came up with that off the top of my head. The little island off the NY coast is a -good- place. A better place would be an island off the coast of Alaska, or in the middle of the Pacific.
But hey, I'm "flamebait" for suggesting that this kind of stunning stupidity is BUSINESS AS USUAL for the f-ing MUTANTS who run the US government. Fire them all.
"Let's put the level 5 infectious disease lab right smack in the dead center middle of the continent! Then it'll be handy to all those farms and cows and stuff, if they get sick or something right?"
Behold, the bureaucratic mind.
And you Democrat voters want more of this, not less?
"Is it OK to send unsolicited e-mail to users in China, Iran, and other censored countries, telling them about new proxy sites for getting around Internet censorship?"
I think any lengthy agonizing over this question reveals the agonizer's ignorance of life under totalitarian rule. Anything which destroys the government stranglehold on information is good. Its actually one of the only legitimate uses of spam I can think of.
Makes you wonder where the car maker's brains are, doesn't it?
Foamed metal composites are available, http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=1991/03578 and metal reinforced ceramics, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cermet , both of which are being used to good effect in the racing world. You'd think a foamed aluminum engine block with ceramet cylinder liners on a rotary platform would kick some serious ass.
Easy for us though, eh? If it was all that easy it'd be done by now. Probably like flying cars, its harder than one would think.
...I drive a truck because a puny Prius can't haul my massive member at highway speeds.
There's also the tiny consideration that the world is full of 18 wheelers and 3 ton SUVs, making little tiny envirocars kinda nonsurvivable in a crash. I'd rather live through a rear-ender than die for the ozone layer, thanks all the same.
Why? Because with 64 bit XP you have everything you need to run any CPU available. The only thing XP doesn't do well is multi-processor support, but this is not a big deal with only 2 cores. People don't care about Vista, it doesn't do anything XP can't do.
With quad cores and higher, the OS will have to start carrying some of the freight. Which Vista, as it stands, won't do.
So Bill and company better get beavering away on some super duper multi-threading SMP shit for the Vista Service Pack 2 upgrade in a year or so, or they're going to miss the boat.
But then, is Windows Vista selling? Nuh uh. People aren't buying the crap, lots of people are looking hard at alternatives. Mickeysoft stock is declining. That's super bad for them, because they make a good chunk of profit every year from manipulating their own stock.
Intel, AMD, Nvidia etc., these guys lay out HUGE money to design a processor. If AMD comes out with their next generation and the sales suck because of DRM, they will take a huge beating. Their stock is $13.75 or so right now, if it goes much lower they are going to be in some serious shit.
Bottom line, if you buy a computer for fun and it isn't any because of goofy DRM, will you buy another? Nope. You'll buy a console, or a Wii, or hell, maybe a boat.
I bought AMD and Intel recently, when their stock bottomed out. Possibly AMD has farther south to go if they are going to pull this kind of crap. Maybe I'll sell it and buy more Intel.
Hey, AMD guys! People are not going to buy cripleware. Build the good stuff, or prepare to go out of business.
Not the transformer, oil cooling. Still, I didn't know Faraday invented the transformer. Figures though, he invented most of the basics of electricity.
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Unscientific, anti-American, and now idiotarian, a once great publication kicks in the afterburners in it's race to the bottom.
This is what going "full retard" looks like in print.
I think the world of Aspergers and other spectrum kids would be vastly improved if people generally would stop trying to get them to "act right." Put away the hammer, stop beating the square peg into the round hole, and things will improve dramatically.
I'm looking at you, teachers.
The truth of the matter is that the public school teachers of the USA (and Canada!) collectively lack the ability to teach basic reading comprehension, basic arithmetic and basic interpersonal communication. We know this because the victims of their incompetence turn up in university year after year, unable to read, count or speak coherently.
Google is probably seeking an "arrangement" with the national teacher's union. Slide them some money, make another front in the Anti-Trump Crusade.
If the Republicans are smart, they will de-unionize teachers and eliminate the federal Dept. of Education. Sadly, I know they're not that smart. They'll try to Make A Deal, and get slaughtered. Again.
Are there pop cans lying around on the moon?
Hydrogen is stored in metal hydride powders inside the tanks, because the pure gas will walk through welded seams under pressure. Likewise acetylene is stored dissolved in acetone, because it behaves badly by itself. These indirect storage methods are industrial scale and common.
Liquid hydrogen has properties that destroy mild steel tanks and fittings by making them brittle. Therefore exotic and expensive alloys are used in rockets.
All of which is still "greener" than nanoscale aluminum powder and alumina dust released into the atmosphere. And easier than refining aluminum. Particularly in space.
Don't tell the greenies dude, they want to switch us all to hydrogen cars.
However you are incorrect. Pressurized hydrogen is certainly stored, its used as a welding gas and shipped in cylinders all over the place all the time. -Liquid- hydrogen is very difficult to handle compared to propane or gasoline. But compared to refining aluminum its easy. They have a huge tank of liquid hydrogen sitting on the shuttle launch site in Florida, its been there a looooong time.
And hey, when you burn it you get water. What do you get when you burn aluminum? Really abrasive dust.
I have an O2 cylinder in my garage that runs 3000psi when full. Welding gas, y'know. Every mechanic's shop has one. Hydrogen is also used as a welding gas, it is commonly stored and shipped in the same truck as the O2 cylinders. Along with propane, acetalene, MAP gas, etc.
Aluminum is -very- expensive to produce compared to liquefied gas. Its refined from bauxite by electrolysis. They put the Al refineries next to hydroelectric dams instead of next to the bauxite mine, that should tell you something eh?
Not saying it couldn't work nicely as a propellant for use on the moon or asteroids, where water ice and recoverable aluminum could be found. Thermite could too. Just saying calling it green is tripe.
Although I have to say, the thought of refining pure aluminum on the moon is PURE science fiction. Electrolysis of molten rock, hard to do in a space suit with a refiner unit hauled up from Earth, right? Electrolysis of the ice for use as a hydrogen/oxygen rocket would be easier, yes? Solar panel, couple plastic bags and a compressor pump.
In what universe is powdered aluminum "greener" than a hydrogen/oxygen rocket? Even hydrazine burns to an inert end product if I remember my chemistry right (no guarantees there), aluminum is anything but inert.
I'm rated troll now. :)
But on topic,
1. yes, samples come from somewhere but they don't escape to anywhere important if you crash on an isolated island. They do if you crash in Kansas. Or drop the sample box on the runway.
3. There's plenty enough people in the mid-west for an escaped bug to spread through. And isn't the point of a secure Level 5 lab to make people -safer-?
4. People will be expected to -live- in Kansas and drive to work. (Thereby radically increasing the chance of spreading bugs, btw.) No one will be expected to live full time on Dr. No's Pacific island. They will do rotations and live someplace where they want to be.
5. No, you didn't.
Isolated island good. Farmer's field in Kansas, bad.
Shazam! The governor of Kansas is ...[drum roll]... a DEMOCRAT! And has indeed been lobbying for this. Sadly the two senators for Kansas who have also been lobbying are REPUBLICANS, which gets back to my less government is better government theme. Two parties, both populated by idiots. Awesome!
Snake Pliskin says hi, btw.
Actually I suggested that Democrats are the party of more government, which I take from this debacle to be a bad thing. Only government lobbying and wheeling/dealing can create situations this infernally stupid.
If you RTFA you'll discover that the governor of Kansas is indeed a Democrat, but the two Senators pushing the thing are REPUBLICANS, which only goes to show that the answer is not having the "right" party in power. The only solution is to have -less- government, with less money to create dangerous situations like this.
But don't feel too bad. The Canadian super duper bug lab is in Winnipeg. That's a city pretty much in the middle of the country. Government funded assholery is international.
I bet you a donut the retard pushing this is a Democrat.
And Snake Pliskin is a rug in my den.
Let me count the ways its a bad idea.
1. All samples have to come from "someplace else" to the middle of the continental USA, where everybody lives. Plane crash? Car crash? Train derailment? Stupid screw up (oh that could never happen, right?) Your bug is loose in frickin' Kansas. The middle of the continent. Perfect set up for it to spread.
2. Any agriculture bug you're testing? You're surrounded by... agriculture! Better hope you don't have a test tube break.
3. People live right outside. See #2.
4. How many super duper Level 5 trained people want to move to Cow's Butt, Kansas?
5. Almost forgot, tornadoes.
I'm not even trained in this specialty, I came up with that off the top of my head. The little island off the NY coast is a -good- place. A better place would be an island off the coast of Alaska, or in the middle of the Pacific.
But hey, I'm "flamebait" for suggesting that this kind of stunning stupidity is BUSINESS AS USUAL for the f-ing MUTANTS who run the US government. Fire them all.
"Let's put the level 5 infectious disease lab right smack in the dead center middle of the continent! Then it'll be handy to all those farms and cows and stuff, if they get sick or something right?"
Behold, the bureaucratic mind.
And you Democrat voters want more of this, not less?
"Is it OK to send unsolicited e-mail to users in China, Iran, and other censored countries, telling them about new proxy sites for getting around Internet censorship?"
I think any lengthy agonizing over this question reveals the agonizer's ignorance of life under totalitarian rule. Anything which destroys the government stranglehold on information is good. Its actually one of the only legitimate uses of spam I can think of.
Well I wanted a tank, but it was too hard on gas...
Makes you wonder where the car maker's brains are, doesn't it?
Foamed metal composites are available, http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=1991/03578 and metal reinforced ceramics, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cermet , both of which are being used to good effect in the racing world. You'd think a foamed aluminum engine block with ceramet cylinder liners on a rotary platform would kick some serious ass.
Easy for us though, eh? If it was all that easy it'd be done by now. Probably like flying cars, its harder than one would think.
...I drive a truck because a puny Prius can't haul my massive member at highway speeds.
There's also the tiny consideration that the world is full of 18 wheelers and 3 ton SUVs, making little tiny envirocars kinda nonsurvivable in a crash. I'd rather live through a rear-ender than die for the ozone layer, thanks all the same.
Why? Because with 64 bit XP you have everything you need to run any CPU available. The only thing XP doesn't do well is multi-processor support, but this is not a big deal with only 2 cores. People don't care about Vista, it doesn't do anything XP can't do.
With quad cores and higher, the OS will have to start carrying some of the freight. Which Vista, as it stands, won't do.
So Bill and company better get beavering away on some super duper multi-threading SMP shit for the Vista Service Pack 2 upgrade in a year or so, or they're going to miss the boat.
The pessimist in me fears you may be right.
But then, is Windows Vista selling? Nuh uh. People aren't buying the crap, lots of people are looking hard at alternatives. Mickeysoft stock is declining. That's super bad for them, because they make a good chunk of profit every year from manipulating their own stock.
Intel, AMD, Nvidia etc., these guys lay out HUGE money to design a processor. If AMD comes out with their next generation and the sales suck because of DRM, they will take a huge beating. Their stock is $13.75 or so right now, if it goes much lower they are going to be in some serious shit.
Bottom line, if you buy a computer for fun and it isn't any because of goofy DRM, will you buy another? Nope. You'll buy a console, or a Wii, or hell, maybe a boat.
I bought AMD and Intel recently, when their stock bottomed out. Possibly AMD has farther south to go if they are going to pull this kind of crap. Maybe I'll sell it and buy more Intel.
Hey, AMD guys! People are not going to buy cripleware. Build the good stuff, or prepare to go out of business.
Not the transformer, oil cooling. Still, I didn't know Faraday invented the transformer. Figures though, he invented most of the basics of electricity.
I'm pretty sure Thomas Edison invented this technology for cooling transformers. Its been around for like a hundred years.
I'm no electrical engineer, but don't some oils have a better dielectric coefficient than air?
Neither is the ACLU.