Cell phone service contracts contain similar vagueries: While unlimited off-peak usage is advertised in bold type, the fine print reserves the right of unilateral termination in case of "excessive use". None that I've seen mention a number, but T-Mobile's, for one, states that customers who display "unprofitable usage patterns" will be terminated.
I thought of a thought criminal detector The day the US introduces any kind of thought crime legislation will be the day I move to Canada....or some other country where I can still picture chicks naked without getting in trouble.
Even so, wiki contributors still hold the copyright to their derivative works. In order to legally use a derivative work, it must be licensed from all copyright holders therein.
Homeopathy is the thought that the more diluted a substance is in water, the more effective it is.
No, it isn't. Homeopathy holds that in order for a remedy to be effective, its "potency" (level of dilution) must be _matched_ to the nature of the patient's symptoms.
In a nutshell: the more physically manifest and acute a condition, the lower the remedy's potency. Higher potencies (dilution levels) are used for chronic, systemic and/or abstract symptoms.
The highest potencies (zero molecules of original substance remaining) are reserved for purely mental symptoms, such as unusual habits and cravings.
>> Antibiotics [...] are drugs which are deadly to bacteria
Yes, and they _do_ come from disgusting looking fungi (molds).
>> And ayurvedic medicine is a term coined by con-men to
>> fleece you out of your money.
Hardly: The term as well as the earliest ayurvedic texts are about 4000 years old, predating any other system of medicine.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda .
That would of course be the keyboard that came with my original IBM AT. According to a sticker affixed to the bottom, it was assembled on June 5, 1987.
While hydrogen (H2) *can* be produced by electrolysis from water, this is not currently done on any meaningful scale as hydrogen can much more cheaply be produced from natural gas (CH4).
The reaction CH4 + 2 H2O ==> 4 H2 + CO2
is exothermic, meaning it releases more energy than it consumes. Yes, the process does employ a catalyst (platinum, IIRC) - but if you look up the definition of a catalyst, you will see that it by definition is not consumed in the process.
If we look at coal prices, we see that indeed they have fallen steadily [doe.gov] over time and are projected to continue falling [doe.gov] for the next few decades.
The price of coal does not have a meaningful impact on the cost of producing power at a coal-fired power plant. For starters, the freight charges on that $35 ton of coal can easily exceed $100 per ton, depending on distance. But the real big bucks are spent on environmental compliance - i.e., upgrading and maintaining "scrubbers" and such.
The Tesla system for electric power distribution is about as practical as
Need I remind you that Tesla was called crazy by Edison and other critics when he first proposed Alternaticn Current?
It seems likely (or at least can't be ruled out) that Tesla's later inventions aren't fully appreciated because noone alive today understands them well enough.
Well...the real reason this technology has not been persued any further is, of couse, that Tesla didn't have an answer to one simple question from Edison: "Where do you put the meter?
Re:Tesla suggested this *long* before Fuller
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They were supposed to have protection systems to prevent a cascade failure like this. Making the protection systems fancier isn't going to help too much if they don't install/maintain them properly.
I fully agree that space exploration is worth dying for. But making death seem funny is a tricky matter, requiring - I think - a lot more absurdity than you put into it. Here, let me give it a try:
July 20, 2008 4:17 PM
New record breaking moon crater
Seven hours before its scheduled moon landing, the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-I
was forced to shut down its flight control systems when SCO revoked its license to run Linux.
Attempting to boot Windows 2009, the crew
experienced a general protection fault and remained on hold with tech support in Bangalore for 5 hours and 23 minutes while support personnel dealt with callers from the US who were having trouble installing the newly released Service Pack 19 for SuckOS on their MicroSoft vacuum cleaners.
Once their call was finally accepted, the crew unfortunately had just enough time to give their license and billing information before their ship collided with the lunar surface,
creating the largest artificial moon crater to date, 60 meters in diameter and approximately 200 meters deep. In honor of its creators, the new lunar surface feature - easiliy visible from earth using binoculars - has been named Darl And Bill's Hole.
October 1960: 91 people are killed when a rocket explodes at the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan in the USSR.
January 27 1967: During a preflight test at Cape Canaveral, Virgil Grissom, Roger Chaffe and Edmund White of Apollo 1 are killed in a cockpit fire.
April 23-24 1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir M. Komarov dies when the Russian Soyuz 1 spacecraft becomes entangled with its parachute lines and crashes.
June 6-30 1971: Russia's Soyuz 11 spacecraft loses pressurisation on re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere, and cosmonauts Georgin Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Victor Patsayev are killed.
March 18 1980: 50 people killed when a refuelling rocket explodes at Russia's Plesetsk space centre. The accident only becomes public knowledge in 1989.
January 28 1986: Six astronauts - Dick Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis - and one teacher, Christa McAuliffe, die when shuttle Challenger explodes one minute after lift-off.
February 1, 2003:Seven astronauts die aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia when it breaks up during re-entry.
More countries having nuclear ICBM capability is simply not a recipe for world peace.
I'd much prefer if nobody had any nukes, but living in a country that has its own, I certainly can't blame another country for joining the Look Ma, I Can Blow Stuff Up club.
Besides, I'd venture to say that a belief in karma is a stronger deterrent to actually using them than a belief in MAD.
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So help fight global warming by popping a cool one.
Umm...no! By your own logic, it's only undrunk beer that helps. How about filling your basement with unopened beer and selling the carbon credits?
...if they didn't know 'til the bankruptcy filing that it's time to abandon ship.
Umm...I think you may be confusing the words judge and superhero.
Cell phone service contracts contain similar vagueries: While unlimited off-peak usage is advertised in bold type, the fine print reserves the right of unilateral termination in case of "excessive use". None that I've seen mention a number, but T-Mobile's, for one, states that customers who display "unprofitable usage patterns" will be terminated.
Now you're making sense, but previously you said that "ayurvedic medicine is a term coined by con-men." That's like saying spammers invented e-mail.
Even so, wiki contributors still hold the copyright to their derivative works. In order to legally use a derivative work, it must be licensed from all copyright holders therein.
No, it isn't. Homeopathy holds that in order for a remedy to be effective, its "potency" (level of dilution) must be _matched_ to the nature of the patient's symptoms.
In a nutshell: the more physically manifest and acute a condition, the lower the remedy's potency. Higher potencies (dilution levels) are used for chronic, systemic and/or abstract symptoms.
The highest potencies (zero molecules of original substance remaining) are reserved for purely mental symptoms, such as unusual habits and cravings.
Yes, and they _do_ come from disgusting looking fungi (molds).
>> And ayurvedic medicine is a term coined by con-men to >> fleece you out of your money.
Hardly: The term as well as the earliest ayurvedic texts are about 4000 years old, predating any other system of medicine. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda .
That would of course be the keyboard that came with my original IBM AT. According to a sticker affixed to the bottom, it was assembled on June 5, 1987.
While hydrogen (H2) *can* be produced by electrolysis from water, this is not currently done on any meaningful scale as hydrogen can much more cheaply be produced from natural gas (CH4).
The reaction
CH4 + 2 H2O ==> 4 H2 + CO2
is exothermic, meaning it releases more energy than it consumes. Yes, the process does employ a catalyst (platinum, IIRC) - but if you look up the definition of a catalyst, you will see that it by definition is not consumed in the process.
Deep Blue was disassembled after its victory over Kasparov in 1997
Kinda makes you shudder to think what they would've done to Kasparov if he had won...
Seems strange that the Martians would hire us to build it for them - considering all the reports about their technology to be so far ahead of ours.
Oh wait, I know: The must want it for their museum of Earth technology!
If we look at coal prices, we see that indeed they have fallen steadily [doe.gov] over time and are projected to continue falling [doe.gov] for the next few decades.
The price of coal does not have a meaningful impact on the cost of producing power at a coal-fired power plant. For starters, the freight charges on that $35 ton of coal can easily exceed $100 per ton, depending on distance. But the real big bucks are spent on environmental compliance - i.e., upgrading and maintaining "scrubbers" and such.
The Tesla system for electric power distribution is about as practical as
Need I remind you that Tesla was called crazy by Edison and other critics when he first proposed Alternaticn Current?
It seems likely (or at least can't be ruled out) that Tesla's later inventions aren't fully appreciated because noone alive today understands them well enough.
Well...the real reason this technology has not been persued any further is, of couse, that Tesla didn't have an answer to one simple question from Edison: "Where do you put the meter?
Here's another link to info on Tesla's wirless power transmission technology, and a gooogle search.
Nikola Tesla suggested a *wireless* worldwide power grid around (IIRC) 50 years earlier, and demonstrated the technology to make it posssible.
I wrote:
:-)
>> >> I fully agree that space exploration is worth dying for.
You wrote:
>> Huh ?
>> I can't think of anything else that is worth dying for than freedom.
You mean as in freedom from gravity?
Seriously, I doubt that any of the astronauts who died in accidents would express any regret about their career choice if we were able to ask them.
They were supposed to have protection systems to prevent a cascade failure like this. Making the protection systems fancier isn't going to help too much if they don't install/maintain them properly.
Actually, the primary purpose of the protection systems in place is to prevent grid trouble from physically destroying generators, transformers, transmission lines and other infrastructure hardware. And they worked, otherwise it would have taken weeks rather than hours to get the grid up again. IIRC, in the blackout of 1965>, major infrastructure damage resulted from a grid collapse and it was from this experince that many of the currently implemeted ideas were learned.
I fully agree that space exploration is worth dying for. But making death seem funny is a tricky matter, requiring - I think - a lot more absurdity than you put into it. Here, let me give it a try:
July 20, 2008 4:17 PM
New record breaking moon crater
Seven hours before its scheduled moon landing, the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-I was forced to shut down its flight control systems when SCO revoked its license to run Linux. Attempting to boot Windows 2009, the crew experienced a general protection fault and remained on hold with tech support in Bangalore for 5 hours and 23 minutes while support personnel dealt with callers from the US who were having trouble installing the newly released Service Pack 19 for SuckOS on their MicroSoft vacuum cleaners.
Once their call was finally accepted, the crew unfortunately had just enough time to give their license and billing information before their ship collided with the lunar surface, creating the largest artificial moon crater to date, 60 meters in diameter and approximately 200 meters deep. In honor of its creators, the new lunar surface feature - easiliy visible from earth using binoculars - has been named Darl And Bill's Hole.
October 1960: 91 people are killed when a rocket explodes at the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan in the USSR.
January 27 1967: During a preflight test at Cape Canaveral, Virgil Grissom, Roger Chaffe and Edmund White of Apollo 1 are killed in a cockpit fire.
April 23-24 1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir M. Komarov dies when the Russian Soyuz 1 spacecraft becomes entangled with its parachute lines and crashes.
June 6-30 1971: Russia's Soyuz 11 spacecraft loses pressurisation on re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere, and cosmonauts Georgin Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Victor Patsayev are killed.
March 18 1980: 50 people killed when a refuelling rocket explodes at Russia's Plesetsk space centre. The accident only becomes public knowledge in 1989.
January 28 1986: Six astronauts - Dick Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis - and one teacher, Christa McAuliffe, die when shuttle Challenger explodes one minute after lift-off.
February 1, 2003:Seven astronauts die aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia when it breaks up during re-entry.
It isn't.
More countries having nuclear ICBM capability is simply not a recipe for world peace.
I'd much prefer if nobody had any nukes, but living in a country that has its own, I certainly can't blame another country for joining the Look Ma, I Can Blow Stuff Up club.
Besides, I'd venture to say that a belief in karma is a stronger deterrent to actually using them than a belief in MAD.
They said they'll send a spacecraft to the Moon by 2008, not man.
Indeed. India has scores of mystics who walk around on the moon with their astral bodies every day, so that wouldn't be anything new. But bringing along a craft, now that's exciting!