Yeah it is. We lost a house a number of years ago to a fire. The firefighters almost had the house under control, and the separate garage was also involved. They were focusing on the house first, and then learned that we had acetylene in there.... Needless to say they went from focusing on the house so much to the garage. In the end the garage made it, and the house didn't.
Well done hand writing is really quite beautiful, but it may be that since no one tends to write hand written letters much, or converse via letters, that the ability to write beautifully has lost some of its stature? It used to be that folks were judged by the recipient of a letter or note on how well the letters were formed. My parents and teachers forced me to write in cursive quite a lot, and already at 6 my son can write pretty well, but the cursive will wait for him for a few more years. Maybe if society put a premium back on it things would change. I honestly so rarely even handwrite anything anymore, that when I pick a pen up, my hands are shaky, and the letters are forced.. God.. I need to do some homework!
Sometimes the fine print has things in there that you need to watch for. I use Facebook. I like Facebook. It lets me keep up with friends who don't happen to be geeks and use it as their primary communication tool. What I don't like is not having an option on my images I upload to choose a Creative Commons license. I wish I could do that, although the TOS pretty much says once you upload to FaceBook they own it. And that in itself is pretty damn restrictive and maybe not really legal.
So please Facebook, just put all the creative commons license choices on there, and the problem is solved
Sounds like a pretty good defence mechanism. As far as the tree and evolution, if more trees are not being eaten that have the spiny defence trait, then that means the trait is probably going to be amplified. It doesn't matter that there are not any Moa's left, and 500 years is a drop in the evolutionary bucket.
Then one day by random chance a little tree will sprout that has smaller barbs, and if it survives might start a trend towards less pokey trees.
Something tells me none of us will be around by then unfortunately. I'd also wager the barbs help keep things like people and imported herbivores at bay as well, and until we go extinct maybe the trees will continue to poke when pecked, even if the poke is intended for extinct peckers.
Aerisyn has been here in my hometown for a number of years. They are expanding like crazy right now, and occupy space formally held by Combustion Engineering (Who went way to far into nuclear in the '70's and went broke). The facility languished as manufacturing jobs in the fair burg of Chattanooga went away, but Combustion had been around for many years, and during WW2 built ship boilers for the war effort. So, being located on the Tennessee River, Combustion had their own port, which is now being refurbished and Aerisyn and Alstom ( I think are going to share the port to ship stuff).
So it doesn't have to really go on the highway unless the tower factories are located in a place that doesn't have access to shipping. Of course rivers and waterways only go so far and sooner or later the towers have to hit the road.
The new Camaro has some design issues that really irk many people. One is the 'Joker' front end that looks like a big, stupid, Cadillac CTS on acid. The second is the rear sheet metal. It looks like the design team just quit, and it doesn't look good at all. The third are reports of super bad visibility, and a cheap interior.
That is why I love my Challengers more and more. They have the great lines of inspired design, and while there is always something faster out there, you can't outrun ugly. Here is a nice image comparison of a Challenger and a Camaro: Challenger and Camaro via autoblog. Yet to each their own. At least we live in a day and age where all three historic cars are available at the same time: The Dodge Challenger, Camaro, and Mustang. If you want one you better get one quick though. As the new CAFE standards are implemented these cars will likely go away by 2012. It is 1972 all over again.My SRT8 Challenger gets fair mileage. My R/T Challenger got 26mpg on the highway. I think the Camaro's are comparable. And thank you editors for posting a car story! I love cars.:)
Scaling down the use or throttling the usage during off peak times could be a good thing, but how much energy would it really save in the long run? It has been noted that data centers energy usage could double by 2011. Would steps like this really make a dent in that trend? I would grant that it might lower the curve, however it won't stop the trend of growing datacenter energy usage.
I don't subscribe to the "permanent energy crisis" argument. There *is* a "permanent political crisis", meaning that things like nuclear, wind, solar, biomass, oil and coal are all wrapped up in a NIMBY attitude that has gotten us to this point. I understand trying to cut usage, however electricity usage is going to increase for near term and quite possibly into the long term. What we need is more generation from a wide mix of sources to power our datacenters, homes, businesses, and yes... our lives.
The funny thing is this where cost vs. efficiency start working and sooner or later when the maths are right for companies and individuals bottom line higher efficiency will begin to be adopted. But it has to make sense for the bottom line, or it won't fly.
Before I get modded as a troll, or flamer, let me state unequivbacly that I support electric cars. However there are some issues that never seem to get discussed, like?
A) what infrastructure will be involved in charging a fleet of electric cars?
B) The staggering cost associated with the batteries?
C)The energy needed to produce said batteries. Where does that come from?
D) Supporters say that it lessens the cost to drive, but just as surely as electric cars come to market the energy or distance travelled in them will be taxed.
E) Carrying around combustible fuel may not be smart, but what about the jaws of life on a high voltage vehicle? Sounds nasty and dangerous, or even worse a two car accident involving an electric car and a gas burner. Sounds like a bonfire to me.
Maybe a better route to travel is utilizing hybrids that burn fuels like bio-butanol + cellulosic ethanol blends, or even diesels, or other synthetic or algal biofuels. I hope their research comes to fruition, however the green washing of everything is getting old. On one hand they want us to turn the thermostat up in the summer, down in the winter. Turn appliances off, and not build any nuclear plants, while on the other hand the tell us that electric cars are the answer yet to charge a fleet say of 100 million electric cars would be an immense load on the system.
Don't get me wrong, maybe one day the math will work out, and it is a good thing researchers all over the place are bringing a host of alternatives to near-term market place. I just hope we never put all of our eggs in one basket again.
And right beside Chickamauga dam is place that TVA insiders call "The Bunker". I have been in it, it has 4 or 5 (or more) floors underground ( I don't remember). Right after 9/11 I catered an event down in the bunker, no security whatsoever, and we got off on the bottom floor... it was nothing but racks of servers as far as I could see. It looked like something out of a movie. It is HUGE. We hopped onto the elevator came up two floors and got off on the correct floor. From there they can control everything in an emergency if they have to, except if some entity compromises their unsecured computers.
More about "The Bunker" it has bedrooms, conference areas, and a whole slew control panels, and server farms. The employee that was with me and I left there and on the way back to my business we were like "If we were the bad guys we could have just caused major mayhem. Needless to say I returned again a couple of months later on a job and instead of just walking in, I got a M16 clad officer at the door. I would think their security is likely better now.. At least I *hope* it is.
P.S. I hope they don't come after me for telling this.
Great! I love #space on freenode. It is a great friendly, fun and clean channel. I can't wait for Phoenix to land. Seems like yesterday that we were doing this with the rovers.
Come by for a visit folks and help us celebrate the landing, you won't be disappointed.
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Yeah it is. We lost a house a number of years ago to a fire. The firefighters almost had the house under control, and the separate garage was also involved. They were focusing on the house first, and then learned that we had acetylene in there.... Needless to say they went from focusing on the house so much to the garage. In the end the garage made it, and the house didn't.
Well done hand writing is really quite beautiful, but it may be that since no one tends to write hand written letters much, or converse via letters, that the ability to write beautifully has lost some of its stature? It used to be that folks were judged by the recipient of a letter or note on how well the letters were formed. My parents and teachers forced me to write in cursive quite a lot, and already at 6 my son can write pretty well, but the cursive will wait for him for a few more years. Maybe if society put a premium back on it things would change. I honestly so rarely even handwrite anything anymore, that when I pick a pen up, my hands are shaky, and the letters are forced.. God.. I need to do some homework!
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So please Facebook, just put all the creative commons license choices on there, and the problem is solved
Then one day by random chance a little tree will sprout that has smaller barbs, and if it survives might start a trend towards less pokey trees.
Something tells me none of us will be around by then unfortunately. I'd also wager the barbs help keep things like people and imported herbivores at bay as well, and until we go extinct maybe the trees will continue to poke when pecked, even if the poke is intended for extinct peckers.
I thought they being phased out?
Just make a nuclear windmill and the problem is all solved!@
So it doesn't have to really go on the highway unless the tower factories are located in a place that doesn't have access to shipping. Of course rivers and waterways only go so far and sooner or later the towers have to hit the road.
Would microwave + rectifier work any better or worse? Just wondering, I seriously don't know.
And yes folks this was a real internet commercial that GM pulled the plug on
Don't blame me!~ lol
Did you see where they were marketing the camaro to gay men?
That is why I love my Challengers more and more. They have the great lines of inspired design, and while there is always something faster out there, you can't outrun ugly. Here is a nice image comparison of a Challenger and a Camaro: Challenger and Camaro via autoblog. Yet to each their own. At least we live in a day and age where all three historic cars are available at the same time: The Dodge Challenger, Camaro, and Mustang. If you want one you better get one quick though. As the new CAFE standards are implemented these cars will likely go away by 2012. It is 1972 all over again.My SRT8 Challenger gets fair mileage. My R/T Challenger got 26mpg on the highway. I think the Camaro's are comparable. And thank you editors for posting a car story! I love cars. :)
The funny thing is this where cost vs. efficiency start working and sooner or later when the maths are right for companies and individuals bottom line higher efficiency will begin to be adopted. But it has to make sense for the bottom line, or it won't fly.
unequivbacly? Damn spell checker.. lol
A) what infrastructure will be involved in charging a fleet of electric cars?
B) The staggering cost associated with the batteries?
C)The energy needed to produce said batteries. Where does that come from?
D) Supporters say that it lessens the cost to drive, but just as surely as electric cars come to market the energy or distance travelled in them will be taxed.
E) Carrying around combustible fuel may not be smart, but what about the jaws of life on a high voltage vehicle? Sounds nasty and dangerous, or even worse a two car accident involving an electric car and a gas burner. Sounds like a bonfire to me.
Maybe a better route to travel is utilizing hybrids that burn fuels like bio-butanol + cellulosic ethanol blends, or even diesels, or other synthetic or algal biofuels. I hope their research comes to fruition, however the green washing of everything is getting old. On one hand they want us to turn the thermostat up in the summer, down in the winter. Turn appliances off, and not build any nuclear plants, while on the other hand the tell us that electric cars are the answer yet to charge a fleet say of 100 million electric cars would be an immense load on the system.
Don't get me wrong, maybe one day the math will work out, and it is a good thing researchers all over the place are bringing a host of alternatives to near-term market place. I just hope we never put all of our eggs in one basket again.
Not sure if there is bubble but one thing I did learn about during the Cuil-crash-and-burn-at-launch fiasco was a new search technology out of Cambridge that is in beta right now. It is named true knowledge, and uses natural language strings for search, and wiki style user submitted knowledge base in conjunction with a standard search engine. It is pretty neat and promising search technology that I found searching after looking that the shorcomings of Cuil. I highly recommend getting a beta account at true knowledge if you are interested in improving search results in a fine grained approach.
Should have listened to gandpa moe about the Geat Depession.
Goes and stands in soup line for 'M'.
Yes there 'r'. :)
Ubik? WTF is Ubik?
More about "The Bunker" it has bedrooms, conference areas, and a whole slew control panels, and server farms. The employee that was with me and I left there and on the way back to my business we were like "If we were the bad guys we could have just caused major mayhem. Needless to say I returned again a couple of months later on a job and instead of just walking in, I got a M16 clad officer at the door. I would think their security is likely better now.. At least I *hope* it is.
P.S. I hope they don't come after me for telling this.
Fire ants, Killer bees, Chestnut blight, Dutch Elm Disease, Sudden Oak Death (all invasive and here because of lax monitoring).
No natural predators I bet, and not big news until they spread out across the U.S and degrade the living conditions in your area.
The US should really have much more stringing inspections of container shipping. We can send a man to the moon but not inspect cargo. right?
We rely on cheap goods as imports but fail to take into account the true cost of invasive species control. It is huge.
Come by for a visit folks and help us celebrate the landing, you won't be disappointed.
Fine. Off to the gallows with ya. j/k ;)
China will ``welcome help and assistance from the international community,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a regular news briefing in Beijing today.