That's probably the reason those are excluded as well. While the summary focuses on the Chinese, it also states that no foreign suppliers will be involved.
Also Switzerland != EU. While no one in the EU would mind that mistake, a Swiss person would. And a bar full of Swiss, well be prepared to be beaten with Alphorns and have hot molten cheese thrown at you. Also don't brandish any Apple logos, they use Apples for target practice. Did I miss any important stereotypes/cliches?
Not to be nitpicking, but check the list of experiments done on humans in the nazi era. I guess the already germans performed their share of horrors. Isn't there a nice country with a clean vest here who still needs to do their part?/sarcasm
Very interesting article that could be the base of it's own discussion. "Ask slashdot: Which scientific experiment would be worth performing if ethics would not matter?" Scary avenue to follow. Even scarier once you realize that some have already been done.
You seem to have missed the production part (aka photosynthesis) were CO2 is consumed. Plants use CO2 from the air to grow, so even if you burn the plant afterwards, you'll end up with no extra CO2 in the atmosphere. At most you'll end up with the same amount you had before. Fossil fuel (oil, coal, natural gas) is different even because the carbon in it, was stored millions of years ago and has been absent from the atmosphere for this time.
Hydrogen while producing "cleaner" emissions at the combustion location, does not have any net advantage in CO2 over biofuel. There may be some difference in the production process, but I have no idea which fuel source comes up better in that category (once optimized).
I saw an article a few years back where someone suggested large scale algae farming in tanks. The idea was to place these in hot dessert/arid areas relatively close to population centers. This way they could be fed with sewage and other similar biodegradable waste. No waste of farmland, cheap sewage treatment etc.
... and end up getting Christmas cards from the DEA...
Wouldn't it be nice if you could actually buy and send such cards to your friends? A heading like "interesting 'tree' you got there" comes to mind. What about other agencies like the CIA ("We know what you'll get for Christmas"), the IRS ("You're not planning to file this as a business expense, are you?"), the NSA ("The wrapping is pointless"), the ATF (well, the name is already a shopping list), and many more.
If you plan to use this idea and make money I'm cool with it, but then you'll have to write me a Christmas card.
Suddenly growing a lot of hemp/gras/whatever causes other problems though. Once farming fuel is more profitable than farming food, you run into a lot of problems - especially for third world countries. If grain prices rise in the US or Europe that's no big deal (especially if fuel gets cheaper at the same time), but for some African countries it could prove disastrous. So coming up with a bio-fuel production method, that doesn't interfere with food production is an issue that needs to bee considered. Algae farming comes to mind, but there are other options as well.
Exactly, there would be no need for new developments (on the passenger car side) - at least for companies that don't exclusively produce for the US market. The only difference would be, that ohter versions of the same cars would be shipped to the US. As far as I recall, most cars in Europe can be ordered with different engine types (usually 3-4 gasoline and 1-2 diesel versions, each with different horsepower) . Most new gasoline engines also can be converted to run on natural gas (mostly a second tank and new fuel lines) as well, but that's a different issue.
If for some reason (fuel price comes to mind) the US would decide, they suddenly all wanted to buy diesels, they would get them with only minor (if at all - depends on how suddenly) delays. The engines are there and are already produced in high volumes, cranking the production up would be no big deal.
One reason why I like the whole biodiesel concept, is that it bypasses the whole chicken/egg issue new fuel types like hydrogen or even electric (to a degree) engines face. You know, the part where no one buys the cars because of lacking infrastructure and no one builds the infrastructure, because there are not enough customers.
Well I'm not advocating this specific agency but
a) Companies will not publish incident details, unless forced to in one way or the other. It is not in their, or their shareholders best interest to be open about mistakes. The systems used are probably not unique and are in use by several other companies as well. So if a flaw/known attack vector exists, others should be warned, so they can secure them.
b) A single incident is not a big deal, but what about ten, or a hundred? Power is a strategic resource in this country and must be treated as such.
Well, who do you think placed this big red rock right there in the solar system 6000 years ago (*cough*)? No Mars, no crash. Simple as that. (No Earth, no crash would also work). That's the good part, you can blame everything on God.
The problem is we don't know the whole story. It might very well be, that the parents didn't even choose to press charges against their kids. A doctor might have reported the incident, they pressed charges on the one who provided the drugs and it got bigger than intended etc.
Let us not forget that a very serious crime has been committed. The kids probably didn't know and didn't intend it, but they might have easily killed one of the parents.
Once the police gains knowledge they have the duty to investigate and it is now not the parents choice anymore.
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That's probably the reason those are excluded as well. While the summary focuses on the Chinese, it also states that no foreign suppliers will be involved.
Well people do complain about the US shenanigans. A lot actually. Try reading foreign news from time to time (very often available in English).
Also Switzerland != EU. While no one in the EU would mind that mistake, a Swiss person would. And a bar full of Swiss, well be prepared to be beaten with Alphorns and have hot molten cheese thrown at you. Also don't brandish any Apple logos, they use Apples for target practice. Did I miss any important stereotypes/cliches?
If that happens, you probably got a heat stroke from the dessert sun.
Not to be nitpicking, but check the list of experiments done on humans in the nazi era. I guess the already germans performed their share of horrors. Isn't there a nice country with a clean vest here who still needs to do their part? /sarcasm
Now who is the Neanderthal here?
A few months ago Wired had an article with a list. Here's a link to a writeup about iton the web in the UK's Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8702999/Unethical-scientific-experiments-going-to-extremes.html
Very interesting article that could be the base of it's own discussion. "Ask slashdot: Which scientific experiment would be worth performing if ethics would not matter?" Scary avenue to follow. Even scarier once you realize that some have already been done.
Well for this "gun" the concealed carrying in public is mandatory except under special circumstances.
Moron. Alfred Nobel's calling. Will you accept the charges?
So the dynamite flinging zombies have risen. Prepare to fight.
Mexican food may help too. I pity the thief who enters the small train compartment.
or just leave your suitcase full of cocaine at home.
And what would be the point of traveling then?
In other words: The chair fills the asshole...
We all have seen some of the more colorful parts of the internet.
You seem to have missed the production part (aka photosynthesis) were CO2 is consumed. Plants use CO2 from the air to grow, so even if you burn the plant afterwards, you'll end up with no extra CO2 in the atmosphere. At most you'll end up with the same amount you had before. Fossil fuel (oil, coal, natural gas) is different even because the carbon in it, was stored millions of years ago and has been absent from the atmosphere for this time.
Hydrogen while producing "cleaner" emissions at the combustion location, does not have any net advantage in CO2 over biofuel. There may be some difference in the production process, but I have no idea which fuel source comes up better in that category (once optimized).
I saw an article a few years back where someone suggested large scale algae farming in tanks. The idea was to place these in hot dessert/arid areas relatively close to population centers. This way they could be fed with sewage and other similar biodegradable waste. No waste of farmland, cheap sewage treatment etc.
... and end up getting Christmas cards from the DEA ...
Wouldn't it be nice if you could actually buy and send such cards to your friends? A heading like "interesting 'tree' you got there" comes to mind. What about other agencies like the CIA ("We know what you'll get for Christmas"), the IRS ("You're not planning to file this as a business expense, are you?"), the NSA ("The wrapping is pointless"), the ATF (well, the name is already a shopping list), and many more.
If you plan to use this idea and make money I'm cool with it, but then you'll have to write me a Christmas card.
Suddenly growing a lot of hemp/gras/whatever causes other problems though. Once farming fuel is more profitable than farming food, you run into a lot of problems - especially for third world countries. If grain prices rise in the US or Europe that's no big deal (especially if fuel gets cheaper at the same time), but for some African countries it could prove disastrous. So coming up with a bio-fuel production method, that doesn't interfere with food production is an issue that needs to bee considered. Algae farming comes to mind, but there are other options as well.
Exactly, there would be no need for new developments (on the passenger car side) - at least for companies that don't exclusively produce for the US market. The only difference would be, that ohter versions of the same cars would be shipped to the US. As far as I recall, most cars in Europe can be ordered with different engine types (usually 3-4 gasoline and 1-2 diesel versions, each with different horsepower) . Most new gasoline engines also can be converted to run on natural gas (mostly a second tank and new fuel lines) as well, but that's a different issue.
If for some reason (fuel price comes to mind) the US would decide, they suddenly all wanted to buy diesels, they would get them with only minor (if at all - depends on how suddenly) delays. The engines are there and are already produced in high volumes, cranking the production up would be no big deal.
One reason why I like the whole biodiesel concept, is that it bypasses the whole chicken/egg issue new fuel types like hydrogen or even electric (to a degree) engines face. You know, the part where no one buys the cars because of lacking infrastructure and no one builds the infrastructure, because there are not enough customers.
Well I'm not advocating this specific agency but
a) Companies will not publish incident details, unless forced to in one way or the other. It is not in their, or their shareholders best interest to be open about mistakes. The systems used are probably not unique and are in use by several other companies as well. So if a flaw/known attack vector exists, others should be warned, so they can secure them.
b) A single incident is not a big deal, but what about ten, or a hundred? Power is a strategic resource in this country and must be treated as such.
I am not sure if this rant was supposed to be pro or contra gun control but it makes a decent point to double check permits to weed out the nutcases.
Capacitive nerf gun bullets for those who won't (or can't) be bothered to get up.
Couple that with a fancy bullet hole app and watching daytime television suddenly got interesting again.
Well, who do you think placed this big red rock right there in the solar system 6000 years ago (*cough*)? No Mars, no crash. Simple as that. (No Earth, no crash would also work). That's the good part, you can blame everything on God.
I guess that state would be locked UP - or strange maybe
I'm not sure what fan art for porno movies would look like, but neither am I sure if I really want to know.
The problem is we don't know the whole story. It might very well be, that the parents didn't even choose to press charges against their kids. A doctor might have reported the incident, they pressed charges on the one who provided the drugs and it got bigger than intended etc.
Let us not forget that a very serious crime has been committed. The kids probably didn't know and didn't intend it, but they might have easily killed one of the parents.
Once the police gains knowledge they have the duty to investigate and it is now not the parents choice anymore.
HAL Ninethrowsup