A conservative is someone who DOESN'T WANT CHANGE.
So you are saying that the liberals who are against dismantling the welfare state, don't want school vouchers, don't want home schooling, don't want deregulation, don't want elimination of gun control..... are really conservatives?
HP's installation software for the 4 in 1 laserjet 3015 demands you shut down your fire wall and anti-virus software to install the driver. Can anyone say "SPYWARE!"???
When I took HP's indian tech support weenie to task for this, he tried to insist that there was no spyware (acting all nervous and flustered that I'd make such an insinuation).
I said, "Dude, I can see the packets flowing out my ethernet port as the driver is installing, don't try to lie to me."
He replies (in that oh so Indian way of speaking), "Fine, go ahead, jou won't be able to use dee scanner, but jou ken install just dee driver files." (huffing in exasperation)....
And you thought Dale Gribble was paranoid, I'll show you paranoid....
"Offtopic"? HA! Your writer (and the designer) brought up the topic of consumer acceptance, as if it's some paranoid conspiracy theory about japanese auto makers keeping this car off the market.
The fact is that nobody but a trucker would want to be responsible for eight tires (twice as much chance for a flat, you'd need to carry two spares, etc) and the costs of ownership would be twice as much as well with so many more moving parts. The designer of this car apparently never learned the engineering maxim of KISS, he merely assumed that two tons of batteries was a given necessity and took that assumption to its insane design conclusion.
A real engineer would figure out a way to not have to carry two tons of batteries to get the same performance.
A real engineer would realize that:
a) two tons of batteries needing replacing every so often is a bigger environmental impact that a little more carbon dioxide.
b) hybrid vehicles are superior because the power plant operates at power grid efficiencies all the time it is running (ergo you get the same advantage as an electric car) without having to carry TWO TONS OF BATTERIES around with you.
And most LED's are actually less efficent than flourescent lights.
Eau contraire....
I invented the electroluminescent retrofit kit for exit signs, so I'm a bit of an expert on this topic, as my competition in retrofitting incandescent exit signs (2x20watt bulbs) were compact fluorescent and LED kits. The CF kits ranged from 5 to 13 watts and lasted 2-5 years. The LED kits, my real competition, were 1.5-3 watts. My kits were 1/3 of one watt, though you wouldn't want to use EL lamps as flood lights.
Furthermore, LEDs, being semiconductors, had a capacitive power factor of about.65, while CF kits typically have an inductive power factor of.5 to.75.
When it comes to load balancing, the utilities like low capacitive power factors, but hate low inductive power factors (since most loads lean to too much toward the inductive). My kits had a capacitive power factor of.97...
There aren't many energy saving floodlights. Those that there are, look like crap, with annoying yellow light, and they don't last anywhere near as long, maybe a few years at best... The LED lights are wider spectrum and are more efficient than other energy savers. The amortized savings are significant.
a) you aren't compelled to get insurance (at least not here in New Hampshire).
b) if you are, you also happen to be using the roads of the people making you get the insurance (the state) (and if you thought that meant you were a part owner, or had rights, bub, that sort of thinking ended in most places before Roosevelt or the Russian Revolution...
c) to disabuse slashdotters of the idea that they can't access the same data, pshaw. Go to Autozone and get yourself an OBDII reader. There is more there than just your sensor trouble codes.
Ah - but I suspect that measurement of what comprises six inches will be as imprecise and inaccurate as it's always been ..and highly exaggerated by at least half the male population....
There are existing rockets with that launch capacity, it doesn't take long to get there, it's cheap, easy and we get to test the space elevator prototype. There is simply no reason not to do it in the next few years.
Not just that, but testing the concept on the moon is safer than on earth. Reading Kim Stanley Robinson's description of a sabotaged elevator on Mars in his Red Mars trilogy, if a lunar elevator failed, there would be nobody under it when it falls. If one fell on earth, millions could die.
Being an engineer, I have to ask: Why not turn the motherboard upside down, so the heat sink dips into the coolant BELOW the processor. Ergo, no leaks to drip onto the board, because the coolant is at a lower gravity potential.
Air cooled boards have the fins going up because hot air rises so you want to separate that hot air from the board as quickly as possible. With a liquid coolant, you only have to be concerned that sufficient coolant is flowing through the fins.
Ergo, you are back to a single point of failure: the pump/fan device. Maybe I need to get into developing one of these things to show how it's done...
Bill had the biggest, best, and wealthiest law firm in Seattle at his beck and call since childhood: his daddy's firm. Of course he's going to learn to wield his lawyers as well as any other business asset like a kid raised in a set of armor.
My own experience with the family, and the families they associated with in Laurelhurst, informs me that he learned that the art of cutthroat competition demands only two things: winning by any which way, and having an appealable protest when you get caught losing.
I've seen people argue in favor of getting rid of 911 because they don't think they should have to pay for something they rarely use
Ever heard the phrase "Dial 911 and Die"??? Even when you use it, it doesn't work. Get yourself a.357 and a bad attitude. You'll spend less in the long run, and have a better chance of living through the experience.
That the US electoral system is starting to resemble the miserable elections of the rest of the world because we've let too many of them in?
Why do we insist that voters be 18 years of age if we have to make the system simple enough for someone with a 4th grade education?
Who still can't vote right....
And claims voter intimidation/racism/sexism/elitism when someone tells him (or her) how much dumber than a bag of hammers he (or she) is.....
And that person has registered to vote 45 times....
Yet is a felon....
convicted of vote fraud....
in multiple previous elections....
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Any radiation you've got to eat to die from, the person eating it deserves it (well, thats a bit simplistic, but like I said, for the willfully ignorant...). Evolution in action. Keeripes.... I ain't their momma. They can wipe their own behinds, can't they?
Got sick of seeing this ignorant bogosity when Michio Kaku was protesting the launch of the Cassini cause it has RTGs on it. Gimme a freakin break. You got more chance of gettin hit by an asteroid.
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The point is, no, it isn't. 238 is stable. It's 235 that is unstable... U238 makes up 99+% of all uranium in existence. It is very stable: i.e. it's half live is 4.46 billion years, longer than the planet Earth has existed. While yes, technically it does release an extremely SMALL amount of radiation (as ALL elements do) the long half life means that this level is extremely small, far less than the carbon-14 in your bones. You get more radiation from the exhaust of the Honda in front of you in traffic. You get more radiation from playing with a glow in the dark frisbee. You get more radiation from digging in your garden. Grow up, and, BTW, U238's radiation is all alpha particles.....
For the purposely ignorant, its the gammas that hurt.
Typical ignorance of a whiner.
You CAN vote as a felon as soon as you leave the pen in all but 14 states. THOSE 14 states reqire the following:
a) that you finish your parole/probation, pay any fines (that is part of your punishment too, not just your incarceration),
and
b) petition the court for relief of civil disability. The court will review your behavior in the pen and on probation/parole and decide whether you deserve to receive your right to vote back or whether you have some additional re-civilizing to do.
Buy an SR-71 on the surplus market. Build a replica of the HL-20 (the ISS lifeboat) and put it in orbit with an Inertial Upper Stage, launched at 80,000 feet and Mach 3 by the Blackbird.
Recall the Blackbird was built to launch a drone from it's back...
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spent Uranium has been processed so all the useful radioactive isotopes have been removed. Engineers like it cause it is heavier than lead, not as malleable, so it doesn't wear and/or deform as easily. It is used as ballast. That is all. Get over it.
"This is one of those items that -- although wrong in many of its details -- isn't exactly false in an overall sense and is perhaps more fairly labelled as "True, but for trivial and unremarkable reasons.""
One more snopes snob who slips up and makes himself look like a horses a$$. Gee, shall we design a spaceship based on HIS measurements?
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Fisrtly, a magazine is a magazine, NOT a clip. Anybody who mistakes the two does not have an opinion worth listening to.
30 round clips do not and have never existed.
Tell me, exactly HOW MANY criminals happen to obey gun control laws?
How can you tell the difference between a criminal with a gun and a law abiding citizen with a gun? One is committing a crime, and the other is not.
Exactly how many crimes are committed with 'assault weapons' (more properly termed "ugly guns" because the aesthetic standards that define an 'assault weapon' have nothing to do with their utility or prevalence in committing 'assaults')??? About 1%.
The reason the debate is paralyzed is because the anti-gun people are so willfully ignorant about guns that their rationale and knowledge is so weak and irrational that they make absolutely no sense to any gun owner. This is demonstrated by the inability of anti-gunners to be able to tell the difference between a magazine and a clip....
Why do you want to help others? Because at some time in your childhood, people you respected told you that helping others was the right thing to do. You are now programmed, and get self satisfaction from doing so, even subconciously, especially subconciously, as much as a pavlovian dog salivates unknowlingly at the ring of a bell. It is a reflex, programmed into you, that you perform without knowing why sometimes.
And denying a selfish purpose is also programmed, because you were taught that selfishness is wrong too. You'll deny it to your grave, and feel guilty and bad if you start suspecting that I am right.
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So you are saying that the liberals who are against dismantling the welfare state, don't want school vouchers, don't want home schooling, don't want deregulation, don't want elimination of gun control..... are really conservatives?
When I took HP's indian tech support weenie to task for this, he tried to insist that there was no spyware (acting all nervous and flustered that I'd make such an insinuation).
I said, "Dude, I can see the packets flowing out my ethernet port as the driver is installing, don't try to lie to me."
He replies (in that oh so Indian way of speaking), "Fine, go ahead, jou won't be able to use dee scanner, but jou ken install just dee driver files." (huffing in exasperation)....
And you thought Dale Gribble was paranoid, I'll show you paranoid....
The fact is that nobody but a trucker would want to be responsible for eight tires (twice as much chance for a flat, you'd need to carry two spares, etc) and the costs of ownership would be twice as much as well with so many more moving parts. The designer of this car apparently never learned the engineering maxim of KISS, he merely assumed that two tons of batteries was a given necessity and took that assumption to its insane design conclusion.
A real engineer would figure out a way to not have to carry two tons of batteries to get the same performance.
A real engineer would realize that:
a) two tons of batteries needing replacing every so often is a bigger environmental impact that a little more carbon dioxide.
b) hybrid vehicles are superior because the power plant operates at power grid efficiencies all the time it is running (ergo you get the same advantage as an electric car) without having to carry TWO TONS OF BATTERIES around with you.
Imagine getting an alignment for that eight wheeled beast ...
I invented the electroluminescent retrofit kit for exit signs, so I'm a bit of an expert on this topic, as my competition in retrofitting incandescent exit signs (2x20watt bulbs) were compact fluorescent and LED kits. The CF kits ranged from 5 to 13 watts and lasted 2-5 years. The LED kits, my real competition, were 1.5-3 watts. My kits were 1/3 of one watt, though you wouldn't want to use EL lamps as flood lights.
Furthermore, LEDs, being semiconductors, had a capacitive power factor of about .65, while CF kits typically have an inductive power factor of .5 to .75.
When it comes to load balancing, the utilities like low capacitive power factors, but hate low inductive power factors (since most loads lean to too much toward the inductive). My kits had a capacitive power factor of .97...
There aren't many energy saving floodlights. Those that there are, look like crap, with annoying yellow light, and they don't last anywhere near as long, maybe a few years at best... The LED lights are wider spectrum and are more efficient than other energy savers. The amortized savings are significant.
b) if you are, you also happen to be using the roads of the people making you get the insurance (the state) (and if you thought that meant you were a part owner, or had rights, bub, that sort of thinking ended in most places before Roosevelt or the Russian Revolution...
c) to disabuse slashdotters of the idea that they can't access the same data, pshaw. Go to Autozone and get yourself an OBDII reader. There is more there than just your sensor trouble codes.
Ah - but I suspect that measurement of what comprises six inches will be as imprecise and inaccurate as it's always been
..and highly exaggerated by at least half the male population....
There are existing rockets with that launch capacity, it doesn't take long to get there, it's cheap, easy and we get to test the space elevator prototype. There is simply no reason not to do it in the next few years.
Not just that, but testing the concept on the moon is safer than on earth. Reading Kim Stanley Robinson's description of a sabotaged elevator on Mars in his Red Mars trilogy, if a lunar elevator failed, there would be nobody under it when it falls. If one fell on earth, millions could die.
Air cooled boards have the fins going up because hot air rises so you want to separate that hot air from the board as quickly as possible. With a liquid coolant, you only have to be concerned that sufficient coolant is flowing through the fins.
Ergo, you are back to a single point of failure: the pump/fan device. Maybe I need to get into developing one of these things to show how it's done...
My own experience with the family, and the families they associated with in Laurelhurst, informs me that he learned that the art of cutthroat competition demands only two things: winning by any which way, and having an appealable protest when you get caught losing.
I've seen people argue in favor of getting rid of 911 because they don't think they should have to pay for something they rarely use Ever heard the phrase "Dial 911 and Die"??? Even when you use it, it doesn't work. Get yourself a .357 and a bad attitude. You'll spend less in the long run, and have a better chance of living through the experience.
Why do we insist that voters be 18 years of age if we have to make the system simple enough for someone with a 4th grade education?
Who still can't vote right....
And claims voter intimidation/racism/sexism/elitism when someone tells him (or her) how much dumber than a bag of hammers he (or she) is.....
And that person has registered to vote 45 times....
Yet is a felon....
convicted of vote fraud....
in multiple previous elections....
Got sick of seeing this ignorant bogosity when Michio Kaku was protesting the launch of the Cassini cause it has RTGs on it. Gimme a freakin break. You got more chance of gettin hit by an asteroid.
For the purposely ignorant, its the gammas that hurt.
a) that you finish your parole/probation, pay any fines (that is part of your punishment too, not just your incarceration),
and
b) petition the court for relief of civil disability. The court will review your behavior in the pen and on probation/parole and decide whether you deserve to receive your right to vote back or whether you have some additional re-civilizing to do.
Buy an SR-71 on the surplus market. Build a replica of the HL-20 (the ISS lifeboat) and put it in orbit with an Inertial Upper Stage, launched at 80,000 feet and Mach 3 by the Blackbird. Recall the Blackbird was built to launch a drone from it's back...
spent Uranium has been processed so all the useful radioactive isotopes have been removed. Engineers like it cause it is heavier than lead, not as malleable, so it doesn't wear and/or deform as easily. It is used as ballast. That is all. Get over it.
"If a dead man can understand a Chicago ballot well enough to vote, it's not too complex to include 3rd party candidates..." - Mike Lorrey
I just shorted my Google stock... I refuse to help capitalize those who compromise core principles for a buck.
Time to censor Goggle stock folks. Lets teach them what censorship is all about, eh?
I wonder what kinda isp you could get outta that combination, eh? Mebbe you'd have to substitute summa da water wit hydrogen peroxide....
"This is one of those items that -- although wrong in many of its details -- isn't exactly false in an overall sense and is perhaps more fairly labelled as "True, but for trivial and unremarkable reasons.""
One more snopes snob who slips up and makes himself look like a horses a$$. Gee, shall we design a spaceship based on HIS measurements?
30 round clips do not and have never existed.
Tell me, exactly HOW MANY criminals happen to obey gun control laws?
How can you tell the difference between a criminal with a gun and a law abiding citizen with a gun? One is committing a crime, and the other is not.
Exactly how many crimes are committed with 'assault weapons' (more properly termed "ugly guns" because the aesthetic standards that define an 'assault weapon' have nothing to do with their utility or prevalence in committing 'assaults')??? About 1%.
The reason the debate is paralyzed is because the anti-gun people are so willfully ignorant about guns that their rationale and knowledge is so weak and irrational that they make absolutely no sense to any gun owner. This is demonstrated by the inability of anti-gunners to be able to tell the difference between a magazine and a clip....
And denying a selfish purpose is also programmed, because you were taught that selfishness is wrong too. You'll deny it to your grave, and feel guilty and bad if you start suspecting that I am right.