I know you're trying to be funny, yet pipes are tubes.
Besides, "series of tubes" is a relatively good explanation. I use the shrubbery (no MPSFHG comments allowed!!!) analogy, though, showing how to travel from leaf to leaf.
You'd keep it under your parka, even next to your skin. Anyway, it would be physically impossible(?) to operate with heavy gloves or mittens.
As someone said making a MIL-SPEC version that takes the "shake and bake" requirements into account would be very expensive and it would be as bulky as a brick.
That's true. Just being strongly dust resistant would be Good Enough.
... employees have to be told to disclose who they are and treat other users with respect, and not to give away confidential information is yet another brick in the wall of evidence that Liberal Western society is on the downfall.
That doesn't seem realistic, since otherwise no one could use one in 90% of the US in July and August, and more than that in the South and West, or the North and Midwest in December through February.
Afghanistan gets MUCH colder than that and Iraq gets MUCH hotter than that
Yup...
But empirical data seems to prove wrong your whole thesis (unless TFA is completely bogus or shot through with inaccuracies or journalistic stupidity, which can never be discounted).
the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
We've all had a good laugh at that clause but they may actually be close to breaching it.
Even a commie pinko bastard (like I am assuming you are) should be smart enough to realize that sergeants in the field with a rifles are in no way developing, designing, manufacturing or producing missiles or NBC weapons.
Besides, that EULA restriction is probably necessitated by law, since the computers which design such weapons need to be connected to classified networks.
Police would not estimate the size of the crowd, but many thousands of protesters were in evidence
They came out in scores, co-existing on the parade route with supporters of the new president and lining Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House. Interspersed between Bush-Cheney signs and Texas flags were thousands of protest placards, bearing inscriptions such as "Bush Cheated," "Hail to the Thief," "Selected not elected," "Bushwhacked by the Supremes" and "Golly Jeb, we pulled it off!" There were also plenty of R-rated signs, like "Dick and Bush" and "George Wanker Bush." One poster included a caricature of a metaphorically toothless Bush in the image of Alfred E. Neuman.
Others were not so diplomatic. At Freedom Plaza, a protest space along the parade route at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, thousands of protesters held up signs calling Bush such epithets as "thief" and "pig." When Bush's motorcade passed, they booed and jeered and yelled obscenities. Some held up middle fingers.
The space race leading up to the Apollo program is another.
That was 9 years, then NASA quickly merged into an over-engineered, sluggish beast that still managed to blow up the Challenger by not listening to the line engineers...
They aren't agile or fast, but my term, "hustling" doesn't imply either.
You seem to be thinking of "grindingly persistent".
I doubt investors viewed a nuclear plant that's completely shut down for the better part of 6 years for cleanup as a sound investment.
You're correct. Nuke plants must be designed like modern chemical plants, which are more complex than nuke plants, handle boatloads of hazardous chemicals and have high availability.
And the fact that whereas we use electricity 24x7, PVs are only useful during the daytime, and only operate at peak efficiency when they are new and on cloudless days, and lose a good amount of that efficiency after 5 years.
Steam (whether heated by nuke, coal or gas) generator plants, OTOH, work at peak efficiency for decades, 24x365, with over-capacity so that they can still generate their rated power even when some equipment is off-line for maintenance.
Also: electronics and electric motors need a relatively constant voltage and frequency, and sadly, solar and wind just can't do that. They can only ever "smooth out the peaks". Even then, electric companies need to plan capacity as if solar and wind generators don't exist, because people still need electricity during snow storms or when the wind doesn't blow.
crash nuclear weapons development project? IIRC, every nation which has developed nukes has similar stories of abuse and malfeasance by top officials.
Except the irresponsible waste handling at Cold War manufacturing plants Hanford, Oak Ridge, etc weren't part a crash project. They were just criminally cheap bastards who couldn't see 5cm beyond their noses.
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One of the defining features of the human species is that if you fuck with one of them, you fuck with all of them.
Then how can peasants and shopkeepers be so easily intimidated?
Or are humans also stratified into predator and prey, each fulfilling a role in society?
It's not pipes. It's a series of tubes.
I know you're trying to be funny, yet pipes are tubes.
Besides, "series of tubes" is a relatively good explanation. I use the shrubbery (no MPSFHG comments allowed!!!) analogy, though, showing how to travel from leaf to leaf.
Or team up, grab a rock and claim the top of the food chain.
That reminds me of the Will Rogers quote:
whether we are running _from_ or _to_ something makes a number of differences.
We aren't fast enough to run away from any significant predator, so it must be for running towards prey.
The intelligent design of life cannot be grounded in observable phenomena, and thus cannot be regarded as scientific.
Correct, because (pretending for the sake of argument that He exists) God is super (i.e., above) natural.
(I'm sure that verse is in there somewhere.)
You're thinking of Ecclesiastes 3:1-11. The whole chapter, though, is pretty Zen-like.
This statement holds true only if you use a very broad definition of "sweet".
And "almost as old": BR came out in 1975, and the 800XL much later, in 1983.
Or does that 8 year difference only matter to people born before 1965?
Afghanistan (cold end)
You'd keep it under your parka, even next to your skin. Anyway, it would be physically impossible(?) to operate with heavy gloves or mittens.
As someone said making a MIL-SPEC version that takes the "shake and bake" requirements into account would be very expensive and it would be as bulky as a brick.
That's true. Just being strongly dust resistant would be Good Enough.
... employees have to be told to disclose who they are and treat other users with respect, and not to give away confidential information is yet another brick in the wall of evidence that Liberal Western society is on the downfall.
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That doesn't seem realistic, since otherwise no one could use one in 90% of the US in July and August, and more than that in the South and West, or the North and Midwest in December through February.
Afghanistan gets MUCH colder than that and Iraq gets MUCH hotter than that
Yup...
But empirical data seems to prove wrong your whole thesis (unless TFA is completely bogus or shot through with inaccuracies or journalistic stupidity, which can never be discounted).
the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
We've all had a good laugh at that clause but they may actually be close to breaching it.
Even a commie pinko bastard (like I am assuming you are) should be smart enough to realize that sergeants in the field with a rifles are in no way developing, designing, manufacturing or producing missiles or NBC weapons.
Besides, that EULA restriction is probably necessitated by law, since the computers which design such weapons need to be connected to classified networks.
the gleaming white outline of the iPod may prove to inadvertently reveal the troop position.
TFA says the iPods are "sheathed in protective casing(s)" which are presumably tan.
I doubt they use extended temperature
It doesn't get that cold in Iraq. Maybe too hot.
components or water tight seals everywhere like a milspec unit would.
And it doesn't rain that much in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Would tiny rubber gaskets against sand be difficult to retrofit?
I personally love the idea of using something like this to control ... my wife
That's my kind of attitude!!!!!!!!!
I'm just not soldiers are the best target audience for such efforts.
But that's pretty condescending.
Now I am just waiting for the all-new camouflage edition
Except Iraq and Afghanistan are desert tan, not jungle green. You're on the right track, though...
I see this sort of weirdness as more indication of the haste with which the nuclear weapons program was conducted.
The huge nuclear power plan "swimming pools" filling up with hot waste is proof that weapons creation and waste disposal are asynchronous operations.
You must have forgotten the part where I was talking about the period after 911.
Anyone with more sense than a frog would have told you that such high approval ratings could never last.
Gore would have won the state
Re-read that Slate article.
Anyway, how could the NY Times be wrong? Aren't they always "right"? And what if it were actually the Sentinel that was wrong?
solar-thermal
???
Are those the concentrators which heat a pipe full of hydraulic fluid, which then spins the turbine?
After 9/11/2001, Bush enjoyed astronomical approval ratings.
Then you must have forgotten the vitriolic hate:
http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/01/20/protests/index.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0121-01.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/images/0121-01.jpg
The space race leading up to the Apollo program is another.
That was 9 years, then NASA quickly merged into an over-engineered, sluggish beast that still managed to blow up the Challenger by not listening to the line engineers...
They aren't agile or fast, but my term, "hustling" doesn't imply either.
You seem to be thinking of "grindingly persistent".
And the hustling continued for decades afterwards
No one, even during the Cold War, hustles for decades. Especially bureaucracies.
I doubt investors viewed a nuclear plant that's completely shut down for the better part of 6 years for cleanup as a sound investment.
You're correct. Nuke plants must be designed like modern chemical plants, which are more complex than nuke plants, handle boatloads of hazardous chemicals and have high availability.
By companies, to know exactly where their employees are, to see if they are doing their jobs
Yawn. Companies have been putting transponders on trucks for 20 years.
Not to mention ...
And the fact that whereas we use electricity 24x7, PVs are only useful during the daytime, and only operate at peak efficiency when they are new and on cloudless days, and lose a good amount of that efficiency after 5 years.
Steam (whether heated by nuke, coal or gas) generator plants, OTOH, work at peak efficiency for decades, 24x365, with over-capacity so that they can still generate their rated power even when some equipment is off-line for maintenance.
Also: electronics and electric motors need a relatively constant voltage and frequency, and sadly, solar and wind just can't do that. They can only ever "smooth out the peaks". Even then, electric companies need to plan capacity as if solar and wind generators don't exist, because people still need electricity during snow storms or when the wind doesn't blow.
crash nuclear weapons development project? IIRC, every nation which has developed nukes has similar stories of abuse and malfeasance by top officials.
Except the irresponsible waste handling at Cold War manufacturing plants Hanford, Oak Ridge, etc weren't part a crash project. They were just criminally cheap bastards who couldn't see 5cm beyond their noses.