It's barely a rounding error in the nearly-$6bn budget, but individual departments don't care about the nearly-$6bn budget. They care about their own little budget.
The insidious ones now popping up are really clever IVR calls with recorded voices of a perky white woman (sometimes man) with a generic accent. She giggles, pauses, apologizes for the delay claiming phone problems and then asks if I can hear her ok.
Yes. It's only allowed to be used in the US.:eyeroll:
How big is the electric grid in Germany or France? Heck, why hasn't the superconducting grid in GB been extended? (I bet the answer doesn't have anything to do with a conspiracy by the copper mining industry...)
There is also a 1 km liquid nitrogen cooled superconducting installation... not that much liquid nitrogen either thanks to a good insulation.
Now just enlarge that by another 105,000 km and you'll have the US electrical grid. (It's really 322,000 km, but I'm presuming that less will be needed when it's superconducted.)
There's even an absurd amount of long-haul high-tension wire in the US. (The island of Britain is a paltry 210k km^2, but the "Lower 48" of the US is 8 million km^2. Keep that in mind whenever you wonder why we like cars and don't use passenger trains.)
your language is de-emphasizing the importance in the organizational information of the matter. akin to describing a car as a hunk of iron, carbon, aluminum, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen copper, etc. etc.
Because -- following the analogy -- I don't want people who have irrational fears of iron and aluminum to forget that... they blithely plop themselves into a big hunk of iron and aluminum multiple times per day and give it not a second thought.
the fact that we have superconducting power lines falls into the...
completely impractical fantasy realm.
From the Wikipedia article: a 600 meter long tunnel a 13,000 U.S. gallons (49,000 L) liquid nitrogen storage tank a Brayton Helium refrigerator, a number of cryostats
Now run that across 200,000 miles (heck, let's chop it by 67% because of better efficiency: 66,000 miles) of transmission wire: that's 2.3 billion gallons of liquid nitrogen, and certainly more helium than we have access to.
yes, but they compose the framework. the specific pattern of electrical activity i think is me. maybe. hard to tell. i think "you" are an ephemeral ever shifting pattern bouncing between your chemical interactions
Right. Chemicals. The electrons bounce around between chemicals. Lots of chemicals; complex organic chemicals doing lots of different things.
the question is do you want to do this colloquially or full on scientifically?
Are you going to say that we're physically made of something more than chemicals? If not, then there's nothing more to say.
You seem to want to talk about the interactions between chemicals, and electron flow between chemicals. None of that denies that we are made of nothing but chemicals.
generally speaking, do you think that a perfect modelling of your brain electronically, with the inputs and outputs of your meat-suit, and the instantaneous state of your electric fluxuations, would be another "you".
I'm sure that it would start out as "me", but start diverging immediately.
It sounds like a great idea, but when there are a lot of windows-with-sidebars on screen, there's a lot of horizontal waste (and I like narrowish windows for the same reason that newspaper columns are narrow: it's easier for the eyes to focus and read that way).
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It's barely a rounding error in the nearly-$6bn budget, but individual departments don't care about the nearly-$6bn budget. They care about their own little budget.
Working in IT, I'm not too thrilled by this, but that one statement shows a complete lack of thought.
To paraphrase not-Everett Dirksen, "A tenth of a percent here, a tenth of a percent there, pretty soon you're talking real savings."
Were I in Trinidad, your comment would be valid. Shockingly, I'm not in Trinidad.
The insidious ones now popping up are really clever IVR calls with recorded voices of a perky white woman (sometimes man) with a generic accent. She giggles, pauses, apologizes for the delay claiming phone problems and then asks if I can hear her ok.
Irrelevant.
when people say chemicals, i think most of them just mean synthetics.
Exactly. But you need to remind them that there actually are chemicals in that herbal remedy they're taking.
Yes. It's only allowed to be used in the US. :eyeroll:
How big is the electric grid in Germany or France? Heck, why hasn't the superconducting grid in GB been extended? (I bet the answer doesn't have anything to do with a conspiracy by the copper mining industry...)
No helium was needed
Good!
There is also a 1 km liquid nitrogen cooled superconducting installation ... not that much liquid nitrogen either thanks to a good insulation.
Now just enlarge that by another 105,000 km and you'll have the US electrical grid. (It's really 322,000 km, but I'm presuming that less will be needed when it's superconducted.)
There's even an absurd amount of long-haul high-tension wire in the US. (The island of Britain is a paltry 210k km^2, but the "Lower 48" of the US is 8 million km^2. Keep that in mind whenever you wonder why we like cars and don't use passenger trains.)
your language is de-emphasizing the importance in the organizational information of the matter. akin to describing a car as a hunk of iron, carbon, aluminum, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen copper, etc. etc.
Because -- following the analogy -- I don't want people who have irrational fears of iron and aluminum to forget that... they blithely plop themselves into a big hunk of iron and aluminum multiple times per day and give it not a second thought.
the fact that we have superconducting power lines falls into the ...
completely impractical fantasy realm.
From the Wikipedia article:
a 600 meter long tunnel
a 13,000 U.S. gallons (49,000 L) liquid nitrogen storage tank
a Brayton Helium refrigerator,
a number of cryostats
Now run that across 200,000 miles (heck, let's chop it by 67% because of better efficiency: 66,000 miles) of transmission wire: that's 2.3 billion gallons of liquid nitrogen, and certainly more helium than we have access to.
i'd be more comfortable with molecules and atoms. chemicals is a bit to ambiguous these days
That's doable. I don't like it, though, since it de-enforces the fact that we're nothing but a big, complicated chemical soup.
He (and his parents) should be prosecuted for that alone!
Deja Stwalley
But his conviction should be reversed for choosing that name...
yes, but they compose the framework. the specific pattern of electrical activity i think is me. maybe. hard to tell. i think "you" are an ephemeral ever shifting pattern bouncing between your chemical interactions
Right. Chemicals. The electrons bounce around between chemicals. Lots of chemicals; complex organic chemicals doing lots of different things.
the question is do you want to do this colloquially or full on scientifically?
Are you going to say that we're physically made of something more than chemicals? If not, then there's nothing more to say.
You seem to want to talk about the interactions between chemicals, and electron flow between chemicals. None of that denies that we are made of nothing but chemicals.
generally speaking, do you think that a perfect modelling of your brain electronically, with the inputs and outputs of your meat-suit, and the instantaneous state of your electric fluxuations, would be another "you".
I'm sure that it would start out as "me", but start diverging immediately.
the core part of me, my consiousness[sic]
Mind-body duality?
electrons are arguably more important to "who" you are, and chemicals to "what".
The electrons bounce back and forth between... chemicals. That's why nothing you wrote contradicts the statement, "you're nothing but chemicals."
I hate you for beating me to the Mystery Woman reference!
Guess what the parasites and bacteria are made of...
Must inform that you are loaded with chemicals.
In fact, you're nothing but chemicals.
does it run on Linux??
Pull your head out of your Libertarian ass and start living in the real world.
What kind of idiots are the people running this company? Do they actually think they're running a Mom and Pop store?
How many decades?
5? 6? 10? 15? 20?
Inquiring minds need to know!!!!
Which will be useful to me when the BigCo that I work for upgrades from MSO 2010.
Until then, not so much.
It sounds like a great idea, but when there are a lot of windows-with-sidebars on screen, there's a lot of horizontal waste (and I like narrowish windows for the same reason that newspaper columns are narrow: it's easier for the eyes to focus and read that way).
I can never find things in Outlook, Word or Excel 2010. The old style drop-down menus make it much easier to find what I want.