We must uphold the embargo. Its the only way small impoverished Communist nations like Cuba can be brought to heel. We must never allow trade with communist countries, or buy their goods. Except China.
I have one of these beasts at a summer cabin we bought about 4 years ago. I promised the kids that when I took it down they could try to paddle it across the lake. Well, 2 weeks ago it came down, so I'm bringing a fiberglass repair kit to fill the holes and then its going down to the lake!
I gave my kid a stack of classics and let her pick. Farmer in the Sky, Lord of Light, Hiero's Journey, I Robot, The Stars My Destination, Voyage of the Space Beagle, Galactic Patrol, Swords Against Death, The Dying Earth. She is now plowing her way through all the Vorkosigan stories, and she wants Gray Lensman next. There is huge selection of great stories out there, if your kids develop a taste for Science Fiction and Fantasy they will never run out of books to read.
Mr Crowley liked it, but I believe it is generic Satanism (not too sure, I'm no expert on sub-sets of Christianity). I've also read "An thou dost no harm, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" which seems a little more reasonable.
As if people don't have enough reasons to hate them, Microsoft has to go and buy "The Nazi Spreadsheet From Hell". Truly the most "Procrustean" software ever. I last had to use SAP 4 years ago and I still have the shakes.
I am a professional engineer in Canada, so I can call myself an "Engineer". I also write code that could kill somebody if it fails unsafely(*). My degree is in Electrical Engineering, so even though I write life-critical software, and I am for damn sure responsible and liable for it, I can't actually call myself a "Software Engineer".
(*)The software I write is actually not in the form of Von-Neuman type software with if-then-else, loops and branches and algorithms. I write equations for a state machine. This makes it _possible_ (but not easy) to rigorously test for all failure modes. As has been pointed out here many times, it is likely _not_possible_ to write non-trivial software in the usual way without bugs.
"The sun's a very deep gravity well, and it takes just as much to get down into it as it does to get out.
No! This is not true. An object, stationary in space, will fall into the sun with no (none. ZERO!) energy expenditure required. This is no different from earth's "deep gravity well", where I can drop any object I like and it will fall to the floor without any energy expenditure.
You are half right though, in fact it does require a lot of energy to get our nuke waste from here to the sun, just not for the reason you state. Our container of nuke waste is not stationary in space. It is orbiting the sun along with the rest of planet earth at about 30 km/sec. To get our waste into the sun we need to first lift it out of earths gravity well (achieve escape velocity). Now our waste is still orbiting the sun at 300,000 km out, so next we reduce the orbital velocity. As we do this we move into a lower orbit (ie closer to the sun). At some point our new orbit intersects the suns surface, and the job is done.
I hope George RR Martin is paying close attention.
I love his "Song of Ice and Fire" (The Dwarf, in the toilet, with the crossbow, heh.) There was some talk when his last book came out in 2 parts that he was starting to show signs of "Jordan's Syndrome" Maybe this will help him focus. (and get the damn thing written).
It will help some. A 75W solar panel is about 2' x 4'. Supposing you could cover your hood, roof and trunk lid you might be able to squeeze in 5 panels worth. OK great 375W park it for 8 hours you get a charge of (maximum, theoretical) 3000 Watt hours. The EV-1 at 45 mph consumes 115 Wh/mile. You have put 26 miles bank in the "tank". If you drive at 60 mph you have gained 18 miles.
I saw a better idea someplace. Build an elevated sunshade roof over your parking spot and cover it in solar panels. If your parking spot is 8' wide and 16' long you will get 9600 Wh which is 85 miles at 45 mph. You might now get home and back on a days charge. Plus the car is nice and cool from being parked in the shade.
Sorry if I sound like a dick, but pretty much everything you've said is wrong. Somebody else already 'splained the surface gravity being about 2.2g so I'll skip that bit.
Gravitational pressure? WTF?
I think you are confusing water pressure (which is equivalent to the weight of the water column above you) with gravity which is pretty much the same at the bottom of the sea as it is on the surface. I will also point out that life happily exists at the bottom of our deepest ocean trenches, 35,000 feet down, where the pressure is about 16,000 psi. The fishies down there are made of "organic cell structures" and are not "instantly crushed from the pressure". "How can this be?" I hear you ask. Because the cells are filled with water, which as you have stated correctly (about the only thing correct in you entire post) does not compress.
Can any of you web-designer guys explain why anyone would code fixed size text on a site (by fixed size I mean text that doesn't change when I use the "Text Size" control on my browser)? What is decently readable on my 14" laptop at 800 x 600 becomes unreadably minute on the 24" wide screen at 1920x1200.
Inevitably these same sites are coded to display a fixed page width, so again at 800 x 600 they fill the screen from edge to edge, but at 1920x1200 there is 6 inches of blank white screen either side of the content.
I notice the summary managed to spell "ibiblio" two different ways in the same paragraph. If they had editors here, do you would think they would have caught that?
Anybody remember Magic Realm. I think it took us an hour and a half to set it up the first time. Played eight or ten times but never ever finished it. Took a weekend off once to play; still didn't finish.
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We must uphold the embargo. Its the only way small impoverished Communist nations like Cuba can be brought to heel. We must never allow trade with communist countries, or buy their goods. Except China.
I have one of these beasts at a summer cabin we bought about 4 years ago. I promised the kids that when I took it down they could try to paddle it across the lake. Well, 2 weeks ago it came down, so I'm bringing a fiberglass repair kit to fill the holes and then its going down to the lake!
Just like David Hasselhoff!
I gave my kid a stack of classics and let her pick. Farmer in the Sky, Lord of Light, Hiero's Journey, I Robot, The Stars My Destination, Voyage of the Space Beagle, Galactic Patrol, Swords Against Death, The Dying Earth. She is now plowing her way through all the Vorkosigan stories, and she wants Gray Lensman next. There is huge selection of great stories out there, if your kids develop a taste for Science Fiction and Fantasy they will never run out of books to read.
No, no, you're right. I'm pretty sure Mr. C used the short form.
Mr Crowley liked it, but I believe it is generic Satanism (not too sure, I'm no expert on sub-sets of Christianity). I've also read "An thou dost no harm, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" which seems a little more reasonable.
As if people don't have enough reasons to hate them, Microsoft has to go and buy "The Nazi Spreadsheet From Hell". Truly the most "Procrustean" software ever. I last had to use SAP 4 years ago and I still have the shakes.
Can He microwave a burrito so hot that He can't eat it?
I am a professional engineer in Canada, so I can call myself an "Engineer". I also write code that could kill somebody if it fails unsafely(*). My degree is in Electrical Engineering, so even though I write life-critical software, and I am for damn sure responsible and liable for it, I can't actually call myself a "Software Engineer".
(*)The software I write is actually not in the form of Von-Neuman type software with if-then-else, loops and branches and algorithms. I write equations for a state machine. This makes it _possible_ (but not easy) to rigorously test for all failure modes. As has been pointed out here many times, it is likely _not_possible_ to write non-trivial software in the usual way without bugs.
Heroes of Might and Magic II had awesome Opera type music for each of the castles. I need to dig out my CD and rip those files,
"The sun's a very deep gravity well, and it takes just as much to get down into it as it does to get out.
No! This is not true. An object, stationary in space, will fall into the sun with no (none. ZERO!) energy expenditure required. This is no different from earth's "deep gravity well", where I can drop any object I like and it will fall to the floor without any energy expenditure.
You are half right though, in fact it does require a lot of energy to get our nuke waste from here to the sun, just not for the reason you state. Our container of nuke waste is not stationary in space. It is orbiting the sun along with the rest of planet earth at about 30 km/sec. To get our waste into the sun we need to first lift it out of earths gravity well (achieve escape velocity). Now our waste is still orbiting the sun at 300,000 km out, so next we reduce the orbital velocity. As we do this we move into a lower orbit (ie closer to the sun). At some point our new orbit intersects the suns surface, and the job is done.
That's bad. Okay. All right, important safety tip. Thanks, ac.
I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
"Frenchmen don't even have a word for entrepreneur"
I hope George RR Martin is paying close attention.
I love his "Song of Ice and Fire" (The Dwarf, in the toilet, with the crossbow, heh.) There was some talk when his last book came out in 2 parts that he was starting to show signs of "Jordan's Syndrome" Maybe this will help him focus. (and get the damn thing written).
It will help some. A 75W solar panel is about 2' x 4'. Supposing you could cover your hood, roof and trunk lid you might be able to squeeze in 5 panels worth. OK great 375W park it for 8 hours you get a charge of (maximum, theoretical) 3000 Watt hours. The EV-1 at 45 mph consumes 115 Wh/mile. You have put 26 miles bank in the "tank". If you drive at 60 mph you have gained 18 miles.
I saw a better idea someplace. Build an elevated sunshade roof over your parking spot and cover it in solar panels. If your parking spot is 8' wide and 16' long you will get 9600 Wh which is 85 miles at 45 mph. You might now get home and back on a days charge. Plus the car is nice and cool from being parked in the shade.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
When dad got his first stereo he set it up with both speakers placed side by side (touching) and the turntable sitting on top of them.
With 30 kilo Watts power I can move 150kg of moon rock in like 30 seconds, never mind 30 minutes. I suspect it should be 30 W not kW.
So the MPAA just needs to get Blu-ray/HD-DVD players from Arisia. Problem solved.
Hey. This is slashdot here, big guy. You have to use a bad automobile analogy.
OK I'm kidding, and thanks for the clear and thoughtful explanation.
Sorry if I sound like a dick, but pretty much everything you've said is wrong. Somebody else already 'splained the surface gravity being about 2.2g so I'll skip that bit.
Gravitational pressure? WTF?
I think you are confusing water pressure (which is equivalent to the weight of the water column above you) with gravity which is pretty much the same at the bottom of the sea as it is on the surface. I will also point out that life happily exists at the bottom of our deepest ocean trenches, 35,000 feet down, where the pressure is about 16,000 psi. The fishies down there are made of "organic cell structures" and are not "instantly crushed from the pressure". "How can this be?" I hear you ask. Because the cells are filled with water, which as you have stated correctly (about the only thing correct in you entire post) does not compress.
Can any of you web-designer guys explain why anyone would code fixed size text on a site (by fixed size I mean text that doesn't change when I use the "Text Size" control on my browser)? What is decently readable on my 14" laptop at 800 x 600 becomes unreadably minute on the 24" wide screen at 1920x1200.
Inevitably these same sites are coded to display a fixed page width, so again at 800 x 600 they fill the screen from edge to edge, but at 1920x1200 there is 6 inches of blank white screen either side of the content.
I notice the summary managed to spell "ibiblio" two different ways in the same paragraph. If they had editors here, do you would think they would have caught that?
Yeah, I must be new here.... sigh
Anybody remember Magic Realm. I think it took us an hour and a half to set it up the first time. Played eight or ten times but never ever finished it. Took a weekend off once to play; still didn't finish.