Replace the physical infrastructure first. Launch a communications satellite with private donations, those that donate get a set number of connections as per the amount of money donated. Make it invitation only. use high altitude balloons with a wimax type wireless system with no encumbering patents. Mimic a secure social structure in the process, cell based, etc.
direct application of solar energy would probably be more efficient if concentrated directly on water.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_electrolysis
This method would probably be a great way to purify seawater. If you had a farm of parabolic solar concentrators focused on a highly efficient heat conductive material. Run the material to a sheltered cove of seawater under a tower. Use solar energy (hydrolysis? and fuel cells?) to cool the top of the tower to assist condensation. Runners along the side of the tower could be used to channel the salt free water inland. Enough of these could irrigate desert areas such as baja california, namibia, northern africa, or the arabian peninsula.
Direct application of solar energy through parabolic concnetrators to water is the way to go. Any comments on why this cannot be used to create large amounts of oxygent, hydrogen, and desalinized water?
Wouldn't it be better to invest in renewable energy so that every house is a positive contributor to the grid that sells energy to industry? For example, cooperative developments that purchase micro fault tolerant nuclear reactors from hyperion energy that produce heat and electricity and push the excess to the grid.
Has been exempted from this ruling. Preventing throttling / censorship by ISP's is valuable even if it is done by communists. We can watch for any unhelpful moves from julius in the future. In the meantime I suggest getting familiar with and supporting the tor network for your censored / charged android communications. It's easy to get around paying for facebook by the month / pageview by going through the tor network. Now we know how people in iran and china feel. There is a tor android app available. Not sure if it is available on itunes however.......
Not sure if this is even useful as it is a derivative work of open office, and I haven't tried power point files or used it all that extensively but it has served my purpose so far. It might be something to look into.
I think it's because we are not looking at an object located at a specific time / distance,but we are searching all objects for the few that happen to be detected are at a similar vector from the point of origin as ours. So we are detecting things that originated at our location or a similar one a long time ago even if we were not there. Mentioned in the article is the fact that since we are able to detect this object which originated from that selected interval there must be a myriad of similar objects that actually behave in the way you describe.
Soooo.... Do they run windows? This is the greatest database to download. Imagine how much you can get for a pair of contact lenses that mimic Carlos Slim's retina's.
One more problem with this theory is that it is unsustainable. In the past economic growth was based on expansion in population, the more slaves you had (sorry factory workers, chinese, and irish as well) the more production your empire had. With the birth of the industrial revolution, gradually over time, increases in productivity have become more and more the basis of economic growth. If the growth in population is exponential, while the growth in production is almost exponential you get to a tipping point where your ability to produce goods requires almost no laborers. At this point capitalism fails as since you can produce an almost infinite amount of goods with very little (relative to the population) need for human workers. It would seem rather silly at this point to just let people starve to death and not get any music when the goods are available, but the work is not needed.
The fact that property of this value can be transferred without the owner's knowledge and he has to go to the australian government in the hopes of recovering full value for the home is shameful. You would think that a court of law would need to be consulted and signatures would have to be issued and compared, at least through the mail.
The bombing campaign in vietnam was limited because if we marched up to the borders of china we would have started world war three, not because of liberal protests. It was a calculated decision of the republican nixon administration.
There are a bunch of sesame street flash games that I let my kids use. Just get them a cheap / resurrected desktop with a sacrificial lcd screen. You would be surprised at how fast they pick up 3d games. My middle child was playing ddo online at 30 months, pretty well. Best thing to do is let them use a real computer you don't care about.
I can't believe this got modded up to five, it has to be the lamest metaphor I have read in a while. THERE IS NO CAR THERE IS ONLY A PLANE. We do not have two different objects, just two different ways of describing one object, reality. So it is nothing like what you are saying. Since there is only one object there has to be one way of describing it.
Why do spacecraft have to enter the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds? Can't we use thrusters to slide on in like an old school vet? I've always wondered that..... particularly with a craft with wings.? Match the rotational velocity of the earth or something..
What is to stop an eastern european gang to outfit mules in western nations with mobile "pay wave" clone devices that siphon small transactions off of peoples credit cards as they walk through large crowds in train stations, concerts, and sporting events and channel that payment towards bank accounts in a similar way that they clone debit cards and siphon money from atm's now?
My take on this:
God grant me the alcohol to accept the things I cannot change, the ammo to change the things I can and the inablity to tell the difference...
I am not sure, but I think that until the installation of the nation of israel in 1948 most arab countries had a far better track record than most european countries on tolerance of jews. The quran teaches that jews, as people of "the book" are to be embraced. The second largest ethnic group in israel are descended from jews who were refugees from the massacres in spain during the inquisition. They found refuge in the ottoman empire and were embraced by the muslim empire. What really gets the goats of both sunni's and shiites is outside intervention in their lands through the unilateral drawing of borders by the british, french, etc., and the imposition of foreign military in their lands to secure the resources needed to prop up western society. The jews are the "sacrificial lamb" of the west in this endeavor and have mostly been brainwashed through the religious fanaticism termed zionism. It would have been a helluva lot easier to carve out a piece of alaska south or juneau for a jewish state rather than creating the state of israel. I, for one, am sick and tired of spending boatloads of money to secure a fading resource and vote that we abandon all of our military installations overseas and use the money saved to re-engineer our economy to be based on something other than resources that have to be robbed at gunpoint from religious fanatics who are suicidal maniacs.
couchslug sorry this is off topic I just read your reply to me regarding the moon discussion that is archived. My response is this: Your goal is to learn about the solar system. My goal is to establish colonies throughout the solar system as soon as possible in order to isolate our species from catastrophic extinctions that can occur on earth. That is why neither robotic exploration or joy rides is appropriate. Establishing a self-sustaining base on the moon as a model that can be replicated throughout the solar system should most definitely be our primary goal in space. Our species is currently 10 minutes from extinction by nuclear catastrophe if some idiot gets hold of the arsenals of any of the great powers here on earth. Ensuring the survival of the human species far outweighs the value of any knowledge gained through robotic exploration.
The drake equation is a way to instruct people as to the vastness of the universe and it's implications through statistical interpretation on one of the fundamental questions of our time. As an instructional tool it is interesting. I don't think anyone really thinks that it proves anything. What is it about the drake equation that reminds you of total bullshit? Is it the statistical analysis or the use of data acquired through several hundred years of observing the heavens?
Not sure where I read it, but there is a similar theory in sociology to explain the lack of the wheel in the americas. The large, connected landmass of eurasia / africa allowed the retention and advancement of knowledge because of the advantages of transmission of technology and the ability to isolate disparate civilizations from each others decline. For example, after the fall of the roman empire knowledge was transmitted to the arabic caliphate through the byzantine empire. When the european nations were able to regroup the venetian traders brought the lost knowledge of the roman empire back from the great libraries of the islamic world. The invention of continental mobile warfare allowed Genghis Khan to get european bell makers and chinese fireworks engineers together to invent the cannon. That type of interaction was not possible in the americas because of the limited number of civilizations, and the fact that a disaster in the area tended to affect all of the civilizations, or to leave too few of them standing. Although this article is interesting, and they may be on to something, I think it may be too simplistic of an analysis, and that in fact there may be a set number of civilizations that need to occur in a group of cells in a not fully contiguous but accessible area that would provide a critical mass that could extend the lifetime of all. That would be more in line with what has been observed here on earth.
Calling someone who disagrees with you by a pejorative label such as denialism that automatically reminds someone of a holocaust denier is a way to label them and silence them. Such tactics are used to stifle debate and are offensive to me. Empirical verifiable reality is the fact that where I am sitting right now was covered by a mile of ice 11,000 years ago. Global warming, possibly man made, has allowed large areas of the planet to become more densely populated by life. The normal state of affairs for our planet is an ICE AGE. Man made global warming may be the greatest opportunity to increase biodiversity and maintain a stable warm climate that this world has had in millions of years. We need to do everything we can to keep the world warm so we don't abruptly come to the end of the SHORT INTERGLACIAL period which has only been around for 11,000 years and is due to end, according to 700,000 years of climate data from various sources that all agree that THE NORMAL STATE OF AFFAIRS FOR OUR PLANET IS A LOT COOLER THAN RIGHT NOW. Please go read some long-term climate data and keep up on your science. Dramatically reducing our C02 may produce unforeseen consequences including burying north america under a mile of ice. At least the polar bears could increase their range.
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Similar reasoning would also invalidate the worldwide banking system because bernie madoff and ponzi were able to pull off a financial hoax.
Replace the physical infrastructure first. Launch a communications satellite with private donations, those that donate get a set number of connections as per the amount of money donated. Make it invitation only. use high altitude balloons with a wimax type wireless system with no encumbering patents. Mimic a secure social structure in the process, cell based, etc.
direct application of solar energy would probably be more efficient if concentrated directly on water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_electrolysis This method would probably be a great way to purify seawater. If you had a farm of parabolic solar concentrators focused on a highly efficient heat conductive material. Run the material to a sheltered cove of seawater under a tower. Use solar energy (hydrolysis? and fuel cells?) to cool the top of the tower to assist condensation. Runners along the side of the tower could be used to channel the salt free water inland. Enough of these could irrigate desert areas such as baja california, namibia, northern africa, or the arabian peninsula. Direct application of solar energy through parabolic concnetrators to water is the way to go. Any comments on why this cannot be used to create large amounts of oxygent, hydrogen, and desalinized water?
Wouldn't it be better to invest in renewable energy so that every house is a positive contributor to the grid that sells energy to industry? For example, cooperative developments that purchase micro fault tolerant nuclear reactors from hyperion energy that produce heat and electricity and push the excess to the grid.
Has been exempted from this ruling. Preventing throttling / censorship by ISP's is valuable even if it is done by communists. We can watch for any unhelpful moves from julius in the future. In the meantime I suggest getting familiar with and supporting the tor network for your censored / charged android communications. It's easy to get around paying for facebook by the month / pageview by going through the tor network. Now we know how people in iran and china feel. There is a tor android app available. Not sure if it is available on itunes however.......
Does this apply to websites that show commercials on the internet because they are getting absolutely horrible
Not sure if this is even useful as it is a derivative work of open office, and I haven't tried power point files or used it all that extensively but it has served my purpose so far. It might be something to look into.
I think it's because we are not looking at an object located at a specific time / distance,but we are searching all objects for the few that happen to be detected are at a similar vector from the point of origin as ours. So we are detecting things that originated at our location or a similar one a long time ago even if we were not there. Mentioned in the article is the fact that since we are able to detect this object which originated from that selected interval there must be a myriad of similar objects that actually behave in the way you describe.
Will this help re-establish the ability of the printers in my office to reliably print the various editions of pdf's to 2001 standards?
This seems like it would be more applicable to powering a future moon base and manufacturing fuel for interplanetary travel there.
Soooo.... Do they run windows? This is the greatest database to download. Imagine how much you can get for a pair of contact lenses that mimic Carlos Slim's retina's.
One more problem with this theory is that it is unsustainable. In the past economic growth was based on expansion in population, the more slaves you had (sorry factory workers, chinese, and irish as well) the more production your empire had. With the birth of the industrial revolution, gradually over time, increases in productivity have become more and more the basis of economic growth. If the growth in population is exponential, while the growth in production is almost exponential you get to a tipping point where your ability to produce goods requires almost no laborers. At this point capitalism fails as since you can produce an almost infinite amount of goods with very little (relative to the population) need for human workers. It would seem rather silly at this point to just let people starve to death and not get any music when the goods are available, but the work is not needed.
The fact that property of this value can be transferred without the owner's knowledge and he has to go to the australian government in the hopes of recovering full value for the home is shameful. You would think that a court of law would need to be consulted and signatures would have to be issued and compared, at least through the mail.
The bombing campaign in vietnam was limited because if we marched up to the borders of china we would have started world war three, not because of liberal protests. It was a calculated decision of the republican nixon administration.
all the news lately makes me want to buy a blackberry.
There are a bunch of sesame street flash games that I let my kids use. Just get them a cheap / resurrected desktop with a sacrificial lcd screen. You would be surprised at how fast they pick up 3d games. My middle child was playing ddo online at 30 months, pretty well. Best thing to do is let them use a real computer you don't care about.
I can't believe this got modded up to five, it has to be the lamest metaphor I have read in a while. THERE IS NO CAR THERE IS ONLY A PLANE. We do not have two different objects, just two different ways of describing one object, reality. So it is nothing like what you are saying. Since there is only one object there has to be one way of describing it.
Why do spacecraft have to enter the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds? Can't we use thrusters to slide on in like an old school vet? I've always wondered that..... particularly with a craft with wings.? Match the rotational velocity of the earth or something..
What is to stop an eastern european gang to outfit mules in western nations with mobile "pay wave" clone devices that siphon small transactions off of peoples credit cards as they walk through large crowds in train stations, concerts, and sporting events and channel that payment towards bank accounts in a similar way that they clone debit cards and siphon money from atm's now?
My take on this: God grant me the alcohol to accept the things I cannot change, the ammo to change the things I can and the inablity to tell the difference...
I am not sure, but I think that until the installation of the nation of israel in 1948 most arab countries had a far better track record than most european countries on tolerance of jews. The quran teaches that jews, as people of "the book" are to be embraced. The second largest ethnic group in israel are descended from jews who were refugees from the massacres in spain during the inquisition. They found refuge in the ottoman empire and were embraced by the muslim empire. What really gets the goats of both sunni's and shiites is outside intervention in their lands through the unilateral drawing of borders by the british, french, etc., and the imposition of foreign military in their lands to secure the resources needed to prop up western society. The jews are the "sacrificial lamb" of the west in this endeavor and have mostly been brainwashed through the religious fanaticism termed zionism. It would have been a helluva lot easier to carve out a piece of alaska south or juneau for a jewish state rather than creating the state of israel. I, for one, am sick and tired of spending boatloads of money to secure a fading resource and vote that we abandon all of our military installations overseas and use the money saved to re-engineer our economy to be based on something other than resources that have to be robbed at gunpoint from religious fanatics who are suicidal maniacs.
couchslug sorry this is off topic I just read your reply to me regarding the moon discussion that is archived. My response is this: Your goal is to learn about the solar system. My goal is to establish colonies throughout the solar system as soon as possible in order to isolate our species from catastrophic extinctions that can occur on earth. That is why neither robotic exploration or joy rides is appropriate. Establishing a self-sustaining base on the moon as a model that can be replicated throughout the solar system should most definitely be our primary goal in space. Our species is currently 10 minutes from extinction by nuclear catastrophe if some idiot gets hold of the arsenals of any of the great powers here on earth. Ensuring the survival of the human species far outweighs the value of any knowledge gained through robotic exploration.
The drake equation is a way to instruct people as to the vastness of the universe and it's implications through statistical interpretation on one of the fundamental questions of our time. As an instructional tool it is interesting. I don't think anyone really thinks that it proves anything. What is it about the drake equation that reminds you of total bullshit? Is it the statistical analysis or the use of data acquired through several hundred years of observing the heavens?
Not sure where I read it, but there is a similar theory in sociology to explain the lack of the wheel in the americas. The large, connected landmass of eurasia / africa allowed the retention and advancement of knowledge because of the advantages of transmission of technology and the ability to isolate disparate civilizations from each others decline. For example, after the fall of the roman empire knowledge was transmitted to the arabic caliphate through the byzantine empire. When the european nations were able to regroup the venetian traders brought the lost knowledge of the roman empire back from the great libraries of the islamic world. The invention of continental mobile warfare allowed Genghis Khan to get european bell makers and chinese fireworks engineers together to invent the cannon. That type of interaction was not possible in the americas because of the limited number of civilizations, and the fact that a disaster in the area tended to affect all of the civilizations, or to leave too few of them standing. Although this article is interesting, and they may be on to something, I think it may be too simplistic of an analysis, and that in fact there may be a set number of civilizations that need to occur in a group of cells in a not fully contiguous but accessible area that would provide a critical mass that could extend the lifetime of all. That would be more in line with what has been observed here on earth.
Calling someone who disagrees with you by a pejorative label such as denialism that automatically reminds someone of a holocaust denier is a way to label them and silence them. Such tactics are used to stifle debate and are offensive to me. Empirical verifiable reality is the fact that where I am sitting right now was covered by a mile of ice 11,000 years ago. Global warming, possibly man made, has allowed large areas of the planet to become more densely populated by life. The normal state of affairs for our planet is an ICE AGE. Man made global warming may be the greatest opportunity to increase biodiversity and maintain a stable warm climate that this world has had in millions of years. We need to do everything we can to keep the world warm so we don't abruptly come to the end of the SHORT INTERGLACIAL period which has only been around for 11,000 years and is due to end, according to 700,000 years of climate data from various sources that all agree that THE NORMAL STATE OF AFFAIRS FOR OUR PLANET IS A LOT COOLER THAN RIGHT NOW. Please go read some long-term climate data and keep up on your science. Dramatically reducing our C02 may produce unforeseen consequences including burying north america under a mile of ice. At least the polar bears could increase their range.