Organic does not mean no pesticides. There are pesticides that are certified organic, see here.
Some organic pesticides can cause cancer. Others are extremely toxic to surrounding wild life due to runoff. Organic pesticides may require more applications than equivalent non-organic pesticides.
I am not saying to not eat organic, but everyone needs to understand what "Organic" does and does not mean. And that term is under constant attack by large scale commercial farming organizations to water it down as much as they can. And most organic farms are not owning up to exactly how much organic pesticides they actually use. Or even disclosing the use of such pesticides.
Because it take time for infants to get all the vaccinations they need. MMR first dose is not given till they are at least 1 year old. That is why herd immunity is a good thing and shouldn't be abused by selfish individuals.
Everyone who can get vaccinated, should get vaccinated as soon as they can. That is why a schedule has been developed and refined over decades of research and patient histories.
No, the court decision may have been 9-0, but there was a division in the court. The conservative portion (5 justices) said that attaching something to the vehicle involved trespassing on private property.
They left the door wide open as to whether they can track you in other ways. Like your phone location records that currently the government does not need warrants to get. Or automated cameras with license plate reading technology. Or automated toll plazas on the highway.
Total information awareness, Carnivore, what ever your want to call it. The government is tracking many, many US citizens with zero judicial over site, for extended periods of time, if not indefinitely. Various agencies in the US government are tracking as many people as their technical and financial capabilities allow, with zero judicial over site.
Alito said in recent years many new devices have emerged that track a person's movements, including video surveillance in some cities, automatic toll collection systems on roads, devices on cars that disclose their location, cell phones and other wireless devices.
"The availability and use of these and other new devices will continue to shape the average person's expectations about the privacy of his or her daily movements," he wrote.
What he is implicitly saying there is that the US citizen needs to get comfortable with the fact that the US government is going to track everyone. They just can't be totally blatant about it.
GPS receivers are designed to filter out the neighboring frequencies, when the neighboring frequency sources are satellites transmitting at power levels comparable to GPS satellites.
That is how that portion of the spectrum was designed and allocated. LightSquared is trying to use terrestrial transmitters at these frequencies. GPS receivers were never designed to filter out their signal from neighboring sources that are literally a billion times more powerful.
You don't know anything about RF transmission and why there have always been transmission power restrictions on the allocated spectrum. The spectrum allocation was specifically designed to prevent this exact situation from occurring.
Hey, you do know the difference between DEVELOPMENT testing and ACCEPTANCE testing, right?
The national alert system is a product in development. This was a test to determine what is working and what is not working. You can simulate and test individual pieces all you want, but until you get the opportunity to test the entire system, you have no idea what links in the chain are broken.
This country is full of fucking idiots that have no clue how engineering is performed. Just keep your misinformation to yourself and stop trying to make those around you dumber.
I am not sure if you have been to BFE US of A, but in most places, there is only a Walmart. That's it. There isn't a Target down the street. Or a local business, at least not anymore. Ordering online for groceries simply isn't an option for most people.
Those people need help. Those people need choices and they simple cannot do anything about their situation on their own.
You ever hear of a Thermos Bottle? You know why those things work so well? It because its one container suspended in a vacuum. There is no conduction or convection, except for the connection point at the very top.
Dumping heat in space requires a lot of surface area to radiate heat. Its orders of magnitude slower than conduction / convection.
Solar would be far superior because you could be generating power during the space flight over there with solar sails plus you could then have zero emissions.
Space is really big. Like, really, really big. You can dump millions of pounds of the most radioactive substances on the way to mars, it won't matter in the least. Now when you are on Mars, that is a different story.
Nuclear is going to require a lot of maintenance plus there are very noxious materials involved and the potential for meltdown is always just around the corner.
Solar panels don't last as long as a nuclear plant. You do realize that Mars receives less than half of the solar irradiance we receive at earth?
The whole point of this research is to come up with a nuclear reactor that is lightweight, compact and extremely reliable. Nuclear is so energy dense it is beyond ideal for space applications. The research being done now is to make these things as safe and reliable as we possibly can. We aren't trying to put Chernobyl style reactors in spacecraft and extraterrestrial surfaces.
Yeah, I totally forgot to bring up the battery issue. That is easily the biggest problem with solar on the moon. Batteries are very heavy and charging them efficiently is difficult.
So you would need a baseline number of panels to generate power during the 2 weeks of light. Then you need more panels to charge the batteries for 2 weeks, to last the 2 weeks of darkness. But due to losses of charging, you probably need double the number of panels you need during the periods of light, just to charge the batteries.
You probably need like 4 times or more the number of solar panels of your base, sunlit installation. Plus tons of batteries. And oh yeah, batteries degrade pretty quickly over time as well.
Solar power is hardly "readily available" on the moon, unless Bob's Discount Solar Panels has relocated their manufacturing complex on the moon.
Solar panels have weight. I am going to guess that the kilowatts per pound for solar doesn't come anywhere near nuclear.
Solar panels degrade over time. You then have to launch all new panels. The reactor mass for nuclear would stay on the moon, you just send up more fuel.
You're concerned about losing it on launch? First, launch it over the ocean, like we do for pretty all US launches. Second, these reactors are pretty small. You can put launch abort systems on them. You can encase it in a lot of shielding. More than enough to survive a ballistic ocean crash.
Even if you do lose the thing, it is a small reactor. It will have a limited amount of fissionable material. You could dump it in the ocean and it would affect no one.
What NASA really needs to do is put time, money and man power on this type of a spacecraft.
A reusable, multi-mission space craft that is basically a space station that goes from one gravity well to another. It should have life support, exercise facilities and plenty of space for people to live in for up to a year or more. You want to go to mars? send up a lander and ascent vehicle on small launchers, attach to the Nautilus. Then send up astronauts on another small vehicle. Go to mars, do your mission, come back to LEO and leave it parked up there for another mission.
If you can carve up construction of the Nautilus into pieces small enough to be launched by existing launchers, you can take all the budget you would have used developing an 130MT launcher and throw it into building something like the Nautilus.
You can lose it at the power plant, or lose it in and internal combustion engine, same difference.
There is a big difference. Granted, that while this paper was written by Tesla Motors in 2006, it does give some pretty believable back of the envelope calculations demonstrating their Tesla Roadster to be twice as efficient as a Honda Prius.
Either way, that paper is a good read and shows why burning hydrocarbons at the power station and sending electricity back to vehicles is the way to go. You can then start to supplement the power station hydrocarbon burning with alternative fuels, or more nuclear power.
I own a Dell m1530. If I go to Dell's website, I can find detailed procedures for replacing pretty much anything I want. Link here
So I don't have to buy any replacement parts from Dell. Or I could buy parts from them, its my choice. But at least Dell gives me more than enough information how to do it myself. Motherboards, keyboards, LCD screens, network cards, cellular data modems, hard drives, ram even whole cases can all be obtained from a variety of vendors.
Apple is a hardware company. They want you to buy early and often. That is OK. But I just can't stand the people that continually act like Apple is sealing up and obfuscating their hardware for the good of consumers. They manufacture forced obsolescence. Once again, that is OK. Know what you are buying.
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Organic does not mean no pesticides. There are pesticides that are certified organic, see here.
Some organic pesticides can cause cancer. Others are extremely toxic to surrounding wild life due to runoff. Organic pesticides may require more applications than equivalent non-organic pesticides.
I am not saying to not eat organic, but everyone needs to understand what "Organic" does and does not mean. And that term is under constant attack by large scale commercial farming organizations to water it down as much as they can. And most organic farms are not owning up to exactly how much organic pesticides they actually use. Or even disclosing the use of such pesticides.
Because it take time for infants to get all the vaccinations they need. MMR first dose is not given till they are at least 1 year old. That is why herd immunity is a good thing and shouldn't be abused by selfish individuals.
Everyone who can get vaccinated, should get vaccinated as soon as they can. That is why a schedule has been developed and refined over decades of research and patient histories.
No, the court decision may have been 9-0, but there was a division in the court. The conservative portion (5 justices) said that attaching something to the vehicle involved trespassing on private property.
They left the door wide open as to whether they can track you in other ways. Like your phone location records that currently the government does not need warrants to get. Or automated cameras with license plate reading technology. Or automated toll plazas on the highway.
Total information awareness, Carnivore, what ever your want to call it. The government is tracking many, many US citizens with zero judicial over site, for extended periods of time, if not indefinitely. Various agencies in the US government are tracking as many people as their technical and financial capabilities allow, with zero judicial over site.
From a Reuters article here
Alito said in recent years many new devices have emerged that track a person's movements, including video surveillance in some cities, automatic toll collection systems on roads, devices on cars that disclose their location, cell phones and other wireless devices.
"The availability and use of these and other new devices will continue to shape the average person's expectations about the privacy of his or her daily movements," he wrote.
What he is implicitly saying there is that the US citizen needs to get comfortable with the fact that the US government is going to track everyone. They just can't be totally blatant about it.
Oh really? Lets see if you are able to leave said area without being arrested or searched. Take your pick.
Troll much?
GPS receivers are designed to filter out the neighboring frequencies, when the neighboring frequency sources are satellites transmitting at power levels comparable to GPS satellites.
That is how that portion of the spectrum was designed and allocated. LightSquared is trying to use terrestrial transmitters at these frequencies. GPS receivers were never designed to filter out their signal from neighboring sources that are literally a billion times more powerful.
You don't know anything about RF transmission and why there have always been transmission power restrictions on the allocated spectrum. The spectrum allocation was specifically designed to prevent this exact situation from occurring.
That would be highly dependent on the presence of a third mammary gland. 50% hotter than your usual Jessica Biel.
This is the first time that I have heard about the remake. I clicked on the link thinking, "This is awesome!!!"
Then I read this...
Colin Farrel as Doug Quaid
Dammit!!!!
Hey, you do know the difference between DEVELOPMENT testing and ACCEPTANCE testing, right?
The national alert system is a product in development. This was a test to determine what is working and what is not working. You can simulate and test individual pieces all you want, but until you get the opportunity to test the entire system, you have no idea what links in the chain are broken.
This country is full of fucking idiots that have no clue how engineering is performed. Just keep your misinformation to yourself and stop trying to make those around you dumber.
Then don't buy stuff from Walmart, as many don't.
I am not sure if you have been to BFE US of A, but in most places, there is only a Walmart. That's it. There isn't a Target down the street. Or a local business, at least not anymore. Ordering online for groceries simply isn't an option for most people.
Those people need help. Those people need choices and they simple cannot do anything about their situation on their own.
Shouldn't that be 3x3x3? Or has someone has invented the two dimensional Rubik's cube?
You ever hear of a Thermos Bottle? You know why those things work so well? It because its one container suspended in a vacuum. There is no conduction or convection, except for the connection point at the very top.
Dumping heat in space requires a lot of surface area to radiate heat. Its orders of magnitude slower than conduction / convection.
Solar would be far superior because you could be generating power during the space flight over there with solar sails plus you could then have zero emissions.
Space is really big. Like, really, really big. You can dump millions of pounds of the most radioactive substances on the way to mars, it won't matter in the least. Now when you are on Mars, that is a different story.
Nuclear is going to require a lot of maintenance plus there are very noxious materials involved and the potential for meltdown is always just around the corner.
Solar panels don't last as long as a nuclear plant. You do realize that Mars receives less than half of the solar irradiance we receive at earth?
The whole point of this research is to come up with a nuclear reactor that is lightweight, compact and extremely reliable. Nuclear is so energy dense it is beyond ideal for space applications. The research being done now is to make these things as safe and reliable as we possibly can. We aren't trying to put Chernobyl style reactors in spacecraft and extraterrestrial surfaces.
Yeah, I totally forgot to bring up the battery issue. That is easily the biggest problem with solar on the moon. Batteries are very heavy and charging them efficiently is difficult.
So you would need a baseline number of panels to generate power during the 2 weeks of light. Then you need more panels to charge the batteries for 2 weeks, to last the 2 weeks of darkness. But due to losses of charging, you probably need double the number of panels you need during the periods of light, just to charge the batteries.
You probably need like 4 times or more the number of solar panels of your base, sunlit installation. Plus tons of batteries. And oh yeah, batteries degrade pretty quickly over time as well.
Or one small reactor.
Solar power is hardly "readily available" on the moon, unless Bob's Discount Solar Panels has relocated their manufacturing complex on the moon.
Solar panels have weight. I am going to guess that the kilowatts per pound for solar doesn't come anywhere near nuclear.
Solar panels degrade over time. You then have to launch all new panels. The reactor mass for nuclear would stay on the moon, you just send up more fuel.
You're concerned about losing it on launch? First, launch it over the ocean, like we do for pretty all US launches. Second, these reactors are pretty small. You can put launch abort systems on them. You can encase it in a lot of shielding. More than enough to survive a ballistic ocean crash.
Even if you do lose the thing, it is a small reactor. It will have a limited amount of fissionable material. You could dump it in the ocean and it would affect no one.
My first question is what do his parents do for a living? If they are working at Walmart or something, then I give this kid all kinds of props.
More than likely, one or more of his parents are in some technical field and have probably "guided" him to some extent.
Besides the price drop, I am sure a lot of the uptick in sales is due to DirecTV announcing the availability of the NFL Sunday Ticket Package on PS3.
Or "I RUV U!!!"
And yet you have a 6 digit user id....
I am pretty sure he is talking about marijuana prohibition.
What NASA really needs to do is put time, money and man power on this type of a spacecraft.
A reusable, multi-mission space craft that is basically a space station that goes from one gravity well to another. It should have life support, exercise facilities and plenty of space for people to live in for up to a year or more. You want to go to mars? send up a lander and ascent vehicle on small launchers, attach to the Nautilus. Then send up astronauts on another small vehicle. Go to mars, do your mission, come back to LEO and leave it parked up there for another mission.
If you can carve up construction of the Nautilus into pieces small enough to be launched by existing launchers, you can take all the budget you would have used developing an 130MT launcher and throw it into building something like the Nautilus.
Actually, its a competition between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich. My money is on Turd Sandwich.
You can lose it at the power plant, or lose it in and internal combustion engine, same difference.
There is a big difference. Granted, that while this paper was written by Tesla Motors in 2006, it does give some pretty believable back of the envelope calculations demonstrating their Tesla Roadster to be twice as efficient as a Honda Prius.
Either way, that paper is a good read and shows why burning hydrocarbons at the power station and sending electricity back to vehicles is the way to go. You can then start to supplement the power station hydrocarbon burning with alternative fuels, or more nuclear power.
I can't tell if this is being spearheaded by MSNBC or not, but their story has a lot of information about it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43281157/ns/politics-more_politics/
Yes, he should have said fooosh, to sound like vooooshh, wait... Now I am confused.
I own a Dell m1530. If I go to Dell's website, I can find detailed procedures for replacing pretty much anything I want. Link here
So I don't have to buy any replacement parts from Dell. Or I could buy parts from them, its my choice. But at least Dell gives me more than enough information how to do it myself. Motherboards, keyboards, LCD screens, network cards, cellular data modems, hard drives, ram even whole cases can all be obtained from a variety of vendors.
Apple is a hardware company. They want you to buy early and often. That is OK. But I just can't stand the people that continually act like Apple is sealing up and obfuscating their hardware for the good of consumers. They manufacture forced obsolescence. Once again, that is OK. Know what you are buying.