And that kinda explains why OPEC is not lowering production volumes, sacrificing North American oil industry - it's the non-cartel companies that are dying off.
Last I heard, OPEC isn't lowering production because Saudi Arabia said they weren't because they wanted to thumb their nose at Iran. OPEC wants to but effectively can't without Saudi Arabia's agreement.
Hopefully they won't ban it - I think the concept is pretty darn cool, and had been looking forward to trying it since I heard about the company like a year ago.
I've been hearing about it since college (which was farther back than I care to admit). If you want to try it just google "make powdered alcohol" and look up the recipe. It's going to tell you to go on Amazon, buy some tapioca maltodextrin and some Everclear, mix, and sift. Ta da! Powdered alcohol. Experiment to your heart's content.
You could get even lighter and easier transportability by taking Everclear or some other near 200 proof alcohol and adding flavoring to add to your water. Palcohol is just the same thing that is bound to a powder, most likely tapioca maltodextrin. Similar process is already used in some cooking recipes. You can already make it yourself. It's not some neat way to make alcohol any lighter or more compact.
Even if that's true, what steps should a songwriter take to avoid a situation like the George Harrison case, the Tom Petty case, or the present case? Other than quit, that is.
I'd be really surprised if there isn't some sort of phone app that will tell you if a song you write is close to something that already exists. There are apps that will tell you what you are listening too from just a segment of it. Seems that like doing a web search for previously existing bands that are using a band name you might want to use, that checking your songs against some sort of database for being dangerously close is something else artists should do.
It would be smarter to control the population growth and the amount of energy required. You have to do that anyway. You can't keep feeding an exponentially growing population forever. So, if you stop the growth at a sustainable point, there's no need to get stuff from space.
Do you really expect people do the smartest thing? Our sustainable point is determined by our access to energy. By time we get to that point, we'll probably already be in space and past the point of economic benefit of getting material from there.
What's the goal of large-scale construction in space though ? Wouldn't it be smarter to wait until there's actually a market for the stuff you'd want to mine before going to the moon to get it ?
Well, nobody is mining anything in space any time soon. Anything like this project done now is pretty much pure research that would only begin to tell us what we'd even need to mine something on the moon and manufacture it in space. Then after information is gathered, tests are done, they can figure out what it would actually take and put together cost analysis of such a project.
Well, as for large scale constructions in space, there are a couple of ways it could conceivably come about. One is that simply due to our interest in space and our growing population and economy, the amount of money set aside for space exploration would be enough. At some point, there would be a point at which we'd save money and effort by completing mining and manufacturing efforts in space and there will be a reason of pure economy for things we are already doing. This probably includes any attempt to explore and send people to the Moon or Mars. Another would be power. Eventually, we'll run out of fossil fuels, nuclear will be mined to the point it is harder to get. Hydro will be maxed out and we'll be reliant on solar for our energy needs. The amount of solar energy that hits the earth is trivial compared to what is out there in space. We could move to space for the energy, either to send back to earth or just to power manufacturing sites we put out there in space due to plentiful energy that if not cheaper, will at least be available compared to what is on Earth. Once that begins, there will be infrastructure as well as other demands for things like mining and manufacturing that will require some human presence, which will require more power and infrastructure. At a certain point, space will just be colonized as the population's children will just be able to stay there. Either way, I wouldn't expect serious mining and manufacturing of metals in space for a few centuries yet.
For the most part, the fire department doesn't drive around stripping off insulation from electrical wires or drilling little holes in gas pipes under your house. Sure they _theoretically_ could, but the CIA is actually at this very moment doing this exact thing.
I think that the firemen had their chance at such a career when they were called out to use their water hoses on protestors during the civil rights movement, which they did a couple of times. Then, there were arsons set which turned out to be sniper attempts to shoot firemen that came to fight the fire. After that, firemen typically will loan their equipment out to police for such things, but refuse to get involved themselves. As pretty much the only uniformed service that people actually like rather than fear, they tend to want to keep it that way.
The only spot in OK that could realistically be described as *culturally* Confederate is the southeast corner of the state. As an Oklahoman you'd be aware of that.
Please, I'm an Okie. I've gone West never to return. OK, is as confederate as Texas. They're pretty much the same except nothing is big is OK.
It's really not midwestern. Geographically it's not in the old Confederacy but culturally it is.
Sorry to do two different posts, but I'd rather not reply to an AC who is just trolling.
It really depends on who you ask and in what context you are talking about. Growing up in OK, we called ourself the "Midwest" which colloquially meant the great plains states. That a bunch of Eastern Yankees like Indiana would call themselves midwesterners really threw me for a long time. Still, depending who and how the nation of states is divided up, they are in many cases, and OK is part of the South. The US Census puts OK in the South. Others put it in the South West, Midwest, Great Plains, or some other grouping, usually using South.
It's really not midwestern. Geographically it's not in the old Confederacy but culturally it is.
Actually, it is in the old Confederacy. the South offered a deal to the indians to join their side and the last Confederate general to surrender was the Cherokee chief Stand Watie who was leading a Cherokee force.
Although it doesn't sound that different from some of the line's Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek. "The economics of the future is somewhat different. You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century... The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of Humanity"
I guess it's possible, of course you would first have to commit genocide against everyone with normal human instincts. That pretty much sums up communism.
I think you have Star Trek and Roddenberry wrong. It always acknowledged human instincts, but argued the humanity could learn to overcome them, not that they could get rid of them.
It's not terrorism because the purpose of terrorism is to affect political change through fear and violence. There was no video threat or claiming of responsibility, so no political motivation, so no terrorism.
Nothing to say they were good terrorists. Half of all terrorists are worse than average.
It took "mere seconds" to burn through the engine manifold.
Paint it white (specifically, something with high albedo in whatever frequency range the attacker favors) and you can probably increase that time by a factor of ten. Paint it with that retroreflective paint that they make street markings out of and you've blinded anyone near the firing station.
Laser weapons look effective now because nobody's taking rudimentary countermeasures against them (because they don't need to). But if these things start appearing on battlefields, there are some simple countermeasures that will make their life a lot more difficult.
First, it has to be reflective to the wavelength of laser they are using. Just because it's white in the visible doesn't mean it's not "black" in the spectrum of the laser. Even then mirrors are only good for a percentage of the power put out by the laser. That percentage that gets through turns into heat which quickly changes the properties of the material, usually making it not reflective any more. Even then, that would require lab type clean conditions, otherwise the laser will heat up the dust an dirt on the reflective surface which will do the work for it. I doubt that military targets would be able to be kept that clean.
Smoke might work, but that's already an option. It just might be more of an option if it actually stops some munitions.
Really?/. is the mediator of all things moral I guess?
No, I think they were saying that/. is typically sympathetic to those causes and if they give somebody fighting for those causes the cold shoulder, there is something else besides those causes that is clouding the issue, probably the actions, intents, and realistic expectations of the people that are being given the cold shoulder. A rational person should be able to preach to the converted.
I find myself in the same situation with politicians all the time. They say they are in favor of some cause and I'm like "Ya, I'm on board!" Then I ask, "How do you plan to do that?", research and do some reading, and find out that their actual plan is not something that I consider even logical, let alone rational, and don't give it a chance in hell of doing what they think it will do.
Why abduct a guy and force him to do IT work. It's not like there is a lack of skilled people, that can't be bothered with moral/legal questions about who their employer is or what they are doing. If there was banks, mpaa/riaa, phone/cable companies, etc... would all having to abduct IT staff too.
There is a lack of skilled people that will work for free, require no benefits, who you can make sure will not carry your secrets to their next employer. It was suggested that they could have actually sent gang members through school to learn the same thing, and while that would take a pitiful amount of money for a loyal employee, it would also take years. If the cartels started sending people through school when they had started setting up their own networks, those people might just be graduating by now, which would be too long to wait in the cut throat business of Mexican cartels.
I'm not sure I'd want to work for them no matter how much they offer. Sure, they give you a million dollars and you set up their network. Then, when your work for them is done, you become a liability.
But changing the title from "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" to "Uprising" does not bode well; the book is not about an "Uprising" but about how a society develops when the rules of normal society are removed. The actual "uprising" in the book is almost a by-product and not a central theme.
Maybe Peter Jackson is going to do work on the film and this is just the first installment of the new expanded movie trilogy?
Many of his books also featured communal living, with many people living together and freely sharing resources, and even sharing sexual partners. Usually this was not part of the main plot, but just happened to be the way the characters were living.
Assuming gravity propagates at the speed of light as a force, rather than being an artifact of space-time, which would mean you don't get any waves. Which we've so far not been able to detect, probably because they don't exist. 8-).
I believe I remember running across the proof for gravity waves while looking at the special relativity derivation of the Lorentz transformation. So, if gravity waves don't exist, then Special relativity is under some pressure. Of course, special relativity happens in Minkowski space which is flat and not warped due to gravity which we know is not the case anyway. Unsure about a similar proof of gravity waves using general relativity.
It wouldn't surprise me if some people believed that our movies and information are just our propaganda to deceive them.
Well, that's not too far from the truth. Not that we are actively trying to deceive them, but there are plenty of North Korean defectors that upon reaching South Korea are disillusioned that what they saw in South Korean soap operas and movies, usually portraying well to do if not upper classes, is not the reality for the common person.
No, it's just fucking dumb. By forcing people to have to tediously paint each piece by hand you limit the actual number of people who become interested.
Three colors is not really tedious. Black spray Primer. One color on the front to denote facing with more spray on paint. Different color on the back. Done. That's all that needs to be done to satisfy the rules and be allowed into a tournament. Of course, now you have to deal with the other players. I've seen people with similarly painted armies (and partially guilty myself) and they still get respect if they can actually win.
Let's face it, besides Fox News and Al Jazera, you can't tune into a news program that isn't controlled by the left wing.
Because usually at that point, "left wing" is being defined as somebody who doesn't tune into the news program they watch. Try BBC, they usually get panned for being left wing by the rights and right wing by the lefts. That's usually a good sign you might actually be getting news. Wall Street Journal is also usually not called left wing too often and is usually said to be the only real news outlet left as the people who read it expect their news to be straight as they plan to base decisions involving lots of money on that news. Just go to Reuters or AP directly and get the news from the sources as it's not like hardly anybody else (except for Al Jazera and some French language one) has news offices across the world, they just buy from the news services. There is certainly complaints to be had about the state of news today, but if yours is that everything is controlled by the lefties, I doubt you have much of a rational argument to back it up.
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And that kinda explains why OPEC is not lowering production volumes, sacrificing North American oil industry - it's the non-cartel companies that are dying off.
Last I heard, OPEC isn't lowering production because Saudi Arabia said they weren't because they wanted to thumb their nose at Iran. OPEC wants to but effectively can't without Saudi Arabia's agreement.
Hopefully they won't ban it - I think the concept is pretty darn cool, and had been looking forward to trying it since I heard about the company like a year ago.
I've been hearing about it since college (which was farther back than I care to admit). If you want to try it just google "make powdered alcohol" and look up the recipe. It's going to tell you to go on Amazon, buy some tapioca maltodextrin and some Everclear, mix, and sift. Ta da! Powdered alcohol. Experiment to your heart's content.
You could get even lighter and easier transportability by taking Everclear or some other near 200 proof alcohol and adding flavoring to add to your water. Palcohol is just the same thing that is bound to a powder, most likely tapioca maltodextrin. Similar process is already used in some cooking recipes. You can already make it yourself. It's not some neat way to make alcohol any lighter or more compact.
Even if that's true, what steps should a songwriter take to avoid a situation like the George Harrison case, the Tom Petty case, or the present case? Other than quit, that is.
I'd be really surprised if there isn't some sort of phone app that will tell you if a song you write is close to something that already exists. There are apps that will tell you what you are listening too from just a segment of it. Seems that like doing a web search for previously existing bands that are using a band name you might want to use, that checking your songs against some sort of database for being dangerously close is something else artists should do.
It would be smarter to control the population growth and the amount of energy required. You have to do that anyway. You can't keep feeding an exponentially growing population forever. So, if you stop the growth at a sustainable point, there's no need to get stuff from space.
Do you really expect people do the smartest thing? Our sustainable point is determined by our access to energy. By time we get to that point, we'll probably already be in space and past the point of economic benefit of getting material from there.
What's the goal of large-scale construction in space though ? Wouldn't it be smarter to wait until there's actually a market for the stuff you'd want to mine before going to the moon to get it ?
Well, nobody is mining anything in space any time soon. Anything like this project done now is pretty much pure research that would only begin to tell us what we'd even need to mine something on the moon and manufacture it in space. Then after information is gathered, tests are done, they can figure out what it would actually take and put together cost analysis of such a project.
Well, as for large scale constructions in space, there are a couple of ways it could conceivably come about. One is that simply due to our interest in space and our growing population and economy, the amount of money set aside for space exploration would be enough. At some point, there would be a point at which we'd save money and effort by completing mining and manufacturing efforts in space and there will be a reason of pure economy for things we are already doing. This probably includes any attempt to explore and send people to the Moon or Mars. Another would be power. Eventually, we'll run out of fossil fuels, nuclear will be mined to the point it is harder to get. Hydro will be maxed out and we'll be reliant on solar for our energy needs. The amount of solar energy that hits the earth is trivial compared to what is out there in space. We could move to space for the energy, either to send back to earth or just to power manufacturing sites we put out there in space due to plentiful energy that if not cheaper, will at least be available compared to what is on Earth. Once that begins, there will be infrastructure as well as other demands for things like mining and manufacturing that will require some human presence, which will require more power and infrastructure. At a certain point, space will just be colonized as the population's children will just be able to stay there. Either way, I wouldn't expect serious mining and manufacturing of metals in space for a few centuries yet.
For the most part, the fire department doesn't drive around stripping off insulation from electrical wires or drilling little holes in gas pipes under your house. Sure they _theoretically_ could, but the CIA is actually at this very moment doing this exact thing.
I think that the firemen had their chance at such a career when they were called out to use their water hoses on protestors during the civil rights movement, which they did a couple of times. Then, there were arsons set which turned out to be sniper attempts to shoot firemen that came to fight the fire. After that, firemen typically will loan their equipment out to police for such things, but refuse to get involved themselves. As pretty much the only uniformed service that people actually like rather than fear, they tend to want to keep it that way.
The only spot in OK that could realistically be described as *culturally* Confederate is the southeast corner of the state. As an Oklahoman you'd be aware of that.
Please, I'm an Okie. I've gone West never to return. OK, is as confederate as Texas. They're pretty much the same except nothing is big is OK.
It's really not midwestern. Geographically it's not in the old Confederacy but culturally it is.
Sorry to do two different posts, but I'd rather not reply to an AC who is just trolling.
It really depends on who you ask and in what context you are talking about. Growing up in OK, we called ourself the "Midwest" which colloquially meant the great plains states. That a bunch of Eastern Yankees like Indiana would call themselves midwesterners really threw me for a long time. Still, depending who and how the nation of states is divided up, they are in many cases, and OK is part of the South. The US Census puts OK in the South. Others put it in the South West, Midwest, Great Plains, or some other grouping, usually using South.
It's really not midwestern. Geographically it's not in the old Confederacy but culturally it is.
Actually, it is in the old Confederacy. the South offered a deal to the indians to join their side and the last Confederate general to surrender was the Cherokee chief Stand Watie who was leading a Cherokee force.
The diseases are from the wetbacks, er, I mean Democrat voters, you've let in. Enjoy your diversity. Diversity is disease, er, I mean strength!
I'm really having trouble telling if this a troll, or somebody making fun of trolls by presenting themselves as a particularly idiotic troll.
Although it doesn't sound that different from some of the line's Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek. "The economics of the future is somewhat different. You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century... The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of Humanity" I guess it's possible, of course you would first have to commit genocide against everyone with normal human instincts. That pretty much sums up communism.
I think you have Star Trek and Roddenberry wrong. It always acknowledged human instincts, but argued the humanity could learn to overcome them, not that they could get rid of them.
It's not terrorism because the purpose of terrorism is to affect political change through fear and violence. There was no video threat or claiming of responsibility, so no political motivation, so no terrorism.
Nothing to say they were good terrorists. Half of all terrorists are worse than average.
It took "mere seconds" to burn through the engine manifold.
Paint it white (specifically, something with high albedo in whatever frequency range the attacker favors) and you can probably increase that time by a factor of ten. Paint it with that retroreflective paint that they make street markings out of and you've blinded anyone near the firing station.
Laser weapons look effective now because nobody's taking rudimentary countermeasures against them (because they don't need to). But if these things start appearing on battlefields, there are some simple countermeasures that will make their life a lot more difficult.
First, it has to be reflective to the wavelength of laser they are using. Just because it's white in the visible doesn't mean it's not "black" in the spectrum of the laser. Even then mirrors are only good for a percentage of the power put out by the laser. That percentage that gets through turns into heat which quickly changes the properties of the material, usually making it not reflective any more. Even then, that would require lab type clean conditions, otherwise the laser will heat up the dust an dirt on the reflective surface which will do the work for it. I doubt that military targets would be able to be kept that clean.
Smoke might work, but that's already an option. It just might be more of an option if it actually stops some munitions.
Really? /. is the mediator of all things moral I guess?
No, I think they were saying that /. is typically sympathetic to those causes and if they give somebody fighting for those causes the cold shoulder, there is something else besides those causes that is clouding the issue, probably the actions, intents, and realistic expectations of the people that are being given the cold shoulder. A rational person should be able to preach to the converted.
I find myself in the same situation with politicians all the time. They say they are in favor of some cause and I'm like "Ya, I'm on board!" Then I ask, "How do you plan to do that?", research and do some reading, and find out that their actual plan is not something that I consider even logical, let alone rational, and don't give it a chance in hell of doing what they think it will do.
Why abduct a guy and force him to do IT work. It's not like there is a lack of skilled people, that can't be bothered with moral/legal questions about who their employer is or what they are doing. If there was banks, mpaa/riaa, phone/cable companies, etc... would all having to abduct IT staff too.
There is a lack of skilled people that will work for free, require no benefits, who you can make sure will not carry your secrets to their next employer. It was suggested that they could have actually sent gang members through school to learn the same thing, and while that would take a pitiful amount of money for a loyal employee, it would also take years. If the cartels started sending people through school when they had started setting up their own networks, those people might just be graduating by now, which would be too long to wait in the cut throat business of Mexican cartels.
I'm not sure I'd want to work for them no matter how much they offer. Sure, they give you a million dollars and you set up their network. Then, when your work for them is done, you become a liability.
Ha! Like IT work is ever "done".
But changing the title from "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" to "Uprising" does not bode well; the book is not about an "Uprising" but about how a society develops when the rules of normal society are removed. The actual "uprising" in the book is almost a by-product and not a central theme.
Maybe Peter Jackson is going to do work on the film and this is just the first installment of the new expanded movie trilogy?
Good luck explaining the finer points of a closed-cycle ecology, economics and politics in a 2-hour movie.
Good luck explaining them to the intended audience.
Many of his books also featured communal living, with many people living together and freely sharing resources, and even sharing sexual partners. Usually this was not part of the main plot, but just happened to be the way the characters were living.
Sounds like college.
Assuming gravity propagates at the speed of light as a force, rather than being an artifact of space-time, which would mean you don't get any waves. Which we've so far not been able to detect, probably because they don't exist. 8-).
I believe I remember running across the proof for gravity waves while looking at the special relativity derivation of the Lorentz transformation. So, if gravity waves don't exist, then Special relativity is under some pressure. Of course, special relativity happens in Minkowski space which is flat and not warped due to gravity which we know is not the case anyway. Unsure about a similar proof of gravity waves using general relativity.
It wouldn't surprise me if some people believed that our movies and information are just our propaganda to deceive them.
Well, that's not too far from the truth. Not that we are actively trying to deceive them, but there are plenty of North Korean defectors that upon reaching South Korea are disillusioned that what they saw in South Korean soap operas and movies, usually portraying well to do if not upper classes, is not the reality for the common person.
No, it's just fucking dumb. By forcing people to have to tediously paint each piece by hand you limit the actual number of people who become interested.
Three colors is not really tedious. Black spray Primer. One color on the front to denote facing with more spray on paint. Different color on the back. Done. That's all that needs to be done to satisfy the rules and be allowed into a tournament. Of course, now you have to deal with the other players. I've seen people with similarly painted armies (and partially guilty myself) and they still get respect if they can actually win.
Let's face it, besides Fox News and Al Jazera, you can't tune into a news program that isn't controlled by the left wing.
Because usually at that point, "left wing" is being defined as somebody who doesn't tune into the news program they watch. Try BBC, they usually get panned for being left wing by the rights and right wing by the lefts. That's usually a good sign you might actually be getting news. Wall Street Journal is also usually not called left wing too often and is usually said to be the only real news outlet left as the people who read it expect their news to be straight as they plan to base decisions involving lots of money on that news. Just go to Reuters or AP directly and get the news from the sources as it's not like hardly anybody else (except for Al Jazera and some French language one) has news offices across the world, they just buy from the news services. There is certainly complaints to be had about the state of news today, but if yours is that everything is controlled by the lefties, I doubt you have much of a rational argument to back it up.
Physicists tend to scoff at philosophers...
We don't scoff at philosophers, we just want to see their math.