Thanks for telling us that those claims are too complicated for you to read. Please make sure to put that on your resume, because if I was a potential employer looking to hire you for anything even remotely technical, I'd want to know that you give up whenever a discussion gets remotely above the complexity of "M$ sux0rz."
Since when do programmers need to be patent lawyers? Patents are written in fluent legalese, not plain $HUMANLANGUAGEOFYOURCHOICE.
They should have slapped a portable radio on the rovers. Then again cell phones might have been a better move. If AT&T is providing service on Mars there's no way the signal would reach Earth. It's crappy enough when you are standing under a tower.
I wouldn't wanna have to pay the roaming charges for a cell fone on Mars.
breeder reactors extend by several times the use of available fission fuels
Actually, that is only required of your reactor requires Uranium-235 or Plutonium for fuel. There are reactors that can use natural Uranium for fuel, and for those, breeders are completely unnecessary.
Thorium reactors don't have that problem as much. And thorium is fairly common, as well as being a great way to recycle nuclear waste without the pesky weapons grade plutonium problems that breeder reactors can have if designed that way. I could see using both thorium reactors as well as SPSes. And why not make SPSes out of lunar materials? Launch the basics of a refinery and factory to the Moon, set up a railgun catapult to put the components into geosync orbit with minimal manuvering fuel, and you save the 'cost' of launching several hundred tons of gear to build a SPS from the ground. And as a bonus, it gives us the excuse for colonising the Moon already.
> You don't want a Japanese rectenna on land anyways. Float it in the ocean and route shipping around it.
Float the solar panels on the ocean and route shipping around that. There, you just saved billions and billions of dollars in launch costs.
You can pump more microwave energy into a given area than it can collect sunlight. Nothing says you can't increase the energy density of a microwave beam. End result? Smaller rectenna area needed. Let's see you collate raw solar power without using up an inordinant amount of space.
oes this take into account land costs of ground based solar cells
Ummm, you realize you need a ground footprint just about the same size for the rectenna, right? And unlike a rectenna, you can build solar panels in settled areas, like rooftops, car parks, etc. The land footprint of ground-based solar is FAR less expensive than the same power beamed from space.
Actually, the price of land in Japan is so outrageous that when they decided to buy up most of New York City at overly inflated prices, it looked like bargain basement prices to them.
You don't want a Japanese rectenna on land anyways. Float it in the ocean and route shipping around it.
In western Colorado, where I grew up in the late 50's/60's, if you wanted to drill a well on your land, you called for a water witch. I used to know a couple who were pretty good at it. Thing is, they were the first to tell you they had no clue how or why they could dowse out water, but they could. When I get ready to drill my well here in northwestern Arizona, in the middle of the Mohave, you can bet I'll have a good water witch dowse me out a spot to drill, especially when drilling out a well runs about 25-30 bucks a foot.
Obama spent 12 years as a politician before becoming president. Bush had six.
Bush has been involved in politics since the 70's, when he took time off from the Texas Air National Guard to campaign for his old man as governor of Texas. Republicans tend to remember these kinda things, especially if you owe your political career and patronage to somebody's old man. The kids expect you to endorse, finance, and pave the way for them when it's 'their time'.
Comcast's first traffic throttling trigger is tripped by using more than 70 per cent of your maximum downstream or upstream bandwidth for more than 15 minutes.
Eh? In scandinavia countries new laws will state that "the speed of the line must be atleast 75% of the said one during 24 hour measurement period". And you get throttled with comcast if you're actually using more 70% of what you should have? Why do you put up with this shit?
Mostly because we have no choice? American ISPs tend to oversell their bandwidth for the simple reason that the backbone is so damned expensive here and monthly connect charges are relatively low. If the ISP doesn't oversell 2 or 3 times the available bandwidth, they'll be so marginal they can't afford to even buy donuts, let alone be able to afford to upgrade their bandwidth.
Its second traffic throttling trigger is tripped when the Cable Modem Termination System you're hooked-up to - along with up to 15,000 other Comcast subscribers - gets congested, and your traffic is somehow identified as being responsible.
This is Comcast-speak for "If we catch you using the bandwidth you overpay for, we'll throttle you back. We need that bandwidth to provide video on demand to our real customers. Now shut up and enjoy the privilege of overpaying your connection charge and keep subsidising our video customers."
Depends on if you can get it into court in the first place, manage to make an appeal that isn't instantly shot down, and can get the SCOTUS to actually wanna hear it.
I would rather be assassinated then sell my soul. As president I would probably wear out my pen from vetoing every stupid law Congress passed, and if that means I get shot by the corporate oligarchs, so be it. Nobody lives forever.
Thing is, they won't shoot you til they get your vice president lined up with the prospective agenda. If they get him/her/whatever in their pocket, expect your life insurance to be cancelled about 5 mins before they make sure the last thing through your mind is a high caliber bullet.
In such a government, there is no constant struggle between the people and the government to maintain rights because the government officers are acting in what they believe to be the best interests of the people they represent.
Seems to me the government is acting in the best interests of the people they represent - the lobbyists.
Nobody is making big bucks through the 'piracy' distribution channels.
One could argue the bandwidth providers are making money from it, but not the filesharers. One would think the ISPs would be sued, since they're the ones making money.
Oopps, forgot. The telecoms, who sell the time on the fiber, are bigtime campaign contributors. My bad...
People who worry about copyright piracy don't read.
Yes, yes we do. Next stupid comment.
Ah, but by reading, you create another copy of that work you read in your memory. Naughty, naughty, you haven't paid for that copy. That makes you a pirate. See here and here for further info, and prepare to pay the appropriate copy fee plus punitive damages, bribes, etc.
Rumor is the CIA funded the Taliban. A few decades of slow destabilization, plus a quick war, then remove the Taliban and put yourself in as the ruling party.
The CIA funded the mujahadim, some of whom became the Taliban. Their major complaint was, as soon as the Soviets announced they were going home, Congress started putting stop-payments on their checks. They spent a couple billion arming and training the guerillas, but when it came time for the rebuild, the US was nowhere to be found.
Attacking Al-Qaeda directly is what we did. Afghanistan did exactly what you referred to in Tripoli. They protected and gave cover to those 'doing evil'.
The situation in Afghanistan in 2001 was similar to the situation in Cambodia in 1970. Inside the capital of (Phnom Penh/Kabul), the (Royal Family/Taliban) ran things. Outside the city limits, the countryside was controlled by (the Khmer Rouge/various 2-bit warlords like the Northern Alliance). (The Royal Family/The Taliban) had effectively zero power and influence outside the capital.
The reason why bin-Laden was so far out in the boonies (couple hundred miles!!) in Afghanistan was, even the Taliban didn't like him. Pre-Soviet Invasion, he was just some radical kid with a big checkbook, nobody really important other than having close family ties with the Saudi royals. Even the mujahadim thought he was a nutball. His real influence? About as far as the distance between his pen and his checkbook. And of course when the US demanded the Taliban immediately turn over bin-Laden, the Taliban, having just enough police to clamp down on Kabul and about as much real military to provide a couple hours' target practice to the Northern Alliance, told the US they just couldn't do that. Not wouldn't, couldn't, as in, having no capability of doing a particular thing, in this case, handing bin Laden over. The US of course instantly informed the entire planet of the 'Afghani government's refusal to hand over bin-Laden. About the only people to really listen were inside the US. Everybody else already knew that 'Afghani government' is one of those contradiction in terms like 'military intelligence' and 'jumbo shrimp'.
As has been written in here several times, lotta nitrate compounds in diesel exhaust, even more so than gasoline motor exhaust due to the much higher compression ratios that diesel engines require to run on. Plants need CO2, but they also need nitrates and nitrides in order to grow. As far as carbon compounds in the exhaust, I dunno if they escape the soil (being gaseous) or get bound up to become part of the plants immediately or what. I would have loved to see a more technical article than TFA, that's for sure.
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Since when do programmers need to be patent lawyers? Patents are written in fluent legalese, not plain $HUMANLANGUAGEOFYOURCHOICE.
Well, that answers a long standing question of mine: Who watches all that Indonesian plant porn??
Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate??
But the other 6 months, you get great skiing...
I wouldn't wanna have to pay the roaming charges for a cell fone on Mars.
Thorium reactors don't have that problem as much. And thorium is fairly common, as well as being a great way to recycle nuclear waste without the pesky weapons grade plutonium problems that breeder reactors can have if designed that way. I could see using both thorium reactors as well as SPSes. And why not make SPSes out of lunar materials? Launch the basics of a refinery and factory to the Moon, set up a railgun catapult to put the components into geosync orbit with minimal manuvering fuel, and you save the 'cost' of launching several hundred tons of gear to build a SPS from the ground. And as a bonus, it gives us the excuse for colonising the Moon already.
Seriously, guys, haven't you done the math????
You can pump more microwave energy into a given area than it can collect sunlight. Nothing says you can't increase the energy density of a microwave beam. End result? Smaller rectenna area needed. Let's see you collate raw solar power without using up an inordinant amount of space.
FTFWA:
I see lots of nifty numbers, but no ideas on where they come from. Physics as wishful thinking perhaps?
Actually, the price of land in Japan is so outrageous that when they decided to buy up most of New York City at overly inflated prices, it looked like bargain basement prices to them.
You don't want a Japanese rectenna on land anyways. Float it in the ocean and route shipping around it.
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Whelp, your link explains why my submission was never taken. Doesn't deal with the dupe problem, tho...
Pretty much, yeah...
In western Colorado, where I grew up in the late 50's/60's, if you wanted to drill a well on your land, you called for a water witch. I used to know a couple who were pretty good at it. Thing is, they were the first to tell you they had no clue how or why they could dowse out water, but they could. When I get ready to drill my well here in northwestern Arizona, in the middle of the Mohave, you can bet I'll have a good water witch dowse me out a spot to drill, especially when drilling out a well runs about 25-30 bucks a foot.
Bush has been involved in politics since the 70's, when he took time off from the Texas Air National Guard to campaign for his old man as governor of Texas. Republicans tend to remember these kinda things, especially if you owe your political career and patronage to somebody's old man. The kids expect you to endorse, finance, and pave the way for them when it's 'their time'.
Mostly because we have no choice? American ISPs tend to oversell their bandwidth for the simple reason that the backbone is so damned expensive here and monthly connect charges are relatively low. If the ISP doesn't oversell 2 or 3 times the available bandwidth, they'll be so marginal they can't afford to even buy donuts, let alone be able to afford to upgrade their bandwidth.
This is Comcast-speak for "If we catch you using the bandwidth you overpay for, we'll throttle you back. We need that bandwidth to provide video on demand to our real customers. Now shut up and enjoy the privilege of overpaying your connection charge and keep subsidising our video customers."
Depends on if you can get it into court in the first place, manage to make an appeal that isn't instantly shot down, and can get the SCOTUS to actually wanna hear it.
No, honest politicians stay bought. You can't change their position for mere campaign contributions.
The guy you wanna vote in is called a statesman. He'll buck the controls on him if it'll be for the betterment of the people and the state.
Thing is, they won't shoot you til they get your vice president lined up with the prospective agenda. If they get him/her/whatever in their pocket, expect your life insurance to be cancelled about 5 mins before they make sure the last thing through your mind is a high caliber bullet.
Seems to me the government is acting in the best interests of the people they represent - the lobbyists.
One could argue the bandwidth providers are making money from it, but not the filesharers. One would think the ISPs would be sued, since they're the ones making money.
Oopps, forgot. The telecoms, who sell the time on the fiber, are bigtime campaign contributors. My bad...
Ah, but by reading, you create another copy of that work you read in your memory. Naughty, naughty, you haven't paid for that copy. That makes you a pirate. See here and here for further info, and prepare to pay the appropriate copy fee plus punitive damages, bribes, etc.
The CIA funded the mujahadim, some of whom became the Taliban. Their major complaint was, as soon as the Soviets announced they were going home, Congress started putting stop-payments on their checks. They spent a couple billion arming and training the guerillas, but when it came time for the rebuild, the US was nowhere to be found.
The situation in Afghanistan in 2001 was similar to the situation in Cambodia in 1970. Inside the capital of (Phnom Penh/Kabul), the (Royal Family/Taliban) ran things. Outside the city limits, the countryside was controlled by (the Khmer Rouge/various 2-bit warlords like the Northern Alliance). (The Royal Family/The Taliban) had effectively zero power and influence outside the capital.
The reason why bin-Laden was so far out in the boonies (couple hundred miles!!) in Afghanistan was, even the Taliban didn't like him. Pre-Soviet Invasion, he was just some radical kid with a big checkbook, nobody really important other than having close family ties with the Saudi royals. Even the mujahadim thought he was a nutball. His real influence? About as far as the distance between his pen and his checkbook. And of course when the US demanded the Taliban immediately turn over bin-Laden, the Taliban, having just enough police to clamp down on Kabul and about as much real military to provide a couple hours' target practice to the Northern Alliance, told the US they just couldn't do that. Not wouldn't, couldn't, as in, having no capability of doing a particular thing, in this case, handing bin Laden over. The US of course instantly informed the entire planet of the 'Afghani government's refusal to hand over bin-Laden. About the only people to really listen were inside the US. Everybody else already knew that 'Afghani government' is one of those contradiction in terms like 'military intelligence' and 'jumbo shrimp'.
Their qualification was a pulse, right?
As has been written in here several times, lotta nitrate compounds in diesel exhaust, even more so than gasoline motor exhaust due to the much higher compression ratios that diesel engines require to run on. Plants need CO2, but they also need nitrates and nitrides in order to grow. As far as carbon compounds in the exhaust, I dunno if they escape the soil (being gaseous) or get bound up to become part of the plants immediately or what. I would have loved to see a more technical article than TFA, that's for sure.