Suggesting that we adapt biologically is the levelheaded solution. Adapting the way we consume resources is the faggoty socialist answer. Got it, genius.
Putting your "words" in "double quotes" telegraphs that you have a preformed "opinion" on the "matter" and are thus are immune to "facts". Which admittedly you are.
Also, it makes you "look like" a "douchebag". Which admittedly you are.
As evidenced by the lack of misspelled words in his post. And the fact that he didn't use any words without knowing their proper definition, like "socialist" or "secular".
Theoretical maximum efficiency for any kind of solar plant (on the equator) is less than 200 Watts per square meter
BZZZT. The solar constant is 1360 W/m2 (minus atmospheric effects). With this, the efficiency is a reasonable 12%.
I suspect the number you have quoted there is the TMI of solar cells. This plant depends on thermal conversion, not liberating electrons across a silicon band-gap. I do respect your effort, and so will not request that you turn in your geek card.
The Clinton administration bombed the shit out of Iraq for years.
Four days in 1998. Not years — four *days*. And that was over a lack of cooperation with weapons inspectors, who were looking for (and not finding) WMD manufacturing. (There was a cruise missile attack in 1993, ostensibly due to the attempted assassination of the former President Bush while he was in Kuwait.)
And, you might recall, rather than backing wholeheartedly the announced plan to degrade Saddam Hussein's supposed production WMD facilities, the Republicans in Congress accused Clinton of trying to distract from the impeachment hearings they were holding. Thus, they were either a) not convinced of an extensive WMD operation in Iraq, or b) thought that Iraq's possession of WMDs was a less pressing matter than investigating perjury from a married man over consensual sex on government property.
Senate Democrats did not vote for the Iraq War because they believed in it. They voted for it to avoid looking like spineless cowards. Which, in the end, means that they *are* spineless cowards.
Belief in WMD was similarly pervasive, since the intelligence community was saying they were there, and no evidence had come out yet to suggest this analysis was incorrect.
Except for the testimony of the UN weapons inspectors, and Hussein Kamel, and Joe Wilson (the diplomat, not the "You lie!" jagoff). And those who noted that the first national security meeting of the Bush administration covered the possibility of invading Iraq, which might be coloring their kitchen-sink approach to justifying an invasion ("He tried to kill mah daddy!"). Oh, and the fact that the chief CIA witness had the codename "Curveball" ferchrissakes. But beisdes all of that, yes, no one doubted the word of the administration.
The only people consistently against the wars and excessive military spending were the libertarians.
No, liberals (note that I did not say Democrats) were also consistently against the wars and excessive military spending. The difference is that true liberatarians have one vote in Congress.
Just like Guantanamo, the bullshit is 100 percent Dubya's fault. And just like Guantanamo, the lack of progress since January 2009 is 100 percent Obama's fault. But it is inherited nonetheless.
Imagine if you were given a loan of your annual salary for the next couple of years right now and then need to work it off plus loan shark level interest and fees.
As bad as that sounds, it's worse than that — imagine if you were given that loan, but you could only spend the money at the company store. Which just so happens to be the store where you work.
For whoever doesn't know the story, the whole modern art phenomenon started in 1917 with a guy called Marcel Duchamp, who signed an urinal and sent it to an art gallery under the title "Fountain."
My favorite aspect of "Fountain" is that, the way it is arranged, if you did try to use it as a urinal you'd end up with piss on your shoes.
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Yup — nothing more natural than a species dying out because DDT made its eggs too fragile to withstand its nesting weight.
Suggesting that we adapt biologically is the levelheaded solution. Adapting the way we consume resources is the faggoty socialist answer. Got it, genius.
Considering where the poorest of the poor live and the conditions therein, I think rising oceans and drastic shifts in climate might also sting a bit.
Do us all a favor and apply that logic to your next surgery.
Putting your "words" in "double quotes" telegraphs that you have a preformed "opinion" on the "matter" and are thus are immune to "facts". Which admittedly you are.
Also, it makes you "look like" a "douchebag". Which admittedly you are.
I simply MUST be the first person to have a brown Phune.
As evidenced by the lack of misspelled words in his post. And the fact that he didn't use any words without knowing their proper definition, like "socialist" or "secular".
BZZZT. The solar constant is 1360 W/m2 (minus atmospheric effects). With this, the efficiency is a reasonable 12%.
I suspect the number you have quoted there is the TMI of solar cells. This plant depends on thermal conversion, not liberating electrons across a silicon band-gap. I do respect your effort, and so will not request that you turn in your geek card.
Because nothing is more trivial than a Supreme Court ruling. *yawn*
Wait, Obama's not president any more?
Because if we were to publicly attack Halliburton, they might start charging us more to run the wars that we started for their benefit.
I wrote a long response to this. Then I deleted it, because it can be easily summarized...
It is just you. Just because you are a fucking "aweful" idiot doesn't mean that everybody is.
Pics or it didn't happe — OH JESUS MY EYES!
Four days in 1998. Not years — four *days*. And that was over a lack of cooperation with weapons inspectors, who were looking for (and not finding) WMD manufacturing. (There was a cruise missile attack in 1993, ostensibly due to the attempted assassination of the former President Bush while he was in Kuwait.)
And, you might recall, rather than backing wholeheartedly the announced plan to degrade Saddam Hussein's supposed production WMD facilities, the Republicans in Congress accused Clinton of trying to distract from the impeachment hearings they were holding. Thus, they were either a) not convinced of an extensive WMD operation in Iraq, or b) thought that Iraq's possession of WMDs was a less pressing matter than investigating perjury from a married man over consensual sex on government property.
Except for the testimony of the UN weapons inspectors, and Hussein Kamel, and Joe Wilson (the diplomat, not the "You lie!" jagoff). And those who noted that the first national security meeting of the Bush administration covered the possibility of invading Iraq, which might be coloring their kitchen-sink approach to justifying an invasion ("He tried to kill mah daddy!"). Oh, and the fact that the chief CIA witness had the codename "Curveball" ferchrissakes. But beisdes all of that, yes, no one doubted the word of the administration.
No, liberals (note that I did not say Democrats) were also consistently against the wars and excessive military spending. The difference is that true liberatarians have one vote in Congress.
Ahem.
Just like Guantanamo, the bullshit is 100 percent Dubya's fault. And just like Guantanamo, the lack of progress since January 2009 is 100 percent Obama's fault. But it is inherited nonetheless.
And giving them more oil just encourages them to lay about. Just look at those lazy bastards, floating sideways on the surface.
Seven years of LeBron James.
Too bad — I was looking forward to re Bilskiwi.
As bad as that sounds, it's worse than that — imagine if you were given that loan, but you could only spend the money at the company store. Which just so happens to be the store where you work.
My favorite aspect of "Fountain" is that, the way it is arranged, if you did try to use it as a urinal you'd end up with piss on your shoes.
Go watch "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" and then come tell me again that Ebert is humorless.
I could, but I find it more likely to blame the assholes whose continued paychecks depend on not understanding it.
Wait wait wait waitasec...
I thought it was Al Gore who is on the Apple board, not Obama.