SUSPECTS? How is "Our source suspects" proof? Other articles have been referring to IBM hosting that lot because the ABS just does not have anything close to the infrastructure to do it in-house and a proposal to acquire more servers was denied last year.
If it's from the article please quote the relevant portion because I did not see anything to support what you suggested either there or in other articles. Also I did not accuse you of "making stuff up" - it's interesting that you are suggesting that I did instead of what I did do which was ask a question. Why do you think I was accusing you of making things up? Should I be assuming you are instead of just having information I have not seen?
Sadly your overall point is you see a problem you do not know how to solve, think others don't know either and have not noticed the evidence that others have solved far more difficult problems of the same type. You've grasped at a straw to push an agenda and it doesn't fit. I suggest either you try another or try an approach other than pushing an agenda for the sake of it.
It may help if you think of industrial uses instead of just a knee-jerk "but it's green so I must attack it to be a good Party Comrade" approach. This stuff really isn't "green" it's just extra machinery to make things run better in the modern world. It's only seen as "green" because British Petroleum and other major donors get money from things that it competes with.
So you are saying IT people are incapable of doing their job without a high LEVEL PHB making meaningless decisions
"Meaningless decisions" like not employing enough people to do a task you mean? Why yes, indeed they are incapable just as you would be when confronted with a task you do not have the resources to attempt.
Give me a CANDU 6 plant that's actually reprocessing its "waste"
Need material for your nuclear weapons program but can't get the right isotopes? CANDU India did that after all. That's as far as the "reprocessing" goes with that reactor.
For general high grade waste processing, no it's not going to work with current reactors running today. There's a thorium based design that looks like it will come closer than anything before but there is no magic yet that will reprocess everything in fuel rods let alone other nuclear waste.
To get some perspective I suggest you consider how much fuel is in a large airliner and how there are greater consequences of shifting fluid affecting maneuverability. So while you have perceptively identified a potential problem you are on page one while many others are 500 pages into dealing with the problem.
The Chief Statistician is fairly new and stepped in to fill a 12 month+ vacancy. The true blame lies above that level and dates to before his employment. "Denial of service attack" by means of cutting resources and by people in politics pushing a scare campaign to get people to all log in on the same night in fear of being fined for doing it a day late.
The thing to look up is Indian wootz steel. It has huge amounts of carbon (1.5%C) and a lot of chrome among other things. There are people that say the art was lost in the 18th century in Europe, but that's just a case of moving on to less difficult materials in a place where they could be made. Elsewhere around the world the technique was still used.
The deal in hindsight appeared to be incredibly generous and would probably have raised a lot of outrage if it had been stuck to. The job of a Judge is to consider things like that and choose what degree of punishment to apply.
Numerous US judges and officials have said that there was misconduct by the judge in his case
Yet nothing ruled - just grumbles - if they are real that is and not just part of the PR that was applied.
but neither can happen if the defendant doesnt appear in court
Bullshit. If it's about misconduct of a Judge then that gets dealt with without some weird conspiracy theory circus that you seem to be making noise about.
you seem to have an agenda
The very obvious one - comparing a very high profile criminal action versus a civil copyright issue and how the latter is being dealt with disproportionately. It's a very good example because Polanski was found guilty so that should immediately rule about unusual posts like yours - there is no question he did the crime so it comes down to the question of why so much more effort is going into getting a suspect of a copyright infringement matter than a convicted rapist.
Folding, pounding and a LOT of heat treatment. There's been a few good papers published on it based on examining old examples and an material used in India for over a thousand years. They were from the 1970s but there may be something more recent online, I suppose I'd better take a look and it may help here.
which came out of the furnace with islands of high and low carbon steel
No that's what a modern steel looks like - look up "pearlite". It's not just islands but "large" distinct bands of metal carbides (not just iron) rich "bainite" broken up a lot by heat treatment in the Damascus steel (so that the stuff doesn't just shatter). Japanese craftsmen do something similar but not quite the same with some slightly different precursor materials (not much other than iron carbides) which is a bit easier to follow since there is almost no post forging heat treatment.
It's a really good example to teach students about alloys since it's making a material with desirable properties from the two parts - one a really brittle thing with a lot of iron and many other metal carbides and the other very soft almost pure iron. Similar to the body of a katana but with far less distinct layers since there is a lot more diffusion - the layers blend into each other a lot with damascus steel. Also katanas are made of plain carbon steels so a bit of a different structure.
The hobby stuff is just pattern welding but the real stuff is not a mystery. A challenge is getting all those different metal carbides in there in the same quantities without it being from the same ores as in the historical pieces, a bit much for a hobby.
One thing that probably has you fooled is thinking full modern furnace temperatures were used in making the steel instead of the much lower temperatures needed to pour cast iron. A thousand years ago it wasn't easy to get ordinary coal or charcoal that hot - hence a mixture of wrought "sponge iron" and white cast iron being forged together instead of pouring low carbon steel out in ingots. Look at the top end of the iron-carbon phase diagram to see how much hotter you've got to get things to pour 0.5%C steel than a cast iron.
There is another - put it at zero since it over-rides the lot. Practical considerations. Demand is not a square wave so there is a place for small units. Arbitrary grade school level comparisons such as many of the ranters use are not relevant. What is relevant is comparing generation methods in the same niche with each other. The ranters go on about how wonderful nukes are without understanding that since demand is not constant even a perfect nuke in an ideal world is not going to be able to cover all supply needs. The things are huge and we need other sources to fill the gaps.
As for gas, prices historically have varied a lot (even doubling or halving) and will in the future which certainly adds to that slippery concept.
Not sold at cost - you really don't get this capitalism thing do you?
So the government should step in and stop the wind generators? Lend me some roubles comrade, I need to line up for toilet paper in your perfect society.
All this naive charging at windmills would have your great-grandad laugh at you and smack you on the back of the head. There's a novel that's been out for centuries that shows how stupid this shit is.
Polanski's case is slightly more complex than you make out
Not for the purposes of comparing with copyright violation.
The special pleading you've put up applies to just about all convicted criminals - Judges are "cruel" sometimes, especially in the case of violent crimes (you've pretended here that an outright violent rape with injury was not just because age definitions also apply - a nauseating bit of revisionist apologism really).
Don't connect stuff to the side of a rocket put it on top instead.
It's a special series of changes, constraints and a tight timeline that resulted in that with the space shuttle so I doubt that's ever going to be done that way again by anybody. NASA knew it was a bad idea but they had a new condition to get to polar orbits for spook/military flights and had an Apollo sized envelope for maximum height.
Why do they have to be exposed during reentry? Plenty of space vehicles have had external portions that could never survive the conditions the heat shielding has to withstand. It's a matter of not exposing them to that relatively high pressure high speed airflow and hiding them behind something that can cope.
are also useless when comparing unreliable generators with low capacity factors
All generators used for the purpose of supplying power during times of peak load have a "low capacity factors" whether they are reliable or not because you take stuff offline when the peak is over and you don't need to use it! WTF is it with these weasels? Do you think you are being clever by badly misusing a term you do not understand in the hope that nobody else knows what it means? I'm no fan of wind but I'm even less of a fan of people who have decided to attack anything with the slightest tinge of "green" for the sake of being good little party comrades.
What is nonsensical is using the metric of a charge to the consumers and pretending that it is equal to the costs to the producer. That's very socialist of you but it's not how those wind farms are run. The Australian example is apt because once again that is in setting where there is a market and not some socialist thing that you are pretending is at work and presumably want to inflict on all of us.
Mao is dead and central planning of everything with no niche for private enterprise is dead. Time to wake up.
I get your point but maybe a bad example because Damascus steel was made in India at a small commercial scale until a bit after WW2 and the "secret" was used with similar steels with two different starting materials in a lot of places. It was supplanted with a cheaper process that resulted in a material almost as good with far less effort but never really "lost". Before WW1 there were wrought naval artillery pieces made the same way but with steam hammers (Imperial Japan). Cool stuff, but the "quenched in the blood of a redhead" or "ground up and fed to chickens then the powder forged" fictions have overwhelmed the real information about huge amounts of forging, careful temperature control and long tempering times that is of interest to metallurgist but dismissed as boring by people craving the romance of the lost. A lot of historical artifacts have been polished up and examined under the microscope to see if that banding is from that same pattern welding as seen in India, and those same materials as seen in India, so it's pretty conclusive that the "it's been lost" people were just not asking the people who knew how to make it.
Q: Can they take Polanski's assets too? A: Obviously not. Copyright violation is to some rogue agencies a far more heinous crime than violently raping a child and fleeing the country to escape justice.
It's utterly ridiculous how overblown this "war against piracy" is.
To take a look at how nonsensical your argument is apply it to coal fired power generation in Australia. According to the amount charged to consumers it must be far less effective than wind and everything else in the USA and Europe - but it's a false metric and a ridiculous one to use because electricity generating costs using coal are very low but the consumer is getting screwed over by other factors.
Why would someone champion the most expensive, highest maintenance source of energy?
Because anyone pushing "one true energy" is either trying to scam you or a deluded fanboy. Wind has a place in the same niche as gas turbines. When gas prices are high it's no longer "the most expensive" even if it is when gas prices are low.
How about taking a "grown up" approach instead of a dumbed down assumption that demand is constant and large units can do everything? We need tiny units to fill in the gaps. Wind is just one of many of those things that do not scale well but are useful to have when everyone gets home and turns stuff on.
As a former materials engineer (now computer type) I can tell you there is a lot of epoxy in those windmills and they've been running in coastal environments for decades since that's where a lot of wind is. Those expensive materials are already in use and the lifetime of parts in a full marine environment isn't likely to be much less than some existing coastal units that get a huge amount of salt water sprayed over them already.
Maintenance on land based windmills is expensive and dangerous
Yes but that's very well known now and factored in. It's not as if demand is flat so it's not so hard to bring a tiny (in terms of generating capacity) unit offline until it can be fixed.
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SUSPECTS?
How is "Our source suspects" proof? Other articles have been referring to IBM hosting that lot because the ABS just does not have anything close to the infrastructure to do it in-house and a proposal to acquire more servers was denied last year.
If it's from the article please quote the relevant portion because I did not see anything to support what you suggested either there or in other articles.
Also I did not accuse you of "making stuff up" - it's interesting that you are suggesting that I did instead of what I did do which was ask a question. Why do you think I was accusing you of making things up? Should I be assuming you are instead of just having information I have not seen?
Sadly your overall point is you see a problem you do not know how to solve, think others don't know either and have not noticed the evidence that others have solved far more difficult problems of the same type.
You've grasped at a straw to push an agenda and it doesn't fit. I suggest either you try another or try an approach other than pushing an agenda for the sake of it.
It may help if you think of industrial uses instead of just a knee-jerk "but it's green so I must attack it to be a good Party Comrade" approach. This stuff really isn't "green" it's just extra machinery to make things run better in the modern world. It's only seen as "green" because British Petroleum and other major donors get money from things that it competes with.
"Meaningless decisions" like not employing enough people to do a task you mean? Why yes, indeed they are incapable just as you would be when confronted with a task you do not have the resources to attempt.
Need material for your nuclear weapons program but can't get the right isotopes?
CANDU
India did that after all.
That's as far as the "reprocessing" goes with that reactor.
For general high grade waste processing, no it's not going to work with current reactors running today. There's a thorium based design that looks like it will come closer than anything before but there is no magic yet that will reprocess everything in fuel rods let alone other nuclear waste.
To get some perspective I suggest you consider how much fuel is in a large airliner and how there are greater consequences of shifting fluid affecting maneuverability. So while you have perceptively identified a potential problem you are on page one while many others are 500 pages into dealing with the problem.
The Chief Statistician is fairly new and stepped in to fill a 12 month+ vacancy. The true blame lies above that level and dates to before his employment.
"Denial of service attack" by means of cutting resources and by people in politics pushing a scare campaign to get people to all log in on the same night in fear of being fined for doing it a day late.
Where did you get that from?
Everything else I've read disagrees with that and says that IBM was hosting the VMs for the ABS.
The thing to look up is Indian wootz steel. It has huge amounts of carbon (1.5%C) and a lot of chrome among other things. There are people that say the art was lost in the 18th century in Europe, but that's just a case of moving on to less difficult materials in a place where they could be made. Elsewhere around the world the technique was still used.
The job of a Judge is to consider things like that and choose what degree of punishment to apply.
Yet nothing ruled - just grumbles - if they are real that is and not just part of the PR that was applied.
Bullshit. If it's about misconduct of a Judge then that gets dealt with without some weird conspiracy theory circus that you seem to be making noise about.
The very obvious one - comparing a very high profile criminal action versus a civil copyright issue and how the latter is being dealt with disproportionately. It's a very good example because Polanski was found guilty so that should immediately rule about unusual posts like yours - there is no question he did the crime so it comes down to the question of why so much more effort is going into getting a suspect of a copyright infringement matter than a convicted rapist.
No that's what a modern steel looks like - look up "pearlite". It's not just islands but "large" distinct bands of metal carbides (not just iron) rich "bainite" broken up a lot by heat treatment in the Damascus steel (so that the stuff doesn't just shatter). Japanese craftsmen do something similar but not quite the same with some slightly different precursor materials (not much other than iron carbides) which is a bit easier to follow since there is almost no post forging heat treatment.
It's a really good example to teach students about alloys since it's making a material with desirable properties from the two parts - one a really brittle thing with a lot of iron and many other metal carbides and the other very soft almost pure iron. Similar to the body of a katana but with far less distinct layers since there is a lot more diffusion - the layers blend into each other a lot with damascus steel. Also katanas are made of plain carbon steels so a bit of a different structure.
The hobby stuff is just pattern welding but the real stuff is not a mystery. A challenge is getting all those different metal carbides in there in the same quantities without it being from the same ores as in the historical pieces, a bit much for a hobby.
One thing that probably has you fooled is thinking full modern furnace temperatures were used in making the steel instead of the much lower temperatures needed to pour cast iron. A thousand years ago it wasn't easy to get ordinary coal or charcoal that hot - hence a mixture of wrought "sponge iron" and white cast iron being forged together instead of pouring low carbon steel out in ingots. Look at the top end of the iron-carbon phase diagram to see how much hotter you've got to get things to pour 0.5%C steel than a cast iron.
There is another - put it at zero since it over-rides the lot.
Practical considerations.
Demand is not a square wave so there is a place for small units.
Arbitrary grade school level comparisons such as many of the ranters use are not relevant. What is relevant is comparing generation methods in the same niche with each other.
The ranters go on about how wonderful nukes are without understanding that since demand is not constant even a perfect nuke in an ideal world is not going to be able to cover all supply needs. The things are huge and we need other sources to fill the gaps.
As for gas, prices historically have varied a lot (even doubling or halving) and will in the future which certainly adds to that slippery concept.
Not sold at cost - you really don't get this capitalism thing do you?
So the government should step in and stop the wind generators?
Lend me some roubles comrade, I need to line up for toilet paper in your perfect society.
All this naive charging at windmills would have your great-grandad laugh at you and smack you on the back of the head. There's a novel that's been out for centuries that shows how stupid this shit is.
Not for the purposes of comparing with copyright violation.
The special pleading you've put up applies to just about all convicted criminals - Judges are "cruel" sometimes, especially in the case of violent crimes (you've pretended here that an outright violent rape with injury was not just because age definitions also apply - a nauseating bit of revisionist apologism really).
It's a special series of changes, constraints and a tight timeline that resulted in that with the space shuttle so I doubt that's ever going to be done that way again by anybody. NASA knew it was a bad idea but they had a new condition to get to polar orbits for spook/military flights and had an Apollo sized envelope for maximum height.
Why do they have to be exposed during reentry? Plenty of space vehicles have had external portions that could never survive the conditions the heat shielding has to withstand. It's a matter of not exposing them to that relatively high pressure high speed airflow and hiding them behind something that can cope.
All generators used for the purpose of supplying power during times of peak load have a "low capacity factors" whether they are reliable or not because you take stuff offline when the peak is over and you don't need to use it!
WTF is it with these weasels?
Do you think you are being clever by badly misusing a term you do not understand in the hope that nobody else knows what it means?
I'm no fan of wind but I'm even less of a fan of people who have decided to attack anything with the slightest tinge of "green" for the sake of being good little party comrades.
Hey kid - wanna buy a bridge?
.How naive can you get?
What is nonsensical is using the metric of a charge to the consumers and pretending that it is equal to the costs to the producer.
That's very socialist of you but it's not how those wind farms are run.
The Australian example is apt because once again that is in setting where there is a market and not some socialist thing that you are pretending is at work and presumably want to inflict on all of us.
Mao is dead and central planning of everything with no niche for private enterprise is dead. Time to wake up.
I get your point but maybe a bad example because Damascus steel was made in India at a small commercial scale until a bit after WW2 and the "secret" was used with similar steels with two different starting materials in a lot of places. It was supplanted with a cheaper process that resulted in a material almost as good with far less effort but never really "lost". Before WW1 there were wrought naval artillery pieces made the same way but with steam hammers (Imperial Japan).
Cool stuff, but the "quenched in the blood of a redhead" or "ground up and fed to chickens then the powder forged" fictions have overwhelmed the real information about huge amounts of forging, careful temperature control and long tempering times that is of interest to metallurgist but dismissed as boring by people craving the romance of the lost. A lot of historical artifacts have been polished up and examined under the microscope to see if that banding is from that same pattern welding as seen in India, and those same materials as seen in India, so it's pretty conclusive that the "it's been lost" people were just not asking the people who knew how to make it.
We only think it's reality. We are in a the treehouse of horror episode about the two aliens running for office.
If you need to get to the kernel for something like a game you are doing it wrong.
Q: Can they take Polanski's assets too?
A: Obviously not. Copyright violation is to some rogue agencies a far more heinous crime than violently raping a child and fleeing the country to escape justice.
It's utterly ridiculous how overblown this "war against piracy" is.
Because anyone pushing "one true energy" is either trying to scam you or a deluded fanboy. Wind has a place in the same niche as gas turbines. When gas prices are high it's no longer "the most expensive" even if it is when gas prices are low.
How about taking a "grown up" approach instead of a dumbed down assumption that demand is constant and large units can do everything? We need tiny units to fill in the gaps. Wind is just one of many of those things that do not scale well but are useful to have when everyone gets home and turns stuff on.
Yes but that's very well known now and factored in. It's not as if demand is flat so it's not so hard to bring a tiny (in terms of generating capacity) unit offline until it can be fixed.