Not to mention both dallas and houston sit on top of 50 ft of clay the consistency of partially frozen jello pudding.
I am not a brick-maker, but this looks like an excellent resource to bake bricks. And it is, as you write, incredibly abundant. So it should be easy (and cheap) to build thick brick walls. My house has 24 cm (10 in) brick walls which provide a decent heat insulation. Not by today's German standards for new houses, of course, but well enough.
Maybe since the water is the medium for the sound that is causing them pain, they are trying to leave that medium to stop the pain. I don't know, but makes sense to me.
Yes, and maybe it's simply a rudimentary (leftover) instinct. AFAIK their ancestors were land-dwellers before entering the oceans. In the transition period it would have been essential for survival to evade some unbearable pain (or generally a situation they can't parse) by returning to land.
As they got more and more used to living in the oceans, the situations where this instinct was triggered became less frequent. And when they finally became unable to return to land, the (now fatal) escape-to-land alerts had become so rare that they didn't hurt the population as a whole, so the instinct never fully went away.
Then don't drive in the fast lane. There's nothing more annoying than somebody who refuses to move-over to the slower lane.
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In fact in many U.S. states hogging the fast lane is illegal, because it blocks traffic. In those states, you're only supposed to use that lane for passing over vehicles, and I've seen police pull-over people who refused to move over.
AFAIK hogging the fast lane is illegal throughout all of Europe. And I find sure it annoying, too. But that's not my point.
I am talking about people who don't want to see you on the fast lane ever. They bought a car that goes 300 km/h (186 mph) and they believe they bought the fast lane along with it.
So if you have a car that goes 140 km/h (86 mph) only (or if you don't want to drive faster because you care about saving fuel) you have two choices: Stay behind the trucks forever or check for traffic in the rear-view mirror, double check, triple check, then hit the gas, sneak on the fast lane and try to leave it before some amateur Michael Schumacher (who was beyond the horizon when you entered the fast lane) honks and flashes you into the ditch.
Now comes the interesting thing: The consequence is that everybody hogs the fast lane. Because if you're polite and don't you'll never make it there. Sometimes the fast lane is full of cars honking and flashing, getting slower and slower, while there is only the odd truck and a few little old ladies on the slow lane. Unlimited speed jams the road making it slower. And everyboy's pissed. Doh.
Look at places such as Germany where there are roads without speed limits...
As the article points out, in a modern car you don't feel like you're going very fast, so cruising along at 70mph will send you to sleep... Cruising along at 150mph on the other hand keeps you alert.
Sure, it might keep you alert, but it also makes you an asshole. Especially since you have nothing to fear with the safety tech all around you.
I am German and I have been driving here for 25 years, and believe me, I hate the Autobahn without speed limits. Especially on a motorcycle without any fancy gizmos to give you comfort and save your life, with a 500 hp Mercedes 1/2 metre behind your tail light. These people do not want you on the fast lane, and they do what they can to scare you off.
It's a fight. Nowhere in the world do people drive as aggressively as here. And IMHO it is due to 2 factors: The missing speed limit and the safety tech. It used to be different 25 years ago when there were no airbags and ABS and ESP yet, so everybody had to drive cautiously.
Whenever I return from a trip to a neighboring country I am shocked by the sudden change in the other drivers' attitude when I cross the border. What shocks me even more is how I play along and enter battle mode. If I am in a car, that is. I choose small roads when I ride my bike, both because it is more fun and safer.
Speed in itself is not so dangerous, most of the danger is caused by poor drivers and poorly maintained vehicles. I would feel much safer travelling at 150mph in a modern car with michael schumacher driving, than doing 20mph in a rustbucket driven by a drunk.
The problem is that everyone here believe they are Michael Schumacher and speed up accordingly. However, there is only one real Michael Schumacher and 80 million pathetic would-bes.
Put something on the USB key which you deem important to know (hear, see, read etc.), then 'lose' it somewhere. Someone might find it and check what's on it.
OK, there's the internet. Hm.. But I'd guess that people value a found piece of hardware higher than some arbitrary web page.
Which might as well be called common sense. Maybe the average Japanese doesn't want to be a jackass.
IMHO that's a good thing.
Another example: A friend who had spent some time in Japan told me that in large crowds Japanese tend to speak less loudly than usual. Over here, eveybody speaks more loudly, so eventually everybody needs to yell.
He should have made himself into a meme, then he will live on forever.
It is our solemn duty to do it for him. How about:
bobnefication [n.]: (of a web site) the act of being eternally under construction
or
Fly, bobne, fly! [interj.]: Doubtful reply to an announcement.
or simply
Welcome to my new Hompage which is still under construction.
These people simply snore. They drink too much, or whatever they do to balance their chakras, then suffer apnea during sleep. All the mentioned symptoms fit quite well:
FTFA: "headaches, dizziness, nausea, severe tiredness, brain fog, disorientation and loss of appetite, loss of balance, inability to concentrate, loss of creativity"
Look at China now, that's what America was like in the 1960's.
Americas rivers in the 60's had some issues, but are nothing like the waste we see/have seen in communist countries where people have less power to intervene against the state.
I don't know about American rivers, but you are definitely right about communist countries: I used to live near the German/German border where the river Elbe flowed from communist East Germany into West Germany. It was a blackish, stinking slush void of life until the wall came down in 1989. Then, most of East German heavy industry quickly collapsed, and sewage treatment plants were built. Consequently, the river cleaned up within a few years. Rare fish returned, people swim again etc.
But I guess the parent's right, too. Again this is not America, but the river Rhine (which flows entirely through non-communist countries) underwent a similar purification starting around 1960. Before that, industrial waste was simply poured into it. Then gradually, people became environment-aware, and made an effort at cleaning it. This was probably similar with American rivers.
Can you point to a specific river in China you are thinking of?
I spent a couple of weeks in China recently. My impression was that you don't need to talk about a specific river there. The Whole Country Is An Environmental Mess. I'd even say that any cent spent on environmental protection outside of China is wasted, because China is likely responsible for most of the world's pollution.
Well, except the US, maybe. For instance, to talk about "green" in Las Vegas of all places is a travesty.
As in the Netherlands, so probably an EU thing. Again, I don't know the rationale.
Same here in Germany. When I asked why, they told me it's required for immigration into the US. I *can* smile on the passport if I like, they said, but if I ever wanted to travel to the US I wouldn't get a visa.
So IMHO the big surprise is that the US is so slow to implement this at home.
Or maybe it's just that they don't want anyone to mistake Finland with some happy smiling nation.
Ha ha, greatest joke ever!
Seriously, I have talked a lot to Finnish people over the last two years, and the closest any of them ever came to being cheerful looked and sounded like serious cramps in the guts.
But as a part-time autist I get along fine with them.
Sure. There are always going to be eleventh hour changes.
The point is that the customers usually doesn't know their requirements themselves. The ask you for this and that, but only after seeing the first prototype they realize that it is not exactly (or even not at all) what they wanted.
And this is not an exception. At least in my experience. We had wasted a lot of time and money trying to analyze everything, most of it in vain. Then we went agile, showing prototypes as early as possible, which always cuts a lengthy, fruitless analysis short.
I just returned from a 2-week trip to China. I had already been there a year ago, so I compared my internet experience; I had bookmarked all those sites that were apparently blocked.
The result is surprisingly positive: Many of these sites were unblocked, especially the Chinese wikipedia was almost unblocked; only a few pages still didn't load.
What still failed were sourceforge downloads from Taiwan, and Chinese language sites dealing explicitly with Tibet.
I didn't find any English site blocked.
All this corresponds to a much more friendly tone in Chinese media. Taiwan is called a "friend" and a "partner" now. Tibetian Buddhism is honoured quite openly. Even Japan is getting compliments, which were hard to find last year because of the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre.
Nope I said for "Base load"
Without good storage systems large scale solar and wind are useless. Nuclear can replace coal, oil, and natural gas base load plants. You would still want to use natural gas or hydrogen for peak plants. Gas turbines are the best solution for rapid production we have.
Use solar and wind to produce the hydrogen and methane or NH4 for those plants. Yes you can burn NH4.
Aw, mixed it up, sorry.
But the fact remains that nuclear fuel is limited, so it can serve only as a very short-lived solution if we use it at even remotely the same rate we are using fossil fuel now.
Producing methane for storage is a sweet idea. I wonder how efficient it is to create it from electricity, then burn it again to create energy.
The only practical replacement for baseload plants is nuclear.
Not really. As with all steam engines, nuclear plants require quite some time to ramp up to full capacity. So if you need some technology to dampen the humps and bumps of solar and wind, nuclear is no good.
And it's at best a temporary solution; the resources are just about as limited as fossile fuel.
I screwed a rake to the wall (without the stick), made a loop knot into each cable and hung them from the spikes. Every cable has a paper fastened to it with sticky tape, bearing the name of the device (because some of them look too similar). The cables don't entagle, and it takes a second to choose the right one.
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Not to mention both dallas and houston sit on top of 50 ft of clay the consistency of partially frozen jello pudding.
I am not a brick-maker, but this looks like an excellent resource to bake bricks. And it is, as you write, incredibly abundant. So it should be easy (and cheap) to build thick brick walls. My house has 24 cm (10 in) brick walls which provide a decent heat insulation. Not by today's German standards for new houses, of course, but well enough.
Maybe since the water is the medium for the sound that is causing them pain, they are trying to leave that medium to stop the pain. I don't know, but makes sense to me.
Yes, and maybe it's simply a rudimentary (leftover) instinct. AFAIK their ancestors were land-dwellers before entering the oceans. In the transition period it would have been essential for survival to evade some unbearable pain (or generally a situation they can't parse) by returning to land.
As they got more and more used to living in the oceans, the situations where this instinct was triggered became less frequent. And when they finally became unable to return to land, the (now fatal) escape-to-land alerts had become so rare that they didn't hurt the population as a whole, so the instinct never fully went away.
You mean they forgot to the article ?
No, I guess they simply misplaced a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5105
Free of nukes only works until some other 4 foot 9 dictator decides to raise his status the only way he can to impress the world.
I had no idea Dubya was that small.
But seriously, as a non-US citizen I find Obama's change in tone really refreshing. I mean how he treats the world at large as humans, not pawns.
American also has simpler and better spellings for many words, such as "draft" ("draught" in UK English; WTF is with all those extra letters?).
Why does this make me laf?
>>>These people do not want you on the fast lane
Then don't drive in the fast lane. There's nothing more annoying than somebody who refuses to move-over to the slower lane.
[...]
In fact in many U.S. states hogging the fast lane is illegal, because it blocks traffic. In those states, you're only supposed to use that lane for passing over vehicles, and I've seen police pull-over people who refused to move over.
AFAIK hogging the fast lane is illegal throughout all of Europe. And I find sure it annoying, too. But that's not my point.
I am talking about people who don't want to see you on the fast lane ever. They bought a car that goes 300 km/h (186 mph) and they believe they bought the fast lane along with it.
So if you have a car that goes 140 km/h (86 mph) only (or if you don't want to drive faster because you care about saving fuel) you have two choices: Stay behind the trucks forever or check for traffic in the rear-view mirror, double check, triple check, then hit the gas, sneak on the fast lane and try to leave it before some amateur Michael Schumacher (who was beyond the horizon when you entered the fast lane) honks and flashes you into the ditch.
Now comes the interesting thing: The consequence is that everybody hogs the fast lane. Because if you're polite and don't you'll never make it there. Sometimes the fast lane is full of cars honking and flashing, getting slower and slower, while there is only the odd truck and a few little old ladies on the slow lane. Unlimited speed jams the road making it slower. And everyboy's pissed. Doh.
That's the German Autobahn. You'll love it.
Look at places such as Germany where there are roads without speed limits...
As the article points out, in a modern car you don't feel like you're going very fast, so cruising along at 70mph will send you to sleep... Cruising along at 150mph on the other hand keeps you alert.
Sure, it might keep you alert, but it also makes you an asshole. Especially since you have nothing to fear with the safety tech all around you.
I am German and I have been driving here for 25 years, and believe me, I hate the Autobahn without speed limits. Especially on a motorcycle without any fancy gizmos to give you comfort and save your life, with a 500 hp Mercedes 1/2 metre behind your tail light. These people do not want you on the fast lane, and they do what they can to scare you off.
It's a fight. Nowhere in the world do people drive as aggressively as here. And IMHO it is due to 2 factors: The missing speed limit and the safety tech. It used to be different 25 years ago when there were no airbags and ABS and ESP yet, so everybody had to drive cautiously.
Whenever I return from a trip to a neighboring country I am shocked by the sudden change in the other drivers' attitude when I cross the border. What shocks me even more is how I play along and enter battle mode. If I am in a car, that is. I choose small roads when I ride my bike, both because it is more fun and safer.
Speed in itself is not so dangerous, most of the danger is caused by poor drivers and poorly maintained vehicles. I would feel much safer travelling at 150mph in a modern car with michael schumacher driving, than doing 20mph in a rustbucket driven by a drunk.
The problem is that everyone here believe they are Michael Schumacher and speed up accordingly. However, there is only one real Michael Schumacher and 80 million pathetic would-bes.
Put something on the USB key which you deem important to know (hear, see, read etc.), then 'lose' it somewhere. Someone might find it and check what's on it.
OK, there's the internet. Hm.. But I'd guess that people value a found piece of hardware higher than some arbitrary web page.
Crushing societal pressure to conform?
Which might as well be called common sense. Maybe the average Japanese doesn't want to be a jackass.
IMHO that's a good thing.
Another example: A friend who had spent some time in Japan told me that in large crowds Japanese tend to speak less loudly than usual. Over here, eveybody speaks more loudly, so eventually everybody needs to yell.
He should have made himself into a meme, then he will live on forever.
It is our solemn duty to do it for him. How about:
bobnefication [n.]: (of a web site) the act of being eternally under construction
or
Fly, bobne, fly! [interj.]: Doubtful reply to an announcement.
or simply
Welcome to my new Hompage which is still under construction.
So I'm not the only one who read that as Budweiser!
Incidentally Hacker is a brewery.
Yes, to get close to Germany the US needs five million homes / 25 gigawatts = 5kwh / home.
You're getting the units mixed up. A watt (W) is a unit of power. A watt-hour (Wh) is a unit of energy, i.e. power x time, which is not what you mean.
Many people get this wrong, and it usually creates quite some confusion when you talk about actual numbers. So pelase be careful.
I won't mention that your equation boils down to A/B=B/A, hence A=B :-)
These people simply snore. They drink too much, or whatever they do to balance their chakras, then suffer apnea during sleep. All the mentioned symptoms fit quite well:
FTFA: "headaches, dizziness, nausea, severe tiredness, brain fog, disorientation and loss of appetite, loss of balance, inability to concentrate, loss of creativity"
Look at China now, that's what America was like in the 1960's.
Americas rivers in the 60's had some issues, but are nothing like the waste we see/have seen in communist countries where people have less power to intervene against the state.
I don't know about American rivers, but you are definitely right about communist countries: I used to live near the German/German border where the river Elbe flowed from communist East Germany into West Germany. It was a blackish, stinking slush void of life until the wall came down in 1989. Then, most of East German heavy industry quickly collapsed, and sewage treatment plants were built. Consequently, the river cleaned up within a few years. Rare fish returned, people swim again etc.
But I guess the parent's right, too. Again this is not America, but the river Rhine (which flows entirely through non-communist countries) underwent a similar purification starting around 1960. Before that, industrial waste was simply poured into it. Then gradually, people became environment-aware, and made an effort at cleaning it. This was probably similar with American rivers.
Can you point to a specific river in China you are thinking of?
I spent a couple of weeks in China recently. My impression was that you don't need to talk about a specific river there. The Whole Country Is An Environmental Mess. I'd even say that any cent spent on environmental protection outside of China is wasted, because China is likely responsible for most of the world's pollution.
Well, except the US, maybe. For instance, to talk about "green" in Las Vegas of all places is a travesty.
As in the Netherlands, so probably an EU thing. Again, I don't know the rationale.
Same here in Germany. When I asked why, they told me it's required for immigration into the US. I *can* smile on the passport if I like, they said, but if I ever wanted to travel to the US I wouldn't get a visa.
So IMHO the big surprise is that the US is so slow to implement this at home.
Or maybe it's just that they don't want anyone to mistake Finland with some happy smiling nation.
Ha ha, greatest joke ever!
Seriously, I have talked a lot to Finnish people over the last two years, and the closest any of them ever came to being cheerful looked and sounded like serious cramps in the guts.
But as a part-time autist I get along fine with them.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/04/0241218
Sure. There are always going to be eleventh hour changes.
The point is that the customers usually doesn't know their requirements themselves. The ask you for this and that, but only after seeing the first prototype they realize that it is not exactly (or even not at all) what they wanted.
And this is not an exception. At least in my experience. We had wasted a lot of time and money trying to analyze everything, most of it in vain. Then we went agile, showing prototypes as early as possible, which always cuts a lengthy, fruitless analysis short.
Exactly. A worse evil does not justify evil. Hitler doesn't justify Manson.
Or, more contemporarily: 9/11 doesn't justify Guantanamo Bay.
The result is surprisingly positive: Many of these sites were unblocked, especially the Chinese wikipedia was almost unblocked; only a few pages still didn't load.
What still failed were sourceforge downloads from Taiwan, and Chinese language sites dealing explicitly with Tibet.
I didn't find any English site blocked.
All this corresponds to a much more friendly tone in Chinese media. Taiwan is called a "friend" and a "partner" now. Tibetian Buddhism is honoured quite openly. Even Japan is getting compliments, which were hard to find last year because of the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre.
Of course, I made only a small snapshot, YMMV.
Charles Stross's novel Glasshouse
A good read, too! I finished it yesterday, incidentallly.
Nope I said for "Base load" Without good storage systems large scale solar and wind are useless. Nuclear can replace coal, oil, and natural gas base load plants. You would still want to use natural gas or hydrogen for peak plants. Gas turbines are the best solution for rapid production we have. Use solar and wind to produce the hydrogen and methane or NH4 for those plants. Yes you can burn NH4.
Aw, mixed it up, sorry.
But the fact remains that nuclear fuel is limited, so it can serve only as a very short-lived solution if we use it at even remotely the same rate we are using fossil fuel now.
Producing methane for storage is a sweet idea. I wonder how efficient it is to create it from electricity, then burn it again to create energy.
The only practical replacement for baseload plants is nuclear.
Not really. As with all steam engines, nuclear plants require quite some time to ramp up to full capacity. So if you need some technology to dampen the humps and bumps of solar and wind, nuclear is no good.
And it's at best a temporary solution; the resources are just about as limited as fossile fuel.
Grammar Nazis' need entertainment.
What about apos'trophy Nazi's?
I screwed a rake to the wall (without the stick), made a loop knot into each cable and hung them from the spikes. Every cable has a paper fastened to it with sticky tape, bearing the name of the device (because some of them look too similar). The cables don't entagle, and it takes a second to choose the right one.
They may just like sun on their backs and not in their eyes.
Exactly this is why you should always first go north if your kid gets lost on the beach.
OTOH TFA says they ruled out effects of the sun.