800x600 in medium quality gives me 30FPS so I dropped it to low. The thing is games don't really look worse all that quickly anymore it's just people now want to play "High Quality" with 8x AA at 1920 x 1200 or higher resolution.
PS: All the eye candy in the world is not going to help it when the game sucks that bad so what's the point?
I am not just talking about CO2, I am talking about how what is in the atmosphere can alter the release of energy into space. Clouds are not a problem because their water which is a greenhouse gas tends to rain, but CO2 sticks around for a long time.
Deserts can get extremely hot in the day and quickly cool at night because they lack water. Science has a vary good understanding for why this is and it's basically the same explanation for why CO2 acts as a green house gas. But, because there is little political implications for this effect you don't find much misinformation about the topic on the web.
PS: Sorry if it seems like I am talking down to people but I am trying to be as clear as possible.
Cars use a lot more energy than you might think. They release carbon both in moving the car/truck/SUV's and refining the fuel. So a ~20% drop in car emissions would end up as a ~5-10% drop in CO2 emissions from the US.
Because there was a tiny amount of CO2 in the air and we are significantly increasing it. CO2 covers a different slice of EM radiation than other gasses (and it's a larger effect on outgoing energy than incoming energy) so by absorbing that slice you end up placing a worm blanket around the earth.
For a simple demonstration of this: Cloud cover reduce the amount of cooling that takes place at night. (On average large weather systems are also important.)
PS: This is a simple experiment that you can do over the course of a few months track Cloud cover and nightly temperature.
I would like to point out that for a wide rang of these cases the body works. Servival for an hour or two requires an amazing amount of the body's systems to work an complex balancing act. In nature there is little long term gain, but plenty of people have found fully grown frogs with extra legs ect. And there where plenty of "freak" shows in the early 1900's where people had an extra limb or where joined at the hip etc.
My point is while modern medicine let's us remove "extra" parts from people the human body is not a rigid design like a CPU where a tiny defect prevents it from working at all.
The hacked nature of DNA is what let's things evolve quickly. Think of how well conjoined twins work. You can build a person with 4 limbs that are "useless" but still under control of a single brain. You can have 2 harts in the same body and blood still flows etc etc. All of this from minor mutations or defects in the gestation process.
EX: The arrangement of your blood vessel's are not designed at the lowest level. They self balance and repair so each cubic mm of your body gets all the nutrients it needs. Your bones work the same way with minor breaks being repaired so the overall structure just as strong as it needs to be while still being light.
What limits higher organisms is how well thing already work. We don't need 4 arms so a second set that does not really work is not helpful. etc.
I did not sign a non compete and I kept working for the company for over a year. If they want a non compete say fine I want 50% over the average for my position. Company's only have the power people give them by blindly taking their crap.
On a lighter note the DoD has a CIO http://www.defenselink.mil/cio-nii/ but I think a government wide CIO might not be looking at the same stuff. However, even knowing that such organizations exist takes an insider at this point. I think it's easy for a new president to show up and say we need to create X so we can start doing Y even when there is already a group trying to get that done. Often the problem is people ignoring groups promoting change.
PS: Dammit, when did I start talking like a government drone.
If everyone considered the issues and then voted we would feel a stronger pull to the center. As people vote there is a long term give and take to the system. So for example: Obama's tax structure is a lower burden on the wealthy than after Reagan's first term, but it's heaver than Bush II's. His opponent wants to shift more of the tax burden to the middle class even if their total tax burden is already higher than the wealthy if you include SS, Medicare, Property, etc.
PS: IMO it's a question of extremism. I think the top marginal tax rate should be around 35% and some times that's above or below what people have payed so there are times I feel it should be increased and others where it should be reduced. However, it's hard to run on a policy of keeping things the same so there is a tendency keep getting rained in from extremes.
You can move to a country that has reasonable stances on drugs and privacy laws. It's not inside the US, but as long as you are willing to move and learn a new language it should not be a big deal.
PS: The fact that you have not already done this suggests that for all it's faults the US is still a nice place to live.
I don't think freemium MMO's work. Hellgate London is an example where you could still play the game while off line. You could play online with some restrictions for free, or you could pay money for some minor improvements. Granted the game was buggy, but I even with a perfect game most people would have just played for free.
only to their clients, exactly like doctors and their patients.
You might think this, but see what happens once the CDC is called because you contracted an interesting new ailment. In medicine there is an idea that once several people are at risk your patent should be treated with all the dignity and respect possible inside of quarantine.
It's all about corruption not heath care. 44% of all health care in the US is paid for by the government. This might seem odd considering how many people lack heath insurance and how much people need to pay out of pocket when they already have insurance but the simple fact is heath care is an expense to insurance companies which they try and reduce. They are not in the business of providing heath care at an affordable rate they are in the business of denying coverage.
They are a parasite which uses advertising to cover for the fact that when you really need coverage they are rarely there to help you. The power imbalance is such that 1 on 1 coverage is pointless for any major issues. If they where unable to know what your medical conditions where and had to separate coverage and cost from your medical conditions it might work but that's what government heath care is and what they are so afraid of. Basically, they are all to willing to sell coverage to healthy people like me but as long as they can drop you once something bad happens.
As I young person I don't really use my heath care plain and I am pure profit for now, but I know the system is not designed to help me as I age. We need to fix this and fix it now.
Yes, but most of these are not young people who have received a lot of taxpayer funded education and would otherwise be ready to lead a productive life. People need to remember opportunity cost and that the "economic benefits" of war are are an example of the broken window fallacy. Ignoring the damage to man and machine you need to realize every drop of fuel used in the Iraq war is gone forever as is all the high grade munitions etc.
After Iraq we are far less safe as there are even more people that hate the USA and the middle east is even less stable.
The top 1/1000th of one percent pay less of their income as a percentage than people making 40k/year. Including all taxes like SS, Medicare, Income Tax, sales tax etc. Our tax code is surprisingly flat with people at the vary top and vary bottom paying less than those in the middle.
I did this for a good 30 seconds and my finger never even felt that cold. Granted over time it might cause frost bite, but as long as you don't put that much of your body in there or touch the sides you should be OK for a reasonable length of time.
SS is already a progressive welfare system. Someone who makes minimum wage for 10 years can get a check for 500$/month but someone who pay's at the same rate for 30 years on 100k/year get's a much lower return. Two people who earn the same pay receive different benefits if they have a spouse who does not work. That's just welfare and broken.
SS is a federal income tax built to support a welfare system. As a high income earner we should tax everyone at the same rate and just accept that it's already welfare.
It's not that hard to understand with Chemical Rockets your reaction mass and your energy are the same thing. With Plasma Rocket's the reaction mass is faster but it does not provide any energy.
The reason why this is a good thing is over time a solar cell can provide a lot of energy per unit weight. Using systems like this you can dramatically alter the orbit of satellites without taking ridiculous amounts of fuel into orbit. Or for long range probes you can use nuclear energy and high velocity reaction mass to reach vary high speeds without using a lot of fuel.
Think of it like using a sailing ship vs fossil fuel boat. With fossil fuel you can cross the ocean in a few days... But once your boat runs out of fuel it's dead in the water so over time the sail boat can travel further.
As a side note at highway speeds drafting can significantly increase fuel efficiency by moving to a computer controlled highway system we could increase average fuel economy above what simple drag calculations would suggest.
PS: I don't think you will see out highway system getting this good but saying it's breaking some laws of physics is a different argument.
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For the most part the money might as well just have been burnt. Which would have cost the economy nothing vs the fuel and other resources wasted building this stupid waste of cash.
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Your at 4x the correct g. The rate of rotation is based off of the speed of the car relative to the speed of the ground. The top of the tire is moving at twice the speed of the car relative to the ground but the bottom is not moving relative to the ground. However, it's all 1x the speed of the car relative the center of the tire. Which is the frame of reference you need to calculate the centripetal force.
PS: It's also a good idea to note only the outside edge of the tire is under that much g loading as to move to the center of the tire the g forces drop to zero. (It's still an insane speed to rotate a tire.)
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800x600 in medium quality gives me 30FPS so I dropped it to low. The thing is games don't really look worse all that quickly anymore it's just people now want to play "High Quality" with 8x AA at 1920 x 1200 or higher resolution.
PS: All the eye candy in the world is not going to help it when the game sucks that bad so what's the point?
Not to be pedantic, but a pin hole camera uses no lens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_camera.
My 3 year old system plays Crysis.
I am not just talking about CO2, I am talking about how what is in the atmosphere can alter the release of energy into space. Clouds are not a problem because their water which is a greenhouse gas tends to rain, but CO2 sticks around for a long time.
Deserts can get extremely hot in the day and quickly cool at night because they lack water. Science has a vary good understanding for why this is and it's basically the same explanation for why CO2 acts as a green house gas. But, because there is little political implications for this effect you don't find much misinformation about the topic on the web.
PS: Sorry if it seems like I am talking down to people but I am trying to be as clear as possible.
Cars use a lot more energy than you might think. They release carbon both in moving the car/truck /SUV's and refining the fuel. So a ~20% drop in car emissions would end up as a ~5-10% drop in CO2 emissions from the US.
Because there was a tiny amount of CO2 in the air and we are significantly increasing it. CO2 covers a different slice of EM radiation than other gasses (and it's a larger effect on outgoing energy than incoming energy) so by absorbing that slice you end up placing a worm blanket around the earth.
For a simple demonstration of this: Cloud cover reduce the amount of cooling that takes place at night. (On average large weather systems are also important.)
PS: This is a simple experiment that you can do over the course of a few months track Cloud cover and nightly temperature.
I would like to point out that for a wide rang of these cases the body works. Servival for an hour or two requires an amazing amount of the body's systems to work an complex balancing act. In nature there is little long term gain, but plenty of people have found fully grown frogs with extra legs ect. And there where plenty of "freak" shows in the early 1900's where people had an extra limb or where joined at the hip etc.
My point is while modern medicine let's us remove "extra" parts from people the human body is not a rigid design like a CPU where a tiny defect prevents it from working at all.
The hacked nature of DNA is what let's things evolve quickly. Think of how well conjoined twins work. You can build a person with 4 limbs that are "useless" but still under control of a single brain. You can have 2 harts in the same body and blood still flows etc etc. All of this from minor mutations or defects in the gestation process.
EX: The arrangement of your blood vessel's are not designed at the lowest level. They self balance and repair so each cubic mm of your body gets all the nutrients it needs. Your bones work the same way with minor breaks being repaired so the overall structure just as strong as it needs to be while still being light.
What limits higher organisms is how well thing already work. We don't need 4 arms so a second set that does not really work is not helpful. etc.
Non non-compete's don't hold up if they fire you.
I did not sign a non compete and I kept working for the company for over a year. If they want a non compete say fine I want 50% over the average for my position. Company's only have the power people give them by blindly taking their crap.
On a lighter note the DoD has a CIO http://www.defenselink.mil/cio-nii/ but I think a government wide CIO might not be looking at the same stuff. However, even knowing that such organizations exist takes an insider at this point. I think it's easy for a new president to show up and say we need to create X so we can start doing Y even when there is already a group trying to get that done. Often the problem is people ignoring groups promoting change.
PS: Dammit, when did I start talking like a government drone.
If everyone considered the issues and then voted we would feel a stronger pull to the center. As people vote there is a long term give and take to the system. So for example: Obama's tax structure is a lower burden on the wealthy than after Reagan's first term, but it's heaver than Bush II's. His opponent wants to shift more of the tax burden to the middle class even if their total tax burden is already higher than the wealthy if you include SS, Medicare, Property, etc.
PS: IMO it's a question of extremism. I think the top marginal tax rate should be around 35% and some times that's above or below what people have payed so there are times I feel it should be increased and others where it should be reduced. However, it's hard to run on a policy of keeping things the same so there is a tendency keep getting rained in from extremes.
You can move to a country that has reasonable stances on drugs and privacy laws. It's not inside the US, but as long as you are willing to move and learn a new language it should not be a big deal.
PS: The fact that you have not already done this suggests that for all it's faults the US is still a nice place to live.
I don't think freemium MMO's work. Hellgate London is an example where you could still play the game while off line. You could play online with some restrictions for free, or you could pay money for some minor improvements. Granted the game was buggy, but I even with a perfect game most people would have just played for free.
only to their clients, exactly like doctors and their patients.
You might think this, but see what happens once the CDC is called because you contracted an interesting new ailment. In medicine there is an idea that once several people are at risk your patent should be treated with all the dignity and respect possible inside of quarantine.
It's all about corruption not heath care. 44% of all health care in the US is paid for by the government. This might seem odd considering how many people lack heath insurance and how much people need to pay out of pocket when they already have insurance but the simple fact is heath care is an expense to insurance companies which they try and reduce. They are not in the business of providing heath care at an affordable rate they are in the business of denying coverage.
They are a parasite which uses advertising to cover for the fact that when you really need coverage they are rarely there to help you. The power imbalance is such that 1 on 1 coverage is pointless for any major issues. If they where unable to know what your medical conditions where and had to separate coverage and cost from your medical conditions it might work but that's what government heath care is and what they are so afraid of. Basically, they are all to willing to sell coverage to healthy people like me but as long as they can drop you once something bad happens.
As I young person I don't really use my heath care plain and I am pure profit for now, but I know the system is not designed to help me as I age. We need to fix this and fix it now.
Yes, but most of these are not young people who have received a lot of taxpayer funded education and would otherwise be ready to lead a productive life. People need to remember opportunity cost and that the "economic benefits" of war are are an example of the broken window fallacy. Ignoring the damage to man and machine you need to realize every drop of fuel used in the Iraq war is gone forever as is all the high grade munitions etc.
After Iraq we are far less safe as there are even more people that hate the USA and the middle east is even less stable.
Civil statutes are limited in the ratio of damages to penalties. Criminal statues are far less limited.
http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/legal_issues/legal_updates/us_supreme_court/punitive_damage_awards.htm
The top 1/1000th of one percent pay less of their income as a percentage than people making 40k/year. Including all taxes like SS, Medicare, Income Tax, sales tax etc. Our tax code is surprisingly flat with people at the vary top and vary bottom paying less than those in the middle.
I did this for a good 30 seconds and my finger never even felt that cold. Granted over time it might cause frost bite, but as long as you don't put that much of your body in there or touch the sides you should be OK for a reasonable length of time.
SS is already a progressive welfare system. Someone who makes minimum wage for 10 years can get a check for 500$/month but someone who pay's at the same rate for 30 years on 100k/year get's a much lower return. Two people who earn the same pay receive different benefits if they have a spouse who does not work. That's just welfare and broken.
SS is a federal income tax built to support a welfare system. As a high income earner we should tax everyone at the same rate and just accept that it's already welfare.
It's not that hard to understand with Chemical Rockets your reaction mass and your energy are the same thing. With Plasma Rocket's the reaction mass is faster but it does not provide any energy.
The reason why this is a good thing is over time a solar cell can provide a lot of energy per unit weight. Using systems like this you can dramatically alter the orbit of satellites without taking ridiculous amounts of fuel into orbit. Or for long range probes you can use nuclear energy and high velocity reaction mass to reach vary high speeds without using a lot of fuel.
Think of it like using a sailing ship vs fossil fuel boat. With fossil fuel you can cross the ocean in a few days... But once your boat runs out of fuel it's dead in the water so over time the sail boat can travel further.
(velocity^3) so at 55mph you could do 900mph we already have 46% effecent powerplants. And nothing is stopping us from hitting 50%. http://w1.siemens.com/innovation/en/news_events/ct_pressemitteilungen/index/e_research_news/2008/index/e_22_resnews_0814_2.htm
As a side note at highway speeds drafting can significantly increase fuel efficiency by moving to a computer controlled highway system we could increase average fuel economy above what simple drag calculations would suggest.
PS: I don't think you will see out highway system getting this good but saying it's breaking some laws of physics is a different argument.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
For the most part the money might as well just have been burnt. Which would have cost the economy nothing vs the fuel and other resources wasted building this stupid waste of cash.
Your at 4x the correct g. The rate of rotation is based off of the speed of the car relative to the speed of the ground. The top of the tire is moving at twice the speed of the car relative to the ground but the bottom is not moving relative to the ground. However, it's all 1x the speed of the car relative the center of the tire. Which is the frame of reference you need to calculate the centripetal force. PS: It's also a good idea to note only the outside edge of the tire is under that much g loading as to move to the center of the tire the g forces drop to zero. (It's still an insane speed to rotate a tire.)