If they're considering the possibility of the Auroch being used for food (I guess it was before if it was hunted so much), it's fair to ask what advantages it might have over modern cattle. Specifically I'm wondering about the carbon footprint per pound of meat, milk etc.
Can industry be trusted to act responsibly? I was shocked to learn how far a large cattle operation in California went to alter what was being taught (or wasn't) at a University well know for Agriculture.
Cuz increasingly that's all we have left. Especially now that money-printing business has hit the fan.
Yes, with so many of the other things the U.S. has exported having been replaced by goods from China, it really shouldn't be unexpected to see heavy protection of an industry that generates major export income.
It's interesting to note that the Chinese appear to be suppressing Avatar which, while extremely popular, is effectively being ordered off the screens after a short run to make way for a local production. They're doing it in a sneaky way by ordering that only the 3D version be shown, even though there's a very tiny percentage of theaters capable of showing in 3D. The local film set to start is not a 3D film.
Put him in a room, and turn the wireless on and off. Guaranteed he won't be able to tell the difference.
(I agree) If this guy really were affected, he should have even more trouble from the signal leaking out of microwave ovens. They operate in the same frequency range. Although they're designed minimize signal radiation, they're still likely to radiate a significant signal since they produce it at well over 10,000 times the power level used in WiFi gear. He also would be much closer to his oven than to the neighbor's wireless.
There was recently a story about how people with a high-fat, high-sugar diet have different microbes in their stomach that allow them to absorb a higher % of calories from those fat/sugar than a more moderate diet.
Some have made quite a fuss over the methane coming from cows. Considering how many people there are on this planet, it probably makes more sense to focus on the methane coming from people. The mix of intestinal flora affects the amounts of methane and other gases a person produces. Perhaps diet modification and other efforts to affect human floral balance could reduce our contributions of this greenhouse gas.
The high-corn diet that fattens up feed-lot cattle affects more than their weight (and methane production?). Because of the higher acidity present in corn-fed cattle as compared with range fed, the e-coli they carry adapts. The e-coli adapted to higher acidity is far more of a problem for humans than that from range-fed cattle.
Maybe it's time that we start thinking of bad diet as another form of pollution.
The iPhone SDK supports interfacing to external devices. Who wants to write the Bluetooth App that'll trigger a high or orgasm instead of a ringtone when selected people call?
With a multipoint interface matrix, a choice of responses could be made available.
I suppose calls from others could make you twitch, fart, or react in other special ways
There's no way he's running that much gear simultaneously on the available power in that vehicle.
Would you have a less difficult time believing that someone can power a 1000 Watt audio system in a car? Chances are he's got a beefed up alternator, and runs the radios on a secondary battery. That way he won't end up stranded somewhere. Even some people using (illegal) amplifiers on CB radios have done such things.
He's only going to be transmitting on one radio at a time, perhaps having several radios monitoring and handheld units trickle charging. Mobile and handheld radios don't draw much current in receive mode.
Why so many radios? It helps to be a bit crazy. This reminds me of David Bowie, in the movie The Man Who Feel To Earth, being able to watch a bunch of tv programs at one time. But having equipment to cover a number of different bands gives that ham more than just a higher channel count. There is no one band that is best for everything. Even for talking directly to just one far away person, the band that'll work best depends on the time of day, the time of year and sunspot activity. He may be doing things besides voice or morse-code contact. He could be doing two way tv. And a VOM and oscilloscope or spectrum analyzer is more than just junk in the right hands. There was a time when many hams made some of their own equipment. Many know quite a bit about electronics.
Chances are good that dealing with antennas for all of those different bands and radios is a tougher problem than finding enough power.
But wonder what's going on inside the guy's head tho, he acts like he would be in an action movie:
Perhaps some action movies functioned as training and provided role models for this guy. Watching too much bad stuff may make it seem more normal, making a line a bit easier to cross.
Doing away with all of the potential HTML, javascript, Java, Flash etc vulnerabilities by having a forced plain text only mode would sure help with security and privacy issues.
No it doesn't. Most plants only operate at 1-2% photosynthetic efficiency, the most efficient crops maybe at 7%, and the theoretical maximum is 11% [wikipedia.org].
Compare that to solar cells which have 15-20%, in the laboratory even 40% efficiency. The advantage of photosynthesis is not efficiency, but price and resiliency, with the "cells" manufacturing themselves.
We should also look at the overall efficiency including the end use. Combustion to produce mechanical energy is going to be less efficient than for electricity to mechanical energy, but we also need to take into account the losses from electricity storage/retrieval. And there's the matter of losses related to weight differences. Regenerative braking can reduce those some, but heavy batteries are still quite a burden. Not taking manufacturing into account it would seem that both schemes are carbon neutral since the carbon taken from the air by the plants is given back during combustion.
Solar cell and battery production are both expensive, but solar cells may be better used to capture energy in a residential environment. I don't know if residential biofuel production could become viable. Availability of land may be an issue for any type of solar energy capture, so it makes sense to look at using residential space too.
It seems that for many communities wastewater/sewage treatment is becoming very costly. I've had periods where I paid more for sewer fees than my combined electricity and natural gas costs. I would hope that some methods could be developed to get some biofuel, hydrogen or electricity out of the process of breaking the waste down into something environmentally friendly. Considering that the waste is contaminated with medications (not just pills dumped in the toilet, but what passes through people), it's probably better to be using sewer sludge for biofuel production than for food-crop fertilizer. I was concerned when I found out that a great deal of Los Angeles sludge goes to the central California valley area for use as fertilizer. Although I have read/heard that people are being discouraged from dumping extra medications down the toilet, I've never heard anything about the contamination from drugs people consume. I believe that the drug levels are significant. If meth users can get high from drinking the piss of other meth users, other drugs people take are likely to be present in significant amounts too.
Interesting clip from 2nd link: When he originally gave a stake in Craigslist to the executive that sold his shares to eBay, Mr. Newmark said, he never expected them to be worth anything. "I made a gift of some equity in craigslist to a guy who was working with me at the time," Mr. Newmark wrote on his Internet blog (www.cnewmark.com). "I figured it didn't matter, since everyone agreed that the equity had only symbolic value, not dollar value."
Wellfrom the show Merlin (get season 2 episodes from a torrent site near you), I've yet to see the local drug store offering a potion for making trolls attractive. Or does beer count? http://www.flickr.com/photos/97117914@N00/440043690/
I guess the government did work on some kind of "gay bomb"... something to give enemy soldiers uncontrollable urges to have sex with each other, apparently with some feeling rather uncomfortable about it afterwards.
Something special for the dancers at the Microsoft store? It sure would have spiced up those launch parties.
This article makes far reaching 'guesses' without any hard science to back it up.
The leap from this to the change in male to female ratio was a total guess. This reads more like a sensational news story than any sort of scientific paper.
There certainly is room for debate over things like dolls. Some would prefer harder data, like penis size.
Seriously, though, the logic is sound and the current population trends [census.gov] are clear.
Did they stop to consider the possibility that the men were part of this equation? Could the same results be seen if it turned out that a higher than average percentage of tall slender men turned out to be gay?
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I wonder what'll happen when someone cracks it and starts broadcasting a signal to shut down all the GM cars?
Don't worry, no one will know how... unless your auto manufacturer is using Windows!
If they're considering the possibility of the Auroch being used for food (I guess it was before if it was hunted so much), it's fair to ask what advantages it might have over modern cattle.
Specifically I'm wondering about the carbon footprint per pound of meat, milk etc.
Can industry be trusted to act responsibly? I was shocked to learn how far a large cattle operation in California went to alter what was being taught (or wasn't) at a University well know for Agriculture.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/story/983620.html
We still have corn syrup!
There's also sugar production from beets (in California).
Cuz increasingly that's all we have left. Especially now that money-printing business has hit the fan.
Yes, with so many of the other things the U.S. has exported having been replaced by goods from China, it really shouldn't be unexpected to see heavy protection of an industry that generates major export income.
It's interesting to note that the Chinese appear to be suppressing Avatar which, while extremely popular, is effectively being ordered off the screens after a short run to make way for a local production. They're doing it in a sneaky way by ordering that only the 3D version be shown, even though there's a very tiny percentage of theaters capable of showing in 3D. The local film set to start is not a 3D film.
http://www.danwei.org/rumors/avatar_ousted_for_confucius.php
You can't be "Allergic to wi-fi"
Put him in a room, and turn the wireless on and off. Guaranteed he won't be able to tell the difference.
(I agree) If this guy really were affected, he should have even more trouble from the signal leaking out of microwave ovens. They operate in the same frequency range. Although they're designed minimize signal radiation, they're still likely to radiate a significant signal since they produce it at well over 10,000 times the power level used in WiFi gear. He also would be much closer to his oven than to the neighbor's wireless.
There was recently a story about how people with a high-fat, high-sugar diet have different microbes in their stomach that allow them to absorb a higher % of calories from those fat/sugar than a more moderate diet.
Some have made quite a fuss over the methane coming from cows. Considering how many people there are on this planet, it probably makes more sense to focus on the methane coming from people.
The mix of intestinal flora affects the amounts of methane and other gases a person produces. Perhaps diet modification and other efforts to affect human floral balance could reduce our contributions of this greenhouse gas.
The high-corn diet that fattens up feed-lot cattle affects more than their weight (and methane production?). Because of the higher acidity present in corn-fed cattle as compared with range fed, the e-coli they carry adapts. The e-coli adapted to higher acidity is far more of a problem for humans than that from range-fed cattle.
Maybe it's time that we start thinking of bad diet as another form of pollution.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/98/9.17.98/cattle_feeding.html
http://www.nbafoodadvocate.com/corn-fed-cattle-bigger-cows-bigger-e-coli-threat-more-foodborne-illness-1177
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6328959.html
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r24j133q21u1g838/
The iPhone SDK supports interfacing to external devices. Who wants to write the Bluetooth App that'll trigger a high or orgasm instead of a ringtone when selected people call?
With a multipoint interface matrix, a choice of responses could be made available.
I suppose calls from others could make you twitch, fart, or react in other special ways
There's no way he's running that much gear simultaneously on the available power in that vehicle.
Would you have a less difficult time believing that someone can power a 1000 Watt audio system in a car? Chances are he's got a beefed up alternator, and runs the radios on a secondary battery. That way he won't end up stranded somewhere. Even some people using (illegal) amplifiers on CB radios have done such things.
He's only going to be transmitting on one radio at a time, perhaps having several radios monitoring and handheld units trickle charging. Mobile and handheld radios don't draw much current in receive mode.
Why so many radios? It helps to be a bit crazy. This reminds me of David Bowie, in the movie The Man Who Feel To Earth, being able to watch a bunch of tv programs at one time. But having equipment to cover a number of different bands gives that ham more than just a higher channel count. There is no one band that is best for everything. Even for talking directly to just one far away person, the band that'll work best depends on the time of day, the time of year and sunspot activity. He may be doing things besides voice or morse-code contact. He could be doing two way tv. And a VOM and oscilloscope or spectrum analyzer is more than just junk in the right hands. There was a time when many hams made some of their own equipment. Many know quite a bit about electronics.
Chances are good that dealing with antennas for all of those different bands and radios is a tougher problem than finding enough power.
Just wait 'til they find the sunken ships... they'll build a navy!
I, for one, welcome our new octopian overlords!
But wonder what's going on inside the guy's head tho, he acts like he would be in an action movie:
Perhaps some action movies functioned as training and provided role models for this guy.
Watching too much bad stuff may make it seem more normal, making a line a bit easier to cross.
Doing away with all of the potential HTML, javascript, Java, Flash etc vulnerabilities by having a forced plain text only mode would sure help with security and privacy issues.
It's to celebrate Mission Impossible Season 07 being on DVD (or the torrent sites???)
No it doesn't. Most plants only operate at 1-2% photosynthetic efficiency, the most efficient crops maybe at 7%, and the theoretical maximum is 11% [wikipedia.org].
Compare that to solar cells which have 15-20%, in the laboratory even 40% efficiency. The advantage of photosynthesis is not efficiency, but price and resiliency, with the "cells" manufacturing themselves.
We should also look at the overall efficiency including the end use. Combustion to produce mechanical energy is going to be less efficient than for electricity to mechanical energy, but we also need to take into account the losses from electricity storage/retrieval. And there's the matter of losses related to weight differences. Regenerative braking can reduce those some, but heavy batteries are still quite a burden. Not taking manufacturing into account it would seem that both schemes are carbon neutral since the carbon taken from the air by the plants is given back during combustion.
Solar cell and battery production are both expensive, but solar cells may be better used to capture energy in a residential environment. I don't know if residential biofuel production could become viable.
Availability of land may be an issue for any type of solar energy capture, so it makes sense to look at using residential space too.
It seems that for many communities wastewater/sewage treatment is becoming very costly. I've had periods where I paid more for sewer fees than my combined electricity and natural gas costs. I would hope that some methods could be developed to get some biofuel, hydrogen or electricity out of the process of breaking the waste down into something environmentally friendly. Considering that the waste is contaminated with medications (not just pills dumped in the toilet, but what passes through people), it's probably better to be using sewer sludge for biofuel production than for food-crop fertilizer. I was concerned when I found out that a great deal of Los Angeles sludge goes to the central California valley area for use as fertilizer. Although I have read/heard that people are being discouraged from dumping extra medications down the toilet, I've never heard anything about the contamination from drugs people consume. I believe that the drug levels are significant. If meth users can get high from drinking the piss of other meth users, other drugs people take are likely to be present in significant amounts too.
It always struck me as a little weird that major competitors should have a seat on the board.
Here's some background on the Ebay stake in Craigslist.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/interviews/newmark.html
http://www.craigslist.org/about/press/ebay.stake
Interesting clip from 2nd link:
When he originally gave a stake in Craigslist to the executive that sold his shares to eBay, Mr. Newmark said, he never expected them to be worth anything. "I made a gift of some equity in craigslist to a guy who was working with me at the time," Mr. Newmark wrote on his Internet blog (www.cnewmark.com). "I figured it didn't matter, since everyone agreed that the equity had only symbolic value, not dollar value."
Not crap!
Think of what fun it'd be using lasers to blast pirates!
Has any sci-fi show other than Firefly ever mentioned duct tape?
The Disney movie Skyrunners (DVD 2009) has a small/friendly spacecraft that gets repaired with duct tape
Besides 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 it looks like there's 4.3.2.1
$ whois 4.3.2.1
Level 3 Communications, Inc. LVLT-ORG-4-8 (NET-4-0-0-0-1)
4.0.0.0 - 4.255.255.255
Google Incorporated LVLT-GOOGL-1-4-3-2 (NET-4-3-2-0-1)
4.3.2.0 - 4.3.2.255
My Steve Ballmer pictures keep coming up as "best used as cat food"
This is not the book you are looking for.....move along.....
The FOX employee training manual??
Wellfrom the show Merlin (get season 2 episodes from a torrent site near you), I've yet to see the local drug store offering a potion for making trolls attractive. Or does beer count?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97117914@N00/440043690/
I guess the government did work on some kind of "gay bomb"... something to give enemy soldiers uncontrollable urges to have sex with each other, apparently with some feeling rather uncomfortable about it afterwards.
Something special for the dancers at the Microsoft store? It sure would have spiced up those launch parties.
This article makes far reaching 'guesses' without any hard science to back it up.
The leap from this to the change in male to female ratio was a total guess. This reads more like a sensational news story than any sort of scientific paper.
There certainly is room for debate over things like dolls. Some would prefer harder data, like penis size.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2045527/bisphenol_a_bpa_may_cause_smaller_penises.html
Euthanasia!
Not only is it trivial to skip commercials for a shifted show, but it can do it automatically.
What we need are blipverts!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blipvert
I trust a few here remember Max Headroom
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3083938335651439831#
skipping ads is communism / terrorism / child-unfriendly :P
Oh, you must mean the Apple "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads. I watch and save those.
Seriously, though, the logic is sound and the current population trends [census.gov] are clear.
Did they stop to consider the possibility that the men were part of this equation?
Could the same results be seen if it turned out that a higher than average percentage of tall slender men turned out to be gay?