The Southeast doesn't have seasonal blends because it doesn't have seasons.
Re:How many crops per year?
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Even with crop rotation we should be able to feed ourselves. It takes something like 16 calories of grain to make a calorie of beef, so we could just get rid of most of the livestock and feed the beans/grain/vegetables to people instead of animals.
But it also takes 16 calories of cellulose (hay, corn stalks, sawdust, etc.) to make a calorie of beef, and humans can't digest cellulose.
US oil production peaked in 1970 and has been going downward ever since. The only remaining untapped field is the National Wildlife Refuge on Alaska's North Slope, and that's got oil for nine months, at most.
Either they're all guilty of the DMCA provision, equating them to owning and using lockpicks together... Or the DMCA is judged invalid, and it wouldn't make any difference whether the culprit were one person or many. If something is wrong, it doesn't matter how many people vote to make it right. This is the fallacy of democracy. Personally, I think the scenario was devised simply to create more buzz.
The hypothetical situation here is:
1) For a class project in encryption technologies, a student makes a distributed system for cracking encryption -- basic proof-of-concept work. 2) Said student gets a large number of people at the school to run said program.
At this point, everything is perfectly legal. What comes next is where the trial comes in:
3) The encryption technique being broken is very similar to the one used to protect digital movies. Again, as proof-of-concept, the distributed system is used to crack the encryption on a sample video that the course professor encoded. 4) The decryption keys generated in step (3) can be used to decrypt any protected movie. 5) The MPAA notices, and arranges for criminal prosecution against the professor of the course, the student who made the program, and everyone who ran the client.
The question is: are the students who ran the client criminally liable? They had no knowlege of (3) and (4). What they knew about was (1) and (2), which were perfectly legal.
Re:Salon: News writen by Sophomores...
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Whereas I'm a very dissatisfied ex-customer wishing his 768/384 DSL connection had been technically feasable.
I suspect that, with a good enough antenna and an approprate algorithm, you can use GPS anywhere you can see four of the satellites from -- GPS on the moon, anyone?
You can't turn them directly into cash, but the Gaming Open Market will let you sell them to another player. Current exchange rate is 2151 TB to the dollar.
'll put 5 on your one of those brainwashed windows idiots, who thinks they should put their computer into "STEALTH" mode. Newsflash idiot, any sufficiently intelligent scanner (eg, nmap) can tell if your machine is there.
Tell me, if my computer silently drops all unsolicited incoming data, how do you tell it's there?
Computer programming requires a very intuitive grasp of boolean logic (Discrete math), symbolic logic (Algebra) and set theory (Discrete math again). Also, a good short to mid term memory is more important than intelligence.
On the other hand, it doesn't require much in the way of number crunching beyond basic arithmetic. Someone can be good at discrete math and symbolic logic, and horrible at working with numbers.
Funny, I seem to recall it being over $1.50 a year ago and last time I checked it was just over $2.00.
I was working from a memory of $1.20/gal to the current price here of $2.20/gal. Since then, I've found a place with an actual historical record, and the price a year ago was more like $1.40/gal.
Of course, the total amount of fossil fuel is finite, even if petroleum engineers become clever enough to locate and extract every drop, that won't keep the world running forever. But much like with Moore's law, new advances have kept us from running into a brick wall so far, and will continue to at least for the near future.
On the other hand, the estimates for when the day of reckoning will arrive keep getting closer. First it was 50 years, then 30, then 10. Now, the estimate is that peak oil production will be reached in the next five years.
Re:Gas, oil & the U.S. military
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I have heard that the real gas crunch is because of the U.S. military-- that the U.S. needs to ensure a long-term stockpile for tanks and planes, which cannot be converted to electric, solar, bio, etc.
The Abrams tank can run on just about anything liquid and flammable -- gasoline, diesel, biodiesel, kerosene, jet fuel, alcohol, etc.
Out of curiosity, since when? I'm not disputing your figures, I just haven't seen them. Is that since this time last week? Last year? 1950? I haven't personally observed this change in my trips to the supermarket.
For me, it's since two weeks ago, and the price change is that milk went from $1.79 a gallon to $3.39 a gallon.
Re:Inflation.
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3. OPEC fighting against us in Iraq with the one effective weapon they have.
The only OPEC country that isn't pumping at full capacity is Saudi Arabia. This shortage isn't a result of OPEC manipulation.
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How would you react if gas went from $5.50 a gallon to $10.00 a gallon over the course of a year? That's the sort of increase that's happening here in the US.
That's probably it. In a big city, a cell may be only a quarter-mile across. If you're in an airplane cruising at 400mph, you'll experience a cell handoff every two seconds.
Even in rural areas, cells are rarely more than 20 miles across -- a handoff every three minutes in an airplane, as compared to a handoff every 20 minutes if you were in a car.
And if more people subscribed to true atheism, we could talk more about the soccer game and quit killing each other over mosks, synagogues, churches and the almighty Sacred Cow!
Moller's been been taking investors' money for decades, and has exactly squat to show for it. Credible aerospace engineers say that, unless Moller's invented a radically new, ultra-compact engine, there's no way you can move enough air mass to actually lift the thing.
The spiffy model on the showroom floor is nothing more than a stage prop. It doesn't fly, it never did, and it probably never will.
They've got some pictures of the thing supposedly doing tethered test flights. The first photo looks like it could have been faked, either by double photography or using the crane to actually lift the thing. I'm not sure about the second.
Re:Contradiction?
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Oh, also, Isn't retro-reflective redundant? Doesn't reflection pretty much imply sending light back in the direction it came?
No. Classic reflection (the sort normal mirrors do) involves light heading off in a direction other than the one it was originally going in -- "angle of incidence equals angle of reflection". Retroreflection involves things like corner mirrors and sends light back in a direction exactly opposite the one it was originally headed in.
Amazing! They're actually making progress! The test plan page lists them as actually doing tethered test flights -- something they've said they'll do "next year" for the past four years.
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IOW, who/what are SBC and CWA?
Don't you mean "IOW, WTH are SBC and CWA"?
If you would have RTFA you would have noticed that Anakin uses Jar Jar as a surf board.
If they did, I'd be willing to actually see the movie.
The Southeast doesn't have seasonal blends because it doesn't have seasons.
Even with crop rotation we should be able to feed ourselves. It takes something like 16 calories of grain to make a calorie of beef, so we could just get rid of most of the livestock and feed the beans/grain/vegetables to people instead of animals.
But it also takes 16 calories of cellulose (hay, corn stalks, sawdust, etc.) to make a calorie of beef, and humans can't digest cellulose.
It's a wonderful example of top-posting.
US oil production peaked in 1970 and has been going downward ever since. The only remaining untapped field is the National Wildlife Refuge on Alaska's North Slope, and that's got oil for nine months, at most.
Either they're all guilty of the DMCA provision, equating them to owning and using lockpicks together... Or the DMCA is judged invalid, and it wouldn't make any difference whether the culprit were one person or many. If something is wrong, it doesn't matter how many people vote to make it right. This is the fallacy of democracy. Personally, I think the scenario was devised simply to create more buzz.
The hypothetical situation here is:
1) For a class project in encryption technologies, a student makes a distributed system for cracking encryption -- basic proof-of-concept work.
2) Said student gets a large number of people at the school to run said program.
At this point, everything is perfectly legal. What comes next is where the trial comes in:
3) The encryption technique being broken is very similar to the one used to protect digital movies. Again, as proof-of-concept, the distributed system is used to crack the encryption on a sample video that the course professor encoded.
4) The decryption keys generated in step (3) can be used to decrypt any protected movie.
5) The MPAA notices, and arranges for criminal prosecution against the professor of the course, the student who made the program, and everyone who ran the client.
The question is: are the students who ran the client criminally liable? They had no knowlege of (3) and (4). What they knew about was (1) and (2), which were perfectly legal.
Whereas I'm a very dissatisfied ex-customer wishing his 768/384 DSL connection had been technically feasable.
I suspect that, with a good enough antenna and an approprate algorithm, you can use GPS anywhere you can see four of the satellites from -- GPS on the moon, anyone?
You can't turn them directly into cash, but the Gaming Open Market will let you sell them to another player. Current exchange rate is 2151 TB to the dollar.
'll put 5 on your one of those brainwashed windows idiots, who thinks they should put their computer into "STEALTH" mode. Newsflash idiot, any sufficiently intelligent scanner (eg, nmap) can tell if your machine is there.
Tell me, if my computer silently drops all unsolicited incoming data, how do you tell it's there?
Computer programming requires a very intuitive grasp of boolean logic (Discrete math), symbolic logic (Algebra) and set theory (Discrete math again). Also, a good short to mid term memory is more important than intelligence.
On the other hand, it doesn't require much in the way of number crunching beyond basic arithmetic. Someone can be good at discrete math and symbolic logic, and horrible at working with numbers.
Funny, I seem to recall it being over $1.50 a year ago and last time I checked it was just over $2.00.
I was working from a memory of $1.20/gal to the current price here of $2.20/gal. Since then, I've found a place with an actual historical record, and the price a year ago was more like $1.40/gal.
Of course, the total amount of fossil fuel is finite, even if petroleum engineers become clever enough to locate and extract every drop, that won't keep the world running forever. But much like with Moore's law, new advances have kept us from running into a brick wall so far, and will continue to at least for the near future.
On the other hand, the estimates for when the day of reckoning will arrive keep getting closer. First it was 50 years, then 30, then 10. Now, the estimate is that peak oil production will be reached in the next five years.
I have heard that the real gas crunch is because of the U.S. military-- that the U.S. needs to ensure a long-term stockpile for tanks and planes, which cannot be converted to electric, solar, bio, etc.
The Abrams tank can run on just about anything liquid and flammable -- gasoline, diesel, biodiesel, kerosene, jet fuel, alcohol, etc.
Out of curiosity, since when? I'm not disputing your figures, I just haven't seen them. Is that since this time last week? Last year? 1950? I haven't personally observed this change in my trips to the supermarket.
For me, it's since two weeks ago, and the price change is that milk went from $1.79 a gallon to $3.39 a gallon.
3. OPEC fighting against us in Iraq with the one effective weapon they have.
The only OPEC country that isn't pumping at full capacity is Saudi Arabia. This shortage isn't a result of OPEC manipulation.
How would you react if gas went from $5.50 a gallon to $10.00 a gallon over the course of a year? That's the sort of increase that's happening here in the US.
That's probably it. In a big city, a cell may be only a quarter-mile across. If you're in an airplane cruising at 400mph, you'll experience a cell handoff every two seconds.
Even in rural areas, cells are rarely more than 20 miles across -- a handoff every three minutes in an airplane, as compared to a handoff every 20 minutes if you were in a car.
And if more people subscribed to true atheism, we could talk more about the soccer game and quit killing each other over mosks, synagogues, churches and the almighty Sacred Cow!
Sacred Cows make the best hamburgers.
I thought the robot folded itself, like the Jetsons car.
I was expecting it to be a robot made from origami, not one that makes origami.
Moller's been been taking investors' money for decades, and has exactly squat to show for it. Credible aerospace engineers say that, unless Moller's invented a radically new, ultra-compact engine, there's no way you can move enough air mass to actually lift the thing.
The spiffy model on the showroom floor is nothing more than a stage prop. It doesn't fly, it never did, and it probably never will.
They've got some pictures of the thing supposedly doing tethered test flights. The first photo looks like it could have been faked, either by double photography or using the crane to actually lift the thing. I'm not sure about the second.
Oh, also, Isn't retro-reflective redundant? Doesn't reflection pretty much imply sending light back in the direction it came?
No. Classic reflection (the sort normal mirrors do) involves light heading off in a direction other than the one it was originally going in -- "angle of incidence equals angle of reflection". Retroreflection involves things like corner mirrors and sends light back in a direction exactly opposite the one it was originally headed in.
Amazing! They're actually making progress! The test plan page lists them as actually doing tethered test flights -- something they've said they'll do "next year" for the past four years.
Butlerian Jihad, anyone?