Wow, you really need some history lessons. Russia lost WW1. Werent even involved at the end anymore. The loss of WW1 was a triggering event of a little thing called the Russian Revolution. A group called the White Russians overthrew the Czar, and within a short period of time the Communist Party headed by a man named Lenin overthrew them.
WW2, the USSR was on its heals. The US shipped millions of tons of war materials to help save it. You really think that the Soviet Union would have defeated Germany if the US and Britain hadn't bombed its industrial capacity into the stone age, if we wouldn't have tied up a significant percentage of its troops in combat operations in Europe and North Africa?
I will give credit to the Soviet Union for being a major power in the Allied Forces in WW2, but I see no evidence that they would have won without the US's help.
I read a story about a book method for developing crypto keys. It was a fairly common method in the past before computers. I thought about it and have used it for years for choosing my passwords. Then tend to be mnemonics, but I can right down a hint sheet that is pretty safe.
It works like this. I choose a book at random from my work area, choose a page at random and then pick a line. I develop a mnemonic password from that line. If I need a hint, I write down the page and line number on a piece of paper, I can even stick it to my monitor if I need to. My average library of reference books at work is over 50 books. How big a hint to an atacker is 347 12? All I have to remember is what book I chose.
My last job, my boss couldn't remember any password that wasn't part of his name until I introduced him to mnemonic passwords.
I had to fix 2 customer machines this week that were almost identical
1. Original Windows XP, never been patched, no SP1
2. Connected to internet using dial-up, never firewalled it.
3. So full of adware and sasser virus that they didn't run anymore.
People who don't use Windows Update or apply basic security make me a lot of money. Boo hiss to MS for forcing them to do these things.
I think the FTC is just waking up to the nature of the internet and how difficult the problem of legislating solutions is.
All too often, legislation like this has unforseen consequences when it is implemented. It isn't just the law itself, it is the agencies righting regulations to implement the law, and the courts and the legal profession defining the application of the law. Because the Internet is international in scope, now we have to take in to account international treaties and such.
After all the backroom deals and compromises that take place in crafting legislation happen, we don't know what form the final rules would be. But it would really suck if the legislation ended up so poorly crafted that some court rules that automatic patching software, like Windows Update, met the definition of spyware.
Go slow, see what industry comes up with to combat the problem, it just seems like the wise course of action. We don't want to rush into anything.
I swear, school districts have gone nuts over calculators. For some reason, teachers have got the nutty idea that it is more important for kids to understand the concept than it is for them to do the problem. I have personal experiance with school districts that have special calculator math books to teach kids how to use one. Sorry, if a kid knows how to do math, a calculator is pretty easy to figure out.
I have substituted in Algebra classes where kids didn't trust the provided answer key to a test because I didn't use a calculator to figure out the answers.
Teaching a kid about a math concept and then having them use a calculator to get the answers is like trying to teach a kid to read and have a computer read the story to them. It's insane. Working problems by hand helps fix the concept in the head and lets the wheels turn and discover new concepts on their own.
If you want to make a real difference, teach the teachers how to take math and algebra topics and apply them to the real world. Especially with algebra, the trick is to teach them take the principles being taught and figure out how to use them for the rest of their lives. It is a silly trick, but my High School Math teacher taught all his classes how to multiply two 2-digit numbers together in our heads using a simple algebra trick. for example 25*83= 2075. It takes a little practice but it is the same technique as figuring out (ax+cy)(bx+dy) (hint FOIL)
The best science teachers I ever had used the text books as a guide to helping us explore our world and see the lessons being taught in our everyday life.
In my opinion, the problem with science and math education, especially at the middle/secondary education level is the way we train teachers. They spend 4 year of college being taught education theory and taking some science/math on the side. So we end up with a bunch of people who believe anyone can teach anything that happen to know a little science or math, but with no depth. The correct approach would be have them spend most of their college careers getting science and math degrees and minoring in education. I wouldn't get rid of the student teacher program, I think that is actually the only worthwhile experiance an education major gets in four years of college. Just change the emphasis on their class structure. (would probably apply to any High School level teaching job for that matter)
So, by your definition, Germany never conquered France in WW2? Because the irregulars didn't give up. Hmmmm, I better have some one rewrite my history books.
Having operated desalination plants for 6 years while in the US Navy (we could produce 200,000 gallons of fresh water daily, so small scale), the idea that you boil of every drop of water is a little misleading.
Actually we would remove only about 10% of the water from the saltwater we pumped through the system. Any higher extraction than that increased scaling problems creating a maintenance nightmare. One poster asked what the communities planned to do with all the "extra" salt. It is pumped back into the ocean with the rest of the brine.
Also, to reduce energy costs and heat loss, all the production is done at partial vacuums to reduce the boiling point. If memory serves, the we reduced the boiling point to 165F, but it was 14 years ago, so my memory is a little fuzzy.
Many people argue that one of the problems with our current form of democracy is that people don't value their vote the way they should. Many people pay very little attention to the issues, they are easily swayed by fancy slogans and glitzy advertising, they don't pay attention to how the government acts.
Heinleins theory was that if the vote had to be earned by personal sacrifice, such as a term of government service (not all service was combat related), that the person would put more value on their vote and would be more likely to attempt to use it in a wise manner over the course of their lifetime.
I enjoyed the book for its philosophical arguments, such as this. The movie director used it as a vehicle for his beliefs that in many ways were contrary to the point of the original story.
Heinlein's arguments in favor of public corporal punishment (lashings, stocks ) was interesting and something to chew on as well.
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Here is a link to a 1997 Washington Times article about a letter Boris Yeltsin sent to the Clinton administration regarding the Soviet Anti-satellite program and a demand for the US to stop developing one. http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/asat/wt971 107_asat.htm
In the late 70's and early 80's the Soviets had a strong Anti-Satellite weapons program. So the US Air Force designed and tested an anti satellite missile in an attempt to have a counter weapon.
I wish I could find some of the old news stories from back then, but they are all pre internet. While surving in the US Navy in the late 80s there was a case where we lost a satellite that was sent in close (10km) to check out a suspected Soviet anti-satellite satellite.
It was common belief, in military circles, at the time, that the Soviets had taken the opportunity to "live test" the technology on our conveniently placed satellite.
Funny thing about that non-compete,
I had an employer pull the same stunt. 1 year of employment, he decides he needs non competes or we lose our jobs. I double checked with a lawyer, he confirmed what I thought, I signed it, when I left, I ignored the agreement, employer sued, judge threw it out as an illegal contract and made them pay my lawyer.
Basically, because a non-compete agreement is a contract, the Employer has to compensate you for signing it. If you are a new employee, the compensation is a job. If you are an existing employee forcing you to sign or lose your job is coercion.
Disclaimer IANAL, consult a professional in your own jurisdiction
48,000 years before you can move home is a stretch. The highest levels of radiation emitted by used nuclear rods are from Strontium and Cesium. Its been a long time since I looked it up, but basically 1 has a 10 year half life, the other has a 20 year half life.
What this means for you is that 200 years after a fuel rod has been removed from a reactor, it is no more radioactive than it was when it was put into the reactor. Meaning it can be handle safely by people without wearing special safety equipment
The most dangerous, in the form of cancer causing, radioactive elements are the alpha emitters, like plutonium. Alpha particles are highly charged and lethal. However, because of their high charge, they readily absorb electrons from the surrounding environment and lose their charge quickly. They are also large. They are unable to penetrate human skin. To get poisoned by them, you have to ingest them in some way, such as eat or breathe them.
It has been the US policy for at least 25 years, that nuclear reactor rods are not reprocessed after use. The fuel pellets are left intact. The reason for this is the nuclear isotopes are entrained in the metal structure of the pellet and can not get into the environment. For someone to be poisoned by the plutonium in a fuel pellet, they would have to swallow one. Swallowing a thumb size chunk of metal is never easy. The strontium and cesium radiation would still kill you before the plutonium did anyway
All that said, the US Government wasn't always so smart with how they handled fuel rods. I live in Idaho, they had a plant here in the desert that they used to reprocess fuel rods. They could recover up to 80% of the original fuel back out of the used rods. They also recovered plutonium for things like nuclear weapons. In the process, they produced those infamous rusty barrels of liquid waste other posters have mentioned. The solution to those is vitrification, but the antinuke activists have so much fear and emotion tied up in the argument that they won't allow even this simple process be used to make those products safer to handle. Remember it is always easier to clean up spilled sugar than spilled milk
Economic Pie - thats an argument that can go on for days.
Many people view the economy as a pie, if I get a bigger piece, someone has to get a smaller piece. Unfortunately, this over simplistic and completely wrong.
The econonomy is a living breathing organism. For the most part it is always growing. The more people partake of it, the more they feed back into in the form of spending, the bigger and faster it grows so there is even more money to share with everyone else. This is simplistic too, and others can poke holes in it, but it is more accurate than calling it a "pie"
Star Components sells a box with about 100 each of the 5 basic types, and jumpers, kind of like a small tackle box. I bought one about 2 years ago, cost around $15. Probably too much, but it fits in my tool box and my customers are thrilled when I replace all the missing screws the last tech didn't bother to reinstall.
I know some guys think they are unnecessary, but the customers don't know, they think it was designed for a screw, it should have a screw. Gets me lots of repeat business and referrals.
It all depends on the grade of jet fuel. The US Navy uses JP-5. JP-5 has the same flash point and burn charecteristics as DFM, Diesel Fuel, Marine (if my memory is right, the flash point was 140F)
I served in the engineroom of a Navy ship for 4 years. We burned DFM in our boilers and used JP-5 in all the diesel engines on board the ship, from the emergency diesel generator to the small boats. It burned cleaner and required less maintenance on the engines. We also refueled the occassional helicopter.
I was told that non-nuclear aircraft carriers burned JP-5 in their boilers as well. That way when they refueled from an oiler, they only had 1 type of fuel to use. Was used for the planes, helicopters, boilers, diesel engines and all their escorts ships (which were powered by gas turbine (jet) engines.
The designers were well aware of the dangers of Hydrogen gas and designed the airship to use Helium.
At the time the only source of Helium in large volumes was the United States. Already the US Government wasn't thrilled with the Nazi Government and blocked the exportation of Helium to Germany for use in Airships. So the owners used the only lifting gas that they had readily available, Hydrogen.BTW it had the unfortunate side effect of allowing them to increase the number of passengers on that final flight over what was originally designed.
ADHD is strong in my family, Myself, Both my brothers, my Father, 10 male cousins, all diagnosed. I have a least 1 niece with it. That said, I really feal for your family. But it isn't the end of the world.
We have studied it. Some of my cousins have been involved in the brain studies that others have talked about, we have all given blood to try and identify a gene.
It makes it hard to fit into modern society. I would try the biofeedback training. At the worst, it will do nothing, at best, it will train your daughter how to use her mind in new ways.
One of my Aunt's found a book a few years ago by a man named Thom Hartman. His viewpoint is that ADHD, ADD isn't a disorder but a leftover survival characteristic. People who are now diagnosed with ADD were once the Hunters/Explorers/Warriors/Sentries of the past. Farmers have taken over the world and we no longer fit in. ADD/ADHD isn't always a lack of focus. We are constantly scanning our world, monitoring every little thing, then something catches our attention and we can ultrafocus to the exclusion of everything else. We lose track of time during these periods.
Some people consider him a crackpot and his theories as pure nonsense. As for me, his ideas helped. I learned what behaviors people found most annoying. I learned to blunt those traits so they don't bother other people so much. I learned how to take advantage of my positives.
I never liked the drugs because they dull the world for me. I lose the ability to grab that scent of a new idea and chase it down. That is what I am hoping the biofeedback will help your daughter to learn far easier than I ever did. How to take advantage of her gift when it suits her and how to fit in with others the rest of the time.
I live in a county larger than all of Rhode Island, with a population of about 12,000 people.
The County Seat has a pop of about 5,500. There are only 2 other towns. They have pops of 200 and 500 people. Those two towns are not served by Qwest, they are served by small local phone companies, both have residential DSL. The county seat is served by Qwest, we have no DSL. One of the other phone companies saw an advantage in this. They added a second exchange and run new loops to business accounts only. They offer DSL to those business accounts.
Because of this, they charge through the nose. We pay $37.00 for the line, $89.95 for the DSL service (256k up/640k down)and $20 for the ISP (they own the ISP and don't give you a choice about providers). They have two T-1's for their backbone, so they are so over subscribed, we seldom see more than 350k downloads.
I keep watching for competition but so far, everyone who brings in an alternative sees that kind of pricing with $$ in their eyes and charges similiar rates (1 wireless provider can cover about 25% of the town)
Something very similiar happened in my life. A young woman (15) that I know became rebellious. She started drinking, smoking and shoplifting.
One evening she did all three in front of a family friend. Later after he thought she was unconcious, he attempted to take naked pictures of her.
He went to jail and he deserved it. No one deserves to have something like this to happen to them ever. But it is causing problems for her. She is messed up psychologically because her mother and all the counselors are trying to convince her that it wasn't her fault, she did nothing wrong.
But it isn't helping her, because she knows if she hadn't done those things, she wouldn't have put her self in a position where someone could do something like that.
Her mother doesn't allow me to talk to her anymore because I tried to help her recognize those feelings.
I have also had several heated discussions with people who I felt were pretty level headed.
Wow, did you just play the Hitler card? Because I can't think of anyone other WWII leader you could possibly be comparing Bush to.
The war on terror is very similiar to WWII in one respect - We were attacked first. In fact we were attacked first multiple times over several years. Because of ineffective response by the previous administration, our enemies became bolder and bolder.
Just because we didn't follow the lead of other countries doesn't mean we didn't listen to them. When it comes down to it, We always have to act in the best interest of our country. Sometimes that means we play nice and get along with everyone else, sometimes it means we do something else.
Yet Bush ignores what the world wants has a whole and refuses to respect the authority of worldwide governing bodies
This statement points out another taboo subject. It assumes that leader of any country should listen to the opinions of the citizens of another country and there is a World Government.
Here is my taboo opinion. The UN is a joke. It is a corrupt orginization, it has no real power. It is not a "world government". A US President is sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. It does not mention Europe and it doesn't mention the UN.
A President (or a Supreme Court Judge for that matter) is supposed to make their decisions based on the best interests of our country.
I may disagree with a decision that our political leaders make, I may think they are ignorant. I may vote against them in the next election. But I will never criticize them because doesn't like their decision.
I agree that Sony missed out big time here, but I have seen these used on a regular basis.
One of my customers is a radio station. They use these in their production studio. They record their advertising spots for archiving purposes. The small size is a huge plus.
I am not sure that a wind turbine on Mars would be very efficient.
Turbines work by changing the kinetic energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
Wind Turbines require a large mass of air moving at a consistent velocity. I believe the problem is that while there is wind on Mars, it isn't dense enough to power a turbine with small blades. A wind turbine capable of producing a enough power for the Beagle, would probably have blades bigger than the whole spacecraft.
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Wow, you really need some history lessons. Russia lost WW1. Werent even involved at the end anymore. The loss of WW1 was a triggering event of a little thing called the Russian Revolution. A group called the White Russians overthrew the Czar, and within a short period of time the Communist Party headed by a man named Lenin overthrew them. WW2, the USSR was on its heals. The US shipped millions of tons of war materials to help save it. You really think that the Soviet Union would have defeated Germany if the US and Britain hadn't bombed its industrial capacity into the stone age, if we wouldn't have tied up a significant percentage of its troops in combat operations in Europe and North Africa? I will give credit to the Soviet Union for being a major power in the Allied Forces in WW2, but I see no evidence that they would have won without the US's help.
I read a story about a book method for developing crypto keys. It was a fairly common method in the past before computers. I thought about it and have used it for years for choosing my passwords. Then tend to be mnemonics, but I can right down a hint sheet that is pretty safe.
It works like this. I choose a book at random from my work area, choose a page at random and then pick a line. I develop a mnemonic password from that line. If I need a hint, I write down the page and line number on a piece of paper, I can even stick it to my monitor if I need to. My average library of reference books at work is over 50 books. How big a hint to an atacker is 347 12? All I have to remember is what book I chose.
My last job, my boss couldn't remember any password that wasn't part of his name until I introduced him to mnemonic passwords.
I had to fix 2 customer machines this week that were almost identical 1. Original Windows XP, never been patched, no SP1 2. Connected to internet using dial-up, never firewalled it. 3. So full of adware and sasser virus that they didn't run anymore. People who don't use Windows Update or apply basic security make me a lot of money. Boo hiss to MS for forcing them to do these things.
I think the FTC is just waking up to the nature of the internet and how difficult the problem of legislating solutions is. All too often, legislation like this has unforseen consequences when it is implemented. It isn't just the law itself, it is the agencies righting regulations to implement the law, and the courts and the legal profession defining the application of the law. Because the Internet is international in scope, now we have to take in to account international treaties and such.
After all the backroom deals and compromises that take place in crafting legislation happen, we don't know what form the final rules would be. But it would really suck if the legislation ended up so poorly crafted that some court rules that automatic patching software, like Windows Update, met the definition of spyware.
Go slow, see what industry comes up with to combat the problem, it just seems like the wise course of action. We don't want to rush into anything.
I swear, school districts have gone nuts over calculators. For some reason, teachers have got the nutty idea that it is more important for kids to understand the concept than it is for them to do the problem. I have personal experiance with school districts that have special calculator math books to teach kids how to use one. Sorry, if a kid knows how to do math, a calculator is pretty easy to figure out.
I have substituted in Algebra classes where kids didn't trust the provided answer key to a test because I didn't use a calculator to figure out the answers.
Teaching a kid about a math concept and then having them use a calculator to get the answers is like trying to teach a kid to read and have a computer read the story to them. It's insane. Working problems by hand helps fix the concept in the head and lets the wheels turn and discover new concepts on their own.
If you want to make a real difference, teach the teachers how to take math and algebra topics and apply them to the real world. Especially with algebra, the trick is to teach them take the principles being taught and figure out how to use them for the rest of their lives. It is a silly trick, but my High School Math teacher taught all his classes how to multiply two 2-digit numbers together in our heads using a simple algebra trick. for example 25*83= 2075. It takes a little practice but it is the same technique as figuring out (ax+cy)(bx+dy) (hint FOIL)
The best science teachers I ever had used the text books as a guide to helping us explore our world and see the lessons being taught in our everyday life.
In my opinion, the problem with science and math education, especially at the middle/secondary education level is the way we train teachers. They spend 4 year of college being taught education theory and taking some science/math on the side. So we end up with a bunch of people who believe anyone can teach anything that happen to know a little science or math, but with no depth. The correct approach would be have them spend most of their college careers getting science and math degrees and minoring in education. I wouldn't get rid of the student teacher program, I think that is actually the only worthwhile experiance an education major gets in four years of college. Just change the emphasis on their class structure. (would probably apply to any High School level teaching job for that matter)
So, by your definition, Germany never conquered France in WW2? Because the irregulars didn't give up. Hmmmm, I better have some one rewrite my history books.
Having operated desalination plants for 6 years while in the US Navy (we could produce 200,000 gallons of fresh water daily, so small scale), the idea that you boil of every drop of water is a little misleading.
Actually we would remove only about 10% of the water from the saltwater we pumped through the system. Any higher extraction than that increased scaling problems creating a maintenance nightmare. One poster asked what the communities planned to do with all the "extra" salt. It is pumped back into the ocean with the rest of the brine.
Also, to reduce energy costs and heat loss, all the production is done at partial vacuums to reduce the boiling point. If memory serves, the we reduced the boiling point to 165F, but it was 14 years ago, so my memory is a little fuzzy.
Many people argue that one of the problems with our current form of democracy is that people don't value their vote the way they should. Many people pay very little attention to the issues, they are easily swayed by fancy slogans and glitzy advertising, they don't pay attention to how the government acts.
Heinleins theory was that if the vote had to be earned by personal sacrifice, such as a term of government service (not all service was combat related), that the person would put more value on their vote and would be more likely to attempt to use it in a wise manner over the course of their lifetime.
I enjoyed the book for its philosophical arguments, such as this. The movie director used it as a vehicle for his beliefs that in many ways were contrary to the point of the original story.
Heinlein's arguments in favor of public corporal punishment (lashings, stocks ) was interesting and something to chew on as well.
Here is a link to a 1997 Washington Times article about a letter Boris Yeltsin sent to the Clinton administration regarding the Soviet Anti-satellite program and a demand for the US to stop developing one. http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/asat/wt971 107_asat.htm
In the late 70's and early 80's the Soviets had a strong Anti-Satellite weapons program. So the US Air Force designed and tested an anti satellite missile in an attempt to have a counter weapon.
I wish I could find some of the old news stories from back then, but they are all pre internet. While surving in the US Navy in the late 80s there was a case where we lost a satellite that was sent in close (10km) to check out a suspected Soviet anti-satellite satellite.
It was common belief, in military circles, at the time, that the Soviets had taken the opportunity to "live test" the technology on our conveniently placed satellite.
I saw this technology in Sasebo Japan in 1987
Funny thing about that non-compete, I had an employer pull the same stunt. 1 year of employment, he decides he needs non competes or we lose our jobs. I double checked with a lawyer, he confirmed what I thought, I signed it, when I left, I ignored the agreement, employer sued, judge threw it out as an illegal contract and made them pay my lawyer.
Basically, because a non-compete agreement is a contract, the Employer has to compensate you for signing it. If you are a new employee, the compensation is a job. If you are an existing employee forcing you to sign or lose your job is coercion.
Disclaimer IANAL, consult a professional in your own jurisdiction
There are all sorts of distributors who sell the components for white-box laptops if you want to go into that business.
I never bothered, but they are always trying to get me to buy
48,000 years before you can move home is a stretch. The highest levels of radiation emitted by used nuclear rods are from Strontium and Cesium. Its been a long time since I looked it up, but basically 1 has a 10 year half life, the other has a 20 year half life.
What this means for you is that 200 years after a fuel rod has been removed from a reactor, it is no more radioactive than it was when it was put into the reactor. Meaning it can be handle safely by people without wearing special safety equipment
The most dangerous, in the form of cancer causing, radioactive elements are the alpha emitters, like plutonium. Alpha particles are highly charged and lethal. However, because of their high charge, they readily absorb electrons from the surrounding environment and lose their charge quickly. They are also large. They are unable to penetrate human skin. To get poisoned by them, you have to ingest them in some way, such as eat or breathe them.
It has been the US policy for at least 25 years, that nuclear reactor rods are not reprocessed after use. The fuel pellets are left intact. The reason for this is the nuclear isotopes are entrained in the metal structure of the pellet and can not get into the environment. For someone to be poisoned by the plutonium in a fuel pellet, they would have to swallow one. Swallowing a thumb size chunk of metal is never easy. The strontium and cesium radiation would still kill you before the plutonium did anyway
All that said, the US Government wasn't always so smart with how they handled fuel rods. I live in Idaho, they had a plant here in the desert that they used to reprocess fuel rods. They could recover up to 80% of the original fuel back out of the used rods. They also recovered plutonium for things like nuclear weapons. In the process, they produced those infamous rusty barrels of liquid waste other posters have mentioned. The solution to those is vitrification, but the antinuke activists have so much fear and emotion tied up in the argument that they won't allow even this simple process be used to make those products safer to handle. Remember it is always easier to clean up spilled sugar than spilled milk
Why is it everytime I read something about cracking knuckles, I find myself cracking my own?
Economic Pie - thats an argument that can go on for days. Many people view the economy as a pie, if I get a bigger piece, someone has to get a smaller piece. Unfortunately, this over simplistic and completely wrong. The econonomy is a living breathing organism. For the most part it is always growing. The more people partake of it, the more they feed back into in the form of spending, the bigger and faster it grows so there is even more money to share with everyone else. This is simplistic too, and others can poke holes in it, but it is more accurate than calling it a "pie"
Star Components sells a box with about 100 each of the 5 basic types, and jumpers, kind of like a small tackle box. I bought one about 2 years ago, cost around $15. Probably too much, but it fits in my tool box and my customers are thrilled when I replace all the missing screws the last tech didn't bother to reinstall.
I know some guys think they are unnecessary, but the customers don't know, they think it was designed for a screw, it should have a screw. Gets me lots of repeat business and referrals.
It all depends on the grade of jet fuel. The US Navy uses JP-5. JP-5 has the same flash point and burn charecteristics as DFM, Diesel Fuel, Marine (if my memory is right, the flash point was 140F)
I served in the engineroom of a Navy ship for 4 years. We burned DFM in our boilers and used JP-5 in all the diesel engines on board the ship, from the emergency diesel generator to the small boats. It burned cleaner and required less maintenance on the engines. We also refueled the occassional helicopter.
I was told that non-nuclear aircraft carriers burned JP-5 in their boilers as well. That way when they refueled from an oiler, they only had 1 type of fuel to use. Was used for the planes, helicopters, boilers, diesel engines and all their escorts ships (which were powered by gas turbine (jet) engines.
A little known fact about the Hindenburg
The designers were well aware of the dangers of Hydrogen gas and designed the airship to use Helium.
At the time the only source of Helium in large volumes was the United States. Already the US Government wasn't thrilled with the Nazi Government and blocked the exportation of Helium to Germany for use in Airships. So the owners used the only lifting gas that they had readily available, Hydrogen. BTW it had the unfortunate side effect of allowing them to increase the number of passengers on that final flight over what was originally designed.
ADHD is strong in my family, Myself, Both my brothers, my Father, 10 male cousins, all diagnosed. I have a least 1 niece with it. That said, I really feal for your family. But it isn't the end of the world.
We have studied it. Some of my cousins have been involved in the brain studies that others have talked about, we have all given blood to try and identify a gene.
It makes it hard to fit into modern society. I would try the biofeedback training. At the worst, it will do nothing, at best, it will train your daughter how to use her mind in new ways.
One of my Aunt's found a book a few years ago by a man named Thom Hartman. His viewpoint is that ADHD, ADD isn't a disorder but a leftover survival characteristic. People who are now diagnosed with ADD were once the Hunters/Explorers/Warriors/Sentries of the past. Farmers have taken over the world and we no longer fit in. ADD/ADHD isn't always a lack of focus. We are constantly scanning our world, monitoring every little thing, then something catches our attention and we can ultrafocus to the exclusion of everything else. We lose track of time during these periods.
Some people consider him a crackpot and his theories as pure nonsense. As for me, his ideas helped. I learned what behaviors people found most annoying. I learned to blunt those traits so they don't bother other people so much. I learned how to take advantage of my positives.
I never liked the drugs because they dull the world for me. I lose the ability to grab that scent of a new idea and chase it down. That is what I am hoping the biofeedback will help your daughter to learn far easier than I ever did. How to take advantage of her gift when it suits her and how to fit in with others the rest of the time.
Good luck!
I live in a county larger than all of Rhode Island, with a population of about 12,000 people.
The County Seat has a pop of about 5,500. There are only 2 other towns. They have pops of 200 and 500 people. Those two towns are not served by Qwest, they are served by small local phone companies, both have residential DSL. The county seat is served by Qwest, we have no DSL. One of the other phone companies saw an advantage in this. They added a second exchange and run new loops to business accounts only. They offer DSL to those business accounts.
Because of this, they charge through the nose. We pay $37.00 for the line, $89.95 for the DSL service (256k up/640k down)and $20 for the ISP (they own the ISP and don't give you a choice about providers). They have two T-1's for their backbone, so they are so over subscribed, we seldom see more than 350k downloads.
I keep watching for competition but so far, everyone who brings in an alternative sees that kind of pricing with $$ in their eyes and charges similiar rates (1 wireless provider can cover about 25% of the town)
Lack of competition sucks
Something very similiar happened in my life. A young woman (15) that I know became rebellious. She started drinking, smoking and shoplifting.
One evening she did all three in front of a family friend. Later after he thought she was unconcious, he attempted to take naked pictures of her.
He went to jail and he deserved it. No one deserves to have something like this to happen to them ever. But it is causing problems for her. She is messed up psychologically because her mother and all the counselors are trying to convince her that it wasn't her fault, she did nothing wrong.
But it isn't helping her, because she knows if she hadn't done those things, she wouldn't have put her self in a position where someone could do something like that.
Her mother doesn't allow me to talk to her anymore because I tried to help her recognize those feelings.
I have also had several heated discussions with people who I felt were pretty level headed.
Wow, did you just play the Hitler card? Because I can't think of anyone other WWII leader you could possibly be comparing Bush to.
The war on terror is very similiar to WWII in one respect - We were attacked first. In fact we were attacked first multiple times over several years. Because of ineffective response by the previous administration, our enemies became bolder and bolder.
Just because we didn't follow the lead of other countries doesn't mean we didn't listen to them. When it comes down to it, We always have to act in the best interest of our country. Sometimes that means we play nice and get along with everyone else, sometimes it means we do something else.
Yet Bush ignores what the world wants has a whole and refuses to respect the authority of worldwide governing bodies
This statement points out another taboo subject. It assumes that leader of any country should listen to the opinions of the citizens of another country and there is a World Government.
Here is my taboo opinion. The UN is a joke. It is a corrupt orginization, it has no real power. It is not a "world government". A US President is sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. It does not mention Europe and it doesn't mention the UN.
A President (or a Supreme Court Judge for that matter) is supposed to make their decisions based on the best interests of our country.
I may disagree with a decision that our political leaders make, I may think they are ignorant. I may vote against them in the next election. But I will never criticize them because doesn't like their decision.
I agree that Sony missed out big time here, but I have seen these used on a regular basis.
One of my customers is a radio station. They use these in their production studio. They record their advertising spots for archiving purposes. The small size is a huge plus.
I am not sure that a wind turbine on Mars would be very efficient.
Turbines work by changing the kinetic energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
Wind Turbines require a large mass of air moving at a consistent velocity. I believe the problem is that while there is wind on Mars, it isn't dense enough to power a turbine with small blades. A wind turbine capable of producing a enough power for the Beagle, would probably have blades bigger than the whole spacecraft.
Just a lay opinion though.