like this house in British Columbia that has 87,625 computer controlled lights synchronized to an FM radio station.
Holy cow! Even if the average power consumption of each light was only 1/2 watt, that's still about 44KW. This guys power meter must by zinging around like a table saw.
Instead of using a mechanical device, why not use the passing car to induce a current in an underground coil and generate electricity.
But since the underground coil wouldn't move the cars would have to be carrying a magnetic field along with them such as a large permanent magnet mounted to the chassis. This would also induce current in any metal object it passed not just your underground coils. So their would be induction drag every time you pass something conductive. Whats more, think of the old people who need those dash mounted compasses to find their way. With a magnet in their car and others flying past constantly, those compasses would be useless. It would cost the public more to sponsor a geriatric lost-and-found at every rest area than we would save in electricity. On the other hand you could place the permanent magnets under the road and the car would be the moving conductor. You wouldn't need to power streetlights because every car would have its own arc-lighting system (whether it was designed to have one or not) and people like me with a metal plate in their head wouldn't enjoy it much. It would light me up like a pie tin in a microwave oven.
Just look at this new-fangled horseless quadricycle, Smithers. Steam-powered! Oh, I've seen the seductress of steam come and go over the years, but no one yet has been able to tame her. When will they learn that these faddish larks are nothing to get their knickers in a bind over. Reminds me of that one young fool. What was his name again? Edison, I believe. Lazy good-for-nothing. Always contriving gadgets to avoid an honest day's labor. Now let's take this contraption for a test drive. Which lever do you suppose is the velocitator and which is the decceleratrix?
I suppose you think that John McCain would be a great president what with his wanting to regulate dietary supplements by baseball players. That is what you are alluding to with your drug abusers statement. McCain held committee hearings and threatened the MLB with legislation. Nader merely voiced an objection. But I won't charge at your red flag. The most important part of your post is what isn't in it. What is plainly missing is even one example of 'real concerns' that you say Nader ignored. If you had really been serious about his candidacy in either election you would have known that he had a clearly written list of his positions on all major issues. In fact it is still posted on his votenader.org site. Yet you say he lost your support because he publicly voiced his opinion on a minor issue. Do you understand how ridiculous that sounds?
In most countries governments are formed by coalitions of factions. But in our essentially two party system the only way to effect change is to force the two major parties to change their platform to bring in enough votes to best the other. As an example, both democrats and republican administrations have given residency and green cards to illegal aliens to gain the hispanic vote. The result was a 60% increase in hispanic population between the 1990 and 2000 census. The republicans are currently considering doing it again. Nader will never sit in the Whitehouse. No third party candidate will win the US presidency in the forseeable future. But if you want to see a change then you have to vote for the candidate that has what you want in his platform. And disregarding all the major issues because of one very minor issue IS idiotic and immature. I am sure we won't see anyone not vote for McCain just because he wants mandatory drug tests for the private employees of the private corporation known as Major League Baseball.
Bad news. I have run it on both P4 1.8GHz with 768MB and an Athlon 3GHz with 2GB RAM and both had weird slow downs. It will run fine for a while then inexplicably slow to a crawl. Sometimes if I let it sit for a half hour it will recover. Other times it won't even after several hours. But spending 30 minutes waiting for the menu to come up and saving my game then exiting and rebooting does reset everything. Seems like a pretty severe memory leak. There are also major graphics glitches. I have different models of Nvidia in these systems and experience similar problems. Again the problem may go away if I endure it long enough or may require exiting to the desktop and restarting. On the bright side, I ran one game with no problems but it was on a tiny world in duel mode with only one other civ.
I was quite clear in my first reply. And I don't believe you voted for Nader in 2000 either. Someone who would exclude a candidate for such a frivolous and imagined reason would never vote for a third party candidate in the first place. You would have been swayed by whatever mainstream mouthpieces you listen to into voting for either Gore or Bush. In fact, I doubt you voted at all. Young people rarely turn up at the polls and the level of your immaturity hints that you may not even be 18 yet. I don't like to be bullshitted and I can tell you are full of it. If you really are old enough to vote then why don't you do us all a favor and join the Army? Then Bush can continue decimating his own supporters.
If you changed your vote because a baseball fan wrote a letter to the commisioner protesting the increasing commercial distraction then you are an idiot. Furthermore, if you had even read the article you linked to you would have known that 'U.S. Rep George Nethercutt, a Washington Republican who is a former part-owner of the Greensboro Bats and the Michigan Battle Cats minor league teams, sent a letter to Selig protesting the decision.' These protesters had their names dropped by the writer because of their celebrity not because it had anything to do with any particular political persuasion. Certainly hundreds of fans sent letters protesting this bit of idiocy. Posting links to totalitarianism and oligarchy was nonsensical and a waste of your effort. They are not related to baseball. And if you are some ad salesman who wants to see people distracted from the game by ads on top of ads on top of ads, then again you are an idiot. Good day to you.
Children with Autism often have trouble imitating, so I would be curious to see this experiment repeated using them as subjects. I wonder if they would show the same focus on the end result that the chimps did.
Another thing is; did these lab chimps merely assume that they were expected to "perform" in order to receive the prize? Certainly they had been used in dozens of other experiments over the course of their lives. It was obvious to them that the bolt moving and stick tapping was not necessary to open the box but maybe they were unsure if it was necessary to perform those actions for the food to show up in the box based on their earlier experiences. What would happen if one chimp were thoroughly trained to go through all the extra actions and then put in with wild chimps. Would the wild chimps imitate all the extraneous stuff or would they think "what a stupid monkey! There was food in the box why not just open it and get the food?"
I am picturing a hamster running on its little exercise wheel just stopping and thinking to itself "Oh what's the use? It seems like I run and I run and I run but I never seem to get anywhere."
The top computer executive and last remaining employee from a dotcom era online delicatessan has let his web domain http://deli.cio.us/ lapse but plans to register a new domain http://face.tio.us/ which will compete head to head with The Onion, currently number two in the field of late-breaking, hard-hitting faux journalism. Herman has a new dream. Instead of Fed-Exing beef jerky, he wants to grow his satire's readership large enough to take over the number two spot. Then, through a leveraged buyout of The Onion become large enough to take on the 800 pound gorilla, Fox News.
Says Herman Johnson, CIO of Mail Order Meats, 'my site was getting pounded hard by a bunch of yahoos who seemed to have no interest in spicy smoked meats. I don't know where they were coming from but it was one more in a long series of unfortunate events that burned through the last of my IPO money. Earlier this year I had already moved the offices from a 200,000 sq. ft. high rise in Mountain View to a corner of my parent's basement to try to conserve cash.'
'Suddenly this storm of activity hit. They used up all my bandwidth but didn't buy anything, only leaving rude innuendoes in the forums about my kielbasa sausages. It was just time to try something new. Plus my mom needed the space in her deep freezer where I kept my inventory and the Slim Jims kept disappearing. I suspect an inside job. I told my dad I know it's him and if I ever catch him I will call the police.'
Mail Order Meats (Stock symbol MOM) which once reached a high of 212 1/8 dollars a share now trades over the counter at 0.00004 cents.
This explains that Simpsons episode when Lisa was depressed because she thinks she will turn out to be a loser, but then it turned out only the male Simpsons were like Homer and all the females were doctors and scientists.
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My own research has proven that the taller the beer holding apparatus, the more likely the over-indulgence. This is doubly true if the devil is following you around with a ginormous, multi-funneled, beer bong and keeps asking you, 'You gonna do it, man? You gonna do it? Don't be a sissy. You know you want to.'
Holy cow! Even if the average power consumption of each light was only 1/2 watt, that's still about 44KW. This guys power meter must by zinging around like a table saw.
'Pigeon' calls up visions of crap-coated statues. If you call it Rock Dove or squab, it sounds a bit more appetizing.
Maybe he should try Star Wars:Pong
But since the underground coil wouldn't move the cars would have to be carrying a magnetic field along with them such as a large permanent magnet mounted to the chassis. This would also induce current in any metal object it passed not just your underground coils. So their would be induction drag every time you pass something conductive. Whats more, think of the old people who need those dash mounted compasses to find their way. With a magnet in their car and others flying past constantly, those compasses would be useless. It would cost the public more to sponsor a geriatric lost-and-found at every rest area than we would save in electricity. On the other hand you could place the permanent magnets under the road and the car would be the moving conductor. You wouldn't need to power streetlights because every car would have its own arc-lighting system (whether it was designed to have one or not) and people like me with a metal plate in their head wouldn't enjoy it much. It would light me up like a pie tin in a microwave oven.
You'll have to drive your car on a giant hamster wheel attached to a generator for two minutes.
I think I would slap a disney sticker of Dopey on the top and program it to do "Whistle While You Work".
I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I know I free...
Just look at this new-fangled horseless quadricycle, Smithers. Steam-powered! Oh, I've seen the seductress of steam come and go over the years, but no one yet has been able to tame her. When will they learn that these faddish larks are nothing to get their knickers in a bind over. Reminds me of that one young fool. What was his name again? Edison, I believe. Lazy good-for-nothing. Always contriving gadgets to avoid an honest day's labor. Now let's take this contraption for a test drive. Which lever do you suppose is the velocitator and which is the decceleratrix?
Dude, this is America. The beast wants to *encourage* you to buy and sell.
I suppose you think that John McCain would be a great president what with his wanting to regulate dietary supplements by baseball players. That is what you are alluding to with your drug abusers statement. McCain held committee hearings and threatened the MLB with legislation. Nader merely voiced an objection. But I won't charge at your red flag. The most important part of your post is what isn't in it. What is plainly missing is even one example of 'real concerns' that you say Nader ignored. If you had really been serious about his candidacy in either election you would have known that he had a clearly written list of his positions on all major issues. In fact it is still posted on his votenader.org site. Yet you say he lost your support because he publicly voiced his opinion on a minor issue. Do you understand how ridiculous that sounds?
In most countries governments are formed by coalitions of factions. But in our essentially two party system the only way to effect change is to force the two major parties to change their platform to bring in enough votes to best the other. As an example, both democrats and republican administrations have given residency and green cards to illegal aliens to gain the hispanic vote. The result was a 60% increase in hispanic population between the 1990 and 2000 census. The republicans are currently considering doing it again. Nader will never sit in the Whitehouse. No third party candidate will win the US presidency in the forseeable future. But if you want to see a change then you have to vote for the candidate that has what you want in his platform. And disregarding all the major issues because of one very minor issue IS idiotic and immature. I am sure we won't see anyone not vote for McCain just because he wants mandatory drug tests for the private employees of the private corporation known as Major League Baseball.
Bad news. I have run it on both P4 1.8GHz with 768MB and an Athlon 3GHz with 2GB RAM and both had weird slow downs. It will run fine for a while then inexplicably slow to a crawl. Sometimes if I let it sit for a half hour it will recover. Other times it won't even after several hours. But spending 30 minutes waiting for the menu to come up and saving my game then exiting and rebooting does reset everything. Seems like a pretty severe memory leak. There are also major graphics glitches. I have different models of Nvidia in these systems and experience similar problems. Again the problem may go away if I endure it long enough or may require exiting to the desktop and restarting. On the bright side, I ran one game with no problems but it was on a tiny world in duel mode with only one other civ.
Costello: Well then who's the president?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: I mean the fellow's name.
Abbott: Who.
Costello: The guy in power.
Abbott: Who.
Costello: The president.
Abbott: Who.
Costello: The guy calling the shots...
Abbott: Who is the president!
Costello: I'm asking you who's the president.
Abbott: That's the man's name.
Costello: That's who's name?
Abbott: Yes.
I was quite clear in my first reply. And I don't believe you voted for Nader in 2000 either. Someone who would exclude a candidate for such a frivolous and imagined reason would never vote for a third party candidate in the first place. You would have been swayed by whatever mainstream mouthpieces you listen to into voting for either Gore or Bush. In fact, I doubt you voted at all. Young people rarely turn up at the polls and the level of your immaturity hints that you may not even be 18 yet. I don't like to be bullshitted and I can tell you are full of it. If you really are old enough to vote then why don't you do us all a favor and join the Army? Then Bush can continue decimating his own supporters.
If you changed your vote because a baseball fan wrote a letter to the commisioner protesting the increasing commercial distraction then you are an idiot. Furthermore, if you had even read the article you linked to you would have known that 'U.S. Rep George Nethercutt, a Washington Republican who is a former part-owner of the Greensboro Bats and the Michigan Battle Cats minor league teams, sent a letter to Selig protesting the decision.' These protesters had their names dropped by the writer because of their celebrity not because it had anything to do with any particular political persuasion. Certainly hundreds of fans sent letters protesting this bit of idiocy. Posting links to totalitarianism and oligarchy was nonsensical and a waste of your effort. They are not related to baseball. And if you are some ad salesman who wants to see people distracted from the game by ads on top of ads on top of ads, then again you are an idiot. Good day to you.
Children with Autism often have trouble imitating, so I would be curious to see this experiment repeated using them as subjects. I wonder if they would show the same focus on the end result that the chimps did.
Another thing is; did these lab chimps merely assume that they were expected to "perform" in order to receive the prize? Certainly they had been used in dozens of other experiments over the course of their lives. It was obvious to them that the bolt moving and stick tapping was not necessary to open the box but maybe they were unsure if it was necessary to perform those actions for the food to show up in the box based on their earlier experiences. What would happen if one chimp were thoroughly trained to go through all the extra actions and then put in with wild chimps. Would the wild chimps imitate all the extraneous stuff or would they think "what a stupid monkey! There was food in the box why not just open it and get the food?"
I can just imagine what Dr. Zaius would have to say about this: Human see, human do.
Wow.
Welcome to the Corporate States of America.
Vote Nader next time.
Hitler. He only needed one more to make a set.
I am picturing a hamster running on its little exercise wheel just stopping and thinking to itself "Oh what's the use? It seems like I run and I run and I run but I never seem to get anywhere."
I don't believe the comment that they are torturing and killing the child. So what the heck are those giant swiss cheese balls doing?
The two men on a country road sound like the kind of christians who do say "turn the other cheek" as well as "squeal like a pig, boy!"
Says Herman Johnson, CIO of Mail Order Meats, 'my site was getting pounded hard by a bunch of yahoos who seemed to have no interest in spicy smoked meats. I don't know where they were coming from but it was one more in a long series of unfortunate events that burned through the last of my IPO money. Earlier this year I had already moved the offices from a 200,000 sq. ft. high rise in Mountain View to a corner of my parent's basement to try to conserve cash.'
'Suddenly this storm of activity hit. They used up all my bandwidth but didn't buy anything, only leaving rude innuendoes in the forums about my kielbasa sausages. It was just time to try something new. Plus my mom needed the space in her deep freezer where I kept my inventory and the Slim Jims kept disappearing. I suspect an inside job. I told my dad I know it's him and if I ever catch him I will call the police.'
Mail Order Meats (Stock symbol MOM) which once reached a high of 212 1/8 dollars a share now trades over the counter at 0.00004 cents.
This explains that Simpsons episode when Lisa was depressed because she thinks she will turn out to be a loser, but then it turned out only the male Simpsons were like Homer and all the females were doctors and scientists.
I mean, come on, Otto Z. Stern? It sounds too much like Alfred E. Neumann.