Well, the voter models were correct and Obama squeezed out a 1% victory. Pass the huitlacoche.
Begin by plucking well, stuff with unemployment, then baste in QE sauce until inflation reaches the desired peak (From "To Serve USA").
Today I spoke with 2 small business owners who are friends. One will have to lay off staff because of increases in health insurance costs under the Affordable (cough..cough) Healthcare Act. Another is meeting with an accountant later this week to determine what the increased tax rates will mean, but he says he will also lay off an employee (out of 6) in 2013. This story will be repeated many times (and hidden from the news almost as often), but take comfort. It is all Bush's fault. That thing that will happen next year to dividend paying stocks (so beloved of pension plans), that's all Bush's fault too. Oh, and that nasty deficit? Nothing to see there, move along. For my part, I am fairly insulated from what will hit...though not completely. But I will fare far better than most. Hope you are in the same boat. Or actually, in one nearby as I prefer not to be in the same vehicle with those who think that running into the rocks is a good idea. In fact the SS California has just picked up ramming speed!
What if the voter models the polls are using is wrong? (Asking this question I assume that the reader knows how polls are constructed.)
I took a look under the hood at the Pew Poll. They use D+4, while 2008 was D+6 - a banner year with lots of Demthusiasm for Obama. No way is the enthusiasm for Obama now the same as it was in 2008. And GOP voters will turn out in droves. So the voter models are wrong. Change the model, use the same data they have from polling, and lo and behold, all these Obama leads evaporate. Change the poll numbers and the Illinois predictions...um...change.
Is there hard evidence for this? Yes. The early vote numbers in Ohio. Obama is running 250,000 votes short compared to 2008...and that was his margin over McCain.
Methinks there is a good chance google will notice a large spike in searches for "recipe crow" on Wednesday.
Rate of delivery is energy per unit time - power. That is why generation capacity is measured in watts. The rate that the power changes is a meaningless quantity, which is why there is no standard unit for it.
The person who wrote the article just has a poor grasp of this and wrote GW/hr in error. Obviously not a student who passed my intro physics class.
Sorry, but you are wrong.
Energy (in MKS units) is measured in joules, where 1 joule = 1 kgm^2/s^2.
A watt is a unit of power (P=dE/dt) so 1 watt = 1 joule/s. A kilowatt hour is = (1000 j/s)(3600 s) = 3,600,000 joules. A kWhr (or a GWhr) is a unit of energy. A GW/hr is the unit that would be associated with the time rate of change of power, which is not a physical quantity of any interest here. So, yes, nonsense units.
Treason is a crime. Crimes are dealt with by arrest, trial, conviction and sentencing.
Responding to purported treason by assassination is a cowardly, banana republic approach.
All those poor Confederate soldiers in Picket's Charge. They should have been arrested, not assassinated by Federal marksmen with unfairly-accurate rifles.
It is a statistical certainty (p 10e-1111111) that anti-Nazi German soldiers and civilians were killed by US forces during WW2.
I don't like the government having too much power, but I'm not sure I understand why the ACLU is getting involved in this if it is not being done domestically against American citizens. What's done in war time on foreign soil against non-American citizens doesn't seem to fall within the domain of the American Civil Liberties Union.
It is easy to understand, once you realize that they are on the other side.
Hell, all they have to do is say that filesharing is an international crime, pay off some corrupt UN bureaucrat to sic INTERPOL on folks, then all those pesky FOI suits go away. And that is only one of the least damaging outcomes. Obama just wants to kiss multinational UN ass.
How would you feel about any other police agency that was immune to FOI requests or legal challenges to misbehavior? How about legal authorities working on behalf of the RIAA? Isn't filesharing international? Another brilliant move from this administration. What could go wrong?
Come on -really???
And we know who the dog is here, with that shiver going up Chris Matthews leg and Keith Olbermann practically wetting himself from excitement.
The press is a disgrace.
Although sunspots are regions of the Sun that are cooler, the surrounding faculae are brighter, so solar luminosity is greater at sunspot maximum.
So your first bullet is completely wrong.
The whole "electric power line - cancer" link is total garbage and has been used by lawyers to force companies to spend money on useless countermeasures or settle "damage cases" out of court. It is a legal protection racket, as are many (Most?) class-actions suits.
The American Physical Society debunkled this nonsense, as did a National Research Council report.
Actually, on the hard Left many spell "America" "Amerika" or even "Amerikkka" to express thier view that America is a fascist state.
If that is the original of this poster's "Amerika", then he can go fsck himself. And it would make perfect sense that people who hate America and its open, non-socialists ways would want to move the Internet into the realm of state control. The very existence of an open, consensual, non-state, (worst of all) phenomenally successful organism like the Internet is an insult to those who want the state to rule everything in the name of "social justice."
Shock waves in space plasmas are collisionless - the flow of particles is slowed to subsonic (see below) speeds by the interaction of waves (fluctations in the electric and magnetic fields) and the particles. Voyager is travelling much slower that solar wind speeds (which streams outward from the Sun at about 400 km/s), so it it not supersonic. In any case, the motion of an object like Voyager will not be affected by the solar wind flow, or by crossing any shock waves in space because the energy densities involved are so low and the total energy/momentum exchange in such interactions are a small fraction of Voyager's momentum.
With regard to "supersonic", there have been lots of questions on this thread that I will try to answer. The relevant speed is called the "magnetosonic" or "fast-mode" speed. This is the fastest speed at which a compressional disturbance can travel in a magnetized plasma. It is the square-root of the sum of the squares of the sound speed (just as you would calculate it in Earth's atmosphere) and the Alfven speed (a transverse, non-compressional, magnetohydrodynamic wave that has the magnetic field provide the restoring force). When something moves at a relative speed faster than the magnetosonic speed, a shock waves forms to slow, compress, heat, and deflect the flow, just as in supersonic travel in Earth's atmosphere. But in space, those shock waves are collisionless - the particles do not actually collide with each other as they do in atmospheric shock waves. Wave-particle interactions provide the "friction" that converts ordered flow energy into disordered thermal energy.
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Well, the voter models were correct and Obama squeezed out a 1% victory. Pass the huitlacoche. Begin by plucking well, stuff with unemployment, then baste in QE sauce until inflation reaches the desired peak (From "To Serve USA"). Today I spoke with 2 small business owners who are friends. One will have to lay off staff because of increases in health insurance costs under the Affordable (cough..cough) Healthcare Act. Another is meeting with an accountant later this week to determine what the increased tax rates will mean, but he says he will also lay off an employee (out of 6) in 2013. This story will be repeated many times (and hidden from the news almost as often), but take comfort. It is all Bush's fault. That thing that will happen next year to dividend paying stocks (so beloved of pension plans), that's all Bush's fault too. Oh, and that nasty deficit? Nothing to see there, move along. For my part, I am fairly insulated from what will hit...though not completely. But I will fare far better than most. Hope you are in the same boat. Or actually, in one nearby as I prefer not to be in the same vehicle with those who think that running into the rocks is a good idea. In fact the SS California has just picked up ramming speed!
At least Obama got his before he failed.
What if the voter models the polls are using is wrong? (Asking this question I assume that the reader knows how polls are constructed.) I took a look under the hood at the Pew Poll. They use D+4, while 2008 was D+6 - a banner year with lots of Demthusiasm for Obama. No way is the enthusiasm for Obama now the same as it was in 2008. And GOP voters will turn out in droves. So the voter models are wrong. Change the model, use the same data they have from polling, and lo and behold, all these Obama leads evaporate. Change the poll numbers and the Illinois predictions...um...change. Is there hard evidence for this? Yes. The early vote numbers in Ohio. Obama is running 250,000 votes short compared to 2008...and that was his margin over McCain. Methinks there is a good chance google will notice a large spike in searches for "recipe crow" on Wednesday.
UT Arlington did freeze costs. Last year tuition and fees, and dorms fees were frozen for the following year. http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/ut-arlington-proposes-tuition-freeze/29294
Rate of delivery is energy per unit time - power. That is why generation capacity is measured in watts. The rate that the power changes is a meaningless quantity, which is why there is no standard unit for it. The person who wrote the article just has a poor grasp of this and wrote GW/hr in error. Obviously not a student who passed my intro physics class.
Right. But we are not told how long they actually sustained this level of solar power generation.
Sorry, but you are wrong. Energy (in MKS units) is measured in joules, where 1 joule = 1 kgm^2/s^2. A watt is a unit of power (P=dE/dt) so 1 watt = 1 joule/s. A kilowatt hour is = (1000 j/s)(3600 s) = 3,600,000 joules. A kWhr (or a GWhr) is a unit of energy. A GW/hr is the unit that would be associated with the time rate of change of power, which is not a physical quantity of any interest here. So, yes, nonsense units.
There is no such thing as GW/hr. Maybe they hit 22 GW of solar power. For how long? How much energy was actually delivered?
Treason is a crime. Crimes are dealt with by arrest, trial, conviction and sentencing.
Responding to purported treason by assassination is a cowardly, banana republic approach.
All those poor Confederate soldiers in Picket's Charge. They should have been arrested, not assassinated by Federal marksmen with unfairly-accurate rifles.
It is a statistical certainty (p 10e-1111111) that anti-Nazi German soldiers and civilians were killed by US forces during WW2.
I don't like the government having too much power, but I'm not sure I understand why the ACLU is getting involved in this if it is not being done domestically against American citizens. What's done in war time on foreign soil against non-American citizens doesn't seem to fall within the domain of the American Civil Liberties Union.
It is easy to understand, once you realize that they are on the other side.
Hell, all they have to do is say that filesharing is an international crime, pay off some corrupt UN bureaucrat to sic INTERPOL on folks, then all those pesky FOI suits go away. And that is only one of the least damaging outcomes. Obama just wants to kiss multinational UN ass.
How would you feel about any other police agency that was immune to FOI requests or legal challenges to misbehavior? How about legal authorities working on behalf of the RIAA? Isn't filesharing international? Another brilliant move from this administration. What could go wrong?
Come on -really??? And we know who the dog is here, with that shiver going up Chris Matthews leg and Keith Olbermann practically wetting himself from excitement. The press is a disgrace.
Although sunspots are regions of the Sun that are cooler, the surrounding faculae are brighter, so solar luminosity is greater at sunspot maximum. So your first bullet is completely wrong.
The whole "electric power line - cancer" link is total garbage and has been used by lawyers to force companies to spend money on useless countermeasures or settle "damage cases" out of court. It is a legal protection racket, as are many (Most?) class-actions suits. The American Physical Society debunkled this nonsense, as did a National Research Council report.
Actually, on the hard Left many spell "America" "Amerika" or even "Amerikkka" to express thier view that America is a fascist state. If that is the original of this poster's "Amerika", then he can go fsck himself. And it would make perfect sense that people who hate America and its open, non-socialists ways would want to move the Internet into the realm of state control. The very existence of an open, consensual, non-state, (worst of all) phenomenally successful organism like the Internet is an insult to those who want the state to rule everything in the name of "social justice."
With regard to "supersonic", there have been lots of questions on this thread that I will try to answer. The relevant speed is called the "magnetosonic" or "fast-mode" speed. This is the fastest speed at which a compressional disturbance can travel in a magnetized plasma. It is the square-root of the sum of the squares of the sound speed (just as you would calculate it in Earth's atmosphere) and the Alfven speed (a transverse, non-compressional, magnetohydrodynamic wave that has the magnetic field provide the restoring force). When something moves at a relative speed faster than the magnetosonic speed, a shock waves forms to slow, compress, heat, and deflect the flow, just as in supersonic travel in Earth's atmosphere. But in space, those shock waves are collisionless - the particles do not actually collide with each other as they do in atmospheric shock waves. Wave-particle interactions provide the "friction" that converts ordered flow energy into disordered thermal energy.
Try Instapundit. Lots of links from there.