A corrolation in data doesn't mean causation. Even an 80% corolation isn't enough to say A causes B. And even if you get 98%, you still haven't explained why.
Apparently there is a pretty good correlation between the stock market and how high womens skirts hemlines are. The higher the hemlines, the better the market.
No one is stating that that one causes the other, but it is thought that the emotions behind a lower stockmarket cause more conservative wear to be worn.
Einstein's position is actually quite a common one in Liberal (not the capital L, Liberalism rather than the wierd modern-American meaning) circles. It is very consistent with a laissez-faire society to say that in general you oppose the use of force, but when something as major as your way of life is threatened you will resort to it (assuming there is no other way). It is a realistic approach, really - while you'd love to have a peaceful world, you accept that sometimes not everybody plays the same ball-game.
should that be "note the capital L"?
I think most people feel the way, that force is sometimes necessary. I'm pretty sure most people in the US military feel this way too (i've known a pretty good sample of officers, and they all feel this way).
"The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." - Douglas MacArthur
In terms of sheer wealth - the U.S. outstrips the vast majority of countries and there simply is no reason why the U.S. should ever take a back seat to technology - unless the moneyed interests demand otherwise.
Unless, of course, the US government decides to not heavily subsidise broadband rollout while other counries do decide to hevily subsidise it.
Given the current oil price at $70.00/bbl - coupled with the ready availability of oil at that price - the U.S. ought to have people up in arms over the $2.60+ / gal. price of gasoline. The U.S. doesn't have gasoline riots and it won't have broadband riots despite overpriced monopoly limits on broadband development in the U.S.
First off, I don't see the connection here. Second, current price of oil is currently at $63.25/bbl and has yet to ever reach $70/bbl.
What about sexual orientation? What if the same-sex watchers are same-sex attracted? What about bisexuals, are they not allowed to work as security camera monitors at all?
That's it, we will just have to bring back eunuchs.
What's to prevent some low paid worker from making videos of what is on the CC cameras in the changing rooms and posting/selling them on the internet? I would not be surprised to find some straight women who would have no qualms posting videos of other women chaning clothes on the internet for profit. Hmmm.... looks like we have a new way here:
1) Get job watching CC cameras in dressing rooms
2) Record women changing clothes
3) Sell videos of the good looking ones online
4) PROFIT!!!
Irrelavent to this. The power required to move a car is much less than the power required to turn on the lights in a half a million homes by several orders of magnitude. The amount of power required (in electrical terms) to move a car is only a few kilo-watts at most. For this we are talking mega-watts. Also, they would have to last for several hours straight to last the night.
I have a 17-mile (27 km) round-trip commute every weekday. I imagine that there are millions more like me who need an enclosed vehicle for short daily commutes like that. Do you know (from your research on e-cars) why there isn't a mass-produced 100% electric car on the roads today? What exactly is the hang-up with plugging the car in at night?
For auto-makers in general, probably a combination of cost and batteries. An all electric car with no internal source of power (say, a gas/diesel/other generator) will have a severly limited range (I get 420+ miles on a tank). Any electric that could get that much on a charge would still have a several hour (aka longer than my 5 minute pumping) recharge time. Until we get the infrastructure to support it, electic cars are a niche market.
That said, google for "electric car" (only without the quotes) and you will get some links. Including some that are street legal and all.
As for the automaker's claims that they can't do it yet, you do realize that there is massive demand for hybrid vehicles, right? Consumers are willing to pay more to get them, and that the first company who gets this process right stands to making a killing.
I completely agree with you here. However, for some strange reason some people believe that the Oil companies and Bush own Detroit, Japan and Europe. I still haven't figured out why yet.
To those that say "spend time with your friends"... I didnt have many.
In my area there were exactly 5 other kids my age within any sort of walking distance that did not require crossing some fairly dangerous roads. Of those 6, 1 was a girl, one has since died of cocaine overdose, two moved away and one was at one point put in juvy until he was 18. The best influence of the guys moved away around 5th and the others weren't eaxtly the best influence on me. After 6th I never saw them again so that really killed any friends. Just sayin you aren't exactly alone in being like that.
The people who cant make a lot of noise and are interesting to the media. That doesnt make them many though. Just loud:p
Even the politicians admit that you have to be loud. They listen to whoever shouts the loudest, as that is the only ones you here. And their job is supposed to be listening to what the constituents say. So if that is all you ever hear, that is what it appears that your constituents want.
Basically anyone who disagrees with those who are loud just needs to get up and shout!
Studies have shown that games do increase aggression in kids. Maybe not to the levels that incite violent crime, but probably things like schoolyard fights. I suppose you could argue that things like that don't matter to society, but that would be a little shortsighted, IMO. If keeping some snot-nosed kid from having one video game will stop another kid from being bullied at school, isn't that worth it?
All I'm saying is that just because a game doesn't lead a kid to murder doesn't mean it has no effect on anyone.
I wonder what they would make of me then. I was one of the ones who would get bullied at school al the time. I then went home and took it out on the characters in the first person shooters or the pins at the bowling alley. It helped me cool off steam instead of punching someone in the nose.
Many adults over 30 still consider video games to be "kid's entertainment." The idea that adult-oriented or even pornographic material could exist in a video game format is simply unfathomable to them.
I wonder what those adults would think of some of the games from Japan. The kind that the ESRB wouldn't even have to debate about giving an AO (Adults Only) rating to.
Precision on a trackball leaves a lot to be desired... Thumbs just aren't as agile as an entire hand.
I beg to differ. I use the trackball all the time, including in FPSs. I have no problems fraging my enemy and controlling movement. In fact, I find it easier than using the regular mice as my arm does not get tired moving the whole mouse around all the time. During a 10 hour marathon of FPSing, your arm can get really tired.
I just wonder how true that bit about the desk being necessary really is. I've played with gyro mice (expensive, yes, but mostly because they're a niche product) and have pretty much always been able to use a keyboard on my lap -- so why don't we see more keyboard/mouse interfaces becoming available for the couch environment?
Have you considered using a trackball? I sit the keyboard on my lap along with the trackball and have no problems that way.
As to why so few keyboard/mouse interfaces, it's all down to control. In standard FPSs, my left hand controls movement (I use all 5 fingers for this, including my pinky) along with weapon selection (when I don't use the mouse scroll wheel). My right hand controls aiming firing (only fingers unused are the pink and sometimes the ring finger).
All k/m combined interfaces I have seen are for one hand. This makes it control harder, at least for me.
The only fatalities in the history of U.S. nuclear reactor operations occurred on January 3, 1961 at the U.S. Army's Idaho Falls SL-1 Reactor. The crew was starting this small experimental reactor (to be used as a portable steam heat facility for arctic operations) when a young officer climbed to the top of the reactor, leaned over and pulled on a reactor control rod as he had often done before to keep it from binding. But this time it came up too fast, making the reactor prompt critical. An explosion occurred in which the top of the reactor blew off and the reactor control rod blasted skyward impaling the officer to the ceiling. Two other men were also killed. There was a long delay before the bodies could be recovered because of the high radiation level in the building. Lead was placed in the coffins of the three men during the funeral to offer protection until the bodies could be buried under 8 feet of soil. (From the book "The Angry Genie, One Man's Walk through the Nuclear Age" by Karl Z. Morgan Published University of Oklahoma Press 1999.)
Actually, in this case the plutonium is not waste. It can be used as a viable nuclear fuel in reactors. It's just has the duality of being capable of being a nuclear bomb. Kind of like nitrogen ferilizers having both a good and a bad side.
3 mile island and chernobyl were two completely different kinds of reactors and two completely different kinds of accidents.
3 mile island: Standard US reactor 30 something things went wrong simultaniously and the station crew was cutting some corners in order to get the reactor online by the end of the month. The reactor physically metlted down and was contained by the concrete and steel encasement that surrounds all US nuclear reactors in case of meltdown. US reactors (as I understand it) are incapable of going supercritical (aka boom). Amount of radiation exposure in the area that year was about 3 times higher than normal, but still way below safety levels.
Chernobyl: New fangled design that had the capability of having a runaway critical process if the water in the reactor started to boil (in US reactors, the reactors produce less energy with less water, this one was the reverse). The water started to boil and started a runaway process. The reactor exploded and litterally blew the roof off the building. Amount of radiation release was many times normal.
That said, there is nothing wrong with US reactors and safety procedures, so long as they are followed.
Just spit balling but couldn't fresnel lense technology (Giant Fresnel Lense) be used to increase efficieny, or reduce the size of the dish. Then use fly wheel technology to store excess energy for night time use.
The fresnel lens could reduce the surface area of the mirrors, but not of the over all area. The amount of light energy from 1 acre is the same whether you condense it using a lense or a mirror. In addition, with the extra complexity and cost of the lens, you might as well just stick with a mirror (plus the lenses are probably more fragile).
As for the fly wheels. Think about how big and how many flywheels you would need in order to store 3gigawatt hours. That is 250Mwatts for 12 hours. Plus inefficiencies in the bearings and conversion of the power would reduce the stored energy.
You'd be surprised. Deserts are a hot spot for environmentalists and they've already blocked several large scale solar projects in the southwest preciesely because they'd keep the sun from reaching the desert floor. Not to mention the "Blight" factor of detracing from the natural beauty of the desert.
Can you please provice a link? If this is true, I would like to reference it at a later date.
which is about 12,000 square miles, to supply 100% of current electrical needs
Ummm... Night time when the sun is down? Clowdy/Rainy days? Winter with snow on the dishes? Hailstorms/Tornadows/Hurricanes? Way too many natural disasters and techincal problems to have these things be our only source of power.
If you can afford it, I would recomend buying the Accord hybrid over the civic hybrid. The civic hybrid feels chea and plasticy on the inside (as do the regular ones now). Also, the dash panel is a big distraction (atractive blue LEDs). Not sure about the accord hybrid as they sell out too fast for me to get a look at them, but they appear to be built much better, even if they do not get as good milage.
On the other hand, if you are looking at this insight tell me what you think about it. I have seen it, but haven't been able to tell much about it.
I'm not sure why the lack of interest in pebble beds, but I'm guessing they need some political pressure...
As I understand it, the pebble bed nuclear reactors make it really hard to re-enrich the uranium after usage. This is a bad idea as re-enriched uranium can be reused and produces less radioactive waste in the long run. All we have to do to solve the reenrichment problem and a large part of our nuclear waste is to build a fast breeder reactor and start recycling the used material.
This was the original plan when nuclear power plants were first developed. President Carter used execuitive order to ban fast breeder reactors back in the 70's, so it wouldn't take much to undo that ban.
was to try to use that defense in Alabama instead of California.
Replace Alabama with "ex-Confederate States" and it would be a bit more accurate. We could probably expand this past California too, but not sure what wording to use.
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A corrolation in data doesn't mean causation. Even an 80% corolation isn't enough to say A causes B. And even if you get 98%, you still haven't explained why.
Apparently there is a pretty good correlation between the stock market and how high womens skirts hemlines are. The higher the hemlines, the better the market.
No one is stating that that one causes the other, but it is thought that the emotions behind a lower stockmarket cause more conservative wear to be worn.
Einstein's position is actually quite a common one in Liberal (not the capital L, Liberalism rather than the wierd modern-American meaning) circles. It is very consistent with a laissez-faire society to say that in general you oppose the use of force, but when something as major as your way of life is threatened you will resort to it (assuming there is no other way). It is a realistic approach, really - while you'd love to have a peaceful world, you accept that sometimes not everybody plays the same ball-game.
should that be "note the capital L"?
I think most people feel the way, that force is sometimes necessary. I'm pretty sure most people in the US military feel this way too (i've known a pretty good sample of officers, and they all feel this way).
"The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." - Douglas MacArthur
In terms of sheer wealth - the U.S. outstrips the vast majority of countries and there simply is no reason why the U.S. should ever take a back seat to technology - unless the moneyed interests demand otherwise.
Unless, of course, the US government decides to not heavily subsidise broadband rollout while other counries do decide to hevily subsidise it.
Given the current oil price at $70.00/bbl - coupled with the ready availability of oil at that price - the U.S. ought to have people up in arms over the $2.60+ / gal. price of gasoline. The U.S. doesn't have gasoline riots and it won't have broadband riots despite overpriced monopoly limits on broadband development in the U.S.
First off, I don't see the connection here. Second, current price of oil is currently at $63.25/bbl and has yet to ever reach $70/bbl.
What about sexual orientation? What if the same-sex watchers are same-sex attracted? What about bisexuals, are they not allowed to work as security camera monitors at all?
That's it, we will just have to bring back eunuchs.
What's to prevent some low paid worker from making videos of what is on the CC cameras in the changing rooms and posting/selling them on the internet? I would not be surprised to find some straight women who would have no qualms posting videos of other women chaning clothes on the internet for profit. Hmmm.... looks like we have a new way here:
1) Get job watching CC cameras in dressing rooms
2) Record women changing clothes
3) Sell videos of the good looking ones online
4) PROFIT!!!
Wasn't there a car powered entirely by flywheels?
Irrelavent to this. The power required to move a car is much less than the power required to turn on the lights in a half a million homes by several orders of magnitude. The amount of power required (in electrical terms) to move a car is only a few kilo-watts at most. For this we are talking mega-watts. Also, they would have to last for several hours straight to last the night.
I have a 17-mile (27 km) round-trip commute every weekday. I imagine that there are millions more like me who need an enclosed vehicle for short daily commutes like that. Do you know (from your research on e-cars) why there isn't a mass-produced 100% electric car on the roads today? What exactly is the hang-up with plugging the car in at night?
For auto-makers in general, probably a combination of cost and batteries. An all electric car with no internal source of power (say, a gas/diesel/other generator) will have a severly limited range (I get 420+ miles on a tank). Any electric that could get that much on a charge would still have a several hour (aka longer than my 5 minute pumping) recharge time. Until we get the infrastructure to support it, electic cars are a niche market.
That said, google for "electric car" (only without the quotes) and you will get some links. Including some that are street legal and all.
As for the automaker's claims that they can't do it yet, you do realize that there is massive demand for hybrid vehicles, right? Consumers are willing to pay more to get them, and that the first company who gets this process right stands to making a killing.
I completely agree with you here. However, for some strange reason some people believe that the Oil companies and Bush own Detroit, Japan and Europe. I still haven't figured out why yet.
You know, the suspension and the exhaust noise aren't really the reason that people turn away from energy efficient automobiles. It's the power
Really? I thought it was the extra $6k-$10k you had to shell out to get one.
To those that say "spend time with your friends"... I didnt have many.
:p
In my area there were exactly 5 other kids my age within any sort of walking distance that did not require crossing some fairly dangerous roads. Of those 6, 1 was a girl, one has since died of cocaine overdose, two moved away and one was at one point put in juvy until he was 18. The best influence of the guys moved away around 5th and the others weren't eaxtly the best influence on me. After 6th I never saw them again so that really killed any friends. Just sayin you aren't exactly alone in being like that.
The people who cant make a lot of noise and are interesting to the media. That doesnt make them many though. Just loud
Even the politicians admit that you have to be loud. They listen to whoever shouts the loudest, as that is the only ones you here. And their job is supposed to be listening to what the constituents say. So if that is all you ever hear, that is what it appears that your constituents want.
Basically anyone who disagrees with those who are loud just needs to get up and shout!
Studies have shown that games do increase aggression in kids. Maybe not to the levels that incite violent crime, but probably things like schoolyard fights. I suppose you could argue that things like that don't matter to society, but that would be a little shortsighted, IMO. If keeping some snot-nosed kid from having one video game will stop another kid from being bullied at school, isn't that worth it? All I'm saying is that just because a game doesn't lead a kid to murder doesn't mean it has no effect on anyone.
I wonder what they would make of me then. I was one of the ones who would get bullied at school al the time. I then went home and took it out on the characters in the first person shooters or the pins at the bowling alley. It helped me cool off steam instead of punching someone in the nose.
Many adults over 30 still consider video games to be "kid's entertainment." The idea that adult-oriented or even pornographic material could exist in a video game format is simply unfathomable to them.
I wonder what those adults would think of some of the games from Japan. The kind that the ESRB wouldn't even have to debate about giving an AO (Adults Only) rating to.
Precision on a trackball leaves a lot to be desired... Thumbs just aren't as agile as an entire hand.
I beg to differ. I use the trackball all the time, including in FPSs. I have no problems fraging my enemy and controlling movement. In fact, I find it easier than using the regular mice as my arm does not get tired moving the whole mouse around all the time. During a 10 hour marathon of FPSing, your arm can get really tired.
I just wonder how true that bit about the desk being necessary really is. I've played with gyro mice (expensive, yes, but mostly because they're a niche product) and have pretty much always been able to use a keyboard on my lap -- so why don't we see more keyboard/mouse interfaces becoming available for the couch environment?
Have you considered using a trackball? I sit the keyboard on my lap along with the trackball and have no problems that way.
As to why so few keyboard/mouse interfaces, it's all down to control. In standard FPSs, my left hand controls movement (I use all 5 fingers for this, including my pinky) along with weapon selection (when I don't use the mouse scroll wheel). My right hand controls aiming firing (only fingers unused are the pink and sometimes the ring finger). All k/m combined interfaces I have seen are for one hand. This makes it control harder, at least for me.
Did some quick searching and found this:
The only fatalities in the history of U.S. nuclear reactor operations occurred on January 3, 1961 at the U.S. Army's Idaho Falls SL-1 Reactor. The crew was starting this small experimental reactor (to be used as a portable steam heat facility for arctic operations) when a young officer climbed to the top of the reactor, leaned over and pulled on a reactor control rod as he had often done before to keep it from binding. But this time it came up too fast, making the reactor prompt critical. An explosion occurred in which the top of the reactor blew off and the reactor control rod blasted skyward impaling the officer to the ceiling. Two other men were also killed. There was a long delay before the bodies could be recovered because of the high radiation level in the building. Lead was placed in the coffins of the three men during the funeral to offer protection until the bodies could be buried under 8 feet of soil. (From the book "The Angry Genie, One Man's Walk through the Nuclear Age" by Karl Z. Morgan Published University of Oklahoma Press 1999.)
Emphasis mine.
one additional point of note. The sun's output has been increasing. So our "constant out from the sun" has been increasing, helping to contribute.
Dear Skype, We, the FCC, require you, a British company, to comply with American laws. If you don't we'll...
Get a court injunction preventing you from doing any and all business in the US and it's territories.
well they're pretending to be a phone company, so they might have some luck.
If they're going to be a phone company, they have to follow all the phone company regulations.
Would you happen to know his reasons for banning them and if they may still be valid?
Fast breeder reactors produce Plutonium 239. For those others who don't know Pu-239 is the form of plutonium used in nuclear weapons. As for carter, See this post.
than it is from waste plutonium.
Actually, in this case the plutonium is not waste. It can be used as a viable nuclear fuel in reactors. It's just has the duality of being capable of being a nuclear bomb. Kind of like nitrogen ferilizers having both a good and a bad side.
3 mile island and chernobyl were two completely different kinds of reactors and two completely different kinds of accidents.
3 mile island: Standard US reactor 30 something things went wrong simultaniously and the station crew was cutting some corners in order to get the reactor online by the end of the month. The reactor physically metlted down and was contained by the concrete and steel encasement that surrounds all US nuclear reactors in case of meltdown. US reactors (as I understand it) are incapable of going supercritical (aka boom). Amount of radiation exposure in the area that year was about 3 times higher than normal, but still way below safety levels.
Chernobyl: New fangled design that had the capability of having a runaway critical process if the water in the reactor started to boil (in US reactors, the reactors produce less energy with less water, this one was the reverse). The water started to boil and started a runaway process. The reactor exploded and litterally blew the roof off the building. Amount of radiation release was many times normal.
That said, there is nothing wrong with US reactors and safety procedures, so long as they are followed.
Just spit balling but couldn't fresnel lense technology (Giant Fresnel Lense) be used to increase efficieny, or reduce the size of the dish. Then use fly wheel technology to store excess energy for night time use.
The fresnel lens could reduce the surface area of the mirrors, but not of the over all area. The amount of light energy from 1 acre is the same whether you condense it using a lense or a mirror. In addition, with the extra complexity and cost of the lens, you might as well just stick with a mirror (plus the lenses are probably more fragile).
As for the fly wheels. Think about how big and how many flywheels you would need in order to store 3gigawatt hours. That is 250Mwatts for 12 hours. Plus inefficiencies in the bearings and conversion of the power would reduce the stored energy.
You'd be surprised. Deserts are a hot spot for environmentalists and they've already blocked several large scale solar projects in the southwest preciesely because they'd keep the sun from reaching the desert floor. Not to mention the "Blight" factor of detracing from the natural beauty of the desert.
Can you please provice a link? If this is true, I would like to reference it at a later date.
which is about 12,000 square miles, to supply 100% of current electrical needs
Ummm... Night time when the sun is down? Clowdy/Rainy days? Winter with snow on the dishes? Hailstorms/Tornadows/Hurricanes? Way too many natural disasters and techincal problems to have these things be our only source of power.
I'm planning on buying a Honda hybrid personally
If you can afford it, I would recomend buying the Accord hybrid over the civic hybrid. The civic hybrid feels chea and plasticy on the inside (as do the regular ones now). Also, the dash panel is a big distraction (atractive blue LEDs). Not sure about the accord hybrid as they sell out too fast for me to get a look at them, but they appear to be built much better, even if they do not get as good milage.
On the other hand, if you are looking at this insight tell me what you think about it. I have seen it, but haven't been able to tell much about it.
I'm not sure why the lack of interest in pebble beds, but I'm guessing they need some political pressure...
As I understand it, the pebble bed nuclear reactors make it really hard to re-enrich the uranium after usage. This is a bad idea as re-enriched uranium can be reused and produces less radioactive waste in the long run. All we have to do to solve the reenrichment problem and a large part of our nuclear waste is to build a fast breeder reactor and start recycling the used material.
This was the original plan when nuclear power plants were first developed. President Carter used execuitive order to ban fast breeder reactors back in the 70's, so it wouldn't take much to undo that ban.
was to try to use that defense in Alabama instead of California.
Replace Alabama with "ex-Confederate States" and it would be a bit more accurate. We could probably expand this past California too, but not sure what wording to use.