Why is NOx a problem at a static location anyway? I understand that they are hard to deal with in a vehicle because of weight and maintenance issues. But in this case they can just run the exhaust through an akaline mister or bubbler that could strip out nearly all the NOx. It shouldn't be that hard.
Does anyone have Elon's cell number? Maybe I can give him a call and offer some suggestions.
Well, that's easy to fix - Include the 5% fee in the credit card transaction, but not in any cash transaction.
That is a violation of the CC company rules. If you charge extra for CCs, then they will revoke your merchant card account. There are a few exceptions for this rule, such as gas stations, which are allowed to charge a fee. But I doubt if they will allow it for taxis.
An easier fix is to say you don't have any cash, but if they are willing to drive you to an ATM with the meter off, you can pay them. Suddenly the CC swiper will work.
Note: I have no idea why researchers at the University of Glasgow price their materials in dollars.
Because copper, like any other internationally traded commodity, is priced in dollars. Also, people almost anywhere in the world know what their local currency is worth in dollars, so they can do the conversion in their head. Far fewer are familiar with pounds. So if you are writing an article for an international audience, you use dollars.
No they aren't. Coal can be converted to electricity at about 40% efficiency, and that can be stored in a battery and converted to motive power at about 90% efficiency, so a total of about 35%. A gasoline ICE has an efficiency of about 15%. If the electricity comes from NG, the efficiency is even higher. Also, coal is domestically produced, providing jobs for Americans. We don't fight wars over coal.
Coal is filthy, and should be phased out as soon as economically feasible. But even coal generated electricity is cleaner than gasoline for powering vehicles.
a continuing and increasing lockdown of the media streams so that a tithe can be extracted..
Except this is the opposite of what is happening. I recently got a new TV, and it has built-in WiFi, native support for YouTube, and a menu for any random URL. It is easy to watch a free video, or view a webpage, located almost anywhere. Why should a Korean TV manufacturer give a crap whether I pay a "tithe" to Disney?
Given recent history, and past history, that would be a sensible thought:)
Many wars have been launched by using a training exercise as a deception. The 1973 Yom Kippur War began as an Egyptian exercise, which they did so regularly that Israel treated them as routine. Many of the Egyptian soldiers didn't know it was real until they opened the ammunition boxes, and found live ammo instead of blanks, just a few minutes before the shooting started.
Yes, I'm pretty sure that the correlation is the other way than the headline. That would-be terrorists are more likely to become engineers, in part to get the necessary skills to make the "tools of the trade".
I doubt it. I am a degreed engineer. I was also a Marine, and worked a lot with explosives. Unless you want to make explosives from raw chemicals, an engineering education doesn't really help. You don't need calculus to rig det cord.
Why not just say "it is not transmitting"?...because people want to be able to turn it off.
Because people do NOT want it off. The Nest Cam is an Internet connected camera that can be integrated with other devices, and controlled by an app on a mobile device. When people use the app to turn it "off", they also want to be able to turn it back "on", which means it needs to stay powered up, and stay connected to the Internet. Unless they are idiots, the users of this device are well aware that "off" just means it has temporarily stopped recording, which is exactly what happens.
I have a Nest Cam installed in my house. It behaves exactly the way I expect it to behave. TFA is garbage journalism trying to manufacture outrage out of thin air.
I believe any indicator on a webcam should be hardware.
Then it can only serve one purpose. If it under software control, it can be "on" when the sensor is on, but it can also blink to indicate a lost network connection, or pulse in different sequences to indicate different internal errors. With proper programming, a single LED can serve more purposes than a Swiss Army knife.
How do you not know that it doesn't store what it sees to be transmitted at some unspecified future date when it's "on"?
You use a screwdriver. You open it up, and look for the many gigabytes of flash storage that would be required. Since it isn't there, it isn't storing anything. As long as you have it open, you could also use a logic probe on the power pins to see specifically what is powered up and what isn't, which is a lot more than the authors of TFA did.
How do you know the cam doesn't just store the pics from when it is 'turned off' for later transmission?
Because that would require many gigabytes of flash storage, which would increase the cost, and REDUCE PROFIT. A big flash chip would also be obvious to anyone with a screwdriver.
Sorry Lumpy, but if the design draws almost as much in standby as in fully-on mode, its power design is crappy.
It uses a negligible amount of power either way. The Nest Cam is plug-in, not battery powered. So keeping it powered may cost a penny or two per month. Consumers care far more about the instant-on capability. I have a Nest Cam, and it is integrated with my Wink Z-Wave home automation system, so it turns on automatically if motion or a loud sound occurs, or if a door or window sensor is triggered. If that happens, I don't want any delay in recording. I am happy to pay an extra 2 cents for this capability.
Columbus was sponsored by a wealthy and powerful sovereign government.
He was indeed. But many follow on missions were privately funded. Governments funded the development of better compasses, sextants, chronometers, and better ships, as well as the initial voyages. But within a few decades, the spice trade, slave trade, and sugar/rum trade had made oceanic voyages profitable enough for the private sector to dominate.
Given how little we understand about the complexity of existing gene interactions and how they actually work, this whole concept seems a tad risky and unpredictable.
Given that gene drives are already common in nature, the risks are likely far less than you think.
Wow, children will no longer die from malaria. Most will live to be adults and consumers of resources
When people have confidence their children will survive, they have fewer of them. Reducing child mortality is one of the most effective ways to reduce population growth.
let em leave, and we'll make sure that we close the market to them.
Not without violating a vast number of international agreements and treaties. We could retreat into economic protectionism, but wouldn't it be better to have sensible tax laws than conform to international norms that seem to work fine for every other country in the world?
They want access the highly prized U.S. market, then they gotta play ball.
Why? Thousands of foreign companies have access to the US market. Why should Pfizer be excluded, when Volkswagen, Toyota, and Roche, are not?
I mean, how many countries have a black friday?
Many of them have something equivalent. The Chinese Version has about 10 times the on-line sales of America's Black Friday.
It is also inane to call an organization that advises social media users a "charity". They really couldn't find a more worthy cause? A million children will die of malaria this year, and they are giving money to a group that informs people that they can avoid on-line abuse by closing their browser tab.
You can't easily define "domestic" versus "worldwide" profits.
Yet every other country in the world manages to do it. Only America taxes extraterritorial profits.
if you want to be called a "US company" then you need to pay US tax rates.
You are missing the point. Pfizer does NOT want to be called a "US Company". They want to be an Irish company.
If the companies don't like it then they can take their headquarters and move it overseas
You are missing the point even more. TFA, and Obama's rants, make the point that companies should NOT be able to move away. There is a movement to erect a Berlin Wall for businesses. Many businesses, like Pfizer, and getting out while they can, and taking their HQ jobs with them.
Invalidating their drug patents and contracting another drug maker to start manufacturing their portfolio as generics would do the job much better.
Then the flow of companies and jobs leaving America will turn into a torrent. You don't encourage people to stay by building higher walls and becoming more hostile.
The only way to fix this problem is by taxing the products when they enter the country.
Except we have treaties that forbid us from doing that. If we violate trade agreements, other countries will retaliate, and the world economy will spiral downward. For an example of this scenario actually happening, Google for "The Great Depression".
It's ridiculous to allow corporations to hide billions overseas.
It is ridiculous for America to tax profits on a product made in England and sold in France. It is ridiculous to have absurd tax laws that encourage companies to move jobs overseas. We should tax domestic sales, or domestic revenue, or domestic payrolls, or even domestic profits. But instead we tax worldwide profits, of only companies domiciled in America, giving them a huge incentive to go elsewhere. No other country has a tax like that. It is economic self-sabotage.
I know better places to go when you want to learn the underlying reasons
Such as?
a lot of Stackoverflow questions have been marked as "too stupid"
I have never seen a question on Stackoverflow dismissed like that, even when the questions were actually stupid. Can you provide a link to an example of a reasonable question that was dismissed as "too stupid" and not given a serious answer?
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Why is NOx a problem at a static location anyway? I understand that they are hard to deal with in a vehicle because of weight and maintenance issues. But in this case they can just run the exhaust through an akaline mister or bubbler that could strip out nearly all the NOx. It shouldn't be that hard.
Does anyone have Elon's cell number? Maybe I can give him a call and offer some suggestions.
I would want to talk to Archimedes
Archimedes's life is well documented, so you wouldn't learn much that is new. I would want to talk to the inventor of the Antikythera device.
Well, that's easy to fix - Include the 5% fee in the credit card transaction, but not in any cash transaction.
That is a violation of the CC company rules. If you charge extra for CCs, then they will revoke your merchant card account. There are a few exceptions for this rule, such as gas stations, which are allowed to charge a fee. But I doubt if they will allow it for taxis.
An easier fix is to say you don't have any cash, but if they are willing to drive you to an ATM with the meter off, you can pay them. Suddenly the CC swiper will work.
in this case it is being hijacked to be used as a pejorative
It is NOT being hijacked. I am at least as much of an Aspie as the GPP. Therefore, as a member of the group, I have the right to use the word.
Note: I have no idea why researchers at the University of Glasgow price their materials in dollars.
Because copper, like any other internationally traded commodity, is priced in dollars. Also, people almost anywhere in the world know what their local currency is worth in dollars, so they can do the conversion in their head. Far fewer are familiar with pounds. So if you are writing an article for an international audience, you use dollars.
What does "100 times more cheaply" mean?
Everyone fluent in English knows exactly what it means. English is a natural language, not an expression of formal logic. Stop being a pedantic Aspie.
Which state might that be?
California. I live in San Jose, and my wife bought her Tesla direct from the factory in Fremont. We didn't pay a dime to any dealer.
Coal powered cars are a bad idea.
No they aren't. Coal can be converted to electricity at about 40% efficiency, and that can be stored in a battery and converted to motive power at about 90% efficiency, so a total of about 35%. A gasoline ICE has an efficiency of about 15%. If the electricity comes from NG, the efficiency is even higher. Also, coal is domestically produced, providing jobs for Americans. We don't fight wars over coal.
Coal is filthy, and should be phased out as soon as economically feasible. But even coal generated electricity is cleaner than gasoline for powering vehicles.
a continuing and increasing lockdown of the media streams so that a tithe can be extracted..
Except this is the opposite of what is happening. I recently got a new TV, and it has built-in WiFi, native support for YouTube, and a menu for any random URL. It is easy to watch a free video, or view a webpage, located almost anywhere. Why should a Korean TV manufacturer give a crap whether I pay a "tithe" to Disney?
Given recent history, and past history, that would be a sensible thought :)
Many wars have been launched by using a training exercise as a deception. The 1973 Yom Kippur War began as an Egyptian exercise, which they did so regularly that Israel treated them as routine. Many of the Egyptian soldiers didn't know it was real until they opened the ammunition boxes, and found live ammo instead of blanks, just a few minutes before the shooting started.
Yes, I'm pretty sure that the correlation is the other way than the headline. That would-be terrorists are more likely to become engineers, in part to get the necessary skills to make the "tools of the trade".
I doubt it. I am a degreed engineer. I was also a Marine, and worked a lot with explosives. Unless you want to make explosives from raw chemicals, an engineering education doesn't really help. You don't need calculus to rig det cord.
Why not just say "it is not transmitting"? ...because people want to be able to turn it off.
Because people do NOT want it off. The Nest Cam is an Internet connected camera that can be integrated with other devices, and controlled by an app on a mobile device. When people use the app to turn it "off", they also want to be able to turn it back "on", which means it needs to stay powered up, and stay connected to the Internet. Unless they are idiots, the users of this device are well aware that "off" just means it has temporarily stopped recording, which is exactly what happens.
I have a Nest Cam installed in my house. It behaves exactly the way I expect it to behave. TFA is garbage journalism trying to manufacture outrage out of thin air.
I believe any indicator on a webcam should be hardware.
Then it can only serve one purpose. If it under software control, it can be "on" when the sensor is on, but it can also blink to indicate a lost network connection, or pulse in different sequences to indicate different internal errors. With proper programming, a single LED can serve more purposes than a Swiss Army knife.
How do you not know that it doesn't store what it sees to be transmitted at some unspecified future date when it's "on"?
You use a screwdriver. You open it up, and look for the many gigabytes of flash storage that would be required. Since it isn't there, it isn't storing anything. As long as you have it open, you could also use a logic probe on the power pins to see specifically what is powered up and what isn't, which is a lot more than the authors of TFA did.
How do you know the cam doesn't just store the pics from when it is 'turned off' for later transmission?
Because that would require many gigabytes of flash storage, which would increase the cost, and REDUCE PROFIT. A big flash chip would also be obvious to anyone with a screwdriver.
Sorry Lumpy, but if the design draws almost as much in standby as in fully-on mode, its power design is crappy.
It uses a negligible amount of power either way. The Nest Cam is plug-in, not battery powered. So keeping it powered may cost a penny or two per month. Consumers care far more about the instant-on capability. I have a Nest Cam, and it is integrated with my Wink Z-Wave home automation system, so it turns on automatically if motion or a loud sound occurs, or if a door or window sensor is triggered. If that happens, I don't want any delay in recording. I am happy to pay an extra 2 cents for this capability.
Columbus was sponsored by a wealthy and powerful sovereign government.
He was indeed. But many follow on missions were privately funded. Governments funded the development of better compasses, sextants, chronometers, and better ships, as well as the initial voyages. But within a few decades, the spice trade, slave trade, and sugar/rum trade had made oceanic voyages profitable enough for the private sector to dominate.
Given how little we understand about the complexity of existing gene interactions and how they actually work, this whole concept seems a tad risky and unpredictable.
Given that gene drives are already common in nature, the risks are likely far less than you think.
Wow, children will no longer die from malaria. Most will live to be adults and consumers of resources
When people have confidence their children will survive, they have fewer of them. Reducing child mortality is one of the most effective ways to reduce population growth.
let em leave, and we'll make sure that we close the market to them.
Not without violating a vast number of international agreements and treaties. We could retreat into economic protectionism, but wouldn't it be better to have sensible tax laws than conform to international norms that seem to work fine for every other country in the world?
They want access the highly prized U.S. market, then they gotta play ball.
Why? Thousands of foreign companies have access to the US market. Why should Pfizer be excluded, when Volkswagen, Toyota, and Roche, are not?
I mean, how many countries have a black friday?
Many of them have something equivalent. The Chinese Version has about 10 times the on-line sales of America's Black Friday.
It is also inane to call an organization that advises social media users a "charity". They really couldn't find a more worthy cause? A million children will die of malaria this year, and they are giving money to a group that informs people that they can avoid on-line abuse by closing their browser tab.
You can't easily define "domestic" versus "worldwide" profits.
Yet every other country in the world manages to do it. Only America taxes extraterritorial profits.
if you want to be called a "US company" then you need to pay US tax rates.
You are missing the point. Pfizer does NOT want to be called a "US Company". They want to be an Irish company.
If the companies don't like it then they can take their headquarters and move it overseas
You are missing the point even more. TFA, and Obama's rants, make the point that companies should NOT be able to move away. There is a movement to erect a Berlin Wall for businesses. Many businesses, like Pfizer, and getting out while they can, and taking their HQ jobs with them.
Invalidating their drug patents and contracting another drug maker to start manufacturing their portfolio as generics would do the job much better.
Then the flow of companies and jobs leaving America will turn into a torrent. You don't encourage people to stay by building higher walls and becoming more hostile.
The only way to fix this problem is by taxing the products when they enter the country.
Except we have treaties that forbid us from doing that. If we violate trade agreements, other countries will retaliate, and the world economy will spiral downward. For an example of this scenario actually happening, Google for "The Great Depression".
It's ridiculous to allow corporations to hide billions overseas.
It is ridiculous for America to tax profits on a product made in England and sold in France. It is ridiculous to have absurd tax laws that encourage companies to move jobs overseas. We should tax domestic sales, or domestic revenue, or domestic payrolls, or even domestic profits. But instead we tax worldwide profits, of only companies domiciled in America, giving them a huge incentive to go elsewhere. No other country has a tax like that. It is economic self-sabotage.
I know better places to go when you want to learn the underlying reasons
Such as?
a lot of Stackoverflow questions have been marked as "too stupid"
I have never seen a question on Stackoverflow dismissed like that, even when the questions were actually stupid. Can you provide a link to an example of a reasonable question that was dismissed as "too stupid" and not given a serious answer?