No, you're wrong. It wouldn't be perpetual motion because the entropy for the universe would be increasing through each successive cycle. He never said no energy was input into the system. If you think what he describes is impossible, you obviously have no clue where our current fuel comes from on a fundamental level.
I, too, share your pain of having a fucking tiny bathroom. And the reason you close the shower curtain after every shower is that it mildews if you don't. I've seen it happen quite a few times. When you're poor enough, everything beyond food and bills becomes a major expense, so you either buy a new curtain every 6 months or you close it after you're done.
He wasn't using it as an excuse for torture. If you actually read his entire comment he's using it to explain why the Abu Ghiraib incidents happened at all. Were you in the experiment in question and so can tell us that "some enjoyed it a little too much" from personal experience?
I used to feel like our money could be better spent on Earth than getting into space, but if we can make cost-effective launches we could solve our energy and food crises by launching a bunch of hydroponics and solar energy satellites into orbit and growing food and beaming energy back down to Earth. That's the sort of thing NASA et. al. should be focusing on, using space to develop unique solutions to terrestrial problems. The geology and such is interesting, but our money would be better spent on our energy and food problems. When everyones' bellies are full and their homes are warm, they just might be more amenable to cooperation than they are now.
Articles like this one get posted about once a month here. It's not really news at all, and there's always some discussion which usually involves people in different countries complaining about how they're all getting shafted. Then someone pops in with some anecdotal evidence about how his country is so much better than everyone elses' because his neighborhood is getting a couple orders of magnitude more bandwidth than everyone else when the telco finishes their upgrade.
There are usually complaints about how crappy residential broadband is in the US and about how much usage caps suck in the UK, Canada, and Australia. Somebody will then chime in with a telco's point of view about why service has to be oversold.
What would be newsworthy is hearing that the telcos are actually doing something about it beyond incremental upgrades to maintain the status quo. Stories like this article are just bloodying the water for a frenzy.
Yeah, but molecular hydrogen isn't nearly as energy-dense as gasoline, so really we'd be back to square one as far as long-haul trips are concerned. Oh, also hydrogen has a tendency to explode, and it will need to be stored in a pressurized tank. My guess is that this system has a slurry of starch in a semi-sterile container. When the car needs hydrogen, the slurry is pumped into a reaction chamber where the enzymes break it into hydrogen gas. It's really pretty simple in principle. They could do the same thing with the powder, or pellets as another poster had mentioned.
And I'd imagine that we could insulate the reaction chamber and keep it warm in the winter and cool in the summer using technologies already present in the vehicle, like the airconditioning/coolant systems and electric heating coils. It'd be no less convenient than most cars now in extremely cold weather, where you have to install a heating coil in order to keep the engine from dropping below minimum operating temperature. You'd still end up plugging something into the wall overnight.
The real question is whether or not this action will have any permanent effect on Mong's ability to continue in a professional capacity. If it doesn't, a 40-day suspension for something posted on YouTube is harsh. If it does, there are better punishments, like another poster's suggestion that the kids involved have to write a paper detailing what they did and explaining how it would make them feel were the same thing to happen to them. If they don't write such a paper then suspension is the final solution.
The first goal of a school should be to teach students to empathize with each other. Civility follows from empathy always.
Dolphins are one of the other mammal species on the planet which have sex for pleasure, independent of the reproductive process. There might be some other species out there that do the same thing.
Being a man, it terrifies me a little to think of a world where women no longer need us to contribute to genetic variability. Would we still have the same place within a woman's life, or within culture? Would we be relegated to second-class citizen status since women would no longer need us to continue the species? What would happen in a few generations as the men died out and women became the only sex? To me, it seems that something more would have to happen in order for such a drastic cultural upheaval to happen.
Actually, if you read the research, the only way you'll really teach a child to prefer one action over the other is if you reward them somehow for performing the preferred action. Beating them doesn't give them any information about what to do, only what not to do. It may or may not be effective for behavior correction depending on how the child reacts. By contrast, positive reinforcement is effective simply because people like to be rewarded as a general rule.
Actually, black holes emit energy, so there is no chance of this happening whatsoever. The black holes formed in particle acceleration experiments dissipate within a fraction of a fraction of a tiny fraction of an even smaller fraction of a much smaller fraction of a miniscule fraction of a second.
Check out the website, posted by another helpful guy. The card game that they're selling actually looks pretty interesting to play. It's basically being a chemist dueling another chemist with compounds, elements, and events. There's some educational bits to it too.
No, if Americans had to pay for the roads they would be forced to quit their jobs or not eat. There is no public transportation for most of us. What we do have is slow, dirty, and doesn't go outside of urban areas. You've really only mastered one aspect of our economic dependence on the road system. A lot of us would turn to public transportation if only it existed. I would be happy to pay tax on it as a student. The problem is our government doesn't see what a wise investment it will be in a few years.
The problem with that is that it doesn't take into account the context in which we exist, which is a situation. Are you saying that only god has free will since he created the universe? That's what it sounds like to me.
Best way to protect yourself from speeding tickets is to ruthlessly interrogate the officer who gave you the ticket in an attempt to get him to admit he's unsure of something. If you can do that, or show some doubt somewhere else, you can get your ticket overturned.
But if you decide to do that with math, be forewarned: you can really bone yourself in front of the judge if you don't know your trigonometry.
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No, you're wrong. It wouldn't be perpetual motion because the entropy for the universe would be increasing through each successive cycle. He never said no energy was input into the system. If you think what he describes is impossible, you obviously have no clue where our current fuel comes from on a fundamental level.
Indeed we did.
Yeah, because linguistic acumen is such an excellent measure of scientific prowess that we should ignore the inherient ad hominem argument.
I, too, share your pain of having a fucking tiny bathroom. And the reason you close the shower curtain after every shower is that it mildews if you don't. I've seen it happen quite a few times. When you're poor enough, everything beyond food and bills becomes a major expense, so you either buy a new curtain every 6 months or you close it after you're done.
You're like a teacher's dream family. More parents should be like that.
He wasn't using it as an excuse for torture. If you actually read his entire comment he's using it to explain why the Abu Ghiraib incidents happened at all. Were you in the experiment in question and so can tell us that "some enjoyed it a little too much" from personal experience?
Bish bosh, everyone knows the universe cannot be divided infinitely!
I used to feel like our money could be better spent on Earth than getting into space, but if we can make cost-effective launches we could solve our energy and food crises by launching a bunch of hydroponics and solar energy satellites into orbit and growing food and beaming energy back down to Earth. That's the sort of thing NASA et. al. should be focusing on, using space to develop unique solutions to terrestrial problems. The geology and such is interesting, but our money would be better spent on our energy and food problems. When everyones' bellies are full and their homes are warm, they just might be more amenable to cooperation than they are now.
Articles like this one get posted about once a month here. It's not really news at all, and there's always some discussion which usually involves people in different countries complaining about how they're all getting shafted. Then someone pops in with some anecdotal evidence about how his country is so much better than everyone elses' because his neighborhood is getting a couple orders of magnitude more bandwidth than everyone else when the telco finishes their upgrade.
There are usually complaints about how crappy residential broadband is in the US and about how much usage caps suck in the UK, Canada, and Australia. Somebody will then chime in with a telco's point of view about why service has to be oversold.
What would be newsworthy is hearing that the telcos are actually doing something about it beyond incremental upgrades to maintain the status quo. Stories like this article are just bloodying the water for a frenzy.
Yeah, but molecular hydrogen isn't nearly as energy-dense as gasoline, so really we'd be back to square one as far as long-haul trips are concerned. Oh, also hydrogen has a tendency to explode, and it will need to be stored in a pressurized tank. My guess is that this system has a slurry of starch in a semi-sterile container. When the car needs hydrogen, the slurry is pumped into a reaction chamber where the enzymes break it into hydrogen gas. It's really pretty simple in principle. They could do the same thing with the powder, or pellets as another poster had mentioned.
And I'd imagine that we could insulate the reaction chamber and keep it warm in the winter and cool in the summer using technologies already present in the vehicle, like the airconditioning/coolant systems and electric heating coils. It'd be no less convenient than most cars now in extremely cold weather, where you have to install a heating coil in order to keep the engine from dropping below minimum operating temperature. You'd still end up plugging something into the wall overnight.
The real question is whether or not this action will have any permanent effect on Mong's ability to continue in a professional capacity. If it doesn't, a 40-day suspension for something posted on YouTube is harsh. If it does, there are better punishments, like another poster's suggestion that the kids involved have to write a paper detailing what they did and explaining how it would make them feel were the same thing to happen to them. If they don't write such a paper then suspension is the final solution.
The first goal of a school should be to teach students to empathize with each other. Civility follows from empathy always.
Dolphins are one of the other mammal species on the planet which have sex for pleasure, independent of the reproductive process. There might be some other species out there that do the same thing.
Being a man, it terrifies me a little to think of a world where women no longer need us to contribute to genetic variability. Would we still have the same place within a woman's life, or within culture? Would we be relegated to second-class citizen status since women would no longer need us to continue the species? What would happen in a few generations as the men died out and women became the only sex? To me, it seems that something more would have to happen in order for such a drastic cultural upheaval to happen.
I was under the impression that the last time the Feds tried to get Google to sell out, Google fought it in court.
I seem to recall that last time ATI released "open source" drivers, it was just an open source wrapper around a binary driver.
And All the emulators you've named will generally require piracy to be of any use. Linux needs more developers selling Linux compatible games.
Actually, if you read the research, the only way you'll really teach a child to prefer one action over the other is if you reward them somehow for performing the preferred action. Beating them doesn't give them any information about what to do, only what not to do. It may or may not be effective for behavior correction depending on how the child reacts. By contrast, positive reinforcement is effective simply because people like to be rewarded as a general rule.
Actually, black holes emit energy, so there is no chance of this happening whatsoever. The black holes formed in particle acceleration experiments dissipate within a fraction of a fraction of a tiny fraction of an even smaller fraction of a much smaller fraction of a miniscule fraction of a second.
Check out the website, posted by another helpful guy. The card game that they're selling actually looks pretty interesting to play. It's basically being a chemist dueling another chemist with compounds, elements, and events. There's some educational bits to it too.
Tenure is an institution put into place to prevent just such a situation. It still does in a public high school in the US.
Yes, because we all know that students never mean what they say.
Why should the readers have to bear the burden of proof? It's your assertion, you get to show evidence.
No, if Americans had to pay for the roads they would be forced to quit their jobs or not eat. There is no public transportation for most of us. What we do have is slow, dirty, and doesn't go outside of urban areas. You've really only mastered one aspect of our economic dependence on the road system. A lot of us would turn to public transportation if only it existed. I would be happy to pay tax on it as a student. The problem is our government doesn't see what a wise investment it will be in a few years.
Actually, most of us don't use public transportation because there isn't any available outside of major cities. Have you ever actually been here?
The problem with that is that it doesn't take into account the context in which we exist, which is a situation. Are you saying that only god has free will since he created the universe? That's what it sounds like to me.
Best way to protect yourself from speeding tickets is to ruthlessly interrogate the officer who gave you the ticket in an attempt to get him to admit he's unsure of something. If you can do that, or show some doubt somewhere else, you can get your ticket overturned.
But if you decide to do that with math, be forewarned: you can really bone yourself in front of the judge if you don't know your trigonometry.