Meh oversight on DHMO is too stifling. People in industry tend to use a lot more of the relatively unregulated hydric acid, instead. It's a very good solvent: it dissolves almost everything.
You know when the dowsing rods are wrong, all that happens is someone wastes money digging a dry well. If the lie detector is wrong, innocent people are accused of stuff, and guilty people might be assumed innocent.
In another article, BP said they would sell it, but the price would be lower because of the methanol they're injecting to prevent ice buildup.
I fail to see how burning it off is a sound decision if it's saleable. Even if it can't be used for fuel, if there's anything at all that it can be used for it'd be stupid to just waste it to placate people who irrationally want to punish the oil for the disaster.
Later on, they realized it's also a good marketing technique. Good for the pocket-lining, not necessarily for the customoproducts[1]. Keeps people drawn in until the money-shot. "Something you eat every day might kill you tonight! Find out more after your dinner is long since consumed!)
[1] We need a new word for this. Television shows, web sites, newspapers, etc. make their money from advertising, but do provide an actual product or service to entice people to view the adverts. In other words, there are two groups of people giving custom: the ad agencies, and the viewers, but one group is also the product for the other group. Unfortunately, I'm not nearly witty enough to come up with an appropriate term, so custom-o-products is what ya get.
Taiwan = RoC: Republic of China Mainland China = PRC: People's Republic of China...
And that doesn't even consider the eventual reunification that *both* sides desire. (although the desired terms are wildly different...)
Anyway, I know it's great to have people employed, but if it can be automated, why wasn't it before now? The more tedious jobs we can do with machines, the more people are freed up for other things.
You can't transition to a "post-scarcity" economy without putting a few people out of work, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be a goal.
If it really was that high, then we'd hope they'd start going for refresh rate next. I've heard 500hz bandied about as being sufficiently past the threshold of noticeability.
Hard to say. Most of those movies make their budgets back, but only just. There's really no way of measuring how much they coud've made if they'd took a high quality concept and treated it with high quality talent.
Between step 2 and step 4, the journal will also demand payment from the submitter. This is currently an accepted practice and built into most grant applications.
It's the same reason video games made from movies suck: They don't think they need to spend as much effort on talent because the name of the thing they spent money on licensing will put people in seats.
Well, it might've been nice if he'd commissioned a few tens of thousands of miles of f'king thing f'king orange plastic ribbons. They should've had that shit in place to begin with, but it wasn't on hand. Still, how long should it take to ramp up production of mere thousands of miles of plastic film? That's like, what, the daily output of the Reynolds company...
Not saying that booming is the answer, it's not. It's a mitigation effort, and all part of this complete breakfast (ahem. defense-in-depth comprehensive mitigation effort) but the problem is he's good at assigning blame: It's BP's fault (or maybe transocean, or haliburtan....) but terrible at taking responsibility> .
Who is responsible for Louisiana's coast? everyone who wants louisiana to have a nice coast.. Liability =/= Responsibility. It's time to roll up your sleeves and do something. It's not enough for the spill to be the first thing he thinks about in the morning and the last thing he thinks about at night, if the whole rest of the day all he's thinking about is private concerts, golf trips, and campaign fundraisers.
Ahh, but what percentage is that of their profits. Revenues aren't the whole story when you have actual operating costs and capital depreciation to contend with.
No it isn't. If the 50mpg car costs $40k and the 20mpg car costs $20k, it's gonna be a looong time before you make up that difference. At $3/gal, you'l have to drive roughly 220k before even making up the difference. And if there's un-accounted consumables (say.. a $5k battery every 100k miles...), then you're going even longer.
How many cars make it to 200k? How many people drive them the whole way?
Yeah, but I think it should be *grams* per mile (or km, league, chain or whatever). The energy per mass is invariant over habitable temperatures, so it'll be harder to get ripped off by buying a car in the winter time and then measuring it in the summer.
If the yukon doesn't have mud, scrapes, or dings on it from all the hard core outdoor adventuring you do with it, consider replacing the yukon *with* a civic. You'll find it's much easier to park in all the places you actually go.
I'd have been more satisfied if you'd taken the legal action. Also, the laws need to be set up to ding the call center *and* the groups that hire them. It's not enough to just punish the companies using call centers: those specific companies will stop, but the call centers themselves will find someone else to scam into thinking it's a good idea.
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Meh oversight on DHMO is too stifling. People in industry tend to use a lot more of the relatively unregulated hydric acid, instead. It's a very good solvent: it dissolves almost everything.
One of these days he's going to hit one out of the park, and it'll be "Springtime for Hitler" all over again....
At which point, having a pacemaker is a suspicious activity. Y'know I never really did trust cyborgs.
Way to insult the water dowsers.
You know when the dowsing rods are wrong, all that happens is someone wastes money digging a dry well. If the lie detector is wrong, innocent people are accused of stuff, and guilty people might be assumed innocent.
In another article, BP said they would sell it, but the price would be lower because of the methanol they're injecting to prevent ice buildup.
I fail to see how burning it off is a sound decision if it's saleable. Even if it can't be used for fuel, if there's anything at all that it can be used for it'd be stupid to just waste it to placate people who irrationally want to punish the oil for the disaster.
Later on, they realized it's also a good marketing technique. Good for the pocket-lining, not necessarily for the customoproducts[1]. Keeps people drawn in until the money-shot. "Something you eat every day might kill you tonight! Find out more after your dinner is long since consumed!)
[1] We need a new word for this. Television shows, web sites, newspapers, etc. make their money from advertising, but do provide an actual product or service to entice people to view the adverts. In other words, there are two groups of people giving custom: the ad agencies, and the viewers, but one group is also the product for the other group. Unfortunately, I'm not nearly witty enough to come up with an appropriate term, so custom-o-products is what ya get.
Taiwan = RoC: Republic of China
Mainland China = PRC: People's Republic of China...
And that doesn't even consider the eventual reunification that *both* sides desire. (although the desired terms are wildly different...)
Anyway, I know it's great to have people employed, but if it can be automated, why wasn't it before now? The more tedious jobs we can do with machines, the more people are freed up for other things.
You can't transition to a "post-scarcity" economy without putting a few people out of work, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be a goal.
If it really was that high, then we'd hope they'd start going for refresh rate next. I've heard 500hz bandied about as being sufficiently past the threshold of noticeability.
Not to mention that by nyquist's law, you actually need more than just equal angular density.
Hard to say. Most of those movies make their budgets back, but only just. There's really no way of measuring how much they coud've made if they'd took a high quality concept and treated it with high quality talent.
They're actually ripping off even more.
Between step 2 and step 4, the journal will also demand payment from the submitter. This is currently an accepted practice and built into most grant applications.
It's the same reason video games made from movies suck: They don't think they need to spend as much effort on talent because the name of the thing they spent money on licensing will put people in seats.
Wait.. Shatner's from Canada, isn't he? Where else would he have picked up his speech patterns?
Well, it might've been nice if he'd commissioned a few tens of thousands of miles of f'king thing f'king orange plastic ribbons. They should've had that shit in place to begin with, but it wasn't on hand. Still, how long should it take to ramp up production of mere thousands of miles of plastic film? That's like, what, the daily output of the Reynolds company...
Not saying that booming is the answer, it's not. It's a mitigation effort, and all part of this complete breakfast (ahem. defense-in-depth comprehensive mitigation effort) but the problem is he's good at assigning blame: It's BP's fault (or maybe transocean, or haliburtan....) but terrible at taking responsibility> .
Who is responsible for Louisiana's coast? everyone who wants louisiana to have a nice coast.. Liability =/= Responsibility. It's time to roll up your sleeves and do something. It's not enough for the spill to be the first thing he thinks about in the morning and the last thing he thinks about at night, if the whole rest of the day all he's thinking about is private concerts, golf trips, and campaign fundraisers.
Ahh, but what percentage is that of their profits. Revenues aren't the whole story when you have actual operating costs and capital depreciation to contend with.
No it isn't. If the 50mpg car costs $40k and the 20mpg car costs $20k, it's gonna be a looong time before you make up that difference. At $3/gal, you'l have to drive roughly 220k before even making up the difference. And if there's un-accounted consumables (say.. a $5k battery every 100k miles...), then you're going even longer.
How many cars make it to 200k? How many people drive them the whole way?
Woah, woah. You expect us to be smarter than a sixth grader?? That bar's a little high, don't you think?
That is a singularly good math trick!
Yeah, but I think it should be *grams* per mile (or km, league, chain or whatever). The energy per mass is invariant over habitable temperatures, so it'll be harder to get ripped off by buying a car in the winter time and then measuring it in the summer.
If the yukon doesn't have mud, scrapes, or dings on it from all the hard core outdoor adventuring you do with it, consider replacing the yukon *with* a civic. You'll find it's much easier to park in all the places you actually go.
Word is he was out on his boat...
I think you should *read* that article on fantasy football. Hint: it's not about predicting games between actual, real teams.
I'd have been more satisfied if you'd taken the legal action. Also, the laws need to be set up to ding the call center *and* the groups that hire them. It's not enough to just punish the companies using call centers: those specific companies will stop, but the call centers themselves will find someone else to scam into thinking it's a good idea.
iTunes is mediocre, but everything else plain sucks. It's not Apple's fault everyone else is barely even trying.
In Austin, you can call 311 (the non-emergency line) and report an intersection where it doesn't work and they'll fix it in a few days.
That's a long time to wait patiently at a light. I'd hate to be "a few days" late to work in the morning.