Hydrogen is generally cracked from natural gas. This is much more intelligent than using the natural gas to produce ammonium nitrate to feed crops that will, when digested by yeast to produce ethanol, yield a little less energy than was contained in the natural gas to begin with. (albeit in a form that is much, much tastier.)
The issue is that for all of those things, you're allocating someone else's labor. It's always immoral to do this, so the proper thing to do is to have a damn good reason, and be as limited as possible.
In the case of roads, they should be constructed as locally as possible. We allow the national government to build freeways because of the national security implications of the investment (need to be able to move troops quickly and have nice flat space for clandestine air strips. The other option is a huge standing army to cover everywhere all at once).
And even that is dangerous. With the kind of money to build national-scale freeways flying around, an entity could make some pretty bogus unrelated side-requirements. Like manipulating states into a uniformly high drinking age or drug laws.
Local roads should be handled and funded at the local level where objections can be more readily heard and addressed. Right down to your driveway, which is funded only by you.
There a very few needs which the government is best at addressing. For those, it should always keep its scope as small as possible because the money always comes from the threat of violence.
There is a very good reason for that. People like hot coffee, not lukewarm coffee. Even people that don't really like coffee. Like, say, the kind of people who would get their coffee from a discount hamburger chain, and molest it with cream and sugar amounting to half the original volume.
If McDonalds employees were aloud to face-punch anyone who complained about lukewarm beverages after adding eight creams, they wouldn't have had the problem to begin with.
Unfortunately, they don't seem to have been able to price their product reasonably. $450 might have been an acceptable price in 1997, five years before it came out, but it's just silly to charge that much for something that really ought to be cheap, almost throwaway, based on specs.
The suspected objects were attached to freeway supports. So it's hard to imagine how they could have improved the situation in the event the devices were bombs by adding additional explosive material.
That circumstance does not exist in your driveway.
Nope. Radar is active. radar detectors are easy, especially as they only have to deal with r^2 loss while the radar itself goes like r^4 because it's two-way. GPS devices simply listen to the signal from the satellites. they don't transmit anything*
*they might leak a little of the reference signal if they use heterodyning receivers for selectivity, though. That's still freaky-low power, and there's nothing fundamental about the frequencies used, so you can never be sure what to look for. This kind of leakage is the reason you are restricted from using anything radio related in airliners, btw.
Pfft. I'm selling it. If they start doing this, I'm putting an eula on my doors that states that anything deliberately left in or attached to my car without my knowledge shall be considered a secret gift and henceforth my property to dispose of as I please.
Dan Brown doesn't bill his books as historical fiction. The publisher sort-of does, but in radio interviews Mr. Brown presents his books as an expose of the Vatican.
Are you saying the budget is 300% of the GDP, or 3%? Because both numbers are way off, even if you add in the spendulous bill (which, btw, doesn't all happen this year, even if it is committed this year).
That does not, afaikt include the spendulous bill, and I was too lazy to skim through and see if it included debt service. It definitely does not include state governments, which while not federal are still government, and looking at my tax bill last year, are roughly equivalent (a little less) to the federal amount (assuming I don't live in a state that's exceptionally more spendthrift than the others.)
If you play with the chart posted by jgtg, you can see that their estimate for the federal spending is also 21%, which corresponds to the official government publication.
I don't really feel like going through all 50 states and adding up their spending to correlate the total spending figure, but it looks proper in regards to my personal tax bill, so I'm inclined to believe that state spending accounts for roughly 16% of the GDP.
Mods, this isn't flamebait. Accuweather really did try to position themselves as the gatekeeper to noaa's data when NOAA started offering human-readable reports via the internet.
It places the NCS nominally under NOAA in the org chart, but gives NCS additional powers and authority (whether or not other federal agencies capabilities are even useful to the task) that NOAA apparently does not have.
It sounds an awful lot like the old "political officer" they used to have on soviet submarines. "You're still in charge (but we're really in charge)"
If we're already accepting that the user is merely a conduit for input from a piece of furniture, then I guess it is acceptable to put that level of control in Microsoft's hands.
That's because you shouldn't be using OpenOffice for academic writing. It's ok, but it's painful if you have to say.. typeset equations.
You should be using LaTeX. If you need a gui, then use LyX, which has, to date, the most efficient and capable equation editor I've seen so far. It's helped, of course, by including a pass-through feature for anything it doesn't understand.
LyX integrates with a few bibtex managers, or flat text files.
And of course, the big advantage is that you don't even bother writing the style file. You just use the standard one from the appropriate body (ams, for instance), or get it from the publisher. You use the markup for what it was intended for: telling the software where the sections are, and what bits of text are the titles for those sections, subsections, etc.
My newspaper costs over $360 for a year's subscription.
If I get it via some kind of branded device, how many free years will they give me? Even one is cost effective for me, assuming I don't care about color pictures or the comics.
As to how it jumps species in the first place, one way is to drink raw avian blood as in Tit Canh [ehow.com]. Then infect some tourist who gets on a plane and who coughs infected droplets into air that is recycled for a number of hours.
Ok, we need to put a stop to this myth like thirty years ago.
THE AIR ON PLANES ISN'T RECYCLED.
Bottled oxygen and CO2 scrubbers are heavy and expensive, and completely unnecessary.* The plane is surrounded by a breathing medium that is perfectly adequate in every way except temperature and density. A problem which is solved by the same step: Compressed air is diverted from the engines before the fuel is mixed in. The compression is mostly adiabatic, so that raises the temperature, too.
*A small amount of bottled oxygen is carried. But nowhere near enough for a whole trip. Just enough to descend to a breathable altitude and maybe land.
The air cycles out pretty quickly, too. Since there are a lot of fat people on board, you need to handle more than one cubic foot per person per minute.
And it leaks out through all the seams, not just the control valves. There's a good chance most of the air you exhale exits the plane mere inches from your face.
And the air from the overhead blower is directly off the engine tap. It's 100% fresh outside air. If you're worried about mixing, just turn that sucker on and point it at your nose. (but wear a wet rag over your nose so you don't dry out.)
And I read it as the reporters using the idea that you just said to accomplish what the parent suspects. They're smart enough to know that that is a very real drawback to the plan, but they ought to be smart enough to take the feedback and do something with it.
It might be a case of readers collectively wanting to suppress something, but it might also be a case of readers wanting information about something else and wanting resources to be freed to get that information.
A friend of mine had his P38 (old military style) can opener taken off his keychain in the Bucks County Courthouse (PA)
A P38 can opener, for those of you who don't know, is quite possibly the least expensive can-opener possible. It could be accurately be described as a "hinged razor-blade."
It's really no surprise at all that the security guard wouldn't let that pass. Especially as they're made of stamped aluminum and probably worth about.10 cents each.
A cheap camera on a cellphone actually is a good thing. It's a camera that won't be in the bottom of the glove box with dead batteries (or, in earlier days, expired film) when you need it (e.g. after an accident, or when corrupt cops are putting some minority "in his place.")
It's really quite a shame that certain environments need to restrict their presence.
I really think the problems I outlined far outweigh the finger placement issue. The buttons work fine, it's just that there is an ergonomic issue relating to rest state.
But consider that if you don't have a mac, you wouldn't get a mighty mouse, and if you do have a mac, then you either don't actually need the right-button functionality, or the issues I mentioned would force you to get another mouse anyway. Don't even bother trying to use Blender with default mouse on a mac.
The ring-wear and low resolution are critical issues contraindicating the use of a mighty-mouse anywhere where the mouse might actually get used a lot. And worse, they complement each other: the longer distances cause more wear in the ring, and as the ring wears, it becomes less smooth, increasing the work done with each twitch.
Here's where I lost some respect for you:
I want a Bluetooth mouse because I want a Bluetooth mouse. If I wanted a cordless wave desktop I'd get a cordless wave desktop.
That's a very PHB thing to say, and mocks the whole purpose of this discussion: whether or not bluetooth is even worth it in wireless mice. You've already blocked off a whole avenue without even considering the drawbacks.
The most important things for a cordless mouse are ease of use and security. Bluetooth mice tend to be actually stronger on the latter than the former, since bluetooth has encryption as part of its spec. (but not, afaict as a requirement, so you still have to do some annoying research).
And, also importantly, encryption increases latency, so it might actually not be such a great feature depending on what you do with a mouse.
But the point is that there's no reason why bluetooth should be the only tool capable of meeting whatever requirements you have, so why would you limit yourself to its rather small (at the moment) universe of devices?
If you'd used apple's mouse, you'd find that there's nothing wrong with the buttons they don't have (left, right, middle all work fine, even if you've got a habit of resting your fingers on the buttons you don't use)
The flaws with the mighty mouse are:
No replaceable foot pads. The ring was a good idea, but for something that slides on a surface all day, it really needed to be made of harder plastic or have a replaceable gasket.
Side buttons poorly placed. This isn't really apple's problem, though, since side buttons are *always* poorly placed, by virtue of being on the side. Forcing people to hold a mouse gingerly just to move it probably isn't ergonomically sound.
Sensor is low resolution. Like way low resolution. So, You get the choice of either putting the sensitivity way up or having to move the mouse further than a hand-twitch to move anywhere useful.
Fortunately, Logitech cordless wave desktop solves two of those issues. And is, in all other ways, so far a pretty effortless input combo. It's not bluetooth, but the main reason to get bluetooth (confidence that they might have used AES encryption*) only really applies to the keyboard.
*Why isn't this a selling point? I'd think "Uses encryption approved by the NSA for up to Top Secret" would be something that every manufacture of wireless keyboards or any device that wants to be secure would like to put in bright flashy text on every box, even if they've done the implementation poorly.
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Wait.. the main boulevard in France, the one they sing the song about, the one with the big arch over it.. is named after the greek underworld?
That's really creepy, when you think about it.
Hydrogen is generally cracked from natural gas. This is much more intelligent than using the natural gas to produce ammonium nitrate to feed crops that will, when digested by yeast to produce ethanol, yield a little less energy than was contained in the natural gas to begin with. (albeit in a form that is much, much tastier.)
A pretty hardcore lisp.
Which is, I assume, why police departments sometimes employ "psychics." To launder the evidence and get back on track.
What, you thought the scam was by the psychics themselves on the unsuspecting police? Hah.
So, because roads are OK, then everything is OK?
The issue is that for all of those things, you're allocating someone else's labor. It's always immoral to do this, so the proper thing to do is to have a damn good reason, and be as limited as possible.
In the case of roads, they should be constructed as locally as possible. We allow the national government to build freeways because of the national security implications of the investment (need to be able to move troops quickly and have nice flat space for clandestine air strips. The other option is a huge standing army to cover everywhere all at once).
And even that is dangerous. With the kind of money to build national-scale freeways flying around, an entity could make some pretty bogus unrelated side-requirements. Like manipulating states into a uniformly high drinking age or drug laws.
Local roads should be handled and funded at the local level where objections can be more readily heard and addressed. Right down to your driveway, which is funded only by you.
There a very few needs which the government is best at addressing. For those, it should always keep its scope as small as possible because the money always comes from the threat of violence.
There is a very good reason for that. People like hot coffee, not lukewarm coffee. Even people that don't really like coffee. Like, say, the kind of people who would get their coffee from a discount hamburger chain, and molest it with cream and sugar amounting to half the original volume.
If McDonalds employees were aloud to face-punch anyone who complained about lukewarm beverages after adding eight creams, they wouldn't have had the problem to begin with.
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Unfortunately, they don't seem to have been able to price their product reasonably. $450 might have been an acceptable price in 1997, five years before it came out, but it's just silly to charge that much for something that really ought to be cheap, almost throwaway, based on specs.
The suspected objects were attached to freeway supports. So it's hard to imagine how they could have improved the situation in the event the devices were bombs by adding additional explosive material.
That circumstance does not exist in your driveway.
Nope. Radar is active. radar detectors are easy, especially as they only have to deal with r^2 loss while the radar itself goes like r^4 because it's two-way. GPS devices simply listen to the signal from the satellites. they don't transmit anything*
*they might leak a little of the reference signal if they use heterodyning receivers for selectivity, though. That's still freaky-low power, and there's nothing fundamental about the frequencies used, so you can never be sure what to look for. This kind of leakage is the reason you are restricted from using anything radio related in airliners, btw.
Pfft. I'm selling it. If they start doing this, I'm putting an eula on my doors that states that anything deliberately left in or attached to my car without my knowledge shall be considered a secret gift and henceforth my property to dispose of as I please.
Dan Brown doesn't bill his books as historical fiction. The publisher sort-of does, but in radio interviews Mr. Brown presents his books as an expose of the Vatican.
Are you saying the budget is 300% of the GDP, or 3%? Because both numbers are way off, even if you add in the spendulous bill (which, btw, doesn't all happen this year, even if it is committed this year).
According to the government itself, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy09/browse.html (look at summary tables), Federal spending will amount to 21% of the GDP.
Federal spending.
That does not, afaikt include the spendulous bill, and I was too lazy to skim through and see if it included debt service. It definitely does not include state governments, which while not federal are still government, and looking at my tax bill last year, are roughly equivalent (a little less) to the federal amount (assuming I don't live in a state that's exceptionally more spendthrift than the others.)
If you play with the chart posted by jgtg, you can see that their estimate for the federal spending is also 21%, which corresponds to the official government publication.
I don't really feel like going through all 50 states and adding up their spending to correlate the total spending figure, but it looks proper in regards to my personal tax bill, so I'm inclined to believe that state spending accounts for roughly 16% of the GDP.
Mods, this isn't flamebait. Accuweather really did try to position themselves as the gatekeeper to noaa's data when NOAA started offering human-readable reports via the internet.
Heh, no, that's clever political wording.
It places the NCS nominally under NOAA in the org chart, but gives NCS additional powers and authority (whether or not other federal agencies capabilities are even useful to the task) that NOAA apparently does not have.
It sounds an awful lot like the old "political officer" they used to have on soviet submarines. "You're still in charge (but we're really in charge)"
If we're already accepting that the user is merely a conduit for input from a piece of furniture, then I guess it is acceptable to put that level of control in Microsoft's hands.
That's because you shouldn't be using OpenOffice for academic writing. It's ok, but it's painful if you have to say.. typeset equations.
You should be using LaTeX. If you need a gui, then use LyX, which has, to date, the most efficient and capable equation editor I've seen so far. It's helped, of course, by including a pass-through feature for anything it doesn't understand.
LyX integrates with a few bibtex managers, or flat text files.
And of course, the big advantage is that you don't even bother writing the style file. You just use the standard one from the appropriate body (ams, for instance), or get it from the publisher. You use the markup for what it was intended for: telling the software where the sections are, and what bits of text are the titles for those sections, subsections, etc.
My newspaper costs over $360 for a year's subscription.
If I get it via some kind of branded device, how many free years will they give me? Even one is cost effective for me, assuming I don't care about color pictures or the comics.
As to how it jumps species in the first place, one way is to drink raw avian blood as in Tit Canh [ehow.com]. Then infect some tourist who gets on a plane and who coughs infected droplets into air that is recycled for a number of hours.
Ok, we need to put a stop to this myth like thirty years ago.
THE AIR ON PLANES ISN'T RECYCLED.
Bottled oxygen and CO2 scrubbers are heavy and expensive, and completely unnecessary.* The plane is surrounded by a breathing medium that is perfectly adequate in every way except temperature and density. A problem which is solved by the same step: Compressed air is diverted from the engines before the fuel is mixed in. The compression is mostly adiabatic, so that raises the temperature, too.
*A small amount of bottled oxygen is carried. But nowhere near enough for a whole trip. Just enough to descend to a breathable altitude and maybe land.
The air cycles out pretty quickly, too. Since there are a lot of fat people on board, you need to handle more than one cubic foot per person per minute.
And it leaks out through all the seams, not just the control valves. There's a good chance most of the air you exhale exits the plane mere inches from your face.
And the air from the overhead blower is directly off the engine tap. It's 100% fresh outside air. If you're worried about mixing, just turn that sucker on and point it at your nose. (but wear a wet rag over your nose so you don't dry out.)
"supports...out of the box" and "service pack two" do not belong in the same headline.
After you get office 2007 out of the box, you have to go through two service packs to get ODF support.
And I read it as the reporters using the idea that you just said to accomplish what the parent suspects. They're smart enough to know that that is a very real drawback to the plan, but they ought to be smart enough to take the feedback and do something with it.
It might be a case of readers collectively wanting to suppress something, but it might also be a case of readers wanting information about something else and wanting resources to be freed to get that information.
A friend of mine had his P38 (old military style) can opener taken off his keychain in the Bucks County Courthouse (PA)
A P38 can opener, for those of you who don't know, is quite possibly the least expensive can-opener possible. It could be accurately be described as a "hinged razor-blade."
It's really no surprise at all that the security guard wouldn't let that pass. Especially as they're made of stamped aluminum and probably worth about .10 cents each.
A cheap camera on a cellphone actually is a good thing. It's a camera that won't be in the bottom of the glove box with dead batteries (or, in earlier days, expired film) when you need it (e.g. after an accident, or when corrupt cops are putting some minority "in his place.")
It's really quite a shame that certain environments need to restrict their presence.
I really think the problems I outlined far outweigh the finger placement issue. The buttons work fine, it's just that there is an ergonomic issue relating to rest state.
But consider that if you don't have a mac, you wouldn't get a mighty mouse, and if you do have a mac, then you either don't actually need the right-button functionality, or the issues I mentioned would force you to get another mouse anyway. Don't even bother trying to use Blender with default mouse on a mac.
The ring-wear and low resolution are critical issues contraindicating the use of a mighty-mouse anywhere where the mouse might actually get used a lot. And worse, they complement each other: the longer distances cause more wear in the ring, and as the ring wears, it becomes less smooth, increasing the work done with each twitch.
Here's where I lost some respect for you:
I want a Bluetooth mouse because I want a Bluetooth mouse. If I wanted a cordless wave desktop I'd get a cordless wave desktop.
That's a very PHB thing to say, and mocks the whole purpose of this discussion: whether or not bluetooth is even worth it in wireless mice. You've already blocked off a whole avenue without even considering the drawbacks.
The most important things for a cordless mouse are ease of use and security. Bluetooth mice tend to be actually stronger on the latter than the former, since bluetooth has encryption as part of its spec. (but not, afaict as a requirement, so you still have to do some annoying research).
And, also importantly, encryption increases latency, so it might actually not be such a great feature depending on what you do with a mouse.
But the point is that there's no reason why bluetooth should be the only tool capable of meeting whatever requirements you have, so why would you limit yourself to its rather small (at the moment) universe of devices?
If you'd used apple's mouse, you'd find that there's nothing wrong with the buttons they don't have (left, right, middle all work fine, even if you've got a habit of resting your fingers on the buttons you don't use)
The flaws with the mighty mouse are:
Fortunately, Logitech cordless wave desktop solves two of those issues. And is, in all other ways, so far a pretty effortless input combo. It's not bluetooth, but the main reason to get bluetooth (confidence that they might have used AES encryption*) only really applies to the keyboard.
*Why isn't this a selling point? I'd think "Uses encryption approved by the NSA for up to Top Secret" would be something that every manufacture of wireless keyboards or any device that wants to be secure would like to put in bright flashy text on every box, even if they've done the implementation poorly.
On just $1 a day, she's going to need a really cheap source of hair for all those wigs...