A gas powered stove will not take that long to heat up. If you're cooking something big enough to requires an oven, the actual cooking time in the oven will be faster. Otherwise, a gas range heats up instantly. Heck, canned soup takes longer to cook in the microwave than it does on an electric range. let alone a gas range.
Always use the right tool for the job. Sometimes the best tool isn't the sexy, high-tech gizmo you spent a fortune on.
Wouldn't it be better to replace the microwave with a gas-powered stove if that's the case?
Also, How much stuff is he running? A microwave only draws 700-1200 watts. or 14-20 weak light-bulbs worth of power. And that only for a few minutes. Something doesn't add up here.
Then their future would be as power-broker. It still takes time and effort to maintain the grid, and a grid is still better than everyone having batteries, since you can use it to shunt power from where it's bright to where it's dark. Averaging over a whole continent would make solar power pretty reliable.
If all you do is shift your workday by an hour in either direction, you're going to have enough overlap almost every day. Heck, if your "gettin' up earlier" plan is a good one, you can probably convince your boss and some of your coworkers to be on the same time.
Unless you happen to have 9:00 meetings every day, followed by meetings throughout the day, followed by a meeting that ends at 5:00 (insert appropriate starting and ending times for your situation)
But if you spend that much time in meetings, You could probably be replaced by an hibiscus with no loss of functionality.
Operator: 911, please state the emergency Crook: Um, yeah, I was just wondering if there might be any warrants out for my arrest O: Can I have your name and social or identity theft, please? C: J. Bird, xxx-xx-3C08 O: Please hold
<dispatches police to location> C: You still there? O: Please hold C: I hear sirens O: Please hold C: They're all parked around me! O: Yes, there is a warrant out for your arrest. Please get on the ground. C: <scuffling noises>
Why would they invite the FBI? If they're really concerned, they should hire a lawyer and then act on the lawyer's advice. Are they based in UK? Perhaps they're not aware of the fifth amendment over here?
Suppose we could cure mental disabilities in children, but the only way to do it involved the wholesale torture of thousands of apes (whose numbers would require they be bred or cloned for the purpose)? Would you object? (this is a rhetorical question, so no muddying it up with, "I'd find a way to do it without torturing the apes." Just assume for the purpose of the question that it is neither possible to avoid, nor alleviate.)
I certainly wouldn't. Non-humans' rights are inherently subordinate to our own, and ipso facto, nonexistant. Any rights we allow animals must have a UN-human-rights-declaration-style disclaimer, "except where violation of these 'rights' would be beneficial to humans."
Now, interestingly, there is a moral test that's even weirder than animal rights. Suppose Extra-Terrestrial intelligence exists. Should we concern ourselves with their rights? I would suggest that from an evolutionary point of view, we have more in common with earthican amoeba than with extra-terrestrial aliens. So in the "order-of-rights" should an extra-terrestrial being be ahead of or behind amoeba?
Yes, Mr. Speaker. Let's completely ignore the reality of the situation or the shortcomings of the Constitution that lead to where we are today and make snarky remarks and sarcastic proposals. That sure will solve our terrorism problem, our drug problem, and our creeping federal usurpation problem.
If you think the "War on Drugs" was intended to be a literal, conventional war, the perhaps we should also berate our leaders in Washington for failing to "set a new tone." I mean, I haven't noticed any change in the resonant frequency of the capitol building, or any other buildings in the swamp. Or maybe we should arrest hundreds of HS sports teams for planning to "Fight! Fight! Fight" and maybe even "Kill" their rivals.
Your comment has more in common with Peggy Parish than Orson Scott Card. Whose writings concerning the current predicament you would do well to read.
I think the ideal electric infrastructure would have small batteries, not much bigger than current hybrids, and powered roads. You still need the batteries to get to the roads, and to get through intersections and the like, but it cuts down on a lot of the weight (and danger. Wouldn't want a Dell-auto with Sony batteries...) if you don't have to carry the fuel.
The second (or maybe third..) biggest obstacle would be billing.
If you live in an apartment, it probably doesn't matter that you have wires all over the place. You don't have many rooms, and if you lay things out right, you won't have any wires to trip over.
OTOH, if you live in a house, you don't want ugly blue, gray, whatever wires all over the place uglying up your home and creating trip hazards. Especially if you have more than one floor. No matter what you do, if you're going through walls, it's going to take more than an hour to get what you want. Even if you work at McDonald's, the value of your time exceeds the copper by a significant margin.
It's faster than his Internet connection, which apparently is a cable modem. No need to go significantly faster than the main bottleneck. Especially if the LAN is mostly used to share the WAN anyway.
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It's not the wire that's expensive, it's the holes. In fact, those aren't even the expensive bit. It's the properly out-of-the way and invisible that's expensive.
The president may not, except in wartime, suspend the writ of habeus corpus. I would prefer that 'wartime' would be explicitly declared, but unless you want to say that the Iraq war isn't a war, or that we weren't attacked on numerous by a loosly connected and hard-to-identify foe which still exists and plots our destruction, a state of war currently exists.
note: even the Cole bombing, while against a military target, is an act of war. It's a "legitimate" act of war, but an act of war nonetheless. As such, it requires a response. No response can be that response, but simply ignoring it is foolish in the extreme.
The problem is that the constitution failed to consider the possibility of a prolonged conflict against poorly identifiable, possibly non-state foes. It really ought to be amended to cover this circumstance, but I have no idea in what way that amendment should go.
Actually, you have to deal with its time FOUR times a year. 2x for the regulated switches, and 2x to bring it back when the machine thinks it's supposed to switch.
3) Congress wasted time on this bill that could have been spent getting something important done, such as finally hammering out a definate government policy on Stem Cell research, abortions, or actually making a true impact on the energy issue we face.
I'd say anything congress wastes time on instead of tackling important things is a good thing. They have a terrible track record in the "important stuff" arena. Gridlock is Great!
Also, they wouldn't actually tackle any of the issues you've mentioned. Instead they'd enact some sweeping legislation that affects everyone, but fails to actually resolve anything at all. That way, at the next election, they can blame the other guys for not getting enough done, while at the same time telling people from all sides of the issue that they're on their side.
If you get flex-time, it wouldn't even need to be a company-wide change. This would be a much more astronomically correct solution than forcing everyone to pretend that the sun is ~15 degrees ahead of where it really is.
Um... just stand on the stands, you're not in the fight unless you're on the ground. You could use one of the telescopes or distance-vision spells to get in closer to the action. I forget if you need to have engineering skill to USE a telescope, but that's easily fixed by introducing a new scope that doesn't require such.
Woah hoah, if you're going to do that, why not just have straight-line mantle crossing chord-of-the earth tunnel? Then you can have a gravity powered train that goes from anywhere to anywhere in 90 minutes. (plus a little bit to climb up to the endpoint to account for frictional losses and differing station altitudes.)
You know, if everyone did that, there wouldn't be any farms in the middle of nowhere. There'd be suburbs. Imagine how nice it would be for all of california to look like long island.
No one actually takes trains except for rail buffs.
Except intracity transit, but there is so much volume of traffic there that you just can't afford security that delays traffic.
So airlines are in a sweet spot where there are few-enough travelers to make it feasible, and enough travelers that the government can appear to be doing something.
Interestingly, though, TSA is probably unconstitutional. The only reason bag-searches were ok in the past, IMO, is that they were performed by the airlines as a condition of doing business. AFAIK, the federal government is restricted from doing anything that might violate "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures..."
The east coast of the US does qualify. And we already have a high-speed train.
Unfortunately, there are several factors that keep it from being a useful project. The first of which is that a round trip from Boston to New York costs the same as a flight from boston to NY. With almost as much hassle, and bit more time on in transit, it just doesn't make sense for passengers.
The second is that it's not high speed. The train is nice. The ride is smooth. It can travel up to 165 mph, but averages less than 70 due to sharing a less than ideal track with conventional trains.
I don't know what the problem is. The technology exists, the market is there, but there just doesn't seem to be the will to do anything other than half-assed measures. I suspect it's because AMTRAK, the organization which runs the trains in the NE corridor, has found a revenue source that doesn't actually depend on ridership.
You can't charge off the mains any faster than the mains can provide. If you're going to have something that plugs into a standard outlet, you're limited to 2x 110V@15A You could wire a special 100A or even a pair of them just for the car perhaps, but that's not a standard outlet.
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Which is fine for a cruise ship. There is no expectation of privacy on a martial craft. Heck, submariners don't even get their own bunk.
A gas powered stove will not take that long to heat up. If you're cooking something big enough to requires an oven, the actual cooking time in the oven will be faster. Otherwise, a gas range heats up instantly. Heck, canned soup takes longer to cook in the microwave than it does on an electric range. let alone a gas range.
Always use the right tool for the job. Sometimes the best tool isn't the sexy, high-tech gizmo you spent a fortune on.
If it rises just 5%, we'll all be fine. That would be a change from ~400ppm to ~420ppm.
OTOH, if it rises to 5% (50,000ppm or 13,000%) then we have problems.
Wouldn't it be better to replace the microwave with a gas-powered stove if that's the case?
Also, How much stuff is he running? A microwave only draws 700-1200 watts. or 14-20 weak light-bulbs worth of power. And that only for a few minutes. Something doesn't add up here.
Then their future would be as power-broker. It still takes time and effort to maintain the grid, and a grid is still better than everyone having batteries, since you can use it to shunt power from where it's bright to where it's dark. Averaging over a whole continent would make solar power pretty reliable.
Take plastic model, impress in fine, dry sand, apply pressure. Remove plastic model, make path to surface, insert filter, close sand mold.
Pour molten metal of composition required.
wait.
Brake apart mold,grind & polish part where necessary.
If all you do is shift your workday by an hour in either direction, you're going to have enough overlap almost every day. Heck, if your "gettin' up earlier" plan is a good one, you can probably convince your boss and some of your coworkers to be on the same time.
Unless you happen to have 9:00 meetings every day, followed by meetings throughout the day, followed by a meeting that ends at 5:00 (insert appropriate starting and ending times for your situation)
But if you spend that much time in meetings, You could probably be replaced by an hibiscus with no loss of functionality.
This reminds me of a stupid criminal trick
Operator: 911, please state the emergency
Crook: Um, yeah, I was just wondering if there might be any warrants out for my arrest
O: Can I have your name and social or identity theft, please?
C: J. Bird, xxx-xx-3C08
O: Please hold
<dispatches police to location>
C: You still there?
O: Please hold
C: I hear sirens
O: Please hold
C: They're all parked around me!
O: Yes, there is a warrant out for your arrest. Please get on the ground.
C: <scuffling noises>
Why would they invite the FBI? If they're really concerned, they should hire a lawyer and then act on the lawyer's advice. Are they based in UK? Perhaps they're not aware of the fifth amendment over here?
Suppose we could cure mental disabilities in children, but the only way to do it involved the wholesale torture of thousands of apes (whose numbers would require they be bred or cloned for the purpose)? Would you object? (this is a rhetorical question, so no muddying it up with, "I'd find a way to do it without torturing the apes." Just assume for the purpose of the question that it is neither possible to avoid, nor alleviate.)
I certainly wouldn't. Non-humans' rights are inherently subordinate to our own, and ipso facto, nonexistant. Any rights we allow animals must have a UN-human-rights-declaration-style disclaimer, "except where violation of these 'rights' would be beneficial to humans."
Now, interestingly, there is a moral test that's even weirder than animal rights. Suppose Extra-Terrestrial intelligence exists. Should we concern ourselves with their rights? I would suggest that from an evolutionary point of view, we have more in common with earthican amoeba than with extra-terrestrial aliens. So in the "order-of-rights" should an extra-terrestrial being be ahead of or behind amoeba?
But underrated moderations do give the karma. As long as one person mods it funny, the rest can mod underrated to their hearts' content.
Yes, Mr. Speaker. Let's completely ignore the reality of the situation or the shortcomings of the Constitution that lead to where we are today and make snarky remarks and sarcastic proposals. That sure will solve our terrorism problem, our drug problem, and our creeping federal usurpation problem.
If you think the "War on Drugs" was intended to be a literal, conventional war, the perhaps we should also berate our leaders in Washington for failing to "set a new tone." I mean, I haven't noticed any change in the resonant frequency of the capitol building, or any other buildings in the swamp. Or maybe we should arrest hundreds of HS sports teams for planning to "Fight! Fight! Fight" and maybe even "Kill" their rivals.
Your comment has more in common with Peggy Parish than Orson Scott Card. Whose writings concerning the current predicament you would do well to read.
I think the ideal electric infrastructure would have small batteries, not much bigger than current hybrids, and powered roads. You still need the batteries to get to the roads, and to get through intersections and the like, but it cuts down on a lot of the weight (and danger. Wouldn't want a Dell-auto with Sony batteries...) if you don't have to carry the fuel.
The second (or maybe third..) biggest obstacle would be billing.
If you live in an apartment, it probably doesn't matter that you have wires all over the place. You don't have many rooms, and if you lay things out right, you won't have any wires to trip over.
OTOH, if you live in a house, you don't want ugly blue, gray, whatever wires all over the place uglying up your home and creating trip hazards. Especially if you have more than one floor. No matter what you do, if you're going through walls, it's going to take more than an hour to get what you want. Even if you work at McDonald's, the value of your time exceeds the copper by a significant margin.
It's faster than his Internet connection, which apparently is a cable modem. No need to go significantly faster than the main bottleneck. Especially if the LAN is mostly used to share the WAN anyway.
It's not the wire that's expensive, it's the holes. In fact, those aren't even the expensive bit. It's the properly out-of-the way and invisible that's expensive.
The president may not, except in wartime, suspend the writ of habeus corpus. I would prefer that 'wartime' would be explicitly declared, but unless you want to say that the Iraq war isn't a war, or that we weren't attacked on numerous by a loosly connected and hard-to-identify foe which still exists and plots our destruction, a state of war currently exists.
note: even the Cole bombing, while against a military target, is an act of war. It's a "legitimate" act of war, but an act of war nonetheless. As such, it requires a response. No response can be that response, but simply ignoring it is foolish in the extreme.
The problem is that the constitution failed to consider the possibility of a prolonged conflict against poorly identifiable, possibly non-state foes. It really ought to be amended to cover this circumstance, but I have no idea in what way that amendment should go.
Actually, you have to deal with its time FOUR times a year. 2x for the regulated switches, and 2x to bring it back when the machine thinks it's supposed to switch.
Also, they wouldn't actually tackle any of the issues you've mentioned. Instead they'd enact some sweeping legislation that affects everyone, but fails to actually resolve anything at all. That way, at the next election, they can blame the other guys for not getting enough done, while at the same time telling people from all sides of the issue that they're on their side.
You could just work from 8:30 to 5pm....
If you get flex-time, it wouldn't even need to be a company-wide change. This would be a much more astronomically correct solution than forcing everyone to pretend that the sun is ~15 degrees ahead of where it really is.
Um... just stand on the stands, you're not in the fight unless you're on the ground. You could use one of the telescopes or distance-vision spells to get in closer to the action. I forget if you need to have engineering skill to USE a telescope, but that's easily fixed by introducing a new scope that doesn't require such.
Woah hoah, if you're going to do that, why not just have straight-line mantle crossing chord-of-the earth tunnel? Then you can have a gravity powered train that goes from anywhere to anywhere in 90 minutes. (plus a little bit to climb up to the endpoint to account for frictional losses and differing station altitudes.)
You know, if everyone did that, there wouldn't be any farms in the middle of nowhere. There'd be suburbs. Imagine how nice it would be for all of california to look like long island.
No one actually takes trains except for rail buffs.
Except intracity transit, but there is so much volume of traffic there that you just can't afford security that delays traffic.
So airlines are in a sweet spot where there are few-enough travelers to make it feasible, and enough travelers that the government can appear to be doing something.
Interestingly, though, TSA is probably unconstitutional. The only reason bag-searches were ok in the past, IMO, is that they were performed by the airlines as a condition of doing business. AFAIK, the federal government is restricted from doing anything that might violate "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures..."
The east coast of the US does qualify. And we already have a high-speed train.
Unfortunately, there are several factors that keep it from being a useful project. The first of which is that a round trip from Boston to New York costs the same as a flight from boston to NY. With almost as much hassle, and bit more time on in transit, it just doesn't make sense for passengers.
The second is that it's not high speed. The train is nice. The ride is smooth. It can travel up to 165 mph, but averages less than 70 due to sharing a less than ideal track with conventional trains.
I don't know what the problem is. The technology exists, the market is there, but there just doesn't seem to be the will to do anything other than half-assed measures. I suspect it's because AMTRAK, the organization which runs the trains in the NE corridor, has found a revenue source that doesn't actually depend on ridership.
You can't charge off the mains any faster than the mains can provide. If you're going to have something that plugs into a standard outlet, you're limited to 2x 110V@15A You could wire a special 100A or even a pair of them just for the car perhaps, but that's not a standard outlet.