There would always be 92 electrons. period. The difference between the isotopes of uranium is in the number of neutrons. If you change the number protons of an element, you give it a different name.
If it's releasing energy, then it still has energy to release. It's useful. In fact, it hasn't even given up anywhere near the majority of what it has to give. It's just that it's higher-hanging fruit, so right now it seems more economical to store the waste until the low-hanging fruit is exhausted (plain-ol regularly enriched uranium) and reprocess it later when either a) we've run out of the "easy" stuff or b) the cost (research AND marginal) turns it into low-hanging fruit again.
The scientific community does not like people who rock the boat not because they like to be right, but because the people doing the rocking are usually wrong. It is not enough to have a new theory about things. You must have a theory that's better than the currently accepted ones, or what's the point? That can be several things: your theory could more accurately predict the results of real experiments, or it could be more general than the existing theory, while being at least as accurate as the current theory in predictions.
With cosmology, there's almost never a prediction which can be tested though, so it makes sense that it will take more time for a theory to be properly vetted.
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Indeed. However, "Newton's Axioms" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Look, I get that you're proud of your car purchase. (or maybe you're having second thoughts and trying to be proud of it..) but you picked a Corolla. You have threshold of luxury at which you're willing to sacrifice environmental quality, just like the "selfish" SUV owners you deride.
It's like the ol' joke:
Man walks into a bar, sits down next to attractive woman and propositions her. "No." she says. "How about for a million dollars?" To which she agrees. "Well how about for ten dollars?" "What kind of womaon do you think I am?" "We know what kind of woman you are, we're just haggling over price."
You could drive a metro. or a motorcycle. or a moped. or bus pass. or a bicycle.
Do you speed? speeding wastes fuel too. and there's the safety issue too, is everyone driving faster than you a reckless moron? How about maintenance? When was the last time you checked the tires? not checking the tires is time-selfish.
You need to come up with a better argument than "That thing is bad because it's worse than the thing that I do."
Computers that use more than 25W should also pay extra for electricity. You should pay a 30% surcharge on electricity for entertainment, or incandescent bulbs. Overclocked, noisy, water-cooled gaming machines should be banned. Those people should pay more and the rest of us that are responsible people that give a damn should not have to subsidize their selfishness. People shouldn't be allowed to run home machines 24h per day. There is no reason to be buying Alienware PCs other than to look retarted.
Congratulations on your new car purchase. Has it occured to you that you could've saved the environment even MORE by buying a used corolla? or by making sure your current vehicle is up to spec?
Probably this doesn't apply to you, but people who buy a new car every year have no right to criticize people who buy an SUV every ten, no matter how miserly the new car is with gas.
If you could charge them quickly, the 300 miles wouldn't be a problem. My gasoline powered car gets roughly that, but only takes a few minutes to fill up and be on my way again.
For electric cars to work we'll need better infrastructure. something like those propane tank exchange thingies would probably do nicely.
As far as I can figure, it's like a Palm Pilot. Only with fewer features and instead of a large touch-screen you can write on or bring up a keyboard on if you have trouble writing, it has a teeny tiny physical keyboard.
I suppose it makes a fashion statement. That statement is apparantly, "Look at me, I can't understand how to use a touch screen keyboard, and I can't be expected not to lose the stylus anyway. I'm trendy!"
So there you have it. Blackberry: The Palm Pilot for the Duplo crowd.
Hmm.. you make a good point. I don't think I've seen *any* intellectual movies in the past decade. Certainly nothing that's made me stop and think about things. I've seen quite a few fun movies though. I like comic book movies like I like tacos: I know they're probably bad for me, but I cannot draw myself away from their explosions and high fat content.
I suppose a comic book movie could happen to be intellectual, (probably by accident, but then again, that's often how the intellectual stuff gets made. "Lord of the Flies" was supposed to be just an adventure novel) but the genre isn't exactly known for it.
Eactly. so is 1000 ft. It's just that it takes more material and the market is very small. I mean, compare the number of recreational divers to the number of ROV hobbyists & professionals.
What?? the.. well I acede to your knowledge, but, that's it. I give up. I'm no longer going to even try to get the anglear adjectives right. From now on, I'm just gonna use some vaguely britannic sounding word and hope people get my meaning. I mean, at least at random, I have a chance of being right once in a while.
Wait.. you watch comic book movies and claim to be an intellectual?
I'm going to assume you're actually serious, and just let your standards drop because there's no evidence your real standards would ever be satisfied by Hollywood's offerings.
I mean, I'm sure that gourmets enjoy a Big Mac from time to time, but I can't imagine anyone claiming that it's particulary fine or healthy.
Why do you keep thinking the demand curve is inelastic? It may be so at some part of the curve that we're not anywhere near, but considering the number of unncessary proceedures done under the percieved cheapness of hidden pricing of the current system, I don't think you can make the arguement that demand would be inelastic if all of the actors were fully aware of the cost.
Of course I use the economic definition of shortage. Demand is a function of price, so that's the only definition that makes sense. The word you're looking for is scarcity, which describes the nature of the supply.
What we've done in the US is create a system where people are isolated from the cost of medicine. For some reason people have got it into their heads that they shouldn't have to pay for health issues, and so we have the health care providers. You pay for it anyway, but you don't see the cost because it looks like your employeer pays that. Since we are generally isolated from the cost, we tend to use more of the resource than we really need, but we also pay more for what we do get than we really should.
If we stop insulating the clients from the cost*, and stop insulating the suppliers** from the profit, the health-care market would be a lot more liquid resulting in lower prices and fewer unnecessary proceedures all around.
*Obviously, as a society we need to find a way to provide health care to those that simply cannot afford the burden, however whatever we do, we should allow those recieving public largess a certain amount of autonomy and benefit from comparison shopping too, to keep the market liquid.
Yeah I've used that. That's how I know that even simple formulas take up a huge amount of markeup with mathML. completely unnecessary markeup. They should've just used the "mathematica" format as the format since it's much more concise. make the tag something like,
<equation img="sparea.png" eq="4*pi*r^2" lang="mathematica"> area o' sphere </equation>
No, but you might raise the standard of safety if sprains, broken bones, etc. were more than just inconveniences. You might make different choices of transportation options, and even diet, knowing the high cost of incapacitation. or you might not. but someone would. So the demand for medical services, while relatively inelastic, is not static.
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There would always be 92 electrons. period. The difference between the isotopes of uranium is in the number of neutrons. If you change the number protons of an element, you give it a different name.
If it's releasing energy, then it still has energy to release. It's useful. In fact, it hasn't even given up anywhere near the majority of what it has to give. It's just that it's higher-hanging fruit, so right now it seems more economical to store the waste until the low-hanging fruit is exhausted (plain-ol regularly enriched uranium) and reprocess it later when either a) we've run out of the "easy" stuff or b) the cost (research AND marginal) turns it into low-hanging fruit again.
why would that be bad?
Incorrect. They not only fly blindfolded, there are special blindfolds they use to help train instrument-only operation.
The scientific community does not like people who rock the boat not because they like to be right, but because the people doing the rocking are usually wrong. It is not enough to have a new theory about things. You must have a theory that's better than the currently accepted ones, or what's the point? That can be several things: your theory could more accurately predict the results of real experiments, or it could be more general than the existing theory, while being at least as accurate as the current theory in predictions.
With cosmology, there's almost never a prediction which can be tested though, so it makes sense that it will take more time for a theory to be properly vetted.
Indeed. However, "Newton's Axioms" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Look, I get that you're proud of your car purchase. (or maybe you're having second thoughts and trying to be proud of it..) but you picked a Corolla. You have threshold of luxury at which you're willing to sacrifice environmental quality, just like the "selfish" SUV owners you deride.
It's like the ol' joke:
Man walks into a bar, sits down next to attractive woman and propositions her.
"No." she says.
"How about for a million dollars?"
To which she agrees.
"Well how about for ten dollars?"
"What kind of womaon do you think I am?"
"We know what kind of woman you are, we're just haggling over price."
You could drive a metro. or a motorcycle. or a moped. or bus pass. or a bicycle.
Do you speed? speeding wastes fuel too. and there's the safety issue too, is everyone driving faster than you a reckless moron? How about maintenance? When was the last time you checked the tires? not checking the tires is time-selfish.
You need to come up with a better argument than "That thing is bad because it's worse than the thing that I do."
Your thesis presents some unflattering extrapolation regarding racial epithets.
Computers that use more than 25W should also pay extra for electricity. You should pay a 30% surcharge on electricity for entertainment, or incandescent bulbs. Overclocked, noisy, water-cooled gaming machines should be banned. Those people should pay more and the rest of us that are responsible people that give a damn should not have to subsidize their selfishness. People shouldn't be allowed to run home machines 24h per day. There is no reason to be buying Alienware PCs other than to look retarted.
Congratulations on your new car purchase. Has it occured to you that you could've saved the environment even MORE by buying a used corolla? or by making sure your current vehicle is up to spec?
Probably this doesn't apply to you, but people who buy a new car every year have no right to criticize people who buy an SUV every ten, no matter how miserly the new car is with gas.
If you could charge them quickly, the 300 miles wouldn't be a problem. My gasoline powered car gets roughly that, but only takes a few minutes to fill up and be on my way again.
For electric cars to work we'll need better infrastructure. something like those propane tank exchange thingies would probably do nicely.
As far as I can figure, it's like a Palm Pilot. Only with fewer features and instead of a large touch-screen you can write on or bring up a keyboard on if you have trouble writing, it has a teeny tiny physical keyboard.
I suppose it makes a fashion statement. That statement is apparantly, "Look at me, I can't understand how to use a touch screen keyboard, and I can't be expected not to lose the stylus anyway. I'm trendy!"
So there you have it. Blackberry: The Palm Pilot for the Duplo crowd.
You can't? I better get rid of all my 2-liter cola bottles then...
didn't starbucks have a thing where you could bring your own mug? It sure sounds like something they do considering their clientelle...
erm.. why would that $100/day be tax free?
Hmm.. you make a good point. I don't think I've seen *any* intellectual movies in the past decade. Certainly nothing that's made me stop and think about things. I've seen quite a few fun movies though. I like comic book movies like I like tacos: I know they're probably bad for me, but I cannot draw myself away from their explosions and high fat content.
I suppose a comic book movie could happen to be intellectual, (probably by accident, but then again, that's often how the intellectual stuff gets made. "Lord of the Flies" was supposed to be just an adventure novel) but the genre isn't exactly known for it.
Two words. Japan, Germany.
It can be done. (but you're right, probably isn't easy. Who honestly thought it was going to be easy going in?)
Eactly. so is 1000 ft. It's just that it takes more material and the market is very small. I mean, compare the number of recreational divers to the number of ROV hobbyists & professionals.
Someone did think of a cell phone tooth a while back...
Ah, here it is: Mobile Phone in Your Teeth!
What?? the.. well I acede to your knowledge, but, that's it. I give up. I'm no longer going to even try to get the anglear adjectives right. From now on, I'm just gonna use some vaguely britannic sounding word and hope people get my meaning. I mean, at least at random, I have a chance of being right once in a while.
Wait.. you watch comic book movies and claim to be an intellectual?
I'm going to assume you're actually serious, and just let your standards drop because there's no evidence your real standards would ever be satisfied by Hollywood's offerings.
I mean, I'm sure that gourmets enjoy a Big Mac from time to time, but I can't imagine anyone claiming that it's particulary fine or healthy.
Somehow I doubt that Sam Walton's margin shaving will make a dent in what Michael Dell has already managed to cut in the electronics market.
Heh, lithium ion batteries in devices worth their salt
Why do you keep thinking the demand curve is inelastic? It may be so at some part of the curve that we're not anywhere near, but considering the number of unncessary proceedures done under the percieved cheapness of hidden pricing of the current system, I don't think you can make the arguement that demand would be inelastic if all of the actors were fully aware of the cost.
Of course I use the economic definition of shortage. Demand is a function of price, so that's the only definition that makes sense. The word you're looking for is scarcity, which describes the nature of the supply.
What we've done in the US is create a system where people are isolated from the cost of medicine. For some reason people have got it into their heads that they shouldn't have to pay for health issues, and so we have the health care providers. You pay for it anyway, but you don't see the cost because it looks like your employeer pays that. Since we are generally isolated from the cost, we tend to use more of the resource than we really need, but we also pay more for what we do get than we really should.
If we stop insulating the clients from the cost*, and stop insulating the suppliers** from the profit, the health-care market would be a lot more liquid resulting in lower prices and fewer unnecessary proceedures all around.
*Obviously, as a society we need to find a way to provide health care to those that simply cannot afford the burden, however whatever we do, we should allow those recieving public largess a certain amount of autonomy and benefit from comparison shopping too, to keep the market liquid.
No, but you might raise the standard of safety if sprains, broken bones, etc. were more than just inconveniences. You might make different choices of transportation options, and even diet, knowing the high cost of incapacitation. or you might not. but someone would. So the demand for medical services, while relatively inelastic, is not static.