Yeah, the equations are the same. The part that terrified me is how he decided dv/dt was terminal velocity, and gave nary a thought in the world to what was actually causing the force in question.
Your grasp of physics TERRIFIES me. (delta)p=F*t, which means force is change in momentum over time. Hence, force depends on the properties of the payload and the floor, which determine how long it takes to kill the payload's momentum.
Well, I certainly bow to your superior experience. I'm not really that interested in amphetamines (and if I were I'd only say it anonymously), but thanks for the info. It's not too hard to find info on drugs these days, but to find intelligent users is certainly a challenge (which is cause, and which is effect, I'll leave for another time). Well met, sir.
You would never inject heroin (or meth, coke etc.) in anything but a vein, though, because it would feel like someone stabbed you with a red-hot-poker, and it would take ages to get a high.
Not by choice, no, but there comes a time in every addict's life when he's used up even the veins in his fingers and toes, and he has no choice but subcutaneous or intramuscular injection.
And thanks for the warning about meth, that's one of the drugs I plan to die without trying. I'll give a weaker amphetamine a go if I have a chance, though (any recommendations?:) (note to DEA: I'm kidding, please don't come to my house and rape me, I'd never use any of the evil, God-killing amphetamines). Congratulations on staying clean, that's said to be one of the most difficult things in the world to do.
It could, certainly, but it wouldn't add anything new. The problems with heroin addiction and the defeat thereof are properties of the drug itself, and can't really be mitigated. Many drugs cause users to develop tolerance, but heroin is so much stronger that continually taking the same dose won't even bring you back to normal - you have to increase the dose just to get back to normal after cravings, never mind feeling the same effects for repeated highs. The withdrawal is severe and physically dangerous, and it can be near-impossible to go cold turkey (or anywhere close) and survive if you're in too deep. Continuous subcutaneous absorption wouldn't do anything a controlled methadone drip wouldn't do, as far as breaking addiction.
None of this is firsthand information, of course, so the usual warnings about salt and its grains apply.
Only for the advanced addicts, I'd think. This is a subcutaneous injection, if I'm not mistaken, which heroin users only turn to after they've used up their veins (slower absorption, you see - not as intense or immediate).
No. Capitalism is the best system available, but that doesn't make it fair. It is up to the people within the system to try to make it fair. That includes pointing out the problems with it. His criticism isn't meaningless, it's important.
Here's one parting thought and friendly advice: posting sneering answers is a bit of an art. The knack is to have actually put some thought into it, and be at least reasonably close to right. Sneering based on pure ignorance, stupidity, wishful thinking and/or straw men, tends to end up just looking completely retarded. So maybe next time try engaging a brain a bit before letting the fingers loose on the keyboard. And maybe get your head out of your arse first, so you can get some oxygen to the brains.
*hangs head* Yeah, I know. I think I used to be better at this, but I've lost it in the last year or so. Maybe I just didn't realize I was bad at it before.
I'd respond to the rest of your post, but I've got too much shit to do. Maybe later.
No, it's not all length - my essay was rather short, but I got an 800 on the writing section, probably because in my essay I implicitly compared electing Bush with crucifying Jesus.
So I'll bet someone _will_ take it as necessary proof of manhood to take it apart, cut the cables, and make a dangerous mess, just because, you know, his dad told him that Real Men mess with their car's engine. And if he doesn't take it apart and make a bigger mess (before finally taking it to the mechanic anyway), then he might as well wear a dress and a purse.
And right now taking apart an engine requires working with poisonous lubricants and exlosive hydrocarbons, not to mention heavy metal parts, sharp edges and power tools. What are you worried about, some guy taking a hacksaw to his car capacitor and vaporizing the blade?
And that's not even counting the millions of clueless rice boys (car modders) and the unscrupulous vendors preying on them. Someone _will_ sell clueless insecure guys a special power cable claimed to increase their horsepower by 10%, or something equally ridiculous. (Same as the 1000$ hi-fi power cables sold to "audiophiles," or 4" exhaust pipes for 1.1 litre engines. Odin knows there's no shortage of buyers for either.)
Just like right now, when we have this huge problem with people selling modifications that blow up people's cars, right? Damn, we should have thought of this before we instituted anarchy.
Or, honestly, it just begs doing dangerous stuff with the voltage at either the capacitor (to increase range), or the electro-motor (since torque and horsepower do increase with voltage.) When some insecure kid's bragging rights depend on how fast he can accelerate, do you honestly think it won't happen? I can see the whole overclocking willy-waving contest happening all over again with cars.
You're honestly worried that there'll be an epidemic of people taking their cars apart, knocking off whatever industrial-strength casing is put over the plates (ignoring the copious "high voltage" warnings on said casing), somehow manage to contain the dielectric (probably liquid), and try to install a transformer between the contacts? You're GROSSLY underestimating people's fear of electricity.
Well, what the blueprints say, and what the whole thing looks like after crashing into a tree, are often different things. I'm sure, for example, in normal cars radiator blueprints don't involve it having several breaks and punctures either.
Are you under the impression that cars don't undergo safety tests? That they're designed under the assumption that the car will never crash? You're damn right the car looks different after hitting a tree than it does in the blueprint... unless, of course, you're looking at the blueprint of what they expect that type of crash to do to the car.
I'm sure there are plenty of good reasons to oppose this idea, if you really care to find them. Safety isn't one of them.
Yeah, that's a good point. Because I'm sure the blueprints as drawn call for the capacitor to be stored as bare metal plates, with maybe some saran wrap protecting them.
Well, yeah, that's why morphine isn't used recreationally much. Hydrocodone, oxycodone, pethidine, heroin, and a host of others are much more commonly (ab)used because they do give you a hell of a buzz (unless you're adddicted, of course, in which case they mostly just bring you back to normal).
Citizendium isn't trying to create a feel-good community where everyone feels smart, they're trying to create a compendium of knowledge. They want only the tough to remain, basically, because they're working from the premise that the tough can contribute much better information than everyone else.
I believe it's an upper limit to how fast this particular mechanism can accelerate a proton, not how fast a proton can be accelerated under any circumstances.
The founding fathers tried to give off the impression that they did not envision that there would be political parties at all; they tried to give off the impression that they basically imagined every congressman, senator and the president being factionless independent candidates -- choosing what to vote for via debate and discussion instead of ramming through the policy of the majority party.
FTFY. Try to give the Founding Fathers a *little* credit, won't you? They knew damn well the politicians and voters would form parties, they just thought they'd try to hold it off for a decade or two.
I believe that, strangely enough, the plural is Aiai, pronounced aye-aye. Ajax isn't really a very good transliteration of the singular either. But I'm no Homeric linguist, so I could be wrong.
What the fuck? What Clear Channel Top 40 station have you ever heard playing Sunshine of Your Love, or Raining Blood? Paranoid? One? Number of the Beast? La Grange? The Seeker? Sabotage? Half the fucking songs on there?
Shut the fuck up and enjoy the music. They're good songs.
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Yeah, the equations are the same. The part that terrified me is how he decided dv/dt was terminal velocity, and gave nary a thought in the world to what was actually causing the force in question.
Your grasp of physics TERRIFIES me. (delta)p=F*t, which means force is change in momentum over time. Hence, force depends on the properties of the payload and the floor, which determine how long it takes to kill the payload's momentum.
...which is probably why nobody said it.
Well, I certainly bow to your superior experience. I'm not really that interested in amphetamines (and if I were I'd only say it anonymously), but thanks for the info. It's not too hard to find info on drugs these days, but to find intelligent users is certainly a challenge (which is cause, and which is effect, I'll leave for another time). Well met, sir.
And thanks for the warning about meth, that's one of the drugs I plan to die without trying. I'll give a weaker amphetamine a go if I have a chance, though (any recommendations?
It could, certainly, but it wouldn't add anything new. The problems with heroin addiction and the defeat thereof are properties of the drug itself, and can't really be mitigated. Many drugs cause users to develop tolerance, but heroin is so much stronger that continually taking the same dose won't even bring you back to normal - you have to increase the dose just to get back to normal after cravings, never mind feeling the same effects for repeated highs. The withdrawal is severe and physically dangerous, and it can be near-impossible to go cold turkey (or anywhere close) and survive if you're in too deep. Continuous subcutaneous absorption wouldn't do anything a controlled methadone drip wouldn't do, as far as breaking addiction.
None of this is firsthand information, of course, so the usual warnings about salt and its grains apply.
Only for the advanced addicts, I'd think. This is a subcutaneous injection, if I'm not mistaken, which heroin users only turn to after they've used up their veins (slower absorption, you see - not as intense or immediate).
No. Capitalism is the best system available, but that doesn't make it fair. It is up to the people within the system to try to make it fair. That includes pointing out the problems with it. His criticism isn't meaningless, it's important.
I'd respond to the rest of your post, but I've got too much shit to do. Maybe later.
No, it's not all length - my essay was rather short, but I got an 800 on the writing section, probably because in my essay I implicitly compared electing Bush with crucifying Jesus.
It was almost too easy.
I'm sure there are plenty of good reasons to oppose this idea, if you really care to find them. Safety isn't one of them.
Yeah, that's a good point. Because I'm sure the blueprints as drawn call for the capacitor to be stored as bare metal plates, with maybe some saran wrap protecting them.
RNA is broken down continuously by RNAases. It'll go away on its own relatively soon.
Well, yeah, that's why morphine isn't used recreationally much. Hydrocodone, oxycodone, pethidine, heroin, and a host of others are much more commonly (ab)used because they do give you a hell of a buzz (unless you're adddicted, of course, in which case they mostly just bring you back to normal).
That's exactly what I was thinking. Who the hell wants _less_ of an opioid in their blood??
Citizendium isn't trying to create a feel-good community where everyone feels smart, they're trying to create a compendium of knowledge. They want only the tough to remain, basically, because they're working from the premise that the tough can contribute much better information than everyone else.
I believe it's an upper limit to how fast this particular mechanism can accelerate a proton, not how fast a proton can be accelerated under any circumstances.
Attributing an aspect of human nature solely to Americans is a sign of ignorance and naiveté.
You're closer than me; I couldn't figure out why they were using a Homeric hero to show videos.
What the fuck? What Clear Channel Top 40 station have you ever heard playing Sunshine of Your Love, or Raining Blood? Paranoid? One? Number of the Beast? La Grange? The Seeker? Sabotage? Half the fucking songs on there?
Shut the fuck up and enjoy the music. They're good songs.
I have to admit that you're perfectly correct on all points.