Possibly from something more like an egg-laying mammal (see Monotreme). Although there is evidence that Cynognathus and Thrinaxodon (before the dinosaurs), had fur, may have been warm blooded, and may have given live birth.
They all lost out the the dinosaurs and only occupied the mouse like environmental niches until the dinosaurs went extinct.
I've seen this, (a while ago it's true). I was curious about why some GTK applications had such terrible remote performance. When I ran the applications through xscope, before the first window materialized, I saw thousands of calls to XGetGeometry(). What made that doubly silly is that any window geometry change is provided to the client as an XConfigureEvent. So, a local copy of window geometry information can be easily kept up to date.
EV charging systems already are configured for managing recharging load. My Focus electric can be set to start charging at any time. So, I get home plug it in, and it waits for the cheapest rates to start charging. It's called Value Charge. With smart metering and coordinated load management from the utility, it becomes even easier to optimize the whole system for electric vehicles.
Why don't you take your tin-foil hat brigade somewhere else. Maybe Syria, Somalia, you know someplace that has no effective government.
Could we at least number the anonymous cowards, I'd like to know if the crap is coming from one blabbermouth or if there's a team of sock puppets at work.
It would make it easier to get a better signal to noise ratio.
Here's a more subtle way of doing a file system in (from personal, bitter experience).
As root of course.
Start in any directory
rm -rf.*
On the system that I discovered this on, the first file it removed was the system kernel. That's when the panic started. I was just trying to get rid of some hidden directories in a home directory.
When I take my Focus Electric in for scheduled maintenance, it's amusing to watch the service rep trying to find something they can actually do. So far the only items have been tire rotation and software updates.
That's also true. But, if your variable input energy source can't be used when it's available, running it into an inefficient process to store it doesn't have the same impact as it would if you had to run it through the inefficient process always. Putting it another way, Use it when it's available (for anything), or lose it.
They apply equally to nuclear power, but the question was how to store the excess renewable energy and use it to cover variable demand with variable production.
You use the wind power to run the pumps on reservoir storage, or to electrolyze water to run Sabatier reactors which generate hydrocarbon gases like methane. Feed the hydrocarbon gases into the existing natural gas pipelines which feed the gas turbine peaking plants. The natural gas pipeline system can maintain at least several days worth of supply for the whole nation.
There are more ways, those two are my favorite candidates. Just keep T. Boone Pickens away from the natural gas.
I didn't realize that "humanity" included self-righteousness, arrogance, and a large dose of holier than thou.
Lets see if I got this right, you do what is "right" (according to your religion) because your God says that he'll burn you forever if you don't; not because its the right thing to do. And because you do what is "right" you are feel that you have more "humanity" than anyone who doesn't believe in God.
If that is what it takes to keep you acting civilized, I'm all in favor of it.
One of the other interesting facets of the whole area is that it isn't just a matter of having a 3D printer. If you're going to create parts for your own ideas, you have to be able to draw them. If you can't create the drawings/models, all you can do is search around for something the somebody else did and hope that it's close enough. (What's the fun in that?)
If you want a "killer app", figure out how to make an online barter market that can do barter chains. If that's the right term; #1 wants this, and has that, #2 has the other thing and wants the other other thing, #3 has that.... Stitch all the wants and haves together and everybody gets what they want with no currency being exchanged at all. Currency is just a common denominator and has no intrinsic value.
So why do most of the other countries in the developed world, that do have universal health care, deliver better overall health care outcomes for 60% less (10% of GDP) than the current US system (16% of GDP)?
The original version of the healthcare plan was written 15-20 years ago, including the mandate, by the Heritage Foundation, well known as a pinko-commie-lib think tank. (For the mouth-breathers out there, that's a joke). Go look for other Heritage Foundation proposals and see what you think.
The question of what section of DOMA was covered by the ruling may be academic. The Justice Department wasn't enforcing DOMA before. I'd be very surprised if they started enforcing separate pieces of it now.
Pssst... I think he's got his ranking scale inverted. That would put somebody like Ed Witten as the smartest and D.P. at the other end of the scale. He might be off by one too. Did he start counting at 0 or at 1?
I believe that most people in the world are good and generally trustworthy. I think that most of them will help, if they can. From what I can see, their ability to help is severely limited. Mostly by the laws of physics, mathematics and unintended consequences. There is a limited amount of arable land. There is a limited amount of water. There is a limited amount of energy to use to support a civilization. As a civilization, we don't know exactly where we are with respect to the hard limits, but there are numerous indications that we've exceeded some of the limits.
To just wishfully assume that we'll pull some rabbit out of the hat and push all those limits back just when we need to, frightens me. It frightens me because I think it stops people from thinking about the hard alternatives that might avert the die-off.
That's some of my own wishful thinking too. I wish that we could avoid a major die-off. But, given our history so far. I don't see civilization acquiring enough wisdom, selflessness, or resources to avoid it.
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They all lost out the the dinosaurs and only occupied the mouse like environmental niches until the dinosaurs went extinct.
I've seen this, (a while ago it's true). I was curious about why some GTK applications had such terrible remote performance. When I ran the applications through xscope, before the first window materialized, I saw thousands of calls to XGetGeometry(). What made that doubly silly is that any window geometry change is provided to the client as an XConfigureEvent. So, a local copy of window geometry information can be easily kept up to date.
EV charging systems already are configured for managing recharging load. My Focus electric can be set to start charging at any time. So, I get home plug it in, and it waits for the cheapest rates to start charging. It's called Value Charge. With smart metering and coordinated load management from the utility, it becomes even easier to optimize the whole system for electric vehicles.
Could we at least number the anonymous cowards, I'd like to know if the crap is coming from one blabbermouth or if there's a team of sock puppets at work.
It would make it easier to get a better signal to noise ratio.
The process goes something like
Use surplus renewable electricity to split water to get hydrogen.
Run the hydrogen and atmospheric CO2 through a Sabatier reactor and get methane.
Feed the methane into any natural gas pipeline (The nation wide natural gas pipelines typically have at least a 7 day supply available).
Use the nation wide natural gas pipelines to deliver the product to gas turbine generators.
Storage and production largely use existing infrastructure.
I'll leave it for others to work out which behavior is theirs.
It's got a ways to go.
As root of course.
Start in any directory
rm -rf .*
On the system that I discovered this on, the first file it removed was the system kernel. That's when the panic started. I was just trying to get rid of some hidden directories in a home directory.
When I take my Focus Electric in for scheduled maintenance, it's amusing to watch the service rep trying to find something they can actually do. So far the only items have been tire rotation and software updates.
That's also true. But, if your variable input energy source can't be used when it's available, running it into an inefficient process to store it doesn't have the same impact as it would if you had to run it through the inefficient process always. Putting it another way, Use it when it's available (for anything), or lose it.
They apply equally to nuclear power, but the question was how to store the excess renewable energy and use it to cover variable demand with variable production.
There are more ways, those two are my favorite candidates. Just keep T. Boone Pickens away from the natural gas.
Lets see if I got this right, you do what is "right" (according to your religion) because your God says that he'll burn you forever if you don't; not because its the right thing to do. And because you do what is "right" you are feel that you have more "humanity" than anyone who doesn't believe in God.
If that is what it takes to keep you acting civilized, I'm all in favor of it.
Think it's stupid route planning in humans? It follows the same route in giraffes.
One of the other interesting facets of the whole area is that it isn't just a matter of having a 3D printer. If you're going to create parts for your own ideas, you have to be able to draw them. If you can't create the drawings/models, all you can do is search around for something the somebody else did and hope that it's close enough. (What's the fun in that?)
There's a joke that is probably a better fit.
If one person calls you an ass, you can laugh it off.
If two people call you an ass, you can walk away.
If a bunch of people call you an ass, you should have yourself fitted for a saddle.
There's an URL around here somewhere for tin-foil hats.
Anybody want to work for this guy?
If you want a "killer app", figure out how to make an online barter market that can do barter chains. If that's the right term; #1 wants this, and has that, #2 has the other thing and wants the other other thing, #3 has that.... Stitch all the wants and haves together and everybody gets what they want with no currency being exchanged at all. Currency is just a common denominator and has no intrinsic value.
The question is who's hand is going to be running Governor Goodhair's mouth. I don't think Cheney's up for it this time.
Don't want to over extrapolate here, perfect health probably won't appear when Doctors are paid nothing.
So why do most of the other countries in the developed world, that do have universal health care, deliver better overall health care outcomes for 60% less (10% of GDP) than the current US system (16% of GDP)?
The original version of the healthcare plan was written 15-20 years ago, including the mandate, by the Heritage Foundation, well known as a pinko-commie-lib think tank. (For the mouth-breathers out there, that's a joke). Go look for other Heritage Foundation proposals and see what you think.
The question of what section of DOMA was covered by the ruling may be academic. The Justice Department wasn't enforcing DOMA before. I'd be very surprised if they started enforcing separate pieces of it now.
Pssst... I think he's got his ranking scale inverted. That would put somebody like Ed Witten as the smartest and D.P. at the other end of the scale. He might be off by one too. Did he start counting at 0 or at 1?
To just wishfully assume that we'll pull some rabbit out of the hat and push all those limits back just when we need to, frightens me. It frightens me because I think it stops people from thinking about the hard alternatives that might avert the die-off.
That's some of my own wishful thinking too. I wish that we could avoid a major die-off. But, given our history so far. I don't see civilization acquiring enough wisdom, selflessness, or resources to avoid it.