I started with a backup system for all the critical systems in the house. The setup is 8 x 6Volt sealed gell-pack batteries feeding a 3000 Watt Xantrex inverter/automatic transfer switch. The inverter is inline for a 5 critical circuits and monitors and filters the line voltage. There's a secondary input on the inverter that will allow me to charge the batteries from a generator. The system can power all the critical circuits for about 3 days, so the house is very liveable while the power is down. I've planned to add a PV array to the system, but I've haven't gotten that completely figured out yet.
Of course, since we've put it in the longest the power has been out was about 30 minutes in the middle of the night.
"On The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin was banned and probably burnt in Germany on orders from the Nazi leadership by being included in the category of "All writings that ridicule, belittle or besmirch the Christian religion and its institution, faith in God, or other things that are holy to the healthy sentiments of the Volk."
http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/burnedbooks/documents.htm#guidelines
And the end game is always the same. The smart guy learns what he needs to get the job done, is connected with the customers and soon figures out that he doesn't need a "CEO" slurping up the cream. That's also how IBM lost the Space Shuttle Software Development contract to Ford Aerospace. They didn't seem to learn from that either.
Actually coal, or any carbon source, wouldn't be a usable energy source, since there's very little free oxygen on Mars.
Discovering free oxygen would be a very big deal, but extremely unlikely. The only reason there is free oxygen on Earth is because early life started some sort of photosynthesis and starting giving off oxygen as a waste product that had the side effect of poisoning all their bacterial competitors. That event is known as the "Oxygen Catastrophe".
I don't have a hockey stick, and I don't care to know where you keep yours.
If you want to know more about why "no warming since 1998" is a myth there are references to two articles about just that subject already posted, one pointing to a guardian.co.uk article and one pointing to a skepticalscience article.
It's like playing whack-a-goth. No sooner does somebody respond to this "no warming since 1998" myth with detailed information about why it's a myth, than some other mouth-breathing ignoramus presents it as the revealed truth.
I withdraw the comparison. It was a snarky comment I heard many years ago. And it makes an even greater contrast to the current day.
Who would Attila have punished for the Iraq war? How many of the current political dynasties would have been cut off from any connection with the government? Can you imagine a set of broadcast national debates on religion today?
The last time I messed with this (long ago), I put a gtk application through xscope. Before the window materialized there were thousands of calls to XGetGeometry (which is a synchronous operation). The answer was always the same.
Once you got done describing the scenario, everything you wrote was wrong. I can't say it any more clearly than that.
If the plumber is competent to run the business, he's been tracking the money that he's invested in his business for 40 years, taking depreciation where it's allowed and following the current tax laws. Most of those investments are used to decrease the capital gain of the business sale. And, once the division is made between capital gains on the business worth and regular income from the business he'll pay capital gains on just the portion in excess of his investments. Actually with 40 years in business, the business basis is probably worth more than 2 million dollars, so he probably wouldn't pay anything in capital gains.
Stop talking smack... Learn about something then try to contribute to the conversation.
I think there are two projects, the 100 year starship project, and the Icarus Interstellar project. From what I've read, they have similar concerns, but are different organizations. The 100 year starship project objective is to think about how to build a starship that can travel for 100 years, reach another star and return data to earth. Icarus is interested in interstellar travel too, but seems to have a more nebulous goal, mostly about the research needed to build an interstellar ship.
But, we already have a failing missile defense system. The Memorial Richard M. Perle Missile Defense system that is deployed in Alaska to protect us from North Korea and Iran. The last report I read said the system had never had a successful intercept without a transponder on the target.
I don't think we need two failing missile defense system. That's just starting down the slippery slope of competing, failing missile defense systems. If one isn't enough, then two won't be enough and pretty soon you're spending 20% of GDP just on failing missile defense systems and there's nothing left to fund Homeland security.
I've got a similar setup at home. I've got my basic OpenAFS home directory as a starting point, but I finally got things to work fairly well by a combination of a KDEHOME that points to a machine local filesystem and symlinks out of the networked directory to the machine local filesystem.
It seems like every release has another service that assumes every home directory is a local hard drive and everybody needs to run background services that can't properly share files in their home directories. (Like a "personal" copy of mysqld...)
I worked in Houston on the Shuttle software verification simulator from 1982 to 1984. The simulator was about 4.5 million lines of 370 BAL and was connected to a redundant set of Shuttle flight computers (AP-101s) through 2 system 370 channels, one for inbound data and one for (mostly) outbound data. The IBM 3033 had been installed shortly before I started in Houston and was a replacement for the IBM System 360 Mod 75's that had run the Apollo missions. The mod 75s were serial numbers 1, 4, and 5 (if I remember correctly). The machine with serial number one was given to the Smithsonian, so you may be able to see it there.
The AP-101's were space qualified, radiation hardened, pieces of hardware with core memory that booted off a mag tape. It had 64K 32 bit words of main memory and 128K 32 bit words of instruction memory. The Primary Avionics Software System was written in a language called HAL/S (The reference book is sitting on my desk now). There was an Assembler kernel that supported the PASS. I wouldn't say the AP-101 was related to the System 360 except that it was register based.
Between the GPS capabilities of the phones and the beam steering capabilities of the cell tower antennas, disabling cell phone conversations in moving vehicles could probably be done at the towers.
If I remember an article out of Scientific American properly, the cell towers use phase array transmitters to aim the beams to cut down on power requirements.
Well, as far as that is concerned. I've never seen any campaign announce their candidate was presenting their credentials to election officials. But, if you can come up with an citation I'd be interested in seeing it. The scans and photos of the documents at snopes and factcheck show a document that meets all the requirements for proof he's a natural born US citizen. Good enough to get a passport, or to start qualifying for a security clearance.
Where did your "fact" that Ann Dunham flew from Kenya to Hawaii come from?
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Sorry, the pity party is 3 doors down, on the left. Next to the crocodile pit.
Yeah, and this guy's got the biggest DICK ever conceived of and satisfies all his women just by air kissing at them. Idiot
The survivors will come to a different conclusion than the initial participants in the discussion.
Of course, since we've put it in the longest the power has been out was about 30 minutes in the middle of the night.
"On The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin was banned and probably burnt in Germany on orders from the Nazi leadership by being included in the category of "All writings that ridicule, belittle or besmirch the Christian religion and its institution, faith in God, or other things that are holy to the healthy sentiments of the Volk." http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/burnedbooks/documents.htm#guidelines
And the end game is always the same. The smart guy learns what he needs to get the job done, is connected with the customers and soon figures out that he doesn't need a "CEO" slurping up the cream. That's also how IBM lost the Space Shuttle Software Development contract to Ford Aerospace. They didn't seem to learn from that either.
The answer to global averages is local anecdotes.
How about at least comparing kumquats and golf-balls instead of mustard seeds and elephants?
Yeah, it makes you wish his significant other did piss in his cornflakes before leaving this morning.
Discovering free oxygen would be a very big deal, but extremely unlikely. The only reason there is free oxygen on Earth is because early life started some sort of photosynthesis and starting giving off oxygen as a waste product that had the side effect of poisoning all their bacterial competitors. That event is known as the "Oxygen Catastrophe".
If you want to know more about why "no warming since 1998" is a myth there are references to two articles about just that subject already posted, one pointing to a guardian.co.uk article and one pointing to a skepticalscience article.
Go argue with them.
Damn it, read before writing will you?
Huh..... (Gotta get something checked... I don't know if I didn't read it or didn't see it.)
I withdraw the comparison. It was a snarky comment I heard many years ago. And it makes an even greater contrast to the current day.
Who would Attila have punished for the Iraq war? How many of the current political dynasties would have been cut off from any connection with the government? Can you imagine a set of broadcast national debates on religion today?
Interesting.
Have you considered the possibility that you're somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun?
Idiot.
Just sloppy.
If the plumber is competent to run the business, he's been tracking the money that he's invested in his business for 40 years, taking depreciation where it's allowed and following the current tax laws. Most of those investments are used to decrease the capital gain of the business sale. And, once the division is made between capital gains on the business worth and regular income from the business he'll pay capital gains on just the portion in excess of his investments. Actually with 40 years in business, the business basis is probably worth more than 2 million dollars, so he probably wouldn't pay anything in capital gains.
Stop talking smack... Learn about something then try to contribute to the conversation.
I think there are two projects, the 100 year starship project, and the Icarus Interstellar project. From what I've read, they have similar concerns, but are different organizations. The 100 year starship project objective is to think about how to build a starship that can travel for 100 years, reach another star and return data to earth. Icarus is interested in interstellar travel too, but seems to have a more nebulous goal, mostly about the research needed to build an interstellar ship.
I don't think we need two failing missile defense system. That's just starting down the slippery slope of competing, failing missile defense systems. If one isn't enough, then two won't be enough and pretty soon you're spending 20% of GDP just on failing missile defense systems and there's nothing left to fund Homeland security.
It seems like every release has another service that assumes every home directory is a local hard drive and everybody needs to run background services that can't properly share files in their home directories. (Like a "personal" copy of mysqld...)
The AP-101's were space qualified, radiation hardened, pieces of hardware with core memory that booted off a mag tape. It had 64K 32 bit words of main memory and 128K 32 bit words of instruction memory. The Primary Avionics Software System was written in a language called HAL/S (The reference book is sitting on my desk now). There was an Assembler kernel that supported the PASS. I wouldn't say the AP-101 was related to the System 360 except that it was register based.
If I remember an article out of Scientific American properly, the cell towers use phase array transmitters to aim the beams to cut down on power requirements.
OH NO, what shall he do now.
Attacking climate change was his stepping stone to national prominence...
His life is ruined, ruined I tell you.
I started to pray that Flash would die as soon as they took away the user controls that let me stop the idiotic flickering, bouncing, annoying ads.
Where did your "fact" that Ann Dunham flew from Kenya to Hawaii come from?