Pilots are human. Soldiers are people. They will spend most of their lives as just another part of society. Politicians are human. All have families and all are vulnerable to "peashooters".
I guess you aren't paying attention to the hundreds of thousands of people protesting on the streets of Tehran. Showing some solidarity with them is clearly imposing my views on them, because, obviously, we are supposed to respect the Government. Is that right?
I knew the environment would come up. Of course, pretty much anything humans do is going to be deleterious to the environment. But put things in perspective. It's more thermodynamically efficient to transfer heat to the ocean directly, rather than burn fuel to create electricity to power a heat pump which is used to transfer heat into the air. The power plant also needs to be cooled, either by evaporating large amounts of water in cooling towers, or by transferring heat to an ocean or lake. Which do you think is better for the environment?
Am I supposed to be impressed? This seems like a non-story to me. Here it says that the MTBF of LEDs is between 100000 and 1000000 hours. That's 10 to 100 years, 24 hours a day. (or 50 to 500 years if used 5 1/2 hours a day, assuming burnout only in operation)
No, you got it all wrong. What we have beef with is an establishment which allows police and the government to watch and record us at will, but we have no right to watch the police and government.
The problem with recycling nuclear fuel is that you start to accumulate more unfissionable transuranic elements ("sludge") with each reprocess, because some of the uranium gets used up and the sludge that is left over gets reprocessed in with the remaining uranium and accumulated.
You need a critical amount of neutrons to maintain the fission reaction, and fissioning sludge doesn't produce enough neutrons to make a self-sustaining reaction.
The idea is to put a small fusion reactor inside a fission reactor. The fusion reactor will produce extra neutrons which are capable of causing the sludge to fission.
Well, you still have short-lived radioactive waste, but those will be gone in (only!) a few hundred years.
Pan's Labyrinth may not be for everyone, but it's is certainly among the top tier in movies. Maybe you should stick to Disney if you want something less depressing.
I admit, there hasn't been much impressive development in most sectors, but computers aren't one of those sectors. Compare video games from today and 20 years ago. Hell, that's too far gone--compare with 10 years ago. Smart phones are crazy powerful. They've advanced so fast, I could hardly believe the iPhone was something real when it came out, and not something from sci-fi.
China wants you to believe that the organs come from convicted criminals, but actually many, perhaps most, come from Falun Gong practitioners who haven't gone through due process and hence can't be properly called convicted criminals. You might want to read Matas and Kilgour's report.http://organharvestinvestigation.net/ There's a holocaust going on. The number of victims is smaller, but the evil is at least as great.
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It would be very bad PR if it got out.
Pilots are human. Soldiers are people. They will spend most of their lives as just another part of society. Politicians are human. All have families and all are vulnerable to "peashooters".
I guess you aren't paying attention to the hundreds of thousands of people protesting on the streets of Tehran. Showing some solidarity with them is clearly imposing my views on them, because, obviously, we are supposed to respect the Government. Is that right?
I knew the environment would come up. Of course, pretty much anything humans do is going to be deleterious to the environment. But put things in perspective. It's more thermodynamically efficient to transfer heat to the ocean directly, rather than burn fuel to create electricity to power a heat pump which is used to transfer heat into the air. The power plant also needs to be cooled, either by evaporating large amounts of water in cooling towers, or by transferring heat to an ocean or lake. Which do you think is better for the environment?
RPN is optional in most newer HP calcs.
It's cheaper and more palatable to the public to just sign a treaty with them.
Am I supposed to be impressed? This seems like a non-story to me. Here it says that the MTBF of LEDs is between 100000 and 1000000 hours. That's 10 to 100 years, 24 hours a day. (or 50 to 500 years if used 5 1/2 hours a day, assuming burnout only in operation)
If anything, the Chinese already know more about how to make our products than we do. After all, they built them.
what kind of crappy controller it would be without a joystick or tactile buttons
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Yeah, you should never plea guilty to something you didn't commit.
except that you'll look like a terrorist (in the eyes of the gov't agents)
No, you got it all wrong. What we have beef with is an establishment which allows police and the government to watch and record us at will, but we have no right to watch the police and government.
There's a new idea right now, called Fusion-Fission hybrid, which is capable of destroying almost all of the of the long-lived nuclear wastes.
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/01/27/nuclear_hybrid/
The problem with recycling nuclear fuel is that you start to accumulate more unfissionable transuranic elements ("sludge") with each reprocess, because some of the uranium gets used up and the sludge that is left over gets reprocessed in with the remaining uranium and accumulated.
You need a critical amount of neutrons to maintain the fission reaction, and fissioning sludge doesn't produce enough neutrons to make a self-sustaining reaction.
The idea is to put a small fusion reactor inside a fission reactor. The fusion reactor will produce extra neutrons which are capable of causing the sludge to fission.
Well, you still have short-lived radioactive waste, but those will be gone in (only!) a few hundred years.
Pan's Labyrinth may not be for everyone, but it's is certainly among the top tier in movies. Maybe you should stick to Disney if you want something less depressing.
Genetically engineered humans that WANT to be enslaved.
Isn't that kinda like suing yourself? Who owns Take-Two?
http://www.electric-bikes.com/bikes/folders.html
Erm, those terms of use are clearly in violation of the GPL.
I admit, there hasn't been much impressive development in most sectors, but computers aren't one of those sectors. Compare video games from today and 20 years ago. Hell, that's too far gone--compare with 10 years ago. Smart phones are crazy powerful. They've advanced so fast, I could hardly believe the iPhone was something real when it came out, and not something from sci-fi.
China wants you to believe that the organs come from convicted criminals, but actually many, perhaps most, come from Falun Gong practitioners who haven't gone through due process and hence can't be properly called convicted criminals.
You might want to read Matas and Kilgour's report.http://organharvestinvestigation.net/
There's a holocaust going on. The number of victims is smaller, but the evil is at least as great.
These planets were used as some kind of Precursor dump. If we find more, we might be able to form a pattern out of them.
You can find reputable OSS programs on Windows and Mac also.
That was certainly true in the past. But, you really ought to upgrade to a dual core brain. Most people have them these days.
No wonder I can't seem to get any work done while reading Slashdot.