We are all free to express our desires to anyone. Yes, but what is the consequence for such freedom? I think, that's where everyone/nations differ.
We are free to demonstrate and protest that which we find morally objectionable Well, depends on where we are and for the record, however we "should" be free to. What is and what isn't in China is the reality. What you are saying is only your opinion and fantasy, ideological one none the less.
and no arbitrary borders or citizenship should stop us. No, I disagree. You propose taking away the rights of people and their right to maintain sovereignty as nation. You're contradicting yourself. As much as I dislike China, her law and her right to protect her sovereignty should be respected regardless of your view and many faults she has.
as it seeks to divide people into arbitrary groups who are not allowed to support each other in seeking redress for wrongs. Arbitration makes us human. We define ourselves by identity. And our identities shape our perception of what is right and wrong. As human and society, we look out for our own self interest. If supporting "fellow arbitrary group" is the goal, what the fuck was he doing in US while Tibetan monks were protesting and getting shot at? Oh yeah, safely throwing his little led lights over the bridge.
You advocate a particularly sick form of authoritarianism. And you are advocating "Look at how great i am" democracy. Pure fucking evil, Youtube poster child do-nothing-say-everything protesters.
You are forgetting shit holes in NYC where, if you are lucky, you get 20 amp circuit running your entire studio/1 bedrooms/2 bedrooms in "supposed" 2 family residential building.
I never had the "pleasure" of owning a house in NYC, so I can't confirm 220/240 single phase w/ 200 amp main breaker in single 1 family house.
I believe, 44% of total US consumption of petroleum products meant strictly gasoline and not diesel. However I can't confirm nor confident to say that 56% is diesel.
You did bring up a good point. While I agree that diesel takes very large portion of our transportation, I doubt, rail/plane infrastructure will be able to convert to electric any time soon. It is not to say, IMHO, impossible, however cost and efficiency is just prohibitive to do so. Meaning, rail train at 50-60MPGe(us) carrying 100 passengers isn't going to see any greater benefit in cost and efficiency saving, not to mention cost implementing new electrified rail infrastructure. Also for plane, it is just not that cost beneficial to abandon million dollar planes already in use (at least for another decade or so). Even for _VAN_, there is not much benefit in cost/efficiency saving to convert to electric. Passenger vans are considered "efficient" already. Commercial freight trucks are not even possible (at least for another couple of decades) to convert to electric, not because of technology, but because of distribution channel (electricity "refill" station).
Note that, it's 18.5 Exajoules consumption of finished motor gasoline which covers wide range of forms in transportation and heat engines, not to mention varying efficiency level in energy transfer from potential energy to heat and to mechanical energy. Especially if we are talking about only 1 form of transportation, it's very safe to assume that the 18.5 Exajoules for conversion to electric would only be approx. 3.3 - 4.4 Exajoules in reality for electric motored vehicle since traditional heat engine has only 20 - 25% transfer efficiency in heat to mechanical energy and electric motored vehicle has better than 90% transfer efficiency.
Even without quoting Wikipedia, even going by your "number", gasoline 28 Ej should not be understood as electric 28 Ej in terms of cost-efficiency in transportation. It's like literally comparing apples and oranges.
since when is a cube a more likely shape for a stellar object?
Since perfect sphere is even less likely shape for a stellar object than cube.
A shape with no gravity usually has, as you say, an irregular shape but 9 times out of 10 it's more "roundish" than "cubic".
Would you be more agreeable if the model was a potato shape? Idaho or Dakota potato? Personally I like Idaho.
Imagine if you are trying to find trajectory of two objects on a pool table after a collision. They, both are on a collision path. Both are "roundish", not perfect sphere (we already established that asteroids are NEVER PERFECT SPHERE). Tell me all the possible outcome for an object sampled with 10 billion different center of mass which may result in 10 zillion different result depending on which way it was traveling and rotating (IF AT ALL!!!). Now tell me how much money, time, computational power will it take to solve the problem your way.
Like you said, common sense tells me cube is as good as any.
why is cube improbable? That's like saying, an asteroid looks more like a baseball than a lego brick. I would say, sphere is more improbable than cube.
To find a perfect model for an irregular shaped object, cube is as good as any. Sphere would be the least likely and desirable shape to model after.
But sickle cell disease can be avoided by just getting genetic test done and knowing the risk. If the risk is greater (50/50), it shouldn't come to the point where couple say "Oh well, at least we tried. Better luck next time." Even in 1/4th chance, the choice should start with knowing the risk and having the treatment options available. Well, what if there is no risk to worry about because that 1/4 defect will be terminated? Well, what if there is 1/4th chance that child will never reach puberty and die of hunger?
Sickle cell disease is a horrible disease, but when you have to make a choice, your choice shouldn't begin after the conception.
Sure, we all/most want to be a parent and we all/most want to raise that perfect child. But shouldn't we begin by being a perfect parent first? Isn't that the reasonable course to take as a human being?
we can maybe do something about for our children, and they could really use all the help they can get...
I agree, but I rather do something about cancerous environment rather than picking embryos which will withstand cancerous environment later in life.
You make an argument about colon cancer, but are we 100% sure that that is our primary concern? If we are to rid of every cancerous gene, are you 100% sure, we will be better off? our children will be better off?
You also make an argument that natural selection is more of hit and miss, hence putting our 2 cents will make it better. Well I have news for you. Our 2 cents could be the reason why we may be one day wiped out by single strain of virus due to lack of diversity in gene pool. Or that 12 inch penis will force women to reject heterosexual intercourse.
Sex perhaps? Physical or Mental attribute perhaps? (knock on wood, i wouldn't want to raise a severely mentally retarded child but i'm sure my IQ isn't something to brag about either nor warren a termination of life)
I believe, any choice ending in termination, there must be rational reasoning and it must be a humane reason. You don't breed a dog, and kill the puppies you don't like. I mean, WTF.
Leaving faith in random selection in hopes of coming across the right one seem counter productive, inhumane, unscientific and "unintelligent", IMHO.
For a mankind to achieve greater achievement, there must be greater sacrifice and failure. And without knowing and understanding our own defect, no amount of preparedness and presumption will ever guarantee greater success than that of our past.
For example, people have been talking about climate change and world overpopulation for a long time, but still nothing really major is happening to find a solution.
Perhaps no one has lived long enough to come up with an answer yet.:)
what if prolonged life means, longer reproductive cycle? Comparison to every other species, humans (not so much physiologically but socioeconomically) have very short window to reproduce. If we increase that window substantially, say, for 100 years, what are the chances, we might "actually" have better chance of being a better parent, a better human being, and a better neighbor?
Quoting from my college professor, "if you give a monkey enough time, it can build a computer." If we give ourselves enough time, perhaps we can build a better society at last.
prolonged life does not mean, IMHO, contesting with our offspring, but contesting with each's own.
Aging, Death, Life, are part of us more so than we are part of them in retrospect, and should youth become a "pill" away, I'd feel more incline "not" to reproduce as early in life as I do now.
"...the predictions were not completely accurate. Maybe free will enters at the last moment, allowing a person to override an unpalatable subconscious decision."
The benefit with that, I suppose, is that you'd be able to use your existing camera body provided the lens had the right adapter.
Not correcting you or anything, but I believe, Adobe's innovation comes from using the Photoshop application along with the compound lens. So it's not only the adapter which will be required, but with the new Photoshop application so that compound image can be rendered as 3D.
But the primary difference I believe is that, 19 objective lens taking one single image compounded in 19 separate mosaic view vs. multiple snapshots with depth map embedded into the image itself, making it quite precise and giving wider application than Adobe's.
Chinese leaders encourage Internet use for education and business but use online filters to block access to material considered subversive or pornographic"
So China blocking Tibet protest video using online filters (aka Great FireWall of China) is in lieu with their current policy. I call what being done in Tibet by Chinese government is nothing less than perversive and subversive in the eyes of international people and governing body.
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Actually, they'll question him in a room with a radioactive source in, or smeared with a mutant hpv strain.
Chinese detain protesters in a whore house?
Powderly regularly protests all kinds of oppression, both at home and abroad.
Oh wait...
how about his little throwies?
We are all free to express our desires to anyone.
Yes, but what is the consequence for such freedom? I think, that's where everyone/nations differ.
We are free to demonstrate and protest that which we find morally objectionable
Well, depends on where we are and for the record, however we "should" be free to. What is and what isn't in China is the reality. What you are saying is only your opinion and fantasy, ideological one none the less.
and no arbitrary borders or citizenship should stop us.
No, I disagree. You propose taking away the rights of people and their right to maintain sovereignty as nation. You're contradicting yourself. As much as I dislike China, her law and her right to protect her sovereignty should be respected regardless of your view and many faults she has.
as it seeks to divide people into arbitrary groups who are not allowed to support each other in seeking redress for wrongs.
Arbitration makes us human. We define ourselves by identity. And our identities shape our perception of what is right and wrong. As human and society, we look out for our own self interest. If supporting "fellow arbitrary group" is the goal, what the fuck was he doing in US while Tibetan monks were protesting and getting shot at? Oh yeah, safely throwing his little led lights over the bridge.
You advocate a particularly sick form of authoritarianism.
And you are advocating "Look at how great i am" democracy. Pure fucking evil, Youtube poster child do-nothing-say-everything protesters.
And you thought China was pretty fucking sick...
You are forgetting shit holes in NYC where, if you are lucky, you get 20 amp circuit running your entire studio/1 bedrooms/2 bedrooms in "supposed" 2 family residential building.
I never had the "pleasure" of owning a house in NYC, so I can't confirm 220/240 single phase w/ 200 amp main breaker in single 1 family house.
At least, NYC has subways...
Sorry. I gave wrong link... Here is the correct link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_and_diesel_usage_and_pricing
I believe, 44% of total US consumption of petroleum products meant strictly gasoline and not diesel. However I can't confirm nor confident to say that 56% is diesel.
You did bring up a good point. While I agree that diesel takes very large portion of our transportation, I doubt, rail/plane infrastructure will be able to convert to electric any time soon. It is not to say, IMHO, impossible, however cost and efficiency is just prohibitive to do so. Meaning, rail train at 50-60MPGe(us) carrying 100 passengers isn't going to see any greater benefit in cost and efficiency saving, not to mention cost implementing new electrified rail infrastructure. Also for plane, it is just not that cost beneficial to abandon million dollar planes already in use (at least for another decade or so). Even for _VAN_, there is not much benefit in cost/efficiency saving to convert to electric. Passenger vans are considered "efficient" already. Commercial freight trucks are not even possible (at least for another couple of decades) to convert to electric, not because of technology, but because of distribution channel (electricity "refill" station).
* Total petroleum power used for transportation in the US - about 28 Exajoules.
OK, I have no clue where you got that number from, but that doesn't sound quite right.
"Finished motor gasoline amounts to 44% of the total US consumption of petroleum products. This corresponds to 18.5 Exajoules per year, or 600 Gigawatts."
(Source) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency_in_transportation
Note that, it's 18.5 Exajoules consumption of finished motor gasoline which covers wide range of forms in transportation and heat engines, not to mention varying efficiency level in energy transfer from potential energy to heat and to mechanical energy. Especially if we are talking about only 1 form of transportation, it's very safe to assume that the 18.5 Exajoules for conversion to electric would only be approx. 3.3 - 4.4 Exajoules in reality for electric motored vehicle since traditional heat engine has only 20 - 25% transfer efficiency in heat to mechanical energy and electric motored vehicle has better than 90% transfer efficiency.
Even without quoting Wikipedia, even going by your "number", gasoline 28 Ej should not be understood as electric 28 Ej in terms of cost-efficiency in transportation. It's like literally comparing apples and oranges.
since when is a cube a more likely shape for a stellar object?
Since perfect sphere is even less likely shape for a stellar object than cube.
A shape with no gravity usually has, as you say, an irregular shape but 9 times out of 10 it's more "roundish" than "cubic".
Would you be more agreeable if the model was a potato shape? Idaho or Dakota potato? Personally I like Idaho.
Imagine if you are trying to find trajectory of two objects on a pool table after a collision. They, both are on a collision path. Both are "roundish", not perfect sphere (we already established that asteroids are NEVER PERFECT SPHERE). Tell me all the possible outcome for an object sampled with 10 billion different center of mass which may result in 10 zillion different result depending on which way it was traveling and rotating (IF AT ALL!!!). Now tell me how much money, time, computational power will it take to solve the problem your way.
Like you said, common sense tells me cube is as good as any.
some improbable shape like a cube?
why is cube improbable? That's like saying, an asteroid looks more like a baseball than a lego brick. I would say, sphere is more improbable than cube.
To find a perfect model for an irregular shaped object, cube is as good as any. Sphere would be the least likely and desirable shape to model after.
But sickle cell disease can be avoided by just getting genetic test done and knowing the risk. If the risk is greater (50/50), it shouldn't come to the point where couple say "Oh well, at least we tried. Better luck next time." Even in 1/4th chance, the choice should start with knowing the risk and having the treatment options available. Well, what if there is no risk to worry about because that 1/4 defect will be terminated? Well, what if there is 1/4th chance that child will never reach puberty and die of hunger?
Sickle cell disease is a horrible disease, but when you have to make a choice, your choice shouldn't begin after the conception.
Sure, we all/most want to be a parent and we all/most want to raise that perfect child. But shouldn't we begin by being a perfect parent first? Isn't that the reasonable course to take as a human being?
we can maybe do something about for our children, and they could really use all the help they can get...
I agree, but I rather do something about cancerous environment rather than picking embryos which will withstand cancerous environment later in life.
You make an argument about colon cancer, but are we 100% sure that that is our primary concern? If we are to rid of every cancerous gene, are you 100% sure, we will be better off? our children will be better off?
You also make an argument that natural selection is more of hit and miss, hence putting our 2 cents will make it better. Well I have news for you. Our 2 cents could be the reason why we may be one day wiped out by single strain of virus due to lack of diversity in gene pool. Or that 12 inch penis will force women to reject heterosexual intercourse.
Sex perhaps? Physical or Mental attribute perhaps? (knock on wood, i wouldn't want to raise a severely mentally retarded child but i'm sure my IQ isn't something to brag about either nor warren a termination of life)
I believe, any choice ending in termination, there must be rational reasoning and it must be a humane reason. You don't breed a dog, and kill the puppies you don't like. I mean, WTF.
Leaving faith in random selection in hopes of coming across the right one seem counter productive, inhumane, unscientific and "unintelligent", IMHO.
For a mankind to achieve greater achievement, there must be greater sacrifice and failure. And without knowing and understanding our own defect, no amount of preparedness and presumption will ever guarantee greater success than that of our past.
For example, people have been talking about climate change and world overpopulation for a long time, but still nothing really major is happening to find a solution.
Perhaps no one has lived long enough to come up with an answer yet. :)
Or...
what if prolonged life means, longer reproductive cycle? Comparison to every other species, humans (not so much physiologically but socioeconomically) have very short window to reproduce. If we increase that window substantially, say, for 100 years, what are the chances, we might "actually" have better chance of being a better parent, a better human being, and a better neighbor?
Quoting from my college professor, "if you give a monkey enough time, it can build a computer." If we give ourselves enough time, perhaps we can build a better society at last.
Aging, Death, Life, are part of us more so than we are part of them in retrospect, and should youth become a "pill" away, I'd feel more incline "not" to reproduce as early in life as I do now.
or in suspended animation.
I don't understand why death must mean something horribly gone wrong?
Circle of life or Circle of death, I guess, all depend on point of view...
Pain is terribly distracting, from minor itching
I'm sorry, but pain and itch have notable difference and recent finding indicates this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itch
wow, just confusing... glass slow liquid... just confusing...
Thanks, No-Child-Left-Behind!! LOLz
"... The move to SCADA systems boosts efficiency at utilities because it allows workers to operate equipment remotely."
Another proof that Homer Simpson was truly ahead of his time.
Are you mad, woman? You never know when an old calendar might come in handy. Sure, it's not 1985 now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring? -Homer
Assistant for Randomized Monitoring over Routes to Donut Shop
"...the predictions were not completely accurate. Maybe free will enters at the last moment, allowing a person to override an unpalatable subconscious decision."
C...C...C...Combo Breaker!
that are icy on the outside and warm and liquid inside, providing potential habitats.
The benefit with that, I suppose, is that you'd be able to use your existing camera body provided the lens had the right adapter.
Not correcting you or anything, but I believe, Adobe's innovation comes from using the Photoshop application along with the compound lens. So it's not only the adapter which will be required, but with the new Photoshop application so that compound image can be rendered as 3D.
But the primary difference I believe is that, 19 objective lens taking one single image compounded in 19 separate mosaic view vs. multiple snapshots with depth map embedded into the image itself, making it quite precise and giving wider application than Adobe's.
The proper plural is penes.
It's one thing to know more than I can understand, but now I've learnt this, I'm just confused to where and when to apply this knowledge.
Chinese leaders encourage Internet use for education and business but use online filters to block access to material considered subversive or pornographic"
So China blocking Tibet protest video using online filters (aka Great FireWall of China) is in lieu with their current policy. I call what being done in Tibet by Chinese government is nothing less than perversive and subversive in the eyes of international people and governing body.
On the other hand, I'm glad that this is not being blocked by the Great Firewall of China.... After all, this is very educational to Chinese.
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