In fact, the second tallest buildings in the world right now (The Petronas Towers in Malaysia) are made of concrete. Concrete is wonderful as a building material because its flowable nature allows for a nearly infinite variety of shapes, and it does not have "poor load bearing characteristics." It is the most most commonly used structural material, period.
The problem with traditional concrete is its poor tension strength. This makes applications where bending is likely to take place challenging, which is where the reinforcing steel comes in. Reinforcement in concrete is meant to take tension forces, and the reinforcement used in typical applications is typically less than 5%. The concrete carries the bulk of the load, the reinforcing steel merely helps bridge cracks to provide tension capacity.
Doesn't care about the money? How about the publicity stunt surrounding it's release?
The film makes interesting points but everyone needs to make sure that they understand, this is a representation of reality as presented by Michael Moore. While a lot of the stuff may be true, it also may be misrepresented or presented out of context to make Moore's point stronger. This is not new, as the news media has been doing it forever, I just hope people can understand that this is not the end-all ultimate truth.
The difference is that you typically can't even figure out where to begin. True, most stuff is publicly available, but there aren't a lot of "Newbie FAQs" out there, because, let's face it, nobody wants to take the time to write one. Unless we were paid for it. But then we'd be teachers......probably at a university.
I can see us getting rid of plastic products real soon, too...
An article indicates that only around 46% of a barrel of crude is actually used for gasoline. The other half goes into various petrochemical products, like asphalt and plastics. So until we give up driving completely, and start making things out of wood and stainless steel again, I don't see us eliminating our dependency on crude oil.
On the last point, a liquid isn't compressible in itself.
The compressibility of liquid is the whole reason sound can travel through water. Sound energy creates alternating high and low pressure waves (high and low density) which propagate out from the source. The changing density of the water is caused by local volumetric compression and expansion. The total volume of water, however, remains constant.
Unfortunately 99% of people making huge amount of money are pretty damned stupid when it comes to money.
I wonder how they got in a position to be making all that money, if they're so careless and stupid with it. From what I've seen, those making the big bucks have either been really lucky or really smart and probably aren't the former.
You do make a point that making the big bucks doesn't mean you need to buy the expensive car/house/yacht etc. But would you honestly turn down a BMW for a Saturn, or a 4500 sq. ft. home for a 2000 sq. ft. home, if you could afford it?
The only outcome I can forsee from digital media companies paying a licensing fee to Acacia is increased costs for subscribers and users of that media, which I'm sure is something nobody wants.
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I thought the question to that answer was "What is 6 times 9?"
Throw 20,000 idle computer processors at it...
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15. Colossal lists make me lose interest in parent quickly, despite "Informative" mod.
Skyscrapers are built out of steel.
In fact, the second tallest buildings in the world right now (The Petronas Towers in Malaysia) are made of concrete. Concrete is wonderful as a building material because its flowable nature allows for a nearly infinite variety of shapes, and it does not have "poor load bearing characteristics." It is the most most commonly used structural material, period.
The problem with traditional concrete is its poor tension strength. This makes applications where bending is likely to take place challenging, which is where the reinforcing steel comes in. Reinforcement in concrete is meant to take tension forces, and the reinforcement used in typical applications is typically less than 5%. The concrete carries the bulk of the load, the reinforcing steel merely helps bridge cracks to provide tension capacity.
Doesn't care about the money? How about the publicity stunt surrounding it's release?
The film makes interesting points but everyone needs to make sure that they understand, this is a representation of reality as presented by Michael Moore. While a lot of the stuff may be true, it also may be misrepresented or presented out of context to make Moore's point stronger. This is not new, as the news media has been doing it forever, I just hope people can understand that this is not the end-all ultimate truth.
The difference is that you typically can't even figure out where to begin. True, most stuff is publicly available, but there aren't a lot of "Newbie FAQs" out there, because, let's face it, nobody wants to take the time to write one. Unless we were paid for it. But then we'd be teachers......probably at a university.
An article indicates that only around 46% of a barrel of crude is actually used for gasoline. The other half goes into various petrochemical products, like asphalt and plastics. So until we give up driving completely, and start making things out of wood and stainless steel again, I don't see us eliminating our dependency on crude oil.
The compressibility of liquid is the whole reason sound can travel through water. Sound energy creates alternating high and low pressure waves (high and low density) which propagate out from the source. The changing density of the water is caused by local volumetric compression and expansion. The total volume of water, however, remains constant.
I wonder how they got in a position to be making all that money, if they're so careless and stupid with it. From what I've seen, those making the big bucks have either been really lucky or really smart and probably aren't the former.
You do make a point that making the big bucks doesn't mean you need to buy the expensive car/house/yacht etc. But would you honestly turn down a BMW for a Saturn, or a 4500 sq. ft. home for a 2000 sq. ft. home, if you could afford it?
The only outcome I can forsee from digital media companies paying a licensing fee to Acacia is increased costs for subscribers and users of that media, which I'm sure is something nobody wants.