1 Recycling drinking water for long term use in space can be utilised to produce drinking water for the third world.
2 Food production is space requires high density hydro farming could be used on earth as factory farms eliminating the need to farm in rain forest areas.
3 Space travel requires long term habitation of a small closed system and keeping this system clean this tech appied on earth would greatly assit planetry clean up
4 / 5 compact efficient and clean power supplies are required in space used to replace dirty power on earth these will reduce global warming and possibly ozone depletion.
Getting of this rock and into the solar system is the only way to ensure the human race survives a global catastrophy
But almost every snail mail spam is for a product available in my area and of some potential use to me, the e-mail spam is the opposite - my 5 year old does not need penis enlargers or viagra adds in her e-mail and I am sick of recieving offers to my.au address that do not ship outside USA. If the spammer has to pay the costs of sending the mail they at least try to target the mail to an appropriate audience.
When ever I have had time to identify the object crossing my path I have had plenty of time to safely avoid it. The only times I have needed to stop or swerve violently I have only seen an object aproaching rapidy from the dark and only identified it after hitting/missing. While it is risky to me I'd rather take that risk than plow over a child on an out of control skateboard because I waited to identify the aproaching object.
I don't see how this could be Cable TV channel separation is handled in the Cable set top box OTA by the TVs inbuilt tuner. As far as the TV is concerned Cable is just one channel if you use the rf out of the cable box or just a video feed if you use the video output from the cable box. Unless you mean that modern sets are built with the expectation that the TV will only be used as a display for a signal from a cable box or dvd / video player hence no need for a quality tuner.
Why would Japan celebrate July 4th?. Do you take a day off on Feb 11 for kenkoku kinembi?. Hmm in the interest of cultral sensitivity I should celebrate every nations national day by taking the day off wonder if the boss will fall for it?.
Nah the pictures are accurate having had to deal with customers from Sydney the whole place is just plain fuzzy you can never get a straight answer out of them. I guess living there does that to you.
So the one time I used bittorrent to download something legal (300M) and despite repeatedly trying to refuse the connection ended up with 4 other 90% complete files of a similar size that only failed to complete because I pulled the plug at the modem socket does not count as "I didn't request / own it". Nobody "requests" a virus or spyware on their PC yet it happens. It is more like "somebody unknown broke in and put crack in my glove compartment", not initially believable but both possible and under some circumstances probable.
should put the US influence on the out come of this war into perspective, WW II had a greater US influence but there were still more French military casualties from a smaller population. http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/BACK/Casualties. php
Very,very big is not infinite, if we take cold water out quicker than the oceans can cool we will have a huge problem. It is not the size of the pipes that are a worry but the number of them. My concern is that the rich countrys will implement this in a big way stand back and say look we have reduced greenhouse emmisions (which are blamed for global warming which has been measured by a rise in ocean temperature) but now the ocean is warming even faster cos we take too much cold water out so no one else should do this. As for windmills not stopping the wind if used heavily it will take energy from the wind just because it has no directly observable effect removing Gigawatts of enery from the atmosphere must have some effect somewhere. I'm not saying these are inherently bad ideas just that some caution needs to be used after all we humans have a history of moving problems rather than fixing them.
While I do not condone piracy the **AAs need to accept that some piracy is a cost of doing buisness. They are welcome to try to reduce it but stupid restrictions like this will cost far more than it could save. They also love to exagerate the losses not every pirate copy is a lost sale. There is no incentive for consumers to reduce piracy as the DVD and CD prices will remain at the current as much as the market will pay prices. An example of this was years ago when CD burners were not available to the average file swapper, sony playstation 1 games that were on CD and impossible for the home user to copy were the most expensive while PC titles that could be cracked and copied much easier were close to half the cost.
I hope downloading does hurt the international buyers ie my local stations then they may start to take notice and stop feeding us CRAP!. The Aussie tv networks screw with series regularly will drop a series midway thru only to continue months later. Hell I don't even know when the new simpsons episodes are aired with channel 10 showing 1 or 2 new episodes then a heap of repeats in the same time slot only to have the new episodes turn up at a new time. Too be continued often means this was episode 1 we will show episode 2 in a private sitting held in a locked filing cabinet in a room of the basement with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard. If the poor bleating networks got their act together and supplied a reliable quality service the downloading would not be an issue and could possibly be a good way of creating interest in new shows.
There was a story a while ago about some guy that used at tank of liquid Flurocarbon cooled with dry ice, the flurocarbon started to freeze before getting really cold but the idea was good
Glossing over the Technical details so only insiders cringe or even notice is fine, but when people with only a passing interest in the subject notice hole and inconsistancies they have a problem. When a plot is so bad that only someone with no knowlege at all about the subject could believe it the target audience (people with some interest in the subject)feels cheated. I have no interest in medical drama so I don't watch ER but would probably fall for their crap, my wife likes medical drama but is constantly annoyed by their version of medicine even though she has no medical background.
Having lived in Adelaide and Perth I would recomened both ahead of Sydney or Melbourne. Brisbane I have only visited and seems ok if you like tropical (Humid) weather. A friend of a friend moved to Sydney cos he could earn double the Adelaide pay but he is renting at twice the cost of my home loan traveling 2Hrs each day hoping to save enough to build a house further out on land that cost more than my 4 bed house 1/2 hr from city. The climate is too warm in summer for me but most people enjoy it as for winter I haven't felt the need for a jacket for 2 yrs but I don't spend a lot of time outdoors. Try www.realestate.com.au to look at house prices they have a good range in all areas.
You have this ass about, a major hub has 1 rigid parameter the number of planes that can land on a runway per hour, the size of these does not really matter. Off loading a the big planes can be delt with at the terminal and with careful redesign should take no longer than 747s. Lots of small planes move the delay to the departure when all todays planes are full try again tomorrow.
or you could have 64 different endings.
potion_a&&potion_b then blow_up;
potion_a&&potion_b then Burn_to_ashes;
Never admit to a mistake (bug) just turn it into a (undocumented)feature.
Actually the higher voltage (120~240)is used to reduce losses, a better conductor would make it possible to transmit more current at the same voltage without increasing losses. I believe AC is used as a saftey factor as an AC shock will cause muscle spams at the transmitted frequency most often resulting in the person being shocked breaking the circuit and probably not remaining connected until crispy, DC will tend to cause muscle to cramp tight making it almost impossible to break the connection.
I used to drive a hyundi wagon (not my choice work supplied service car) and have assholes with their SUV bumpers at window height to me using their size to intimadate / bully on the road was dangerous and annoying when you realise that one mistake from the prick in the SUV and I die they walk away it reduces the desire to to the right thing and drive a small low polution commuter car. At least the luxury cars are not quite as bad as there impact zones are closer to the same level as smaller traffic (their extra mass will still do a lot of damage ). So in short remove SUVs from commuter traffic and more people will use smaller cars to commute without fear of being crushed!.
easy! I've used an 850 lumen in a lit office and while it was not clear it was fine once the lights were dimmed, I find 1400 nice in a lit room but any projector looks better in a darker room and brighter is always better. I have noticed the brighter ones do a better job of white when the wall is not quite white. The problem for games is the resolution many max out at 800 x 600.
The problem with this is that most people who download TV are not going to be in that broadcast area. There was an article last week that showed that UK & Oz accounted for the biggest amount of TV show downloads with the US way behind. This was attributed to the fact that UK and Aussie networks do not show the new series sometimes until months after the us release. Friends in Australia was strung out for months of "friends favorites" etc repeats before the final episode was released. A simpsons season is often streched out by showing 1 or 2 new episodes then the next weeks a "classic". With this sort of treatment fans are going to download and have no simpathy for the local network losing its add revenue. Then there are the shows that just don't get to some areas even on cable. While a case can be made against downloading a movie that will be shown at the local cinema followed by DVD release, what about downloading a German or French local show to help learn the language when that show is broadcast freely to its target audience but will never be shown in the area the dowloader is from?
Heck, most porno movies have more solid plots than many games, but thats fine games are ment to be FUN who cares why the odd blocks are falling from the sky or why they need or can be manipulated to pile up neatly?.
When Mankind can prove it can live in equilibrium oni Earth, then it can spread elsewhere.
Why are these 2 goals so often quoted as a negative to space utilization by mankind. The tech we need the spread is very similar to the tech we need to live in equilibrium (energy , food, water, air recycling )and to reach a point of minimal impact on earth we need to exploit the advantages of space .
I don't care if it still doesn't knock you into the general level of "poor" driver, if I'm driving around you I want you at your best
WHY?. Every day I drive to work and have to deal with sober non cell phone using drivers that are far worse drivers than I would be if I was drunk and using a cell phone but they keep their licence for their conveniance, yet if I slip up once and drive slightly over the alcohol limit and get caught its bye bye licence so why should I inconveniance myself by not using a cell phone or other distraction when they don't have to even try to be a better driver or simply do not have the mechanical skills / reaction time / spatial awareness to be a safe driver yet can without any guilt go out on the raod and endanger me and my family. The current thinking seems to be if you are not drunk speeding using a cell phone you are driving safe by definition and don,t need to worry about actually paying attention to other road users / traffic signs / road conditions etc.
When I was a kid I definately saw a kit form of this which I desperately wanted but with no friends or suitable targets in range it was kinda pointless and I never did get to try it but I believe some kids did get one working.
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Why not go one step further put Burt Rutan in charge of OCC, If your going into orbit may as well do it with style.
1 Recycling drinking water for long term use in space can be utilised to produce drinking water for the third world. 2 Food production is space requires high density hydro farming could be used on earth as factory farms eliminating the need to farm in rain forest areas. 3 Space travel requires long term habitation of a small closed system and keeping this system clean this tech appied on earth would greatly assit planetry clean up 4 / 5 compact efficient and clean power supplies are required in space used to replace dirty power on earth these will reduce global warming and possibly ozone depletion. Getting of this rock and into the solar system is the only way to ensure the human race survives a global catastrophy
But almost every snail mail spam is for a product available in my area and of some potential use to me, the e-mail spam is the opposite - my 5 year old does not need penis enlargers or viagra adds in her e-mail and I am sick of recieving offers to my .au address that do not ship outside USA. If the spammer has to pay the costs of sending the mail they at least try to target the mail to an appropriate audience.
When ever I have had time to identify the object crossing my path I have had plenty of time to safely avoid it. The only times I have needed to stop or swerve violently I have only seen an object aproaching rapidy from the dark and only identified it after hitting/missing. While it is risky to me I'd rather take that risk than plow over a child on an out of control skateboard because I waited to identify the aproaching object.
I don't see how this could be Cable TV channel separation is handled in the Cable set top box OTA by the TVs inbuilt tuner. As far as the TV is concerned Cable is just one channel if you use the rf out of the cable box or just a video feed if you use the video output from the cable box. Unless you mean that modern sets are built with the expectation that the TV will only be used as a display for a signal from a cable box or dvd / video player hence no need for a quality tuner.
Why would Japan celebrate July 4th?. Do you take a day off on Feb 11 for kenkoku kinembi?. Hmm in the interest of cultral sensitivity I should celebrate every nations national day by taking the day off wonder if the boss will fall for it?.
Nah the pictures are accurate having had to deal with customers from Sydney the whole place is just plain fuzzy you can never get a straight answer out of them. I guess living there does that to you.
So the one time I used bittorrent to download something legal (300M) and despite repeatedly trying to refuse the connection ended up with 4 other 90% complete files of a similar size that only failed to complete because I pulled the plug at the modem socket does not count as "I didn't request / own it". Nobody "requests" a virus or spyware on their PC yet it happens. It is more like "somebody unknown broke in and put crack in my glove compartment", not initially believable but both possible and under some circumstances probable.
Before mouthing off about how great USA is at winning wars get som facts right a simple look a the casualties of WW I http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/casualties.h tm
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should put the US influence on the out come of this war into perspective, WW II had a greater US influence but there were still more French military casualties from a smaller population. http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/BACK/Casualties
Very,very big is not infinite, if we take cold water out quicker than the oceans can cool we will have a huge problem. It is not the size of the pipes that are a worry but the number of them. My concern is that the rich countrys will implement this in a big way stand back and say look we have reduced greenhouse emmisions (which are blamed for global warming which has been measured by a rise in ocean temperature) but now the ocean is warming even faster cos we take too much cold water out so no one else should do this. As for windmills not stopping the wind if used heavily it will take energy from the wind just because it has no directly observable effect removing Gigawatts of enery from the atmosphere must have some effect somewhere. I'm not saying these are inherently bad ideas just that some caution needs to be used after all we humans have a history of moving problems rather than fixing them.
While I do not condone piracy the **AAs need to accept that some piracy is a cost of doing buisness. They are welcome to try to reduce it but stupid restrictions like this will cost far more than it could save. They also love to exagerate the losses not every pirate copy is a lost sale. There is no incentive for consumers to reduce piracy as the DVD and CD prices will remain at the current as much as the market will pay prices. An example of this was years ago when CD burners were not available to the average file swapper, sony playstation 1 games that were on CD and impossible for the home user to copy were the most expensive while PC titles that could be cracked and copied much easier were close to half the cost.
I hope downloading does hurt the international buyers ie my local stations then they may start to take notice and stop feeding us CRAP!. The Aussie tv networks screw with series regularly will drop a series midway thru only to continue months later. Hell I don't even know when the new simpsons episodes are aired with channel 10 showing 1 or 2 new episodes then a heap of repeats in the same time slot only to have the new episodes turn up at a new time. Too be continued often means this was episode 1 we will show episode 2 in a private sitting held in a locked filing cabinet in a room of the basement with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard. If the poor bleating networks got their act together and supplied a reliable quality service the downloading would not be an issue and could possibly be a good way of creating interest in new shows.
There was a story a while ago about some guy that used at tank of liquid Flurocarbon cooled with dry ice, the flurocarbon started to freeze before getting really cold but the idea was good
Glossing over the Technical details so only insiders cringe or even notice is fine, but when people with only a passing interest in the subject notice hole and inconsistancies they have a problem. When a plot is so bad that only someone with no knowlege at all about the subject could believe it the target audience (people with some interest in the subject)feels cheated. I have no interest in medical drama so I don't watch ER but would probably fall for their crap, my wife likes medical drama but is constantly annoyed by their version of medicine even though she has no medical background.
Having lived in Adelaide and Perth I would recomened both ahead of Sydney or Melbourne. Brisbane I have only visited and seems ok if you like tropical (Humid) weather. A friend of a friend moved to Sydney cos he could earn double the Adelaide pay but he is renting at twice the cost of my home loan traveling 2Hrs each day hoping to save enough to build a house further out on land that cost more than my 4 bed house 1/2 hr from city. The climate is too warm in summer for me but most people enjoy it as for winter I haven't felt the need for a jacket for 2 yrs but I don't spend a lot of time outdoors. Try www.realestate.com.au to look at house prices they have a good range in all areas.
You have this ass about, a major hub has 1 rigid parameter the number of planes that can land on a runway per hour, the size of these does not really matter. Off loading a the big planes can be delt with at the terminal and with careful redesign should take no longer than 747s. Lots of small planes move the delay to the departure when all todays planes are full try again tomorrow.
or you could have 64 different endings. potion_a&&potion_b then blow_up; potion_a&&potion_b then Burn_to_ashes; Never admit to a mistake (bug) just turn it into a (undocumented)feature.
Actually the higher voltage (120~240)is used to reduce losses, a better conductor would make it possible to transmit more current at the same voltage without increasing losses. I believe AC is used as a saftey factor as an AC shock will cause muscle spams at the transmitted frequency most often resulting in the person being shocked breaking the circuit and probably not remaining connected until crispy, DC will tend to cause muscle to cramp tight making it almost impossible to break the connection.
I used to drive a hyundi wagon (not my choice work supplied service car) and have assholes with their SUV bumpers at window height to me using their size to intimadate / bully on the road was dangerous and annoying when you realise that one mistake from the prick in the SUV and I die they walk away it reduces the desire to to the right thing and drive a small low polution commuter car. At least the luxury cars are not quite as bad as there impact zones are closer to the same level as smaller traffic (their extra mass will still do a lot of damage ). So in short remove SUVs from commuter traffic and more people will use smaller cars to commute without fear of being crushed!.
easy! I've used an 850 lumen in a lit office and while it was not clear it was fine once the lights were dimmed, I find 1400 nice in a lit room but any projector looks better in a darker room and brighter is always better. I have noticed the brighter ones do a better job of white when the wall is not quite white. The problem for games is the resolution many max out at 800 x 600.
The problem with this is that most people who download TV are not going to be in that broadcast area. There was an article last week that showed that UK & Oz accounted for the biggest amount of TV show downloads with the US way behind. This was attributed to the fact that UK and Aussie networks do not show the new series sometimes until months after the us release. Friends in Australia was strung out for months of "friends favorites" etc repeats before the final episode was released. A simpsons season is often streched out by showing 1 or 2 new episodes then the next weeks a "classic". With this sort of treatment fans are going to download and have no simpathy for the local network losing its add revenue. Then there are the shows that just don't get to some areas even on cable. While a case can be made against downloading a movie that will be shown at the local cinema followed by DVD release, what about downloading a German or French local show to help learn the language when that show is broadcast freely to its target audience but will never be shown in the area the dowloader is from?
Heck, most porno movies have more solid plots than many games, but thats fine games are ment to be FUN who cares why the odd blocks are falling from the sky or why they need or can be manipulated to pile up neatly?.
When Mankind can prove it can live in equilibrium oni Earth, then it can spread elsewhere.
Why are these 2 goals so often quoted as a negative to space utilization by mankind. The tech we need the spread is very similar to the tech we need to live in equilibrium (energy , food, water, air recycling )and to reach a point of minimal impact on earth we need to exploit the advantages of space .
I don't care if it still doesn't knock you into the general level of "poor" driver, if I'm driving around you I want you at your best
WHY?. Every day I drive to work and have to deal with sober non cell phone using drivers that are far worse drivers than I would be if I was drunk and using a cell phone but they keep their licence for their conveniance, yet if I slip up once and drive slightly over the alcohol limit and get caught its bye bye licence so why should I inconveniance myself by not using a cell phone or other distraction when they don't have to even try to be a better driver or simply do not have the mechanical skills / reaction time / spatial awareness to be a safe driver yet can without any guilt go out on the raod and endanger me and my family. The current thinking seems to be if you are not drunk speeding using a cell phone you are driving safe by definition and don,t need to worry about actually paying attention to other road users / traffic signs / road conditions etc.
When I was a kid I definately saw a kit form of this which I desperately wanted but with no friends or suitable targets in range it was kinda pointless and I never did get to try it but I believe some kids did get one working.