You sir are fucking stupid. The main active ingredient in marijuana is Delta 9 Tetrahydrocannabinol, ofter referred to as THC. While THC is fat soluble it is broken down upon use and any effective dose of psychoactive chemicals is gone within several hours (the exact amount of time depending on the method of ingestion, how much is used and the person using it).
How then, you ask, do drug tests detect marijuana use for up to a month after use (more with hair)? Simple, when a person's body is exposed to THC the THC is broken down in the process of effecting the person (getting them high). This happens with just about any chemical and the breakdown products from this sort of thing are called metabolites. THC Metabolites share several properties with THC and in this case the important one is fat solubility which causes them to get trapped in the body fat and released slowly. They are not psychoactive and are much more stable than the THC from which they are derived. These are what gets tested for in a drug test.
A side note, I don't know about marijuana tests in particular but I do know that a lot of other tests tend to return an absurd number of false positives because the metabolites they test for can be generated from innocent sources that have little to do with the drug they claim to detect. For instance, Dextromethorpan a perfectly legal drug used as a cough supressant (and recreationally as a derailant at high doses) returns a false positive for PCP (even at recomended doses) and poppy seeds return a false positive for opiate use.
Now go back to sucking the cock of whatever fascist nanny-state politician you adore and don't let the door hit you on your way out!
The reason why it won't ever supersede Flash or Silverlight is because it's not supposed to supersede Flash or Silverlight. SVG is designed for still vector images and animation on the order of animated gif (IE, short and no sound). Nothing else.
This means that both the parent and the grandparent are being dumb. SVG isn't meant to do what flash does and so the GP is ascribing abilities to it which it will never have and P is criticizing it for not doing things which it was never meant to do. Obligatory Car Analogy: GP suggests using a pickup truck to move a shipping trailer on a long-haul delivery. P says that pickup trucks suck because they can't pull shipping trailers very well and then calls everyone who drives one a smelly virgin.
As for online video, why the fuck is every sonofabitch out there making their own fucking flash client for video? Video should be distributed in a proper file none of this "Compress->Re-encode/resample for flash->stream to my computer" bullshit...
I really like how you managed to turn a discussion about the likelihood of life growing along a different path into religious propaganda.
There is a deep seated flaw in your extra-dimensional alien/deity theory though, your evidence. The fact of the matter is that the bible is a bunch of stories written by primitive desert dwellers hundreds of years after the fact.
If Jesus even really existed, which he may not have given the extreme similarities between the New Testament and several supposedly unrelated earlier religions from the region, I have no doubt that his deeds and teachings were twisted, exaggerated and added to as necessary to support the goals and ideology of those who wrote the New Testament. Even if you ignore all of this the fact remains that the Catholic Church tended to play fast and loose with scripture until the middle of the 16th century meaning that the bible as known today has very little to do with the bible as it was first written.
Beyond all that though you assume that life that operates beyond our current understanding would appear as a physics violating, sandals wearing, peace professing man who would then let a bunch of primitives extant on a plane far below him, who were as ants to his kind (if even that significant), nail him to planks and stab him to death. This just shows how shallow your imagination is, to not be able to envision even one other way for life to evolve in a universe as big and varied as the one we inhabit, to be so enamored with the form we have grown into as to assume that a being from a different order of existence (by the way, many worlds theory has it's proponents but the existence of other dimensions is by no means a certainty), capable of surviving in a dimension with different physical constants than those it evolved with, would appear as a human to us.
In short, your ideas are the relics of a dogmatic tradition created by desert dwellers who still thought the Earth was flat and the center of the universe and believed that the stars were affixed to a huge dome that encircled all creation. To rely on the teachings of a people that hadn't even discovered bathing as support in a discussion about alternate paradigms for life to form along is, quite frankly, madness.
There are more things in heaven and earth, arminw,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Yes, for life to form as seen on Earth conditions must be close to what they are on Earth, but I'm certain that there are other paths for life to evolve along, some of them no doubt leading to sentience, that are beyond our current comprehension. The universe is a big place, there's no reason to be small minded...
Firstly, if reprocessing of spent fuel was allowed 90% of our disposal problems would disappear. Yucca mountain is also a viable solution. In fact, most of the problems with implementing it have been due to NIMBYism, FUD and political pandering, rather than anything technical.
On the subject of power in remote areas there are several solutions. One could use small RND Batteries (as used in space probes) in self contained concrete units with zero risk of meltdown and minimal personal, or one could use renewable energy as you suggest. You seem to be under the impression that I don't think it should be used at all. I have never said that. I just don't think that you can provide the entirety or even the majority of power for the grid with your proposed solutions.
Ultimately, I think, we are in basic agreement that we need to have a diverse power infrastructure with continuing research into alternative sources. It would seem that we just disagree on the fine details...
The problem with all of your listed sources is that they all have limited applications and many problems that need overcoming.
Wind and solar both only work at certain times and in certain areas necessitating other forms of generation, a well connected grid and/or some form of storage to level off their output. They both also need an awful lot of acreage to generate a useful amount of power.
Solar cell production needs a lot of energy and generates toxic waste like you wouldn't believe.
Tidal, hydro and geothermal all have very limited areas of deployment necessitating, again, a well interconnected grid so that all the power generated along the coasts, in volcanic hot-spots and at dams gets to areas that are running an energy deficit.
Hydro is also pretty terrible for the environment what with the way it decimates riverine ecosystems pretty much for the length of the river up and down stream. The fact that it cuts off all shipping along a river unless locks are built (and slows it down considerably even then) isn't so hot either.
So no, nuclear doesn't engender competition but you need baseline power because outside of a few lucky areas none of your suggestions can be used for more than supplemental power and as far as baseline generation goes nuclear is the option that's cleanest, has the longest fuel supply (with reprocessing, good reactors and saltwater uranium extraction hundreds of years worth) and if well run one of the cheapest as well. At least until we get fusion going. Though on the fusion front I do have to acknowledge the large body of people who believe a practical implementation impossible or hopelessly impractical, many of the better educated and informed than I.
In short, your proposed solution is impractical in and of its self but could be useful as part of a larger plan that includes sufficient baseline generation and takes each technologies individual flaws into proper account.
Which is where the last point comes in. I too support nuclear but I recognize that with our current political climate nuclear will be a hard sell to make. His points about coal are valid though and I guess it will have to do until A)The reality of the energy situation forces us to a fission powered grid with solar, hydro and wind supplements or B)Western civilization collapses and it all becomes irrelevant. Boy will B be a fun one to live through...
The minimum age for Kindergarten in my district is 5 and my birthday was just before the cutoff so I ended up starting with school at 4 and subsequently starting 9th grade at 13.
No more AOL on usenet but the internet is still full of way more clueless retards than it'll ever be possible to sort through and educate properly so I don't think we're to October yet...
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Are you saying that his Holy Mormon Underpants TM cut off the blood to his brain?
Next year they'll get their Hogwarts letter...
Well Dells generally do use Windows...
A moose bit my sister once.
You sir are fucking stupid. The main active ingredient in marijuana is Delta 9 Tetrahydrocannabinol, ofter referred to as THC. While THC is fat soluble it is broken down upon use and any effective dose of psychoactive chemicals is gone within several hours (the exact amount of time depending on the method of ingestion, how much is used and the person using it).
How then, you ask, do drug tests detect marijuana use for up to a month after use (more with hair)? Simple, when a person's body is exposed to THC the THC is broken down in the process of effecting the person (getting them high). This happens with just about any chemical and the breakdown products from this sort of thing are called metabolites. THC Metabolites share several properties with THC and in this case the important one is fat solubility which causes them to get trapped in the body fat and released slowly. They are not psychoactive and are much more stable than the THC from which they are derived. These are what gets tested for in a drug test.
A side note, I don't know about marijuana tests in particular but I do know that a lot of other tests tend to return an absurd number of false positives because the metabolites they test for can be generated from innocent sources that have little to do with the drug they claim to detect. For instance, Dextromethorpan a perfectly legal drug used as a cough supressant (and recreationally as a derailant at high doses) returns a false positive for PCP (even at recomended doses) and poppy seeds return a false positive for opiate use.
Now go back to sucking the cock of whatever fascist nanny-state politician you adore and don't let the door hit you on your way out!
The reason why it won't ever supersede Flash or Silverlight is because it's not supposed to supersede Flash or Silverlight. SVG is designed for still vector images and animation on the order of animated gif (IE, short and no sound). Nothing else.
This means that both the parent and the grandparent are being dumb. SVG isn't meant to do what flash does and so the GP is ascribing abilities to it which it will never have and P is criticizing it for not doing things which it was never meant to do. Obligatory Car Analogy: GP suggests using a pickup truck to move a shipping trailer on a long-haul delivery. P says that pickup trucks suck because they can't pull shipping trailers very well and then calls everyone who drives one a smelly virgin.
As for online video, why the fuck is every sonofabitch out there making their own fucking flash client for video? Video should be distributed in a proper file none of this "Compress->Re-encode/resample for flash->stream to my computer" bullshit...
I really like how you managed to turn a discussion about the likelihood of life growing along a different path into religious propaganda.
There is a deep seated flaw in your extra-dimensional alien/deity theory though, your evidence. The fact of the matter is that the bible is a bunch of stories written by primitive desert dwellers hundreds of years after the fact.
If Jesus even really existed, which he may not have given the extreme similarities between the New Testament and several supposedly unrelated earlier religions from the region, I have no doubt that his deeds and teachings were twisted, exaggerated and added to as necessary to support the goals and ideology of those who wrote the New Testament. Even if you ignore all of this the fact remains that the Catholic Church tended to play fast and loose with scripture until the middle of the 16th century meaning that the bible as known today has very little to do with the bible as it was first written.
Beyond all that though you assume that life that operates beyond our current understanding would appear as a physics violating, sandals wearing, peace professing man who would then let a bunch of primitives extant on a plane far below him, who were as ants to his kind (if even that significant), nail him to planks and stab him to death. This just shows how shallow your imagination is, to not be able to envision even one other way for life to evolve in a universe as big and varied as the one we inhabit, to be so enamored with the form we have grown into as to assume that a being from a different order of existence (by the way, many worlds theory has it's proponents but the existence of other dimensions is by no means a certainty), capable of surviving in a dimension with different physical constants than those it evolved with, would appear as a human to us.
In short, your ideas are the relics of a dogmatic tradition created by desert dwellers who still thought the Earth was flat and the center of the universe and believed that the stars were affixed to a huge dome that encircled all creation. To rely on the teachings of a people that hadn't even discovered bathing as support in a discussion about alternate paradigms for life to form along is, quite frankly, madness.
Peace
-David
Yes, for life to form as seen on Earth conditions must be close to what they are on Earth, but I'm certain that there are other paths for life to evolve along, some of them no doubt leading to sentience, that are beyond our current comprehension. The universe is a big place, there's no reason to be small minded...
Are you suggesting that midgets migrate?
Gone like a bat out of hell when the morning comes?
Firstly, if reprocessing of spent fuel was allowed 90% of our disposal problems would disappear. Yucca mountain is also a viable solution. In fact, most of the problems with implementing it have been due to NIMBYism, FUD and political pandering, rather than anything technical.
On the subject of power in remote areas there are several solutions. One could use small RND Batteries (as used in space probes) in self contained concrete units with zero risk of meltdown and minimal personal, or one could use renewable energy as you suggest. You seem to be under the impression that I don't think it should be used at all. I have never said that. I just don't think that you can provide the entirety or even the majority of power for the grid with your proposed solutions.
Ultimately, I think, we are in basic agreement that we need to have a diverse power infrastructure with continuing research into alternative sources. It would seem that we just disagree on the fine details...
The problem with all of your listed sources is that they all have limited applications and many problems that need overcoming.
Wind and solar both only work at certain times and in certain areas necessitating other forms of generation, a well connected grid and/or some form of storage to level off their output. They both also need an awful lot of acreage to generate a useful amount of power.
Solar cell production needs a lot of energy and generates toxic waste like you wouldn't believe.
Tidal, hydro and geothermal all have very limited areas of deployment necessitating, again, a well interconnected grid so that all the power generated along the coasts, in volcanic hot-spots and at dams gets to areas that are running an energy deficit.
Hydro is also pretty terrible for the environment what with the way it decimates riverine ecosystems pretty much for the length of the river up and down stream. The fact that it cuts off all shipping along a river unless locks are built (and slows it down considerably even then) isn't so hot either.
So no, nuclear doesn't engender competition but you need baseline power because outside of a few lucky areas none of your suggestions can be used for more than supplemental power and as far as baseline generation goes nuclear is the option that's cleanest, has the longest fuel supply (with reprocessing, good reactors and saltwater uranium extraction hundreds of years worth) and if well run one of the cheapest as well. At least until we get fusion going. Though on the fusion front I do have to acknowledge the large body of people who believe a practical implementation impossible or hopelessly impractical, many of the better educated and informed than I.
In short, your proposed solution is impractical in and of its self but could be useful as part of a larger plan that includes sufficient baseline generation and takes each technologies individual flaws into proper account.
Which is where the last point comes in. I too support nuclear but I recognize that with our current political climate nuclear will be a hard sell to make. His points about coal are valid though and I guess it will have to do until A)The reality of the energy situation forces us to a fission powered grid with solar, hydro and wind supplements or B)Western civilization collapses and it all becomes irrelevant. Boy will B be a fun one to live through...
Man if you ignored the Iran bit that would make for a great superhero comic.
Wow, someone doesn't like you...
The minimum age for Kindergarten in my district is 5 and my birthday was just before the cutoff so I ended up starting with school at 4 and subsequently starting 9th grade at 13.
Get off my lawn you dirty fucking hippy!
In all seriousness this whole discussion makes my brain hurt. I guess that's why I'm not a quantum physicist...
No more AOL on usenet but the internet is still full of way more clueless retards than it'll ever be possible to sort through and educate properly so I don't think we're to October yet...
It's still September, 1993 to me...
His small intestine???
Just make sure that we're not divided into sorry hemispheres...
Good job mods, another great decision. Not like that could possibly be sarcastic...
Incest is best, put your family to the test...
Also, Drugs. We all like them. Fuck the DEA.
P.S. It's always 4:20 somewhere...
Actually rotary phones don't work anymore in a lot of circumstances. You need a touchtone phone to use any kind of voicemail system.