Do we have to explain everything to you? The great-grandparent was obviously meant as a joke, yet it was moderated insightful. Strangely enough, the reply, which was just a quote of the grantparent was modded funny.
Not only are the mods stupid, the comments are too. I mean worse than normal - normally if something is modded up a few times it is somewhat intelligent.
And it is blatantly obvious to us in countries with looser gun laws that restricting the honest from having guns does nothing to help them, and might hurt.
Criminals can get guns. The AK-47 was designed so that any BC blacksmith can repair it. (though it would be expensive, they didn't know how to work with iron like we do now). You can make one yourself with hand tools. In fact people do - though you need some skill. (I'm not sure how you drill the barrel for instance)
All gun laws do it keep guns out of the hands of the honest. There is no evidence that they have any effect on crime. (in fact studies that don't claim everything is lost in statistical noise show a decrease in crimes against people, when people own guns)
Water injection was OLD technology by WWII. The 1904 Hart-Parr tractor came from the factory with water injection. (the first known commercial application of water injection)
Water injection however has problems. Water freezes in winter, which is perhaps the worst on. So it is used where it is needed (Hart-Parr wanted to use kerosene fuel, but they needed some knock control), or where the hassle is worth the gains. (racing)
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A rootkit is any set (which could be one) of software that an attacker uses to attack your (or other) computer and cover his tracks so you don't notice and cannot uninstall.
This meets both definitions. It covers it tracks, and it allows Sony to prevent you from ripping the disk.
A rootkit might include software to attack other computers, but the rootkit itself is whatever is used on YOUR computer AFTER it is cracked.
Odds are you do not have a choice. x86-64 is coming fast. Microsoft has Windows running on it, and is likely to make it mainstream sometime soon. They have promised they will anyway.
Apple is moving from PPC to x86 (no word that I know of on 32 or 64, but I would assume both).
Linux runs on so many systems that anything other than portable code will get you flames if you are open source. If it runs on linux it better run on at least all 4 BSDs, and Solaris, if not more.
This is good. In my experience, the porting your code more than makes up for the costs, even if the portable code isn't used outside of test. There are too many 1 in a million bugs on your target platform that happen every time on the other system.
There are millions, maybe billions of known diseases. Your doctor cannot possibly know them all. He is an expert on the common ones in your area. Odds are very good that you personally have some rare disease, which your doctor knows nothing about. (Odds are it is a minor thing that isn't worth going to the doctor about)
There are over 100 different versions of RSI (carpal tunnel is the best known, but not the most common) that you can get. The best treatment for one will often make a different one worse! Your doctor doesn't know them all, and you don't want to pay him enough.
The only person who cares about your health is yourself. So if you want the best treatment you need to research everything. A doctor is a good place to start researching things, and he can get you into the right person for tests you cannot do on yourself. A great partner in the task of keeping yourself healthy, but just a partnet. If it is important you need to do research yourself.
Warning, when doing research do not get medical student's syndrome. There are many things you will recognize in yourself that are false clues. A doctor is an objective source that can keep you from this problem.
So yes, work with your doctor, and get all the advice you can. Beware though, in the long run you are responsible for your self.
Where does you bible say that? Mine is silent on orbits. Other than a few times where the sun stands still in the sky or moves backwords, but those give no clue how the orbits work - or even if there is an orbit.
Well you could put windmills on your roof. However there are some problems.
The first, as the other guy said, is they tend to transmit annoying noises into the house if they are on the roof. Not technical problem, but annoying enough that most people wouldn't stand for it.
Only the largest mansions are big enough for several windmills. A windmill causes turbulence around it, which cuts the efficiency of nearby windmills. To get 6 windmills on the roof you are looking at maybe 10 watts from each - not very useful. There is some complex site analysis needed to get windmills dense.
Windmills need to be high. 100 feet (30 meters) above anything else in the area. That is a tall tower.
Most houses are not constructed for windmills on the roof. Think of a sail, you need a lot of bracing designed in to resist the movements. Either a special tower, or guy wires are needed to hold it in place. The special tower is out because the rest of the house isn't designed around that load, so that means you have wires running from the top to the ground (not roof because the tower is too tall!)
Solar on the roof works. If you live in a desert the claimed payback (with government subsidies) can be as little as 4 years (8 typical I'm told), so you should investigate them. However if you live in a colder area they are not worth it. My payback would be about 30 years from what I can tell.
Solar hot water works in places where solar electric does not. So nearly everyone should look into it. Looking close at the hot water panels in my area though, I've noticed that most people forgot to dewinterize them one spring many years ago. So for most people the hassle of maintaining such a system ends up more than the savings. Still something to look into.
Try 40-45% efficiency for the internal combustion engine, which is what a modern diesel can achieve. Hybrid cars get about the same on gas.
True an electric motor can get 90%, but the coal->electric process tops out at 60%. Anything else is less (combustion based, hard to measure wind, solar and hydro). Line losses in rural areas can run 8%. Charging a battery isn't 100%, add things up (which is hard - you cannot add percentages with grade school math) and a diesel tractor is pretty good.
If the farmer is using a 1950's gas tractor, then you are correct. However those tractors are not big enough to make money. Still useful (and in use) for utility work, but the most fuel is used by the big tractors which do much better.
President Bush has asked for significant funding to deal with bird flu.
Course since Bush came up with the idea most people will call it wasted money if nothing comes of this, or too little if something happens. Can't give Bush credit for being a leader you know.
Don't bring in the blame on gender card. There are men who slept around, caught AIDS and gave it to their unsuspecting wives. There are women who slept around, caught AIDS, and gave it to their unsuspecting husbands. There are men and women who took drugs with a dirty needle, caught AIDS, and gave it to their unsuspecting spouses.
There is nothing gender specific. Women sleep around - no man could sleep around if there were not women willing to join the act. (ignoring homosexual relationships which are also a significant factor, but a minority compared to all the other adultery that happens)
They did change the laws, and I don't fully understand how. However even before you could not declare bankruptcy to get out of judgments against you. The lawyers always get paid.
Bankruptcy was never intended as a way to get you out of debt - it was a way to get help paying bills. They will normally dismiss some lesser bills, but that isn't a requirement.
The order of bill dismissal is well defined. Last to go is court and lawyer fees from the bankruptcy costs. Second to last is court judgments from previous actions. Then things like your house (but in most states they cannot take anything you need to live, so your house is probably protected)
I am not a lawyer. I'm giving you my best understanding of the law, If you need legal advice get a lawyer.
You are both wrong. We need both old growth forest and new growth. Both encourage different types of wildlife. Deer love new growth forest because their food (young trees) is close to the ground and common. Woodpeckers need old trees because they have more bugs under the surface to eat.
Except for rain forests, the natural order of things is a forest fire every so often (often year). Since people don't like a forest fire, (it tends to harm houses, plus there is the whole Bambi scare) we have logger go in and clean up the forests.
Most logging companies own land. They want to make sure there is more trees - it is a cash crop like anything else. They are re-planting for the future.
Replace the ball joints and head gasket, and you are good for anouther 100,000 miles or more.
On many (but not all!) cars, ball joints are easy, and head gaskets on modern engines rarely go out. When I buy a car I count on replacing waterpumps, alternators, and starters, because they tend to go out. I don't do it all at once though, and once I take care of it the car can go for a long time.
My self image is not wrapped up in the car I drive. I kind of like being the guy on the block with the worst car in the driveway. However I selected a neighborhood where my neighbors are friendly live and let live people who are not concerned about the car I drive. Which is why I live 50 miles from work.
At 10 miles this is likely to pay off - IF you can find a road legal electric car. (in some cases you can get a golfcart legal for city streets, but you have to check local laws) Make sure you have a battery meter, you should get a couple days commute with no sun, so when things start to get low you just plug in overnight, get a full charge, and are good to go.
Just don't get a different job, because this won't work for commutes that are much longer than yours.
Speaking as an owner of a Geo Metro (49 hp new, with 180,000 miles and misfire on one cylinder if can't be anywhere close to that now), I can assure you that you will not be using 6000 RPMs to get around. You do have to learn to plan ahead because you can't punch it and squeeze in whereever. This isn't hard though.
By percentage, lead-acid batteries win. By tonage I'm sure asphalt does - there is a lot of asphalt out there compared to lead acid batteries. A 50% recycle rate is likely enough to put asphalt over the top of everything else.
Nearly the entire population of Saskatchewan is farmers. They work at home. The problem they drive a tractor all day (particularly during harvest and planting).
So depending on how you look at it, they either have no commute at all, or a 12 hour commute at 5 mph!
After factoring in line and charging losses, it is quite likely that the engine of their tractor is more efficient than an electric tractor could be (assuming a battery that can store enough power). Unlike cars, tractors are not concerned about having plenty of extra power for acceleration. (15 mph on a tractor is uncomfortable - most have no springs so you feel every bump) Farmers operate their tractor at maximum power all day, which is where the engine is most efficient.
PoE is well designed because manufactures experimented with bad designs for years before deciding to standardize. By that time everyone knew the cost of getting it wrong again, so they didn't.
I disagree. The contacts on my car to get icky. A chrome lighter plug is good at resisting this, but in my 10 year old car there is a noticeable change. Most auto contacts are covered in rubber which prevents air from getting in and solves the problem. It is an issue though.
It doesn't help that cars are normally exposed to more water than a house outlet.
There is a limit to how much voltage you can use in a wire. Go beyond this and you end up with problems related to the air around your wire. Normally we measure AC voltage RMS (I'm going to do some handwaving over some math and call this average), but this maximum voltage in the wire much be measured at the peak. So 120V RMS will have peaks that are about 170V. DC allows us to stick at one voltage, which can be closer to the peak
AC however is easier to work with. With a simple transformer you can efficiently change voltages. This is much harder in DC (efficiency counts). So where there is a need to go long distances they use DC, then transform it to AC in big complex plants, and run it all over your city at whatever voltage is handy, switching as needed.
No, electric chairs use AC because Edison wanted everyone on DC (Guess where he had invested a lot of money). To create fear in people's mind he invented the electric chair, which he ran on AC in demonstrations. Because it is impossible to get DC to high voltages (with the technology of his day, now we get DC just as high), his chair could not run on DC, which he convinced people made DC safer.
If you are strapped to the chair it doesn't matter that there are zero crossings with AC where you can pull away - the straps keep you in place. With DC there are none and your muscles don't obey you.
If she is an alcoholic, then we should take the kids away. However as you say things are not black and white. I don't like the idea of a women who drinks too much, but isn't quite alcoholic, having her kids, but taking children from parents needs to be reserved for extreme cases.
I do not mind helping the poor that are trying. Nearly by definition the Blind and deaf (to list 2 of many disabilities) cannot get good jobs, I don't mind helping them.
I mind when someone is poor and wants help to maintain a lifestyle like mine (or more likely better - I like driving old beater cars while they want newer cars), without doing anything to better themselves.
If you are poor, because you would rather work the bare minimum and spend the rest of your time with your family that is great, so long as you can support your family on that. (I've known people who did 20hours/week) Just don't ask for help if you want more - work for it.
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Do we have to explain everything to you? The great-grandparent was obviously meant as a joke, yet it was moderated insightful. Strangely enough, the reply, which was just a quote of the grantparent was modded funny.
Not only are the mods stupid, the comments are too. I mean worse than normal - normally if something is modded up a few times it is somewhat intelligent.
And it is blatantly obvious to us in countries with looser gun laws that restricting the honest from having guns does nothing to help them, and might hurt.
Criminals can get guns. The AK-47 was designed so that any BC blacksmith can repair it. (though it would be expensive, they didn't know how to work with iron like we do now). You can make one yourself with hand tools. In fact people do - though you need some skill. (I'm not sure how you drill the barrel for instance)
All gun laws do it keep guns out of the hands of the honest. There is no evidence that they have any effect on crime. (in fact studies that don't claim everything is lost in statistical noise show a decrease in crimes against people, when people own guns)
Water injection was OLD technology by WWII. The 1904 Hart-Parr tractor came from the factory with water injection. (the first known commercial application of water injection)
Water injection however has problems. Water freezes in winter, which is perhaps the worst on. So it is used where it is needed (Hart-Parr wanted to use kerosene fuel, but they needed some knock control), or where the hassle is worth the gains. (racing)
A rootkit is any set (which could be one) of software that an attacker uses to attack your (or other) computer and cover his tracks so you don't notice and cannot uninstall.
This meets both definitions. It covers it tracks, and it allows Sony to prevent you from ripping the disk.
A rootkit might include software to attack other computers, but the rootkit itself is whatever is used on YOUR computer AFTER it is cracked.
Odds are you do not have a choice. x86-64 is coming fast. Microsoft has Windows running on it, and is likely to make it mainstream sometime soon. They have promised they will anyway.
Apple is moving from PPC to x86 (no word that I know of on 32 or 64, but I would assume both).
Linux runs on so many systems that anything other than portable code will get you flames if you are open source. If it runs on linux it better run on at least all 4 BSDs, and Solaris, if not more.
This is good. In my experience, the porting your code more than makes up for the costs, even if the portable code isn't used outside of test. There are too many 1 in a million bugs on your target platform that happen every time on the other system.
There are millions, maybe billions of known diseases. Your doctor cannot possibly know them all. He is an expert on the common ones in your area. Odds are very good that you personally have some rare disease, which your doctor knows nothing about. (Odds are it is a minor thing that isn't worth going to the doctor about)
There are over 100 different versions of RSI (carpal tunnel is the best known, but not the most common) that you can get. The best treatment for one will often make a different one worse! Your doctor doesn't know them all, and you don't want to pay him enough.
The only person who cares about your health is yourself. So if you want the best treatment you need to research everything. A doctor is a good place to start researching things, and he can get you into the right person for tests you cannot do on yourself. A great partner in the task of keeping yourself healthy, but just a partnet. If it is important you need to do research yourself.
Warning, when doing research do not get medical student's syndrome. There are many things you will recognize in yourself that are false clues. A doctor is an objective source that can keep you from this problem.
So yes, work with your doctor, and get all the advice you can. Beware though, in the long run you are responsible for your self.
Where does you bible say that? Mine is silent on orbits. Other than a few times where the sun stands still in the sky or moves backwords, but those give no clue how the orbits work - or even if there is an orbit.
Well you could put windmills on your roof. However there are some problems.
The first, as the other guy said, is they tend to transmit annoying noises into the house if they are on the roof. Not technical problem, but annoying enough that most people wouldn't stand for it.
Only the largest mansions are big enough for several windmills. A windmill causes turbulence around it, which cuts the efficiency of nearby windmills. To get 6 windmills on the roof you are looking at maybe 10 watts from each - not very useful. There is some complex site analysis needed to get windmills dense.
Windmills need to be high. 100 feet (30 meters) above anything else in the area. That is a tall tower.
Most houses are not constructed for windmills on the roof. Think of a sail, you need a lot of bracing designed in to resist the movements. Either a special tower, or guy wires are needed to hold it in place. The special tower is out because the rest of the house isn't designed around that load, so that means you have wires running from the top to the ground (not roof because the tower is too tall!)
Solar on the roof works. If you live in a desert the claimed payback (with government subsidies) can be as little as 4 years (8 typical I'm told), so you should investigate them. However if you live in a colder area they are not worth it. My payback would be about 30 years from what I can tell.
Solar hot water works in places where solar electric does not. So nearly everyone should look into it. Looking close at the hot water panels in my area though, I've noticed that most people forgot to dewinterize them one spring many years ago. So for most people the hassle of maintaining such a system ends up more than the savings. Still something to look into.
Windmills are a great idea. Just not on the roof.
Have sex, get a dog.
I don't think it works that way either.
Try 40-45% efficiency for the internal combustion engine, which is what a modern diesel can achieve. Hybrid cars get about the same on gas.
True an electric motor can get 90%, but the coal->electric process tops out at 60%. Anything else is less (combustion based, hard to measure wind, solar and hydro). Line losses in rural areas can run 8%. Charging a battery isn't 100%, add things up (which is hard - you cannot add percentages with grade school math) and a diesel tractor is pretty good.
If the farmer is using a 1950's gas tractor, then you are correct. However those tractors are not big enough to make money. Still useful (and in use) for utility work, but the most fuel is used by the big tractors which do much better.
President Bush has asked for significant funding to deal with bird flu.
Course since Bush came up with the idea most people will call it wasted money if nothing comes of this, or too little if something happens. Can't give Bush credit for being a leader you know.
Don't bring in the blame on gender card. There are men who slept around, caught AIDS and gave it to their unsuspecting wives. There are women who slept around, caught AIDS, and gave it to their unsuspecting husbands. There are men and women who took drugs with a dirty needle, caught AIDS, and gave it to their unsuspecting spouses.
There is nothing gender specific. Women sleep around - no man could sleep around if there were not women willing to join the act. (ignoring homosexual relationships which are also a significant factor, but a minority compared to all the other adultery that happens)
Pigs do not stink. Your city nose thinks they stink. Cities stink, but your city nose cannot tell.
They did change the laws, and I don't fully understand how. However even before you could not declare bankruptcy to get out of judgments against you. The lawyers always get paid.
Bankruptcy was never intended as a way to get you out of debt - it was a way to get help paying bills. They will normally dismiss some lesser bills, but that isn't a requirement.
The order of bill dismissal is well defined. Last to go is court and lawyer fees from the bankruptcy costs. Second to last is court judgments from previous actions. Then things like your house (but in most states they cannot take anything you need to live, so your house is probably protected)
I am not a lawyer. I'm giving you my best understanding of the law, If you need legal advice get a lawyer.
You are both wrong. We need both old growth forest and new growth. Both encourage different types of wildlife. Deer love new growth forest because their food (young trees) is close to the ground and common. Woodpeckers need old trees because they have more bugs under the surface to eat.
Except for rain forests, the natural order of things is a forest fire every so often (often year). Since people don't like a forest fire, (it tends to harm houses, plus there is the whole Bambi scare) we have logger go in and clean up the forests.
Most logging companies own land. They want to make sure there is more trees - it is a cash crop like anything else. They are re-planting for the future.
Replace the ball joints and head gasket, and you are good for anouther 100,000 miles or more.
On many (but not all!) cars, ball joints are easy, and head gaskets on modern engines rarely go out. When I buy a car I count on replacing waterpumps, alternators, and starters, because they tend to go out. I don't do it all at once though, and once I take care of it the car can go for a long time.
My self image is not wrapped up in the car I drive. I kind of like being the guy on the block with the worst car in the driveway. However I selected a neighborhood where my neighbors are friendly live and let live people who are not concerned about the car I drive. Which is why I live 50 miles from work.
At 10 miles this is likely to pay off - IF you can find a road legal electric car. (in some cases you can get a golfcart legal for city streets, but you have to check local laws) Make sure you have a battery meter, you should get a couple days commute with no sun, so when things start to get low you just plug in overnight, get a full charge, and are good to go.
Just don't get a different job, because this won't work for commutes that are much longer than yours.
Speaking as an owner of a Geo Metro (49 hp new, with 180,000 miles and misfire on one cylinder if can't be anywhere close to that now), I can assure you that you will not be using 6000 RPMs to get around. You do have to learn to plan ahead because you can't punch it and squeeze in whereever. This isn't hard though.
By percentage, lead-acid batteries win. By tonage I'm sure asphalt does - there is a lot of asphalt out there compared to lead acid batteries. A 50% recycle rate is likely enough to put asphalt over the top of everything else.
Nearly the entire population of Saskatchewan is farmers. They work at home. The problem they drive a tractor all day (particularly during harvest and planting).
So depending on how you look at it, they either have no commute at all, or a 12 hour commute at 5 mph!
After factoring in line and charging losses, it is quite likely that the engine of their tractor is more efficient than an electric tractor could be (assuming a battery that can store enough power). Unlike cars, tractors are not concerned about having plenty of extra power for acceleration. (15 mph on a tractor is uncomfortable - most have no springs so you feel every bump) Farmers operate their tractor at maximum power all day, which is where the engine is most efficient.
PoE is well designed because manufactures experimented with bad designs for years before deciding to standardize. By that time everyone knew the cost of getting it wrong again, so they didn't.
I disagree. The contacts on my car to get icky. A chrome lighter plug is good at resisting this, but in my 10 year old car there is a noticeable change. Most auto contacts are covered in rubber which prevents air from getting in and solves the problem. It is an issue though.
It doesn't help that cars are normally exposed to more water than a house outlet.
Actually DC is better for very long distances.
There is a limit to how much voltage you can use in a wire. Go beyond this and you end up with problems related to the air around your wire. Normally we measure AC voltage RMS (I'm going to do some handwaving over some math and call this average), but this maximum voltage in the wire much be measured at the peak. So 120V RMS will have peaks that are about 170V. DC allows us to stick at one voltage, which can be closer to the peak
AC however is easier to work with. With a simple transformer you can efficiently change voltages. This is much harder in DC (efficiency counts). So where there is a need to go long distances they use DC, then transform it to AC in big complex plants, and run it all over your city at whatever voltage is handy, switching as needed.
No, electric chairs use AC because Edison wanted everyone on DC (Guess where he had invested a lot of money). To create fear in people's mind he invented the electric chair, which he ran on AC in demonstrations. Because it is impossible to get DC to high voltages (with the technology of his day, now we get DC just as high), his chair could not run on DC, which he convinced people made DC safer.
If you are strapped to the chair it doesn't matter that there are zero crossings with AC where you can pull away - the straps keep you in place. With DC there are none and your muscles don't obey you.
If she is an alcoholic, then we should take the kids away. However as you say things are not black and white. I don't like the idea of a women who drinks too much, but isn't quite alcoholic, having her kids, but taking children from parents needs to be reserved for extreme cases.
I do not mind helping the poor that are trying. Nearly by definition the Blind and deaf (to list 2 of many disabilities) cannot get good jobs, I don't mind helping them.
I mind when someone is poor and wants help to maintain a lifestyle like mine (or more likely better - I like driving old beater cars while they want newer cars), without doing anything to better themselves.
If you are poor, because you would rather work the bare minimum and spend the rest of your time with your family that is great, so long as you can support your family on that. (I've known people who did 20hours/week) Just don't ask for help if you want more - work for it.