I suspect there would be concerns from those who service vehicles, too - a whiff of leaking hydrocarbon fuels isn't something that's likely to put you in hospital.
The equivalent whiff of Ammonia isn't going to put you in the hospital either. In order to acceptable to people, the fuel system is going to have to be nearly air tight. Significant amounts of pure ammonia leaking from a tank or fuel line will produce an odor that will make people physically ill. Not that this is particularly dangerous (it isn't), but it tends to make people quite sick to their stomach. This would become unbearable long before the leakage or amount of ammonia in the air is remotely dangerous in terms of being explosive, or even poisonous. Petrochemical based fuels are also much more explosive (Particularly gasoline), as such I'd expect a hypothetical Ammmonia fueled rattling trap of a vehicle to be noticeably safer than a gasoline powered car in an equivalent state of disrepair.
I don't buy it. Blizzard are big enough that they could tell retailers, "My way or the highway." WoW fans are gonna buy this drivel whether they can get it at retail or not. Retailers honestly don't have any leverage whatsoever, they can either take whatever scraps Blizzard gives them, or go stock games that aren't going sell. What are they going to threaten, "Don't sell WoW expansions for cheap on-line, or we won't stock StarcraftII/DiabloIII/Blizzard Battlechests! *Lip Quivering*"
Bullshit. Blizzard's just using that as an excuse so they can bilk customers for an extra $10-$15 or so when they buy on-line.
Incorrect. There is a very good reason people live there. It is one of the most important sea ports in North America, and as such there are many jobs there, granted many of them are bad jobs, but the poor don't really have much choice. So instead of acknowledging that these people are trying to contribute to society, and work, you criticize them for living in a disaster prone area - all because the economy demands it.
Bullshit. Just last week I was at a Bluegrass festival in Tennessee. Most of the performers were pretty bad, but some were quite good. You know what? Not a one of them made a living at what they did. They all were doing it because they enjoyed it.
Maybe. Maybe not. But it certainly would be interesting to find out.
Mountain climbs suck no matter what kind of human powered vehicle you use, but I'm not convinced that a top quality Athlete, riding perhaps a custom designed bike of some kind of recumbent geometry couldn't toast the accepted records.
I understand you're using the word "cure" in a very loose way, I just like to say that I really think it is important to maintain the distinction between "cure" and "treat."
There are really very few drugs (or other treatments) that can be relied on to cure anything. This applies just as much to herbals as it does to doctors and hospitals. By far the most common are treatments that are useful for palliative care until the patient's immune system takes care of whatever is wrong, or until they die.
I definitely agree with you on 'super concentrated' and 'secret combination' type advertising being a big red flag for scams. The trouble with the current era is a huge pile of contradictory regulation that is designed to benefit big business. In my opinion, ideally we would strip away everything but the 1907 Pure Food And Drug Act. Although I think required prescriptions are justified for a few things, like GHB, or antibiotics.
Business and medicine are a terrible combination. Many herbal and traditional treatments do work. Many don't. How can we possibly figure out which is which?
Through the honest and open application of the Scientific Method! Big Business became clearly deleterious to health care when it became evident (many years ago) that they actively discouraged the investigation of treatments that were not convenient for their profits.
Standard for "Science Journalism." The result is actually far less earth-shattering than the author is trying to portray. Researchers think they have found a set of conditions in which the usual models used in chemistry don't apply anymore.
Now that's a fucking shocker. Most Chemistry today focuses on conditions either similar to STP or than can be created within STP. STP is "Standard Temperature and Pressure" Usually defined for the purpose of convenience of communication as 298K and 760 Torr. They define this as "standard" because everybody in Chemistry knows that chemistry changes as you change conditions, and it's useful to have a standard to compare to, even an arbitrary one (298K, 760 Torr is "average" sea level temperature and air pressure). The standard is also very useful for Chemical Engineering.
Has it ever occurred to any of you geniuses that NCLB is doing exactly what its architects intended? And that the previous 30 odd years of Conservative hegemony (Always remember, both Clinton and Carter were very Conservative. Especially compared to oh say, Jack Kennedy, or Eisenhower, or LBJ). They hate public education. Hate it. It's dangerous. Effective public education means that people can succeed. That status can be based on achievement, rather than birth. Thus there has been a concerted effort to undermine, and ultimately destroy public education in the USA, and its working remarkably well.
Yeah, what about the various Erotic Industry Expos? And seriously, you're also ignoring tons of other industries where the equivalent of "booth babes" is a major tradition. Motorsports, Cars, Motorcycles, ATVs, etc? But you want to be "higher brow" than that stuff? Why? What does that even mean?
This is just the most horrible legacy of the Victorian era. "In order to be legitimately intellectual, you have to be chaste and restrained." Horse shit, and further, geeks ought to damn well know better. All that legitimate, intellectual Sci-Fi and Fantasy geekdom is associated with? Gee, no deviant or open sexuality there. No sir.
Oh yeah, except that's one of both Sci-Fi's and Fantasy's major features! Do I even need to justify this? Come on! Robert "Nudist, Promiscuous, Free Love" Heinlein? David "Chimpanzee Strippers" Brin? I can keep going all night folks, those are just two examples from different eras of Sci-Fi. Now, except for a smaller number of respected authors (because let's face it, the line between low-brow fantasy and straight up "Romance" novels is pretty thin), Fantasy has suffered from the blight of Tolkien's legacy, and that sad old fart was a totally misplaced Victorian.
The further and further I get from being prepubescent, the lower and lower my estimation of Tolkien falls. The totally neutered picture of middle earth he paints is really depressing, or alternatively, hilariously homosexual (twelve male dwarves and a histrionic male hobbit - let the innuendo begin). Nobody in his world ever gets to have a non-tragic, positive sexual relationship. Its terribly sad. Why shouldn't there be wild (but female positive, intellectually and emotionally gratifying) wild Elf sex (or wild human-elf sex for that matter) the same way we get human sexuality portrayed in Stranger in A Strange Land? Of course we do, but its rarely handled by writers we actually want to put pen to paper.
Ah, but who is a child molester and who isn't? Is a 15 year old boy fooling around with his 14 year old girlfriend a child molester? If they take pictures are they child pornographers?
Legally, in the USA, the first one is definitely possible depending on local law (although many places, the District Attorney's apply unofficial and not codified rules for such issues), and the second one is almost always a "yes."
How guilty are they really? Are they really the same as 50 year old molesting a 6 year old? Really now? One of the real problems today is that the law becomes increasingly harsh with worse sentences and additional post sentence penalties, so that lawmakers can pat themselves on the back for "protecting the children," but rarely, if ever, do they bother to discriminate on degree.
Does the hypothetical 15 year old boy in my example really deserve to be listed as a sex offender for life, with all that entails?
This issue is actually quite significant, as with the widespread usage of the internet, webcams, etc, underage individuals are themselves often both the victims (of their own foolishness and their parents negligence if nothing else) and the producers of child pornography. How guilty are they and what is the right way for society to deal with them? Are you willing to take out back and shoot adolescent girls as well?
Low heat chemistry and Cooking! Shit! With an efficient design and a dish >1m in diameter, you ought to be able to build a full on solar furnace capable of smelting metal. As in, good enough to reduce AuCl recovered from aqua regia used on computer CPU and circuit boards back into metallic gold.
It's all about concentration. With an area of 1m^2, you can get nearly a kilowatt, concentrate that down in to an area of 10 or 20 cm^2 and you can do some really impressive stuff.
While Baker & Tennant are definitely my favorites, I still have a soft spot for the first three. Hartnell, Troughton, and Pewtree all had their moments and their endearing qualities. While he didn't last long, Eccleston was also more than serviceable. He did an excellent job of starting out the revived series on a solid footing, and deserves at least some credit for that.
Another analogical question: Other than reading about the revolution in newspapers of the day, how many Europeans *really experienced* any change in their lives during the 10 years before or the 10 years after the American revolution? We know that eventually, arrival of the U.S. as a nation caused great differences in the shape of the international world, but life for most people went on afterward about the same as before. The real action was taking place on the boundary, not in the places left behind.
It depends on who you were and where you were. If you were Louis XVI, the effects were pretty radical and immediate, and the experience was shared to a variety of degrees by quite a lot of the people of France.
The further impact of the French Revolution was felt quite acutely by much of Europe, and was for decades (The Napoleonic Wars, major political upheaval, military drafts, injuries, death, etc.) Remember, the American Revolution can be very clearly implicated as a major causative factor in the French revolution (although there were many others).
Louis XVI was executed (January, 1793) very nearly a decade after the official end of the American Revolution (Treaty of Paris: September, 1783).
Not to say I think you are wrong, but I don't think that analogy is a very good reason.
Yes, I am aware, but even taking into account the higher energy density of diesel vs. gasoline, the diesel cycle is a fundamentally more efficient design for an engine than the Otto Cycle. This difference is around 20%.
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No, its not. The Carbon footprint is much larger. Further, the likelihood of the occupant of another vehicle being injured when in a collision with an SUVs and trucks is much higher than with smaller vehicles.
Driving an SUV is like walking around in the city with a loaded shotgun. When it goes off, there's a good chance its going to hurt a lot of people.
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The equivalent whiff of Ammonia isn't going to put you in the hospital either. In order to acceptable to people, the fuel system is going to have to be nearly air tight. Significant amounts of pure ammonia leaking from a tank or fuel line will produce an odor that will make people physically ill. Not that this is particularly dangerous (it isn't), but it tends to make people quite sick to their stomach. This would become unbearable long before the leakage or amount of ammonia in the air is remotely dangerous in terms of being explosive, or even poisonous. Petrochemical based fuels are also much more explosive (Particularly gasoline), as such I'd expect a hypothetical Ammmonia fueled rattling trap of a vehicle to be noticeably safer than a gasoline powered car in an equivalent state of disrepair.
1. It would actually work.
2. It is "Nucular." And therefore the NIMBY crowd will kill it with fire.
Bullshit. Blizzard's just using that as an excuse so they can bilk customers for an extra $10-$15 or so when they buy on-line.
Incorrect. There is a very good reason people live there. It is one of the most important sea ports in North America, and as such there are many jobs there, granted many of them are bad jobs, but the poor don't really have much choice. So instead of acknowledging that these people are trying to contribute to society, and work, you criticize them for living in a disaster prone area - all because the economy demands it.
Bullshit. Just last week I was at a Bluegrass festival in Tennessee. Most of the performers were pretty bad, but some were quite good. You know what? Not a one of them made a living at what they did. They all were doing it because they enjoyed it.
Mountain climbs suck no matter what kind of human powered vehicle you use, but I'm not convinced that a top quality Athlete, riding perhaps a custom designed bike of some kind of recumbent geometry couldn't toast the accepted records.
Well, I suppose Penis-men would be highly aerodynamic.
They could start by allowing recumbent designs first.
Yes. This is the reason every thinking person needs to be opposed to things like FISA, the War On Drugs, etc.
There are really very few drugs (or other treatments) that can be relied on to cure anything. This applies just as much to herbals as it does to doctors and hospitals. By far the most common are treatments that are useful for palliative care until the patient's immune system takes care of whatever is wrong, or until they die.
I definitely agree with you on 'super concentrated' and 'secret combination' type advertising being a big red flag for scams. The trouble with the current era is a huge pile of contradictory regulation that is designed to benefit big business. In my opinion, ideally we would strip away everything but the 1907 Pure Food And Drug Act. Although I think required prescriptions are justified for a few things, like GHB, or antibiotics.
Business and medicine are a terrible combination. Many herbal and traditional treatments do work. Many don't. How can we possibly figure out which is which?
Through the honest and open application of the Scientific Method! Big Business became clearly deleterious to health care when it became evident (many years ago) that they actively discouraged the investigation of treatments that were not convenient for their profits.
Now that's a fucking shocker. Most Chemistry today focuses on conditions either similar to STP or than can be created within STP. STP is "Standard Temperature and Pressure" Usually defined for the purpose of convenience of communication as 298K and 760 Torr. They define this as "standard" because everybody in Chemistry knows that chemistry changes as you change conditions, and it's useful to have a standard to compare to, even an arbitrary one (298K, 760 Torr is "average" sea level temperature and air pressure). The standard is also very useful for Chemical Engineering.
The article is poorly written garbage.
Has it ever occurred to any of you geniuses that NCLB is doing exactly what its architects intended? And that the previous 30 odd years of Conservative hegemony (Always remember, both Clinton and Carter were very Conservative. Especially compared to oh say, Jack Kennedy, or Eisenhower, or LBJ). They hate public education. Hate it. It's dangerous. Effective public education means that people can succeed. That status can be based on achievement, rather than birth. Thus there has been a concerted effort to undermine, and ultimately destroy public education in the USA, and its working remarkably well.
Northern Exposure. Duh!
You've got it. You've got two routes to go creativity wise: the one marked by schoolyard perversity, or the one marked by Dirty Old Men.
This is just the most horrible legacy of the Victorian era. "In order to be legitimately intellectual, you have to be chaste and restrained." Horse shit, and further, geeks ought to damn well know better. All that legitimate, intellectual Sci-Fi and Fantasy geekdom is associated with? Gee, no deviant or open sexuality there. No sir.
Oh yeah, except that's one of both Sci-Fi's and Fantasy's major features! Do I even need to justify this? Come on! Robert "Nudist, Promiscuous, Free Love" Heinlein? David "Chimpanzee Strippers" Brin? I can keep going all night folks, those are just two examples from different eras of Sci-Fi. Now, except for a smaller number of respected authors (because let's face it, the line between low-brow fantasy and straight up "Romance" novels is pretty thin), Fantasy has suffered from the blight of Tolkien's legacy, and that sad old fart was a totally misplaced Victorian.
The further and further I get from being prepubescent, the lower and lower my estimation of Tolkien falls. The totally neutered picture of middle earth he paints is really depressing, or alternatively, hilariously homosexual (twelve male dwarves and a histrionic male hobbit - let the innuendo begin). Nobody in his world ever gets to have a non-tragic, positive sexual relationship. Its terribly sad. Why shouldn't there be wild (but female positive, intellectually and emotionally gratifying) wild Elf sex (or wild human-elf sex for that matter) the same way we get human sexuality portrayed in Stranger in A Strange Land? Of course we do, but its rarely handled by writers we actually want to put pen to paper.
Legally, in the USA, the first one is definitely possible depending on local law (although many places, the District Attorney's apply unofficial and not codified rules for such issues), and the second one is almost always a "yes."
How guilty are they really? Are they really the same as 50 year old molesting a 6 year old? Really now? One of the real problems today is that the law becomes increasingly harsh with worse sentences and additional post sentence penalties, so that lawmakers can pat themselves on the back for "protecting the children," but rarely, if ever, do they bother to discriminate on degree.
Does the hypothetical 15 year old boy in my example really deserve to be listed as a sex offender for life, with all that entails?
This issue is actually quite significant, as with the widespread usage of the internet, webcams, etc, underage individuals are themselves often both the victims (of their own foolishness and their parents negligence if nothing else) and the producers of child pornography. How guilty are they and what is the right way for society to deal with them? Are you willing to take out back and shoot adolescent girls as well?
It's all about concentration. With an area of 1m^2, you can get nearly a kilowatt, concentrate that down in to an area of 10 or 20 cm^2 and you can do some really impressive stuff.
While Baker & Tennant are definitely my favorites, I still have a soft spot for the first three. Hartnell, Troughton, and Pewtree all had their moments and their endearing qualities. While he didn't last long, Eccleston was also more than serviceable. He did an excellent job of starting out the revived series on a solid footing, and deserves at least some credit for that.
ARG! Nobody mentions the short fiction. There's a quite substantial catalog of it, and almost all excellent.
And RAH was a dirty old man with a preoccupation with incest. What's your point?
It depends on who you were and where you were. If you were Louis XVI, the effects were pretty radical and immediate, and the experience was shared to a variety of degrees by quite a lot of the people of France.
The further impact of the French Revolution was felt quite acutely by much of Europe, and was for decades (The Napoleonic Wars, major political upheaval, military drafts, injuries, death, etc.) Remember, the American Revolution can be very clearly implicated as a major causative factor in the French revolution (although there were many others).
Louis XVI was executed (January, 1793) very nearly a decade after the official end of the American Revolution (Treaty of Paris: September, 1783).
Not to say I think you are wrong, but I don't think that analogy is a very good reason.
Yes, I am aware, but even taking into account the higher energy density of diesel vs. gasoline, the diesel cycle is a fundamentally more efficient design for an engine than the Otto Cycle. This difference is around 20%.
Driving an SUV is like walking around in the city with a loaded shotgun. When it goes off, there's a good chance its going to hurt a lot of people.