I exercise modestly (a mile or two a day walking and 30 pushups and giving a couple hours of therapeutic body work a week).
My weight and blood pressure have dropped since I retired (at 51).
Blood pressure from 160ish to 112 last visit. Weight from 278 to 245.
I have 2-6 artificial sweeteners a day in my coffee/soda and I also cook with it.
My blood sugar has declined from 144 when I retired to 112 last doctors' visit a couple months ago.
I occasionally still go to buffets.
Perhaps stress contributes. Work was killing me and I'm not the only person I know like that. One friend dropped 5 of 6 blood pressure medicines in the 6 months after he retired.
Your number is really high. Solar cells are much more durable. And since they are not moving, I find the bird strikes, frankly, to be quite hard to believe.
And the new panels are hail resistant.
A more realistic figure would be 20 years and even that is being a little pessimistic.
AND, when solar panels hit the right price point- growth is going to be phenomenal. Germany with about a fifth of our population has powered the entire country on some days after only 4-5 years of building.
And many of those solar panels will be local installations scattered all over the country.
And some of them may be molten salt plants instead of photovoltaic.
The article says "YouTube pays an estimated $1 per 1,000 plays on average".
Are you under the impression youtube is voluntarily kicking over a billion bucks over out of the goodness of their hearts?
And it was trivial to find this "The rhetoric intensified this year as YouTube's licensing agreements with the three major record labels - Sony, Warner and Universal - came up for renewal."
You can use that string to google the article.
It took me *two* searches to find it and about 35 seconds.
In some jurisdictions they stop blacks more, search them more, and arrest them more (for the same things whites may be doing in the same area).
Once arrested, whites are released more often (partially due to income to pay bail) and some blacks have to plead guilty or face up to a year in jail before they get a trial where the jury is more likely to find them guilty.
I was *on* a trial where it was clear the prosecution knew the guy was innocent. The only witness against him was a convicted felon who testified to owning a gun (illegal) on the stand. And as we saw in the jury room, given a map of the complex- the witnesses testimony was *literally* impossible. The guy should not have been arrested, and a judge or prosecutor should have looked at it pre-trial- seen it was impossible- and recommended the case be dropped.
But even there, the guy might have been convicted because one of the jurors actually said, "well the defense didn't PROVE he was innocent". Fortunately the rest of us were aghast and instructed her on presumption of innocence in the u.s.
Feed it hitler data and it will turn into a trolling neo-nazi.
Feed it racist parole data and it will spit out racist parole recommendations.
If you give it data that matches the ideal of what we would like to happen, then it will recommend based on the ideal of what we would like to happen. You need to be very careful about what data you feed it.
If you feed it florida data, it will recommend letting whites go free without even a criminal record while recommending blacks serve 5-7 years because that's what some florida judges have been shown to do in the last year.
You have to explain things to A.I., as you would to a child.
Alabama: Birmingham levies an income tax of 1%
Arkansas: Seven Arkansas school districts assess an income tax surcharge equal to 10% of state income tax before tax credits. They are Berryville, Green Forest, Westside, Hope, Huntsville, Waldron, and Marshall.
Colorado: Three cities impose flat taxes on compensation. Aurora charges $2 per month on compensation over $250, Denver charges $5.75 per month on compensation over $500, and Greenwood Village charges $4 per month on compensation over $250.
District of Columbia: D.C. has a bracketed income tax system. The rates are 4% for the first $10,000 of income, 6% for $10,000 to $40,000 of income, and 8.5% for income over $40,000.
Delaware: Wilmington has a flat 1.25% tax on income.
Iowa: 666 school districts impose an income tax surcharge ranging from 1% to 20% of state income tax owed.
Indiana: All 92 counties in Indiana have an individual income tax. Tax rates are in the process of being changed and will be announced on the Indiana Department of Revenueâ(TM)s website once they are finalized.
Kentucky: Eight cities in Kentucky levy income taxes on residents and non-residents. They are: Bowling Green (1.85%), Covington (2.5%), Florence (2%), Lexington-Fayette (2.25%), Louisville (2.20% for residents and 1.45% for non-residents), Owensboro (1.33%), Paducah (2%), and Richmond (2%). Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and Louisville - Jefferson County also impose taxes on businesses.
Maryland: All 24 Maryland counties levy income taxes on residents and non-residents. Tax rates range from 1.25% to 3.20%. Baltimore also has an income tax of 3.05%.
Michigan: Several Michigan cities impose income taxes with rates ranging from 0.50% to 2.50%. Detroitâ(TM)s income tax rate is 2.50% for residents and 1.25% for non-residents.
Missouri: Both Kansas City and St. Louis have an income tax of 1%.
New York: Yonkers and New York City both have individual income taxes. New York City's income tax rates range from 2.907% to 3.648%. Yonker's income tax rate is equal to 10% of your net (after credits) state income tax.
Ohio: 235 cities and 331 villages in Ohio have an income tax, including Columbus, Toledo, Cincinnati, and Cleveland. Ohio law requires a flat rate that cannot exceed 1% unless it is approved by the voters. Ohio local income tax rates range from 0.40% in Indian Hill to 3% in Parma Heights.
Oregon: The Tri-Met Transit District (includes Portland) assesses an income tax of 0.6318% and the Lane County Transit District (includes Eugene) assesses an income tax of 0.60%. Multnomah County (Portland) also assesses a 1.45% business income tax.
Pennsylvania: Most municipalities in Pennsylvania assess a tax on wages, known as the Earned Income Tax. This tax is usually split between the municipality and the local school district. The local Earned Income Tax is only assessed on earned income, like wages. Unearned income like interest and dividends are not taxed. Pennsylvania state law limits the Earned Income Tax to a maximum flat rate
On the other hand- despite food being available they stopped breeding.
And once enough mice died off, they didn't start breeding again.
That's damn strange.
It started with 4 mice. They started acting odd and killing each other long before reaching the space available. And their population peaked long before they reached the limit of available breeding spots (private housing so to speak).
Same thing happened with rats.
And we are mammals too.
I'm just raising the point that the japanese could have slid into a similar tho not identical behavioral sink. Their young men show the "beautiful ones" behavior.
CEO Bill Phelps says his thoughts on minimum wage have evolved. In 1994, Phelps co-founded the fast food chain Wetzelâ(TM)s Pretzels, which has almost a hundred outlets in California.
âoeLike most business people,â Phelps said, âoeI was concerned about it a couple of years ago when California started raising the minimum wage."
The state increased the minimum wage in mid-2014 and raised it again Jan. 1 on its path to reach $15 per hour by 2022.
Phelps worried increasing wages for his employees would cut into profits and that if he raised prices to compensate, fewer people would come eat and sales would drop. But something else happened entirely. Sales at his California stores immediately shot up.
âoeI was shocked,â Phelps said, âoeI was stunned by the business.â
The same exact pattern happened in 2016, Phelps said: A wage increase by the state led to a bump in business. Now Phelps is convinced that minimum wage increases arenâ(TM)t bad for the fast food business. Theyâ(TM)re great....
Like Resyone, a humanoid robot called Robobear, could also eliminate the need for multiple caregivers by helping transfer seniors from the bed to a wheelchair. The nursing robot, which is still in the experimental phase and was designed by engineers from Japan's research institution RIKEN, is capable of lifting people.
Sales of robots designed specifically to assist elderly people are expected to reach 12,400 units between 2015 and 2018, with that number expected to "increase substantially" over the next 20 years, according to the Merrill Lynch report.
And it goes beyond personal care robots too. Robot cats are currently being sold to keep seniors company.
How Mice Turned Their Private Paradise Into A Terrifying Dystopia
Universe 25 was a giant box designed to be a rodent utopia. The trouble was, this utopia did not have a benevolent creator. John B. Calhoun had designed quite a few mouse environments before he got to the 25th one, and didn't expect to be watching a happy story. Divided into "main squares" and then subdivided into levels, with ramps going up to "apartments," the place looked great, and was always kept stocked with food, but its inhabitants were doomed from the get-go.
Universe 25 started out with eight mice, four males and four females. By day 560, the mouse population reached 2,200, and then steadily declined back down to unrecoverable extinction. At the peak population, most mice spent every living second in the company of hundreds of other mice. They gathered in the main squares, waiting to be fed and occasionally attacking each other. Few females carried pregnancies to term, and the ones that did seemed to simply forget about their babies. They'd move half their litter away from danger and forget the rest. Sometimes they'd drop and abandon a baby while they were carrying it....
I agree. If your business is making even $250,000 a year profit, you probably don't care.
But I actually know some people who do amazon and make under $50k a year. Lotta small businesses out there.
Had a talk about cloud stuff today with a friend who works at HP and he said intel and hp have both done studies which showed using cloud is profitable to about 6 months- past 6 months, it is better to take it in house.
So just to be clear, i was talking about smaller businesses and start ups.
Code smell [wikipedia.org] is a term I use in code reviews at my job... but I picked it up from academic papers (I did a Ph. D. in programming languages, so I've read a lot of code analysis papers). Perhaps it's used more in academia because a code smell that is probably wrong is a lot easier to detect automatically than an actual bug.
Or, has been found before, the increased business that resulted from the increased minimum wage more than paid for the increased cost of labor.
And fyi, Walmart has also done the opposite multiple times and cut labor (and labor costs) so much that it resulted in a much larger loss of business.
Put it another way. If you give all the profits to one person, they can only buy so many cars, tv's, lattes, etc. If you share the profits with a hundred employees, they can buy 100 cars, a hundred TV's, and a hundred latte's.
Right now- we have way too much capital piled up with too few people. The catastrophically low bond yields is strong evidence of this fact.
And productivity has risen along with profits- but those profits were not shared with the workers due to the global labor glut and due to practices of using less workers and forcing them to work longer hours.
We need higher over time pay (back to double time), and we need a lower work week badly (like 35 hours).
It took measures like this to help end the great depression.
An AC said... >They aren't making salt. Just taking the fresh water part away from the salty water. That water will find its way back to the ocean soon enough.As long as it's mixing a bit it won't be any more than a very local problem.
Dude..
https://www.scientificamerican......according to Jeffrey Graham of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography's Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, the salty sludge leftover after desalinization for every gallon of freshwater produced, another gallon of doubly concentrated salt water must be disposed of can wreak havoc on marine ecosystems if dumped willy-nilly offshore. For some desalinization operations, says Graham, it is thought that the disappearance of some organisms from discharge areas may be related to the salty outflow....
Key Issues in Seawater Desalination in California: Marine Impacts Modern reverse-osmosis desalination plants, such as those planned or proposed on the California coast, take in large volumes of seawater â" generally two gallons are withdrawn for every gallon of freshwater produced â" and pass it through fine-pored membranes to separate freshwater from salt. The highly concentrated brine is then typically disposed of back into the ocean.
With the majority of desalination plants extracting water directly through open water intakes in the ocean, there is a direct impact on marine life. Fish and other marine organisms are killed on the intake screens (impingement); organisms small enough to pass through, such as plankton, fish eggs, and larvae, are killed during processing of the salt water (entrainment). The impacts on the marine environment, even for a single desalination plant, may be subject to daily, seasonal, annual, and even decadal variation, and are likely to be species- and site-specific.
Google "do desalinization plants affect local salinity"
Yea... and it's impossible to pollute the great lakes. They are just too big! And you can't possibly pollute the ocean with plastic, it's too big! Bah, the warm water coming out of a nuclear reactor couldn't possibly be a problem!
A few desalinization plants along the coast are no problem. But now scale that up to hundreds of plants along the entire east coast.
Just the disintegrated rubber off people's tires is a major pollutant when you have hundreds of millions of tires.
In this case, I read he tested before hand but perhaps with the book sitting on a hard surface (like concrete) so the shockwave helped stop the bullet.
In youtube videos, you can see that a 50 cal rifle bullet will go through almost 5,000 sheets of paper. This was a 50 cal pistol bullet from what I understand but I don't think one book is going to stop it.
People do dumb things.
And this couple already reproduced so it's not even a successful darwin award- just a terrible stupid tragedy. -- She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
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I think there may be other factors.
I'm not dieting.
I exercise modestly (a mile or two a day walking and 30 pushups and giving a couple hours of therapeutic body work a week).
My weight and blood pressure have dropped since I retired (at 51).
Blood pressure from 160ish to 112 last visit. Weight from 278 to 245.
I have 2-6 artificial sweeteners a day in my coffee/soda and I also cook with it.
My blood sugar has declined from 144 when I retired to 112 last doctors' visit a couple months ago.
I occasionally still go to buffets.
Perhaps stress contributes. Work was killing me and I'm not the only person I know like that. One friend dropped 5 of 6 blood pressure medicines in the 6 months after he retired.
Your number is really high. Solar cells are much more durable. And since they are not moving, I find the bird strikes, frankly, to be quite hard to believe.
And the new panels are hail resistant.
A more realistic figure would be 20 years and even that is being a little pessimistic.
AND, when solar panels hit the right price point- growth is going to be phenomenal. Germany with about a fifth of our population has powered the entire country on some days after only 4-5 years of building.
And many of those solar panels will be local installations scattered all over the country.
And some of them may be molten salt plants instead of photovoltaic.
Hold it-- is that congress's duties or jarred kushners?
nt
What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? No! Poems, no less! Poems, everybody!
The article says "YouTube pays an estimated $1 per 1,000 plays on average".
Are you under the impression youtube is voluntarily kicking over a billion bucks over out of the goodness of their hearts?
And it was trivial to find this
"The rhetoric intensified this year as YouTube's licensing agreements with the three major record labels - Sony, Warner and Universal - came up for renewal."
You can use that string to google the article.
It took me *two* searches to find it and about 35 seconds.
Harder than the last citation monkey.
Not just prosecution.
Also police enforcement.
In some jurisdictions they stop blacks more, search them more, and arrest them more (for the same things whites may be doing in the same area).
Once arrested, whites are released more often (partially due to income to pay bail) and some blacks have to plead guilty or face up to a year in jail before they get a trial where the jury is more likely to find them guilty.
I was *on* a trial where it was clear the prosecution knew the guy was innocent. The only witness against him was a convicted felon who testified to owning a gun (illegal) on the stand. And as we saw in the jury room, given a map of the complex- the witnesses testimony was *literally* impossible. The guy should not have been arrested, and a judge or prosecutor should have looked at it pre-trial- seen it was impossible- and recommended the case be dropped.
But even there, the guy might have been convicted because one of the jurors actually said, "well the defense didn't PROVE he was innocent". Fortunately the rest of us were aghast and instructed her on presumption of innocence in the u.s.
It's simpler than that.
Garbage in.
Garbage out.
Feed it hitler data and it will turn into a trolling neo-nazi.
Feed it racist parole data and it will spit out racist parole recommendations.
If you give it data that matches the ideal of what we would like to happen, then it will recommend based on the ideal of what we would like to happen. You need to be very careful about what data you feed it.
If you feed it florida data, it will recommend letting whites go free without even a criminal record while recommending blacks serve 5-7 years because that's what some florida judges have been shown to do in the last year.
You have to explain things to A.I., as you would to a child.
And what would you conclude from that?
Chicago doesn't have a tax.
I didn't have a position on whether it had a tax or not. I just took a couple seconds to look it up before posting "cite please".
I would pay $180 for a good quality working vr headset - tops.
They are trying to sell a luxury product- not a mass market product.
This took me 2.5 seconds to google and I don't even give a crap about the issue.
Could people stop being so damn lazy when the information is easy to verify?
https://www.google.com/search?...
New York Taxable Income Rate
$25,000 - $50,000 3.591%
$50,000 - $500,000 3.648%
$500,000+ 3.876%
https://www.thebalance.com/cit...
Alabama: Birmingham levies an income tax of 1%
Arkansas: Seven Arkansas school districts assess an income tax surcharge equal to 10% of state income tax before tax credits. They are Berryville, Green Forest, Westside, Hope, Huntsville, Waldron, and Marshall.
Colorado: Three cities impose flat taxes on compensation. Aurora charges $2 per month on compensation over $250, Denver charges $5.75 per month on compensation over $500, and Greenwood Village charges $4 per month on compensation over $250.
District of Columbia: D.C. has a bracketed income tax system. The rates are 4% for the first $10,000 of income, 6% for $10,000 to $40,000 of income, and 8.5% for income over $40,000.
Delaware: Wilmington has a flat 1.25% tax on income.
Iowa: 666 school districts impose an income tax surcharge ranging from 1% to 20% of state income tax owed.
Indiana: All 92 counties in Indiana have an individual income tax. Tax rates are in the process of being changed and will be announced on the Indiana Department of Revenueâ(TM)s website once they are finalized.
Kentucky: Eight cities in Kentucky levy income taxes on residents and non-residents. They are: Bowling Green (1.85%), Covington (2.5%), Florence (2%), Lexington-Fayette (2.25%), Louisville (2.20% for residents and 1.45% for non-residents), Owensboro (1.33%), Paducah (2%), and Richmond (2%). Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and Louisville - Jefferson County also impose taxes on businesses.
Maryland: All 24 Maryland counties levy income taxes on residents and non-residents. Tax rates range from 1.25% to 3.20%. Baltimore also has an income tax of 3.05%.
Michigan: Several Michigan cities impose income taxes with rates ranging from 0.50% to 2.50%. Detroitâ(TM)s income tax rate is 2.50% for residents and 1.25% for non-residents.
Missouri: Both Kansas City and St. Louis have an income tax of 1%.
New York: Yonkers and New York City both have individual income taxes. New York City's income tax rates range from 2.907% to 3.648%. Yonker's income tax rate is equal to 10% of your net (after credits) state income tax.
Ohio: 235 cities and 331 villages in Ohio have an income tax, including Columbus, Toledo, Cincinnati, and Cleveland. Ohio law requires a flat rate that cannot exceed 1% unless it is approved by the voters. Ohio local income tax rates range from 0.40% in Indian Hill to 3% in Parma Heights.
Oregon: The Tri-Met Transit District (includes Portland) assesses an income tax of 0.6318% and the Lane County Transit District (includes Eugene) assesses an income tax of 0.60%. Multnomah County (Portland) also assesses a 1.45% business income tax.
Pennsylvania: Most municipalities in Pennsylvania assess a tax on wages, known as the Earned Income Tax. This tax is usually split between the municipality and the local school district. The local Earned Income Tax is only assessed on earned income, like wages. Unearned income like interest and dividends are not taxed. Pennsylvania state law limits the Earned Income Tax to a maximum flat rate
On the other hand- despite food being available they stopped breeding.
And once enough mice died off, they didn't start breeding again.
That's damn strange.
It started with 4 mice. They started acting odd and killing each other long before reaching the space available. And their population peaked long before they reached the limit of available breeding spots (private housing so to speak).
Same thing happened with rats.
And we are mammals too.
I'm just raising the point that the japanese could have slid into a similar tho not identical behavioral sink. Their young men show the "beautiful ones" behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.marketplace.org/20...
CEO Bill Phelps says his thoughts on minimum wage have evolved. In 1994, Phelps co-founded the fast food chain Wetzelâ(TM)s Pretzels, which has almost a hundred outlets in California.
âoeLike most business people,â Phelps said, âoeI was concerned about it a couple of years ago when California started raising the minimum wage."
The state increased the minimum wage in mid-2014 and raised it again Jan. 1 on its path to reach $15 per hour by 2022.
Phelps worried increasing wages for his employees would cut into profits and that if he raised prices to compensate, fewer people would come eat and sales would drop. But something else happened entirely. Sales at his California stores immediately shot up.
âoeI was shocked,â Phelps said, âoeI was stunned by the business.â
The same exact pattern happened in 2016, Phelps said: A wage increase by the state led to a bump in business. Now Phelps is convinced that minimum wage increases arenâ(TM)t bad for the fast food business. Theyâ(TM)re great. ...
Like Resyone, a humanoid robot called Robobear, could also eliminate the need for multiple caregivers by helping transfer seniors from the bed to a wheelchair. The nursing robot, which is still in the experimental phase and was designed by engineers from Japan's research institution RIKEN, is capable of lifting people.
Sales of robots designed specifically to assist elderly people are expected to reach 12,400 units between 2015 and 2018, with that number expected to "increase substantially" over the next 20 years, according to the Merrill Lynch report.
And it goes beyond personal care robots too. Robot cats are currently being sold to keep seniors company.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-rat...
How Mice Turned Their Private Paradise Into A Terrifying Dystopia
Universe 25 was a giant box designed to be a rodent utopia. The trouble was, this utopia did not have a benevolent creator. John B. Calhoun had designed quite a few mouse environments before he got to the 25th one, and didn't expect to be watching a happy story. Divided into "main squares" and then subdivided into levels, with ramps going up to "apartments," the place looked great, and was always kept stocked with food, but its inhabitants were doomed from the get-go.
Universe 25 started out with eight mice, four males and four females. By day 560, the mouse population reached 2,200, and then steadily declined back down to unrecoverable extinction. At the peak population, most mice spent every living second in the company of hundreds of other mice. They gathered in the main squares, waiting to be fed and occasionally attacking each other. Few females carried pregnancies to term, and the ones that did seemed to simply forget about their babies. They'd move half their litter away from danger and forget the rest. Sometimes they'd drop and abandon a baby while they were carrying it. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well for amazon, it's a cost of doing business.
Past there, it's all a matter of bandwidth.
If an image is accessed twice a year- it is no big deal. If you serve it a million times per hour, bandwidth matters.
I agree. If your business is making even $250,000 a year profit, you probably don't care.
But I actually know some people who do amazon and make under $50k a year. Lotta small businesses out there.
Had a talk about cloud stuff today with a friend who works at HP and he said intel and hp have both done studies which showed using cloud is profitable to about 6 months- past 6 months, it is better to take it in house.
So just to be clear, i was talking about smaller businesses and start ups.
With regional stores closing down, rural farmers need internet to shop for a lot of stuff too.
But $399 a year, someone will just develop a new technique.
However, Amazon should provide free cloud hosting for any image being hosted to one of it's sites.
The AC said..
Code smell [wikipedia.org] is a term I use in code reviews at my job... but I picked it up from academic papers (I did a Ph. D. in programming languages, so I've read a lot of code analysis papers). Perhaps it's used more in academia because a code smell that is probably wrong is a lot easier to detect automatically than an actual bug.
Thought it was too interesting to sit at 0.
Code smell is a link in his post.
Or, has been found before, the increased business that resulted from the increased minimum wage more than paid for the increased cost of labor.
And fyi, Walmart has also done the opposite multiple times and cut labor (and labor costs) so much that it resulted in a much larger loss of business.
Put it another way. If you give all the profits to one person, they can only buy so many cars, tv's, lattes, etc. If you share the profits with a hundred employees, they can buy 100 cars, a hundred TV's, and a hundred latte's.
Right now- we have way too much capital piled up with too few people. The catastrophically low bond yields is strong evidence of this fact.
And productivity has risen along with profits- but those profits were not shared with the workers due to the global labor glut and due to practices of using less workers and forcing them to work longer hours.
We need higher over time pay (back to double time), and we need a lower work week badly (like 35 hours).
It took measures like this to help end the great depression.
An AC said... >They aren't making salt. Just taking the fresh water part away from the salty water. That water will find its way back to the ocean soon enough.As long as it's mixing a bit it won't be any more than a very local problem.
Dude..
https://www.scientificamerican... ...according to Jeffrey Graham of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography's Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, the salty sludge leftover after desalinization for every gallon of freshwater produced, another gallon of doubly concentrated salt water must be disposed of can wreak havoc on marine ecosystems if dumped willy-nilly offshore. For some desalinization operations, says Graham, it is thought that the disappearance of some organisms from discharge areas may be related to the salty outflow. ...
http://pacinst.org/publication...
Key Issues in Seawater Desalination in California: Marine Impacts
Modern reverse-osmosis desalination plants, such as those planned or proposed on the California coast, take in large volumes of seawater â" generally two gallons are withdrawn for every gallon of freshwater produced â" and pass it through fine-pored membranes to separate freshwater from salt. The highly concentrated brine is then typically disposed of back into the ocean.
With the majority of desalination plants extracting water directly through open water intakes in the ocean, there is a direct impact on marine life. Fish and other marine organisms are killed on the intake screens (impingement); organisms small enough to pass through, such as plankton, fish eggs, and larvae, are killed during processing of the salt water (entrainment). The impacts on the marine environment, even for a single desalination plant, may be subject to daily, seasonal, annual, and even decadal variation, and are likely to be species- and site-specific.
Google "do desalinization plants affect local salinity"
For more.
LED had a huge impact on my cooling bills.
My main gaming room had 11 incandescents 8 years ago and now had 11 LED's. It's brighter and cooler.
I think folks should insulate more than they do. $100 a month lower bills covers a lot of insulation over a few years.
Caveat: I live in a hot humid climate. Probably not the same for other climates.
Yea... and it's impossible to pollute the great lakes. They are just too big! And you can't possibly pollute the ocean with plastic, it's too big! Bah, the warm water coming out of a nuclear reactor couldn't possibly be a problem!
A few desalinization plants along the coast are no problem. But now scale that up to hundreds of plants along the entire east coast.
Just the disintegrated rubber off people's tires is a major pollutant when you have hundreds of millions of tires.
In this case, I read he tested before hand but perhaps with the book sitting on a hard surface (like concrete) so the shockwave helped stop the bullet.
In youtube videos, you can see that a 50 cal rifle bullet will go through almost 5,000 sheets of paper. This was a 50 cal pistol bullet from what I understand but I don't think one book is going to stop it.
People do dumb things.
And this couple already reproduced so it's not even a successful darwin award- just a terrible stupid tragedy.
--
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.