Most people's minds are confined to much, much smaller definitions. Take a look around you. Nobody regularly reads one, this is one reason people know next to nothing.
"If you think the citizens of the USA can beat the USA military and overthrow the USA government using guns, then you are batshit crazy."
I could think of roughly 40 different scenarios which would knock the entire government down within 5 minutes.
Blitzkreig of the population. Storm all major centers of government immediately and wipe them out, being number one. No Government, Military is officially dissolved and we have the right to make a new one. And you're batshit crazy if you think the Military is going to attack it's own people when it's CLEAR the people don't want the current government.
The military will be too busy defending this country while we're making a new government - otherwise, they're FUCKED just as much as we are.
Really easy - I perform this research ON A DAILY BASIS. Wanna know why NASA pretty much gave up on LED horticulture? I outdid them.
California is well-known for stupid ideas, much like Texas, and proposing them without ever truly thinking them through.
In the EU, they have to do much better.
Oh, and I live in California, so I'm well-tied to the horticulture industry here. I've heard more stupidity from this industry in California alone than I have heard come out of the mouths of the past four presidents.
"Photosynthesis is more effective in diffuse light."
No, it's really not. Chlorophyll has a neat mechanism by which light tends to (usually) work in one direction. You can test this for yourself. Obtain a test tube of chlorophyll in a suspended liquid solution. Take an incandescent light. If you put the test tube directly between you and the light at eye level, you will see it as mostly red. Any other direction, you see it as green.
Also, making the skies BRIGHTER (as per TFS and TFA) means increasing photon flux density. The current limit for most plants to withstand light falls between 1500-1800umol. After that, you rapidly begin approaching photosynthetic poisoning (AKA bleaching0 of plant tissues. Many food crops, especially vegetative ones, don't tolerate very high light levels. Most lettuces prefer roughly 300-600 umol, and start doing undesirable things at anything much higher, like bolting and not creating a compact head, or outright turning white.
This is one of the worst ideas I've heard coming from Californian scientists in a long long time. Makes me glad to be working with better-educated European horticultural companies.
Wrong. In fact, because it's harder to make hardware carts, it saves their asses piracy issues. On top of that, they can go "You can't damage this by mere surface scratches anymore! No more scratched discs ruining your experience!" And then they can charge a premium. I still see REGULAR NES/SNES/Genesis Carts going for $50, TODAY. In fact, I saw a mint copy of the gold NES Legend of Zelda. Still going strong at $45 dollars, at a game store with at LEAST 50 of those carts, brand new.
"Considering how many patches these games end up needing"
And this is why I go Nintendo. Actual fucking quality control. Not *ONE* game in the entire history of me owning and using a Nintendo product have I had to get a patch for a game. The ONLY issue I've had with a Nintendo product was with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which lay in a hardware issue (Older model Wii - disc drive couldn't handle the dual-layer disc properly. That was remedied within ONE WEEK.)
Sony? No Quality Control. Ditto Microsoft. If they had QA/QC implemented, this shit wouldn't be necessary.
"Neat trick. Who are you going to have hear the case.... maybe the Supreme Court?"
Bother reading the constitution? "All powers not delegated to the government are reserved by the states and the people"
The power to take their ass out is ours. Explicitly implied in the Constitution.
That includes forming a panel of 'judges' to judge the judges.
Sovereign Immunity? We can bypass that one, too, since the right to explicitly ignore the government is granted to us by the constitution. Full class-action of the entire country against the government. They have no choice but to allow it unless they want an outright civil war on their hands.
Why clear land? Just get yourself a vertical hydro system made, indoors. Like this one at the UK research facility where I conduct LED-illuminated crop testing - http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2r5gleg&s=7
"Rotational media will be around for a long time to come, barring any real shattering breakthroughs in solid state media."
You mean like the currently-planned 1TB SDXC card format? Take that stuff, make a 2.5" drive, you could dump 16TB into a tiny piece of plastic, epoxy, and silicon.
Rotational media is only going to stick around because it's CHEAP.
"A digital sprinker box is still going to have mechanical parts in it."
There are NO mechanical parts in my Toro box. ZERO. Anything near mechanical is at the water lines, roughly 75 feet away from anything that resembles a control box.
Timers can be adjusted, you know. You can even get some that will let you set individual days based on expected length of daylight. They're in use in horticultural systems ALL THE TIME.
"I don't know how you'll make sure my lawn waters regularly (hint: mechanical timer), my lights turn on at dusk and off at dawn (hint: opto-electric switch),"
Mechanical = things to break. My digital Toro sprinkler box is just fine, TYVM.
Also, photo-switches? Please. Those things get even a decent full moon and they don't go, or if they do go and you're running HID, you blow the ballast or bulb (that's what's happening at my store right now, in fact.) THOSE you put on timed circuits as well.
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Most people's minds are confined to much, much smaller definitions. Take a look around you. Nobody regularly reads one, this is one reason people know next to nothing.
It handles things that actually matter. Not trivial bullshit like porn.
"If you think the citizens of the USA can beat the USA military and overthrow the USA government using guns, then you are batshit crazy."
I could think of roughly 40 different scenarios which would knock the entire government down within 5 minutes.
Blitzkreig of the population. Storm all major centers of government immediately and wipe them out, being number one. No Government, Military is officially dissolved and we have the right to make a new one. And you're batshit crazy if you think the Military is going to attack it's own people when it's CLEAR the people don't want the current government.
The military will be too busy defending this country while we're making a new government - otherwise, they're FUCKED just as much as we are.
Checkmate.
How do I know I'm better-educated?
Really easy - I perform this research ON A DAILY BASIS. Wanna know why NASA pretty much gave up on LED horticulture? I outdid them.
California is well-known for stupid ideas, much like Texas, and proposing them without ever truly thinking them through.
In the EU, they have to do much better.
Oh, and I live in California, so I'm well-tied to the horticulture industry here. I've heard more stupidity from this industry in California alone than I have heard come out of the mouths of the past four presidents.
"Yes, chlorophyl absorbs blue and some red, and reflects green"
WRONG.
http://pcp.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/4/684.full
And that one link right there blows the rest of your argument away.
"Yes, we need to reduce, a lot. Yes, having a way to scrub the atmosphere would be great."
So plant more trees and crops and algae farms.
"Photosynthesis is more effective in diffuse light."
No, it's really not. Chlorophyll has a neat mechanism by which light tends to (usually) work in one direction. You can test this for yourself. Obtain a test tube of chlorophyll in a suspended liquid solution. Take an incandescent light. If you put the test tube directly between you and the light at eye level, you will see it as mostly red. Any other direction, you see it as green.
Also, making the skies BRIGHTER (as per TFS and TFA) means increasing photon flux density. The current limit for most plants to withstand light falls between 1500-1800umol. After that, you rapidly begin approaching photosynthetic poisoning (AKA bleaching0 of plant tissues. Many food crops, especially vegetative ones, don't tolerate very high light levels. Most lettuces prefer roughly 300-600 umol, and start doing undesirable things at anything much higher, like bolting and not creating a compact head, or outright turning white.
This is one of the worst ideas I've heard coming from Californian scientists in a long long time. Makes me glad to be working with better-educated European horticultural companies.
Hell yes, ReactOS has just had a major helping hand given to it in the form of this ruling!
Um, no. If settlements were counted as case law, my settled fight against EA would have nullified all EULAS and DRM.
Try again.
"I have yet to see any console that was connected to the internet."
Check your glasses, all of mine are always on the internet.
Or maybe go buy and use some actual hardware so you have half a clue what you're talking about.
"So you idea is a nonstarter."
Wrong. In fact, because it's harder to make hardware carts, it saves their asses piracy issues. On top of that, they can go "You can't damage this by mere surface scratches anymore! No more scratched discs ruining your experience!" And then they can charge a premium. I still see REGULAR NES/SNES/Genesis Carts going for $50, TODAY. In fact, I saw a mint copy of the gold NES Legend of Zelda. Still going strong at $45 dollars, at a game store with at LEAST 50 of those carts, brand new.
Marketing skills, I possess them. Do you?
"Sony doesn't really want to make it too trivial for you to play copied games on a hacked console"
Their fucking fault for being idiots and using optical media instead of ROM carts.
Remember, this is the same company that had an I/O port on their first Playstation, which enabled WIDESPREAD piracy.
Fucking morons. It's a LOT harder to get EEP-ROM programming hardware and build something that will rip/copy from/to another cart.
"Considering how many patches these games end up needing"
And this is why I go Nintendo. Actual fucking quality control. Not *ONE* game in the entire history of me owning and using a Nintendo product have I had to get a patch for a game. The ONLY issue I've had with a Nintendo product was with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which lay in a hardware issue (Older model Wii - disc drive couldn't handle the dual-layer disc properly. That was remedied within ONE WEEK.)
Sony? No Quality Control. Ditto Microsoft. If they had QA/QC implemented, this shit wouldn't be necessary.
Never heard of a clear implication, I guess. Spend some time in court, maybe you'll learn.
You probably aren't even aware of Singular They.
"Neat trick. Who are you going to have hear the case.... maybe the Supreme Court?"
Bother reading the constitution? "All powers not delegated to the government are reserved by the states and the people"
The power to take their ass out is ours. Explicitly implied in the Constitution.
That includes forming a panel of 'judges' to judge the judges.
Sovereign Immunity? We can bypass that one, too, since the right to explicitly ignore the government is granted to us by the constitution. Full class-action of the entire country against the government. They have no choice but to allow it unless they want an outright civil war on their hands.
Fuck suing over the EULA.
Sue the entire nine-member panel of the Supreme Court. Sue them until they're so broke they don't WANT to act as judges any longer.
The Supreme Court is nothing but a bunch of traitors right now, selling our rights away.
Why haven't the citizens of New Zealand simply started a civil war to end this bullshit?
It's your responsibility to kick us out of your home. If you can't defend your territory, it will be usurped and taken over.
I have an instant gas water heater. When the water shuts off, so does the gas. No unattended ANYTHING.
"Shouldn't be walking away from the grill due to safety reasons? What kind of condition is your grill in?"
NEVER leave a fire unattended.
Especially if you're using mesquite wood for grilling.
"Since when are geeks "grilling" stuff?"
You must not use nVidia GPUs. I use mine to cook ribs while I'm playing Metro 2033 at maximum everything.
Why clear land? Just get yourself a vertical hydro system made, indoors. Like this one at the UK research facility where I conduct LED-illuminated crop testing - http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2r5gleg&s=7
Save your back and fuel costs.
"Rotational media will be around for a long time to come, barring any real shattering breakthroughs in solid state media."
You mean like the currently-planned 1TB SDXC card format? Take that stuff, make a 2.5" drive, you could dump 16TB into a tiny piece of plastic, epoxy, and silicon.
Rotational media is only going to stick around because it's CHEAP.
"A digital sprinker box is still going to have mechanical parts in it."
There are NO mechanical parts in my Toro box. ZERO. Anything near mechanical is at the water lines, roughly 75 feet away from anything that resembles a control box.
Timers can be adjusted, you know. You can even get some that will let you set individual days based on expected length of daylight. They're in use in horticultural systems ALL THE TIME.
"I don't know how you'll make sure my lawn waters regularly (hint: mechanical timer), my lights turn on at dusk and off at dawn (hint: opto-electric switch),"
Mechanical = things to break. My digital Toro sprinkler box is just fine, TYVM.
Also, photo-switches? Please. Those things get even a decent full moon and they don't go, or if they do go and you're running HID, you blow the ballast or bulb (that's what's happening at my store right now, in fact.) THOSE you put on timed circuits as well.
Your own solutions SUCK. Just FYI.
Rather close = roughly 1.25 inches away.
Forget about your thumbs near the spacebar? Not everyone types the same way.