Except in this case, it was the House that told the senate that they could not go on recess, because they did not want to allow Obama to make recess appointments. No chamber may adjourn for more than three days without the other chamber's permission. Of course, the House isn't supposed to be involved in the appointment process at all, so I think that what Obama did was in keeping with the spirit of the Constitution. Recess appointments are a way to put pressure on the Senate to at least discuss a president's nominee. Without that hanging over their heads, they would hardly ever appoint anybody, since any single senator can put a secret hold on any nomination. The House should not be allowed to de facto eliminate one of the President's guaranteed constitutional powers without an actual amendment to the constitution.
According to the Trinitarian belief of mainstream Chistianity, there's not a whole lot of difference between 'son of God' and 'God' other than 'roles and tasks assigned.
Yeah. Anytime I hear the Christmas story, I always think of that song, "I'm my own Grandpa." Only, he's also his own dad, great-grandpa, grandson, great-great-great-grandson, etc. It's baby Jesuses all the way down.
Oddly, it used to be for Electrical Engineers, with detailed engineering articles that would bore just about anybody else. But they've reformatted, and now it's more like PopSci for sure.
What are you, some kind of racist? Everybody knows that corporations are people. How dare you imply that just because corporations aren't humans (aka meat-people), that they are somehow incapable of doing things "real" people can do. You should be ashamed of yourself. Such narrow-mindedness has no business in the twenty-first century.
This lady's rantings are only slightly more intelligible than the Time Cube guy's. But they're way less entertaining. While I still think this is BS that she's getting sued into oblivion, perhaps if she kept her tone a little more civil and less crazy-person-y, maybe this wouldn't have happened. Of course, this ruling is probably the best thing that could have happened to her if her sole objective is to make it known that "Kevin Padrick of Obsidian Finance is a liar, thief and a fraud."
"Would you want your daughter going on an overnight girlscout trip led by a male leader?"
How is this different from letting my daughter to spend the night at a friend's house? Oh my God! Her friend's dad will be there. And we all know that anytime a male is around people weaker than himself, he will always commit sexual assault! That's a pretty fucked up way to go through life. You must be terrified to be left alone with children for fear that you won't be able to contain yourself.
If it's not true for you, why would it be true for your daughter's friend's dad? If it's not true for him, why would it be true for a gay scout leader? I have a better idea. How about getting to know people before assuming they want to canoodle your kids? Your children are a lot more likely to get molested by a family member than a scout leader.
Holy crap, this thread has been totally derailed. I completely forgot we were talking about the Business Software Alliance. Those fuckers would probably rape all our kids, if they thought it was in the best interest of their clients.
That's exactly what happens out here in Cut-n-Shoot. What's your point? GP just doesn't want it in his communities land fill. He didn't say anything about having it go up in smoke.
That's fine if your time is worth zero dollars, but for those of us in the real world, our time is worth something. I'd much rather be doing any number of things instead of sorting my trash. Are you being lazy when you let somebody else build your computer? Are my neighbors lazy when they have the kid down the street mow their lawn? Of course not. It's just economics, and time is money.
We've bought a few advanced projectors on mobile cats...
At my school we had mobile projector cats, too. It was hard to keep those little monsters still through an entire lecture, though. Especially when the teacher pulled out the laser pointer.
It's great to see Dr. Bob's mad ravings again. But I'm always a little worried at how many people take him seriously (on both sides). Even if they disagree with chiropractors, surely they have to recognize this as a farce. And the ones that actually agree with him... Yikes!
It sort of reminds me of the anti-evolution seminar my dad made me go to as a kid. They were saying all this crazy stuff about how the bombardier beetle proves the existence of god. It probably wasn't until I was in college that I realized these guys probably knew exactly what they were doing, and were just trying to fleece some Baptists out of their hard-eared tithes and offerings.
When they grow up, if ever, they will realize the genius that is "If I work for something, I can obtain it."
You might want to grow up, too. Unchecked capitalism always leads to the oppression of the masses at the hands of large corporations and wealthy individuals. Look at the Industrial Revolution. Look at what capitalism has done to China. Labor laws were enacted for a reason.
My old mechanics professor, who was Greek, pronounced it that way. He also said oh-mee-guh and thee-tuh. It really irritated him that the frats all pronounced the letters wrong.
If someone is going to administer corporal punishment, normally it's expected that the father in the household will do it--at least with every family I've known about it being used in.
Ha ha ha. We much preferred it when dad whooped us. Mom's belt was skinnier, and you could hear it whistle through the air right before it made contact. Dad's belt was good and thick, with soft edges.
Dad was stronger, but mom was meaner. The last time she smacked me was when I was about 15 and talked back to her while she was cooking. The spatula left a mark on my leg for about a week.
I thought it was small, too, but then you have to think about the small quantities of radioactive isotopes. There's just not a lot of the stuff out there, and each decaying particle only puts out a tiny amount of energy. I got the 30TW number from here. I think the more interesting point is that the heat is going to flow anyway, so it's a good thing for us to tap it on its way out.
You confuse mentioning two different things with confusing two different things. I'm an electrical engineer, so I'm not likely to confuse power with energy, like most laymen. I mention both power and energy with appropriate units for each, but I only compare amounts of energy to energy and amounts of power to power. I also compare power to rate of energy usage, but that is consistent, and in fact, you did the same exact thing. I, too, noticed in another post that we'd get about 20 billion years of power from the extant thermal energy (assuming we don't increase our energy usage). Still, a fart in a hurricane is at best 15 orders of magnitude. That was what I was trying to check.
Makes sense to me; we won't be cooling the core at any usage level below 30TW. If we were directly tapping the core, and there were no radioactive replenishment, the thermal energy comes to about 20,000,000,000 years at current usage levels. I'm not sure where along the line we would run into magnetic field problems, but it will be way after I'm dead, so it doesn't matter. Still, not a fart in a hurricane.;-)
A hurricane has about 6e14 W. You might be able to create somewhere around 8kJ/day if you found a way to harness all your gas. That's about 1e-1 W. That's a difference of 15 orders of magnitude.
The earth has geothermal energy of about 1e31 J. 15 orders of magnitude less than that is 1e16J. That's less than what Zimbabwe uses annually. The core is radioactively replenished at 30TW. As of 2007 there was already 10GW of geothermal electric capacity. That's only 4 orders of magnitude. So no, it's not a fart in a hurricane. I am flabbergasted by these findings. I thought for sure you were right.
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Except in this case, it was the House that told the senate that they could not go on recess, because they did not want to allow Obama to make recess appointments. No chamber may adjourn for more than three days without the other chamber's permission. Of course, the House isn't supposed to be involved in the appointment process at all, so I think that what Obama did was in keeping with the spirit of the Constitution. Recess appointments are a way to put pressure on the Senate to at least discuss a president's nominee. Without that hanging over their heads, they would hardly ever appoint anybody, since any single senator can put a secret hold on any nomination. The House should not be allowed to de facto eliminate one of the President's guaranteed constitutional powers without an actual amendment to the constitution.
According to the Trinitarian belief of mainstream Chistianity, there's not a whole lot of difference between 'son of God' and 'God' other than 'roles and tasks assigned.
Yeah. Anytime I hear the Christmas story, I always think of that song, "I'm my own Grandpa." Only, he's also his own dad, great-grandpa, grandson, great-great-great-grandson, etc. It's baby Jesuses all the way down.
Oddly, it used to be for Electrical Engineers, with detailed engineering articles that would bore just about anybody else. But they've reformatted, and now it's more like PopSci for sure.
What are you, some kind of racist? Everybody knows that corporations are people. How dare you imply that just because corporations aren't humans (aka meat-people), that they are somehow incapable of doing things "real" people can do. You should be ashamed of yourself. Such narrow-mindedness has no business in the twenty-first century.
This lady's rantings are only slightly more intelligible than the Time Cube guy's. But they're way less entertaining. While I still think this is BS that she's getting sued into oblivion, perhaps if she kept her tone a little more civil and less crazy-person-y, maybe this wouldn't have happened. Of course, this ruling is probably the best thing that could have happened to her if her sole objective is to make it known that "Kevin Padrick of Obsidian Finance is a liar, thief and a fraud."
"Would you want your daughter going on an overnight girlscout trip led by a male leader?"
How is this different from letting my daughter to spend the night at a friend's house? Oh my God! Her friend's dad will be there. And we all know that anytime a male is around people weaker than himself, he will always commit sexual assault! That's a pretty fucked up way to go through life. You must be terrified to be left alone with children for fear that you won't be able to contain yourself.
If it's not true for you, why would it be true for your daughter's friend's dad? If it's not true for him, why would it be true for a gay scout leader? I have a better idea. How about getting to know people before assuming they want to canoodle your kids? Your children are a lot more likely to get molested by a family member than a scout leader.
Holy crap, this thread has been totally derailed. I completely forgot we were talking about the Business Software Alliance. Those fuckers would probably rape all our kids, if they thought it was in the best interest of their clients.
GoDaddy ... is still milking theirs!
Ack! Now I have a mental image of Danica Patrick lactating.
ACK! "community's" not "communities"
That's exactly what happens out here in Cut-n-Shoot. What's your point? GP just doesn't want it in his communities land fill. He didn't say anything about having it go up in smoke.
Seriously, listen to Rush Limbaugh once in a while.
Please don't. Even listening to that crap for one minute can damage your brain.
That's fine if your time is worth zero dollars, but for those of us in the real world, our time is worth something. I'd much rather be doing any number of things instead of sorting my trash. Are you being lazy when you let somebody else build your computer? Are my neighbors lazy when they have the kid down the street mow their lawn? Of course not. It's just economics, and time is money.
We've bought a few advanced projectors on mobile cats...
At my school we had mobile projector cats, too. It was hard to keep those little monsters still through an entire lecture, though. Especially when the teacher pulled out the laser pointer.
It's great to see Dr. Bob's mad ravings again. But I'm always a little worried at how many people take him seriously (on both sides). Even if they disagree with chiropractors, surely they have to recognize this as a farce. And the ones that actually agree with him... Yikes!
It sort of reminds me of the anti-evolution seminar my dad made me go to as a kid. They were saying all this crazy stuff about how the bombardier beetle proves the existence of god. It probably wasn't until I was in college that I realized these guys probably knew exactly what they were doing, and were just trying to fleece some Baptists out of their hard-eared tithes and offerings.
That must have been one hell of a manipulation.
When they grow up, if ever, they will realize the genius that is "If I work for something, I can obtain it."
You might want to grow up, too. Unchecked capitalism always leads to the oppression of the masses at the hands of large corporations and wealthy individuals. Look at the Industrial Revolution. Look at what capitalism has done to China. Labor laws were enacted for a reason.
My old mechanics professor, who was Greek, pronounced it that way. He also said oh-mee-guh and thee-tuh. It really irritated him that the frats all pronounced the letters wrong.
Um. The Air Force uses "go pills" all the time. But why would they not always be looking into alternatives?
If someone is going to administer corporal punishment, normally it's expected that the father in the household will do it--at least with every family I've known about it being used in.
Ha ha ha. We much preferred it when dad whooped us. Mom's belt was skinnier, and you could hear it whistle through the air right before it made contact. Dad's belt was good and thick, with soft edges.
Dad was stronger, but mom was meaner. The last time she smacked me was when I was about 15 and talked back to her while she was cooking. The spatula left a mark on my leg for about a week.
Great, now I have to reboot my skillet any time I want to change the temperature setting, and there are viruses in my batter.
I thought it was small, too, but then you have to think about the small quantities of radioactive isotopes. There's just not a lot of the stuff out there, and each decaying particle only puts out a tiny amount of energy. I got the 30TW number from here. I think the more interesting point is that the heat is going to flow anyway, so it's a good thing for us to tap it on its way out.
You confuse power with energy.
You confuse mentioning two different things with confusing two different things. I'm an electrical engineer, so I'm not likely to confuse power with energy, like most laymen. I mention both power and energy with appropriate units for each, but I only compare amounts of energy to energy and amounts of power to power. I also compare power to rate of energy usage, but that is consistent, and in fact, you did the same exact thing. I, too, noticed in another post that we'd get about 20 billion years of power from the extant thermal energy (assuming we don't increase our energy usage). Still, a fart in a hurricane is at best 15 orders of magnitude. That was what I was trying to check.
Makes sense to me; we won't be cooling the core at any usage level below 30TW. If we were directly tapping the core, and there were no radioactive replenishment, the thermal energy comes to about 20,000,000,000 years at current usage levels. I'm not sure where along the line we would run into magnetic field problems, but it will be way after I'm dead, so it doesn't matter. Still, not a fart in a hurricane. ;-)
Please somebody find an error in my math or science. I would hate for this to be true.
A hurricane has about 6e14 W. You might be able to create somewhere around 8kJ/day if you found a way to harness all your gas. That's about 1e-1 W. That's a difference of 15 orders of magnitude.
The earth has geothermal energy of about 1e31 J. 15 orders of magnitude less than that is 1e16J. That's less than what Zimbabwe uses annually. The core is radioactively replenished at 30TW. As of 2007 there was already 10GW of geothermal electric capacity. That's only 4 orders of magnitude. So no, it's not a fart in a hurricane. I am flabbergasted by these findings. I thought for sure you were right.
According to this guy, we have about 450 years until the oceans boil, no matter where we get the energy from. Scariest. blog. ever.