Republicans created the EPA. Republicans created environmental protection before it was hijacked by emotional hippies.
Wrong.
"Republicans" (actually a Democratic majority House & Senate along with the Republican president Nixon) created the EPA in response to the environmentalists, or "emotional hippies" as you call them.
Today, without the EC, the US would be completely dominated by the two coasts with the states in the middle, i.e.: the vast majority of them, having no say whatsoever.
Bullshit. Without the Electoral College, the people in the small states would have exactly the same say as those in the more populous states: one person one vote. With the EC, the voters in the less populous states have more say than the larger states.
However, he did say in no uncertain terms that divorce is unacceptable . . .
He basically said laws exist, including divorce laws, because we are sinners, and following those laws don't make us less sinful. He did not say you are necessarily more of a sinner if you get a divorce.
The car uses about 20 HP to maintain cruising speed. Is it wasting three times that amount as heat? Probably not. Let's say it's wasting 5 HP as tailpipe heat.
Considering the average ICE care engine is probably less that 30% efficient, it's probably wasting about 50 HP as heat, although not all of that would be going out the tailpipe.
You can extract energy due to temperature differential, not heat differential. And heat is the energy that moves because of temperature differential. So no, you are wrong, even if saying you're wrong is a little pedantic.
The link is for control of cranes in one of Metra's repair shops.
I ride Metra every day, and they are also one of our biggest clients. I'm pretty sure none of their trains are remote controlled, even in the yards.
. . . there is nothing about running a train that hasn't been solved thousand times over before. Can you even comprehend how many safety critical systems are being built every damn day?
Yes, this has all been worked out before, and there are still train crashes and derailments. And now you want to start almost from scratch and redesign all the safety critical systems for trains to be fully automatic with no human intervention, and you think that will automatically solve problems that cause crashes and derailments.
Conductors do more than collect tickets and open and close doors. They're responsible for safety. For example, when our commuter train comes to a dysfunctional crossing gate (stuck open) we can't pass, but the conductor will get out, close the crossing gate by hande, the train will pass and stop, the conductor will open the gate and get back on. Conductors will also inspect brakes, etc.
Also, engineers do more than starting and stopping the train. Traditionally, they're responsible for taking care of the engine and other mechanical issues in the locomotive.
There are also more people involved, such as the dispatchers that are responsible for positions of the switches & schedules and keeping trains from colliding.
That said, it does seem that the actual starting, stopping, and switching of the train could be automated relatively easily.
Agreed.
I did a lot of work for Sears in the 80s thru the mid 90s. They were constantly changing their idea of who they needed to be. One year they're trying to compete with K-mart on the low end, the next year Walmart eclipsed them both, and they switched to trying to compete with high-end department stores. One year clothing is the answer, the next it's hardware, and then maybe appliances, or electronics, or small specialty stores, or big department stores, or whatever the big idea of the year is.
At their heydey, they were a big conglomerate that owned real estate, banking, insurance, and they launched Discover Card. Then one-by-one they divested or spun off their profitable divisions in order to concentrate on their core (in)competency - Retail Sales.
But their biggest mistake was closing the mail-order catalog sales just before internet sales started to take off. They could have been Amazon if they had tried.
(ok water down the side of a mountain is actually really easy, but flowing up a mountain is hard.)
Please fill me in on what that technology is called.
The ancient Romans did it with what we call a siphon.
You can have nice things because you don't have to fund your own defense. Military is extremely expensive and America defends Europe for free. Who care
This meme is getting boring. Can't you guys think of a new one for why (thing) costs more in the USA?
But if you have already removed the tumor and put its cells under the microscope, does it really matter which is which?
After you remove a tumor you just might want to know whether it was cancerous or benign, and if cancerous, you're probably going to want to know how mobile the cells are, in order to decide what to do next.
Anyway, most biopsies do not try to remove all the cancer, just a sample to judge what the proper course is before undertaking a more serious operation. Many times, if you just remove the tumor, you're going to miss cancerous cells nearby, so you want to know ahead of time how much surrounding tissue to get rid of, and other options for fighting it.
Why the fuck would anyone live in a neighbourhood where you have to lock your door or worry about stuff being stolen in your yard?
Because most people live in populated areas, and in any population there's always a few assholes willing to steal, especially if it's easy and doesn't involve confrontation with the victim or breaking and entering.
It used to be that some states had 18 and some had 21 as the drinking age. Shockingly, there was a lot of drunk driving one the borders between those states. So, they raised the 18 states to 21 to prevent all the DUIs.
It was the opposite in my experience living in Chicago. Wisconsin had an 18 year drinking age before Illinois. When Illinois lowered the drinking age for beer and wine to 19 a few years later, one of the reasons cited was all of the drunk driving between Wisconsin and Illinois. But it didn't help to reduce drunk driving; Illinois ended up with more drunk drivers. So they raised it back again. This was all well before the 1984 National Minimum Drinking Age Act that someone else cited above.
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And there's a good reason a lot of those tiny, money-losing farmers "farm" their land: A break on their property taxes.
Apparently not, since the Republican-controlled Senate did all they could to not even consider many of Obama's judicial appointments.
Wrong.
"Republicans" (actually a Democratic majority House & Senate along with the Republican president Nixon) created the EPA in response to the environmentalists, or "emotional hippies" as you call them.
Bullshit.
Without the Electoral College, the people in the small states would have exactly the same say as those in the more populous states: one person one vote.
With the EC, the voters in the less populous states have more say than the larger states.
Dec. 19, 2008. The Bush Administration announces plans to bail out Detroit's auto industry, notably General Motors and Chrysler Group. (USA Today)
True, but the ash is mostly ground-up bones, since they burn the body quickly and the bones don't burn up.
He basically said laws exist, including divorce laws, because we are sinners, and following those laws don't make us less sinful. He did not say you are necessarily more of a sinner if you get a divorce.
Considering the average ICE care engine is probably less that 30% efficient, it's probably wasting about 50 HP as heat, although not all of that would be going out the tailpipe.
You can extract energy due to temperature differential, not heat differential. And heat is the energy that moves because of temperature differential. So no, you are wrong, even if saying you're wrong is a little pedantic.
The link is for control of cranes in one of Metra's repair shops.
I ride Metra every day, and they are also one of our biggest clients. I'm pretty sure none of their trains are remote controlled, even in the yards.
Yes, this has all been worked out before, and there are still train crashes and derailments. And now you want to start almost from scratch and redesign all the safety critical systems for trains to be fully automatic with no human intervention, and you think that will automatically solve problems that cause crashes and derailments.
Said the Slashdot AC suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Conductors do more than collect tickets and open and close doors. They're responsible for safety. For example, when our commuter train comes to a dysfunctional crossing gate (stuck open) we can't pass, but the conductor will get out, close the crossing gate by hande, the train will pass and stop, the conductor will open the gate and get back on. Conductors will also inspect brakes, etc.
Also, engineers do more than starting and stopping the train. Traditionally, they're responsible for taking care of the engine and other mechanical issues in the locomotive.
There are also more people involved, such as the dispatchers that are responsible for positions of the switches & schedules and keeping trains from colliding.
That said, it does seem that the actual starting, stopping, and switching of the train could be automated relatively easily.
The Fed in this context is the Federal Reserve Board, not Congress. So you're way off base.
Except 20C is 68F, not 70F. A pretty significant difference in comfort when setting the furnace's thermostat (at least to my wife).
And Discover Card.
Agreed.
I did a lot of work for Sears in the 80s thru the mid 90s. They were constantly changing their idea of who they needed to be. One year they're trying to compete with K-mart on the low end, the next year Walmart eclipsed them both, and they switched to trying to compete with high-end department stores. One year clothing is the answer, the next it's hardware, and then maybe appliances, or electronics, or small specialty stores, or big department stores, or whatever the big idea of the year is.
At their heydey, they were a big conglomerate that owned real estate, banking, insurance, and they launched Discover Card. Then one-by-one they divested or spun off their profitable divisions in order to concentrate on their core (in)competency - Retail Sales.
But their biggest mistake was closing the mail-order catalog sales just before internet sales started to take off. They could have been Amazon if they had tried.
The ancient Romans did it with what we call a siphon.
This meme is getting boring. Can't you guys think of a new one for why (thing) costs more in the USA?
After you remove a tumor you just might want to know whether it was cancerous or benign, and if cancerous, you're probably going to want to know how mobile the cells are, in order to decide what to do next.
Anyway, most biopsies do not try to remove all the cancer, just a sample to judge what the proper course is before undertaking a more serious operation. Many times, if you just remove the tumor, you're going to miss cancerous cells nearby, so you want to know ahead of time how much surrounding tissue to get rid of, and other options for fighting it.
Real libraries use the Library of Congress classification system, not Dewey's.
Because most people live in populated areas, and in any population there's always a few assholes willing to steal, especially if it's easy and doesn't involve confrontation with the victim or breaking and entering.
And that, by itself, is not enough for most people to retire on comfortably.
It was the opposite in my experience living in Chicago. Wisconsin had an 18 year drinking age before Illinois. When Illinois lowered the drinking age for beer and wine to 19 a few years later, one of the reasons cited was all of the drunk driving between Wisconsin and Illinois. But it didn't help to reduce drunk driving; Illinois ended up with more drunk drivers. So they raised it back again. This was all well before the 1984 National Minimum Drinking Age Act that someone else cited above.
That makes much more sense. 72 million cubic feet just seemed too small to be the largest building in the world.