Just in from AP press. NASA scientists (who else) have filtered, frequency shifted and finally decoding this data clip the perplexing message revealed itself to say:
Further estimate average of the need for TP once per day per person and an average 20 usages per TP roll.
TP_rolls = 150000 / 20 = 7500
Figure in a conservative typical military waste of 25% and loss to enemy capture...
TP_rolls = 7500 * 1.25 = 9375
Realizing that Haliburton probably has the contract for TP in Iraq and this is to the military and this TP has to be delivered to dangerous areas so a reasonable fully burdened rate of $25 per roll
W. Churchill once said that "The greatest argument against Democracy is five-minute conversation with the average voter". While funny it has a kernel of truth.
After the last election I was listening to exit interviews on the radio and some guy said he voted for Bush because he fouled up things so bad in his first term he wanted to make sure he had the chance to straighten things out.
After reading the the article I wonder why dogs, for example, do not fracture into mutliple species? Great Danes for example do not repoduce with say Boston Terriers. Their genetic line are continously reinforced and isolated.
The other mechanism that can theoretically divide a species is "reproductive isolation". This occurs when organisms are not separated physically, but "choose" not to breed with each other thereby causing genetic isolation, which amounts to the same thing.
Does this mean that geeks are soon to speciate and then ultimate fail as the male/female ratio is horrendously out of wack?
Yes, but the people chasing him were in plain clothes and he was coming from a bad part of town. I do not know all the details, but if a couple of guys in plain clothes came running after me waving a gun I just might just choose the flight decision path of the the flight or fight if statement - especially if I had a bar bill outstanding.
With that said tho the mulsim's are focusing on this event eventhough it was a mistake and complete ignore the 80 some civilians that islamic extremist kill with intent this weekend in Eygpt.
1 Oil & Gas $224,398
2 Electric Utilities $221,951
Well we now know whose pocket Joe is in. I am sure he his looking at the global warming issue unbiased.
Bush has come out and said that complying with reduced C02 protocols would destroy the US economy. What does the deep thinker think advanced global warming is going to do? (let alone a failed military adventure in order to ensure continued supply)
But I thought about this awhile and realized the losers in the fight to reduced CO2 production are the traditional energy suppliers like those who support Joe. The winners are the myriad of non-traditional energy suppliers and energy management/conservation firms and gadgeters who are not yet economical viable to have much of a presence of Washington.
Imagine the shift in the ecomomy if the true price of energy was fully represented. For example, the war in Iraq is costing 1 Billion dollars a week. If the war was funded by a tax on petro you would see all sort of creativity in advanced transportation technology and alternative energy sources.
After watching the bros publish a trash vacant movie just to squeeze the last remaining dollars out the Matrix institution i am prepared to be underVelmed.
Whoever decided to use a tab as a delimiter should not be allowed to die a natural death.
This "feature" has cause countless hours of loss productivity. At one time the make processor gave some obscure warning on the missing tab and left you scratching your head for hours.
Air conditioning and/or electrical loads (headlights, heated back glass, etc.) also result in lower fuel economy (typically less than 1 mpg difference, each 10 Amps takes approximately.4 mpg).
So how are they going to squeeze an extra 4 mpg? Did the judge even check the numbers or verify the claims. I pity the poor kids who actually did their homework and got the math right but were edge out because they did not make wild ass claims.
A someone pointed out above you would need about 150 Amps at 12 Volts to provide a meager level of cooling. So using the above numbers.4 mpg/10 Amps x 150 ~ 6 MPG's. So this system would decrease the mileage significantly.
All this reinforces is the concept that fudging the math and the results can really pay off.
The students' research estimates their system would cut millions of pounds of hydrocarbons and nitrous oxides, and billions of pounds of carbon monoxide found in vehicle emissions. It also would increase gas mileage by four miles per gallon and hike horsepower by as much as 4 percent -- saving American drivers billions of dollars in annual gasoline costs.
Since when do they hand out awards for bad research at best or out-and-out lying. A peltier effect heat pump has a COP of around.3 and a typical R134a vapor compression AC has a COP of about 4. In other words, the existing AC systems are an order of magnitude more efficient. Now how are they going to increase the mileage by 4 and add more horsepower?
They would have to increase the size of the alternator several times to power this a peltier effect heat pump and you would have the unavoidable inefficiencies of converting mechanical energy into electrical to boot.
Why didn't they just mention that this thing runs off of cold fusion - and maybe they could get the University of Utah to endorse it;(
The point his is trying to make is that a vapor compression air conditioner has a COP of about 4 whilst a peltier effect conditioner is around.3.
Therefore you have to use more energy to cool the car and that energy comes from the fossil fuel powered internal combustion engine albeit indirectly via the alternator. In this case around 10 times more energy, not very efficient.
It's call COP Coefficient of Performance and most heat pumps have greater than 100 percent efficiencies which depend greatly on the temperature differential between the heat sink and the air condition space. It means that it for each Watt of input you can move x watts (x being the COP) between the two thermal reserviors.
How is this insightful? The rating system is an indentifier that lets mindful parents or consumer know what the game content is before purchasing the product. While I would love to have the time to play a game in all of its mode before buying the game and let my children play - it is really not the practical.
Dont worry by the time it hits the market the name will be changed to Foxfire... er... um... no Crossfox thats it and the logo will be a cross dressing fox. I can't wait can you?
Well in my opinion we should be looking for the "technological silver bullets" becauase that is were the future resides. Bush is worried that the US economy would be wrecked by taxing energy consumption, then what does he think a disastrous war that is costing hundreds of billions of dollars is going to do.
I use to think that people were naive if you thought the war in Iraq was about oil and now I think you are naive if you think it wasn't about the control of oil and contracts in oil field development. Lets just put it this way, the war in Iraq was not about WMD and it wasn't about terrorism.
It is good tho to see Bush acknowledging that our dependance on oil is a national security. Amory Lovins has been saying this for years. In fact, our dependence is not unlike a chemically dependent junkie who will do things to get his next fix that he would not normally do.
Regardless imagine if the money that was spent in Iraq was spent on the development of new demand and supply side technology such as hybrid vehicles, cheap diode lighting, solar sail lighting, better building techniques and terrestrial and extraterrestrial solar energy production, safer and cleaner nuclear, wave energy and of couse the holy grail of fusion energy.
Further the taxing of energy consumption would not create economic disaster as Bush states and as you note in the UK. It would harm certain segments such as traditional energy suppliers but creates and fosters others industries that are self sustaining and pay long term dividends. It would create a whole new economy dedicated to supplying new forms of energy and using what we have more efficiently.
That this was not found in the US. the local tribes would work at getting these tracks buried after a proper ceromony and prevent any further research.
Take Kennewick Man found on the shores of the columbia river. the skeleton was complete and was in unusually good condition. The presence of caucasoid traits, lack of definitive Native-American characteristics, led the original investigator, a Coroner, to assume it was a early homesteader.
However the investigator detected a stone point partially healed within the right ilium. CT scans revealed the leaf-shaped, serrated Cascade projectile point typical of Southern Plateau tribes from 8500 B.P. to 4500 B.P. So he decided to get a dna analysis and carbon date.
Wow the results came back of over 9000 years old!
Three tribes sued to have the skeleton rebuired quickly to refuse scientist the opportunity to research this unusual find. The Corp of Engineers whose land the skeleton was found on sided with the tribes. Fortunately the scientist won out and are just starting their own research sans any government funds.
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Just in from AP press. NASA scientists (who else) have filtered, frequency shifted and finally decoding this data clip the perplexing message revealed itself to say:
In Soviet Jupiter Space Sounds You
Estimate 150000 US soldiers and support personel.
Further estimate average of the need for TP once per day per person and an average 20 usages per TP roll.
TP_rolls = 150000 / 20 = 7500
Figure in a conservative typical military waste of 25% and loss to enemy capture...
TP_rolls = 7500 * 1.25 = 9375
Realizing that Haliburton probably has the contract for TP in Iraq and this is to the military and this TP has to be delivered to dangerous areas so a reasonable fully burdened rate of $25 per roll
TP_cost = 9375 * $25 = $234375
Wow! Very good for a WAG eh?
W. Churchill once said that "The greatest argument against Democracy is five-minute conversation with the average voter". While funny it has a kernel of truth.
After the last election I was listening to exit interviews on the radio and some guy said he voted for Bush because he fouled up things so bad in his first term he wanted to make sure he had the chance to straighten things out.
I knew 3COM was big, but big enough to buy Microsoft? Wow!
No problem.
I am sure you can find a good MP3 of quality Fan Noise and play it continously and put into the startup scripts.
You will also have the option of turning the volumn up so it can drown out you boss, wife, phone, kids or any other potential distractors.
After reading the the article I wonder why dogs, for example, do not fracture into mutliple species? Great Danes for example do not repoduce with say Boston Terriers. Their genetic line are continously reinforced and isolated.
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The other mechanism that can theoretically divide a species is "reproductive isolation". This occurs when organisms are not separated physically, but "choose" not to breed with each other thereby causing genetic isolation, which amounts to the same thing.
Does this mean that geeks are soon to speciate and then ultimate fail as the male/female ratio is horrendously out of wack?
Yes, but the people chasing him were in plain clothes and he was coming from a bad part of town. I do not know all the details, but if a couple of guys in plain clothes came running after me waving a gun I just might just choose the flight decision path of the the flight or fight if statement - especially if I had a bar bill outstanding.
With that said tho the mulsim's are focusing on this event eventhough it was a mistake and complete ignore the 80 some civilians that islamic extremist kill with intent this weekend in Eygpt.
Yikes! the top two are
1 Oil & Gas $224,398
2 Electric Utilities $221,951
Well we now know whose pocket Joe is in. I am sure he his looking at the global warming issue unbiased.
Bush has come out and said that complying with reduced C02 protocols would destroy the US economy. What does the deep thinker think advanced global warming is going to do? (let alone a failed military adventure in order to ensure continued supply)
But I thought about this awhile and realized the losers in the fight to reduced CO2 production are the traditional energy suppliers like those who support Joe. The winners are the myriad of non-traditional energy suppliers and energy management/conservation firms and gadgeters who are not yet economical viable to have much of a presence of Washington.
Imagine the shift in the ecomomy if the true price of energy was fully represented. For example, the war in Iraq is costing 1 Billion dollars a week. If the war was funded by a tax on petro you would see all sort of creativity in advanced transportation technology and alternative energy sources.
Nice work thanks for the link.
sounded like a very large gaint fart.... Riiiiiiiiiiipppppp.
After watching the bros publish a trash vacant movie just to squeeze the last remaining dollars out the Matrix institution i am prepared to be underVelmed.
Winston Churchill once said that "Democracy is the worst form of government .... except for all the rest."
s/Democracy/Apache/
Whoever decided to use a tab as a delimiter should not be allowed to die a natural death. This "feature" has cause countless hours of loss productivity. At one time the make processor gave some obscure warning on the missing tab and left you scratching your head for hours.
Good point. From this article
.4 mpg).
.4 mpg/10 Amps x 150 ~ 6 MPG's. So this system would decrease the mileage significantly.
Air conditioning and/or electrical loads (headlights, heated back glass, etc.) also result in lower fuel economy (typically less than 1 mpg difference, each 10 Amps takes approximately
So how are they going to squeeze an extra 4 mpg? Did the judge even check the numbers or verify the claims. I pity the poor kids who actually did their homework and got the math right but were edge out because they did not make wild ass claims.
A someone pointed out above you would need about 150 Amps at 12 Volts to provide a meager level of cooling. So using the above numbers
All this reinforces is the concept that fudging the math and the results can really pay off.
The students' research estimates their system would cut millions of pounds of hydrocarbons and nitrous oxides, and billions of pounds of carbon monoxide found in vehicle emissions. It also would increase gas mileage by four miles per gallon and hike horsepower by as much as 4 percent -- saving American drivers billions of dollars in annual gasoline costs.
.3 and a typical R134a vapor compression AC has a COP of about 4. In other words, the existing AC systems are an order of magnitude more efficient. Now how are they going to increase the mileage by 4 and add more horsepower?
;(
Since when do they hand out awards for bad research at best or out-and-out lying. A peltier effect heat pump has a COP of around
They would have to increase the size of the alternator several times to power this a peltier effect heat pump and you would have the unavoidable inefficiencies of converting mechanical energy into electrical to boot.
Why didn't they just mention that this thing runs off of cold fusion - and maybe they could get the University of Utah to endorse it
The point his is trying to make is that a vapor compression air conditioner has a COP of about 4 whilst a peltier effect conditioner is around .3.
Therefore you have to use more energy to cool the car and that energy comes from the fossil fuel powered internal combustion engine albeit indirectly via the alternator. In this case around 10 times more energy, not very efficient.
It's call COP Coefficient of Performance and most heat pumps have greater than 100 percent efficiencies which depend greatly on the temperature differential between the heat sink and the air condition space. It means that it for each Watt of input you can move x watts (x being the COP) between the two thermal reserviors.
How is this insightful? The rating system is an indentifier that lets mindful parents or consumer know what the game content is before purchasing the product. While I would love to have the time to play a game in all of its mode before buying the game and let my children play - it is really not the practical.
Dont worry by the time it hits the market the name will be changed to Foxfire... er... um... no Crossfox thats it and the logo will be a cross dressing fox. I can't wait can you?
And lets keep in mind that IE was based on Spyglass and NCSA Mosaic.
Well in my opinion we should be looking for the "technological silver bullets" becauase that is were the future resides. Bush is worried that the US economy would be wrecked by taxing energy consumption, then what does he think a disastrous war that is costing hundreds of billions of dollars is going to do.
I use to think that people were naive if you thought the war in Iraq was about oil and now I think you are naive if you think it wasn't about the control of oil and contracts in oil field development. Lets just put it this way, the war in Iraq was not about WMD and it wasn't about terrorism.
It is good tho to see Bush acknowledging that our dependance on oil is a national security. Amory Lovins has been saying this for years. In fact, our dependence is not unlike a chemically dependent junkie who will do things to get his next fix that he would not normally do.
Regardless imagine if the money that was spent in Iraq was spent on the development of new demand and supply side technology such as hybrid vehicles, cheap diode lighting, solar sail lighting, better building techniques and terrestrial and extraterrestrial solar energy production, safer and cleaner nuclear, wave energy and of couse the holy grail of fusion energy.
Further the taxing of energy consumption would not create economic disaster as Bush states and as you note in the UK. It would harm certain segments such as traditional energy suppliers but creates and fosters others industries that are self sustaining and pay long term dividends. It would create a whole new economy dedicated to supplying new forms of energy and using what we have more efficiently.
A few years ago I was visiting a backwater part of Alabama and one the locals commented that "family trees around here look like a telephone pole".
Sell a man a phish he can scam for a day, but teach him how to phish and he can scam for himself for a lifetime.
That this was not found in the US. the local tribes would work at getting these tracks buried after a proper ceromony and prevent any further research.
Take Kennewick Man found on the shores of the columbia river. the skeleton was complete and was in unusually good condition. The presence of caucasoid traits, lack of definitive Native-American characteristics, led the original investigator, a Coroner, to assume it was a early homesteader.
However the investigator detected a stone point partially healed within the right ilium. CT scans revealed the leaf-shaped, serrated Cascade projectile point typical of Southern Plateau tribes from 8500 B.P. to 4500 B.P. So he decided to get a dna analysis and carbon date.
Wow the results came back of over 9000 years old!
Three tribes sued to have the skeleton rebuired quickly to refuse scientist the opportunity to research this unusual find. The Corp of Engineers whose land the skeleton was found on sided with the tribes. Fortunately the scientist won out and are just starting their own research sans any government funds.
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