Excellent point. More surveillance is more potential for truth. Explaining this is an uphill battle here on/.
Corruption in 3rd world countries could be greatly reduced if there was enforcement of simple logging of police arrests, tickets, etc.
I see very few good reasons not to be open to implementation of widespread surveillance.
You, my friend, are smoking crack. Show me a Core duo PC that actually uses 400w of power in a typical (playing BattleField 2142) scenario. Maybe if you have Dual SLI and are including a 5.1 speaker setup and 20" CRT, then you might get up to 400w.
Just because a PSU is rated for 500w does not mean it will ever actually put out that much power.
On a 40' cruising sailboat: weight of a typical 40 HP diesel + 50 gallons fuel = over 850 lbs. So, you just rip that out and replace with an electric motor plus the equivalent weight in batteries. You dont need to touch the lead in the ballast but, it certainly would be a design consideration if you were building a new boat specifically to use mainly batteries for propulsion. The scenario I posited above is for a single-hulled sailboat with an electric auxiliary drive. Catamarans and trimarans dont use as much ballast since they rely on the outboard hull to provide stability. Weight is a huge consideration in the design of catamarans because too much weight in the wrong place kills performance (and possibly stability as well). So, I doubt they are using standard lead acid batteries on their boat.
Whoa! someone here actually knows what he's talking about! Hybrid is the way to go for exactly the reason you gave. Generally, you get the most sun when there is no wind and the windiest days have the least sun. The other great thing about wind/solar hybrids is that when you are under wind power, the electric motor acts as an alternator, charging your batteries. This technology is already in use in hybrid sailboats. Solomon technologies has a law suit open against Toyota because they brought the hybrid idea to market first (and patented it).
But yeah, hybrid wind/solar is the future for cruising sailboats.
An ocean going sailboat of similar size to the one they built will cost you a half million or so also. Modern sail handling equipment costs far more than you would expect. A solar installation is very simple and straight forward by comparison (a typical cruising sailboat will have sails, diesel engine, solar panels or wind generator and maybe even a diesel gen-set as well) with the solar set up, you get rid of most of that.
I dont think these systems use lead acid batteries. More likely lithium polymer or AGM (absorbed glass mat) which have higher energy density. Also, as someone already mentioned, sealed AGM batteries for example, can be placed in the boat's bilge and used as ballast. My sailboat has over 7000 lbs of lead in the ballast which could be perfectly well replaced with the equivalent weight in batteries.
Off road transport also means great expense to install new lines "direct to the end of your street". More useful would be robotic cars that follow magnets laid in the street like the poster below describes.
Hang on to your hats, folks. What it means to be human is going to change radically in the next 50 years - and more along the lines of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World than Orwell's 1984. There could be huge benefits to TIA (see below). If the UK gouvernment implemented a law where the cops get to kick whomever they please in the tukus for no particular reason, the populace could vote them out.
My point is, who is suffering with this extreme surveilance? Is there an example of some dude with his head in a dark cage with rabid squirrels biting his face? - Made possible by TIA?
Yes, the government is controlling the population through fear. But they have not crossed the line into physically harming the population - far from it - Citizens in the UK and USA live fat and happy lives. That is a big part of the reason the government is able to get away with this stuff. There is no pressing reason for people to resist it.
Benefits of TIA: - Much less crime - No locks or keys to slow you down. Think Single Sign On but for real life. - Accurate accounting/paper trail for everything. This is neccessary for a smooth running civil society. Go to a 3rd world country sometime for an example of the converse.
The typical slashdotter is very "information aware" in their own life. Why shouldn't governments aspire to be the same? You can always move to Uganda if you dont like it.
Tell me what evolution is about then. To me it can be very simple: Some group of something used to exist and now it doesn't Or Some group of something didn't exist and now it does. (this is the more common interpretation).
Also, we are used to studying evolution over long periods of time but, I dont see why it cant happen over a generation. I mean, if you build a road in town and there happen to be a group of squirrels that know how to cross the street without getting squished, evolution happens fast, no? Just as fast as the environment changes.
Why not just quarrantine countries with the super-plague? Stop all flights. That seems much simpler than trying to develop a colony on some far away planet (or moon). My idea is boring, I know, but... logical.
I used to be sure that trains would be more common in a future with more expensive fuel but, now I'm thinking there is a technical solution to our inefficient car system = virtual trains. Take adaptive cruise control and give a car the ability to steer itself and you have basically trains on wheels. The cars could take advantage of the car-in-front's slip stream like cyclists in a peloton and ride each others bumpers. Electric engines and the right gearing could make this very, very efficient. The cars would need to communicate with each other so that the cars could de-couple when certain cars need to exit the highway or whatever. The technology to do all this exists today and it could save a great deal of energy.
Happy trails! The earth "destroyed" by every imaginable human and environmental catastrophe would still be more habitable than any other place in the known galaxy: 1) Our bodies require a certain gravity over the long term. 2) Food, oxygen, yadda, yadda. 3) The amazing technology that could allow us to leave earth long-term requires a very wide diversity of raw materials. What happens when your ice drill breaks on mars?
Bottom line is that we would need a very earth-like planet to survive and I think that the earth in a "destroyed" state would still be more earth-like than some other planet.
Best to pick the low hanging fruit first : 1) Get rid of your incandescant light bulbs. 2) More fuel efficient transportation 3) more efficient home heating and cooling (I spend ~$3,500/year to heat my triplex)
Those 3 really soak up huge amounts of energy. A laptop in sleep mode is not worth considering in comparison.
The eminent domain ruling stated that the federal government does not have the right to decide if a local government can take private property from one party and give it to another. That right belongs to the local (or state) government.
After that SCOTUS descision, many state governments became interested in better defining their eminent domain laws. Here in Minnesota, for example, they is legislation on the table that would prevent the kind of thing that occured in the original state (I'm too lazy to look it up).
But in sum, I'm not sure that granting states the right to make their own crazy laws is such a bad thing. If you dont like the idea that the government can take your land, move to a different state that has tougher eminent domain laws.
Like many SCOTUS rulings, it would be very hard to say if this was a good or bad thing. It's just the way it is.
Excellent point. More broadly, There needs to be cultural change in these devastated societies. The Bill and Melinda foundation is treating the symptoms. Cultural change is the only cure.
I live in Roch too. Used to have a membership at the Blockbuster on civic center drv. but dropped it for Netflix. Then Netflix started throtteling me so, now I use Hollywood video's monthly plan. $17 for truely unlimited rentals - only caveat is that you have to wait 3 months before you can rent the big new releases. Not a problem since, if I could wait for it to come to video, I can wait a little while longer.
Anyway, I dont have any cable service so I watch TV shows from hollywood video. 6 feet under has me addicted. The other option for watching HBO shows is paying the cable company like $50/mo. nooooo thanks.
It's no rumor. I've seen these two movies at blockbuster: Man bites dog Y tu mama tambien I bought the movies afterward and got to see the scenes that Blockbuster (or someone at least) edited out.
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Excellent point. More surveillance is more potential for truth. Explaining this is an uphill battle here on /.
Corruption in 3rd world countries could be greatly reduced if there was enforcement of simple logging of police arrests, tickets, etc.
I see very few good reasons not to be open to implementation of widespread surveillance.
David Brent? Is that you??
You, my friend, are smoking crack. Show me a Core duo PC that actually uses 400w of power in a typical (playing BattleField 2142) scenario. Maybe if you have Dual SLI and are including a 5.1 speaker setup and 20" CRT, then you might get up to 400w.
Just because a PSU is rated for 500w does not mean it will ever actually put out that much power.
You need to buy a kill-a-watt:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/7657/
If the PS3 actually uses 380w of power, that is one thirty piece of crap.
I can stop whenever I wa
And you are keeping us laughing with your incorrect use of the word "two".
Jeeeezzz those Wired authors must be paid by the word. I swear that article could be summed up in 3 sentences (not that I have the time to do it).
On a 40' cruising sailboat:
weight of a typical 40 HP diesel + 50 gallons fuel = over 850 lbs.
So, you just rip that out and replace with an electric motor plus the equivalent weight in batteries.
You dont need to touch the lead in the ballast but, it certainly would be a design consideration if you were building a new boat specifically to use mainly batteries for propulsion. The scenario I posited above is for a single-hulled sailboat with an electric auxiliary drive.
Catamarans and trimarans dont use as much ballast since they rely on the outboard hull to provide stability. Weight is a huge consideration in the design of catamarans because too much weight in the wrong place kills performance (and possibly stability as well).
So, I doubt they are using standard lead acid batteries on their boat.
Whoa! someone here actually knows what he's talking about!
Hybrid is the way to go for exactly the reason you gave. Generally, you get the most sun when there is no wind and the windiest days have the least sun.
The other great thing about wind/solar hybrids is that when you are under wind power, the electric motor acts as an alternator, charging your batteries.
This technology is already in use in hybrid sailboats. Solomon technologies has a law suit open against Toyota because they brought the hybrid idea to market first (and patented it).
But yeah, hybrid wind/solar is the future for cruising sailboats.
An ocean going sailboat of similar size to the one they built will cost you a half million or so also. Modern sail handling equipment costs far more than you would expect. A solar installation is very simple and straight forward by comparison (a typical cruising sailboat will have sails, diesel engine, solar panels or wind generator and maybe even a diesel gen-set as well) with the solar set up, you get rid of most of that.
I dont think these systems use lead acid batteries. More likely lithium polymer or AGM (absorbed glass mat) which have higher energy density.
Also, as someone already mentioned, sealed AGM batteries for example, can be placed in the boat's bilge and used as ballast. My sailboat has over 7000 lbs of lead in the ballast which could be perfectly well replaced with the equivalent weight in batteries.
Off road transport also means great expense to install new lines "direct to the end of your street". More useful would be robotic cars that follow magnets laid in the street like the poster below describes.
Hang on to your hats, folks. What it means to be human is going to change radically in the next 50 years - and more along the lines of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World than Orwell's 1984. There could be huge benefits to TIA (see below).
If the UK gouvernment implemented a law where the cops get to kick whomever they please in the tukus for no particular reason, the populace could vote them out.
My point is, who is suffering with this extreme surveilance? Is there an example of some dude with his head in a dark cage with rabid squirrels biting his face? - Made possible by TIA?
Yes, the government is controlling the population through fear. But they have not crossed the line into physically harming the population - far from it - Citizens in the UK and USA live fat and happy lives. That is a big part of the reason the government is able to get away with this stuff. There is no pressing reason for people to resist it.
Benefits of TIA:
- Much less crime
- No locks or keys to slow you down. Think Single Sign On but for real life.
- Accurate accounting/paper trail for everything. This is neccessary for a smooth running civil society. Go to a 3rd world country sometime for an example of the converse.
The typical slashdotter is very "information aware" in their own life. Why shouldn't governments aspire to be the same?
You can always move to Uganda if you dont like it.
Tell me what evolution is about then. To me it can be very simple:
Some group of something used to exist and now it doesn't
Or
Some group of something didn't exist and now it does. (this is the more common interpretation).
Also, we are used to studying evolution over long periods of time but, I dont see why it cant happen over a generation. I mean, if you build a road in town and there happen to be a group of squirrels that know how to cross the street without getting squished, evolution happens fast, no?
Just as fast as the environment changes.
Why not just quarrantine countries with the super-plague? Stop all flights.
That seems much simpler than trying to develop a colony on some far away planet (or moon).
My idea is boring, I know, but... logical.
The male mosquito is like 3-4 times the size of the female. But only the females bite.
I used to be sure that trains would be more common in a future with more expensive fuel but, now I'm thinking there is a technical solution to our inefficient car system = virtual trains.
Take adaptive cruise control and give a car the ability to steer itself and you have basically trains on wheels. The cars could take advantage of the car-in-front's slip stream like cyclists in a peloton and ride each others bumpers. Electric engines and the right gearing could make this very, very efficient. The cars would need to communicate with each other so that the cars could de-couple when certain cars need to exit the highway or whatever. The technology to do all this exists today and it could save a great deal of energy.
I dont suppose you'd mind if I killed you, right? Survival of the fittest and all.
Hear hear!
wish I had mod points.
Happy trails!
The earth "destroyed" by every imaginable human and environmental catastrophe would still be more habitable than any other place in the known galaxy:
1) Our bodies require a certain gravity over the long term.
2) Food, oxygen, yadda, yadda.
3) The amazing technology that could allow us to leave earth long-term requires a very wide diversity of raw materials. What happens when your ice drill breaks on mars?
Bottom line is that we would need a very earth-like planet to survive and I think that the earth in a "destroyed" state would still be more earth-like than some other planet.
Best to pick the low hanging fruit first :
1) Get rid of your incandescant light bulbs.
2) More fuel efficient transportation
3) more efficient home heating and cooling (I spend ~$3,500/year to heat my triplex)
Those 3 really soak up huge amounts of energy. A laptop in sleep mode is not worth considering in comparison.
The eminent domain ruling stated that the federal government does not have the right to decide if a local government can take private property from one party and give it to another. That right belongs to the local (or state) government.
After that SCOTUS descision, many state governments became interested in better defining their eminent domain laws.
Here in Minnesota, for example, they is legislation on the table that would prevent the kind of thing that occured in the original state (I'm too lazy to look it up).
But in sum, I'm not sure that granting states the right to make their own crazy laws is such a bad thing. If you dont like the idea that the government can take your land, move to a different state that has tougher eminent domain laws.
Like many SCOTUS rulings, it would be very hard to say if this was a good or bad thing. It's just the way it is.
Excellent point.
More broadly, There needs to be cultural change in these devastated societies. The Bill and Melinda foundation is treating the symptoms. Cultural change is the only cure.
After all, you can't eat the stuff.
No but, you can drink it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldschlager
I live in Roch too. Used to have a membership at the Blockbuster on civic center drv. but dropped it for Netflix. Then Netflix started throtteling me so, now I use Hollywood video's monthly plan. $17 for truely unlimited rentals - only caveat is that you have to wait 3 months before you can rent the big new releases. Not a problem since, if I could wait for it to come to video, I can wait a little while longer.
Anyway, I dont have any cable service so I watch TV shows from hollywood video. 6 feet under has me addicted. The other option for watching HBO shows is paying the cable company like $50/mo. nooooo thanks.
It's no rumor. I've seen these two movies at blockbuster:
Man bites dog
Y tu mama tambien
I bought the movies afterward and got to see the scenes that Blockbuster (or someone at least) edited out.