If you can't run a sanity check over what your computers are doing, you aren't an engineer or administrator. You are a message boy, slave to the computer and to who really understands what's going on.
Few foreign governments expect the US to police the world. Taiwan, Israel, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, yes... certainly not Pakistan or Nicaragua. Most countries don't really want the US to play that role.
Social security expenses usually return to the domestic economy, buying american food and houses. Military expenses usually go to 1%s or foreigners, which store it away or spend it outside of US.
IANAG, but I think removing heat wouldn't make such a difference.
There's some process in the mantle feeding this area, adding mass to it. The biggest problem is pressure, since that mass is used to compress the volume under the volcano. When the rock shatters, that pressure is communicated with the surface and then there is an upward flow.
Refrigerating the volume of rock under the volcano won't change much of its pressure.
From a geoengineering point of view, I think that what's necessary is a controlled eruption to alleviate the pressure. But I have no idea how deep it would be necessary to drill.
I would really appreciate if a geologist could correct me here (I'm a mechanical/petroleum engineer)
That money should be used to fund public universities. The government is a much better negotiator than individuals, because the government can fund the entire university itself.
Bad analogy: with a hundred thousand dollars, you can buy an ice cream truck, freezers, ice cream ingredients and hire one person to make and distribute ice creams for a summer. And that's a damn good ice cream truck.
Now show a hundred grand to someone selling ice creams and tell him you will spend that money on ice creams during the summer. And you will buy all that ice cream only from him and negotiate the price daily. Soon you will be buying 100 dolar ice creams cones.
Men demand sex and women demand security, but those are necessary conditions, not sufficient conditions.
Men won't date someone who won't put out or isn't minimally attractive, but once certain minimum requirements are met, men will demand mental or emotional attributes from their partner, besides the sex. For some men, though, those attributes are to shut up and take care of the house; others will be happy with someone who just isn't batshit crazy; and others demand a loving and humble rocket scientist.
Women won't date someone who can't or won't provide, but once minimum requirements are met, etc...
Of course those minimum requirements depend on the person, and those usually depend on how much that person can provide sex or security for their partner.
The theory of Relativity still holds true, what this experiment (if it's accurate) changes is our idea of matter and causality: if neutrinos have imaginary mass, they are allowed to traver faster than light, as tachyons; and causality may have to be revised, from a onward moving arrow to a regular dimension, in which the future can influence the past.
With advanced chip refrigeration, like impinging jet or phase change, you can achieve a very high flops per area. The power consumption, though, increases a lot.
Petroleum engineers have the best starting salaries. And we will be using oil until you retire.
Mechanical engineering has a lot to do with it, so it won't be a huge jump.
I did this myself, I am a mechanical engineer and I'm working in petroleum production now.
Many oil companies define themselves as "energy" companies now, meaning they also have bussiness in renewable sources. They also research on energy efficiency. Of course the big chips are in petroleum technology, but still those companies wan't to remain relevant when fossil stops being our main energy source.
Many governments give aid to renewable energy generation technology, and government contracts can sometimes be very favourable to the private sector.
Automobile engineering isn't a bad field to work in, but energy certainly has better opportunities. Energy companies will pay you full salary to do a doctorate in their field, for example.
Sting operations are a slippery slope. It should be just a method to get good evidence against a dodgy suspect, not push him over the edge. Would he ever commit the crime if not for the sting? Certainly not
How many gullible/desperate/morally dubious people have been unjustly tempted by such schemes?
I don't have much simpathy for the morally dubious, but it is still a low, merciless blow.
"The key to the system developed by inventor Charles Stevens, CEO and chairman of Connecticut-based Laser Power Systems, is that when silvery metal thorium is heated by an external source, it becomes so dense its molecules give off considerable heat."
Someone correct me if this analogy on patent trolls is wrong...
1-The troll buys the street in front of his house from the government. I don't know how, the government just thought it was a good idea.
2-The troll then sits in front of his house with a shotgun, and shoots anyone that walks down the street for trespassing. He empties their pockets and then calls the police, which dutifully takes away the bodies.
3-If anyone asks why he doesn't build a wall or a locked gate, the troll answers that his land is clearly marked in the city hall map and people should check it before daring to walk around.
6.6 billions. It looks like they trusted the soldiers in the field too much and just let them handle the cash the way they saw fit.
A paragraph of the article that got my attention:
"The White House decided to use the money in the so-called Development Fund for Iraq, which was created by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to hold money amassed during the years when Hussein's regime was under crippling economic and trade sanctions."
Why would the WH create that Fund unless they had imediate plans to invade Iraq?
If Bill has any tip of where the body was dropped, this mission is certainly doable. All he needs is some sailor that got the GPS coordinates of the drop point and is willing to take a share of the reward (of course USA won't pay him, but Iran or some sheik could certainly pay so that they can prove that Osama was executed). The GPS coordinates of the path of the ship might be enough too, if the reward is big enough to pay for months of search.
If all info he has is that he was dropped in the Arabian Sea, this will be a shot in the dark.
A biased opinion is just a more convincing way of lying, because the liar actually believes he is right. In that context, lying has a evolutionary advantage because it allows one to siphon resources from others to benefit the spreading of one's own genes. Sound Reason still is an evolutionary advantage, because stuff actually work when you use it, and I prefer to see that faulty reasoning as closer to lying than a "evolutionally useful reasoning".
I would tie it to the hull, with some big tires in between to absorb shock. A crane big enough to lift a container out of the water wouldn't be cheap nor would it fit in small boats. You could carry a nice number of containers with a system like that, maybe using a tandem scheme. This would be dangerous in a storm, but you can always cut loose and hunt down those containers again after the storm.
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So is it a wow with light sabers and Neverwinter Nights 2 quests?
If you can't run a sanity check over what your computers are doing, you aren't an engineer or administrator. You are a message boy, slave to the computer and to who really understands what's going on.
Few foreign governments expect the US to police the world. Taiwan, Israel, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, yes... certainly not Pakistan or Nicaragua. Most countries don't really want the US to play that role.
Social security expenses usually return to the domestic economy, buying american food and houses. Military expenses usually go to 1%s or foreigners, which store it away or spend it outside of US.
IANAG, but I think removing heat wouldn't make such a difference.
There's some process in the mantle feeding this area, adding mass to it. The biggest problem is pressure, since that mass is used to compress the volume under the volcano. When the rock shatters, that pressure is communicated with the surface and then there is an upward flow.
Refrigerating the volume of rock under the volcano won't change much of its pressure.
From a geoengineering point of view, I think that what's necessary is a controlled eruption to alleviate the pressure. But I have no idea how deep it would be necessary to drill.
I would really appreciate if a geologist could correct me here (I'm a mechanical/petroleum engineer)
That money should be used to fund public universities. The government is a much better negotiator than individuals, because the government can fund the entire university itself.
Bad analogy: with a hundred thousand dollars, you can buy an ice cream truck, freezers, ice cream ingredients and hire one person to make and distribute ice creams for a summer. And that's a damn good ice cream truck.
Now show a hundred grand to someone selling ice creams and tell him you will spend that money on ice creams during the summer. And you will buy all that ice cream only from him and negotiate the price daily. Soon you will be buying 100 dolar ice creams cones.
Men demand sex and women demand security, but those are necessary conditions, not sufficient conditions.
Men won't date someone who won't put out or isn't minimally attractive, but once certain minimum requirements are met, men will demand mental or emotional attributes from their partner, besides the sex. For some men, though, those attributes are to shut up and take care of the house; others will be happy with someone who just isn't batshit crazy; and others demand a loving and humble rocket scientist.
Women won't date someone who can't or won't provide, but once minimum requirements are met, etc...
Of course those minimum requirements depend on the person, and those usually depend on how much that person can provide sex or security for their partner.
So software is like clothing?
Bad jokes aside, there is a need for software QC standards.
I am not a physicist, but the wikipedia article states that as the energy of a tachyon increases, its speed decreases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon#Speed
So the supernova neutrinos are more energetic than the ones generated at CERN, as expected.
The theory of Relativity still holds true, what this experiment (if it's accurate) changes is our idea of matter and causality: if neutrinos have imaginary mass, they are allowed to traver faster than light, as tachyons; and causality may have to be revised, from a onward moving arrow to a regular dimension, in which the future can influence the past.
With advanced chip refrigeration, like impinging jet or phase change, you can achieve a very high flops per area. The power consumption, though, increases a lot.
Petroleum engineers have the best starting salaries. And we will be using oil until you retire.
Mechanical engineering has a lot to do with it, so it won't be a huge jump.
I did this myself, I am a mechanical engineer and I'm working in petroleum production now.
Many oil companies define themselves as "energy" companies now, meaning they also have bussiness in renewable sources. They also research on energy efficiency. Of course the big chips are in petroleum technology, but still those companies wan't to remain relevant when fossil stops being our main energy source.
Many governments give aid to renewable energy generation technology, and government contracts can sometimes be very favourable to the private sector.
Automobile engineering isn't a bad field to work in, but energy certainly has better opportunities. Energy companies will pay you full salary to do a doctorate in their field, for example.
ack. Certainly not... enough to qualify as trade secret.
Sting operations are a slippery slope. It should be just a method to get good evidence against a dodgy suspect, not push him over the edge. Would he ever commit the crime if not for the sting? Certainly not
How many gullible/desperate/morally dubious people have been unjustly tempted by such schemes?
I don't have much simpathy for the morally dubious, but it is still a low, merciless blow.
If you assume the system isn't reliable, well, then any measure is useless.
After the order is given, no one can remove it. Shuffle the stack.
No one needs liquidity better than one second for real business.
Because if the video is released after the trial, the cops statement can't be changed.
Releasing after the trial may be worse for the victim, but it's better for society. The choice is yours.
Ah yes, from 0 to 4C. Iron does it too.
But is it enough to ignite nuclear reaction? I don't think so.
"The key to the system developed by inventor Charles Stevens, CEO and chairman of Connecticut-based Laser Power Systems, is that when silvery metal thorium is heated by an external source, it becomes so dense its molecules give off considerable heat."
Density increasing with heat?
This article is a scam.
That "full responsibility" approach led the american health system to its present state.
Sometimes you just have to learn to live with the risk, and try to manage it instead of eliminating it.
Someone correct me if this analogy on patent trolls is wrong...
1-The troll buys the street in front of his house from the government. I don't know how, the government just thought it was a good idea.
2-The troll then sits in front of his house with a shotgun, and shoots anyone that walks down the street for trespassing. He empties their pockets and then calls the police, which dutifully takes away the bodies.
3-If anyone asks why he doesn't build a wall or a locked gate, the troll answers that his land is clearly marked in the city hall map and people should check it before daring to walk around.
It is insanity.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-missing-billions-20110613,0,4414060.story
6.6 billions. It looks like they trusted the soldiers in the field too much and just let them handle the cash the way they saw fit.
A paragraph of the article that got my attention:
"The White House decided to use the money in the so-called Development Fund for Iraq, which was created by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to hold money amassed during the years when Hussein's regime was under crippling economic and trade sanctions."
Why would the WH create that Fund unless they had imediate plans to invade Iraq?
If Bill has any tip of where the body was dropped, this mission is certainly doable. All he needs is some sailor that got the GPS coordinates of the drop point and is willing to take a share of the reward (of course USA won't pay him, but Iran or some sheik could certainly pay so that they can prove that Osama was executed).
The GPS coordinates of the path of the ship might be enough too, if the reward is big enough to pay for months of search.
If all info he has is that he was dropped in the Arabian Sea, this will be a shot in the dark.
A biased opinion is just a more convincing way of lying, because the liar actually believes he is right. In that context, lying has a evolutionary advantage because it allows one to siphon resources from others to benefit the spreading of one's own genes.
Sound Reason still is an evolutionary advantage, because stuff actually work when you use it, and I prefer to see that faulty reasoning as closer to lying than a "evolutionally useful reasoning".
I would tie it to the hull, with some big tires in between to absorb shock. A crane big enough to lift a container out of the water wouldn't be cheap nor would it fit in small boats.
You could carry a nice number of containers with a system like that, maybe using a tandem scheme. This would be dangerous in a storm, but you can always cut loose and hunt down those containers again after the storm.
"while very effective ways of getting information and cooperation have been perfected for decades..."
Do you mind clarifying? With examples, please.