Firstly, I apologize for writing cations instead of anions -- I was typing really fast, and noticed the mistake after I posted it. But your assertion about polarization having to be in some absolute direction is totally wrong -- charges are points, and charge interaction is relative. So when you are repelled or attracted, it is in a direction relative to whatever is repelling or attracting you. The cylinder assertion is nonsense -- we're not talking about shielding here, we're talking about polarization, and graphene is highly polarizable, with all its free electrons. When I mentioned the idea of hydraulic brakes, I was thinking of Bernoulli's Principle, and the idea that hydraulic brakes take a force and concentrate it into a smaller area. Nanotubes do that too -- haven't you heard of H2O and other molecules exhibiting strange properties when shunted into nanotubes?
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If the free electron argument is correct, then you could use multi-wall nanotubes. Imagine having your radioactive waste flow into a multi-wall nanotube, which has many layers like an onion. Meanwhile you concentrate negative charge around the outside of the nanotube, perhaps using cations. The negative charge around the outside layer will force its electrons to migrate inward, which will force the electrons on the next layer below to migrate inward, which will force the electrons on the next layer below to migrate inward, and so on and so on... it would be a sort of Radial Polarization
This would ultimately have the effect of focusing more and more electric charge into a smaller area -- sort of analogous to the principle behind hydraulic brakes.
I don't think anybody's ever thought of radially polarizing a molecule before (probably because before fullerenes, no molecule had an inside and outside) -- hmm, could I get a patent on that idea?
Anyway, with all that unprecedented free electron charge at the interior of the nanotube, then perhaps it could more strongly accelerate that electroweak decay (IF their research is correct)
I think that Microsoft sees the waterfall drop looming at the end of the river not so far away. They know that Vista will be a flop, and they're scrambling to start sucking in the revenues as quickly as they can. Soon they'll be charging for basic hotmail and for MSNBC, if things keep going like this.
No wonder Gates has decided to gracefully bow out and go into his charity work fulltime. He knows his days of pirating other peoples' ideas are over. There's nothing left to pirate. They already pirated windows from the Mac, pirated Xbox from Playstation, pirated Internet Explorer from Netscape, pirated Word from Wordperfect, pirated Excel from Lotus, etc.
Now there's nothing left to pirate. Unless they can develop Grey Goo to digest the planet, there isn't anything more they can find to pirate. They're headed to Davy Jones' locker.
What garbage. You're calling free market enterprise a zero-sum game.
If you could wave a magic wand and suddenly make half the US population disappear, would that mean there'd suddenly be a flood of job openings because half the population was suddenly not showing up for work? Nonsense, your market would have also been cut in half, thus halving the number of available job opportunities.
The converse is similarly true -- if people in other countries start joining the workforce, then does that suddenly reduce your job opportunities? Hell no, because all those new working people are also increasing the size of the consumer market, and therefore increasing the number of job opportunities available.
If anything, a larger economic pool is better than a smaller one, since it will be able to buffer against recessions and local swings much more effectively. There are piles of reasons to want the free market to grow larger.
Why is it greedy to offer more service on more efficient and economical terms? Gee, I guess you'd better flog the scientists who invented the digital camera for putting so many chemical film makers out of work. Or the people who invented the MP3 format for giving the rich Hollywood execs sleepless nights.
Why don't you curse AMD for offering their efficient processors as an alternative to Intel's?
Sorry, but offering more for less is not a crime. It's called competition, and if there wasn't any AMD alternative, we'd be stuck with 300Mhz computers right now.
Nah, as a consumer, I'll take competition any day, along with its benefits. I'll leave jealousy for the petty, bitter people.
Nonsense, right now wages in the 3rd world are spiraling upwards - especially in these outsourced sectors. As their cost-advantage continues to decrease, these 3rd world companies are having to improve the quality of their work.
All that means is eventually there will be lots more higher-quality engineers on the playing field, churning out many more high-quality goods and services that the consumer will benefit from.
This is more like text and maybe some still pics. It will be transmitted over radio-style or cellphone-style handsets. So you're listening to your pocket radio type of device, and it'll display some text and still-pics too.
But like any judiciary, the case has to brought before it.
You have to bear in mind that this govt is a Left-wing coalition, and so their willingness to resort to things like censorship will be greater.
The center-right political opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party, have in the past championed laws such as the Prasar Bharati Act to protect independence of the media from arbitrary government censorship, precisely because the Indian Left have a long history of playing these types of games.
That's why the Left favors the notion of big govt at every oppportunity, because they like to use Big Brother tactics on political opponents.
Read here about the State of Emergency which was declared by the Congress Party in 1977 as a stunt to grab absolute power and arrest political opponents.
The Supreme Court struck down the Emergency with their court ruling, and despatched law enforcement personnel to arrest Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who had re-named her party Congress(I) -- I for Indira.
Just imagine how much you'd save. Firstly, cost per mile is cheaper, based on what you pay for electricity out of your socket compared to buying gas. Nextly, electric motors are a simpler setup that don't need all that maintenance. You could drive that thing for a much longer time without even needing any repairs. No lube jobs needed, and with
All you have to do is replace the batteries, probably once a year. And if the newer-technology ultra-capacitors get used, then you wouldn't have to replace them ever. You could have a vehicle that might require no maintenance at all for the life of the car.
But gee, I'd hate to get hit from behind because I didn't hear the damn thing coming. You'd have to build some kind of noise-maker into it. Also, what about accidental electrocutions? Could you get electrocuted in an accident? Could people maliciously misuse that kind of mobile power source to zap people they don't like?
The Left-wing Congress-led ruling govt is showing that it finds blogs a threat. Let's take a look at some of the sites which our Leftists have decided they want to ban:
"Some of the websites that have been blocked are Dalitstan.org, Clickatell.com, Hinduhumanrights.org and Hinduunity.com"
Okay, so since these bans are taking place in the wake of the Mumbai train bombings, am I supposed to believe that the people from Hinduhumanrights.org planted RDX plastic explosives on those trains?
No, this is an opportunity for our Left-wing thought police to slip in some crackdowns on people they don't like -- especially those not sharing their same Left-wing ideology.
The Left-wing Congress coalition won't do a damn thing to stop Pakistan and its jihad machine -- oh, but they will ban the 'nefarious' Hindus who might complain about the Congress Party's biased policies. Subversive phrases like "HinduHumanRights" must not be tolerated. Sounds like slapping a gag on the victims to shut up their annoying cries for help. Better that than actually exerting some effort to get Pakistan off our backs.
I'm an atheist, and I don't believe in any Hindu deity, nor do I pray to any Hindu god, nor do I attend any Hindu places of worship. But that doesn't mean I believe jihadi terrorists armed by Pakistan should be allowed to kill infidels like myself with impunity. I therefore don't see any objectionable material presented on the website HinduHumanrights.org
I don't see that it attacks or vilifies any other religion, including Islam. I don't see how complaining about the murder of Pandits in Kashmir constitutes Hate Speech. I don't see a reason to ban this site as hate-mongering. I do see that the spineless Congress-led govt would rather suppress complaints about their ineffectiveness against Islamic terrorism rather than addressing them.
The Left-wing are frightened of blogs and populist journalism. They'd rather only have a media with a firm brick-and-mortar address which they can control and pressure more easily.
Ham-fisted behavior from our Left-wing tinpot luncheon-leaders.
Which immediately leads me to say, "In Congress-ruled India, Spam blocks you!"
It's more likely to occur to a country that's engaged in conflicts on a number of soils around the world (ie. The United States of America)
As you know, a superpower will tend to have a finger in every pie, which increases the chances of getting burned.
The thing is that they're not even real liberals, they're just Atlanticists -- the new politically correct form of Euro-centrism -- in a liberal guise.
They love to screech and squawk about the huge military spending spree by the Bush admin, but when the question of NATO funding comes up, they'll screech and squawk just as hard in defense of the NATO gravy train.
On the Iraq war, they try and make themselves sound like saintly liberal peaceniks, but on the issue of building bridges towards Moscow and retiring the old ColdWar relic that is NATO, then suddenly the NYT sound like die-hard Cold Warriors, spies who haven't come in from the cold.
So I find their ethnically slanted and selective liberalism to be deplorable. Depending on which ethnic group they're commenting on, and depending on that group's disposition towards Europe, the NYT will selectively call the glass half-empty or half-full.
Selective liberalism is not liberalism at all. Liberalism is indeed very amenable to being misused by those who wish to wage machiavellian games of geopolitics under a humanitarian pretext, accompanied by holier-than-thou posturing and platitudes.
The Gray Lady is looking very old -- like a dinosaur, in fact.
Hey fatman, unlike the Pahlavi dynasts, India's democratic polity has mastered the art of populism, which is unfortunately why India has been poor for 60 years. Because while populism may get you votes, it doesn't necessarily produce economic growth -- quite often the contrary, actually.
India needs industrialization, because the fact is that most people can't become programmers or even call-center workers overnight. No country can skip the necessary step of creating a blue-collar working class.
Buddy, I'm born in North America, and raised in both countries. My roommate is black and so are my neighbors, you cracker.
"Have I ever met a black person?" -- pffft.
According to you I couldn't have -- I must have been too busy polishing the diamonds handed to be by the sweatshop workers in my gem-cutting business in Mumbai. Oh, a Shylock's day is never done.
I consider the New York Times to be a European embassy on US soil.
They're just some sort of ugly bastion, as far as I'm concerned. They're a very ethnically partisan newspaper.
The Gray Lady is really looking dour and gray these days. When blogging first emerged as an alternative to traditional media, I saw the NYT issuing rapidfire articles aimed at discrediting blogging. They gave up on that tack when they saw how useless it was.
I've never seen them write a positive article on India. If you literally do a search of NYT articles on India or any Indian, every one of them is negative. Likewise, I've never seen them write a single positive thing about Russians.
It's like NYT is trying to re-launch old European imperial campaigns in the guise of liberalism. I don't accept ethnically partisan liberalism at all, and whenever I see NYT spin happening, it always telegraphs its ethnic biases.
Hey, as a person of Indian descent born in North America, I just want to enlighten the Gringo tourists with their North American english -- the phrase "backward caste" is an actual part of the lexicon in India, and it's commonly used by members of the said communities.
It's like when Africans are called "black" -- black relative to what? Don't try and reflexively transpose linguistic conventions that you're familiar with to other countries where the evolution of language has been totally different.
Does the NAACP have an antiquated name? Colored relative to what?
The word "caste" is an english word, and not a word of local origin.
The British may have liked to use such clinical terms, but post-colonial India has merely inherited that terminology baggage, rather than coining it.
I strongly disagree -- the problems are due to socialism and the command economy, which destroy economic flexibility and fluidity.
When Stalin starved the Ukrainians, the socialist fanclub quickly laid blame on the Kulaks land-owners for the tragedy, which as we all know was a ridiculous cop-out.
I'd categorically assert that it's physically impossible for some ultra-clever conspiracy by 1.3M Shylocks to keep down 400M people.
The fact is that you can only build Call Centres in India, and the socialist "license Raj" still makes it very difficult to build factories there, in order to generate a blue-collar workforce. It's not like China's dictatorship, which has been able to force through strongly capital-friendly laws to entice rich investors from everywhere to build factories.
If you can't build up a blue-collar base, then uneducated non-english speakers end up disproportionately marginalized from the Call Centre economy.
Indian govts have been gradually trying to punch holes into the socialist curtain by imitating China in establishing Special Economic Zones, with more investor-friendly laws. But social activists loudly protest and hinder these types of moves -- they're pre-emptively protesting industrialization before it can even happen or get off the ground.
If you think that Unions are a pampered and lazy lot in developed countries, then you've never seen how good they have it in India. Organized workers represent a staggeringly huge political force in India, despite the fact that they're a miniscule fraction of the working population as a whole. So the policies that Unions have arm-twisted into place to protect their jobs have left the wider populace out in the cold. Now that is a terrible tragedy.
If the one-man wing is a feasible concept, why couldn't it be feasible to have a one-man mini-gyroplane concept? At least a gyro is more maneuverable and can land on all kinds of inhospitable terrain. And if it's carrying just one lone guy, then perhaps the rotor-span could be suitably shortened. The user would be expected to land on their own two feet.
Gee, that's a scary thought: you survive the harrowing high-speed descent and come to a full stop on the ground -- only to be crushed by the 200lbs that's sitting on your back.
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Firstly, I apologize for writing cations instead of anions -- I was typing really fast, and noticed the mistake after I posted it. But your assertion about polarization having to be in some absolute direction is totally wrong -- charges are points, and charge interaction is relative. So when you are repelled or attracted, it is in a direction relative to whatever is repelling or attracting you. The cylinder assertion is nonsense -- we're not talking about shielding here, we're talking about polarization, and graphene is highly polarizable, with all its free electrons. When I mentioned the idea of hydraulic brakes, I was thinking of Bernoulli's Principle, and the idea that hydraulic brakes take a force and concentrate it into a smaller area. Nanotubes do that too -- haven't you heard of H2O and other molecules exhibiting strange properties when shunted into nanotubes?
This would ultimately have the effect of focusing more and more electric charge into a smaller area -- sort of analogous to the principle behind hydraulic brakes.
I don't think anybody's ever thought of radially polarizing a molecule before (probably because before fullerenes, no molecule had an inside and outside) -- hmm, could I get a patent on that idea?
Anyway, with all that unprecedented free electron charge at the interior of the nanotube, then perhaps it could more strongly accelerate that electroweak decay (IF their research is correct)
Accelerated decay of radioactive waste could make nuclear power much more practical:
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/7/13/1
That would allow us to power electric cars off the grid.
I think that Microsoft sees the waterfall drop looming at the end of the river not so far away. They know that Vista will be a flop, and they're scrambling to start sucking in the revenues as quickly as they can. Soon they'll be charging for basic hotmail and for MSNBC, if things keep going like this.
No wonder Gates has decided to gracefully bow out and go into his charity work fulltime. He knows his days of pirating other peoples' ideas are over. There's nothing left to pirate. They already pirated windows from the Mac, pirated Xbox from Playstation, pirated Internet Explorer from Netscape, pirated Word from Wordperfect, pirated Excel from Lotus, etc.
Now there's nothing left to pirate. Unless they can develop Grey Goo to digest the planet, there isn't anything more they can find to pirate. They're headed to Davy Jones' locker.
What garbage. You're calling free market enterprise a zero-sum game.
If you could wave a magic wand and suddenly make half the US population disappear, would that mean there'd suddenly be a flood of job openings because half the population was suddenly not showing up for work? Nonsense, your market would have also been cut in half, thus halving the number of available job opportunities.
The converse is similarly true -- if people in other countries start joining the workforce, then does that suddenly reduce your job opportunities? Hell no, because all those new working people are also increasing the size of the consumer market, and therefore increasing the number of job opportunities available.
If anything, a larger economic pool is better than a smaller one, since it will be able to buffer against recessions and local swings much more effectively. There are piles of reasons to want the free market to grow larger.
Why is it greedy to offer more service on more efficient and economical terms?
Gee, I guess you'd better flog the scientists who invented the digital camera for putting so many chemical film makers out of work. Or the people who invented the MP3 format for giving the rich Hollywood execs sleepless nights.
Why don't you curse AMD for offering their efficient processors as an alternative to Intel's?
Sorry, but offering more for less is not a crime. It's called competition, and if there wasn't any AMD alternative, we'd be stuck with 300Mhz computers right now.
Nah, as a consumer, I'll take competition any day, along with its benefits.
I'll leave jealousy for the petty, bitter people.
Nonsense, right now wages in the 3rd world are spiraling upwards - especially in these outsourced sectors. As their cost-advantage continues to decrease, these 3rd world companies are having to improve the quality of their work.
All that means is eventually there will be lots more higher-quality engineers on the playing field, churning out many more high-quality goods and services that the consumer will benefit from.
Was that a tentacle joke?
This is more like text and maybe some still pics. It will be transmitted over radio-style or cellphone-style handsets. So you're listening to your pocket radio type of device, and it'll display some text and still-pics too.
You have to bear in mind that this govt is a Left-wing coalition, and so their willingness to resort to things like censorship will be greater.
The center-right political opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party, have in the past championed laws such as the Prasar Bharati Act to protect independence of the media from arbitrary government censorship, precisely because the Indian Left have a long history of playing these types of games.
That's why the Left favors the notion of big govt at every oppportunity, because they like to use Big Brother tactics on political opponents.
Read here about the State of Emergency which was declared by the Congress Party in 1977 as a stunt to grab absolute power and arrest political opponents.
The Supreme Court struck down the Emergency with their court ruling, and despatched law enforcement personnel to arrest Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who had re-named her party Congress(I) -- I for Indira.
Just imagine how much you'd save. Firstly, cost per mile is cheaper, based on what you pay for electricity out of your socket compared to buying gas. Nextly, electric motors are a simpler setup that don't need all that maintenance. You could drive that thing for a much longer time without even needing any repairs. No lube jobs needed, and with
All you have to do is replace the batteries, probably once a year. And if the newer-technology ultra-capacitors get used, then you wouldn't have to replace them ever. You could have a vehicle that might require no maintenance at all for the life of the car.
But gee, I'd hate to get hit from behind because I didn't hear the damn thing coming. You'd have to build some kind of noise-maker into it. Also, what about accidental electrocutions? Could you get electrocuted in an accident? Could people maliciously misuse that kind of mobile power source to zap people they don't like?
...nah, actually I don't welcome this.
The Left-wing Congress-led ruling govt is showing that it finds blogs a threat. Let's take a look at some of the sites which our Leftists have decided they want to ban:
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/8719.html
Okay, so since these bans are taking place in the wake of the Mumbai train bombings, am I supposed to believe that the people from Hinduhumanrights.org planted RDX plastic explosives on those trains?
No, this is an opportunity for our Left-wing thought police to slip in some crackdowns on people they don't like -- especially those not sharing their same Left-wing ideology.
The Left-wing Congress coalition won't do a damn thing to stop Pakistan and its jihad machine -- oh, but they will ban the 'nefarious' Hindus who might complain about the Congress Party's biased policies. Subversive phrases like "HinduHumanRights" must not be tolerated. Sounds like slapping a gag on the victims to shut up their annoying cries for help. Better that than actually exerting some effort to get Pakistan off our backs.
I'm an atheist, and I don't believe in any Hindu deity, nor do I pray to any Hindu god, nor do I attend any Hindu places of worship. But that doesn't mean I believe jihadi terrorists armed by Pakistan should be allowed to kill infidels like myself with impunity. I therefore don't see any objectionable material presented on the website HinduHumanrights.org
I don't see that it attacks or vilifies any other religion, including Islam. I don't see how complaining about the murder of Pandits in Kashmir constitutes Hate Speech. I don't see a reason to ban this site as hate-mongering. I do see that the spineless Congress-led govt would rather suppress complaints about their ineffectiveness against Islamic terrorism rather than addressing them.
The Left-wing are frightened of blogs and populist journalism. They'd rather only have a media with a firm brick-and-mortar address which they can control and pressure more easily.
Ham-fisted behavior from our Left-wing tinpot luncheon-leaders.
Which immediately leads me to say, "In Congress-ruled India, Spam blocks you!"
It's more likely to occur to a country that's engaged in conflicts on a number of soils around the world (ie. The United States of America) As you know, a superpower will tend to have a finger in every pie, which increases the chances of getting burned.
The thing is that they're not even real liberals, they're just Atlanticists -- the new politically correct form of Euro-centrism -- in a liberal guise.
They love to screech and squawk about the huge military spending spree by the Bush admin, but when the question of NATO funding comes up, they'll screech and squawk just as hard in defense of the NATO gravy train.
On the Iraq war, they try and make themselves sound like saintly liberal peaceniks, but on the issue of building bridges towards Moscow and retiring the old ColdWar relic that is NATO, then suddenly the NYT sound like die-hard Cold Warriors, spies who haven't come in from the cold.
So I find their ethnically slanted and selective liberalism to be deplorable. Depending on which ethnic group they're commenting on, and depending on that group's disposition towards Europe, the NYT will selectively call the glass half-empty or half-full.
Selective liberalism is not liberalism at all. Liberalism is indeed very amenable to being misused by those who wish to wage machiavellian games of geopolitics under a humanitarian pretext, accompanied by holier-than-thou posturing and platitudes.
The Gray Lady is looking very old -- like a dinosaur, in fact.
Hey fatman, unlike the Pahlavi dynasts, India's democratic polity has mastered the art of populism, which is unfortunately why India has been poor for 60 years. Because while populism may get you votes, it doesn't necessarily produce economic growth -- quite often the contrary, actually.
India needs industrialization, because the fact is that most people can't become programmers or even call-center workers overnight. No country can skip the necessary step of creating a blue-collar working class.
Buddy, I'm born in North America, and raised in both countries. My roommate is black and so are my neighbors, you cracker.
"Have I ever met a black person?" -- pffft.
According to you I couldn't have -- I must have been too busy polishing the diamonds handed to be by the sweatshop workers in my gem-cutting business in Mumbai. Oh, a Shylock's day is never done.
I consider the New York Times to be a European embassy on US soil. They're just some sort of ugly bastion, as far as I'm concerned. They're a very ethnically partisan newspaper. The Gray Lady is really looking dour and gray these days. When blogging first emerged as an alternative to traditional media, I saw the NYT issuing rapidfire articles aimed at discrediting blogging. They gave up on that tack when they saw how useless it was. I've never seen them write a positive article on India. If you literally do a search of NYT articles on India or any Indian, every one of them is negative. Likewise, I've never seen them write a single positive thing about Russians. It's like NYT is trying to re-launch old European imperial campaigns in the guise of liberalism. I don't accept ethnically partisan liberalism at all, and whenever I see NYT spin happening, it always telegraphs its ethnic biases.
Hey Genius, India isn't located in the Middle East.
Hey, as a person of Indian descent born in North America, I just want to enlighten the Gringo tourists with their North American english -- the phrase "backward caste" is an actual part of the lexicon in India, and it's commonly used by members of the said communities. It's like when Africans are called "black" -- black relative to what? Don't try and reflexively transpose linguistic conventions that you're familiar with to other countries where the evolution of language has been totally different. Does the NAACP have an antiquated name? Colored relative to what? The word "caste" is an english word, and not a word of local origin. The British may have liked to use such clinical terms, but post-colonial India has merely inherited that terminology baggage, rather than coining it.
I strongly disagree -- the problems are due to socialism and the command economy, which destroy economic flexibility and fluidity.
When Stalin starved the Ukrainians, the socialist fanclub quickly laid blame on the Kulaks land-owners for the tragedy, which as we all know was a ridiculous cop-out.
I'd categorically assert that it's physically impossible for some ultra-clever conspiracy by 1.3M Shylocks to keep down 400M people.
The fact is that you can only build Call Centres in India, and the socialist "license Raj" still makes it very difficult to build factories there, in order to generate a blue-collar workforce. It's not like China's dictatorship, which has been able to force through strongly capital-friendly laws to entice rich investors from everywhere to build factories.
If you can't build up a blue-collar base, then uneducated non-english speakers end up disproportionately marginalized from the Call Centre economy.
Indian govts have been gradually trying to punch holes into the socialist curtain by imitating China in establishing Special Economic Zones, with more investor-friendly laws. But social activists loudly protest and hinder these types of moves -- they're pre-emptively protesting industrialization before it can even happen or get off the ground.
If you think that Unions are a pampered and lazy lot in developed countries, then you've never seen how good they have it in India. Organized workers represent a staggeringly huge political force in India, despite the fact that they're a miniscule fraction of the working population as a whole. So the policies that Unions have arm-twisted into place to protect their jobs have left the wider populace out in the cold.
Now that is a terrible tragedy.
To get to that phonebooth on the other side? :D
Hmm, a curious asymmetric orientation for an aircraft, swiveling at an angle like that.
Could this translate into anything similarly useful for missile or even rocket design? Like a hypersonic aerospace plane, for instance?
If the one-man wing is a feasible concept, why couldn't it be feasible to have a one-man mini-gyroplane concept? At least a gyro is more maneuverable and can land on all kinds of inhospitable terrain. And if it's carrying just one lone guy, then perhaps the rotor-span could be suitably shortened. The user would be expected to land on their own two feet.
Gee, that's a scary thought: you survive the harrowing high-speed descent and come to a full stop on the ground -- only to be crushed by the 200lbs that's sitting on your back.
Or should that instead be "Power-X-treme!" ;P
Who would have been the first to originate this idea in fiction?
Captain Power?
Centurions?
The Rocketeer?