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That's kinda funny, because sociobiology tells us she'd want the area bad boy's genes and your income. Though perhaps she actually did get the former, and now will get the latter in the divorce settlement.
But then you still need to go to the library and learn about their resources. A concern is that research for middle and high school students is simply google and wikipedia, and they're not learning that there is more than those.
My wife, kids, mother-in-law, father-in-law, etc. are all Jewish. And all ('cept the kids) Democrats. (I register independent.) We all oppose the Neocons. In the words of Dick Cheney, "Go f--- yourself."
Oh sure, electronic media is very handy to work with. However, there are vast amounts of information that aren't on-line or freely accessible. There's a heck of a lot you miss by just doing a google search, and students that approach their work that way haven't learned about research.
Is JAMA freely available online? How about the last 100 years of the New York Times? Articles from the Washington Post more than a month old? A decent college library has those and much more. It would be prohibitively expensive for students to subscribe to everything, and Project Gutenberg only gets you to ~1920. A few things have happened since then.
Point taken, but unless those other energy sources are abundant, cheap, and accessible, it's quite likely they'll use the energy from the oil itself. Heck, if a coal->synthetic fuel process (Fischer-Tropsch) is ~30% efficient -- and wikipedia implies 50% efficiency -- it may be better just to convert the coal and ignore the sands/shales.
Oil sands/shales are also among the most environmentally damaging energy sources out there. Assuming you use fossil fuel to refine it, it's producing ~3x as much carbon per unit of energy as drilled oil, and that after the strip mining generally used to collect the sands/shales.
While I sympathize with your situation, Mr. Peterson was convicted based on a variety of circumstances that otherwise would have made for a remarkable set of coincidences. He just happened to purchase a 55 gallon drum shortly before Laci's disappearance that he just happened to lose, he just happened to lose multiple pieces of concrete that would be handy for weighing a body down, he just happened to behave in the manner of a man who knew his wife would not reappear, etc. I'm not privy to all the evidence, but I have no reason to doubt the jury's analysis in this case.
HDRI generally involves more bits per pixel, or a different breakdown of the color and intensity to effectively get the equivalent. Since this TV will get the same input as everything else, at least as far as the technology is concerned I don't think they're talking about HDRI per se. Instead, I suspect it's more an issue of contrast ratios: the brightness level between the brightest white and the darkest black. There's plenty of TVs that can't show dark scenes well because they wash out in bright or dark scenes. Since they talk about turning off the lasers for true black, as opposed to technologies like LCD where the backlight is on and black means blocking it as much as possible, I suspect this is what they mean.
Laci Peterson's body was found in San Francisco Bay, with DNA confirmation that it was her. A witness saw Peterson removing a large, heavy bundle from his house and placing it in his truck, which he then drove to a marina. The remainder of the evidence was indeed circumstantial.
Note that part of the "expensive" factor of the oil sands/shales is that it requires quite a bit of energy to separate out the oil, which effectively means the yield is substantially lower. Having more oil than Saudi Arabia is meaningless if you have to use 70% of it just refining the next lot.
However, what the recent events have shown us is that regardless of the sources, the relatively inelastic demand for oil can produce major price shocks with huge detriments to the economy. So even if there's plenty of potential oil, it's not good for us to be so dependent on it.
No, he didn't. Saddam went out of his way to frustrate their efforts. How many times were the denied access to sites? How many times were they kicked out?
They were in until shortly before Bush ordered the invasion, with free and open access. They didn't find anything, to the point it would soon become obvious to anyone with half a brain that there were no WMDs. So Bush ordered the invasion before his house of cards collapsed.
I said this at the time, and I WAS RIGHT. Thousands have died because people like you believe Bush.
You are truly an anonymous coward. No member of Kerry's crew was part of the Swift Boat assholes. From Wikipedia:
From an interview published the day before the letter was made public: " '[Kerry] earned his medals, he did what he was supposed to do in Vietnam,' said retired Coast Guard Captain Adrian Lonsdale, who was in the chain of command above Kerry and oversaw various operations dealing with Navy swift boats of the type Kerry commanded. 'But I was very disappointed in his statements after he got out of the Navy.' "[9]
Of those who served in Kerry's boat crew, only Stephen Gardner joined SBVT. He was not present on any of the occasions when Kerry won his medals, including his Purple Hearts. Gardner appeared in two of the group's television advertisements.
All other living members of Kerry's crew supported his presidential bid, and some frequently campaigned with him as his self-described 'band of brothers'. Kerry crewmembers have disputed some of SBVT's various allegations: "pure fabrication" (Jim Rassmann), "totally false" (Drew Whitlow), "garbage" (Gene Thorson), and "a pack of lies" (Del Sandusky).[10][11][12][13]
No members of SBVT were aboard Kerry's boat during any of the incidents for which he was decorated. The only member of SBVT who was present at the Silver Star incident, Rood's crewmember Larry Clayton Lee, praised Kerry's tactics and stated that Kerry deserved the medal; he stated that after discussions with other SBVT members, he came to question whether Kerry deserved other medals for incidents at which he was not present. [14][15]
If you allow that, you also need to allow for "free" vehicle heating in winter from the waste heat.
Also, a Prius has a smaller ICE than a conventional vehicle of similar power. The Jetta TDI, for example, outweighs the Prius by ~100 kg. (Granted, the body styles are different enough that the comparison isn't great, but the Prius isn't especially heavy for a car of its class. I don't think Toyota sells diesels in the U.S., thus I went with the VW.) The Prius's electric batteries aren't that large, esp. compared to a purely electric vehicle.
I'm not an expert, but have seen analyses that have. But I would also make one other general observation: price generally has a good correlation with energy use and thus emissions. If gasoline costs more per KwH than electricity (and it does), it's highly likely burning it in your car causes more pollution than having a power plant generate it and transmit it to you.
Along these same lines, you can generally guess at the pollution impact of (for example) selling your old gas guzzler and buying an econocar. If you don't save money overall, the pollution from building the car probably more than outweighs your reduced emissions.
I was talking differently about whom? You aren't making any sense.
The poster was using "you" in the general sense of those favoring war, lumping you in with people like George W. Bush, who repeatedly referred to Saddam Hussein as a "madman." (Google "Hussein madman Bush" for a few samples.)
He must not care about himself then, because he put himself at risk of being sent into war for over 5 years as a young man.
You guys need to coordinate your efforts more. Bush joined the Air National Guard. In the words of whereiseljefe, above, "Why didn't you go for the National Guard, hmm? Your chances of being deployed over seas to hostile combat zone are dramatically reduced in that organization."
While there are those who think they can make a difference going to Iraq, there are plenty more who would be long gone if not for stop-loss orders.
A dollar spent on the space program is a dollar not spent on something else, nothing more.
GDP is all about getting people working productively. The more people are working productively, the more GDP. The higher the unemployment, or the more people who are doing inefficient support work, the worse off your GDP. Money is just a system of measure and exchange. If you spend money on a space program, then your product is knowledge, but there are other things that you haven't product. But there's no magic beyond that.
This whole mysterious factor of three stuff? Everything in the end goes to salaries, whether it's a space program or me buying consumer goodies I want. And those salaries are spent. But it's no special magic when a rocket scientist spends his salary versus a recreational computer programmer spending his.
If you're going to space, you're going through 10,000 feet regardless, and you're going to hit that weather. The air is also thinner, and the escape velocity (due to avoiding 10,000 feet of drag) lower.
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That's kinda funny, because sociobiology tells us she'd want the area bad boy's genes and your income. Though perhaps she actually did get the former, and now will get the latter in the divorce settlement.
But then you still need to go to the library and learn about their resources. A concern is that research for middle and high school students is simply google and wikipedia, and they're not learning that there is more than those.
make that Xbox360, not 260...
Yes, but the guy in the office next to me made over $1500 selling Xbox260s on ebay last year. That would be worth an overnight to many...
My wife, kids, mother-in-law, father-in-law, etc. are all Jewish. And all ('cept the kids) Democrats. (I register independent.) We all oppose the Neocons. In the words of Dick Cheney, "Go f--- yourself."
Nigel Tufnel: It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.
She has a point, though.
Oh sure, electronic media is very handy to work with. However, there are vast amounts of information that aren't on-line or freely accessible. There's a heck of a lot you miss by just doing a google search, and students that approach their work that way haven't learned about research.
Is JAMA freely available online? How about the last 100 years of the New York Times? Articles from the Washington Post more than a month old? A decent college library has those and much more. It would be prohibitively expensive for students to subscribe to everything, and Project Gutenberg only gets you to ~1920. A few things have happened since then.
Point taken, but unless those other energy sources are abundant, cheap, and accessible, it's quite likely they'll use the energy from the oil itself. Heck, if a coal->synthetic fuel process (Fischer-Tropsch) is ~30% efficient -- and wikipedia implies 50% efficiency -- it may be better just to convert the coal and ignore the sands/shales.
Oil sands/shales are also among the most environmentally damaging energy sources out there. Assuming you use fossil fuel to refine it, it's producing ~3x as much carbon per unit of energy as drilled oil, and that after the strip mining generally used to collect the sands/shales.
While I sympathize with your situation, Mr. Peterson was convicted based on a variety of circumstances that otherwise would have made for a remarkable set of coincidences. He just happened to purchase a 55 gallon drum shortly before Laci's disappearance that he just happened to lose, he just happened to lose multiple pieces of concrete that would be handy for weighing a body down, he just happened to behave in the manner of a man who knew his wife would not reappear, etc. I'm not privy to all the evidence, but I have no reason to doubt the jury's analysis in this case.
The "circumstantial" evidence involving the cement blocks used to sink her to the bottom of the bay was pretty convincing to me./I.
How specifically was that tied to Scott?
HDRI generally involves more bits per pixel, or a different breakdown of the color and intensity to effectively get the equivalent. Since this TV will get the same input as everything else, at least as far as the technology is concerned I don't think they're talking about HDRI per se. Instead, I suspect it's more an issue of contrast ratios: the brightness level between the brightest white and the darkest black. There's plenty of TVs that can't show dark scenes well because they wash out in bright or dark scenes. Since they talk about turning off the lasers for true black, as opposed to technologies like LCD where the backlight is on and black means blocking it as much as possible, I suspect this is what they mean.
Laci Peterson's body was found in San Francisco Bay, with DNA confirmation that it was her. A witness saw Peterson removing a large, heavy bundle from his house and placing it in his truck, which he then drove to a marina. The remainder of the evidence was indeed circumstantial.
Perhaps by doing this buying and selling, I can afford Xmas presents for *my* family?
Note that part of the "expensive" factor of the oil sands/shales is that it requires quite a bit of energy to separate out the oil, which effectively means the yield is substantially lower. Having more oil than Saudi Arabia is meaningless if you have to use 70% of it just refining the next lot.
However, what the recent events have shown us is that regardless of the sources, the relatively inelastic demand for oil can produce major price shocks with huge detriments to the economy. So even if there's plenty of potential oil, it's not good for us to be so dependent on it.
In case you didn't check the edit history, that line was *just* added. Wikipedia vandalism just to support a slashdot posting, that's a new low.
No, he didn't. Saddam went out of his way to frustrate their efforts. How many times were the denied access to sites? How many times were they kicked out?
They were in until shortly before Bush ordered the invasion, with free and open access. They didn't find anything, to the point it would soon become obvious to anyone with half a brain that there were no WMDs. So Bush ordered the invasion before his house of cards collapsed.
I said this at the time, and I WAS RIGHT. Thousands have died because people like you believe Bush.
You are truly an anonymous coward. No member of Kerry's crew was part of the Swift Boat assholes. From Wikipedia:
From an interview published the day before the letter was made public: " '[Kerry] earned his medals, he did what he was supposed to do in Vietnam,' said retired Coast Guard Captain Adrian Lonsdale, who was in the chain of command above Kerry and oversaw various operations dealing with Navy swift boats of the type Kerry commanded. 'But I was very disappointed in his statements after he got out of the Navy.' "[9]
Of those who served in Kerry's boat crew, only Stephen Gardner joined SBVT. He was not present on any of the occasions when Kerry won his medals, including his Purple Hearts. Gardner appeared in two of the group's television advertisements.
All other living members of Kerry's crew supported his presidential bid, and some frequently campaigned with him as his self-described 'band of brothers'. Kerry crewmembers have disputed some of SBVT's various allegations: "pure fabrication" (Jim Rassmann), "totally false" (Drew Whitlow), "garbage" (Gene Thorson), and "a pack of lies" (Del Sandusky).[10][11][12][13]
No members of SBVT were aboard Kerry's boat during any of the incidents for which he was decorated. The only member of SBVT who was present at the Silver Star incident, Rood's crewmember Larry Clayton Lee, praised Kerry's tactics and stated that Kerry deserved the medal; he stated that after discussions with other SBVT members, he came to question whether Kerry deserved other medals for incidents at which he was not present. [14][15]
Oop, editing screw up.
If you allow that, you also need to allow for "free" vehicle heating in winter from the waste heat.
My response was meant to be, this is largely cancelled out by the cost of air-conditioning in summer.
If you allow that, you also need to allow for "free" vehicle heating in winter from the waste heat.
Also, a Prius has a smaller ICE than a conventional vehicle of similar power. The Jetta TDI, for example, outweighs the Prius by ~100 kg. (Granted, the body styles are different enough that the comparison isn't great, but the Prius isn't especially heavy for a car of its class. I don't think Toyota sells diesels in the U.S., thus I went with the VW.) The Prius's electric batteries aren't that large, esp. compared to a purely electric vehicle.
The TDi will run on 100% biodiesel, though.
I'm not an expert, but have seen analyses that have. But I would also make one other general observation: price generally has a good correlation with energy use and thus emissions. If gasoline costs more per KwH than electricity (and it does), it's highly likely burning it in your car causes more pollution than having a power plant generate it and transmit it to you.
Along these same lines, you can generally guess at the pollution impact of (for example) selling your old gas guzzler and buying an econocar. If you don't save money overall, the pollution from building the car probably more than outweighs your reduced emissions.
I was talking differently about whom? You aren't making any sense.
The poster was using "you" in the general sense of those favoring war, lumping you in with people like George W. Bush, who repeatedly referred to Saddam Hussein as a "madman." (Google "Hussein madman Bush" for a few samples.)
He must not care about himself then, because he put himself at risk of being sent into war for over 5 years as a young man.
You guys need to coordinate your efforts more. Bush joined the Air National Guard. In the words of whereiseljefe, above, "Why didn't you go for the National Guard, hmm? Your chances of being deployed over seas to hostile combat zone are dramatically reduced in that organization."
While there are those who think they can make a difference going to Iraq, there are plenty more who would be long gone if not for stop-loss orders.
Nonsense.
A dollar spent on the space program is a dollar not spent on something else, nothing more.
GDP is all about getting people working productively. The more people are working productively, the more GDP. The higher the unemployment, or the more people who are doing inefficient support work, the worse off your GDP. Money is just a system of measure and exchange. If you spend money on a space program, then your product is knowledge, but there are other things that you haven't product. But there's no magic beyond that.
This whole mysterious factor of three stuff? Everything in the end goes to salaries, whether it's a space program or me buying consumer goodies I want. And those salaries are spent. But it's no special magic when a rocket scientist spends his salary versus a recreational computer programmer spending his.
I suspect a goodly number don't have home computers or good internet connections.
If you're going to space, you're going through 10,000 feet regardless, and you're going to hit that weather. The air is also thinner, and the escape velocity (due to avoiding 10,000 feet of drag) lower.