Worry not. Legendary user friendliness of desktop Linux will take care of it. Every time she needs to change screen background or use her flash USB drive, you will get call.
So according to you, we should not erect any structure. Because you build anything above the ground, a tall building, a house, etc. and it will shade some area.
I am a "person" and not a "citizen" in the above argument.
I pay taxes like any US citizen does. I laws like any other US citizen does. So what's wrong if I expect USA government not to detain me indefinitely without filing charges and without giving me a lawyer?
From what you are telling here, if an American kills me, no charges will be filed against him, because law says "taking life of a person is a crime" and "person" applies only to US citizens. I highly doubt anywhere it explicitly mentions "this applies to non-citizens". When it says "manslaughter", does the word "man" cover me? I guess (and hope) yes.
I have visited automobile manufacturing plants in Midwest, both of USA and Japanese companies. Not more than 100 miles apart from each other, the picture inside the plant is drastic contrast. Japanese companies plant was much cleaner, much better organized, much more efficient than the American one. They relied heavily on systems and processes. Instead of relying on systems and processes, American manufacturers rely much more on personal skills of workers.
But still this is what I think. It is too early to conclude anything about angular momentum of the universe. The number 200,000 is negligible when you think of billions and trillions of them spread allover. Also the ratio of the mass of largest galaxy to smallest galaxy goes into millions. So if these are of small breed, then all of them combined would be smaller than some single big chunk out there.
It will lessen the stress on demand of metals like Copper and Aluminum, because we won't need thousands of miles of power networks. This will not only reduce mining activity, which is the worst business for environment, but also make metallic things cheaper.
I can see how avoiding breaking works. But I am a bit confused about speed and glide. I thought setting it to cruise and leaving it there would give me more milage.
I have observed higher than average milage when I set it to cruise for long time when I am on freeway. Would it be better if I speed up to say 70 mph and glide to 60?
k
-- http://savingenergy.wordpress.com/
It's surprising to see so many people here falling for "must-protect-that-kid- from-that-big-bad-guy" syndrome.
Explanation is clear and simple. Most of the people who do music piracy fall in early-teen age group. RIAA is making a statement by going after that girl. This is a business decision. That's it.
They don't care if they look like bad evil guys. In fact that's the point.
I am sure that they will make sure this news gets enough publicity, and then they will let that girl go with minimum trouble.
If after reading a story, you have to believe that things took this course because somebody was inherently, incorrigibly evil, you are probably wrong. We live in a world where conflict of interest cannot be avoided even if everybody is good person.
Having considerable exposure to Islamic society, I strongly disagree your statement.
Since the beginning of Islam, the Islamic empire, which is a monolithic system of law, governance, religion, economy etc. was spreading. 18th, 19th and 20th century saw serious decline of that influence. It is just an unfortunate stage in the life cycle of a religion. Mostly all major religions have been through this. Islam, being the youngest religion is going through it right now. I recommend you to read "Crisis of Islam", Bernard Lewis.
It's a real serious danger and no matter what Western world does, the clash cannot be avoided. If you keep quiet, Islamic fanatics will conclude that you are scared and come after you. If you fight back, they will conclude that you are committing atrocities and will come after you. It is naive to think that they want peace.
Have you seen the movie "Nuremberg" starring Alec Baldwin?? Do you remember what the psychologist analyzing Himmler says? "Two things observed in German society before WW-II. One is they have this sense of superiority-by-birth which makes them think others are not human enough, and second is they tend to follow the leader like sheep, healthy dissent is almost absent." Now this is what macro picture of Islamic world today. I am not denying that there must be people and group who still think with level heads. But this is really macro level picture. Ask any Muslim about Homosexuality and almost universally you will hear them criticizing it. Ask if there is a single book written by Muslim that takes a critical approach to Koran and you will find none.
In their attempts to be politically correct, people deny this reality. In my opinion this is really unfortunate state, with serious conflict of interest and ideologies with West, but it will pass over time. It's dangerous, but impermanent.
About Western policies, yes there have been some unfortunate choices Western world has made. But that is not the real reason here. USA has caused far more damage to Vietnam than to any middle eastern country. Yet no terrorist comes from Vietnam.
Have you taken into account the amount of energy it takes to make one nuclear plant operational and keep it operational? Add to that the cost of disposing nuclear waste and certainly nuclear energy will get beaten by solar power. It's like eating veg diet.When you consume something lowest in the food chain, you are most efficient per cal.
Nuclear power is far cleaner than coal power, but it can't beat solar power when it comes to being clean. When it comes to being economical, yes. It is economical today and perhaps for today it is most viable solution.
I will bet on future of solar power for one simple reason. The curve of solar power availability follows the curve of human activity. Like the human activity is high in plains in lower lattitudes, and so is solar power availability. The human activity is high in daytime, and so is solar power availability. A huge chunk of your electrical grid machinery goes into managing the fluctuations.All that could be simplified if you use solar energy. Throw in advantage of local generation. Throw in the possibility that tomorrow's equipments and devices would be far more efficient and solar power would be more productive. Then solar power seems like near perfect choice.
Well, on second thought, I think nuclear power is the only exception to my food chain argument in first paragraph. Because nuclear energy is not stored sun. But it holds good for all other sources of energy though.
Oh, my poor first world. Look Bob, those bad third world people are troubling them.
Take a look here , you will see that " The 5% of the world's population that lives in the U.S. has more environmental impact than the 51% that live in the other five largest countries."
Why should third world suffer for the privileges they have never enjoyed?
People in USA/Europe use 4KWH dryers to dry their clothes. People in Asia just hang it on windows. It looks ugly, but sun does the job. People in USA turn on the heater or cooler to heat up or cool up the entire 1700 ft house when just one person is in there. People in Asia switch off their ceiling fan when going out of the room.
The first world is doing this for almost half of 19th century and the whole 20th century. Time to pick up the tab.
You are absolutely right.
From reference to this Wikipedia article home energy appliances consume a small percentage of total power consumed today (6% compared to 44% consumed by space conditioning)
Home electronics has it's own Moore's law. The number of gadgets in your home doubles every year. Once you have a big TV, you have DVD player, TiVo, PlayStation. Once you have computer, soon you will have modems, routers, printers, scanners. Most of the stuff is left on running continuously. So in long run, not only they consume power when active, but they also leak a lot of energy.
Look at this table . Electric dryer consumes a humongous 4KW/H. So if you run dryer everyday about one hour, you are using almost 4 x 30 = 120 KWH. At 10c/ KWH, and taxes on top of that, you are running in about 12-15$ per month. Again, there will be a lot of parameters. Dryer load, cycles, etc. But dryer is not cheap horse for sure.
That's why in good old dorm days, I avoided washing clothes. Anything for environment.
Peak Oil has less to do with actually running out of oil and more to do with oil being viable source of energy and a case for profitable business. Having oil available is small part of the picture. Consider following points in this regard.
1. Once you consume the "sweet oil" which is the first thing you extract from the new well, and which is easier to refine and is more profitable, you are left with heavy oil at the bottom. This needs more infrastructure to extract, more energy to refine. Once you are spending one gallon of oil (or equivalent energy) to extract and refine one galon of oil, oil is not fuel any more.
2. Also there is a rate of oil production a oil well can sustain. If you try to extract oil faster, you end up damaging the well and end up at a point where the well has oil but still you cannot extract it. Many peole suspect that's what is going on in Saudi Arabia. They are pumping oil at more rate than their oil wells can sustain, just to make profit.
3. OPEC rule is if you have more reserves, you get rights to produce and sell more oil. So any country that furnishes estimates has reason to bloat it. Their information is as reliable as car salesman's information about the car. I would not bet my life on it.
4. When you are claiming that oil production technology will just get better and better, you are making lots of asssumptions. It will make progress if it is worth investing there. Oil exploration was starved for funding when Nasdaq was flirting with 5000. Because that's where you could make more money using your money. Also it is not true that more research will lead to more breakthroughs. Research on fuel injection systems has been effectively abondoned by all car companies. People have miliked the almost the last drop. Can you make improvements in fuel injection? Yes, but the improvement will be so small that it will not be worth millions you will have to spend.
Now add politics and crazy fundamentalist leaders and pollution and global warming to this picture.
You will immediately see that you will be better off with alternative energy, no matter how much oil is available in earth.
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Good poem, but why marked funny????
K
Worry not.
Legendary user friendliness of desktop Linux will take care of it.
Every time she needs to change screen background or use her flash USB drive, you will get call.
K
Indeed Virtual credit cards rock.
In addition I take one more precaution in case my wallet is lost. Simple, free and effective with high probability. I keep Decoy cards.
Keep all your canceled and expired credit cards with your good credit cards. If you don't have enough, apply for new ones and get them canceled.
Lesser the ratio of working cards/decoy cards, better chances you have that the thief does not get to good card before looking suspicious.
So according to you, we should not erect any structure. Because you build anything above the ground, a tall building, a house, etc. and it will shade some area.
I am a "person" and not a "citizen" in the above argument.
I pay taxes like any US citizen does. I laws like any other US citizen does. So what's wrong if I expect USA government not to detain me indefinitely without filing charges and without giving me a lawyer?
From what you are telling here, if an American kills me, no charges will be filed against him, because law says "taking life of a person is a crime" and "person" applies only to US citizens. I highly doubt anywhere it explicitly mentions "this applies to non-citizens". When it says "manslaughter", does the word "man" cover me? I guess (and hope) yes.
K
Could not agree more!
I have visited automobile manufacturing plants in Midwest, both of USA and Japanese companies. Not more than 100 miles apart from each other, the picture inside the plant is drastic contrast. Japanese companies plant was much cleaner, much better organized, much more efficient than the American one. They relied heavily on systems and processes. Instead of relying on systems and processes, American manufacturers rely much more on personal skills of workers.
K
Define "congested". :)
Confession: I have not read the article so far.
But still this is what I think. It is too early to conclude anything about angular momentum of the universe. The number 200,000 is negligible when you think of billions and trillions of them spread allover. Also the ratio of the mass of largest galaxy to smallest galaxy goes into millions. So if these are of small breed, then all of them combined would be smaller than some single big chunk out there.
K
You forgot one extremely big thing.
It will lessen the stress on demand of metals like Copper and Aluminum, because we won't need thousands of miles of power networks. This will not only reduce mining activity, which is the worst business for environment, but also make metallic things cheaper.
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http://savingenergy.wordpress.com/
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Just recently I read about the best successful strategy being "Co-operate at first step, then Tit from there on.
,then take restrictive action next.
http://brembs.net/ipd/tft.html
So I guess it is best to co-operate first and if it misused
Who knows, that Iranian kid could have some brilliant idea.
K
Don't you guys understand? It's a slam dunk thing.
Here is my blog post, a detailed analysis of monitor power consumption
n g-energy-one-monitor-at-a-time/
http://savingenergy.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/savi
K
I can see how avoiding breaking works. But I am a bit confused about speed and glide. I thought setting it to cruise and leaving it there would give me more milage.
I have observed higher than average milage when I set it to cruise for long time when I am on freeway. Would it be better if I speed up to say 70 mph and glide to 60?
k
--
http://savingenergy.wordpress.com/
It's surprising to see so many people here falling for "must-protect-that-kid- from-that-big-bad-guy" syndrome.
Explanation is clear and simple. Most of the people who do music piracy fall in early-teen age group. RIAA is making a statement by going after that girl. This is a business decision. That's it.
They don't care if they look like bad evil guys. In fact that's the point.
I am sure that they will make sure this news gets enough publicity, and then they will let that girl go with minimum trouble.
If after reading a story, you have to believe that things took this course because somebody was inherently, incorrigibly evil, you are probably wrong. We live in a world where conflict of interest cannot be avoided even if everybody is good person.
K
So not true,
Having considerable exposure to Islamic society, I strongly disagree your statement.
Since the beginning of Islam, the Islamic empire, which is a monolithic system of law, governance, religion, economy etc. was spreading. 18th, 19th and 20th century saw serious decline of that influence. It is just an unfortunate stage in the life cycle of a religion. Mostly all major religions have been through this. Islam, being the youngest religion is going through it right now. I recommend you to read "Crisis of Islam", Bernard Lewis.
It's a real serious danger and no matter what Western world does, the clash cannot be avoided. If you keep quiet, Islamic fanatics will conclude that you are scared and come after you. If you fight back, they will conclude that you are committing atrocities and will come after you. It is naive to think that they want peace.
Have you seen the movie "Nuremberg" starring Alec Baldwin?? Do you remember what the psychologist analyzing Himmler says? "Two things observed in German society before WW-II. One is they have this sense of superiority-by-birth which makes them think others are not human enough, and second is they tend to follow the leader like sheep, healthy dissent is almost absent." Now this is what macro picture of Islamic world today. I am not denying that there must be people and group who still think with level heads. But this is really macro level picture. Ask any Muslim about Homosexuality and almost universally you will hear them criticizing it. Ask if there is a single book written by Muslim that takes a critical approach to Koran and you will find none.
In their attempts to be politically correct, people deny this reality. In my opinion this is really unfortunate state, with serious conflict of interest and ideologies with West, but it will pass over time. It's dangerous, but impermanent.
About Western policies, yes there have been some unfortunate choices Western world has made. But that is not the real reason here. USA has caused far more damage to Vietnam than to any middle eastern country. Yet no terrorist comes from Vietnam.
As I already mentioned at the end of my first post, I accept that for fission and fusion vs solar energy, the veg diet analogy is not a good analogy.
Have you taken into account the amount of energy it takes to make one nuclear plant operational and keep it operational? Add to that the cost of disposing nuclear waste and certainly nuclear energy will get beaten by solar power. It's like eating veg diet.When you consume something lowest in the food chain, you are most efficient per cal.
Nuclear power is far cleaner than coal power, but it can't beat solar power when it comes to being clean. When it comes to being economical, yes. It is economical today and perhaps for today it is most viable solution.
I will bet on future of solar power for one simple reason. The curve of solar power availability follows the curve of human activity. Like the human activity is high in plains in lower lattitudes, and so is solar power availability. The human activity is high in daytime, and so is solar power availability. A huge chunk of your electrical grid machinery goes into managing the fluctuations.All that could be simplified if you use solar energy. Throw in advantage of local generation. Throw in the possibility that tomorrow's equipments and devices would be far more efficient and solar power would be more productive. Then solar power seems like near perfect choice.
Well, on second thought, I think nuclear power is the only exception to my food chain argument in first paragraph. Because nuclear energy is not stored sun. But it holds good for all other sources of energy though.
But at the moment, best place to begin is to save energy.
Oh, my poor first world. Look Bob, those bad third world people are troubling them.
Take a look here , you will see that " The 5% of the world's population that lives in the U.S. has more environmental impact than the 51% that live in the other five largest countries."
Why should third world suffer for the privileges they have never enjoyed?
People in USA/Europe use 4KWH dryers to dry their clothes. People in Asia just hang it on windows. It looks ugly, but sun does the job. People in USA turn on the heater or cooler to heat up or cool up the entire 1700 ft house when just one person is in there. People in Asia switch off their ceiling fan when going out of the room.
The first world is doing this for almost half of 19th century and the whole 20th century. Time to pick up the tab.
You are absolutely right.
From reference to this Wikipedia article home energy appliances consume a small percentage of total power consumed today (6% compared to 44% consumed by space conditioning)
Home electronics has it's own Moore's law. The number of gadgets in your home doubles every year. Once you have a big TV, you have DVD player, TiVo, PlayStation. Once you have computer, soon you will have modems, routers, printers, scanners. Most of the stuff is left on running continuously. So in long run, not only they consume power when active, but they also leak a lot of energy.
Look at this table .
Electric dryer consumes a humongous 4KW/H.
So if you run dryer everyday about one hour, you are using almost 4 x 30 = 120 KWH. At 10c/ KWH, and taxes on top of that, you are running in about 12-15$ per month.
Again, there will be a lot of parameters. Dryer load, cycles, etc.
But dryer is not cheap horse for sure.
That's why in good old dorm days, I avoided washing clothes. Anything for environment.
savingenergy.wordpress.com
http://savingenergy.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/savi
Crackdown on the porn industry?
:)
Oh My God,
Now their IT industry performance will go down. Might even collapse.
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There is light in the day and dark at night. That is the greatest miracle.
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So he says technology hurts?
But if there were no technology, where would O'Reilly be today?
Milking horses in a Texas ranch?
Saving power by tweaking with computer settings is actually possible. Power saving settings is just part of the story.n ergy-one-monitor-at-a-time/
Look at
http://kedarsoman.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/save-e
Peak Oil has less to do with actually running out of oil and more to do with oil being viable source of energy and a case for profitable business. Having oil available is small part of the picture. Consider following points in this regard.
1. Once you consume the "sweet oil" which is the first thing you extract from the new well, and which is easier to refine and is more profitable, you are left with heavy oil at the bottom. This needs more infrastructure to extract, more energy to refine. Once you are spending one gallon of oil (or equivalent energy) to extract and refine one galon of oil, oil is not fuel any more.
2. Also there is a rate of oil production a oil well can sustain. If you try to extract oil faster, you end up damaging the well and end up at a point where the well has oil but still you cannot extract it. Many peole suspect that's what is going on in Saudi Arabia. They are pumping oil at more rate than their oil wells can sustain, just to make profit.
3. OPEC rule is if you have more reserves, you get rights to produce and sell more oil. So any country that furnishes estimates has reason to bloat it. Their information is as reliable as car salesman's information about the car. I would not bet my life on it.
4. When you are claiming that oil production technology will just get better and better, you are making lots of asssumptions. It will make progress if it is worth investing there. Oil exploration was starved for funding when Nasdaq was flirting with 5000. Because that's where you could make more money using your money. Also it is not true that more research will lead to more breakthroughs. Research on fuel injection systems has been effectively abondoned by all car companies. People have miliked the almost the last drop. Can you make improvements in fuel injection? Yes, but the improvement will be so small that it will not be worth millions you will have to spend.
Now add politics and crazy fundamentalist leaders and pollution and global warming to this picture.
You will immediately see that you will be better off with alternative energy, no matter how much oil is available in earth.