The vast majority of eletric power in the United States comes from coal. If you are using a 75% efficient electric car charged by a power grid that uses coal at 40% efficiency (the generator is probably more efficient but lots gets lost in transmission), your car is really just using coal at 30% efficiency, worse than the efficiency of the best hybrid cars at using gasoline.
That mostly defeats the purpose of having an electric car on a pollution-per-mile-driven basis, at least in the short term, assuming coal power plant emissions aren't a lot cleaner than car emissions.
However, there is a great benefit to switching to electric cars: The power used is commoditized electricity, which can be gradually replaced by nuclear, solar, hydro, or wind power much more easily than the car-refueling infrastructure can be changed. Right now there is a barrier to entry for cars that run on fuels other than gasoline: the lack of infrastructure. But that barrier is non-existant for electric cars.
People should ditch vista firewall and use zone alarm"
There is no configuration issue. Whenever a program tries to do something and gets blocked, the firewall prompts you whether to allow program x.
Because so many homosexuals engage in pre-marital sex.
Premarital sex is not immoral. Immoral acts are only a subset of those acts which harm nonconsenting individuals. Lying about premarital sex to your future husband/wife, however, is immoral.
But none of this has anything to do with homosexuality. I challenge you to provide any statistical study supporting the claim that homosexuals have a greater propensity to engage in premarital sex than others, despite the lack of any ability to get married when they want to in some states! The majority of straight people I know have had premarital sex.
Back in the day, I had a friend who had a clerical job working for the great state of Florida. Well, she got fired because she could do her alotted day's work in about three hours and spent the rest of the workday reading novels. Di'n't look raht to the reguller folks what had ben ther fer 20 years waitin' fo retahrmnt.
That system is absurd. Ideally: Equal pay for equal work, period.
On the other hand, most companies also have policies against spending too much company time on personal phone calls.
and on the other hand, oh damn i'm out of hands.:(
It's a lot of fun living in the city... if you don't have kids, and can afford to live in an area where you won't get mugged.
One of the classic unjustified fears that causes white flight.
Your chances of getting mugged are neglegible if you have half a clue (don't walk alone in the dark, etc).
The hell with traffic. Get an apartment close to your job and walk to work instead of being another gas-guzzler. It's good for your health too. Suburbia is a waste of time between the commute and taking care of a totally useless lawn and living quarters vastly larger than necessary.
And.. how do you know the study itself isn't propoganda?
By analyzing the form of its content. The argument is logical and thoroughly researched.
For instance, IIRC, there were several occasions during immediate post-war period in which items recovered were prima facie evidence of WMD production, but which were later determined to be inconclusive. The correct perception, which the authors themselvs appear to have mis'd is that we have not yet found conclusive evidence of WMD production.
Not true. There were questionable items found which wishful thinkers hoped might be WMDs, and Fox News sensationalized, but that doesn't qualify as "prima facie evidence of WMDs". The fact that upon the first serious investigation these things were found not to be WMDs discredits the viewpoint that it was ever reasonable to consider them evidence of WMDs.
Under that circumstance, one would expect the response to the question: Do you believe we have found WMDs? to be very noisy, but a large enough sample should be rather similar to the flip of a coin.
The U.S. has not "found" weapons of mass destruction, which even Rumsfeld and Bush admit now (after years of wishful thinking based on half-baked data). But Fox viewers believed otherwise.
Furthermore, even though the administration made claims about potential WMD discoveries, every journalist has an obligation to independently research those claims and determine their voracity before repeating the claims no matter who said it, just as they should do for any other source. I know it's difficult. But that is a journalist's JOB. Without that, a journalist is just a rumor-monger like O'Reilly.
Similarly, Israeli intelligence suggested early on that Saddam had a role in initiating the attacks. The story was later ignored. No formal redaction was posted on ANY news-service that I can remember. There was however the "terrorist training camp" which the defector informed us of, though that story too seems to have later been ignored. No stories have been run in any newsservice i can remember in which the anchors have stated, "The thing that we thought was a terrorist traning facility with a commercial airliner body for training purposes was in fact a..." without leaving the (...) part ambiguous.
Perhaps that's because you were only watching Fox, MSNBC, and other pathetic excuses for "journalism". I saw stories in 60 minutes and PBS discrediting the Saddam-911 link.
"It's hard to put the genie back in the bottle, especially when the respose to "X is blah" is, "X might not be blah" or "X isn't proveably blah."
Whatever the hell that means.
The point is that if you take the perceptions of PBS as given, then everyone else will seem to have misperceptions by default. If you take the researcher's opinions on these things as given, you are attributing to them an omniscence which news services would pay dearly to have.
Truth exists. Everyone who disagrees with truth is wrong. Are you disputing the truth of any of the three statements that were considered the right answers to those poll questions? If so, provide evidence like the paper you're arguing against.
Did I mention Fox News is owned by the world's biggest Republican activist?
The speaker is as big of a power consumer as the processor. That's probably why most cell phones don't let you adjust the call volume as easily as you can adjust the ringer volume.
This study by PIPA at the University of Maryland is prima facie proof that Fox News is inaccurate.
They polled a large number of people about three common misperceptions about the War. Of those, 80% who watched fox news as their primary news source had one or more misperception. Only 20% of those who watched PBS/NPR had one or more misperception. The difference is astounding.
35% of fox news viewers believed the majority of the people in the entire world supported the war, compared with only 5% of PBS viewers. (The correct answer is that opinion polls show a vast majority against)
33% of fox users believed the US has found Iraqi WMDs since the end of the war, but only 11% of PBS/NPR viewers believed that.
67% of fox viewers believed the US has found clear evidence that Saddam Hussein worked closely with Al-Qaeda, compared to only 16% of PBS/NPR viewers.
The results of this study are astonishing. I encourage you to verify their methodology by reading the whole report.
Every human being has a moral obligation to oppose tyrannical regimes such as China's censorship laws. With the sole exception of content obtained through inhumane means, such as child pornography, nothing should be censored.
Google has aquiesced to one of the worst authoritarian regimes in the world. They should not have done so.
HOWEVER, neither the CCP nor google can implement perfect censorship. By staying in China, google is giving chinese people access to forbidden information regardless of whether Google complies with the CCP. Perhaps eventually this leak in the great firewall of china will contribute to positive change within the country and a departure from authoritarianism.
Google's use is obviously within the bounds of Fair Use.
In particular, transformative works that cannot be substituted for the original and do not detract from profits on the original (except as criticism might deter buyers) are protected under fair use. Obviously, for example, you don't need Disney's permission to write a book analyzing Disney. If you did, copyright law would be in blatant conflict with the first amendment. Quite frankly the first amendment is infinitely more important than anyone's ability to make a buck.
And, in this particular case, Google's tribute was only serving to publicize the artist. It would be impossible to argue that their fair use detracted from the profits of the copyright holders.
Data from Star Trek TNG should of course be included in the hall of fame. Though technically he's an android, not a robot, and so are many of the other nominees.
There are other possible explanations of the distorted spectra. I don't know what intervening matter has refracted and contributed to gravitational red shift / blue shift. Unless they see the same pattern over many ultradistant quasars it doesn't amount to much.
As a long-time netflix user I think the paper envelope they have now is damn near perfect. It's dirt cheap, but keeps the DVD safe. It's recycleable too. It takes 5 seconds to put the DVD in securely and be ready to mail it.
Not all marketing firms are evil. Google has done an admirable job of promoting their services in the most non-invasive ways possible. And that is simply word of mouth. One person uses it, likes it, and tells his friends about it. And so on. That's how I heard about google back in '99.
Most other forms of advertising are quite simply the art of deception. Paid commercials are a less reliable source of information than dictatorship-owned propaganda radio stations in third world countries.
One of the benefits of having superscalar or multiple processors is that you could execute both the branch-taken and the branch-not-taken codes at the same time before the branch is reolved, reducing the penalty for misprediction to zero. This has not yet been implemented by Intel or AMD.
Actually the tank weighs 10 times as much as an SUV, so by conservation of momentum the change in velocity will be 1/10 as much in the tank. So actually, hitting an SUV at 30 miles per hour wouldn't bother the passengers of the tank too much.
Well, the safest thing you can drive is probably an M-1 abrams tank, for $5,000,000, but I doubt many people would actually buy one of those even if they were available to the public:)
Anyone who works or used to work in an industry that is regulated by a government agency should be banned from seeking an office in that regulatory agency.
Sadly two thirds of the high positions in the Dept. of Agriculture are held by ex- or current employees of genetic engineering firms like Monsanto.
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The vast majority of eletric power in the United States comes from coal. If you are using a 75% efficient electric car charged by a power grid that uses coal at 40% efficiency (the generator is probably more efficient but lots gets lost in transmission), your car is really just using coal at 30% efficiency, worse than the efficiency of the best hybrid cars at using gasoline.
That mostly defeats the purpose of having an electric car on a pollution-per-mile-driven basis, at least in the short term, assuming coal power plant emissions aren't a lot cleaner than car emissions.
However, there is a great benefit to switching to electric cars: The power used is commoditized electricity, which can be gradually replaced by nuclear, solar, hydro, or wind power much more easily than the car-refueling infrastructure can be changed. Right now there is a barrier to entry for cars that run on fuels other than gasoline: the lack of infrastructure. But that barrier is non-existant for electric cars.
People should ditch vista firewall and use zone alarm" There is no configuration issue. Whenever a program tries to do something and gets blocked, the firewall prompts you whether to allow program x.
But none of this has anything to do with homosexuality. I challenge you to provide any statistical study supporting the claim that homosexuals have a greater propensity to engage in premarital sex than others, despite the lack of any ability to get married when they want to in some states! The majority of straight people I know have had premarital sex.
On the other hand, most companies also have policies against spending too much company time on personal phone calls. and on the other hand, oh damn i'm out of hands. :(
resistance is futile!
It's a lot of fun living in the city... if you don't have kids, and can afford to live in an area where you won't get mugged.
One of the classic unjustified fears that causes white flight. Your chances of getting mugged are neglegible if you have half a clue (don't walk alone in the dark, etc).
900sq foot?? 140sq ft is plenty.
The hell with traffic. Get an apartment close to your job and walk to work instead of being another gas-guzzler. It's good for your health too. Suburbia is a waste of time between the commute and taking care of a totally useless lawn and living quarters vastly larger than necessary.
The speaker is as big of a power consumer as the processor. That's probably why most cell phones don't let you adjust the call volume as easily as you can adjust the ringer volume.
This study by PIPA at the University of Maryland is prima facie proof that Fox News is inaccurate.
They polled a large number of people about three common misperceptions about the War. Of those, 80% who watched fox news as their primary news source had one or more misperception. Only 20% of those who watched PBS/NPR had one or more misperception. The difference is astounding.
35% of fox news viewers believed the majority of the people in the entire world supported the war, compared with only 5% of PBS viewers. (The correct answer is that opinion polls show a vast majority against)
33% of fox users believed the US has found Iraqi WMDs since the end of the war, but only 11% of PBS/NPR viewers believed that.
67% of fox viewers believed the US has found clear evidence that Saddam Hussein worked closely with Al-Qaeda, compared to only 16% of PBS/NPR viewers.
The results of this study are astonishing. I encourage you to verify their methodology by reading the whole report.
Every human being has a moral obligation to oppose tyrannical regimes such as China's censorship laws. With the sole exception of content obtained through inhumane means, such as child pornography, nothing should be censored.
Google has aquiesced to one of the worst authoritarian regimes in the world. They should not have done so.
HOWEVER, neither the CCP nor google can implement perfect censorship. By staying in China, google is giving chinese people access to forbidden information regardless of whether Google complies with the CCP. Perhaps eventually this leak in the great firewall of china will contribute to positive change within the country and a departure from authoritarianism.
Google's use is obviously within the bounds of Fair Use. In particular, transformative works that cannot be substituted for the original and do not detract from profits on the original (except as criticism might deter buyers) are protected under fair use. Obviously, for example, you don't need Disney's permission to write a book analyzing Disney. If you did, copyright law would be in blatant conflict with the first amendment. Quite frankly the first amendment is infinitely more important than anyone's ability to make a buck. And, in this particular case, Google's tribute was only serving to publicize the artist. It would be impossible to argue that their fair use detracted from the profits of the copyright holders.
Data from Star Trek TNG should of course be included in the hall of fame. Though technically he's an android, not a robot, and so are many of the other nominees.
Competition is good. May the best, cheapest service win. All this talk of "turf" is plutocratic garbage.
There are other possible explanations of the distorted spectra. I don't know what intervening matter has refracted and contributed to gravitational red shift / blue shift. Unless they see the same pattern over many ultradistant quasars it doesn't amount to much.
As a long-time netflix user I think the paper envelope they have now is damn near perfect. It's dirt cheap, but keeps the DVD safe. It's recycleable too. It takes 5 seconds to put the DVD in securely and be ready to mail it.
Not all marketing firms are evil. Google has done an admirable job of promoting their services in the most non-invasive ways possible. And that is simply word of mouth. One person uses it, likes it, and tells his friends about it. And so on. That's how I heard about google back in '99. Most other forms of advertising are quite simply the art of deception. Paid commercials are a less reliable source of information than dictatorship-owned propaganda radio stations in third world countries.
One of the benefits of having superscalar or multiple processors is that you could execute both the branch-taken and the branch-not-taken codes at the same time before the branch is reolved, reducing the penalty for misprediction to zero. This has not yet been implemented by Intel or AMD.
Actually the tank weighs 10 times as much as an SUV, so by conservation of momentum the change in velocity will be 1/10 as much in the tank. So actually, hitting an SUV at 30 miles per hour wouldn't bother the passengers of the tank too much.
Actually, it could run just fine on a desktop computer with PhysX
Well, the safest thing you can drive is probably an M-1 abrams tank, for $5,000,000, but I doubt many people would actually buy one of those even if they were available to the public :)
Anyone who works or used to work in an industry that is regulated by a government agency should be banned from seeking an office in that regulatory agency. Sadly two thirds of the high positions in the Dept. of Agriculture are held by ex- or current employees of genetic engineering firms like Monsanto.
It's nice to see Microsoft on the recieving end of their own dirty tactics. It's time for a massive reformation of patent and IP law.