#2 (fight back) was advocated by my dad, but as far as the school was concerned, made me "just as guilty." Swearing back at them was out too; it was too unfamiliar a behavior to be an effective weapon. Walking (or running) away was essentially impossible; they'd follow me and hit me in the back.
School is like prison: the authorities only think they're in charge. I know better, and many others do, too.
Sure, driving everywhere and walking only from garage to kitchen is bad. But walking a few hundred meters, if that, to your mass transit provider isn't that much better.
After posting I remembered that "natural gas" is mostly a methane-ethane mix. Liquid Natural Gas, or LNG, is a well-established technolgy for transporting natural gas. So, it seems that the challenge is making it launchable and usable over the span of interplanetary missions.
I appreciate your point, though it looks more moot, now.
I see some schedule risk in developing a liquid methane storage and delivery system, though it should be less of a technical hurdle than liquid hydrogen. Venting hydrogen rises in air; venting methane, less so.
BTW, and OT, I met a former Navy sailor who served on the USS Bainbridge, a nuke-powered surface ship with amazing acceleration and top-end speed, which the CO tested, once!
Any combination of fuel and liquid oxygen carries great risk. What makes cryogenic methane more hazardous than, say, cryogenic hydrogen, or noncryogenic kerosene?
I mean two adults relating as adults, as opposed to one assuming a parent role, and one a child. I am using the words Parent, Adult, and Child as transactional analysts do. Sorry I didn't get this across in the first place, but I was posting in a hurry.
I believe positive reinforcement does work; it just needs to be practiced more by parents.
I don't believe there is an inherent social block for anyone, including brilliance. Some of us were rewarded mostly for being obedient to authority figures, which limits authentic adult relationships.
My wife, trained at the graduate level in statistics, took an Airbus 319 on a flight out of OAK in 2005. Once the plane was airborne, it started "wobbling badly" (my wife's term). The captain came on the P.A. and commanded that whoever had their cell phone on should turn it off immediately. Very soon thereafter, the wobbling stopped.
A319s, I believe, were not designed with shielding against RF interference of the cell-phone-in-the-passenger-compartment kind. Off is always safest, at least on takeoff and landing.
Xerox PARC had creative types by the bushel, and we know how little the "copier mafia" in the company paid attention to it. What a gain for Silicon Valley, and the broader world; what a loss for, as my uncle called it, Zoorox.
Don't fixate on the poor example given in the Slashdot introduction. Real-world power generation is best distributed near the load. In fact, putting this on rooftops means only 60% of the solar load gets through and that can be captured by non-photonic methods, such as fluid. Lots of energy and less A/C demand. Win-win.
Music students are taught to sit upright, not touching the chair back, which requires scooting one's rear several inches forward, generally the highest part of the seat surface. Talk about unstable.
If you want to write software before you have hardware, you need a simulation. I don't know what was done for Amiga s/w dev except to say too little, too late.
Granted that Commodore shot themselves in the foot on marketing, there were other factors involved. IIRC, Consumer Reports featured the Amiga in an issue in 1985, at a time when there was little software, at least compared to the IBM PC (out since 1981), Apple ][ (1977), and Mac 128K (1984). It was derided in the article as "the world's most expensive doorstop." With America's premiere consumer goods hand-holder saying, in essence, "hell, no" to its readership, and by extension, most of the potential market, what chance did Commodore realistically have?
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True, however, state constitutions can restrict state government and its sub-entities in identical fashion.
#2 (fight back) was advocated by my dad, but as far as the school was concerned, made me "just as guilty." Swearing back at them was out too; it was too unfamiliar a behavior to be an effective weapon. Walking (or running) away was essentially impossible; they'd follow me and hit me in the back.
School is like prison: the authorities only think they're in charge. I know better, and many others do, too.
Cold did not factor into the Apollo 1 fire, as much as 100% oxygen at 16psi, a module full of flammables, and multiple possible ignition sources.
Sure, driving everywhere and walking only from garage to kitchen is bad. But walking a few hundred meters, if that, to your mass transit provider isn't that much better.
Yeah, look at it. Are they beautiful, or just appearance-obsessed?
I lived in L.A. a decade-plus ago: same thing.
After posting I remembered that "natural gas" is mostly a methane-ethane mix. Liquid Natural Gas, or LNG, is a well-established technolgy for transporting natural gas. So, it seems that the challenge is making it launchable and usable over the span of interplanetary missions.
I appreciate your point, though it looks more moot, now.
I see some schedule risk in developing a liquid methane storage and delivery system, though it should be less of a technical hurdle than liquid hydrogen. Venting hydrogen rises in air; venting methane, less so.
They still do; submarines and aircraft carriers.
BTW, and OT, I met a former Navy sailor who served on the USS Bainbridge, a nuke-powered surface ship with amazing acceleration and top-end speed, which the CO tested, once!
Any combination of fuel and liquid oxygen carries great risk. What makes cryogenic methane more hazardous than, say, cryogenic hydrogen, or noncryogenic kerosene?
That conclusion does not necessarily follow from that premise. Maybe you avoid the mall because of poor location, traffic control, crime, et cetera.
I mean two adults relating as adults, as opposed to one assuming a parent role, and one a child. I am using the words Parent, Adult, and Child as transactional analysts do. Sorry I didn't get this across in the first place, but I was posting in a hurry.
I believe positive reinforcement does work; it just needs to be practiced more by parents.
I don't believe there is an inherent social block for anyone, including brilliance. Some of us were rewarded mostly for being obedient to authority figures, which limits authentic adult relationships.
My wife, trained at the graduate level in statistics, took an Airbus 319 on a flight out of OAK in 2005. Once the plane was airborne, it started "wobbling badly" (my wife's term). The captain came on the P.A. and commanded that whoever had their cell phone on should turn it off immediately. Very soon thereafter, the wobbling stopped.
A319s, I believe, were not designed with shielding against RF interference of the cell-phone-in-the-passenger-compartment kind. Off is always safest, at least on takeoff and landing.
5-th and harrison
Let me guess... San Francisco, south of Market?
Xerox PARC had creative types by the bushel, and we know how little the "copier mafia" in the company paid attention to it. What a gain for Silicon Valley, and the broader world; what a loss for, as my uncle called it, Zoorox.
The great earthquake that destroyed 100,000 dwellings in Mexico City's old lakebed districts 21 years ago was centered 350 km, or 220 miles, away.
Don't fixate on the poor example given in the Slashdot introduction. Real-world power generation is best distributed near the load. In fact, putting this on rooftops means only 60% of the solar load gets through and that can be captured by non-photonic methods, such as fluid. Lots of energy and less A/C demand. Win-win.
Obviously, this is just an example of the land reqirements. A real system would be distributed to where the load is.
Not nasty, just not discriminating when it comes to self-protection.
Music students are taught to sit upright, not touching the chair back, which requires scooting one's rear several inches forward, generally the highest part of the seat surface. Talk about unstable.
I'm surprised they didn't have the parents sign.
Now your dreams will really miss you.
George Leonard, "Education and Ecstasy," 1968 and 1987
Neil Postman, "The End of Education", don't know date
If you want to write software before you have hardware, you need a simulation. I don't know what was done for Amiga s/w dev except to say too little, too late.
Granted that Commodore shot themselves in the foot on marketing, there were other factors involved. IIRC, Consumer Reports featured the Amiga in an issue in 1985, at a time when there was little software, at least compared to the IBM PC (out since 1981), Apple ][ (1977), and Mac 128K (1984). It was derided in the article as "the world's most expensive doorstop." With America's premiere consumer goods hand-holder saying, in essence, "hell, no" to its readership, and by extension, most of the potential market, what chance did Commodore realistically have?