I should clarify my comment. I wasn't suggesting disposal of radioactive waste in the ocean.
I was responding to this sentence. " Extensive monitoring of the atmosphere in the area showed that no radiation escaped." The idea that you could detect radiation in concentrations above the background radiation in 6000m of water is ridiculous.
You mean radiation can't penetrate 6,000 meters of water? If you look at the decay chain of PU 238 they are all solid until you get to radon. And at 6000 m of water the pressure is enough to keep it a liquid and too dense to bubble up.That means all of the decay products will sit there in the water and decay protected by an equivalent shielding of 1000 ft of lead.
The best place to try it is where there is an existing hole. Look for an abandoned mine or quarry.
Or find somewhere where there is stuff in the ground that you want. Coal comes to mind. You could mine the coal in an inverted pyramid and then put glass over it. Done.
I did a quick test at my desk with my polarized sunglasses and two different monitors. Both blocked the light when I tilted my head 45 degrees to the right and it was at full brightness 45 degrees to the left. The image only was completely blocked in a very narrow range.
I'm curious as to why this is not a contract dispute? I can only assume it is because no contract existed. If they had a contract with Microsoft that stated what the interface was supposed to be then they would be in violation of contract. If there was no contract and MS was just building an OS and told them the interface would be and then decided not to include it or change it there is no case.
Luckily I work in a shop as an engineer and the techs let me play on the machines with supervision. TIG welding stainless steel is pretty easy since heat moves so slowly. I'd start with it. Aluminum is a WHOLE different animal. It sucks heat away so fast you can't pussyfoot around. Pedal to the metal and go for it otherwise it won't work. And you also need everything very clean since there isn't any flux to suck the crap out of the weld.
Your main problem is you have a basic lack of understanding of economics. It's not your fault it isn't taught in school you have to search it out. You keep claiming that the build up of capital equipment is displacing workers and claim it will go on forever. But you don't understand how a business works. You just don't one day come up with an idea for a good and then build a fully automatd assembly line. You have to try to calculate if it will be more profitable to start slowly, start big with more labor, or start big with more capital equipment, or any where in between. As capital equipment builds up we can produce more with less labor. In a free market this causes a drop in prices. You don't see that today because the federal reserve keeps inflating the currency which eats up most productivity gains. If left alone goods would keep getting cheaper an the less skilled would have a higher standard of living while working and earning less. Like I said people in the US on welfare have cable tv and smart phones. These are things kings couldn't own for all the worlds wealth a few hundred years ago. That is what capitalism brings. Now of course there will be some rich people that have lots more than others. If it was a free market it wouldn't be bad because those people would be those that served their fellow man the best. People like Jobs, Musk, and Gates have led companies that create products loved by billions of people. When you have a regulated market like we do today it is much easier to get rich by bribes and political means to steal wealth through taxes and inflation and line your own pockets.
Here is how a free market with no Federal Reserve central planning interest rates works. At any time people and companies have to decide what to build consumer or capital goods. You can't build capital goods though without savings. There has to be enough consumer goods saved for the people building the capital good to consume. This is reflected in a natural interest rate based on savings. The more savings available for loan the lower the interest rates the less saving the higher.a low interest rate signals manufacturers that it will be in their best interest to borrow to build capital equipment. A high interest rate signals manufacturers to not expand and just use and maintain existing capital equipment and use more labor.
What happens when the Fed keeps interest rates lower than the natural rate is a false signal is created telling companies there is plenty of savings and it's time to expand capital equipment. So they ramp up building all of this capacity which causes a boom. Eventually it is realized that there isn't the savings or the demand and the bubble bursts and all those people were employed building things that the market really didn't demand have to be fired in order to move to the industries where they are needed. If rates are continually kept artificially low or the government bails out industries that aren't making what people need it prevents those jobs from moving and recovery can never happen.
The reason Monsanto can win a lawsuit against you is because they have bought regulations allowing them to "own" the plant genes. With a government based on protecting private property there is no protection of intellectual "property" because it doesn't exist. It is just an idea.
I lived off of crappy food in college but since I didn't eat 10% of my body weight in it a day I never gained weight. Let's say I go to McDonald's which I still do from time to time. Feeding my family of 5 costs about $25. I can go to the supermarket and get a pound of chicken for $3, fresh veggies for $3, and some potatoes, rice, or noodles for $1. Now of course it takes some time to cook and clean up but it costs less than half to cook good food at home. Plus I usually have leftovers for lunch the next day.
The main purpose of libertarian government would be to protect a persons life and property from being harmed by others. A country that protects private property rights would have a much cleaner environment because people don't want their property polluted. You claim China is polluted because of capitalism but the truth is it is polluted because nobody owns the property and there is no mechanism for protecting it. If you live next door to Apple in China and want to sue them claiming they are polluting your land good luck with that. Most people see the EPA as protecting the environment because they set emission standards. You are looking at it completely backwards. Why should you be allowed to emit any pollution onto my property or air at all? The EPA protections industry from lawsuits.
Now as for worrying about productivity you are missing the point as well. The problem wouldn't exist in a free society because there would be no minimum wage and as productivity increases costs decrease and so you can have higher standards of living while making less money. Look at the one pretty much free industry electronics. Homeless people have computers in their pockets that are more powerful than what a government could have 30 years ago. Look at food. For the first time in all of human history in the US the poor are the fattest people. This is because food is so cheap that if you have no self control you can actually kill yourself by eating too much. This is due to productivity. You worry about there not being enough jobs. There will always be a natural balance between labor and capital in a free market where life and property are protected.
The Canadian oil trusts were 10% for years before the Canadian government started taxing them at the corporate level. PWE and PGH come to mind. There are others.
I may be behind the times with Linux but the last time I tried installing it I had to try to track down all sorts of drivers to get anything to work.
I just had a hard drive crash and I wanted to get some information off of the second drive which was IDE. My new box doesn't have anywhere to plug in an IDE cable. So I scrounged together some parts put them together and threw in my XP disk and 30 minutes later I was up and running and could hook up my IDE drive and USB external drive and copy everything to the external drive. No problem. Are there and Linux distributions that can do that now? If so I'd switch.
Your comments on Differental equations struck a nerve with me. It only took me about 10 years after graduation to really understand their use. The problem was I was trapped looking for analytical solutions. But they don't work in the real world. Hell even a simple pendulum can't be modeled unless you use small angle approximation. When I understood the numerical methods it was like a revaluation. I don't have access to matlab but I just use excel and hand code the RK45 solutions. I don't know why this wasn't taught in my school. The semester I had was more like looking at a few random problems where we found an analytical solution. It could be taught in a math curriculum but not in an engineering one.
The Liquid Floride Thorium Reactor doesn't use sodium. It uses a salt. And one was even built 50 years ago. Of course since you can't make bombs from the by products it was abandoned by our government.
You are correct. The problem is in triggering a fault that has built up stress for a long time. You may have to wait until after a quake when the stress it at a lower value to try it.
You are right. The headline should say it triggered an earthquake not caused.
I've suggested lubricating fault lines as a means to eliminate earthquakes. I am a mechanical engineer and earthquakes are a variation of a type of movement known as stick slip. It happens where you have seals like pistons. You have a static coefficient of friction much higher than the dynamic. So force and energy is stored up in your system trying to overcome the static friction. Once it starts moving the system lurches rapidly releasing the energy. They key to getting rid of it is reducing the friction. Better seals like Teflon can help as can lubrication in some applications.
If you pumped a slurry mixture into a fault line and keep pressure on it it will cause it to slip. We can't prevent the stress from building but we can control the release. The only trouble is the first time you release the energy you have no idea how it will behave. This should be studied in remote places like Alaska where there are plenty of fault lines and not much population that would be affected.
You can have a non-disclosure agreement with the manufacturer to show them the idea. I have to sign them all of the time. I worked for a company that designed and built custom manufacturing equipment. I had to sign them whenever we reviewed a customers new product design. Some of them were big and some were small. This is nothing new.
One of the main purposes of governments is to enforce contracts. Also if a manufacturer gets a reputation for stealing ideas they aren't going to get much business in the future.
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I should clarify my comment. I wasn't suggesting disposal of radioactive waste in the ocean.
I was responding to this sentence. " Extensive monitoring of the atmosphere in the area showed that no radiation escaped." The idea that you could detect radiation in concentrations above the background radiation in 6000m of water is ridiculous.
You mean radiation can't penetrate 6,000 meters of water? If you look at the decay chain of PU 238 they are all solid until you get to radon. And at 6000 m of water the pressure is enough to keep it a liquid and too dense to bubble up.That means all of the decay products will sit there in the water and decay protected by an equivalent shielding of 1000 ft of lead.
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The best place to try it is where there is an existing hole. Look for an abandoned mine or quarry.
Or find somewhere where there is stuff in the ground that you want. Coal comes to mind. You could mine the coal in an inverted pyramid and then put glass over it. Done.
I did a quick test at my desk with my polarized sunglasses and two different monitors. Both blocked the light when I tilted my head 45 degrees to the right and it was at full brightness 45 degrees to the left. The image only was completely blocked in a very narrow range.
I second the motion.
I'm curious as to why this is not a contract dispute? I can only assume it is because no contract existed. If they had a contract with Microsoft that stated what the interface was supposed to be then they would be in violation of contract. If there was no contract and MS was just building an OS and told them the interface would be and then decided not to include it or change it there is no case.
Luckily I work in a shop as an engineer and the techs let me play on the machines with supervision. TIG welding stainless steel is pretty easy since heat moves so slowly. I'd start with it. Aluminum is a WHOLE different animal. It sucks heat away so fast you can't pussyfoot around. Pedal to the metal and go for it otherwise it won't work. And you also need everything very clean since there isn't any flux to suck the crap out of the weld.
Maybe you need to read some books. It is then not than. Get a clue.
Than it's back to books only.
Your main problem is you have a basic lack of understanding of economics. It's not your fault it isn't taught in school you have to search it out. You keep claiming that the build up of capital equipment is displacing workers and claim it will go on forever. But you don't understand how a business works. You just don't one day come up with an idea for a good and then build a fully automatd assembly line. You have to try to calculate if it will be more profitable to start slowly, start big with more labor, or start big with more capital equipment, or any where in between. As capital equipment builds up we can produce more with less labor. In a free market this causes a drop in prices. You don't see that today because the federal reserve keeps inflating the currency which eats up most productivity gains. If left alone goods would keep getting cheaper an the less skilled would have a higher standard of living while working and earning less. Like I said people in the US on welfare have cable tv and smart phones. These are things kings couldn't own for all the worlds wealth a few hundred years ago. That is what capitalism brings. Now of course there will be some rich people that have lots more than others. If it was a free market it wouldn't be bad because those people would be those that served their fellow man the best. People like Jobs, Musk, and Gates have led companies that create products loved by billions of people. When you have a regulated market like we do today it is much easier to get rich by bribes and political means to steal wealth through taxes and inflation and line your own pockets.
Here is how a free market with no Federal Reserve central planning interest rates works. At any time people and companies have to decide what to build consumer or capital goods. You can't build capital goods though without savings. There has to be enough consumer goods saved for the people building the capital good to consume. This is reflected in a natural interest rate based on savings. The more savings available for loan the lower the interest rates the less saving the higher.a low interest rate signals manufacturers that it will be in their best interest to borrow to build capital equipment. A high interest rate signals manufacturers to not expand and just use and maintain existing capital equipment and use more labor.
What happens when the Fed keeps interest rates lower than the natural rate is a false signal is created telling companies there is plenty of savings and it's time to expand capital equipment. So they ramp up building all of this capacity which causes a boom. Eventually it is realized that there isn't the savings or the demand and the bubble bursts and all those people were employed building things that the market really didn't demand have to be fired in order to move to the industries where they are needed. If rates are continually kept artificially low or the government bails out industries that aren't making what people need it prevents those jobs from moving and recovery can never happen.
The reason Monsanto can win a lawsuit against you is because they have bought regulations allowing them to "own" the plant genes. With a government based on protecting private property there is no protection of intellectual "property" because it doesn't exist. It is just an idea.
I lived off of crappy food in college but since I didn't eat 10% of my body weight in it a day I never gained weight. Let's say I go to McDonald's which I still do from time to time. Feeding my family of 5 costs about $25. I can go to the supermarket and get a pound of chicken for $3, fresh veggies for $3, and some potatoes, rice, or noodles for $1. Now of course it takes some time to cook and clean up but it costs less than half to cook good food at home. Plus I usually have leftovers for lunch the next day.
The main purpose of libertarian government would be to protect a persons life and property from being harmed by others. A country that protects private property rights would have a much cleaner environment because people don't want their property polluted. You claim China is polluted because of capitalism but the truth is it is polluted because nobody owns the property and there is no mechanism for protecting it. If you live next door to Apple in China and want to sue them claiming they are polluting your land good luck with that. Most people see the EPA as protecting the environment because they set emission standards. You are looking at it completely backwards. Why should you be allowed to emit any pollution onto my property or air at all? The EPA protections industry from lawsuits.
Now as for worrying about productivity you are missing the point as well. The problem wouldn't exist in a free society because there would be no minimum wage and as productivity increases costs decrease and so you can have higher standards of living while making less money. Look at the one pretty much free industry electronics. Homeless people have computers in their pockets that are more powerful than what a government could have 30 years ago. Look at food. For the first time in all of human history in the US the poor are the fattest people. This is because food is so cheap that if you have no self control you can actually kill yourself by eating too much. This is due to productivity. You worry about there not being enough jobs. There will always be a natural balance between labor and capital in a free market where life and property are protected.
The Canadian oil trusts were 10% for years before the Canadian government started taxing them at the corporate level. PWE and PGH come to mind. There are others.
I may be behind the times with Linux but the last time I tried installing it I had to try to track down all sorts of drivers to get anything to work.
I just had a hard drive crash and I wanted to get some information off of the second drive which was IDE. My new box doesn't have anywhere to plug in an IDE cable. So I scrounged together some parts put them together and threw in my XP disk and 30 minutes later I was up and running and could hook up my IDE drive and USB external drive and copy everything to the external drive. No problem. Are there and Linux distributions that can do that now? If so I'd switch.
The first stage engines F-1 were kerosene and oxygen. The J-2 wereon the second and third stage and were hydrogen and oxygen.
I forgot to ask. Which Florin Diacu's book?
Your comments on Differental equations struck a nerve with me. It only took me about 10 years after graduation to really understand their use. The problem was I was trapped looking for analytical solutions. But they don't work in the real world. Hell even a simple pendulum can't be modeled unless you use small angle approximation. When I understood the numerical methods it was like a revaluation. I don't have access to matlab but I just use excel and hand code the RK45 solutions. I don't know why this wasn't taught in my school. The semester I had was more like looking at a few random problems where we found an analytical solution. It could be taught in a math curriculum but not in an engineering one.
So should we stop the reactors that make the arterial used in nuclear medicine? That way when we shut down all reactors cancer deaths will increase.
Heavy water reactors don't need enriched uranium as fuel either.
The Liquid Floride Thorium Reactor doesn't use sodium. It uses a salt. And one was even built 50 years ago. Of course since you can't make bombs from the by products it was abandoned by our government.
You are correct. The problem is in triggering a fault that has built up stress for a long time. You may have to wait until after a quake when the stress it at a lower value to try it.
You are right. The headline should say it triggered an earthquake not caused.
I've suggested lubricating fault lines as a means to eliminate earthquakes. I am a mechanical engineer and earthquakes are a variation of a type of movement known as stick slip. It happens where you have seals like pistons. You have a static coefficient of friction much higher than the dynamic. So force and energy is stored up in your system trying to overcome the static friction. Once it starts moving the system lurches rapidly releasing the energy. They key to getting rid of it is reducing the friction. Better seals like Teflon can help as can lubrication in some applications.
If you pumped a slurry mixture into a fault line and keep pressure on it it will cause it to slip. We can't prevent the stress from building but we can control the release. The only trouble is the first time you release the energy you have no idea how it will behave. This should be studied in remote places like Alaska where there are plenty of fault lines and not much population that would be affected.
You can have a non-disclosure agreement with the manufacturer to show them the idea. I have to sign them all of the time. I worked for a company that designed and built custom manufacturing equipment. I had to sign them whenever we reviewed a customers new product design. Some of them were big and some were small. This is nothing new.
One of the main purposes of governments is to enforce contracts. Also if a manufacturer gets a reputation for stealing ideas they aren't going to get much business in the future.