There are mountains taller than that less than 15 miles away due south of Amboy, in direct line of sight. From there you can look down on this guy as he reaches the peak of his ascent.
The second right-wing billionaire plan in three months to gerrymander the entire state of California. But who can blame the right? Gerrymandering is the one thing they know, and can do well. Cracking and packing is a right-wing way of life.
Last time it was an attempt to create two new right-wing states. Both schemes use the same strategy of packing the majority of the population of California into one nearly completely blue state, creating one (or two) slightly red majority states, but with a wealthy deep blue urban center captured at its edge like a hostage to pay the bills.
I'm not sure it would stay this way. If the rural controlled the food supply, the coastal would quickly find out that they need to give up a good chunk of their money to eat.
I almost feel like this is trolling, but I think the writer is serious.
When did farmers give their food away for free? Normally they do this in exchange for money. It's called "buying and selling". Its the usual way this works.
And people with money can buy their food where ever they like. If someone wants to charge excessive prices, the people with money will buy elsewhere. (And then there is the fact that poster is envisioning an unconstitutional restraint of trade, one state cannot embargo another.)
Your value as a person is not proportional of the amount of land you own.
Out west these rural counties are largely BLM or National Park Service (sometimes military) land. That is - they are owned in common by all Americans. So even if the "private land were voting" they would not get to vote much of that land.
Puerto Rico is made up of Puerto Ricans and the White nationalists in the US will have none of that.
A funny a true thing is that if you state on news comment sites that Trump is racially biased against Puerto Ricans you will get right-wingers arguing that that is not racist because "Hispanic is not a race" and nearly all Puerto Ricans are white. But they are not the right sort of white people it seems.
Splitting California's electoral votes is a right wing wet dream. Makes you wonder if it's the Koch family or the Mercers behind this push. Or some combination of billionaires and Russian foreign intelligence.
I started watching the pitch video on the website. But I did not need to go any further than the part where the founder asserts than school boards are a communist plot. Honest to God. It is no surprise that he was speaking to an elderly all white audience. Probably taking a break from watching the Hannity Show.
Most people would rather not have the wiring eaten at all, rather than finding it being used as a part of a multl-generation breeding experiment to develop a wild/feral population of wiring-averse rodents.
I believe you're thinking of the U-2, which was shot down twice. On 1 May, 1960, over the Soviet Union, and 14 October, 1062, over Cuba.
No SR-71s were ever lost to enemy fire, although they were certainly shot at. The North Vietnamese shot over 800 missiles at it, without scoring a hit.
No, he is right. The USSR did develop a missile capable of downing an SR-71. It was the S-200, also known as the SA-5 Gammon (NATO code name), which entered service in 1966. Now, none of these actually shot down an SR-71, because the U.S. had the good sense not to put an SR-71 within range of one while over-flying Soviet territory.
The S-200/SA-5 was a 2.5 km/s (Mach 7-8) missile able to engage at an altitude of 40,000 m, versus the Mach 3.3 and 26,000 m limits of the SR-71.
It is true that the bacterium discussed in the Nature, Evolution & Ecology paper discusses is of the genus Salmonella, but describing the disease that killed the Aztecs as being "salmonella" conveys the wrong information to the lay reader (or even the scientifically informed one) since this term is commonly used to describe food borne disease. There are several different pathogenic bacteria species, and subspecies, in the genus Salmonella. The infectious form of Salmonella enterica that is transmitted person-to-person is a different sub-species from ones that cause food poisoning and in this form is known as Paratyphoid Fever (similar to the related Typhoid Fever).
An Israeli company, Phinergy, has been working on a pilot system of vehicles that use aluminum battery plates, that are swapped at "charging" stations.
Allowing for an 80 kWH battery (Tesla's have 70, IIRC), each EV would use about 20 kg of lithium. A 2011 study found 39 million tons of economically recoverable lithium (at current prices). This is enough to build 2 billion EV cars (there are only one billion cars on Earth right now), or 4 billion EV cars if we go with 40 kWH batteries.
So there is enough proven lithium reserves at current prices to replace 200% to 400% of all cars, not "5%".
But note that "at current prices" bit. The "lithium reserve" estimate is very soft on the upper end. We know there is at least 39 million tons of economically exploitable lithium. But unlike oil it has not intensively exploited so many worldwide resources are likely undiscovered or underestimated. And as is true of many resources, modest increases in price will likely greatly expand the reserves. We can afford to spend more for that 20 kg of lithium (currently costing $180).
The entire power grid is going to need, and get, an upgrade over the next few decades as the old model of selling electricity from centralized power plants to individual homes goes the way of the horse and buggy. Introducing motor vehicles required an entire nation-wide road upgrade.
Yes, a major grid upgrade for the 21st Century needs to be planned and executed, but it is not a reason for not deploying electric vehicles, and renewable energy. But electrical grids require maintenance and upgrades on a regular basis anyway. Although some transformers that are in service are as old as 70 years,
most have a service life of 25-30 years, with increased rates of failure marking its end. Over the next 30 years nearly all power transmission transformers are going to be replaced anyway.
Scaring the crap out of everyone is considered "a state exercise?"
It was a mistake by state officials, plain and simple.
My interst is that I would want to know where the thing is aimed for, so I could stand a few miles away and enjoy the show. Radiation poisioning isn't pretty, and to actually witness the explosion, then get quickly incinerated seems like the ticket.
Knowing where to be in Hawaii to see a nuclear attack, and not be injured, is easy to figure out.
If North Korea is dropping one its new 250 kT warheads on Hawaii (which could possibly be a 500 kT design), they will be dropping it on the Honolulu/Pearl Harbor urban/military complex. They are cheek by jowl and regardless of the actual aim point, the entire area will get devastated. 72% of Hawaii's entire population lives on Oahu (a total of 950,000 people in the island) and 81% of those live in or near the Honolulu urban area.
According to NukeMap site (airburst option) such an attack with a 250 kT warhead on downtown Honolulu would kill about 215,000 and injure 155,000, thus making 40% of the population of Oahu (and 30% of the entire state) as casualties. If the military complex at Pearl Harbor is targets then "only" 40,000 would die, but 180,000 would be injured.The worst case, a 500 kT warhead on Honolulu would kill 265,000 and injure 175,000.
An attack would likely be an airburst (which produces the most blast and thermal radiation damage) and which produces no local fallout. Even if a ground burst the tradewinds blow steadily to the south-west, to west and blow the fallout away from the rest of the island.
So the place to be is somewhere on Oahu that is outside of the southern coastal strip, and you will want to be at least nine miles away from its detonation point. This would put you outside of the thermal burn range (even for first degree) even if its yield is 500 kT. So most anywhere on the north half of the island will be fine.
I am guessing that you plugged "tea" into Google Translate and looked it up in all the languages (since I found all of these languages on Google Translate when I went to check).
It is evident that Lithuanian and Polish are the same word -- the equivalent of "herb" (from the Latin herba).
They're not doing enough, quick-enough and what happens in Cape Town could be a model for what is inevitably going to hit California eventually if they don't start working on better solutions.
Some areas of California (Santa Barbara), which depend on local water supplies (like Cape Town) have faced this problem before (SB built a desalinization plant in the 1970s). Localities that depended on local ground water supplies have been hit by the drought, and required alternate supplies. But California is a big state.
Scattered local problems do not add up to a general problem for California
In general California was plenty of water for its cities and towns, which only use 20% of the available water but produce 98% of its GDP. Agriculture, that use 80% of the water supplies only 2% of the GDP. So simply paying off farmers not to grow something can supply all of the urban water California will ever need.
The number one agricultural user of water (22% of all agricultural water usage) is a crop - alfalfa - that provides so little value that it often costs more to deliver the water than the alfalfa crop is worth (and 2/3 of that crop is simply exported to Asia), ancient water rights from the 19th century are the reason for this subsidy. Paying off all the alfalfa growers not to grow anything would only cost 0.1% of the state's GDP and double the amount of water available to the cities.
Desalination is a problem for large-scale use; it's highly energy intensive, and you're left with hypersaline brine, which is environmentally destructive.
Every thing has problems in large-scale use. Proper planning and engineering can manage and solve problems though.
Highly-energy intensive, compared to what? Current technology can turn seawater into fresh water with 2.5 kwh per cubic meter. A typical desktop PC can consume 125 watts average power consumption, so less than a day of the PC sitting there turned on can provide a cubic meter (264 gallons).
The brine output does need to be managed properly, and it is possible to do it badly - but it is also possible to have to problem at all, if the output is suitable diluted before discharge.
The Israel link is about how desalinized water is too expensive for agriculture - which is true, and not what we are discussing. Agriculture requires really cheap water, and cannot be supported with desalinization. We are discussing water for cities, which can afford to pay a lot more for water. And the Dubai iceberg project is intended for a different purpose - using the ice mountain to create a microclimate (its even in the subheading of the article if you did not bother to read it). Their water supply is working fine with desalinization.
It is a solved problem in the sense that any city that needs water and has access to seawater (or briny water) can build a plant that produces it at affordable cost. Just like building roads, or houses, or office buildings, or airplanes are solved problems.
Sure "hand-waves" do not build desalinization plants, just like they don't build roads, or houses, or office buildings, or airplanes. But no one anywhere claims that they do. You do have to finance and plan and build them, like anything else.
Slashdot Mirror
There are mountains taller than that less than 15 miles away due south of Amboy, in direct line of sight. From there you can look down on this guy as he reaches the peak of his ascent.
You can secede. All you need to do is pass a Constitutional Amendment.The Lower South never tried that.
The second right-wing billionaire plan in three months to gerrymander the entire state of California. But who can blame the right? Gerrymandering is the one thing they know, and can do well. Cracking and packing is a right-wing way of life.
Last time it was an attempt to create two new right-wing states. Both schemes use the same strategy of packing the majority of the population of California into one nearly completely blue state, creating one (or two) slightly red majority states, but with a wealthy deep blue urban center captured at its edge like a hostage to pay the bills.
I'm not sure it would stay this way. If the rural controlled the food supply, the coastal would quickly find out that they need to give up a good chunk of their money to eat.
I almost feel like this is trolling, but I think the writer is serious.
When did farmers give their food away for free? Normally they do this in exchange for money. It's called "buying and selling". Its the usual way this works.
And people with money can buy their food where ever they like. If someone wants to charge excessive prices, the people with money will buy elsewhere. (And then there is the fact that poster is envisioning an unconstitutional restraint of trade, one state cannot embargo another.)
Your value as a person is not proportional of the amount of land you own.
Out west these rural counties are largely BLM or National Park Service (sometimes military) land. That is - they are owned in common by all Americans. So even if the "private land were voting" they would not get to vote much of that land.
Your memory fails you.
Puerto Rico is made up of Puerto Ricans and the White nationalists in the US will have none of that.
A funny a true thing is that if you state on news comment sites that Trump is racially biased against Puerto Ricans you will get right-wingers arguing that that is not racist because "Hispanic is not a race" and nearly all Puerto Ricans are white. But they are not the right sort of white people it seems.
But probably not by this guy.
Splitting California's electoral votes is a right wing wet dream. Makes you wonder if it's the Koch family or the Mercers behind this push. Or some combination of billionaires and Russian foreign intelligence.
I started watching the pitch video on the website. But I did not need to go any further than the part where the founder asserts than school boards are a communist plot. Honest to God. It is no surprise that he was speaking to an elderly all white audience. Probably taking a break from watching the Hannity Show.
Most people would rather not have the wiring eaten at all, rather than finding it being used as a part of a multl-generation breeding experiment to develop a wild/feral population of wiring-averse rodents.
I live in surburbia, and this happened to me. Rodents ate the wiring in my Honda Odyssey a few of years ago.
I believe you're thinking of the U-2, which was shot down twice. On 1 May, 1960, over the Soviet Union, and 14 October, 1062, over Cuba.
No SR-71s were ever lost to enemy fire, although they were certainly shot at. The North Vietnamese shot over 800 missiles at it, without scoring a hit.
No, he is right. The USSR did develop a missile capable of downing an SR-71. It was the S-200, also known as the SA-5 Gammon (NATO code name), which entered service in 1966. Now, none of these actually shot down an SR-71, because the U.S. had the good sense not to put an SR-71 within range of one while over-flying Soviet territory.
The S-200/SA-5 was a 2.5 km/s (Mach 7-8) missile able to engage at an altitude of 40,000 m, versus the Mach 3.3 and 26,000 m limits of the SR-71.
It is true that the bacterium discussed in the Nature, Evolution & Ecology paper discusses is of the genus Salmonella, but describing the disease that killed the Aztecs as being "salmonella" conveys the wrong information to the lay reader (or even the scientifically informed one) since this term is commonly used to describe food borne disease. There are several different pathogenic bacteria species, and subspecies, in the genus Salmonella. The infectious form of Salmonella enterica that is transmitted person-to-person is a different sub-species from ones that cause food poisoning and in this form is known as Paratyphoid Fever (similar to the related Typhoid Fever).
An Israeli company, Phinergy, has been working on a pilot system of vehicles that use aluminum battery plates, that are swapped at "charging" stations.
An AC making stuff up. What else is new?
Allowing for an 80 kWH battery (Tesla's have 70, IIRC), each EV would use about 20 kg of lithium. A 2011 study found 39 million tons of economically recoverable lithium (at current prices). This is enough to build 2 billion EV cars (there are only one billion cars on Earth right now), or 4 billion EV cars if we go with 40 kWH batteries.
So there is enough proven lithium reserves at current prices to replace 200% to 400% of all cars, not "5%".
But note that "at current prices" bit. The "lithium reserve" estimate is very soft on the upper end. We know there is at least 39 million tons of economically exploitable lithium. But unlike oil it has not intensively exploited so many worldwide resources are likely undiscovered or underestimated. And as is true of many resources, modest increases in price will likely greatly expand the reserves. We can afford to spend more for that 20 kg of lithium (currently costing $180).
Bizarre. Sure buddy - plants are simply not adapted to the level CO2 that has existed in the atmosphere for the last 10+ million years.
So you are condemning Ford's decision to invest in the EV technology because of the headline writer's choice of a biased wording?
Hint: they are not literally "throwing money" at anything.
The entire power grid is going to need, and get, an upgrade over the next few decades as the old model of selling electricity from centralized power plants to individual homes goes the way of the horse and buggy. Introducing motor vehicles required an entire nation-wide road upgrade.
Yes, a major grid upgrade for the 21st Century needs to be planned and executed, but it is not a reason for not deploying electric vehicles, and renewable energy. But electrical grids require maintenance and upgrades on a regular basis anyway. Although some transformers that are in service are as old as 70 years, most have a service life of 25-30 years, with increased rates of failure marking its end. Over the next 30 years nearly all power transmission transformers are going to be replaced anyway.
Not a routine looking one anyway. But a strangely shaped bright red dialog box that only appears in this context might be a good idea.
Or better yet, some unusual additional but easy to perform action that is also hard to do accidentally like "type in user name".
The UX probably already asks if you are sure you want to send something.
Ah, the old AC favorite - I'll just make some facts up which I assume are true.
It would have a menu with consecutive items reading "kill prisoner" and "release prisoner".
Scaring the crap out of everyone is considered "a state exercise?"
It was a mistake by state officials, plain and simple.
My interst is that I would want to know where the thing is aimed for, so I could stand a few miles away and enjoy the show. Radiation poisioning isn't pretty, and to actually witness the explosion, then get quickly incinerated seems like the ticket.
Knowing where to be in Hawaii to see a nuclear attack, and not be injured, is easy to figure out.
If North Korea is dropping one its new 250 kT warheads on Hawaii (which could possibly be a 500 kT design), they will be dropping it on the Honolulu/Pearl Harbor urban/military complex. They are cheek by jowl and regardless of the actual aim point, the entire area will get devastated. 72% of Hawaii's entire population lives on Oahu (a total of 950,000 people in the island) and 81% of those live in or near the Honolulu urban area.
According to NukeMap site (airburst option) such an attack with a 250 kT warhead on downtown Honolulu would kill about 215,000 and injure 155,000, thus making 40% of the population of Oahu (and 30% of the entire state) as casualties. If the military complex at Pearl Harbor is targets then "only" 40,000 would die, but 180,000 would be injured.The worst case, a 500 kT warhead on Honolulu would kill 265,000 and injure 175,000.
An attack would likely be an airburst (which produces the most blast and thermal radiation damage) and which produces no local fallout. Even if a ground burst the tradewinds blow steadily to the south-west, to west and blow the fallout away from the rest of the island.
So the place to be is somewhere on Oahu that is outside of the southern coastal strip, and you will want to be at least nine miles away from its detonation point. This would put you outside of the thermal burn range (even for first degree) even if its yield is 500 kT. So most anywhere on the north half of the island will be fine.
Zulu: itiye Lithuanian: arbata Samoan: lauti Malagasy: dite Polish: herbata Maltese: corto
I am guessing that you plugged "tea" into Google Translate and looked it up in all the languages (since I found all of these languages on Google Translate when I went to check).
It is evident that Lithuanian and Polish are the same word -- the equivalent of "herb" (from the Latin herba).
They're not doing enough, quick-enough and what happens in Cape Town could be a model for what is inevitably going to hit California eventually if they don't start working on better solutions.
Some areas of California (Santa Barbara), which depend on local water supplies (like Cape Town) have faced this problem before (SB built a desalinization plant in the 1970s). Localities that depended on local ground water supplies have been hit by the drought, and required alternate supplies. But California is a big state. Scattered local problems do not add up to a general problem for California
In general California was plenty of water for its cities and towns, which only use 20% of the available water but produce 98% of its GDP. Agriculture, that use 80% of the water supplies only 2% of the GDP. So simply paying off farmers not to grow something can supply all of the urban water California will ever need.
The number one agricultural user of water (22% of all agricultural water usage) is a crop - alfalfa - that provides so little value that it often costs more to deliver the water than the alfalfa crop is worth (and 2/3 of that crop is simply exported to Asia), ancient water rights from the 19th century are the reason for this subsidy. Paying off all the alfalfa growers not to grow anything would only cost 0.1% of the state's GDP and double the amount of water available to the cities.
Desalination is a problem for large-scale use; it's highly energy intensive, and you're left with hypersaline brine, which is environmentally destructive.
Every thing has problems in large-scale use. Proper planning and engineering can manage and solve problems though.
Highly-energy intensive, compared to what? Current technology can turn seawater into fresh water with 2.5 kwh per cubic meter. A typical desktop PC can consume 125 watts average power consumption, so less than a day of the PC sitting there turned on can provide a cubic meter (264 gallons).
The brine output does need to be managed properly, and it is possible to do it badly - but it is also possible to have to problem at all, if the output is suitable diluted before discharge.
Sorry your links actually defeat your claim.
The Israel link is about how desalinized water is too expensive for agriculture - which is true, and not what we are discussing. Agriculture requires really cheap water, and cannot be supported with desalinization. We are discussing water for cities, which can afford to pay a lot more for water. And the Dubai iceberg project is intended for a different purpose - using the ice mountain to create a microclimate (its even in the subheading of the article if you did not bother to read it). Their water supply is working fine with desalinization.
It is a solved problem in the sense that any city that needs water and has access to seawater (or briny water) can build a plant that produces it at affordable cost. Just like building roads, or houses, or office buildings, or airplanes are solved problems.
Sure "hand-waves" do not build desalinization plants, just like they don't build roads, or houses, or office buildings, or airplanes. But no one anywhere claims that they do. You do have to finance and plan and build them, like anything else.