Prior art. I have this working already. I send my trash into the future at a rate of 1 second per second. Eventually it will reach the far future.

I've never felt good when exercising. I do it, and do it regularly, solely because I like to be sexually desirable. But there is no way it can be called fun. It's something you grit your teeth a force yourself through because it feels better later, when you're not exercising, and some girl is actually checking you out.

On Saturday (my big workout day) I often stay I bed long after I've already woken up, long after I've gotten bored out of my mind just laying there, because I'm filled with dread at the fact that once I get up, I'm going to have to force myself to workout. And runner's high? I've heard of it, but the only thing I've ever felt is just sort of a dizzy, head in clouds, "out of it" sort of feeling, like being drugged up by a doctor. Granted you don't feel the pain anymore, but the experience is anything but pleasant.

Exercise sucks, it may be worth it later, but I hate when people like you say it's "fun".

In whichever room you are taking breakfast, one would presume.

Wait now I have to take my breakfast somewhere also?
Usually I just have breakfast (or eat breakfast). I don't really take it any significant distance.

That was my reaction too. "Do I take a print newspaper at home?"
Take it where?

I did look it up once, and at least in California, the relevant law stated that you could call yourself an engineer if you worked for a major industrial company and your official job title contained the word "engineer".

You only need a license to call yourself a "Professional Engineer (P.E.)" or to sell services as an "Engineer" without a company backing you up and assuming liability for your work.

Cooool! How do you put field current into the, um, rotor? (carriage, I guess)? I guess metal wheels would work.

>>I just want to know how CLU sent a page.

Yes I was wondering too. When I saw the commercials with Alan getting a page "from a number that had been disconnected for 20 years" I thought nothing of it. It seemed obvious that the programs (or Flynn inside the computer) just hacked into the pager system over the internet and sent a page with a number they faked up (actually, now that I think about it you could always type any number you wanted when paging, real or not).

But The Grid was not connected to the internet or anything else, so how did CLU page Alan?

Um, but I was already talking about first class mail. The post office generally tells you that first class mail will get delivered in "about 2 weeks, probably". In reality it usually only takes a day or two, but they won't commit to that so nobody sending anything urgent is going to use first class mail anyway. And thus, nobody would care if the first class mail only came once a week. And many (like me) would actually prefer it only delivered once a week.

Ah but why does the postal service "need to make this trip anyway"? If you cut out all the bulk stuff, they would probably only need to send a truck once a week. It would be way more convenient for me to only have to go out to my mail box once a week, and nobody is going to send anything urgent via regular mail (they always suggest it could take about 2 weeks anyway, and they don't guaranty even that).

The only reason we need daily USPS service is because our box would be overflowing with all the crap mail we don't want anyway, which is only sent because it is so preposterously cheep. Raise the rates, all the stupid crap mail everyone hates goes away, you can slash your operating expenses to almost 1/6 of what they currently are, and I only have to walk over to the mailbox once a week. Its pretty much win all around, except for postal workers.

Most modern natural gas turbines are "combustion turbines", which means they don't generate steam to turn the turbine*. Instead they use the hot exhaust to directly turn the turbines. The modern designs I have worked with generally have a "duel fuel" option, allowing them to run off of diesel fuel as well. They can also run off of syngas, which is basically the same as natural gas (but synthetic not natural), which is made from coal. And I know of one that was modified to run off of hydrogen (it was at a refinery that produced hydrogen as a by-product of refining).

Combustion turbines can burn basically anything that is a gas or can be atomized, it is a question of tweaking there combustion settings, comparable to making a car run off alcohol or whatever.

*Most combustion turbines I've work with are "combined cycle" which means they've added a Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) to boil water from the exhaust of the combustion turbine. The steam is then used to turn a steam turbine generator to produce even more power.