Comment Re:For one battery that goes, billions are just fi (Score 1) 277
I can't wait for Apple to sue Chevy for violating its patent on combustible devices.
I can't wait for Apple to sue Chevy for violating its patent on combustible devices.
What I would like to know is if this device can produces net energy over its lifetime after the total energy to produce and maintain it is taken into account. If there is a net loss then it is in effect just a battery for storing energy with less then 100% efficiency.
It all makes sense once one understands the coding scheme:
V91.07XS
The first three characters are the type of water transport accident that caused the injury:
V90 Drowning and submersion due to accident to watercraft
V91 Other injury due to accident to watercraft
V92 Drowning and submersion due to accident on board watercraft, without accident to watercraft
V93 Other injury due to accident on board watercraft, without accident to watercraft
V94 Other and unspecified water transport accidents
Next there is a sub-code that further categorizes the incident:
V91.0 - Burn due to watercraft on fire
V91.1 - Crushed between watercraft and other watercraft or other object due to collision
V91.2 - Fall due to collision between watercraft and other watercraft or other object
After that is a code that identifies the type of water craft:
0 - Merchant ship
1 - Passenger ship
2 - Fishing boat
3 - Other powered watercraft
4 - Sailboat
5 - Canoe or kayak
6 - Inflatable craft (nonpowered)
7 - Water-skis
8 - Other unpowered watercraft
9 - Unspecified watercraft
And then the following 2 character code:
XA - Initial Encounter
XD - Subsequent Encounter
XS - Sequela
One can then combine what is needed in a systematic way. The confusion comes when they are blindly enumerated to generate every possible combination. Some combinations will not make sense but that is just a side affect of not specifying the water craft and encounter type individually for every sub-code. For instance 'water-skis' is perfectly reasonable for other sub-codes such as:
V91.2 - Fall due to collision between watercraft and other watercraft or other object
Under commerce laws, a contract is signed between a consumer and a company to perform a service.
The NON-action of that service - the unwanted gift ORDERED and PAID FOR by the consumer Aunt Milly - is a direct and actionable defrauding of service and a contractual BREACH by Amazon.
I smell a massive consumer lawsuit that Amazon will lose.
Amazon enters into the contract to deliver the goods and services specified. They are the AGENT of Aunt Milly.
Anything other than a good-faith effort to fulfill that contract is an act of FRAUD.
Didn't Aunt Milly agree to this, though, when she clicked "I Agree" to the TOS?
I would think that the microphone would run afoul of wiretapping and eavesdropping laws.
I would think the border in Nicaragua would be well known and would be well-surveyed by now
As mentioned in a previous post, borders may be defined by a river whose course may change from time to time. Also, two countries may have conflicting claims over what the coordinates should be.
What do they do, negotiate with the guy on the spot?
It's been done before by Crassus where the word "crass" comes from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassus
Most notorious was his acquisition of burning houses: when Crassus received word that a house was on fire, he would arrive and purchase the doomed property along with surrounding buildings for a modest sum, and then employ his army of 500 clients to put the fire out before much damage had been done. Crassus' clients employed the Roman method of firefighting—destroying the burning building to curtail the spread of the flames.
Since the ocean rig is a navigable vessel, they may only be liable for the salvage value ($27 million) under maritime law:
I have trouble enough finding all the remote controls. The shutter glasses seem to be just one more thing to have to find and put batteries in. One reason CDs replaced Vinyl and MP3s are replacing CDs is it is a lot more convenient to just listen to something. This seems to be a step backwards.
I know movie theatre screens can reflect circularly polarized light without changing the polarization, so it can work with projection home theater. But, what about DLP displays? Can the screens pass circularly polarized light with polarization intact?
IMAX theatres use DLP for 3D so it should work.
I believe the biggest hurdle is trying to build a transmission line that does not go near an endangered species,a fragile ecosystem, or someones backyard (NIMBY). This may be the biggest obstacle for any new energy production facility.
The problem with this is that it does not detect cancer cells but anomalies that may be cancer cells. All the dentist can do is refer one to an oral surgeon who will just look at the tongue and ask if one has bitten it accidentally in the last few days. They are not going to do a biopsy on something they can not see and they are not trained to interpret the photos.
Insightful? Seriously?
Are the modders out of their fricking minds?
They've probably played too much chess, or something.
What else are you supposed to do at chess camp?
That's a good point.
Another is that a craftsman does not begrudge good money spent on quality tools of their trade that will last for years/decades[1] with proper care.
It's considered a sound investment that pays back across the board.
[1] YMMV, depends on craft/trade
It's also a deductible business expense for a professional photographer.
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