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Comment Re:Link to the NIF Status Update (Score 1) 429

Worse yet, the energy to pump those lasers was much higher.
The 1.8 megajoules of laser power were the output of pumping the lasers with 422 megajoules. And conversion from thermal to electric power is around 33% so there would need to be about 1266 megajoules of thermal power to produce that 8000 joules.

Comment Re:Australia (Score 1) 362

So do you prefer sucrose? Because sucrose is a compound of (technically a disaccharide composed of the monosaccharides) Glucose and Fructose.

As soon as it hits your stomach, gastric acidity converts sucrose to glucose and fructose during digestion.

Comment Re:I don't understand the "high cap" magazine ban (Score 1) 1862

You have confused "assault rifle" and "assault weapon".

An "assault rifle" "is capable of firing more than one round when the trigger is pulled". Typically a burst of 3 or continuous fire.

An "assault weapon" is defined by law as having some number of special features such as a pistol grip, flash hider, or bayonet mount or is simply on a list of "assault weapons" because of their looks.

In CA, AW are defined by Roberti-Roos.

Comment Re:nothing new (Score 1) 295

Amazon will be building and operating large warehouses in these two cities. So there will be property taxes and other business taxes (inventory, utility?) as well as income tax on the workers and sales tax on the purchases made by the workers and property taxes on homes owned by the workers etc.

Comment Re:When will Americans demand change? (Score 1) 163

The average person couldn't pass an LSAT, doesn't understand deductive and inductive reasoning, yet you think they can make a useful contribution to the legal system? That would be like having people who don't know the difference between power and energy to design the power grid. Or someone who doesn't understand the difference between a pointer and data to write software. Etc.

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