Comment All natural? (Score 1) 128
Maybe this will finally shut up the people who complain that eBooks just aren't like the real thing.
Maybe this will finally shut up the people who complain that eBooks just aren't like the real thing.
since global ore reserves of current substrates such as silicon and aluminum dioxide are rare and almost depleted.
Indeed. Silicon is already down to only 30% of the earth's crust, and aluminum has dwindled to only 8%. We are down to our last few peta-tonnes.
So we've entered the endless small war phase.
Try to find a time in history when the world wasn't in the endless small war phase (other than when the world was in a big war phase of course)
I think you might take a look at Afghanistan and what it helped do to the soviets. Those endless small wars do a great and inexorable job of Bankrupting countries. I'll take a few nukes every hundred years to a bnakrupt country fighting for gawd knows what in gawd knows where for people who want us dead anyhow, and are just using whoever sides with them at the moment.
Are you willing to bankrupt America to support these folks?
Except
Also, silica conducts heat far better than cellulose, which means it can be made small, dense, and fanless, requiring less power and consuming fewer resources overall.
1) "infotainment" is not a word.
Yes it is. It has been a word for at least a decade. Just because you don't like the concept, doesn't mean the word describing it is uncromulent.
2) People need to pay attention to what they're doing on the road and quit fucking around with cell phones and other cool whizzo shit on the dashboard.
That is one of the problems these systems help solve. They are built into the dash, and integrated with the cars computers. So they know when you are moving, and if you are not moving, they know whether you are in "park" or just stopped at a light. They can also detect the weight in the passenger seat, so they know a second person may be using the system. It can be integrated with lane control, and adaptive cruise control, so those functions can be somewhat more responsive if the driver appears to be distracted.
That's OK, it will probably only be used for browser hijacking ads anyway.
Just imagine how awesome they will sound!
Why would anyone, ever, think that me not looking at their ad should be illegal? I mean, are we that far gone that it's even conceivable to have the courts forcing me to view ads?
I think some of these adagencies saw the opening of Robot Chicken and thought it was a how-to plan.
The website I develop for actually sells a product.
THIS! A thousands time this! I buy thousands of dollars every year - and multiple tens of thousands before retirement.
And not once have I "found" a place through a web ad, Not once have I even ever clicked on a web ad.
Granted, by this time I block them all, so for the last 5 years, it's a given.
Last time I saw an ad, I had searched for something, a tire from TireRack, and the next dozen pages I went to had - the tire I had searched for on Tire Rack. Stalking me like no one's business. It would be like going into Sears to check on a tire price, and someone from Sears follows you to every store you go to for a week afterwards.
But I still buy thousands each year online. At least for me, present day ad stalkers paradigm is, what's the word?.....Oh yeah, fucking stupid.
They want a bike that can go zero to sixty in two seconds. Yet the human eyeball flattens enough under that kind of acceleration that vision is severely limited.
Interesting theory you have there, Butch...
0-60mph in two seconds is 1.37g. Which is comparable to the acceleration you'd experience landing after jumping to the ground from a height of three feet or so....
It doesn't have to be loaded with graft & corruption to be a waste of time.
TFA talks about a 2.5KW system. Which is about 10 panels. So this whole program is going to provide free solar to 150-200 homes in a State with 38.8 million people.
Wow, a program to provide free solar to 0.0025% of CA's population!! Really generous program you've got there, guys....
and you wonder why California has no money for the basics.
Actually, California is doing pretty well at the moment.
(Come to think of it, a good 10% the readership of this site probably REALLY does want a pony.)
Dibs on Twilight Sparkle!
So, how do the "poorest residents" own a home?
Most likely they bought back when housing prices were cheaper and/or they had more income.
Prop 13 at work, eh?
How has the US/Russia/etc negotiated in good faith on effective measures
Note that they're required to negotiate in good faith on "effective measures" - when they figure out some "effective measures", then you can complain about them not negotiating "in good faith".
And just curious, what "effective measures" can you think of? Especially in light of the fact that North Korea is NOT a signatory to the NPT....
It seems that the arsenals are growing, or if shrinking, they are becoming more powerful overall as they are replaced with more modern weapons.
As to that, no, they're not actually building more powerful nukes. The delivery mechanisms are getting more accurate, so smaller nukes are as effective as big nukes were back in the day. Note that there are no multi-megaton nukes left - they've been replaced with fractional-megaton weapons with a CEP small enough that it makes no difference.
Note, by the by, that CEP is a function of the rocket (or bomber), not the nuke. And improved versions of rockets/bombers aren't limited by the NPT in any case.
There hasn't been another world war since major states nuked up, so I'd prefer everyone stayed armed, thank you very much.
So we've entered the endless small war phase. BFD.
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