Comment Re:enough to power a huge smartphone (Score 4, Interesting) 67
GP said calories (implying kilocalories) and did the conversion right. It's 96.9 watts according to Wolfram Alpha.
GP said calories (implying kilocalories) and did the conversion right. It's 96.9 watts according to Wolfram Alpha.
Or a very efficient "computer", considering the things humans are capable of on 2000 calories.
I didn't make it past TFH.
So, you don't need to carry an oxidizer. If you wanted to run a turbopump to do the same in order to generate thrust, you'd need to react it with something. Neat idea, nice Isp, no idea if it's actually practical.
IANARS (I Am Not A Rocket Scientist).
The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.
-- RAH
This is an excellent point. Anyone advocating censorship needs to set in place some method by which the censorship is achieved. That generally means picking a group of people and telling them to apply some sort of standard (of whatever looseness). What I think the parent poster was getting at (before they were downvoted) is that it's arrogant to think that you, yourself, know best what content is Good and what is Bad
I would add that it's also foolish to think that you can predict the long-term consequences of your choices better than anyone else. The law of unintended consequences likes to show up with its buddy Murphy.
If only I had mod points. +1, Insightful.
I didn't quite get the bit about it being difficult for a person who wasn't outside the US to understand free speech (as I live in the US and understand what free speech is just fine). OTOHZ, I think about how many people in the US are in favor of more restrictions to curtail speech, and I hope that this is merely a local problem, and not a global one. Sadly, I doubt it.
first actual demonstratable/sellable working vapour-ware product in history
Kids these days. Did we already forget steam engines?
Damnit. Suckered again.
If you really had the breadth of experience to code in "just about anything", you'd surely have picked up an assembly language or three in all those decades. Maybe you don't remember the specific mnemonics, but you should be able to do it with the reference manual at hand. I learned assembler and C right after Pascal.
I would assume putting a nice plague on it 'not for public use' has been done
I thought we all agreed not to engage in biological warfare?
The problem wasn't using a mere 10 pence of electricity, rather the antisocial behaviour
You fucking cunts and your ASBOs. Go fuck yourself, go fuck your mother, and die in a fire. And to quote gstoddart (one of my favorite lines on Slashdot lately):
Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker and tits. Fuck you, fuck off, go the fuck away, and don't make me tell you again.
Am I doing it right? Thankfully, I live in a country which, in theory, protects offensive speech.
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