Comment Did someone just invent traffic circles? (Score 1) 151
...but require fancy automation for them?
...but require fancy automation for them?
Amen.
"Folding Ideas" did a nice bit on this (it is long!) a while ago - I have seen nothing since then that makes me think any different:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/...
I believe the Adani Group have a bit of a questionable relationship to good governance.
Did "man-made climate change" cause the Dust Bowl of the last century? Did it, huh? Did it?
Of course it didn't. But it happened, and it sure didn't help the economic conditions of the time. But one thing that did contribute to the Dust Bowl was bad farming practices and policies.
The more the greenies scream "climate change" the more I hear "An excuse to ram our very unpopular polices down everyone's throats."
A lot of those greenies seem to be screaming about things pretty similar to "bad farming practices and policies". Maybe if we had thought about those practices and policies a bit more "back in the day" we wouldn't have had to deal with the Dust Bowl of the last century? Maybe if we changed some of our current policies, even the popular ones, we might avoid or mitigate some problems before they become disasters.
Yeah, I had a geothermal heat pump in Virginia. Geothermal is the gold standard of energy savings for heating. Unfortunately, heating isn't the priority here in Texas, cooling is. The geo doesn't perform as dramatically in AC mode as it does in heat mode because the OTHER air conditioners are also heat pumps, just not in heat exchange mode with the subsurface soil. They heat exchange with colder air than my geo in Virginia that was exchanging with 40 to 50'ish degree underground soil. Texas and the rest of the south doesn't have the dramatic options for heat that the northern states do.
I had not heard that ground source heat pumps had any challenges with cooling. If the soil temp is 50, my first thought is that would be better than trying to dump heat into the air at 80 or 90, and if the air is not that hot, would the AC even be needed? On second though though, maybe the ease of bringing new air in rather than the slower movement of heat through the soil is the issue?
Since we now know the theory that amyloid protein plaque causes alzheimer's was based on falsified data, why would we expect any drugs created to treat the amyloid protein plaque to be effective?
I think there is still a lot of evidence that amyloid protein plaque has some relationship with alzheimer's. There was a recent report of clusters of early onset alzheimer's among those receiving growth hormone from for example:
"Researchers say a handful of people who received human growth hormone from the pituitary glands of deceased donors have gone on to develop early onset Alzheimer’s – likely because the hormones used were contaminated with proteins that seeded the disease in their brains."
Otherwise the car has proven exceptionally reliable so far. But stats posed by Consumer Reports would have you believe otherwise, which is misleading, I think.
Welcome to statistics. When "x% of people had problems", that means "(100-x)% of people did not have problems". The report of one person (such as your report) can't really tell you much about the stats posted by Consumer Reports, other than that you, in particular, are in the second category. You would want at least a few dozen, if not a few hundred, well selected reports before you can have any confidence in the actual value of "x".
The by-product of using hydrogen and oxygen as fuel is the waste product is H2O, but that's only if you burn O2.
But combustion of hydrogen in air results, yes, in water, but also in Nitrogen Oxide (NOx), which is a lot worse than CO2.
Really? Is the heat released by the [H2 + H2 + O2] -> [H2O + H2O] reaction cause the atmospheric nitrogen to get converted?
Well, live and learn I guess - https://www.power-eng.com/hydr...
For automotive internal combustion applications, couldn't that get dealt with by the catalytic converter? For fuel cell applications, I don't think it is an issue at all (relatively low temperatures don't seem to produce the NOx byproducts)
I wonder how many would be so anti-vax had they lived through polio.
Much of the historical anti-vax fellings were based on distrust of the authorities:
Montreal smallpox riots
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Toronto protests in 1919
https://www.tvo.org/article/st...
Also, why would civilian aircraft have to incorporate resistance to electronic warfare into their design? Should they also have anti-missile countermeasures? Perhaps missiles of their own so they should shoot back at any fire control radars or GPS jammers that play games with them?
"How Antimissile Systems Protect Commercial Aircraft From MANPADS Attacks In Israel"
Because the "old" look was absolutely awful when printed on a black-and-white printer
HBI: "So a technique whereby people with too much time on their hands create content that gets lots of eyeballs without real life repercussions."
Sounds like Reddit
Usenet but with ads?
That was on a budget of about $70/year/child with a full-time stay at home mom making their learning fun.
It's mind-blowing what they could accomplish if I could fund them to the tune of $15K/child/year.
I would posit that the "full-time stay at home mom" should be priced at higher than $70/year. Even with four kids at $15K/child/year you are only valuing that mom at $60,000/year.
I am not saying we should not do better with what we are paying, but rather the comparison to "at home" is not as extreme as presented.
you cannot sue in the USA until after copyright registration:
https://copyrightalliance.org/...
Full Question: Why should I register my work if copyright protection is automatic?
Answer: Since copyright protection is automatic from the moment a work is created, registration is not required in order to protect your work. However, there are numerous benefits to registration and therefore it is highly recommended, if feasible. These benefits include:
1.Bringing an Infringement Action: It enables you to file a lawsuit to enforce copyright in federal court.
You must file an application for registration before you can sue someone for infringing your copyright, even if the infringement has already occurred.
2. Evidence of Validity: It is evidence that your copyright is valid. This could be important if a copyright infringement case is brought involving the work.
Filing your registration before or within 5 years of publishing your work will help you in the event that you need to bring a copyright infringement lawsuit in court. Your registration will satisfy a basic level of proof for the court of the validity of your copyright. This does not mean that your claim of copyright ownership is guaranteed. However, instead of having to prove that you are the actual copyright owner or that your work is protected by copyright, the other party will have to prove that you are not or that your work is not. While this may not seem like much of a distinction, you are in a stronger position in court if the presumption of copyright ownership is on your side.
3. Statutory Damages and Attorneys’ Fees: It enables you to claim statutory damages and attorney’s fees.
To be eligible for an award of statutory damages and attorneys’ fees in a copyright infringement case, the copyrighted work must be registered before infringement commences, or, if the work is published, within 3 months of publication. The statutory damages provision may be of help because copyright owners – particularly individual creators – often find it difficult to calculate and prove exactly the extent to which an infringement has harmed them. When applicable, statutory damages for infringing uses of a work usually entitle you to a pre-determined amount of damages.
4. Creates a Public Record: It puts others on notice that your work is protected by copyright and that you are the copyright owner.
Registration provides notice to the world of your copyright claim. Among other things, this helps people who wish to license your work to ascertain the status of your work and to find you.
5. Satisfies Deposit Requirements: Subject to some exceptions, the Copyright Act requires that copyright owners deposit two copies their works with the Library of Congress within three months after the works have been published. This is commonly referred to as mandatory deposit. When a registration application is submitted to the Copyright Office the copies of works submitted with that application usually satisfy the Library’s independent deposit requirements. Note however that your work is still protected even if you fail to meet this requirement.
The guy with the lowest overhead has the greatest profits, after all.
Yeah, but until the other guy goes out of business, they could continue to do that inefficient thing that they are doing. Ideally, the competition makes everyone drop their prices until the inefficient ones are gone, but that often does not happen. Inefficiencies can stick around for a VERY long time. If "the guy" wants to just continue to make those "greatest profits", they don't HAVE to drop their prices, and if they have as many customers as they can serve, they have no incentive to drop prices.
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.
