OK, I still don't see why you would want to do the reverse-water-gas shift reaction when there are plenty of easier ways to go about getting CO.
I'm trying to revolutionize the world, of course (like any self-respecting scientist). And this is the part I'd like to keep secret for a while longer, though I'd say google could probably tell you why if you search around the topic a bit. And my masterplan requires me to generate CO from H2 and CO2; reduction of O2, CO2 or H2O with C is not an option. what possible use would you have for making carbon monoxide? He's an Observer? |
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When I first heard it this morning in UK on The Inquirer news site,I thought,holy s*** the EU decides it wants to regulate the very components I want to use inside my PC now.Talk about getting into my personal business.What business is it how powerful my PC is to someone other than me (the regulators). If anything,people like me will simply hasten up their plans to migrate to a country outside EU to escape these ridiculous regs.They banned traditional lightbulbs (non-CFL/LED),then they restrict certain supplements and now they're trying to regulate how powerful my GPU is.I mean come on.Whats next? I'm just happy I started to realise (better late than never) how useful freedom can be (esp in Uk where we're all convinced that the more regs,the better.I mean sure we need some regs but not so damn many lol)
Even though I find all this downright bizzare,we can find ways around it,question is will they start checking everything we import into EU too?
The unregulated high-tech computer industry has been amazingly successful. Just imagine how much better things will be now we have the helping hand of government to guide us. |
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For history's sake. Historians make a living at this kind of thing.
Historians make a living a)Teaching new historians and 2)Selling cars and real estate. |
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Here's mine:
un pendejo y su dinero pronto seran departados
(To be taken in good humor)
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Redder light is generally referred to as warmer, while bluer light is considered cooler. It's kind of backwards.
It took me a while to mentally reverse the frequency order of visible light. After all, infra-red is beyond red and it's hot so therefore more energy and higher frequency, right? Absolutely not  |
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Only trust someone with exactly 212 posts.
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- Real estate is cheap because of the housing crash. (remember that saying, buy low, sell high? Well now is the "buy low" period!) Not by a long shot. House prices are still far too high. "Low" for house prices means below the non-bubble prices, which for many decades meant the average house price in an area was no more than three times the average income in the area, with buyers expected to put 20% down and acceptable backend ratios. +1. |
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Though to be honest, I don't know if we really want to simulate the sun's radiation with artificial light. In a few niche applications maybe but I think cooler light is probably friendlier for most uses, (possibly because it mimics the spectrum of fires?)
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have em write BITCOIN on the belly
Or the public key. QR code? |
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Wouldn't you appear bad to a potential mate if all you cared about were material possessions? Shouldn't loving and sharing be a more attractive quality to a relationship, since love is the main ingredient to a relationship?
Nope. That might make you a good partner or lover but a mate is about being able to provide for your offspring. This is not an absolute rule, of course. I would prefer that it wasn't this way but it is what it is and is fairly well documented. |
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That might be true for fluorescents, but it's not true of all technologies. A standard incandescent is limited by the fact that no filament material is capable of the ~5800K temperature needed to give the same black body spectrum as the sun. There's a lot more promise of getting a close to white light spectrum with something light LED lights than there is with incandescents.
Actually, LEDs are quite tricky. A bog standard LED works by an electron moving from one well definied energy state to another, emitting light at a fixed frequency. LEDs are, by default, monochromatic. Producing one that fools the eye into thinking it is white is fairly non-trivial (though obviously accomplished). Getting one that would produce black-body type radiation (at least in the visible range) is more work still. With that said, I do believe LED or some as-yet-undiscovered technology is the future and that CFLs will be a historical curiosity in time. |
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The thing is, we are all brothers and sisters, why do we need any possession to trade rather than sharing our possessions?
Firstly because people would abuse it and secondly because appearing to be a good prospect for mating turns out to be something that gets selected for.
And is it really fair if the top class prints the money their self?
No. |
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This post makes no sense.
Oops. Fixed now. Any better? |
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Here's what I have been observing also:
1) CFLs are more expensive to manufacture than incandescents
2) CFLs are therefore considerable more expensive to buy than incandescents.
3) There is therefore a strong downward pressure on price for CFLs
4) Chinese knock out cheap, low quality CFLs
5) Cheap, low quality CFLs fail early, meaning that their claimed cost savings are not reached and their energy and resource TCO suck donkey parts compared to incandescents.
6) Statism does the fail thing once more.
7) Statism apologists scramble to make rationalizations. Cue:
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Why would you support a complete ban on them? If people want to buy them, what's wrong with that?
It's a complete waste of energy. Better technology already exists, no reason to continue using them. The alternative technology isn't there yet. That's why they have to ban them. By the time the alternative technologies are good enough, they would have been adopted anyway. |
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Okay, apparently I wasn't clear. I was trying to argue that simply taking something by force does not make it robbery or theft. I gave the examples of the bailiff and the police confiscating stolen goods. What, then is the difference between the police confiscating stolen goods and a bank robber taking cash from a bank since both involve taking goods by force?
My answer was that the thief doesn't have a legal claim on the property that the police confiscates, whereas the bank does have a legal claim on the money stolen from it.
So whether the government is robbing you depends on whether they have a legal claim on the money they are taking. Simply taking it by force is not enough.
I don't expect you to agree with me now, but is it any clearer where I am coming from?
OK. So what you're missing is that it's not about not applying force, it's about the non-initiation of force. In your scenario, the robber initiated the use of force and is therefor in the wrong. |
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It's a shame there's nothing that could be done on the internet to earn a living, therefore people could stay home and work, thus not having to commute to some city or town tens of miles away to earn their bread and butter so come Friday they can go to Walmart and purchase bread and butter. If only there were an internet foundation thingy to bring this brainfart of mine to fruition, then people like Atlas wouldn't be in this rat trap any longer.
~Bruno~
I think he should sell bread and butter on the internet. |
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Say you'll get 0.1 bitcoins if you post a naked photo of yourself anonymously. Would you do it? What's the price you're willing to do?
And would you be willing to pay 0.01 to 0.05 btc for high res versions of the photos?
I'd get naked at the drop of a hat. In fact, I'll even start taking bids *not* to post the resulting picture in this thread. |
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