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That would work, but a large flywheel would also be a good solution. You could spin up the flywheel to store energy and if it reaches maximum speed then use the resistors. You'd also need to detect load on the grid and then run the flywheel system in reverse to assist vehicles that are moving.

It would be much more difficult to feed power back into an AC grid from a regenerative brake. With a DC grid, no synchronization is needed.

Does the BBC not even get the history of Britain correct? The aircraft never exploded. It just broke up in mid flight.

Why would it be so bad if the government dug in and doubled down? I'd love to see a company like Twitter fight the US government.

The 60,000 year figure is pretty dubious. Also saying they've avoided contact or still live in the stone age probably isn't true. Obviously they are ignorant of the workings of helicopters and modern fishing vessels, but they likely understand what the purpose of them is. So they've been contacted, they just prefer not to interact.

Given that they live on an island, I'll bet they make use of all sorts of materials that wash ashore. Even a torn plastic tarp is very useful compared to having to make one by hand from some plant material.

So culturally they are likely completely isolated, but likely very aware of the changes going on in the world outside their island.

After reading the description of "Morgellan's", it actually makes other pseudodiagnoses seem reasonable.

Well if we want to be difficult about this, Ireland really isn't a country either. It's a geopolitical region with two separate states on the same major island.

The university would be obligated to request they take it down as well.

Yes, that is the normal configuration for power delivery to a residence in most of North America.

You're actually missing a huge point in this, it gives the police the ability to selectively block the justice system.

If a police officer sees a defendant that they wish to let off the crime, all they have to do is testify to some trivial mishandling of the evidence.

You can't "take in 3 phase and output single phase". That's not how a transformer works. It'd be amazing if it did, as in Nobel Prize winning.

In the US most homes are just tapped to 1 phase, if there are 3 on the pole.

If this increased cancer rates, whales should be completely consumed by cancer at a young age.

However, there are few cases of whales being found to die of cancer.

How would that work? Does the Atlantic ocean flow into the rivers of Europe?

Or a really nice good ole boy network where to build some stuff you need to be able to call in some favors.

If they were using Houston then the study was either an internal study for the city, or someone cherry picking their study area to make sure they got the results they needed.

Houston is either the worst place in the world to live, or the best depending on who you talk to. They have almost no zoning laws at all, which has resulted in endless sprawl. The place is literally where you go to study the effects of unbounded urban and suburban growth of a city.

If life sucks for every generation just a little bit more, people eventually move away from the area. This solves the problem of parking and driving, because no one is there anymore anyways.

Or if this happens on a national scale a civil war erupts.

You're forgetting the convenience factor that the payment service creates in the market.

Let's say I sell trinkets for $10/each online. They are nice trinkets, but no one really needs my trinkets. No one is going to send me a money order in the mail for a single trinket for $10. Basically, there is no online market at all, unless I can make it easy to buy my product.

But if I charge $11/each and accept Paypal (or credit cards in general), I now have a real market for my trinkets. People like my trinkets, so they will gladly click on a Paypal icon and send me the money that way.

Now my trinkets are somewhat popular. A couple times a year someone stops by my workshop and asks to buy a trinket in person. I still charge them $11.

Thank you for the feedback. I intend to go back and try and find a better basis for the mathematics I used.

I usually just do the opposite. I mark everything up knowing that somewhere a cut will be taken.

If you have to pay me cash, then I just make more on that transaction.

Here is a story including a possible way to workaround bias in the wheels

http://www.gambling-stories.com/2014/03/joseph-jaggers-roule...

If that encryption works as good as other DRM and copy-prevention schemes, I'm sure it will protect the machine for at least 72 hours.

Do you have a source for that?

Is this OK if you were 35 years old?

I think of peer as meaning someone who is my legal equal. Historically in the US this meant a slave could not testify against me if I born a free white man. Obviously we are well past the point of having multiple distinct classes as such.

But the point being is that my peer would be someone who is on equal legal footing with me. For example, in a criminal case a police officer should generally not be part of the jury. Even if the case is well outside his jurisdiction they enjoy far too many legal privileges to be considered my equal. This isn't a condemnation of police, it is just how things are.

I am actually far more afraid of being judged by a bunch of 'experts'.

Also in the case of TurnItIn, you can just pay them before you submit your academic work. They show you how to avoid getting flagged by their system by indicating what needs to be changed.

It's a really great scam they've got going. Kenneth Lay would be very proud if he were still around.

This was my thoughts exactly. If what the OP was proposing was not legitimate myself and countless others would be in legal jeopardy. I have written code that does the same thing at numerous employers because I am hired to solve the same problem. This doesn't mean I've copied anything, it just means I know what the hell I am doing.

If this was not legal, we would all be bound to the same employer for life. This could be extrapolated to virtually any employee. Have you assembled burgers for McDonald's before? If so, you can't work at Burger King, because they also make burgers and you have proprietary knowledge of McDonald's burgers.

I have spoken with numerous individuals who added support for specification X to one vendor's product, then did the same at the next job, so on and so forth. One individual had implemented the same specification for 3 different companies, all competitors, in just a few years. When you consider the breadth and depth of some specifications, the code doubtlessly is similar in form and obviously identical in function.

As a former IT support guy, I can't explain how much revenue Norton would generate from me. They would regularly push updates that wiped all the critical software from customer's systems. The software was often obscure products from small vendors. Even in a small office, it was an easy day's work for me that I would not have had otherwise.

After multiple episodes of this, it dawned on me that I shouldn't be able to reinstall the software if Norton truly was removing it. The issue was that Norton's products did indeed remove it as part of an antivirus "update", but they quickly released another "update" that got rid of the problem. I turned off something labeled "pulse" updates and set it to daily instead. Not only did I never see this problem again, the PC's generally had better performance.

Now that we're grown up, the transformers "movies" are really commercials for General Motors products. I seem to recall one movie even having just a dozen or so frames of the new Corvette before it was publicly available.

While interesting, I can't see how there is a difference between this and cartoons.

Then why not just rephrase the problem, so the "low performers" can simply be removed from the education system entirely? That's what you're proposing when you tell someone gifted they can't have education that _actually educates_ them.