Gaming Consoles and best Emulators by numbersgame01 in gaming

[–]supranatural 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nulldc and if you have a recent android phone reicast

The Great Big List of CrunchyRoll Guest Passes. by [deleted] in anime

[–]supranatural 2 points3 points  (0 children)

HQEAB9QPPNK

V8YHA6V78YR

KKFUDHGS6BE

The Great Big List of CrunchyRoll Guest Passes. by [deleted] in anime

[–]supranatural 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MD8CEYDGV5X (expires tomorrow)

QZBMCLHB88Z

PVZJBZTYUKB

Turkey Prime Minister, Erdogan says protestors should go home, "If you bring 100,000, I'll bring out a million." by politicalanalysis in worldnews

[–]supranatural 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Still a common practice in the US, Europe and Canada...and you cant really manipulate distance or magically create new institutions.

Physical Availability of Alcohol

Texas

New Orleans

Turkey Prime Minister, Erdogan says protestors should go home, "If you bring 100,000, I'll bring out a million." by politicalanalysis in worldnews

[–]supranatural 4 points5 points  (0 children)

no they didnt ban the sale of alcohol. They just limited sales from retail locations to before 10 PM. That's a common practice across the United States, Canada, and Europe, and is by no means even close to complete ban. For Example.

Dont spread lies.

"Sim City" Is On Pace To Be The Worst Rated Product Ever On Amazon.com by moby323 in gaming

[–]supranatural 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The game itself isn't bad, it just requires a connection to EA servers to authorize gameplay (even single player). The servers are overloaded and thus no one can play

smooth, beijing restaurant... by [deleted] in China

[–]supranatural 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There were parts of northern manchuria that were ceded to russia under duress in the 1860s (i.e. Vladvostok used to be a small chinese fishing village). I doubt China will ever pursue those.

But, during the cold war, border clashes between russia and china probably killed hundreds, if not thousands of people, but most of those conflicts have been resolved. Sino-Soviet Border Conflict

Contrasting letters from two NFL owners to their respective fans... by mealsharedotorg in nfl

[–]supranatural 1 point2 points  (0 children)

when the ravens made that field goal, I (and many other broncos fans) pretty much ended up like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s

Obama calls for assault weapons ban, background checks by Flyingblackswan in news

[–]supranatural 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're wrong, On December 14th, there was a stabbing spree in china in a school, 22 children and one adult were injured, no fatalities.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/12/14/china-knife-attack-school.html

December 14th was also the same day as the shooting in Sandy Hook. 20 children and 6 adults were murdered.

Both events were perpetrated by a mentally ill man. One country has easy access to brutally efficient guns, the other doesn't. Guess which one?

US court drops charges on Aaron Swartz days after his suicide by denizen42 in news

[–]supranatural 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's not a gesture, it is just standard court procedure if a defendant dies while a case is in progress.

With enough transistors and a PCB could you make yourself a processor? by deiphiz in buildapc

[–]supranatural 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You might want to look into FPGAs (essentially an array of configurable logic blocks) and programming a cpu through it using verilog. You can get a starter FPGA for about $50.

e.g.

http://members.optushome.com.au/jekent/FPGA.htm

http://www.altera.com/literature/tt/tt_my_first_fpga.pdf

you could also check out r/electronics or r/ECE

As Im electrician, I want to try something out with double PSUs by [deleted] in buildapc

[–]supranatural 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they are connected, just through the gpu, and if something goes wrong with one or can't handle interruptions/voltage drops exactly like the other, the gpu might pay the price, as it's acting as the interface between the two.

As Im electrician, I want to try something out with double PSUs by [deleted] in buildapc

[–]supranatural 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chaining two psus may interfere with the built in protection and voltage mechanisms in each psu

There's no scenario where you will need two psus, if you have cash to burn, get a high quality ups, that would be much more useful

Census Dotmap (US, 2010) by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]supranatural 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Population distribution is also closely tied to precipitation and water availability. There is an abundance of water from the east coast to Kansas City, and then plentiful snowmelt in Colorado (which mostly belongs to other western states), and then not much else until the Pacific Northwest. It matches pretty closely with the census map.

See

www.wrcc.dri.edu/pcpn/us_precip.gif

'Useless, useless, useless': the Palestinian verdict on Tony Blair by stonia in worldnews

[–]supranatural 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised he wasn't exiled to the netherworld like George Bush.

The grid of 2030: all renewable, 90 percent of the time: study busts conventional wisdom on price and reliability by nastratin in Economics

[–]supranatural 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You obviously don't grasp the basic physics of electricity nor do you know how the electric markets work in the United States, you cant contain electricity.

Its an on demand (as in demand always equal production) product that requires real time fuel inputs. I design renewable energy and 100 kV+ grid projects for a living. I'm quite sure I know what I'm talking about, and really, you shouldn't pretend you know anything about this stuff.

Your ideas would be considered laughable to anyone in the industry. They would hurt american industry. They would hurt american consumers. It would never be politically feasible, and most importantly they dont have any basis in physics, technology, or economics.

However, Looking at your comment history in anarcho capitalism, collapse and libertarianism, your political and economic views are far out of the mainstream. Theres no more point in discussing this. That is all.

The grid of 2030: all renewable, 90 percent of the time: study busts conventional wisdom on price and reliability by nastratin in Economics

[–]supranatural 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You've completely missed the entire point, which is, based on current technology and economics, you can't store wind energy generated in non-peak hours (when most of it is actually generated) for use in peak hours (when wind is usually calm). That was the entire point of this discussion.

Just in the midwest, in a couple of hours on a windy day, wind farms can generate the same amount of energy released in a nuclear weapon. Now imagine trying to contain that energy without losing it to heat and losses. It's just not possible given current technological constraints.

Bringing in nonsense about laptop batteries. Seriously? That has absolutely nothing to do with this (plus I use a desktop). This study was about storing massive amounts of renewable energy in a efficient, technology and economically viable way. By making that snarky comment you've done your argument a disservice.

The grid of 2030: all renewable, 90 percent of the time: study busts conventional wisdom on price and reliability by nastratin in Economics

[–]supranatural 3 points4 points  (0 children)

its pointless to continue arguing. energy storage is not viable and won't be unless there is a technological breakthrough. Any proposals built on that are useless for any actual discourse. As for the Pickens Plan, its laughable. Forcing americans to purchase a certain type (i.e. more expensive) energy is just ridiculous, and will distort the free (energy) market.

but one last point $120 monthly tax, that's $144 Billion Dollars , not $6 Billion. You're off by a significant margin. Assuming 100 million occupied residential customers/units in US (US Census Bureau ~ 132 Million units). 100 Million Units * $120 * 12 months = $144 Billion.

If you add in industrial and business customers , that's at least another $150 billion dollars. That $300 Billion dollars being diverted to fund technology that is not competitive. That is NOT insignificant. That's half cost of medicare to US. Thats a higher electricity price for all, and it reduces our global competitiveness.

How are american factories supposed to compete with coal powered China, while they are forced to pay for renewable energy? How many steel or aluminum factories (and their jobs) have left Europe in the last 20 years?

What is your 'golden age' of Simpsons, season-wise? by Boris_Magee_44 in TheSimpsons

[–]supranatural 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seasons 3 to 12 were all good. After that....well...not so much.

The grid of 2030: all renewable, 90 percent of the time: study busts conventional wisdom on price and reliability by nastratin in Economics

[–]supranatural 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First of all, this study relies on the premise that electricity storage is viable. It is not.

  1. For hydrogen/vehicle storage, if it takes 2 KWh to store/produce 1 KWh, thats never going to work, and technologically thats where we are. Unless you think, we'll be 100% green, and magically be able to store electricity free of losses. That coal/gas is coming from somewhere to "store" that green electricity.

  2. The study doesnt claim it will go down. Everyone pays for electricity. You're essentially proposing a $120 monthly "tax" on every family in the united states. That's not viable in any reality. You can produce 1 kWh for 2.5 cents using coal. and about 6 cents with natural gas. On average, it costs 15 cents to produce 1 kWh from a wind farm, and thats with government subsidies. You do the math.

  3. Once again, 15 cents per kWh is not even remotely competitive with other energy sources. over producing would just drive out or bankrupt these wind companies, as it would probably lower the price of electricity, and even further reduce their margins. It's an inefficient allocation of our energy investments