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So how is it a handout? Municipalities will make $270 per cell per year. Put that on a telephone pole (rather, allow a 5G provider to pay for their own people to put it on a pole and maintain their equipment) and make $270 per year. Given that a telephone pole runs about $3000, that means the city is paid to replace each pole so used every 11 years if they like. Now, since poles tend to last a LOT longer than that, it means those people putting the 5G cells on the poles (at their own expense, mind you) will effectively pay for 5 pole replacements on average.

And this also means that municipalities cannot keep 5G infrastructure out from their domain via insanely high rental prices. Or should we just say that wireless communications should be left at 2G/analog and screw anything else?

Democrats have a complete lock on your local government, that is quite a feat! Even Chicago usually has at least one Republican and at least one independent.

Even DuPage County Illinois, in suburban Chicago, used to be uniformly Republican. It was the home of disgraced Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, and the, locally, infamous Phillips brothers. Even DuPage county is no longer uniformly Republican.

Wherever you live must be ripe for corruption if the Dems have such a total lock on power. Anytime one party controls everything, government always becomes corrupted.

The challenge here is the other costs that are unaccounted for. Sure, you see power at 5c/10c per KWH, but all the other parts cost money as well, such as poles. Sure, the pole may be split in cost between the power, phone and cable companies, but that's still an expensive asset. http://www.dailyherald.com/art... provides a view into what this costs to be maintained. If a pole costs $1-3k, how many are you sharing the cost of as part of the rate. This is part of the "ugly profit" people gripe about with some of these shared assets, both in an electric network and the ways the bits reach your screen here.

If I get to a bill of zero due to investing and net-metering, someone else is going to be paying for those grid parts either in higher rates, or I need to pay for some usage of that giant battery network. No free lunch, etc..

Seriously, this guy has written about Tesla for a number of years. Yet, he has always been negative on them, and WRONG.

The global EV market will grow from 65,000 units in 2012 to 450,000 in 2020; and yet, pure evs nearly doubled in 2013 to 111K and on-track to double last years sales in 2014. Heck, at the end of 2015, Tesla ALONE will be producing 50K cars / year.
and here, he gripes about Tesla as being a large unknown, and not likely to hit its numbers.

Basically, Anderman is NOT about batteries, but just an industry troll, with lousy ability to make accurate predictions.

Title IX of course. Since there aren't as many women and girls in Video Gaming, once they're 'Sports', Title IX can be used to "encourage" girls to play. Then there'll be more girls in Video gaming!

It's just like real sports where Title IX has brought the participation of women up to close what mens participation is (like 45/55 I think was the last stat I read).

I've also heard Title IX is being examined to apply to STEM courses as well to ensure more women are represented in STEM courses.

http://www.dailyherald.com/art...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

[John]

Stupid in so far as it is short-sighted: these people limiting people's freedom are ultimately limiting their own. They are reducing their own choices once they return to civilian life.

That's a good point, and it reminds me of a related thought I've occasionally had in regards to the "think of the children" justification* for curtailing civil liberties. What about the civil liberties of these children, particularly once they turn 18 or 21 and could have used them* to full effect?

Why don't they "think of the childrens'" civil liberties, for a change? A tattered, loop-holed, ineffectual, ignored (and even untaught) Bill of Rights seem like a really shitty gift to leave to future generations.

* For the sake of argument, I'm taking the motives and words of those that employ "think of the children" at face value.

** Examples of utilization being to full effect for adults: Second Amendment-related statutes limiting it in part to adults, increased need for legal protections for suspects who may waive their right to have an attorney present during police interrogation (children must have an attorney/"advocate" present, as far as I'm aware), and defendants who are not eligible for the reduced legal penalties afforded to some minors.

We need life skills degrees or Dual education system that combines apprenticeships in a company and vocational education.

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120920/business/709209820/

IT needs some thing like that.

It was a deal made by Motorola Mobility Inc. before acquisition by Google. Here's an article about it.

I'm guessing Google looked at the numbers in terms of what Google is planning to do and figured it would save more money by dropping employees rather than keeping them along with the tax break.

You are guys are the reason the USA is screwed in the long term - loads of people moaning when a 17 year old or so kid pushes himself and gets something like this happening? A better place would have praised the kid, I think it's great teenagers are trying to come up with technological hacks that are new to them and dreaming great goals.

No, you're the reason the USA is screwed up. This kid did not push himself, he watched a youtube video or googled it. Why should we praise a 17 year old for doing what he saw in a youtube video?

This generation has been brought up to believe that every child is a winner. Awards aren't just given to the top of the class anymore, they give awards to every kid, no matter what they do or fail to do. Brookings Institution 2006 Brown Center Report on Education finds that countries in which families and schools emphasize self-esteem for students—America for example—lag behind the cultures that don’t focus on how students feel about themselves.

All this praise has resulted in overconfident college grads, who believe they should be given larger salaries than their peers without working for it.

So you should not praise a kid that did the same or worse than other kids else, praise should only be given when the child actually excels or achieves something few of their peers have achieved.

Must've been something going around last week: Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward said he told [Google CEO Eric] Schmidt that some day his tombstone will read, "I killed newspapers."

The problem was people were told this was to go after assets of high level drug dealers..the fancy cars, houses, etc. And who is in favor of drug dealers and mafia keeping ill-gotten gains? As usual, with unintentional consequences, it has turned into: If the police find a joint in your car (and especially if it's a NICE car) whether it's really your car or you're driving your girl/boy friends, they will seize it. Anything that can bring a tidy sum. Even if you're never charged with an actual crime.

The same shakedown has been used with cash. If you carry a large amount of cash police can seize it, without even proof that it was used for illegal business. And being that the majority of paper money in circulation contains traces of drugs already, it's not too unlikely a DEA drug sniffing canine is going indicated a hit.

Why? The market will sort itself out. Just like it does everywhere else.

Daily Herald comments from 6 April:

Hipcheck16 :: Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:57 PM
Funny how the Herald can print a vague, pointless article about Johnson on the day before the election, but has chosen to ignore the VERY REAL transgressions of Lisa Stone, one of their endorsed candidates.

Why did they not report on Stone's illegally placed campaign signs and the fact that she was told to remove them by B.G. police? Why have they not investigated the "anonymous" phone calls from Stone supporters alleging that Mike Terson and Joanne Johnson have been running anti-Semitic campaigns? This is especially spurrious since Terson is Jewish and Johnson has relatives that are Jewish, friends that are Jewish, and she is endorsed by several local politicians who are Jewish.

I'm far more concerned about the Herald's lack of journalistic integrity than I am about Johnson's. They endorsed an unqualified candidate, and after watching Stone's abominable performance at the BG forum, they are desparately trying to divert our attention from their poor choice.

Maybe if you spent more time fixing the numerous typos in your ragsheet, your article would have some merit. But how can we trust a paper that is consistently filled with all kinds of mistakes

And another:

Hipcheck16 :: Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:46 PM
FYI- If you get an automated call from the Buffalo Grove Citizen's Coalition, you can thank Lisa Stone's campaign cronies. Nothing like hiding behind anonymous, defamatory calls to try to get yourself elected, huh Lisa? The fact that you are UNQUALIFIED is no longer enough, now you have resorted to the lowest form of negative campaign tactics. Congratulations- you have completed the trifecta- UNQUALIFIED, DECEITFUL and DESPERATE.

You may get elected, but you have already been exposed as a fraud and you will fail miserably. Every time you open your mouth, you'll spew more ignorance that will become a running joke in the village. The board meetings will become the funniest program on television thanks to your ignorant blather. Your supporters will tune in each week to see which foot you'll put in your mouth. Don't forget to wear your Manolo Blahniks so ya look good. And do a few more hair flips- just like you did every 2 minutes at the forum, because that's so darn classy and appropriate for an elected official.

The citizens of Buffalo Grove deserve better than you- lets hope they don't believe your lies and vote for ANY CANDIDATE but you.

from her website, she's generally anti-freedom

opposes freedom to own "vicious" dog breeds opposes freedom to use "dangerous pesticides" to kill mosquitoes opposes freedom to use marijuana

and, from her actions, seems like she's kind of opposed to free speech. However, most telling are the comments in the local newspaper about her endorsement http://www.dailyherald.com/story/comments/?id=280060

What a bitch

This post is a good example of the "Appeal to motive" fallacy. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_motive

The AC's argument basically boils down to saying "This woman has wrong beliefs about Issues A, B, and C because of her bad philosophy, and therefore her belief about Issue D must also be wrong. Move along now."

The "Economic Crisis" has resulted in government changes at the local level:

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=285177&src=3

Well... the quote from the essay says "

"Blood, sex and booze. Drugs, drugs, drugs are fun. Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, s...t...a...b..., puke. So I had this dream last night where I went into a building, pulled out two P 90s and started shooting everyone, then had sex with the dead bodies. Well, not really, but it would be funny if I did.....He plans to enter the Marines after graduation." http://www.dailyherald.com/story.asp?id=306398

This is Sparta! He is failing in his programming to have blood drugs stab puke sex fun!

Well done centurions! Purge the weakling from the Dalek hordes!

Onward to the Rapture, Christian soldiers!

Seig Heil! Ole!

(Is this creative enuff to get me trolled?)

Right here: http://www.dailyherald.com/story.asp?id=306827 Having read it, it looks like something I know many of my HS students would have written, meaning nothing and probably provoking the same reaction. This is a harmless, rational guy with nothing wrong with him other than a lack of sense in actually turning this in. My two cents.

... wrote during a Monday creative writing class "as a teacher, don't be surprised on inspiring the first CG shooting,"

... So I had this dream last night where I went into a building, pulled out two P 90s and started shooting everyone, then had sex with the dead bodies. Well, not really, but it would be funny if I did.

So face it, this isn't a case of some bored kid writing a war story and a teacher being upset, or a kid writing about how he got even with bullies by beating them to a pulp after a lifetime of being pulped himself.

This is a kid who's basically threatened to shoot the school up. Even if he really wouldn't (like probably [insert made-up statistic here]% of the kids who may write such drivel), he's putting himself up as a threat. Just like if you mail a letter to the prez that you're out to get him (even an unspecific threat like that, "out to get him"), you can and should expect some serious attention to be paid to you.

Go get 'im.

http://www.dailyherald.com/story.asp?id=306398

Looks more like Bruce than Stan, though I don't know if that's a contributing factor or not.

I go to a large Big Ten university, and we just had a student held and suspended for wearing a ski-mask on a cold, rainy day. He didn't take it off inside his lecture and some asshat called the cops on him.

What a world. . .

A link to another article, with an (admittedly short) excerpt, and a picture of the student (which, sadly, may shed some more light on the issue):

http://www.dailyherald.com/story.asp?id=306398

Professor Liviu Librescu, holocaust survivor and hero. I suspect his background long ago taught him the importance of facing evil directly.

Niven is widely quoted as having said this, with the additional line "And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!"

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Pretty consistent. There may be an oversupply of techies in the economy at large, but the H-1B supply is not constant, regardless of demand.

US immigration law "caps" H-1B immigration at a set number. During the boom, it was once 65,000 - high demand and low supply meant that employers couldn't hire enough people, and they bri^H^H^Hpetitioned Congress for a law that would raise the cap. That law said that in 2000, it was to be 115,000, and in 2001-2-3, it was to be 195,000.

As you can see, any time a politician attempts to choose a number for supply and demand and slam it into the market with the fist of legislation, he'll fuck it up, which is precisely what happened. The H-1B cap kept going up, long after the economic bubble that actually made these new employees useful had burst.

So what's the situation now? Well, just like in the last paragraph -- when politicians attempt to legislate the economy, they invariably fuck it up. The law that was passed to increase the cap came with an expiry date. So what happens - after the cap goes up to 195,000 during the recession? Why, it's Fiscal Year 2004 (starting on October 1, 2003)... and now that the economy's picking up, and demand is growing we... well, there's increased demand so let's... let the law expire and cut the H-1B quota from 195,000 back to 65,000! Cut the supply by 2/3! Yay!

And we wonder why our economy's fucked up?

Because even the most cynical of us would never believe our government would be this stupid, a link.

If you think that's fucking retarded, remember that this is the INS (now BCIS) we're talking about. These are the same folks that, approved the 9/11 hijackers their flight school visas SIX MONTHS AFTER THE ATTACK.

So in the grand scheme of things, the H-1B cap manipulations that seem to be legislatively timed for maximum negative economic effect, are pretty small potatoes.

Actually, it was Graydon Carter, the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, who declared irony dead. Sheesh. See Google. He's often asked for media commentary, too. According to the Daily Herald in Illinois, Robert Thompson later /commented/ on Carter's comment, but that was it.

Obviously, this moron has never worked for a corporation. They are all damned liberal. I remember chowing down in the IBM cafeteria when they had 50-foot high fag love banners hanging in it. Damn perverted shit-fucking posters in a cafeteria where people try to eat! Just try to tell a good joke at work anymore -- you will be FIRED.

Humorless, brainless, perverted liberals have made all business suck.

This is going to lend a lot of weight to the argument for less privacy for individuals..

Also, some photos here

AP website:

http://wire.ap.org/APnews/main.html?PACKAGEID=TE CH test

daily herald:

http://www.dailyherald.com/main_story.asp?intid= 37 13737

another spot.. (from another thread)

It's an ap story, so it should be many places soon.

it's also at dailyherald.com

Remember... MS assumes only IT'S software exists...


It works fine in NS 6, btw...

It's an ap story, so it should be many places soon.

Here is a version at
dailyherald.com.

Remember... MS assumes only IT'S software exists...