Some companies may agree to have the NSA put its own sensors on and others may ask for direction on what sensors to buy and come to an agreement about what data they will then share with the government, industry and government officials said.
While the government can't force companies to work with it, it can provide incentives to urge them to cooperate, particularly if the government already buys services from that company, officials said.
They don't need to do any firmware upgrades. All the data all ready goes to those energy companies. It will be up to them to decide what to share with the NSA.
Where's the problem? If oil really is that cheap, then it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to go with "green energy". And I'm unclear why you think insufficient money is being spent on renewable energy research. My take is that it's very ample and we're seeing diminishing returns on investment (for example, more efficient solar cells don't necessarily mean cheaper cost per watt of solar generating capacity).
The problem is oil makes "cents" but not "sense". It's great at making dollars the fiat currency of the world which is very profitable(for the US) but not good for the world's economic stability. Similarly, it weakens the U.S. militarily and economically because it is so dependent on unstable countries(which the U.S. occasionally makes more unstable). There are serious concerns about how oil use is shaping the world around us and I haven't even touched global climate change issues yet.
The problem restated is that we're ignoring the externalized costs when using oil and saying it makes "sense".
Here's my problem. The environmental movement seems focused on behavioral change, things like, making us recycle things, using less gasoline, etc. It doesn't seem to have a balanced approach to protecting our natural resources and doing all the other things that we want to do in a highly industrialized society. For example, a standard environmental approach to making green energy viable would be to make oil at least 3-5 times more expensive. Not expensive enough to balance the environment cost of the oil, but expensive enough so that you change your behavior, even if that is vastly suboptimal economically.
Greens are not out to get you. There's always a fringe, but to paint with such a large brush ignores the core argument that we're not paying the full cost for things like oil. Behavior change is a side effect of working towards the goal of living more sustainably. I know this word gets overused but the point is "suboptimal now" is better than "catastrophic later". Ideally it's more than avoiding crisis and instead utilizing resources for their most good rather than the quickest buck now, but that would be Green proper.
I really can't take environmentalism seriously as long as humanity doesn't get a fair deal.
What if reality isn't fair, as it often isn't? What if those who came before you have created such a mess that half measures aren't enough? Maybe you're old enough not to care(a poor excuse), but I will probably live to see some of this stuff hit the fan and my children definitely will.
I know this is Australia, but being from the US, I would gladly pick this party over the two agendas we rotate between. Given the dissatisfaction Australians have of late with their gov't internet policy maybe a significant number of Australians will have similar thoughts.
How reliable the polls are going to be is related to how strongly their identity verification is. I wonder how far they will take that burden of proof.
I agree the idea of an Internet Party made up of the disparate psuedo-anonymous netizens would be impractical, if poetic.
I don't think it's outrageous, no. I think it's more outrageous that you care to misinterpret the statement to create controversy. NASA wants to encourage Muslim countries to participate in international space programs. This fits pretty well with NASA's role and purpose for the last 20 years or so. I doubt you would have bothered if he had said "African countries" but because we got the "Muslim" buzzword in there it's perfect for spreading FUD.
Not only that, ScentCone posts the same trollish article twice(at least) and gets modded up for it twice. Mods are either asleep thinking he was linking to the actual new direction he wants NASA to go in or are convinced this is Obama's secret Muslim tendencies revealing themselves.
I worked for the secondary brokers for two years and the ticket industry has a lot of problems. TicketMaster was a monopoly before they merged with live nation(who had gained a foothold in a lot of Latin-American venues). StubHub is the first large form of trading market for the industry(Still a secondary broker of course) and it gets to hold ~25% of the value of the ticket basically in escrow while a ticket is posted.
Whether secondary brokers should be allowed to operate depends on how much you believe in the current brand of American-Capitalism. If you think that A.) a free market should be able to "find the true price" of the ticket and, as a corollary, B.) that someone willing to pay more for a ticket should be able to get that ticket then you think there should be secondary brokers.
Personally, I think the lottery system of hitting TicketMaster's servers when there is an on sale is preferable over secondary brokers, but I also think if you want to fix the industry you need to open up the primary market and take away the monopoly enjoyed by TicketMaster. A dutch auction would be great for TicketMaster except the crappier shows would sell for a lot less.
Turkey went through a period of Enlightenment like what you're describing after WWI(Ataturk was a big proponent of Enlightenment ideals) and it's amazing how quickly things have changed there. The religion itself is unimportant, it's all about the people who have opportunities to change things.
You're confusing the issue, hopefully unintentionally. The ACLU isn't asking American soldiers to collect ID cards from people shooting at them.
It's asking for oversight, presumably for constitutional protections, for any citizens added to this kill-on-drone-sight list.
I think this is very important, more so than seems at first glance. Given gov't willingness to fly drones into sovereign countries we're not at war with and close ties between the "War on Terror" and "War on Drugs" this could easily evolve into a very scary control mechanism.
Sorry you're wrong. The Tea Party protests on tax day last year drew 300,000[fivethirtyeight] people across the country after Fox News advertised by airing more than 100 commercial promotions in the ten days before Tax Day. That may seem like a large number yet the Immigration reform protests in 2006 drew more than a million people nationwide[wikipedia]. So did the Prop 8 protests[wikipedia] in 2008, and that was just a Californian issue.
There is genuine grassroots anger at government spending, but the Tea Party in not an embodiment of that. It is manufactured to co-opt that anger.
You're right there are a lot of problems with healthcare, but it sounds like you're trying to lay a lot of blame on hospitals doorsteps. In reality they're just dealing with the bad decisions made by a lot of people.
The prices in a hospital bill to the uninsured are more or less based on two things: the price medicare sets for a procedure(because insurance companies base their reimbursements on that number), and the difference between the medicare reimbursement and the actual cost of care. This is why the busiest hospitals are the ones that fail to stay open. Most uninsured simply can't pay their hospital bills and emergency rooms are the "catch all" in our current "system". You cannot legally be turned away from an emergency room even if you don't have a life-threatening condition. As a result, a lot of the poor who can't afford health-services use that to get their basic healthcare needs met.
You also have to realize that the cost of care in an emergency room is going to be a lot higher than pretty much any other way to get care due to the cases you just described. Triage is at play- SICK people go to an emergency room, and they need services RIGHT AWAY. You're paying for lifesaving convenience and expertise with limited and in-demand resources. If you go to the emergency room to get aspirin for your headache you're potentially diverting it from someone who needs it for a heart attack, so that aspirin must be restocked right away.
If you're trying to argue the money point you really don't have a leg to stand on. The oil industry has orders of magnitude more money flowing through it. If scientists were going to corrupt themselves for money that's the direction they would go in.
The way we're using these planes is what worries me more. We're sending them into Pakistan, which we are NOT at war with and is a nuclear power, to run sortie missions.
If we had to send troops into a sovereign nation were not at war at I bet there would more discussion about it. But because it's just some piece of machinery we're acting like borders don't matter now.
We may be the only people with these capabilities now, but we're setting a dangerous precedent acting like no other country will have these capabilities in the future.
The reason I use that particular site is because it tries to report factually instead of catering to a specific audience which is the opposite of TFA.
Also, it shows the sources they get their information from, so I don't need to "believe" anything they say.
Of course, they and factcheck.org both have fact in their names so they must both be terrible doublespeak mouthpieces of the administration/the republicans.
Since we're making wish lists,
Multi-task(as an option at least)
Multi-touch(IMO it makes navigating much easier)
Long battery life(iPad length would be fine)
Some standard ports, video out, usb, headphones,mic, hd out would be nice but not needed
Open OS
The consumers in this system aren't the voters, the consumers are self-perpetuating special interests, corporations, their alliances, and unions alike.
Selling the legislation or "product" to the public is just a "necessary evil" after the fact when whichever group you've shopped the proposals to pony's up the dough and influence for your campaign coffers.
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Some companies may agree to have the NSA put its own sensors on and others may ask for direction on what sensors to buy and come to an agreement about what data they will then share with the government, industry and government officials said.
While the government can't force companies to work with it, it can provide incentives to urge them to cooperate, particularly if the government already buys services from that company, officials said.
They don't need to do any firmware upgrades. All the data all ready goes to those energy companies. It will be up to them to decide what to share with the NSA.
Where's the problem? If oil really is that cheap, then it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to go with "green energy". And I'm unclear why you think insufficient money is being spent on renewable energy research. My take is that it's very ample and we're seeing diminishing returns on investment (for example, more efficient solar cells don't necessarily mean cheaper cost per watt of solar generating capacity).
The problem is oil makes "cents" but not "sense". It's great at making dollars the fiat currency of the world which is very profitable(for the US) but not good for the world's economic stability. Similarly, it weakens the U.S. militarily and economically because it is so dependent on unstable countries(which the U.S. occasionally makes more unstable). There are serious concerns about how oil use is shaping the world around us and I haven't even touched global climate change issues yet.
The problem restated is that we're ignoring the externalized costs when using oil and saying it makes "sense".
Here's my problem. The environmental movement seems focused on behavioral change, things like, making us recycle things, using less gasoline, etc. It doesn't seem to have a balanced approach to protecting our natural resources and doing all the other things that we want to do in a highly industrialized society. For example, a standard environmental approach to making green energy viable would be to make oil at least 3-5 times more expensive. Not expensive enough to balance the environment cost of the oil, but expensive enough so that you change your behavior, even if that is vastly suboptimal economically.
Greens are not out to get you. There's always a fringe, but to paint with such a large brush ignores the core argument that we're not paying the full cost for things like oil. Behavior change is a side effect of working towards the goal of living more sustainably. I know this word gets overused but the point is "suboptimal now" is better than "catastrophic later". Ideally it's more than avoiding crisis and instead utilizing resources for their most good rather than the quickest buck now, but that would be Green proper.
I really can't take environmentalism seriously as long as humanity doesn't get a fair deal.
What if reality isn't fair, as it often isn't? What if those who came before you have created such a mess that half measures aren't enough? Maybe you're old enough not to care(a poor excuse), but I will probably live to see some of this stuff hit the fan and my children definitely will.
I know this is Australia, but being from the US, I would gladly pick this party over the two agendas we rotate between. Given the dissatisfaction Australians have of late with their gov't internet policy maybe a significant number of Australians will have similar thoughts.
How reliable the polls are going to be is related to how strongly their identity verification is. I wonder how far they will take that burden of proof.
I agree the idea of an Internet Party made up of the disparate psuedo-anonymous netizens would be impractical, if poetic.
I don't think it's outrageous, no. I think it's more outrageous that you care to misinterpret the statement to create controversy. NASA wants to encourage Muslim countries to participate in international space programs. This fits pretty well with NASA's role and purpose for the last 20 years or so. I doubt you would have bothered if he had said "African countries" but because we got the "Muslim" buzzword in there it's perfect for spreading FUD.
So what we really need is not GM labels but Monsanto labels.
Not only that, ScentCone posts the same trollish article twice(at least) and gets modded up for it twice. Mods are either asleep thinking he was linking to the actual new direction he wants NASA to go in or are convinced this is Obama's secret Muslim tendencies revealing themselves.
I worked for the secondary brokers for two years and the ticket industry has a lot of problems. TicketMaster was a monopoly before they merged with live nation(who had gained a foothold in a lot of Latin-American venues). StubHub is the first large form of trading market for the industry(Still a secondary broker of course) and it gets to hold ~25% of the value of the ticket basically in escrow while a ticket is posted.
Whether secondary brokers should be allowed to operate depends on how much you believe in the current brand of American-Capitalism. If you think that A.) a free market should be able to "find the true price" of the ticket and, as a corollary, B.) that someone willing to pay more for a ticket should be able to get that ticket then you think there should be secondary brokers.
Personally, I think the lottery system of hitting TicketMaster's servers when there is an on sale is preferable over secondary brokers, but I also think if you want to fix the industry you need to open up the primary market and take away the monopoly enjoyed by TicketMaster. A dutch auction would be great for TicketMaster except the crappier shows would sell for a lot less.
Gov't will and should have influence on the economy. That doesn't make Obama Lenin, that would require actual communist leanings.
Or maybe you'll just pay a couple cents more a gallon for the next ten years.
Turkey went through a period of Enlightenment like what you're describing after WWI(Ataturk was a big proponent of Enlightenment ideals) and it's amazing how quickly things have changed there. The religion itself is unimportant, it's all about the people who have opportunities to change things.
Dammit, I was trying to moderate this comment as funny, but it registered as overrated. Posting to undo moderation.
You're confusing the issue, hopefully unintentionally. The ACLU isn't asking American soldiers to collect ID cards from people shooting at them.
It's asking for oversight, presumably for constitutional protections, for any citizens added to this kill-on-drone-sight list.
I think this is very important, more so than seems at first glance. Given gov't willingness to fly drones into sovereign countries we're not at war with and close ties between the "War on Terror" and "War on Drugs" this could easily evolve into a very scary control mechanism.
Sorry you're wrong. The Tea Party protests on tax day last year drew 300,000[fivethirtyeight] people across the country after Fox News advertised by airing more than 100 commercial promotions in the ten days before Tax Day. That may seem like a large number yet the Immigration reform protests in 2006 drew more than a million people nationwide[wikipedia]. So did the Prop 8 protests[wikipedia] in 2008, and that was just a Californian issue.
There is genuine grassroots anger at government spending, but the Tea Party in not an embodiment of that. It is manufactured to co-opt that anger.
And if the uninsured can't than either we all do(gov't subsidies) or no one does and the hospital goes out of business.
You're right there are a lot of problems with healthcare, but it sounds like you're trying to lay a lot of blame on hospitals doorsteps. In reality they're just dealing with the bad decisions made by a lot of people.
The prices in a hospital bill to the uninsured are more or less based on two things: the price medicare sets for a procedure(because insurance companies base their reimbursements on that number), and the difference between the medicare reimbursement and the actual cost of care. This is why the busiest hospitals are the ones that fail to stay open. Most uninsured simply can't pay their hospital bills and emergency rooms are the "catch all" in our current "system". You cannot legally be turned away from an emergency room even if you don't have a life-threatening condition. As a result, a lot of the poor who can't afford health-services use that to get their basic healthcare needs met.
You also have to realize that the cost of care in an emergency room is going to be a lot higher than pretty much any other way to get care due to the cases you just described. Triage is at play- SICK people go to an emergency room, and they need services RIGHT AWAY. You're paying for lifesaving convenience and expertise with limited and in-demand resources. If you go to the emergency room to get aspirin for your headache you're potentially diverting it from someone who needs it for a heart attack, so that aspirin must be restocked right away.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jan/15/karl-rove/rove-claims-obama-has-already-run-more-debt-bush-d/
It's a misquote of Karl Rove(although the original quote was worded to be misleading in this way anyway). He's mixing up debt and deficit.
If you're trying to argue the money point you really don't have a leg to stand on. The oil industry has orders of magnitude more money flowing through it. If scientists were going to corrupt themselves for money that's the direction they would go in.
Unless of course they actually need the power, and see this as a way of saving money on the power consumption they all ready need.
The way we're using these planes is what worries me more. We're sending them into Pakistan, which we are NOT at war with and is a nuclear power, to run sortie missions.
If we had to send troops into a sovereign nation were not at war at I bet there would more discussion about it. But because it's just some piece of machinery we're acting like borders don't matter now.
We may be the only people with these capabilities now, but we're setting a dangerous precedent acting like no other country will have these capabilities in the future.
So you think Jack from Fight Club could be Calvin too?
The reason I use that particular site is because it tries to report factually instead of catering to a specific audience which is the opposite of TFA.
Also, it shows the sources they get their information from, so I don't need to "believe" anything they say.
Of course, they and factcheck.org both have fact in their names so they must both be terrible doublespeak mouthpieces of the administration/the republicans.
Looks like the Notion Ink Adam might suit your needs. Don't know what the price is yet though.
Since we're making wish lists, Multi-task(as an option at least) Multi-touch(IMO it makes navigating much easier) Long battery life(iPad length would be fine) Some standard ports, video out, usb, headphones,mic, hd out would be nice but not needed Open OS
+1 for having Bunnicula
-3 for missing I Am Legend.
The consumers in this system aren't the voters, the consumers are self-perpetuating special interests, corporations, their alliances, and unions alike.
Selling the legislation or "product" to the public is just a "necessary evil" after the fact when whichever group you've shopped the proposals to pony's up the dough and influence for your campaign coffers.