While hydrogen is impractical for the reasons you mention, the point is that it is possible to have an internal combustion engine with close to zero carbon emissions whereas the post I responded to basically said it was not possible.
In contrast, the only way to eliminate CO2 from an internal-combustion engine is to turn it off.
Just have to use fuel with no carbon such as straight hydrogen, burns good and exhaust should be H2O (though have to be careful about NOx from burning hot). There's also fuels such as natural gas that have less carbon then gasoline/diesel.
That's only true when you vote in "free enterprise" types who are motivated to make government bad managers to privatize services and pocket the profits. Here in BC it has gone much as the AC says it has gone in Ontario, privatization always leads to crappy service with higher fees as private industry is naturally inefficient due to having maximize profit.
It's true that there are always a few shops that will do mickey mouse fixes (I passed once by unplugging the spout which retarded the timing to cut back the NOx), much of the time the problem will be fixed. Every time I failed the smog test, it was EGR related (not closing, not opening due to faulty temp sensor, leaking and sucking in air and such) and cheaper to actually fix then to replace the catalytic converter, even including the one time where I mickey moused it to pass and then fixed it.
It should also be noted that the study was in Canada, and may not be indicative of the US, where each state has its own inspection requirements
Actually it should be noted that the study was done in Ontario and not indicative of the rest of N. America where each of 60+ jurisdictions have their own inspection requirements. Here in BC (actually only the lower mainland, as in Greater Vancouver) we had smog testing for a couple of decades. At the beginning the results were similar to the study with a small percentage causing the most pollution. After getting those cars fixed or off the roads, the air is much cleaner. The smog test printout also included an estimate on how much CO2 a car spat out. The point is still that in N. America the base fleet is similar across jurisdictions and absent smog testing to get rid of the biggest polluters the numbers probably stand up over the continent.
All this talk about domination and subjugation is not constructive. You are conflating government with politics with no subtlety. We have three branches, so at what point does an elected Congressman rule? (And please don't tell me Speaker, Boehner can barely keep his own party in check. Hell his second in command Cantor couldn't even keep his seat.) How about a judge? Judges can't make laws, only rule on existing ones. And those executives, the ones running things? They also cannot make laws.
Actually Judges can and do make law, at least in common law jurisdictions. Most criminal law was originally made by the courts and even today most contract law and torts are not statutory. The Executive can also make law in the form of regulations though the basis of those regulations usually come from statutes passed by the legislature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Actually, I'd suggest that any given society could easily avoid almost all need for "rules" and "leadership" if all men in the society accepted and lived by one simple rule: no person has the right to force another to do something they do not volunteer to do.
What happens when one of those people insists on shitting in the communal water supply?
Fishermen are often the ones that find the 15 yr old girl who drowned, often times when she isn't fresh which can also lead to post traumatic stress syndrome. I'm pretty sure that some areas are much more dangerous for the truckers to operate in as well. I'll also note that all (that I remember) the local cops that have died on the job around here has been due to traffic accidents including the latest where he was driving like a bat out of hell with no lights or siren and took a family with him. Coroner put the blame squarely on him.
Will America actually get sued and pay up? With NAFTA it all seems to be American companies suing the Canadian government to continue selling their unsafe products that have been banned in the States
The Public EXPECTS Privacy -- while the Government does not recognize any such thing and seeks to remove any and all privacy.
My government believes in privacy, at that they're the most private secretive government we've ever had and I'm sure they expect to spy on citizens in private.
If it wasn't for Microsoft, we would still be on mainframes and mini-computers. Paying jacked up prices. For crap, frankly
Why would you think that? There were lots of decent personal computers in the early '80's, most with operating systems at least as good as MS DOS, including graphical ones like GEM that were better then the early crap that was Windows. Even on the PC there were better versions of DOS then MS DOS which were killed by anti-competitive behaviour. You are right about MS understanding the benefits of getting programmers and consumers hooked though, encouraging people to copy their software at cost (the price of a floppy usually) but they were very anti-competitive for the longest time and probably did more to hold computing back as any company.
WTF? All that has to be done is to make people relatively wealthy and they'll voluntarily slow down breeding. It has already happened in every developed country. The trick is to have a healthy enough society that most everyone has a share in the increasing wealth that technology has brought us and for society to adjust to a different type of growth.
What do you do for a livelihood if there are no jobs available? It's rather lay down and die or create a business serving the needs around you. If the only profitable needs are illegal...
My land line (Canada) is tariffed at $25 but they've added enough charges to bring it up to $40+ a month and long distance is 30 cents a minute with a $6 charge for not using it. Dial-up is another $40 a month for unlimited. They know that people using it have no other choice (or are old and uninterested in other choices) so charge what they can.
Dial-up is expensive. I pay $80 a month for phone line and dial-up here in Canada. As I'm 40 miles from Vancouver and there are mountains so no satellite, no cell service either so the phone company is free to rape us due to lack of choice. Even charge $5.95 a month for not using long distance (30 cents a minute). The dial-up itself has gone up to 39.95 a month for unlimited and I need a good modem to get 26.4 connection.
There's always limits on freedom due to conflicts, eg the classic conflict between my waving my fist and your right not to get punched.
Huh? Can you elaborate on the logical chain that lead you to this statement? What sort of freedom is it, that allows the Collective to arbitrarily prohibit an Individual to offer a service?
Staying on topic, there is limits to how many Individuals can erect telephone poles and how many wires/fibers can go on the poles so the collective can put up the poles, run the fiber and allow anyone to use them for a reasonable fee. Much like how the road networks work today (there's also a limit on the number of roads that are possible so they're run by the collective)
While the PM seems to think he is a President, he is actually a Prime Minister to Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada and is responsible to the Parliament of Canada, which is responsible to and, at least the House of Commons, is elected by the Citizens of Canada. So a Monarchy, not a Republic like most current dictatorships. I hope that you aren't actually Canadian educated because when I went to school it was stressed that a republic was just not a Monarchy though in cases like N. Korea it's hard to tell with the office of President seeming to be inheritable.
What else are we to do with people? As automation eliminates jobs we need to shrink the labour force and keep the unemployable occupied and also come up with reasons why they are unemployable such as lacking education. As a bonus educating creates lots of well paying administrative jobs and saves businesses money as well as making the lines between the classes clearer.
Henry Ford seemed to think they were close enough to be direct replacements so he replaced Robertson with Philips. This at a time when cam-out was important due to inexact driver torque.
Be careful what you wish for. Usually the parts of government that is cut is the part that serves the people. Emergency services, food inspection, road and bridge inspection etc. Meanwhile the parts that infringe on peoples rights are expanded, there's always more money for the spy agencies, the prison industry (who are promised X number of prisoners), and hundred dollar hammers from the Congress-mans/Mayors buddy. You are right about spending more money though
FYI, no other country, including India, allows foreign IT workers to create a glut and reduce the value of their own workers
Canada does lately. MS built a campus here in Vancouver, got a lot of tax breaks and then announced that less then 20% of employees would be Canadian. Sounds like it is basically a back way in to the States for E. Indian workers. Shit we even bring in McDonalds workers through our equivalent of H-1B visas. Got to keep that cup of coffee at a $. Actually employers really seem to like the power of having foreign workers, they have to work at one place and can be easily deported and are happy to work weird shifts for minimum wage.
Actually the "B" scenario is quite common, the technology gets to the point where something is possible and multiple inventors invent the same thing. the classic example was the telephone, due to speakers and microphones being new tech, people put them together to make a telephone. One day two inventors showed up at the patent office, first Elisha Gray whose application went into the inbox at the bottom, hours later, second, Bells partner who demanded that his application get processed right away. So Bell ended up with the patent and went on to form a famous monopoly based on that master patent (along with some vacuum tube patents later). If Gray had been more aggressive things may have ended different but the fact is that they both independently invented the telephone (along with another IIRC who tried to file later that week) because it was time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
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While hydrogen is impractical for the reasons you mention, the point is that it is possible to have an internal combustion engine with close to zero carbon emissions whereas the post I responded to basically said it was not possible.
In contrast, the only way to eliminate CO2 from an internal-combustion engine is to turn it off.
Just have to use fuel with no carbon such as straight hydrogen, burns good and exhaust should be H2O (though have to be careful about NOx from burning hot).
There's also fuels such as natural gas that have less carbon then gasoline/diesel.
At least people went to jail for the S&L crisis. Still totally stupid to have deregulated.
That's only true when you vote in "free enterprise" types who are motivated to make government bad managers to privatize services and pocket the profits. Here in BC it has gone much as the AC says it has gone in Ontario, privatization always leads to crappy service with higher fees as private industry is naturally inefficient due to having maximize profit.
It's true that there are always a few shops that will do mickey mouse fixes (I passed once by unplugging the spout which retarded the timing to cut back the NOx), much of the time the problem will be fixed. Every time I failed the smog test, it was EGR related (not closing, not opening due to faulty temp sensor, leaking and sucking in air and such) and cheaper to actually fix then to replace the catalytic converter, even including the one time where I mickey moused it to pass and then fixed it.
It should also be noted that the study was in Canada, and may not be indicative of the US, where each state has its own inspection requirements
Actually it should be noted that the study was done in Ontario and not indicative of the rest of N. America where each of 60+ jurisdictions have their own inspection requirements.
Here in BC (actually only the lower mainland, as in Greater Vancouver) we had smog testing for a couple of decades. At the beginning the results were similar to the study with a small percentage causing the most pollution. After getting those cars fixed or off the roads, the air is much cleaner. The smog test printout also included an estimate on how much CO2 a car spat out.
The point is still that in N. America the base fleet is similar across jurisdictions and absent smog testing to get rid of the biggest polluters the numbers probably stand up over the continent.
All this talk about domination and subjugation is not constructive. You are conflating government with politics with no subtlety. We have three branches, so at what point does an elected Congressman rule? (And please don't tell me Speaker, Boehner can barely keep his own party in check. Hell his second in command Cantor couldn't even keep his seat.) How about a judge? Judges can't make laws, only rule on existing ones. And those executives, the ones running things? They also cannot make laws.
Actually Judges can and do make law, at least in common law jurisdictions. Most criminal law was originally made by the courts and even today most contract law and torts are not statutory.
The Executive can also make law in the form of regulations though the basis of those regulations usually come from statutes passed by the legislature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Actually, I'd suggest that any given society could easily avoid almost all need for "rules" and "leadership" if all men in the society accepted and lived by one simple rule: no person has the right to force another to do something they do not volunteer to do.
What happens when one of those people insists on shitting in the communal water supply?
Fishermen are often the ones that find the 15 yr old girl who drowned, often times when she isn't fresh which can also lead to post traumatic stress syndrome.
I'm pretty sure that some areas are much more dangerous for the truckers to operate in as well. I'll also note that all (that I remember) the local cops that have died on the job around here has been due to traffic accidents including the latest where he was driving like a bat out of hell with no lights or siren and took a family with him. Coroner put the blame squarely on him.
Will America actually get sued and pay up? With NAFTA it all seems to be American companies suing the Canadian government to continue selling their unsafe products that have been banned in the States
You have an expectation of privacy
That's precisely the problem.
The Public EXPECTS Privacy -- while the Government does not recognize any such thing and seeks to remove any and all privacy.
My government believes in privacy, at that they're the most private secretive government we've ever had and I'm sure they expect to spy on citizens in private.
If it wasn't for Microsoft, we would still be on mainframes and mini-computers. Paying jacked up prices. For crap, frankly
Why would you think that? There were lots of decent personal computers in the early '80's, most with operating systems at least as good as MS DOS, including graphical ones like GEM that were better then the early crap that was Windows. Even on the PC there were better versions of DOS then MS DOS which were killed by anti-competitive behaviour.
You are right about MS understanding the benefits of getting programmers and consumers hooked though, encouraging people to copy their software at cost (the price of a floppy usually) but they were very anti-competitive for the longest time and probably did more to hold computing back as any company.
WTF? All that has to be done is to make people relatively wealthy and they'll voluntarily slow down breeding. It has already happened in every developed country. The trick is to have a healthy enough society that most everyone has a share in the increasing wealth that technology has brought us and for society to adjust to a different type of growth.
What do you do for a livelihood if there are no jobs available? It's rather lay down and die or create a business serving the needs around you. If the only profitable needs are illegal...
Or is it the lack of jobs that cause people to fall back on illegal means of livelihood that is destroying American society?
My land line (Canada) is tariffed at $25 but they've added enough charges to bring it up to $40+ a month and long distance is 30 cents a minute with a $6 charge for not using it. Dial-up is another $40 a month for unlimited.
They know that people using it have no other choice (or are old and uninterested in other choices) so charge what they can.
Dial-up is expensive. I pay $80 a month for phone line and dial-up here in Canada. As I'm 40 miles from Vancouver and there are mountains so no satellite, no cell service either so the phone company is free to rape us due to lack of choice. Even charge $5.95 a month for not using long distance (30 cents a minute).
The dial-up itself has gone up to 39.95 a month for unlimited and I need a good modem to get 26.4 connection.
There's always limits on freedom due to conflicts, eg the classic conflict between my waving my fist and your right not to get punched.
Huh? Can you elaborate on the logical chain that lead you to this statement? What sort of freedom is it, that allows the Collective to arbitrarily prohibit an Individual to offer a service?
Staying on topic, there is limits to how many Individuals can erect telephone poles and how many wires/fibers can go on the poles so the collective can put up the poles, run the fiber and allow anyone to use them for a reasonable fee. Much like how the road networks work today (there's also a limit on the number of roads that are possible so they're run by the collective)
While the PM seems to think he is a President, he is actually a Prime Minister to Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada and is responsible to the Parliament of Canada, which is responsible to and, at least the House of Commons, is elected by the Citizens of Canada.
So a Monarchy, not a Republic like most current dictatorships.
I hope that you aren't actually Canadian educated because when I went to school it was stressed that a republic was just not a Monarchy though in cases like N. Korea it's hard to tell with the office of President seeming to be inheritable.
Canada, the subject of this article, is a Parliamentary Representative Democracy headed by the Queen of Canada. So no, it is not a republic.
What else are we to do with people? As automation eliminates jobs we need to shrink the labour force and keep the unemployable occupied and also come up with reasons why they are unemployable such as lacking education.
As a bonus educating creates lots of well paying administrative jobs and saves businesses money as well as making the lines between the classes clearer.
Henry Ford seemed to think they were close enough to be direct replacements so he replaced Robertson with Philips. This at a time when cam-out was important due to inexact driver torque.
Be careful what you wish for. Usually the parts of government that is cut is the part that serves the people. Emergency services, food inspection, road and bridge inspection etc. Meanwhile the parts that infringe on peoples rights are expanded, there's always more money for the spy agencies, the prison industry (who are promised X number of prisoners), and hundred dollar hammers from the Congress-mans/Mayors buddy.
You are right about spending more money though
FYI, no other country, including India, allows foreign IT workers to create a glut and reduce the value of their own workers
Canada does lately. MS built a campus here in Vancouver, got a lot of tax breaks and then announced that less then 20% of employees would be Canadian. Sounds like it is basically a back way in to the States for E. Indian workers.
Shit we even bring in McDonalds workers through our equivalent of H-1B visas. Got to keep that cup of coffee at a $. Actually employers really seem to like the power of having foreign workers, they have to work at one place and can be easily deported and are happy to work weird shifts for minimum wage.
Actually the "B" scenario is quite common, the technology gets to the point where something is possible and multiple inventors invent the same thing. the classic example was the telephone, due to speakers and microphones being new tech, people put them together to make a telephone. One day two inventors showed up at the patent office, first Elisha Gray whose application went into the inbox at the bottom, hours later, second, Bells partner who demanded that his application get processed right away. So Bell ended up with the patent and went on to form a famous monopoly based on that master patent (along with some vacuum tube patents later). If Gray had been more aggressive things may have ended different but the fact is that they both independently invented the telephone (along with another IIRC who tried to file later that week) because it was time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...