.America has...like...way more people than alot of other first world countries.
Of course we pay twice as much as everyone else for health care. More people, more money. Duh.
Are you stupid, or just trolling? When I say we pay more, I mean we pay more, per capita, then any other nation..
Identical? Not a chance. Yes, I do understand political disappointment, particularly with the Democratic party. And I understand the simple urge that can lead one to be bitter and cynical, but the two parties are not the same, not even close
Democrats : Largely support a women's right to have an abortion, particularly early in pregnancy Republicans: Openly support utilizing the policing-power of government (i.e. force, i.e. men with badges and guns, judges, and prisons) to FORCE women to have children they don't want to have, no matter what stage of the pregnancy, and no matter what the circumstances. And no, that's not an exaggeration, that is the avowed policy of most of the Republican field of candidates for President, including Michelle Bachman, and Sarah Palin. Heck, there are even republicans in the deep south who haven't given up on the prevention of interracial marrage.
Democrats: Largely support comprehensive health care reform, many including my former congressman, who got beaten by a tea-party darling, supported a public option. Yes, the bill that passed leaved a LOT to be desired, but that is largely do to the compromises that had to be made. Republicans: support corporate health care, and continuing the specter of medical bankruptcy for Americans too "rich" for Medicaid, too young for Medicare, and not in possession of a government job...
Democrats: majority voted AGAINST the Iraq war, and the majority including the President support a rational US foreign policy. Now, 1000% yes, Obama has disappointed me here, but the fact remains he absolutely has drawn down our forces in Iraq (though not as fast as I'd like) faster than any Republican ever proposed to. I'm also mad at him for not shutting down Gitmo, although he did rewrite our policy on torture, which is a good thing Republicans: All except Ron Paul seem to be in support of an eternal/unfunded worldwide police action (except Libya of course since that's "Obama's war")...
Democrats: Have (largely) supported gay rights, including the repeal of the awful defense of marriage act (DOMA) and the repeal of don't-ask-don't-tell Republicans: Continue to appose gay rights (well, most of them, Dick Cheny, now that he has no election to win, actually supports gay marriage), including banning gay parents from adopting, equating homosexuals with pedophiles, and support debunked "conversion" therapies...
Republicans: Supported the citizens united ruling (look it up), and have blasted Network Neutrality regulations as "government censorship" Democrats: have been critical of the citizens united ruling, and have largely supported network neutrality regulations...
And I don't buy this "sigh, those politicians are all the same" line of defeatist bullshit. Yes, the Democrats have disappointed me in MANY cases, but there is a clear difference, in my book, in the parties when it comes to who is willing to govern with a sense of rationality, and in a manner that supports the interest of the American people.
We need, a comprehensive national health insurance plan, and we need it yesterday. We spend almost twice as much, don't cover everyone, and have health outcomes that are largely no better. If you want to support small business and entrepreneurship, support national health care. That way somebody starting/running a business can concentrate on the buisness, and not what happens if his kids need to go to the doctor.
Richard Shelby R-AL is a similar hypocrite, dogging out public education, healthcare, and the auto bailouts (which ended up costing less than 2 months in Iraq, and have largely worked, despite a poor economy), but he's never meant a NASA dollar he didn't like, as long as some of it ends up in Huntsville.
And then we have Boehner, that paragon of fiscal responsibility, demanding the Air Force buy a F22 engine it doesn't even want, because its built in his district...
Does GM have any real-life experience with a diesel powerplant in passenger car that is positive?
The car is already selling in Europe, and has been for a few years now, and is relatively well thought of.. The 2.0L diesel that goes in the car is a bit older than that (it has gone into the Euro Cruze, the Opel Antara, and several Hyundai and Kia models This is not really new waters for GM, or any other internationalized auto company. What is new is that they are selling it in the US, which is a good thing IMHO. I've owned a Mexi-Jetta before, and I care not to again. Having to deal with the cost of VW spare parts, and VW service, and VW design philosophy which seems to make some repairs hard, just for the sake of being hard, is not something I care to do again...
Chiropractory is not evidence based medicine But, then again neither is the spinal fusion racket.
That surgey can be a godsend to some, but those doctors who push it on those who don't need it are just as much quacks as any Chiropractor, and frankly deserve a special place in hell http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-30/highest-paid-u-s-doctors-get-rich-with-fusion-surgery-debunked-by-studies.html
Exactly: There's much more sun in the summer than the winter, i.e. white shingles will "help" in the summer much more than they "hurt" in the winter, even if your roof isn't covered by snow.
Also heating (especially if it's via a new gas furnace, even the cheaper models are running over 90%, so efficient their chimneys can be made out of PVC pipe) is MUCH more efficient than even the best AC unit.
Right it is stupid the imply that any energy system needs to provide 100% of society's power needs to be useful
In Iowa, they've already gotten wind energy's contribution to up over 15% (up from next to nothing a decade ago)
does this solve everything? Does it eliminate the need for bulk-baseload power? Again No... But 15% adds up to a lot of coal and natural gas not being burned, and that number is going higher.
If you've ever flown in a 777 you've trusted your life to ada.
The pilots control stick is nothing more than a computer entry device, every motion on the stick is interpreted by the software, which then actually tells the engines/ailerons/rudders/flaps what to do.
You might say that in jest, but this case gives a reason to purposely come up with a password long and complex enough that you cannot remember, written down on a post-it or whatever. As long as one burns the note before it is apprehension, the data is secure, even if the courts rule that forcing it out of you doesn't violate the 5th.
You can't be forced to divulge something you don't actually know.
I do live in the Marcellus formation (Binghamton area). I spend a significant amount of time down in PA, and I think calling the Hydraulic Fracturing experience in PA a "disaster" is a bit hysterical. Yes, there has been some screwups, but on the whole it is worked out. Rural PA is not the post-apocalyptic landscape some are making it out to be. Most fracks, as in the overwhelming majority, have been uneventful.
Now, while being pro-gas, you are absolutely right, the PA experience should be instructive. Instructive as in what policies/safeguards/regulations to put in place, not instructive as in "lets just import gas from Bahrain". Yes, I'm actually glad NY waited and gained some vital lessons learned from the issues that did come up in PA.
Still, this is a resource that needs to be developed, my furnace doesn't run on unicorn tears, and neither does yours..
My guess is that most of the plants end up being fired by natural gas.. The Kremlin and the Executives at Gazprom must simply be ecstatic.. Of course if the shale gas revolution pans out, maybe we in the US can get in on the extortion...
Let's now be silly here. PSTN operates on a separate grid + backup power basis so that it works even in the case of a (normal) power cut. There's no reason that cellular or broadband networks can't be required to do the same and/or don't already do that..
yes and no, yes, technically you are right (although my guess is cell tower transmitters would require a lot more battery power than the POTS network)
but no, that kickass reliability was engineered into the landline network back when AT&T was a very fat and happy, and heavily regulated, monopoly.
The mobile network providers have to constantly think about undercutting competitors while delivering maximum shareholder value. Also a big difference between then and now; politicians who express belief in the concept of government regulation can expect to be accused of being a follower of Pol Pot by Fox news and their sycophantic viewers..
Does it come in via word, or via a word document? i.e. if I opened up a malicious.doc/.docx in Open Ofice, would I be affected?
I've been modded down to troll for asking these kinds of questions before. I'm really just curious, I ask with all humility, grace, and supplication...
We can't afford it because maintaining a nationwide web of limited access 4+ lane highways is hideously expensive. Interestingly enough, the interstate highway system was never envisioned to become the monstrosity it has become. The original intent was a widely spaced grid, not the all-encompassing web it has become. Maintaining rail is cheaper, and scars the land much less
the problem is, in any transition, you're essentially compelled to maintain both, which is even more hideously expensive.
Simply put, this reactor design (especially without the containment dome) is less safe than Three Mile Island. We (the world at large) really need to modernize our nuclear power plants.
Which is shocking
I keep hearing Japanophiles talking about how awesome Japan's disaster preparation is and how "we could learn a lot from them"
sounds like they could learn a few things from us....
No, the concept of how to equitably distribute wealth in a society that needs less and less work, such as an enhanced social safety net, or a shortened work week, has nothing to do with "socialism" classically defined as government control/ownership over the means of production
As to socialism "never" working:
Every successful society, from the industrial age forward, has included some mix of socialism and capitalism...
"pure" socialism is a nightmare, but so is "pure" capitalism, unless you happen to be in one of the super-rich old money families that inevitably end up controlling nearly everything in the corrupt banana republic that results.
"busted"? Really? Are white men not allowed to have sex with black women (or vice-versa)? How colonial of you.
I think you know what I meant, at least I hope you know what I meant, but just couldn't resist the idea to let loose with a "I'm hipper than you" sanctimounius pranging OF COURSE White men and black women, or Black men and white women, or white men and black men, should be able to fall in love with each other, have sex with each other, and marry each other...
But, the point I was actually trying to make was, at that time, a supposedly moral/upstanding politician, a pillar of society, having sex with a woman who wasn't his wife was a big deal back then (as it largely, still is now), especially if said woman was a negro (thankfully, not as big of a deal now) Jefferson denied this allegation, made by members of the pamphlet press, vehemently. They, meaning the pamphlet press, "busted" him on the whole affair, i.e. made something public that he would have surely wanted to keep private..
There hasn't been actual reporting since Franklins press. 99% of news is spun propaganda, the rest is gossip
You're joking right?
The "phamplet press" of colonial time was 100% biased to whatever side of the political fence the editors sat on, and would print rumors and innuendo in ways that would make the editors of the weekly world news blanch
They did occasionally get things right, like when they busted Thomas Jefferson for impregnating Sally Hemmings (vindicatated 200+ years later), but they also printed stuff that would easily get you sued for libel and slander today. Considering the founding fathers went out of their way NOT to put limits on it, and considering the state of the press at the time of the constitution really illustrates just how far-reaching freedom of the press should be...
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.America has...like...way more people than alot of other first world countries. Of course we pay twice as much as everyone else for health care. More people, more money. Duh.
Are you stupid, or just trolling?
When I say we pay more, I mean we pay more, per capita, then any other nation..
Here: unignorantize yourself : http://www.creditloan.com/blog/2010/03/01/healthcare-costs-around-the-world/
Identical? Not a chance. Yes, I do understand political disappointment, particularly with the Democratic party. And I understand the simple urge that can lead one to be bitter and cynical, but the two parties are not the same, not even close
Democrats : Largely support a women's right to have an abortion, particularly early in pregnancy
Republicans: Openly support utilizing the policing-power of government (i.e. force, i.e. men with badges and guns, judges, and prisons) to FORCE women to have children they don't want to have, no matter what stage of the pregnancy, and no matter what the circumstances. And no, that's not an exaggeration, that is the avowed policy of most of the Republican field of candidates for President, including Michelle Bachman, and Sarah Palin. Heck, there are even republicans in the deep south who haven't given up on the prevention of interracial marrage.
Democrats: Largely support comprehensive health care reform, many including my former congressman, who got beaten by a tea-party darling, supported a public option. Yes, the bill that passed leaved a LOT to be desired, but that is largely do to the compromises that had to be made.
Republicans: support corporate health care, and continuing the specter of medical bankruptcy for Americans too "rich" for Medicaid, too young for Medicare, and not in possession of a government job...
Democrats: majority voted AGAINST the Iraq war, and the majority including the President support a rational US foreign policy. Now, 1000% yes, Obama has disappointed me here, but the fact remains he absolutely has drawn down our forces in Iraq (though not as fast as I'd like) faster than any Republican ever proposed to. I'm also mad at him for not shutting down Gitmo, although he did rewrite our policy on torture, which is a good thing
Republicans: All except Ron Paul seem to be in support of an eternal/unfunded worldwide police action (except Libya of course since that's "Obama's war")...
Democrats: Have (largely) supported gay rights, including the repeal of the awful defense of marriage act (DOMA) and the repeal of don't-ask-don't-tell
Republicans: Continue to appose gay rights (well, most of them, Dick Cheny, now that he has no election to win, actually supports gay marriage), including banning gay parents from adopting, equating homosexuals with pedophiles, and support debunked "conversion" therapies...
Republicans: Supported the citizens united ruling (look it up), and have blasted Network Neutrality regulations as "government censorship"
Democrats: have been critical of the citizens united ruling, and have largely supported network neutrality regulations...
Well, get YOUR facts checked, yes the DOD terminated the engine, but Boehner has been trying his damnest to restore funding
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/18/133875475/Funding-Fight-Puts-Boehner-In-Tough-Spot
And I don't buy this "sigh, those politicians are all the same" line of defeatist bullshit.
Yes, the Democrats have disappointed me in MANY cases, but there is a clear difference, in my book, in the parties when it comes to who is willing to govern with a sense of rationality, and in a manner that supports the interest of the American people.
We need, a comprehensive national health insurance plan, and we need it yesterday. We spend almost twice as much, don't cover everyone, and have health outcomes that are largely no better.
If you want to support small business and entrepreneurship, support national health care. That way somebody starting/running a business can concentrate on the buisness, and not what happens if his kids need to go to the doctor.
ding, we have a winner
Richard Shelby R-AL is a similar hypocrite, dogging out public education, healthcare, and the auto bailouts (which ended up costing less than 2 months in Iraq, and have largely worked, despite a poor economy), but he's never meant a NASA dollar he didn't like, as long as some of it ends up in Huntsville.
And then we have Boehner, that paragon of fiscal responsibility, demanding the Air Force buy a F22 engine it doesn't even want, because its built in his district...
Does GM have any real-life experience with a diesel powerplant in passenger car that is positive?
The car is already selling in Europe, and has been for a few years now, and is relatively well thought of ..
The 2.0L diesel that goes in the car is a bit older than that (it has gone into the Euro Cruze, the Opel Antara, and several Hyundai and Kia models
This is not really new waters for GM, or any other internationalized auto company. What is new is that they are selling it in the US, which is a good thing IMHO. I've owned a Mexi-Jetta before, and I care not to again. Having to deal with the cost of VW spare parts, and VW service, and VW design philosophy which seems to make some repairs hard, just for the sake of being hard, is not something I care to do again...
Nah
At the size listed in the article, all an observer in LEO would need is a decent pair of binoculars
Chiropractory is not evidence based medicine
But, then again neither is the spinal fusion racket.
That surgey can be a godsend to some, but those doctors who push it on those who don't need it are just as much quacks as any Chiropractor, and frankly deserve a special place in hell
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-30/highest-paid-u-s-doctors-get-rich-with-fusion-surgery-debunked-by-studies.html
Exactly: There's much more sun in the summer than the winter, i.e. white shingles will "help" in the summer much more than they "hurt" in the winter, even if your roof isn't covered by snow.
Also heating (especially if it's via a new gas furnace, even the cheaper models are running over 90%, so efficient their chimneys can be made out of PVC pipe) is MUCH more efficient than even the best AC unit.
Right it is stupid the imply that any energy system needs to provide 100% of society's power needs to be useful
In Iowa, they've already gotten wind energy's contribution to up over 15% (up from next to nothing a decade ago)
does this solve everything? Does it eliminate the need for bulk-baseload power? Again No...
But 15% adds up to a lot of coal and natural gas not being burned, and that number is going higher.
If you've ever flown in a 777 you've trusted your life to ada.
The pilots control stick is nothing more than a computer entry device, every motion on the stick is interpreted by the software, which then actually tells the engines/ailerons/rudders/flaps what to do.
You wanna do that in C, be my guest...
Oh the old "if you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to worry about" rationalization
bullshit on that, the 5th amendment protects the innocent as much as it protects the guilty.
You might say that in jest, but this case gives a reason to purposely come up with a password long and complex enough that you cannot remember, written down on a post-it or whatever.
As long as one burns the note before it is apprehension, the data is secure, even if the courts rule that forcing it out of you doesn't violate the 5th.
You can't be forced to divulge something you don't actually know.
I do live in the Marcellus formation (Binghamton area). I spend a significant amount of time down in PA, and I think calling the Hydraulic Fracturing experience in PA a "disaster" is a bit hysterical.
Yes, there has been some screwups, but on the whole it is worked out. Rural PA is not the post-apocalyptic landscape some are making it out to be. Most fracks, as in the overwhelming majority, have been uneventful.
Now, while being pro-gas, you are absolutely right, the PA experience should be instructive. Instructive as in what policies/safeguards/regulations to put in place, not instructive as in "lets just import gas from Bahrain". Yes, I'm actually glad NY waited and gained some vital lessons learned from the issues that did come up in PA.
Still, this is a resource that needs to be developed, my furnace doesn't run on unicorn tears, and neither does yours..
My guess is that most of the plants end up being fired by natural gas..
The Kremlin and the Executives at Gazprom must simply be ecstatic..
Of course if the shale gas revolution pans out, maybe we in the US can get in on the extortion...
Let's now be silly here. PSTN operates on a separate grid + backup power basis so that it works even in the case of a (normal) power cut. There's no reason that cellular or broadband networks can't be required to do the same and/or don't already do that..
yes and no, yes, technically you are right (although my guess is cell tower transmitters would require a lot more battery power than the POTS network)
but no, that kickass reliability was engineered into the landline network back when AT&T was a very fat and happy, and heavily regulated, monopoly.
The mobile network providers have to constantly think about undercutting competitors while delivering maximum shareholder value. Also a big difference between then and now; politicians who express belief in the concept of government regulation can expect to be accused of being a follower of Pol Pot by Fox news and their sycophantic viewers..
Freely admit I don't understand most of this, but, doesn't mobile phone traffic (once it gets to a tower that is) get transferred to the PSTN?
Does it come in via word, or via a word document? i.e. if I opened up a malicious .doc/.docx in Open Ofice, would I be affected?
I've been modded down to troll for asking these kinds of questions before. I'm really just curious, I ask with all humility, grace, and supplication...
We can't afford it because maintaining a nationwide web of limited access 4+ lane highways is hideously expensive.
Interestingly enough, the interstate highway system was never envisioned to become the monstrosity it has become. The original intent was a widely spaced grid, not the all-encompassing web it has become.
Maintaining rail is cheaper, and scars the land much less
the problem is, in any transition, you're essentially compelled to maintain both, which is even more hideously expensive.
It seems like at some point the industry is just going to give up, and go to photovoltaics
G.E. just had a breakthrough in thin-film efficiency
I guess it isn't quite there yet, bean counter wise, but no moving parts and no steam is nice...
Simply put, this reactor design (especially without the containment dome) is less safe than Three Mile Island. We (the world at large) really need to modernize our nuclear power plants.
Which is shocking
I keep hearing Japanophiles talking about how awesome Japan's disaster preparation is and how "we could learn a lot from them"
sounds like they could learn a few things from us....
mod parent up
"It was hacked first, because the hackers wanted an apple", just another apple fanboi excuse...
No, the concept of how to equitably distribute wealth in a society that needs less and less work, such as an enhanced social safety net, or a shortened work week, has nothing to do with "socialism" classically defined as government control/ownership over the means of production
As to socialism "never" working:
Every successful society, from the industrial age forward, has included some mix of socialism and capitalism...
"pure" socialism is a nightmare, but so is "pure" capitalism, unless you happen to be in one of the super-rich old money families that inevitably end up controlling nearly everything in the corrupt banana republic that results.
"busted"? Really? Are white men not allowed to have sex with black women (or vice-versa)? How colonial of you.
I think you know what I meant, at least I hope you know what I meant, but just couldn't resist the idea to let loose with a "I'm hipper than you" sanctimounius pranging
OF COURSE White men and black women, or Black men and white women, or white men and black men, should be able to fall in love with each other, have sex with each other, and marry each other...
But, the point I was actually trying to make was, at that time, a supposedly moral/upstanding politician, a pillar of society, having sex with a woman who wasn't his wife was a big deal back then (as it largely, still is now), especially if said woman was a negro (thankfully, not as big of a deal now)
Jefferson denied this allegation, made by members of the pamphlet press, vehemently.
They, meaning the pamphlet press, "busted" him on the whole affair, i.e. made something public that he would have surely wanted to keep private..
There hasn't been actual reporting since Franklins press. 99% of news is spun propaganda, the rest is gossip
You're joking right?
The "phamplet press" of colonial time was 100% biased to whatever side of the political fence the editors sat on, and would print rumors and innuendo in ways that would make the editors of the weekly world news blanch
They did occasionally get things right, like when they busted Thomas Jefferson for impregnating Sally Hemmings (vindicatated 200+ years later), but they also printed stuff that would easily get you sued for libel and slander today.
Considering the founding fathers went out of their way NOT to put limits on it, and considering the state of the press at the time of the constitution really illustrates just how far-reaching freedom of the press should be...
So you have 200,000KM on the original struts? Yikes. that is incredibly unsafe
200k on the serpentine?
200k on the original coolant?