One more reason why they should have sent one to the US Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH. The shuttle would have been in an enclosed, climate controlled, solid hangar in a region with a rare tornado, but no other natural disasters. In addition admission to the Air Force Museum is FREE (if you count paying taxes, then no additional cost).
Instead now all of the shuttles are in areas where there are hurricanes or earthquakes to damage them. Not to mention all of them are near the coasts which kind of screws Americans everywhere else.
As a US citizen who travels to Canada semi-frequently this is sad, but true.
Their border guards are much more police, much more efficient, and do a much better job with security than their American counterparts.
I have been searched by both and the Canadian security search took 10 minutes. They had me stand next to my vehicle and asked me questions as they searched. They were polite and well mannered. I was on my way in no time and they noticed things like the custom stuff I have wired into my vehicle (with blinky switches and lights).
The US search took over 45 minutes where I was not permitted to watch them search my property. They weren't rude, but I never saw a smile, and one of them yelled at another couple in the "detention area" (prison lobby like setting where you had to wait) for laughing. They asked me fewer questions and didn't even mention the random wires and switches in my car (I doubt they noticed, they were probably looking for drugs, not bombs).
What is the risk of being killed in a terrorist act?
Taking these figures into account, a rough calculation suggests that in the last five years, your chances of being killed by a terrorist are about one in 20 million. This compares annual risk of dying in a car accident of 1 in 19,000; drowning in a bathtub at 1 in 800,000; dying in a building fire at 1 in 99,000; or being struck by lightning at 1 in 5,500,000. In other words, in the last five years you were four times more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by a terrorist.
No, in a democracy the government is only accountable to the majority. This inevitably causes an oppression of the minority. Which is a horrible system of government where you have government sponsored oppression. A corporation may only be accountable to its shareholders, but anyone can buy a share and more to the point, transactions with a corporation are entirely voluntary unlike transactions with the government which are done by force.
That's right, it is a democracy. Which is why I'm glad we are at least supposedly living in a REPUBLIC that is held to a set of limited government powers and has democratically elected leaders. The laws should not be up for public votes. And the laws that do come up for public vote should still be within the government's set of limited powers. Or if 51% of people say we should kill the other 49% is that a justifiable law?
I don't think Windows handles multiple monitors very well either. It's not just free operating systems, it's all operating systems. 3rd party utilities are the only thing that come close to making multiple monitors behave well.
It only seems random to you because you don't have the information that the people who determine the price do. Do you really think oil companies just pull random numbers out of their ass when they set the price? Do you know where the nearest fuel storage terminal is to you? Do you know what local tax rates are? Do you know what retail space is renting at in the area? Do you know what refineries are down for maintenance? How about a pipeline being down for maintenance because some farmer was doing some digging in his back yard and hit it?
There is a lot of information in the price of gas, just because you don't know all of the factors does not make it random.
Also, I DO get petroleum news every morning and according to the recent crack spreads in the mid-west and gulf coast, they are around $14-$15 dollars per barrel, which is ~27c per gallon.
Right... Because the government isn't taking half the "profits" of a gallon of gas. They already are taking about ~13% of the cost of gas according to this article from How Stuff Works.
Actually I am against the air force, navy, and army since they should only exist in times of war... Which we haven't really declared... And we have maintained in times of 'peace' continuously despite the objections of our founding fathers.
Well it is more of that they are. The problem is we Americans have some irrational fear of diesel. As such we require far more gasoline than diesel in our economy. Thus most of those oil product imports are gasoline whereas most of those exports are diesel. When you refine crude you don't get to pick which one you refine, you get some of both gasoline and diesel. So we import crude and gasoline to fulfill our gasoline needs and then export the diesel we created but don't need.
That assumes that technology won't improve in the interim where we are using natural gas. If we discover cold fusion during the gas period then our long term CO2 usage will go down and we may never return to getting the majority of our power from oil or coal and we saved a ton of CO2 from going into the atmosphere by tapping the gas. The invisible hand is keeping costs and damages low today so that hopefully tomorrow we will have cheaper and less damaging forms of power tomorrow.
You don't have any evidence to suggest that it will accelerate indefinitely. It may be accelerating now, but all the historical data on weather, temperature and atmospheric composition show cyclical effects. At some point the warming will level off and eventually a cooling cycle will begin. The earth will have warm periods and it will have ice ages in the billions of years it has left. The question is, where are humans best off in this cycle? Is it in the middle, at the warm end, or at the cold end. We are still technically in the cold end since there is ice that persists at the poles year round.
No it doesn't... The outline of the coast has more to do with tides than the water quantity. The largest tides are areas where there is a long inlet that is oriented east-west. For example, it is disputed but the Great Lakes have very small tides, but the largest of them are superior and erie (longest east-west dimensions) whereas the largest quantities of water are in superior and michigan.
The better question is what type of day results in the highest power demand. Typically hot, sunny, windless days are the peak draw due to air conditioning use. That would imply that solar power is much more beneficial for peaking demand than wind.
The mining and petroleum industry in 2010 had an overall OSHA recordable rate of 2.3 (oil alone was a mere 1.2), which is much lower than the private sector average of 3.5. Utilities in general came out at 3.1.
Only 9% of workplace fatalities come from exposure to harmful substances or environments. While the mining fatality rate is high, it is still below agriculture/forestry, and comparable to transportation and warehousing. The occupations with the highest rates of fatalities don't have any related to mining or oil. Electrical line workers is in the top 10, but is true of all energy plants (even wind and solar).
Probably because every nerd on the internet just got the link from Slashdot and is likely melting the server as we speak. It doesn't seem like it's actually hosted by Google.
Actually if you printed out one dollar bills for the national debt it would go about 10 AUs at this point... Or you could do 1 AU with 10 dollar bills. (155.95 / 1000) * 16 027 000 000 000
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One more reason why they should have sent one to the US Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH. The shuttle would have been in an enclosed, climate controlled, solid hangar in a region with a rare tornado, but no other natural disasters. In addition admission to the Air Force Museum is FREE (if you count paying taxes, then no additional cost).
Instead now all of the shuttles are in areas where there are hurricanes or earthquakes to damage them. Not to mention all of them are near the coasts which kind of screws Americans everywhere else.
Even better, make it passenger-miles/gallon/hour and flights definitely win!
Gah, should check my post before confirming. The Canadian border guards are much more polite not police...
As a US citizen who travels to Canada semi-frequently this is sad, but true.
Their border guards are much more police, much more efficient, and do a much better job with security than their American counterparts.
I have been searched by both and the Canadian security search took 10 minutes. They had me stand next to my vehicle and asked me questions as they searched. They were polite and well mannered. I was on my way in no time and they noticed things like the custom stuff I have wired into my vehicle (with blinky switches and lights).
The US search took over 45 minutes where I was not permitted to watch them search my property. They weren't rude, but I never saw a smile, and one of them yelled at another couple in the "detention area" (prison lobby like setting where you had to wait) for laughing. They asked me fewer questions and didn't even mention the random wires and switches in my car (I doubt they noticed, they were probably looking for drugs, not bombs).
The second amendment exists in case the first doesn't get the point across...
What is the risk of being killed in a terrorist act?
Taking these figures into account, a rough calculation suggests that in the last five years, your chances of being killed by a terrorist are about one in 20 million. This compares annual risk of dying in a car accident of 1 in 19,000; drowning in a bathtub at 1 in 800,000; dying in a building fire at 1 in 99,000; or being struck by lightning at 1 in 5,500,000. In other words, in the last five years you were four times more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by a terrorist.
http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terrorism-should
Vs. http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasics/lifetime-probability-of-developing-or-dying-from-cancer
1 in 20 million vs even a .1% increase in the risk of cancer which at best is 1 in 5000
No, in a democracy the government is only accountable to the majority. This inevitably causes an oppression of the minority. Which is a horrible system of government where you have government sponsored oppression. A corporation may only be accountable to its shareholders, but anyone can buy a share and more to the point, transactions with a corporation are entirely voluntary unlike transactions with the government which are done by force.
That's right, it is a democracy. Which is why I'm glad we are at least supposedly living in a REPUBLIC that is held to a set of limited government powers and has democratically elected leaders. The laws should not be up for public votes. And the laws that do come up for public vote should still be within the government's set of limited powers. Or if 51% of people say we should kill the other 49% is that a justifiable law?
About as useful as the Constitution for determining what is allowed by the government...
Or as my French speaking girlfriend suggested: Faire is the French word for "To make" so it could be a play on words?
I don't think Windows handles multiple monitors very well either. It's not just free operating systems, it's all operating systems. 3rd party utilities are the only thing that come close to making multiple monitors behave well.
It only seems random to you because you don't have the information that the people who determine the price do. Do you really think oil companies just pull random numbers out of their ass when they set the price? Do you know where the nearest fuel storage terminal is to you? Do you know what local tax rates are? Do you know what retail space is renting at in the area? Do you know what refineries are down for maintenance? How about a pipeline being down for maintenance because some farmer was doing some digging in his back yard and hit it?
There is a lot of information in the price of gas, just because you don't know all of the factors does not make it random.
Also, I DO get petroleum news every morning and according to the recent crack spreads in the mid-west and gulf coast, they are around $14-$15 dollars per barrel, which is ~27c per gallon.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-consumption/gas-price1.htm
Right... Because the government isn't taking half the "profits" of a gallon of gas. They already are taking about ~13% of the cost of gas according to this article from How Stuff Works.
Actually I am against the air force, navy, and army since they should only exist in times of war... Which we haven't really declared... And we have maintained in times of 'peace' continuously despite the objections of our founding fathers.
Well it is more of that they are. The problem is we Americans have some irrational fear of diesel. As such we require far more gasoline than diesel in our economy. Thus most of those oil product imports are gasoline whereas most of those exports are diesel. When you refine crude you don't get to pick which one you refine, you get some of both gasoline and diesel. So we import crude and gasoline to fulfill our gasoline needs and then export the diesel we created but don't need.
That assumes that technology won't improve in the interim where we are using natural gas. If we discover cold fusion during the gas period then our long term CO2 usage will go down and we may never return to getting the majority of our power from oil or coal and we saved a ton of CO2 from going into the atmosphere by tapping the gas. The invisible hand is keeping costs and damages low today so that hopefully tomorrow we will have cheaper and less damaging forms of power tomorrow.
"There is no honest way to spin a 2 degrees C temperature increase for the world as something positive."
Depends on your time scale. Over 10-20 years probably not, but over 100-200 years, definitely.
You don't have any evidence to suggest that it will accelerate indefinitely. It may be accelerating now, but all the historical data on weather, temperature and atmospheric composition show cyclical effects. At some point the warming will level off and eventually a cooling cycle will begin. The earth will have warm periods and it will have ice ages in the billions of years it has left. The question is, where are humans best off in this cycle? Is it in the middle, at the warm end, or at the cold end. We are still technically in the cold end since there is ice that persists at the poles year round.
No it doesn't... The outline of the coast has more to do with tides than the water quantity. The largest tides are areas where there is a long inlet that is oriented east-west. For example, it is disputed but the Great Lakes have very small tides, but the largest of them are superior and erie (longest east-west dimensions) whereas the largest quantities of water are in superior and michigan.
http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/chat/answers/100100_tides.html
http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/factsheet.html
The better question is what type of day results in the highest power demand. Typically hot, sunny, windless days are the peak draw due to air conditioning use. That would imply that solar power is much more beneficial for peaking demand than wind.
There's no good data on "nature crimes" but as far as accidents and deaths go... http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/osh_10202011.htm
The mining and petroleum industry in 2010 had an overall OSHA recordable rate of 2.3 (oil alone was a mere 1.2), which is much lower than the private sector average of 3.5. Utilities in general came out at 3.1.
http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfch0010.pdf (sorry, fatality data is only in pdf form)
Only 9% of workplace fatalities come from exposure to harmful substances or environments. While the mining fatality rate is high, it is still below agriculture/forestry, and comparable to transportation and warehousing. The occupations with the highest rates of fatalities don't have any related to mining or oil. Electrical line workers is in the top 10, but is true of all energy plants (even wind and solar).
Probably because every nerd on the internet just got the link from Slashdot and is likely melting the server as we speak. It doesn't seem like it's actually hosted by Google.
It will take all day to explore this whole thing using the Google Maps version, I can't imagine finding everything using the dragging method.
Actually if you printed out one dollar bills for the national debt it would go about 10 AUs at this point... Or you could do 1 AU with 10 dollar bills.
(155.95 / 1000) * 16 027 000 000 000
Yes, because the world's problems are humans and before the concept of money existed, our population was less than 10% of what it is now.