But it's not just college loans. our entire culture has shifted so far toward individual wealth and away from the common good. The 28/40 year republican rule in the country has pretty much decimated civic values, put us 12 trillion dollars into debt (almost all of it in republican administrations)....
The richest people WANT to see high interest rates on the poor. That's how they make their money. Investing. As far as they are concerned, the
higher the better. If a student will pay 8.4% interest, then they are a lot more likely to give him money than the guy only willing to pay 3%.
And the more wealth is concentrated in the hands of the rich, the easier it is to raise interest rates to the absolute maximum possible.
The fact is that the free market systems we all love, start to fail at some time. It's always cheaper to pollute the stream, pass debt on to future generations, and screw the poor. It's more expensive to treat the water, raise taxes, and educate and help the poor.
The truth is we need to raise taxes on the wealthy and start putting money back into the common good like an educated public and public infrastructure instead of idiotic private McMansions.
Let's start with the idiotic low taxes on capital gains and the social security tax cap...Rich people pay FAR less of a tax percentage than the middle class, and the middle class is unbelievably ignorant of it. How many of you knew that there is a 13% Social Security tax that ENDS when you make over $106,000? The richest person in the world (Warren Buffet) pays a lower percentage in tax than his secretary? The rich don't even pay tax on money made through stock appreciation, until the stock is sold? But the wage guy has to pay every year?
It's gotten ridiculous, and the public needs to demand that taxes are raised...The rich will fight it tooth and nail and use all sorts of scare tactics and , but that's the only way things are going to get better....and the rich will NEVER do it voluntarily.
Write to your congressman..ask him to raise taxes...especially on the wealthy
You have higher cognitive ability, you realize how the world runs, you get depressed. Not the other way 'round.
My personal belief is often depression is the result of repressed anger and anger directed inward instead of outward. So many highly intelligent people have
been brainwashed to believe that they can do nothing to change society, or are afraid they will be suffer terrible consequences if they try
and change the world for the better.. Activism helps against depression IMHO
"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little."
â" Mark Twain
It's a very narrow mind that assumes nothing exists beyond it's own knowledge. I would say that kind of mind doesn't serve the public one bit
The problem with that argument is you can use it to justify anything. At some point you need to exercise that thing between your ears.
Einstein did his work with a few books and paper and pencil, and we haven't gotten to the bottom of that in over 100 years. NASA uses billions of dollars to launch Paper Airplanes
Name "One" important science discovery from the ISS.
It's a joke. It's a zillion times cheaper to do research on earth. Putting people into space for no other reason than putting people into space is a little silly. We've proven it can be done 40 years ago, but created this stupid idea that we need to keep doing it...at tremendous expense..for pretty much no other reason than National Pride. That's why it's like the Pyramids. Making it bigger is criminally idiotic. Unfortunately, it's probably gonna take another few generations until the mankind figures this out.
Our biggest problem for the planet is our population. Not putting 5 or 6 people into orbit so they can go on speaking tours and write a book.
This is the first glimpse at the future, people. Try to grok it. If you can, you may come to understand how some of us intend to settle the solar system.
Settling the solar system makes about as much sense as building Condos at the bottom of the ocean under the North Pole.
In case you haven't noticed...we pretty much have the best planet and we are slowly screwing it up, with apathy and ridiculous pipe dreams like moving to Titan.
Nope..it won't. Using tax payer money to subsidize some sort of cosmic carnival ride with no public benefit is a joke. It's not the kind of jobs the world needs...unless you perhaps you think we ought to go back to building pyramids or something
AT&T wireless once took $1000 out of my checking account because they claim it was within their rights to change my "plan" without my consent from my previous $60/month with 1500 minutes to $20/month with about $1/minute.
I used the same amount of minutes as I always had and those assholes charged me nearly $1000 for what had previously cost $60. They wouldn't refund my money. They did try to blackmail me into offering a 50% refund if I gave them an additional 2 year contract.
I cancelled my service. If I would have had time, I would have taken them to small claims court.
The lesson, is to never-ever let a company access to your checking account with automatic withdrawal. Once they get your money, there is little you can do about it. without taking them to court.
Just kidding. (I actually have the magnesium motor/axle-differential all together)..It's super light always wanted to make a kick-ass go-cart out of the thing. the NSU guys were doing some bleeding edge engineering back then. They made the first wankels too.
I worked as a consultant for a major consumer electronics around 2000 and was asked to design a DVR (on paper). for opencable I did so and described how I would do it. At the time I never had access to any other DVR. and had only remotely heard of tivo. I still have documentation on this.
Now I have dishnetwork, and surprisingly the interface is almost identical to my design, except I added a version of Video on Demand using multicast which no one has done yet..(too my knowledge)
So since I independently came up with virtually the same design, I really think it was pretty obviousI and that anyone working with freezing incoming data such as digital oscilloscopes and logic analyzers have dealt with for many years. "Pause" wasn't invented by Tivo. Actually I still have DOS programs that I wrote in the 80's with graphical displays showing the last 10 minutes of sensor data that a person can scroll through while new data was still coming in. It's basically the same thing anyone would implement for circular buffers.
I really think it was fairly obvious and anyone saving _and_ viewing at the same time would implement. What kept people from doing it before wasn't that they hadn't thought of it, but was just that it was too expensive and common hard drives weren't fast enough in the early 90's. Almost as soon as it was technically feasible for commodity stuff it was done.
Tivo seems to have popularized it, but it would have been pretty obvious to anyone how to do it. I consider it more of a marketing breakthrough rather than a technical one.
I really can't imagine that some sort of prior art didn't exist for people doing digital video. I'm sure it would be just a matter of getting some older video engineers in a room. and talking about it. But then maybe it's just the guys that did it...founded TIVO.
Why is this an issue for air traffic control? All computer systems must have methods for setting the clock, and this necessarily involves clock skew. There's no getting around the problem even if there were no leap seconds.
Even atomic clocks have "skew" depending on where they are in the gravitational field.
Rather than submit a stupid proposal to eliminate clock skew, it seems a better proposal would be to publish agreed methods to deal with it.
I think I'm an environmentalist and I agree with you that the pollution is less from a nuke plant, but pollution from coal won't need armed guards for the next 500 years...or longer. The nuclear industry has had 50 years to come up with a plan. It just keeps piling up next to the reactors and the nuclear power shills keep saying..."Oh..we'll deal with it..soon..we promise...just as soon as we make the money from selling electricity..trust us".
I don't think either solution is good.
Solar does work. Lot's of people living off the grid ought to be enough proof. It's expensive (right now) but it's responsible. The SEGS plants in the mojave have been quietly providing power for over 20 years using solar thermal. The only reason why solar hasn't taken off, is that it's been too expensive to compete with coal/hydro..but Solar prices are going down. Nuclear prices are going up. Which do you think is really the good long term bet for our nations future?
Solar Works. Solar Thermal can work 24 hours/day. Alternative Energy is exploding. Don't discount it. The people who claim it can't work, are just not educated.
The mojave is the best, but any place in Nevada or Arizona is pretty damn good and anyone who's driven across the miles/and miles of empty BLM land knows that the US still has plenty of land w/o water and any farm value. Way more than necessary to power the US completely.
The yearly income from an acre of solar panels would be far more than farming. It's the startup costs which need to come down.
Land costs would never be an issue except in urban/suburban areas. Never in agricultural areas.
Jimmy Carter studied to be a nuclear engineer while in the Navy. So he probably knew better than any other politician what the risks were. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_carter
Separating isotopes _IS_ possible...Maybe difficult, but not impossible. Fuel reprocessing is done to make this purposely more difficult.
And it's easy to look back with 30 years of hindsight and criticize, but it was an intelligent decision at the time, and might still be today. Breeder reactors have proven to be better, but I'll bet it wasn't so obvious 30 years ago. And the proliferation issue still hasn't gone away.
Yes, nuclear power is better than it was...Yes it's currently cheaper than solar (I believe that will change though), but the waste problem is not small. We generate over 2000 ton of HIGH level waste per year. And that will have to be under armed guard for > 500 years...after we stop producing it. And most of it is still sitting next to the reactors that produced it. No long term repository has been agreed on. If we can't even solve our old waste and we've had > 50 years to come up with a solution. Hanford has rooms within rooms within rooms because
it's easier to just contain contaminated areas.
France has plenty of problems too. A nuke reactor was attacked by ecoterrorists during construction (They damaged the containment building). It was shut down in 1997 _and_ STILL has the fuel on site. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superph%C3%A9nix
Chernobyl killed > 50 people. Not just 1 or 2 guys. A large city was evacuated..More people will likely die from cancer.
Three Mile Island didn't hurt anyone, but it was the result of a bad valve and a couple of failed meters. That can still happen today. Nothing has changed. Technology still fails...all the time. And the worst failures are usually human. and that's not gonna change.
Adding more Nukes will just add to the problem. Figure out a REAL place for the waste..and implement it, not just rhetoric about how science will figure out something...someday... then maybe I'll consider it.
Solar is better...It can meet our needs..It's just 2-4x more expensive...And that could easily change..Solar thermal plants can store energy. The SEGS plants have been quietly working for 20 years now. Sure it's expensive..but it's worth it. And it will get better...even w/o goverment assistance.
Maybe Nuke subs and aircraft carriers makes sense though.
I'm always surprised at the level of animosity he seems to get. I guess bad programmers don't like to hear scientific reasons about why their programs have so many bugs....and probably that's why they are bad programmers in the first place.
I think the 40% is WAY hype, but the idea has some merit.
Carnot limits the total efficiency, but modern engines are not near carnot, so there's some available waste energy, (Ideally you want your exhaust to come out at ambient temp).
So using the waste heat is a do-able, but theory is _way_ different from practice. In reality, the choice of working fluid is a huge thing and steam is particularly lousy due to it's high heat of vaporisation. (geothermal/waste-heat guys use organics/refrigerants) Also, heat transfer is plenty hard too.
At worst, this is going to be like running a little steam engine off your radiator cap/ pressure....some energy..but not much.
Lifetime of satellite 10's of years. No way to fix it if something breaks Losses from energy transmission, probably negate extra energy by being in space. (you are transmitting the energy through the atmosphere in both cases)
Maybe you get more sunlight.
I'm guessing similiar energy to the desert at 100x the cost.
I think the password is trivial, but won't work unless the BYPASS user is in the pool of valid users, and this combination is necessary to unlock the masterkey
Oh yeah...since you are afraid of keyloggers maybe you'd like this product
"Passprotection",
Introducing "Passprotection" - Keep your disk encrypted and avoid entering your bootpassword at everyboot. Now no one can use a keylogger to detect your bootuppassword..This makes your disk safer!!!! and keeps the disk encrypted so your data will still be safe!!! Get yours now...Install it everywhere!!!
and all it does is reenable the boot-bypass at each startup, so you never have to enter the boot prompt.
So..according to your logic, this ought to be safer right? The disk is still encrypted and you can't use a keylogger to detect the password...Since my "Fantasy Crack" is unlikely, but your "Keylogger attack" is much more likely..I think you should install it everywhere you can.
Maybe you can talk to the PGP guys and suggest this to them as a good idea..I promise to give you all the credit.
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An iphone moving at 0.3c would destroy a city..... How would these idiots feel if the alpha centaurians sent 1000 nukes back at us as a "reply"
But it's not just college loans. our entire culture has shifted so far toward individual wealth and away from the common good. The 28/40 year republican rule in the country has pretty much decimated civic values, put us 12 trillion dollars into debt (almost all of it in republican administrations)....
The richest people WANT to see high interest rates on the poor. That's how they make their money. Investing. As far as they are concerned, the higher the better. If a student will pay 8.4% interest, then they are a lot more likely to give him money than the guy only willing to pay 3%. And the more wealth is concentrated in the hands of the rich, the easier it is to raise interest rates to the absolute maximum possible.
The fact is that the free market systems we all love, start to fail at some time. It's always cheaper to pollute the stream, pass debt on to future generations, and screw the poor. It's more expensive to treat the water, raise taxes, and educate and help the poor.
The truth is we need to raise taxes on the wealthy and start putting money back into the common good like an educated public and public infrastructure instead of idiotic private McMansions.
Let's start with the idiotic low taxes on capital gains and the social security tax cap...Rich people pay FAR less of a tax percentage than the middle class, and the middle class is unbelievably ignorant of it. How many of you knew that there is a 13% Social Security tax that ENDS when you make over $106,000? The richest person in the world (Warren Buffet) pays a lower percentage in tax than his secretary? The rich don't even pay tax on money made through stock appreciation, until the stock is sold? But the wage guy has to pay every year?
It's gotten ridiculous, and the public needs to demand that taxes are raised...The rich will fight it tooth and nail and use all sorts of scare tactics and , but that's the only way things are going to get better....and the rich will NEVER do it voluntarily.
Write to your congressman..ask him to raise taxes...especially on the wealthy
http://www.house.gov/
http://www.senate.gov/
You have higher cognitive ability, you realize how the world runs, you get depressed. Not the other way 'round.
My personal belief is often depression is the result of repressed anger and anger directed inward instead of outward. So many highly intelligent people have been brainwashed to believe that they can do nothing to change society, or are afraid they will be suffer terrible consequences if they try and change the world for the better.. Activism helps against depression IMHO "The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little." â" Mark Twain
I guess I see the ISS as being a big floating resort in the sky....and not much else
It's a very narrow mind that assumes nothing exists beyond it's own knowledge. I would say that kind of mind doesn't serve the public one bit
The problem with that argument is you can use it to justify anything. At some point you need to exercise that thing between your ears.
Einstein did his work with a few books and paper and pencil, and we haven't gotten to the bottom of that in over 100 years. NASA uses billions of dollars to launch Paper Airplanes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami_airplane_launched_from_space
If you refuse to question anything NASA does, then you'll get just what you deserve.... 10 billion dollars to burn up a bunch of Paper Airplanes.
Name "One" important science discovery from the ISS.
It's a joke. It's a zillion times cheaper to do research on earth. Putting people into space for no other reason than putting people into space is a little silly. We've proven it can be done 40 years ago, but created this stupid idea that we need to keep doing it...at tremendous expense..for pretty much no other reason than National Pride. That's why it's like the Pyramids. Making it bigger is criminally idiotic. Unfortunately, it's probably gonna take another few generations until the mankind figures this out.
Our biggest problem for the planet is our population. Not putting 5 or 6 people into orbit so they can go on speaking tours and write a book.
This is the first glimpse at the future, people. Try to grok it. If you can, you may come to understand how some of us intend to settle the solar system.
Settling the solar system makes about as much sense as building Condos at the bottom of the ocean under the North Pole.
In case you haven't noticed...we pretty much have the best planet and we are slowly screwing it up, with apathy and ridiculous pipe dreams like moving to Titan.
Nope..it won't. Using tax payer money to subsidize some sort of cosmic carnival ride with no public benefit is a joke. It's not the kind of jobs the world needs...unless you perhaps you think we ought to go back to building pyramids or something
AT&T wireless once took $1000 out of my checking account because they claim it was within their rights to change my "plan" without my consent from
my previous $60/month with 1500 minutes to $20/month with about $1/minute.
I used the same amount of minutes as I always had and those assholes charged me nearly $1000 for what had previously cost $60. They wouldn't refund my money. They did try to blackmail me into offering a 50% refund if I gave them an additional 2 year contract.
I cancelled my service. If I would have had time, I would have taken them to small claims court.
The lesson, is to never-ever let a company access to your checking account with automatic withdrawal. Once they get your money, there is little you can do about it. without taking them to court.
Hey...you get 40mpg because you're driving a sewing machine dude :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSU_Motorenwerke_AG
Just kidding. (I actually have the magnesium motor/axle-differential all together)..It's super light always wanted to make a kick-ass go-cart out of the thing. the NSU guys were doing some bleeding edge engineering back then. They made the first wankels too.
I worked as a consultant for a major consumer electronics around 2000 and was asked to design a DVR (on paper).
for opencable I did so and described how I would do it. At the time I never had access to any other DVR.
and had only remotely heard of tivo. I still have documentation on this.
Now I have dishnetwork, and surprisingly the interface is almost identical to my design, except
I added a version of Video on Demand using multicast which no one has done yet..(too my knowledge)
So since I independently came up with virtually the same design, I really think it was pretty obviousI
and that anyone working with freezing incoming data such as digital oscilloscopes and logic analyzers have dealt
with for many years. "Pause" wasn't invented by Tivo. Actually I still have DOS programs that I wrote in the 80's
with graphical displays showing the last 10 minutes of sensor data that a person can scroll through while
new data was still coming in. It's basically the same thing anyone would implement for circular buffers.
I really think it was fairly obvious and anyone saving _and_ viewing at the same time would
implement. What kept people from doing it before wasn't that they hadn't thought of it, but
was just that it was too expensive and common hard drives weren't fast enough in the
early 90's. Almost as soon as it was technically feasible for commodity stuff it was done.
Tivo seems to have popularized it, but it would have been pretty obvious
to anyone how to do it. I consider it more of a marketing breakthrough rather than a
technical one.
I really can't imagine that some sort of prior art didn't exist for people doing digital
video. I'm sure it would be just a matter of getting some older video engineers in a room.
and talking about it. But then maybe it's just the guys that did it...founded TIVO.
Why is this an issue for air traffic control? All computer systems
must have methods for setting the clock, and this necessarily
involves clock skew. There's no getting around the problem
even if there were no leap seconds.
Even atomic clocks have "skew" depending on where they are
in the gravitational field.
Rather than submit a stupid proposal to eliminate clock skew, it
seems a better proposal would be to publish agreed methods
to deal with it.
Where is Albert Einstein when you need him?
We spend about $300,000,000,000 on medicare each year, while the total budget for the iraq war has been less than $500,000,000,000.
Ughh..all the those zero's are making me feel sick....
I think I'm an environmentalist and I agree with you that the pollution is less from a nuke plant, but ..we'll deal with it..soon..we promise...just as soon as we make the money
pollution from coal won't need armed guards for the next 500 years...or longer. The nuclear industry
has had 50 years to come up with a plan. It just keeps piling up next to the reactors and the nuclear
power shills keep saying..."Oh
from selling electricity..trust us".
I don't think either solution is good.
Solar does work. Lot's of people living off the grid ought to be enough proof. It's expensive (right now) but
it's responsible. The SEGS plants in the mojave have been quietly providing power for over 20 years using
solar thermal. The only reason why solar hasn't taken off, is that it's been too expensive to compete with
coal/hydro..but Solar prices are going down. Nuclear prices are going up. Which do you think is really the
good long term bet for our nations future?
Solar Works. Solar Thermal can work 24 hours/day. Alternative Energy is exploding. Don't discount it. The
people who claim it can't work, are just not educated.
The mojave is the best, but any place in Nevada or Arizona is pretty damn good
and anyone who's driven across the miles/and miles of empty BLM land knows
that the US still has plenty of land w/o water and any farm value. Way more
than necessary to power the US completely.
The yearly income from an acre of solar panels would be far more than farming.
It's the startup costs which need to come down.
Land costs would never be an issue except in urban/suburban areas. Never in
agricultural areas.
Jimmy Carter studied to be a nuclear engineer while in the Navy. So he probably knew better than any other
politician what the risks were.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_carter
Breeder reactors _are_ a proliferation concern. You clearly don't know what you are talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Reprocessing
Separating isotopes _IS_ possible...Maybe difficult, but not impossible. Fuel reprocessing is done
to make this purposely more difficult.
And it's easy to look back with 30 years of hindsight and criticize, but it was an intelligent decision at
the time, and might still be today. Breeder reactors have proven to be better, but I'll bet it wasn't
so obvious 30 years ago. And the proliferation issue still hasn't gone away.
Yes, nuclear power is better than it was...Yes it's currently
cheaper than solar (I believe that will change though), but
the waste problem is not small. We generate over 2000 ton of
HIGH level waste per year. And that will have to be under armed
guard for > 500 years...after we stop producing it. And most of
it is still sitting next to the reactors that produced it. No
long term repository has been agreed on. If we can't even
solve our old waste and we've had > 50 years to come up with
a solution. Hanford has rooms within rooms within rooms because
it's easier to just contain contaminated areas.
France has plenty of problems too. A nuke reactor was attacked by
ecoterrorists during construction (They damaged the containment
building). It was shut down in 1997 _and_ STILL has the fuel
on site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superph%C3%A9nix
Chernobyl killed > 50 people. Not just 1 or 2 guys. A large city
was evacuated..More people will likely die from cancer.
Three Mile Island didn't hurt anyone, but it was the result
of a bad valve and a couple of failed meters. That can still happen today.
Nothing has changed. Technology still fails...all the time. And the
worst failures are usually human. and that's not gonna change.
Adding more Nukes will just add to the problem. Figure out a REAL
place for the waste..and implement it, not just rhetoric about how
science will figure out something...someday... then maybe I'll consider it.
Solar is better...It can meet our needs..It's just 2-4x
more expensive...And that could easily change..Solar thermal
plants can store energy. The SEGS plants have been quietly
working for 20 years now. Sure it's expensive..but it's
worth it. And it will get better...even w/o goverment assistance.
Maybe Nuke subs and aircraft carriers makes sense though.
Amen.
...and probably that's why they are bad programmers in the first place.
I'm always surprised at the level of animosity he seems to get. I guess
bad programmers don't like to hear scientific reasons about why their programs
have so many bugs.
I think the 40% is WAY hype, but the idea has some merit.
Carnot limits the total efficiency, but modern engines are not
near carnot, so there's some available waste energy, (Ideally
you want your exhaust to come out at ambient temp).
So using the waste heat is a do-able, but theory is _way_ different
from practice. In reality, the choice of working fluid is a huge
thing and steam is particularly lousy due to it's high heat of
vaporisation. (geothermal/waste-heat guys use organics/refrigerants)
Also, heat transfer is plenty hard too.
At worst, this is going to be like running a little steam engine
off your radiator cap/ pressure....some energy..but not much.
Lifetime of satellite 10's of years.
No way to fix it if something breaks
Losses from energy transmission, probably negate
extra energy by being in space. (you are transmitting the
energy through the atmosphere in both cases)
Maybe you get more sunlight.
I'm guessing similiar energy to the desert at 100x the cost.
Call me skeptical.
http://www.futron.com/pdf/resource_center/white_papers/FutronLaunchCostWP.pdf
huh...Look at your title
"It doesn't remotely shut down vehicles"??
What sort of double-speak is this?
I think the password is trivial, but won't work unless the BYPASS user is
in the pool of valid users, and this combination is necessary to unlock
the masterkey
So the password will only work at certain times.
Nope. You don't get it.
nope...you still don't understand...yes you need a password, but it is a hidden one, that is stored in
plaintext on the boot sector (probably)
So you just crippled the encryption..and don't have a clue.
If everyone understood the problem it wouldn't be that big of deal, but its exactly people like you who make it one.
Oh yeah...since you are afraid of keyloggers maybe you'd like this product
"Passprotection",
Introducing "Passprotection" - Keep your disk encrypted and avoid entering your bootpassword at everyboot. Now no one can use a keylogger to detect your bootuppassword..This makes your disk safer!!!! and keeps the disk encrypted so your data will still be safe!!! Get yours now...Install it everywhere!!!
and all it does is reenable the boot-bypass at each startup, so you never have to enter the boot prompt.
So..according to your logic, this ought to be safer right? The disk is still encrypted and you can't use a
keylogger to detect the password...Since my "Fantasy Crack" is unlikely, but your "Keylogger attack" is much
more likely..I think you should install it everywhere you can.
Maybe you can talk to the PGP guys and suggest this to them as a good idea..I promise to give you all the credit.
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