In welcome news to the nation’s cell phone users, the National Security Agency has announced that it will reduce dropped calls by up to 25%. Through the construction of NSA’s new Bluffdale, Utah data center, a common cause of dropped calls will soon be eliminated. “We are pleased to be able to improve the day to day lives of Americans,” said NSA spokesman Ken White. Cell phone users can expect to see improvements in dropped calls by mid-2013.
“As everyone knows, cell phones are not protected by privacy laws,” said White. “For the past ten years, the NSA has been monitoring most cell phone conversations to identify terrorist and other threats to national security.” NSA technicians recently discovered that their surveillance technology would sometimes drop a call as a phone travelled from one radio tower’s region to another. “Basically, driving too fast from one tower to the next confused the monitoring technology, so the call was simply dropped.”
To solve this problem, the NSA is building a new data center that has the ability to buffer, or store, huge amounts of phone and internet data for later analysis. The $2 billion building is nearly 23 acres in size and is expected to employ thousands of Utahans, known for being polyglots. Overall, the NSA’s budget, employee headcount, and most operations are classified.
Local residents are welcoming the change to their community. Rancher and long-time political activist Terry Buckholder said “when the NSA came to buy my ranch land, I was thrilled. They paid me a very attractive price.” Bluffdale mayor Derk Timothy also supports the project. “We welcome the economic growth the new NSA data center will bring our community. We fully expect the NSA to be a good neighbor and a partner in our future.”
There has been some concern from civil liberties proponents. In a recent Wired Magazine article, a former NSA official expressed his concern that the NSA’s activities are too intrusive and violate a citizen’s right to privacy. The American Civil Liberties Union also has some concerns. Spokeswoman Rita Sklar said “this technology is very powerful and could be used to spy on ordinary Americans. In the hands of a Republican administration, that would concern us greatly.”
Still, most people are excited to learn that they will suffer fewer dropped calls. Said Beth Ruby, Des Moines: “Whatever the government can do to improve my cell phone performance and reduce dropped calls, I support.” Rod Rennick of Dallas, TX had similar sentiments. “I see it like the airport TSA. Anything the government can do to improve my safety, even a little, is worth the inconvenience and intrusion to me. Also, I am really looking forward to fewer dropped calls,” said the father of two.
Low quality prose is probably code for his not being a communist. LOTR can be viewed as a metaphor for Naziism or Stalinism. The Nobel folks are well know for favoring socialist and communist leaning writers.
The good news is that the UN has no legal authority whatsoever over any country in the world. Sometimes the UN fights a war, but that is just cover for the country (usually the US) doing the actual fighting. The UN cannot pass laws, fight wars, or do anything. It is at best a debating society.
What I meant by private deaths is that some of the workers at the plant may have exposed themselves to a lot of radation while trying to resolve the crisis. They may die an early death.
Since everyone dies, it is truly hard to say what the cause of death was decades after an event. Japan is a nation of smokers, and that is proven to be unhealthy. I can tell you do not like corporations (whatever 'the industry' is that does all these bad things), but one thing is clear: life expectancy has about doubled since these various corporate evils were introduced.
The Fukushima plants were hit with a heavy earthquake. The ground they sat upon was lowered by something like 6 - 11 feet. The power lines that could have powered the coolant pumps were destroyed. A tsunami flooded the site and fouled the backup generators. The containment buildings exploded. The containment vessels cracked. On top of all that, the reactors are based on 40 year old designs.
This is about as bad of scenario as one could imagine, yet there were no public deaths. That sounds to me like nuclear power is in fact safe and robust, and the worst case scenario is bad but not catastrophic.
I did not engage in ad hominem attack. If I called him a jerk or typical ivory tower liberal, that would be an unfair attack. The fact that Rowthorn has published for a radical communist magazine (black dwarf) and is an atheist is a relevant issue because these points of view relate directly to the study's subject matter. Flame all you want, but Rowthorn's radical views are the 'unscientific' element to this discussion, and the study only makes sense if one assumes that God does not exist and that a single gene is responsible for mass delusion.
Robert Rowthorn is a radical communist revolutionary and an atheist. I think it is very hard to trust a study performed by someone with such an agenda.
So, GOP candidates target advertisement to conservative blogs, and the OP thinks they are overpaying. That seems like a conspiracy built on a nice fluffy cloud. Who is to say that the value of highly targeted advertising is not worth 10x more than general web advertising? Perhaps each conservative blog impression generates 10x the donations and votes as does a general web ad impression. That is not at all uncommon in marketing to pay extra for a proven desirable demographic.
Perhaps GOP candidates have to do this because the major media outlets are closed to them. GE actively campaigned for Pres. Obama in 2008 through its NBC and MSNBC outlets and later received billions of dollars in bailouts and stimulus. I can assure/. that my small company got nothing. I can fabricate the exact same conspiracy theory as the OP with Obama and GE, except in reverse. The only difference is my conspiracy theory involves flushing public money down the toilet.
I find it odd that, after the FCC has spent tens of billions of dollars promoting and installing broadband as a social service, they are now doing a study of who has broadband and where. It is almost as if they have been putting policy before the facts, a common Washington fault.
The Martian atmosphere is so thin that any typical fan could not move the dust, i suspect. However, you could design the solar panels to tilt and shake the dust off. Still, they were designed for a few months service, making dust a non-factor.
The type of accounting treatment used by MS is extremely common and is practiced by almost every major corporation. I highly doubt WA State will prevail, but if it does, that is more than enough money to cause MS to relocate its headquarters elsewhere. MS provides huge numbers of top quality jobs that drive the region's economy, and the entire state would be devastated without them. There are plenty of states that would offer any concession required to get MS's headquarters. My advice to WA State liberals is to stop taking MS for granted.
I assume that you pay more in taxes than you have to, or else you are a criminal? Moving operations to the lowest cost location is not illegal. Also, it is inevitable. Even if MS doesn't do it, someone will form a software company offshore that costs less to operate. Over the long term, this new company will take business from MS, making the end result the exact same. Try as you and Lou Dobbs might, you can't stop the free market. Wealth and employment will eventually move to the most business friendly locations.
The assumption was that the incandescent bulb was made in the US and the CFL was made in China. Therefore the extra fuel is incurred once in the life of the CFL. Your point is good that, if a CFL lasts 8 times longer, you must make 8 incandescent bulbs, which consumes some amount of energy.
If a 25W CFL replaces a 100W incandescent bulb, and the CFL lasts 8000 hours, it will save 600 KWHrs of energy. If a shipping vessel can hold 35,000 tons of cargo and the shipping weight of a CFL is 1/2 pound, the vessel can hold 140 million bulbs. Of course there is not enough space for them all, but they can ship with heavier items, and I am assuming costs are allocated by weight. If a 7,000 mile journey burns 875 tons of fuel, or 15.75 million gallons, then each bulb is allocated.11 gallons of diesel for the journey. That is about 6 KWHrs of energy. Therefore, the shipping costs don't even come close to negating the energy savings.
If the government had bought pneumatic tubes, we'd still be using them.
Once the government latches onto something, it will subsidize it to keep it in place until the end of time (Amtrak, AM radio). This is yet another good reason why the FCC's 'free' wifi plan is a bad idea.
yup. the same is true for most bio-waste products - there aren't enough raw materials (like waste cooking oil) to make even the slightest dent in the overall supply. also, the OP said 'potentially' 340 million gallons. that would presumably mean the forced recycling of all coffee grounds - hardly likely.
Sorry. In my defense, I was awake late at night with insomnia. It's best to make your point with correct facts and good grammar, even if they are tangential to the argument.
It looks like sometime since Duke settled with the wrongly accused rugby players, it has changed its legal MO to defending and supporting its students.
I have no doubt that turning on future alumni and trashing them without proof is bad for Duke's business.
Not only that, but all of the Southern Jim Crow laws were enacted by Democrats, and most of the Federal civil rights laws were passed due to Northern Republican votes over Southern Democrat votes against passage.
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In welcome news to the nation’s cell phone users, the National Security Agency has announced that it will reduce dropped calls by up to 25%. Through the construction of NSA’s new Bluffdale, Utah data center, a common cause of dropped calls will soon be eliminated. “We are pleased to be able to improve the day to day lives of Americans,” said NSA spokesman Ken White. Cell phone users can expect to see improvements in dropped calls by mid-2013.
“As everyone knows, cell phones are not protected by privacy laws,” said White. “For the past ten years, the NSA has been monitoring most cell phone conversations to identify terrorist and other threats to national security.” NSA technicians recently discovered that their surveillance technology would sometimes drop a call as a phone travelled from one radio tower’s region to another. “Basically, driving too fast from one tower to the next confused the monitoring technology, so the call was simply dropped.”
To solve this problem, the NSA is building a new data center that has the ability to buffer, or store, huge amounts of phone and internet data for later analysis. The $2 billion building is nearly 23 acres in size and is expected to employ thousands of Utahans, known for being polyglots. Overall, the NSA’s budget, employee headcount, and most operations are classified.
Local residents are welcoming the change to their community. Rancher and long-time political activist Terry Buckholder said “when the NSA came to buy my ranch land, I was thrilled. They paid me a very attractive price.” Bluffdale mayor Derk Timothy also supports the project. “We welcome the economic growth the new NSA data center will bring our community. We fully expect the NSA to be a good neighbor and a partner in our future.”
There has been some concern from civil liberties proponents. In a recent Wired Magazine article, a former NSA official expressed his concern that the NSA’s activities are too intrusive and violate a citizen’s right to privacy. The American Civil Liberties Union also has some concerns. Spokeswoman Rita Sklar said “this technology is very powerful and could be used to spy on ordinary Americans. In the hands of a Republican administration, that would concern us greatly.”
Still, most people are excited to learn that they will suffer fewer dropped calls. Said Beth Ruby, Des Moines: “Whatever the government can do to improve my cell phone performance and reduce dropped calls, I support.” Rod Rennick of Dallas, TX had similar sentiments. “I see it like the airport TSA. Anything the government can do to improve my safety, even a little, is worth the inconvenience and intrusion to me. Also, I am really looking forward to fewer dropped calls,” said the father of two.
Low quality prose is probably code for his not being a communist. LOTR can be viewed as a metaphor for Naziism or Stalinism. The Nobel folks are well know for favoring socialist and communist leaning writers.
The good news is that the UN has no legal authority whatsoever over any country in the world. Sometimes the UN fights a war, but that is just cover for the country (usually the US) doing the actual fighting. The UN cannot pass laws, fight wars, or do anything. It is at best a debating society.
Since everyone dies, it is truly hard to say what the cause of death was decades after an event. Japan is a nation of smokers, and that is proven to be unhealthy. I can tell you do not like corporations (whatever 'the industry' is that does all these bad things), but one thing is clear: life expectancy has about doubled since these various corporate evils were introduced.
This is about as bad of scenario as one could imagine, yet there were no public deaths. That sounds to me like nuclear power is in fact safe and robust, and the worst case scenario is bad but not catastrophic.
Sounds nice, but I am waiting for the source to Ashton Tate's Full Impact.
Speaking of development hell and R rated sci-fi, what is the deal with Ghost In The Shell?
Even though you used more words, that is exactly what I said. Bait on, I have the day off.
I did not engage in ad hominem attack. If I called him a jerk or typical ivory tower liberal, that would be an unfair attack. The fact that Rowthorn has published for a radical communist magazine (black dwarf) and is an atheist is a relevant issue because these points of view relate directly to the study's subject matter.
Flame all you want, but Rowthorn's radical views are the 'unscientific' element to this discussion, and the study only makes sense if one assumes that God does not exist and that a single gene is responsible for mass delusion.
Robert Rowthorn is a radical communist revolutionary and an atheist. I think it is very hard to trust a study performed by someone with such an agenda.
So, GOP candidates target advertisement to conservative blogs, and the OP thinks they are overpaying. That seems like a conspiracy built on a nice fluffy cloud. Who is to say that the value of highly targeted advertising is not worth 10x more than general web advertising? Perhaps each conservative blog impression generates 10x the donations and votes as does a general web ad impression. That is not at all uncommon in marketing to pay extra for a proven desirable demographic.
/. that my small company got nothing. I can fabricate the exact same conspiracy theory as the OP with Obama and GE, except in reverse. The only difference is my conspiracy theory involves flushing public money down the toilet.
Perhaps GOP candidates have to do this because the major media outlets are closed to them. GE actively campaigned for Pres. Obama in 2008 through its NBC and MSNBC outlets and later received billions of dollars in bailouts and stimulus. I can assure
I find it odd that, after the FCC has spent tens of billions of dollars promoting and installing broadband as a social service, they are now doing a study of who has broadband and where. It is almost as if they have been putting policy before the facts, a common Washington fault.
MS addressed a problem by combining clever sleuthing with some humor.
This tells me that MS is getting a pulse.
who would get the cash prize? Please don't tell me it's "anonymous". I hate that guy.
I think the money will go to this deposed Nigerian prince who needs seed money to collect his inheritance.
The Martian atmosphere is so thin that any typical fan could not move the dust, i suspect. However, you could design the solar panels to tilt and shake the dust off. Still, they were designed for a few months service, making dust a non-factor.
The type of accounting treatment used by MS is extremely common and is practiced by almost every major corporation. I highly doubt WA State will prevail, but if it does, that is more than enough money to cause MS to relocate its headquarters elsewhere. MS provides huge numbers of top quality jobs that drive the region's economy, and the entire state would be devastated without them. There are plenty of states that would offer any concession required to get MS's headquarters.
My advice to WA State liberals is to stop taking MS for granted.
I assume that you pay more in taxes than you have to, or else you are a criminal?
Moving operations to the lowest cost location is not illegal. Also, it is inevitable. Even if MS doesn't do it, someone will form a software company offshore that costs less to operate. Over the long term, this new company will take business from MS, making the end result the exact same.
Try as you and Lou Dobbs might, you can't stop the free market. Wealth and employment will eventually move to the most business friendly locations.
The assumption was that the incandescent bulb was made in the US and the CFL was made in China. Therefore the extra fuel is incurred once in the life of the CFL.
Your point is good that, if a CFL lasts 8 times longer, you must make 8 incandescent bulbs, which consumes some amount of energy.
If a 25W CFL replaces a 100W incandescent bulb, and the CFL lasts 8000 hours, it will save 600 KWHrs of energy. .11 gallons of diesel for the journey. That is about 6 KWHrs of energy.
If a shipping vessel can hold 35,000 tons of cargo and the shipping weight of a CFL is 1/2 pound, the vessel can hold 140 million bulbs. Of course there is not enough space for them all, but they can ship with heavier items, and I am assuming costs are allocated by weight.
If a 7,000 mile journey burns 875 tons of fuel, or 15.75 million gallons, then each bulb is allocated
Therefore, the shipping costs don't even come close to negating the energy savings.
Free Spectrum as long as they broadcast in AM. That is a fairly big subsidy.
If the government had bought pneumatic tubes, we'd still be using them.
Once the government latches onto something, it will subsidize it to keep it in place until the end of time (Amtrak, AM radio).
This is yet another good reason why the FCC's 'free' wifi plan is a bad idea.
yup. the same is true for most bio-waste products - there aren't enough raw materials (like waste cooking oil) to make even the slightest dent in the overall supply. also, the OP said 'potentially' 340 million gallons. that would presumably mean the forced recycling of all coffee grounds - hardly likely.
Sorry. In my defense, I was awake late at night with insomnia. It's best to make your point with correct facts and good grammar, even if they are tangential to the argument.
It looks like sometime since Duke settled with the wrongly accused rugby players, it has changed its legal MO to defending and supporting its students.
I have no doubt that turning on future alumni and trashing them without proof is bad for Duke's business.
Not only that, but all of the Southern Jim Crow laws were enacted by Democrats, and most of the Federal civil rights laws were passed due to Northern Republican votes over Southern Democrat votes against passage.