Finally under test about 4 years ago at WPAFB. Was discussing it at counter-IED deployment I did in Baghdad a couple years ago, as window armor for MRAPS, JEERVS, and HMMWVs, but the stuff is wickedly expensive.
Tornado? We're worried about a tornado?
Build it like a nuclear containment dome, and we're just fine. People inside won't even know there's a storm, with an F5 tornado dancing on top of it.
And NIMBYs are just another variety of people trying to stop something, come at a dime a dozen, and deserve to be ignored like all the others.
The truth is that a sufficiently high, large nuclear explosion would bring virtually everything to a standstill across the entirity of North America. We could not grow or distribute food. The population would be reduced by 90% within a year.
Any s-hole country that were to try this has to know that our military will survive long enough to reduce said s-hole country to a border-to-border, glass paved, self-lighting parking lot. It is one thing for Kim-Jong-El to send millions of screaming soldiers across the border to die in S. Korea, and quite another to do something that will ensure that he personally does not survive the next 3 hours.
Now, our primary star acting up - that's something quite different, that we should attempt to fix.
Give it another 10 - 20 years, you'll be able to "drive" drunk, talking on cell phones, and having sex all at the same time, 'cuz the cars will drive themselves. There'll be 4 or more passenger seats, no driver's seat, and you just have to be able to tell the car where you want to go. Be careful of specifying lat-lon coordinates - that's how KAL 007 overflew a Russian defense installation and got shot down. End up specifying a coordinate on top of Devil's Tower or at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and see what happens...
Ban cell phone conversations in cars? That'd be the only way - the "hands free" laws are as good as no laws at all, its the division of attention that causes the accidents, not the holding of the phone. The only thing the hands free law is good for is for keeping the other drivers from knowing that the reason that a person is driving like a drunk is that they're blabbing on the phone.
And banning phones in cars will cause some people to turn in their phones and cancel the service, because the car is about the only place they use and need them (like me.) So, I want to see the study that pits the consequences of fewer cell phones in society vs. the death rate, since it may take longer to get an accident called in to 911, or for help for a lot of other things to be summoned, etc. It's always a 2-edged sword if you ban something, since you have to consider the effects of its absence as well as the effects of its presence.
Since Danial Ellsburg did the country a favor and released the Pentagon Papers, now everybody thinks that EVERY secret is just the government trying to cover its misdeeds.
The problem with that is that I've seen secret tech docs on hardware in the field of battle in Iraq and Afghanistan show up on this Wikileaks site, so therefore the enemy undoubtedly has too.
Going to Afghanistan? Iraq? Have a Father / Mother / Son / Daughter / Sister / Brother / Friend in one of those places? Thanks to Wikileaks, you or they might just come back in a box, rather than walking down the concourse of your favorite local airport, because the enemy may now know some places our counter-IED equipment does not operate within the RF spectrum. Just lovely.
For publishing so irresponsibly, I would personally like to see these Wikileak perpetrators tried, convicted, and sentenced for murder. I'd take great pleasure in firing the shot / pulling the trapdoor / throwing the switch / pushing the plunger on whatever method of execution they might have available to them and choose.
There's just no excuse for endangering the troops... none.
Uh, get a clue. These small services don't have the $$$ to buy these non-solution radios. Their lack of cash forced them to go with the lowest bidder, and its that way all over.
This looks like a radio vendor grand plan to suck big bucks out of local governments across the land without actually solving the problem.
What is the incentive for a local PD or FD that is operating on, say, 39.58 Mhz or 46.06 Mhz, where these super-expensive, $6K handi-talkies conspicuously do not operate, to buy them? Zip, that's what - they would not be used without changing the entire remainder of their system over to one of the higher-frequency VHF bands, and - guess what - those frequencies are ALREADY crowded so that adding more users to it will increase interference between users which will diminish efficiency instead of enhance it.
So when the next disaster blows through an area, either a huge midwest tornado, or a coastal hurricane, a big earthquake wherever, it won't matter, there will still be a whole host of non-participants in the radio nets because there will not have been enough money to buy these super-expensive radios for the local VFD, or the small-town PD who's main function outside of the very rare massive regional emergencies is simply grabbing speeders that are passing thru and shaking them down for their operating expenses.
What they probably should be looking at is a versatile repeating system that DOES cover all bands including 30 - 50 Mhz, only needs to be bought for maybe 2 - 3 sites with very tall antenna towers in a county that would provide real value by linking their own PD and FD with other services, including possibly private survices such as mountain rescue and private ambulance, etc. and do so by simply buying a few radios that perform for all players.
In short, they need to work on the CHEAPEST solution to the problem, instead of the exact opposite which seems to be what they're doing here.
I work for the DoD. There are those of us that work on "black" projects that have covert everything, including travel. It would be absolutely intolerable to have a record of where a car has been, either personal or rental, for an enemy agent to exploit. If there's a meeting of folks hammering out the requirements for a new fighter jet or littoral cruiser, who goes to the meeting, where the meeting was, what time the meeting was, etc. are all way too valuable to be recorded.
No, this idea is a non-starter for National security reasons. We won't even talk about organized crime getting ahold of it in order to track likely kidnap candidates' usual movements.
So, we can only read, watch, and listen to the (liberal) mainstream media about the global warming fraud? That would be convenient for the libs, I think, but I'm not gonna be there.
I basically believe I can tell when a liberal is lying by watching if his lips are moving. The global warming nonsense is the greatest lie ever perpetrated on mankind, and will result in horrors in human suffering paralleling the holocaust if we try to spend $50 trillion by 2050 to do something about it. The deprivation resulting from sucking that much money out of the world economy I believe will result in far more than 6 million deaths around the world.
As for the USA breaking up, there's some really unresolved problems, some fundamental disagreements with the approach to take in solving them, and the aforementioned deprivation that would result from an expensive attempt to cure the "global warming" non-problem could move people to armed resistance as jobs are carted out of the country, etc. - especially if they wake up and see that it doesn't matter who you vote for, the same things will happen.
And then there's the wild card - some bonehead takes a shot at the President, DOESN'T miss, and because he's black, we suffer a devastating race war. Yeah, I think that's really, really likely if such a trigger is pulled. That could break up the country, too.
Take your pick - newly impoverished middle class workers whose jobs and all our prosperity go overseas in a completely boneheaded effort to solve a non-problem, or millions of blacks that are P.O.'ed because someone just off'ed their hero - yeah, either could accomplish the demise of the USA as a country. I think the chances are way too high, too - I'd guesstimate it's maybe only a 20-1 shot against it happening. That "1" is way too high in a field of 20 other possibilities for me...
Skeptics? You bet, because this global warming nonsense is just that: Nonsense.
Here's a nice report of the EPA attempting to stampede congress into making the wrong decision to adopt the Cap and Trade disaster by witholding information:
(The TSD is EPA's Technical Support Document that it uses to promote the regulation of CO2.)
--The TSD glosses over long-term cyclical variations in ocean temperature, similar to El Nino, which "are by far the best single explanation for global temperature fluctuations," says the report.
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation are such variations, and occur in roughly 60-year cycles, as opposed to the 3-5 year El Nino cycle. Their role is "not really explained in the draft TSD," the report says. "(A)t the very least, there needs to be an explanation as to why (EPA) believes that these evident cycles do not exist or why they are much more unimportant than we believe them to be."
--The TSD neglects to explore the "strong association between solar sunspots/irradiance and global temperature fluctuations." It dismissed solar variations based on data obtained by a U.N. climate panel, but the veracity of that data has since been called into question. New research "suggests that solar variability could account for up to 68 percent of the increase in Earth's global temperatures."
-- The TSD's assumption that greenhouse gases have triggered global warming is hard to verify, because "changes in (greenhouse gas) concentrations appear to have so little effect that it is difficult to find any effect in the satellite temperature record, which started in 1978."
--Global temperatures have declined for 11 straight years, and at the same time, "atmospheric CO2 levels have continued to increase and CO2 emissions have accelerated." The TSD does not reconcile these findings.
--The TSD finds that there is endangerment to Americans' health and welfare due to greenhouse gas emissions, but the dissenting report says there is an "obvious logical problem posed by steadily increasing U.S. health and welfare measures."
But of course the EPA sat on that, so nobody would know the fraud that is being perpetrated on America, as the "globalization" effort goes forward to carry jobs out of the USA to the "poor" of other countries, and thus make more poor in our country.
Somebody needs their a** kicked, and should the economic collapse that is virtually inevitable if this Cap and Trade disaster is passed occur, they will get it (kicked.) Out of office at a bare minimum, although the massive civil war between liberals and conservatives, alluded to in a previous slashdot article concerning a Russian scholar that predicts that such a war would start next year and break the USA into 5 major areas all under different foreign influence may also take place and totally obliterate the country as we know it.
If it happens, it'll be our own d*** faults for not taking an interest in our politics, but simply going to the beach and having a good time while Rome burns. For instance, we have an answer to our economic problems in the proposal for the "Fair Tax", but since a Republican thought of it, Democrats have all decided to be partisan and oppose it for no other reason than it's a Republican idea. We could be the manufacturing center of the world (again) with a tax structure like that, but... it isn't going to happen, because we've got our heads up our a**** about 5 miles so even the best of ideas will not be implemented.
Maybe things will get better after Civil War II, at least for the places that are NOT under the Russian sphere of influence...
"Someone mentioned the cameras in the US? Really? What cameras? The _government_ doesn't have all that many cameras"
"Neither does the UK government."
I understand the motorways are blanketed with speed cameras, as are the subways that allowed the UK gov't to trace the comings and goings of the subway bombers a couple years ago. What about those cameras? Not as many as reported, or are they not government?
Is that you couldn't handle real freedom.
First of all, real freedom means exactly that. It means far fewer things are illegal. Where on earth is that? I don't think it exists, actually.
I'd say the US comes closest to real freedom. Someone mentioned the cameras in the US? Really? What cameras? The _government_ doesn't have all that many cameras. They rush around and get privately owned surveillance camera tapes when they need to observe something in history, like a car crash, but they also CANNOT CONTROL the release of these tapes when some cop beats the tar out of a citizen, either. IOW, for the government, the surveillance society that we have is a double edged sword, and cuts both ways.
Real freedom is pretty much unrestricted access to personal power. That is, guns. We have 250 million guns in American society, and the way the president is scaring the H out of everybody about everything, they are selling at an incredibly accelerated rate. Therefore, the government has to consider their actions and moderate them, because they can't afford to P.O. too great a portion of the population at once. For example, in the years of the Clintom administration, much consideration was given to "gun control" that scared a significant portion of the population, and we got the rise of "citizen's militias" that the press dutifully attempted to paint to be racist organizations, disregarding the fact that lots of them had black members, such as the Michigan Militia. They weren't racist, they were simply pro-freedom and would have / will resist any attempt to collect up our guns with deadly force (if they come for mine, they will get them 220 grains at 3000 ft/sec at a time - I will die, but I will take more than 1 with me. Collecting up the guns is the last step before the government gets really jiggy with the limiting freedom thing... governments always disarm the people before committing their atrocities upon them. Not happenin' here, not without a fight. I'm a pretty good shot, too.)
And the old commie bastard, Chairman Mao was right - political power comes out of the barrel of a gun, he said. True. My biggest fear right now is that the anti-freedom president we have right now, who is trying to destroy our country with measures that we cannot afford with the latest atrocity the cap and trade disaster that passed the house last night - well, my greatest fear is that someone is going to take a shot at him and not miss. If he is assasinated, and I believe he is the best candidate for someone to attempt it in a long time, since he is black, there will be a devastating race war that will likely see the end of the USA as we know it. Right now, the country is "dead" economically if "cap and trade" ultimately gets thru the senate, the remainder of our jobs will all move to other countries to be able to afford to produce affordable things, and we will resemble the economic landscape that is currently Zimbabwe. Some people are smart enough to know that, and, like I said, blame the president whose loyalty to this country I certainly question at this time - he has to know what this is going to do to the jobs situation here - but doesn't seem to care. He's 'round the bend on this global warming fraud - its amazing that ANYONE can reasonably believe that CO2 is a driver in this respect - it is a TRACE GAS, fer cryin' out loud, at 0.04% of the atmoshphere, and is FOLLOWING the rise in temperature, not causing it. But people that realize this, and blame the president for the coming economic depression brought on by this new nonsense, is going to get him shot at, I think. Hopefully that patriot will miss, or we're likely dead as a nation.
But as to the original question, I think you're looking for Utopia, which is, as we all know, impossible in the world of man. You might as well stay put. Or, if you're really desparate, get a plane ticket to Mexico and brush up on your desert survival skills - getting in and staying will be fairly easy, then, if you don't mind picking oranges for a living.
When I can buy one.
Same sort of "good news" 2 years ago from Stanford when the "nanowire battery" was announced to be capable of 10X a regular lithium cell due to the nanowire construction of the anode. No mention that they also needed a cathode breakthru to achieve the 10X. Without a cathode breakthru, you get 3X. Big whoop. Good, but no cigar. An electric car needs the whole 10X. But guess what - where is that battery now? It's being "developed" by the researchers in question not at Stanford but at a university in Saudi Arabia. Does Saudi Arabia have an interest in bringing to market a device that would preclude the need for their chief export? Not hardly. I wouldn't be either of those guys for all the tea in China. They're likely as not to have a beheading "accident" before this research is done, with the very least that could happen being a sabotaging of the product. We'll see how this new battery goes - or if it goes to Saudi Arabia too.
Batteries may be somewhat dangerous, but right now we're parking our cars in our garages with 15 gallons of gasoline in the tanks. If it gets out, it flows all over the place. It also fills the air with an explosive gas that will also cause poisoning in people, or at least intoxication.
Lose one threat, gain another. The battery is probably safer than the gasoline.
was drilling in La La Land.
They should have drilled in Montana, the Dakotas, anywhere where people are semi-reasonable about things.
This project will be stopped, bet on it. It will join the power line that was stopped from connecting a large solar farm to San Diego, the LNG seaports that were stopped from being built anywhere along the left coast and wound up in Mexico, the area where they refused to build powerplants for about 10 years and not only caused themselves rolling blackouts but made their competitive position in the electricity market so weak that Enron could easiy butt-F them, as well as their being one of 5 states with diesel fuel standards so stringent that it is impossible for anyone to import or build a diesel car clean enough to be sold there, and on and on.
California as a political entity is non-viable, it's just taking a while to totally collapse...
The guy is right.
It's like pulling teeth to get someone around ANYWHERE I've ever worked to do the necessaries of CMM or CMMI. Just try to get people to write down the designs of what they're about to do and make comparisons of what others are doing on the same project. Wanna try herding cats? Easier.
Everybody just wants to jump in and code "'cuz it's fun." Yep, its fun. And when you get done, you aren't done 'cuz it doesn't work with the next guy's stuff, the test group has little to go on 'cuz you didn't write the documents that describe your design and even the requirements document my be "high level", meaning "little useful information" and generally the whole project is in danger of failure most of the time.
Software development done like that should probably be paid like other "fun" jobs - like being a cop and having all that power, but getting paid "live in somebody's basement" wages. Yeah, that's an exaggeration, but the difficulty in making American SW developers do it by the book isn't.
As to whether it's necessary, you only have to see the results of not doing it with lots of docs and plans and etc. Down the tubes, half the time, late and too expensive a lot of the rest of the time. Nobody really knows what anyone else is doing, and too much time is spent building the wrong stuff, or having more than 1 person building the same thing. Build the same math routine twice, from 2 different people, and you not only are likely to get different answers to the same problem, but you then have twice as much code to maintain and the necessity to change the functionality in 2 different places if it needs modified in some way.
This is going to be a GREAT field of endeavor to retire from in about 3 years for me. Get done with the nonsense, since nobody is ever going to cure it short of gunpoint. Another one of those problems for which a 12 guage shotgun is probably the best tool...
The Stanford Li Ion batteries aren't durable, are only 3X unless someone also figures out a super cathode to match the anode, and the development has been taken over / financed by a University in Saudi Arabia where these Stanford scientests are now allegedly working on it. I say alledgedly 'cuz I haven't heard anything since, and am wondering whether they've had a beheading "accident" yet. A place like Saudi Arabia is going to develop an automotive-useful electrical power storage that will totally ruin their oil-based economy? Those American scientists will be way lucky to get out of there alive, let alone perfect that battery.
Better hope for some other battery breakthru 'cuz this one's going nowhere fast.
Want plot holes? How about the machines know that they have Kyle Reese, and they don't kill him immediately. Makes no sense. And if you get hit hard enough to be propelled all the way across the room and dent some metal cabinets, you ain't getting up from that, not any time soon anyway, and certainly not without broken bones.
I hated it. Its a visual spectacle, and that's all. There's not even any "salvation" that I could detect. And the list goes on...
Tracked a nuclear submarine while its submerged, did they? Don't care who you are... a nuke sub transmits and then moves, and they can move _very_ fast. Knowing where it was 10 minutes ago is of very little use if you're trying to kill it.
Just too much nonsense to be able to enjoy it. Too many "miracles." Night at the Museum II is the best movie this weekend, and I really think the summer belongs to Trek.
Good grief they have an obfuscated website! You explained in 1 tiny paragraph what I would want to know as a gamer looking for the ability to run 2 people on 1 game on 1 PC, but their website uses phrases like, "sharing the resources of a commodity PC" - huh? - What's a "non-commodity" PC, and why the qualifier, anyway? And why no bulleted list of possible uses such as the gaming we're talking about. I wouldn't be surprised if this whole thing dies for lack of publicity / advertising since you can't occupy all your spare time making posts like this.
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Transparant aluminum == aluminum oxynitride. Been around for decades.
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131
Finally under test about 4 years ago at WPAFB. Was discussing it at counter-IED deployment I did in Baghdad a couple years ago, as window armor for MRAPS, JEERVS, and HMMWVs, but the stuff is wickedly expensive.
Tornado? We're worried about a tornado? Build it like a nuclear containment dome, and we're just fine. People inside won't even know there's a storm, with an F5 tornado dancing on top of it. And NIMBYs are just another variety of people trying to stop something, come at a dime a dozen, and deserve to be ignored like all the others.
The truth is that a sufficiently high, large nuclear explosion would bring virtually everything to a standstill across the entirity of North America. We could not grow or distribute food. The population would be reduced by 90% within a year. Any s-hole country that were to try this has to know that our military will survive long enough to reduce said s-hole country to a border-to-border, glass paved, self-lighting parking lot. It is one thing for Kim-Jong-El to send millions of screaming soldiers across the border to die in S. Korea, and quite another to do something that will ensure that he personally does not survive the next 3 hours. Now, our primary star acting up - that's something quite different, that we should attempt to fix.
Give it another 10 - 20 years, you'll be able to "drive" drunk, talking on cell phones, and having sex all at the same time, 'cuz the cars will drive themselves. There'll be 4 or more passenger seats, no driver's seat, and you just have to be able to tell the car where you want to go. Be careful of specifying lat-lon coordinates - that's how KAL 007 overflew a Russian defense installation and got shot down. End up specifying a coordinate on top of Devil's Tower or at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and see what happens...
Ban cell phone conversations in cars? That'd be the only way - the "hands free" laws are as good as no laws at all, its the division of attention that causes the accidents, not the holding of the phone. The only thing the hands free law is good for is for keeping the other drivers from knowing that the reason that a person is driving like a drunk is that they're blabbing on the phone. And banning phones in cars will cause some people to turn in their phones and cancel the service, because the car is about the only place they use and need them (like me.) So, I want to see the study that pits the consequences of fewer cell phones in society vs. the death rate, since it may take longer to get an accident called in to 911, or for help for a lot of other things to be summoned, etc. It's always a 2-edged sword if you ban something, since you have to consider the effects of its absence as well as the effects of its presence.
Hell, it takes me about 3 months to get all my apps reinstalled after I do a new OS install...
Retrain to be a plumber or electrician, or anything but software. All the software jobs are going to India or China soon...
Since Danial Ellsburg did the country a favor and released the Pentagon Papers, now everybody thinks that EVERY secret is just the government trying to cover its misdeeds.
The problem with that is that I've seen secret tech docs on hardware in the field of battle in Iraq and Afghanistan show up on this Wikileaks site, so therefore the enemy undoubtedly has too.
Going to Afghanistan? Iraq? Have a Father / Mother / Son / Daughter / Sister / Brother / Friend in one of those places? Thanks to Wikileaks, you or they might just come back in a box, rather than walking down the concourse of your favorite local airport, because the enemy may now know some places our counter-IED equipment does not operate within the RF spectrum. Just lovely.
For publishing so irresponsibly, I would personally like to see these Wikileak perpetrators tried, convicted, and sentenced for murder. I'd take great pleasure in firing the shot / pulling the trapdoor / throwing the switch / pushing the plunger on whatever method of execution they might have available to them and choose.
There's just no excuse for endangering the troops... none.
Uh, get a clue. These small services don't have the $$$ to buy these non-solution radios. Their lack of cash forced them to go with the lowest bidder, and its that way all over.
This looks like a radio vendor grand plan to suck big bucks out of local governments across the land without actually solving the problem.
What is the incentive for a local PD or FD that is operating on, say, 39.58 Mhz or 46.06 Mhz, where these super-expensive, $6K handi-talkies conspicuously do not operate, to buy them? Zip, that's what - they would not be used without changing the entire remainder of their system over to one of the higher-frequency VHF bands, and - guess what - those frequencies are ALREADY crowded so that adding more users to it will increase interference between users which will diminish efficiency instead of enhance it.
So when the next disaster blows through an area, either a huge midwest tornado, or a coastal hurricane, a big earthquake wherever, it won't matter, there will still be a whole host of non-participants in the radio nets because there will not have been enough money to buy these super-expensive radios for the local VFD, or the small-town PD who's main function outside of the very rare massive regional emergencies is simply grabbing speeders that are passing thru and shaking them down for their operating expenses.
What they probably should be looking at is a versatile repeating system that DOES cover all bands including 30 - 50 Mhz, only needs to be bought for maybe 2 - 3 sites with very tall antenna towers in a county that would provide real value by linking their own PD and FD with other services, including possibly private survices such as mountain rescue and private ambulance, etc. and do so by simply buying a few radios that perform for all players.
In short, they need to work on the CHEAPEST solution to the problem, instead of the exact opposite which seems to be what they're doing here.
I work for the DoD. There are those of us that work on "black" projects that have covert everything, including travel. It would be absolutely intolerable to have a record of where a car has been, either personal or rental, for an enemy agent to exploit. If there's a meeting of folks hammering out the requirements for a new fighter jet or littoral cruiser, who goes to the meeting, where the meeting was, what time the meeting was, etc. are all way too valuable to be recorded.
No, this idea is a non-starter for National security reasons. We won't even talk about organized crime getting ahold of it in order to track likely kidnap candidates' usual movements.
So, we can only read, watch, and listen to the (liberal) mainstream media about the global warming fraud? That would be convenient for the libs, I think, but I'm not gonna be there.
I basically believe I can tell when a liberal is lying by watching if his lips are moving. The global warming nonsense is the greatest lie ever perpetrated on mankind, and will result in horrors in human suffering paralleling the holocaust if we try to spend $50 trillion by 2050 to do something about it. The deprivation resulting from sucking that much money out of the world economy I believe will result in far more than 6 million deaths around the world.
As for the USA breaking up, there's some really unresolved problems, some fundamental disagreements with the approach to take in solving them, and the aforementioned deprivation that would result from an expensive attempt to cure the "global warming" non-problem could move people to armed resistance as jobs are carted out of the country, etc. - especially if they wake up and see that it doesn't matter who you vote for, the same things will happen.
And then there's the wild card - some bonehead takes a shot at the President, DOESN'T miss, and because he's black, we suffer a devastating race war. Yeah, I think that's really, really likely if such a trigger is pulled. That could break up the country, too.
Take your pick - newly impoverished middle class workers whose jobs and all our prosperity go overseas in a completely boneheaded effort to solve a non-problem, or millions of blacks that are P.O.'ed because someone just off'ed their hero - yeah, either could accomplish the demise of the USA as a country. I think the chances are way too high, too - I'd guesstimate it's maybe only a 20-1 shot against it happening. That "1" is way too high in a field of 20 other possibilities for me...
Skeptics? You bet, because this global warming nonsense is just that: Nonsense.
Here's a nice report of the EPA attempting to stampede congress into making the wrong decision to adopt the Cap and Trade disaster by witholding information:
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50301
The major points:
(The TSD is EPA's Technical Support Document that it uses to promote the regulation of CO2.)
--The TSD glosses over long-term cyclical variations in ocean temperature, similar to El Nino, which "are by far the best single explanation for global temperature fluctuations," says the report.
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation are such variations, and occur in roughly 60-year cycles, as opposed to the 3-5 year El Nino cycle. Their role is "not really explained in the draft TSD," the report says. "(A)t the very least, there needs to be an explanation as to why (EPA) believes that these evident cycles do not exist or why they are much more unimportant than we believe them to be."
--The TSD neglects to explore the "strong association between solar sunspots/irradiance and global temperature fluctuations." It dismissed solar variations based on data obtained by a U.N. climate panel, but the veracity of that data has since been called into question. New research "suggests that solar variability could account for up to 68 percent of the increase in Earth's global temperatures."
-- The TSD's assumption that greenhouse gases have triggered global warming is hard to verify, because "changes in (greenhouse gas) concentrations appear to have so little effect that it is difficult to find any effect in the satellite temperature record, which started in 1978."
--Global temperatures have declined for 11 straight years, and at the same time, "atmospheric CO2 levels have continued to increase and CO2 emissions have accelerated." The TSD does not reconcile these findings.
--The TSD finds that there is endangerment to Americans' health and welfare due to greenhouse gas emissions, but the dissenting report says there is an "obvious logical problem posed by steadily increasing U.S. health and welfare measures."
But of course the EPA sat on that, so nobody would know the fraud that is being perpetrated on America, as the "globalization" effort goes forward to carry jobs out of the USA to the "poor" of other countries, and thus make more poor in our country.
Somebody needs their a** kicked, and should the economic collapse that is virtually inevitable if this Cap and Trade disaster is passed occur, they will get it (kicked.) Out of office at a bare minimum, although the massive civil war between liberals and conservatives, alluded to in a previous slashdot article concerning a Russian scholar that predicts that such a war would start next year and break the USA into 5 major areas all under different foreign influence may also take place and totally obliterate the country as we know it.
If it happens, it'll be our own d*** faults for not taking an interest in our politics, but simply going to the beach and having a good time while Rome burns. For instance, we have an answer to our economic problems in the proposal for the "Fair Tax", but since a Republican thought of it, Democrats have all decided to be partisan and oppose it for no other reason than it's a Republican idea. We could be the manufacturing center of the world (again) with a tax structure like that, but... it isn't going to happen, because we've got our heads up our a**** about 5 miles so even the best of ideas will not be implemented.
Maybe things will get better after Civil War II, at least for the places that are NOT under the Russian sphere of influence...
"Someone mentioned the cameras in the US? Really? What cameras? The _government_ doesn't have all that many cameras" "Neither does the UK government." I understand the motorways are blanketed with speed cameras, as are the subways that allowed the UK gov't to trace the comings and goings of the subway bombers a couple years ago. What about those cameras? Not as many as reported, or are they not government?
Is that you couldn't handle real freedom. First of all, real freedom means exactly that. It means far fewer things are illegal. Where on earth is that? I don't think it exists, actually. I'd say the US comes closest to real freedom. Someone mentioned the cameras in the US? Really? What cameras? The _government_ doesn't have all that many cameras. They rush around and get privately owned surveillance camera tapes when they need to observe something in history, like a car crash, but they also CANNOT CONTROL the release of these tapes when some cop beats the tar out of a citizen, either. IOW, for the government, the surveillance society that we have is a double edged sword, and cuts both ways. Real freedom is pretty much unrestricted access to personal power. That is, guns. We have 250 million guns in American society, and the way the president is scaring the H out of everybody about everything, they are selling at an incredibly accelerated rate. Therefore, the government has to consider their actions and moderate them, because they can't afford to P.O. too great a portion of the population at once. For example, in the years of the Clintom administration, much consideration was given to "gun control" that scared a significant portion of the population, and we got the rise of "citizen's militias" that the press dutifully attempted to paint to be racist organizations, disregarding the fact that lots of them had black members, such as the Michigan Militia. They weren't racist, they were simply pro-freedom and would have / will resist any attempt to collect up our guns with deadly force (if they come for mine, they will get them 220 grains at 3000 ft/sec at a time - I will die, but I will take more than 1 with me. Collecting up the guns is the last step before the government gets really jiggy with the limiting freedom thing... governments always disarm the people before committing their atrocities upon them. Not happenin' here, not without a fight. I'm a pretty good shot, too.) And the old commie bastard, Chairman Mao was right - political power comes out of the barrel of a gun, he said. True. My biggest fear right now is that the anti-freedom president we have right now, who is trying to destroy our country with measures that we cannot afford with the latest atrocity the cap and trade disaster that passed the house last night - well, my greatest fear is that someone is going to take a shot at him and not miss. If he is assasinated, and I believe he is the best candidate for someone to attempt it in a long time, since he is black, there will be a devastating race war that will likely see the end of the USA as we know it. Right now, the country is "dead" economically if "cap and trade" ultimately gets thru the senate, the remainder of our jobs will all move to other countries to be able to afford to produce affordable things, and we will resemble the economic landscape that is currently Zimbabwe. Some people are smart enough to know that, and, like I said, blame the president whose loyalty to this country I certainly question at this time - he has to know what this is going to do to the jobs situation here - but doesn't seem to care. He's 'round the bend on this global warming fraud - its amazing that ANYONE can reasonably believe that CO2 is a driver in this respect - it is a TRACE GAS, fer cryin' out loud, at 0.04% of the atmoshphere, and is FOLLOWING the rise in temperature, not causing it. But people that realize this, and blame the president for the coming economic depression brought on by this new nonsense, is going to get him shot at, I think. Hopefully that patriot will miss, or we're likely dead as a nation. But as to the original question, I think you're looking for Utopia, which is, as we all know, impossible in the world of man. You might as well stay put. Or, if you're really desparate, get a plane ticket to Mexico and brush up on your desert survival skills - getting in and staying will be fairly easy, then, if you don't mind picking oranges for a living.
When I can buy one. Same sort of "good news" 2 years ago from Stanford when the "nanowire battery" was announced to be capable of 10X a regular lithium cell due to the nanowire construction of the anode. No mention that they also needed a cathode breakthru to achieve the 10X. Without a cathode breakthru, you get 3X. Big whoop. Good, but no cigar. An electric car needs the whole 10X. But guess what - where is that battery now? It's being "developed" by the researchers in question not at Stanford but at a university in Saudi Arabia. Does Saudi Arabia have an interest in bringing to market a device that would preclude the need for their chief export? Not hardly. I wouldn't be either of those guys for all the tea in China. They're likely as not to have a beheading "accident" before this research is done, with the very least that could happen being a sabotaging of the product. We'll see how this new battery goes - or if it goes to Saudi Arabia too.
Batteries may be somewhat dangerous, but right now we're parking our cars in our garages with 15 gallons of gasoline in the tanks. If it gets out, it flows all over the place. It also fills the air with an explosive gas that will also cause poisoning in people, or at least intoxication. Lose one threat, gain another. The battery is probably safer than the gasoline.
"It will join the power line that was stopped from connecting a large solar farm to San Diego," "Do you have a link?" http://greenwombat.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/11/03/big-solar-project-short-circuited/
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was drilling in La La Land. They should have drilled in Montana, the Dakotas, anywhere where people are semi-reasonable about things. This project will be stopped, bet on it. It will join the power line that was stopped from connecting a large solar farm to San Diego, the LNG seaports that were stopped from being built anywhere along the left coast and wound up in Mexico, the area where they refused to build powerplants for about 10 years and not only caused themselves rolling blackouts but made their competitive position in the electricity market so weak that Enron could easiy butt-F them, as well as their being one of 5 states with diesel fuel standards so stringent that it is impossible for anyone to import or build a diesel car clean enough to be sold there, and on and on. California as a political entity is non-viable, it's just taking a while to totally collapse...
The guy is right. It's like pulling teeth to get someone around ANYWHERE I've ever worked to do the necessaries of CMM or CMMI. Just try to get people to write down the designs of what they're about to do and make comparisons of what others are doing on the same project. Wanna try herding cats? Easier. Everybody just wants to jump in and code "'cuz it's fun." Yep, its fun. And when you get done, you aren't done 'cuz it doesn't work with the next guy's stuff, the test group has little to go on 'cuz you didn't write the documents that describe your design and even the requirements document my be "high level", meaning "little useful information" and generally the whole project is in danger of failure most of the time. Software development done like that should probably be paid like other "fun" jobs - like being a cop and having all that power, but getting paid "live in somebody's basement" wages. Yeah, that's an exaggeration, but the difficulty in making American SW developers do it by the book isn't. As to whether it's necessary, you only have to see the results of not doing it with lots of docs and plans and etc. Down the tubes, half the time, late and too expensive a lot of the rest of the time. Nobody really knows what anyone else is doing, and too much time is spent building the wrong stuff, or having more than 1 person building the same thing. Build the same math routine twice, from 2 different people, and you not only are likely to get different answers to the same problem, but you then have twice as much code to maintain and the necessity to change the functionality in 2 different places if it needs modified in some way. This is going to be a GREAT field of endeavor to retire from in about 3 years for me. Get done with the nonsense, since nobody is ever going to cure it short of gunpoint. Another one of those problems for which a 12 guage shotgun is probably the best tool...
The Stanford Li Ion batteries aren't durable, are only 3X unless someone also figures out a super cathode to match the anode, and the development has been taken over / financed by a University in Saudi Arabia where these Stanford scientests are now allegedly working on it. I say alledgedly 'cuz I haven't heard anything since, and am wondering whether they've had a beheading "accident" yet. A place like Saudi Arabia is going to develop an automotive-useful electrical power storage that will totally ruin their oil-based economy? Those American scientists will be way lucky to get out of there alive, let alone perfect that battery. Better hope for some other battery breakthru 'cuz this one's going nowhere fast.
I think its the one labeled "gnat."
Want plot holes? How about the machines know that they have Kyle Reese, and they don't kill him immediately. Makes no sense. And if you get hit hard enough to be propelled all the way across the room and dent some metal cabinets, you ain't getting up from that, not any time soon anyway, and certainly not without broken bones. I hated it. Its a visual spectacle, and that's all. There's not even any "salvation" that I could detect. And the list goes on... Tracked a nuclear submarine while its submerged, did they? Don't care who you are... a nuke sub transmits and then moves, and they can move _very_ fast. Knowing where it was 10 minutes ago is of very little use if you're trying to kill it. Just too much nonsense to be able to enjoy it. Too many "miracles." Night at the Museum II is the best movie this weekend, and I really think the summer belongs to Trek.
Good grief they have an obfuscated website! You explained in 1 tiny paragraph what I would want to know as a gamer looking for the ability to run 2 people on 1 game on 1 PC, but their website uses phrases like, "sharing the resources of a commodity PC" - huh? - What's a "non-commodity" PC, and why the qualifier, anyway? And why no bulleted list of possible uses such as the gaming we're talking about. I wouldn't be surprised if this whole thing dies for lack of publicity / advertising since you can't occupy all your spare time making posts like this.