In cases of mutual consent states (which probably don't apply any way) would something like a bumper sticker with something like a EULA stating that by approaching this vehicle you consent to audio and video recording. Maybe also include in the warning that you will never consent to a search of the vehicle and any searches carried out would be considered involuntary.
There in lies the problem. The hardcore greenie basically wants to end human civilization as we know it and they are the ones that get a lot of the press. Then you have the look at me greenies who want to appear to be green, these are the ones that typically drive a Prius and have a million social justice bumper stickers on it and will condemn you because you don't appear green. Then on the flip side you have the crazies who just want to stick it to the 2 types of greenies I mentioned and will go hook up a vacuum line to a jug of motor oil in their vehicle. Most Americans don't fall into any of these camps but if you take any action either way you will be painted as being in one of them.
I am not what most would consider an environmentalist as there really aren't any outward signs, but I am probably "greener" than all but the most wacky hardcore ones. While I have a natural gas water heater it was the most efficient one I could find when I had to replace it, and then I added a water heater blanket to it as well as insulated my pipes. All of the lights in my house except 2 or 3 are LED or CFL ones and the few that aren't are the ones that haven't burned out in the 13 years I have been in my house because they are used to infrequently. I added extra insulation up in the rafters and now have 24" of blown in insulation up there. I grow a bunch of my own food each summer and then preserve it, and for meat I get it from a local farmer who actually cares or I hunt. At some point I will be installing a ground source heat pump to replace my furnace and air conditioning when one of them fails, and I eventually I will install 14Kw of solar capacity on my roof with a battery backup. While I don't own a hybrid car I do have a vehicle that gets pretty good gas mileage and meets my needs (about 35mpg) but it is 13 years old and has almost 140,000 miles on it. My wife doesn't drive much and when her 15 year old car dies it will be replaced by an electric one.
None of these actions or planed actions were taken for the sake of saving the planet but instead because over the long run save me money, or because I get a higher quality for the same price. Then again I am willing to look beyond initial purchase price which a lot of people can't seem to do. It is similar to things you see for sale, there are the slightly cheaper items for sale but the quality is substantially lower and in the long run you will spend more going with the cheap option.
Give The Fuck Up? No I would rather continue the political battle to defeat measures like this
The difference, at least in the US, is with the stuff at my work that belongs to my employer, I do not have any expectation of privacy when using it while with my private e-mail (to some degree), private phone, and private communications sent in a sealed envelope I do have an expectation of privacy. At the same time nations are moving towards more of the soft tyranny the one that does it for your own good. Now take all of these little things that have been put in place and lets say that another Nixon comes to power (chosen as a convenient boogieman) would your really want someone like that having these powers? Or lets even go as far as to say the next Hitler comes to power. Also a lot of what Hitler did was for the benefit of the "German Race" and was sold to the people as such.
Well considering that it has been reported that the law that is being passed wouldn't have stopped the Charlie Hebdo attacks yet seeks to expand the French government's ability to spy and collect data on its citizens it seems that it wouldn't really prevent terrorism, and actually does take away freedoms. As a side note for other countries, if the US government basically unanimously passes a giant bill shortly after a tragic, but a statistical anomaly, event and that bill couldn't realistically have been created in that time then it is a really fucking bad idea to pass a similar one in your country.
Well Bush did say that the terrorists hate us because of our freedoms. So obviously to prevent any further attacks we need to remove those freedoms that will cause the terrorists to attack us.[/sarcasm]
Sadly in a cases like that I kind of which it would happen to me. I can be a big enough ass hole that I would follow up with a Deprivation of rights under color of law case. As an added bonus you can go directly after the party or parties involved and they don't get government protection. I really wish more people would peruse these types of cases against government officials' overreaches.
Sounds like your company might be better served instead of spending the last 2 years trying to find an exact fit, hiring someone who was close and could learn and then train them. Granted this would have required the company invest money in the employee and once fully trained offer incentives to actually retain them so they don't jump ship at the next available opportunity. Doing so does require some longer term thinking and most managers and executives can't think much farther ahead than the next bonus period so it is easy to see where this idea got missed.
Up to a point you will be a better photographer. It isn't like I could hand you one of these and then you would all of a sudden take 10x-60x better pictures, you might manage 5%-10% better but not 10000%. Keeping with the photography example if one wants to take great pictures they would probably be better served by first learning how to compose and frame an image, then learning how to take good pictures by understanding how things like film/sensor speed, shutter speed, and f-stops work, paying attention to how they affect exposure as well as depth of focus. I say this as someone who still hasn't migrated to digital and actually still uses the last revision of one of these so it is at least 39 years old and I have won some awards at the county and state fair for pictures I have taken. Even my oldest child who is 6 can take better pictures than most people, he is interested in photography, as I have been teaching him the fundamentals but he uses a 13 year old digital camera that was just a regular consumer grade one.
The point being just wanting people who grew up with something in existence doesn't mean they actually understand it. Just like with digital natives, they may be able to save the princess, post a selfie to flickr, and tweet about the dump they took, but they don't really understand how the technology behind them works.
Probably because we have lots of open land which is required for beef production. I might also throw in the classic image of the cowboy. It isn't just the Americans, but also the Brazilians, and Argentinians who also seem to have a love of beef but they know how to make it into a social event. One of the funnest thing I have done was Brazilian BBQ with one of my friends and their family from Brazil when I was down there last year for vacation with my family.
I still like the exchange I had with corporate IT a while back. Come in one morning and power up my desktop and there is a pop and some smoke came out of the back where the power supply was and it smelled like burned plastic. Found someone else who was in and filled out a service ticket where I stated what had happened and specifically requested that they send the local IT service person over with a new power supply. About 2 hours later I get a call from the IT help center in Florida and they want to remote into my desktop to see what is wrong. I explained that it won't turn on since likely one of the capacitors in the power supply popped and I needed someone local to come and bring a new power supply and replace it. They then proceed through their standard troubleshooting of turn it of and on, unplug it, unplug everything from the computer plug it back in, etc and after about half an hour they finally believed me that they just needed to forward the ticket to the local group and send someone with a new power supply and #2 philips screwdriver. Then I work for a giant company and all their US service tickets go through Florida and I am in one of the few divisions that works with computer software and hardware as most divisions are just manufacturing.
From my understanding the Kochs are very honorable and trustworthy. They have made it very clear their stance on things and don't seem to have changed positions on a whim or back stabbed those they support to advance their cause.
Mock it as you may. The Germans did actually develop an attachment during WWII that allowed such a thing. It would usually shatter the bullet but for tank crews this didn't matter much as it basically became a shotgun at close range when trying to shoot the guy trying to stick an explosive to your tanks treads.
Depending on how you want to look at it there are 2 or 3 types of networks on the grid depending on perspective.
On way is by looking at the transmission grid and distribution grid. On the transmission grid where you see high voltage lines and generators and power flows both directions withing this network. You are correct in this respect. The problem arises on the distribution network side where instead of high voltage lines and generators you have customers and low voltage stuff. Here things are basically designed to flow one way, which is to the consumers.
The other way of looking at it is with 3 networks being high, medium, and low voltage. With this view things get a little more interesting as there can be bidirectional power flow within each level but it becomes problematic when it is between levels.
With either view of the power grid it really isn't too big of a problem* if you or a few nearby people are providing excess power that your neighbors are using as you are all on the same substation that is fed with medium or high voltage lines and provides you with your nice low voltage power. The problem is that if too many of you are feeding power back into the grid it may outstrip demand and now instead of that substation taking power from the medium voltage network it now is trying to push power up into the medium voltage network. This is not what the current grid was designed for and the equipment at the substation while it can do it doesn't do it well. The same thing can happen between the medium voltage and high voltage networks although it is rarer but has happened. This also ignores the grid management aspect of things which is all in software and is basically a traveling salesman problem solved as best as it can be continuously.
These are not unsolvable problems but instead are engineering ones that people are working on. Companies are already designing better switch gear, beakers, transformers, etc to handle bidirectional traffic. The modeling, management , and market applications are being developed to handle many more points as well as having them be bidirectional. Granted these now require substantially more computing power but technology has progressed where getting that computational heft isn't an issue.
*The one issue you have with large scale intermittent distributed power (rooftop PV) is what I like to call the rouge cumulus cloud. It is a nice sunny day and he decides to blow in over your neighborhood, and then out. All of a sudden your local substation goes from pumping power out to sucking it down, then back to pumping it out. It doesn't even have to be this severe, just going from low draw, to high draw, back to low draw presents similar although not as severe problems.This is murder on equipment and a real bitch to deal with from a grid management perspective. To prevent this some local grid level storage at the substation would help to level the load making it much easier to deal with. So again not an impossible problem but an engineering one.
What about sodium and sulfur? those would seem to work for grid level storage and are actually being made and used currently even if not widely yet. Also that was a fairly silly assumption such as needing a battery to run the entire US for 7 days, but having a battery that could power 1/7th the US for a couple of days would probably be much more reasonable to avoid stuff like the Northeast blackout of 2003.
I remember as a kid it was great to to one. Go digging in vehicles to see what you could find for change and toys. You quickly figured out what were rich people cars as they tended to have most amount of change in them and if they were a family car they would have the best toys. BTW my family was government cheese poor at times when I was little.
Good to know. Even if you can't can properly with them you can still do jellies with a bees wax seal, use them for storing honey, or put dry goods in them. I have never understood why if your company makes something that is shipped in glass jars why you would care if they are reused or not unless you receive back the old jars like Coke use to do with glass bottles to refill and resell.
Welcome to the club. I went through the similar thing with Bush. At least my vote didn't matter in my state but at the time I still believed in the voting for the lesser of two shitty choices and not wasting my vote. You live you learn.
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In cases of mutual consent states (which probably don't apply any way) would something like a bumper sticker with something like a EULA stating that by approaching this vehicle you consent to audio and video recording. Maybe also include in the warning that you will never consent to a search of the vehicle and any searches carried out would be considered involuntary.
There in lies the problem. The hardcore greenie basically wants to end human civilization as we know it and they are the ones that get a lot of the press. Then you have the look at me greenies who want to appear to be green, these are the ones that typically drive a Prius and have a million social justice bumper stickers on it and will condemn you because you don't appear green. Then on the flip side you have the crazies who just want to stick it to the 2 types of greenies I mentioned and will go hook up a vacuum line to a jug of motor oil in their vehicle. Most Americans don't fall into any of these camps but if you take any action either way you will be painted as being in one of them.
I am not what most would consider an environmentalist as there really aren't any outward signs, but I am probably "greener" than all but the most wacky hardcore ones. While I have a natural gas water heater it was the most efficient one I could find when I had to replace it, and then I added a water heater blanket to it as well as insulated my pipes. All of the lights in my house except 2 or 3 are LED or CFL ones and the few that aren't are the ones that haven't burned out in the 13 years I have been in my house because they are used to infrequently. I added extra insulation up in the rafters and now have 24" of blown in insulation up there. I grow a bunch of my own food each summer and then preserve it, and for meat I get it from a local farmer who actually cares or I hunt. At some point I will be installing a ground source heat pump to replace my furnace and air conditioning when one of them fails, and I eventually I will install 14Kw of solar capacity on my roof with a battery backup. While I don't own a hybrid car I do have a vehicle that gets pretty good gas mileage and meets my needs (about 35mpg) but it is 13 years old and has almost 140,000 miles on it. My wife doesn't drive much and when her 15 year old car dies it will be replaced by an electric one.
None of these actions or planed actions were taken for the sake of saving the planet but instead because over the long run save me money, or because I get a higher quality for the same price. Then again I am willing to look beyond initial purchase price which a lot of people can't seem to do. It is similar to things you see for sale, there are the slightly cheaper items for sale but the quality is substantially lower and in the long run you will spend more going with the cheap option.
This sounds like a good reason to continue pumping CO2 into the atmosphere if it means we can finally be rid of Florida.
My understanding is that a treaty cannot supersede the US constitution but can regular US law.
So they are just following the US's then?
I thought the tell was the red and yellow feather boas?
GTFU!
Give The Fuck Up?
No I would rather continue the political battle to defeat measures like this
The difference, at least in the US, is with the stuff at my work that belongs to my employer, I do not have any expectation of privacy when using it while with my private e-mail (to some degree), private phone, and private communications sent in a sealed envelope I do have an expectation of privacy. At the same time nations are moving towards more of the soft tyranny the one that does it for your own good. Now take all of these little things that have been put in place and lets say that another Nixon comes to power (chosen as a convenient boogieman) would your really want someone like that having these powers? Or lets even go as far as to say the next Hitler comes to power. Also a lot of what Hitler did was for the benefit of the "German Race" and was sold to the people as such.
Well considering that it has been reported that the law that is being passed wouldn't have stopped the Charlie Hebdo attacks yet seeks to expand the French government's ability to spy and collect data on its citizens it seems that it wouldn't really prevent terrorism, and actually does take away freedoms. As a side note for other countries, if the US government basically unanimously passes a giant bill shortly after a tragic, but a statistical anomaly, event and that bill couldn't realistically have been created in that time then it is a really fucking bad idea to pass a similar one in your country.
Well Bush did say that the terrorists hate us because of our freedoms. So obviously to prevent any further attacks we need to remove those freedoms that will cause the terrorists to attack us.[/sarcasm]
Sadly in a cases like that I kind of which it would happen to me. I can be a big enough ass hole that I would follow up with a Deprivation of rights under color of law case. As an added bonus you can go directly after the party or parties involved and they don't get government protection. I really wish more people would peruse these types of cases against government officials' overreaches.
Sounds like your company might be better served instead of spending the last 2 years trying to find an exact fit, hiring someone who was close and could learn and then train them. Granted this would have required the company invest money in the employee and once fully trained offer incentives to actually retain them so they don't jump ship at the next available opportunity. Doing so does require some longer term thinking and most managers and executives can't think much farther ahead than the next bonus period so it is easy to see where this idea got missed.
But then they wouldn't be able to really say they need someone with 15 years experience in some obscure technology that has only existed for 3.
Well I guess I was a bit better off, I only got beat with HP-IB cable.
Up to a point you will be a better photographer. It isn't like I could hand you one of these and then you would all of a sudden take 10x-60x better pictures, you might manage 5%-10% better but not 10000%. Keeping with the photography example if one wants to take great pictures they would probably be better served by first learning how to compose and frame an image, then learning how to take good pictures by understanding how things like film/sensor speed, shutter speed, and f-stops work, paying attention to how they affect exposure as well as depth of focus. I say this as someone who still hasn't migrated to digital and actually still uses the last revision of one of these so it is at least 39 years old and I have won some awards at the county and state fair for pictures I have taken. Even my oldest child who is 6 can take better pictures than most people, he is interested in photography, as I have been teaching him the fundamentals but he uses a 13 year old digital camera that was just a regular consumer grade one.
The point being just wanting people who grew up with something in existence doesn't mean they actually understand it. Just like with digital natives, they may be able to save the princess, post a selfie to flickr, and tweet about the dump they took, but they don't really understand how the technology behind them works.
Damn it of all the days to not have mod points. You had a nicer setup than I did, I only had a 300 baud modem.
Probably because we have lots of open land which is required for beef production. I might also throw in the classic image of the cowboy. It isn't just the Americans, but also the Brazilians, and Argentinians who also seem to have a love of beef but they know how to make it into a social event. One of the funnest thing I have done was Brazilian BBQ with one of my friends and their family from Brazil when I was down there last year for vacation with my family.
Well having a relative who's father worked for good old uncle Walt as an animator, I think Walt would have approved of this move.
I still like the exchange I had with corporate IT a while back. Come in one morning and power up my desktop and there is a pop and some smoke came out of the back where the power supply was and it smelled like burned plastic. Found someone else who was in and filled out a service ticket where I stated what had happened and specifically requested that they send the local IT service person over with a new power supply. About 2 hours later I get a call from the IT help center in Florida and they want to remote into my desktop to see what is wrong. I explained that it won't turn on since likely one of the capacitors in the power supply popped and I needed someone local to come and bring a new power supply and replace it. They then proceed through their standard troubleshooting of turn it of and on, unplug it, unplug everything from the computer plug it back in, etc and after about half an hour they finally believed me that they just needed to forward the ticket to the local group and send someone with a new power supply and #2 philips screwdriver. Then I work for a giant company and all their US service tickets go through Florida and I am in one of the few divisions that works with computer software and hardware as most divisions are just manufacturing.
From my understanding the Kochs are very honorable and trustworthy. They have made it very clear their stance on things and don't seem to have changed positions on a whim or back stabbed those they support to advance their cause.
Mock it as you may. The Germans did actually develop an attachment during WWII that allowed such a thing. It would usually shatter the bullet but for tank crews this didn't matter much as it basically became a shotgun at close range when trying to shoot the guy trying to stick an explosive to your tanks treads.
Depending on how you want to look at it there are 2 or 3 types of networks on the grid depending on perspective.
On way is by looking at the transmission grid and distribution grid. On the transmission grid where you see high voltage lines and generators and power flows both directions withing this network. You are correct in this respect. The problem arises on the distribution network side where instead of high voltage lines and generators you have customers and low voltage stuff. Here things are basically designed to flow one way, which is to the consumers.
The other way of looking at it is with 3 networks being high, medium, and low voltage. With this view things get a little more interesting as there can be bidirectional power flow within each level but it becomes problematic when it is between levels.
With either view of the power grid it really isn't too big of a problem* if you or a few nearby people are providing excess power that your neighbors are using as you are all on the same substation that is fed with medium or high voltage lines and provides you with your nice low voltage power. The problem is that if too many of you are feeding power back into the grid it may outstrip demand and now instead of that substation taking power from the medium voltage network it now is trying to push power up into the medium voltage network. This is not what the current grid was designed for and the equipment at the substation while it can do it doesn't do it well. The same thing can happen between the medium voltage and high voltage networks although it is rarer but has happened. This also ignores the grid management aspect of things which is all in software and is basically a traveling salesman problem solved as best as it can be continuously.
These are not unsolvable problems but instead are engineering ones that people are working on. Companies are already designing better switch gear, beakers, transformers, etc to handle bidirectional traffic. The modeling, management , and market applications are being developed to handle many more points as well as having them be bidirectional. Granted these now require substantially more computing power but technology has progressed where getting that computational heft isn't an issue.
*The one issue you have with large scale intermittent distributed power (rooftop PV) is what I like to call the rouge cumulus cloud. It is a nice sunny day and he decides to blow in over your neighborhood, and then out. All of a sudden your local substation goes from pumping power out to sucking it down, then back to pumping it out. It doesn't even have to be this severe, just going from low draw, to high draw, back to low draw presents similar although not as severe problems.This is murder on equipment and a real bitch to deal with from a grid management perspective. To prevent this some local grid level storage at the substation would help to level the load making it much easier to deal with. So again not an impossible problem but an engineering one.
What about sodium and sulfur? those would seem to work for grid level storage and are actually being made and used currently even if not widely yet. Also that was a fairly silly assumption such as needing a battery to run the entire US for 7 days, but having a battery that could power 1/7th the US for a couple of days would probably be much more reasonable to avoid stuff like the Northeast blackout of 2003.
I remember as a kid it was great to to one. Go digging in vehicles to see what you could find for change and toys. You quickly figured out what were rich people cars as they tended to have most amount of change in them and if they were a family car they would have the best toys. BTW my family was government cheese poor at times when I was little.
Good to know. Even if you can't can properly with them you can still do jellies with a bees wax seal, use them for storing honey, or put dry goods in them. I have never understood why if your company makes something that is shipped in glass jars why you would care if they are reused or not unless you receive back the old jars like Coke use to do with glass bottles to refill and resell.
Welcome to the club. I went through the similar thing with Bush. At least my vote didn't matter in my state but at the time I still believed in the voting for the lesser of two shitty choices and not wasting my vote. You live you learn.