They certainly did have a valid point. They weren't even trashing the car, I've seen that episode half a dozen times and they rave about the acceleration, the quality of the interior, the handling... But, at the very end, they go on to say But! We had all of these maintenance problems. The breaks failed, the charger failed, the battery ran out of juice after 60 miles... etc... I believe he even said "It's just not ready yet" and a truer statement could not have been made. In the future, electric cars will be great. They are not great now. They took the car on a racetrack, that's what they do... this car sucks on a racetrack. This car is priced in the range of Porsche, Mazaradi, etc... it was compared to them and found lacking.
The fact of the matter is, Google HAS the information, and shouldn't. Selling it would be a second crime. The post office doesn't read every letter I send through the mail to figure out which junkmail I'd like best.
Except that, Geothermal plants release toxic gas into the atmosphere, including large amounts of CO2. Not nearly as much as coal... but then, Nuclear power doesn't release any CO2 at all. Not to mention geothermal has conclusively proven to cause earthquakes and at least 1 plant had to be shut down after it triggered tens of thousands of earthquakes over the first few days of operation.
Of course there were. Don't be silly. Most guns were made by a single guy in a shop. It's all about having the right tools. Personally, one of my hobbies is trying to build everything, at least once. Guns are not complicated, and one of the first things I did myself. I've blacksmithed my own kitchen knives (a lot harder than the gun) I've built a truck from parts out of a junkyard. I've replaced broken parts on that same truck by putting them in a sand mold to get their shape and then smelted them myself. You can do anything you want if you're clever, have access to the internet and are persistent.
According to the CBO, the cuts will have no signifigant effect on the economy. But the Rise is Social security taxes deffinately will. They also say that: "We project that debt held by the public will reach 76 percent of GDP this year, the largest percentage since 1950. And, under current laws, we project that debt in 2023 will be 77 percent of GDP—far higher than the 39 percent average seen over the past 40 years—and will be on an upward path.
First, high debt means that the crowding out of capital investment will be greater, that lawmakers will have less flexibility to use tax and spending policies to respond to unexpected challenges (like a recession or war), and that there will be a heightened risk of a fiscal crisis in which the government would be unable to borrow at affordable interest rates. " http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43943
etc... etc... We HAVE to cut spending. Period. If the only way to do it is to let this sequestration process proceed, then fine.
Telcos are required by law to provide broadband in some areas, just like they are phone service. It's entirely up to the local government. Some areas have such requirements, some do not. The problem with such requirements is that to provide the required service, the rates inside the towns and villages go up substantially. This isn't an easy sell for local politicians.
Telecoms lose money in rural areas. Even with phone service. This has been a problem since the invention of the telephone. The solution? Give the telephone company monopoly over a large area, but require them by law to provide service to rural residents. Just how far rural they go will be negotiated between the local municipality and the telco. Putting in rural service is not profitable, but the telco can raise rates in the metropolitan areas to make up the difference.
Now, some jackass comes along claiming free market and starts selling his own service. He offers it to whomever he likes, is under no obligation to provide service to anyone, and can undercut the telco in the easiest to serve markets. If you want free and open competition in these markets, that's fine. But you need to lift the regulations the telcos are under before you can do that. There are some areas of the country were the local phone company is required by law to maintain dialtone and 911 service even if the house is vacant or condemned. Just in case some homeless person needs to use the phone. How can a company that has to do maintain service like that compete with random competitors that have no such obligations? A free and open market for internet service means NO rural internet service at all. Simple as that. It's not profitable, and an open market means it can't exist.
That's not the problem. The problem is simple: Microtransactions give the game designer a monetary incentive to make the game grindy and unfun, with paid keys that unlock the grind. This is very clear in most modern games as the biggest selling items are XP boost items. Without them it can take 2 to 4 times as long to advance. What exactly is the publisher selling when they sell XP boost items?
He's correct on both accounts. It's statistics. If a tire has a 5% chance of catastrophically failing in 50,000 miles (stats made up for demonstration) and you have 4 tires, you have a 20% chance of a tire failure in that 50,000 miles. If you have 2 tires, you have a 10% chance.
The same with the plane. Each engine on a 2 engine plane has an equal failure rate. A plane withe 2 engines failure rate is double that of a single engine plane. If the 2nd engine were there simply for backup then having one fail wouldn't be that big of a deal... but it's not. The extra engine is there for extended cargo capacity. If that planes fully loaded and one of the engines fail, you're still screwed.
It's hers to sell. She shouldn't have to justify it to you or anyone else. You're an ass for suggesting that she should. Being neither a member of the family or the Nobel comity, it's none of your damned business.
Last time I checked, trees weren't 200 meters high and scientifically engineer to suck as much energy out of wind gusts as physically possible.
Also... have you ever heard of the dust bowl? That was just grass we pulled up... and that turned into the greatest ecological disaster in human history.
And when the research site is above ground, in the middle of Sharif University of Technology who's campuses are at the center of Tehran, and sitting right next to one of the largest transportation hubs in the middle east... do you think any western power is going to drop bombs on a suspected enrichment site releasing highly enriched Uranium over a campus of 12,000 students as well as contaminating one of the largest cities in the region and killing tourists from all over the world?
Your conception of large wind-farms is out of whack. Modern turbines are pushing 200 meters tall now, with rotor diameters of up to 150 meters. Turbine farms are limited by the area of land they're placed on, and the wake of other turbines greatly affect placement. On small farms they can get them as close to each other as 4 to 10 rotor diameters, but on bigger farms the minimum is 15x the size of the rotors. So if we're talking about real industrial scale wind farms where the turbines are in the 200 meter tall range... then they have to be placed over a mile apart!
A single one of these modern giant turbines produces about 7MW of power and costs about $14 million to build. The smallest reactor in the US (not counting test reactors and such) is in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska and produces 478MW. It would cost close to a Billion dollars and take up nearly 70 square miles of land to use wind to produce the equivalent amount of power as the smallest nuclear reactor in the country.
We have absolutely no idea what affect a windfarm of that size would have on the environment. If we had enough farms to power the entire country? Again, we have no idea, but the effect would likely be dramatic. You can't take that kind of energy out of our weather systems and expect mother nature to roll over and take it.
Lets have some common sense here. Iran wants nukes... as well they should. If anything is going to prevent a US invasion, it's nukes.
Secondly, Iran has no use for peaceful nuclear power. They have an abundance of oil. Energy is basically free for them. Do you think they suddenly started caring about their CO2 emissions? I really doubt it.
Thirdly, Iran is under horrible sanctions because of their nuclear development. Some countries have even offered to build nuclear power plants for them, that would remain in foreign control but give Iran all of the power for free... and Iran refuses. Why is that?
The fact is, Iran wants Nuclear weapons. They are almost assuredly trying to develop them under the guise of a peaceful program. But, there's nothing we can really do about it. They WILL get nuclear weapons eventually. Short of a full invasion, there's very little we can do. It may be a year from now, or 50, but one day Iran will test their first bomb and then we'll know for sure.
You need to think outside of your own little social circle. I've seen Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'reilly's books on many a coffee table. I often suspect that the owners of the books likely never read them but put them out as some kind of statement to guests, but whatever. I've read bits and pieces and most of their content is directed at conservatives that are likely not very good at debate, and the books basically a guide regarding how to frame their arguments when arguing their political points. They serve a purpose, and they have no need to be on the newyork times best seller lists. In fact, Bill O'reilly's books have often been blackballed from the list despite being the number one selling book in the country for several weeks running.
You'd think that, but there's contract stuff. The thing is, you basically need a department in charge of renewing shit like this when you have enterprise level services. We've got a site with millions of hits daily and still manage to let it expire every couple of years. You try the credit card thing, but credit cards expire. You try recurring billing and then you get into a contractual nightmare with the registrar. The registrar isn't going to do you any favors, you might get millions of hits daily, but they still only get $5/year even from google.com so fuck you, figure out the billing yourself.
The only real way to do it effectively is build yourself a database of all the crap you need to renew regularly, then hire someone to renew that stuff. But who are you going to hire? It usually ends up being some assistant that doesn't know a damned thing about tech... and it's still going to cost you $60k a year in pay and bennifits to retain them. That's an expensive way of keeping track of such things... ah, the website admins can remember right?
Yes, but lets cut where we can cut. I think you and I would agree on a lot but I've come to the conclusion that there are plenty of things that most of us would agree, even if begrudgingly, that we can stop spending on. We have troops in over 150 countries... how about only 50? We spend more than twice as much on our military than the REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED. We spend over five times as much as the next biggest spender China. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/9b6b4ac6234a38d7f61757290055617d.png
Our military expenditures aren't just huge, they are to the point of being borderline insane. We have enough nukes to kill every human on earth 100 times over, there's no possibility of any country invading us for at least the next several hundred years. Let's just stop. Fuck the middle east, Fuck Isreal, Russia is not going to invade Europe, lets send some humanitarian aid to Africa but otherwise let that continent deal with its own affairs.
We've basically accomplished nothing with our police actions since the Korean war. Now even the Koreans want us out and we wont leave. Enough's enough, lets just stop and spend our money on something that doesn't kill people for a change.
Yes, the power company would never want some of their customers to actually be producing electricity and putting it on the Grid where the electric company gets to set the price they pay for it. They would much rather be slaves to the price of coal and fluctuating demands of its customers.
We have troops in 25 countries (not counting territories), not "nearly ever country on earth."
You're a fucking idiot. Read the FIRST LIKE OF YOUR OWN FUCKING LINK: The military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, with 173,929 of its 1,388,028[1] active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories.
The largest number of troops are stationed in first world Europe, South Korea and Japan.
Then we have the SECOND sentence in your own fucking link: Most of these overseas personnel are deployed in combat zones in the Middle east, as part of the War on Terror.
Your facts are completely baseless and you can't even be bothered to read your own reference material. So I'm not quite sure what to say other than: Shut the fuck up.
Sequestering CO2 is easy. You just don't have a clue how it works. The CO2 is pumped into abandon oil fields at VERY high pressures. This actually results in a return of the field to oil production, as the CO2 forces out more oil. The hydrostatic pressure at that depth is so great that it forces the CO2 into its liquid form. It's not going to suddenly escape to the surfaces, it's miles down and under unfathomable pressure. If we had an earthquake strong enough to crack that, we'd have far more to worry about. Like the really nasty gasses getting released from natural fissures or the earth splitting asunder.
This is the kind of science that will save us from Global warming. I know how grand Solar and wind seem grand, but they aren't powering shit yet. Germany is the shining start of renewable energy right now, and they have 20 old school coal fired plants scheduled to be built in the next few decades. We have a LOT of coal. If there's a clean way to use it, we sure as hell better try. It's going to get used one way or another, and 99% efficiency with easy CO2 sequester seems like a pretty smart way to do it.
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They certainly did have a valid point. They weren't even trashing the car, I've seen that episode half a dozen times and they rave about the acceleration, the quality of the interior, the handling... But, at the very end, they go on to say But! We had all of these maintenance problems. The breaks failed, the charger failed, the battery ran out of juice after 60 miles... etc... I believe he even said "It's just not ready yet" and a truer statement could not have been made. In the future, electric cars will be great. They are not great now. They took the car on a racetrack, that's what they do... this car sucks on a racetrack. This car is priced in the range of Porsche, Mazaradi, etc... it was compared to them and found lacking.
The fact of the matter is, Google HAS the information, and shouldn't. Selling it would be a second crime. The post office doesn't read every letter I send through the mail to figure out which junkmail I'd like best.
Except that, Geothermal plants release toxic gas into the atmosphere, including large amounts of CO2. Not nearly as much as coal... but then, Nuclear power doesn't release any CO2 at all. Not to mention geothermal has conclusively proven to cause earthquakes and at least 1 plant had to be shut down after it triggered tens of thousands of earthquakes over the first few days of operation.
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Of course there were. Don't be silly. Most guns were made by a single guy in a shop. It's all about having the right tools. Personally, one of my hobbies is trying to build everything, at least once. Guns are not complicated, and one of the first things I did myself. I've blacksmithed my own kitchen knives (a lot harder than the gun) I've built a truck from parts out of a junkyard. I've replaced broken parts on that same truck by putting them in a sand mold to get their shape and then smelted them myself. You can do anything you want if you're clever, have access to the internet and are persistent.
Because a customer with mandatory adware and spyware on their phone is more valuable than one without.
According to the CBO, the cuts will have no signifigant effect on the economy. But the Rise is Social security taxes deffinately will. They also say that:
"We project that debt held by the public will reach 76 percent of GDP this year, the largest percentage since 1950. And, under current laws, we project that debt in 2023 will be 77 percent of GDP—far higher than the 39 percent average seen over the past 40 years—and will be on an upward path.
First, high debt means that the crowding out of capital investment will be greater, that lawmakers will have less flexibility to use tax and spending policies to respond to unexpected challenges (like a recession or war), and that there will be a heightened risk of a fiscal crisis in which the government would be unable to borrow at affordable interest rates. "
http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43943
etc... etc...
We HAVE to cut spending. Period. If the only way to do it is to let this sequestration process proceed, then fine.
Telcos are required by law to provide broadband in some areas, just like they are phone service. It's entirely up to the local government. Some areas have such requirements, some do not. The problem with such requirements is that to provide the required service, the rates inside the towns and villages go up substantially. This isn't an easy sell for local politicians.
No, this is common practice for a lot of ISPs. I believe they just re-direct you with DNS. This is why I don't use my ISPs DNS.
Telecoms lose money in rural areas. Even with phone service. This has been a problem since the invention of the telephone. The solution? Give the telephone company monopoly over a large area, but require them by law to provide service to rural residents. Just how far rural they go will be negotiated between the local municipality and the telco. Putting in rural service is not profitable, but the telco can raise rates in the metropolitan areas to make up the difference.
Now, some jackass comes along claiming free market and starts selling his own service. He offers it to whomever he likes, is under no obligation to provide service to anyone, and can undercut the telco in the easiest to serve markets. If you want free and open competition in these markets, that's fine. But you need to lift the regulations the telcos are under before you can do that. There are some areas of the country were the local phone company is required by law to maintain dialtone and 911 service even if the house is vacant or condemned. Just in case some homeless person needs to use the phone. How can a company that has to do maintain service like that compete with random competitors that have no such obligations? A free and open market for internet service means NO rural internet service at all. Simple as that. It's not profitable, and an open market means it can't exist.
You are whats wrong with modern society. Go watch TV, let the grownups do something worthwhile for once.
That's not the problem. The problem is simple: Microtransactions give the game designer a monetary incentive to make the game grindy and unfun, with paid keys that unlock the grind. This is very clear in most modern games as the biggest selling items are XP boost items. Without them it can take 2 to 4 times as long to advance. What exactly is the publisher selling when they sell XP boost items?
He's correct on both accounts. It's statistics. If a tire has a 5% chance of catastrophically failing in 50,000 miles (stats made up for demonstration) and you have 4 tires, you have a 20% chance of a tire failure in that 50,000 miles. If you have 2 tires, you have a 10% chance.
The same with the plane. Each engine on a 2 engine plane has an equal failure rate. A plane withe 2 engines failure rate is double that of a single engine plane. If the 2nd engine were there simply for backup then having one fail wouldn't be that big of a deal... but it's not. The extra engine is there for extended cargo capacity. If that planes fully loaded and one of the engines fail, you're still screwed.
It's hers to sell. She shouldn't have to justify it to you or anyone else. You're an ass for suggesting that she should. Being neither a member of the family or the Nobel comity, it's none of your damned business.
Last time I checked, trees weren't 200 meters high and scientifically engineer to suck as much energy out of wind gusts as physically possible.
Also... have you ever heard of the dust bowl? That was just grass we pulled up... and that turned into the greatest ecological disaster in human history.
And when the research site is above ground, in the middle of Sharif University of Technology who's campuses are at the center of Tehran, and sitting right next to one of the largest transportation hubs in the middle east... do you think any western power is going to drop bombs on a suspected enrichment site releasing highly enriched Uranium over a campus of 12,000 students as well as contaminating one of the largest cities in the region and killing tourists from all over the world?
Your conception of large wind-farms is out of whack. Modern turbines are pushing 200 meters tall now, with rotor diameters of up to 150 meters. Turbine farms are limited by the area of land they're placed on, and the wake of other turbines greatly affect placement. On small farms they can get them as close to each other as 4 to 10 rotor diameters, but on bigger farms the minimum is 15x the size of the rotors. So if we're talking about real industrial scale wind farms where the turbines are in the 200 meter tall range... then they have to be placed over a mile apart!
A single one of these modern giant turbines produces about 7MW of power and costs about $14 million to build. The smallest reactor in the US (not counting test reactors and such) is in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska and produces 478MW. It would cost close to a Billion dollars and take up nearly 70 square miles of land to use wind to produce the equivalent amount of power as the smallest nuclear reactor in the country.
We have absolutely no idea what affect a windfarm of that size would have on the environment. If we had enough farms to power the entire country? Again, we have no idea, but the effect would likely be dramatic. You can't take that kind of energy out of our weather systems and expect mother nature to roll over and take it.
Lets have some common sense here. Iran wants nukes... as well they should. If anything is going to prevent a US invasion, it's nukes.
Secondly, Iran has no use for peaceful nuclear power. They have an abundance of oil. Energy is basically free for them. Do you think they suddenly started caring about their CO2 emissions? I really doubt it.
Thirdly, Iran is under horrible sanctions because of their nuclear development. Some countries have even offered to build nuclear power plants for them, that would remain in foreign control but give Iran all of the power for free... and Iran refuses. Why is that?
The fact is, Iran wants Nuclear weapons. They are almost assuredly trying to develop them under the guise of a peaceful program. But, there's nothing we can really do about it. They WILL get nuclear weapons eventually. Short of a full invasion, there's very little we can do. It may be a year from now, or 50, but one day Iran will test their first bomb and then we'll know for sure.
You need to think outside of your own little social circle. I've seen Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'reilly's books on many a coffee table. I often suspect that the owners of the books likely never read them but put them out as some kind of statement to guests, but whatever. I've read bits and pieces and most of their content is directed at conservatives that are likely not very good at debate, and the books basically a guide regarding how to frame their arguments when arguing their political points. They serve a purpose, and they have no need to be on the newyork times best seller lists. In fact, Bill O'reilly's books have often been blackballed from the list despite being the number one selling book in the country for several weeks running.
You'd think that, but there's contract stuff. The thing is, you basically need a department in charge of renewing shit like this when you have enterprise level services. We've got a site with millions of hits daily and still manage to let it expire every couple of years. You try the credit card thing, but credit cards expire. You try recurring billing and then you get into a contractual nightmare with the registrar. The registrar isn't going to do you any favors, you might get millions of hits daily, but they still only get $5/year even from google.com so fuck you, figure out the billing yourself.
The only real way to do it effectively is build yourself a database of all the crap you need to renew regularly, then hire someone to renew that stuff. But who are you going to hire? It usually ends up being some assistant that doesn't know a damned thing about tech... and it's still going to cost you $60k a year in pay and bennifits to retain them. That's an expensive way of keeping track of such things... ah, the website admins can remember right?
Yes, but lets cut where we can cut. I think you and I would agree on a lot but I've come to the conclusion that there are plenty of things that most of us would agree, even if begrudgingly, that we can stop spending on. We have troops in over 150 countries... how about only 50? We spend more than twice as much on our military than the REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED. We spend over five times as much as the next biggest spender China.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/9b6b4ac6234a38d7f61757290055617d.png
Our military expenditures aren't just huge, they are to the point of being borderline insane. We have enough nukes to kill every human on earth 100 times over, there's no possibility of any country invading us for at least the next several hundred years. Let's just stop. Fuck the middle east, Fuck Isreal, Russia is not going to invade Europe, lets send some humanitarian aid to Africa but otherwise let that continent deal with its own affairs.
We've basically accomplished nothing with our police actions since the Korean war. Now even the Koreans want us out and we wont leave. Enough's enough, lets just stop and spend our money on something that doesn't kill people for a change.
Yes, the power company would never want some of their customers to actually be producing electricity and putting it on the Grid where the electric company gets to set the price they pay for it. They would much rather be slaves to the price of coal and fluctuating demands of its customers.
We have troops in 25 countries (not counting territories), not "nearly ever country on earth."
You're a fucking idiot. Read the FIRST LIKE OF YOUR OWN FUCKING LINK:
The military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, with 173,929 of its 1,388,028[1] active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories.
The average age for most military personnel is nearly 30. http://www.statisticbrain.com/demographics-of-active-duty-u-s-military/
The average age of DEATH of a US soldier was 25 in 2010. When you're killing off all the young ones, you kind of skew the "Average age" of employment now don't you?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/us/19dead.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
The largest number of troops are stationed in first world Europe, South Korea and Japan.
Then we have the SECOND sentence in your own fucking link:
Most of these overseas personnel are deployed in combat zones in the Middle east, as part of the War on Terror.
Your facts are completely baseless and you can't even be bothered to read your own reference material. So I'm not quite sure what to say other than: Shut the fuck up.
Sequestering CO2 is easy. You just don't have a clue how it works. The CO2 is pumped into abandon oil fields at VERY high pressures. This actually results in a return of the field to oil production, as the CO2 forces out more oil. The hydrostatic pressure at that depth is so great that it forces the CO2 into its liquid form. It's not going to suddenly escape to the surfaces, it's miles down and under unfathomable pressure. If we had an earthquake strong enough to crack that, we'd have far more to worry about. Like the really nasty gasses getting released from natural fissures or the earth splitting asunder.
This is the kind of science that will save us from Global warming. I know how grand Solar and wind seem grand, but they aren't powering shit yet. Germany is the shining start of renewable energy right now, and they have 20 old school coal fired plants scheduled to be built in the next few decades. We have a LOT of coal. If there's a clean way to use it, we sure as hell better try. It's going to get used one way or another, and 99% efficiency with easy CO2 sequester seems like a pretty smart way to do it.