From the Boston Globe:
"Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who would be able to see the wind farm on the horizon from his family's Hyannis compound, and former governor Mitt Romney maneuvered to kill the project on several occasions because of fears that the turbines would be unsightly, hurting tourism and property values."
Since when is Mitt Romney a 'tree hugger'
some greasy, smell hippy
It is clear from your name calling and emotions that you do not wish to look at the data. Believe it or not the Republicans(You know that party controlling the legislative and executive branches of government for 6 of the last 8 years) AND Democrats have both opposed alternatives for their own selfish reasons.
This is why we can't accomplish anything in this country. Let's blame some group for our problems rather than just look at the data. Our leaders have convinced us that the other side is always wrong and ours is always right. I implore you to make your arguments based on the evidence at hand vs a 'because of them' mentallity
Why do you think politicians can keep the magic show going.
BTW Since when has the Sierra Club, GreenPeace and all the others put together had as much money to lobby congress as Big Oil? If environmentalist are soo powerful explain the number of Superfund sites waiting to be cleaned.
In truth these groups hold no power. Everyone simply supports NIMBY(Not In My Back Yard)
I just want people who are for offshore drilling to realize we have to do it, because we lacked foresight. And that if we continue to drill without that foresight we will be up a creek in a few short years. Any bill that includes offshore drilling MUST include alternative incentives or will really be doing NOTHING.
People should also realize that the small amount of Oil offshore will not effect supply enough to offset demand once the global economy recovers.
How much it cost to drill is directly relational to how much Oil cost as we use Oil to build the rigs and transport Oil. Offshore drilling is a red herring and misses addressing the problem in very fundamental ways.
Hello to you too.
When you begin to realize that economics is largely responsible and not some enemy group of people you will be much more likely to understand what is going on.
The problem is economics, NOT the environment. Environmentalist are just a scapegoat, a way of saying 'look it's their fault, we're not really running out.'
The truth is there aren't all that many more 'big' fields left to discover/recover. If we wait until we actually run out we will not have any energy left to develop alternatives.
That we need to drill offshore is just evidence that we are headed toward the back side of the slope. Any finite resource is easy to recover in the beginning until it reaches a peak at which it becomes more and more difficult. When demand heads back towards 90 million barrels a day ( and eventually 100 million...110 million etc.), nothing will stop Oil from reaching $140+ again. Drilling offshore may slow the rise in Oil prices, but it will not stop it.
Simply put:
1. Oil is finite.
2. Prices are determined by supply and demand.
3. Demand will rise infinitely.
4. Prices=supply/demand as demand approaches infinity so do prices.
Lucky for us(U.S.) we will only have high prices while some countries will simply starve. Hmmm, starving people=war/terrorism/rebellion. It is not a coincidence.
Offshore drilling is only a necessity now because we lacked the foresight to find alternatives sooner. Unfortunately high Oil prices are the only thing that will make us change. It will happen either orderly and controlled or we will become one of many civilizations in history that depended on a resource to their own detriment.
Putting the common good ahead of the individual is Fascism. Put the individual(worker) above the common good is Communism. Like it or not the extreme Left is socialist and the extreme Right is fascist. I personally think they both suck and neither has been implemented in it's true form, but only as a tool for power.
Just wanted to show an example of how P numbers are used politically. The USGS estimated Caspian sea oil recovery at a P95 of 20 Gb (Giga barrels), P50 of 60 Gb and a P5 of 200 Gb. Of course drilling proponents said their were 200 billion barrels waiting to be had and environmentalist claimed there were only 20 billion (if any). In truth it looks like there will be about 60 billion barells recovered.
P numbers are probabilities. A P5 number means there is a 5% chance of recovery. Study these numbers and you will see Peak Oil is right around the corner and inline with predictions from 50 years ago. We will drill here as we have left ourselves with no other choice, it will not however change the fact that Oil will run out.
Economics is the real reason we don't drill more here. Until Oil passed $40 a barrel this last decade it was economically unfeasible to drill in ANWAR. P5, P50 and P95 numbers are the main reason more off shore drilling isn't done. While Oil lobbyist would like you to believe that every field will have yields based on the P5 number, it is just wishful thinking.
The truth is off shore exploration will probably cost more than the oil we yield. Oil discovery peaked in the late 80s early 90s. Oil recovery should shadow that graph about 20 years down the road, or now.
Oils Energy Return On Energy Investment has been dropping for some time now. I believe I saw somewhere that at the end of WWII, one barrel of Oil used to drill resulted in retrieving 100 barrels of Oil. We are now down to a 10 to 1 ratio. It is the law of diminishing returns.
If you are going to blame environmentalist, you will have to show me where the environment has taken any precedence in the Bush administration or the Republican controlled congress for most of his term.
The problem is we don't really have enough to compensate for OPEC or even Non-OPEC countries. They can easily lower production to negate anything we do.
Ultimately Oil is finite. It is a dead end to continue perusing it.
I personally contend that as all energy supplies ultimately came from the sun, it will eventually be what we use. Even Uranium was born in a star somewhere. Alternatively we can make our own 'sun' if we can ever figure out a net gain from fusion.
Most of the oil on the planet is outside of the U.S. Regardless of how much we drill the price will be determined by global markets and thus by countries other than the U.S.
Unless that is, you want to drill more here and nationalize it, so the price can be controlled locally.
Use KB MB GB TB etc for base 2 and kB mB gB tB for base 10. One would be the 'proper' computer term, the other would be the more 'generic' SI term. Of course confusing gb for GB would be huge mistake
I remember when I worked for Creative Labs. We received several calls of people complaining that they couldn't load their 2 MB soundfont into the AWE32's 4 Mb of memory.
"Hardly "evolutionary", designing a system that designs trial and error is hardly "evolutionary", its basically an intelligent search of a search space compared against a pattern. Evolution is blind, it has no end goal."
No goal, but it does select based on environmental pressures. Instead of thinking of it as giving the algorithm a goal thing of it as defining what makes something survive. Instead of "running faster" our animal "receives better radio"
Then it wouldn't really matter. You wouldn't pay hundreds of providers to speed up your service. Likewise any individual ISP in a hundred throttling speeds would only hurt itself. The real problem is near monopolies need this law so they can abuse their control. If there was real competition among providers this wouldn't even be an issue or a thought.
It's not a matter of whether someone should be punished for libel, it's whether their identity should be forcibly revealed through a judge order before any libel has been shown or *specific* charges made.
Without specific charges the hospital is doing the same thing as the bloggers. Making accusations and little more.
Can you defame an anonymous person? Maybe you defame all anonymous people.
This is really a public relations issue with the developers(OSS community) that created the OS(Linux) TomTom is using.
The real downside I see for TomTom is they missed an opportunity to have an enormous enthusiastic technological group of people contribute to their product for free. Although, lucky for them, I'm sure some in the community will still hack the TomTom and create their own interface anyway.
To further your cookie analogy: How will IT respond when Accounting puts in a Help Desk Ticket?
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Wind farm - KIlled by Ted Kennedy.
From the Boston Globe:
"Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who would be able to see the wind farm on the horizon from his family's Hyannis compound, and former governor Mitt Romney maneuvered to kill the project on several occasions because of fears that the turbines would be unsightly, hurting tourism and property values."
Since when is Mitt Romney a 'tree hugger'
some greasy, smell hippy
It is clear from your name calling and emotions that you do not wish to look at the data. Believe it or not the Republicans(You know that party controlling the legislative and executive branches of government for 6 of the last 8 years) AND Democrats have both opposed alternatives for their own selfish reasons.
This is why we can't accomplish anything in this country. Let's blame some group for our problems rather than just look at the data. Our leaders have convinced us that the other side is always wrong and ours is always right. I implore you to make your arguments based on the evidence at hand vs a 'because of them' mentallity
Why do you think politicians can keep the magic show going.
BTW Since when has the Sierra Club, GreenPeace and all the others put together had as much money to lobby congress as Big Oil? If environmentalist are soo powerful explain the number of Superfund sites waiting to be cleaned.
In truth these groups hold no power. Everyone simply supports NIMBY(Not In My Back Yard)
I just want people who are for offshore drilling to realize we have to do it, because we lacked foresight. And that if we continue to drill without that foresight we will be up a creek in a few short years. Any bill that includes offshore drilling MUST include alternative incentives or will really be doing NOTHING.
People should also realize that the small amount of Oil offshore will not effect supply enough to offset demand once the global economy recovers.
How much it cost to drill is directly relational to how much Oil cost as we use Oil to build the rigs and transport Oil. Offshore drilling is a red herring and misses addressing the problem in very fundamental ways.
Hello to you too. When you begin to realize that economics is largely responsible and not some enemy group of people you will be much more likely to understand what is going on.
The problem is economics, NOT the environment. Environmentalist are just a scapegoat, a way of saying 'look it's their fault, we're not really running out.'
The truth is there aren't all that many more 'big' fields left to discover/recover. If we wait until we actually run out we will not have any energy left to develop alternatives.
That we need to drill offshore is just evidence that we are headed toward the back side of the slope. Any finite resource is easy to recover in the beginning until it reaches a peak at which it becomes more and more difficult. When demand heads back towards 90 million barrels a day ( and eventually 100 million...110 million etc.), nothing will stop Oil from reaching $140+ again. Drilling offshore may slow the rise in Oil prices, but it will not stop it.
Simply put:
1. Oil is finite.
2. Prices are determined by supply and demand.
3. Demand will rise infinitely.
4. Prices=supply/demand as demand approaches infinity so do prices.
Lucky for us(U.S.) we will only have high prices while some countries will simply starve. Hmmm, starving people=war/terrorism/rebellion. It is not a coincidence.
Offshore drilling is only a necessity now because we lacked the foresight to find alternatives sooner. Unfortunately high Oil prices are the only thing that will make us change. It will happen either orderly and controlled or we will become one of many civilizations in history that depended on a resource to their own detriment.
The Spice must flow.
Putting the common good ahead of the individual is Fascism. Put the individual(worker) above the common good is Communism. Like it or not the extreme Left is socialist and the extreme Right is fascist. I personally think they both suck and neither has been implemented in it's true form, but only as a tool for power.
Just wanted to show an example of how P numbers are used politically. The USGS estimated Caspian sea oil recovery at a P95 of 20 Gb (Giga barrels), P50 of 60 Gb and a P5 of 200 Gb. Of course drilling proponents said their were 200 billion barrels waiting to be had and environmentalist claimed there were only 20 billion (if any). In truth it looks like there will be about 60 billion barells recovered.
P numbers are probabilities. A P5 number means there is a 5% chance of recovery. Study these numbers and you will see Peak Oil is right around the corner and inline with predictions from 50 years ago. We will drill here as we have left ourselves with no other choice, it will not however change the fact that Oil will run out.
Walmart does not have a finite amount of product.
Economics is the real reason we don't drill more here. Until Oil passed $40 a barrel this last decade it was economically unfeasible to drill in ANWAR. P5, P50 and P95 numbers are the main reason more off shore drilling isn't done. While Oil lobbyist would like you to believe that every field will have yields based on the P5 number, it is just wishful thinking.
The truth is off shore exploration will probably cost more than the oil we yield. Oil discovery peaked in the late 80s early 90s. Oil recovery should shadow that graph about 20 years down the road, or now.
Oils Energy Return On Energy Investment has been dropping for some time now. I believe I saw somewhere that at the end of WWII, one barrel of Oil used to drill resulted in retrieving 100 barrels of Oil. We are now down to a 10 to 1 ratio. It is the law of diminishing returns.
If you are going to blame environmentalist, you will have to show me where the environment has taken any precedence in the Bush administration or the Republican controlled congress for most of his term.
The problem is we don't really have enough to compensate for OPEC or even Non-OPEC countries. They can easily lower production to negate anything we do.
Ultimately Oil is finite. It is a dead end to continue perusing it.
I personally contend that as all energy supplies ultimately came from the sun, it will eventually be what we use. Even Uranium was born in a star somewhere. Alternatively we can make our own 'sun' if we can ever figure out a net gain from fusion.
Most of the oil on the planet is outside of the U.S. Regardless of how much we drill the price will be determined by global markets and thus by countries other than the U.S. Unless that is, you want to drill more here and nationalize it, so the price can be controlled locally.
Don't forget do-not-reply.com and any other variation. It might not be so easy to reserve every bogus email that people use.
Use KB MB GB TB etc for base 2 and kB mB gB tB for base 10. One would be the 'proper' computer term, the other would be the more 'generic' SI term. Of course confusing gb for GB would be huge mistake
I remember when I worked for Creative Labs. We received several calls of people complaining that they couldn't load their 2 MB soundfont into the AWE32's 4 Mb of memory.
"Hardly "evolutionary", designing a system that designs trial and error is hardly "evolutionary", its basically an intelligent search of a search space compared against a pattern. Evolution is blind, it has no end goal."
No goal, but it does select based on environmental pressures. Instead of thinking of it as giving the algorithm a goal thing of it as defining what makes something survive. Instead of "running faster" our animal "receives better radio"
Then it wouldn't really matter. You wouldn't pay hundreds of providers to speed up your service. Likewise any individual ISP in a hundred throttling speeds would only hurt itself. The real problem is near monopolies need this law so they can abuse their control. If there was real competition among providers this wouldn't even be an issue or a thought.
My Bad http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39122722,00.htm
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/322652_msftvancouver06.html
I wouldn't show MS as an example of Made in the USA.
lookup the xbox production sometime too. http://www.google.com/search?q=xbox+production+international
I'm going to patent the process for getting patents.
That'll show 'em.
I better call all my friends with AT&T and tell them about this...
"We're sorry your call cannot be connected at this time. Please check your speech and try your call again."
It's not a matter of whether someone should be punished for libel, it's whether their identity should be forcibly revealed through a judge order before any libel has been shown or *specific* charges made.
Without specific charges the hospital is doing the same thing as the bloggers. Making accusations and little more.
Can you defame an anonymous person? Maybe you defame all anonymous people.
This is really a public relations issue with the developers(OSS community) that created the OS(Linux) TomTom is using. The real downside I see for TomTom is they missed an opportunity to have an enormous enthusiastic technological group of people contribute to their product for free. Although, lucky for them, I'm sure some in the community will still hack the TomTom and create their own interface anyway. To further your cookie analogy: How will IT respond when Accounting puts in a Help Desk Ticket?