How in the world could they kill off linux and bsd? you people are fucking lunatics.. you come up with some bat shit crazy story in your head and then convince yourself that its true...
I think it's something in the water. I personally have no idea how Linux or BSD would disappear.
My biggest personal concern is that the usual suspects will turn the intertoobz into something like Cable TV. But as I wrote to FudRucker, it it gets that bad, I'm Boom! Outa here. I don't need the internet that badly any more, and have a lot of other interests just waiting to be enjoyed.
And most of the time, the banks are about the only control over their mortgage feeding frenzy.
When banks issued a mortgage and intended to keep it and collect the payments for the duration, they had incentive to issue only reasonably safe mortgages.
Exactly. If all you do is originate the mortgage, there is zero incentive for anything other than issuing as many mortgages as you possibly can. So all the old rules like the actual ability to repay the loan was irrelevant.
Other people would buy the worst mortgages, put them in a bundle, and sell shares of them called "tranches" for real money. (The first money going into the bundle is the first tranche, the stuff left over goes into the second, etc. Some people thought many of the tranches, typically not the last one, were sound investments.)
Which was another rock bottom stupid shell game, or perhaps better called a game of "hot potato".
Housing costs were projected to keep going up.
Which in fact, was either the world's biggest lie, or world's stupidedt idea. It is simply not possible for that to happen. Shortly before the shit hit the fan, I was listening to a radio program where some presumed expert was telling us that the USA had moveed to a new model of permanent debt for people, where everyone was going top be millions in debt, and when they needed money, they'd just do a refi on their houses, which as we alll know, never lose value, and always appreciate over everything else.
IOW, promoting the idea that houses would eventually be infinite in price while everything else would stay the same.
And people believed it.
The people running the system typically saw their little detail, and paid little attention to the system as a whole, because they were making lots of money.
It was a game of reverse musical chairs. where instead of taking away one chair at a time, they added them. Then the cairs vaporized, along with all of the money.
It's foolish to rely on the average person to have good money-management skills. People will take out stupid loans to buy stuff. That's not going to change.
Sadly, this is true. I've worked with a lot of people whowere very smart, but when it came to money, they turned into assholes. One guy was a millionaire according to his retirement account, used to brag to me about it. He was smart, and I wasn't making as much in mine. Then he stopped bragging. The reason was he had 100 percent of his money in high risk Tech stocks, and then 2000 happened. Another lost everything in 2000, then lost everything again in 2007.
Or refi'ing the house and taking their kids and their friend's kids to Disneyland (always impresses the neighbors) or buying that Escalade ( because it only makes sense to use that low interest rate on your mortgage instead of taking out a separate loan amirite?) Hell, we did a refi in the early part of that insanity to take advantage of a lower interest rate. The bank did a "drive-by inspection, and there was a minimum takeout, something like 40 K. We really pissed them off when we plowed that money right back into the mortgage on the next payment.
It's really simple. No need to get paranoid about it. Who here hasn't worked with a mortgage calculator program on the web, or even rolled our own spreadsheet. You just do the math, and then ask yourself if whoever it is that's trying to get your money is on your side, or their own side.
My personal favorite theory is if we take all the people who believe apollo was faked to the moon, would they actually walk outside without a space suit?
I don't see the logic in your theory.
Do you think that people who believe the moon landing was faked think there is oxygen on the moon? There's no correlation here.
If people belive that we spent massive amounts of money, and had thousands upon thousands of people deeply involved in a conspiracy that miraculously has not leaked to this day.
Let's face it, why wouldn't they believe that the moon is covered with Green Grass and hookers, and the actual purpose of the rockets was to put a a giant lens that removes the color from the moon so we can't see what is actually there. The old one was failing, having been placed there by the Ancient Egyptians aided by aliens. It diif pretty well, but th eRosicrucians destroyed teh main power source of the pyramids during the revolutionary war, which was a diversion tactic by George Washington and the FreeMasons.
Air on the moon? Not the craziest idea.
They are all wrong anyhow. Thew Moon is where O'blama and Hillary have their trysts with the pizzagate kids. Wake up America- it's so obvious and right before your eyes!
That's why good Americans can't find his birth certificate - he was born on the moon in 1960. before the USA annexed it. Don't worry though, Sherriff Joe Arapio is giong to lead a force to liberate the moon, using the chemicals that are in those Chemtrails that he single handedly wrestled off of failed human Jimmy Carter, who was using them to poison fetuses.
The moon will now be used for good, God, and the American way.
Forget the emails, I wanna know why Hillary sold 20% of our uranium supply to Russia.
This was in return for Russia selling the Democrats a lifetime supply of Krokodil, when OBams and Hillary personally use to kill the little kisd they were pimping out in Pizzagate. After the Children reach puberty, and are no longer interesting to liberals, a big dose of Krokodil sends them painfully packing and leaving this earth.
Before this, Democrats were limited to taking the children and fetuses up in jets, and dumping them overboard. Those Chemtrails? That's those children and babies. Use a Telescope, iand it all becomes clear. Millions of babies in little Democrat donkey suits.
what if they kill off good stuff like ad blocker plugins for your browser, they kill off internet forums that allow free speech, they might even kill off linux & bsd and your only choice is ms-windows or apple's osx or android, and there is an american version of the great wall of china firewall so the only websites you can visit or spammy websites that want to sell you something at every turn, and the giant online retailers, it will kill the internet or cripple it,
Well, then they kill off a whole lot of the internet. I'll find something different to do with my time if say, they make adblockers illegal. A few times when I had to turn off adblock and no script, the internet was damn near unuseable.
Of course, I won't be spending the bucks for my internet connection either.
Do you figure that Pai would have done this if But Her Email was elected president? My guess is no. But the American people have spoken. Republican politicians have been against net neutrality for years, and with the American people making up congress by their votes, they have tacitly demanded the death of Net Neutrality.
The last part was sarcastic, I suspect that only certain companies and the politicians they own actually want to kill it, and very few Americans, left or right do. Then again, with less than 50 percent voter turnout, maybe they actually don't care? That part isn't sarcastic.
One thing I always wondered about My Republican friends have always screamed about unelected people making law. I don't remember any ballots that Pai was on. But either way, we are not getting anything we don't deserve.
1. Net Neutrality: OMG Its the END OF THE WORLD that corporations will get to choose what they want to do with their own infrastructure no matter how much this will suppress competition and free speech. FU Trump for allowing this to happen!
2. Internet Censorship/Corporate Mergers: Its WONDERFUL that corporations will get to choose what they want to do with their own infrastructure regardless of how much this will suppress competition and free speech. FU Trump for not allowing this to happen!
You missed your anger management classes again, didn't ya?
This has been in the works for decades and you wanna blame the new guy.
You're an idiot.
I thought that you patriots were all about State's rights, and sorry, the administration that passes the law gets teh blame. After all, Paicould simply have done what he did whan th eKenyan terror baby was in office.
But he waited now, didn't he?
Be careful calling people idiots, it might just be your reflection in a mirror.
No it isn't. Just punch them in the face until they are knocked out then walk away.
This should be the standard response to anyone who accuses someone of "micro aggressions"
I bet it doesn't take more than twice before any one of them shuts up for the rest of their miserable life. The rest will soon get the hint too.
Reminds me of the old man - "Don't make me get out of this chair - I'll give you something to complain about!" It kinda worked! 8^)
But really, I'm trying to imagine these simps after being around some of my friends an I. There's plenty of "You dumb asshole" and "Damn you're stupid!" Yet we'd all run through a wall for each other.
While the simps would be catatonic on the floor because we were sooooo mean and aggressive.
I respectfully think this gets cause and effect backwards. People don't just sign up for loans totaling 5x their yearly income* without a good reason.
I can't think of any good reasons. The math really isn't there I recall some whacky storied like an 80 year old man buying a house with a 50 year mortgage, and million dollar mortgages with advertised paymens of like 500 dollars a month.
This is totally whack. People only live for so long, and the math is simply not there for anyone who actually spends some time doing the math.
As well, those 50 year and incredibly low monthly payments were going to zoom up in monthly payment in a year or so, and if people were paying attention, they would have noted that the montly payments were going to be more than their take-home pay.
They do so because housing costs are expensive and that's the only way to get in on the increase in prices and the perks of homeownership (including the MID).
This is true. What happens though is people get house hypnosis, as I call it. Americans have had it drilled into them that you MUST have a house, you MUST own it!. . So yeah, most people will pay anything, sacrifice everything else, in order to buy a house. Of course, most way overextended themselves on credt at the same time, but that was a symptom.
And most of the time, the banks are about the only control over their mortgage feeding frenzy. But the control was lost. There is simply no way mathematically that a person making 50 K a year can afford a million dollar house. But since the brakes were fried, originators originated those kind of financially foolish mortgages. It was truly insanity.
Weird thing is, there was one or two economists who said "This is going to end badly." No kidding, I knew we were headed for disaster the first time I saw one of those ridiculous loans on Yahoo. My question was why didn't everyone see what was going to happen? The math was elementary. IOt was like people lining up to get screwed by con men, and cheering as they finincially destroyed themselves. Then the unavoidable thing happened, and billions of dollars evaporated overnight. Along with these foolish people's dreams.
Now I know that a lot of people who consider themselves really smart cannot even imagine what I did, but My wife and I lived quite cheaply to start our married life. We even lived in a mobile home. But we socked money in the bank like crazy. Then during a lull in the local housing market in the early 90's we pounced on a home at a good price Paid it off quickly, less than 15 years.
Meanwhile, my peers were buying Escalades with their re-fi's, bought way more house than they could afford and went to "creative" financing, and are wondering now that they are in their early 60's just how they are going to retire with 15 plus years on their mortgages. Even when they bought their places before I bought mine. Meanwhile, I have been retired since I was 55, and loving it.
Point is, what you have to do is look at total cost in a world that is screaming at us about Easy Monthly Payments. Not that I expect anyone to believe me, but if you have to have a house at any cost, you certainly will pay any cost that they are happy to sell you that house for. This has been well proven.
Here is the abstract with a link to buy the paper. After reading the abstract, it still isn't clear to me what is "new" about this. If it is really just more inexpensive catalysts, then why include the "solar" angle, since that would irrelevant to the actual science? It would work just as well with electricity from any source.
Thank you for the link to the abstract, Bill.
Its both interesting and a little hybridish dual purposeish or maybe isn't, or something.
I see the main feature the electrolysis using less expensive electrode materials. and assuming it works, a one step removed from practical applications. The solar angle is probably a marketing spin, although with cheap production, you could set up panels in the back yard to make hydrogen to heat the house, or produce fuel in sunny locations without much labor costs or environmental impact.
You mean the meetings with russians to buy dirt on Hillary? Why not? Hillary bought fabricated dossier on Trump, and Trump cant buy a dossier on Hillary? Interesting...
You need to look up who Paul Singer was, tovarisch.
your tongue will be torn out, you will then be rolled up into a carpet and thrown off a bridge, after which you will be drawn and quartered by sea horses, at which point the underwater sea dogs with killer seabees in their mouths will escort your remains to the lizard people from the center of the hollow earth, and you will be shot out of a lizard person cannon by gnomes, outwards and upwards through the hole in the earth in antarctica, whereby the annunaki "chosen ones" will roll up your galactic-weary traitorous remains into a reasonably-sized cigar [*] that moon elvis can enjoy after snacking on moon cheese.
>we have to fall back on the absolutely no evidence ever level!
The problem isn't a lack of evidence, the problem is a lack of trust in the agencies telling us about it because in the past they've not only told lies, but actively manufactured them to serve their agendas. (And gotten caught at it, obviously)
Of course, in the past those agendas were more or less in line with that of the White House.
Trust? I catch flack in here sometimes because I listen to or watch NPR, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and get ready for it - here's the one that make people's heads asplode - Breitbart. Even a foray or two on RT on Youtube.
I don't trust anyone. But I want news. So I decide for myself who is telling the truth. It has a way of coming out.
The problem is, in the world, there is a tremendous amount of newsworthy stuff going on. There is only so much time, and that means the very act of deciding what to report tips off the agencies bias. Cannot be helped.
The biggest problem with the absolutely no evidence crowd is twofold. One is a willful denial that might make anti Vaxxers blush, and the other is a naive idea that all of any evidence has already been found and has been shown. Much of the evidence is counterintelligence based, and at this time is classified.
Things that we do know are that there have been meetings between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives, there has been communication between top Trump officials and Wikileaks, that a Senior Trump official attempted to use Russian encrypted equipment for communications between at least the campaign and somewhere in Russia, that several Trump senior officials have lied under oath, and some have failed to register as foreign agents. And that Trump fired James Comey for the express purpose of stopping an investigation, as he admitted to Russians visiting shortly after he fired Comey. There have been arrests made and one guilty confession already obtained.
That is a major shitload of absolutely no evidence already.
Don't forget what student aid did to the cost of college.
Yeah, I forgot that one. We produced a generation of people with liberal arts degrees, some with 100K in loan debt, and only qualified to work at WalMart.
including the learning step. Remember, once you get past trig it's a sausage fest. And it's all very, very socially awkward guys who have a hard time not making fools of themselves around women either intentionally or by design. It's just a plain uncomfortable situation to be in. If anything it's worse when they're younger since you've got hormone addled teenagers. Given the choice bright woman go into medical, accounting, general management, etc.
I worked with female engineers and scientists. One of the things we all shared was that we knew what we wanted to be from an early age. And none of us cared about what others thought or said. There is a clue there.
And becoming an Engineer or scientist or other highly technical educated person, you do not have the stereotype of college education. You're in the library and labs - a lot. While most of the other students are partying and enjoying their college experience.
The to top it off, no one thinks it is cool to be STEM. I have absolutely no idea how that can be combated. Gonna go STEM, and you are automatically considerd a Nerd.
Keeping in mind that I worked for many years in trying to attract women to STEM careers, as one small part of my work. I eventually came to the conclusion that it simply wasn't going to work. The ladies I worked with told me why. I wonder if Google would fire them, because they believed that most women were simply not interested, and they were not interested because of some general differences between most men and women. Not all, as they were obviously happy doing what they are doing, but they grew up with other women and came to their conclusion. Were their thoughts on the matter wrong because it did not fit the narrative?
So you have fields where you need a certain amount of passion for the work that gets you through college, and enough self assurance that you do not need the validation of others who think that you might be a little weird. By the way, the young ladies we polled most wanted to be lawyers, next was animal vets, a smattering of others, and STEM came in behind some who wanted to be Pop Singers
It doesn't help that modern education is so competitive that you pretty much have to start planing for your profession in your freshmen year of high school...
Ugh - My son had his schools's first career day when he was in 5th grade. Thos things are pernicious, probably 80 percent of humanity has no passion, and the assholes in schools are telling them they need to "find your passion, and go with it". In 5th freaking grade! All that is doing is setting the young folk up for a major disappointment later on.
As a passionate person, I have to say I think most people wouldn't even want one. A passion rules over you like a white hot pillar of flame. I'm seriously glad I have an understanding wife, because I can be pretty focused and driven.
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How in the world could they kill off linux and bsd? you people are fucking lunatics.. you come up with some bat shit crazy story in your head and then convince yourself that its true...
I think it's something in the water. I personally have no idea how Linux or BSD would disappear.
My biggest personal concern is that the usual suspects will turn the intertoobz into something like Cable TV. But as I wrote to FudRucker, it it gets that bad, I'm Boom! Outa here. I don't need the internet that badly any more, and have a lot of other interests just waiting to be enjoyed.
When banks issued a mortgage and intended to keep it and collect the payments for the duration, they had incentive to issue only reasonably safe mortgages.
Exactly. If all you do is originate the mortgage, there is zero incentive for anything other than issuing as many mortgages as you possibly can. So all the old rules like the actual ability to repay the loan was irrelevant.
Other people would buy the worst mortgages, put them in a bundle, and sell shares of them called "tranches" for real money. (The first money going into the bundle is the first tranche, the stuff left over goes into the second, etc. Some people thought many of the tranches, typically not the last one, were sound investments.)
Which was another rock bottom stupid shell game, or perhaps better called a game of "hot potato".
Housing costs were projected to keep going up.
Which in fact, was either the world's biggest lie, or world's stupidedt idea. It is simply not possible for that to happen. Shortly before the shit hit the fan, I was listening to a radio program where some presumed expert was telling us that the USA had moveed to a new model of permanent debt for people, where everyone was going top be millions in debt, and when they needed money, they'd just do a refi on their houses, which as we alll know, never lose value, and always appreciate over everything else.
IOW, promoting the idea that houses would eventually be infinite in price while everything else would stay the same.
And people believed it.
The people running the system typically saw their little detail, and paid little attention to the system as a whole, because they were making lots of money.
It was a game of reverse musical chairs. where instead of taking away one chair at a time, they added them. Then the cairs vaporized, along with all of the money.
It's foolish to rely on the average person to have good money-management skills. People will take out stupid loans to buy stuff. That's not going to change.
Sadly, this is true. I've worked with a lot of people whowere very smart, but when it came to money, they turned into assholes. One guy was a millionaire according to his retirement account, used to brag to me about it. He was smart, and I wasn't making as much in mine. Then he stopped bragging. The reason was he had 100 percent of his money in high risk Tech stocks, and then 2000 happened. Another lost everything in 2000, then lost everything again in 2007.
Or refi'ing the house and taking their kids and their friend's kids to Disneyland (always impresses the neighbors) or buying that Escalade ( because it only makes sense to use that low interest rate on your mortgage instead of taking out a separate loan amirite?) Hell, we did a refi in the early part of that insanity to take advantage of a lower interest rate. The bank did a "drive-by inspection, and there was a minimum takeout, something like 40 K. We really pissed them off when we plowed that money right back into the mortgage on the next payment.
It's really simple. No need to get paranoid about it. Who here hasn't worked with a mortgage calculator program on the web, or even rolled our own spreadsheet. You just do the math, and then ask yourself if whoever it is that's trying to get your money is on your side, or their own side.
I don't see the logic in your theory.
Do you think that people who believe the moon landing was faked think there is oxygen on the moon? There's no correlation here.
If people belive that we spent massive amounts of money, and had thousands upon thousands of people deeply involved in a conspiracy that miraculously has not leaked to this day.
Let's face it, why wouldn't they believe that the moon is covered with Green Grass and hookers, and the actual purpose of the rockets was to put a a giant lens that removes the color from the moon so we can't see what is actually there. The old one was failing, having been placed there by the Ancient Egyptians aided by aliens. It diif pretty well, but th eRosicrucians destroyed teh main power source of the pyramids during the revolutionary war, which was a diversion tactic by George Washington and the FreeMasons. Air on the moon? Not the craziest idea.
They are all wrong anyhow. Thew Moon is where O'blama and Hillary have their trysts with the pizzagate kids. Wake up America- it's so obvious and right before your eyes! That's why good Americans can't find his birth certificate - he was born on the moon in 1960. before the USA annexed it. Don't worry though, Sherriff Joe Arapio is giong to lead a force to liberate the moon, using the chemicals that are in those Chemtrails that he single handedly wrestled off of failed human Jimmy Carter, who was using them to poison fetuses.
The moon will now be used for good, God, and the American way.
OMG will someone stop him from this suicide attempt?
Why? This is going to be a graphic demonstrations of why science doesn't care if you "believe" it.
The weird part is that he's planning on going up 1500 feet? What's that going to prove? This is just life in Post-Sanity USA
Forget the emails, I wanna know why Hillary sold 20% of our uranium supply to Russia.
This was in return for Russia selling the Democrats a lifetime supply of Krokodil, when OBams and Hillary personally use to kill the little kisd they were pimping out in Pizzagate. After the Children reach puberty, and are no longer interesting to liberals, a big dose of Krokodil sends them painfully packing and leaving this earth.
Before this, Democrats were limited to taking the children and fetuses up in jets, and dumping them overboard. Those Chemtrails? That's those children and babies. Use a Telescope, iand it all becomes clear. Millions of babies in little Democrat donkey suits.
Verified by Fox News.
Just know this: Chernnbyl happened, and O'Bama stood by and did nothing.
Forget that, what about the emails?!1!?1?1?!!/1/11?1?!!?
I am chastened and embarrassed for my forgetfulness! Thanks for setting my straight. ;^)
Is Zuckerborg from Mississippi or something?
My Samsung does. However, if the phone just doesn't have "enough room" that doesn't help much.
I wonder what could be done about that?
You have to help the company a little - clear the darn thing out.
usa legacy media now sees russia everywhere excuse/explanation is needed.
Did you sell your account to russian trolls, or have you always been a russian troll? That's a pretty low UID.
Just know this: Chernnbyl happened, and O'Bama stood by and did nothing.
what if they kill off good stuff like ad blocker plugins for your browser, they kill off internet forums that allow free speech, they might even kill off linux & bsd and your only choice is ms-windows or apple's osx or android, and there is an american version of the great wall of china firewall so the only websites you can visit or spammy websites that want to sell you something at every turn, and the giant online retailers, it will kill the internet or cripple it,
Well, then they kill off a whole lot of the internet. I'll find something different to do with my time if say, they make adblockers illegal. A few times when I had to turn off adblock and no script, the internet was damn near unuseable.
Of course, I won't be spending the bucks for my internet connection either.
Do you figure that Pai would have done this if But Her Email was elected president? My guess is no. But the American people have spoken. Republican politicians have been against net neutrality for years, and with the American people making up congress by their votes, they have tacitly demanded the death of Net Neutrality.
The last part was sarcastic, I suspect that only certain companies and the politicians they own actually want to kill it, and very few Americans, left or right do. Then again, with less than 50 percent voter turnout, maybe they actually don't care? That part isn't sarcastic.
One thing I always wondered about My Republican friends have always screamed about unelected people making law. I don't remember any ballots that Pai was on. But either way, we are not getting anything we don't deserve.
1. Net Neutrality: OMG Its the END OF THE WORLD that corporations will get to choose what they want to do with their own infrastructure no matter how much this will suppress competition and free speech. FU Trump for allowing this to happen! 2. Internet Censorship/Corporate Mergers: Its WONDERFUL that corporations will get to choose what they want to do with their own infrastructure regardless of how much this will suppress competition and free speech. FU Trump for not allowing this to happen!
You missed your anger management classes again, didn't ya?
This has been in the works for decades and you wanna blame the new guy.
You're an idiot.
I thought that you patriots were all about State's rights, and sorry, the administration that passes the law gets teh blame. After all, Paicould simply have done what he did whan th eKenyan terror baby was in office.
But he waited now, didn't he?
Be careful calling people idiots, it might just be your reflection in a mirror.
Quick, report him to the authority! That will be the proof you need that the Russians HACKED the election, which we know is ""true""..
Hold on there cowboy! This is all fake news because Russia doesn't act upon people on the internet. Just a planted story by Hillary.
No it isn't. Just punch them in the face until they are knocked out then walk away. This should be the standard response to anyone who accuses someone of "micro aggressions" I bet it doesn't take more than twice before any one of them shuts up for the rest of their miserable life. The rest will soon get the hint too.
Reminds me of the old man - "Don't make me get out of this chair - I'll give you something to complain about!" It kinda worked! 8^)
But really, I'm trying to imagine these simps after being around some of my friends an I. There's plenty of "You dumb asshole" and "Damn you're stupid!" Yet we'd all run through a wall for each other.
While the simps would be catatonic on the floor because we were sooooo mean and aggressive.
I respectfully think this gets cause and effect backwards. People don't just sign up for loans totaling 5x their yearly income* without a good reason.
I can't think of any good reasons. The math really isn't there I recall some whacky storied like an 80 year old man buying a house with a 50 year mortgage, and million dollar mortgages with advertised paymens of like 500 dollars a month.
This is totally whack. People only live for so long, and the math is simply not there for anyone who actually spends some time doing the math.
As well, those 50 year and incredibly low monthly payments were going to zoom up in monthly payment in a year or so, and if people were paying attention, they would have noted that the montly payments were going to be more than their take-home pay.
They do so because housing costs are expensive and that's the only way to get in on the increase in prices and the perks of homeownership (including the MID).
This is true. What happens though is people get house hypnosis, as I call it. Americans have had it drilled into them that you MUST have a house, you MUST own it!. . So yeah, most people will pay anything, sacrifice everything else, in order to buy a house. Of course, most way overextended themselves on credt at the same time, but that was a symptom.
And most of the time, the banks are about the only control over their mortgage feeding frenzy. But the control was lost. There is simply no way mathematically that a person making 50 K a year can afford a million dollar house. But since the brakes were fried, originators originated those kind of financially foolish mortgages. It was truly insanity.
Weird thing is, there was one or two economists who said "This is going to end badly." No kidding, I knew we were headed for disaster the first time I saw one of those ridiculous loans on Yahoo. My question was why didn't everyone see what was going to happen? The math was elementary. IOt was like people lining up to get screwed by con men, and cheering as they finincially destroyed themselves. Then the unavoidable thing happened, and billions of dollars evaporated overnight. Along with these foolish people's dreams.
Now I know that a lot of people who consider themselves really smart cannot even imagine what I did, but My wife and I lived quite cheaply to start our married life. We even lived in a mobile home. But we socked money in the bank like crazy. Then during a lull in the local housing market in the early 90's we pounced on a home at a good price Paid it off quickly, less than 15 years.
Meanwhile, my peers were buying Escalades with their re-fi's, bought way more house than they could afford and went to "creative" financing, and are wondering now that they are in their early 60's just how they are going to retire with 15 plus years on their mortgages. Even when they bought their places before I bought mine. Meanwhile, I have been retired since I was 55, and loving it.
Point is, what you have to do is look at total cost in a world that is screaming at us about Easy Monthly Payments. Not that I expect anyone to believe me, but if you have to have a house at any cost, you certainly will pay any cost that they are happy to sell you that house for. This has been well proven.
Here is the abstract with a link to buy the paper. After reading the abstract, it still isn't clear to me what is "new" about this. If it is really just more inexpensive catalysts, then why include the "solar" angle, since that would irrelevant to the actual science? It would work just as well with electricity from any source.
Thank you for the link to the abstract, Bill.
Its both interesting and a little hybridish dual purposeish or maybe isn't, or something.
I see the main feature the electrolysis using less expensive electrode materials. and assuming it works, a one step removed from practical applications. The solar angle is probably a marketing spin, although with cheap production, you could set up panels in the back yard to make hydrogen to heat the house, or produce fuel in sunny locations without much labor costs or environmental impact.
looks like the home science for kids PEM starter kit I got, presumably with a supercapacitor glued to the back - revolutionary !
And....? While I suspect that there are some interesting details, not every advance need be space shuttle level complicated.
It only needs to work.
I need more info than a press release though, as I am experiencing maximum interest.
The plot of Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home can be summed up as
[cetacean needed].
Bravo!
This is the essential Slashdot joke. You should be gifted a month of all your posts at +5!
You mean the meetings with russians to buy dirt on Hillary? Why not? Hillary bought fabricated dossier on Trump, and Trump cant buy a dossier on Hillary? Interesting ...
You need to look up who Paul Singer was, tovarisch.
your tongue will be torn out, you will then be rolled up into a carpet and thrown off a bridge, after which you will be drawn and quartered by sea horses, at which point the underwater sea dogs with killer seabees in their mouths will escort your remains to the lizard people from the center of the hollow earth, and you will be shot out of a lizard person cannon by gnomes, outwards and upwards through the hole in the earth in antarctica, whereby the annunaki "chosen ones" will roll up your galactic-weary traitorous remains into a reasonably-sized cigar [*] that moon elvis can enjoy after snacking on moon cheese.
That's my fetish!
Wall of text...but nothing to say.
The irony is delicious. But thanks for playing.
>we have to fall back on the absolutely no evidence ever level!
The problem isn't a lack of evidence, the problem is a lack of trust in the agencies telling us about it because in the past they've not only told lies, but actively manufactured them to serve their agendas. (And gotten caught at it, obviously)
Of course, in the past those agendas were more or less in line with that of the White House.
Trust? I catch flack in here sometimes because I listen to or watch NPR, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and get ready for it - here's the one that make people's heads asplode - Breitbart. Even a foray or two on RT on Youtube.
I don't trust anyone. But I want news. So I decide for myself who is telling the truth. It has a way of coming out.
The problem is, in the world, there is a tremendous amount of newsworthy stuff going on. There is only so much time, and that means the very act of deciding what to report tips off the agencies bias. Cannot be helped.
The biggest problem with the absolutely no evidence crowd is twofold. One is a willful denial that might make anti Vaxxers blush, and the other is a naive idea that all of any evidence has already been found and has been shown. Much of the evidence is counterintelligence based, and at this time is classified.
Things that we do know are that there have been meetings between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives, there has been communication between top Trump officials and Wikileaks, that a Senior Trump official attempted to use Russian encrypted equipment for communications between at least the campaign and somewhere in Russia, that several Trump senior officials have lied under oath, and some have failed to register as foreign agents. And that Trump fired James Comey for the express purpose of stopping an investigation, as he admitted to Russians visiting shortly after he fired Comey. There have been arrests made and one guilty confession already obtained.
That is a major shitload of absolutely no evidence already.
Don't forget what student aid did to the cost of college.
Yeah, I forgot that one. We produced a generation of people with liberal arts degrees, some with 100K in loan debt, and only qualified to work at WalMart.
Wow - we really did screw up didn't we?
Protect her honor - it is your job, not the state's. Quel est votre problem?
including the learning step. Remember, once you get past trig it's a sausage fest. And it's all very, very socially awkward guys who have a hard time not making fools of themselves around women either intentionally or by design. It's just a plain uncomfortable situation to be in. If anything it's worse when they're younger since you've got hormone addled teenagers. Given the choice bright woman go into medical, accounting, general management, etc.
I worked with female engineers and scientists. One of the things we all shared was that we knew what we wanted to be from an early age. And none of us cared about what others thought or said. There is a clue there.
And becoming an Engineer or scientist or other highly technical educated person, you do not have the stereotype of college education. You're in the library and labs - a lot. While most of the other students are partying and enjoying their college experience.
The to top it off, no one thinks it is cool to be STEM. I have absolutely no idea how that can be combated. Gonna go STEM, and you are automatically considerd a Nerd.
Keeping in mind that I worked for many years in trying to attract women to STEM careers, as one small part of my work. I eventually came to the conclusion that it simply wasn't going to work. The ladies I worked with told me why. I wonder if Google would fire them, because they believed that most women were simply not interested, and they were not interested because of some general differences between most men and women. Not all, as they were obviously happy doing what they are doing, but they grew up with other women and came to their conclusion. Were their thoughts on the matter wrong because it did not fit the narrative?
So you have fields where you need a certain amount of passion for the work that gets you through college, and enough self assurance that you do not need the validation of others who think that you might be a little weird. By the way, the young ladies we polled most wanted to be lawyers, next was animal vets, a smattering of others, and STEM came in behind some who wanted to be Pop Singers
It doesn't help that modern education is so competitive that you pretty much have to start planing for your profession in your freshmen year of high school...
Ugh - My son had his schools's first career day when he was in 5th grade. Thos things are pernicious, probably 80 percent of humanity has no passion, and the assholes in schools are telling them they need to "find your passion, and go with it". In 5th freaking grade! All that is doing is setting the young folk up for a major disappointment later on.
As a passionate person, I have to say I think most people wouldn't even want one. A passion rules over you like a white hot pillar of flame. I'm seriously glad I have an understanding wife, because I can be pretty focused and driven.