Aren't we all sick of the global warming hoax yet?
You heard me, I called it a hoax. Not only has our planet seen amounts of CO2 that make the current amount look silly, but we're coming out of a geological cold phase. CO2 lags heat, not the other way around. It's all about the sun. We've got nothing to do with it.
Just as a baseline rule, I would be highly suspicous of a private corporation's arguments that strictly enforcing a regulation against non-profits and public entities somehow benefits the public good.
Y'know, that's exactly the same thing that the telemarketer industry nonprofits say when places like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting steps up and says "you know, there are regulations preventing them from doing this, you guys should step in."
Anyone who would assume that because one side is a corporation and the other side isn't that the law is suddenly unjust is, frankly, a jackass. There's a reason for those payment terms; it's because other groups, even your precious non-profits, want those spectrums too, and people who can do their books on time should be getting this limited resource. There was no money shortage. The school just didn't pay for two months. You think their phones would get shut off too?
Just because they're a school doesn't mean they should get a pass on paying their bills, especially when they're not actually struggling to pay. They say they can't handle the extra paperwork; that's crap, as anyone who owns Quicken and watches it do these things automatically, and who knows Quicken costs about the salary of one person for two days, will tell you.
Stop mistaking the crying of foul for actual foul. Believe it or not, there are jerks in schools too.
I would say that there is a bit of a disparity there
Given that national individual income is more than thirty times national corporate income, I'd say you're right. The corporations are paying taxes you and I would never dream of. (I can tell, because you wouldn't have said something that ill-informed nor made a comparison so obviously bereft of the appropriate numbers, if you had dreamt of it.)
That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war; All pity choked with custom of fell deeds: And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
If you're going to correct people, check that you're not talking out of your ass first.
Yeah, because if there are two words that go together, it's industrial and homebrew. :D
There are a whole lot of things that go into handling an industrial system. If you're really going to try to do this on your own, you've got a lot of reading ahead of you; the cost of faults in an industrial system is typically prohibitively high. You're going to need a deep familiarity with modern methods. You're going to need to be familiar with direct hardware control, realtime coding (which is harder than most people think,) constant test polling, and all sorts of stuff most programmers never, ever have to deal with.
This is not something you can take lightly. If you're going to do this, you have to get it right, the first time, and that means your test cases and regression tests have to be diamond-hard, your specification has to be absolute, and you have to know your timing will not fail. These are difficult issues, but with the appropriate know-how, this can be done.
in terms of the need to obtain the various materials needed for this
Yeah, because carbon, oxygen and argon are rare, whereas you can find copper and gallium pretty much anywhere you look.
assemble them, then manufacture
The difference is enormous!
set up... the infrastructure for distributing this energy
Indeed, because we don't already have a framework for transmitting electricity. If only solar didn't make a different kind of electricity...
Couple that with the fact that transmitting electricity is a very lossy process over distance
Yeah, the distance from your house to the next house is tremendous when compared with the brief jaunt to the nuclear reactor in the middle of the state.
Amusingly, every single point you made is in solar's favor.
If every roof in the U.S. was covered with solar panels, we'd have a large part of the solution already figured out.
Solar panels aren't energy cost breakeven unless you're in a sunny area like Arizona. Solar panels in a place like Seattle are virtually worthless. As soon as you see someone suggesting solar at a national scale, ignorant of indigent weather, insolation and vertical population density, you know you're talking to someone without a clue.
Or, did you just not know that 85% of America doesn't have a house, but instead an apartment, condo or that ilk? Turns out that the vast bulk of the population is in cities, where the price of housing becomes prohibitive because of the number of people there. Roofing is a limited commodity.
You're like one of those people who fixates on the Farnsworth Fusor as the key to salvation. Maybe you should try looking at the economics yourself, instead of believing what someone told you. You'll find they're nowhere near as simple as they sound.
Germany's finding that out the hard way right now.
So, what you're saying, Bennett, is that you don't know what vaporware is? (It's like one of those episodes of Star Trek that's plodding along happily, then someone says they have to download their sensor readings to the ship, and then you just have to go kill an innocent child.)
By that logic, a reporter discussing Darfur is engaging in a slam if they don't document prior abuses by other nations. Do you stand by your evaluation in that light?
Open source products are making inroads in most vertical markets, deposing commercial product after commercial product. Their user base is soaring, their legitimacy is solidifying, their media presence is expanding. It's actively difficult to find servers that aren't open source.
Exactly what definition of "killing" are we working by, again?
Although I agree that that description is rather silly, each time I've found myself trying to come up with a -succinct layman's definition- of what the Internet is, and I come up short.
C'mon.
The internet is a large group of computers connected over a specific system called "IP," which know how to arrange a game of chinese phone system to get messages from any point to any other. The power of the internet is that every point on it is both a server and a client - that is, a host and a consumer - at the same time, and there is no concept of priority; it lets anyone who can develop a product compete on an even playing field, and that playing field is generic enough to support a startling array of systems.
The power of the internet is quite simply in that everyone's a server.
Interesting, but why the Canada hate? Just had to throw in some typical American "humor"?
The difference between my Canada jokes and your America jokes is that mine are meant in good fun. So sorry your neolithic maple-hockey-beer society hasn't clarified that for you yet.
Yeah, that's the difference between tier 1/2 and tier 3+. You only don't get guaranteed circuit if you're trying to bargain basement your way out of real T1 pricing.
That was a very interesting post, though prone to exaggeration.
Such is my nature.
Your attitude seems to be that if American's change a foreign dish, we get credit for it but if someone else changes an American dish, we still get credit.
Of course. We're America. We also get credit for stuff that has nothing to do with us.
I mean, I actually never said what you suggest I did, nor even implied it, and in fact I bent over backwards to make it clear that I don't think that, such as giving 17 counterexamples. But, you're still right, America gets credit for everything.
Perhaps link to some websites about decent American cheeses?
I don't know of any. Wikipedia probably has something, but everything on Wikipedia is wrong, so if you use their data, be sure to multiply it by negative one.
If you'd like to make one, investigate cookbooks by Alice Waters (1, 2, 3, bio,) who may very well be the greatest chef, globally, of her generation. You have the privilege of walking the Earth while she's still alive and while Chez Panisse still runs. Don't miss out. (Anyone who can turn down five invitations by three presidents to be white house chef is worth looking into, natch.)
Yes, but did they take the next step to completely scrap reality, as Einstein saw it, and wonder if the world was instantiated upon simulation hardware with limited abilities?
I would have used "belabor" instead (to belabor the point), but only for want of choice.
It's a matter of self mockery by dint of intimation. To belabor is to exert one's will or strength upon; that's what a mayor does. That implies some form of authority, that one has the right to impose, and that as such it is the duty of others to subjugate themselves. To beleaguer, however, is not an issue of authority, but rather of assertion by war; it's a Dutch word, inasmuch as you can call anything in Dutch a word, relative to "camping around" (camp: legeren, see league; be-: prefix meaning about or surrounding.)
The combination is circa the 16c. Flemish Wars, and implies coercion by attrition and denial. I find the insinuation amusing.
In all technical manuals, as well as several episodes, it is made clear that the purpose of the Bussard Ramjets is to provide a mechanism to refill the matter storage side of the matter/antimatter reaction. The clearest example is either the TNG episode "Night Terrors" or the Voyager episode "Flashback," but you can also check TOS The Doomsday Machine, Catspaw, TNG Samaritan Snare, Relics, VOY Unforgettable, The Haunting of Deck 12, Real Life, DS9 Captive Pursuit, the movie Insurrection, several cards in the TNG card game, more than a dozen of the novels, and the movie Insurrection.
White potatoes are New World. Yams are Chinese. Rösti are traditionally a yam product, though almost nobody makes them that way anymore. The yam was introduced to Europe and quickly forgotten by dint of the Great Silk Road. Berne (the french/german area in Switzerland) kept a hold of the plant, though, and it's been traditional ever since.
To a Southerner, explained what Yankee's call "Soul Food", he would have only one thing in mind. There is only one dish that might seperate "White" dinner from "Black" dinner in the South. "Chitlins" is such dish, and to be honest, a lot of deep South, back hills white families also eat chitlins too.
Er. I'm a middle class white kid from near-downtown Pittsburgh, and I grew up eating chitlins, hog maw, fatback and collard greens. Methinks you overestimate the classification.
Since there's only one dish that could possibly seperate, statistically, "Soul Food" from "Southern Food", I really shall assert there is no such thing as "Soul Food".
Er. There is a ton of Southern food that has nothing whatsoever to do with Soul Food, and vice versa. You do know the term comes from Detroit Michigan, which is almost as North as America gets, right?
Soul food is not a South thing. Sorry you think we yanks misunderstand you, but in fact it's quite the other way around. You may not co-opt something you did not invent, nor which you serve the entirety of. Soul food is more than polenta, scrapple and crawdads.
The philosophy of science led directly to Quantum Mechanics and Newtonian Dynamics. Philosophy is the categorization and refinement of knowledge. If you think that isn't useful to things like physics, then it's no wonder you don't understand why most of the great human minds have philosopher's backgrounds. It ain't coincidental.
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Aren't we all sick of the global warming hoax yet?
You heard me, I called it a hoax. Not only has our planet seen amounts of CO2 that make the current amount look silly, but we're coming out of a geological cold phase. CO2 lags heat, not the other way around. It's all about the sun. We've got nothing to do with it.
Surprisingly convincing BBC documentary.
Anyone who would assume that because one side is a corporation and the other side isn't that the law is suddenly unjust is, frankly, a jackass. There's a reason for those payment terms; it's because other groups, even your precious non-profits, want those spectrums too , and people who can do their books on time should be getting this limited resource. There was no money shortage. The school just didn't pay for two months. You think their phones would get shut off too?
Just because they're a school doesn't mean they should get a pass on paying their bills, especially when they're not actually struggling to pay. They say they can't handle the extra paperwork; that's crap, as anyone who owns Quicken and watches it do these things automatically, and who knows Quicken costs about the salary of one person for two days, will tell you.
Stop mistaking the crying of foul for actual foul. Believe it or not, there are jerks in schools too.
Given that national individual income is more than thirty times national corporate income, I'd say you're right. The corporations are paying taxes you and I would never dream of. (I can tell, because you wouldn't have said something that ill-informed nor made a comparison so obviously bereft of the appropriate numbers, if you had dreamt of it.)
There's a reason researchers are trained.
Nothing on TCP has ever needed a central server. Plan 9 is a solution in search of a problem.
It's called the internet. Those who don't understand it are doomed to reinvent it, badly.
There are a whole lot of things that go into handling an industrial system. If you're really going to try to do this on your own, you've got a lot of reading ahead of you; the cost of faults in an industrial system is typically prohibitively high. You're going to need a deep familiarity with modern methods. You're going to need to be familiar with direct hardware control, realtime coding (which is harder than most people think,) constant test polling, and all sorts of stuff most programmers never, ever have to deal with.
This is not something you can take lightly. If you're going to do this, you have to get it right, the first time, and that means your test cases and regression tests have to be diamond-hard, your specification has to be absolute, and you have to know your timing will not fail. These are difficult issues, but with the appropriate know-how, this can be done.
Here are some places to start:
Embedded Control:
Realtime:
Integration:
Testing:
Interesting on both counts. Thank you for the updates.
Amusingly, every single point you made is in solar's favor.Solar panels aren't energy cost breakeven unless you're in a sunny area like Arizona. Solar panels in a place like Seattle are virtually worthless. As soon as you see someone suggesting solar at a national scale, ignorant of indigent weather, insolation and vertical population density, you know you're talking to someone without a clue.
Or, did you just not know that 85% of America doesn't have a house, but instead an apartment, condo or that ilk? Turns out that the vast bulk of the population is in cities, where the price of housing becomes prohibitive because of the number of people there. Roofing is a limited commodity.
You're like one of those people who fixates on the Farnsworth Fusor as the key to salvation. Maybe you should try looking at the economics yourself, instead of believing what someone told you. You'll find they're nowhere near as simple as they sound.
Germany's finding that out the hard way right now.
So, what you're saying, Bennett, is that you don't know what vaporware is? (It's like one of those episodes of Star Trek that's plodding along happily, then someone says they have to download their sensor readings to the ship, and then you just have to go kill an innocent child.)
By that logic, a reporter discussing Darfur is engaging in a slam if they don't document prior abuses by other nations. Do you stand by your evaluation in that light?
Open source products are making inroads in most vertical markets, deposing commercial product after commercial product. Their user base is soaring, their legitimacy is solidifying, their media presence is expanding. It's actively difficult to find servers that aren't open source.
Exactly what definition of "killing" are we working by, again?
The internet is a large group of computers connected over a specific system called "IP," which know how to arrange a game of chinese phone system to get messages from any point to any other. The power of the internet is that every point on it is both a server and a client - that is, a host and a consumer - at the same time, and there is no concept of priority; it lets anyone who can develop a product compete on an even playing field, and that playing field is generic enough to support a startling array of systems.
The power of the internet is quite simply in that everyone's a server.
Yeah, that's the difference between tier 1/2 and tier 3+. You only don't get guaranteed circuit if you're trying to bargain basement your way out of real T1 pricing.
Belabor is not the appropriate word.
I mean, I actually never said what you suggest I did, nor even implied it, and in fact I bent over backwards to make it clear that I don't think that, such as giving 17 counterexamples. But, you're still right, America gets credit for everything.
However, you could start here.
If you'd like to make one, investigate cookbooks by Alice Waters (1, 2, 3, bio,) who may very well be the greatest chef, globally, of her generation. You have the privilege of walking the Earth while she's still alive and while Chez Panisse still runs. Don't miss out. (Anyone who can turn down five invitations by three presidents to be white house chef is worth looking into, natch.)
1, 2, 3, 4.
Thank you, drive through.
The combination is circa the 16c. Flemish Wars, and implies coercion by attrition and denial. I find the insinuation amusing.
Wrong.
In all technical manuals, as well as several episodes, it is made clear that the purpose of the Bussard Ramjets is to provide a mechanism to refill the matter storage side of the matter/antimatter reaction. The clearest example is either the TNG episode "Night Terrors" or the Voyager episode "Flashback," but you can also check TOS The Doomsday Machine, Catspaw, TNG Samaritan Snare, Relics, VOY Unforgettable, The Haunting of Deck 12, Real Life, DS9 Captive Pursuit, the movie Insurrection, several cards in the TNG card game, more than a dozen of the novels, and the movie Insurrection.
Class dismissed.
White potatoes are New World. Yams are Chinese. Rösti are traditionally a yam product, though almost nobody makes them that way anymore. The yam was introduced to Europe and quickly forgotten by dint of the Great Silk Road. Berne (the french/german area in Switzerland) kept a hold of the plant, though, and it's been traditional ever since.
Soul food is not a South thing. Sorry you think we yanks misunderstand you, but in fact it's quite the other way around. You may not co-opt something you did not invent, nor which you serve the entirety of. Soul food is more than polenta, scrapple and crawdads.
The philosophy of science led directly to Quantum Mechanics and Newtonian Dynamics. Philosophy is the categorization and refinement of knowledge. If you think that isn't useful to things like physics, then it's no wonder you don't understand why most of the great human minds have philosopher's backgrounds. It ain't coincidental.