That's a good reminder, recent discussion with landscapers (renewing contracts) said our complex has plants from years ago but not native. Maintenance costs are higher than plants natural in our climate. They also said our scrubs have matured where they want to grow larger but are cut back (don't want too big or block walkways and windows) so these plants are not really healthy and become high maintenance.
We have the usual annual reports with lots of tables of numbers. I'd like to create graphs or pie charts to put into perspective costs of various things. Better illustrate the money pits of real vs imaginary. Some claim we can save lots of money with energy efficient lights but is it really the water costs. Letting the landscape turn to dirt will save water bill but letting value of property decrease not such a good thing. How much can be saved by reduce watering lawns? Maybe not that much. Probably most important is to locate units with dripping faucets or leaky toilet flaps that continually waste water. Yes, I know we all should know how to read financials but I think most cannot (look at most people's spending habits, and majority of companies and govt agencies).
Important vs urgent: Putting off lots of miscellaneous repairs that many seem urgent but maybe not important. Better to put money into something important like a new roof to replace 30 year old roof instead constantly chasing water leaks every time it rains.
Seems to me software is easy, it is the decisions like people complain about security and vandalism but not willing to pay special assessment or significantly raise monthly dues to pay for gated access and security guards.
I agree and disagree. Yes, I want to erect an antenna but the way my condo is designed makes it clunky. We also have various people erecting unsightly things on their patios, too many broken down bicycles, too many plants on stairways... all claiming it's their god given right to do so. It is a tradeoff, either get a spacious lot if you can afford it in Silicon Valley or a spacious lot in Iowa (if you want to move there). With dense living, not everyone can do whatever as there has to be some order or things will end up like the unkept parts of town.
The real rub is new detached housing tracts that are now HOAs with the baggage of restrictions that I think is advocated by cities so they don't need to service the roads and water, only collect taxes and let association deal with maintenance.
Eric R. Futterman writes on Amazon review of David Brinkley's book, “This book made me realize something important. I became a TV news reporter as the Cronkite influence was waning. I first appeared on TV 4 years before Reagan ended the Fairness Doctrine and the Consultants came into TV stations to all but destroy the idea of real journalism on TV. For the next four years I found the battle, as I got to higher and higher markets to be a losing one. I spoke up in front of the newsroom and paid the price. I'm only bitter for journalism because my life turned out fine.”
Along with equipment from the Boring Co. to mine asteroids for cobalt. Musk and Co. can secure the high ground like Europeans did with the New World back in the days. Don't need to feel guilty exploiting children, don't need the Fifth Fleet to keep the sea lanes open (oh, maybe need the Space Command to thwart off space pirates).
Back in the usenet days someone posted about TV news saying Dan Rather and Barbara Walters are celebrities not journalists. He went on about as a journalist he walks the walk and talks the talk. He interviewed more politicians and criminals than anyone else would care to do. And he simply would write what he saw and heard.
But simply reporting what happened can be problematic as pointed out in other comments many thought of FH launch as fake. Then you have the other topic about "fake videos" where the simulation is so good people have a difficult time distinguishing real and fake. Add to that media is a business, editorials are written like news stories, headline are designed to be clickbaits.
There was a time when FCC requirement for a TV station license is station had to broadcast news part of the time. Station or networks get money broadcasting entertainment and sports, the news bureau was an expense to meet FCC requirements so the newsmen were not concerned if news stories make money or not (they still want to scoop the story before others but did spend time to be sure it is correct otherwise would be laughing stock).
Exactly. Driving an interstate freeway in California should be the same as driving one in Iowa. Same as mailing a letter in one state is the same as another, and covers ***all*** areas of country. Companies will simply abandon those places that don't generate enough toll to keep them open except pay $20 for a road you already paid for in taxes.
Some demographics FB is a necessity, i.e. ballroom dancers including those in competition to keep track of latest events and seminars. But yes there's plenty of timepits of meaningless subjects like "what would you look like as the opposite sex" which they say the results will stay private (yeah, insert blame the Russkies tagline here).
Yes, I would have labeled this as good-luck-with-that dept. For one, there has not been a huge demand for ISS by either business or science (commercial or govt). It seems ISS is a legacy of the 1950s Werner Von Braun concept outlined in Colliers magazine. Maybe space travel doesn't scale up like air travel (though ISS doesn't travel "anywhere").
I think the question needs to be broken into two pieces – Why to go? Who pays for it?
The first part is some combination of figuring out how our neighborhood (the solar system) works, identifying, opening, and moving into a frontier, somewhere we’ve never been. Add to that, the willingness of some, to choose to explore, experience, and eventually permanently move into the frontier.
There is no left (Score:5, Interesting), Feb 13, 2016
by rsilvergun (571051)
The owner class is hard, hard right. Like Robber baron grade hard right. The workers are left on social issues, but a lot are still hard right on the economy.
That's sort of the problem. There are lots of folks who are left wing socially (pro-gun control, pro-gay rights, pro-choice, etc) but get real right wing real fast when they think they're taxes are going up. Our Media is left wing on social issues but hard right on economics. Free Trade, Trickle Down economics and Austerity are practically gospel in American media.
Part of the problem is folks look at just about every expense that isn't food as taxes. I've caught lots of folks doing it. Insurance? Tax. Phone Bill? Tax. etc, etc. The other problem is that after the Iraqi War Americans aren't seeing good returns on their taxes. Literally Trillions of wealth was just handed to a lucky few in exchange for nothing. We've let large scale corruption slide for so long that folks have lost confidence in the gov't. They've also forgotten what America was like before the Feds stepped in and started preventing super fund sites from happening (Flint Michigan Water Supply anyone?).
The other problem is Bill Clinton. He moved the country hard right so he could forge an alliance to get into the prez office. Again, left on social issues hard right on the economy. Trump brought up Tariffs but made it a point not to use the "T" word. What's funny is watching all the folks out there who know something is wrong but can't figure out what to do about it pushing Trump and Sanders up in the polls. It's gonna be funnier when Rubio or Bush gets the election despite popular vote [note this was written early 2016] thanks to hard right stuff like Citizens United.
Oh, and the colleges have been moving hard right too. Where do you think those $10,000/semester tuition bills came from?
Everyone at SpaceX must be very proud, and rightly so.
I thought about all those who pulled a lot of allnighters along with 60 hr work weeks for months.
I tuned in just as FH was going through max Q, I thought it was cool they had crowds cheering behind the SpaceX PIO pair that were giving verbal updates (but if something went bad, would we hear the crowd groan?). It was nice SpaceX PIO gave thanks to Range people and FAA providing permits.
JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Jimmy Hoffa, Amelia Earhart, DB Cooper, Oswald, [insert your character here] conspiracy theories of what really happened are same old rehash and retreads. I guess nobody is creative these days to come up with new genres.
Bernie Rhodes author of "The Real McCoy" about the 1972 hijacker that managed to do a DB Cooper from a 727 but was later caught. Rhodes, a DOJ probation officer, said many guys already arrested for other crimes come to him claiming to be DB Cooper. Rhodes would ask questions like what kind of tie did they wear, what did they exactly say to the flight attendant, etc. I asked Rhodes why would they confess to something serious like skyjacking. "Some of these guys were facing much more serious charges besides skyjacking."
And to think DB Cooper, whether died jumping, actually got away with one fifth of ONE MILLION DOLLARS (which aint diddly these days).
I read the memo which reminded me of high school student gossip. Lots of name dropping and accusations, since none of us have access to the actual informants and snoop stuff the agents really use, then this is all third hand BS. Hey, people get paid to write such tales. They're called scriptwriters for movies.
Unfortunately it now makes the FBI political: If they find incriminating evidence against your enemies, FBI is your friend. If it's the other way around they are your enemies. And their funding depends on who is being accused or not.
I'm thinking of the movie about Steve Jobs has a scene where he and his group walking towards the PARC office. People inside, "don't let him in or he will steal all our secrets!" or some phrase like that. Later in same movie, Bill Gates pushing what looks like a LISA on a cart yelling, "I want this in our Microsoft products!"
A more large concern is lack of respect for government agencies and established organizations. With all the foibles we have seen plus POTUS tweeting bad things about leaders of agencies or agencies themselves (when they are not in full agreement with him), not surprising more and more people becoming disrespectful of the establishment. Now what will happen in event of a major disaster, economic crises, war... many may feel like Puerto Ricans, "It's John Wayne time, you're on your own."
This is both yes and no. In some ways dramatic headline news gets more viewers and clicks, news is a money making business. Fearmongering is used as a distraction, ask typical American what threat are they worried about, many will think of terrorism, nuclear explosion or exposure. But most lives and property are lost due to fires, floods, and other natural disasters. I see a missile attack warning as completely useless info for me because there is nothing I can do, and also with all these false alarms... well I get alarm fatigue like everyone else and typically ignore it. Except whine on the forums or get a frist psot prize.
One example is a building contractor makes ***lots*** of money. He or she also has ***lots*** of expenses (tools, people, materials) so deductions are allowed. Of course the whole tax thing becomes political as elected officials make laws so they and their friends don't pay taxes but yet get benefits of govt spending. i.e. area of town where mayor, governor, congressman lives has the best roads and infrastructure. Others also game the system. Many self employed that have a nice standard of living (exclusive neighborhoods, get to stay at the best hotel rooms, boats, airplanes, always fly first class) but when they file taxes they are able to write much of it off so their "profit" is about $0. Steve Forbes proposed a much simpler tax system: flat 17% on wages. BUT he and others like him make money on investment earnings, not wages.
Alerts and updates are done by OES director or designated person under direction of the Governor. Governors like the President don't do the actual messaging or press the red button, they may give orders but not the person actually writing a message about incoming missile. i.e. Governors should not be the ones sending a tsunami alert.
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That's a good reminder, recent discussion with landscapers (renewing contracts) said our complex has plants from years ago but not native. Maintenance costs are higher than plants natural in our climate. They also said our scrubs have matured where they want to grow larger but are cut back (don't want too big or block walkways and windows) so these plants are not really healthy and become high maintenance.
We have the usual annual reports with lots of tables of numbers. I'd like to create graphs or pie charts to put into perspective costs of various things. Better illustrate the money pits of real vs imaginary. Some claim we can save lots of money with energy efficient lights but is it really the water costs. Letting the landscape turn to dirt will save water bill but letting value of property decrease not such a good thing. How much can be saved by reduce watering lawns? Maybe not that much. Probably most important is to locate units with dripping faucets or leaky toilet flaps that continually waste water. Yes, I know we all should know how to read financials but I think most cannot (look at most people's spending habits, and majority of companies and govt agencies).
Important vs urgent: Putting off lots of miscellaneous repairs that many seem urgent but maybe not important. Better to put money into something important like a new roof to replace 30 year old roof instead constantly chasing water leaks every time it rains.
Seems to me software is easy, it is the decisions like people complain about security and vandalism but not willing to pay special assessment or significantly raise monthly dues to pay for gated access and security guards.
I agree and disagree. Yes, I want to erect an antenna but the way my condo is designed makes it clunky. We also have various people erecting unsightly things on their patios, too many broken down bicycles, too many plants on stairways... all claiming it's their god given right to do so. It is a tradeoff, either get a spacious lot if you can afford it in Silicon Valley or a spacious lot in Iowa (if you want to move there). With dense living, not everyone can do whatever as there has to be some order or things will end up like the unkept parts of town.
The real rub is new detached housing tracts that are now HOAs with the baggage of restrictions that I think is advocated by cities so they don't need to service the roads and water, only collect taxes and let association deal with maintenance.
your first sentence is Post Of The Month!
Eric R. Futterman writes on Amazon review of David Brinkley's book, “This book made me realize something important. I became a TV news reporter as the Cronkite influence was waning. I first appeared on TV 4 years before Reagan ended the Fairness Doctrine and the Consultants came into TV stations to all but destroy the idea of real journalism on TV. For the next four years I found the battle, as I got to higher and higher markets to be a losing one. I spoke up in front of the newsroom and paid the price. I'm only bitter for journalism because my life turned out fine.”
Along with equipment from the Boring Co. to mine asteroids for cobalt. Musk and Co. can secure the high ground like Europeans did with the New World back in the days. Don't need to feel guilty exploiting children, don't need the Fifth Fleet to keep the sea lanes open (oh, maybe need the Space Command to thwart off space pirates).
Back in the usenet days someone posted about TV news saying Dan Rather and Barbara Walters are celebrities not journalists. He went on about as a journalist he walks the walk and talks the talk. He interviewed more politicians and criminals than anyone else would care to do. And he simply would write what he saw and heard.
But simply reporting what happened can be problematic as pointed out in other comments many thought of FH launch as fake. Then you have the other topic about "fake videos" where the simulation is so good people have a difficult time distinguishing real and fake. Add to that media is a business, editorials are written like news stories, headline are designed to be clickbaits.
There was a time when FCC requirement for a TV station license is station had to broadcast news part of the time. Station or networks get money broadcasting entertainment and sports, the news bureau was an expense to meet FCC requirements so the newsmen were not concerned if news stories make money or not (they still want to scoop the story before others but did spend time to be sure it is correct otherwise would be laughing stock).
For years companies offshore tech to China and provide nice campaign contributions to politicians, now these people are crying foul.
Shields and Brooks on PBS Newshour said only the minority party complains about deficits. When they are majority party, deficits don't matter.
Exactly. Driving an interstate freeway in California should be the same as driving one in Iowa. Same as mailing a letter in one state is the same as another, and covers ***all*** areas of country. Companies will simply abandon those places that don't generate enough toll to keep them open except pay $20 for a road you already paid for in taxes.
Some demographics FB is a necessity, i.e. ballroom dancers including those in competition to keep track of latest events and seminars. But yes there's plenty of timepits of meaningless subjects like "what would you look like as the opposite sex" which they say the results will stay private (yeah, insert blame the Russkies tagline here).
Yes, I would have labeled this as good-luck-with-that dept. For one, there has not been a huge demand for ISS by either business or science (commercial or govt). It seems ISS is a legacy of the 1950s Werner Von Braun concept outlined in Colliers magazine. Maybe space travel doesn't scale up like air travel (though ISS doesn't travel "anywhere").
On subject of privatizing reminds me of Agimarc commented in Dennis Wingo’s latest blog, https://denniswingo.wordpress....
I think the question needs to be broken into two pieces – Why to go? Who pays for it? The first part is some combination of figuring out how our neighborhood (the solar system) works, identifying, opening, and moving into a frontier, somewhere we’ve never been. Add to that, the willingness of some, to choose to explore, experience, and eventually permanently move into the frontier.
does it come with electric powered Trabants?
Arguments about leftists remind me of this:
There is no left (Score:5, Interesting), Feb 13, 2016
by rsilvergun (571051)
The owner class is hard, hard right. Like Robber baron grade hard right. The workers are left on social issues, but a lot are still hard right on the economy.
That's sort of the problem. There are lots of folks who are left wing socially (pro-gun control, pro-gay rights, pro-choice, etc) but get real right wing real fast when they think they're taxes are going up. Our Media is left wing on social issues but hard right on economics. Free Trade, Trickle Down economics and Austerity are practically gospel in American media.
Part of the problem is folks look at just about every expense that isn't food as taxes. I've caught lots of folks doing it. Insurance? Tax. Phone Bill? Tax. etc, etc. The other problem is that after the Iraqi War Americans aren't seeing good returns on their taxes. Literally Trillions of wealth was just handed to a lucky few in exchange for nothing. We've let large scale corruption slide for so long that folks have lost confidence in the gov't. They've also forgotten what America was like before the Feds stepped in and started preventing super fund sites from happening (Flint Michigan Water Supply anyone?).
The other problem is Bill Clinton. He moved the country hard right so he could forge an alliance to get into the prez office. Again, left on social issues hard right on the economy. Trump brought up Tariffs but made it a point not to use the "T" word. What's funny is watching all the folks out there who know something is wrong but can't figure out what to do about it pushing Trump and Sanders up in the polls. It's gonna be funnier when Rubio or Bush gets the election despite popular vote [note this was written early 2016] thanks to hard right stuff like Citizens United.
Oh, and the colleges have been moving hard right too. Where do you think those $10,000/semester tuition bills came from?
Everyone at SpaceX must be very proud, and rightly so.
I thought about all those who pulled a lot of allnighters along with 60 hr work weeks for months.
I tuned in just as FH was going through max Q, I thought it was cool they had crowds cheering behind the SpaceX PIO pair that were giving verbal updates (but if something went bad, would we hear the crowd groan?). It was nice SpaceX PIO gave thanks to Range people and FAA providing permits.
JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Jimmy Hoffa, Amelia Earhart, DB Cooper, Oswald, [insert your character here] conspiracy theories of what really happened are same old rehash and retreads. I guess nobody is creative these days to come up with new genres.
Bernie Rhodes author of "The Real McCoy" about the 1972 hijacker that managed to do a DB Cooper from a 727 but was later caught. Rhodes, a DOJ probation officer, said many guys already arrested for other crimes come to him claiming to be DB Cooper. Rhodes would ask questions like what kind of tie did they wear, what did they exactly say to the flight attendant, etc. I asked Rhodes why would they confess to something serious like skyjacking. "Some of these guys were facing much more serious charges besides skyjacking."
And to think DB Cooper, whether died jumping, actually got away with one fifth of ONE MILLION DOLLARS (which aint diddly these days).
I read the memo which reminded me of high school student gossip. Lots of name dropping and accusations, since none of us have access to the actual informants and snoop stuff the agents really use, then this is all third hand BS. Hey, people get paid to write such tales. They're called scriptwriters for movies.
Unfortunately it now makes the FBI political: If they find incriminating evidence against your enemies, FBI is your friend. If it's the other way around they are your enemies. And their funding depends on who is being accused or not.
I'm thinking of the movie about Steve Jobs has a scene where he and his group walking towards the PARC office. People inside, "don't let him in or he will steal all our secrets!" or some phrase like that. Later in same movie, Bill Gates pushing what looks like a LISA on a cart yelling, "I want this in our Microsoft products!"
A more large concern is lack of respect for government agencies and established organizations. With all the foibles we have seen plus POTUS tweeting bad things about leaders of agencies or agencies themselves (when they are not in full agreement with him), not surprising more and more people becoming disrespectful of the establishment. Now what will happen in event of a major disaster, economic crises, war... many may feel like Puerto Ricans, "It's John Wayne time, you're on your own."
This is both yes and no. In some ways dramatic headline news gets more viewers and clicks, news is a money making business. Fearmongering is used as a distraction, ask typical American what threat are they worried about, many will think of terrorism, nuclear explosion or exposure. But most lives and property are lost due to fires, floods, and other natural disasters. I see a missile attack warning as completely useless info for me because there is nothing I can do, and also with all these false alarms... well I get alarm fatigue like everyone else and typically ignore it. Except whine on the forums or get a frist psot prize.
Excellent summary, I'm saving this. I also saved your "There is No Left" essay that I post in forums that bitch about "radical leftists" like Clinton.
Nothing wrong protesting against actions of billionaires hellbent on starting wars where someone else's children has to fight them.
One example is a building contractor makes ***lots*** of money. He or she also has ***lots*** of expenses (tools, people, materials) so deductions are allowed. Of course the whole tax thing becomes political as elected officials make laws so they and their friends don't pay taxes but yet get benefits of govt spending. i.e. area of town where mayor, governor, congressman lives has the best roads and infrastructure. Others also game the system. Many self employed that have a nice standard of living (exclusive neighborhoods, get to stay at the best hotel rooms, boats, airplanes, always fly first class) but when they file taxes they are able to write much of it off so their "profit" is about $0. Steve Forbes proposed a much simpler tax system: flat 17% on wages. BUT he and others like him make money on investment earnings, not wages.
Yes, get the commoners to fight each other while the ruling class goes on to buy bigger boats.
Alerts and updates are done by OES director or designated person under direction of the Governor. Governors like the President don't do the actual messaging or press the red button, they may give orders but not the person actually writing a message about incoming missile. i.e. Governors should not be the ones sending a tsunami alert.