The problem is not converting it, the problem it doing so over and over on millions of miles of power lines...enough to make it of any value. This is not to mention the difficulty of replacing or covering all of the lines and then converting the power to much, much higher voltage A/C when the amperage is very low coming from the pv.
My point wasn't that you can't covert AC to DC and back, the point is that it is not simply putting up a PV cell and plugging it into the power lines. Make sense?
Power from sun = Direct Current, power lines = Alternating Current. Not the same and no help.
Our country made the decision long ago to not pursue DC as our power supply. Power from photovoltaic cells creates a stream of electricity in one direction. The conversion and voltage (very high along power lines) makes it a fun idea, but not practical.
That appears to be a popular sentiment, but I fear what will become of extremely wealthy Islamic nations (because we've been buying so much oil from them) when this hand is no longer feeding them. They won't be killing just each I other, and they have lots of money to effectively kill anyone they like.
Take a walk in a redwood forest and see a cross section from a tree that was 2000 years old. It is obvious to even the simple minded that the rings on the tree show large and long cycles of strong grow and slow growth...none of those cycles of climate change in the past were due to man.
Remember, Buddhist monks can't have sex with a woman or even touch a woman. If this is the only way to get gamma waves for him, I'll pass...I've found a better way to get the same results than just dreaming and my wife agrees.
Boy! You're beating an uninformed drum. The US grid is very diverse, uses most methods you state and more, had power generation spread out across a huge area serving lots of people, and it is not expensive and very rarely goes out. I've spent a lot of time in India and all over Africa. Not sure what 3rd world country you have so much experience and knowledge in, but the US appears to be your dart board for everything. Be open to facts that can sway your opinion.
I was just in Zimbabwe in small villages...people there couldn't care less about the Internet, and their lives won't be getting better because of it. You provide access, now they need a computer. They have a computer, now they need power. They need power, now they need money to pay for the power. Problem: They don't have money. Who's going to give everyone that?
They live on a barter system and off the land they live on. This is a LOT OF THE WORLD. Make it available, sure, but most of them don't give a rip about it other than a curiosity. Teach their kids how to use it, and there aren't any jobs that will use it there.
As a privileged person who lives much of their lives on the Internet, you can't imagine life without it. Meet a person in sustenance living conditions, and they don't see it as a right or a need...just a toy.
You're focusing on only what you want to hear. In the US, you can see and do a lot on the Internet. They are not trying to control 'everything on it'. You can watch your porn, put up plans to make a bomb and kill people, tell nasty lies about anyone you want. You can't steal something that someone else has created.
Also go do your research rather than just listening to your political party of choice. About 97% of all of the taxes in our country are paid for by about 5% of the wealthy people in this country. In other words, we get our highways, police, national parks, etc...because the wealthy have paid their taxes. Take away the wealthy in our country and your taxes will double overnight. I for one am not wealthy, but I'm grateful to those who are and are paying taxes. BTW...the people that get the most back from the government are those that pay nothing. I'm shocked why they feel they should contribute absolutely nothing. Try living in another country...like India or anywhere in Africa. Even if you live at $2/day, you have to pay huge school fees and buy uniforms for your children if you want them to simply go to school. Can't afford it, they don't get an education. It appears you are concerned about the "poor" in America, but statistically, check out a global wealth calculator...several on the web...those living on welfare in the US are still in the top 20% of wage earner in the world for doing nothing. Not a bad gig. Don't like it, try living in another country and doing nothing and see what it gets you.
The cell phone providers are not the internet. They are your ISP. They can charge what you are willing to pay. If nobody is willing to pay it, they will go to some other provider. The try to limit the traffic...not control it. They want to earn money. So does any business.
Copyrights used to be easier because it was all physical or intellectual. Now the Internet has allowed people to copy what they didn't create for free and pass it around for others to have for free. Whatever movies you like or computers games or TV shows you may like, do you think they would exist if there was no protection at all and everyone could copy and pass them around for free? Really? The reason they can still be in business is because our government is trying so hard to protect and make it illegal to takes what someone has created and pass it around for free. If the US didn't pay to go to the movies, buy DVD, and rent the movies, I'd have a hard time believing that anyone in Hollywood would be willing to put up $100M to make a great movie. They'd loose all their money.
Go ahead and explain to us how and why anything would be developed (pharma, entertainment, software) if nobody is willing to pay for it and just waits to get it for free. I'd love to know how that system works?
I hope there is a repost of this after the conference and with accurate, actual agreements and understandings that come out of this meeting. It has been vogue to take any international meeting and assume that the US is trying to get rich off the poor and silence the world and and control everyone. If you lived here, you'd see how wrong you are, but from where you sit, I can understand how you and your friends bantering over a beer might come to that conclusion. There always has to been someone on top that is the target and the concluded cause of all your problems.
Wow! A non-US citizen that isn't throwing crap at us every chance you get? Sure, we work hard, make a lot of money and help a lot of struggling nations, clean up after natural disasters, and give far more to charity around the world than any other nations (per person and collectively as a nation). There will no be many that try to turn that around and call us evil and controlling....I just try to imagine what the world would be like if Iran were the most powerful country in the world....how would this conversation be going on the Internet today....oh yeh, not well....you'd be hunted down, imprisoned and killed for writing this.
Yes, the US wants to have protection over copyrighted material. Take away that completely, and you will see software and movies and entertainment fade away as they are unable to make money doing it. Give people that take the risk and pay upfront to create something their reward. I don't get this everything should always be free for everyone mentality....except, of course, if it is something YOU create or make...then you should get paid.
He's kinda right, but maybe stated it poorly. Every person alive needs to judge. We judge whether a person is nice to us or not. You judge whether a person is a friend or not. YOU even judge whether I am doing the right thing or not (most likely you will reply with not...but that is still a judgement...isn't it).
What was trying to be said is that we all (including Christian) can and do and should be judges of actions. BUT BUT BUT you cannot be the judge of someone's heart. You may see an action and believe that person is evil, but their heart may be very different. If a person continues to do hateful and hurtful things, then it will become evident over time.
The ending point that many Christian confuse is that when a person is "convicted" of being evil or bad or sinful or whatever you want to call it, they should be treated in exactly the same way as we were (or wanted to be) treated before we became a Christian. If someone loved us and brought to this truth, we should be doing that to every murderer, every other religion, every prostitute, porn star, or gay. I believe that so many Christians are stuck in the Old Testament that they have a hard time understanding the new way that Christ taught them to live. Jesus hung out with the slime of the earth of his day. He really ticked off the religious leaders A LOT. Jesus pointed out what people were doing wrong, showed them the right way to live and freed them from that way of life. Hard to understand if you haven't come out of it yet.
Thank you for posting an honest question rather than a sarcastic, demeaning, and rude comment. The simple answer to your questions is that the first verse you quote in the New Testament is under the 'New Covenant'. That verse says NOTHING about hatred. It is pointing out what is wrong and hurtful to relationships...especially the relationship of marriage as it has always been defined in history until very recently in our country.
The Old Testament saw a completely different set of rules. If you were a good God, completely perfect, and desiring to have a relationship (friendship) with man (who you created), it would be hard. Because man is screwed up. Need evidence...look around you. God showed his justice then by not putting up with all the crap that was going on. There were times when God had to call it like it was and deal with it. He also needed people to give sacrifices to help pay for their sins in an attempt to be 'right with God'...but it was never enough.
The big change came when God fulfilled His plan by sending His son, Jesus to be born and live on earth. He came to experience what we do and feel as a man. He came to set a new course for history and the relationship with God and man. Jesus, through his death, has paid the sacrifices for all the wrong things we can do...in our past and in our future, BUT we need to take that gift and not reject it.
Obviously, I too am a Christian, and I had a gay couple as wedding hosts at my wedding 25 years ago when it was even more taboo. I love people and am spending my days helping others in need. I'm not hating gays, but I'm not agreeing with their choice. So many are applauded in our society for condemning Christians and throwing rude comments at them, and the expectation is that Christians just sit their and take it. For the most part, they do, but they also know the truth and they are free because of it.
Wow. I'd call that hate speech. Good thing he sounds like a real Christian that actually knows what he's talking about. If he were Muslim, he could seek you out and kill you for blasphemy. It become well known that most Christians will allow you to belittle and demean them and why you do it so gleefully.
This is what I see. So I guess MS wouldn't have problems doing exactly what they do if everybody wasn't buying their product. It's their fault so many people want to buy their product. OR, if they simply produced expensive hardware and locked down their operating system to only run on their hardware so you had to buy both from them, again it wouldn't be a problem. OR, if Apple had most of the market today (what they hope for in the future), would the Fanbois be able to look so popular or would they be promoting a monopolistic, big-brother, controlling and manipulative company?
I'm confused why Apple isn't being sued for the exact same kind of behaviour with their products and ecosystem. I guess Apple must get much larger and then people will open their eyes and realize the are stuck with no alternative as everything they've downloaded over the years is controlled by Apple.
Once again, another article that shows how we are figuring it all out for the robots now. Scorching the skies to try to cut off their power source from the sun won't do much good as we will now make getting electricity from the heat produced by humans all the easier.
I don't believe this question is genuine. This is obviously a fanboy who is doing what they are programmed to do...show off their new shiny toy they overpaid for as a way of helping their conscience reason the waste of money. I would tell the fanboy to stick with Apple since the love affair is not over yet. You'll pay more and get less with their service, but what else is new.
Yes, we are land of the free...not land of the private. There is much that is public. If you tweet, you are doing so publicly and that information should be made available. If I go stand on a street corner and yell something, that too is public and people can hold that against me (if it is incriminating). The difference is that the person is not being put in jail for saying something against the government...like in so many other countries around the world. We are free to speak our mind, but if what we say is hurtful, hateful, dangerous, etc..., we are not free to say those things. If you say something publicly that contradicts a case you are being prosecuted in, sure, they should be able to use that.
When you grow the 3rd party vendor addons to such a magnitude that they rely upon you telling them what they can expect next.it it's very common to let those around you that are helping your product sell know what to develop next. You obviously are a FanboI and at times must be able to see that Apple is not about products. They're about money and what it takes to make a lot more. Corporate greed hasn't escaped them.
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The problem is not converting it, the problem it doing so over and over on millions of miles of power lines...enough to make it of any value. This is not to mention the difficulty of replacing or covering all of the lines and then converting the power to much, much higher voltage A/C when the amperage is very low coming from the pv.
My point wasn't that you can't covert AC to DC and back, the point is that it is not simply putting up a PV cell and plugging it into the power lines. Make sense?
Power from sun = Direct Current, power lines = Alternating Current. Not the same and no help.
Our country made the decision long ago to not pursue DC as our power supply. Power from photovoltaic cells creates a stream of electricity in one direction. The conversion and voltage (very high along power lines) makes it a fun idea, but not practical.
At first read, I thought the same thing. We need to remember that English is like an object-oriented language...that many people object to.
That appears to be a popular sentiment, but I fear what will become of extremely wealthy Islamic nations (because we've been buying so much oil from them) when this hand is no longer feeding them. They won't be killing just each I other, and they have lots of money to effectively kill anyone they like.
Take a walk in a redwood forest and see a cross section from a tree that was 2000 years old. It is obvious to even the simple minded that the rings on the tree show large and long cycles of strong grow and slow growth...none of those cycles of climate change in the past were due to man.
as they believe that they have first rights to anything with an 'i' in
Remember, Buddhist monks can't have sex with a woman or even touch a woman. If this is the only way to get gamma waves for him, I'll pass...I've found a better way to get the same results than just dreaming and my wife agrees.
Boy! You're beating an uninformed drum. The US grid is very diverse, uses most methods you state and more, had power generation spread out across a huge area serving lots of people, and it is not expensive and very rarely goes out. I've spent a lot of time in India and all over Africa. Not sure what 3rd world country you have so much experience and knowledge in, but the US appears to be your dart board for everything. Be open to facts that can sway your opinion.
I was just in Zimbabwe in small villages...people there couldn't care less about the Internet, and their lives won't be getting better because of it. You provide access, now they need a computer. They have a computer, now they need power. They need power, now they need money to pay for the power. Problem: They don't have money. Who's going to give everyone that?
They live on a barter system and off the land they live on. This is a LOT OF THE WORLD. Make it available, sure, but most of them don't give a rip about it other than a curiosity. Teach their kids how to use it, and there aren't any jobs that will use it there.
As a privileged person who lives much of their lives on the Internet, you can't imagine life without it. Meet a person in sustenance living conditions, and they don't see it as a right or a need...just a toy.
Can't find the secret bases in Taiwan...just look for the blurred areas...done.
It would be a real bummer if the only aliens that come some day are blind and use a different means of perception.
Also go do your research rather than just listening to your political party of choice. About 97% of all of the taxes in our country are paid for by about 5% of the wealthy people in this country. In other words, we get our highways, police, national parks, etc...because the wealthy have paid their taxes. Take away the wealthy in our country and your taxes will double overnight. I for one am not wealthy, but I'm grateful to those who are and are paying taxes. BTW...the people that get the most back from the government are those that pay nothing. I'm shocked why they feel they should contribute absolutely nothing. Try living in another country...like India or anywhere in Africa. Even if you live at $2/day, you have to pay huge school fees and buy uniforms for your children if you want them to simply go to school. Can't afford it, they don't get an education. It appears you are concerned about the "poor" in America, but statistically, check out a global wealth calculator...several on the web...those living on welfare in the US are still in the top 20% of wage earner in the world for doing nothing. Not a bad gig. Don't like it, try living in another country and doing nothing and see what it gets you.
The cell phone providers are not the internet. They are your ISP. They can charge what you are willing to pay. If nobody is willing to pay it, they will go to some other provider. The try to limit the traffic...not control it. They want to earn money. So does any business.
Copyrights used to be easier because it was all physical or intellectual. Now the Internet has allowed people to copy what they didn't create for free and pass it around for others to have for free. Whatever movies you like or computers games or TV shows you may like, do you think they would exist if there was no protection at all and everyone could copy and pass them around for free? Really? The reason they can still be in business is because our government is trying so hard to protect and make it illegal to takes what someone has created and pass it around for free. If the US didn't pay to go to the movies, buy DVD, and rent the movies, I'd have a hard time believing that anyone in Hollywood would be willing to put up $100M to make a great movie. They'd loose all their money.
Go ahead and explain to us how and why anything would be developed (pharma, entertainment, software) if nobody is willing to pay for it and just waits to get it for free. I'd love to know how that system works?
I hope there is a repost of this after the conference and with accurate, actual agreements and understandings that come out of this meeting. It has been vogue to take any international meeting and assume that the US is trying to get rich off the poor and silence the world and and control everyone. If you lived here, you'd see how wrong you are, but from where you sit, I can understand how you and your friends bantering over a beer might come to that conclusion. There always has to been someone on top that is the target and the concluded cause of all your problems.
Wow! A non-US citizen that isn't throwing crap at us every chance you get? Sure, we work hard, make a lot of money and help a lot of struggling nations, clean up after natural disasters, and give far more to charity around the world than any other nations (per person and collectively as a nation). There will no be many that try to turn that around and call us evil and controlling....I just try to imagine what the world would be like if Iran were the most powerful country in the world....how would this conversation be going on the Internet today....oh yeh, not well....you'd be hunted down, imprisoned and killed for writing this.
Yes, the US wants to have protection over copyrighted material. Take away that completely, and you will see software and movies and entertainment fade away as they are unable to make money doing it. Give people that take the risk and pay upfront to create something their reward. I don't get this everything should always be free for everyone mentality....except, of course, if it is something YOU create or make...then you should get paid.
Whatever...
Message to the intolerant....we won't tolerate you!
He's kinda right, but maybe stated it poorly. Every person alive needs to judge. We judge whether a person is nice to us or not. You judge whether a person is a friend or not. YOU even judge whether I am doing the right thing or not (most likely you will reply with not...but that is still a judgement...isn't it).
What was trying to be said is that we all (including Christian) can and do and should be judges of actions. BUT BUT BUT you cannot be the judge of someone's heart. You may see an action and believe that person is evil, but their heart may be very different. If a person continues to do hateful and hurtful things, then it will become evident over time.
The ending point that many Christian confuse is that when a person is "convicted" of being evil or bad or sinful or whatever you want to call it, they should be treated in exactly the same way as we were (or wanted to be) treated before we became a Christian. If someone loved us and brought to this truth, we should be doing that to every murderer, every other religion, every prostitute, porn star, or gay. I believe that so many Christians are stuck in the Old Testament that they have a hard time understanding the new way that Christ taught them to live. Jesus hung out with the slime of the earth of his day. He really ticked off the religious leaders A LOT. Jesus pointed out what people were doing wrong, showed them the right way to live and freed them from that way of life. Hard to understand if you haven't come out of it yet.
Thank you for posting an honest question rather than a sarcastic, demeaning, and rude comment. The simple answer to your questions is that the first verse you quote in the New Testament is under the 'New Covenant'. That verse says NOTHING about hatred. It is pointing out what is wrong and hurtful to relationships...especially the relationship of marriage as it has always been defined in history until very recently in our country.
The Old Testament saw a completely different set of rules. If you were a good God, completely perfect, and desiring to have a relationship (friendship) with man (who you created), it would be hard. Because man is screwed up. Need evidence...look around you. God showed his justice then by not putting up with all the crap that was going on. There were times when God had to call it like it was and deal with it. He also needed people to give sacrifices to help pay for their sins in an attempt to be 'right with God'...but it was never enough.
The big change came when God fulfilled His plan by sending His son, Jesus to be born and live on earth. He came to experience what we do and feel as a man. He came to set a new course for history and the relationship with God and man. Jesus, through his death, has paid the sacrifices for all the wrong things we can do...in our past and in our future, BUT we need to take that gift and not reject it.
Obviously, I too am a Christian, and I had a gay couple as wedding hosts at my wedding 25 years ago when it was even more taboo. I love people and am spending my days helping others in need. I'm not hating gays, but I'm not agreeing with their choice. So many are applauded in our society for condemning Christians and throwing rude comments at them, and the expectation is that Christians just sit their and take it. For the most part, they do, but they also know the truth and they are free because of it.
Wow. I'd call that hate speech. Good thing he sounds like a real Christian that actually knows what he's talking about. If he were Muslim, he could seek you out and kill you for blasphemy. It become well known that most Christians will allow you to belittle and demean them and why you do it so gleefully.
This is what I see. So I guess MS wouldn't have problems doing exactly what they do if everybody wasn't buying their product. It's their fault so many people want to buy their product. OR, if they simply produced expensive hardware and locked down their operating system to only run on their hardware so you had to buy both from them, again it wouldn't be a problem. OR, if Apple had most of the market today (what they hope for in the future), would the Fanbois be able to look so popular or would they be promoting a monopolistic, big-brother, controlling and manipulative company?
I'm confused why Apple isn't being sued for the exact same kind of behaviour with their products and ecosystem. I guess Apple must get much larger and then people will open their eyes and realize the are stuck with no alternative as everything they've downloaded over the years is controlled by Apple.
The statement is still true. No mass shift. At the current rate, they will get to 50 percent market share in 100 years.
Once again, another article that shows how we are figuring it all out for the robots now. Scorching the skies to try to cut off their power source from the sun won't do much good as we will now make getting electricity from the heat produced by humans all the easier.
I don't believe this question is genuine. This is obviously a fanboy who is doing what they are programmed to do...show off their new shiny toy they overpaid for as a way of helping their conscience reason the waste of money. I would tell the fanboy to stick with Apple since the love affair is not over yet. You'll pay more and get less with their service, but what else is new.
Yes, we are land of the free...not land of the private. There is much that is public. If you tweet, you are doing so publicly and that information should be made available. If I go stand on a street corner and yell something, that too is public and people can hold that against me (if it is incriminating). The difference is that the person is not being put in jail for saying something against the government...like in so many other countries around the world. We are free to speak our mind, but if what we say is hurtful, hateful, dangerous, etc..., we are not free to say those things. If you say something publicly that contradicts a case you are being prosecuted in, sure, they should be able to use that.
When you grow the 3rd party vendor addons to such a magnitude that they rely upon you telling them what they can expect next.it it's very common to let those around you that are helping your product sell know what to develop next. You obviously are a FanboI and at times must be able to see that Apple is not about products. They're about money and what it takes to make a lot more. Corporate greed hasn't escaped them.