At the rate things are going Bush may not be in office long enough to enjoy a second term.
If he is impeached or forced to resign the Democrats could win even if Sharpton was the nominee.
Remember the problem with Watergate wasn't the 3rd rate burglery but the coverup.
In this case we have disclosure of classified information that revealed sources and methods to the enemey during a time of war (treason). And we have the White House apparently sitting on the info for at least 2 months and stonewalling which leads to conspriacy and obstruction of justice charges.
I'm going to love watching Karl Rove getting frogmarched out of the White House in handcuffs.
Agreed. I am not a Bush cheerleader. But at least he's willing to let me keep more of my own money. That's something none of the Democrats will do.
The problem is someone is going to have to pay for Bush's spending spree eventually. Unfortunately that someone is the American taxpayer.
Lowering the perceived creditworthiness of the US Treasury isn't a bright idea. Just look at any country that has gotten itself caught in a credit crisis.
you want to know why this thing will never sell? it looks stupid, and, imagine getting broadsided by H2 in this. no, don't imagine- here
Just about anything other than another HUGE SUV is not going to do to well after being broadsided by a speeding H2. In any case it is probably safer in a crash than either a motorcycle or bicycle.
I tell ya' we need $10/gallon gas just so we can get these SUV monstrosities off the road.
we literally dropped this system in place of our old DDS drives and never looked back. makes recovery a snap as i can just pop the drive into any old machine and its ready to go!
DDS? how passe. Real men use LTO or IBM cartriges in a autochanger.
What if you need a version of the spreadsheet from before you posted last quarter's results?
What about data you are required to retain for a certain period of time?
Real backup includes placing data offsite and retaining periodic snapshots of your data at a given point in time.
This is why most real business backup systems involve tape at some point. You can put tapes in a library for automated media changing. Tapes are easy to periodicly send off site. Tapes have a known maximum shelf life for reliably retaining data.
The application which will have a problem with the short life found for CD-Rs is not backup, but archival storage.
Eg, where will you store your digital photos? For that kind of ordinary, real world application we need a medium with a life measured in at least decades, preferably centuries.
You buy certified archival media instead of whatever the cheapest CD-R media in the store is.
There is CD-R media out there certified by independant testing organizations to have a 25 year shelf life. It does cost a hair more per disk than the super-cheap disks at Wal*Mart though.
Depends on the woman involved. Many women would probably prefer the BIG rock rather than the smaller one that cost the same.
Even with current mined diamonds there is quite a range in price at a given carat size depending on color, clarity, and cut.
Most people can't tell the difference between a D color, IF clarity, ideal cut diamond and G color, SI clarity, very good cut. Except the latter is far cheaper at a given carat weight.
Funny thing is a diamond isn't even the traditional engagement ring. A Sapphire is far more "traditional".
Frankly the best bet is to get to know your future wife well enough to know what she actually likes. I bet in many cases once some thought is put into it the answer won't be a big diamond in a solitare setting.
Some friends of mine had custom engagement and wedding rings made by a local artist. The rings are very nice looking and quite unique.
While if I was google I'd keep an eye on what is coming out of Redmond I wouldn't be too worried at this point.
Google is the leading search engine because it returns the most useful results. IE has directed people to vairious search engines for years and still people will type "www.google.com" when they want to search. I suppose Microsoft could always start a astroturf FUD campaign but I don't see what else they can do to unseat google.
When 'MSN' starts beeing a verb then maybe google has something to worry about.
I'm not saying that it's a good idea to give a kid a box of matches, a gallon of gas and tell them to have a good time in their bedroom. That sort of thing should done outside after all.
Ah yes such great fun. After that you can move on to plastic explosives. Need to be careful with that though, incidents involving semtex and the principal's car may take a bit of explaining.
DC isn't very efficient over long distances. This is why we even bother with AC in the first place. Where are you getting your information
DC vs. AC really isn't an issue as far as transmission losses are concerned. Ohms law is still Ohms law.
From what I understand most newer long distance DC transmission lines are operating in the megavolt range. This is where the efficiency comes from. DC rather than AC is used more to prevent phasing problems, provide load management, and to provide isolation.
My dad told me that the refrigerators were excellent, they had no moving parts, they were silent, very energy effcient and never broke down.
Well, considering these things, they figured out that they would only sell one per family, and that a couple could leave the refrigerator to their kids and so on. The market would be limited. So, they invented the Freon based refrigerator and touted it as much better and imporved. Yes, improved, in that the refrigeration companies would now sell an average of 4-6 refrigerators per family over the lifetime of that family and the chance of it lasting long enough to pass on, forget it.
Reliablity isn't necessarily a property of only ammonia fridges.
My mom's neighbor has a 1934 GE Freon fridge that still works fine and maintains a nice 40F. The only maintenance she has every had to do to the thing is replace the door seals.
While she now uses a much more modern fridge as her main one in the kitchen she still uses the old one for pop, beer, and for overflow.
While making wind turbines does use energy in manufacturing it is still a net gain with today's large (~1 Mw) wind turbines. I think the current numbers are no worse than a Coal or gas turbine plant and may actually be better (no need for boilers+steam turbine+cooling tower or a gas turbine)
Low voltage DC appliances and lighting aren't inherently more efficent than 120V (or 220V) AC equipment. In fact in many cases (motors) higher voltage AC sources are more efficent.
The trend nowdays for houses with photovoltaic or wind generation is to run the house at standard grid voltages. Modern inverters at the loads in a typical residential application are quite efficent.
While deep cycle batteries have gotten pretty good especially with high-tech charging systems there is a possible alternative on the horizon. Use solar or wind power to make hydrogen. Store the hydrogen and use it in a fuel cell to power things when your solar panels or wind turbine can't generate enough power (or use it in your car).
In most parts of the country you can build a house that is mostly independant of the grid that has all of the modern convieniences and stays warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Since many long distance power transmission lines are DC this shouldn't be much of a problem. You want to do this anyway when connecting a large area to avoid problems with generators being out of phase.
Connecting 50hz and 60hz systems together is a solved problem.
Here are some facts about the North American power system and power systems in general, that you are apparently unaware of. North America has the biggest grid in the world. Actually, it has three different grids (five if you include Quebec and Mexico), which are only connected to each other through DC lines, although those lines really don't carry much power.
Not to disagree with you since you obviously know more about the subject than I do. But I thought Hydro Quebec sold quite a bit of power to the US? At least that is what I'd heard was the justification for all of those massive hydro projects they always seem to be building.
Considering a few years ago a substation fire took down the entire West Coast and a good hunk of the Rocky Mountain states and similar vunerablities elsewhere in the system I'm sure it has been noted.
Please. I imagine the debt has absolutely nothing to do with the economic downturn and a war we didn't ask for?
Sorry, wrong. The debt is mostly due to the huge tax cuts Bush has pushed through Congress.
As for "a war we didn't ask for" I think we did ask for it. Invading Iraq was something the US decided to do preemptively on its own. We could have continued the UN sanctions. I mean its not like Iraq attacked us or anything. (unless you are one of those poor deluded fools who think Saddam was somehow behind 9/11)
Well its never been tried, I mean name one Democracy on the planet. The USA isnt a Democracy either, we are controlled by Capitalist elites just like the USSR was controlled by political elites.
I don't know countries like Sweden and Finland seem pretty democratic to me. They're also fairly "socialist" at least by the standards of people who like to throw around terms like "liberal" as insults.
Look, ANYONE can save money. At 20K though, I would honestly consider going on welfare, and letting us sucker taxpayers give you a free education. The poor lack creativity.
True, while I don't make 200K/year I have managed to get my expenses down to about 24k/year (after taxes) I could probably get this down even more if I tried. Still it has allowed me save up quite a bit of money over the last few years.
BTW $20K/year may not sound like much for an income but it is more than enough to live fairly well someplace like Wyoming or North Dakota. Even on $20k/year you can afford to buy a house there.
The best deal is to figure out how to make a NYC or Silicon Valley salary while living in a place with living expenses like India.
I have a friend who managed to do this, he was a sales engineer/installer for a US company. While he is now working in the US again he managed to build up a huge pile of savings and quite the collection of toys and other bling.
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At the rate things are going Bush may not be in office long enough to enjoy a second term.
If he is impeached or forced to resign the Democrats could win even if Sharpton was the nominee.
Remember the problem with Watergate wasn't the 3rd rate burglery but the coverup.
In this case we have disclosure of classified information that revealed sources and methods to the enemey during a time of war (treason). And we have the White House apparently sitting on the info for at least 2 months and stonewalling which leads to conspriacy and obstruction of justice charges.
I'm going to love watching Karl Rove getting frogmarched out of the White House in handcuffs.
Agreed. I am not a Bush cheerleader. But at least he's willing to let me keep more of my own money. That's something none of the Democrats will do.
The problem is someone is going to have to pay for Bush's spending spree eventually. Unfortunately that someone is the American taxpayer.
Lowering the perceived creditworthiness of the US Treasury isn't a bright idea. Just look at any country that has gotten itself caught in a credit crisis.
you want to know why this thing will never sell? it looks stupid, and, imagine getting broadsided by H2 in this. no, don't imagine- here
Just about anything other than another HUGE SUV is not going to do to well after being broadsided by a speeding H2. In any case it is probably safer in a crash than either a motorcycle or bicycle.
I tell ya' we need $10/gallon gas just so we can get these SUV monstrosities off the road.
Is the only real use for this.
I mean what other kind of phone call would you want to devote your complete and undivided attention to?
I suppose calls to one's SO would be another use. But any call to my SO I want to give that much attention to is bordering on phone sex anyway.
we literally dropped this system in place of our old DDS drives and never looked back. makes recovery a snap as i can just pop the drive into any old machine and its ready to go!
DDS? how passe. Real men use LTO or IBM cartriges in a autochanger.
What if the building catches fire?
What if you need a version of the spreadsheet from before you posted last quarter's results?
What about data you are required to retain for a certain period of time?
Real backup includes placing data offsite and retaining periodic snapshots of your data at a given point in time.
This is why most real business backup systems involve tape at some point. You can put tapes in a library for automated media changing. Tapes are easy to periodicly send off site. Tapes have a known maximum shelf life for reliably retaining data.
The application which will have a problem with the short life found for CD-Rs is not backup, but archival storage.
Eg, where will you store your digital photos? For that kind of ordinary, real world application we need a medium with a life measured in at least decades, preferably centuries.
You buy certified archival media instead of whatever the cheapest CD-R media in the store is.
There is CD-R media out there certified by independant testing organizations to have a 25 year shelf life. It does cost a hair more per disk than the super-cheap disks at Wal*Mart though.
Depends on the woman involved. Many women would probably prefer the BIG rock rather than the smaller one that cost the same.
Even with current mined diamonds there is quite a range in price at a given carat size depending on color, clarity, and cut.
Most people can't tell the difference between a D color, IF clarity, ideal cut diamond and G color, SI clarity, very good cut. Except the latter is far cheaper at a given carat weight.
Funny thing is a diamond isn't even the traditional engagement ring. A Sapphire is far more "traditional".
Frankly the best bet is to get to know your future wife well enough to know what she actually likes. I bet in many cases once some thought is put into it the answer won't be a big diamond in a solitare setting.
Some friends of mine had custom engagement and wedding rings made by a local artist. The rings are very nice looking and quite unique.
While if I was google I'd keep an eye on what is coming out of Redmond I wouldn't be too worried at this point.
Google is the leading search engine because it returns the most useful results. IE has directed people to vairious search engines for years and still people will type "www.google.com" when they want to search. I suppose Microsoft could always start a astroturf FUD campaign but I don't see what else they can do to unseat google.
When 'MSN' starts beeing a verb then maybe google has something to worry about.
I'm not saying that it's a good idea to give a kid a box of matches, a gallon of gas and tell them to have a good time in their bedroom. That sort of thing should done outside after all.
Ah yes such great fun. After that you can move on to plastic explosives. Need to be careful with that though, incidents involving semtex and the principal's car may take a bit of explaining.
DC isn't very efficient over long distances. This is why we even bother with AC in the first place. Where are you getting your information
DC vs. AC really isn't an issue as far as transmission losses are concerned. Ohms law is still Ohms law.
From what I understand most newer long distance DC transmission lines are operating in the megavolt range. This is where the efficiency comes from. DC rather than AC is used more to prevent phasing problems, provide load management, and to provide isolation.
My dad told me that the refrigerators were excellent, they had no moving parts, they were silent, very energy effcient and never broke down.
Well, considering these things, they figured out that they would only sell one per family, and that a couple could leave the refrigerator to their kids and so on. The market would be limited. So, they invented the Freon based refrigerator and touted it as much better and imporved. Yes, improved, in that the refrigeration companies would now sell an average of 4-6 refrigerators per family over the lifetime of that family and the chance of it lasting long enough to pass on, forget it.
Reliablity isn't necessarily a property of only ammonia fridges.
My mom's neighbor has a 1934 GE Freon fridge that still works fine and maintains a nice 40F. The only maintenance she has every had to do to the thing is replace the door seals.
While she now uses a much more modern fridge as her main one in the kitchen she still uses the old one for pop, beer, and for overflow.
Natural gas is fairly common in the US and Canada particularly in urbanized areas.
Many homes use natural gas for heating, hot water, and cooking.
Many of the newest generation plants are natural gas fired gas turbines. They work very well particularly for covering peak loads.
There is a US and Canada wide pipeline system for moving natural gas from place to place.
While making wind turbines does use energy in manufacturing it is still a net gain with today's large (~1 Mw) wind turbines. I think the current numbers are no worse than a Coal or gas turbine plant and may actually be better (no need for boilers+steam turbine+cooling tower or a gas turbine)
Low voltage DC appliances and lighting aren't inherently more efficent than 120V (or 220V) AC equipment. In fact in many cases (motors) higher voltage AC sources are more efficent.
The trend nowdays for houses with photovoltaic or wind generation is to run the house at standard grid voltages. Modern inverters at the loads in a typical residential application are quite efficent.
While deep cycle batteries have gotten pretty good especially with high-tech charging systems there is a possible alternative on the horizon. Use solar or wind power to make hydrogen. Store the hydrogen and use it in a fuel cell to power things when your solar panels or wind turbine can't generate enough power (or use it in your car).
In most parts of the country you can build a house that is mostly independant of the grid that has all of the modern convieniences and stays warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Since many long distance power transmission lines are DC this shouldn't be much of a problem. You want to do this anyway when connecting a large area to avoid problems with generators being out of phase.
Connecting 50hz and 60hz systems together is a solved problem.
Here are some facts about the North American power system and power systems in general, that you are apparently unaware of. North America has the biggest grid in the world. Actually, it has three different grids (five if you include Quebec and Mexico), which are only connected to each other through DC lines, although those lines really don't carry much power.
Not to disagree with you since you obviously know more about the subject than I do. But I thought Hydro Quebec sold quite a bit of power to the US? At least that is what I'd heard was the justification for all of those massive hydro projects they always seem to be building.
Considering a few years ago a substation fire took down the entire West Coast and a good hunk of the Rocky Mountain states and similar vunerablities elsewhere in the system I'm sure it has been noted.
There was an earlier question of why IBM didn't just buy SCO
Because IBM doesn't want lawsuits from every failing company in the hopes that they will be bought out by IBM.
In other words if they give in to extortion, it is likely somebody else will try to extort them in the future.
Please. I imagine the debt has absolutely nothing to do with the economic downturn and a war we didn't ask for?
Sorry, wrong. The debt is mostly due to the huge tax cuts Bush has pushed through Congress.
As for "a war we didn't ask for" I think we did ask for it. Invading Iraq was something the US decided to do preemptively on its own. We could have continued the UN sanctions. I mean its not like Iraq attacked us or anything. (unless you are one of those poor deluded fools who think Saddam was somehow behind 9/11)
Well its never been tried, I mean name one Democracy on the planet. The USA isnt a Democracy either, we are controlled by Capitalist elites just like the USSR was controlled by political elites.
I don't know countries like Sweden and Finland seem pretty democratic to me. They're also fairly "socialist" at least by the standards of people who like to throw around terms like "liberal" as insults.
Look, ANYONE can save money. At 20K though, I would honestly consider going on welfare, and letting us sucker taxpayers give you a free education. The poor lack creativity.
True, while I don't make 200K/year I have managed to get my expenses down to about 24k/year (after taxes) I could probably get this down even more if I tried. Still it has allowed me save up quite a bit of money over the last few years.
BTW $20K/year may not sound like much for an income but it is more than enough to live fairly well someplace like Wyoming or North Dakota. Even on $20k/year you can afford to buy a house there.
The best deal is to figure out how to make a NYC or Silicon Valley salary while living in a place with living expenses like India.
I have a friend who managed to do this, he was a sales engineer/installer for a US company. While he is now working in the US again he managed to build up a huge pile of savings and quite the collection of toys and other bling.
You misspelled socialist.
Yes, regressive taxes are so much better, the poor really should pay for everything. While we're at it I say we bring back debtor's prisons.