There is no Right to Privacy in the US Constitution. The 4th Amendment applies to unwarranted search and seizure, not to a general right to privacy. There is, however a tradition of privacy in the US that seems to be protected by case law. Good Morning, Big Brother, Comrade!
For a small radio, something like the Small Wonders Labs SW-40 is perfect. You can talk on 1 to 2 watts 1,000 miles plus with a modest dipole antenna. The downside is you need to learn Morse code (CW) but that is not too difficult. With the Koch method you can be at 10 wpm in a month. Just takes practice. The weight is such a rig will be under 1 pound total and will give you many hours of communication. 73, KD5TGN
The only comment about the Internet was is in `SEC. 899B. FINDINGS, to-wit:
(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.
A simple statement of fact, no more.
This is Bill with no teeth. It's authorizing funding for a committee to study what other countries are doing to combat internal, homegrown terrorism and what could be done in the US to help with the threat. The majority of the bill involves salaries and how the commission should be setup. There are no legal authorities granted or reserved. The Slashdot story is just so much muck-raking and fear-mongering.
The main problem, as pointed out above, would be the way the lease was structured. If they liquidated the assets, then the panels would be forfeit and you would have a mess on your roof to fix., OTOH if they left the panels in place then you would be left to negotiate a grid intertied agreement, if your state allows this. Some do, some don't. If they have an intertied agreement, then, depending again on the laws of your state, you may sell the excess (if there is any) to the utility at a deep discount, sell at a deep discount and pay an additional meter fee, or sell at a deep discount and pay other assorted fees (notice the common theme here?). This *might* help offset some of your electric bill. If they don't, then you have three options, spent about 5 - 10k for a battery bank and charge controllers and isolate the solar electricity from the grid, convert your lifestyle to be very conservative, spend even more for a complete RE outfit, or remove the panels at your expense.
Given the high costs per watt of strictly solar systems where the ROI is around 20 years, I don't see how this company could stay afloat for very long unless they have managed to somehow have exceptionally large economies of scale to support the infrastructure.
Let's see, the Arctic starts to melt freshwater into the North Atlantic adding to the fresh water close to the Greenland Icesheets which are already pouring into the North Atlantic. The fresh water, which is less dense than salt water fails to sink, breaking the conveyor currents, which results in less warm water into the North. Less warm water mean less warm air moving north resulting in colder weather in the North which will, in time, freeze leading to new ice on the polar cap.
Cordwood is much like the game GO, in that you can learn to do it in a short period of time, but it can take a lifetime to master! Seriously, we are currently designing a home with those thoughts in mind, durability, cost effective, mostly enviromentally friendly.
Cordwood, also known as stackwood, stovewood,etc, is simply softwood (cedar, pine) "fence" posts that are cut to 8" - 16" lengths and laid into a bed of mortar lengthwise. Thus if your logs are 16" inches long, your walls are 16" + thick. This is a highly effective wall adding both thermal mass and good insulation. There are reported cordwood-type structures still standing after 1000 years, and there are many examples in the US that are over 100 years old.
For a pretty geeky look into a cordwood home being built, check out daycreek.com (2,000 sq Ft, solar collection, doublewalls).
Because of the great waste of pure drinking water that goes on in developed countries. Drinking water is getting relativly rare and more expensive. And to think of the amount of clean water that goes down the drain everytime you take a piss...at least 1.6 US gallons, more in older toilets, sometimes up to 6 gallons per flush. And that is NOT counting the amount of water that is used in the treatment facilities.
How difficult would it be to use this tech to make an interactive flight chart? Add in the GPS and you have a single chart for all flights as well as a moving map! This would save a lot of weight and clutter in the cockpit as well help streamline the cockpit management chores...landing? just touch the destination airport and suddenly you have a large scale approach chart! No more flipping through the flippin' book while trying to set up the approach!!
My office moved us from a central office location to home offices in March in a cost saving move. Our group here in Oklahoma is considered mission critical to the corporate mission, and we have Cox@home. Last week I called them to express concerns over the falling stock prices, having watched this same scenerio play out with covad. The person I talked to in commerical sales discussed my concerns with his superiors who indicated that Cox was working on creating it's own ISP as alternative to @home. He indicated that testing was underway, and should they drop @home the transfer would be tranparent to the user-base (sure,buddy).
We have limited options here in Oklahoma, with the best next choice being Sprint Wireless Broadband, which has all the evil caps and limits.
I would agree with you excpt for one point: they do run competitors ads, ala MSN. In the article it seemed to indicate that they will run national content over local content and this is what shuts out the little guy. I am a free market kinda guy, but this continued squeezing of the little guy really bothers me.
Cheers from Dusty Oklahoma
Hos
Not sure what you're getting at here; the post did not say that the author shouldn't be compensated, it clearly posed the question, "If I buy this book, will the software seal cause me to foreit my consumer rights?". It did not state "I want to copy this and screw the author". If a publishing house tells me that I cannot review and return a book, I will not do business with that house again.
photons may have no mass, but they do have energy. So when they strike the sail some of that engery is transferred to the sail-craft. Good 'ole Newton strikes again!
When I want news, I want it now!, not in 24 hours when things might have changed. Working as an IT professional, it's a large part of my job to stay in touch with what is happening today. In this newspapers are the LAST resort, and not much of one at that. I think that newspapers should retreat and regroup, putting much more effort into the details behind the stories, report with aclarity and accuracy the result of INVESTIGATION (any newspaper people remember that word?) instead of regurgitating the latest Gallup poll or re-hashing whata I've been watching on CNN for the last 24 hours. I haven't had a newspaper delivered to my door in 6 years, mainly due to frustration at poor reporting and lack of depth that I have come to expect from print media. Just an old geezer geezing.
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I would have to throw in the Faded Sun series by CJ Cherryh
There is no Right to Privacy in the US Constitution. The 4th Amendment applies to unwarranted search and seizure, not to a general right to privacy. There is, however a tradition of privacy in the US that seems to be protected by case law.
Good Morning, Big Brother, Comrade!
Forgot to add, the cost of such a rig should be less than $100.00
For a small radio, something like the Small Wonders Labs SW-40 is perfect. You can talk on 1 to 2 watts 1,000 miles plus with a modest dipole antenna. The downside is you need to learn Morse code (CW) but that is not too difficult. With the Koch method you can be at 10 wpm in a month. Just takes practice.
The weight is such a rig will be under 1 pound total and will give you many hours of communication.
73,
KD5TGN
This is Bill with no teeth. It's authorizing funding for a committee to study what other countries are doing to combat internal, homegrown terrorism and what could be done in the US to help with the threat. The majority of the bill involves salaries and how the commission should be setup. There are no legal authorities granted or reserved. The Slashdot story is just so much muck-raking and fear-mongering.
See the novel State of Fear...it's not too far off it seems...
I sense a disturbance in the Agenda....
The main problem, as pointed out above, would be the way the lease was structured. If they liquidated the assets, then the panels would be forfeit and you would have a mess on your roof to fix., OTOH if they left the panels in place then you would be left to negotiate a grid intertied agreement, if your state allows this. Some do, some don't. If they have an intertied agreement, then, depending again on the laws of your state, you may sell the excess (if there is any) to the utility at a deep discount, sell at a deep discount and pay an additional meter fee, or sell at a deep discount and pay other assorted fees (notice the common theme here?). This *might* help offset some of your electric bill. If they don't, then you have three options, spent about 5 - 10k for a battery bank and charge controllers and isolate the solar electricity from the grid, convert your lifestyle to be very conservative, spend even more for a complete RE outfit, or remove the panels at your expense.
Given the high costs per watt of strictly solar systems where the ROI is around 20 years, I don't see how this company could stay afloat for very long unless they have managed to somehow have exceptionally large economies of scale to support the infrastructure.
And Slashdot will will have to make room for MS fud....
Let's see, the Arctic starts to melt freshwater into the North Atlantic adding to the fresh water close to the Greenland Icesheets which are already pouring into the North Atlantic. The fresh water, which is less dense than salt water fails to sink, breaking the conveyor currents, which results in less warm water into the North. Less warm water mean less warm air moving north resulting in colder weather in the North which will, in time, freeze leading to new ice on the polar cap.
Not that we will enjoy it too much....
Hmmmm, in a word, nope.
Cordwood is much like the game GO, in that you can learn to do it in a short period of time, but it can take a lifetime to master! Seriously, we are currently designing a home with those thoughts in mind, durability, cost effective, mostly enviromentally friendly.
Cordwood, also known as stackwood, stovewood,etc, is simply softwood (cedar, pine) "fence" posts that are cut to 8" - 16" lengths and laid into a bed of mortar lengthwise. Thus if your logs are 16" inches long, your walls are 16" + thick. This is a highly effective wall adding both thermal mass and good insulation. There are reported cordwood-type structures still standing after 1000 years, and there are many examples in the US that are over 100 years old.
For a pretty geeky look into a cordwood home being built, check out
daycreek.com (2,000 sq Ft, solar collection, doublewalls).
Because of the great waste of pure drinking water that goes on in developed countries. Drinking water is getting relativly rare and more expensive. And to think of the amount of clean water that goes down the drain everytime you take a piss...at least 1.6 US gallons, more in older toilets, sometimes up to 6 gallons per flush. And that is NOT counting the amount of water that is used in the treatment facilities.
How difficult would it be to use this tech to make an interactive flight chart? Add in the GPS and you have a single chart for all flights as well as a moving map! This would save a lot of weight and clutter in the cockpit as well help streamline the cockpit management chores...landing? just touch the destination airport and suddenly you have a large scale approach chart! No more flipping through the flippin' book while trying to set up the approach!!
Got get my hands on some of this stuff!
My office moved us from a central office location to home offices in March in a cost saving move. Our group here in Oklahoma is considered mission critical to the corporate mission, and we have Cox@home. Last week I called them to express concerns over the falling stock prices, having watched this same scenerio play out with covad. The person I talked to in commerical sales discussed my concerns with his superiors who indicated that Cox was working on creating it's own ISP as alternative to @home. He indicated that testing was underway, and should they drop @home the transfer would be tranparent to the user-base (sure,buddy).
We have limited options here in Oklahoma, with the best next choice being Sprint Wireless Broadband, which has all the evil caps and limits.
Where is that TCP/IP carrier pigeon again?
I would agree with you excpt for one point: they do run competitors ads, ala MSN. In the article it seemed to indicate that they will run national content over local content and this is what shuts out the little guy. I am a free market kinda guy, but this continued squeezing of the little guy really bothers me. Cheers from Dusty Oklahoma Hos
Not sure what you're getting at here; the post did not say that the author shouldn't be compensated, it clearly posed the question, "If I buy this book, will the software seal cause me to foreit my consumer rights?". It did not state "I want to copy this and screw the author". If a publishing house tells me that I cannot review and return a book, I will not do business with that house again.
photons may have no mass, but they do have energy. So when they strike the sail some of that engery is transferred to the sail-craft. Good 'ole Newton strikes again!
When I want news, I want it now!, not in 24 hours when things might have changed. Working as an IT professional, it's a large part of my job to stay in touch with what is happening today. In this newspapers are the LAST resort, and not much of one at that. I think that newspapers should retreat and regroup, putting much more effort into the details behind the stories, report with aclarity and accuracy the result of INVESTIGATION (any newspaper people remember that word?) instead of regurgitating the latest Gallup poll or re-hashing whata I've been watching on CNN for the last 24 hours. I haven't had a newspaper delivered to my door in 6 years, mainly due to frustration at poor reporting and lack of depth that I have come to expect from print media. Just an old geezer geezing.
Sounds like a project to me! Any takers?
When I write, I always keep my gun handy. You never know when God will try to interfere.