That's a very naive view of evolution, as many of the underlying concepts are testable and repeatable. In fact, Dr. Richard Lenski at Michigan State has conducted some of the first and longest running scientifically-controlled demonstrations of evolution in E. coli bacteria. Perhaps it is one of the reasons this religious group has targeted the institution.
Except that the driver has almost certainly voided their "residential grade" insurance policy by driving passengers commercially; meaning that they are essentially operating a vehicle uninsured. The state should step in to put a stop to this practice.
OP, on behalf of those of use who live next to assholes -- Thank you for being a considerate neighbor! Even if you don't find a perfect solution, the fact you care enough to do the research and find something better is admirable.
And all of this based on the false assumption that Lumosity's pseudoscience click-on-the-shiny-colors games are any good at measuring "brain performance".
There are two within 3 miles of my house. One the foundation finally gave out in a heavy rain storm and will not even be considered for repair until 2014 according to the road commission. The other bridge is significantly damaged with traffic now reduced to one lane and limits on truck weight and [i]may[/i] be repaired next year.
Often child and other illegal pornography production is found when ICE is going after human trafficking, indentured servitude, sex slavery and all of the other unsavory elements in the economy of illegal immigration.
No white is still better in the winter. Black roofing causes excessive melting of the snow during daylight leading to iced up gutters and ice dams at night which end up causing major water damage.
The difference though is that, unlike other businesses, doctors are legally forbidden from disputing bad reviews. HIPPA (U.S. patient privacy law) doesn't even allow doctors to acknowledge that a particular person was in fact a patient, let alone specifically addressing the elements of his complaint. This creates an unfair situation whereby patients (or even fake patients) can say whatever they want about the doctor and he cannot legally confirm or deny any of the allegations against him without acknowledging the person was a patient.
There is a good reason not to tax out-of-state business, and that is that the state is not spending any money to support that business. It's not using the roads, school system, power grid, police or fire protection, unemployment insurance, or any other state service. The only inputs and outputs they have in the state are already taxed. For example I pay taxes on my phone, DSL, or cable line used to contact Amazon, as does my ISP on all of their local PoPs, and UPS and FedEx pay registration tax, sales tax, gas tax and property tax on their delivery vehicle fleet and warehouses. Amazon is using no resources in my state, so it is nothing other than a cash-grab to suggest that purchases there should be subject to sales tax.
Yes you can do so easily. Ever heard of a water softener? They have a rack full of them at the Home Depot down the street. Every nuclear plant, including Fukushima Dai-Ichi, has a water processing plant specifically for this purpose; however the plant is offline from quake damage and power outages so water must be stored instead of processed. Ion Exchange, Reverse Osmosis and Distillation are all effective and widely-used techniques for removing contaminants from water, including radionuclides.
I don't even know if a technology exists to remove radiation from water, I'm assuming it either doesn't exist or is too slow to be practical otherwise they wouldn't be using storage ponds in the first place.
The technology does exist to remove the radioactive particles from the water, but the water treatment plant at Fukushima is offline as a result of the damage and lack of electricity. The only option at this point is to store as much contaminated water as possible until the treatment plant can be reactivated. Furthermore, if the primary contaminant is Iodine-131, they simply need to quarantine the water long enough for the Iodine to decay at which point the water can be safely discharged into the sea without risk to humans or wildlife.
When I'm waiting in line behind you at lunchtime, I'd much prefer you count your money on your own time. Walking people step-by-step through basic addition and subtraction on every transaction wastes everyone's time.
In your example, neither man would be eligible to patent the design as the offering for sale to the public discloses the invention to the public, which constitutes prior art.
I'm not sure what your point is. The schools where I have worked do follow FERPA, and to my knowledge record privacy and portability is well respected throughout the education system.
And how am I supposed to troubleshoot or test my installation when there's no way to access it? I called my ISPs about getting IPv6 addresses and both replied "soon" nearly a year ago. I'm not holding my breath.
Your implicit claim is, the EMT/firefighters would still attempt to save you and your property.
In this case, the fire chief said the department would have responded if a person's life was in danger regardless of the fee payment. It was made clear to them that all occupants were out of the house and this was only property conservation so they didn't respond. There is a big difference between saving lives and saving property, which is probably insured anyway (unless the homeowner made yet another massive blunder).
the claim that towns near freeways don't get any benefit from the traffic, is nuts.
I don't claim they get no benefit, just not enough to support the emergency services that non-residents desire.
Okay, let me rephrase what I said, Emergency services must never be made optional. I don't want an EMT telling me that because I missed a bill they aren't going to save my life or my wife's life.
I agree with you, which is why I choose to live in a city with emergency services paid for by property taxes, and I assume you have also. The people in this story chose to live in a rural area outside of the city (probably at least to some degree because of the lower tax rate), and because of that have fewer services at their disposal.
What I disagree with is that city services should be forced to provide subsidized services to non-residents; nor should the establishment of a fire department be forced on these residents. If they feel they need fire protection, they should organize a department through the local government or collectively contract for services so that individual properties are not omitted from coverage as happened here. Ultimately it should be their choice, not mine or yours even if we think they chose poorly.
if you're driving though this town and your car catches fire, you didn't pay the fee
Almost every fire department and EMS service in the USA bills non-resisdents for car fires and crashes in their jurisdiction; coverage for non-residents is rare. This has been the case for many years and completely makes sense, especially for towns which have a major highway nearby. Their entire fire department budget would be blown dealing with car fires and crashes for people who were simply passing through while putting nothing into the local economy. The costs must be recovered without putting that burden on locals.
Emergency services are not optional.
Yes they are when the residents of this county elected NOT to fund a fire department of their own. The only option for fire protection was for residents to hire contract service from the nearby city. In a second bout of stupidity, this particular homeowner elected NOT to purchase the contract service.
These "back-up" generating systems are unlikely to be operating at their most efficient.
That is true, stand-by generation is completely wasted energy and labor to staff the idled facilities. There are some stand-by peaker systems that do not waste fuel like diesel engines and waste oil turbines, but those do not have big outputs.
To get to do the maintanance is going to require all sorts of vehicles. AFAIK there are no electric full size helicoptors.
That is also true. One other issue with wind turbines on farm land is that the lease agreements the turbine owners have with the farmers often restrict the time of year that major maintenance can happen so as to not destroy the crops or interfere with harvest operations around the turbines with heavy vehicles like cranes and excavators.
Bullshit. And your qualifications are? I am an electrical engineer who works for a system planning consultant on transmission projects in the United States which include both traditional fuel generation and renewable generation. I have worked on design projects primarily in the midwest, west and southwest of the USA. All of my projects in the last 5 years have involved wind integration in some way shape or form (not all have been good).
Even ignoring the assumption that coal, gas, and nuclear power are zero cost for fuel and maintenance
I'm not ignoring those -- even given the cost of fuel and maintenance, wind and solar are still more expensive than coal and NG. Nuclear is not necessarily a cost item, which depending who makes the calculation is either cheaper or more expensive, but an issue of reliability and sheer quantity of energy produced. The USA uses such a tremendous amount of energy that we cannot provide it without very energy-dense fuels.
look up the European supergrid concept for more information.
I am very familiar with the supergrid concept, and it is not only a European design. Similar implementations are being constructed in China, India and western Russia. The design was initially started in the USA back in the 60s which involved the construction of a high voltage DC line from hydroelectric power in Washington state to LA, California. The project fizzled after that, but research continued. In recent times it has been proposed seriously in the USA, and every time someone does it gets shouted down almost right away by the groups I've mentioned in my other posts. There is no funding to implement a supergrid even though it is a good design. There are many of us in the engineering community who know this but we are not in charge.
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That's a very naive view of evolution, as many of the underlying concepts are testable and repeatable. In fact, Dr. Richard Lenski at Michigan State has conducted some of the first and longest running scientifically-controlled demonstrations of evolution in E. coli bacteria. Perhaps it is one of the reasons this religious group has targeted the institution.
http://myxo.css.msu.edu/ecoli/
Could we please get a tag to filter out this narcissistic drivel from the ever-obnoxious Bennet?
Except that the driver has almost certainly voided their "residential grade" insurance policy by driving passengers commercially; meaning that they are essentially operating a vehicle uninsured. The state should step in to put a stop to this practice.
OP, on behalf of those of use who live next to assholes -- Thank you for being a considerate neighbor! Even if you don't find a perfect solution, the fact you care enough to do the research and find something better is admirable.
And all of this based on the false assumption that Lumosity's pseudoscience click-on-the-shiny-colors games are any good at measuring "brain performance".
There are two within 3 miles of my house. One the foundation finally gave out in a heavy rain storm and will not even be considered for repair until 2014 according to the road commission. The other bridge is significantly damaged with traffic now reduced to one lane and limits on truck weight and [i]may[/i] be repaired next year.
Often child and other illegal pornography production is found when ICE is going after human trafficking, indentured servitude, sex slavery and all of the other unsavory elements in the economy of illegal immigration.
Waiting for a prepaid App-phone that I like on a prepaid plan less than $30 a month for each phone.
LG Optimus or Samsung Intercept on Virgin Mobile is $25/mo. with no contract. Not bad at all.
No white is still better in the winter. Black roofing causes excessive melting of the snow during daylight leading to iced up gutters and ice dams at night which end up causing major water damage.
The difference though is that, unlike other businesses, doctors are legally forbidden from disputing bad reviews. HIPPA (U.S. patient privacy law) doesn't even allow doctors to acknowledge that a particular person was in fact a patient, let alone specifically addressing the elements of his complaint. This creates an unfair situation whereby patients (or even fake patients) can say whatever they want about the doctor and he cannot legally confirm or deny any of the allegations against him without acknowledging the person was a patient.
Umm...married people have been exchanging DNA for a very long time.
There is a good reason not to tax out-of-state business, and that is that the state is not spending any money to support that business. It's not using the roads, school system, power grid, police or fire protection, unemployment insurance, or any other state service. The only inputs and outputs they have in the state are already taxed. For example I pay taxes on my phone, DSL, or cable line used to contact Amazon, as does my ISP on all of their local PoPs, and UPS and FedEx pay registration tax, sales tax, gas tax and property tax on their delivery vehicle fleet and warehouses. Amazon is using no resources in my state, so it is nothing other than a cash-grab to suggest that purchases there should be subject to sales tax.
Reverse Osmosis is filtration, not a chemical process. It would be a stretch to call distillation a chemical process.
Yes you can do so easily. Ever heard of a water softener? They have a rack full of them at the Home Depot down the street. Every nuclear plant, including Fukushima Dai-Ichi, has a water processing plant specifically for this purpose; however the plant is offline from quake damage and power outages so water must be stored instead of processed. Ion Exchange, Reverse Osmosis and Distillation are all effective and widely-used techniques for removing contaminants from water, including radionuclides.
I don't even know if a technology exists to remove radiation from water, I'm assuming it either doesn't exist or is too slow to be practical otherwise they wouldn't be using storage ponds in the first place.
The technology does exist to remove the radioactive particles from the water, but the water treatment plant at Fukushima is offline as a result of the damage and lack of electricity. The only option at this point is to store as much contaminated water as possible until the treatment plant can be reactivated. Furthermore, if the primary contaminant is Iodine-131, they simply need to quarantine the water long enough for the Iodine to decay at which point the water can be safely discharged into the sea without risk to humans or wildlife.
When I'm waiting in line behind you at lunchtime, I'd much prefer you count your money on your own time. Walking people step-by-step through basic addition and subtraction on every transaction wastes everyone's time.
Of course this $200 device will be $20,000 by the time it makes it through the medical industry and everyone gets their pound of flesh.
In your example, neither man would be eligible to patent the design as the offering for sale to the public discloses the invention to the public, which constitutes prior art.
If everyone is following the law voluntarily, no enforcement actions are necessary.
I'm not sure what your point is. The schools where I have worked do follow FERPA, and to my knowledge record privacy and portability is well respected throughout the education system.
And how am I supposed to troubleshoot or test my installation when there's no way to access it? I called my ISPs about getting IPv6 addresses and both replied "soon" nearly a year ago. I'm not holding my breath.
Your implicit claim is, the EMT/firefighters would still attempt to save you and your property.
In this case, the fire chief said the department would have responded if a person's life was in danger regardless of the fee payment. It was made clear to them that all occupants were out of the house and this was only property conservation so they didn't respond. There is a big difference between saving lives and saving property, which is probably insured anyway (unless the homeowner made yet another massive blunder).
the claim that towns near freeways don't get any benefit from the traffic, is nuts.
I don't claim they get no benefit, just not enough to support the emergency services that non-residents desire.
Okay, let me rephrase what I said, Emergency services must never be made optional. I don't want an EMT telling me that because I missed a bill they aren't going to save my life or my wife's life.
I agree with you, which is why I choose to live in a city with emergency services paid for by property taxes, and I assume you have also. The people in this story chose to live in a rural area outside of the city (probably at least to some degree because of the lower tax rate), and because of that have fewer services at their disposal.
What I disagree with is that city services should be forced to provide subsidized services to non-residents; nor should the establishment of a fire department be forced on these residents. If they feel they need fire protection, they should organize a department through the local government or collectively contract for services so that individual properties are not omitted from coverage as happened here. Ultimately it should be their choice, not mine or yours even if we think they chose poorly.
if you're driving though this town and your car catches fire, you didn't pay the fee
Almost every fire department and EMS service in the USA bills non-resisdents for car fires and crashes in their jurisdiction; coverage for non-residents is rare. This has been the case for many years and completely makes sense, especially for towns which have a major highway nearby. Their entire fire department budget would be blown dealing with car fires and crashes for people who were simply passing through while putting nothing into the local economy. The costs must be recovered without putting that burden on locals.
Emergency services are not optional.
Yes they are when the residents of this county elected NOT to fund a fire department of their own. The only option for fire protection was for residents to hire contract service from the nearby city. In a second bout of stupidity, this particular homeowner elected NOT to purchase the contract service.
These "back-up" generating systems are unlikely to be operating at their most efficient.
That is true, stand-by generation is completely wasted energy and labor to staff the idled facilities. There are some stand-by peaker systems that do not waste fuel like diesel engines and waste oil turbines, but those do not have big outputs.
To get to do the maintanance is going to require all sorts of vehicles. AFAIK there are no electric full size helicoptors.
That is also true. One other issue with wind turbines on farm land is that the lease agreements the turbine owners have with the farmers often restrict the time of year that major maintenance can happen so as to not destroy the crops or interfere with harvest operations around the turbines with heavy vehicles like cranes and excavators.
This entire post is basically wrong.
Bullshit. And your qualifications are? I am an electrical engineer who works for a system planning consultant on transmission projects in the United States which include both traditional fuel generation and renewable generation. I have worked on design projects primarily in the midwest, west and southwest of the USA. All of my projects in the last 5 years have involved wind integration in some way shape or form (not all have been good).
Even ignoring the assumption that coal, gas, and nuclear power are zero cost for fuel and maintenance
I'm not ignoring those -- even given the cost of fuel and maintenance, wind and solar are still more expensive than coal and NG. Nuclear is not necessarily a cost item, which depending who makes the calculation is either cheaper or more expensive, but an issue of reliability and sheer quantity of energy produced. The USA uses such a tremendous amount of energy that we cannot provide it without very energy-dense fuels.
look up the European supergrid concept for more information.
I am very familiar with the supergrid concept, and it is not only a European design. Similar implementations are being constructed in China, India and western Russia. The design was initially started in the USA back in the 60s which involved the construction of a high voltage DC line from hydroelectric power in Washington state to LA, California. The project fizzled after that, but research continued. In recent times it has been proposed seriously in the USA, and every time someone does it gets shouted down almost right away by the groups I've mentioned in my other posts. There is no funding to implement a supergrid even though it is a good design. There are many of us in the engineering community who know this but we are not in charge.