The Democrats wrote it. The Democrats pushed for it. The Democrats voted for it. The Democrats single-handedly passed it.
The bill was modified several times, in attempts to get Republicans on-board to support it, yet they still stonewalled it. It would have taken too much time and effort to completely undo the Republican damage, instead it was passed as-is, because it's an improvement, with the possibility of future laws fixing it.
You can't claim it isn't the Republicans' plan, just because they decided to pull out at the end, after negotiating the changes to it. If it was the Democratic plan, it would be single-payer, like Medicare, like every other industrialized country in the world, and for-profit health insurance companies would be a thing of the past.
Here is our opportunity to lessen our average work week to be less than 40 hours.
It worked in the 1930s. During the depression, several big companies shortened each shift to 6 hours/day, so that they'd have 4 shifts instead of 3 each day, and so ~25% more people would have jobs, even if they were earning 25% less...
If you got more money than you expected then you release an expansion pack later for free.
Screw that! We aren't talking about a government or non-profit organization here...
Release the $400,000 game you said you'd release, and everybody paid for. If you overrun the budget a bit, no problem. Just think of the rest of the money as extra sales of the game, in excess of your break-even point. Deliver them the copy of the game they paid for, and they'll all be happy.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to use SOME of that money for a free expansion pack, community web site and forum, or to develop a sequel, but in general, treat it like profit.
This was figured out (for e-mail) decades ago. A number of mail servers only supported 7-bit data (ie. ASCII text), so you couldn't just dump binary data in an e-mail and expect it to get through, uncorrupted. Not to mention DOS/Unix text conversion destroying binaries...
First it was UUEncode. But that was soon eclipsed by Base64 encoding. Any data you have can be run through the base64 command included with most Linux systems, and come out as plain text. The output can be run through the base64 -d command to be returned to the original.
This might not sound impressive when you're printing out plain text, but something like gzip can give you 90%+ compression on a plain text file, and base64 gives you that data in a format that can be printed out on paper, and read and typed back in.
Encryption can be in the loop as well... In fact PGP ALREADY DOES ALL OF THIS FOR YOU. You can tell it to compress the data with gzip or bzip2 before encrypting it with your key, and you can tell it to "ASCII armor" the output (typically for e-mail use).
As an added bonus, with PGP you can protect yourself against data loss by taking your password-protected public/private keypair, and output it with the password removed, and ASCII armored, so it can be printed out to paper, and stored (somewhere even safer than your safe) so you can always decrypt your critical data, by proving you have physical access to that key printout, even if you forgot the password you used to protect it, years later.
And if you want extra protection against physical damage of the paper copies in your safe, PAR2 will allows you to "RAID" your data, using parity and checksums to reconstruct the bits missing in your data. You can select the exact percentage of parity data you want... I find 34% a very good arrangement, so you have 3 pages (or CDs/DVDs) of data plus one of just parity, allowing you to recover any one entirely missing page in the set of four, OR if you don't lose a page, recover the data if up to 34% of the media is damaged, no matter what the distribution across the four.
Hmm, just a few months ago batteries were on fire and customers were getting ready to bail out. Another technical difficulty and customers won't just get ready.
The battery problem was on the 787. The jet that just crash landed was a 777.
Unfortunately, most airplane accidents and incidents are due to pilot error
Repeat after me: "human factors"
Almost any accident can be prevent by a prescient pilot always making PERFECT decisions.
Passing accidents off as pilot error in all but the most egregious cases, is massively disingenuous, and something airlines and manufacturers like to do to shield themselves from all liability that they deserve.
Airlines trained pilots to do something stupid? Pilot error. Airlines failed to train pilots on the new systems? Pilot error. Counter-intuitive controls resulted in a pilot throttling down instead of up, and crashing? Pilot error. Stall warning systems were non-functional, and the pilot wasn't fastidiously checking sensors? Pilot error. Airline was juggling pilot schedules around, making them work with little sleep? Pilot error.
Excellent - on aGigabit switch we all in our appartments become one flat LAN and can access each other neighbours NAS boxes, etc.
Nope. Everyone is free to plug their WiFi APs/Routers into the building ethernet, just as they would into a DSL modem. And "managed" switches allow you to isolate every switch port onto their own VLAN, just as if they were on physically separate switches, so they can't communicate directly with each other. You need a VLAN compatible router upstream, but any $40 home router that can be flashed with a Linux-based firmware can do that easily.
Managed switches also offer port security, so you can hard-code each MAC address to a switch port, tie switch access to successful DHCP negotiation, and keep a log of all that info.
Just an educated guess, but the DSLAM isolates individual properties and allows for itemised capped billing and such.
Nope, the D-SLAM is just an access device, like a switch. And you can easily monitor each ethernet switch port (via SNMP) if you want to do billing.
Six months sounds good enough, to me. That's longer than I would want to live in a temporary shelter. Much longer and you're not so much providing humanitarian aid, as you are shipping-in prefabricated houses for many thousands of people.
Those six months should be ample time to put together enough clay/adobe bricks to build a real, semi-permanent structure, with ample insulation, firebox, etc. Roofing materials might be more difficult, but helping to source those is better than giving out housing you've deemed "acceptable"...
After 6 months, you should be building-up an economy... Paying some of those local refugees (a truly tiny amount of) money, to construct real homes for their fellow refugees, and hopefully even a few commercial structures.
Who said this needs the same kind of DSLAM that existing DSL uses?
It won't... It'll need one that's far, far more expensive. Ditto for the modems... What does a new DSL modem cost today? At least $50 or so? Now you've got to upgrade it to this expensive new gigabit DSL technology, and give it a gigabit network interface, and put one in every apartment. I guarantee a new run of CAT-6 cabling in the most difficult case, will cost less than just the price of the modems for each apartment...
Isn't the reason DSLAMs are expensive because they sit at the central office and can serve hundreds/thousands of customers?
No, they're similar to network switches. A 1U D-SLAM will typically serve maybe 48 lines, and yet costs thousands of dollars.
You have no idea how expensive one that sits in an apartment building basement serving a hundred customers would cost.
Correction: "YOU have no idea", and you're just pointlessly making shit up and speculating.
Blindly believing new technologies cost the same as old technologies is... insane.
Pretending that cutting-edge technology will be VASTLY cheaper than the current, much lower tech equipment, is stupid.
I noticed when my head started hurting reading what you wrote, and by the fact that you wrote several paragraphs that, at the end, say absolutely nothing...
A gigabit ethernet switch is DIRT CHEAP compared to a D-SLAM.
If it's not one kind of new equipment, then its some other kind of new equipment
And one is dirt cheap, while the other is insanely expensive. Blindly advocating the use of the insanely expensive one instead, just makes you look... insane.
This is the first model and if there is enough interest this will spurn research into how to get around these limitations.
There has been interest in improving peltiers for many decades, and this flashlight will make no difference.
And for thermal power in general, you can't exceed the Carnot limit, so a flashlight or other body-temperature powered device will never be practical.
there are bound to be other scenarios where waste energy is still hotter than the ambient air. Think of a furnace for example.
And to replace your furnace, they sell products such as high efficiency condensing furnaces, which are up to 98% efficient. So much so, that there isn't even enough waste heat left-over to get the exhaust to climb though a 10ft chimney out your roof, and instead needs to be exhausted almost sideways.
Part of the challenge of innovating is doing stuff despite being told it shouldn't work and finding a suitable application when it finally does work.
That's fine, until you run up against well-tested theoretical limits, making your product impractical or impossible. All those zero-point energy freaks don't win science fairs...
You might have range issues if an idiot patched your CAT-5 cables and did too much untwisting, or made similar mistakes. But if a professional installed it, they were tested and certified (by a certifier that cost several thousand dollars) to fully meet CAT-5 specifications, before anyone signed-off and paid for the installation.
Now, what you MIGHT have been thinking of is 10GBASE-T, which can only do 55m over CAT-6, an needs CAT-6a for 100m, but that's an order of magnitude difference, there.
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The bill was modified several times, in attempts to get Republicans on-board to support it, yet they still stonewalled it. It would have taken too much time and effort to completely undo the Republican damage, instead it was passed as-is, because it's an improvement, with the possibility of future laws fixing it.
You can't claim it isn't the Republicans' plan, just because they decided to pull out at the end, after negotiating the changes to it. If it was the Democratic plan, it would be single-payer, like Medicare, like every other industrialized country in the world, and for-profit health insurance companies would be a thing of the past.
It worked in the 1930s. During the depression, several big companies shortened each shift to 6 hours/day, so that they'd have 4 shifts instead of 3 each day, and so ~25% more people would have jobs, even if they were earning 25% less...
Screw that! We aren't talking about a government or non-profit organization here...
Release the $400,000 game you said you'd release, and everybody paid for. If you overrun the budget a bit, no problem. Just think of the rest of the money as extra sales of the game, in excess of your break-even point. Deliver them the copy of the game they paid for, and they'll all be happy.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to use SOME of that money for a free expansion pack, community web site and forum, or to develop a sequel, but in general, treat it like profit.
Perhaps you shouldn't project your own shortcomings onto others...
This was figured out (for e-mail) decades ago. A number of mail servers only supported 7-bit data (ie. ASCII text), so you couldn't just dump binary data in an e-mail and expect it to get through, uncorrupted. Not to mention DOS/Unix text conversion destroying binaries...
First it was UUEncode. But that was soon eclipsed by Base64 encoding. Any data you have can be run through the base64 command included with most Linux systems, and come out as plain text. The output can be run through the base64 -d command to be returned to the original.
This might not sound impressive when you're printing out plain text, but something like gzip can give you 90%+ compression on a plain text file, and base64 gives you that data in a format that can be printed out on paper, and read and typed back in.
Encryption can be in the loop as well... In fact PGP ALREADY DOES ALL OF THIS FOR YOU. You can tell it to compress the data with gzip or bzip2 before encrypting it with your key, and you can tell it to "ASCII armor" the output (typically for e-mail use).
As an added bonus, with PGP you can protect yourself against data loss by taking your password-protected public/private keypair, and output it with the password removed, and ASCII armored, so it can be printed out to paper, and stored (somewhere even safer than your safe) so you can always decrypt your critical data, by proving you have physical access to that key printout, even if you forgot the password you used to protect it, years later.
And if you want extra protection against physical damage of the paper copies in your safe, PAR2 will allows you to "RAID" your data, using parity and checksums to reconstruct the bits missing in your data. You can select the exact percentage of parity data you want... I find 34% a very good arrangement, so you have 3 pages (or CDs/DVDs) of data plus one of just parity, allowing you to recover any one entirely missing page in the set of four, OR if you don't lose a page, recover the data if up to 34% of the media is damaged, no matter what the distribution across the four.
Now who's being ageist here?
The battery problem was on the 787.
The jet that just crash landed was a 777.
There's about two decades of difference.
Repeat after me: "human factors"
Almost any accident can be prevent by a prescient pilot always making PERFECT decisions.
Passing accidents off as pilot error in all but the most egregious cases, is massively disingenuous, and something airlines and manufacturers like to do to shield themselves from all liability that they deserve.
Airlines trained pilots to do something stupid? Pilot error.
Airlines failed to train pilots on the new systems? Pilot error.
Counter-intuitive controls resulted in a pilot throttling down instead of up, and crashing? Pilot error.
Stall warning systems were non-functional, and the pilot wasn't fastidiously checking sensors? Pilot error.
Airline was juggling pilot schedules around, making them work with little sleep? Pilot error.
Nope. Everyone is free to plug their WiFi APs/Routers into the building ethernet, just as they would into a DSL modem. And "managed" switches allow you to isolate every switch port onto their own VLAN, just as if they were on physically separate switches, so they can't communicate directly with each other. You need a VLAN compatible router upstream, but any $40 home router that can be flashed with a Linux-based firmware can do that easily.
Managed switches also offer port security, so you can hard-code each MAC address to a switch port, tie switch access to successful DHCP negotiation, and keep a log of all that info.
Nope, the D-SLAM is just an access device, like a switch. And you can easily monitor each ethernet switch port (via SNMP) if you want to do billing.
No, you're the one with the insane schemes, despite knowing shit about the subject until I came along and called you out for the blatant stupidity.
The intelligence committees had full knowledge of the programs.
Glad to see our Congress and Judiciary are getting a free pass...
Six months sounds good enough, to me. That's longer than I would want to live in a temporary shelter. Much longer and you're not so much providing humanitarian aid, as you are shipping-in prefabricated houses for many thousands of people.
Those six months should be ample time to put together enough clay/adobe bricks to build a real, semi-permanent structure, with ample insulation, firebox, etc. Roofing materials might be more difficult, but helping to source those is better than giving out housing you've deemed "acceptable"...
After 6 months, you should be building-up an economy... Paying some of those local refugees (a truly tiny amount of) money, to construct real homes for their fellow refugees, and hopefully even a few commercial structures.
That was pretty much true for the past several decades, as well.
And there's plenty of exceptions today, too. How about: Inception
It won't... It'll need one that's far, far more expensive. Ditto for the modems... What does a new DSL modem cost today? At least $50 or so? Now you've got to upgrade it to this expensive new gigabit DSL technology, and give it a gigabit network interface, and put one in every apartment. I guarantee a new run of CAT-6 cabling in the most difficult case, will cost less than just the price of the modems for each apartment...
No, they're similar to network switches. A 1U D-SLAM will typically serve maybe 48 lines, and yet costs thousands of dollars.
Correction: "YOU have no idea", and you're just pointlessly making shit up and speculating.
Pretending that cutting-edge technology will be VASTLY cheaper than the current, much lower tech equipment, is stupid.
You're a politician, aren't you?
I noticed when my head started hurting reading what you wrote, and by the fact that you wrote several paragraphs that, at the end, say absolutely nothing...
How about just colonization? A nice young star, with a planet of the ideal mass, located in the habitable zone?
Surely teraforming a planet must be difficult, or at least slow, and removing all the primitive monkeys from your new home is the easier way to go.
I've got the PERFECT name for the next Disney-produced Star Wars film:
Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money
You're welcome.
Send in Seal Team Six to wipe out those godless rebels.
A gigabit ethernet switch is DIRT CHEAP compared to a D-SLAM.
And one is dirt cheap, while the other is insanely expensive. Blindly advocating the use of the insanely expensive one instead, just makes you look... insane.
Assuming either way is just speculation.
Still waiting for any studies linking antibiotic resistant bacteria in humans to livestock...
Oh? Was this an engineering fair? And here I though it was a science fair....
There has been interest in improving peltiers for many decades, and this flashlight will make no difference.
And for thermal power in general, you can't exceed the Carnot limit, so a flashlight or other body-temperature powered device will never be practical.
And to replace your furnace, they sell products such as high efficiency condensing furnaces, which are up to 98% efficient. So much so, that there isn't even enough waste heat left-over to get the exhaust to climb though a 10ft chimney out your roof, and instead needs to be exhausted almost sideways.
That's fine, until you run up against well-tested theoretical limits, making your product impractical or impossible. All those zero-point energy freaks don't win science fairs...
Yes you will. The 1000BASE-T (802.3ab) specifications specifically say 100m on CAT-5 cable, and plenty of people have done so, successfully.
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1205868
You might have range issues if an idiot patched your CAT-5 cables and did too much untwisting, or made similar mistakes. But if a professional installed it, they were tested and certified (by a certifier that cost several thousand dollars) to fully meet CAT-5 specifications, before anyone signed-off and paid for the installation.
Now, what you MIGHT have been thinking of is 10GBASE-T, which can only do 55m over CAT-6, an needs CAT-6a for 100m, but that's an order of magnitude difference, there.