" ObamaCare causing thousands of companies to fire and reduce hours for millions of employees?" false. as has been proven over and over again with actual numbers and math.
" Or any number of other issues that actually affect every day Americans." like sickness, disease, cancer and a myriad of other medical issue? yeah, he should do something about that.
"Or, if someone says something stupid, we get rid of them as an elected official?" if they are factually lies like this dickhead said? then yes.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hjres45 In 2008, Broun and 91 co-sponsors introduced H.J.Res.89, a proposition for the Federal Marriage Amendment. The proposed amendment to the United States Constitution would define marriage as "as consisting only of the union of a man and a woman."[
Broun proposed failed legislation that would have proclaimed 2010 "The Year Of The Bible".
When Broun explained his reasons for voting against climate change legislation in June 2010, he called the entire concept of man-made global warming a conspiracy perpetuated by certain members of the scientific community
" It's more or less just a bunch of Atheists " I know many believers who were also outraged by the statements.
" and acting outraged" I can't speak for everyone, but I WAS outraged. Unlike you I don't presume to speak for an entire group.
" because someone associated with science even in a cursory fashion" cursory? CURSORY? he is in a position to determine POLICY. that isn't not cursory. Some high school teacher making those comments at there own church is one thing, this is someone who tries to determine police for the whole country.
" had the gull to act like religion was more important then science." no. he had the gall to say the thing he doesn't like were real even though there are warehouse full of evidence, even though they are facts, he acts like they aren't, and he is provably wrong.
"It sickens ME that someone would call for suppressing the opinions of others simply because they don't agree with them."
It's its factual wrong, it's not an opinion, it's a lie. You can have your own opinion, but not you own facts.
" Rather than supply a cogent, reasoned response to those opinions, they result to name calling and demands of censorship." We have volumes and volume of books and warehouses of evidences of the facts.
"Oh, wait... I forgot how Democrats campaign nowadays, and, since they won, how the rights of others are now to be subservient to the "right" to not be offended by differing opinions..." Wanting people to use facts and not speak nonsense is called 'reasonable discourse' pushing lies, making up a 'controversy', is not an opinion, it is stupidity. Which would be fine if it wasn't from someone trying to make policy decisions.
I don't give a shit about your political stance, but if you are spouting lies and ignorance I will call you out.
You assume one watt of electric being converted to heat is the same as one watt converted by a heater. There are different devices with different inefficiencies.
What? twice the transistors, half the price. That is what Moore's law boils down to, according to his paper. Read it.
And yes, it's not relevant for a number of reasons. As a real world example: In 06 you could get a 3 GHz computer. If Moore's law still impacted speed, we would be able to get a 24GHz chip right now.
Dr. Manfred Schroeders work was about how to measure reverb. Specifically energy and not power.
THAT allowed for excellent mimicking of reverb through artificial means.
"Sabine's equations are entirely irrelevant unless one is within a Large Acoustical Space." Wrong. depends on absorption rate. Try eliminating all reverb form a small marble room.
Once again someone from hometheatershack is very close to being correct, yet still managed to fumble the ball.
". But what if you're the sort of purist who prefers the analog sound of vinyl records to the digital sound of MP3s or CDs? that's 'hipster' not 'purist'.
YO would be considered statically likely to smoke; which is true.
"Later on, a lot of the people I knew had felonies, I never had, but I guess I would be guilty of that also." No. Assuming you were hanging around them when they committed the felony, you would be statistically higher chance of being a felon.
and so on.
Of course the number per example you give vary on many factors. If you are in a gay bar? there is a very high statistical probability that you are gay. Is it 100%? no.
Lets say you can get solar efficiency of 30%. Solar drops about 1kW per sqr meter. So that's 300 watts per sqr meter.
in 2008 the world used over 142,000 TWhs there a 10 trillion sq meters in the total US, not just roof tops.
that means each sq meter would need to generate 14.2 kWh so... yu are wrong
That said,I believe that it should be part of the housing code to put solar on roof tops. And the saving over 20 years will more then pay for it over time.
And before anyone sways 'it will raise the price of the house" I say 'no shit.'
"Obama will have us do with his "Drill, baby! Drill!"" WTF are you talking about?
I live in Oregon, we pay on average 7.6cents per kWh. Much lower then the national average. We get over 50% of our electricity form renewable source. Mostly Hydro.
maybe you should research AND THEN form an opinion?
it's STILL less CO2. Of course, this assume they aren't using a water reservoir to maintain a balanced load. Some location in the world are always windy.
AND just becasue it isn't windy where you farms happen to be, doesn't mean it isn't windy ion other places that could sell you their surplus from wind.
I'm not a big fan of wind as a base load supply for several reason, but what you list is simply short sighted and ignorant.
"For every wind farm, you need a gas powerstation of the same size to compensate when the wind is not blowing. that's a complete lack of understanding energy distribution.
Subsidies: Foreign tax credit ($15.3 billion) Credit for production of non-conventional fuels ($14.1 billion) Oil and Gas exploration and development expensing ($7.1 billion)
Those are the largest, there are many other.
Get your facts straight, then we can have a discussion about whether or not their value to society is worth keeping them or not.
This is not a post pro or against them, just pointing out that you are factually wrong.
TSA exists fro a reason. The private industry failed to do there job becasue they kept hiring the lowest common denominator, routinely hired people who where new to the country and couldn't speak English. Let me be clear: 9/11 happened because we use private firms who didn't actual care about the job, only hiring the cheapest possible employees and over working them. The airports also hold some responsibility becasue instead of looking at quality, they looked at the cheapest.
A prime example of the type of thing corporation do not do well.
TSA is better the it was before, security wise. Not perfect. Now, are the requirements the TSA's job has to enforce too draconian? yes. Fight to change the rules, TSA needs to enforce. Proper enforcement of the pre 9/11 attacks would be fine.
And the TSA cost 8 billion in 2011. So, no where near a trillion.
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" ObamaCare causing thousands of companies to fire and reduce hours for millions of employees?"
false. as has been proven over and over again with actual numbers and math.
" Or any number of other issues that actually affect every day Americans."
like sickness, disease, cancer and a myriad of other medical issue? yeah, he should do something about that.
"Or, if someone says something stupid, we get rid of them as an elected official?"
if they are factually lies like this dickhead said? then yes.
Oh really?
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr212
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hjres45
In 2008, Broun and 91 co-sponsors introduced H.J.Res.89, a proposition for the Federal Marriage Amendment. The proposed amendment to the United States Constitution would define marriage as "as consisting only of the union of a man and a woman."[
Broun proposed failed legislation that would have proclaimed 2010 "The Year Of The Bible".
When Broun explained his reasons for voting against climate change legislation in June 2010, he called the entire concept of man-made global warming a conspiracy perpetuated by certain members of the scientific community
supported by:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Forum
" It's more or less just a bunch of Atheists "
I know many believers who were also outraged by the statements.
" and acting outraged"
I can't speak for everyone, but I WAS outraged. Unlike you I don't presume to speak for an entire group.
" because someone associated with science even in a cursory fashion"
cursory? CURSORY? he is in a position to determine POLICY. that isn't not cursory. Some high school teacher making those comments at there own church is one thing, this is someone who tries to determine police for the whole country.
" had the gull to act like religion was more important then science."
no. he had the gall to say the thing he doesn't like were real even though there are warehouse full of evidence, even though they are facts, he acts like they aren't, and he is provably wrong.
Pay Attention.
In the margin he wrote:
"I don't like the gannet, they wet their nests!"~
"It sickens ME that someone would call for suppressing the opinions of others simply because they don't agree with them."
It's its factual wrong, it's not an opinion, it's a lie.
You can have your own opinion, but not you own facts.
" Rather than supply a cogent, reasoned response to those opinions, they result to name calling and demands of censorship."
We have volumes and volume of books and warehouses of evidences of the facts.
"Oh, wait... I forgot how Democrats campaign nowadays, and, since they won, how the rights of others are now to be subservient to the "right" to not be offended by differing opinions..."
Wanting people to use facts and not speak nonsense is called 'reasonable discourse' pushing lies, making up a 'controversy', is not an opinion, it is stupidity. Which would be fine if it wasn't from someone trying to make policy decisions.
I don't give a shit about your political stance, but if you are spouting lies and ignorance I will call you out.
And that's what percentage?
And Swing states were nearly as relevant as people had thought.
Nazi Germany could say the same thing.
Wrong.
You assume one watt of electric being converted to heat is the same as one watt converted by a heater. There are different devices with different inefficiencies.
What?
twice the transistors, half the price. That is what Moore's law boils down to, according to his paper. Read it.
And yes, it's not relevant for a number of reasons.
As a real world example:
In 06 you could get a 3 GHz computer. If Moore's law still impacted speed, we would be able to get a 24GHz chip right now.
" Securing your code (making it not fail under the weight of random exploits) doesn't slow things down."
of course it does. Checks take resources.
"Adding in additional complexity, holes, and latency to your software stack with DRM definitely slows things down."
also true
They have an edit button, it's called preview. /. doesn't need an after submit post button, it needs reader who read the preview.
It's not failure mode if it's intentional.
" (at least, most music that you would consider listening to on vinyl)"
you mean music the really pops?
vinyl - Scratching and popping before hip hop.
heh
Dr. Manfred Schroeders work was about how to measure reverb. Specifically energy and not power.
THAT allowed for excellent mimicking of reverb through artificial means.
"Sabine's equations are entirely irrelevant unless one is within a Large Acoustical Space."
Wrong. depends on absorption rate. Try eliminating all reverb form a small marble room.
Once again someone from hometheatershack is very close to being correct, yet still managed to fumble the ball.
". But what if you're the sort of purist who prefers the analog sound of vinyl records to the digital sound of MP3s or CDs?
that's 'hipster' not 'purist'.
YO would be considered statically likely to smoke; which is true.
"Later on, a lot of the people I knew had felonies, I never had, but I guess I would be guilty of that also."
No. Assuming you were hanging around them when they committed the felony, you would be statistically higher chance of being a felon.
and so on.
Of course the number per example you give vary on many factors.
If you are in a gay bar? there is a very high statistical probability that you are gay. Is it 100%? no.
"There's enough insolation just on America's residential rooftops to power the entire planet,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0WvJrEuJTk
Lets say you can get solar efficiency of 30%.
Solar drops about 1kW per sqr meter.
So that's 300 watts per sqr meter.
in 2008 the world used over 142,000 TWhs
there a 10 trillion sq meters in the total US, not just roof tops.
that means each sq meter would need to generate 14.2 kWh
so... yu are wrong
That said,I believe that it should be part of the housing code to put solar on roof tops.
And the saving over 20 years will more then pay for it over time.
And before anyone sways 'it will raise the price of the house" I say 'no shit.'
"Obama will have us do with his "Drill, baby! Drill!""
WTF are you talking about?
I live in Oregon, we pay on average 7.6cents per kWh. Much lower then the national average. We get over 50% of our electricity form renewable source. Mostly Hydro.
maybe you should research AND THEN form an opinion?
And their CO2 emissions?
And...?
it's STILL less CO2.
Of course, this assume they aren't using a water reservoir to maintain a balanced load. Some location in the world are always windy.
AND just becasue it isn't windy where you farms happen to be, doesn't mean it isn't windy ion other places that could sell you their surplus from wind.
I'm not a big fan of wind as a base load supply for several reason, but what you list is simply short sighted and ignorant.
"For every wind farm, you need a gas powerstation of the same size to compensate when the wind is not blowing.
that's a complete lack of understanding energy distribution.
I mean, it's simply..stupid.
Subsidies:
Foreign tax credit ($15.3 billion)
Credit for production of non-conventional fuels ($14.1 billion)
Oil and Gas exploration and development expensing ($7.1 billion)
Those are the largest, there are many other.
Get your facts straight, then we can have a discussion about whether or not their value to society is worth keeping them or not.
This is not a post pro or against them, just pointing out that you are factually wrong.
TSA exists fro a reason. The private industry failed to do there job becasue they kept hiring the lowest common denominator, routinely hired people who where new to the country and couldn't speak English.
Let me be clear:
9/11 happened because we use private firms who didn't actual care about the job, only hiring the cheapest possible employees and over working them.
The airports also hold some responsibility becasue instead of looking at quality, they looked at the cheapest.
A prime example of the type of thing corporation do not do well.
TSA is better the it was before, security wise. Not perfect. Now, are the requirements the TSA's job has to enforce too draconian? yes.
Fight to change the rules, TSA needs to enforce. Proper enforcement of the pre 9/11 attacks would be fine.
And the TSA cost 8 billion in 2011. So, no where near a trillion.
whaaa..whaaaaa I don't like heat whaaa.
http://youtu.be/vN2WzQzxuoA
" probably in a weighted contribution/costs manner (ie, logical manner)
that's not necessarily the logical way to do it.
Worse by what measure?
Installations? no.
Users? no
integration? no