The republicans use it as a scare tactic to show everyone who 'bad' Obama is. IN fact using that reserve would be the most short sighted thing we could do.
Lets save it for when the rest of the world starts looking at us to feed them.
why is it, that when people put safety i quote when regard policy change for children safety, then never point out that children have been becoming more safe over the last 20 years?
"People's water wells are being poisoned " there is exactly zero evidence that it's cause by fraking. Wells have gone bad for as long as their have been wells.
" there water is now flammable " in some ares well water has methane in it, and has been 'flammable' well before fraking.
I suspect you say that horrid documentary that specifically lies? Yeah, the example there is many. many miles from any fraking.
err, why do you think it will stop a 2C? that's what it will hit if we stopped using oil now and ALSO made an effort to remove it. But, we aren't serious about removing it and are still spewing it into the atmosphere.
If we stopped, right now, and did not remove excess carbon, we would all experience a heat death in a few hundred to maybe 1000 years.
"The American food industry is entirely based on an over abundance of dirt cheap corn." Good
"You also have cheap (and often illegal) Mexican workers." Good.
remember, that we sell food to other countries, so you all benefit.
" where the only way people can get by is on tips. " A) That's only specific service industries B) Yes, I would like to see their wage increased, and tipping done away with. I DO tip, because the server is usually paid below min. wage because they get tips. Which is stupid and pisses me off to no end. 15% is my bar, I adjust from there.
I do not tip everywhere there is a tip jar. Really counter standing person? you want a tip for pushing 3 buttons? No.
That's wasn't his point. IT was the are energy use will be high because of out GDP.
I mean, logically he is flawed, but he isn't saying the US is entitled to waste more. Simple that there will be more waste when a country has a high GDP and is spread out over such a large land mass.
" And to say that the average Swede is better off than the average American is laughable." more free, better educated, healthier. So I would call them better off. OTOH, to me better off is how you live, not how many dollars you have.
"What infrastructure needs to be updated?" sigh. You;probably shouldn't even be in this discussion if you have to ask that. Clearly you didn't read the article, or upgraded old archetecture on an enterprise level.
Cabling: ever here of bandwidth? expanding needs? Paying someone to even check it? Adding new clsases? more ports?
The you numbers are way off. You know this isn't for a class or a school, right? it's for the entire district. I think 15K people or so. So it won't be A router, it will be many, it won't be a few servers, it will be many, it wont be one UPS, it will be many. SO you're number are meaningless..no, worse then meaningless: Intentional irreconcilable to mislead...or ignorant. You pick. And you leave out support, people cost, maintenance over 10 years.
If this was a small school, I couldn't imagine why they would need 45M. But this isn't, and I don't think you have the intellectual capacity to grasp the complexity of a whole school district.
My experience wasn't in MI, so maybe you live in a crap hole of a state. Whatever. I suggest you change it or move.
And 'Incentive' doesn't mean 'reality'. I did an audit for a large global manufacturing company. The CFO didn't even understand the books. There was one line item for about 10M. No one know what the account was for or who was in charge of it. They where afraid to stop it because they didn't know what would happen if it was removed,. or what would happen if it became aware to the public. They were more worried about loosing money through a stock hit then they where about what the books actually reflected. Because stocks is where the board and upped management make their money.
2004 was 8 years ago. If you are going to fault them, fault them for buying eMacs.
I used to share your derision if iPads in the school system. After watching them be, quite frankly, spectacularly successful I can get behind them using iPads. Add to that Apple text book program, it makes sense.
""Some of the money will go to wireless infrastructure upgrades", no doubt to support the iPads." I would presume any wireless device could use them.
" 45 million doesn't seem exorbitant to you?" It depends on the district size, in this case about 15,000 students. No, but I have done long term infrastructure upgrades projects. remember, this is 45 million over 10 -11 years.
That's nice, but I actual work with government finance people, and various other public servants. Every day. Which turned out to be a nice surprise when I first started doing government audits, and then later got a government job.
Of course may where you are the public servants happen to fall into every unproven yet stereotypical and exaggerated characture ever conceived.
I can't speak for your experience, only for my hundreds of audits in both sectors, and my decades of work experience.
Really? No letter head? Adolf Hitlers birthday? smart quotes in 1994? misplaced comma? no 'edge' of the photocopy? Reads like someone trying to write how they think a teacher would write?
Use your brain.
This 'letter' fails into peoples preconceived notions and as such gets circulated around as truth; when in fact it is highly likely to be a hoax.
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The republicans use it as a scare tactic to show everyone who 'bad' Obama is. IN fact using that reserve would be the most short sighted thing we could do.
Lets save it for when the rest of the world starts looking at us to feed them.
IN the US., 20 year min. for Solar, as per federal regulations.,
Solar will probably last longer then your roof.
Many people could break even in few then 7 years, right now. And that assume your other energy prices don't go up.
For may people the upfront cost would mean a new roof.
Look, just because it take 12 gallons of fuel to extract 1 gallon of gas doesn't mean it's a bad idea~
the 12 is completely made up for humor purpose, do not quote as fact, or I will make derisive comments and laugh at you.
why is it, that when people put safety i quote when regard policy change for children safety, then never point out that children have been becoming more safe over the last 20 years?
Is that because that, maybe, it's working?
You're ignorant.
"People's water wells are being poisoned "
there is exactly zero evidence that it's cause by fraking. Wells have gone bad for as long as their have been wells.
" there water is now flammable "
in some ares well water has methane in it, and has been 'flammable' well before fraking.
I suspect you say that horrid documentary that specifically lies? Yeah, the example there is many. many miles from any fraking.
err, why do you think it will stop a 2C? that's what it will hit if we stopped using oil now and ALSO made an effort to remove it. But, we aren't serious about removing it and are still spewing it into the atmosphere.
If we stopped, right now, and did not remove excess carbon, we would all experience a heat death in a few hundred to maybe 1000 years.
The math is pretty damn clear.
This isn't a political statement, it's a fact.
They do now!
"The American food industry is entirely based on an over abundance of dirt cheap corn."
Good
"You also have cheap (and often illegal) Mexican workers."
Good.
remember, that we sell food to other countries, so you all benefit.
" where the only way people can get by is on tips. "
A) That's only specific service industries
B) Yes, I would like to see their wage increased, and tipping done away with. I DO tip, because the server is usually paid below min. wage because they get tips. Which is stupid and pisses me off to no end. 15% is my bar, I adjust from there.
I do not tip everywhere there is a tip jar. Really counter standing person? you want a tip for pushing 3 buttons?
No.
You live on a fucking island; Of course prices are higher.
Country the produces huge volume of food, gets food cheaper.
Wow, that's shocking.
wait, what?
1.40 * 3.78 = 5.29ish..
Of course that's meaning less. what id you price before taxes? THAT"S then number to compare, everything else is far to removed form the price.
You play that violin, but remember when our prices go up, so do yours.
That's wasn't his point. IT was the are energy use will be high because of out GDP.
I mean, logically he is flawed, but he isn't saying the US is entitled to waste more. Simple that there will be more waste when a country has a high GDP and is spread out over such a large land mass.
Which isn't to say we shouldn't try to use less.
" And to say that the average Swede is better off than the average American is laughable."
more free, better educated, healthier. So I would call them better off. OTOH, to me better off is how you live, not how many dollars you have.
Not yet. The smart long term bet is not to touch our oil for a while.
Game developers too stupid to deal with complex systems.
Sorry, but 'it's complex hardware' excuse pissed me off.
But do they have the technology to implement the control codes?
I can have them all on my computer right now, and I couldn't really do squat with them.
And good luck hitting anything smaller then Australia with it. The thing entry orbit would change radically as parts fell off in unpredictable ways..
If that is what ti is for, then yes.
It is not. Journalism just happens to be the example they use in the article.This is for the entire ditrict.
Yes, just for journalism I would be right their with you.
I don't just read headlines and then jump into a rage..most of the time~
"What infrastructure needs to be updated?" ;probably shouldn't even be in this discussion if you have to ask that.
sigh. You
Clearly you didn't read the article, or upgraded old archetecture on an enterprise level.
Cabling: ever here of bandwidth? expanding needs? Paying someone to even check it? Adding new clsases? more ports?
The you numbers are way off. You know this isn't for a class or a school, right? it's for the entire district. I think 15K people or so.
So it won't be A router, it will be many, it won't be a few servers, it will be many, it wont be one UPS, it will be many.
SO you're number are meaningless..no, worse then meaningless: Intentional irreconcilable to mislead...or ignorant. You pick.
And you leave out support, people cost, maintenance over 10 years.
If this was a small school, I couldn't imagine why they would need 45M. But this isn't, and I don't think you have the intellectual capacity to grasp the complexity of a whole school district.
My experience wasn't in MI, so maybe you live in a crap hole of a state. Whatever. I suggest you change it or move.
And 'Incentive' doesn't mean 'reality'. I did an audit for a large global manufacturing company. The CFO didn't even understand the books. There was one line item for about 10M. No one know what the account was for or who was in charge of it.
They where afraid to stop it because they didn't know what would happen if it was removed,. or what would happen if it became aware to the public.
They were more worried about loosing money through a stock hit then they where about what the books actually reflected. Because stocks is where the board and upped management make their money.
2004 was 8 years ago. If you are going to fault them, fault them for buying eMacs.
I used to share your derision if iPads in the school system. After watching them be, quite frankly, spectacularly successful I can get behind them using iPads.
Add to that Apple text book program, it makes sense.
""Some of the money will go to wireless infrastructure upgrades", no doubt to support the iPads."
I would presume any wireless device could use them.
" 45 million doesn't seem exorbitant to you?"
It depends on the district size, in this case about 15,000 students.
No, but I have done long term infrastructure upgrades projects. remember, this is 45 million over 10 -11 years.
That's nice, but I actual work with government finance people, and various other public servants. Every day.
Which turned out to be a nice surprise when I first started doing government audits, and then later got a government job.
Of course may where you are the public servants happen to fall into every unproven yet stereotypical and exaggerated characture ever conceived.
I can't speak for your experience, only for my hundreds of audits in both sectors, and my decades of work experience.
Really? No letter head? Adolf Hitlers birthday? smart quotes in 1994? misplaced comma? no 'edge' of the photocopy? Reads like someone trying to write how they think a teacher would write?
Use your brain.
This 'letter' fails into peoples preconceived notions and as such gets circulated around as truth; when in fact it is highly likely to be a hoax.
Except this isn't about the conversation, this is about people trying to drowned out the conversation.
Screaming at someone while they are trying to talk is not a conversation.
yeah... because salary workers never work on weekends.
Funny, as an hourly person, I never work weekends..or more then 40 a week.
You 'don't get fired for buying IBM.'
Then 'You don't get fired for buying MS'
Next will be Google, probably.
Never Apple because they are a high end system in a niche market. Yea, people willing to pay 1200+ for a computer is a high end niche market.
Simply inexcusable.