I have worked at place where if you had written something you would be disciplined, or possible fired.
Assuming you say the Matrix - You know that scene where Neo is just sitting in his cube, monitor off, bored? I know companies like that. You get efficient at your job, but stupid policy means you can't do anything else. So.. you're bored. And before the internet was in every cube, it was damn boring. Usually this happen at mega corporations.
He clearly has a very specific set of responsibilities. They do NOT include programming. His question is should he go outside his written responsibilities and do this work?
"great resume-building task " why? he can do it on his own time and still put it on his resume.
Oh, and I have had dispute with companies and need t get a lawyer. At no point was a let go from the company as retaliation.
I don't knwo where this 'get a lawyer to defend you right means the company will get you bullshit comes from.
" because as much as public servants love to spend other people's money
Hello, I am now a public servant. I can say, for a fact, that public servants are ALWAYS looking to get the quality they need for the cheapest price possible.
As opposed to my decades in the private sectors, where waste is stupidly high. Something I did not realize until P became a public sector worker and watched people who ACTUALLY care about saving money write contracts, and do rigorous accounting. accounting.
But public servants are a convenient 'them' to rally against and pretend they're the problem, regardless of facts.
Are you an idiot? No 17 years is that long when talking about investments.
And what the fuck does buying your movies have to do with how you store them? And why do you assume people aren't ALSO getting high efficiency appliances? or insulating there house? You can do all that AND solar panels. For me, it's cheaper to get solar panels the re-insulate my house.
High efficiency appliance still do exactly NOTHING during a blackout.
How can you be upside does and not have purchased in a bubble?
yeah, on paper your upside doesn' but are you making the same money? if so, then being upsides down is irrelevant.
And no, the 30K can' won't return more unless you happen to get in early on a popular stock. Hint: You wont.
Where can you get 150 interest per months off 30K?
I appreciate you have other concerns. Presumable valid concerns. My roof needs to be replaced, so putting up solar right now would be stupid. When I get a new roof in 3 years? yeah, I'm getting solar.
These programs aren't about cost saving and thinking long term. Fewer coal plants, healthier people, less costs. Fewer new plants, cost savings. Savings over time. People with would save money. And it wouldn't be half pays for the other half. Its would be closer to 75% pays for 100%. Of course, if we would get rig of the damn Bush tax cuts on the rich, and the tax relief on the middle class, this wouldn't be an issue.
Also, tax all trades on 'Wall Street' at.007%.
FYI you aren't exactly surprising anyone with the 'money from the government comes from taxes" argument. I mean, No shit, Sherlock.
When was the last time you checked the price? I can have my roof covered for about 10 grand, installed.
Also, there are programs that take the difference between what you save on electricity as payment. So no cost change*, but not spewing CO2 into the air. My house would be a payment for 10 years before paying off the panels.
30K over 10 years is 3000 a year. ~260 a month.
so 260 - savings for 10 years. Is that worth not using CO2? Is it worth year ll not having a payment and saving even more? How about a15 years?
Solar panels are designed to last 30 years, btw.
If I was buying a new home right now, I would get a loan the wrapped putting solar panel on the roof. Hell, If I was refinancing I would get extra to cover solar. at 4.1% over 15 years, that's cheap.
You might want to check the figures and math before copying and pasting your response from some whack-a-doodle forum.
Your numbers assume it needs to generate 64,500 Gigawatts in ONE HOUR, As opposed to over a whole year.
Dumb ass.
" which produces 5750 watts (assuming constant supply 5.75 kWh) with a base area of 17.6 sq feet and costs $360. " You would need less then one per resident. If you wanted to make up for night use, then 2 panels per person.* Presumable the extra electricity would be cold to neighboring cities during the day, and cover most, if not all, of the cost for night electricity use.
that's 720 dollars per resident.
You make another mistake people who hate solar make.. You assume if it only produces during the day, then it's not worth while. Ignoring other 24hours solar generation technique, even if the solar panels did cover night power, it would still cut power consumption in half. Obviously average through the year.
Cutting power usage from dirty generation in half is a good thing.
*I am basing that on the numbers you gave, so you will need to take that with a grain of salt...the size of your head.
They will not force prices down. Chinese manufactures are already selling below cost to manufacture. They are getting money from the Chinese government to do so.
China is about China long term. They know if the corner Solar, they will make billion and billion long term. There government is thinking in terms of decades and centuries, as any government should.
This is do to China have a government supplemented Solar Panel industry. As the US puts tarring on panels made in China, you will see this problem go away.
Do not confound the viability with solar, with the individual companies in the solar panel industry.
Don't bother. I just looked at adriankemps posts. he is either a very sly troll, or thinks his common knowledge of what something is is 100% accurate in all ways.
Big ego with narcissistic tendencies. I could link specific places of authority to show him he is wrong, and he still think everyone else was wrong.
Plus he spouts specific lies about certain subject he doesn't agree with. So ignore the moron.
"confidence that they were going to find (or not find)" That line, right there, show you don't actually know what science is, or what they are doing at the LHC.
Before ever posting again, I suggest you review high school science, then college, and then look up this thing called the 'Standard Model' and study it for a while After you understand that, you can comment about why testing for predictions made by the Standard Model is not science.
Until then, please let the big people talk and stop using science as the same thing as the scientific method.
Science is using systematic measurement to understand the natural world. the Scientific Method is recreating things in an ordered way. An important part of science, but not all of science.
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programmers have always been above sys admins.for eq. experience.
"Oh and BTW you can't be on the selection committee as you have an inherent conflict of interests. "
incorrect.
of course you can. It just wouldn't appear ethical. Assuming anyone cares.
I have worked at place where if you had written something you would be disciplined, or possible fired.
Assuming you say the Matrix - You know that scene where Neo is just sitting in his cube, monitor off, bored? I know companies like that. You get efficient at your job, but stupid policy means you can't do anything else. So.. you're bored. And before the internet was in every cube, it was damn boring.
Usually this happen at mega corporations.
He clearly has a very specific set of responsibilities. They do NOT include programming.
His question is should he go outside his written responsibilities and do this work?
"great resume-building task "
why? he can do it on his own time and still put it on his resume.
Oh, and I have had dispute with companies and need t get a lawyer. At no point was a let go from the company as retaliation.
I don't knwo where this 'get a lawyer to defend you right means the company will get you bullshit comes from.
If yes, then it's invalid.
hey, douche bag, not everything is about immediate payback.
I mean, by your own definition you have lots of free time. That means you are already getting paid to do NOTHING.
Think about that.
And how con you have down time but your team still have a lot of work?
Man, what a lazy douche bag you are.
Unless you are not getting paid for the down time, then I am wrong and I apologize.
It allows management to see the costs of IT.
That sucks. However some states have enacted laws that make it illegal for a homeowners association to prohibit solar panels.
SO keep an eye for your state.
This is the same issue as rooftop satellite dishes; which ended with a federal law saying home owners association can't restrict that.
I expect the same thing to happen with this issue.
" because as much as public servants love to spend other people's money
Hello, I am now a public servant. I can say, for a fact, that public servants are ALWAYS looking to get the quality they need for the cheapest price possible.
As opposed to my decades in the private sectors, where waste is stupidly high. Something I did not realize until P became a public sector worker and watched people who ACTUALLY care about saving money write contracts, and do rigorous accounting.
accounting.
But public servants are a convenient 'them' to rally against and pretend they're the problem, regardless of facts.
Well, you need to be damn sure you know what your doing, because needing a new roof because you fucked up won't be cheap.
"The demand by greenies for political/ideological/emotional reasons drives up price because they don't care"
You're an idiot.
I know a lot of rich people. They would vomit at the idea of paying 50K for something worth 15K.
well, he saved 150 a month. Where can you invest 30K and get a 150 monthly return?
Are you an idiot?
No 17 years is that long when talking about investments.
And what the fuck does buying your movies have to do with how you store them?
And why do you assume people aren't ALSO getting high efficiency appliances? or insulating there house? You can do all that AND solar panels. For me, it's cheaper to get solar panels the re-insulate my house.
High efficiency appliance still do exactly NOTHING during a blackout.
How can you be upside does and not have purchased in a bubble?
yeah, on paper your
upside doesn' but are you making the same money? if so, then being upsides down is irrelevant.
And no, the 30K can' won't return more unless you happen to get in early on a popular stock. Hint: You wont.
Where can you get 150 interest per months off 30K?
I appreciate you have other concerns. Presumable valid concerns.
My roof needs to be replaced, so putting up solar right now would be stupid. When I get a new roof in 3 years? yeah, I'm getting solar.
Get a new insurance company. My premiums wouldn't change at all.
He is saving 1800 a year.
That's 45,000 saved over 25 years. as opposed to 32K he would make after 25years at 3%.
Of curse, electricity prices are very likely to be higher in 25 years.
You also ignore the other benefits, cleaners sky, healthier people, and so on.
These programs aren't about cost saving and thinking long term.
Fewer coal plants, healthier people, less costs.
Fewer new plants, cost savings.
Savings over time. People with would save money.
And it wouldn't be half pays for the other half. Its would be closer to 75% pays for 100%.
Of course, if we would get rig of the damn Bush tax cuts on the rich, and the tax relief on the middle class, this wouldn't be an issue.
Also, tax all trades on 'Wall Street' at .007%.
FYI you aren't exactly surprising anyone with the 'money from the government comes from taxes" argument. I mean, No shit, Sherlock.
When was the last time you checked the price? I can have my roof covered for about 10 grand, installed.
Also, there are programs that take the difference between what you save on electricity as payment. So no cost change*, but not spewing CO2 into the air. My house would be a payment for 10 years before paying off the panels.
30K over 10 years is 3000 a year. ~260 a month.
so 260 - savings for 10 years. Is that worth not using CO2?
Is it worth year ll not having a payment and saving even more? How about a15 years?
Solar panels are designed to last 30 years, btw.
If I was buying a new home right now, I would get a loan the wrapped putting solar panel on the roof. Hell, If I was refinancing I would get extra to cover solar. at 4.1% over 15 years, that's cheap.
*average through the year, natch.
You might want to check the figures and math before copying and pasting your response from some whack-a-doodle forum.
Your numbers assume it needs to generate 64,500 Gigawatts in ONE HOUR, As opposed to over a whole year.
Dumb ass.
" which produces 5750 watts (assuming constant supply 5.75 kWh) with a base area of 17.6 sq feet and costs $360. "
You would need less then one per resident. If you wanted to make up for night use, then 2 panels per person.* Presumable the extra electricity would be cold to neighboring cities during the day, and cover most, if not all, of the cost for night electricity use.
that's 720 dollars per resident.
You make another mistake people who hate solar make.. You assume if it only produces during the day, then it's not worth while. Ignoring other 24hours solar generation technique, even if the solar panels did cover night power, it would still cut power consumption in half. Obviously average through the year.
Cutting power usage from dirty generation in half is a good thing.
*I am basing that on the numbers you gave, so you will need to take that with a grain of salt...the size of your head.
HAHA, no.
They will not force prices down. Chinese manufactures are already selling below cost to manufacture. They are getting money from the Chinese government to do so.
China is about China long term. They know if the corner Solar, they will make billion and billion long term. There government is thinking in terms of decades and centuries, as any government should.
This is do to China have a government supplemented Solar Panel industry.
As the US puts tarring on panels made in China, you will see this problem go away.
Do not confound the viability with solar, with the individual companies in the solar panel industry.
Don't bother. I just looked at adriankemps posts. he is either a very sly troll, or thinks his common knowledge of what something is is 100% accurate in all ways.
Big ego with narcissistic tendencies. I could link specific places of authority to show him he is wrong, and he still think everyone else was wrong.
Plus he spouts specific lies about certain subject he doesn't agree with. So ignore the moron.
"confidence that they were going to find (or not find)"
That line, right there, show you don't actually know what science is, or what they are doing at the LHC.
Before ever posting again, I suggest you review high school science, then college, and then look up this thing called the 'Standard Model' and study it for a while
After you understand that, you can comment about why testing for predictions made by the Standard Model is not science.
Until then, please let the big people talk and stop using science as the same thing as the scientific method.
Science is using systematic measurement to understand the natural world. the Scientific Method is recreating things in an ordered way. An important part of science, but not all of science.
I refer you to:
Hypotheses non fingo
I would invent the 'fuse' and save millions of lives.
Then I would be worshiped as a god.
except these gods can be turned off.
No, they will be servants and we will enjoy the fruits of their labor.
And shelter.
Of course, is need just base survival, or is need being part of the large tribe? is being accepted a need*?
*hint: it is, no matter what the people on /. think.
And when a person with cancer tells you you should just use meditation to cure cancer, do you listen to them?
How about we evaluate things on the merits?
Facebook is a social tool. It isn't stupid or bad. How people use it is stupid or bad.