1) These retards have the Battle of the Somme taking place during World War II, when it was rather an affair of World War I.
2) The battle of Smolensk has an article, but the battle of Kursk does not? Kursk was only one of the largest tank battles of all time and the last great offensive in the east... but I guess that's not important.
3) Richard OConnor gets a write up, but not Alan Brooke, Ike, or, Zhukov?
4) The economic underpinnings of the war are not touched on at all. Indeed, the whole history of World War II takes place against a backdrop of the economics of the powers involved, and provides the basic narrative of the struggle. For Americans, where's the talk about how 100 years of protectionism left the USA standing with enough industrial capacity to build 25 aircraft carriers, a bunch of battleships, cruisers, countless destroyers, tens of thousands of aircraft, tanks, guns, and still have enough capacity left over for a speculative bet on the atomic bomb. The great American lesson of WWII is that self reliant industrial capacity wins wars and if any lesson about the war is relevant to the USA today, it is that one.
5) The article about Nazism is, well completely wrong. Given that the head of the SA was a homosexual, and that was known to Hitler and co for some time, its hard to make the argument that the Nazis were more anti-gay than anti-jewish, although granted, Hitler did use Rohm's gayness as one of many charges against him.
All in all, if this is what open source history is, I'd say its crap.
You can see the peaks in demand happen every day from internal power dispatching stuff. Systemwide, if you look at PJM LMP prices, for that ISO at least, you can get a good handle on where the peaks occur..
I think really the big thing would not be so much a smart grid but one that can store electricity. If there was anything that humanity needed, it would be a better way to store and transport energy.
I did a lot of tariff programming back in the day and I loved it...
Electrical demand is not the same as network demand. If your ISP is short on bandwidth, everyone just slows down. But if your power company is short on power, at worst, they have to start throwing people off of the grid, because everyone must have 110VAC 60hz power.
This reality is reflected in the pricing of electricity, especially for larger customers.
The kind of an electric bill a refinery gets, for example, shows this. In such bills, you start with the raw data obtained from power recorders - every kwh and kvarh (reactive power), is recorded at either 15 minute or hourly increments, depending on the utility. This data is rolled up to look at peak demand, and bill to date usage, broken out into buckets representing time of use, each of which has its own price. For the most part, the demand portion of the bill is roughly half, and the other half is the cumulative portion.
So, of all the actionable items in a bill that one could act on, really, instantaneous demand is the most important thing to optimize. If you jack up your demand during the day, for just one hour, by 50%, you've significantly increased your monthly bill... because the utility still has to have equipment to satisfy peak service.
The thing is, industrial customers have known this now for at least 10 years, if not longer, and there's a whole electrical services industry designed to help them avoid that maximum demand charge. Some companies making ice at night for cooling by day. Others try and have multiple shifts. Still others just put in their own local generation that kicks in when their utility usage gets too high. All of this is controlled by automated SCADA systems that have been field proven for at least a decade, if not longer.
The point is, I'm wondering how much smarter the electrical world can actually get? What you are really talking about is putting residential customers on industrial style tariffs. But, what would be the benefit? I mean, there's not too much a residential customer could practically do that would cost effectively help them lower their peak demand in such a way as to be cost effective.
For example, in California, for SCE, the GS-2 tariff specifies a demand charge of less than $10 / kw. SCE GS2. If you figure that most homes use less than 2Kw max demand, there's not much room for economical demand shaving. If you lowered your peak demand from 3kw to 2kw, you would be saving $120 a year. There's few, if any devices that could store energy at night, help with peak demand by day, where you could actually recoup that investment economically.
I'm not saying that all examples of obstruction are bad, but just that it feels like obstruction for selfish reasons takes overriding priority over the public interest -- very general examples being Yucca Mountain or the Land Mine Ban Treaty.
In the really great and grand scheme of things, there is considerable unity in the leadership of the USA, democrat, or republican.
1) They are united on the war in Iraq. AS much as Democrats bitched about it, you never really saw them explicitly vote to end the war, or cut off its funding, the way they did during Vietnam. And... more and more we find out they were on board themselves, but had a political base they had to placate.
2) They are united about alternative energy. Sure, Republicans chalk it up to farm aid, and Democrats want to save the atmosphere, but there's a torrent of money and incentives for all sorts of things.
3) They are united on food protectionism. American farm markets are protectionist. We protect our farmers. Screw the third world. -sigh-, I wish we protected our manufacturing too. But, oh well.
4) United on free trade. The Chinese, Japanese and Koreans, despite their friendly appearances, are mercantile countries trying to get rich at American expense. The bipartisan response has been to let them.
5) Both like giant militaries. Ok, the Democrats may only want to blow you up 10 times over, and the Republicans, 15 times over, but if you blink you'll find those sneaky Democrats funding the stealth fighter and bomber, ballistic missile subs, the a-bomb and the h-bomb, and they never really do -stop- missile defense research. The way it works is a division of labors..
There's just a lot that its in common, more than people really realize.
The real question is: why are Americans incapable of governing themselves?
Because the USA is a coalition of states with vastly different economic priorities, and, despite many protests to the contrary, neither red state nor blue state wants a government powerful enough to screw the other side. That would be guaranteed to bring about a civil war and the first one was pretty horrible.
Of course, every sentence says "citation needed" after it
Actually, its pretty accurate. Japan was hurting economically before the war even began. The USA stopped selling Japan raw materials, like steel and oil were cut off, and in response the Japanese extended the imperial drive into the resource rich pacific.
But even then you have to keep in mind that the industrial japan of world war II was nowhere near the industrial japan of today. The GDP of Japan was a fraction of that of the USA and to some extent the Japanese Navy headed into 1941 was built up over the years by accumulating a bunch of different classes of warships. On the other hand the USA of then was not the USA of today. Back in those days the USA was a protectionist industrial powerhouse, rather than a free trading banking state.
A great web site maps out the economic disparity between the two:
Some things are just amazing... like, just look at how many Essex class aircraft carriers, aircraft, and battleships the USA built. Everyone raves about the Japanese 70,000 ton Yamato, but there are some Navy fans out there that say the USS Iowa class could probably come out ahead in that fight, there were four of those versus two Yamatos.. and, if it had been a battleship war, and the Iowa couldn't do it, then the Montana would.
But as it was it was a carrier war. We build 25 Essex Class carriers, the Japanese a fraction of that. We build more than 300,000 aircraft, the Japanese a fraction of that. We have radar. The Japanese don't. We have self sealing fuel tanks. The Japanese don't.
He's got some good points. He does express them in a way that's unnecessarily offensive and combative. But that doesn't make him an asshole. That makes him a typical geek!
So when do you think he's going to chop his wife up, accidentally lose the passenger seat to the car, and get caught trying to leave the country with $4000 in cash?
Actually, for Windows applications that are written by rules, using all the proper types of things, then yes, a Windows C app should recompile for ARM without too much of a problem and actually work.
In fact with the old Embedded Visual C++, you could target multiple CPUs and it would compile them all out. For a dumb checkers game I wrote, I had a release for ARM and a release for some other weird PDA chip, and it all just worked.
The biggest problem that most people would have in Windows apps, me thinks, would be if they were using native SDK code and they had rolled their own stuff for unpacking LPARAM and WPARAM. But, if you used the SDK macros for everything, used the macro types like LPSTR and LPCSTR and WORD and DWORD and the Windows structures for stuff, I would fully expect a recompile would just work out of the gate.
No. If a person is damaged by the software, and we establish that being damaged by the software is an suable thing, then damages have to be based on the cost of a remedy. So, if a Linux file system blows up, then, the author of that file system is liable for all the data loss from it.
If free software is competitive, then it has to be held to the same exact standard that commercial software is. Otherwise, its just what a lot of people said all along, a not really competitive thing, just propped up by the government.
Obviously, this proves that Tesla did it. He had a number of theories about radiocarbon14 waves, you know. That big antenna he was working on, probably could have altered the carbon.
The Japanese were well aware of what had happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They had people working on an atomic bomb as well but they were barely scratching the surface of what needed to be done as they just did not have the industrial capacity.
World War II was a bad thing. We all make mistakes. The people that made them are dead. You don't have to be pussies for the rest of your national life just because your ancestors went overboard.
Probably in another 10 years, everyone from the WWII generation will be completely dead, and then from there you can hire some PR guys to turn around that whole swastika problem around for you...
But, in the meantime, at some point, you just have to say, "Hey, everyone, look, we know that it was wrong to for us to start World War II, but you do have to admit that when we declared war on -everybody-, it was pretty bad ass. The Fuhrer was pretty psycho but the one ball that he had left must have been pretty big to do that."
I agree, while i haven't been to Germany, i can vouch that the US legal system is fucked
Can't be too fucked, since you have a right to say that it is. There's plenty of countries where you would get beaten up for just daring to communicate outside of your assigned channels, and would get killed for condemning the government.
Right now, the biggest failure of the legal system is a ton of stupid laws throwing a lot of people into jail probably where fines might be appropriate. But... cash strapped states, knowing that voters will despise any tax increase, have figured out that jeez, building new prisons every year costs a lot of money. On the federal level, the only way Obama will get national health care is if he can structure it in a way that caps medicare.... because, people aren't going to want to pay that bill. Sure, politicians have historically borrowed their way out of it, but with USA debt approaching its limits, and states essentially with no credit, particularly California, New Jersey and New York, the level of government spending is going to have to be aligned to what citizens are willing to pay, and in America, its not a lot.
ou go right on believing that like a good little useful idiot. The so called environmental movement has been and still is dominated by Communists.
I run a hard right wing site (check my profile -which I say only to illustrate my fan of the right credentials), but I think you are completely wrong to say that neo-puritan environmentalists are the same as socialists. I would say the Democratic Party of today is an alliance between neo-puritans,socialists, organized labor with nationalists leaning towards them, and there is a political difference between all of those groups.
we Republicans are we're really screwed as a party until we start reaching out to people in the Democratic Party and make them come to our side. The "independent" is politically useless because they just sit the fence. We need to steal committed people from the Dems and pick off audiences that support us. We have no credibility on the Reaganesque stance of peace through strength and we pissed away the 1990s balanced budgets that we then imposed by spending like whores ourselves.
That doesn't leave us with too many credible selling points... and we need something that can work. We need to rebuild, over the years, a reputation for budget discipline. We need to attract those groups like labor, that might be at odds with the enviro-puritan wing, and we need to attract immigrants rather than repel, because our capitalist message appeals naturally to them more than socialism. Anyone that jumps the fence and outruns guards to be an American is sufficiently independently minded that by all rights they belong on our side.
The problem with smokers is that they die of lung cancer and lung cancer treatment is expensive. We spend a million bucks per lung cancer patient, and, all that money doesn't improve their survival odds
people over 75 or something. make the comfortable, dope them up, but, not have the big bills. That pretty much cuts medicare in half, and then you could afford to have better stuff in schools.
The "Fault" in Yucca is a joke. Nearly every place in the USA has a fault near it in some way. The "Fault" at Yucca is just another anti-industrial age strawman cooked up by a bunch of environmentalists. I ran Yucca mountain through the same earthquake simulations used by insurance companies all over the world, and the premiums were pretty damned low.
They're not promoting X brand of digital TV converters or XY cable TV company or XYZ satellite TV company. It's the same thing really, and you're taking it out of context.
That's not a good example. The reason the government is pushing the digital tv upgrade is because it ruled that such upgrades must be so. You know, it mandated that, because it asserts it has a right to rule the airwaves.
If we really wanted to be silly about things, one could make the claim that the rotating earth with the car in place, and having the car move across the earth are essentially the same thing. In our models we only say the earth is stationary in keeping with our sense of things and our coordinate system, but we could just as easily have one where the car is stationary and the earth moves. In fact old top down racers used to do exactly this.
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Just because conservapedia is retarded doesn't make the "Somme took place in World War II" source any more correct.
I bet it isn't as bad as Conservapedia, which is just chock full of nonsense.
What does that have to do with anything?
I just reviewed the section on World War II.
on World War II
1) These retards have the Battle of the Somme taking place during World War II, when it was rather an affair of World War I.
2) The battle of Smolensk has an article, but the battle of Kursk does not? Kursk was only one of the largest tank battles of all time and the last great offensive in the east... but I guess that's not important.
3) Richard OConnor gets a write up, but not Alan Brooke, Ike, or, Zhukov?
4) The economic underpinnings of the war are not touched on at all. Indeed, the whole history of World War II takes place against a backdrop of the economics of the powers involved, and provides the basic narrative of the struggle. For Americans, where's the talk about how 100 years of protectionism left the USA standing with enough industrial capacity to build 25 aircraft carriers, a bunch of battleships, cruisers, countless destroyers, tens of thousands of aircraft, tanks, guns, and still have enough capacity left over for a speculative bet on the atomic bomb. The great American lesson of WWII is that self reliant industrial capacity wins wars and if any lesson about the war is relevant to the USA today, it is that one.
5) The article about Nazism is, well completely wrong. Given that the head of the SA was a homosexual, and that was known to Hitler and co for some time, its hard to make the argument that the Nazis were more anti-gay than anti-jewish, although granted, Hitler did use Rohm's gayness as one of many charges against him.
All in all, if this is what open source history is, I'd say its crap.
Put together a slashdot team of contributors, and bid on an open source solution to this, and then, uh, spend the money.
You can see the peaks in demand happen every day from internal power dispatching stuff. Systemwide, if you look at PJM LMP prices, for that ISO at least, you can get a good handle on where the peaks occur..
I think really the big thing would not be so much a smart grid but one that can store electricity. If there was anything that humanity needed, it would be a better way to store and transport energy.
I did a lot of tariff programming back in the day and I loved it...
Electrical demand is not the same as network demand. If your ISP is short on bandwidth, everyone just slows down. But if your power company is short on power, at worst, they have to start throwing people off of the grid, because everyone must have 110VAC 60hz power.
This reality is reflected in the pricing of electricity, especially for larger customers.
The kind of an electric bill a refinery gets, for example, shows this. In such bills, you start with the raw data obtained from power recorders - every kwh and kvarh (reactive power), is recorded at either 15 minute or hourly increments, depending on the utility. This data is rolled up to look at peak demand, and bill to date usage, broken out into buckets representing time of use, each of which has its own price. For the most part, the demand portion of the bill is roughly half, and the other half is the cumulative portion.
So, of all the actionable items in a bill that one could act on, really, instantaneous demand is the most important thing to optimize. If you jack up your demand during the day, for just one hour, by 50%, you've significantly increased your monthly bill... because the utility still has to have equipment to satisfy peak service.
The thing is, industrial customers have known this now for at least 10 years, if not longer, and there's a whole electrical services industry designed to help them avoid that maximum demand charge. Some companies making ice at night for cooling by day. Others try and have multiple shifts. Still others just put in their own local generation that kicks in when their utility usage gets too high. All of this is controlled by automated SCADA systems that have been field proven for at least a decade, if not longer.
The point is, I'm wondering how much smarter the electrical world can actually get? What you are really talking about is putting residential customers on industrial style tariffs. But, what would be the benefit? I mean, there's not too much a residential customer could practically do that would cost effectively help them lower their peak demand in such a way as to be cost effective.
For example, in California, for SCE, the GS-2 tariff specifies a demand charge of less than $10 / kw. SCE GS2. If you figure that most homes use less than 2Kw max demand, there's not much room for economical demand shaving. If you lowered your peak demand from 3kw to 2kw, you would be saving $120 a year. There's few, if any devices that could store energy at night, help with peak demand by day, where you could actually recoup that investment economically.
I'm not saying that all examples of obstruction are bad, but just that it feels like obstruction for selfish reasons takes overriding priority over the public interest -- very general examples being Yucca Mountain or the Land Mine Ban Treaty.
In the really great and grand scheme of things, there is considerable unity in the leadership of the USA, democrat, or republican.
1) They are united on the war in Iraq. AS much as Democrats bitched about it, you never really saw them explicitly vote to end the war, or cut off its funding, the way they did during Vietnam. And... more and more we find out they were on board themselves, but had a political base they had to placate.
2) They are united about alternative energy. Sure, Republicans chalk it up to farm aid, and Democrats want to save the atmosphere, but there's a torrent of money and incentives for all sorts of things.
3) They are united on food protectionism. American farm markets are protectionist. We protect our farmers. Screw the third world. -sigh-, I wish we protected our manufacturing too. But, oh well.
4) United on free trade. The Chinese, Japanese and Koreans, despite their friendly appearances, are mercantile countries trying to get rich at American expense. The bipartisan response has been to let them.
5) Both like giant militaries. Ok, the Democrats may only want to blow you up 10 times over, and the Republicans, 15 times over, but if you blink you'll find those sneaky Democrats funding the stealth fighter and bomber, ballistic missile subs, the a-bomb and the h-bomb, and they never really do -stop- missile defense research. The way it works is a division of labors..
There's just a lot that its in common, more than people really realize.
The real question is: why are Americans incapable of governing themselves?
Because the USA is a coalition of states with vastly different economic priorities, and, despite many protests to the contrary, neither red state nor blue state wants a government powerful enough to screw the other side. That would be guaranteed to bring about a civil war and the first one was pretty horrible.
Of course, every sentence says "citation needed" after it
Actually, its pretty accurate. Japan was hurting economically before the war even began. The USA stopped selling Japan raw materials, like steel and oil were cut off, and in response the Japanese extended the imperial drive into the resource rich pacific.
But even then you have to keep in mind that the industrial japan of world war II was nowhere near the industrial japan of today. The GDP of Japan was a fraction of that of the USA and to some extent the Japanese Navy headed into 1941 was built up over the years by accumulating a bunch of different classes of warships. On the other hand the USA of then was not the USA of today. Back in those days the USA was a protectionist industrial powerhouse, rather than a free trading banking state.
A great web site maps out the economic disparity between the two:
http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm
Some things are just amazing... like, just look at how many Essex class aircraft carriers, aircraft, and battleships the USA built. Everyone raves about the Japanese 70,000 ton Yamato, but there are some Navy fans out there that say the USS Iowa class could probably come out ahead in that fight, there were four of those versus two Yamatos.. and, if it had been a battleship war, and the Iowa couldn't do it, then the Montana would.
But as it was it was a carrier war. We build 25 Essex Class carriers, the Japanese a fraction of that. We build more than 300,000 aircraft, the Japanese a fraction of that. We have radar. The Japanese don't. We have self sealing fuel tanks. The Japanese don't.
The Japanese had no shot to win that war.
He's got some good points. He does express them in a way that's unnecessarily offensive and combative. But that doesn't make him an asshole. That makes him a typical geek!
So when do you think he's going to chop his wife up, accidentally lose the passenger seat to the car, and get caught trying to leave the country with $4000 in cash?
Actually, for Windows applications that are written by rules, using all the proper types of things, then yes, a Windows C app should recompile for ARM without too much of a problem and actually work.
In fact with the old Embedded Visual C++, you could target multiple CPUs and it would compile them all out. For a dumb checkers game I wrote, I had a release for ARM and a release for some other weird PDA chip, and it all just worked.
The biggest problem that most people would have in Windows apps, me thinks, would be if they were using native SDK code and they had rolled their own stuff for unpacking LPARAM and WPARAM. But, if you used the SDK macros for everything, used the macro types like LPSTR and LPCSTR and WORD and DWORD and the Windows structures for stuff, I would fully expect a recompile would just work out of the gate.
I invoke the law of "you get what you pay for."
No. If a person is damaged by the software, and we establish that being damaged by the software is an suable thing, then damages have to be based on the cost of a remedy. So, if a Linux file system blows up, then, the author of that file system is liable for all the data loss from it.
If free software is competitive, then it has to be held to the same exact standard that commercial software is. Otherwise, its just what a lot of people said all along, a not really competitive thing, just propped up by the government.
If a paid software author can be held liable for his damages, then so too should a free software author, and the foundations that do them.
Face it, lawyers are looking for some new people to loot, and they are taking dead aim at the software industry.
Obviously, this proves that Tesla did it. He had a number of theories about radiocarbon14 waves, you know. That big antenna he was working on, probably could have altered the carbon.
The Japanese were well aware of what had happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They had people working on an atomic bomb as well but they were barely scratching the surface of what needed to be done as they just did not have the industrial capacity.
World War II was a bad thing. We all make mistakes. The people that made them are dead. You don't have to be pussies for the rest of your national life just because your ancestors went overboard.
Probably in another 10 years, everyone from the WWII generation will be completely dead, and then from there you can hire some PR guys to turn around that whole swastika problem around for you...
But, in the meantime, at some point, you just have to say, "Hey, everyone, look, we know that it was wrong to for us to start World War II, but you do have to admit that when we declared war on
-everybody-, it was pretty bad ass. The Fuhrer was pretty psycho but the one ball that he had left must have been pretty big to do that."
I agree, while i haven't been to Germany, i can vouch that the US legal system is fucked
Can't be too fucked, since you have a right to say that it is. There's plenty of countries where you would get beaten up for just daring to communicate outside of your assigned channels, and would get killed for condemning the government.
Right now, the biggest failure of the legal system is a ton of stupid laws throwing a lot of people into jail probably where fines might be appropriate. But... cash strapped states, knowing that voters will despise any tax increase, have figured out that jeez, building new prisons every year costs a lot of money. On the federal level, the only way Obama will get national health care is if he can structure it in a way that caps medicare.... because, people aren't going to want to pay that bill. Sure, politicians have historically borrowed their way out of it, but with USA debt approaching its limits, and states essentially with no credit, particularly California, New Jersey and New York, the level of government spending is going to have to be aligned to what citizens are willing to pay, and in America, its not a lot.
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I kind of feel like I missed out on the golden age of assembly programming.
You did, because the hardware is so far removed from Assembly. But... assembly is still out there at least as a hobby on desktops.
ou go right on believing that like a good little useful idiot. The so called environmental movement has been and still is dominated by Communists.
I run a hard right wing site (check my profile -which I say only to illustrate my fan of the right credentials), but I think you are completely wrong to say that neo-puritan environmentalists are the same as socialists. I would say the Democratic Party of today is an alliance between neo-puritans ,socialists, organized labor with nationalists leaning towards them, and there is a political difference between all of those groups.
we Republicans are we're really screwed as a party until we start reaching out to people in the Democratic Party and make them come to our side. The "independent" is politically useless because they just sit the fence. We need to steal committed people from the Dems and pick off audiences that support us. We have no credibility on the Reaganesque stance of peace through strength and we pissed away the 1990s balanced budgets that we then imposed by spending like whores ourselves.
That doesn't leave us with too many credible selling points... and we need something that can work. We need to rebuild, over the years, a reputation for budget discipline. We need to attract those groups like labor, that might be at odds with the enviro-puritan wing, and we need to attract immigrants rather than repel, because our capitalist message appeals naturally to them more than socialism. Anyone that jumps the fence and outruns guards to be an American is sufficiently independently minded that by all rights they belong on our side.
The problem with smokers is that they die of lung cancer and lung cancer treatment is expensive. We spend a million bucks per lung cancer patient, and, all that money doesn't improve their survival odds
people over 75 or something. make the comfortable, dope them up, but, not have the big bills. That pretty much cuts medicare in half, and then you could afford to have better stuff in schools.
The "Fault" in Yucca is a joke. Nearly every place in the USA has a fault near it in some way. The "Fault" at Yucca is just another anti-industrial age strawman cooked up by a bunch of environmentalists. I ran Yucca mountain through the same earthquake simulations used by insurance companies all over the world, and the premiums were pretty damned low.
They're not promoting X brand of digital TV converters or XY cable TV company or XYZ satellite TV company. It's the same thing really, and you're taking it out of context.
That's not a good example. The reason the government is pushing the digital tv upgrade is because it ruled that such upgrades must be so. You know, it mandated that, because it asserts it has a right to rule the airwaves.
If we really wanted to be silly about things, one could make the claim that the rotating earth with the car in place, and having the car move across the earth are essentially the same thing. In our models we only say the earth is stationary in keeping with our sense of things and our coordinate system, but we could just as easily have one where the car is stationary and the earth moves. In fact old top down racers used to do exactly this.