I spent a year working on a project that replicated ladder logic in flowcharts, using a Visio like design surface, that output the PLC code. It was much more elegant than ladder. After the product was released, we were required to build a "ladder interface" because many engineers refused to use anything else. This proves that ladder and flowchart are really equal.
PLC's are based a defined set of analog and digital inputs and outputs. Programs that humans interact with, on the other hand, such as Windows, Web Sites, browsers, etc. deal with an input stream that is not always predictable. It would be very complicated to express even a simple form in flowchart or ladder logic because it's a set of asynchronous islands of code.
In other words, while everything in life could be expressed as a flowchart or ladder, simple human interfaces would be overly complicated by trying to do so.
You cherry picked one study - the superfund cleanup project - that was actually started by Republicans...
This bill is not perfect, but at least somebody is trying to address left wing GREED and the resultant corruption of the scientific method that the left has brought into anything with the word "environment" in front of it.
Left wing greed is equal to, and in some cases far worse than the "evil corporations" they rail against. Consider this:
Left wingers believe that success creates social injustice. Therefore we must punish the successful - confiscating their wealth to offset the injustice. However they refuse to accept that failure creates an equal, or larger social injustice. So, when their greed causes failure, or their social engineering project turns out to be not such a good idea, they refuse to accept the injustice caused by their failures, and fight against any effort to remedy them. Some people believe they are just arrogant assholes that refuse to admit mistakes. I do not believe this... there are exceptions, of course, some of the posters here would vote for Satan over any Republican. I do believe, however, that liberals are lopsided in their application of "fairness".
Much of what the EPA has done has been good. Much of it, however, has been a failure, and has caused great social injustice in the loss of jobs, lowering of living standards, impediments in scientific research to improve the environmental quality of existing forms energy production, reduced agriculture output, and so forth. But you never, ever hear anyone on the left talk about THAT. No, what you hear is a one sided argument, that in the end boils down to this: Government greed is better than corporate greed. I see no difference between the two, and put it to you, sir, that the injustice created by government failure far outweighs the injustice created by success.
There is a large, an gaping hole in your logic, sir.
Capital has never, and will never, care about the happiness of their workers unless those workers force them to care. We had to fight tooth and nail for the rights we have now; eight hour days, forty hour weeks, weekends, workplace safety, sick leave, maternity leave, minimum wage. These things make workers happy, and none of them were offered up voluntarily. They had to be bought with the blood and the lives of the working class from generations ago, and capital has been tirelessly waging a ceaseless campaign to take them back.
I'm sure you believe this Marxist nonsense, and I am wasting my time here, but SERIOUSLY have you ever actually MANAGED workers?
Comparing serfs in a feudal society to modern workers is a great community organizing strategy, as the goal is to make people angry in order to control them. The problem with this whole message - that's it's the poor worker pitted against the royalty (Marxist/Leninism), "the man" (1960) "the establishment" (1970) the "evil corporation" (1980-present).. is so completely disconnected from reality it's pathetic, really. The whole "us" against "them" mindset is a fabrication.
The idea that you can globally quantify worker happiness is equally myopic, it's just not that simple. If you're managing a high turnover, low education work force (like a McDonald's) your strategy as a manager is completely different than managing high paid developers - if you want productivity.
Income inequality actually improved up until 2008. Most left wingers incorrectly use the Gains index, instead of the actual numbers, another classic case of picking the index that supports your views. Since 2008, it has gotten worse. So please, people, let's point our fingers at the people who are making income inequality WORSE - The Democrats and the Obama Administration.
The truth is that it is the political class who are the corrupt overclass not rich people. They have little regard for the suffering happening beneath them, and are actively working against the common good for their own benefit. In other words, the same people who are using community organizing tactics to whip up anger against the rich people - are the same people who are to blame for increased income inequality.
The real problem we have is not enough jobs for low skilled workers, due to advances in manufacturing technology and companies who moved the factories to places with fewer onerous regulations and lower taxes. While this was going on, we did little to stop it, this is a problem the government exacerbated by inaction.
The lack of jobs for low skilled workers is a problem neither the Republicans or the Democrats have made any progress on. Sure, they talk about the need for training programs, but all that money goes into a union thug infested rat hole with little to show for it. The Democrats just keep adding these people to the dole, which is not a long term solution - it's a prescription for bankruptcy.
Until we address the REAL problem - a lack of jobs for unskilled workers - nothing is going change, and we'll continue to have this problem, We need jobs, not speeches. We need jobs, not welfare.
Blaming Bush for the Patriot act - when the Obama Administration and a Democratic Senate/House re-affirmed it... Obama subsequently signed the biggest confiscation of individual freedoms ever written by Imperial Decree - the NDAA - shows a willingness to tell outrageous lies, or a naive ignorance that is absolutely terrifying. In this area the Democrats have exhibited a level of hypocrisy that is nothing short of mind boggling.
I do agree with your last point, and while we are at it, let's end the War on Poverty (EPIC FAIL) and the War on Drugs (EPIC FAIL). Not harassing people at the border, not so much, there are bad people who would do us harm.
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Reply: Microsoft SUX! Windows 8 is EPIC FAIL! Windoze fone it SUX too.
Reply: I use visual studio, I like it.
Reply: Microsoft SUX! Visual Studio is for N00BS! You're an idiot! C# is CRAP.
Reply: I work for a [pick one of Fortune 500 company, Medium Sized Company, Small Company] We have MS desktops and servers, plus Linux, and some iOS devices. Each of these platforms has pro's and con's and is applicable to specific problems.
Reply: Microsoft SUX! You're too stupid to live.
There I just saved you a whole bunch of time reading all these posts. Funny, but this thread sounds just like:
Post 1: Global Warming is real and we have ten years to save the planet.
Reply: Uh, we've been hearing that we have 10 years to save the planet for the last 30 years, and it has been getting colder the last 15.
Reply: You're a clueless, unintelligent idiot. 138% of scientists agree that Global Warming is real.
A new electric heat pump (Air Conditioner/Heater) would be a bit more, but still well under $5k (I'm assuming you meant five thousand with your $5 number)
$5K barely gets you 6,000 BTU of heat/cool (assuming a ductless split system). If you can heat/cool the entire house from a big window air conditioning style unit, $5K gets you around 12,000 BTU. Heat pumps emit little to no heat when the outside ambient temperature drops below freezing, and are completely useless below 14 degrees. They engage electric heat elements at those temperatures, which are insanely inefficient. A heat pump in the 16,000 BTU range requires 220v 30A service, and when its in electric mode, the electric meter is spinning faster than you have ever seen it spin. I know, we have one upstairs to provide supplemental heat/air in an old house that was built before duct work was invented.
All of this seems dependent on two things: 1) That the sun never sets. 2) That the basement full of batteries you'll need to stay warm at night never needs replacement - and aren't just as environmentally destructive as a power plant 3) That we won't need stand by power generation for cloudy days. 4) That there is such a thing as a stand by power generating plant that can spin up on a moment's notice - There isn't.
I'm all for offsetting one's utility bills with solar power - in those parts of the country where it cost effective. But the idea of going all solar any time soon for the average family all across the U.S. is a fanciful notion. China is vastly reducing solar panel production - because there isn't enough demand...
It is very pleasant to converse with someone who doesn't simply attack, attack, attack and call me names, Thank you So Much! Sorry I misunderstood your idea.
While I do not share your notion that other nations will "follow our lead" (they will act in their own self interest) I am in strongly in favor of changing the entire tax system to be consumption based, as opposed to what we have now. In other countries, businesses bribe government officials to look the other way. In America, we do the same exact thing, we just call it the tax code. There are thousands and thousands of examples, but the basic scheme is to give money to politicians, PAC's, and political parties, and then when the politician is elected, they bend the tax code to give you a break in return for your bribe. All taxation should be based on consumption and applied equally. Whether we call this a carbon tax, or a consumption tax does not matter to me. Saving - is automatically rewarded. Investing should be rewarded as well, as investment drives growth whereas the government pumping money in to the economy (Quantitative Easing) benefits the rich while doing nothing for the poor, as well as increasing income inequality.
The only way this works is if it is applied equally to everyone. As soon as we start handing out consumption tax favors to special interests in return for bribes, er, contributions the faster we get right back to the system we have now. Poor folks might only pay $5 a year, but everybody needs to chip in a little, so everyone owns the system, as this whole idea of the government as a giver and a taker is dividing society.
Thanks again for not calling me names, insulting me, and immediately declaring me some kind of extremist, We need more people like you, who are willing to discuss ideas in a civil manner, and look for common ground, as opposed to the "screamers of ideology and hurlers of insults".
I wasn't taught any of those things. Do a little research - although materials from the 1970's are not online. I lived it, did you?
At the time, Time Magazine (A big news source in those days, highly trusted) ran story after story, putting it on the cover a few times. The Polar Vortex was proof of global cooling too.
If all you've got are insults and personal attacks, you've got nothing.
Statistics do not bear this out after five years, two of which were under a Democratic controlled House and Senate.
Under Obama, income inequality has gotten much, much worse.
Under Obama, the economy has not improved much at all. Our biggest problem - a shortage of work for low skilled workers - has gotten worse, and little has been done to address the problem except to make it easier to get on the dole than ever before. To make matters worse, there is a big push to add more workers to this pool via immigration reform.
A few select special interest groups (those that vote largely Democrat) have seen some carrots thrown their way.
The ACA gave us higher premiums (40% increase here), and less people have insurance than before.
It's clear that before the last election, the Obama Administration made up an enemies list, and used the full power of the Executive Branch to go after them. Nixon was brought up on Impeachment charges for far, far less.
More U.S. soldiers have died in Afghanistan than died under Bush by a three to one margin.
The trust people have in the U.S. Government has been eroded to a point where we may never get it back. This occurred due to a personal philosophy of "the end justifies the means". Sure, you lefties howled that "Bush lied" - Did he get the lie of year award? Nope. This president tells each person whatever they want to hear... and refuses to be held accountable for the contradictions and outright lies he has told to get elected.
The NDAA did more to our personal freedom than anything the evil Rethugnicans ever came up with, and to add insult to injury, it was passed by Imperial Decree.
For the record I am an ex-Democrat and ex-Republican who is disappointed with both parties. I think Obama is a really smart guy, but he has put all his effort into the wrong things.
When I was in High School and College in the late 1970's we were taught that the next ice age was coming, and it was scientific FACT.
Then it became Global Warming when the ice age did not come.
When it's cold, the global warming people taught me that I should ignore individual events, because it's all about the Earth's climate, not the weather in one locale.
Now it's called Climate CHANGE, and you're telling me the proof is in individual weather events.
Ya know, I am just plain confused. Seems that the truth is pretty elusive here, and this is definitely not science, it's religion and worst and wishful thinking at best.
I hope your're right about battery life. We'll have to wait and see. I also agree that they should become cheaper to manufacture over time, how much cheaper we'll see.
A hundred years ago people were building cars in their garages and machine shops. There were hundreds, if not thousands of innovators. Things were being invented at a breakneck pace. It was the same environment that brought about the computer revolution and the Internet.
Then along came the well intentioned do gooders and believers in utopia. They said things like "Well this isn't SAFE, we need a LAW to FORCE those evil car companies to build the product THIS way or THAT way". And along came the lawyers, who sued the car companies for anything they thought they could make a buck on. And the "fairness police". Henry Ford treated workers better than any employer ever had before - his competitors did not - so along came the fairness police, who, with the help of the greedy politicians, created the Unions to force all the other car companies to treat their workers the way Ford did. As the money to be made building cars went up and up, the good ol boys club took over, and they conspired to drive all the little guys out of business in the name of greed. In Detroit the difference between the Union, the politicians, and the mafia is basically zero - and they have bankrupted the place.
The result of all this is that the sort of free wheeling innovation that created the automobile in the first place was squashed completely. To try something really new - to experiment - is all but impossible given the sea of regulations, lawyers, special interest groups, etc. It's too expensive, and too risky to do anything other than a small incremental change each model year.
It's the same story with coal, nuclear, solar, and wind. We have, by our own hand, completely paralyzed ourselves into inaction. We've made it impossible to build a new coal plant, or a new nuclear plant. We've set ourselves up for a nuclear disaster, because we are forcing operators to run ancient plants using 1960's technology by making it impossible to build a new one. Solar and Wind were never given a period of free innovation at all - They have been subsidized, the government has tried to pick winners and losers (and failed miserably), and the result is that we are years behind where we could be. This is not limited to the Western powers - the Chinese solar industry is undergoing a bit of an implosion right now as they way over built plants and are losing money like crazy on them.
We've lost sight of the fact that innovation is a messy business. Some people become wealthy, some become poor. People die. Mistakes are made. It takes time - and free markets - for the best idea, best product, and best process to emerge. Instead, we now strive for a sanitary, Utopian vision of innovation where a bunch of scientists in white lab coats working in carefully regulated, highly managed University laboratories funded by government grants make discoveries, and they are good for the planet, good for the environment, greed free, have no problems, and are done for the good of humanity. This vision denies human nature! Instead, it creates organizations who's main goal is their continued existence. They will conspire to create fake data to keep the money flowing.
And I have no issue with carbon tax schemes as long as they are implemented on all nations and are based on CO2 / GDP.
This is a lofty vision, a grand idea, and yes, it looks really good on paper. It denies human nature. What would happen is that the small number of individuals entrusted with collecting these global taxes would become fabulously wealthy, hoard the money for themselves, and exploit all of humanity, eventually leading to enslavement and a complete loss of freedom for everyone. We'd go backwards to the middle ages with kings and serfs - the same thing that happens under the Utopian scheme of communism.
Depends on where you live, and how often one has to replace the batteries.
Don't get me wrong, I LIKE Electric Cars, I am a realist when it comes to actual cost per mile. I'm one of those guys who buys a vehicle and drives it until the wheels fall off, not someone who has to have a new shiny toy every two years. Being a boater who "lives on the hook" from time to time (meaning self sufficient on 12v batteries) I know about wearing out batteries that deep cycle.
If we are successful in destroying the coal industry, don't build any new nuclear plants, and get some "carbon tax" scheme electricity prices will skyrocket...
It's one thing to be proven wrong by history, it's another thing altogether to lie and know you are lying, telling the lie in order to get more power and money, This has been the case over and over with the current administration.
The left spent eight years telling us what evil liars the Rethignicans were about everything - and then when they got back in power they set new lows for lying..
It's very sad me personally, an ex-Democrat who was driven away by the excessive lust for power and greed demonstrated by the party.
This analysis, like all "one size fits all" programs, is flawed from the start because it assumes the entire U.S. is one big homogeneous group. Standard Federal Foolishness, a complete waste of money, and of course the "conclusions" will be based on the ideology of the people doing the study.
If you live in the American West, you can't survive without a car unless you are in SF. If you live in rural America, you can't get by either. If you're in a city with public transportation, or the Northeast corridor, the story is completely different.
And no surprise the discussion here follows predictable divisions, the lefties preaching European style mass transit (That few Americans WANT, as we aren't very good at building mass transit systems, can't run them efficiently, and don't like using them... And the righties saying it is all the fault of the "Obama Economy". People without cars saying how great their life is, people with cars saying the same thing...
If we built such a world-wide instantaneous knowledge system, nefarious people would use it to post facts that supported their ideology, or their greedy desires, and then we'd have huge groups of people shouting "facts" at each other from completely contradictory positions.
Because while Androids outsell Apple 4:1 or more, there's a very strange thing going on. Mobile web traffic has iOS using TWICE the amount of data over Android. Or, put another way, 1 iOS user consumes as much data as 8 Android users.
Thank you so much for saving me the trouble of writing a long rant about this very fact. I can verify this from the 100 or so websites my company hosts, it is absolutely true. It's not really all that much of a mystery.
Where I live, I can get a free Android tablet by having a guy come to my house and estimate replacement windows. Is it really usable for much? Probably not. But it counts as a unit sale. My aging parents got a "great deal" on an Android tablet for $39.95. They couldn't figure out how to hook it up to the Wi-Fi network I setup for them. Is it a unit sale? You bet it is.
From the perspective of what platform you should develop for, iOS wins... as do PC's by the way... Unless you're talking servers, in which case you can charge a lot more for.net guys than php guys so stop complaining!
A radio transmitter hidden in a USB cable can collect all kinds of data from a user's PC and they can read this data up to eight miles away.
Let's apply some basic Physics here, OK? The antenna would be very small, no more than a microstrip. It would be resonant at a very high frequency, somewhere in the five to six Ghz range. At this wavelength, propagation would be line of sight at best, and would be affected by raindrops, snowflakes, dust in the air, etc.. The transmitter output would be in the millionths of a watt range at best. There are major heat dissipation issues, at those frequencies, a temperature change would affect the length of the microstrip antenna, changing its resonant frequency. You need a very stable power source at these frequencies, and a very stable oscillator (e.g. the power frequency has to be regulated). This is basic RF physics, it can't be changed by legislation or ideology.
Detection would involve a $300 frequency counter. Anyone with the basic electronic knowledge would know this. There's no "secret" to hide RF emission.
Prevention would be a six cent piece of aluminum foil wrapped around the connector body. This would give near 90% attenuation.
Data collected would be limited to the data passed through the cable, unless the driver was compromised, requiring the cooperation of every operating system manufacturer, a very big secret to be kept across the world.
So we should look at the SOURCE here. This is the same Newspaper that published a propaganda piece about Benghazi, that was condemned as fantasy at multiple levels of government, and has since been shown to be a complete fabrication. The real story here is the death of American Journalism, the NYT used to be a great newspaper, trustworthy, and working in all of our interests, uncovering malfeasance and holding politicians accountable. The real question to debate here is who is behind this, what are their names, what the motivation is, and who is paying them. The NYT is clearly for sale to the highest bidder, it is very, very sad.
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I spent a year working on a project that replicated ladder logic in flowcharts, using a Visio like design surface, that output the PLC code. It was much more elegant than ladder. After the product was released, we were required to build a "ladder interface" because many engineers refused to use anything else. This proves that ladder and flowchart are really equal.
PLC's are based a defined set of analog and digital inputs and outputs. Programs that humans interact with, on the other hand, such as Windows, Web Sites, browsers, etc. deal with an input stream that is not always predictable. It would be very complicated to express even a simple form in flowchart or ladder logic because it's a set of asynchronous islands of code.
In other words, while everything in life could be expressed as a flowchart or ladder, simple human interfaces would be overly complicated by trying to do so.
You cherry picked one study - the superfund cleanup project - that was actually started by Republicans...
This bill is not perfect, but at least somebody is trying to address left wing GREED and the resultant corruption of the scientific method that the left has brought into anything with the word "environment" in front of it.
Left wing greed is equal to, and in some cases far worse than the "evil corporations" they rail against. Consider this:
Left wingers believe that success creates social injustice. Therefore we must punish the successful - confiscating their wealth to offset the injustice. However they refuse to accept that failure creates an equal, or larger social injustice. So, when their greed causes failure, or their social engineering project turns out to be not such a good idea, they refuse to accept the injustice caused by their failures, and fight against any effort to remedy them. Some people believe they are just arrogant assholes that refuse to admit mistakes. I do not believe this... there are exceptions, of course, some of the posters here would vote for Satan over any Republican. I do believe, however, that liberals are lopsided in their application of "fairness".
Much of what the EPA has done has been good. Much of it, however, has been a failure, and has caused great social injustice in the loss of jobs, lowering of living standards, impediments in scientific research to improve the environmental quality of existing forms energy production, reduced agriculture output, and so forth. But you never, ever hear anyone on the left talk about THAT. No, what you hear is a one sided argument, that in the end boils down to this: Government greed is better than corporate greed. I see no difference between the two, and put it to you, sir, that the injustice created by government failure far outweighs the injustice created by success.
There is a large, an gaping hole in your logic, sir.
Capital has never, and will never, care about the happiness of their workers unless those workers force them to care. We had to fight tooth and nail for the rights we have now; eight hour days, forty hour weeks, weekends, workplace safety, sick leave, maternity leave, minimum wage. These things make workers happy, and none of them were offered up voluntarily. They had to be bought with the blood and the lives of the working class from generations ago, and capital has been tirelessly waging a ceaseless campaign to take them back.
I'm sure you believe this Marxist nonsense, and I am wasting my time here, but SERIOUSLY have you ever actually MANAGED workers?
Comparing serfs in a feudal society to modern workers is a great community organizing strategy, as the goal is to make people angry in order to control them. The problem with this whole message - that's it's the poor worker pitted against the royalty (Marxist/Leninism), "the man" (1960) "the establishment" (1970) the "evil corporation" (1980-present).. is so completely disconnected from reality it's pathetic, really. The whole "us" against "them" mindset is a fabrication.
The idea that you can globally quantify worker happiness is equally myopic, it's just not that simple. If you're managing a high turnover, low education work force (like a McDonald's) your strategy as a manager is completely different than managing high paid developers - if you want productivity.
Income inequality actually improved up until 2008. Most left wingers incorrectly use the Gains index, instead of the actual numbers, another classic case of picking the index that supports your views. Since 2008, it has gotten worse. So please, people, let's point our fingers at the people who are making income inequality WORSE - The Democrats and the Obama Administration.
The truth is that it is the political class who are the corrupt overclass not rich people. They have little regard for the suffering happening beneath them, and are actively working against the common good for their own benefit. In other words, the same people who are using community organizing tactics to whip up anger against the rich people - are the same people who are to blame for increased income inequality.
The real problem we have is not enough jobs for low skilled workers, due to advances in manufacturing technology and companies who moved the factories to places with fewer onerous regulations and lower taxes. While this was going on, we did little to stop it, this is a problem the government exacerbated by inaction.
The lack of jobs for low skilled workers is a problem neither the Republicans or the Democrats have made any progress on. Sure, they talk about the need for training programs, but all that money goes into a union thug infested rat hole with little to show for it. The Democrats just keep adding these people to the dole, which is not a long term solution - it's a prescription for bankruptcy.
Until we address the REAL problem - a lack of jobs for unskilled workers - nothing is going change, and we'll continue to have this problem, We need jobs, not speeches. We need jobs, not welfare.
Blaming Bush for the Patriot act - when the Obama Administration and a Democratic Senate/House re-affirmed it... Obama subsequently signed the biggest confiscation of individual freedoms ever written by Imperial Decree - the NDAA - shows a willingness to tell outrageous lies, or a naive ignorance that is absolutely terrifying. In this area the Democrats have exhibited a level of hypocrisy that is nothing short of mind boggling.
I do agree with your last point, and while we are at it, let's end the War on Poverty (EPIC FAIL) and the War on Drugs (EPIC FAIL). Not harassing people at the border, not so much, there are bad people who would do us harm.
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Reply: They have [insert some huge number here] percent of the market share for desktops.
Reply: Microsoft SUX! Windows 8 is EPIC FAIL! Windoze fone it SUX too.
Reply: I use visual studio, I like it.
Reply: Microsoft SUX! Visual Studio is for N00BS! You're an idiot! C# is CRAP.
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Reply: Microsoft SUX! You're too stupid to live.
There I just saved you a whole bunch of time reading all these posts. Funny, but this thread sounds just like:
Post 1: Global Warming is real and we have ten years to save the planet.
Reply: Uh, we've been hearing that we have 10 years to save the planet for the last 30 years, and it has been getting colder the last 15.
Reply: You're a clueless, unintelligent idiot. 138% of scientists agree that Global Warming is real.
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A new electric heat pump (Air Conditioner/Heater) would be a bit more, but still well under $5k (I'm assuming you meant five thousand with your $5 number)
$5K barely gets you 6,000 BTU of heat/cool (assuming a ductless split system). If you can heat/cool the entire house from a big window air conditioning style unit, $5K gets you around 12,000 BTU. Heat pumps emit little to no heat when the outside ambient temperature drops below freezing, and are completely useless below 14 degrees. They engage electric heat elements at those temperatures, which are insanely inefficient. A heat pump in the 16,000 BTU range requires 220v 30A service, and when its in electric mode, the electric meter is spinning faster than you have ever seen it spin. I know, we have one upstairs to provide supplemental heat/air in an old house that was built before duct work was invented.
All of this seems dependent on two things: 1) That the sun never sets. 2) That the basement full of batteries you'll need to stay warm at night never needs replacement - and aren't just as environmentally destructive as a power plant 3) That we won't need stand by power generation for cloudy days. 4) That there is such a thing as a stand by power generating plant that can spin up on a moment's notice - There isn't.
I'm all for offsetting one's utility bills with solar power - in those parts of the country where it cost effective. But the idea of going all solar any time soon for the average family all across the U.S. is a fanciful notion. China is vastly reducing solar panel production - because there isn't enough demand...
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It is very pleasant to converse with someone who doesn't simply attack, attack, attack and call me names, Thank you So Much! Sorry I misunderstood your idea.
While I do not share your notion that other nations will "follow our lead" (they will act in their own self interest) I am in strongly in favor of changing the entire tax system to be consumption based, as opposed to what we have now. In other countries, businesses bribe government officials to look the other way. In America, we do the same exact thing, we just call it the tax code. There are thousands and thousands of examples, but the basic scheme is to give money to politicians, PAC's, and political parties, and then when the politician is elected, they bend the tax code to give you a break in return for your bribe. All taxation should be based on consumption and applied equally. Whether we call this a carbon tax, or a consumption tax does not matter to me. Saving - is automatically rewarded. Investing should be rewarded as well, as investment drives growth whereas the government pumping money in to the economy (Quantitative Easing) benefits the rich while doing nothing for the poor, as well as increasing income inequality.
The only way this works is if it is applied equally to everyone. As soon as we start handing out consumption tax favors to special interests in return for bribes, er, contributions the faster we get right back to the system we have now. Poor folks might only pay $5 a year, but everybody needs to chip in a little, so everyone owns the system, as this whole idea of the government as a giver and a taker is dividing society.
Thanks again for not calling me names, insulting me, and immediately declaring me some kind of extremist, We need more people like you, who are willing to discuss ideas in a civil manner, and look for common ground, as opposed to the "screamers of ideology and hurlers of insults".
I wasn't taught any of those things. Do a little research - although materials from the 1970's are not online. I lived it, did you?
At the time, Time Magazine (A big news source in those days, highly trusted) ran story after story, putting it on the cover a few times. The Polar Vortex was proof of global cooling too.
If all you've got are insults and personal attacks, you've got nothing.
Statistics do not bear this out after five years, two of which were under a Democratic controlled House and Senate.
Under Obama, income inequality has gotten much, much worse.
Under Obama, the economy has not improved much at all. Our biggest problem - a shortage of work for low skilled workers - has gotten worse, and little has been done to address the problem except to make it easier to get on the dole than ever before. To make matters worse, there is a big push to add more workers to this pool via immigration reform.
A few select special interest groups (those that vote largely Democrat) have seen some carrots thrown their way.
The ACA gave us higher premiums (40% increase here), and less people have insurance than before.
It's clear that before the last election, the Obama Administration made up an enemies list, and used the full power of the Executive Branch to go after them. Nixon was brought up on Impeachment charges for far, far less.
More U.S. soldiers have died in Afghanistan than died under Bush by a three to one margin.
The trust people have in the U.S. Government has been eroded to a point where we may never get it back. This occurred due to a personal philosophy of "the end justifies the means". Sure, you lefties howled that "Bush lied" - Did he get the lie of year award? Nope. This president tells each person whatever they want to hear... and refuses to be held accountable for the contradictions and outright lies he has told to get elected.
The NDAA did more to our personal freedom than anything the evil Rethugnicans ever came up with, and to add insult to injury, it was passed by Imperial Decree.
For the record I am an ex-Democrat and ex-Republican who is disappointed with both parties. I think Obama is a really smart guy, but he has put all his effort into the wrong things.
When I was in High School and College in the late 1970's we were taught that the next ice age was coming, and it was scientific FACT.
Then it became Global Warming when the ice age did not come.
When it's cold, the global warming people taught me that I should ignore individual events, because it's all about the Earth's climate, not the weather in one locale.
Now it's called Climate CHANGE, and you're telling me the proof is in individual weather events.
Ya know, I am just plain confused. Seems that the truth is pretty elusive here, and this is definitely not science, it's religion and worst and wishful thinking at best.
A hundred years ago people were building cars in their garages and machine shops. There were hundreds, if not thousands of innovators. Things were being invented at a breakneck pace. It was the same environment that brought about the computer revolution and the Internet.
Then along came the well intentioned do gooders and believers in utopia. They said things like "Well this isn't SAFE, we need a LAW to FORCE those evil car companies to build the product THIS way or THAT way". And along came the lawyers, who sued the car companies for anything they thought they could make a buck on. And the "fairness police". Henry Ford treated workers better than any employer ever had before - his competitors did not - so along came the fairness police, who, with the help of the greedy politicians, created the Unions to force all the other car companies to treat their workers the way Ford did. As the money to be made building cars went up and up, the good ol boys club took over, and they conspired to drive all the little guys out of business in the name of greed. In Detroit the difference between the Union, the politicians, and the mafia is basically zero - and they have bankrupted the place.
The result of all this is that the sort of free wheeling innovation that created the automobile in the first place was squashed completely. To try something really new - to experiment - is all but impossible given the sea of regulations, lawyers, special interest groups, etc. It's too expensive, and too risky to do anything other than a small incremental change each model year.
It's the same story with coal, nuclear, solar, and wind. We have, by our own hand, completely paralyzed ourselves into inaction. We've made it impossible to build a new coal plant, or a new nuclear plant. We've set ourselves up for a nuclear disaster, because we are forcing operators to run ancient plants using 1960's technology by making it impossible to build a new one. Solar and Wind were never given a period of free innovation at all - They have been subsidized, the government has tried to pick winners and losers (and failed miserably), and the result is that we are years behind where we could be. This is not limited to the Western powers - the Chinese solar industry is undergoing a bit of an implosion right now as they way over built plants and are losing money like crazy on them.
We've lost sight of the fact that innovation is a messy business. Some people become wealthy, some become poor. People die. Mistakes are made. It takes time - and free markets - for the best idea, best product, and best process to emerge. Instead, we now strive for a sanitary, Utopian vision of innovation where a bunch of scientists in white lab coats working in carefully regulated, highly managed University laboratories funded by government grants make discoveries, and they are good for the planet, good for the environment, greed free, have no problems, and are done for the good of humanity. This vision denies human nature! Instead, it creates organizations who's main goal is their continued existence. They will conspire to create fake data to keep the money flowing.
And I have no issue with carbon tax schemes as long as they are implemented on all nations and are based on CO2 / GDP.
This is a lofty vision, a grand idea, and yes, it looks really good on paper. It denies human nature. What would happen is that the small number of individuals entrusted with collecting these global taxes would become fabulously wealthy, hoard the money for themselves, and exploit all of humanity, eventually leading to enslavement and a complete loss of freedom for everyone. We'd go backwards to the middle ages with kings and serfs - the same thing that happens under the Utopian scheme of communism.
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Depends on where you live, and how often one has to replace the batteries.
Don't get me wrong, I LIKE Electric Cars, I am a realist when it comes to actual cost per mile. I'm one of those guys who buys a vehicle and drives it until the wheels fall off, not someone who has to have a new shiny toy every two years. Being a boater who "lives on the hook" from time to time (meaning self sufficient on 12v batteries) I know about wearing out batteries that deep cycle.
If we are successful in destroying the coal industry, don't build any new nuclear plants, and get some "carbon tax" scheme electricity prices will skyrocket...
Making an enemies list before the election and using the full power of the government to go after those enemies.
We impeached Nixon for far, far less.
NONSENSE! The insurance companies were REQUIRED to cancel the plans, and the Administration knew about this TWO YEARS become the ACA went into effect.
But these substandard plans have been put back into place by the Obama Administration - by Imperial Decree. Your statement makes no sense.
For me personally, I got a 40% rate increase, higher deductibles, lower copays and no change in coverage whatsoever.
It's one thing to be proven wrong by history, it's another thing altogether to lie and know you are lying, telling the lie in order to get more power and money, This has been the case over and over with the current administration.
The left spent eight years telling us what evil liars the Rethignicans were about everything - and then when they got back in power they set new lows for lying..
It's very sad me personally, an ex-Democrat who was driven away by the excessive lust for power and greed demonstrated by the party.
Kudos to you, Sir, as you are stating the truth here. Might I add:
THIS is the year/summer of RECOVERY
I'm concerned about income inequality (Which, under his administration, has gotten much, much worse)
The attack in Benghazi was the result of a spontaneous demonstration caused by a video.
I'm concerned about outsourcing (Which his administration has done on project after project)
So many more...
Electricity is FREE? Do tell...
This analysis, like all "one size fits all" programs, is flawed from the start because it assumes the entire U.S. is one big homogeneous group. Standard Federal Foolishness, a complete waste of money, and of course the "conclusions" will be based on the ideology of the people doing the study.
If you live in the American West, you can't survive without a car unless you are in SF. If you live in rural America, you can't get by either. If you're in a city with public transportation, or the Northeast corridor, the story is completely different.
And no surprise the discussion here follows predictable divisions, the lefties preaching European style mass transit (That few Americans WANT, as we aren't very good at building mass transit systems, can't run them efficiently, and don't like using them... And the righties saying it is all the fault of the "Obama Economy". People without cars saying how great their life is, people with cars saying the same thing...
If we built such a world-wide instantaneous knowledge system, nefarious people would use it to post facts that supported their ideology, or their greedy desires, and then we'd have huge groups of people shouting "facts" at each other from completely contradictory positions.
Oh, wait, never mind, we already did that.
Because while Androids outsell Apple 4:1 or more, there's a very strange thing going on. Mobile web traffic has iOS using TWICE the amount of data over Android. Or, put another way, 1 iOS user consumes as much data as 8 Android users.
Thank you so much for saving me the trouble of writing a long rant about this very fact. I can verify this from the 100 or so websites my company hosts, it is absolutely true. It's not really all that much of a mystery.
.net guys than php guys so stop complaining!
Where I live, I can get a free Android tablet by having a guy come to my house and estimate replacement windows. Is it really usable for much? Probably not. But it counts as a unit sale. My aging parents got a "great deal" on an Android tablet for $39.95. They couldn't figure out how to hook it up to the Wi-Fi network I setup for them. Is it a unit sale? You bet it is.
From the perspective of what platform you should develop for, iOS wins... as do PC's by the way... Unless you're talking servers, in which case you can charge a lot more for
The NYT wants is to believe that:
A radio transmitter hidden in a USB cable can collect all kinds of data from a user's PC and they can read this data up to eight miles away.
Let's apply some basic Physics here, OK? The antenna would be very small, no more than a microstrip. It would be resonant at a very high frequency, somewhere in the five to six Ghz range. At this wavelength, propagation would be line of sight at best, and would be affected by raindrops, snowflakes, dust in the air, etc.. The transmitter output would be in the millionths of a watt range at best. There are major heat dissipation issues, at those frequencies, a temperature change would affect the length of the microstrip antenna, changing its resonant frequency. You need a very stable power source at these frequencies, and a very stable oscillator (e.g. the power frequency has to be regulated). This is basic RF physics, it can't be changed by legislation or ideology.
Detection would involve a $300 frequency counter. Anyone with the basic electronic knowledge would know this. There's no "secret" to hide RF emission.
Prevention would be a six cent piece of aluminum foil wrapped around the connector body. This would give near 90% attenuation.
Data collected would be limited to the data passed through the cable, unless the driver was compromised, requiring the cooperation of every operating system manufacturer, a very big secret to be kept across the world.
So we should look at the SOURCE here. This is the same Newspaper that published a propaganda piece about Benghazi, that was condemned as fantasy at multiple levels of government, and has since been shown to be a complete fabrication. The real story here is the death of American Journalism, the NYT used to be a great newspaper, trustworthy, and working in all of our interests, uncovering malfeasance and holding politicians accountable. The real question to debate here is who is behind this, what are their names, what the motivation is, and who is paying them. The NYT is clearly for sale to the highest bidder, it is very, very sad.
CFL's suck more, because they contain Mercury. LED's rock.