...and end up basically hating each other by the end of the flight. Imagine sitting for several days in a closet with your significant other, not really able to move much, with little to no privacy, no washing, no change of clothes, and no way of just getting away for even a few minutes. As I recall, their relationship did not last much after the flight, and soured even further afterward.
He'll be sleeping longer than a few minutes, but there won't be any eight-hour snoozes for him. The autopilot ensures that no matter what his alertness condition, the appropriate settings will be used to maximize fuel efficiency. He'll have the option of taking over in an emergency, but for the most part, he's just along for the ride.
I was in a courtroom once (overdue registration), and the judge started things off with the normal bits of how the process would work. He ended it with something along the lines of, "Because of the potential for disruption of the Court's activities, I strongly recommend that you now turn off the sound for any noisemaking devices such as pagers or cellphones. If your device goes off, you will be found in contempt of court and fined accordingly."
He wasn't kidding, either. About 20 minutes later, someone's phone went off about three feet from the bailiff. He was promptly hauled in front of the judge and fined $25, and his phone was confiscated for the duration of his time in the courtroom.
How long do the panels last, though? And can they be reliably created at mass quantities? The current production facilities, running full-out, can manufacture enough panels for only a tiny fraction of what is needed to make a dent in things. Building plants costs money, and replacement panels cost money. Efficiency drops over time as the panels deteriorate, so costs go up as panels need to be replaced. There's the added problem that in most places, supplemental power will have to come from other sources.
If this works, then great. But I expect in ten years we'll still be seeing these kinds of stories posted (and duplicated) here.:)
Can you provide actual numbers? Those 3.5 cents are ongoing costs, including fuel, environmental gear, and so forth. I doubt the subsidies are anything close to what you apparently think them to be.
Even at five cents per kWh, it's more than 40% more than the target cost for other methods, which is around 3.5 cents per kWh. That's the range where gas, coal, and oil plants live, and where nuclear is striving to be (Westinghouse's 1000MW AP1000 reactor design is the only approved one that may reach that, and it came about because the AP600 wasn't efficient enough).
Anything much more than that without ample tax incentives (and maybe not even then) just isn't going to happen on a large scale.
I remember that. I flew to Kansas City a couple of years prior, and from LAX was checked in both places. KC, though, did not require a gate check, but then the security check for the gate was only a few seconds' walk away. Those small airports are kind of cozy that way.:)
I didn't make any presumptions about anyone, nor did I call the United States a warmongering nation. The fact is that for the last century at least, the US has not been able to go more than a few years without a significant engagement of forces from another country, and before then we weren't exactly peaceful with the Indians (or ourselves, for that matter). From the Spain to Mexico to the Phillipines to Germany (twice) to the Middle East to Africa, US military power has been brought to bear by (nearly?) every president. Whether gunboat diplomacy or outright war, it has been the policy of the United States to back up what we say with a very large gun.
I favor Teddy Roosevelt's proverb to speak softly and carry a big stick. There's no need to yell at other countries, because we have the muscle to back the words, as many have discovered to their detriment.
It's not far from it, perhaps. There's been serious talk of requiring photo ID for travel by train and long-distance bus.
The whole security thing is overblown. There are things that need to stay secret, but things like this aren't one of them. A list of items that cannot be carried onboard might be something, but the basic conditions required to get past security and onto the plane should not be secret. There's not even been anything saying that you can get on a plane without ID if you submit to a search. None of that is public, and that's the problem here.
Ah, yes, the typical Slashdot kneejerk reaction. I was thinking it was dead for about 20 minutes there.
You shouldn't make presumptions about people without doing some research, or at least hedging your bets. For the most part, I've supported those actions, and I'm grateful for the results -- Iraq (both times), Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Libya, Lebanon, and a lot of others. I still want to know why we weren't in Iraq around 1993, but that's something left to another discussion.
However, I've seen nothing that indicates there is ANY such "secret law", and the fact that SFO - the second airport he tried - would indeed allow him to fly with no ID devastates his claim.
You apparently haven't read anything except for the Slashdot summaries, and not even all of those.
The issue is not that he can fly without ID. The issue is that administrative code exists that is not available to the public, but which applies to it all the same. Yes, he can get around it by submitting to additional security screening. That's not the issue here. The issue is that the government has admitted that these rules exist, but says that they cannot be discussed in open court because they qualify as "Sensitive Security Information." Who decides what qualifies as SSI? The TSA. There's no oversight on this at all. And that's the problem people have with it.
I just flew to Chicago a couple of weeks ago, and while the TSA person wanted to see my license, the airline attendant at the gate wanted only to see my boarding pass. Getting past the federally-run security checkpoint required ID. Getting on the plane itself did not.
It would be hard for any administration to say that with a straight face. Every president in the last 70 years, and probably every president overall, has been involved in at least one war or major military combat operation. The US is a warlike nation.
Actually, China has lost two million such jobs in the last couple of years to even lower-cost countries like Bangladesh, Myanmar, and the Phillipines. They still have an edge in some things where infrastructure counts, but for knock-off items, they're overpriced on the world market.
...or maybe they have also invented a piece of metal drawn out to a convenient length so that the fan can be placed out the window and the phone kept indoors to prevent such an accident?
The WSJ article on Valentine's Day mentioned that the code has yet to be released, and I didn't see the full code anywhere on Mann's site. I did find a file called pca-noamer.f that seems to be focused on working with the North American data (which is presumably a subset of the overall data). That and a similar file were all that I could see with.f extensions, suggesting that he has not made the full code available.
You don't have authority to require people to pay fines, and that is enshrined in law. The government does, and unless you're part of the government, even by extension (deputized, for example), you don't have such a power, and you are explicitly barred from collecting such fines.
Congress is usually pretty specific on the powers it grants to the FCC. There have been several occasions when the FCC has found a loophole, and Congress has closed it rapidly. If they don't have legal authority here, Congress will have to explicitly give them such authority, which will probably get bogged down in debate. Many members of Congress are not particularly keen on these kinds of powers.
Exactly. Anyone who needs reinforcement on this point should go do some searches on Bre-X. I remember getting some junk mail from some investing company years ago that was really pushing them. A month later, the scandal hit the news, and the stock went into freefall. Worse than Enron, IMHO, though not of the same size.
Despite such references, Washington was not particularly religious by his own admission. He did believe, but not so strongly that the religion itself was that strong a guiding influence on his life. He rarely attended church even when he was where he could conveniently access one.
Most of the Founding Fathers -- those who signed the Declaration and/or Constitution -- were Christians, yes. However, they were from a wide variety of faiths, and did include deists and perhaps even an atheist or two (I don't have my research materials here at work). They recognized that even though most of them shared core beliefs -- divinity of Christ, Christ dying for man's sins, heaven and hell, and all that -- there were enough differences that they felt it best to leave religion largely out of government. Even in the meetings of the Continental Congress, many meetings went without opening prayer, IIRC (need to check this when I get home).
It's a nearly zero-sum carbon solution. All of the carbon that comes from the turkeys is already in the upper part of the system, instead of being buried underground. The idea is that the CO2 is pulled in by the plants, goes into the cycle as various other forms of carbon-involved molecules, and ends up in the turkeys.
The main reason is that the largest plant to date is at ConAgra's Butterball Turkey plant in Carthage, Missouri. The guts of the birds destined for the freezer are shipped across the facility to the TDP plant, where the magic happens.
Diesel has issues with particulate emissions, one of the reasons that it's not so popular in the US. In Europe, where certain smog components are lower thanks to diesel engines, many cities are battling particulates in the air. Win some, lose some.
That's a major exception. A significant majority of the situations faced by an admin involve a single network, or a handful of networks under a single company, and the changes can be set up from one location, or perhaps a handful of locations (which also allows a phased transition, though so would properly configured groups).
As someone else mentioned, group policy wouldn't take long for these. If there were, say, 2000 customers, and each one took an hour to make the changes, that's one man-year of work. I presume there are many more than one person handling such things, so it would be a few months of relatively constant work. Fairly boring, actually, and repetitious enough that a flunkie could do it with a senior admin on-hand to deal with problems that come up.
Aside from the general Slashdot response, I really do think that those of us in the IT industry make a much, much bigger deal about things than we need to.
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...and end up basically hating each other by the end of the flight. Imagine sitting for several days in a closet with your significant other, not really able to move much, with little to no privacy, no washing, no change of clothes, and no way of just getting away for even a few minutes. As I recall, their relationship did not last much after the flight, and soured even further afterward.
He'll be sleeping longer than a few minutes, but there won't be any eight-hour snoozes for him. The autopilot ensures that no matter what his alertness condition, the appropriate settings will be used to maximize fuel efficiency. He'll have the option of taking over in an emergency, but for the most part, he's just along for the ride.
I was in a courtroom once (overdue registration), and the judge started things off with the normal bits of how the process would work. He ended it with something along the lines of, "Because of the potential for disruption of the Court's activities, I strongly recommend that you now turn off the sound for any noisemaking devices such as pagers or cellphones. If your device goes off, you will be found in contempt of court and fined accordingly."
He wasn't kidding, either. About 20 minutes later, someone's phone went off about three feet from the bailiff. He was promptly hauled in front of the judge and fined $25, and his phone was confiscated for the duration of his time in the courtroom.
How long do the panels last, though? And can they be reliably created at mass quantities? The current production facilities, running full-out, can manufacture enough panels for only a tiny fraction of what is needed to make a dent in things. Building plants costs money, and replacement panels cost money. Efficiency drops over time as the panels deteriorate, so costs go up as panels need to be replaced. There's the added problem that in most places, supplemental power will have to come from other sources.
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If this works, then great. But I expect in ten years we'll still be seeing these kinds of stories posted (and duplicated) here.
Can you provide actual numbers? Those 3.5 cents are ongoing costs, including fuel, environmental gear, and so forth. I doubt the subsidies are anything close to what you apparently think them to be.
Even at five cents per kWh, it's more than 40% more than the target cost for other methods, which is around 3.5 cents per kWh. That's the range where gas, coal, and oil plants live, and where nuclear is striving to be (Westinghouse's 1000MW AP1000 reactor design is the only approved one that may reach that, and it came about because the AP600 wasn't efficient enough).
Anything much more than that without ample tax incentives (and maybe not even then) just isn't going to happen on a large scale.
I remember that. I flew to Kansas City a couple of years prior, and from LAX was checked in both places. KC, though, did not require a gate check, but then the security check for the gate was only a few seconds' walk away. Those small airports are kind of cozy that way. :)
I didn't make any presumptions about anyone, nor did I call the United States a warmongering nation. The fact is that for the last century at least, the US has not been able to go more than a few years without a significant engagement of forces from another country, and before then we weren't exactly peaceful with the Indians (or ourselves, for that matter). From the Spain to Mexico to the Phillipines to Germany (twice) to the Middle East to Africa, US military power has been brought to bear by (nearly?) every president. Whether gunboat diplomacy or outright war, it has been the policy of the United States to back up what we say with a very large gun.
I favor Teddy Roosevelt's proverb to speak softly and carry a big stick. There's no need to yell at other countries, because we have the muscle to back the words, as many have discovered to their detriment.
It's not far from it, perhaps. There's been serious talk of requiring photo ID for travel by train and long-distance bus.
The whole security thing is overblown. There are things that need to stay secret, but things like this aren't one of them. A list of items that cannot be carried onboard might be something, but the basic conditions required to get past security and onto the plane should not be secret. There's not even been anything saying that you can get on a plane without ID if you submit to a search. None of that is public, and that's the problem here.
Ah, yes, the typical Slashdot kneejerk reaction. I was thinking it was dead for about 20 minutes there.
You shouldn't make presumptions about people without doing some research, or at least hedging your bets. For the most part, I've supported those actions, and I'm grateful for the results -- Iraq (both times), Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Libya, Lebanon, and a lot of others. I still want to know why we weren't in Iraq around 1993, but that's something left to another discussion.
However, I've seen nothing that indicates there is ANY such "secret law", and the fact that SFO - the second airport he tried - would indeed allow him to fly with no ID devastates his claim.
You apparently haven't read anything except for the Slashdot summaries, and not even all of those.
The issue is not that he can fly without ID. The issue is that administrative code exists that is not available to the public, but which applies to it all the same. Yes, he can get around it by submitting to additional security screening. That's not the issue here. The issue is that the government has admitted that these rules exist, but says that they cannot be discussed in open court because they qualify as "Sensitive Security Information." Who decides what qualifies as SSI? The TSA. There's no oversight on this at all. And that's the problem people have with it.
I just flew to Chicago a couple of weeks ago, and while the TSA person wanted to see my license, the airline attendant at the gate wanted only to see my boarding pass. Getting past the federally-run security checkpoint required ID. Getting on the plane itself did not.
It would be hard for any administration to say that with a straight face. Every president in the last 70 years, and probably every president overall, has been involved in at least one war or major military combat operation. The US is a warlike nation.
Your state may have initiative processes that allow you to vote for or against certain laws. If you're in California, you vote for many laws.
Actually, China has lost two million such jobs in the last couple of years to even lower-cost countries like Bangladesh, Myanmar, and the Phillipines. They still have an edge in some things where infrastructure counts, but for knock-off items, they're overpriced on the world market.
...or maybe they have also invented a piece of metal drawn out to a convenient length so that the fan can be placed out the window and the phone kept indoors to prevent such an accident?
The WSJ article on Valentine's Day mentioned that the code has yet to be released, and I didn't see the full code anywhere on Mann's site. I did find a file called pca-noamer.f that seems to be focused on working with the North American data (which is presumably a subset of the overall data). That and a similar file were all that I could see with .f extensions, suggesting that he has not made the full code available.
You don't have authority to require people to pay fines, and that is enshrined in law. The government does, and unless you're part of the government, even by extension (deputized, for example), you don't have such a power, and you are explicitly barred from collecting such fines.
Congress is usually pretty specific on the powers it grants to the FCC. There have been several occasions when the FCC has found a loophole, and Congress has closed it rapidly. If they don't have legal authority here, Congress will have to explicitly give them such authority, which will probably get bogged down in debate. Many members of Congress are not particularly keen on these kinds of powers.
OK, but presuming that is all of the data, where's the code that was used to analyze it?
Exactly. Anyone who needs reinforcement on this point should go do some searches on Bre-X. I remember getting some junk mail from some investing company years ago that was really pushing them. A month later, the scandal hit the news, and the stock went into freefall. Worse than Enron, IMHO, though not of the same size.
Despite such references, Washington was not particularly religious by his own admission. He did believe, but not so strongly that the religion itself was that strong a guiding influence on his life. He rarely attended church even when he was where he could conveniently access one.
Most of the Founding Fathers -- those who signed the Declaration and/or Constitution -- were Christians, yes. However, they were from a wide variety of faiths, and did include deists and perhaps even an atheist or two (I don't have my research materials here at work). They recognized that even though most of them shared core beliefs -- divinity of Christ, Christ dying for man's sins, heaven and hell, and all that -- there were enough differences that they felt it best to leave religion largely out of government. Even in the meetings of the Continental Congress, many meetings went without opening prayer, IIRC (need to check this when I get home).
It's a nearly zero-sum carbon solution. All of the carbon that comes from the turkeys is already in the upper part of the system, instead of being buried underground. The idea is that the CO2 is pulled in by the plants, goes into the cycle as various other forms of carbon-involved molecules, and ends up in the turkeys.
The main reason is that the largest plant to date is at ConAgra's Butterball Turkey plant in Carthage, Missouri. The guts of the birds destined for the freezer are shipped across the facility to the TDP plant, where the magic happens.
Diesel has issues with particulate emissions, one of the reasons that it's not so popular in the US. In Europe, where certain smog components are lower thanks to diesel engines, many cities are battling particulates in the air. Win some, lose some.
That's a major exception. A significant majority of the situations faced by an admin involve a single network, or a handful of networks under a single company, and the changes can be set up from one location, or perhaps a handful of locations (which also allows a phased transition, though so would properly configured groups).
As someone else mentioned, group policy wouldn't take long for these. If there were, say, 2000 customers, and each one took an hour to make the changes, that's one man-year of work. I presume there are many more than one person handling such things, so it would be a few months of relatively constant work. Fairly boring, actually, and repetitious enough that a flunkie could do it with a senior admin on-hand to deal with problems that come up.
Aside from the general Slashdot response, I really do think that those of us in the IT industry make a much, much bigger deal about things than we need to.