I like how Libya is always brought up. In Iraq, we put troops on the ground, who 10 years later haven't really made much of a dent in the politics of the region, with thousands of Americans dead. In Libya, we provided support to the insurgents who were already doing the dirty work. Ac couple of months for regime change, and they're back to being a normal country, no Americans dead.
I keep trying to find a reason to support the Republican party. I used to think that they were the better party for economic management, but they have historically increased deficits. Then I thought that maybe the social policies were what people liked, but they continue to force the same old crap from the 50s that has been repeatedly shown to not work. I thought maybe they were the better choice during wartime, but the Iraq/Libya actions have shown me that the Democrats are better there too. Are there any reasons left?
OK, your sister is a welfare cheat. Report her to the relevant authorities and be done with it. Some people actually need help, and scrapping the whole system because a few people are taking advantage of it will take a lot of people who are already close to the edge, and shove them the rest of the way.
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or not...
Lots of Tea Party members are on Medicaid for their age, and many have served in the Military. They see the kind of benefits they get from the government as good, and the kind of benefits other people get as bad use of tax money.
It's not a direct trade, but showing that on balance it's worth it. Allowing DRM has a lot of disadvantages which get cited here quite frequently, there should be some advantages to having it, but those aren't as clear.
Take Virtual Memory for an example. It has the disadvantage that it increases the use of your hard drive, and could lead to an earlier failure, but it acts as more RAM, making your computer faster. This is a trade, which some people like and some people don't like, but both sides can see what they're getting.
Your links back up everything he said. An optimistic estimate puts break even at 10 years. To be realistic you'd need to be prepared to go over that estimate.
This isn't the only electrical plant available. By 3 hours after sunset most people are in bed (in summer at least) so you can go to your smaller plants to cover the night shift. When people start getting up in the morning the sun comes back out and your generator starts working again. Moving to more renewable and cleaner power generating technologies will make us change what we think about base load power generation.
It's just a question of efficiencies. Some methods have high efficiencies for heat transfer, other methods have high efficiencies for water recapture. Obviously, in the desert you're going to give a higher weighing to the water recapture and choose a cooling system appropriately. As dj245 pointed out, you don't have to release water, you just lose some heat transfer efficiency by not doing it. If you were on the coast and could get more water for free/cheap you wouldn't use it, but in the desert it looks like a better idea.
What I think might happen is that regulations might be put in place to prevent cloud services providers from selling directly to their customers, as is currently the case with car dealerships. I believe that would be an unlikely scenario, so the more probably outcome is for the people who set up the exchanges to quickly go broke.
I had this discussion with someone else a few days ago. The thing that makes "middle-men" an undesireable thing is the value they bring to the table. Walmart brings me a lot of value, I can go to their store and buy the produce of several different farms, and several manufacturing plants. Getting everything I get from Walmart would require me to travel all over the country, so I'm quite happy to pay Walmart for their service.
Putting cloud services on an exchange doesn't create value. Currently I go to Amazon and buy cloud hosting directly from them. In the future, will I have to bid on cloud services on an open exchange, where I don't know what the prices are beforehand? Who will regulate the exchange? What if I buy some server time from the market, and the server crashes: who is liable? What is wrong with the current system that putting up an exchange will fix?
Buyers are already connected with sellers. The only benefit this could possibly bring is allowing the cloud services providers to sell longer term contracts to the investors who would then take the risk of parceling them out to smaller time operators who don't want to finance a long term contract on their own. This sector is already quite well serviced by Amazon and other operators, so there is really no need for this "exchange" to ever realise.
Also, I doubt the technology is quite there to have the car drop you at the door then go and find itself a parking spot, so it doesn't really matter if it can read signs or not.
I think it's more along the lines of the way the police work. They'll take care of the criminals and they don't need a bunch of vigilantes running around dealing out their own "justice." Jesus tells people what to do, at the sermon on the mount, then tell people that if other people aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing it's their business and you shouldn't stick your nose in where it doesn't belong. Modern Christians ignore both parts of that message.
It looks scary if you're not familiar with them, but there's nothing really difficult there. I remember when I was still in uni, the lecturer handed out diagrams similar to that for the shock value, by the end of the semester everyone understood it fairly completely.
Also remember that that type of diagram is arranged in such a way as to make everything fit on the page and be easy(ish) to follow. The actual equipment will be arranged in a more ordered way, with the pipes between them arranged on pipe racks, and if they're doing it right there'll be a tag on every piece of equipment and every pipe so you know what you're looking at.
It's not a simple equation. There's a lot of value in having a secure supply of fuel. Letting the oil-bearing countries become unstable will lead to the oil supply becoming unstable, and unrest will spread.
The core difference here is that God is the one doing the killing. Jesus basically said, "I'll take care of the sinners, you just try to live your own life well." Not that any Christians read and follow the bible, but still...
Completely agree with that suggestion. I was hoping that right after Obama was sworn in he would have walked to his office, picked up his phone and told everyone to pack up their tents and come home. 6 years of disappointment later I realise that it won't happen soon, but it would still make me happy.
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Except the high court in the story we're currently discussing.
Parents do not have absolute rights over their children's treatment.
Actually they do, leading to the kinds of problems we're now discussing.
I was intrigued enough to click, even at work. I am no less intrigued having seen it.
I like how Libya is always brought up. In Iraq, we put troops on the ground, who 10 years later haven't really made much of a dent in the politics of the region, with thousands of Americans dead. In Libya, we provided support to the insurgents who were already doing the dirty work. Ac couple of months for regime change, and they're back to being a normal country, no Americans dead.
I keep trying to find a reason to support the Republican party. I used to think that they were the better party for economic management, but they have historically increased deficits. Then I thought that maybe the social policies were what people liked, but they continue to force the same old crap from the 50s that has been repeatedly shown to not work. I thought maybe they were the better choice during wartime, but the Iraq/Libya actions have shown me that the Democrats are better there too. Are there any reasons left?
OK, your sister is a welfare cheat. Report her to the relevant authorities and be done with it. Some people actually need help, and scrapping the whole system because a few people are taking advantage of it will take a lot of people who are already close to the edge, and shove them the rest of the way.
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or not...
Lots of Tea Party members are on Medicaid for their age, and many have served in the Military. They see the kind of benefits they get from the government as good, and the kind of benefits other people get as bad use of tax money.
Many people think otherwise? One dude with a blog thinks otherwise.
What is the benefit to consumers of this?
For fast food? Maybe they're trying to make us realise that targeted ads are better than the alternative.
It's not a direct trade, but showing that on balance it's worth it. Allowing DRM has a lot of disadvantages which get cited here quite frequently, there should be some advantages to having it, but those aren't as clear.
Take Virtual Memory for an example. It has the disadvantage that it increases the use of your hard drive, and could lead to an earlier failure, but it acts as more RAM, making your computer faster. This is a trade, which some people like and some people don't like, but both sides can see what they're getting.
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Your links back up everything he said. An optimistic estimate puts break even at 10 years. To be realistic you'd need to be prepared to go over that estimate.
This isn't the only electrical plant available. By 3 hours after sunset most people are in bed (in summer at least) so you can go to your smaller plants to cover the night shift. When people start getting up in the morning the sun comes back out and your generator starts working again. Moving to more renewable and cleaner power generating technologies will make us change what we think about base load power generation.
It's just a question of efficiencies. Some methods have high efficiencies for heat transfer, other methods have high efficiencies for water recapture. Obviously, in the desert you're going to give a higher weighing to the water recapture and choose a cooling system appropriately. As dj245 pointed out, you don't have to release water, you just lose some heat transfer efficiency by not doing it. If you were on the coast and could get more water for free/cheap you wouldn't use it, but in the desert it looks like a better idea.
What I think might happen is that regulations might be put in place to prevent cloud services providers from selling directly to their customers, as is currently the case with car dealerships. I believe that would be an unlikely scenario, so the more probably outcome is for the people who set up the exchanges to quickly go broke.
Thank you for the informative response.
I had this discussion with someone else a few days ago. The thing that makes "middle-men" an undesireable thing is the value they bring to the table. Walmart brings me a lot of value, I can go to their store and buy the produce of several different farms, and several manufacturing plants. Getting everything I get from Walmart would require me to travel all over the country, so I'm quite happy to pay Walmart for their service.
Putting cloud services on an exchange doesn't create value. Currently I go to Amazon and buy cloud hosting directly from them. In the future, will I have to bid on cloud services on an open exchange, where I don't know what the prices are beforehand? Who will regulate the exchange? What if I buy some server time from the market, and the server crashes: who is liable? What is wrong with the current system that putting up an exchange will fix?
Buyers are already connected with sellers. The only benefit this could possibly bring is allowing the cloud services providers to sell longer term contracts to the investors who would then take the risk of parceling them out to smaller time operators who don't want to finance a long term contract on their own. This sector is already quite well serviced by Amazon and other operators, so there is really no need for this "exchange" to ever realise.
Yes, that was exactly the point he was trying to make. I'm glad you managed to catch on. Good work, have a cookie.
Can a person read that sign?
Also, I doubt the technology is quite there to have the car drop you at the door then go and find itself a parking spot, so it doesn't really matter if it can read signs or not.
I think it's more along the lines of the way the police work. They'll take care of the criminals and they don't need a bunch of vigilantes running around dealing out their own "justice." Jesus tells people what to do, at the sermon on the mount, then tell people that if other people aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing it's their business and you shouldn't stick your nose in where it doesn't belong. Modern Christians ignore both parts of that message.
It looks scary if you're not familiar with them, but there's nothing really difficult there. I remember when I was still in uni, the lecturer handed out diagrams similar to that for the shock value, by the end of the semester everyone understood it fairly completely.
Also remember that that type of diagram is arranged in such a way as to make everything fit on the page and be easy(ish) to follow. The actual equipment will be arranged in a more ordered way, with the pipes between them arranged on pipe racks, and if they're doing it right there'll be a tag on every piece of equipment and every pipe so you know what you're looking at.
It's not a simple equation. There's a lot of value in having a secure supply of fuel. Letting the oil-bearing countries become unstable will lead to the oil supply becoming unstable, and unrest will spread.
The core difference here is that God is the one doing the killing. Jesus basically said, "I'll take care of the sinners, you just try to live your own life well." Not that any Christians read and follow the bible, but still...
So, giving it to people with a history of human rights abuses is better than giving it to someone who at least said he wanted to stop the abuses?
They threw their credibility away when they gave it to Obama? They still had some left after giving it to Kissinger, or Arafat?
Completely agree with that suggestion. I was hoping that right after Obama was sworn in he would have walked to his office, picked up his phone and told everyone to pack up their tents and come home. 6 years of disappointment later I realise that it won't happen soon, but it would still make me happy.