Yeah, the North Slope and ANWR may have enough oil to supply our needs for a whole year. Unless the economy recovers, that is.
What? The US averages just under 20 million barrels per day which comes to less than 8 billion per year. So that's 7 to 12 years provided by an estimated 50 to 100 billion barrels in Alaska, and that's just by itself.
next gold rush? nah the land, or at least the mineral rights will be bought by corporate interests who will make a ton of money and you won't see any individuals making it big off the rare metals, unless they happened to own the land and the mineral rights to it.
Corporations don't own themselves; individuals own them in lots of little pieces. Open an account at Scottrade/etrade/ameritrade and you too can be a "corporate interest".
Pray tell, where is that abundance of oil? Distributed over the all those stripper wells putting out a couple of barrels a day?
Alaska's North Slope and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil fields. Both contain many tens of billions of barrels. The Gulf of Mexico is no slouch either.
As they used to say back in the day (and I guess will be doing again soon) "How will it help us feed children in Somalia?"
Launching a manned expedition to Mars only involves engineers, aerospace workers, sufficient budget, and if you were determined it would take three to five years. Feeding children in Somalia, now there's a serious undertaking... first you'd have to invade the country to get rid of the Islamic warlords who are not allowing aid in to feed the children now and then engage in multi-decade nation building. Would take easily 50x to 100x the cash and about 20 years longer than sending someone to Mars, plus casualties.
Hiring mercenaries makes sense when a war is so extensive you can't possibly field all the forces you need yourself. You do have to be comfortable with the fact that mercenaries have their own set of rules and their behavior, not entirely under your governance, is going to reflect on you.
The United States is intentionally capable of fighting multiple wars at once. We have no need to take the risk of mercenaries giving us a bad name. America privatizing warfare is nothing but a handout to somebody's buddies and is completely unnecessary.
Hiring mercenaries also makes sense when you don't have time to equip your own forces. If it takes 10 years to go through the government procurement process and you're buying new model rifles, the soldiers still get an effective new weapon even though the design is 10 years old. When you end up with waiting 10 years to get brand new 10 year old old computers then your IT defenses are pretty wretched. If the whole operation is contracted out then the contractors don't have to deal with that kind of thing and be more effective with up to date gear.
there is no such thing as a natural monopoly. It's a ruse by the government and gov't hired charlatans that people think are economists to justify gov't interference with the market.
Neighborhood streets? Real natural monopolies are very rare but they do exist.
The couple clearly should not have any kids. It's good that other, hopefully more capable, people will properly care and provide for them.
China is highly patriarchal so the little boys who sold for big bucks will be raised with no idea they were bought elsewhere and treated as well as possible as sons of the new family. The little girl who sold for 1/10 of the boys' prices will end up in a situation like Cosette with the Thenardiers.
Walmart had a habit (still do?) of editing songs on CDs it thought weren't family appropriate material. Are they doing the same with movies? Are Walmart movies like the airline version where cursing is badly overdubbed and the nude scenes are cut?
The judge should have taken into account verizon's size when he set the fine. It should have been MUCH higher, on the order of one million dollars or so. That might provide actual deterrence for verizon to engage in such activity. One grand isn't going to do shit to change verizon's behavior.
Well the woman did go to court herself over a $4 charge, so it might be small claims court. If that's the case I don't think a small claims court judge can hand out million dollar fines; $1,000 might be the limit in that jurisdiction.
Yes but if several accounts all use the same password they all hash to the same value. If an administrator puts password 123456 into a known account and looks up the hashed password for that account, it's easy to then search for that hash among all accounts.
That only works when trying to hack a particular account. If you want to send spam to everyone in some random account's contact list, you don't care whose contact list. So if you know some percentage of the accounts use the same thing for their password, that's a lot of contact lists, mission successful at only one password attempt per account.
Until I am PROVEN GUILTY of not being one. I don't have to "opt in" for what should be my no-questions-asked constitutional rights.
Now that you've swept away TSA with a two sentence assertion on an internet forum, can we all go directly to the gate at the airport without any security checks?
it's not british IT'S SCOTTISH!
and after the referendum in 2014 Scotland will be independent
Saor Alba agus Alba Gu Brath!
Poser - any Scotsman should know the whole island is Britain and it's hard to be independent of your own island. Perhaps you are confused as to the southeastern part of Britain? They're called the "English".
They're not against the astronomy so much as they are against suspicious activity. The guy with the telescope could be (and most likely is) stargazing, or as far as they're concerned he could be scoping out the ideal vantage from which to snipe a government official. Nobody trusts anyone.
No, when the local police commander who has come to check them out calls them a group of half wits for doing a little astronomy that's not just against suspicious activity, it's macho backwater anti-intellectualism.
I bet there are some US service members at that nearby big base who are interested in astronomy. This group needs to find one to help out with coordinating viewings with patrols so they don't have to worry so much about getting shot.
Was there something about that particular 15% of the snails? I mean, if those 15% tried the ride again, would all of them make it or is it just something about the way these birds eat snails that allow 15% unharmed through each time?
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Yeah, the North Slope and ANWR may have enough oil to supply our needs for a whole year. Unless the economy recovers, that is.
What? The US averages just under 20 million barrels per day which comes to less than 8 billion per year. So that's 7 to 12 years provided by an estimated 50 to 100 billion barrels in Alaska, and that's just by itself.
next gold rush? nah the land, or at least the mineral rights will be bought by corporate interests who will make a ton of money and you won't see any individuals making it big off the rare metals, unless they happened to own the land and the mineral rights to it.
Corporations don't own themselves; individuals own them in lots of little pieces. Open an account at Scottrade/etrade/ameritrade and you too can be a "corporate interest".
Pray tell, where is that abundance of oil? Distributed over the all those stripper wells putting out a couple of barrels a day?
Alaska's North Slope and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil fields. Both contain many tens of billions of barrels. The Gulf of Mexico is no slouch either.
As they used to say back in the day (and I guess will be doing again soon) "How will it help us feed children in Somalia?"
Launching a manned expedition to Mars only involves engineers, aerospace workers, sufficient budget, and if you were determined it would take three to five years. Feeding children in Somalia, now there's a serious undertaking... first you'd have to invade the country to get rid of the Islamic warlords who are not allowing aid in to feed the children now and then engage in multi-decade nation building. Would take easily 50x to 100x the cash and about 20 years longer than sending someone to Mars, plus casualties.
isn't the middle of a city a bad place for an observatory with all the light pollution and whatnot?
I think they mean observatory as in "a place to look out and observe". Not an astronomical observatory.
The next time you go at the pump, think about that !
The consolation is that a US firm was paid to design it for them.
You should feel privileged that he wasn't bitten by a radioactive mouse from Florida.
What would Mouse-Man's super power be, exactly? Gnawing through the cords when the villain ties him up?
Hiring mercenaries makes sense when a war is so extensive you can't possibly field all the forces you need yourself. You do have to be comfortable with the fact that mercenaries have their own set of rules and their behavior, not entirely under your governance, is going to reflect on you.
The United States is intentionally capable of fighting multiple wars at once. We have no need to take the risk of mercenaries giving us a bad name. America privatizing warfare is nothing but a handout to somebody's buddies and is completely unnecessary.
Hiring mercenaries also makes sense when you don't have time to equip your own forces. If it takes 10 years to go through the government procurement process and you're buying new model rifles, the soldiers still get an effective new weapon even though the design is 10 years old. When you end up with waiting 10 years to get brand new 10 year old old computers then your IT defenses are pretty wretched. If the whole operation is contracted out then the contractors don't have to deal with that kind of thing and be more effective with up to date gear.
"As it currently exists, if we were to take 100% of the income from every American today, it would not pay off the national debt. "
False. but hey, I don't really except anyone to understand what the national debt actual is.
OTOH, that line did spare me from reading the rest of your post, since It is probably as accurate.
Which part did you think was false about those numbers?
Federal debt (not to mention state debt) is 14 T
Total personal income in 2010 was 12 T
there is no such thing as a natural monopoly. It's a ruse by the government and gov't hired charlatans that people think are economists to justify gov't interference with the market.
Neighborhood streets? Real natural monopolies are very rare but they do exist.
Eventually, the husband will sell the wife or vice versa.
Maybe that's why he doesn't mind selling her children.
The couple clearly should not have any kids. It's good that other, hopefully more capable, people will properly care and provide for them.
China is highly patriarchal so the little boys who sold for big bucks will be raised with no idea they were bought elsewhere and treated as well as possible as sons of the new family. The little girl who sold for 1/10 of the boys' prices will end up in a situation like Cosette with the Thenardiers.
Walmart had a habit (still do?) of editing songs on CDs it thought weren't family appropriate material. Are they doing the same with movies? Are Walmart movies like the airline version where cursing is badly overdubbed and the nude scenes are cut?
The judge should have taken into account verizon's size when he set the fine. It should have been MUCH higher, on the order of one million dollars or so. That might provide actual deterrence for verizon to engage in such activity. One grand isn't going to do shit to change verizon's behavior.
Well the woman did go to court herself over a $4 charge, so it might be small claims court. If that's the case I don't think a small claims court judge can hand out million dollar fines; $1,000 might be the limit in that jurisdiction.
Not if properly salted it will not.
It should be obvious that this isn't the case or this analysis would be impossible.
You may not buy cars with a top speed of 30 miles per hour but you do have to obey speed limits.
The speed limit is a maximum; what the car with a top speed of 30 needs to worry about is the speed minimum.
Yes but if several accounts all use the same password they all hash to the same value. If an administrator puts password 123456 into a known account and looks up the hashed password for that account, it's easy to then search for that hash among all accounts.
That only works when trying to hack a particular account. If you want to send spam to everyone in some random account's contact list, you don't care whose contact list. So if you know some percentage of the accounts use the same thing for their password, that's a lot of contact lists, mission successful at only one password attempt per account.
If I buy a ticket I should be allowed on the damn plane without a metal detector and without a screening unless that is part of the terms of the sale.
Notice TSA security theater is NOT for you to get on the plane. It is for you to get to the area where you get on the plane.
Until I am PROVEN GUILTY of not being one. I don't have to "opt in" for what should be my no-questions-asked constitutional rights.
Now that you've swept away TSA with a two sentence assertion on an internet forum, can we all go directly to the gate at the airport without any security checks?
To quote a bit of the story...
The group's website states that "the only dogma allowed in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the rejection of dogma".
Exactly; therefore he is NOT required to wear a strainer because requiring him to do so would be dogmatic.
it's not british IT'S SCOTTISH!
and after the referendum in 2014 Scotland will be independent
Saor Alba agus Alba Gu Brath!
Poser - any Scotsman should know the whole island is Britain and it's hard to be independent of your own island. Perhaps you are confused as to the southeastern part of Britain? They're called the "English".
They're not against the astronomy so much as they are against suspicious activity. The guy with the telescope could be (and most likely is) stargazing, or as far as they're concerned he could be scoping out the ideal vantage from which to snipe a government official. Nobody trusts anyone.
No, when the local police commander who has come to check them out calls them a group of half wits for doing a little astronomy that's not just against suspicious activity, it's macho backwater anti-intellectualism.
I bet there are some US service members at that nearby big base who are interested in astronomy. This group needs to find one to help out with coordinating viewings with patrols so they don't have to worry so much about getting shot.
Was there something about that particular 15% of the snails? I mean, if those 15% tried the ride again, would all of them make it or is it just something about the way these birds eat snails that allow 15% unharmed through each time?
In a lot of places, there are no savings whatsoever. CFLs take orders of magnitude more energy to manufacture
Yeah but power is pretty cheap in China with all the new nuclear and hydroelectric projects lately.