Doesn't even need to be desalination. Recycle the water from the treatment plants back into your reservoirs. Water is treated as a one way system, it comes in the top, gets treated, gets made dirty, gets treated, gets dumped. It makes no sense. Just change the Gets Dumps to gets put back in the top.
This plan seems to forget that it takes time to grow these crops. It takes 3 years for your first crop of almonds and 8 before the tree is delivering anything like commercial quantities. These trees have decades of work invested in them and the posts suggestion of ripping out the crop is stupid.
There are lots and lots of ways to lower the water usage of both the general population and water intensive applications such as farming. Are all the irrigation channels covered? That makes a huge difference. Installing dual flush toilets, recommending low flow shower heads. South East Queensland went through an 8 year drought and people were encouraged to bring their water usage down to 200l per person per day. That may still seem a lot but it is significantly lower than the normal usage.
From there you also have to look at recycled water. What happens to the waste water once it has been treated? Using RO membrane treatment plants the water is purer then what falls from the sky, so pipe that back into your reservoirs instead of dumping it in the river / ocean.
A late 2000s base model suburu impreza is the perfect new driver car. 2.0l 4wd, non turbo, fast enough to do the speed limit but slow enough to not get yourself in trouble. And they are bullet proof. And for the vanity concious teenage they look pretty decent.
Given it will be 12 years before my eldest is on the road though my impreza will probably be long gone by then
Getting a shiny new car for your first car is typically a symptom of being a spoiled brat.
No it doesn't. I know that the first years of driving are the ones you are most at risk. Having come very close to being a blood splat more than a few times I will be aiming to buy my kids as close to a new car as possible because the safety is higher and the service history is more known. A new car doesn't equal a fast car. I would rather that my daughters are driving a new sedan like a Camry than a 15 year old version of the same car.
A department such as customs, police, wellfare etc. will always ask for the maximum possible powers. It is a given. There can be no argument against the fact that a speed camera on every light pole will lower the amount of speeders (either by fear or getting them off the roads). The police therefore will ask for that.
The role of the legislative body is to control the power of the departments and offset their wants against the negative outcomes of those wants. *Customs* We want everyone's password *Legislature* No, but you can seize equipment and a password may be demanded by a judge.
The fact that they don't always get it right is a different issue.
Firstly you are a cock. Just because something is outside your experience doesn't mean people are liars or outliers. Nothing in my post deserved your abuse.
Secondly, I live in an area zoned park residential which is 21km from the centre of a major city of over 2 million people and is Australia's 3rd largest. The greater region has a population of 4 million. By the 2011 census the total population in my area, the Greater Samford Valley was 14.5k and there is only 1 commercial area that services the region, commonly called Samford Village. This serves the entire population of the region. It is my closes commercial zoning unless you want to count a nursery / garden centre.
As for my electricity or my water or anything else. I am considered a suburb of Brisbane and as such have nice underground electricity and telephone. I don't pay any extra charges to be connected to the grid or anything else. I am serviced by a regular bus that runs past the end of my street and connects me to large scale malls and the train network.
Finally, If you would like to fix your ignorance here is a link to a google map of the area - https://goo.gl/maps/mzDPO if you zoom out slightly you will see that city of millions that I and many others commute quite happily to from our middle of fucking nowhere outlier.
If it was a 2 minute wait then maybe. But there is no way that it would be. The economics of it just couldn't work. I live on acreage and my corner store is 6km away. It would be the only logical location for a base. That means it is 10 minutes out at an absolute minimum. On top of that they would need to ensure that they never have 100% utilisation even in peak times.
Given there are 7000 homes in my area they would need thousands of vehicles for peak load. The size of the storage facility alone would be insane as all 3000+ vehicles would pretty much be unused a 3am on a tuesday night.
What your model forgets is that almost every house comes with a built in storage facility for a car. Often multiple. If people don't have them parked at their houses they will have to store them somewhere else. For it to be as convenient as you describe they would need a crazy number of these vehicles waiting and ready to go.
Now for a pre-booked ride to the airport, or a self driving taxi. Or even a recurring - pick me up at 7am for work. Perfect. But for the "crap I need x from the supermarket for the dinner I have already started cooking" or the "shit we've run out of nappies" it will fail.
If a driverless car was in a similar price band to a normal car I would buy one (assuming safe ofcourse). I wouldn't be willing to wait for a car to arrive if I wanted to pop to the shops. The loss of convenience would be too high. So that means I would want to maintain my own transport, given that means I'm going to own a car why wouldn't I own one that could drive itself?
I doubt it. Because that would be poor software design. The software would be looking to avoid accidents in an order of severity. Your pushing off the road at an exist may work but your pushing to increase speed wouldn't.
In most vehicle brakes far exceed the power of the engine. Even in cases where it doesn't the brakes have twice as much contact patch with the road than the engine (unless you are in a 4wd with dual diff locks / limited slip diff). The most sensible and safest tactic is to not accelerate inside the box past a predefined safe speed. So at say 10% over the speed limit the car will refuse to go faster irrespective of how close the rear vehicle comes. Then if the 'tard behind does actually ram or nudge the vehicle the car would then begin to apply the brakes gradually until the vehicle is stopped.
The computer would be able to counteract for rotation as it would have independent control of the brakes for each wheel allowing it to bias front / rear / left / right as required.
There are many ways to fail and few ways to succeed, thus it is better to learn what to do than what not to do.
Except by learning only by succeeding you can be left in the situation where you don't understand why you are succeeding. This means that you have a weak base to refine and expand your base because you don't know how you got where you are.
The banks needed the bailouts because people broke the item that they lent. If you lent laptops for a living you will have an estimate of how many are smashed. You will build that into your cost base. If all of a sudden way more laptops get smashed then you ever predicted in your worst nightmare then your business will collapse.
Also you talked about what makes an economy move more. A single large investor will make a bigger difference then 100000 smaller ones even if the total of the smaller far exceeds the larger. This is simply because organising the 100000 smaller is too hard.
But what you want already exists in this world. It is called living in a different country. All you are talking about is breaking the US up into its component states and having them as independent countries. Under your system it would only be a matter of time before one state, say california, bans any cars from entering that are non compliant with their regulations. This will then be policed at the border. Over time you will end up not being able to freely travel between states and you may as well have a passport.
I'm sure some of the rapidly developing Asian countries have laws that are what you are looking for.
Usually this concept has the person paying income tax in the country in which they are resident. Alternatives have a tax paid at dividend in the country in which the money is held.
Anything that can be considered a benefit is taxed. So if you work in the city and are given a car parking space that accrues fbt, entertainment, pens, a car, anything at all that can be argued to have a monetary value. FBT is payable at the maximum marginal tax rate of 48%.
1 Rich CEO investing in the construction of the brewery? The purchasing of the trucks?
FFS Debt is an asset because you are owed something. If you lend your laptop to a friend do you still own the laptop? Is the laptop still your asset? Why would that change if it is cash that you lent?
They have moved a long way from where they started. Originally they were a liberal party. Really they shifted to being a truly conservative party under John Howard. I think the title of his auto-biography sums it up "Lazarus Rising"
From their own site.
In 1944, the Liberal Party of Australia was founded after a three-day meeting held in a small hall not far from Parliament House in Canberra. The meeting was called by the then Leader of the Opposition (United Australia Party) Robert Menzies. Robert Menzies had already served as Prime Minister of Australia (1939-41), but he believed that the non-Labor parties should unite to present a strong alternative government to the Australian people. Eighty men and women from 18 non-Labor political parties and organisations attended the first Canberra conference. They shared a common belief that Australians should have greater personal freedom and choice than that offered under Labor’s post-war socialist plans. Robert Menzies believed the time was right for a new political force in Australia - one which fought for the freedom of the individual and produced enlightened liberal policies.
In his opening address at that meeting, he said:...what we must look for, and it is a matter of desperate importance to our society, is a true revival of liberal thought which will work for social justice and security, for national power and national progress, and for the full development of the individual citizen, though not through the dull and deadening process of socialism. It is often said that Robert Menzies stood for the ‘forgotten people’ of Australia; those mainstream Australians whose goals, needs and aspirations had been ignored by Government.
On October 16, 1944, the name The Liberal Party of Australia was adopted, uniting the many different political organisations. Two months later, at the Albury Conference, the Party’s organisational and constitutional framework was drawn up.
The name Liberal was chosen deliberately for its associations with progressive nineteenth century free enterprise and social equality. By May 1945 membership of the Liberal Party had swelled to 40,000.
What I find most disappointing is that the previous Labor government was planning to push through mandatory internet filtering and the conservative LNP party was up in arms about how evil that was. Now they are pushing a similar thing as well as a potential 3 strikes law. Makes it hard to pick who to vote for.
That said I agree with mjwx, this legislation will be highly populous and fail in the senate.
I've yet to see / notice product placement in the stuff my daughters watch (mainly animated stuff). But there is a HELL of a lot of merchandising for the shows.
Global demand for coal over the next five years will continue marching higher, breaking the 9-billion-tonne level by 2019, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its annual Medium-Term Coal Market Report released today. The report notes that despite China's efforts to moderate its coal consumption, it will still account for three-fifths of demand growth during the outlook period. Moreover, China will be joined by India, ASEAN countries and other countries in Asia as the main engines of growth in coal consumption, offsetting declines in Europe and the United States.
India already imports 20 per cent of its coal requirements and shipped in 152 million tonnes of coal last year.
However rising electricity demands are putting an increasing strain on local production, with state-run Coal India Limited (CIL) asked to up its output by importing more of the commodity to mix with domestic supply.
The demand for coal in India is expected to come in at 551.60 million mt in 2015, however supplies are predicted to amount to just 466.89 million mt, leaving an 84.71 million mt shortfall.
From 2010 to 2040, India’s net coal-fired electricity generation is expected to grow by a total of 910 terawatt hours, more than doubling from the 2010 total, while coal consumption for electricity generation will double.
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Doesn't even need to be desalination. Recycle the water from the treatment plants back into your reservoirs. Water is treated as a one way system, it comes in the top, gets treated, gets made dirty, gets treated, gets dumped. It makes no sense. Just change the Gets Dumps to gets put back in the top.
This plan seems to forget that it takes time to grow these crops. It takes 3 years for your first crop of almonds and 8 before the tree is delivering anything like commercial quantities. These trees have decades of work invested in them and the posts suggestion of ripping out the crop is stupid.
There are lots and lots of ways to lower the water usage of both the general population and water intensive applications such as farming. Are all the irrigation channels covered? That makes a huge difference. Installing dual flush toilets, recommending low flow shower heads. South East Queensland went through an 8 year drought and people were encouraged to bring their water usage down to 200l per person per day. That may still seem a lot but it is significantly lower than the normal usage.
From there you also have to look at recycled water. What happens to the waste water once it has been treated? Using RO membrane treatment plants the water is purer then what falls from the sky, so pipe that back into your reservoirs instead of dumping it in the river / ocean.
The sell a shit tonne of cars here in Australia. Main brand is called "Great Wall"
Unless it put you in range of being rescued....
I doubt it will have any impact on the load bearing designs of the roofs. They all are designed to carry heavy plant equipment anyway.
A late 2000s base model suburu impreza is the perfect new driver car. 2.0l 4wd, non turbo, fast enough to do the speed limit but slow enough to not get yourself in trouble. And they are bullet proof. And for the vanity concious teenage they look pretty decent.
Given it will be 12 years before my eldest is on the road though my impreza will probably be long gone by then
Getting a shiny new car for your first car is typically a symptom of being a spoiled brat.
No it doesn't. I know that the first years of driving are the ones you are most at risk. Having come very close to being a blood splat more than a few times I will be aiming to buy my kids as close to a new car as possible because the safety is higher and the service history is more known. A new car doesn't equal a fast car. I would rather that my daughters are driving a new sedan like a Camry than a 15 year old version of the same car.
A department such as customs, police, wellfare etc. will always ask for the maximum possible powers. It is a given. There can be no argument against the fact that a speed camera on every light pole will lower the amount of speeders (either by fear or getting them off the roads). The police therefore will ask for that.
The role of the legislative body is to control the power of the departments and offset their wants against the negative outcomes of those wants. *Customs* We want everyone's password *Legislature* No, but you can seize equipment and a password may be demanded by a judge.
The fact that they don't always get it right is a different issue.
Firstly you are a cock. Just because something is outside your experience doesn't mean people are liars or outliers. Nothing in my post deserved your abuse.
Secondly, I live in an area zoned park residential which is 21km from the centre of a major city of over 2 million people and is Australia's 3rd largest. The greater region has a population of 4 million. By the 2011 census the total population in my area, the Greater Samford Valley was 14.5k and there is only 1 commercial area that services the region, commonly called Samford Village. This serves the entire population of the region. It is my closes commercial zoning unless you want to count a nursery / garden centre.
As for my electricity or my water or anything else. I am considered a suburb of Brisbane and as such have nice underground electricity and telephone. I don't pay any extra charges to be connected to the grid or anything else. I am serviced by a regular bus that runs past the end of my street and connects me to large scale malls and the train network.
Finally, If you would like to fix your ignorance here is a link to a google map of the area - https://goo.gl/maps/mzDPO if you zoom out slightly you will see that city of millions that I and many others commute quite happily to from our middle of fucking nowhere outlier.
If it was a 2 minute wait then maybe. But there is no way that it would be. The economics of it just couldn't work. I live on acreage and my corner store is 6km away. It would be the only logical location for a base. That means it is 10 minutes out at an absolute minimum. On top of that they would need to ensure that they never have 100% utilisation even in peak times.
Given there are 7000 homes in my area they would need thousands of vehicles for peak load. The size of the storage facility alone would be insane as all 3000+ vehicles would pretty much be unused a 3am on a tuesday night.
What your model forgets is that almost every house comes with a built in storage facility for a car. Often multiple. If people don't have them parked at their houses they will have to store them somewhere else. For it to be as convenient as you describe they would need a crazy number of these vehicles waiting and ready to go.
Now for a pre-booked ride to the airport, or a self driving taxi. Or even a recurring - pick me up at 7am for work. Perfect. But for the "crap I need x from the supermarket for the dinner I have already started cooking" or the "shit we've run out of nappies" it will fail.
Disagree.
If a driverless car was in a similar price band to a normal car I would buy one (assuming safe ofcourse). I wouldn't be willing to wait for a car to arrive if I wanted to pop to the shops. The loss of convenience would be too high. So that means I would want to maintain my own transport, given that means I'm going to own a car why wouldn't I own one that could drive itself?
I doubt it. Because that would be poor software design. The software would be looking to avoid accidents in an order of severity. Your pushing off the road at an exist may work but your pushing to increase speed wouldn't.
In most vehicle brakes far exceed the power of the engine. Even in cases where it doesn't the brakes have twice as much contact patch with the road than the engine (unless you are in a 4wd with dual diff locks / limited slip diff). The most sensible and safest tactic is to not accelerate inside the box past a predefined safe speed. So at say 10% over the speed limit the car will refuse to go faster irrespective of how close the rear vehicle comes. Then if the 'tard behind does actually ram or nudge the vehicle the car would then begin to apply the brakes gradually until the vehicle is stopped.
The computer would be able to counteract for rotation as it would have independent control of the brakes for each wheel allowing it to bias front / rear / left / right as required.
There are many ways to fail and few ways to succeed, thus it is better to learn what to do than what not to do.
Except by learning only by succeeding you can be left in the situation where you don't understand why you are succeeding. This means that you have a weak base to refine and expand your base because you don't know how you got where you are.
The banks needed the bailouts because people broke the item that they lent. If you lent laptops for a living you will have an estimate of how many are smashed. You will build that into your cost base. If all of a sudden way more laptops get smashed then you ever predicted in your worst nightmare then your business will collapse.
Also you talked about what makes an economy move more. A single large investor will make a bigger difference then 100000 smaller ones even if the total of the smaller far exceeds the larger. This is simply because organising the 100000 smaller is too hard.
But what you want already exists in this world. It is called living in a different country. All you are talking about is breaking the US up into its component states and having them as independent countries. Under your system it would only be a matter of time before one state, say california, bans any cars from entering that are non compliant with their regulations. This will then be policed at the border. Over time you will end up not being able to freely travel between states and you may as well have a passport.
I'm sure some of the rapidly developing Asian countries have laws that are what you are looking for.
Usually this concept has the person paying income tax in the country in which they are resident. Alternatives have a tax paid at dividend in the country in which the money is held.
Anything that can be considered a benefit is taxed. So if you work in the city and are given a car parking space that accrues fbt, entertainment, pens, a car, anything at all that can be argued to have a monetary value. FBT is payable at the maximum marginal tax rate of 48%.
1 Million Average Joes buying a six pack?
Or
1 Rich CEO investing in the construction of the brewery? The purchasing of the trucks?
FFS Debt is an asset because you are owed something. If you lend your laptop to a friend do you still own the laptop? Is the laptop still your asset? Why would that change if it is cash that you lent?
They have moved a long way from where they started. Originally they were a liberal party. Really they shifted to being a truly conservative party under John Howard. I think the title of his auto-biography sums it up "Lazarus Rising"
From their own site.
In 1944, the Liberal Party of Australia was founded after a three-day meeting held in a small hall not far from Parliament House in Canberra. The meeting was called by the then Leader of the Opposition (United Australia Party) Robert Menzies. Robert Menzies had already served as Prime Minister of Australia (1939-41), but he believed that the non-Labor parties should unite to present a strong alternative government to the Australian people. Eighty men and women from 18 non-Labor political parties and organisations attended the first Canberra conference. They shared a common belief that Australians should have greater personal freedom and choice than that offered under Labor’s post-war socialist plans. Robert Menzies believed the time was right for a new political force in Australia - one which fought for the freedom of the individual and produced enlightened liberal policies.
In his opening address at that meeting, he said: ...what we must look for, and it is a matter of desperate importance to our society, is a true revival of liberal thought which will work for social justice and security, for national power and national progress, and for the full development of the individual citizen, though not through the dull and deadening process of socialism.
It is often said that Robert Menzies stood for the ‘forgotten people’ of Australia; those mainstream Australians whose goals, needs and aspirations had been ignored by Government.
On October 16, 1944, the name The Liberal Party of Australia was adopted, uniting the many different political organisations. Two months later, at the Albury Conference, the Party’s organisational and constitutional framework was drawn up.
The name Liberal was chosen deliberately for its associations with progressive nineteenth century free enterprise and social equality. By May 1945 membership of the Liberal Party had swelled to 40,000.
What I find most disappointing is that the previous Labor government was planning to push through mandatory internet filtering and the conservative LNP party was up in arms about how evil that was. Now they are pushing a similar thing as well as a potential 3 strikes law. Makes it hard to pick who to vote for.
That said I agree with mjwx, this legislation will be highly populous and fail in the senate.
Serious question - was it the hardware that sucked or was it the software?
From what I understand even the Kin was decent hardware, just a decade late.
I've been using my x4 for years and I do agree about the esc key.
I'm sad though as my Laser Mouse 6000 has finally given up the ghost. I loved that mouse :(
In particular the sidewinder X6 keyboards.
I also like that it has an adjustable red backlight.
http://www.microsoft.com/hardw...
I've yet to see / notice product placement in the stuff my daughters watch (mainly animated stuff). But there is a HELL of a lot of merchandising for the shows.
From the International Energy Agency - https://www.iea.org/newsrooman...
15 December 2014 Paris
Global demand for coal over the next five years will continue marching higher, breaking the 9-billion-tonne level by 2019, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its annual Medium-Term Coal Market Report released today. The report notes that despite China's efforts to moderate its coal consumption, it will still account for three-fifths of demand growth during the outlook period. Moreover, China will be joined by India, ASEAN countries and other countries in Asia as the main engines of growth in coal consumption, offsetting declines in Europe and the United States.
From the Department of Natural Resources & Mines - Qld - http://www.dlg.qld.gov.au/reso...
India already imports 20 per cent of its coal requirements and shipped in 152 million tonnes of coal last year.
However rising electricity demands are putting an increasing strain on local production, with state-run Coal India Limited (CIL) asked to up its output by importing more of the commodity to mix with domestic supply.
The demand for coal in India is expected to come in at 551.60 million mt in 2015, however supplies are predicted to amount to just 466.89 million mt, leaving an 84.71 million mt shortfall.
From 2010 to 2040, India’s net coal-fired electricity generation is expected to grow by a total of 910 terawatt hours, more than doubling from the 2010 total, while coal consumption for electricity generation will double.