I know for a fact that we aren't perfect, what upsets me is that we aren't taking care of this inhouse.
There's a reason why I'm leery of the EU. The USA was founded pretty much the same way, encountered the same problems, without the friction created by everybody speaking different languages.
Bush won in all of the recounts. He had the 'lead', while the margin of error was higher than his lead, it was still statisticly more likely that he had the most votes.
That being said, I support a more up to date voting method, with the requirement that there be a paper receipt. Scan-o-tron is perfectly acceptable, with the rules set out in advance.
Problems will occur, you just have to make sure that you do better next time.
As for the inspectors, I'd like to see them in areas like New Orleans and Chicago.
I think that what most people are complaining about is that the cheap access points aren't stable. This can really mess up your connection.
I move gigabytes of data around, so I'm still leary of going wireless in my apartment, besides my concerns about hacking and securing it. After all, there's about 30 other people that live within the range of the antenna.
Well, looking at our own history, I see some archaeologists getting zapped no matter what. After all, the pyramids were supposed to be 'don't touch' areas, and look what we've done. Heck, wasn't all that 'mummy's curse' thing a result of bad air/disease?
Also, without some sort of rosetta stone, which we won't know how to write, any attempts at providing a warning given that we're assuming no cultural continuity would simply give them a windfall. Heck, all our pictorial warnings might be construed as some sort of sacrificial chamber/burial ground! Given that, they'll want to dig further into the area, looking for more treasure and knowledge.
Besides, our current high-level waste is recyclable. We should recycle it, which gives us waste that's "safe" within a thousand years, and we can dump it into a subduction zone.
So why are people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? There are still people living around Chernobyl. They were doing tours, and Chernobyl's reactor is still live!
It's not any different than chemical poisoning, except the nuclear gets the headlines. There are large numbers of places that have been marked uninhabitable due to chemical contamination. And compared to chemical contamination, nuclear contamination can be very brief.
And do it in a small, self contained, self powered device?
Sure, with enough research, but trained rats might cost a few hundred million less in research.
Kinda like the reason that we still use leeches and just started using maggots again. They do a job that we can't duplicate effectivly or economically, despite the 'ick factor'.
But it still worked for the "age check", he didn't care about the difference in the funding source, he cared that it worked for getting an "adult ID".
Heck, I had a checking account in my name, and only in my name, years before it was technically legal. Didn't find out until I was 21. Had it from when I was 14.
Heck it wouldn't take $200, it would take like $20. Some areas even $10 would work.
And if you look at the statistics, most child molestation is done by a person the kid & parents know & trust. A huge amount is done by relations, of which the stepfather is only the most obvious. Uncles, Cousins, grandparents, all contribute. Look at the priest debacles!
So a few of these predators are hanging out online. A couple try to lure kids in using the internet. How's that worse than pulling up and offering kids a ride in a dirty white van? That actually happened to me when I was young, turns out a girl my age then disappeared and the best clue matched my description of the van. Scary.
These predators have about the worst reconviction rate going. 30% of those released are arrested for the same type of offense again within five years!
The big thing with a credit card vs a debit card is that the company is more likely to get their money from a credit card if you don't return/mess up the car.
With a debit, you might not have the "available credit" balance they consider 'necessary'
As most, if not all, of LCD production is in Asia, for the market in the USA you have to factor in the time it takes to boat the products, that means that they need a lead of at least a month. And yeah, you probably had a dozen or so companies that thought that LCD TV's would really take off and overproduced.
Look for cheap LCD TV's right after christmas...
Why haven't I gotten an LCD TV yet? Because
They're so much more than CRT style TV's.
Ones in my price range are smaller than my older CRT.
However, water is a pretty good shield, and it's constant circulation insures that no one area gets too much exposure. The "seven to ten" times radiation is in the immediate area.
If this bomb is actually only under 12 feet of water, it needs to be removed.
The deeper underwater something is, the more difficult it is to bring up. Something under 5000 feet is pretty much gone without a huge amount of effort. Assuming you can even find it.
I live in an apartment, I don't ever run out of hot water, but the run from the heater is so far it takes two minutes to get hot water out of the faucet. I'd love to have one of these under the sink just so that I'd have instant hot water. Also, something is messed up, so that the cold water is actually than the hot water for a little while.
Gas is still cheaper here for heat, so I don't see the heaters going away. It's harder to run an instant on gas heater.
My dad works for a heating/cooling company in Lincoln, NE, and they're putting these things in left and right. But from what I understand there are certain factors for the installation that makes it difficult to retrofit homes with it.
Housing makers tend to be traditional. Now I've been looking at the concrete dome houses. I wish we weren't still building places using the old hundred year old stick built homes that were built that way because it was cheap.
Actually, I think that nuclear is even with coal & oil, but it's overall fuel efficiency would be much higher if we were allowed to reprocess the fuel, or use breeder reactors.
But, yeah, I think that the "hydrogen" economy is a crock. By the time you add in all the inefficiencies, gasoline is actually more efficient.
Hydrogen is hard to produce, hard to store, hard to transfer, etc.
Now fuel cells, especially if they get it so that it can be used to burn ethanol or natural gas, will give you a fuel that is easy to manage and move. Combine this with batteries for short range vehicles (and nuclear plants to power them).
Well, he's taking the subset of vehicles that get "20 mpg". My Saturn SC2 is rated at 124 HP, but it gets ~30 mpg even with my lead foot. Larger, higher HP engines drop gas milage. If you're looking at cars and trucks with six and eight cylinders, they can actually gove over 200 horsepower.
I live in a more rural area. There are HUGE numbers of trucks here. They almost outnumber the cars. Many of them have huge engines to handle heavy loads and hauling trailers. Ford F150's are a common example. 231-300 HP, but only gets 15/19 mpg. But then again, it's a huge vehicle.
Well, what you do is convince Mr Tinyknob that he can boast about the *great new green technology* that's powering his SUV such that he get's 50 mpg rather than 10.
For example, in many way's I could be considered anti-green. But I put in the energy efficient bulbs, drive a smaller car that gets ~30 mpg (My driving pattern and area doesn't make sense for a hybrid yet). As far as activly recycling plastics, my area is too small to warrent shipping the stuff to a center. But there are technologies being developed that would make reprocesses dumps profitable. If I had my choice, I'd shut down all the coal plants and build nuclear, specifically breeders.
It ends up with me not being "anit-green", but I have a different view. I see the issue from a different angle.
Heh. Yeah, I'm not a pure libertarian, but I tend conservative where I break from libertarian points. Bush manages to piss me off there too. Amnesty for illegals? My libertarian views say immigration should be easier, while the conservative side is saying to mine the borders, no concesions to illegals. They're criminals.
Oddly enough, these views mesh nicely in my mind. You immigrate legally, passing certain minimal checks, such as are you a wanted criminal, take some identification information, welcome to the USA. Special attention should be paid to middle-eastern types for the time being, not a herding, or a denial, just, well, special scrutiney given we're at war with a segment of their population.
A: I'm not going to elimate their jobs *that* quickly. B: I'd be fairly generous with the unemployment benefits/crosstraining. c: On of my vastly non-libertarian ideas have been to have a 'federal work program' replacing welfare. 40 hours of work a week, and you get treatment/pay similar to E-1's ten years ago. Food, clothing, shelter, and medical are provided. Very little pay, though. The ability to "Earn" training.
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I know for a fact that we aren't perfect, what upsets me is that we aren't taking care of this inhouse.
There's a reason why I'm leery of the EU. The USA was founded pretty much the same way, encountered the same problems, without the friction created by everybody speaking different languages.
Bush won in all of the recounts. He had the 'lead', while the margin of error was higher than his lead, it was still statisticly more likely that he had the most votes.
That being said, I support a more up to date voting method, with the requirement that there be a paper receipt. Scan-o-tron is perfectly acceptable, with the rules set out in advance.
Problems will occur, you just have to make sure that you do better next time.
As for the inspectors, I'd like to see them in areas like New Orleans and Chicago.
I think that what most people are complaining about is that the cheap access points aren't stable. This can really mess up your connection.
I move gigabytes of data around, so I'm still leary of going wireless in my apartment, besides my concerns about hacking and securing it. After all, there's about 30 other people that live within the range of the antenna.
Heck, I'll raise you 11GB of video files ;).
I'm looking at upgrading to gigabit.
Power over Ethernet. Uses the spare wires to push DC voltage. ;)
Well, looking at our own history, I see some archaeologists getting zapped no matter what. After all, the pyramids were supposed to be 'don't touch' areas, and look what we've done.
Heck, wasn't all that 'mummy's curse' thing a result of bad air/disease?
Also, without some sort of rosetta stone, which we won't know how to write, any attempts at providing a warning given that we're assuming no cultural continuity would simply give them a windfall. Heck, all our pictorial warnings might be construed as some sort of sacrificial chamber/burial ground! Given that, they'll want to dig further into the area, looking for more treasure and knowledge.
Besides, our current high-level waste is recyclable. We should recycle it, which gives us waste that's "safe" within a thousand years, and we can dump it into a subduction zone.
So why are people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? There are still people living around Chernobyl. They were doing tours, and Chernobyl's reactor is still live!
It's not any different than chemical poisoning, except the nuclear gets the headlines. There are large numbers of places that have been marked uninhabitable due to chemical contamination. And compared to chemical contamination, nuclear contamination can be very brief.
And do it in a small, self contained, self powered device?
Sure, with enough research, but trained rats might cost a few hundred million less in research.
Kinda like the reason that we still use leeches and just started using maggots again. They do a job that we can't duplicate effectivly or economically, despite the 'ick factor'.
But it still worked for the "age check", he didn't care about the difference in the funding source, he cared that it worked for getting an "adult ID".
Heck, I had a checking account in my name, and only in my name, years before it was technically legal. Didn't find out until I was 21. Had it from when I was 14.
Of course, if you withdraw your permission they ask for their car back.
Heck it wouldn't take $200, it would take like $20. Some areas even $10 would work.
And if you look at the statistics, most child molestation is done by a person the kid & parents know & trust. A huge amount is done by relations, of which the stepfather is only the most obvious. Uncles, Cousins, grandparents, all contribute. Look at the priest debacles!
So a few of these predators are hanging out online. A couple try to lure kids in using the internet. How's that worse than pulling up and offering kids a ride in a dirty white van? That actually happened to me when I was young, turns out a girl my age then disappeared and the best clue matched my description of the van. Scary.
These predators have about the worst reconviction rate going. 30% of those released are arrested for the same type of offense again within five years!
Catch them, lock them up, and keep them there.
The big thing with a credit card vs a debit card is that the company is more likely to get their money from a credit card if you don't return/mess up the car.
With a debit, you might not have the "available credit" balance they consider 'necessary'
As for the better runtime, I'd love to have fewer "features" on my phone in exchange for a longer runtime.
Look for cheap LCD TV's right after christmas...
Why haven't I gotten an LCD TV yet? Because
It's not, if it goes off.
However, water is a pretty good shield, and it's constant circulation insures that no one area gets too much exposure. The "seven to ten" times radiation is in the immediate area.
If this bomb is actually only under 12 feet of water, it needs to be removed.
The deeper underwater something is, the more difficult it is to bring up. Something under 5000 feet is pretty much gone without a huge amount of effort. Assuming you can even find it.
Um, there already are tons of restrictions.
Those low-milage cars aren't more pollutive per gallon of gas burned, and are probably less. Unless you count CO2, but the gov doesn't yet.
I live in an apartment, I don't ever run out of hot water, but the run from the heater is so far it takes two minutes to get hot water out of the faucet. I'd love to have one of these under the sink just so that I'd have instant hot water. Also, something is messed up, so that the cold water is actually than the hot water for a little while.
Gas is still cheaper here for heat, so I don't see the heaters going away. It's harder to run an instant on gas heater.
My dad works for a heating/cooling company in Lincoln, NE, and they're putting these things in left and right. But from what I understand there are certain factors for the installation that makes it difficult to retrofit homes with it.
Housing makers tend to be traditional. Now I've been looking at the concrete dome houses. I wish we weren't still building places using the old hundred year old stick built homes that were built that way because it was cheap.
Actually, I think that nuclear is even with coal & oil, but it's overall fuel efficiency would be much higher if we were allowed to reprocess the fuel, or use breeder reactors.
But, yeah, I think that the "hydrogen" economy is a crock. By the time you add in all the inefficiencies, gasoline is actually more efficient.
Hydrogen is hard to produce, hard to store, hard to transfer, etc.
Now fuel cells, especially if they get it so that it can be used to burn ethanol or natural gas, will give you a fuel that is easy to manage and move. Combine this with batteries for short range vehicles (and nuclear plants to power them).
Well, he's taking the subset of vehicles that get "20 mpg". My Saturn SC2 is rated at 124 HP, but it gets ~30 mpg even with my lead foot. Larger, higher HP engines drop gas milage. If you're looking at cars and trucks with six and eight cylinders, they can actually gove over 200 horsepower.
I live in a more rural area. There are HUGE numbers of trucks here. They almost outnumber the cars. Many of them have huge engines to handle heavy loads and hauling trailers. Ford F150's are a common example. 231-300 HP, but only gets 15/19 mpg. But then again, it's a huge vehicle.
Biodiesel is extraordinarily clean. It's the sulfer levels allowed in American diesel that kills the pollution equipment and controls.
Well, what you do is convince Mr Tinyknob that he can boast about the *great new green technology* that's powering his SUV such that he get's 50 mpg rather than 10.
For example, in many way's I could be considered anti-green. But I put in the energy efficient bulbs, drive a smaller car that gets ~30 mpg (My driving pattern and area doesn't make sense for a hybrid yet). As far as activly recycling plastics, my area is too small to warrent shipping the stuff to a center. But there are technologies being developed that would make reprocesses dumps profitable. If I had my choice, I'd shut down all the coal plants and build nuclear, specifically breeders.
It ends up with me not being "anit-green", but I have a different view. I see the issue from a different angle.
Heh. Yeah, I'm not a pure libertarian, but I tend conservative where I break from libertarian points. Bush manages to piss me off there too. Amnesty for illegals? My libertarian views say immigration should be easier, while the conservative side is saying to mine the borders, no concesions to illegals. They're criminals.
Oddly enough, these views mesh nicely in my mind. You immigrate legally, passing certain minimal checks, such as are you a wanted criminal, take some identification information, welcome to the USA. Special attention should be paid to middle-eastern types for the time being, not a herding, or a denial, just, well, special scrutiney given we're at war with a segment of their population.
Oh, I agree that's a problem. And wages are often the BIGGEST expense. But people are willing to work for them!
If people aren't willing to work for those low wages. Well, the business won't be able to operate, and won't be in business.
A: I'm not going to elimate their jobs *that* quickly.
B: I'd be fairly generous with the unemployment benefits/crosstraining.
c: On of my vastly non-libertarian ideas have been to have a 'federal work program' replacing welfare. 40 hours of work a week, and you get treatment/pay similar to E-1's ten years ago. Food, clothing, shelter, and medical are provided. Very little pay, though. The ability to "Earn" training.