If you stopped building your homes out of match sticks and built homes that where able to withstand tornadoes (and yes this is perfectly possible) then the clean up would be a *LOT* simpler.
Other sensible measures would be putting electric and telecoms under ground as well.
Even assuming that Mr. Salmond manages to win his referendum (a highly unlikely scenario), BT will still own and operate all the telecoms infrastructure in Scotland that it does today.
Back here in the UK a battery backed power supply is provided. I would have thought it would be cheaper to run some copper from the exchange and provide a standard -48VDC to the building. You could even use the copper or copper coated steel as armour for your fibre.
Just to make it clear while new estates might be being built FTTC there are strict standards that a developer must conform to for BT (actually Openreach) to provide a service. Basically everything must be underground and ducted. It should be quite easy for Openreach to pull a real fibre into any house built in the last decade. The problem is that over 90% of all the housing stock in the UK pre-dates this.
In this context it makes economic sense to do FTTC at this point to a new estate. With FTTP on demand being rolled out shortly should you want/need it any you live in a recently built house then you are laughing as the install cost for the full fibre solution should be much lower due as they can just pull the fibre through the existing ducting.
Having said all that for reasons I don't understand Openreach want separate ducting for copper and fibre but that is just plain crazy if you ask me.
Yes it does, because it assumes incorrectly that 100% of people vaccinated against disease X develop 100% immunity.
So for example despite having the measles vaccination you can still get measles (as I know from bitter personal experience). So if there are other people choosing not to get the measles vaccination which lowers herd immunity and allows the disease to spread it can actually effect you directly.
The biggest tragedy of the whole MMR is yet to play out however. The problem is that there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of young girls coming up to child bearing age that have no protection against rubella. Here in the U.K. at least a rubella vaccination is no longer given at age 11/12 to girls because they have protection against it from the MMR jab they had as children. Hence the threat of a large increase in the cases of Congenital rubella syndrome is very real.
Fortunately in England (being distinct from the rest of the UK) the government is organising a vaccination program through schools to give MMR to all the children who missed it as children due to stupid parents.
It can by definition vastly reduce the economic burden. For example in the USA more money is spent pushing paper around to pay for health care bills than the NHS in England spends in it's entirety (or was the case in 1996). Now yes the USA is larger than England, but if you are not madly pushing pieces of paper around and spending time accounting for everything you can save a shed load of administrative costs. These costs can then be spent treating actual patients for actual illnesses.
The biggest problem with air travel being so safe is that the statistics are skewed. The problem is almost all air travel deaths take place during take off and landing, and all flights no matter how short or long have one take off and one landing. Consequently a flight from London to Tokyo is hardly any more dangerous than a flight from London to Paris. However the safety figure is deaths per billion km, rather than deaths per passenger flight.
A quick check shows that Swedish oil production for 2011 was less than 5000 barrels a day. I suspect that you are confusing Sweden with Norway, who do have large amounts of North Sea oil and gas.
I believe the concept of using cigarrette butts is because they are a free source of tobacco, in the small quantity of unburned tobacco in the butt. If you don't smoke you can just buy some role your own tobacco and mash that into water instead. Actually using ash would be rather pointless I believe.
If you select your produce for maximum freshness then you should be buying a lot more frozen stuff. The classic example being peas. Decent quality frozen peas are flash frozen with in a couple of hours of being picked in the field. Even cheap frozen peas will be frozen in a handful of hours from being picked. The *only* way to get fresher peas is to hand pick them yourself and eat them immediately. If you buy fresh peas in a supermarket they are no where near as fresh as frozen peas and have considerably lower nutritional value.
Last time I looked which is admittedly about 18 months ago, even the lastest e2fsprogs did not carry support for ext4 greater than 16TB. Then again would you really trust more than 16TB to a file system that has had support for such a short period of time? If you look into it there performance of ext4 with filesystems that size sucks anyway.
Lets face it ext4 exists for one reason and one reason only - Lustre.
Well obviously you pass legislation first that gives the government the right to fine companies that don't move stuff out the way on time when formally requested to do so, problem fixed. I am not in the slightest naÃve.
The problem with JFS is that is dead end code. IBM frankly are pushing GPFS for anything other than a boot disk. While it might be open source there is very little development going on with JFS. Compare that to XFS.
Want more than 16TB on your server? Unless ext4 has very recently grown that support then using an ext based file system is not viable. Remember a RAID5 in 4D+P using 4TB disks will be super close to that 16TB limit. Better hope that you don't want to scale the file system up in the future.
The primary reason for the existence of ext4 is Lustre. By far the best option for a general purpose none clustered Linux file system is XFS by some considerable distance. The crying shame is that RedHat did not make a grab for CXFS out the ruins of SGI but persisted with GFS2 and then purchased Glustre.
On the other hand the code was first released as production nearly 20 years ago. Of all the current Linux file systems XFS has the best performance, the best scalability and the best stability.
You fine the utility company the cost of the increase in the schedule of widening the road. You will soon find that the utility company makes sure that stuff is moved out the way according to schedule.
It's been done. There was a study looking at traffic levels around some roadworks in London about a decade ago. What they found was that even six months after the road works had finished the traffic levels had not returned to there pre road work levels.
The problem is with this model that government spending is higher than revenues, hence to close the gap someone somewhere has to lend the government the extra cash. The problem comes when nobody is willing to lend the government that cash, or only at interest rates that are punitive then what?
So yes there is something of a downward spiral with "austerity" but the notion that the countries worst effected can just borrow more and spend there way out is plain nonsense. There problem is they cannot borrow the extra so they are having to make cuts. More specifically they can borrow something but it comes with a whole bunch of strings attached from the people doing the lending, which mostly are around cutting spending. If they don't cut the spending they won't get the loans and they will have to cut spending even more.
In short "austerity" is what happens when you have so much debt nobody is willing to lend you more money.
The loans from the USA to the UK after WWII where anything but favourable. They where under incredibly harsh terms that impeded economic growth and lead almost directly to the loss of empire.
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Air NEVER EVER PULLS. Ok there is a microscopic gravitational effect, but basically it can only PUSH. With that in mind your are talking rubbish.
If you stopped building your homes out of match sticks and built homes that where able to withstand tornadoes (and yes this is perfectly possible) then the clean up would be a *LOT* simpler.
Other sensible measures would be putting electric and telecoms under ground as well.
Even assuming that Mr. Salmond manages to win his referendum (a highly unlikely scenario), BT will still own and operate all the telecoms infrastructure in Scotland that it does today.
Back here in the UK a battery backed power supply is provided. I would have thought it would be cheaper to run some copper from the exchange and provide a standard -48VDC to the building. You could even use the copper or copper coated steel as armour for your fibre.
Just to make it clear while new estates might be being built FTTC there are strict standards that a developer must conform to for BT (actually Openreach) to provide a service. Basically everything must be underground and ducted. It should be quite easy for Openreach to pull a real fibre into any house built in the last decade. The problem is that over 90% of all the housing stock in the UK pre-dates this.
Documentation is here
http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/network/developingournetwork/documentationandinformation/buildersguide/downloads/developers_guide.pdf
In this context it makes economic sense to do FTTC at this point to a new estate. With FTTP on demand being rolled out shortly should you want/need it any you live in a recently built house then you are laughing as the install cost for the full fibre solution should be much lower due as they can just pull the fibre through the existing ducting.
Having said all that for reasons I don't understand Openreach want separate ducting for copper and fibre but that is just plain crazy if you ask me.
Or perhaps a junior boy acting as a personal servant for a senior boy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagging
Yes it does, because it assumes incorrectly that 100% of people vaccinated against disease X develop 100% immunity.
So for example despite having the measles vaccination you can still get measles (as I know from bitter personal experience). So if there are other people choosing not to get the measles vaccination which lowers herd immunity and allows the disease to spread it can actually effect you directly.
The biggest tragedy of the whole MMR is yet to play out however. The problem is that there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of young girls coming up to child bearing age that have no protection against rubella. Here in the U.K. at least a rubella vaccination is no longer given at age 11/12 to girls because they have protection against it from the MMR jab they had as children. Hence the threat of a large increase in the cases of Congenital rubella syndrome is very real.
Fortunately in England (being distinct from the rest of the UK) the government is organising a vaccination program through schools to give MMR to all the children who missed it as children due to stupid parents.
It can by definition vastly reduce the economic burden. For example in the USA more money is spent pushing paper around to pay for health care bills than the NHS in England spends in it's entirety (or was the case in 1996). Now yes the USA is larger than England, but if you are not madly pushing pieces of paper around and spending time accounting for everything you can save a shed load of administrative costs. These costs can then be spent treating actual patients for actual illnesses.
And RCS is over 31 years old and for real old timers SCCS dates from 1972 or 41 years ago.
If your are Israel, thousands of times.
The biggest problem with air travel being so safe is that the statistics are skewed. The problem is almost all air travel deaths take place during take off and landing, and all flights no matter how short or long have one take off and one landing. Consequently a flight from London to Tokyo is hardly any more dangerous than a flight from London to Paris. However the safety figure is deaths per billion km, rather than deaths per passenger flight.
What makes you think that ordinary ground based cars don't collide with buildings right now?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204373/Couples-lucky-escape-speeding-car-crashes-UPSTAIRS-bedroom.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/9950976/Audi-TT-takes-off-and-crashes-into-house.html
A quick check shows that Swedish oil production for 2011 was less than 5000 barrels a day. I suspect that you are confusing Sweden with Norway, who do have large amounts of North Sea oil and gas.
I believe the concept of using cigarrette butts is because they are a free source of tobacco, in the small quantity of unburned tobacco in the butt. If you don't smoke you can just buy some role your own tobacco and mash that into water instead. Actually using ash would be rather pointless I believe.
If you select your produce for maximum freshness then you should be buying a lot more frozen stuff. The classic example being peas. Decent quality frozen peas are flash frozen with in a couple of hours of being picked in the field. Even cheap frozen peas will be frozen in a handful of hours from being picked. The *only* way to get fresher peas is to hand pick them yourself and eat them immediately. If you buy fresh peas in a supermarket they are no where near as fresh as frozen peas and have considerably lower nutritional value.
Last time I looked which is admittedly about 18 months ago, even the lastest e2fsprogs did not carry support for ext4 greater than 16TB. Then again would you really trust more than 16TB to a file system that has had support for such a short period of time? If you look into it there performance of ext4 with filesystems that size sucks anyway.
Lets face it ext4 exists for one reason and one reason only - Lustre.
Well obviously you pass legislation first that gives the government the right to fine companies that don't move stuff out the way on time when formally requested to do so, problem fixed. I am not in the slightest naÃve.
The problem with JFS is that is dead end code. IBM frankly are pushing GPFS for anything other than a boot disk. While it might be open source there is very little development going on with JFS. Compare that to XFS.
Want more than 16TB on your server? Unless ext4 has very recently grown that support then using an ext based file system is not viable. Remember a RAID5 in 4D+P using 4TB disks will be super close to that 16TB limit. Better hope that you don't want to scale the file system up in the future.
The primary reason for the existence of ext4 is Lustre. By far the best option for a general purpose none clustered Linux file system is XFS by some considerable distance. The crying shame is that RedHat did not make a grab for CXFS out the ruins of SGI but persisted with GFS2 and then purchased Glustre.
On the other hand the code was first released as production nearly 20 years ago. Of all the current Linux file systems XFS has the best performance, the best scalability and the best stability.
Want to put 100TB of data on btrfs be my guest.
You fine the utility company the cost of the increase in the schedule of widening the road. You will soon find that the utility company makes sure that stuff is moved out the way according to schedule.
It's been done. There was a study looking at traffic levels around some roadworks in London about a decade ago. What they found was that even six months after the road works had finished the traffic levels had not returned to there pre road work levels.
The problem is with this model that government spending is higher than revenues, hence to close the gap someone somewhere has to lend the government the extra cash. The problem comes when nobody is willing to lend the government that cash, or only at interest rates that are punitive then what?
So yes there is something of a downward spiral with "austerity" but the notion that the countries worst effected can just borrow more and spend there way out is plain nonsense. There problem is they cannot borrow the extra so they are having to make cuts. More specifically they can borrow something but it comes with a whole bunch of strings attached from the people doing the lending, which mostly are around cutting spending. If they don't cut the spending they won't get the loans and they will have to cut spending even more.
In short "austerity" is what happens when you have so much debt nobody is willing to lend you more money.
The loans from the USA to the UK after WWII where anything but favourable. They where under incredibly harsh terms that impeded economic growth and lead almost directly to the loss of empire.