I currently have over 2000 books. About 1/3rd are hard cover, We too have a small home, but one entire wall in the living room is a book case. I also have the inexpensive Sauder book cases in my den, the shop and IIRC 7 of them in the basement Rec room to keep them neatly stored. We also have 5 computers that are networked with over 10 Terabytes of storage with, book, music and video (legally recorded). I also have 100's of VCR tapes, which I am about to erase and pitch. There are also, well over 30,000 digitized family photos covering generations It took a lot of years to accumulate these books, photos, and recordings
Yes we (my wife and I) also have several e-book readers. The only and I do mean "only" time the readers are convenient are when traveling, or reading books from the library.. To sit back and read, the real book is far more convenient and comfortable. I have gone to purchase a new release only to find it available in e-book form, but not as a real book. There are many books I do not have because that was the only format in which it was available.
IF I were still traveling a lot on business, I "might" purchase a few of these, otherwise I'll go with out which now days means "I ain't buying".
As for DRM and the DMCA I have not purchased a single CD nor do I down load or stream music, since Sony screwed their customers with the root kit and the recording industry went bat shit over protecting everything.
You would probably guess by now that we are avid readers, avid listeners of music. I have been a photographer for many decades.
DRM and the DMCA have cost the entertainment and publishing industry literally many thousands of dollars where we are concerned. The industry claims they are losing massive sales to piracy, but I wonder if perchance, if there are many like us who have just stopped purchasing and have enough books and music on hand, or peruse used book and CD sales to keep us content. It wouldn't take all that many for the lost sales to amount to a very large sum. They'd never notice a few thousand sales to one household like us, but a few thousand such households would hurt, particularly if they mistakenly attribute the lost sales to piracy instead of customer disgust. I can't pass a yard sale with books or CDs showing.
People keep confusing the issues with Solyndra and making into right vs left
The problem with Solyndra is tha Obummer's own people told him not to do it. They were risky and likely to go under, but he ignored his own advisers and gave them the money any way after being told they are likely to fail.
The other reason is that one of Obama's and the Dem's top contributors was a top investor in Solyndra.
Read the paper "Our Fragile Intellect" by Professor Gerald Crabtree. It make the old movie, Mediocrity a bit more realistic.
Not that the movie was popular . I can't even find any references to it on the net. plus it torqued off a lot of people.
It takes place in the not too distant future where the average IQ compared to today had deteriorated to an average of around 20
IIRC two people are accidentally put into cryogenic sleep. She's a hooker, and he's...well, I don't remember but neither is the sharpest too in the shed. On waking into this "brave new world" where you can purchase your law degree at Walmart, our two geniuses really are comparatively speaking...geniuses. They are the smartest two people on the planet! He ends up being elected "President of the world" with the women of the world wanting his genetic,material.
It really is an interesting movie, if not terribly deep and just maybe a vague prediction of the future Professor Crabtree sees for us.
Having had to deal with college graduates for many decades, I am inclined to agree with the Professor.,
these are part of a natural cycle, while the burning of fossil fuels is not. Burning these fuels releases CO2 that took millions of years to sequester, Millions of years worth released in minutes, or seconds,
Speaking of Hydrogen. It's much more expensive to produce and takes a lot of energy to produce. OTOH It's probably a lot safer than gasoline. It disperses much faster than gasoline when spilled.
It takes more to produce a given energy, but it is clean..It'll make a great fuel if they can ever produce it cheaply and in quantity.
A molecular sponge is a great way to store a lot of it, safely. Unfortunately, it's also expensive.
I'm not sure who I disagree with more.
Having made a shitload of money off corn last summer and it was a whale of an increase over the past few years: Corn for Ethanol is not the spot price. It is contracted and very highly subsidized. Were it not subsidized alcohol would be extremely expensive. As it is, that little bit still raises the price and reduces the energy per gallon.
Yes, we are finally getting more energy back than it takes to grow it, but the pollutants from methanol are as bad as petroleum, just different.
Yes, sugar beets would actually produce more alcohol, but it's unlikely to be cheaper. We also don't want to go there. It'd have a larger and more direct impact on the food chain. Sugar beets, like sugar cane cane produce more alcohol. they already bring in about 50% more cash than corn IIRC
Alcohol is a bad idea from the energy approach (60% the energy of gasoline per unit volume and they take a huge subside to even be competitive in the market. It also has a sizable impact on the food chain and indications are that it produces carcinogens.
It is also hard on the land and should not be grown on any specific parcel more than once every 3 years. Even then it takes massive amounts of chemicals like the direct injection of liquid ammonia into the soil.
Switch grass? I've heard of nothing other than lab tests with nothing scaled to even small production quantities. It may have been done, but I'm not aware of any projects.
As far as Solyndra, that should have never happened. Even Obama's advisers said it was a bad idea. They did make panels and sell to the public, but the volume was not great
Electric cars on a flat bed? Maybe from a biased reporter who did everything he could to make the car fail, like driving with the widows open and the heater cranked. driving faster than recommended, just driving around the parking lot at the charging station, and the, only partially charging instead of fully charging..
A reporter from CNN drove the same route and the car passed with flying colors. I'd like to have one of those.
Had to be a Democrat.
After the firestorm started he thought of his political future and withdrew the bill from consideration.
But as others have said, it would have been rather ineffective, applying only to instate servers.
See if you can find the old movie, Mediocrity. It seem appropriate, although the last time I searched I couldn't find it. All references had been replaced with more modern "stuff" , short films, or artsy stuff.
The right Mediocrity is about two people who end up being frozen and awaken in a world where the average IQ is today's equivalent of 20..
This is not so much lobbying as it is a giant disinformation network. Like the mainstream media protects and cheer leads Obama, these guys promote the denial of scientific proven AGW. I understand that these are pretty much the same groups who fought to discredit the science showing the cancer causing effects of smoking.
As the left has proven, if you get enough people to tell the same lie, a good portion of the general public will believe it and it has worked for them and it appears to be working for the right as well. Too bad neither side can spend their money on something worthwhile that will benefit the country or the rest of us.
While I wait for my sides to quit hurting from laughing...He asks if the bar is being lowered!
With schools being used more for indoctrination than basic skills from kindergarten through high school, no one would qualify for entrance if they didn't drop the bar.
Don't forget that Universities and colleges now offer a lot of useless degrees that prepare the student for nothing but a massive loan to pay off. This works particularly well on those not smart enough to figure out if the particular degree will get them a job or if there is even a demand for that subject in the real world. It also works well on those too lazy to work on a real degree or want one to get a job where they might have to work after graduation.
Writing skills are so bad in general that three decades ago some universities implemented a “Writing Across The Curriculum” program. Both universities I attended used this program. For me it was a chance to add a few points “just-in-case”, but for most of the students it brought nothing but bitching and moaning plus a few lost points. They are even getting rid of cursive writting.
Writing, or composing seems to be on the way to becoming a lost art and I found it to be a major part of the real world after graduating even with a BS in CS. BS in CS! I like the ring to that, particularly when so many degrees are mainly just BS and I don't mean Bachelor of Science.
However, even on the serious subjects the quality of graduates seem to be deteriorating. There is a lot of the entitlement mentality even showing up in the sciences. They have a degree so the world (or government) owes them a living that will let them live in the style to which they would like to become accustomed. I've seen it as a project manager and I hear it form others who end up with fresh graduates working for them.
And I taught Intro to CS as a GA. 200 students with about 195 that were completely completely clueless which also describes the general population where any science or technology is involved. However I do think a larger % would pay attention to a car that tells them it's time to put fuel..er..maybe "gas up", I'm not sure it'd be safe to say fuel. I saw some of the geniuses that had degrees they interviewed representing the OWSers.
Sometimes I'm amazed that "do it yourself" gas stations even survive. That is how clueless I see the general population.
And Broder thinks we are really going to buy into a pile of excusses.
One excuse maybe, but the article was so obviously biased and the lies so easily exposed You say you turned the heat down, but the graphs show you turned it up. Even that could have been a mistake but one you should have quickly remedied.
Too many excuses to make any of them creditable.
Sounds like it's time for thr Times to have a staff change to maintain what little of their tarnished reputation they can. They are already becoming known as a rather biased publication. Add to that a rigged review?
It's this short sighted approach that drives voters away from the Republicans.
Teaching Faith belongs in the church or at home.
Real sciencebelongs in the classroom.
My degree is in CS, not CIS. We (in grad school)concentrated on the science, math, and development of algorithms. IE: problem solving. What es the best, most efficient, and viable algorithm. Will it save time and will it be worth the resources? Will it streamline the process? If it just causes more work with little return, it fails the viability test.
Some courses benefit and some don't. Some don't, purely due to the mentality of the students. Of course, sometimes it's due to the prof not knowing how to make use of the technology.
OTOH if you are working with students like some of the OWSers who thought the sciences (where the jobs were) were too much work, it's a waste of time. They are difficult to teach due to lack of motivation and once out are unlikely to find a job. .
This past weekend I had a long conversation with my neighbor who is a PHD chemist about the quality of new graduating ChemE's and even co-ops he's seeing.
It appears the "Entitlement mentality" is even invading the sciences with co-op's trying to dictate what kind of work they will do along with less than stellar graduates. Yes, there are still good ones!
With me and those I knew, or had working for me, it was: what do you want me to do?" I/we were happy for the chance and job. BTW those were the kind of things I ended up doing as a GA..
" As ethanol produces the same amount of CO2 per gallon as does gas its much lower energy density results in MORE CO2. We need to stop burning the stuff and quit adding it to gasoline. burning ethanol actually produces 54% more CO2 as global warming pollutant than gasoline due to the fact that ethanol has lower fuel efficiency."
Add to that burning it releases a lot of VOCs, some of which are carcinogenic and the plants that produce it are turning out to be major polluters.
Now add all the pollution from growing and harvesting the corn which is hard on the land and takes lots of chemicals as well as a very large subsidy to even make it viable economically .
(pollution from making) http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-508006.html
(Pollution from burning) http://www.intota.com/docs/ethanol-pollution.asp
" As ethanol produces the same amount of CO2 per gallon as does gas its much lower energy density results in MORE CO2. We need to stop burning the stuff and quit adding it to gasoline. burning ethanol actually produces 54% more CO2 as global warming pollutant than gasoline due to the fact that ethanol has lower fuel efficiency."
Add to that burning it releases a lot of VOCs, some of which are carceneogenic and the plants that produce it are turning out to be major polluters.
(pollution from making) http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-508006.html
(Pollution from burning) http://www.intota.com/docs/ethanol-pollution.asp
I do that if it comes from Sony. I have not purchased a Sony product since the infamous root kiit. The only devices I have that will play a CD or DVD are my computers. I used to purchase around a 100 CDs and/or DVDs per year. That has gone to zero. Come to think of it, I've not watched the mainstream media or networks for close to 4 years either because of their biased reporting..and no, I'm not a conservative.
Since when do conservatives or any other group see Saturdaty deliver as critical. I receive most of my medications by mail because it's cheaper and doesn't have to be renewed as often./One day isn't going to make a difference for those who can remember to renew in a timely manner.
USPS is mot for time critical delivery. It's highly dependent on the weather and just not reliable enough. Losing Saturday won't even be noticed except for those who's daily highlight is the mail delivery and they need to get a hobby..
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Ah Yes, The Sony of Root Kit Fame that screwed up thousands, hundreds of thousands? of computers and only gave the victims a new CD.
I currently have over 2000 books. About 1/3rd are hard cover, We too have a small home, but one entire wall in the living room is a book case. I also have the inexpensive Sauder book cases in my den, the shop and IIRC 7 of them in the basement Rec room to keep them neatly stored. We also have 5 computers that are networked with over 10 Terabytes of storage with, book, music and video (legally recorded). I also have 100's of VCR tapes, which I am about to erase and pitch. There are also, well over 30,000 digitized family photos covering generations It took a lot of years to accumulate these books, photos, and recordings Yes we (my wife and I) also have several e-book readers. The only and I do mean "only" time the readers are convenient are when traveling, or reading books from the library.. To sit back and read, the real book is far more convenient and comfortable. I have gone to purchase a new release only to find it available in e-book form, but not as a real book. There are many books I do not have because that was the only format in which it was available. IF I were still traveling a lot on business, I "might" purchase a few of these, otherwise I'll go with out which now days means "I ain't buying". As for DRM and the DMCA I have not purchased a single CD nor do I down load or stream music, since Sony screwed their customers with the root kit and the recording industry went bat shit over protecting everything. You would probably guess by now that we are avid readers, avid listeners of music. I have been a photographer for many decades. DRM and the DMCA have cost the entertainment and publishing industry literally many thousands of dollars where we are concerned. The industry claims they are losing massive sales to piracy, but I wonder if perchance, if there are many like us who have just stopped purchasing and have enough books and music on hand, or peruse used book and CD sales to keep us content. It wouldn't take all that many for the lost sales to amount to a very large sum. They'd never notice a few thousand sales to one household like us, but a few thousand such households would hurt, particularly if they mistakenly attribute the lost sales to piracy instead of customer disgust. I can't pass a yard sale with books or CDs showing.
People keep confusing the issues with Solyndra and making into right vs left The problem with Solyndra is tha Obummer's own people told him not to do it. They were risky and likely to go under, but he ignored his own advisers and gave them the money any way after being told they are likely to fail. The other reason is that one of Obama's and the Dem's top contributors was a top investor in Solyndra.
Read the paper "Our Fragile Intellect" by Professor Gerald Crabtree. It make the old movie, Mediocrity a bit more realistic. Not that the movie was popular . I can't even find any references to it on the net. plus it torqued off a lot of people. It takes place in the not too distant future where the average IQ compared to today had deteriorated to an average of around 20 IIRC two people are accidentally put into cryogenic sleep. She's a hooker, and he's...well, I don't remember but neither is the sharpest too in the shed. On waking into this "brave new world" where you can purchase your law degree at Walmart, our two geniuses really are comparatively speaking...geniuses. They are the smartest two people on the planet! He ends up being elected "President of the world" with the women of the world wanting his genetic ,material.
It really is an interesting movie, if not terribly deep and just maybe a vague prediction of the future Professor Crabtree sees for us.
Having had to deal with college graduates for many decades, I am inclined to agree with the Professor.,
IIRC the law says those records are our property. When I changed Doctors, the old office presented me with the whole pile to take to my new DR.
these are part of a natural cycle, while the burning of fossil fuels is not. Burning these fuels releases CO2 that took millions of years to sequester, Millions of years worth released in minutes, or seconds,
Speaking of Hydrogen. It's much more expensive to produce and takes a lot of energy to produce. OTOH It's probably a lot safer than gasoline. It disperses much faster than gasoline when spilled. It takes more to produce a given energy, but it is clean..It'll make a great fuel if they can ever produce it cheaply and in quantity. A molecular sponge is a great way to store a lot of it, safely. Unfortunately, it's also expensive.
I'm not sure who I disagree with more. Having made a shitload of money off corn last summer and it was a whale of an increase over the past few years: Corn for Ethanol is not the spot price. It is contracted and very highly subsidized. Were it not subsidized alcohol would be extremely expensive. As it is, that little bit still raises the price and reduces the energy per gallon. Yes, we are finally getting more energy back than it takes to grow it, but the pollutants from methanol are as bad as petroleum, just different. Yes, sugar beets would actually produce more alcohol, but it's unlikely to be cheaper. We also don't want to go there. It'd have a larger and more direct impact on the food chain. Sugar beets, like sugar cane cane produce more alcohol. they already bring in about 50% more cash than corn IIRC Alcohol is a bad idea from the energy approach (60% the energy of gasoline per unit volume and they take a huge subside to even be competitive in the market. It also has a sizable impact on the food chain and indications are that it produces carcinogens. It is also hard on the land and should not be grown on any specific parcel more than once every 3 years. Even then it takes massive amounts of chemicals like the direct injection of liquid ammonia into the soil. Switch grass? I've heard of nothing other than lab tests with nothing scaled to even small production quantities. It may have been done, but I'm not aware of any projects. As far as Solyndra, that should have never happened. Even Obama's advisers said it was a bad idea. They did make panels and sell to the public, but the volume was not great Electric cars on a flat bed? Maybe from a biased reporter who did everything he could to make the car fail, like driving with the widows open and the heater cranked. driving faster than recommended, just driving around the parking lot at the charging station, and the, only partially charging instead of fully charging.. A reporter from CNN drove the same route and the car passed with flying colors. I'd like to have one of those.
Had to be a Democrat. After the firestorm started he thought of his political future and withdrew the bill from consideration. But as others have said, it would have been rather ineffective, applying only to instate servers.
I think this would make the elections one where the popular vote would be more important
and what's the mean income per capita, not median?
They are going broke and businesses are moving to Texas. It may be prosperous if you can afford it and the corruption.
See if you can find the old movie, Mediocrity. It seem appropriate, although the last time I searched I couldn't find it. All references had been replaced with more modern "stuff" , short films, or artsy stuff. The right Mediocrity is about two people who end up being frozen and awaken in a world where the average IQ is today's equivalent of 20..
Perhaps the Irish have better sanitary habits than the US? Just asking.
This is not so much lobbying as it is a giant disinformation network. Like the mainstream media protects and cheer leads Obama, these guys promote the denial of scientific proven AGW. I understand that these are pretty much the same groups who fought to discredit the science showing the cancer causing effects of smoking. As the left has proven, if you get enough people to tell the same lie, a good portion of the general public will believe it and it has worked for them and it appears to be working for the right as well. Too bad neither side can spend their money on something worthwhile that will benefit the country or the rest of us.
While I wait for my sides to quit hurting from laughing...He asks if the bar is being lowered! With schools being used more for indoctrination than basic skills from kindergarten through high school, no one would qualify for entrance if they didn't drop the bar. Don't forget that Universities and colleges now offer a lot of useless degrees that prepare the student for nothing but a massive loan to pay off. This works particularly well on those not smart enough to figure out if the particular degree will get them a job or if there is even a demand for that subject in the real world. It also works well on those too lazy to work on a real degree or want one to get a job where they might have to work after graduation. Writing skills are so bad in general that three decades ago some universities implemented a “Writing Across The Curriculum” program. Both universities I attended used this program. For me it was a chance to add a few points “just-in-case”, but for most of the students it brought nothing but bitching and moaning plus a few lost points. They are even getting rid of cursive writting. Writing, or composing seems to be on the way to becoming a lost art and I found it to be a major part of the real world after graduating even with a BS in CS. BS in CS! I like the ring to that, particularly when so many degrees are mainly just BS and I don't mean Bachelor of Science. However, even on the serious subjects the quality of graduates seem to be deteriorating. There is a lot of the entitlement mentality even showing up in the sciences. They have a degree so the world (or government) owes them a living that will let them live in the style to which they would like to become accustomed. I've seen it as a project manager and I hear it form others who end up with fresh graduates working for them.
And I taught Intro to CS as a GA. 200 students with about 195 that were completely completely clueless which also describes the general population where any science or technology is involved. However I do think a larger % would pay attention to a car that tells them it's time to put fuel..er..maybe "gas up", I'm not sure it'd be safe to say fuel. I saw some of the geniuses that had degrees they interviewed representing the OWSers. Sometimes I'm amazed that "do it yourself" gas stations even survive. That is how clueless I see the general population.
And Broder thinks we are really going to buy into a pile of excusses. One excuse maybe, but the article was so obviously biased and the lies so easily exposed You say you turned the heat down, but the graphs show you turned it up. Even that could have been a mistake but one you should have quickly remedied. Too many excuses to make any of them creditable. Sounds like it's time for thr Times to have a staff change to maintain what little of their tarnished reputation they can. They are already becoming known as a rather biased publication. Add to that a rigged review?
It's this short sighted approach that drives voters away from the Republicans. Teaching Faith belongs in the church or at home. Real sciencebelongs in the classroom.
My degree is in CS, not CIS. We (in grad school)concentrated on the science, math, and development of algorithms. IE: problem solving. What es the best, most efficient, and viable algorithm. Will it save time and will it be worth the resources? Will it streamline the process? If it just causes more work with little return, it fails the viability test. Some courses benefit and some don't. Some don't, purely due to the mentality of the students. Of course, sometimes it's due to the prof not knowing how to make use of the technology. OTOH if you are working with students like some of the OWSers who thought the sciences (where the jobs were) were too much work, it's a waste of time. They are difficult to teach due to lack of motivation and once out are unlikely to find a job. . This past weekend I had a long conversation with my neighbor who is a PHD chemist about the quality of new graduating ChemE's and even co-ops he's seeing. It appears the "Entitlement mentality" is even invading the sciences with co-op's trying to dictate what kind of work they will do along with less than stellar graduates. Yes, there are still good ones! With me and those I knew, or had working for me, it was: what do you want me to do?" I/we were happy for the chance and job. BTW those were the kind of things I ended up doing as a GA..
" As ethanol produces the same amount of CO2 per gallon as does gas its much lower energy density results in MORE CO2. We need to stop burning the stuff and quit adding it to gasoline. burning ethanol actually produces 54% more CO2 as global warming pollutant than gasoline due to the fact that ethanol has lower fuel efficiency." Add to that burning it releases a lot of VOCs, some of which are carcinogenic and the plants that produce it are turning out to be major polluters. Now add all the pollution from growing and harvesting the corn which is hard on the land and takes lots of chemicals as well as a very large subsidy to even make it viable economically . (pollution from making) http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-508006.html (Pollution from burning) http://www.intota.com/docs/ethanol-pollution.asp
" As ethanol produces the same amount of CO2 per gallon as does gas its much lower energy density results in MORE CO2. We need to stop burning the stuff and quit adding it to gasoline. burning ethanol actually produces 54% more CO2 as global warming pollutant than gasoline due to the fact that ethanol has lower fuel efficiency." Add to that burning it releases a lot of VOCs, some of which are carceneogenic and the plants that produce it are turning out to be major polluters. (pollution from making) http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-508006.html (Pollution from burning) http://www.intota.com/docs/ethanol-pollution.asp
I do that if it comes from Sony. I have not purchased a Sony product since the infamous root kiit. The only devices I have that will play a CD or DVD are my computers. I used to purchase around a 100 CDs and/or DVDs per year. That has gone to zero. Come to think of it, I've not watched the mainstream media or networks for close to 4 years either because of their biased reporting..and no, I'm not a conservative.
Since when do conservatives or any other group see Saturdaty deliver as critical. I receive most of my medications by mail because it's cheaper and doesn't have to be renewed as often. /One day isn't going to make a difference for those who can remember to renew in a timely manner.
USPS is mot for time critical delivery. It's highly dependent on the weather and just not reliable enough. Losing Saturday won't even be noticed except for those who's daily highlight is the mail delivery and they need to get a hobby..
We (the administration) also forced banks and institutions who were healyhy and didn't need the help to also take the money