And as manufacturing does come back to the US (and it is in a significant way), the average wage is approaching a few pennies because robots work for electricity and a little maintenance.
"He'll sit here, and he'll say, 'Do this! Do that!' And nothing will happen.
Not nothing, it will erode the power of the presidency, both in the US and throughout the world. When Mexico tells Trump to go fuck himself (as their ex-president has already done in English no less) what do you think Russia and China are going to do? I'm sure many here would be happy for a less powerful government but the side effect most certainly won't "make America great again".
This is an El Nino year, the higher surface temperature will release more oxygen from the ocean because gas solubility decreases with increasing temperature.
So this is just a preview of what we can expect as global temperatures continue to rise. Got it
-Most of the world's oxygen comes from the phytoplankton, and their population dynamics are remarkably challenging to model. However, if they are not dying en masse, then the oxygen production will remain about the same; some may be redistributed.
Nice use of a tautology to brush off a potential catastrophe. Paraphrasing "If no major disaster is happening to plankton things are pretty much the same...otherwise we're fucked cause our biggest source of oxygen is gone"
Agreed. Of note to me is that people would rather literally move mountains than move themselves out of a region that commonly sees temps of 50C (and has been at war for quite some time to boot). Something to think about if your answer for rising sea levels is "we can just move". To me, building out massive wind/solar/smart grid/storage capacity seems even easier than moving a mountain. Oh well, guess we'll see.
Perhaps, but classified info is not an animal or a metaphor for communism for that matter. First of all, there are 3 basic levels of classification and then all sorts of compartmentalization and every holder or generator of said classified info gets to decide how it gets handled. It is indeed illegal to mishandle classified info but being charged with a crime for it requires intent. Anything unintentional gets a stern talking to and possibly temporary or permanent revocation of clearance. Everyone gets a second chance unless you sell something to the russians.
In summary, some classified info is indeed more important than the rest so I don't see how Orwell has anything to do with it. Unless you're making the argument that or lives are over because the gov has secrets...which would mean the USA failed somewhere in the mid 1700's.
Not sure you intended to but that's an incredibly well put justification on how the government is indeed quite useful in the cases where pure capitalism fails. With pure capitalism we'd be perpetually stuck with the chicken/egg problem and never do cool stuff like go to space. Now, thanks to the government, the spaceflight market is a little more free*!
*for very expensive values of free.
Everyone is always fighting over either/or. Why not pick the best parts of both?!
busy browsing their catalog for something to watch. That activity alone eats up hours of my time every month.
On an unrelated note... Does anyone else feel like we should be able to pay for access to content separately from the UI?
Yeah, some company should collect a vast variety of programming from many different providers and let you access it from one place. They could sort the content into "channels" so you'd have a general idea of where to find what you're looking for. That would cut down on your browsing time. Also to simplify things further they could consolidate the billing so you don't have to pay 5 services, just one monthly bill and you'd get access to everything. There are probably economies of scale with that so you might even get a bunch of extra stuff thrown in as well. Seems like that business model is more or less what you're looking for.
Fortunately, my post denigrating them on Facebook is unlikely to deter them
And here I thought I was the only person on the internet posting elegantly brilliant ideas that everyone else ignores! My sympathies to you. Keep at it and one day your....facebook post.... will surely unite us all!
Of all the things that we need to be warned about, the White House is effectively stating the dangers we would have... by simply living in the tropics.
Which would come as quite a shock to people who live in, say Iowa.
Brilliant! While we're at it lets fix our schools with better teachers. Also we'll end poverty by making poor people work harder. Done! Every problem stated in 3 words or less gets a 3 word or less solution! Its so easy when you limit your scope to exclude all the hard parts.
If nothing else, a trump presidency would shake up the Washington first virus that has infected both parties.
Sure, if by shake up you mean the RNC would change their primary process to prevent this from happening again (see: the Ross Perot rule). Also, trump will either finally have some people to explain the nuances of why none of his plans will work to him and he'll do a bunch of token actions that go nowhere or he'll continue to shoot from the hip that will somehow increase government gridlock and alienate our allies. You really think the US will increase it's power when we tell Mexico to do something and they just tell us to fuck off?
Thats a very wide definition of "renewable energy company" (Navistar: truck manufacturer, Babcock & Brown: financial consultants, Thompson River Power: trying to liquidate their new coal plant) and "failure" (Vestas: 685M Euro income in 2015, Amonix: Just broke a record for PV energy output).
I didn't look through all of them but I'm guessing you just copy pasted a list of DOE energy loans from some blog. Feel free to prove me wrong by doing your own research and posting an up to date summary of each of your listed company's current outlooks.
Tell them how much you laid out, how much you're paying or receiving now, when your break-even point will be: talk about numbers. You do have numbers, right? You are saving money, aren't you?
I should just put this in my sig. I feel like Johnny Appleseed reposting this for the 4th time. A site purportedly full of nerds should be able to find this out for themselves:
"Fair enough. Total install cost for a 7800W array in 2014 was $19k and I got back around $6k total in tax credits. Xcel lets you bank electricity with no expiration so what extra I produce in the summer carries over to Jan and Feb. The first year I lived in the house my total electricity bill was around $1100 so my break even point is around 11 years assuming rates don't go up (which they have already). I'm planning on an electric car in the next few years which cuts down the payback period even more. The panels are guaranteed to retain 80% capacity at 20 years and will likely output substantial power for at least 40. Throw in a few replacement panels and an inverter or two over that time and I'm still looking at 30-40 years of electricity for the cost of about 10 from the grid. Xcel's grid use fee kicks in in 2 years for new installs but the downward trend in solar prices will likely more than offset that. "
Perhaps you should consider you've also bought into hype. You cite two companies that went bankrupt in a rapidly changing emerging market and throw out a bunch of pejoratives. A small (its true! Look it up!) percentage of bankruptcies is sign of a maturing industry, not failure. And when a solar company goes bankrupt they don't default on their obligation to reclaim thousands of acres of strip mine and toxic waste.
Your assumption is incorrect! My electricity provider will start instituting a grid use fee on new residential installs, which will of course push the break even point out a year or two, but you still end up with comparatively free electricity and another disappearing subsidy that don't matter no mo! Meanwhile rechargeable batteries continue to get cheaper and denser at about 6%/year. So in those same places that solar makes sense today I'd be surprised if in the next 5-7 years there isn't an affordable whole house battery that will get you through the winter. That's about the same time when early adopters start replacing their electric car battery packs that maybe don't perform well enough for transportation anymore but can still handle the lights and occasional dryers with ease.
Come on guys, why aren't you excited about this?! We're probably seeing an ancient industry get disrupted by cool new technology right before our eyes! Are you gonna tell your grandkids about being the first on your block with a production meter or that you were a wet blanket that held out until the power company folded because they couldn't afford any more lobbyists?
Federal subsidies were just renewed in full for 3 years so this has nothing to do with any expiration, just an overly ambitious business model. In fact, even if you removed all subsidies from residential solar installations (currently the most expensive per watt) you'd still break even before the panel warranty on production runs out in a lot of places. That price has fallen almost 30% over the past 3 years thanks partly to the last subsidy. When this renewal is done most of the country should have the option for a residential install with a break even point in under 10 years...with zero subsidy! Non-sarcastic thanks, government!
Exactly. For 3-6 hours while this this is being used, my phone is unusable for anything else,
I don't know about you but my phone is unused for 7-8 hours every day. Its usually plugged in during that time as well. Apologies to those that only sleep 2.5 hours at a time. Anyway, $100 is absolutely a novelty value. It blew my mind when I found out a smartphone camera can measure heart rate, and now they can be an integral part of a 3D printer?! Holy shit!
Obviously you can buy a better, bigger purpose built tool. But how hard is it to scale this up to a tablet? Or a monitor? Can't you appreciate the awesomeness of taking what derived from a telephone and using for a 3D printer?!
You had better not let the environmentalist religious wackjobs hear you saying that humans can just adapt.
You're right. So far we've done a great job adapting to:
- Not using lead in gasoline where we've adapted with cars that run better than ever and a highly probable side effect of the global crime rate dropping significantly over the past few decades saving unknown $billions - By not using CFC's in aerosols we've adapted to avoiding a huge increase in skin cancer rates
We have not done a good job adapting to a few 100k Syrian refugees trying to migrate. What's going to happen when a few Million Muslims need to migrate out of SE Asia...or worse, a few million floridians try to leave florida?
Shifting 1/3 of our military's budget to renewables and CO2 mitigation would probably result in the greatest global stabilization event in history. But you know, some companies might lose some assets.
I'd go with arrogant, boisterous, bombastic, argumentative, privileged, ruthless, uncompromising, hateful, bullying, and pandering. Smart? Not really. Mix all the former in with a wealthy family and some luck and you don't need to be smart. Like you said, not dumb is good enough.
Seriously. WTF is taking so long? Google fiber started 4 fucking years ago. Now all the other providers suddenly realize they can also offer 1GB...but only in the ~5 towns google fiber is already in?./ has a bunch of users that work for or run ISPs so can someone chime in and say if its really too expensive to roll out? About 10% of my neighborhood runs a business out of their house and would probably pay to run fiber through the neighborhood on their own. Is 4G just so profitable that Verizon can't be bothered? I'd also like to see a comparison of the costs to set up a 1GB network vs the cost of anti-net neutrality lobbying for a month.
Might not make sense for you and your wife now but if you have kids you probably won't have a good opportunity to go to a theater for several months at least (my experience anyway). A year after that its $30 for tickets plus $xx for a babysitter plus finding that babysitter, etc. A few years after that its over $50 for the whole family just for tickets. Our solution is just wait for redbox or streaming no matter how much advertising and buzz makes us want want to see something. Which works out just fine for us but as far as the studio is concerned, they just left $48.50 on the table. They're crazy not to give me the option....not sure that a set top box is really necessary though, aside from another big data monitor...
While that is true, it is worth noting that the spending on defense is in fact the primary purpose of our federal government, it is right in the Constitution.
Article 1, section 8 lays out congress' jobs and it actually lists 8 things including the post office and "patents" before talking about the military. The primary purpose of the federal government is to enable a functioning state of which a military is surely a part but there is much more to it than that, thank goodness. If you look around the world, bad things happen when the military always comes first.
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Coming from the Rust Belt, it would be great to see factories running 3 shifts of thousands of workers again, but I doubt that can be pulled off.
Plus, where are you going to find all those people willing to make $16/hour...in today's dollars? Mexico?
http://www.clearpictureonline....
And as manufacturing does come back to the US (and it is in a significant way), the average wage is approaching a few pennies because robots work for electricity and a little maintenance.
"He'll sit here, and he'll say, 'Do this! Do that!' And nothing will happen.
Not nothing, it will erode the power of the presidency, both in the US and throughout the world. When Mexico tells Trump to go fuck himself (as their ex-president has already done in English no less) what do you think Russia and China are going to do? I'm sure many here would be happy for a less powerful government but the side effect most certainly won't "make America great again".
Republicans would be calling for her head on a plate before the ink on the signature dried.
Or really, before any document was written up for anyone to sign because haven't they been doing just that for the past few years?
This is an El Nino year, the higher surface temperature will release more oxygen from the ocean because gas solubility decreases with increasing temperature.
So this is just a preview of what we can expect as global temperatures continue to rise. Got it
-Most of the world's oxygen comes from the phytoplankton, and their population dynamics are remarkably challenging to model. However, if they are not dying en masse, then the oxygen production will remain about the same; some may be redistributed.
Nice use of a tautology to brush off a potential catastrophe. Paraphrasing "If no major disaster is happening to plankton things are pretty much the same...otherwise we're fucked cause our biggest source of oxygen is gone"
Your perspective is quite alarming!
Agreed. Of note to me is that people would rather literally move mountains than move themselves out of a region that commonly sees temps of 50C (and has been at war for quite some time to boot). Something to think about if your answer for rising sea levels is "we can just move". To me, building out massive wind/solar/smart grid/storage capacity seems even easier than moving a mountain. Oh well, guess we'll see.
Perhaps, but classified info is not an animal or a metaphor for communism for that matter. First of all, there are 3 basic levels of classification and then all sorts of compartmentalization and every holder or generator of said classified info gets to decide how it gets handled. It is indeed illegal to mishandle classified info but being charged with a crime for it requires intent. Anything unintentional gets a stern talking to and possibly temporary or permanent revocation of clearance. Everyone gets a second chance unless you sell something to the russians.
In summary, some classified info is indeed more important than the rest so I don't see how Orwell has anything to do with it. Unless you're making the argument that or lives are over because the gov has secrets...which would mean the USA failed somewhere in the mid 1700's.
Not sure you intended to but that's an incredibly well put justification on how the government is indeed quite useful in the cases where pure capitalism fails. With pure capitalism we'd be perpetually stuck with the chicken/egg problem and never do cool stuff like go to space. Now, thanks to the government, the spaceflight market is a little more free*!
*for very expensive values of free.
Everyone is always fighting over either/or. Why not pick the best parts of both?!
busy browsing their catalog for something to watch. That activity alone eats up hours of my time every month.
On an unrelated note... Does anyone else feel like we should be able to pay for access to content separately from the UI?
Yeah, some company should collect a vast variety of programming from many different providers and let you access it from one place. They could sort the content into "channels" so you'd have a general idea of where to find what you're looking for. That would cut down on your browsing time. Also to simplify things further they could consolidate the billing so you don't have to pay 5 services, just one monthly bill and you'd get access to everything. There are probably economies of scale with that so you might even get a bunch of extra stuff thrown in as well. Seems like that business model is more or less what you're looking for.
Surprised no one offers that to you....
Fortunately, my post denigrating them on Facebook is unlikely to deter them
And here I thought I was the only person on the internet posting elegantly brilliant ideas that everyone else ignores! My sympathies to you. Keep at it and one day your ....facebook post.... will surely unite us all!
Of all the things that we need to be warned about, the White House is effectively stating the dangers we would have... by simply living in the tropics.
Which would come as quite a shock to people who live in, say Iowa.
Doesn't mean its wrong. See page 5:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/n...
I know that mainly shows elderly are vulnerable but to be fair, they are listed in the summary which also adds "pregnant" before women.
Brilliant! While we're at it lets fix our schools with better teachers. Also we'll end poverty by making poor people work harder. Done! Every problem stated in 3 words or less gets a 3 word or less solution! Its so easy when you limit your scope to exclude all the hard parts.
If nothing else, a trump presidency would shake up the Washington first virus that has infected both parties.
Sure, if by shake up you mean the RNC would change their primary process to prevent this from happening again (see: the Ross Perot rule). Also, trump will either finally have some people to explain the nuances of why none of his plans will work to him and he'll do a bunch of token actions that go nowhere or he'll continue to shoot from the hip that will somehow increase government gridlock and alienate our allies. You really think the US will increase it's power when we tell Mexico to do something and they just tell us to fuck off?
I know...people who need something, anything to study for Federal Grant money.
Doesn't mean they get it. From link 3: "Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work."
Lighten up, you'll be less likely to be confused with someone who spends their time pointing out typos.
Soooo you are too lazy to google it?.
Its not my job to prove your point. I'll do enough googling to prove my point, which is that you're overreaching. Enjoy!
Thats a very wide definition of "renewable energy company" (Navistar: truck manufacturer, Babcock & Brown: financial consultants, Thompson River Power: trying to liquidate their new coal plant) and "failure" (Vestas: 685M Euro income in 2015, Amonix: Just broke a record for PV energy output).
I didn't look through all of them but I'm guessing you just copy pasted a list of DOE energy loans from some blog. Feel free to prove me wrong by doing your own research and posting an up to date summary of each of your listed company's current outlooks.
Tell them how much you laid out, how much you're paying or receiving now, when your break-even point will be: talk about numbers. You do have numbers, right? You are saving money, aren't you?
I should just put this in my sig. I feel like Johnny Appleseed reposting this for the 4th time. A site purportedly full of nerds should be able to find this out for themselves:
"Fair enough. Total install cost for a 7800W array in 2014 was $19k and I got back around $6k total in tax credits. Xcel lets you bank electricity with no expiration so what extra I produce in the summer carries over to Jan and Feb. The first year I lived in the house my total electricity bill was around $1100 so my break even point is around 11 years assuming rates don't go up (which they have already). I'm planning on an electric car in the next few years which cuts down the payback period even more. The panels are guaranteed to retain 80% capacity at 20 years and will likely output substantial power for at least 40. Throw in a few replacement panels and an inverter or two over that time and I'm still looking at 30-40 years of electricity for the cost of about 10 from the grid. Xcel's grid use fee kicks in in 2 years for new installs but the downward trend in solar prices will likely more than offset that. "
Perhaps you should consider you've also bought into hype. You cite two companies that went bankrupt in a rapidly changing emerging market and throw out a bunch of pejoratives. A small (its true! Look it up!) percentage of bankruptcies is sign of a maturing industry, not failure. And when a solar company goes bankrupt they don't default on their obligation to reclaim thousands of acres of strip mine and toxic waste.
Your assumption is incorrect! My electricity provider will start instituting a grid use fee on new residential installs, which will of course push the break even point out a year or two, but you still end up with comparatively free electricity and another disappearing subsidy that don't matter no mo! Meanwhile rechargeable batteries continue to get cheaper and denser at about 6%/year. So in those same places that solar makes sense today I'd be surprised if in the next 5-7 years there isn't an affordable whole house battery that will get you through the winter. That's about the same time when early adopters start replacing their electric car battery packs that maybe don't perform well enough for transportation anymore but can still handle the lights and occasional dryers with ease.
Come on guys, why aren't you excited about this?! We're probably seeing an ancient industry get disrupted by cool new technology right before our eyes! Are you gonna tell your grandkids about being the first on your block with a production meter or that you were a wet blanket that held out until the power company folded because they couldn't afford any more lobbyists?
Nope!
Federal subsidies were just renewed in full for 3 years so this has nothing to do with any expiration, just an overly ambitious business model. In fact, even if you removed all subsidies from residential solar installations (currently the most expensive per watt) you'd still break even before the panel warranty on production runs out in a lot of places. That price has fallen almost 30% over the past 3 years thanks partly to the last subsidy. When this renewal is done most of the country should have the option for a residential install with a break even point in under 10 years...with zero subsidy! Non-sarcastic thanks, government!
Exactly. For 3-6 hours while this this is being used, my phone is unusable for anything else,
I don't know about you but my phone is unused for 7-8 hours every day. Its usually plugged in during that time as well. Apologies to those that only sleep 2.5 hours at a time. Anyway, $100 is absolutely a novelty value. It blew my mind when I found out a smartphone camera can measure heart rate, and now they can be an integral part of a 3D printer?! Holy shit!
Obviously you can buy a better, bigger purpose built tool. But how hard is it to scale this up to a tablet? Or a monitor? Can't you appreciate the awesomeness of taking what derived from a telephone and using for a 3D printer?!
Can't I just use the smartphone I already have?
You had better not let the environmentalist religious wackjobs hear you saying that humans can just adapt.
You're right. So far we've done a great job adapting to:
- Not using lead in gasoline where we've adapted with cars that run better than ever and a highly probable side effect of the global crime rate dropping significantly over the past few decades saving unknown $billions
- By not using CFC's in aerosols we've adapted to avoiding a huge increase in skin cancer rates
We have not done a good job adapting to a few 100k Syrian refugees trying to migrate. What's going to happen when a few Million Muslims need to migrate out of SE Asia...or worse, a few million floridians try to leave florida?
Shifting 1/3 of our military's budget to renewables and CO2 mitigation would probably result in the greatest global stabilization event in history. But you know, some companies might lose some assets.
I'd go with arrogant, boisterous, bombastic, argumentative, privileged, ruthless, uncompromising, hateful, bullying, and pandering. Smart? Not really. Mix all the former in with a wealthy family and some luck and you don't need to be smart. Like you said, not dumb is good enough.
Seriously. WTF is taking so long? Google fiber started 4 fucking years ago. Now all the other providers suddenly realize they can also offer 1GB...but only in the ~5 towns google fiber is already in? ./ has a bunch of users that work for or run ISPs so can someone chime in and say if its really too expensive to roll out? About 10% of my neighborhood runs a business out of their house and would probably pay to run fiber through the neighborhood on their own. Is 4G just so profitable that Verizon can't be bothered? I'd also like to see a comparison of the costs to set up a 1GB network vs the cost of anti-net neutrality lobbying for a month.
Might not make sense for you and your wife now but if you have kids you probably won't have a good opportunity to go to a theater for several months at least (my experience anyway). A year after that its $30 for tickets plus $xx for a babysitter plus finding that babysitter, etc. A few years after that its over $50 for the whole family just for tickets. Our solution is just wait for redbox or streaming no matter how much advertising and buzz makes us want want to see something. Which works out just fine for us but as far as the studio is concerned, they just left $48.50 on the table. They're crazy not to give me the option. ...not sure that a set top box is really necessary though, aside from another big data monitor...
While that is true, it is worth noting that the spending on defense is in fact the primary purpose of our federal government, it is right in the Constitution.
Maybe time to read it again....
http://www.archives.gov/exhibi...
Article 1, section 8 lays out congress' jobs and it actually lists 8 things including the post office and "patents" before talking about the military. The primary purpose of the federal government is to enable a functioning state of which a military is surely a part but there is much more to it than that, thank goodness. If you look around the world, bad things happen when the military always comes first.