I know what you mean. When I had ferrets I saw so many posts from vegetarians and vegans wanting to know what kind of veggie diet to feed their ferrets.
Veggie? They're CARNIVORES! Not just that, they're obligate carnivores, they have to eat meat to survive, no other option.
Their idea uses solar thermal plants. And no, the questions are not answered. Even they admit that more traditional sources of energy will be needed to keep a baseline load, since solar is not reliable 24/7, even with heat reservoirs.
They mention Nevada Solar One as an example. That produces 64 MW nominal, or 134,000 MWh per year. World electricity consumption in 2007 was 17,780,000,000 MWh. That means you need 132,686 of these plants.
Solar One took 16 months to build (remember, this is 182,000 mirrors and over 18,000 receiver tubes). Even if you shortened that to 12 months and had 2,000 installations going concurrently, that's still 66 years before they're all built. Even then, I'm not too sure world production of 364 million mirrors per year is possible. That's also over 35 trillion dollars, half the current world GDP.
They state a hypothetical 250 MW plant that takes two or three years to build, let's say two, and a thousand people on the job. Nevada Solar One put out 24% of its rated capacity over a year, so it will probably put out 525,600 MWh per year. That requires 33,828 of these to be built. Let's say a million people on the job making 500 a year, that's 68 years to completion.
And that doesn't even count for increasing energy needs. Our requirements will skyrocket once electric cars become the norm. It would be at least a hundred years and scores of trillions of dollars to complete this at these fantastic rates.
If he had his way we'd have no copyright in the US because of the fear of its abuse, as he correctly predicted.
The saying there shall be no monopolies lessens the incitements to ingenuity, which is spurred on by the hope of a monopoly for a limited time, as of 14 years; but the benefit even of limited monopolies is too doubtful to be opposed to that of their general suppression.
Jefferson even proposed this for the Bill of Rights, too bad he didn't succeed:
Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature, and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not exceeding ___ years, but for no longer term, and for no other purpose.
Given the current thinking, 14 would have probably been written in. In reading this next paragraph, it's obvious the Pirates are less radical than Thomas Jefferson:
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
Or at least with their explicit or implicit permission.
The pirates who had the sanction of no government seem to be the minority. Many of them had that status because the British stopped the practice of using privateers for government ends, and the privateers turned unsanctioned pirate.
The world will be without power when it's night time in the Sahara, and that we'll lose most of our electricity any transmitting it to Hong Kong.
The Sahara Desert contains 9,400,000,000,000 square meters. Two percent is 188,000,000,000 square meters.
You can get decent solar in bulk for $200 per square meter, but I'll give you one quarter that for serious bulk (which is probably below cost, but I'm being nice). That's still $4,700,000,000,000. Add actuators, cabling, etc., and you're well over 5 trillion dollars.
But the price tag isn't the hardest problem. The average panel is about 1.5 square meters, meaning installing over 125 billion of them. Okay, we need larger panels, say 14 square meters each (fit two side by side in a 40' shipping container to get them there quickly), 13,428,571,428 panels, If we have high-speed panels that last 25 years, you must install 537,142,857 panels per year, every year, for 25 years to make your target, and that many every year thereafter to keep production up.
Install over 500 million solar panels installed per year indefinitely.That's one hell of a project. And then after year 25 years add 500 million solar panels uninstalled and disposed of per year -- that's a lot of industrial waste.
You could wipe out the cartels today and they'd just spring back up because of all the drug money waiting to be made. It takes an obscene amount of effort, money and human rights abuses overall to overcome the laws of economics.
You need to legalize drugs, cutting off their main source of income. That will weaken them a bit, then you can go after them with hit squads and drone attacks, wipe them out in a major series of military actions. After that, there won't be an incentive for them to spring up again, except for the lucrative kidnapping business.
That's a big reason they're effective, but concentrating on the 20-something Arab Muslim engineer from Pakistan and just sending the 90 year-old white lady through the metal detector won't fly politically here.
Most people think of it as something to monitor outside traffic coming in, but it can also be used to monitor inside traffic going out.
Seriously, the place was locked down tight. I had to get a rule change in a firewall approved through channels just to get two internal servers to talk to each other.
No computer in a place I worked can VPN or tunnel by any known means in or out, except for two designated terminal servers, which can't initiate sessions, and which users can't access from the inside. Remote shell sessions, blocked. SSH, blocked. Even telnet, IM, chat, POP and IMAP are blocked. Pretty much the only thing possible is straight web surffing, and a lot of sites and content types (like video) are blocked. And it's not all just by port but by traffic and content analysis.
Yes, it's all obscenely expensive, IDS (with signature subscriptions), routers, firewalls and several other servers with expensive software involved just for that. The only thing cheap was GPO to block things like installing software or any ActiveX components.
It makes me wonder how big the IT industry lobby was in getting this law passed.
It's the one that promotes arbitration over lawsuits, it's the one that preempts state laws on the issue.
This interpretation isn't really new either, since it was held to preempt in Southland Corp. v. Keating. That was a 7-2 decision.
Congress declared a national policy favoring arbitration and withdrew the power of the states to require a judicial forum for the resolution of claims which the contracting parties agreed to resolve by arbitration
We couldn't conduct honest business without it. Remember, trademark is about consumer protection, but it also protects a business.
You could spend years building up a product that the consumers love (say ice cream), obtaining a reputation for quality, and someone could come out with a cheap crap copy and sell it under your name. Now the reputation of your product is ruined, many consumers were screwed because they expected quality and got junk, you can't sell any more product because nobody will touch it, equating it with crap. He can't sell any either, but he doesn't care. He made a quick buck off of your name and can go onto the next.
Without trademark, this fraud is perfectly legal.
Whether patent or copyright should exist was already debated between Jefferson and Madison before the Constitution. And their concept of both was far less than what it is today.
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I know what you mean. When I had ferrets I saw so many posts from vegetarians and vegans wanting to know what kind of veggie diet to feed their ferrets.
Veggie? They're CARNIVORES! Not just that, they're obligate carnivores, they have to eat meat to survive, no other option.
Want a veggie diet for your pet? Get a rabbit.
After all, PETA is one of the most prolific killers of animals in the country.
Oh yes, the mirror industry is only about 6,000 years old.
Their idea uses solar thermal plants. And no, the questions are not answered. Even they admit that more traditional sources of energy will be needed to keep a baseline load, since solar is not reliable 24/7, even with heat reservoirs.
They mention Nevada Solar One as an example. That produces 64 MW nominal, or 134,000 MWh per year. World electricity consumption in 2007 was 17,780,000,000 MWh. That means you need 132,686 of these plants.
Solar One took 16 months to build (remember, this is 182,000 mirrors and over 18,000 receiver tubes). Even if you shortened that to 12 months and had 2,000 installations going concurrently, that's still 66 years before they're all built. Even then, I'm not too sure world production of 364 million mirrors per year is possible. That's also over 35 trillion dollars, half the current world GDP.
They state a hypothetical 250 MW plant that takes two or three years to build, let's say two, and a thousand people on the job. Nevada Solar One put out 24% of its rated capacity over a year, so it will probably put out 525,600 MWh per year. That requires 33,828 of these to be built. Let's say a million people on the job making 500 a year, that's 68 years to completion.
And that doesn't even count for increasing energy needs. Our requirements will skyrocket once electric cars become the norm. It would be at least a hundred years and scores of trillions of dollars to complete this at these fantastic rates.
Good luck.
Who's worse, William Shatner or Mark Hamill?
IMHO, Hamill, no contest. Shatner is at least fun-bad. Hamill is like "Who let this no-talent hack in front of a camera?"
Okay, Hamill got better in the later years with pretty good voice acting, but back then he just sucked.
If he had his way we'd have no copyright in the US because of the fear of its abuse, as he correctly predicted.
Jefferson even proposed this for the Bill of Rights, too bad he didn't succeed:
Given the current thinking, 14 would have probably been written in. In reading this next paragraph, it's obvious the Pirates are less radical than Thomas Jefferson:
Oh, snap!
Ernst RÃhm
Klaus Nomi
Roland Emmerich
Or at least with their explicit or implicit permission.
The pirates who had the sanction of no government seem to be the minority. Many of them had that status because the British stopped the practice of using privateers for government ends, and the privateers turned unsanctioned pirate.
The world will be without power when it's night time in the Sahara, and that we'll lose most of our electricity any transmitting it to Hong Kong.
The Sahara Desert contains 9,400,000,000,000 square meters. Two percent is 188,000,000,000 square meters.
You can get decent solar in bulk for $200 per square meter, but I'll give you one quarter that for serious bulk (which is probably below cost, but I'm being nice). That's still $4,700,000,000,000. Add actuators, cabling, etc., and you're well over 5 trillion dollars.
But the price tag isn't the hardest problem. The average panel is about 1.5 square meters, meaning installing over 125 billion of them. Okay, we need larger panels, say 14 square meters each (fit two side by side in a 40' shipping container to get them there quickly), 13,428,571,428 panels, If we have high-speed panels that last 25 years, you must install 537,142,857 panels per year, every year, for 25 years to make your target, and that many every year thereafter to keep production up.
Install over 500 million solar panels installed per year indefinitely.That's one hell of a project. And then after year 25 years add 500 million solar panels uninstalled and disposed of per year -- that's a lot of industrial waste.
I fully support it.
Kiss most of our politicians goodbye!
The average user never sees the ToS for a site.
You could wipe out the cartels today and they'd just spring back up because of all the drug money waiting to be made. It takes an obscene amount of effort, money and human rights abuses overall to overcome the laws of economics.
You need to legalize drugs, cutting off their main source of income. That will weaken them a bit, then you can go after them with hit squads and drone attacks, wipe them out in a major series of military actions. After that, there won't be an incentive for them to spring up again, except for the lucrative kidnapping business.
The solar aspect is just a visual demonstration to get across how low-power the chip is.
They might have powered it with a potato if they could get it low-power enough.
They do profiling.
That's a big reason they're effective, but concentrating on the 20-something Arab Muslim engineer from Pakistan and just sending the 90 year-old white lady through the metal detector won't fly politically here.
And then he blasphemed against the Holy Church of Global Warming.
Violent AND racist!
Couple that with my love for Yosemite Sam and I'm surprised I'm not blowing away Mexicans in the street.
Most people think of it as something to monitor outside traffic coming in, but it can also be used to monitor inside traffic going out.
Seriously, the place was locked down tight. I had to get a rule change in a firewall approved through channels just to get two internal servers to talk to each other.
What if something in the future happens where I think arbitration would be a good idea, but I can't because I already said I don't want arbitration?
I know, Sony will probably gladly agree to forget that letter, but still it would be nice to retain the option for sure.
No computer in a place I worked can VPN or tunnel by any known means in or out, except for two designated terminal servers, which can't initiate sessions, and which users can't access from the inside. Remote shell sessions, blocked. SSH, blocked. Even telnet, IM, chat, POP and IMAP are blocked. Pretty much the only thing possible is straight web surffing, and a lot of sites and content types (like video) are blocked. And it's not all just by port but by traffic and content analysis.
Yes, it's all obscenely expensive, IDS (with signature subscriptions), routers, firewalls and several other servers with expensive software involved just for that. The only thing cheap was GPO to block things like installing software or any ActiveX components.
It makes me wonder how big the IT industry lobby was in getting this law passed.
It's the one that promotes arbitration over lawsuits, it's the one that preempts state laws on the issue.
This interpretation isn't really new either, since it was held to preempt in Southland Corp. v. Keating. That was a 7-2 decision.
That was in 1984. The law needs to be changed.
What would cost more, censorware acceptable to the government, or a small server hosted in the Philippines?
We couldn't conduct honest business without it. Remember, trademark is about consumer protection, but it also protects a business.
You could spend years building up a product that the consumers love (say ice cream), obtaining a reputation for quality, and someone could come out with a cheap crap copy and sell it under your name. Now the reputation of your product is ruined, many consumers were screwed because they expected quality and got junk, you can't sell any more product because nobody will touch it, equating it with crap. He can't sell any either, but he doesn't care. He made a quick buck off of your name and can go onto the next.
Without trademark, this fraud is perfectly legal.
Whether patent or copyright should exist was already debated between Jefferson and Madison before the Constitution. And their concept of both was far less than what it is today.
Much more likely to vastly inflate deaths reported to make us look bad.
As it goes on there's less mass for the X-Rays to interact with and blow off, so there rate should decrease.