I think most oil men everywhere realize that. You see the Koch Bros heavily invested in wind project. I think I read that they were investing in a few energy storage projects (flywheel in NY state).
Oil will be done as an energy supply in a generation or so (20-40 years). Solar production has been increasing exponentially since the late 1970s. We just haven't noticed it since early doubles 2 to 4 to 8 are not noticed as clearly as later ones 2048 to 4096 to 8192.
You're correct that when crude oil prices drop too low it hurts producers. I would prefer that we pay crude oil prices of $50/barrel to US/Canadian producers than $35/ barrel to Saudi Arabia. But that's me.
No. But I remember when the media and congressmen were saying that we would never see sub $2.00 gas again.
Oops. I guess increasing supply ruined that foolish prediction.
We do have a "glut". Good. Let's keep crude oil prices to screw Saudi Arabia. How about we drill here, have refineries buy at the reduced price (due to increased supply) and we place a use tax on the gas. Then we use the tax dollars to increase wind and solar production, energy storage (battery, flywheels, whatever).
End result is we don't send money to fanatics; we have blue-collar jobs; we fund solar and wind.
No. It seems that he's into not sending money to people who want to kill us. The big oil companies make a large portion of their money from refining oil. They will do just fine in a post carbon based energy world. We need to get from "the now" to "tomorrow"; and we should do this without funding the governments of Saudi Arabia and Iran.
So the rational solution is to put the pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast refineries; drill over here; have jobs here; and financially starve Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran.
Stop lumping everyone together. Social Conservatives are not Free Market, Small Government types.
The Dems have fissures as well. Have you noticed? Let's see the construction, blue-collar labor unions on one side and the environmental lobby on the other. Hmmm. How did that fissure work out for the Democrats in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania?
Re global warming - if people who stop with the hysterics and stop saying "warmest in history" when it's really warmest in 100 years you may get further. High CO2 levels is not an extinction level event (such as the hysteria indicates). CO2 levels were much higher (look it up) in recent times. By recent I mean Cenozoic.
I'm not saying not to be aware of dumping millions of tons of CO2 into our atmosphere only stop the fu(king hysteria.
In a nutshell - alternative energies will provide close to 100% of our energy needs in the next 20-40 (and that's accounting for an ever more energy-intensive civilization). We need to bridge the gap between the now and the soon-to-be.
Lots of people use twitter to keep up with political or tech news. I don't know the breakdown between people who keep up / debate events on Twitter and those who post "hey just had pizza at Di Faras".
And what about people who don't do school work? Who party? Do you think anyone who wants to go, without regard to anything else, should be provided with housing, food, and take up space in a classroom? If you went to a US Public University you would know there are a lot of people who go there who don't do sh!t.
We have this all the time as far as recalibrating data. Does anyone think we've been in a boom economy with sub-6% unemployment? I sure don't.
Most of it is from the media. Change the definition of AIDS from a CD4 count of 250 to 200 and voila, 6 months later, the media reports about a spike in AIDS cases.
Part of the problem comes from the media who present an agenda (or don't know what they're talking about), their reluctance to impart data (out of fear of boring their viewers) and of course part of the problem is the innumeracy of the general public.
Finally we have the retarded assumption that we have white facts, black facts, male facts, female facts and LG facts which are not the same as B&T facts.
They banded together to fight proposals they disagreed with. Are you saying that the Dems aren't going to do the same now with Trump?
The Republicans were in the minority in both House and Senate from 2006 (predating Obama) to 2010. The Dems could have (and did) pass anything they wanted. So stop the idiotic BS.
Do you think the Dems are going to vote for Trump policies they disagree with? Do you actually believe the BS you wrote?
There isn't a cold war on the horizon unless China keeps pushing it's one china policy and tries to prevent traffic from going through the South China Seas. Vietnam, India, South Korea and Japan are extremely concerned about this. The Philippines I don't know. Their position has been changing.
Trade war is not going to happen. It will hurt both sides too much. China has been devaluating their currency in order to keep exports strong. They have been limiting imports. Trump has been pushing back (so what).
The point was more than that - you need to come up with a plan for the employer. (And all employers who are in this boat.)
You need to address their concerns (legitimate or not) and show how your plan will help them accomplish their goals.
The point, in essence, was stop bitching and do something about - AND YOU are the person that must do the doing. YOU are the person who is outraged by this. Not your manager, not me and not many others.
I tried working at home and after a while I hated it. You want it? Explore the reasons. Write articles. Do surveys. Present your views at management seminars. If you don't do it who will?
Is this work? Yes. Either you do it, or wait for other people to. That's your options.
Well then. This is obviously a pain point. Find some solutions to measure productivity that aren't too intrusive? Perhaps a dedicated space with a web cam. The more this bothers you the more you need to come up with a solution. Yes.
You need to do something.
Are you waiting for me?
Nah. I've got other things to do. I have a short commute and after a few mths working at home I hated working.
Stop bitching and create something. You may actually get recognition and some green from your ideas.
It's about freeing people to labor.
And then what? Will we have a utopia?
Will people be happy? Will they have purpose? There are millions of people who have housing (Section 8) food (EBT/SNAP) and yet... how many are happy, productive individuals? How many are studying STEM, getting degrees, building skills? As an evil landlord who looked at investing in the Section 8 sector (and who grew up in poor NYC neighborhoods) I did not see people studying, gardening, learning to play musical instruments, and other "utopic" activities.
I suggest you learn why Ayn Rand is nothing but a bunch of selfish preposterous nonsense. - Please. Do you say the same thing about Nietzsche? She says many interesting things on metaphysics and epistemology. Maybe you should read them. Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are novels attempting to bring ideas to the general public. She wrote other works.
I do not think that Marxism is a good idea. I think it's foolishness to think that a bureaucracy will do anything but look after itself - and it will use police powers to enforce its decisions. And yet there are many socialists / communists / Marxists out there (yes I understand the differences, I too have read underdevelopment theory) who think that there can be a future where basic needs are met (good food, housing, healthcare, things to do and safe neighborhoods) without having to work for a living. (See the UBI movement as an example.)
The concern that there will not be enough jobs for all is not unreasonable. In less that 40 years these jobs will be gone - taxi drivers, truck drivers, stock-shelf refillers (Home Depot, Target, Walmart, A&P, Walgreens, CVS), warehouse people, most middle-management jobs (including gov't), basic financial services (banks and brokerages) and more.
Restaurants will hire cooks and waiters will only be there for customer interaction. They will not be needed to order food, to bus the tables, etc... So fast food places will have 1 or 2 people per shift as opposed to 10.
" I don't believe a corporation *even* *can* behave in a way which is beneficial to society at large."
Do you believe this bullsh!t?
What are you living in some basement wearing a Che t-shirt and complaining about homophobic Conservatives? (Hope you see the irony in that statement - Che killed gays and considered them to be bourgeois counter-revolutions)
Corporations (are owned and run by people) produce a good or service that others may chose to buy or not.
Now, as we've become more socialistic, we've making it easier for companies to use the force of law to use their services. Socialism is not the answer . You must think that an all-knowing, all-powerful, bureaucracy is the solution. I think it leads to a dystopic future and civil war.
You always see this fear. The Luddites in the 19th C; farming is now down to less than 1% of the population; secretarial pools are gone....
But I fear this transition may be different. (And I say this as a Free Market, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand Capitalist.) We may need to come up with a different solution. Tech can bring a dystopic future or interestingly enough fuse the Marxist and Libertarian dreams and come up with something very interesting and good.
Pew research (they are not Right wing) shows that 70 percent of British born muslims want Sharia law.
There are plenty of street preachers who proclaim they want sharia law.
There are videos with 1000s (not hundreds) in attendance who want Sharia law.
The time to stand up for progressive values is now. The time to say this is a multicultural society is now.
In Brooklyn, on Atlantic Ave and Court Street, there are at least two Yemini restaurants who actively discourage women from entering.
There are videos made by French women who show this same thing in French towns.
search - Youtube: French woman no longer allowed to enter cafes. Published on Dec 20, 2016 (Youtube is blocked at work. Had to look at my phone.)
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I think most oil men everywhere realize that. You see the Koch Bros heavily invested in wind project. I think I read that they were investing in a few energy storage projects (flywheel in NY state).
/barrel to US/Canadian producers than $35/ barrel to Saudi Arabia. But that's me.
Oil will be done as an energy supply in a generation or so (20-40 years). Solar production has been increasing exponentially since the late 1970s. We just haven't noticed it since early doubles 2 to 4 to 8 are not noticed as clearly as later ones 2048 to 4096 to 8192.
You're correct that when crude oil prices drop too low it hurts producers. I would prefer that we pay crude oil prices of $50
No. But I remember when the media and congressmen were saying that we would never see sub $2.00 gas again.
Oops. I guess increasing supply ruined that foolish prediction.
We do have a "glut". Good. Let's keep crude oil prices to screw Saudi Arabia. How about we drill here, have refineries buy at the reduced price (due to increased supply) and we place a use tax on the gas. Then we use the tax dollars to increase wind and solar production, energy storage (battery, flywheels, whatever).
End result is we don't send money to fanatics; we have blue-collar jobs; we fund solar and wind.
No. It seems that he's into not sending money to people who want to kill us. The big oil companies make a large portion of their money from refining oil. They will do just fine in a post carbon based energy world. We need to get from "the now" to "tomorrow"; and we should do this without funding the governments of Saudi Arabia and Iran.
So the rational solution is to put the pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast refineries; drill over here; have jobs here; and financially starve Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran.
Stop lumping everyone together. Social Conservatives are not Free Market, Small Government types.
The Dems have fissures as well. Have you noticed? Let's see the construction, blue-collar labor unions on one side and the environmental lobby on the other. Hmmm. How did that fissure work out for the Democrats in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania?
Re global warming - if people who stop with the hysterics and stop saying "warmest in history" when it's really warmest in 100 years you may get further. High CO2 levels is not an extinction level event (such as the hysteria indicates). CO2 levels were much higher (look it up) in recent times. By recent I mean Cenozoic.
I'm not saying not to be aware of dumping millions of tons of CO2 into our atmosphere only stop the fu(king hysteria.
In a nutshell - alternative energies will provide close to 100% of our energy needs in the next 20-40 (and that's accounting for an ever more energy-intensive civilization). We need to bridge the gap between the now and the soon-to-be.
Sh!t. That works for you?
Lots of people use twitter to keep up with political or tech news. I don't know the breakdown between people who keep up / debate events on Twitter and those who post "hey just had pizza at Di Faras".
I think the later type has moved onto Instagram.
More, hysterical, mindless political posturing. Keep digging guys. Make yourselves irrelevant.
So that's where the tornadoes came from; and why the sharks were so pissed when they landed. Got it. Nice to know.
The same arguments are made for GMOs and fetal stem-cells.
Still, you're correct. This can go horribly wrong. A weaponized swarm of bees. Wonderful. Didn't Minority Report has something similar to that?
thx. I must say it sounded like BS to me.
The summary leaves me very concerned about the quality of the research.
agreeableness == a measure of altruism
WTF
Is this an industry term which I've never heard about?
And what about people who don't do school work? Who party? Do you think anyone who wants to go, without regard to anything else, should be provided with housing, food, and take up space in a classroom? If you went to a US Public University you would know there are a lot of people who go there who don't do sh!t.
We have this all the time as far as recalibrating data. Does anyone think we've been in a boom economy with sub-6% unemployment? I sure don't.
Most of it is from the media. Change the definition of AIDS from a CD4 count of 250 to 200 and voila, 6 months later, the media reports about a spike in AIDS cases.
Part of the problem comes from the media who present an agenda (or don't know what they're talking about), their reluctance to impart data (out of fear of boring their viewers) and of course part of the problem is the innumeracy of the general public.
Finally we have the retarded assumption that we have white facts, black facts, male facts, female facts and LG facts which are not the same as B&T facts.
(last clause was my attempt at a joke)
Really? Thanks I'll give it another chance. Hope the 16th time is a charm.
True. Unfortunately. But true. Let's hope increased usage allows for some updates.
They banded together to fight proposals they disagreed with. Are you saying that the Dems aren't going to do the same now with Trump?
The Republicans were in the minority in both House and Senate from 2006 (predating Obama) to 2010. The Dems could have (and did) pass anything they wanted. So stop the idiotic BS.
Do you think the Dems are going to vote for Trump policies they disagree with? Do you actually believe the BS you wrote?
There isn't a cold war on the horizon unless China keeps pushing it's one china policy and tries to prevent traffic from going through the South China Seas. Vietnam, India, South Korea and Japan are extremely concerned about this. The Philippines I don't know. Their position has been changing.
Trade war is not going to happen. It will hurt both sides too much. China has been devaluating their currency in order to keep exports strong. They have been limiting imports. Trump has been pushing back (so what).
Trade War. Cold War. Nuclear War. grow up people.
The point was more than that - you need to come up with a plan for the employer. (And all employers who are in this boat.)
You need to address their concerns (legitimate or not) and show how your plan will help them accomplish their goals.
The point, in essence, was stop bitching and do something about - AND YOU are the person that must do the doing. YOU are the person who is outraged by this. Not your manager, not me and not many others.
I tried working at home and after a while I hated it. You want it? Explore the reasons. Write articles. Do surveys. Present your views at management seminars. If you don't do it who will?
Is this work? Yes. Either you do it, or wait for other people to. That's your options.
Well then. This is obviously a pain point. Find some solutions to measure productivity that aren't too intrusive? Perhaps a dedicated space with a web cam. The more this bothers you the more you need to come up with a solution. Yes.
You need to do something.
Are you waiting for me?
Nah. I've got other things to do. I have a short commute and after a few mths working at home I hated working.
Stop bitching and create something. You may actually get recognition and some green from your ideas.
Salesforce is huge. (No Trump pun intended.) Many large businesses which you call for customer service use it to track their customers.
It's about freeing people to labor. And then what? Will we have a utopia?
... how many are happy, productive individuals? How many are studying STEM, getting degrees, building skills? As an evil landlord who looked at investing in the Section 8 sector (and who grew up in poor NYC neighborhoods) I did not see people studying, gardening, learning to play musical instruments, and other "utopic" activities.
Will people be happy? Will they have purpose? There are millions of people who have housing (Section 8) food (EBT/SNAP) and yet
I suggest you learn why Ayn Rand is nothing but a bunch of selfish preposterous nonsense. - Please. Do you say the same thing about Nietzsche? She says many interesting things on metaphysics and epistemology. Maybe you should read them. Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are novels attempting to bring ideas to the general public. She wrote other works.
I do not think that Marxism is a good idea. I think it's foolishness to think that a bureaucracy will do anything but look after itself - and it will use police powers to enforce its decisions. And yet there are many socialists / communists / Marxists out there (yes I understand the differences, I too have read underdevelopment theory) who think that there can be a future where basic needs are met (good food, housing, healthcare, things to do and safe neighborhoods) without having to work for a living. (See the UBI movement as an example.)
The concern that there will not be enough jobs for all is not unreasonable. In less that 40 years these jobs will be gone - taxi drivers, truck drivers, stock-shelf refillers (Home Depot, Target, Walmart, A&P, Walgreens, CVS), warehouse people, most middle-management jobs (including gov't), basic financial services (banks and brokerages) and more.
Restaurants will hire cooks and waiters will only be there for customer interaction. They will not be needed to order food, to bus the tables, etc... So fast food places will have 1 or 2 people per shift as opposed to 10.
This is our future.
" I don't believe a corporation *even* *can* behave in a way which is beneficial to society at large."
Do you believe this bullsh!t?
What are you living in some basement wearing a Che t-shirt and complaining about homophobic Conservatives? (Hope you see the irony in that statement - Che killed gays and considered them to be bourgeois counter-revolutions)
Corporations (are owned and run by people) produce a good or service that others may chose to buy or not.
Now, as we've become more socialistic, we've making it easier for companies to use the force of law to use their services. Socialism is not the answer . You must think that an all-knowing, all-powerful, bureaucracy is the solution. I think it leads to a dystopic future and civil war.
You always see this fear. The Luddites in the 19th C; farming is now down to less than 1% of the population; secretarial pools are gone. ...
But I fear this transition may be different. (And I say this as a Free Market, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand Capitalist.) We may need to come up with a different solution. Tech can bring a dystopic future or interestingly enough fuse the Marxist and Libertarian dreams and come up with something very interesting and good.
We will have shake up our thinking though.
Pew research (they are not Right wing) shows that 70 percent of British born muslims want Sharia law.
There are plenty of street preachers who proclaim they want sharia law.
There are videos with 1000s (not hundreds) in attendance who want Sharia law.
The time to stand up for progressive values is now. The time to say this is a multicultural society is now.
In Brooklyn, on Atlantic Ave and Court Street, there are at least two Yemini restaurants who actively discourage women from entering.
There are videos made by French women who show this same thing in French towns. search - Youtube: French woman no longer allowed to enter cafes. Published on Dec 20, 2016 (Youtube is blocked at work. Had to look at my phone.)