Yes, but how much of that $200B wouldn't be spent if we had the best possible case and spent $2B (say 20 years of research) to find what the cause was? That's still worlds away from an actual solution, which *surprise* will cost money to implement. And, hey, if you cure Alzheimers - how much longer might someone with other infirmity live? Curing them doesn't actually save money because long term care starts at a point before death, and everyone eventually dies. The reason we spend less on heart disease and cancer care is because those patients don't last as long. That's morbid, but true.
Finding a cure would be wonderful, as would finding a cure for thousands and thousands of other diseases, developing energy sources which don't have a negative impact on the environment, learning to feed our starving population, eliminating dangerous chemicals and compounds in our manufacturing processes for all the goods we consume, learning more about the stars and our origins, preserving our heritage and history so it doesn't get lost to the developers shovel or erode in the wind and rain, find world peace. Hundreds of thousands of worthy projects, just waiting for a mere $100M/year to fund their cause and produce real progress.
The real answer is that we cannot, at the moment, afford it. No...let me rephrase that - a large plurality people in the US who care about what the government does has chosen, through their representation, that they would rather keep their money in their pockets than contribute it towards the common good. Until that changes, then these kinds of programs need to be shelved, along with a great number of others.
The geniuses on Wall Street managed to make off with about 80,000x that much five years ago. I'm not seeing most of the banking boards of directors in jail. Every single day they siphon off millions of dollars through HFT and "innovative" financial products at the general public investor's expense.
I suggest you go hunt down bankers if you want some vigilante justice for wasted money.
Not that I endorse this research. It's nice, but as another poster pointed out the EU is already funding somewhat similar research at an order of magnitude larger scale. There are lots of things we (the government) really don't to be spending money on. Thing is, when some of that money ends up in your pocket - or your back yard - it all seems okay. A few years ago I watched a VERY conservative community rail against all the public welfare money, but cheer the USDA grant of $35,000 they took to help put a new roof on their community center, and the $10,000 USDA grant to build a computer lab in the same center. A waste of taxpayer dollars, imho, but in one corner of my mind I thought - well, at least a portion of my money is coming back into my backyard.
Since the university seems dead set on building buildings all over campus at a cost of $1000/sq ft they're gonna need some real big donors to step up for the naming rights!
No, there's always one asshat who just never gets it until he's pummeled. After that he goes quiet until he's 35 and then takes out a school or a movie theater with an assault rifle.
I've tried and abandoned the use of noscript twice. There's just too much (legitimate) out there that doesn't work with it turned on. For the cost of the time wasted while trying to use it as security I can just throw away my PC every time it gets infected.
I just got myself a Bolex diver's model when I was in New York. Guy told me they sell for $3000+ in stores, but he let me have one for just $250. Talk about a bargain!
Depends on the vehicle. the Tesla roadster carries a 53kWh battery and has a 240ish mile range, with the "best" being a 311 mile trip. That's pretty close to 1000 miles on 200kWh.
And that's easy to do. Airlines know exactly how much it costs to transport a differential pound of payload. EACH pound makes a finite difference. 300 passengers weighing an extra 30 lbs each, carrying a 4lb laptop and a liter of water, plus a 30lb rolling suitcase in addition to their "normal" carry on is an exrra 20,000lbs of payload. For companies which only put as much fuel in the plane as is necessary to reach the destination (plus safety margin), even a few pounds makes a difference.
You were correct right up to the point where you equated the differential power it takes to transfer extra bits to the differential fuel it takes to move mass. And that, as they say, it where you fail it.
I thought that, too. My wife and daughter could fly for the same fare I pay.
I'm not concerned about it, though I'm certainly not too far above average. Does make pause to decide if you really want to bring the golf clubs - or the big laptop - on vacation, though!
Actually, they don't. Otherwise planes would "fill up" on Jet-A in lower priced areas so they could take on less at higher priced airports. But they don't. They put in exactly as much is needed to get to their destination plus required reserve. Why? Because it costs money to carry any weight - fuel or cargo. If you need a reason, you simply need to go back to 1st year aerodynamics and conservation of energy: lift from an airfoil is generated at the expense of drag in the perpendicular direction. Greater weight = greater lift required to stay in the air = higher drag.
That's what that battery is for - the mind control circuit. It's the only way they're keeping the people in line.
What most people don't know is that *that* is why there's a battery in your computer too! It has nothing to do with the stupid clock. The clock doesn't need the battery! You've seen the ones that work with a potato - that's proof enough that a clock doesn't need a battery. No, they have the computers programmed to reset your clock and bios after a short timeout to make you THINK you need that for the clock. And all you weak-minded losers fell for it, and the mind control circuit just keeps you believing that you need that battery.
So, will we still get adds for the PPV fight as the first 5 items in the list on the TV in the toddler's playroom? That's why I ditched the Roku to begin with - the first screen of items was stuff I didn't want, and couldn't rearrange. Maybe now I only have to scroll through one 2D page of ads instead of three screens of useless icons?
Where each - represents an icon. Notice how the icons may be addressed by a single value, or a single dimension. Now, they are addressed by two values - sometimes known as 2 dimensions.
I'm guessing that you're the guy who, when he walks into a lab with lots of critical equipment and the lab manager says "don't touch anything," you are the one who asks "Can I touch the air? Can I touch the floor?" Grow the fuck up.
Diesel generators require exhaust. Deny them that and they will not work. If it's an actual bunker, they have access to the construction plans. Bunkers are designed for military attacks, not civil ones. The authorities have all the time in the world to wait them out, and once the upstream data providers are blocked they're out of business.
As someone else mentioned, you could always just concrete in or weld shut all the doors. With the thick walls and all communication cut off, you wouldn't even have to listen to them plead to be let out before they died.
It wouldn't necessarily stop the DDOS attack, but it would flush out the initiators, which is really what they want. As for generators, they will need exhaust - just cap the exhaust before you cut the power at the substation. Otherwise you would have to wait out their fuel supply, which could be an extended period of time.
Then again, if you just want the people out, cut off their sewer and water service. That's a battle of wills that will likely be measured in less than days, sooner if you connect the sewer line to a water source.
There still has to be control. And if you really just want them to come out, cutting their power at the substation is a good way to start. Capping the exhaust of the generators before hand (concrete works well, but a welded cap will suffice) is a good idea to reduce the wait time.
So...MD should call Icahn on the offer, take his cut up front and walk. Then either buy the pieces back at a fraction of the price when the company goes toes up or just take the money and start a new company that does it just the way he wants to go, but without all the baggage.
Because oil is where the money is. And as it gets more scarce, it will be even moreso.
Ever wonder why nobody seems to fight for ending hunger, or world peace, or finding alien life? Because I know you can't buy a yacht and a mansion on every continent by keeping people from starving to death.
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Yes, but how much of that $200B wouldn't be spent if we had the best possible case and spent $2B (say 20 years of research) to find what the cause was? That's still worlds away from an actual solution, which *surprise* will cost money to implement. And, hey, if you cure Alzheimers - how much longer might someone with other infirmity live? Curing them doesn't actually save money because long term care starts at a point before death, and everyone eventually dies. The reason we spend less on heart disease and cancer care is because those patients don't last as long. That's morbid, but true.
Finding a cure would be wonderful, as would finding a cure for thousands and thousands of other diseases, developing energy sources which don't have a negative impact on the environment, learning to feed our starving population, eliminating dangerous chemicals and compounds in our manufacturing processes for all the goods we consume, learning more about the stars and our origins, preserving our heritage and history so it doesn't get lost to the developers shovel or erode in the wind and rain, find world peace. Hundreds of thousands of worthy projects, just waiting for a mere $100M/year to fund their cause and produce real progress.
The real answer is that we cannot, at the moment, afford it. No...let me rephrase that - a large plurality people in the US who care about what the government does has chosen, through their representation, that they would rather keep their money in their pockets than contribute it towards the common good. Until that changes, then these kinds of programs need to be shelved, along with a great number of others.
The geniuses on Wall Street managed to make off with about 80,000x that much five years ago. I'm not seeing most of the banking boards of directors in jail. Every single day they siphon off millions of dollars through HFT and "innovative" financial products at the general public investor's expense.
I suggest you go hunt down bankers if you want some vigilante justice for wasted money.
Not that I endorse this research. It's nice, but as another poster pointed out the EU is already funding somewhat similar research at an order of magnitude larger scale. There are lots of things we (the government) really don't to be spending money on. Thing is, when some of that money ends up in your pocket - or your back yard - it all seems okay. A few years ago I watched a VERY conservative community rail against all the public welfare money, but cheer the USDA grant of $35,000 they took to help put a new roof on their community center, and the $10,000 USDA grant to build a computer lab in the same center. A waste of taxpayer dollars, imho, but in one corner of my mind I thought - well, at least a portion of my money is coming back into my backyard.
And yet it's still a more interesting response than most of the discussion on this story.
Since the university seems dead set on building buildings all over campus at a cost of $1000/sq ft they're gonna need some real big donors to step up for the naming rights!
No, there's always one asshat who just never gets it until he's pummeled. After that he goes quiet until he's 35 and then takes out a school or a movie theater with an assault rifle.
Maybe there isn't even a usenet group for it yet .
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I've tried and abandoned the use of noscript twice. There's just too much (legitimate) out there that doesn't work with it turned on. For the cost of the time wasted while trying to use it as security I can just throw away my PC every time it gets infected.
I just got myself a Bolex diver's model when I was in New York. Guy told me they sell for $3000+ in stores, but he let me have one for just $250. Talk about a bargain!
Depends on the vehicle. the Tesla roadster carries a 53kWh battery and has a 240ish mile range, with the "best" being a 311 mile trip. That's pretty close to 1000 miles on 200kWh.
And that's easy to do. Airlines know exactly how much it costs to transport a differential pound of payload. EACH pound makes a finite difference. 300 passengers weighing an extra 30 lbs each, carrying a 4lb laptop and a liter of water, plus a 30lb rolling suitcase in addition to their "normal" carry on is an exrra 20,000lbs of payload. For companies which only put as much fuel in the plane as is necessary to reach the destination (plus safety margin), even a few pounds makes a difference.
You were correct right up to the point where you equated the differential power it takes to transfer extra bits to the differential fuel it takes to move mass. And that, as they say, it where you fail it.
BMI doesn't correlate to fuel consumption or stress on the airframe.
I thought that, too. My wife and daughter could fly for the same fare I pay.
I'm not concerned about it, though I'm certainly not too far above average. Does make pause to decide if you really want to bring the golf clubs - or the big laptop - on vacation, though!
Actually, they don't. Otherwise planes would "fill up" on Jet-A in lower priced areas so they could take on less at higher priced airports. But they don't. They put in exactly as much is needed to get to their destination plus required reserve. Why? Because it costs money to carry any weight - fuel or cargo. If you need a reason, you simply need to go back to 1st year aerodynamics and conservation of energy: lift from an airfoil is generated at the expense of drag in the perpendicular direction. Greater weight = greater lift required to stay in the air = higher drag.
...when they just turned the border pink and we talked about... OMG Ponies!
That's what that battery is for - the mind control circuit. It's the only way they're keeping the people in line.
What most people don't know is that *that* is why there's a battery in your computer too! It has nothing to do with the stupid clock. The clock doesn't need the battery! You've seen the ones that work with a potato - that's proof enough that a clock doesn't need a battery. No, they have the computers programmed to reset your clock and bios after a short timeout to make you THINK you need that for the clock. And all you weak-minded losers fell for it, and the mind control circuit just keeps you believing that you need that battery.
Well, RGB vs CMY is really more of an additive/subtractive problem. CMY doesn't work on its own in additive space where sensors operate.
So, will we still get adds for the PPV fight as the first 5 items in the list on the TV in the toddler's playroom? That's why I ditched the Roku to begin with - the first screen of items was stuff I didn't want, and couldn't rearrange. Maybe now I only have to scroll through one 2D page of ads instead of three screens of useless icons?
Yes, actually it did look like this - - - - -
And now, it looks like this:
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Where each - represents an icon. Notice how the icons may be addressed by a single value, or a single dimension. Now, they are addressed by two values - sometimes known as 2 dimensions.
I'm guessing that you're the guy who, when he walks into a lab with lots of critical equipment and the lab manager says "don't touch anything," you are the one who asks "Can I touch the air? Can I touch the floor?" Grow the fuck up.
Diesel generators require exhaust. Deny them that and they will not work. If it's an actual bunker, they have access to the construction plans. Bunkers are designed for military attacks, not civil ones. The authorities have all the time in the world to wait them out, and once the upstream data providers are blocked they're out of business.
As someone else mentioned, you could always just concrete in or weld shut all the doors. With the thick walls and all communication cut off, you wouldn't even have to listen to them plead to be let out before they died.
It wouldn't necessarily stop the DDOS attack, but it would flush out the initiators, which is really what they want. As for generators, they will need exhaust - just cap the exhaust before you cut the power at the substation. Otherwise you would have to wait out their fuel supply, which could be an extended period of time.
Then again, if you just want the people out, cut off their sewer and water service. That's a battle of wills that will likely be measured in less than days, sooner if you connect the sewer line to a water source.
There still has to be control. And if you really just want them to come out, cutting their power at the substation is a good way to start. Capping the exhaust of the generators before hand (concrete works well, but a welded cap will suffice) is a good idea to reduce the wait time.
You know if you spin the laser dot in a circle it makes the videos load faster, right?
So...MD should call Icahn on the offer, take his cut up front and walk. Then either buy the pieces back at a fraction of the price when the company goes toes up or just take the money and start a new company that does it just the way he wants to go, but without all the baggage.
Because oil is where the money is. And as it gets more scarce, it will be even moreso.
Ever wonder why nobody seems to fight for ending hunger, or world peace, or finding alien life? Because I know you can't buy a yacht and a mansion on every continent by keeping people from starving to death.