I'm a bigger fan of making procedural changes in how committees are picked and structured, so that being an incumbent chairmen doesn't become so common.
Term limits transform a festival of self interests being served into a festival of self interests being served with other interests being served incompetently.
There is no language linking the numbers, the only connection between the two numbers is that they are both 30%, and the second sentence, where he applies the 30% to cost of living, the one you quoted, says "I think that if one could save 30%". It actually says "I think if...one could"! "I think" and "if" are both parts of the sentence!
That's clearly framing the rest of his discussion, not insisting that it is possible or would be a likely outcome.
If you read his blog a little bit, you will probably conclude that he does such things to troll his readers, the articles are too consistently controversial.
The rest of your comment(s) illustrates why the 30% framing is a weird thing to criticize...
You people sure do pick weird things to criticize. He isn't asserting that a 30% cost of living savings follows from the car insurance, he is using it to frame the rest of the speculation.
The Reagan moved because some personnel were exposed to radiation. The news I saw said they got about the equivalent of 1 month of 'normal' background exposure.
So they moved because of the exposure, which seems prudent, but it makes sense to move something that can move away from pretty much any increase of radiation, so it doesn't really give much information.
Your last paragraph raises an interesting issue. The historical safety of an industry is somewhat instructive about the ongoing and achievable safety of an industry, but it is very easy to make improvements in practice that increase safety.
So your calculations should maybe include "nuclear if old plants are kept online" alongside of "nuclear with newer designs that are safer when external power is lost".
So Cuba jailing a guy is a good reason for Stallman to be paranoid of the U.S. government?
I sure hope the U.S. government isn't expending a great deal of resources on Stallman, even if you make a fascist argument, Free Software hasn't been particularly disruptive of corporate sales of proprietary software.
I'm not missing the point, I'm asserting (based on no evidence, just my assumptions) that 10,000 apps is plenty enough to get those dynamics.
Especially given how many apps are for wallpapers or whatever.
(And I am quite prepared to dismiss the significance of tablet specific; sure, there are lots of ideas that will be a lot better on a bigger screen, but the number of those ideas that make or brake tablets for a given individual is pretty small)
One other thing, I don't know the statistics, but I would assume that the majority of sub-prime borrowers are white (like me), so if I am being racist towards sum-prime borrowers, it is because of that assumption, not because of some other racist view.
Where in my first comment do I say anything about foreclosures causing the crisis?
The reason my second comment "brings things up again" is because you cast the first one wrongly and I decided to respond. In the first comment, I was responding narrowly to the OP stating that the bankers drove people to bankruptcy. Looking at it, I suppose my comment doesn't really contribute much to the thread, he wasn't insisting that all the bankruptcies during the crisis were caused by the bankers, just stating that they did cause thousands of them.
Not understanding the terms of a loan is not an excuse to default on it, it is a reason to not sign it.
So sure, people were lied to and signed loans based on those lies, but that doesn't free them of all responsibility. "Oh, but they didn't understand what the payments would be" means they were pretty foolish to sign the loan. "Oh, but they were told the value of the home would go up and they could sell it" means they knew they couldn't afford it buy took a risk to make easy money.
No, those people didn't create the financial crisis, but the idea that the only problem with those loans is that the bankers were taking advantage of people is a non-starter for me. And I'm aware that there are also many people who didn't do anything wrong that have ended up with loans bigger than their houses, and then many of the people in that group have also lost their jobs, and thus their houses. The fact that those people exists doesn't absolve the ones that were scheming to make easy money.
Right, which is why I said that the banks and ratings agencies were complicit. That the ratings agencies were using rubber stamps is a problem, but it is also a problem that the people buying the paper weren't doing any actual research, they were just looking for evidence of a rubber stamp.
So given how systemic the problems were, it is tiresome to see talk of the banks forcing people into bankruptcy for profits, as if that is all that happened.
Right, because the average consumer is going to need access to more than 20,000 apps.
The app counts matter some, but I'm pretty sure that there is an ecosystem size that serves 98% of the market, and I'd bet $0.50 that it is closer to 10,000 than it is to 100,000.
Well, megawatts are power, not energy, so that 143 MW is the nominal capacity of the wind infrastructure. Based on the Wikipedia article you link, the 197 MW of capacity produced 292 gigawatt-hours in 2010, an average output of about 33 MW, a bit less than 20% utilization (messing around and doing the same calculation for other years, it looks like the utilization goes towards 25% in years that the capacity does not increase as much).
Based on that, to equal a nuclear reactor putting out 1 gigawatt, you need 4 or 5 gigawatts of wind towers. So the planned capacity is equal to 1 or 2 nuclear power stations with several large reactors running at each.
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Any standardized date format can be sorted (at least to the extent that it contains date information, obviously MMDD and DDMM can't be sorted by year), YYYYMMDD has the advantage of sorting numerically.
Allowing so much vertical integration seems pretty horrible for consumers.
None of the cable or cable like operators provide particularly interesting television service (they have expensive channel bundles and more expensive channel bundles), and they charge a premium for IP access that does not come with television service.
Thousands of those people put themselves into bankruptcy by purchasing homes that they couldn't even make the payments on, let alone afford.
The banks were certainly complicit, along with ratings agencies and lots of other people, but a big chunk of the people that went into bankruptcy chose to take on loans that they could not afford in an attempt to make easy money, no one forced them to do anything.
Sure, it is a pickle. But there is nothing strange about a soldier who leaked thousands of classified documents being arrested, if Manning didn't understand that...
Based on reports about what they did, Tepco evacuates people that have received 100 milliSievert. That's a big dose, but no symptoms are expected below 500 milliSievert.
So the fact that they are evacuating people due to radiation exposure doesn't really give much information about the severity of the exposure.
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So what you are saying is that you would prefer intel give you money for having read some math papers?
I'm a bigger fan of making procedural changes in how committees are picked and structured, so that being an incumbent chairmen doesn't become so common.
Term limits transform a festival of self interests being served into a festival of self interests being served with other interests being served incompetently.
Does it make a lemon tart?
There is no language linking the numbers, the only connection between the two numbers is that they are both 30%, and the second sentence, where he applies the 30% to cost of living, the one you quoted, says "I think that if one could save 30%". It actually says "I think if...one could"! "I think" and "if" are both parts of the sentence!
That's clearly framing the rest of his discussion, not insisting that it is possible or would be a likely outcome.
If you read his blog a little bit, you will probably conclude that he does such things to troll his readers, the articles are too consistently controversial.
The rest of your comment(s) illustrates why the 30% framing is a weird thing to criticize...
You people sure do pick weird things to criticize. He isn't asserting that a 30% cost of living savings follows from the car insurance, he is using it to frame the rest of the speculation.
The Reagan moved because some personnel were exposed to radiation. The news I saw said they got about the equivalent of 1 month of 'normal' background exposure.
So they moved because of the exposure, which seems prudent, but it makes sense to move something that can move away from pretty much any increase of radiation, so it doesn't really give much information.
Your last paragraph raises an interesting issue. The historical safety of an industry is somewhat instructive about the ongoing and achievable safety of an industry, but it is very easy to make improvements in practice that increase safety.
So your calculations should maybe include "nuclear if old plants are kept online" alongside of "nuclear with newer designs that are safer when external power is lost".
The sitting president wrote a book that discussed his use of various illegal drugs.
The one before that was a heavy drinker and probably used cocaine.
The one before that admitted he inhaled before he was elected and sat through a huge sex scandal.
So Cuba jailing a guy is a good reason for Stallman to be paranoid of the U.S. government?
I sure hope the U.S. government isn't expending a great deal of resources on Stallman, even if you make a fascist argument, Free Software hasn't been particularly disruptive of corporate sales of proprietary software.
I'm not missing the point, I'm asserting (based on no evidence, just my assumptions) that 10,000 apps is plenty enough to get those dynamics.
Especially given how many apps are for wallpapers or whatever.
(And I am quite prepared to dismiss the significance of tablet specific; sure, there are lots of ideas that will be a lot better on a bigger screen, but the number of those ideas that make or brake tablets for a given individual is pretty small)
One other thing, I don't know the statistics, but I would assume that the majority of sub-prime borrowers are white (like me), so if I am being racist towards sum-prime borrowers, it is because of that assumption, not because of some other racist view.
Where in my first comment do I say anything about foreclosures causing the crisis?
The reason my second comment "brings things up again" is because you cast the first one wrongly and I decided to respond. In the first comment, I was responding narrowly to the OP stating that the bankers drove people to bankruptcy. Looking at it, I suppose my comment doesn't really contribute much to the thread, he wasn't insisting that all the bankruptcies during the crisis were caused by the bankers, just stating that they did cause thousands of them.
Not understanding the terms of a loan is not an excuse to default on it, it is a reason to not sign it.
So sure, people were lied to and signed loans based on those lies, but that doesn't free them of all responsibility. "Oh, but they didn't understand what the payments would be" means they were pretty foolish to sign the loan. "Oh, but they were told the value of the home would go up and they could sell it" means they knew they couldn't afford it buy took a risk to make easy money.
No, those people didn't create the financial crisis, but the idea that the only problem with those loans is that the bankers were taking advantage of people is a non-starter for me. And I'm aware that there are also many people who didn't do anything wrong that have ended up with loans bigger than their houses, and then many of the people in that group have also lost their jobs, and thus their houses. The fact that those people exists doesn't absolve the ones that were scheming to make easy money.
Private is the wrong word, especially if 'investigators' have special access to the database.
Maybe restricted, or personal.
Right, which is why I said that the banks and ratings agencies were complicit. That the ratings agencies were using rubber stamps is a problem, but it is also a problem that the people buying the paper weren't doing any actual research, they were just looking for evidence of a rubber stamp.
So given how systemic the problems were, it is tiresome to see talk of the banks forcing people into bankruptcy for profits, as if that is all that happened.
Or just buy some put options.
It's probably more complicated to use puts to make money than it is to sell short and make money, but the risk is all up front.
Right, because the average consumer is going to need access to more than 20,000 apps.
The app counts matter some, but I'm pretty sure that there is an ecosystem size that serves 98% of the market, and I'd bet $0.50 that it is closer to 10,000 than it is to 100,000.
Well, megawatts are power, not energy, so that 143 MW is the nominal capacity of the wind infrastructure. Based on the Wikipedia article you link, the 197 MW of capacity produced 292 gigawatt-hours in 2010, an average output of about 33 MW, a bit less than 20% utilization (messing around and doing the same calculation for other years, it looks like the utilization goes towards 25% in years that the capacity does not increase as much).
Based on that, to equal a nuclear reactor putting out 1 gigawatt, you need 4 or 5 gigawatts of wind towers. So the planned capacity is equal to 1 or 2 nuclear power stations with several large reactors running at each.
Any standardized date format can be sorted (at least to the extent that it contains date information, obviously MMDD and DDMM can't be sorted by year), YYYYMMDD has the advantage of sorting numerically.
AT&T's $25 DSL service isn't anywhere near that fast.
Allowing so much vertical integration seems pretty horrible for consumers.
None of the cable or cable like operators provide particularly interesting television service (they have expensive channel bundles and more expensive channel bundles), and they charge a premium for IP access that does not come with television service.
Thousands of those people put themselves into bankruptcy by purchasing homes that they couldn't even make the payments on, let alone afford.
The banks were certainly complicit, along with ratings agencies and lots of other people, but a big chunk of the people that went into bankruptcy chose to take on loans that they could not afford in an attempt to make easy money, no one forced them to do anything.
Sure, it is a pickle. But there is nothing strange about a soldier who leaked thousands of classified documents being arrested, if Manning didn't understand that...
The only sane way to decide whether Manning deserves protection as a whistle-blower is a trial.
Based on reports about what they did, Tepco evacuates people that have received 100 milliSievert. That's a big dose, but no symptoms are expected below 500 milliSievert.
So the fact that they are evacuating people due to radiation exposure doesn't really give much information about the severity of the exposure.