You suffer from the "engineers view", or wage-earner's view as being an engineer I once did.
The fact is there are two ways to earn your money. The first is to go work for someone. You put in 40 hours, and you get a market rate. The work is generally uniform and regular. This is our wage earner. He's paid to assemble widgets.
The other way to be paid is a percentage. The creation of an opportunity or the avoidance of a catastrophic expense is is another way to provide value. But here, they pay is not steady. There may be no opportunities to make or mistakes to save. The other way is to be a material participant in the creation of a wholly new product. (Generally opportunities are about finding customers)
When you create a product as part of a team and not earning wages for it, you put in "sweat equity". When the revenue comes in, the profits are distributed in proportion to the sweat equity. This is where you really make money. A $5 slap shop might make millions, and you get your cut.
I really think engineers (but not so much IT) get the wrong deal. Being that there are so many companies that make or save a substantial amount on software sales, these people should be treated as partners. After all their contributions functions long after they leave. They shouldn't get a wage, just revenues.
The other part you miss is the responsibility aspect. A lowly engineer writes code to the specs, fixes bugs. Generally all the heavy lifting is already done. The people who wrote the specs and all the way up to creating the market opportunity have a responsibility to make sure what you produce will be right for the market. You are concerned with the how (linux, php,.net) they are concerned with the what (a CRM for our clients...) If they are wrong, the company can lose thousands of dollars paying labor or equipment costs for fixes. If Apple puts a bad chip in the iPhone, then whomever signed off on that has responsibility. Signing the paperwork isn't hard. Putting the signature in the right place is. You can't say that only engineers made the iPhone. Clearly it was a company effort. And all those lazy management people nailed it.
Then you go on additional taxing higher earners more. Have you ever considered what could be wrought with that additional money? In a worst-case scenario, it sits in a bank and is lent out again. In the best case it is invested to produce future dividends. But by taking higher earners more you take that away, and given the talents outlined above, you really prevent talent from re-entering the economy, creating more economic growth.
When you have an income tax, the government is everyone's pimp. The government can extract anything from its taxpayers with little recourse.
When the US started the income tax it was 1% on incomes over $250,000 (adjusted) We now tax everyone 20-30% of anyone making over $600. Furthermore, your "fair share" is determined on how productive in enterprising you are. The more you stimulate the economy, the more you're penalized for it.
I wish people in the US would realize that the more people in government there is, the exponentially more the burden on private enterprise. Assume 1 government worker in a population of 100 can pay 20% of their salary (say $1000) back. The remaining 80% of that salary comes from private enterprise. Now, imagine 99 government workers and one private enterprise person. We then have a $76,200 bill to be paid by one person. Good luck with that.
Today fully one half of Americans receive federal funding in some way. Good luck with that.
We have a federal debt of 12 Trillion dollars and a $1+ trillion deficit this year alone. Our taxes should be 60%. But our unborn have no representation in congress. I love those Obama girls. I can't wait to tap them - for their taxes!
Of course, it is the income tax that allows this. It is so easy to collect as as long as we can keep raising it, we'll keep demanding more and more. Good luck with that.
With a consumption tax this kind of spending would be impossible.
The wear-leveling concept would certainly work to favor a long, normal operational lifetime punctuated by an epic fail.
I would expect corruption of blocks - some take the new values, others don't. There is also the concept of t he bad-block list which might work well enough to begin shrinking the available blocks, possibly to zero, as the one failure you mentioned described.
1) The Sun does effect global temperature 2) It's effects are pretty immediate 3) The Global Warming Trend does not follow the Sun activities close enough for it to be the cause of the trend. 4) The only thing we know of at this time that could be causing this global warming trend is CO2
5)We are talking about the release of trillions of tons of CO2 that has been buried for millions of years.
6) If we keep increasing will will make the planet uninhabitable by us.
7) We have workable solutions to this right now.
3. is incorrect. While we may get the light in terms of minutes from its departure from our heavenly body, the energy released when it gets here is distributed and absorbed. Then it is up to a whole other set of processes to get it back out. It may go into heating the atmosphere. it may heat the oceans, it may provide energy to a plant for photosynthesis. So that energy may be radiated back out immediately, or may be deferred until night time, where it is released again. Or it can be part of a plant for millions of years only to be placed when it finds itself in an internal combustion engine.
Given that the focus of the whole global warming debate is centered on temperatures are measured here on the surface of the earth (and not life the upper atmosphere) I have to look around at the surface of the earth and see that 3/4 is water. It is far more likely that the oceans are driving weather (as we are seeing now, with La Nina cooling still in effect) and that since 3/4 of what these photons hit is water, that far more solar radiation is absorbed by the oceans than by the clouds. Given the very large specific heat of water, it only makes sense that it is a super massive capacitor of heat slowing the release of the sun's energy. And in fact, we now know that ocean temperatures account for over 2/3 of sea level rise.
4. is wholly incorrect. We know that water vapor is the strongest green house gas. However legislating clouds is not possible. So it falls to things we can legislate, which are byproducts of production - methane (far worse than CO2, but quantitatively less), CO2, etc.
5. Despite the "trillions of tons", CO2 remains a trace gas. 320 parts per MILLION. That's 0.32% of ONE percent (0.00032).
A good point, but we're talking about account sign-ups and forum posts. We're not talking about anything as critical as "breaking the web" by revoking the certificate.
One thing I did not mention is you could have several certs from different CAs to generate tokens from. If one goes down, use another. (And get your money back)
Individual certificates from a certificate authority. Certs natural use are for non-repudiation. What better way to prove that you are human by having proved it to a Certificate Authority.
The only problem here (aside from the hassle and cost of getting a cert yourself) is one of anonymous speech. You can't really speak anonymously. There are however workarounds to this. Your (or any) certificate authority can issue a token based on your presentation of a valid certificate. This token can then be used to verify that you did provide a certificate to someone, somewhere else. The token is only valid for one use in a certain amount of time. After the token is accepted the association between the token and the cert is destroyed. To keep things anonymous, the token should be non-unique, but unique withing the valid time domain. For example, the token issuer uses a monotonically increasing number starting at zero which resets every night (14 hours). The token lifetime is 12 hours minutes. Therefore, there shall be no overlap when the reset happens. This way, even if the site stores the token it is meaningless after 24 hours.
Rogue Cert Authorities is the only remaining problem. There are two kinds: There is the trust issue from your token provider about if they truly destroy the cert-token relationship. However since these are certificate authorities, they should be credible. Any CA not honoring the unbind would lose its business.
Then if anyone abuses a cert there is a central place to report the abuse (the CA) which may revoke the cert. The rogue authority can also be certified in the certificate trust chain, thereby cutting off all of its business.
Actually, since you can't choose the direction of the wind, and the wind constantly changes direction, the teardrop is out of the question.
The weather probes that they lay in the path are dome shaped and require no additional securing. The winds actually create downforce which holds the probes in place.
And I already mentioned one problem with a bunker. Another is that crap can land on top and you're trapped forever.
5. Do tornadoes have an affinity to certain landscape features? Yes. They are attracted to trailer parks.
Seriously though, I cannot think of a worse structure to put in tornado alley! They are shee metal and/or vinyl and offer no protection. (That being said, 2x4s can be forced through a refrigerator and cinderblock walls, but theya re still better protection because cinderblocks won't collapse.
The best structure is a geodesic dome. There are no walls for the wind to force upon. You see, the first part of building collapse is the roof lifts off. This is what keeps the structure rigid. Once that goes, the force on the vertical walls collapses them and you wind up with catastrophic structural failure.
Whereas with a dome, the wind cannot exert as much force because it flows around the structure, not into it.
How do we know that TPB (the powers that be) are not planning anything for the future. It matters not who it is passed under, but what is left to those in the future. Bush last week, Clinton the day before last, Bush yesterday, Obama today, but who tomorrow?
It is these populist presidents that do the most damage. They pass questionable legislation under the guide of a good president at good times only to wield them under a completely different president.
I've been afraid for some time that an unseen hand is pulling the strings, patiently grabbing power whenever the opportunity arises. What bothers me the most is the abvious wording "without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access." Which is a big "fuck you, we do what we want. Your constitution is meaningless".
Lastly, lets not forget to liken this to Obama's ousting og GM's president. When did yhe government wield such power over a private company? Now, this bill would allow them power over private networks. There is no comparison to public infrastructure like roads.
Things like this make me think the U.S. is over. We're running on momentum of the idea of what the U.S./was/. We're quickly becoming a fascist state. "Fascism is a radical, authoritarian nationalist ideology that aims to create a single-party state with a government led by a dictator who seeks national unity and development by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest of the nation or race."
Thank you Mr Obama. But it is not his fault alone. We've been taking orders for some time. I think the crux here is free trade. Every one warns of protectionism, which is non-free trade, but that is the answer. That will turn the house of cards into castles. But with a house of cards, everyone must work to maintain the structure... It makes it easy to control.
Because the one thing we've learned from having software mono-culture is that its a Good Thing(tm).
Now we're attempting to fix the problem by having federally mandated mono-culture? Please!
And as someone who has worked for companies that have developed government specs, I can assure you that the process will be corrupted as to bias towards certain vendors. Any required feature that can be patented will be, and any open-source implementation will be sued out of existence.
Google and Yahoo have inadvertently created a goldmine of email addresses. While I get a lot of spam from various domains, it is these two sites that I have a problem with. See, they use domain keys, which elevates the message above spam filters (or at least helps to). So spammers have cracked the google chacpta (sp?). There is no easy way to report these addresses for abuse. The providers need to somehow only allow domain keys on VERIFIED accounts, or have multi-level domain keys.
I think that a craigs-list moderation style of X spam reports and you're cut off is the way to go. Of course, these reports should only be counted from existing VERIFIED accounts, with the reporting mechanism built into the interface.
This is the time of a solar minimum, then the sun is quieter that ever. Literally, it has the lowest recorded activity, ever.
At the same time, I see these articles warning of a nationally nightly connected power grid. At the same time, Gore is arguing for a national highly connected power grid. What I take from that is Gore should not be the one deciding how we structure our power grid. He's plunge the entire nation into blackness for weeks, rather than just a portion of it. With global consequences far exceeding anything global warming can dish out in the next 200 years...
I am 32. I don't think ageism is a problem yet. My boss is 38. It's a about the quality of person you are and the quality of your work. Namely, communication skills.
The one concern I would have is that you're set in your ways. Younger guys have the "right way" built in. But of course, what you learn in college rarely applies in the real world.
I also have several friends who have no degree. They are well-paid. In the end it is about results.
The iPhone does not use Safari. The iPhone uses a rebranded mobile browser from another vendor. This vendor also makes the browser for other smart phones.
School is there to educate so that people can develop skills which will help them be a productive member of society. Attributing creation, even if true, in the face of even weak or circumstantial evidence, is still a complete waste. There can be nothing gained by anyone on any side by saying "God did it" because at that effectively ends scientific inquiry. There maybe additional understandings - as to the how - but not to the why. And to say that "God did it this way so that the creature was better suited to its environment" is to equate God to evolutionary processes. At that point, what are the religious arguing with.
We are dealing with some bass-ackwards people. Even the Vatican recognizes evolution.
I don't think these people are stupid, just that they don't understand the mechanisms of evolution - natural selection, random mutation, and punctuated equilibrium. They've been told that they evolved from monkeys - which is a straw man argument. They didn't evolve from monkeys, we evolved from a common ancestor.
Furthermore, to regard humans as the height of evolution is flawed. Birds have the best eyes, dogs be best noses, we have some of the weakest muscle tissue. The only thing we have is intelligence, and there are animals that can match us in early childhood. In fact, there are several things that prove we weren't divinely created, vestigial tales, the appendix, overactive immune systems in the developed countries (arthritis, asthma, etc).
They attack geology/age of the earth using flawed science.
There is nothing but ignorance to be gained from assuming we were divinely instantiated.
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Only at standard temperature and pressure...
Besides, at Zero, shouldn't there be NO thermal energy? You standard of +273K = 0C seems pretty arbitrary to me!
The name to be announced will be "Colbert's Serenity", as in being in the the state of "serenity" while sitting on the "Colbert".
If this shows up in tomorrow's episode, Colbert owes me $50,000 for my writer's fee.
You suffer from the "engineers view", or wage-earner's view as being an engineer I once did.
The fact is there are two ways to earn your money. The first is to go work for someone. You put in 40 hours, and you get a market rate. The work is generally uniform and regular. This is our wage earner. He's paid to assemble widgets.
The other way to be paid is a percentage. The creation of an opportunity or the avoidance of a catastrophic expense is is another way to provide value. But here, they pay is not steady. There may be no opportunities to make or mistakes to save. The other way is to be a material participant in the creation of a wholly new product. (Generally opportunities are about finding customers)
When you create a product as part of a team and not earning wages for it, you put in "sweat equity". When the revenue comes in, the profits are distributed in proportion to the sweat equity. This is where you really make money. A $5 slap shop might make millions, and you get your cut.
I really think engineers (but not so much IT) get the wrong deal. Being that there are so many companies that make or save a substantial amount on software sales, these people should be treated as partners. After all their contributions functions long after they leave. They shouldn't get a wage, just revenues.
The other part you miss is the responsibility aspect. A lowly engineer writes code to the specs, fixes bugs. Generally all the heavy lifting is already done. The people who wrote the specs and all the way up to creating the market opportunity have a responsibility to make sure what you produce will be right for the market. You are concerned with the how (linux, php, .net) they are concerned with the what (a CRM for our clients...) If they are wrong, the company can lose thousands of dollars paying labor or equipment costs for fixes. If Apple puts a bad chip in the iPhone, then whomever signed off on that has responsibility. Signing the paperwork isn't hard. Putting the signature in the right place is. You can't say that only engineers made the iPhone. Clearly it was a company effort. And all those lazy management people nailed it.
Then you go on additional taxing higher earners more. Have you ever considered what could be wrought with that additional money? In a worst-case scenario, it sits in a bank and is lent out again. In the best case it is invested to produce future dividends. But by taking higher earners more you take that away, and given the talents outlined above, you really prevent talent from re-entering the economy, creating more economic growth.
When you have an income tax, the government is everyone's pimp. The government can extract anything from its taxpayers with little recourse.
When the US started the income tax it was 1% on incomes over $250,000 (adjusted) We now tax everyone 20-30% of anyone making over $600. Furthermore, your "fair share" is determined on how productive in enterprising you are. The more you stimulate the economy, the more you're penalized for it.
I wish people in the US would realize that the more people in government there is, the exponentially more the burden on private enterprise. Assume 1 government worker in a population of 100 can pay 20% of their salary (say $1000) back. The remaining 80% of that salary comes from private enterprise. Now, imagine 99 government workers and one private enterprise person. We then have a $76,200 bill to be paid by one person. Good luck with that.
Today fully one half of Americans receive federal funding in some way. Good luck with that.
We have a federal debt of 12 Trillion dollars and a $1+ trillion deficit this year alone. Our taxes should be 60%. But our unborn have no representation in congress. I love those Obama girls. I can't wait to tap them - for their taxes!
Of course, it is the income tax that allows this. It is so easy to collect as as long as we can keep raising it, we'll keep demanding more and more. Good luck with that.
With a consumption tax this kind of spending would be impossible.
Washing machines are pretty harsh places. You get tidal forces that will apply various physical stresses to the components.
I don't use Tide. I use Gain. Perhaps I have it up to high?
The wear-leveling concept would certainly work to favor a long, normal operational lifetime punctuated by an epic fail.
I would expect corruption of blocks - some take the new values, others don't. There is also the concept of t he bad-block list which might work well enough to begin shrinking the available blocks, possibly to zero, as the one failure you mentioned described.
Why would a solid state device fail from multiple submergings? Especially if there is no current running through it during said submergings?
1) The Sun does effect global temperature
2) It's effects are pretty immediate
3) The Global Warming Trend does not follow the Sun activities close enough for it to be the cause of the trend.
4) The only thing we know of at this time that could be causing this global warming trend is CO2
5)We are talking about the release of trillions of tons of CO2 that has been buried for millions of years.
6) If we keep increasing will will make the planet uninhabitable by us.
7) We have workable solutions to this right now.
3. is incorrect. While we may get the light in terms of minutes from its departure from our heavenly body, the energy released when it gets here is distributed and absorbed. Then it is up to a whole other set of processes to get it back out. It may go into heating the atmosphere. it may heat the oceans, it may provide energy to a plant for photosynthesis. So that energy may be radiated back out immediately, or may be deferred until night time, where it is released again. Or it can be part of a plant for millions of years only to be placed when it finds itself in an internal combustion engine.
Given that the focus of the whole global warming debate is centered on temperatures are measured here on the surface of the earth (and not life the upper atmosphere) I have to look around at the surface of the earth and see that 3/4 is water. It is far more likely that the oceans are driving weather (as we are seeing now, with La Nina cooling still in effect) and that since 3/4 of what these photons hit is water, that far more solar radiation is absorbed by the oceans than by the clouds. Given the very large specific heat of water, it only makes sense that it is a super massive capacitor of heat slowing the release of the sun's energy. And in fact, we now know that ocean temperatures account for over 2/3 of sea level rise.
4. is wholly incorrect. We know that water vapor is the strongest green house gas. However legislating clouds is not possible. So it falls to things we can legislate, which are byproducts of production - methane (far worse than CO2, but quantitatively less), CO2, etc.
5. Despite the "trillions of tons", CO2 remains a trace gas. 320 parts per MILLION. That's 0.32% of ONE percent (0.00032).
A good point, but we're talking about account sign-ups and forum posts. We're not talking about anything as critical as "breaking the web" by revoking the certificate.
One thing I did not mention is you could have several certs from different CAs to generate tokens from. If one goes down, use another. (And get your money back)
Certificates.
Individual certificates from a certificate authority. Certs natural use are for non-repudiation. What better way to prove that you are human by having proved it to a Certificate Authority.
The only problem here (aside from the hassle and cost of getting a cert yourself) is one of anonymous speech. You can't really speak anonymously. There are however workarounds to this. Your (or any) certificate authority can issue a token based on your presentation of a valid certificate. This token can then be used to verify that you did provide a certificate to someone, somewhere else. The token is only valid for one use in a certain amount of time. After the token is accepted the association between the token and the cert is destroyed. To keep things anonymous, the token should be non-unique, but unique withing the valid time domain. For example, the token issuer uses a monotonically increasing number starting at zero which resets every night (14 hours). The token lifetime is 12 hours minutes. Therefore, there shall be no overlap when the reset happens. This way, even if the site stores the token it is meaningless after 24 hours.
Rogue Cert Authorities is the only remaining problem. There are two kinds:
There is the trust issue from your token provider about if they truly destroy the cert-token relationship. However since these are certificate authorities, they should be credible. Any CA not honoring the unbind would lose its business.
Then if anyone abuses a cert there is a central place to report the abuse (the CA) which may revoke the cert. The rogue authority can also be certified in the certificate trust chain, thereby cutting off all of its business.
I think those measures will be effective.
Actually, since you can't choose the direction of the wind, and the wind constantly changes direction, the teardrop is out of the question.
The weather probes that they lay in the path are dome shaped and require no additional securing. The winds actually create downforce which holds the probes in place.
And I already mentioned one problem with a bunker. Another is that crap can land on top and you're trapped forever.
Someone will park a trailer on it.
Oblig XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/305/
Mmmm Manchester tornado...
Is now a good time to mention that I am chasing starting next week with a bunch of veteran chasers armed with SLR and HD cameras?
5. Do tornadoes have an affinity to certain landscape features?
Yes. They are attracted to trailer parks.
Seriously though, I cannot think of a worse structure to put in tornado alley! They are shee metal and/or vinyl and offer no protection. (That being said, 2x4s can be forced through a refrigerator and cinderblock walls, but theya re still better protection because cinderblocks won't collapse.
The best structure is a geodesic dome. There are no walls for the wind to force upon. You see, the first part of building collapse is the roof lifts off. This is what keeps the structure rigid. Once that goes, the force on the vertical walls collapses them and you wind up with catastrophic structural failure.
Whereas with a dome, the wind cannot exert as much force because it flows around the structure, not into it.
Please someone invent a mobile dome.
Yeah, but they are ASIANS!
How do we know that TPB (the powers that be) are not planning anything for the future. It matters not who it is passed under, but what is left to those in the future. Bush last week, Clinton the day before last, Bush yesterday, Obama today, but who tomorrow?
It is these populist presidents that do the most damage. They pass questionable legislation under the guide of a good president at good times only to wield them under a completely different president.
I've been afraid for some time that an unseen hand is pulling the strings, patiently grabbing power whenever the opportunity arises. What bothers me the most is the abvious wording "without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access." Which is a big "fuck you, we do what we want. Your constitution is meaningless".
Lastly, lets not forget to liken this to Obama's ousting og GM's president. When did yhe government wield such power over a private company? Now, this bill would allow them power over private networks. There is no comparison to public infrastructure like roads.
Things like this make me think the U.S. is over. We're running on momentum of the idea of what the U.S. /was/. We're quickly becoming a fascist state. "Fascism is a radical, authoritarian nationalist ideology that aims to create a single-party state with a government led by a dictator who seeks national unity and development by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest of the nation or race."
Thank you Mr Obama. But it is not his fault alone. We've been taking orders for some time. I think the crux here is free trade. Every one warns of protectionism, which is non-free trade, but that is the answer. That will turn the house of cards into castles. But with a house of cards, everyone must work to maintain the structure... It makes it easy to control.
Because the one thing we've learned from having software mono-culture is that its a Good Thing(tm).
Now we're attempting to fix the problem by having federally mandated mono-culture? Please!
And as someone who has worked for companies that have developed government specs, I can assure you that the process will be corrupted as to bias towards certain vendors. Any required feature that can be patented will be, and any open-source implementation will be sued out of existence.
Google and Yahoo have inadvertently created a goldmine of email addresses. While I get a lot of spam from various domains, it is these two sites that I have a problem with. See, they use domain keys, which elevates the message above spam filters (or at least helps to). So spammers have cracked the google chacpta (sp?). There is no easy way to report these addresses for abuse. The providers need to somehow only allow domain keys on VERIFIED accounts, or have multi-level domain keys.
I think that a craigs-list moderation style of X spam reports and you're cut off is the way to go. Of course, these reports should only be counted from existing VERIFIED accounts, with the reporting mechanism built into the interface.
Mod up
This is the time of a solar minimum, then the sun is quieter that ever. Literally, it has the lowest recorded activity, ever.
At the same time, I see these articles warning of a nationally nightly connected power grid. At the same time, Gore is arguing for a national highly connected power grid. What I take from that is Gore should not be the one deciding how we structure our power grid. He's plunge the entire nation into blackness for weeks, rather than just a portion of it. With global consequences far exceeding anything global warming can dish out in the next 200 years...
I am 32. I don't think ageism is a problem yet. My boss is 38. It's a about the quality of person you are and the quality of your work. Namely, communication skills.
The one concern I would have is that you're set in your ways. Younger guys have the "right way" built in. But of course, what you learn in college rarely applies in the real world.
I also have several friends who have no degree. They are well-paid. In the end it is about results.
The iPhone does not use Safari. The iPhone uses a rebranded mobile browser from another vendor. This vendor also makes the browser for other smart phones.
School is there to educate so that people can develop skills which will help them be a productive member of society. Attributing creation, even if true, in the face of even weak or circumstantial evidence, is still a complete waste. There can be nothing gained by anyone on any side by saying "God did it" because at that effectively ends scientific inquiry. There maybe additional understandings - as to the how - but not to the why. And to say that "God did it this way so that the creature was better suited to its environment" is to equate God to evolutionary processes. At that point, what are the religious arguing with.
We are dealing with some bass-ackwards people. Even the Vatican recognizes evolution.
I don't think these people are stupid, just that they don't understand the mechanisms of evolution - natural selection, random mutation, and punctuated equilibrium. They've been told that they evolved from monkeys - which is a straw man argument. They didn't evolve from monkeys, we evolved from a common ancestor.
Furthermore, to regard humans as the height of evolution is flawed. Birds have the best eyes, dogs be best noses, we have some of the weakest muscle tissue. The only thing we have is intelligence, and there are animals that can match us in early childhood. In fact, there are several things that prove we weren't divinely created, vestigial tales, the appendix, overactive immune systems in the developed countries (arthritis, asthma, etc).
They attack geology/age of the earth using flawed science.
There is nothing but ignorance to be gained from assuming we were divinely instantiated.
Only at standard temperature and pressure...
Besides, at Zero, shouldn't there be NO thermal energy? You standard of +273K = 0C seems pretty arbitrary to me!
Real geeks use Kelvin.
Jesus Christ!