Wind farms take up an enormous amount of area for the power they generate compared to other sources of energy. Oil fields can get by with one pumping area in many cases and by law most are limited to their foot print. Then besides having all those towers someone has to maintain the access between each tower, usually a road, maintain the lines connecting each, and to top it off you get to hear them all day and night long. Currently there are many regulations governing what protections must be maintained for the environment in regards to gas/oil drilling. There isn't much if anything in regards to maintaining wind farms.
The number of justifications given is just endless. Whenever I encounter someone with PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) I have learned it is best just to walk away. It gets really silly if they start spouting Tina Fey lines when they try to show their intelligence.
If anything the e-mail episode proved beyond a shadow of a doubt the partisan traits of two certain papers.
Now, lets see someone try this with those on the other side of the political spectrum, say someone who ain't white, and see how far it gets.
because then their house of cards economy comes down harder than anything Japan or the US ever could imagine experiencing. I read an economist story basically stating they just continue to do it because they feel they have too. They don't have the social services in place to handle large number of unemployed city dwellers. In fact there is a definite possibility of serious social strife when it hits the fan there.
First is the same reason why solar plants are such a pain to situate, they take far more area per MW than any fossil/nuclear plant. Already there are people suing to stop some of these new solar plants over their affect on a rare turtle that lives in one part of the desert. Plus panels need maintenance, this includes cleaning. Do we want a neighborhood of idiots trying to clean panels (where do they get the water for that I wonder) let alone the fact many would never do it meaning the ROI would be horrible. Then comes another kicker, all the power coming randomly into the grid which would make it murder for power companies to manage. Lets toss out one more, all that gasoline to power the service vehicles traveling from house to house to do check ups. Suddenly that green power ain't so green. We could make a bigger case against wind power this way as well.
Its all fun and games, the number one profiteer of wind energy is GE and we know who they are friends with, so who are the people really behind these new solar installations and which politicians do they own?
Because far too many "smart" phone users cannot be bothered with politics except on message boards. Far too many would never venture near a Congressman's website but I bet quite a few would download an app just for the sheer chance they could ridicule it or his positions. They would in fact be getting the information he wanted that they normally would never access.
So make information cool, if that means repackaging it, then by all means. Just because you and I know where to look for information does not mean others do. As I said above, many who could probably would not unless it was stupidly easy - like an app.
I know people with apps for the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Bible, Koran, and other easy to find documents, why is that?
Is there really a difference in loss if I take away your internet ships or your golf clubs?
Why do people ridicule an online only hobby and not other ones? There is no difference in the end. Most hobbies are diversions, if they make you money they become jobs and lose the status of entertainment that they were.
why would he regulate those who make up his staff? We don't have President Main Street, we have President Wall Street. For all the wearing of sackcloth and anguish over GWB about his corporate ties people totally ignore the President Goldman Sachs. Oh sure he loves to lash out at "Big Business" but they make so many back door deals they do a good job of protecting those who support their campaign coffers.
You want engineers, fine, make it cool then. We spend less on NASA than we lose to the deficit in a week (okay, it might be a few days more). We have schools built around the best interest of teachers and administrators. Any attempt to hold them accountable comes back with claims of lack of money; not true; or teaching to the test. If test scores of students at a school do not give a clear indication of problems then what would? Take back education from the politicians and their supporters and then you might have more kids doing well enough in school and seeing a chance of success.
Wall Street does not stop us from having engineers. Having a society based on laziness and celebrating reality TV stars does. We have shows about knocked up teen agers, fake tan trolls, sleazy housewives, and hate spewing misogynistic rappers. The only serious shows are the countless CSI ripoffs where they solve the crime in the last ten minutes. I am not saying we need a reality TV show about engineers; after all we want new ones; but we don't even portray them in television so kids rarely have exposure to what those skills are. Even subtle things like having a TV dad being an engineer; we never have to see his job he just has to be cool; would go a long way.
So, you want more Engineers Mr. President
I suggest 1) Get your Congressmen hacks off the backs of for profit colleges, many are very good 2) Get the deficit under control, stop the spending, it will change the outlook of the country 3) Fund areas of science which will make people want to be engineers. We need something real, not rail. That means a Manhattan/Apollo scale project (just don't go damn the costs like they did) that will suck up these engineers and better the country. Can I suggest safe nuclear power combined with some renewable sources? We certainly have the tech for the former and need to develop the later else hand the country over to China 4) Make the focus of schools be the students, then the parents, then teachers, and finally anyone else. Hold teachers accountable, the good ones want it. 5) Did I mention the deficit? The doom and gloom hanging over people's heads when they see such staggering numbers and what happens in the world makes them lose focus. Be a President for once, stop being a politician.
Atlanta's paper while very far to the left has done a good job riding the Atlanta school board's ass over the cheating scandal. At first when our Republican governor pushed even more investigation we had the regular race warlords trot out but they seemed to have taken to the sidelines after the press focused more on the schools than what party the governor was.
Local TV stations do a good job of going after local companies for their misdeeds. Most every city has multiple stations all with their own Consumer Affairs departments. Local governments too have a hard time escaping the ire of the local population because journalist and reporters know where their is strife there usually is news behind it. Like recent assessments claiming homes increasing in value when everyone knows exactly how the market is.
Yes, there are fluff reporters but those stories don't dominate local news. If anything the printed papers did the most damage to themselves with their editorial staff. The AJC was so blatant in their reporting their subs in the surrounding area nose dived because those areas leaned more conservative. It didn't help, or maybe it did, when their lead editorial write took off to Washington DC to be closer to her god; yeah she was that overboard - I was amazed she didn't have official clothing for when writing articles on him.
So if anything the internet fills the need for international news, something that most papers just ran AP stories with anyway. What is also did is open a lot of people's eyes to just how politically slanted many local papers were and how that hid things from prying eyes. In Atlanta it was lack of maintenance on sewers (now billions in work need to be done) to school cheating to the constant use of the airport as family employment agency .
I guess when radio took off people doomed papers too, same when TV stations popped up everywhere.
What turned me off many years ago when I was introduced to Linux was very similar to what you state about Unity. At the time they were trying to mimic XP down to the start bar type menu and such. Yet most of it didn't work like it looked like. As in, if your going to mimic the look you have to mimic the behavior. If I right click and it doesn't do what you have copied would have, or worse nothing at all, then your doing it wrong.
Needless to say it got off on the wrong foot so that every little niggling difference or any confusion I had doing anything simply doomed the product in my eyes. I just removed it and nodded my head anytime someone boasted about Linux on Slashdot like how the old folk do when they see someone crazy. Yup, he's plum crazy Margaret - now just smile and nod and maybe he will go away.
I will say its nice to see a review of Unity/Ubuntu because it keeps me apprised of where its going without my getting frustrated by trying it myself. Once one of these critical sites comes out and states - Hey, this is actually pretty good, then maybe I will feel safe trying it again
This is like taking a Pontiac Fiero and skinning it to look like a Ferrari.
This is why this whole Palin frenzy is so damn distressing. She isn't even declared as a candidate for the next election yet it seems as if the line to be part of the character assassination just continues to grow. This is like taking the worst aspects of Reality TV and having the press and politicians play the parts.
If they even tried this with Obama there would be lines of people screaming racism. That alone allows Libya to continue and Yemen to be next. I wonder how many years after Obama leaves office before someone will have the courage/be allowed to investigate him. We can destroy women; Hillary really didn't get good treatment from the press either once they crowned Obama their pick, but guys seem to get a free pass in politics, doubly so if they can hide behind an army of sycophants.
I too do not care what these companies do, they only can do so because our governments permit it. Not only do they permit it they profit off of it, if not in more than one way. First by taxes, embedded so that they actually are charging those who use the product twice - first with direct taxes then the embedded taxes from penalties and such assessed by courts.
All our governments are quite happy with the situation, that is what is really wrong here. An addicted person is a customer of the government, a sick person is a customer of government care as well. An addiction to such a drug benefits government by curtailing the long term benefits having to be paid as well.
Too bad you dmwits see her on the wrong side of it all, what you are watching is a politically orchestrated character assassination and far too many here are quite happy to march along cheering and singing songs for your party.
Yet too many cities buy into the sales pitch about the revenue side. The revenue of course only lasts until people become accustomed to the lights and suddenly, surprise surprise they don't run the lights anymore which fulfills the lie used to sell them to the public while at the same time ending the revenue which was the selling point for the officials to put them in.
We have them at two intersections I drive through regularly and since your used to them you know to not expect people to run them, including the car in front of you. They go yellow and people stop, no more of trying to beat it. I haven't seen an accident there in a long time but that could simply be timing on my part.
Now what I don't care for are speed cameras, those truly are only to generate revenue
I think my WOW account has better security; with the mobile authenticator; than most banks provide.
Still, what do people expect banks to do when the situation arises where the bad guys have complete control over the target PC? Then it really doesn't matter what the bank does. If I have control over your PC I can take in any security codes you enter and use them in real time. I can simply give you back the responses I know you expect from having captured that information already - all to the last part - when suddenly you entered everything you were supposed to and I fed back "sorry, technical difficulties at the bank - please try later" while I am in just happily chugging away in your account.
I read numerous articles showing that while there were more tornadoes in one day than usually occur the real problem was that they spawned in places where more people lived. Considering that it has only been fairly recently in the limited history of this nation that we could even track the things I find it amazing how many do miss populated areas. Quite a few funnel clouds detected on RADAR never touch ground which I am not sure how they account for those. While population density might matter if measured over an area the size of a state how many times do we read about tornadoes going through a decent sized city? The Joplin could have had a much higher death toll if it hit during school as the tornado did run over two of them, again just random chance
and the trial lawyers need something to move onto next.
Probably because they could not get lawsuits up and running against fast food as a whole. Seriously who comes up with this stuff? Possibly is not a guarantee but I am quite sure a good legal team will find a simpleton jury out there to award damages. I can see it now, warnings on the side of my cell phone that it may cause cancer, complicate pregnancy, or cause planes to fall from the sky.
No one is not talking about funding education. Not funding the Department of Education or doing away with that position does not have to affect the money going to the states. If anything it could open more money.
States should be given block grants towards providing education. Forty years of DOE have proven one thing, the Federal Government can't do the job.
So, show me the Republicans who are saying CUT ALL EDUCATION MONEY... really, do it.
When a city system can spend twice that of a rural system and get results that are far far worse it tells you one thing, the current system does not work in the cities. What is the dominant trait of big city education? They are run by Democrats and have always marginalized the poor who they only use as a weapon against political opponents.
and by the graduation rates in Detroit and the surrounding area I am very sure he has an audience who buys into this.
If anything I would love to ask him the same question I would pose the law enforcement. Each year we spend more and more money per person served in your respective professions but where is the improvement or meeting of goals?
School spending alone has increased at an incredible rate since the founding of the Department of Education but scores and graduation rates aren't on the same course. The War on Drugs hasn't exactly benefited this country either, if anything it has gotten us some of the most onerous laws (think seizure laws) that only were trumped by the current War on Terror
after all it would no sillier than allowing someone to use my online service. If the provider cannot lock out multiple simultaneous use then that is their problem.
However they could react the way that some MMO games do which is to lock accounts who very closely spaced access from domains located in different parts of the country or world.
It really sounds like they are trying to treat individuals the same as businesses, which long have been sued from companies for sometimes inadvertent uses of entertainment. (like how professional sports cannot be shown in a bar without paying a fee)
You do realize that those groups you listed effectively control the California Legislature through the power of their public employee's unions. In other words, any tax on anyone is acceptable as long as it presents the chance that employment of union members does not decrease nor the benefits granted to said members.
The big correction coming down the pike is government employees losing the majority of their benefits and possibly facing a lot of forced time off without pay. Its a fair question about which state implodes first, California or Illinois, but both are beholden the government employee unions and they seem intent on granting more promises. Its almost like politicians think they can keep paying off for their election without having to worry about how it will be paid for.
I won't discuss my pay but I will state that having a willingness to put in more than forty hours a week has significantly boosted my bottom line. When the time of reviews/pay/etc come up I am usually up there on the minds of those higher up simply because I am involved across the board and always "seem" to be available. Yeah, I get an odd week that can break sixty hours but I generally set my schedule and do what needs to be done. No one I know in my networking group (you know, friends who do similar work and such) can report similar situations. Yeah there are places where it might not be rewarded, but I have to ask, why are you still there?
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Wind farms take up an enormous amount of area for the power they generate compared to other sources of energy. Oil fields can get by with one pumping area in many cases and by law most are limited to their foot print. Then besides having all those towers someone has to maintain the access between each tower, usually a road, maintain the lines connecting each, and to top it off you get to hear them all day and night long. Currently there are many regulations governing what protections must be maintained for the environment in regards to gas/oil drilling. There isn't much if anything in regards to maintaining wind farms.
The number of justifications given is just endless. Whenever I encounter someone with PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) I have learned it is best just to walk away. It gets really silly if they start spouting Tina Fey lines when they try to show their intelligence.
If anything the e-mail episode proved beyond a shadow of a doubt the partisan traits of two certain papers.
Now, lets see someone try this with those on the other side of the political spectrum, say someone who ain't white, and see how far it gets.
because then their house of cards economy comes down harder than anything Japan or the US ever could imagine experiencing. I read an economist story basically stating they just continue to do it because they feel they have too. They don't have the social services in place to handle large number of unemployed city dwellers. In fact there is a definite possibility of serious social strife when it hits the fan there.
First is the same reason why solar plants are such a pain to situate, they take far more area per MW than any fossil/nuclear plant. Already there are people suing to stop some of these new solar plants over their affect on a rare turtle that lives in one part of the desert. Plus panels need maintenance, this includes cleaning. Do we want a neighborhood of idiots trying to clean panels (where do they get the water for that I wonder) let alone the fact many would never do it meaning the ROI would be horrible. Then comes another kicker, all the power coming randomly into the grid which would make it murder for power companies to manage. Lets toss out one more, all that gasoline to power the service vehicles traveling from house to house to do check ups. Suddenly that green power ain't so green. We could make a bigger case against wind power this way as well.
Its all fun and games, the number one profiteer of wind energy is GE and we know who they are friends with, so who are the people really behind these new solar installations and which politicians do they own?
Because far too many "smart" phone users cannot be bothered with politics except on message boards. Far too many would never venture near a Congressman's website but I bet quite a few would download an app just for the sheer chance they could ridicule it or his positions. They would in fact be getting the information he wanted that they normally would never access.
So make information cool, if that means repackaging it, then by all means. Just because you and I know where to look for information does not mean others do. As I said above, many who could probably would not unless it was stupidly easy - like an app.
I know people with apps for the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Bible, Koran, and other easy to find documents, why is that?
I wonder how long before they decide my keyboard is a weapon too.
Is there really a difference in loss if I take away your internet ships or your golf clubs?
Why do people ridicule an online only hobby and not other ones? There is no difference in the end. Most hobbies are diversions, if they make you money they become jobs and lose the status of entertainment that they were.
why would he regulate those who make up his staff? We don't have President Main Street, we have President Wall Street. For all the wearing of sackcloth and anguish over GWB about his corporate ties people totally ignore the President Goldman Sachs. Oh sure he loves to lash out at "Big Business" but they make so many back door deals they do a good job of protecting those who support their campaign coffers.
You want engineers, fine, make it cool then. We spend less on NASA than we lose to the deficit in a week (okay, it might be a few days more). We have schools built around the best interest of teachers and administrators. Any attempt to hold them accountable comes back with claims of lack of money; not true; or teaching to the test. If test scores of students at a school do not give a clear indication of problems then what would? Take back education from the politicians and their supporters and then you might have more kids doing well enough in school and seeing a chance of success.
Wall Street does not stop us from having engineers. Having a society based on laziness and celebrating reality TV stars does. We have shows about knocked up teen agers, fake tan trolls, sleazy housewives, and hate spewing misogynistic rappers. The only serious shows are the countless CSI ripoffs where they solve the crime in the last ten minutes. I am not saying we need a reality TV show about engineers; after all we want new ones; but we don't even portray them in television so kids rarely have exposure to what those skills are. Even subtle things like having a TV dad being an engineer; we never have to see his job he just has to be cool; would go a long way.
So, you want more Engineers Mr. President
I suggest
1) Get your Congressmen hacks off the backs of for profit colleges, many are very good
2) Get the deficit under control, stop the spending, it will change the outlook of the country
3) Fund areas of science which will make people want to be engineers. We need something real, not rail. That means a Manhattan/Apollo scale project (just don't go damn the costs like they did) that will suck up these engineers and better the country. Can I suggest safe nuclear power combined with some renewable sources? We certainly have the tech for the former and need to develop the later else hand the country over to China
4) Make the focus of schools be the students, then the parents, then teachers, and finally anyone else. Hold teachers accountable, the good ones want it.
5) Did I mention the deficit? The doom and gloom hanging over people's heads when they see such staggering numbers and what happens in the world makes them lose focus. Be a President for once, stop being a politician.
So in other words, do this to prevent them from firing you after you did something worth firing you over?
Atlanta's paper while very far to the left has done a good job riding the Atlanta school board's ass over the cheating scandal. At first when our Republican governor pushed even more investigation we had the regular race warlords trot out but they seemed to have taken to the sidelines after the press focused more on the schools than what party the governor was.
Local TV stations do a good job of going after local companies for their misdeeds. Most every city has multiple stations all with their own Consumer Affairs departments. Local governments too have a hard time escaping the ire of the local population because journalist and reporters know where their is strife there usually is news behind it. Like recent assessments claiming homes increasing in value when everyone knows exactly how the market is.
Yes, there are fluff reporters but those stories don't dominate local news. If anything the printed papers did the most damage to themselves with their editorial staff. The AJC was so blatant in their reporting their subs in the surrounding area nose dived because those areas leaned more conservative. It didn't help, or maybe it did, when their lead editorial write took off to Washington DC to be closer to her god; yeah she was that overboard - I was amazed she didn't have official clothing for when writing articles on him.
So if anything the internet fills the need for international news, something that most papers just ran AP stories with anyway. What is also did is open a lot of people's eyes to just how politically slanted many local papers were and how that hid things from prying eyes. In Atlanta it was lack of maintenance on sewers (now billions in work need to be done) to school cheating to the constant use of the airport as family employment agency .
I guess when radio took off people doomed papers too, same when TV stations popped up everywhere.
What turned me off many years ago when I was introduced to Linux was very similar to what you state about Unity. At the time they were trying to mimic XP down to the start bar type menu and such. Yet most of it didn't work like it looked like. As in, if your going to mimic the look you have to mimic the behavior. If I right click and it doesn't do what you have copied would have, or worse nothing at all, then your doing it wrong.
Needless to say it got off on the wrong foot so that every little niggling difference or any confusion I had doing anything simply doomed the product in my eyes. I just removed it and nodded my head anytime someone boasted about Linux on Slashdot like how the old folk do when they see someone crazy. Yup, he's plum crazy Margaret - now just smile and nod and maybe he will go away.
I will say its nice to see a review of Unity/Ubuntu because it keeps me apprised of where its going without my getting frustrated by trying it myself. Once one of these critical sites comes out and states - Hey, this is actually pretty good, then maybe I will feel safe trying it again
This is like taking a Pontiac Fiero and skinning it to look like a Ferrari.
Get over it.
This is why this whole Palin frenzy is so damn distressing. She isn't even declared as a candidate for the next election yet it seems as if the line to be part of the character assassination just continues to grow. This is like taking the worst aspects of Reality TV and having the press and politicians play the parts.
If they even tried this with Obama there would be lines of people screaming racism. That alone allows Libya to continue and Yemen to be next. I wonder how many years after Obama leaves office before someone will have the courage/be allowed to investigate him. We can destroy women; Hillary really didn't get good treatment from the press either once they crowned Obama their pick, but guys seem to get a free pass in politics, doubly so if they can hide behind an army of sycophants.
I too do not care what these companies do, they only can do so because our governments permit it. Not only do they permit it they profit off of it, if not in more than one way. First by taxes, embedded so that they actually are charging those who use the product twice - first with direct taxes then the embedded taxes from penalties and such assessed by courts.
All our governments are quite happy with the situation, that is what is really wrong here. An addicted person is a customer of the government, a sick person is a customer of government care as well. An addiction to such a drug benefits government by curtailing the long term benefits having to be paid as well.
Too bad you dmwits see her on the wrong side of it all, what you are watching is a politically orchestrated character assassination and far too many here are quite happy to march along cheering and singing songs for your party.
Yet too many cities buy into the sales pitch about the revenue side. The revenue of course only lasts until people become accustomed to the lights and suddenly, surprise surprise they don't run the lights anymore which fulfills the lie used to sell them to the public while at the same time ending the revenue which was the selling point for the officials to put them in.
We have them at two intersections I drive through regularly and since your used to them you know to not expect people to run them, including the car in front of you. They go yellow and people stop, no more of trying to beat it. I haven't seen an accident there in a long time but that could simply be timing on my part.
Now what I don't care for are speed cameras, those truly are only to generate revenue
I think my WOW account has better security; with the mobile authenticator; than most banks provide.
Still, what do people expect banks to do when the situation arises where the bad guys have complete control over the target PC? Then it really doesn't matter what the bank does. If I have control over your PC I can take in any security codes you enter and use them in real time. I can simply give you back the responses I know you expect from having captured that information already - all to the last part - when suddenly you entered everything you were supposed to and I fed back "sorry, technical difficulties at the bank - please try later" while I am in just happily chugging away in your account.
I read numerous articles showing that while there were more tornadoes in one day than usually occur the real problem was that they spawned in places where more people lived. Considering that it has only been fairly recently in the limited history of this nation that we could even track the things I find it amazing how many do miss populated areas. Quite a few funnel clouds detected on RADAR never touch ground which I am not sure how they account for those. While population density might matter if measured over an area the size of a state how many times do we read about tornadoes going through a decent sized city? The Joplin could have had a much higher death toll if it hit during school as the tornado did run over two of them, again just random chance
I have no paid e-book content. I find it very useful to gather up free content and Amazon very nicely organizes it.
with a new project introducing a stream lined browser which has a small foot print and is fast.
and the trial lawyers need something to move onto next.
Probably because they could not get lawsuits up and running against fast food as a whole. Seriously who comes up with this stuff? Possibly is not a guarantee but I am quite sure a good legal team will find a simpleton jury out there to award damages. I can see it now, warnings on the side of my cell phone that it may cause cancer, complicate pregnancy, or cause planes to fall from the sky.
No one is not talking about funding education. Not funding the Department of Education or doing away with that position does not have to affect the money going to the states. If anything it could open more money.
States should be given block grants towards providing education. Forty years of DOE have proven one thing, the Federal Government can't do the job.
So, show me the Republicans who are saying CUT ALL EDUCATION MONEY... really, do it.
When a city system can spend twice that of a rural system and get results that are far far worse it tells you one thing, the current system does not work in the cities. What is the dominant trait of big city education? They are run by Democrats and have always marginalized the poor who they only use as a weapon against political opponents.
and by the graduation rates in Detroit and the surrounding area I am very sure he has an audience who buys into this.
If anything I would love to ask him the same question I would pose the law enforcement. Each year we spend more and more money per person served in your respective professions but where is the improvement or meeting of goals?
School spending alone has increased at an incredible rate since the founding of the Department of Education but scores and graduation rates aren't on the same course. The War on Drugs hasn't exactly benefited this country either, if anything it has gotten us some of the most onerous laws (think seizure laws) that only were trumped by the current War on Terror
after all it would no sillier than allowing someone to use my online service. If the provider cannot lock out multiple simultaneous use then that is their problem.
However they could react the way that some MMO games do which is to lock accounts who very closely spaced access from domains located in different parts of the country or world.
It really sounds like they are trying to treat individuals the same as businesses, which long have been sued from companies for sometimes inadvertent uses of entertainment. (like how professional sports cannot be shown in a bar without paying a fee)
You do realize that those groups you listed effectively control the California Legislature through the power of their public employee's unions. In other words, any tax on anyone is acceptable as long as it presents the chance that employment of union members does not decrease nor the benefits granted to said members.
The big correction coming down the pike is government employees losing the majority of their benefits and possibly facing a lot of forced time off without pay. Its a fair question about which state implodes first, California or Illinois, but both are beholden the government employee unions and they seem intent on granting more promises. Its almost like politicians think they can keep paying off for their election without having to worry about how it will be paid for.
I won't discuss my pay but I will state that having a willingness to put in more than forty hours a week has significantly boosted my bottom line. When the time of reviews/pay/etc come up I am usually up there on the minds of those higher up simply because I am involved across the board and always "seem" to be available. Yeah, I get an odd week that can break sixty hours but I generally set my schedule and do what needs to be done. No one I know in my networking group (you know, friends who do similar work and such) can report similar situations. Yeah there are places where it might not be rewarded, but I have to ask, why are you still there?