and nature pumps out 600+ how much can we affect it by modifying the US production?
So whats the rush to regulate it? Oh, thats right money. Money to the people who will game the system and then contribute to the "right" people. Money to special interest groups who will fund 529s and such to support the "right" people. So we will see all these non producers buy and sell green credits inflating their wallets at the expense of the middle class. Wall Street wins again because this is where the real push comes from. Why should people not involved in the production of CO2 get to buy and sell credits for it?
Follow the money or worse, follow the egos. The egos of political appointees who are convinced they are right and would not care if any fact to the contrary existed. People who think that now that they "are in charge" they can fix those stupid people.
Yeah, sorry, the reason not to rush is because the science isn't settled and way too much money and politics are involved to let science have a clear chance. Big business signed onto the global warming/climate change once they figured out how to make large amounts of money on it. GE and similar aren't there because they want to feel good, they want to make a buck. If getting the government to regulate your competitors is what it takes then so be it.
I posted a comment before along the lines of, regardless of the weather the global warming is caused by man side will claim they are right. In other words, if it cools it will be because they helped guide us to that direction, if it warms it proves they are right and we aren't listening.
So if it snows and there are no hurricanes its proof that mans effect on the environment is obvious.
So if it does not snow and there are many hurricanes its we told you so
So if hot magma boils all the laser wielding sharks thereby depriving pirates of their pets making ninjas feel sorry for them we told you so.
So using the figures listed, 25 cents versus four dollars per flood. Flood is apparently a single event tied to resurfacing the ice. Can you make up the $80,000 cost in the lifetime of the machine? If we assume a per hour cost instead you can do 20,000 hours of work using gasoline before the cost is made up, or ten years continuous operation.
I am still trying to determine the justification other than in FGU, Feel Good Units
I guess if convince ourselves its by the minute costs then it might start looking right.
as for the DRM comment, what would you want, a crash all the time Nook, or something that works?
If people think we won't be locked down to hell and back on the iPad they are delusional. The nook would be nice but until they fix it the stability kills it
The biggest feature of my work laptop is that I have docking stations at home and work for it. Exactly how hard is it to do? Is Apple afraid of a connector blemishing their cases?
you can bet they are violating the intent. As the government has expanded so has the explanation for everything they do. The write long winded justifications all so that by the time you get done reading it you forget what it was about. It almost as if they hope that people opposed will just throw up their hands and give up.
Remember, those who clutch to their Constitution are now the radicals.
one of the problems the type of business I am in has, its illegal to sell certain items in certain locales but adjoining ones can buy them. In some cases its not even legal to ship through (we are talking environmental laws mostly - some protect the local industry laws too)
We used to joke that some locales would have inspectors waiting for the trucks to leave the warehouse, let alone arrive at stores to see if "contraband" was on board. Of course this was all done to raise revenue for the locale. Where it got messy were the same buyers ordering from other distribution centers in hopes of getting around the restriction. My favorite restrictions are where the same product can be sold in a locale for one use but not another. This of course requires signed off paperwork stating the buyer is using it for the legal reasons and we confirmed they are. Trouble is, we have more money so if the buyer does something wrong we usually get fined for selling it.
Never underestimate the ability of government employees to abuse their position to impose their views upon you or bolster their community at the expense of yours
is, why did you sell us out to the publishers Steve?
As I posted elsewhere on this subject, we have gone from being the customer to being the goose. Steve is now clearly on the side of content providers. Apple/Steve is the reason why people like Murdoch will be able to charge $14.99 per e-book. Gone are the days where he stood up and proclaimed "this is the line in the sand"
Should have realized it with 1.29 music but people laughed it off... well Steve is laughing now with his new friends. The iPad is tailored made for the publishing industries, be it music, book, or video, just not for us
perhaps the biggest shock is how much Apple (read: Jobs) has cast the end user aside and now sees the publishers (books, music, and even video) as the customer.
Its because of his greed that we are going to get soaked on e-books. Amazon had to cave into new pricing because Apple has attempted to hand our wallets to the big publishing houses.
B&N just annoys me, even some great tech sources tried it, make the purchase and up pops a "survey window" or save X on next purchase window.
It is very much like ad laden sites, I shop or read sites when my ad blocker/pop up blocker go nuts. If I get a single inquiry to pop a window, install x, or whatnot, I usually don't come back.
Seems to me that the Lynch film was a closer representation than the SyFy version, which could not even get the hair color of lead characters right.
Then again, perhaps because of who was on staff for the film.
I love how all these directors want to fix/do it right/etc... instead of doing the story AS IS.
Yeah, I think the lynch version was the best by far, though I would prefer the following books more than doing the first again. Though I suppose our modern day sensibilities are not ready for Chapterhouse
rounding error with what the President proposed for FY2010. Considering they are spending an unheard of 40% over their income I guess we should feel damn lucky NASA got anything.
Being a geek I want NASA to receive funding an put people into space and on the moon. The space station comes off to me as a camper, someone looking for excitement and adventure but not wanting to commit to the log cabin in the mountains.
Being a cynic, this unabashed spending has got to stop. If it means shutting down the manned space program then please do so. Just cut everything else you can to get a budget down where my children dream of space and not how to pay off the debt of my generation. The cynic in me also says, we canceled all of this because Bush pushed for it and therefor it has to be wrong, and if not wrong, well damnit WE WON.
So NASA will become what? Beholden to corporate interest who may or may not sell services to it because of regulation? Is that the future? We no longer get to dream about going to the stars?
The ultimate cynic in me says, going to the moon and playing in space make for less votes than swimming pools named after Congressmen and schools named after Presidents.
as in, we want to still offer their products even though we know they are overpriced. We give you the choice, choose correctly.
Honestly, the iPad was designed to bring Apple and their publishing buddies more money. After Steve got us off the 99cent model anything was possible. There was too much money on the table. Books presented a new avenue for increasing revenue as their is no such thing as "per chapter". They can charge you more and make you feel as if your getting something special in the experience.
Kudo's to Amazon for calling it like it is. I understand why they gave in, it really does come down to the public making the choice. Unfortunately far too many will make the wrong choice
I don't care if its the ACLU, RIAA, Greenpeace, NRA, or George Clooney.
People accept views in line with their own usually without regard to source. Far too many put any effort in determining if quotes are from the actual source let alone what some of the those groups with fancy names really represent.
I want all the speech we can get, the day where we outlaw it because of some petty concerns, and yours are petty, is the day we start down the path of excluding groups by voluntary organization which in turn because those of involuntary association.
Sorry, either all or nothing and all is the only choice. Look at any politician who comes out against a particular type of speech and you will find an incumbent fearful of losing his power over others.
I bet someone can come up with a process to "restore" pictures back to form. I am also quite sure there is a lot of data that we don't see that would be usable to do that restore. Its going to have enough detail for 3D modeling.
You missed the one important part, anywhere there is money involved there will be claims. The NFL is claiming ownership of a fan derived saying, let alone one where most of it has been part of the dialect
Never under estimate money, lawyers, and stupidity, combined.
to having a support structure so you cannot fail. Government leadership has created a system by which there is always money to keep you happy with your representative and any failures on your part are not truly yours but instead because others had an unfair advantage, cheated you, or just consume too much.
It doesn't requiring breeding dummies, it requires a culture of ignorance and sloth and then catering to that. If you make it easy to be lazy, dumb, or unhealthy, people will do so. If you remove the consequences doubly so.
prop images, I particularly like some of the lighting they created and the close ups on the ebay pages will make it a lot easier to replicate. Certain pieces like this are truly interesting
working the system. People who otherwise could support themselves who have found out they don't have to.
The system has good intentions but has been so twisted to support every group who held their hands out. Now we can't put it into the hands of X because we are afraid of upsetting that group of voters.
Votes have overcome need and that is why we cannot afford it
1. Come up with super tech military program 2. Fund it until it becomes too costly 3. Wait for the other guy to spin up to compete against it 4. Move the bar further out
considering the US Defense departments budget its an easy game to win. What they spend on one program is more than most can spend on many.
by tipping it towards having the private sector to do the launches he can blame them for not jumping on the opportunity and therefor excuse the lack of progress in NASA's mission. It is killing two birds with one stone.
Almost as good as "reaching across the aisle" when you know the other side doesn't have the votes to do anything
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and nature pumps out 600+ how much can we affect it by modifying the US production?
So whats the rush to regulate it? Oh, thats right money. Money to the people who will game the system and then contribute to the "right" people. Money to special interest groups who will fund 529s and such to support the "right" people. So we will see all these non producers buy and sell green credits inflating their wallets at the expense of the middle class. Wall Street wins again because this is where the real push comes from. Why should people not involved in the production of CO2 get to buy and sell credits for it?
Follow the money or worse, follow the egos. The egos of political appointees who are convinced they are right and would not care if any fact to the contrary existed. People who think that now that they "are in charge" they can fix those stupid people.
Yeah, sorry, the reason not to rush is because the science isn't settled and way too much money and politics are involved to let science have a clear chance. Big business signed onto the global warming/climate change once they figured out how to make large amounts of money on it. GE and similar aren't there because they want to feel good, they want to make a buck. If getting the government to regulate your competitors is what it takes then so be it.
I posted a comment before along the lines of, regardless of the weather the global warming is caused by man side will claim they are right. In other words, if it cools it will be because they helped guide us to that direction, if it warms it proves they are right and we aren't listening.
So if it snows and there are no hurricanes its proof that mans effect on the environment is obvious.
So if it does not snow and there are many hurricanes its we told you so
So if hot magma boils all the laser wielding sharks thereby depriving pirates of their pets making ninjas feel sorry for them we told you so.
You cannot win an argument with a zealot.
So using the figures listed, 25 cents versus four dollars per flood. Flood is apparently a single event tied to resurfacing the ice. Can you make up the $80,000 cost in the lifetime of the machine? If we assume a per hour cost instead you can do 20,000 hours of work using gasoline before the cost is made up, or ten years continuous operation.
I am still trying to determine the justification other than in FGU, Feel Good Units
I guess if convince ourselves its by the minute costs then it might start looking right.
Is my math that bad this morning?
leaves out the iPad doesn't it?
as for the DRM comment, what would you want, a crash all the time Nook, or something that works?
If people think we won't be locked down to hell and back on the iPad they are delusional. The nook would be nice but until they fix it the stability kills it
The new method is to be declared a criminal before entering politics.
It has been adopted because it is much more efficient and sets the standards lower.
Really, whats up with that?
The biggest feature of my work laptop is that I have docking stations at home and work for it. Exactly how hard is it to do? Is Apple afraid of a connector blemishing their cases?
you can bet they are violating the intent. As the government has expanded so has the explanation for everything they do. The write long winded justifications all so that by the time you get done reading it you forget what it was about. It almost as if they hope that people opposed will just throw up their hands and give up.
Remember, those who clutch to their Constitution are now the radicals.
one of the problems the type of business I am in has, its illegal to sell certain items in certain locales but adjoining ones can buy them. In some cases its not even legal to ship through (we are talking environmental laws mostly - some protect the local industry laws too)
We used to joke that some locales would have inspectors waiting for the trucks to leave the warehouse, let alone arrive at stores to see if "contraband" was on board. Of course this was all done to raise revenue for the locale. Where it got messy were the same buyers ordering from other distribution centers in hopes of getting around the restriction. My favorite restrictions are where the same product can be sold in a locale for one use but not another. This of course requires signed off paperwork stating the buyer is using it for the legal reasons and we confirmed they are. Trouble is, we have more money so if the buyer does something wrong we usually get fined for selling it.
Never underestimate the ability of government employees to abuse their position to impose their views upon you or bolster their community at the expense of yours
George Bush was in office at the time and if I believed half the stories about him that I heard wouldn't he still be there? Let alone Cheney.
Never under estimate what someone can or does believe. You cannot out weird reality
is, why did you sell us out to the publishers Steve?
As I posted elsewhere on this subject, we have gone from being the customer to being the goose. Steve is now clearly on the side of content providers. Apple/Steve is the reason why people like Murdoch will be able to charge $14.99 per e-book. Gone are the days where he stood up and proclaimed "this is the line in the sand"
Should have realized it with 1.29 music but people laughed it off... well Steve is laughing now with his new friends. The iPad is tailored made for the publishing industries, be it music, book, or video, just not for us
perhaps the biggest shock is how much Apple (read: Jobs) has cast the end user aside and now sees the publishers (books, music, and even video) as the customer.
Its because of his greed that we are going to get soaked on e-books. Amazon had to cave into new pricing because Apple has attempted to hand our wallets to the big publishing houses.
B&N just annoys me, even some great tech sources tried it, make the purchase and up pops a "survey window" or save X on next purchase window.
It is very much like ad laden sites, I shop or read sites when my ad blocker/pop up blocker go nuts. If I get a single inquiry to pop a window, install x, or whatnot, I usually don't come back.
Keep it simple, keep it safe.
being so boring and uninteresting as to induce coma in people looking into your life is all you need.
We are a social society, far many will decry privacy loss and turn around post to internet sites and the like
Seems to me that the Lynch film was a closer representation than the SyFy version, which could not even get the hair color of lead characters right.
Then again, perhaps because of who was on staff for the film.
I love how all these directors want to fix/do it right/etc... instead of doing the story AS IS.
Yeah, I think the lynch version was the best by far, though I would prefer the following books more than doing the first again. Though I suppose our modern day sensibilities are not ready for Chapterhouse
rounding error with what the President proposed for FY2010. Considering they are spending an unheard of 40% over their income I guess we should feel damn lucky NASA got anything.
Being a geek I want NASA to receive funding an put people into space and on the moon. The space station comes off to me as a camper, someone looking for excitement and adventure but not wanting to commit to the log cabin in the mountains.
Being a cynic, this unabashed spending has got to stop. If it means shutting down the manned space program then please do so. Just cut everything else you can to get a budget down where my children dream of space and not how to pay off the debt of my generation. The cynic in me also says, we canceled all of this because Bush pushed for it and therefor it has to be wrong, and if not wrong, well damnit WE WON.
So NASA will become what? Beholden to corporate interest who may or may not sell services to it because of regulation? Is that the future? We no longer get to dream about going to the stars?
The ultimate cynic in me says, going to the moon and playing in space make for less votes than swimming pools named after Congressmen and schools named after Presidents.
as in, we want to still offer their products even though we know they are overpriced. We give you the choice, choose correctly.
Honestly, the iPad was designed to bring Apple and their publishing buddies more money. After Steve got us off the 99cent model anything was possible. There was too much money on the table. Books presented a new avenue for increasing revenue as their is no such thing as "per chapter". They can charge you more and make you feel as if your getting something special in the experience.
Kudo's to Amazon for calling it like it is. I understand why they gave in, it really does come down to the public making the choice. Unfortunately far too many will make the wrong choice
I don't care if its the ACLU, RIAA, Greenpeace, NRA, or George Clooney.
People accept views in line with their own usually without regard to source. Far too many put any effort in determining if quotes are from the actual source let alone what some of the those groups with fancy names really represent.
I want all the speech we can get, the day where we outlaw it because of some petty concerns, and yours are petty, is the day we start down the path of excluding groups by voluntary organization which in turn because those of involuntary association.
Sorry, either all or nothing and all is the only choice. Look at any politician who comes out against a particular type of speech and you will find an incumbent fearful of losing his power over others.
I bet someone can come up with a process to "restore" pictures back to form. I am also quite sure there is a lot of data that we don't see that would be usable to do that restore. Its going to have enough detail for 3D modeling.
I still do not see why they cannot extrapolate the images and present them "Total Recall" style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CX9Agzeh-c
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2010/02/halftime-who-dat-whos-greedy-the-nfl/1
You missed the one important part, anywhere there is money involved there will be claims. The NFL is claiming ownership of a fan derived saying, let alone one where most of it has been part of the dialect
Never under estimate money, lawyers, and stupidity, combined.
to having a support structure so you cannot fail. Government leadership has created a system by which there is always money to keep you happy with your representative and any failures on your part are not truly yours but instead because others had an unfair advantage, cheated you, or just consume too much.
It doesn't requiring breeding dummies, it requires a culture of ignorance and sloth and then catering to that. If you make it easy to be lazy, dumb, or unhealthy, people will do so. If you remove the consequences doubly so.
prop images, I particularly like some of the lighting they created and the close ups on the ebay pages will make it a lot easier to replicate. Certain pieces like this are truly interesting
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize&item=150407632551
Of course I would not expect you tell your wife that.
Really, your wife is really really ignorant or just really good at selling you on her buying a new toy.
I know lots of people who are bad with computers, I certainly do my best to make sure they don't touch one
working the system. People who otherwise could support themselves who have found out they don't have to.
The system has good intentions but has been so twisted to support every group who held their hands out. Now we can't put it into the hands of X because we are afraid of upsetting that group of voters.
Votes have overcome need and that is why we cannot afford it
to keep Russia bankrupt trying to catch up to it.
1. Come up with super tech military program
2. Fund it until it becomes too costly
3. Wait for the other guy to spin up to compete against it
4. Move the bar further out
considering the US Defense departments budget its an easy game to win. What they spend on one program is more than most can spend on many.
by tipping it towards having the private sector to do the launches he can blame them for not jumping on the opportunity and therefor excuse the lack of progress in NASA's mission. It is killing two birds with one stone.
Almost as good as "reaching across the aisle" when you know the other side doesn't have the votes to do anything