I'm not sure about just solar being the answer on the hot days. The power issues seem to occur in the late afternoon and later, because the existing solar generation is starting to fall off. It would probably need to be a combination of solar and storage of some description, batteries or pumped hydro.
Na this still helps. Even with fully encrypted email there would still be a lot of meta data that could be monitored without accessing the mail servers. This will cut that down. I'm sure the eff would be interested in the end to end encryption eventually as well.
Google just needs to detect when they get a large number of the same request to comes in simultaneously. Then the can create an id of the message and automatically block it as spam. It will stop the problem before it starts!
If corporations didn't pay tax, the burden of tax would move further onto the wage earners as opposed to the owners of capital. This also means that corporations will grow even bigger than they already do and become even more uncontrollable than they have already become - see To Big To Fail banks, etc. As to people not seeing that they are paying the company taxes (tax transparency), More assets would end up being owned by corporations (as they will be able to bid up prices) and only indirectly by people, losing transparency of ownership. See MERS and MBS's for what kind of issues this can create.
One of the distortions that the central banks do in keeping interest rates low is that it alters the balance between labour and capital investment. If interest rates are higher capital intensive robotics would be less profitable and make the higher ongoing cost of labour less uncompetitive in many situations.
Dick Smith doesn't say climate change is caused by foreigners and migrants... he is talking about infinite growth in Australia (and the World)... is not possible with finite resources. As in productive farm land, water, energy, materials mined out of the ground like copper and steal (iron ore). Some efficiencies can make better use of resources.... but they will always be finite and at best reusable.
Gold isn't a speculative commodity, it is paper money that is the speculative commodity. Gold is money and has been for thousands of years. Gold is not the liability of anyone else (eg Central Banks). Paper money in many countries in the past has become worthless. Gold has never become worthless. Also I wouldn't say that the value of Gold has gone up, but the value of paper money has gone down.
The instantaneous cost of the commodity isn't what's at hand here, only the price obtained for the finished good relative to the commodity when it was purchased. The raw materials only cost 0.97 now? That's fantastic, until you realize that deflation still exists. Deflation is a trap for the producer that cuts into earnings. Also, I doubt many Chinese manufacturers are making a 47% margin.
To give another example... the raw material cost goes up to 1.10 but the price for the finished goods stays the same... the same problem occurs. Therefore inflation and deflation cause problems for producers when they lack pricing power (which much of china probably does).
You are the very first person I've ever heard attribute the current financial crisis to monetary inflation. At best, you could ascribe it to asset inflation, i.e. the housing crisis, but even that is a proximate cause. Inflation has been quite low over the past decade. A more immediate problem is the insane leveraging of financial institutions coupled with a serious lack of regulation.
I live in Australia and have always wondered about the security of cheques because of the place your bank account number on the cheque as well as a incrementing cheque number. The first thing I would do is make the cheque number pseudo random, so that someone who was able to get an image of a cheque wouldn't be able to create another valid cheque, just by increasing the cheque number. Even the account number could be a random number... which points to a record at the bank which determines which account the money has to come from. I think these changes could probably be implemented individually by a bank as well...ie. it wouldn't need other banks to know what is going on.
Several years ago, I helped save someone some money by tracking where a particular person actually was via email. Realizing a tracking image in an email was unreliable, I also added a tracking image into a word document... which doesn't have any protection against loading images from remote servers.
Long story short - the person was on the other side of the world to where they were claiming to be based on their IP address.
The Northern rock bank run caused the government of england to guarantee the entire country's banking system. This was a BIG mistake because now they have socialized the losses and kept the profits privatized. This will make the banks even more risk taking, knowing that they will be bailed out if anything goes wrong. And the taxpayers could be up for HUGE amounts of money to bail the banks out.
The thing that really annoys me is that all the new houses I see use 50w heligen downlights. In our house we may use a maximum of say 180w total, probably less. But in the new houses they would have 6 50w globes for the same area for a total of 300watts - not including transformer losses so probably 400 watts. This I think is a bigger problem. I see that these downlights should be used much more sparingly.
well just according to the us government Statistics CPI, the US dollar has lost 90-95 percent of it value. This should price gold today at around $800. Of course the CPI is manipulated to be lower than it really should be, so gold should really be higher than that. See Shadow Stats for more details on that. I can't find a graph now, but if you graph of the cpi you will see that it is fairly flat until 1913, when the Federal reserve was created on December 23rd 1913 (guess why on that date).
The Fed is not there to stop inflation but to create it!!!!! They are the biggest counterfeiters and fraudsters (also in control of the biggest ponzi scheme)in the world (along with all the other central banks), helping steal REAL wealth from the masses and giving it to the banks, who receive the newly created high power money first. People know that communism didn't work because the central planners could not work out what was needed. Well what makes you think the "central planning" Federal Reserve can do any better. Finally with the Federal Reserves role as managing the currency as well as policing the banks is like a fox guarding the hen house.
Finally the average life of a fiat currency is about 30 years, the US dollar in its current form is about due for demise.
I live in Australia too. 3 computers I look after are located in an small room. The temperature monitoring software on the computers was warning us that things were getting to hot. So after trying a few different things we settled on putting an air conditioner in the room. This is then set on a timer controller which turns the air conditioner on for several hours, a few times a day to keep the ambient temperature in the room to an acceptable level.
In the winter we don't need to use it air con at all, in fact we are just starting to use it again now that the weather has heated up.
I believe the way it works is as follows. The DVD-Video format actually specifies the iso9660 filesystem format. One interesting note of the iso9660 file format is that the maximum file size is either 1 or 2 Gb (can't remember which). This is one of the main reasons why dvd's have multiple.vob files. The iso9660 standard is also limited by maximum filename lengths. I think it was microsoft that created the UDF filesystem standard so that it could handle longer filesnames amoung other things. The thing is though, UDF is actually a mirror filesystem on top of iso9660. It contains all the information that is in iso9660, but is stored in a seperate location. Have a look at Nero Burning Rom, which allows you to create just a iso9660 format or it can add in the UDF filesystem.
Therefore the way this copy protection stratagy works is by storing the correct information in the iso9660 filesystem - which DVD players read, and incorrect information in the UDF filesystem making the files appear as 0 byte length files. So all that needs to be done is to read the DVD as a iso9660 format disk and not as a UDF format.
I am not sure how you would do this on windows, but I think it would be fairly easy on linux using the mount command, specifying the filesystem type as iso9660 (I think).
I think this idea could also extended to cheques. Instead of just having bank/branch,account number and cheque number on the cheque, some extra numbers could be added that was a hash and then signed by the bank to signify a genuine check.
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I'm not sure about just solar being the answer on the hot days. The power issues seem to occur in the late afternoon and later, because the existing solar generation is starting to fall off. It would probably need to be a combination of solar and storage of some description, batteries or pumped hydro.
Na this still helps. Even with fully encrypted email there would still be a lot of meta data that could be monitored without accessing the mail servers. This will cut that down. I'm sure the eff would be interested in the end to end encryption eventually as well.
Googles version of Slashdot beta?
Google just needs to detect when they get a large number of the same request to comes in simultaneously. Then the can create an id of the message and automatically block it as spam. It will stop the problem before it starts!
It is doubtful that the march of automation would have gone much slower, even without the increase in minimum wages.
Banks do create money.. Read it straight from the Bank of England!
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk...
If corporations didn't pay tax, the burden of tax would move further onto the wage earners as opposed to the owners of capital. This also means that corporations will grow even bigger than they already do and become even more uncontrollable than they have already become - see To Big To Fail banks, etc. As to people not seeing that they are paying the company taxes (tax transparency), More assets would end up being owned by corporations (as they will be able to bid up prices) and only indirectly by people, losing transparency of ownership. See MERS and MBS's for what kind of issues this can create.
You need to tell the government then, to back off Microsoft then!
There is a difference between language that offends and threats of violence!
One of the distortions that the central banks do in keeping interest rates low is that it alters the balance between labour and capital investment. If interest rates are higher capital intensive robotics would be less profitable and make the higher ongoing cost of labour less uncompetitive in many situations.
Dick Smith doesn't say climate change is caused by foreigners and migrants... he is talking about infinite growth in Australia (and the World)... is not possible with finite resources. As in productive farm land, water, energy, materials mined out of the ground like copper and steal (iron ore). Some efficiencies can make better use of resources.... but they will always be finite and at best reusable.
Here is my improved version of the test... With proxy detection and text result output.
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Gold isn't a speculative commodity, it is paper money that is the speculative commodity. Gold is money and has been for thousands of years. Gold is not the liability of anyone else (eg Central Banks). Paper money in many countries in the past has become worthless. Gold has never become worthless. Also I wouldn't say that the value of Gold has gone up, but the value of paper money has gone down.
The instantaneous cost of the commodity isn't what's at hand here, only the price obtained for the finished good relative to the commodity when it was purchased. The raw materials only cost 0.97 now? That's fantastic, until you realize that deflation still exists. Deflation is a trap for the producer that cuts into earnings. Also, I doubt many Chinese manufacturers are making a 47% margin.
To give another example... the raw material cost goes up to 1.10 but the price for the finished goods stays the same... the same problem occurs. Therefore inflation and deflation cause problems for producers when they lack pricing power (which much of china probably does).
You are the very first person I've ever heard attribute the current financial crisis to monetary inflation. At best, you could ascribe it to asset inflation, i.e. the housing crisis, but even that is a proximate cause. Inflation has been quite low over the past decade. A more immediate problem is the insane leveraging of financial institutions coupled with a serious lack of regulation.
Since you haven't heard anyone attribute the current financial crisis to monetary inflation, do some reading on the Austrian School of Economics and Austrian Business Cycle Theory.
I live in Australia and have always wondered about the security of cheques because of the place your bank account number on the cheque as well as a incrementing cheque number. The first thing I would do is make the cheque number pseudo random, so that someone who was able to get an image of a cheque wouldn't be able to create another valid cheque, just by increasing the cheque number. Even the account number could be a random number... which points to a record at the bank which determines which account the money has to come from. I think these changes could probably be implemented individually by a bank as well...ie. it wouldn't need other banks to know what is going on.
Several years ago, I helped save someone some money by tracking where a particular person actually was via email. Realizing a tracking image in an email was unreliable, I also added a tracking image into a word document... which doesn't have any protection against loading images from remote servers.
Long story short - the person was on the other side of the world to where they were claiming to be based on their IP address.
The Northern rock bank run caused the government of england to guarantee the entire country's banking system. This was a BIG mistake because now they have socialized the losses and kept the profits privatized. This will make the banks even more risk taking, knowing that they will be bailed out if anything goes wrong. And the taxpayers could be up for HUGE amounts of money to bail the banks out.
Amero Currency and a North American Union, and the North American Superhighway.
the 180watts is for a single room.
The thing that really annoys me is that all the new houses I see use 50w heligen downlights. In our house we may use a maximum of say 180w total, probably less. But in the new houses they would have 6 50w globes for the same area for a total of 300watts - not including transformer losses so probably 400 watts. This I think is a bigger problem. I see that these downlights should be used much more sparingly.
well just according to the us government Statistics CPI, the US dollar has lost 90-95 percent of it value. This should price gold today at around $800. Of course the CPI is manipulated to be lower than it really should be, so gold should really be higher than that. See Shadow Stats for more details on that. I can't find a graph now, but if you graph of the cpi you will see that it is fairly flat until 1913, when the Federal reserve was created on December 23rd 1913 (guess why on that date).
The Fed is not there to stop inflation but to create it!!!!! They are the biggest counterfeiters and fraudsters (also in control of the biggest ponzi scheme)in the world (along with all the other central banks), helping steal REAL wealth from the masses and giving it to the banks, who receive the newly created high power money first. People know that communism didn't work because the central planners could not work out what was needed. Well what makes you think the "central planning" Federal Reserve can do any better. Finally with the Federal Reserves role as managing the currency as well as policing the banks is like a fox guarding the hen house.
Finally the average life of a fiat currency is about 30 years, the US dollar in its current form is about due for demise.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/03/131 4207
I live in Australia too. 3 computers I look after are located in an small room. The temperature monitoring software on the computers was warning us that things were getting to hot. So after trying a few different things we settled on putting an air conditioner in the room. This is then set on a timer controller which turns the air conditioner on for several hours, a few times a day to keep the ambient temperature in the room to an acceptable level.
In the winter we don't need to use it air con at all, in fact we are just starting to use it again now that the weather has heated up.
The other thing I have done is set up Motherboard monitor and SNMP Informant - Motherboard Monitor Edition. I then use MRTG to graph the temperature of the motherboard and cpu. With this information you can use it to only turn the air con on when it is really needed.
I believe the way it works is as follows. The DVD-Video format actually specifies the iso9660 filesystem format. One interesting note of the iso9660 file format is that the maximum file size is either 1 or 2 Gb (can't remember which). This is one of the main reasons why dvd's have multiple .vob files. The iso9660 standard is also limited by maximum filename lengths. I think it was microsoft that created the UDF filesystem standard so that it could handle longer filesnames amoung other things. The thing is though, UDF is actually a mirror filesystem on top of iso9660. It contains all the information that is in iso9660, but is stored in a seperate location. Have a look at Nero Burning Rom, which allows you to create just a iso9660 format or it can add in the UDF filesystem.
Therefore the way this copy protection stratagy works is by storing the correct information in the iso9660 filesystem - which DVD players read, and incorrect information in the UDF filesystem making the files appear as 0 byte length files. So all that needs to be done is to read the DVD as a iso9660 format disk and not as a UDF format.
I am not sure how you would do this on windows, but I think it would be fairly easy on linux using the mount command, specifying the filesystem type as iso9660 (I think).
I think this idea could also extended to cheques. Instead of just having bank/branch,account number and cheque number on the cheque, some extra numbers could be added that was a hash and then signed by the bank to signify a genuine check.