That's a lot of solar panels, insulation, wind mills and hell, even a nuclear plant or two.....
But, if they are thinking $20 billion is worth it, you can be it is going to process a LOT more than that number in gas. My guess is they are looking at around $10 Billion/year return from their investment which gives them a 5 year payoff with operational costs. This beast will likely produce $250 Billion in revenue with about half that being profit.
No "green energy" installation of the same price would come close to this kind of profit.
Only by convention. You are free to start your own DNS network and dish out your own domain names, just run your own root DNS server. So any country that *really* doesn't like how DNS is structured now, can easily change that within their borders.
Democrats got briefed, yes. Did they get briefed truthfully? Truth in briefing doesn't seem to be in the NSA playbook.
This was NOT the NSA and Yes the Democrats got EXACTLY what the president got and then some. The President's Daily Brief is not just for his eyes, both the house and senate intelligence committees get copies.
As for the rest of your post, because you don't understand even the basic facts and procedures all that well and I don't have time to waste trying to educate you on how the intelligence system of the USA actually works, I'm just going to dismiss it. You obviously don't understand the difference between NSA and CIA or how all this took place, not to mention that you either are *really* young and didn't watch the news during the Iraq war, or your memory is pretty short. In any case, go back and read some about 9/11 and the Iraq war, specifically about what the democrats where saying about it back then. They knew full well what was going on.
Go learn something about what you are making confident assertions about. The rest of your post is useless and I don't have time to spend educating you on where you obviously don't understand how things really work.
Or they're idiots and didn't have a backup pen and paper solution that was used for decades before computers and all staff should have been trained on.
I'm betting on that one. We've become dependent on computers for air traffic control and I'll bet the manual system hasn't been trained in years.
How about we just mandate that Facebook (or any other website that keeps personal information) be required to DELETE any and ALL history over a specific age. I figure that anything more than a year old is worthless to just about everybody anyway, but make it something like 7 years. That way, your unfortunate college posts won't haunt you all your life.
I'm not so sure about that. It may take a few more years and a republican president, but I think there is a lot of pressure to repeal. At the very least, the ACA will be fundamentally modified. IMHO, it will be repealed in total, with the more popular parts re-implemented piecemeal.
However, we are stuck with it for the next two years at least, unless the democrat party goes into full revolt and enables a veto proof senate vote and override the presidential veto.
IF they where actually about security, you can bet stuff like this would be not only common, but UNIVERSAL. This and MORE. But it is really complaints like this that turned TSA into a paper tiger. All the stories of cavity searching little girls and naked X-Ray machines has systematically taken ANY pretense of actually being able to provide security away from the TSA and why? For Political Correctness.... Oh no, you can't PROFILE! Oh no, You cannot do secondary pat downs on anybody, epically young girls, good looking women, or Grandma in the wheel chair. Don't get me started about the "naked X-Ray" scanner bit.
No the TSA has been reduced to a joke, somewhere above the level of a mall-cop who looks all official with the badge, but about all he can really do is call the police while they sit on you.
Neither does the TSA. They really only provide the appearance of security.
REAL security is something they simply cannot do. Partly because we won't let them for political correctness reasons and partly because they do stupid stuff like this.
It's not that they provide much security but we got to keep up appearances you know.. Makes rubes/sheep (I mean people) feel sooo much safer when they fly.
Happens all the time... Because they lost the legal protection of a patent, they had to resort to something else to keep the money flowing in. Too bad it won't work long term. I'd be shorting the holder of the Keurig trademark, if I had any money.
So before Keurig came along, coffee was limited to only a handful of flavors and was difficult to find? And Keurig solved this problem, but no other coffee maker has, so the best solution is to buy a consumer-screwing machine?
No, a simple hot pot and a French press is all you need for great brewed coffee, well that and some beans a grinder and water...
It's like that electric car thing where you still need to generate power somewhere, and if you're not using clean energy, you're just moving the location of the pollution.
However, overall efficiency is still higher for electric cars even after repeated transformations.
Totally off topic and likely wrong. Storing energy in a battery is wildly inefficient and when you couple the transmission and generation losses along the path from say Natural Gas -> Steam -> AC electricity -> DC Electricity -> battery -> motion there is a lot of energy lost. I'm not sure, but I'd not be surprised if you don't actually burn MORE Natural Gas going the EV route than a standard internal combustion engine would. All that transmission and conversion loss is going to really burn up a lot of energy, as will the losses of the battery which are a lot higher than you might think.
So the previous poster was right... EV's are NOT as clean as they appear to run, and don't get me started on the industrial waste they produce being made and scrapped.
So we are moving to liquid cooling... You didn't have to do all the name dropping to make your point.
Buzz words I read in this story: "High performance Computing", "data-crunching", "Cloud computing", "bitcoin", "big data", 3x "bitcoin"..
BitCoin mining is certainly NOT a good reason to move to liquid cooling and it is not driving innovation in data center construction and design. Anybody building a data center for a mining operation clearly hasn't done the math and *will* loos money, liquid cooled or not. Cloud computing is really nothing more than the data centers of yore with IP connectivity, it might be driving people to BUILD new data centers, but nothing about the cloud drives you to liquid cooling. Big Data" might be driving this, but it's claim to fame is the ability to use lots of low power processors in parallel, much like RAID uses lots of spindles to spread out the data. Big data is not driving us to liquid cooling. HPC is the same. All this stuff MIGHT be adding to demand for data processing, but nothing about it drives one to liquid cooling over forced air.
The only reason we will be seeing a rise in liquid cooling is if it is CHEAPER than forced air cooling. Cheaper by taking up less space, being more power efficient, more reliable or any other way of reducing data center operator's costs. Until then, all the name dropping you can do with current buzz words won't really help get liquid cooling adopted. It's all about cost.
I guess it would have been a snoozer of an article to read without all the buzz words.
I don't know how it will be fast, but to use existing bitTorrent logic, there ARE legal torrents out there and I would assume web content would be similar.
No we don't "deserve it" especially from the likes of North Korea, Russia, China or Iran.
Your questions, one at a time:
YES, democrats knew about this. They get classified briefings, same as the president. Plus you do recall they talked about some of this right? Or is your memory that short?
Pretty sure OBL was found though information obtained though interrogation done using "enhanced" techniques.
Finally: We already knew, maybe not the full extent, but we knew about waterboarding, we knew about sleep depravation, all where previously outlined in the press and recounted by former Gitmo residents. It was a subtext of Obama's first campaign for president.
So I ask you, why do we need to know the details? I don't think the details are all that important, and this report doesn't expose anything we already haven't discussed in the public forum. That we use "enhanced" techniques when questioning combatants during a war isn't that important. We've done it for all our history, as EVERY other country in the world has in times of war. We've done much worse in the past, and I think we showed remarkable restraint compared to what this country allowed during WWII.
But, if we stipulate that we shouldn't do this kind of stuff, I ask you if it's permissible to just kill them on the battle field? Would you rather we just do that? Oh wait a min, we ARE doing that RIGHT NOW! Are drone strikes so routine that YOU don't care about them? But how do you prosecute a war without killing people and breaking things? Shall we just talk to them and use reason? Yea, that's going to work..
Oh, you mean the ACA that allowed me to get better coverage at half the cost? (No deductible, less than 300 a month. And I don't even qualify for a subsidy)
No deductible? No way that is possible. The "no deductible" part is for ONE preventative visit to a doctor per year for a physical. Anything else WILL have deductible and co-insurance or copays. Most plans I've seen have maximum out of pockets north of $5k for a family or more.
If $300/month sounds great to you, just make one extra doctor's visit and you will be paying both the $300 AND what the doctor chooses to bill you. If you hit the max out of pocket in the year, your monthly cost is north of $700.
Still sound affordable? I didn't think so..
Don't start with this "Well I won't use more than my one visit, I'm young and healthy" tripe either. Because if that is true, you are paying $3,600 for that visit.....
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How is the army allowed to do this on american soil...?
System test perhaps? One has to test these things someplace.
And then we no longer have an internet (international network) we have a regional one which would royally suck.
The internet would/could still be connected. Name resolution would be a problem, but you *could* still get where you wanted to go.
That's a lot of solar panels, insulation, wind mills and hell, even a nuclear plant or two.....
But, if they are thinking $20 billion is worth it, you can be it is going to process a LOT more than that number in gas. My guess is they are looking at around $10 Billion/year return from their investment which gives them a 5 year payoff with operational costs. This beast will likely produce $250 Billion in revenue with about half that being profit.
No "green energy" installation of the same price would come close to this kind of profit.
It'd be hard for it not to given that it weighs five times as much.
Archimedes? Is that you?
DNS already *is* distributed. Don't you really mean something that's not hierarchal?
I'm not following you on the crypto currency framework thing. Can you elaborate?
Lots of people prefer to ignore that the world's root DNS servers are controlled by US companies...
Only by convention. You are free to start your own DNS network and dish out your own domain names, just run your own root DNS server. So any country that *really* doesn't like how DNS is structured now, can easily change that within their borders.
Democrats got briefed, yes. Did they get briefed truthfully? Truth in briefing doesn't seem to be in the NSA playbook.
This was NOT the NSA and Yes the Democrats got EXACTLY what the president got and then some. The President's Daily Brief is not just for his eyes, both the house and senate intelligence committees get copies.
As for the rest of your post, because you don't understand even the basic facts and procedures all that well and I don't have time to waste trying to educate you on how the intelligence system of the USA actually works, I'm just going to dismiss it. You obviously don't understand the difference between NSA and CIA or how all this took place, not to mention that you either are *really* young and didn't watch the news during the Iraq war, or your memory is pretty short. In any case, go back and read some about 9/11 and the Iraq war, specifically about what the democrats where saying about it back then. They knew full well what was going on.
Go learn something about what you are making confident assertions about. The rest of your post is useless and I don't have time to spend educating you on where you obviously don't understand how things really work.
Or they're idiots and didn't have a backup pen and paper solution that was used for decades before computers and all staff should have been trained on.
I'm betting on that one. We've become dependent on computers for air traffic control and I'll bet the manual system hasn't been trained in years.
How about we just mandate that Facebook (or any other website that keeps personal information) be required to DELETE any and ALL history over a specific age. I figure that anything more than a year old is worthless to just about everybody anyway, but make it something like 7 years. That way, your unfortunate college posts won't haunt you all your life.
The ACA remains and it will not be removed.
I'm not so sure about that. It may take a few more years and a republican president, but I think there is a lot of pressure to repeal. At the very least, the ACA will be fundamentally modified. IMHO, it will be repealed in total, with the more popular parts re-implemented piecemeal.
However, we are stuck with it for the next two years at least, unless the democrat party goes into full revolt and enables a veto proof senate vote and override the presidential veto.
The TSA is about appearances so don't sweat it.
IF they where actually about security, you can bet stuff like this would be not only common, but UNIVERSAL. This and MORE. But it is really complaints like this that turned TSA into a paper tiger. All the stories of cavity searching little girls and naked X-Ray machines has systematically taken ANY pretense of actually being able to provide security away from the TSA and why? For Political Correctness.... Oh no, you can't PROFILE! Oh no, You cannot do secondary pat downs on anybody, epically young girls, good looking women, or Grandma in the wheel chair. Don't get me started about the "naked X-Ray" scanner bit.
No the TSA has been reduced to a joke, somewhere above the level of a mall-cop who looks all official with the badge, but about all he can really do is call the police while they sit on you.
so no this doesn't make airplanes safer.
Neither does the TSA. They really only provide the appearance of security.
REAL security is something they simply cannot do. Partly because we won't let them for political correctness reasons and partly because they do stupid stuff like this.
Are any TSA screenings necessary?
Only in so far as they keep up the appearance of doing something about security.
The real question is "Are any TSA screenings making us safer?"
But the answer doesn't change..
"Are the TSA's New Electronic Device Screenings Necessary?"
Reformat the question: "Is TSA Necessary?"
Why yes they ARE necessary. How else will we manage to keep the appearance of security on airplanes?
Sure TSA is necessary...
It's not that they provide much security but we got to keep up appearances you know.. Makes rubes/sheep (I mean people) feel sooo much safer when they fly.
The coffee doesn't power the maker, your analogy is shit on a stick.
I don't know, they might have something there... I'm pretty sure at 6 AM the coffee at least EMPOWERS the maker (me).
Happens all the time... Because they lost the legal protection of a patent, they had to resort to something else to keep the money flowing in. Too bad it won't work long term. I'd be shorting the holder of the Keurig trademark, if I had any money.
So before Keurig came along, coffee was limited to only a handful of flavors and was difficult to find? And Keurig solved this problem, but no other coffee maker has, so the best solution is to buy a consumer-screwing machine?
No, a simple hot pot and a French press is all you need for great brewed coffee, well that and some beans a grinder and water...
Yes, it is like the inkjet printers. If you can make an inkjet use the Keurig modules for ink, we could save a ton of money...
Wouldn't you need a 3D printer for that?
However, overall efficiency is still higher for electric cars even after repeated transformations.
Totally off topic and likely wrong. Storing energy in a battery is wildly inefficient and when you couple the transmission and generation losses along the path from say Natural Gas -> Steam -> AC electricity -> DC Electricity -> battery -> motion there is a lot of energy lost. I'm not sure, but I'd not be surprised if you don't actually burn MORE Natural Gas going the EV route than a standard internal combustion engine would. All that transmission and conversion loss is going to really burn up a lot of energy, as will the losses of the battery which are a lot higher than you might think.
So the previous poster was right... EV's are NOT as clean as they appear to run, and don't get me started on the industrial waste they produce being made and scrapped.
He crossed the event horizon, so now, any useful information he produced is now in the black hole of Political Correctness.
So we are moving to liquid cooling... You didn't have to do all the name dropping to make your point.
Buzz words I read in this story: "High performance Computing", "data-crunching", "Cloud computing", "bitcoin", "big data", 3x "bitcoin"..
BitCoin mining is certainly NOT a good reason to move to liquid cooling and it is not driving innovation in data center construction and design. Anybody building a data center for a mining operation clearly hasn't done the math and *will* loos money, liquid cooled or not. Cloud computing is really nothing more than the data centers of yore with IP connectivity, it might be driving people to BUILD new data centers, but nothing about the cloud drives you to liquid cooling. Big Data" might be driving this, but it's claim to fame is the ability to use lots of low power processors in parallel, much like RAID uses lots of spindles to spread out the data. Big data is not driving us to liquid cooling. HPC is the same. All this stuff MIGHT be adding to demand for data processing, but nothing about it drives one to liquid cooling over forced air.
The only reason we will be seeing a rise in liquid cooling is if it is CHEAPER than forced air cooling. Cheaper by taking up less space, being more power efficient, more reliable or any other way of reducing data center operator's costs. Until then, all the name dropping you can do with current buzz words won't really help get liquid cooling adopted. It's all about cost.
I guess it would have been a snoozer of an article to read without all the buzz words.
I don't know how it will be fast, but to use existing bitTorrent logic, there ARE legal torrents out there and I would assume web content would be similar.
No we don't "deserve it" especially from the likes of North Korea, Russia, China or Iran.
Your questions, one at a time:
YES, democrats knew about this. They get classified briefings, same as the president. Plus you do recall they talked about some of this right? Or is your memory that short?
Pretty sure OBL was found though information obtained though interrogation done using "enhanced" techniques.
Finally: We already knew, maybe not the full extent, but we knew about waterboarding, we knew about sleep depravation, all where previously outlined in the press and recounted by former Gitmo residents. It was a subtext of Obama's first campaign for president.
So I ask you, why do we need to know the details? I don't think the details are all that important, and this report doesn't expose anything we already haven't discussed in the public forum. That we use "enhanced" techniques when questioning combatants during a war isn't that important. We've done it for all our history, as EVERY other country in the world has in times of war. We've done much worse in the past, and I think we showed remarkable restraint compared to what this country allowed during WWII.
But, if we stipulate that we shouldn't do this kind of stuff, I ask you if it's permissible to just kill them on the battle field? Would you rather we just do that? Oh wait a min, we ARE doing that RIGHT NOW! Are drone strikes so routine that YOU don't care about them? But how do you prosecute a war without killing people and breaking things? Shall we just talk to them and use reason? Yea, that's going to work..
Oh, you mean the ACA that allowed me to get better coverage at half the cost? (No deductible, less than 300 a month. And I don't even qualify for a subsidy)
No deductible? No way that is possible. The "no deductible" part is for ONE preventative visit to a doctor per year for a physical. Anything else WILL have deductible and co-insurance or copays. Most plans I've seen have maximum out of pockets north of $5k for a family or more.
If $300/month sounds great to you, just make one extra doctor's visit and you will be paying both the $300 AND what the doctor chooses to bill you. If you hit the max out of pocket in the year, your monthly cost is north of $700.
Still sound affordable? I didn't think so..
Don't start with this "Well I won't use more than my one visit, I'm young and healthy" tripe either. Because if that is true, you are paying $3,600 for that visit.....