The price of the dollar is driven by supply and demand, just like anything else.
The thing that most people miss is that the total supply of "dollars" is consists of both currency units and credit. Credit is a much larger fraction of all the spendable dollars than currency so changes in credit available tend to dominate the behavior of the overall money supply.
Right now credit availability of credit is shrinking on a per-capita basis as loans default and new loans are more difficult to obtain than in the past so this tends to cause deflation. Every time Ben Bernanke injects another hit of credit heroin into the economy you see the price of the dollar fall for a short time before deflation takes over again.
If you go by the book the Red October didn't use MHD, it had a propulsor that was mounted in the middle of a tube that ran the length of the ship so the noise was more difficult to detect.
Somebody had probably been talking to Clancy about the ducted propulsor that is used on the Seawolf class submarines and he changed a few details (like putting it inside the hull instead of on the back end of the ship) and used it as a plot point.
That's a common claim but it's not at all supported by the facts.
Please go to the US Treasury department's official website, look up the "Debt to the Penny" data series and point out during which year in the Clinton administration (or any administration for that matter) the Total Public Debt Outstanding was reduced from the previous year.
I don't know enough about Canadian finances to know whether the claimed surplus is real or if the government is playing accounting games with off-balance sheet items and/or unfunded liabilities.
I'm not saying that Keynesianism is a good idea or it works, but rather pointing out that what's currently practiced can't honestly be called Keynesianism.
Keynsian theory stated that the government should run deficits during cyclical depressions and surpluses during periods of growth that fully pay down the debt to "smooth out" the business cycle .
The second half prescription has never once been practiced because a government running a surplus is as unnatural as water flowing uphill.
You see, children? That' s what sociopathy looks like.
Sociopathy is caused by narcissistic parents that don't interact with their infants during the critical period of development for the mirror neutrons, causing the children to grow up with a stunted capacity for empathy.
Then again, these same wingnuts would rather that we return to be a society of hunter-gatherers and that a genocide of 99.9% of the world's population (but not them) is a desirable thing. They are folks who hate their own species.
You really should have some empathy for those wingnuts. No one grows up hoping for universal genocide unless he or she was brutalized as a child in some way. Just calling them wingnuts does nothing to address the root cause of where all these people are coming from.
I don't care who has my phone number. Between the anti-spam features of Google Voice and android apps that will send all calls from people not on my contact list directly to voicemail I don't get bothered by annoying phone calls anymore.
I have mixed feelings on some of the breeder reactors. They clearly solve our fuel problems, but have unique engineering issues that could prove to be significant safety challenges. (Sodium = nasty...)
Search for the Google TechTalk videos about LFTR and you'll see that the use of hazardous coolants like sodium is not required for a molten salt reactor.
Well, yes. If you block all technological advancement in one field for upwards of half a century then it won't tend to much progress.
The designs for commercial nuclear power plants were based around 1950s requirements to create material for nuclear weapons programs. If energy companies were even just allowed to advance to state-of-the (1970s) - art molten salt reactor designs based around the thorium fuel cycle the economic argument would look a lot different, not to mention what might happen if the State decided to stop micromanaging energy production and allowed technology to advance on its own.
Even without such useless baggage, the way government grants for science work is easy to understand. The amount of grant money is finite. Therefore, it is allocated to those research projects which are viewed as reasonably likely to obtain useful results.
This is true as long as you understand that in a government context "useful results" are results that either directly or indirectly funnel money to a shell corporation owned by some senator or that result in a bureaucrat landing a lucrative consulting position with some entity affected by the research upon retirement from "public service".
The purpose of government procurement is to make contractors rich, create opportunities to solicit bribes and to secure jobs in the private sector for the apparatchik after they retire from "public service". Buying systems that actually work would be counterproductive so it never happens.
This sounds like like the, "Why should we rewrite our perfectly good 16 bit applications just because everybody else is jumping on the 32 bit bandwagon" conversations that we went through back in ancient times.
Before PulseAudio it wasn't possible to turn on a bluetooth headset and have any audio that was playing through your speakers automatically start going to the headset instead.
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So build some already.
That's an extremely misleading list of prepared talking points.
There's more than one way to reprocess.
My preferred solution would be to convert the spent fuel rods into a liquid form suitable for use in a molten salt reactor.
The vast majority of that waste is still capable of producing useful energy. If it was reprocessed there'd be a lot less that needs to be stored.
The price of the dollar is driven by supply and demand, just like anything else.
The thing that most people miss is that the total supply of "dollars" is consists of both currency units and credit. Credit is a much larger fraction of all the spendable dollars than currency so changes in credit available tend to dominate the behavior of the overall money supply.
Right now credit availability of credit is shrinking on a per-capita basis as loans default and new loans are more difficult to obtain than in the past so this tends to cause deflation. Every time Ben Bernanke injects another hit of credit heroin into the economy you see the price of the dollar fall for a short time before deflation takes over again.
If you go by the book the Red October didn't use MHD, it had a propulsor that was mounted in the middle of a tube that ran the length of the ship so the noise was more difficult to detect.
Somebody had probably been talking to Clancy about the ducted propulsor that is used on the Seawolf class submarines and he changed a few details (like putting it inside the hull instead of on the back end of the ship) and used it as a plot point.
That's a common claim but it's not at all supported by the facts.
Please go to the US Treasury department's official website, look up the "Debt to the Penny" data series and point out during which year in the Clinton administration (or any administration for that matter) the Total Public Debt Outstanding was reduced from the previous year.
I don't know enough about Canadian finances to know whether the claimed surplus is real or if the government is playing accounting games with off-balance sheet items and/or unfunded liabilities.
I'm not saying that Keynesianism is a good idea or it works, but rather pointing out that what's currently practiced can't honestly be called Keynesianism.
Can you provide some sort of citation for that assertion, or at least name the country you are referring to?
Keynsian theory stated that the government should run deficits during cyclical depressions and surpluses during periods of growth that fully pay down the debt to "smooth out" the business cycle .
The second half prescription has never once been practiced because a government running a surplus is as unnatural as water flowing uphill.
You see, children? That' s what sociopathy looks like. Sociopathy is caused by narcissistic parents that don't interact with their infants during the critical period of development for the mirror neutrons, causing the children to grow up with a stunted capacity for empathy.
You really should have some empathy for those wingnuts. No one grows up hoping for universal genocide unless he or she was brutalized as a child in some way. Just calling them wingnuts does nothing to address the root cause of where all these people are coming from.
If I used that service I'd whitelist whatever number the route calls from.
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I don't care who has my phone number. Between the anti-spam features of Google Voice and android apps that will send all calls from people not on my contact list directly to voicemail I don't get bothered by annoying phone calls anymore.
Search for the Google TechTalk videos about LFTR and you'll see that the use of hazardous coolants like sodium is not required for a molten salt reactor.
Well, yes. If you block all technological advancement in one field for upwards of half a century then it won't tend to much progress. The designs for commercial nuclear power plants were based around 1950s requirements to create material for nuclear weapons programs. If energy companies were even just allowed to advance to state-of-the (1970s) - art molten salt reactor designs based around the thorium fuel cycle the economic argument would look a lot different, not to mention what might happen if the State decided to stop micromanaging energy production and allowed technology to advance on its own.
This is true as long as you understand that in a government context "useful results" are results that either directly or indirectly funnel money to a shell corporation owned by some senator or that result in a bureaucrat landing a lucrative consulting position with some entity affected by the research upon retirement from "public service".
...as opposed to the non-libertarians who are intellectually refined and above petty insults.
Why not?
The purpose of government procurement is to make contractors rich, create opportunities to solicit bribes and to secure jobs in the private sector for the apparatchik after they retire from "public service". Buying systems that actually work would be counterproductive so it never happens.
This sounds like like the, "Why should we rewrite our perfectly good 16 bit applications just because everybody else is jumping on the 32 bit bandwagon" conversations that we went through back in ancient times.
Before PulseAudio it wasn't possible to turn on a bluetooth headset and have any audio that was playing through your speakers automatically start going to the headset instead.