ACP or someone were looking at using car batteries to buffer high demand with base load. It would mean the electricity producers wouldn't need to have excess plant idling during low loads simply to deal with peak periods.
It looks like Saudi peaked in 2005. Virtually all of the anthracite coal is already gone leaving only the lower grades. Renewables are only capable of making up a fraction of current energy usage. Which means we're just about to fall off the energy cliff. Not in 20 years, but now.
Why are Iran building nuclear reactors? Their oil is already running out. Where will the next war zones be? Canada, Australia, Khazakstan.
It's that you need to know what you want to install
That can only be fixed by asking, no matter the platform. This isn't a Linux only phenomenon.
It's even worse on Windows than Linux because there aren't even any central repositories to search, and the only "well known" packages are Microsoft and expensive.
Lets take an example. I want to learn German. What's a good software package to help with that? I have no clue, you have no clue and I can't even search for "learn language" in a centralised repository to find something. Doing so in Synaptic turns up a couple of flash card systems and vocabulary trainers. Nothing remotely as sophisticated as Auralog, but they're there a click away and free.
With Windows I have to Google for it exactly as I have to on Linux.
The power requirements mean it will have to dissipate huge amounts of heat, generate lots of noise which means it'll essentially be carrying a "shoot me!" sign and individuals without any form of body power assist can already kill tanks, bring down helicopter gunships etc.
As a form of fork lift I can see some advantages in logistics, but not on the sharp end of a military.
You assume that there is a finite amount of money in the system and that it never increases at all, yet new resources are constantly being mined, produced, farmed, and created.
Read what you just wrote.
Now, what are resources? They are land, crops, ores, are they not? They are commodities. They are not money.
No. I'm asking where does the money come from. You can value your service at anything you like. Where does the money to pay for that service come from?
The money in the above economy comes from being able to grow food/produce energy and to be able to do something with it (cook the meal).
Oh... My... God...
Where does the MONEY come from. Where does the 2 dollars your example come from?
You're standing there with a sandwich. You want to sell it because you have no money. Along comes hungry person also with no money. Where does the money to sell the sandwich come from?
It isn't there until the money is borrowed into existence.
Said hungry person goes to a bank. Bank creates 1 dollar of credit by writing it into his account. The bank demands 2 dollars in return.
No matter how much work is done. No matter how many sandwiches or however many economic transactions. That second dollar cannot be paid back because it doesn't exist. Even if that dollar of credit is used to pay part of the debt, it simply vanishes and the total debt is reduced to 1 dollar. There is now NO money and 1 dollar of debt. In order to pay that 1 dollar of debt, at least 1 more dollar (plus interest) must be borrowed into existence. Exponential growth.
It doesn't make a blind bit of difference how hard you work. How clever you are, how efficient you are, there is always more debt than there is money.
There are only a couple of ways out. 1. Bankruptcy (monetary collapse). 2. Creation of non debt based money.
As long as I get paid a billion dollars, and my rent, food, utilities and entertainment cost $999m
Go plot an exponential curve. See it getting steeper? Exponentials always hit a limit in the real world. They simply cannot continue indefinitely, and when it does hit that limit (whatever it is), the system collapses. You are watching that happen right now.
Jesus Christ, people keep throwing this around. It bloody IS exponential, why are all the bloody graphs exponential if the function isn't exponential?
Debt pays interest as a percentage per unit time. That is an exponential function.
In your model. WHERE DOES THE MONEY COME FROM? Not the food. Not the energy, not the leftovers. Where does the MONEY come from? Where does the 2 dollars come from which you promise to repay? It is BORROWED INTO EXISTENCE WITH DEBT ATTACHED.
Credit is an exponential function. Go check the national debt (in any country) for the last couple of centuries. It's an exponential growth curve. Credit has an exponential function built in to to it. When credit is created, it is created with an equivalent amount of debt attached, which pays interest.
So you have : credit on one side | debt + interest on the other.
So in order to work AT ALL, the supply of credit must grow exponentially every year to pay the interest on the previous year's debt. If it doesn't, there is a monetary collapse as the debt consumes the credit.
Li's function simply allowed the process to continue until they ran out of people to lend money to. The problem has been there as long as money lenders.
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Anything that allows people to dodge taxes and profit from crimes is a bad thing, full stop.
Freedom.
All this means is that the people emailing links to porn sites will get the first promotions.
Normalise the sizes. Pick points on the images which mark particular features (corner of eye for instance) and then average them to reduce the errors.
e.g.
http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/average
The key to clean coal is not sequestration, but making coal power stations 90% efficient, rather than just 37%.
And this is only achievable through District Heating and District Cooling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating
1: Switch your applications to Open Source.
2: Switch your operating systems.
And ironically, the best way to switch people away from Windows is to port free and open source applications to the platform.
But, money is a man made concept. It's just paper, or bits on a computer. How can there possibly be a lack of money?
The problem is then with the nature of money.
Silvio Gesell has an interesting take on the subject.
If you want that in 10 seconds, you'd need a 9 Megawatt outlet.
Ah, now I have a reason to build and market personal thorium fast breeder reactors.
ACP or someone were looking at using car batteries to buffer high demand with base load. It would mean the electricity producers wouldn't need to have excess plant idling during low loads simply to deal with peak periods.
It looks like Saudi peaked in 2005. Virtually all of the anthracite coal is already gone leaving only the lower grades. Renewables are only capable of making up a fraction of current energy usage. Which means we're just about to fall off the energy cliff. Not in 20 years, but now.
Why are Iran building nuclear reactors? Their oil is already running out. Where will the next war zones be? Canada, Australia, Khazakstan.
It's that you need to know what you want to install
That can only be fixed by asking, no matter the platform. This isn't a Linux only phenomenon.
It's even worse on Windows than Linux because there aren't even any central repositories to search, and the only "well known" packages are Microsoft and expensive.
Lets take an example. I want to learn German. What's a good software package to help with that? I have no clue, you have no clue and I can't even search for "learn language" in a centralised repository to find something. Doing so in Synaptic turns up a couple of flash card systems and vocabulary trainers. Nothing remotely as sophisticated as Auralog, but they're there a click away and free.
With Windows I have to Google for it exactly as I have to on Linux.
Oh wait. Dumb idea.
The power requirements mean it will have to dissipate huge amounts of heat, generate lots of noise which means it'll essentially be carrying a "shoot me!" sign and individuals without any form of body power assist can already kill tanks, bring down helicopter gunships etc.
As a form of fork lift I can see some advantages in logistics, but not on the sharp end of a military.
How will you know if your data was encrypted?
Giving your money supply completely over to money lenders. Doh!
Something that'll handle 30+Gb of RAM. Then it pretty much doesn't matter.
You assume that there is a finite amount of money in the system and that it never increases at all, yet new resources are constantly being mined, produced, farmed, and created.
Read what you just wrote.
Now, what are resources? They are land, crops, ores, are they not? They are commodities. They are not money.
Where does the money come from?
Exactly. A legalised (300 year old) Ponzi scheme. That's banking.
Real dollars.
Growth IS inflation. It's that simple.
No. I'm asking where does the money come from. You can value your service at anything you like. Where does the money to pay for that service come from?
the money almost certainly comes from someone else's debt.
So there is what? An external source of money and debt entering this closed economic system?
The money in the above economy comes from being able to grow food/produce energy and to be able to do something with it (cook the meal).
Oh... My... God...
Where does the MONEY come from. Where does the 2 dollars your example come from?
You're standing there with a sandwich. You want to sell it because you have no money.
Along comes hungry person also with no money. Where does the money to sell the sandwich come from?
It isn't there until the money is borrowed into existence.
Said hungry person goes to a bank. Bank creates 1 dollar of credit by writing it into his account. The bank demands 2 dollars in return.
No matter how much work is done. No matter how many sandwiches or however many economic transactions. That second dollar cannot be paid back because it doesn't exist. Even if that dollar of credit is used to pay part of the debt, it simply vanishes and the total debt is reduced to 1 dollar. There is now NO money and 1 dollar of debt. In order to pay that 1 dollar of debt, at least 1 more dollar (plus interest) must be borrowed into existence. Exponential growth.
It doesn't make a blind bit of difference how hard you work. How clever you are, how efficient you are, there is always more debt than there is money.
There are only a couple of ways out. 1. Bankruptcy (monetary collapse). 2. Creation of non debt based money.
As long as I get paid a billion dollars, and my rent, food, utilities and entertainment cost $999m
Go plot an exponential curve. See it getting steeper? Exponentials always hit a limit in the real world. They simply cannot continue indefinitely, and when it does hit that limit (whatever it is), the system collapses. You are watching that happen right now.
THAT'S WHAT.
Jesus Christ, people keep throwing this around. It bloody IS exponential, why are all the bloody graphs exponential if the function isn't exponential?
Debt pays interest as a percentage per unit time. That is an exponential function.
In your model. WHERE DOES THE MONEY COME FROM? Not the food. Not the energy, not the leftovers. Where does the MONEY come from? Where does the 2 dollars come from which you promise to repay? It is BORROWED INTO EXISTENCE WITH DEBT ATTACHED.
It has been broken since 1694.
Credit is an exponential function. Go check the national debt (in any country) for the last couple of centuries. It's an exponential growth curve. Credit has an exponential function built in to to it. When credit is created, it is created with an equivalent amount of debt attached, which pays interest.
So you have : credit on one side | debt + interest on the other.
So in order to work AT ALL, the supply of credit must grow exponentially every year to pay the interest on the previous year's debt. If it doesn't, there is a monetary collapse as the debt consumes the credit.
Li's function simply allowed the process to continue until they ran out of people to lend money to. The problem has been there as long as money lenders.
So that they can give it to the poor destitute W^HBankers.