The RESEARCH is expensive. The base fuel comes from seawater and costs hundreds of dollars per pound. The energy in one pound is equal to millions of pounds of coal.
Even better, most of the fuel cost is the energy needed to separate the fuel from seawater. With self-powering desalination / fusion plants, fuel cost would be pennies.
The difficulty is that conditions have to be just perfect to keep the reaction going. If anything isn't just right, the process stops and you're left with what looks and acts like a baby aspirin. That's awesome for safety, though. That's the opposite of fission, where they are trying to keep a naturally volatile reaction under control.
What?!?! The tax RETROACTIVELY took money that people had earned years ago. You work 80 hours a week for several years, then sell the business, finally reaping the rewards of your hard work. With the money, you pay off the credit cards or other debts you incurred while getting the business going. Two years later, the state comes along and says they want that money.
How is ceasing that nastiness a "state subsidy to people who don't need it"? Are you high?
> I guess Google doesn't want to license the technology, they want to own it.
Absolutely. They can license or outsource payroll software, backup systems, communications - anything that is similar to what other companies have. Outsourcing SEARCH, the thing that makes them special, would be making themselves into an easily replaceable retailer for IBM.
Schwinn learned that the hard way. They were the dominant bicycle company. First they outsourced the manufacturing of parts, and that was fine. They designed and built bicycles, not gears. Then they outsourced assembly, and that worked okay - dealers had been doing some of the assembly for a long time anyway. When they taught their Chinese partner Schwinn's design secrets, they made themselves irrelevant. The company they outsourced too, Giant, just started selling the bikes without involving Schwinn.
The ag STUDENTS I've met wouldn't starve, I don't believe. If you throw random LAWYERS out there some might starve, but that was true of barristers 200 years ago too, that hasn't changed as much as your post implies.
Of course, far fewer people need to know agriculture these days because agriculture is more efficient than before. One farmer can feed 100 people who choose to be poets, graphic designers, database architects or occasionally hemp-bracelet-makers. Today's graphic designers are better educated in absolute terms than 140-years ago farmers because anyone with a degree of any kind is supposed to understand things like chemistry 101, basic economics, and climate - aka how fertilizer works, why crops sell for what they do, etc. In some ways, a graphic designer today is more educated about AGRICULTURE than farmers of 140 years ago were. At least, the degree plan says they are. Tomorrow, I may ask a couple of graphic designers about how economic factors affect crop prices and see if they actually absorbed that education.
Someone "decided to wait until the last minute". The Republicans passed theirs March 21st 2013, seven months ago. That's before Obama submitted his proposal.
Obama keeps submitting proposals so bad that not a single DEMOCRAT will vote for them. Think about that. Not one member of his own party will put their name on the crap Obama has been submitting since he took office. I dont recall if any of his five annual budget proposals got even one vote of support - I do recall that at least two or three years he couldn't get even one junior house member to sign on to his crap.
I should be 100% clear about exactly what Obama said and when. Three days ago he said "I will not negotiate". When that polled very badly, it changed to I am willing to negotiate after they pass a "clean" bill - one with no changes other than the ones Obama asked for. In other words, "give me everything I want, then I'll take your phone call".
"Congress" did not vote to do that, any more than Congress passed a budget. The republican controlled house voted to do that, but they also passed a full budget, voted to re-open parks, etc. The Senate democrats and refused to consider any of those bills and the president said he'd veto it anyway
The president has said he won't so much as discuss anything until he gets exactly the bill he wants, with only his changes to Obamacare, so everything that's been voted on is only by the house republicans, it's not law. (Except paying military troops.)
If you send your money to someone in the US, paying them to commit a crime in the US, that money which is now part of a US crime is going to be seized in the US.
Some cases bring up interesting questions of jurisdiction. This case isn't one of them.
> You'd have put money away and bonded lawyers so they could "spring you"? How exactly are these lawyers going to do that? Ulbricht is guilty as fuck and clearly knows it. The two criminal complaints are overflowing with evidence and that's not going to be all the Fed's have got. I have a hard time seeing how any lawyer is going to wriggle out from under all that stuff. Doesn't matter if you somehow managed to bond the best of the best ahead of time
Perhaps that is all true. The lawyers only need to get one juror to say reasonable doubt, though. There was a mountain of evidence against OJ Simpson. His team found the Furman tape and OJ walked.
Horses were better than early cars. So they shouldn't have developed cars?
I could see advanced legged robots being useful in search & rescue in rough terrain, unexploded ordinance disposal (think IEDs), and several other applications. I'd like to take some of this company's robots and engineers out to our training area, Disaster City.
It seems I was mistaken, Clinton started this sophomoric stunt, not Obama. This AC then demonstrated the vitriol borne of envy and self hatred that has become the hallmark of today's Democrat party.
Suppose everything you said is correct . Unquestionably, Texas produces a lot of presidents and presidential candidates. Just recently, Bush I, Bush II, Perry, and Ron Paul. So the next president may very well be a Texan. Do you think it's better for the next president to set policy for California, or for Californians to decide their own policies?
Ps - it is true California is often "ahead of the curve". They try new things. Some of the new things they try work out well. Some turn out horribly. Right now, gas costs 50% more in California because California does things their own way. Texas sits is less experimental - they'll watchto see if tthe new approach works in California before they make a law requiring whatever.
Based on the products they put out, I don't think it's equal. Some significant functionality appears to have never been tested. It's probably patented, though.
Yeah we always don't allow root login with a password, only with a key. In sshd config:
PermitRootLogin without-password
I wish the argument were named differently. I think some people have been scared that would allow roologin with no authentication . "require-secure-key" would more accurately describe what it does.
Minimum wage, the least someone can if they consistently show up late or stoned, is now three times higher than the average used to be. (Inflation adjusted of course.)
So yes, a rising tide lifts all ships. Please go talk to an old person, complain to them about not being able to fly first class to the Bahamas during your two weeks of paid vacation and see what they can tell you about life just sixty years ago.
"People would all move to the states that have [nice stuff]". Wouldn't that be horrible, if people lived in nice places.
California and Texas were of similar size, but opposite political policies. When the policies in California failed, people and businesses moved in droves out of California to Texas. California has seen that and very slowly started to implement policies more like the Texas approach that has worked. When different states try different things, people can move to states that do things that work well AND other states can emulate what works and avoid policies that haven't worked.
The alternative, with the federal government deciding things, is that the entire country is forced to try new policies which turn out to be disastrous. I'd much rather see one state experiment with something that fails than have the whole country failing as the feds force the country into each new experiment.
When hasn't this happened you asked. The Lincoln Memorial the Washington Monument, etc. have NEVER been closed like this. This stunt is an Obama original. The democrats defunded Reagan three times. He didn't spend money closing parks. Clinton took a small step in this direction by furloughing park service employees, resulting in parks that had federal staff being closed. He didn't spend extra money closing open air landmarks.
While the worst that's ever happened.before was that federal employees were sent home, Obama has spent more money posting federal agents to block access to private businesses that happen to have a federal contract. No president before has come anywhere near this ludicrous stunt.
In case you're wondering WHY "with the money to buy a $2M harvester" will "lower himself to driving it", ask yourself this:
If YOU spent $2 million, putting $200,000 down and you are responsible for a $1,800,000 loan, would YOU let some idiot drive it? No, you drive it yourself or hire someone good, someone who knows his shit and is proven responsible and trustworthy.
You must be a Yankee city slicker. Maybe one of those who drives through our little town in his $50,000 car turning up his nose at us country bumpkins in overalls.
We laugh at you and that $50,000 car you think is such hot shit because we do indeed have $2 million machines, and we drive them.
Posted from College Station, home of Texas A&M and the Fightin Texas Aggies.
I run a Linux appliance with 4MB of RAM as a VPN endpoint for my kvm, ipmi, pdu, etc. I don't consider 10 cents of RAM "bloated".
Sure for some things you don't need an operating system, but if having Linux saves five minutes of development time it may be worth the extra $5 of hardware.
Obviously if you plan to sell a million units of a particular design, omitting 10 cents worth of RAM from each saves you $100K. For hobbyists, 4MB of RAM to run Linux is very often worth it.
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The RESEARCH is expensive. The base fuel comes from seawater and costs hundreds of dollars per pound. The energy in one pound is equal to millions of pounds of coal.
Even better, most of the fuel cost is the energy needed to separate the fuel from seawater. With self-powering desalination / fusion plants, fuel cost would be pennies.
The difficulty is that conditions have to be just perfect to keep the reaction going. If anything isn't just right, the process stops and you're left with what looks and acts like a baby aspirin. That's awesome for safety, though. That's the opposite of fission, where they are trying to keep a naturally volatile reaction under control.
What?!?! The tax RETROACTIVELY took money that people had earned years ago. You work 80 hours a week for several years, then sell the business, finally reaping the rewards of your hard work. With the money, you pay off the credit cards or other debts you incurred while getting the business going. Two years later, the state comes along and says they want that money.
How is ceasing that nastiness a "state subsidy to people who don't need it"? Are you high?
> I guess Google doesn't want to license the technology, they want to own it.
Absolutely. They can license or outsource payroll software, backup systems, communications - anything that is similar to what other companies have. Outsourcing SEARCH, the thing that makes them special, would be making themselves into an easily replaceable retailer for IBM.
Schwinn learned that the hard way. They were the dominant bicycle company. First they outsourced the manufacturing of parts, and that was fine. They designed and built bicycles, not gears. Then they outsourced assembly, and that worked okay - dealers had been doing some of the assembly for a long time anyway. When they taught their Chinese partner Schwinn's design secrets, they made themselves irrelevant. The company they outsourced too, Giant, just started selling the bikes without involving Schwinn.
The ag STUDENTS I've met wouldn't starve, I don't believe.
If you throw random LAWYERS out there some might starve, but that was true of barristers 200 years ago too, that hasn't changed as much as your post implies.
Of course, far fewer people need to know agriculture these days because agriculture is more efficient than before. One farmer can feed 100 people who choose to be poets, graphic designers, database architects or occasionally hemp-bracelet-makers. Today's graphic designers are better educated in absolute terms than 140-years ago farmers because anyone with a degree of any kind is supposed to understand things like chemistry 101, basic economics, and climate - aka how fertilizer works, why crops sell for what they do, etc. In some ways, a graphic designer today is more educated about AGRICULTURE than farmers of 140 years ago were. At least, the degree plan says they are. Tomorrow, I may ask a couple of graphic designers about how economic factors affect crop prices and see if they actually absorbed that education.
Someone "decided to wait until the last minute".
The Republicans passed theirs March 21st 2013, seven months ago. That's before Obama submitted his proposal.
Obama keeps submitting proposals so bad that not a single DEMOCRAT will vote for them. Think about that. Not one member of his own party will put their name on the crap Obama has been submitting since he took office. I dont recall if any of his five annual budget proposals got even one vote of support - I do recall that at least two or three years he couldn't get even one junior house member to sign on to his crap.
I should be 100% clear about exactly what Obama said and when.
Three days ago he said "I will not negotiate". When that polled very badly, it changed to I am willing to negotiate after they pass a "clean" bill - one with no changes other than the ones Obama asked for. In other words, "give me everything I want, then I'll take your phone call".
"Congress" did not vote to do that, any more than Congress passed a budget. The republican controlled house voted to do that, but they also passed a full budget, voted to re-open parks, etc. The Senate democrats and refused to consider any of those bills and the president said he'd veto it anyway
The president has said he won't so much as discuss anything until he gets exactly the bill he wants, with only his changes to Obamacare, so everything that's been voted on is only by the house republicans, it's not law. (Except paying military troops.)
TEEX, Texas Engineering Extension Service.
They gave someone a Nobel peace prize for talking about peace while engaging in war. Close enough.
If you send your money to someone in the US, paying them to commit a crime in the US, that money which is now part of a US crime is going to be seized in the US.
Some cases bring up interesting questions of jurisdiction. This case isn't one of them.
> You'd have put money away and bonded lawyers so they could "spring you"? How exactly are these lawyers going to do that? Ulbricht is guilty as fuck and clearly knows it. The two criminal complaints are overflowing with evidence and that's not going to be all the Fed's have got. I have a hard time seeing how any lawyer is going to wriggle out from under all that stuff. Doesn't matter if you somehow managed to bond the best of the best ahead of time
Perhaps that is all true. The lawyers only need to get one juror to say reasonable doubt, though. There was a mountain of evidence against OJ Simpson. His team found the Furman tape and OJ walked.
Horses were better than early cars. So they shouldn't have developed cars?
I could see advanced legged robots being useful in search & rescue in rough terrain, unexploded ordinance disposal (think IEDs), and several other applications. I'd like to take some of this company's robots and engineers out to our training area, Disaster City.
It seems I was mistaken, Clinton started this sophomoric stunt, not Obama. This AC then demonstrated the vitriol borne of envy and self hatred that has become the hallmark of today's Democrat party.
You don't see the bots trying a million passwords with user "jeleay", they are trying "root", so not allowing root via password is significant.
Suppose everything you said is correct . Unquestionably, Texas produces a lot of presidents and presidential candidates. Just recently, Bush I, Bush II, Perry, and Ron Paul. So the next president may very well be a Texan. Do you think it's better for the next president to set policy for California, or for Californians to decide their own policies?
Ps - it is true California is often "ahead of the curve". They try new things. Some of the new things they try work out well. Some turn out horribly. Right now, gas costs 50% more in California because California does things their own way. Texas sits is less experimental - they'll watchto see if tthe new approach works in California before they make a law requiring whatever.
Based on the products they put out, I don't think it's equal. Some significant functionality appears to have never been tested. It's probably patented, though.
Yeah we always don't allow root login with a password, only with a key. In sshd config:
PermitRootLogin without-password
I wish the argument were named differently. I think some people have been scared that would allow roologin with no authentication . "require-secure-key" would more accurately describe what it does.
Minimum wage, the least someone can if they consistently show up late or stoned, is now three times higher than the average used to be. (Inflation adjusted of course .)
So yes, a rising tide lifts all ships. Please go talk to an old person, complain to them about not being able to fly first class to the Bahamas during your two weeks of paid vacation and see what they can tell you about life just sixty years ago.
"People would all move to the states that have [nice stuff]". Wouldn't that be horrible, if people lived in nice places.
California and Texas were of similar size, but opposite political policies. When the policies in California failed, people and businesses moved in droves out of California to Texas. California has seen that and very slowly started to implement policies more like the Texas approach that has worked. When different states try different things, people can move to states that do things that work well AND other states can emulate what works and avoid policies that haven't worked.
The alternative, with the federal government deciding things, is that the entire country is forced to try new policies which turn out to be disastrous. I'd much rather see one state experiment with something that fails than have the whole country failing as the feds force the country into each new experiment.
When hasn't this happened you asked. The Lincoln Memorial the Washington Monument, etc. have NEVER been closed like this. This stunt is an Obama original. The democrats defunded Reagan three times. He didn't spend money closing parks. Clinton took a small step in this direction by furloughing park service employees, resulting in parks that had federal staff being closed. He didn't spend extra money closing open air landmarks.
While the worst that's ever happened.before was that federal employees were sent home, Obama has spent more money posting federal agents to block access to private businesses that happen to have a federal contract. No president before has come anywhere near this ludicrous stunt.
In case you're wondering WHY "with the money to buy a $2M harvester" will "lower himself to driving it", ask yourself this:
If YOU spent $2 million, putting $200,000 down and you are responsible for a $1,800,000 loan, would YOU let some idiot drive it? No, you drive it yourself or hire someone good, someone who knows his shit and is proven responsible and trustworthy.
You must be a Yankee city slicker. Maybe one of those who drives through our little town in his $50,000 car turning up his nose at us country bumpkins in overalls.
We laugh at you and that $50,000 car you think is such hot shit because we do indeed have $2 million machines, and we drive them.
Posted from College Station, home of Texas A&M and the Fightin Texas Aggies.
It's called the internet. Learn to use it.
Start with the Department of Labor.
I run a Linux appliance with 4MB of RAM as a VPN endpoint for my kvm, ipmi, pdu, etc. I don't consider 10 cents of RAM "bloated".
Sure for some things you don't need an operating system, but if having Linux saves five minutes of development time it may be worth the extra $5 of hardware.
Obviously if you plan to sell a million units of a particular design, omitting 10 cents worth of RAM from each saves you $100K. For hobbyists, 4MB of RAM to run Linux is very often worth it.
The 1960s - 1970s minicomputer was gone by 1985. Thirty years later, there's no confusion and therefore no reason not to reuse the term.