If you look at this site http://www.transparency.org/co... You will see that as a nation the US isn't doing that bad as far as corruption goes. I would disagree with you about the HOA moving is not that simple of a solution for most people. Also lots of HOAs means lots of small targets for corruption vs a few larger targets. If you take a look at Chicago politics you will see that the most effective targets are often Alderman.
That is why I would want to see Michigan become a right to work state at least for a while. The Unions there have become more about corruption than about securing benefits for the workers. The HOA idea is interesting but also scary. HOAs are not corruption free and might be worse than a large government. The real cure for corruption is a strong middle class.
Because the number of weapons is going down. AKA we have more than we need as it is. The Russians also down blend it so it is no longer weapons grade when it is shipped. That is not because they worry the US will use it for weapons but to make it useless for weapons if stolen and make it safer to ship as it can not form a critical mass.
So in other words you are a paranoid idiot that didn't bother to read the article.
You are nitpicking but also wrong. Even thermonuclear weapons get most of there yield from fission. The fusion reaction is mainly a neutron producing event that then goes on to fission the tamper made of natural uranium. That is how variable yield weapons work. You adjust the amount of tritium boost gas you inject in the triggers pit.
No you are wrong. Coal is crappy. Coal will produce more and wider spread radiation then nuclear ever will while also producing tons of carbon. Speaking of long term effects both Coal and natural gas produce many times the carbon of Nuclear. Solar can not work for base load. Wind is a bit better but it still needs natural gas fired peaking plants to back it up. Simple truth is you are spouting the same FUD we hear all the time about nuclear. The anti-nuclear people are as bad as the climate change deniers.
Maybe Detroit needs a CCTV system for a few years to get the crime under control. The issue is getting ride of it after the crime level drops. That would be a hard sell since you would be taking out a system that "worked". The better solution is honestly jobs. High employment usually drops crime.
There is a generation of children that are living their that will suffer because of many of those choices. Detroit does offer some interesting opportunities because of all those empty houses and buildings. Large scale redevelopment is easy in an area that is almost empty vs one that is full of people. This is not just to help those that live in Detroit now but to help people that are living in cities that have outrageous housing costs. Good paying jobs combined with a low cost of living will attract companies and people to those cities and in not take the pressure off of cities like San Francisco as far as housing costs at least offer them a place that is both nice to live and has good job opportunities. The US needs more cites like Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Portland, and Colorado Springs. Cities like Detroit could become a city like those or it can stay a slum. A slum hurts everyone.
It is called FUD. Slashdot is getting full of the tin foil hat crowd. One wonders what solution they would suggest for a small company that needs a 1000 node cluster to run one job a month?
Probably, I would be shocked if the Tesla has a charging issue at 0c. If it does then someone needs a swift in the rear. Odds are it is 0f. If it is 0k then forget about global warming the sun has gone out and we are all doomed.
Come on people enough people already worship at the church of Apple, Linux, Windows, and Android as it is. It is not that big of a stretch. BTW I am using a MacBook but running Linux on Virtual Box, and have a more than one Nexus device. I also run FSX from Microsoft on my Windows Box.
"I guess it could be therapeutic for people with exceptional nostalgia towards the days of mainframe computing."
Actually cloud has a lot of benefits. Say you need to run DNA sequencing and you do not have a super computer of your own or do not want to manage a super computer. Just use a compute cloud. Even for storage it makes sense. You do do off site backups don't you?
Combine this with Detroit being a one industry town that got hurt bad when that industry faced a downturn. Seattle used to have much the same problem in that Boeing was the big employer. When it had problems the city had problems. Detroit has a lot of problems. 1. Corruption. The city government and unions are both corrupt and mutually reenforcing. Make Michigan a right to work state. The unions have not done a good job keeping people working. 2. Crime. The level of crime in Detroit is several times the nation average and is a lot worse than San Francisco which also has an issue with Crime. Here is the comparison between Detroit and San Francisco http://www.areavibes.com/crime...
The easy solution for Detroit would be a lot of money. Start tearing down parts of the city and building green spaces Keep expanding the people mover and M1 street car line for better transportation and extend them to the universities, the airport and so on. Fiber to the door every where, offer incentives for people to build homes and apartments. Do not forget the well light sidewalks and bike paths. The problem is all that takes money which Detroit does not have.
I am sure you are correct. a gas turbine can pretty much run on anything that can burn. The germans even tried to make one that ran on powdered coal during WWII.
I wish people would stop calling them jet turbines they are gas turbines. They are not the same engines used on planes. They share the same core but often will have extra exhaust turbine stages. Even the engines on modern jet airliners are not really "jet engines" anymore since most of the thrust comes from the fan on a turbofan engine and not the jet exhaust.
They probably are using home heating oil. Jet engines can run on just about anything that burns. What you do not want is too much soot or any abrasive material in the fuel.
Microsoft gives schools a site licenses for so cheap that in the US there is little reason to go with Linux. Add in the fact that active directory makes managing large numbers of PC a lot simpler than Linux tools and you can see why Microsoft is hard to displace in a large schools system. Microsoft isn't dumb they want every kid to get out of school knowing how to use Windows and are willing to back that up with low cost software to the schools.
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If you look at this site http://www.transparency.org/co... You will see that as a nation the US isn't doing that bad as far as corruption goes. I would disagree with you about the HOA moving is not that simple of a solution for most people. Also lots of HOAs means lots of small targets for corruption vs a few larger targets. If you take a look at Chicago politics you will see that the most effective targets are often Alderman.
You are right. I am sorry. I was just in a bad mood and should have kept the comment constructive.
That is why I would want to see Michigan become a right to work state at least for a while. The Unions there have become more about corruption than about securing benefits for the workers.
The HOA idea is interesting but also scary. HOAs are not corruption free and might be worse than a large government. The real cure for corruption is a strong middle class.
That is a very sad statement don't you think?
Because the number of weapons is going down. AKA we have more than we need as it is. The Russians also down blend it so it is no longer weapons grade when it is shipped. That is not because they worry the US will use it for weapons but to make it useless for weapons if stolen and make it safer to ship as it can not form a critical mass.
So in other words you are a paranoid idiot that didn't bother to read the article.
You are nitpicking but also wrong.
Even thermonuclear weapons get most of there yield from fission. The fusion reaction is mainly a neutron producing event that then goes on to fission the tamper made of natural uranium. That is how variable yield weapons work. You adjust the amount of tritium boost gas you inject in the triggers pit.
No you are wrong. Coal is crappy. Coal will produce more and wider spread radiation then nuclear ever will while also producing tons of carbon. Speaking of long term effects both Coal and natural gas produce many times the carbon of Nuclear.
Solar can not work for base load. Wind is a bit better but it still needs natural gas fired peaking plants to back it up. Simple truth is you are spouting the same FUD we hear all the time about nuclear.
The anti-nuclear people are as bad as the climate change deniers.
Here are some scientists that say you are wrong.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/03/...
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10...
And a co founder of Greenpeace. http://www.wired.com/science/p...
Maybe Detroit needs a CCTV system for a few years to get the crime under control. The issue is getting ride of it after the crime level drops. That would be a hard sell since you would be taking out a system that "worked".
The better solution is honestly jobs. High employment usually drops crime.
There is a generation of children that are living their that will suffer because of many of those choices. Detroit does offer some interesting opportunities because of all those empty houses and buildings. Large scale redevelopment is easy in an area that is almost empty vs one that is full of people.
This is not just to help those that live in Detroit now but to help people that are living in cities that have outrageous housing costs. Good paying jobs combined with a low cost of living will attract companies and people to those cities and in not take the pressure off of cities like San Francisco as far as housing costs at least offer them a place that is both nice to live and has good job opportunities. The US needs more cites like Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Portland, and Colorado Springs. Cities like Detroit could become a city like those or it can stay a slum. A slum hurts everyone.
The most dangerous city in the US is East St. Louis IL
http://www.areavibes.com/crime...
Detroit is number 6 on the list.
It is called FUD. Slashdot is getting full of the tin foil hat crowd. One wonders what solution they would suggest for a small company that needs a 1000 node cluster to run one job a month?
Verses someone downloading it on a flash drive and walking out the door? Or maybe hacking your systems and getting the data?
Seeing the average network security I have as more trust in Amazon cloud than I do in your average network.
Probably, I would be shocked if the Tesla has a charging issue at 0c. If it does then someone needs a swift in the rear. Odds are it is 0f. If it is 0k then forget about global warming the sun has gone out and we are all doomed.
Come on people enough people already worship at the church of Apple, Linux, Windows, and Android as it is. It is not that big of a stretch.
BTW I am using a MacBook but running Linux on Virtual Box, and have a more than one Nexus device. I also run FSX from Microsoft on my Windows Box.
But that would not give you an offsite back up.
And yes you can do it now over XMPP. http://socialvpn.wordpress.com...
It sucks that Google is dropping XMPP. I wish they had kept it
"I guess it could be therapeutic for people with exceptional nostalgia towards the days of mainframe computing."
Actually cloud has a lot of benefits. Say you need to run DNA sequencing and you do not have a super computer of your own or do not want to manage a super computer. Just use a compute cloud.
Even for storage it makes sense. You do do off site backups don't you?
The problem is that most of those people lack skills. A lot of car production jobs are not skilled or the skills are not highly transferable.
Combine this with Detroit being a one industry town that got hurt bad when that industry faced a downturn. Seattle used to have much the same problem in that Boeing was the big employer. When it had problems the city had problems.
Detroit has a lot of problems.
1. Corruption. The city government and unions are both corrupt and mutually reenforcing. Make Michigan a right to work state. The unions have not done a good job keeping people working.
2. Crime. The level of crime in Detroit is several times the nation average and is a lot worse than San Francisco which also has an issue with Crime. Here is the comparison between Detroit and San Francisco http://www.areavibes.com/crime...
The easy solution for Detroit would be a lot of money. Start tearing down parts of the city and building green spaces Keep expanding the people mover and M1 street car line for better transportation and extend them to the universities, the airport and so on. Fiber to the door every where, offer incentives for people to build homes and apartments. Do not forget the well light sidewalks and bike paths. The problem is all that takes money which Detroit does not have.
I am sure you are correct. a gas turbine can pretty much run on anything that can burn. The germans even tried to make one that ran on powdered coal during WWII.
I wish people would stop calling them jet turbines they are gas turbines. They are not the same engines used on planes. They share the same core but often will have extra exhaust turbine stages. Even the engines on modern jet airliners are not really "jet engines" anymore since most of the thrust comes from the fan on a turbofan engine and not the jet exhaust.
They probably are using home heating oil. Jet engines can run on just about anything that burns. What you do not want is too much soot or any abrasive material in the fuel.
Actually a lot of peaking plants now are natural gas fired turbines. Natural Gas is a lot cheaper than jet fuel.
Microsoft gives schools a site licenses for so cheap that in the US there is little reason to go with Linux. Add in the fact that active directory makes managing large numbers of PC a lot simpler than Linux tools and you can see why Microsoft is hard to displace in a large schools system.
Microsoft isn't dumb they want every kid to get out of school knowing how to use Windows and are willing to back that up with low cost software to the schools.
I have looked and none of those apps where in the Google or Amazon app store.
True, I can see that. I just don't want that to be the primary driver at the elementary school level.