is "Troll" a valid substitute for "Your assertions of fact are dead wrong, you can't cite them because they're dead wrong, you have no idea what you're talking about, and your post shows signs of malicious intent in misrepresenting facts"?
I'm not sure how I feel about the yelling, but I'd mod this guy up for being the first person I've seen in this discussion to mention energy return on energy invested.
You ALSO have to keep in mind that American oil companies have to compete with other oil companies on the world market. Unfortunately, for the American oil companies, the vast majority of the other world oil companies are nationalized and have a lock on most of their oil. The market is so restricted that a mere 7% of the total world oil production is available on the open market to compete for.
That's right, SEVEN PERCENT. ALL the rest of it is locked up by nationalized oil companies and totalitarian governments. So the US can't even TOUCH 93% of the world's oil supply. It's just not available to buy!
and every day the weak dollar and increased market pressure from China and other countries drives the cost for crude higher and our ability to buy lower and lower.
Well maybe we should have kept our manufacturing infrastructure at home then, no?
Oh yeah, and add to all that the fact that the vast majority of American oil reserves are locked up in areas where drilling is BANNED (ANWR, both East and West coasts, the west coast of Florida, and the High Plains fields.), AND the fact that we haven't built a new refinery in America in nearly 30 years (if not longer)
There's still plenty of headroom on refinery capacity. You do raise an interesting question, though: if people in Florida are willing to pay extra for their gasoline to forgo the environmental degradation, risk of catastrophe, and (the only one you're likely to understand) decline in property values, well, isn't that a rational economic choice?
and you will BEGIN to get a picture of the real reasons why gas costs are currently so high, and why they are historically so volatile.
Historically volatile? Except for a period around 1980, gasoline prices have remained relatively stable. Given a good such as gasoline with low demand elasticity (we can call this a "lifestyle choice" if you like), volatility in price is mainly due to either speculation or tight supply. I imagine the powers that be are hoping that talking up the former will draw attention away from the latter.
I should highlight the difference between reserves and flows. ANWR at its peak (about 15-20 years in the future) would contribute about 10% at best of today's daily consumption of crude oil. But hey, you just go ahead and keep blaming those Eeeevil Big Oil Execs and their OBSCENE 4% profits! Ignorance like yours must be fucking bliss. Over the last 12 months, BP plc boasted a 20.4% gross profit margin. ExxonMobil's gross profit margin was 40.1%. It's worth noting that ExxonMobil is chiefly a refiner and does little R&D relative to producers like Shell.
With all due respect, if you're actually interested in arguing a position, you may wish to refer to primary or at least reputable sources of information and get your facts straight rather than taking as gos
I'd wholeheartedly support drilling ANWR if every barrel that came out is devoted solely to renewable energy infrastructure and renewable transportation infrastructure, profits on ANWR products sold for any other uses is taxed at near-100% levels for reinvestment in renewable infrastructure, and authorizing or participating in flaring unused product is punishable by firing squad.
Otherwise, it's just subsidizing useless breeding and I'm against it.
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My personal observations here in the Detroit area are that everybody who can uses a car to get around, yet our gasoline prices are consistently above average. I lived in Bakersfield, California for a minute too, which is also an above-average car-use area with a few predestrians and cyclists on the street occasionally, but pump prices there have held continental US record highs in the past. Neither of which disprove your point.
1. If you had to have a third party around for some reason or other, the libs are housebroken as far as the upper class is concerned, even if they can't be put in pocket right away. They may yap a lot but they know if they bite off too much of the social safety net, especially right now, they'll get more than a rolled-up newspaper across the nose.
2. The libs are fixed too. It's common knowledge that the election system is designed to preserve and promote an existing duopoly. Barring a massive catastrophe just before an election such as that terrorist attack in Spain, a significant shift away from the duopoly parties is highly unlikely. In case such a state of emergency should arise, legitimate or otherwise, some three-letter agency or other has the force of law to reschedule elections. I just forgot which one.
3. When people clamor for a third party, the Establishment can point to them the same way that Verizon (was it?) wanted to point to their in-house P2P network and reject anyone still discontented as angry white kids or whatever.
The Greens, however, are dangerous. They will piss off the wealthy and do advocate downward redistributions of accumulated wealth as a social justice issue. That will not be allowed to happen, even if the Establishment have to pull an Adlai Stevenson on the winner. The line could be "Aw, someone got sore that this guy got elected. Some say ((C)(TM) Fox News) it was suicide. Oh well, how about our nice home-grown VP?"
Wasn't there a fatality involving short yellows and a semi somewhere not too long ago? I wanna say it was Chicago... so how'd that work out for Chicago?
Most modern disks are low-level formatted at the factory. Besides, you've probably still got the plaintext drivers somewhere, which means you have an encryption tool, which may be enough to get you on conceivable laws.
Any good sysadmin worth their salt knows you don't turn off the power to a hack in progress. You pull the network cable, drop to PROM, and investigate. Same applies when someone's got their encrypted drive open. You pull a gun on them, get them away from the computer, and get your computer forensics guy in there quick in case there's a deadman switch of some sort.
A vote for one wing or the other of a two-party state is worse than useless. It lends an air of legitimacy to an illegitimate system. It's the economy; the culture war is just theater. I'm very curious how Obama feels he can do about increasing the participation of third parties in the US political system.
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If Americans learned Chinese, or frankly any foreign language, Americans could have prevented better than half the trouble they're in now.
The science of getting people to buy useless crap was born, raised, and battle-hardened in the US. China's fat wad of dollars (and Euros and rupees and dinars) is due to consumerism. Why would they want our culture to change as long as dollars still buy liquid energy?
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Would they have built out their surveillance network as fast if they had to build it themselves? Reference Godwin's Law and IBM.
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Klein is trying to take something that we all will hate (the spying and lack of freedom in communist China) and forcing it into being linked to capitalism. Would they have built their network as fast if
To see the illogic of this, all one has to do is see that the countries that are the freest also tend to be the most capitalistic. Does this account for political repression performed by proxy? Is a country still considered "free" if its barons do the oppressing with the blessing of the state? e.g. substance use screening (US funding being the most reliable determinant of the conclusions of scientific work in this area), background checks combined with gag clauses being common conditions of employment (employers can spy on and gossip about me with indemnity and impunity but industrial espionage is a crime and posting true accounts about employers puts one at risk of punitive damages), churches promoting discriminatory morality laws with tax-free money, the general selling-off and destruction of the public trust,...
Doesn't look so free anymore in the US, does it?
But maybe your analysis is right -- the US is home to massive corporate subsidies for Big Ag, Big Oil, Big Pharma, the Big Three automakers, the Big Five record companies, just about any big business. I guess the Big People don't need strong character when they can pay the little people to build and maintain character for them, or something.
But it ultimately makes as much sense as lambasting Ford because the bank robber drove a Mustang as his getaway car. Cars aren't purpose-built to rob banks, duh. High-speed facial recognition systems and content filters are purpose-built to quickly recognize individuals and hide content. There are very few legitimate businesses that have a legitimate need for such systems, casinos and child-friendly ISPs being the only ones that come to mind.
Just understand that Klein has an agenda here, and being evenhanded toward the free market certainly isn't on that agenda. The free market doesn't work without transparency. Recent laws in the US have enabled and in some cases mandated opacity for business. Waving a copy of Reason around isn't going to make that go away.
It's far fromthe onlyTCP measurement tool. Besides, don't you think attacking ICANN's corporate land-grab from within is a better use of someone's time than spinning version numbers on a stable program that talks to a stable API?
The attack was launched with source addresses in AS 11393. Not that source addresses mean anything in a synflood. FiberConnexion is a suspected front for MD (and if they aren't they need to drop these shlubs realquicklike).
But they're not going to do that. Depends on the judge. The court system strongly encourages conflicting parties to settle conflicts like this out of court, and if MD gets money from their media-industry customers to tender a ridiculously lucrative confidential settlement offer to R3, refusal could count against R3 as the trial moves along.
They're not so much giving them a license to copy those titles as they are providing trademark rights as a feedstock to MD's process. Put on your OOD cap and it starts to compile, even if it does not link.
You call bullshit, I call shenanigans.
The USA outspends many countries that get far better results from their schools. Schools have too much responsibility these days. See below.
The NEA has been beating that "more funding" drum for decades Many teachers in public K-12 institutions pay out of pocket for student supplies. The NEA is a teachers' union, is it not? So why shouldn't they advocate to not have to buy things for classes that schools cannot or will not buy?
while they fight tooth and nail against anything that might possibly bring any accountability to our public schooling cartel. Like the right-wing religious nuts that push the responsibility of religious education onto the schools and then sue whenever their kid hears something the parents don't like? Not that the left-wing nuts that push the responsibility of social behavior training onto the schools and then sue whenever their rabid dog-child has to be physically removed from the kid he's biting are better and might possibly be worse.
As I said in another recent post outside this thread, there's little middle ground between warehouses and madrasas given current public school structure, and neither is particularly good at ACTIVATING young minds in productive ways.
Current "high endurance" flash memory blocks are rated for a few million erase/write cycles. Run vmstat for a typical 24-hour period in your own system, assume perfectly level write cycles (neglecting the reality that file system metadata blocks will probably be written far more often and thus wear out quicker), and solve FlashCapacity*WriteCycles/BlockWritesPerDay to find out how long that would last at most.
Flash is not battery-backed RAM, and really, battery-backed RAM is only a few times more expensive. Oh, and it writes about an order of magnitude faster.
Maybe not. Some of them have monthly plans that are worth a look. A few even offer unlimited minutes, at least during some portions of the day. This assumes you use it as a phone and not as a media workstation.
(All this reminds me of about seven years ago when TCO was the benchmark buzzword...)
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Flat rate is another term for light users subsidizing heavy users. Is that more fair than being charged by the gigabyte?
A pipe costs about the same whether it's full or empty. How much does the marginal gigabyte REALLY cost at peak? How much offpeak?is "Troll" a valid substitute for "Your assertions of fact are dead wrong, you can't cite them because they're dead wrong, you have no idea what you're talking about, and your post shows signs of malicious intent in misrepresenting facts"?
Why do you love to see other people lose so much but are so sore when it happens to you? You may wish to get your testosterone levels checked.
I'm not sure how I feel about the yelling, but I'd mod this guy up for being the first person I've seen in this discussion to mention energy return on energy invested.
You ALSO have to keep in mind that American oil companies have to compete with other oil companies on the world market. Unfortunately, for the American oil companies, the vast majority of the other world oil companies are nationalized and have a lock on most of their oil. The market is so restricted that a mere 7% of the total world oil production is available on the open market to compete for.
Total world production of crude oil (including lease condensate, but excluding natural gas plant liquids) in 2006 was 73.54 [million barrels per day] (preliminary). The US imports roughly 10.1 million barrels per day of crude oil.
That's right, SEVEN PERCENT. ALL the rest of it is locked up by nationalized oil companies and totalitarian governments. So the US can't even TOUCH 93% of the world's oil supply. It's just not available to buy!
So how are we buying it then? Maybe you meant extraction rights, in which case your desire to compel access to the resource rights of sovereign nations bears little difference to that of the hip-hop street thug cliché.
Now compound that with the fact that America has to import over 80% of her oil
Closer to 60%
to supply daily whims, wants and waste
Fixed that for you.
and every day the weak dollar and increased market pressure from China and other countries drives the cost for crude higher and our ability to buy lower and lower.
Well maybe we should have kept our manufacturing infrastructure at home then, no?
Oh yeah, and add to all that the fact that the vast majority of American oil reserves are locked up in areas where drilling is BANNED (ANWR, both East and West coasts, the west coast of Florida, and the High Plains fields.), AND the fact that we haven't built a new refinery in America in nearly 30 years (if not longer)
There's still plenty of headroom on refinery capacity. You do raise an interesting question, though: if people in Florida are willing to pay extra for their gasoline to forgo the environmental degradation, risk of catastrophe, and (the only one you're likely to understand) decline in property values, well, isn't that a rational economic choice?
and you will BEGIN to get a picture of the real reasons why gas costs are currently so high, and why they are historically so volatile.
Historically volatile? Except for a period around 1980, gasoline prices have remained relatively stable. Given a good such as gasoline with low demand elasticity (we can call this a "lifestyle choice" if you like), volatility in price is mainly due to either speculation or tight supply. I imagine the powers that be are hoping that talking up the former will draw attention away from the latter.
I should highlight the difference between reserves and flows. ANWR at its peak (about 15-20 years in the future) would contribute about 10% at best of today's daily consumption of crude oil. But hey, you just go ahead and keep blaming those Eeeevil Big Oil Execs and their OBSCENE 4% profits! Ignorance like yours must be fucking bliss. Over the last 12 months, BP plc boasted a 20.4% gross profit margin. ExxonMobil's gross profit margin was 40.1%. It's worth noting that ExxonMobil is chiefly a refiner and does little R&D relative to producers like Shell.
With all due respect, if you're actually interested in arguing a position, you may wish to refer to primary or at least reputable sources of information and get your facts straight rather than taking as gos
I'd wholeheartedly support drilling ANWR if every barrel that came out is devoted solely to renewable energy infrastructure and renewable transportation infrastructure, profits on ANWR products sold for any other uses is taxed at near-100% levels for reinvestment in renewable infrastructure, and authorizing or participating in flaring unused product is punishable by firing squad.
Otherwise, it's just subsidizing useless breeding and I'm against it.
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My personal observations here in the Detroit area are that everybody who can uses a car to get around, yet our gasoline prices are consistently above average. I lived in Bakersfield, California for a minute too, which is also an above-average car-use area with a few predestrians and cyclists on the street occasionally, but pump prices there have held continental US record highs in the past. Neither of which disprove your point.
In the US, the average gasoline prices are near the world mean.
1. If you had to have a third party around for some reason or other, the libs are housebroken as far as the upper class is concerned, even if they can't be put in pocket right away. They may yap a lot but they know if they bite off too much of the social safety net, especially right now, they'll get more than a rolled-up newspaper across the nose.
2. The libs are fixed too. It's common knowledge that the election system is designed to preserve and promote an existing duopoly. Barring a massive catastrophe just before an election such as that terrorist attack in Spain, a significant shift away from the duopoly parties is highly unlikely. In case such a state of emergency should arise, legitimate or otherwise, some three-letter agency or other has the force of law to reschedule elections. I just forgot which one.
3. When people clamor for a third party, the Establishment can point to them the same way that Verizon (was it?) wanted to point to their in-house P2P network and reject anyone still discontented as angry white kids or whatever.
The Greens, however, are dangerous. They will piss off the wealthy and do advocate downward redistributions of accumulated wealth as a social justice issue. That will not be allowed to happen, even if the Establishment have to pull an Adlai Stevenson on the winner. The line could be "Aw, someone got sore that this guy got elected. Some say ((C)(TM) Fox News) it was suicide. Oh well, how about our nice home-grown VP?"
Wasn't there a fatality involving short yellows and a semi somewhere not too long ago? I wanna say it was Chicago... so how'd that work out for Chicago?
Sounds like a prescription for more government funding for basic research.
Most modern disks are low-level formatted at the factory. Besides, you've probably still got the plaintext drivers somewhere, which means you have an encryption tool, which may be enough to get you on conceivable laws.
Any good sysadmin worth their salt knows you don't turn off the power to a hack in progress. You pull the network cable, drop to PROM, and investigate. Same applies when someone's got their encrypted drive open. You pull a gun on them, get them away from the computer, and get your computer forensics guy in there quick in case there's a deadman switch of some sort.
A vote for one wing or the other of a two-party state is worse than useless. It lends an air of legitimacy to an illegitimate system. It's the economy; the culture war is just theater. I'm very curious how Obama feels he can do about increasing the participation of third parties in the US political system.
Busted. Mod grandparent to -1 please.
As if we needed another example of the War on (Some) Drugs causing more problems than it solves.
Is it UpAgainstTheWallMotherfuckers Day yet?
If Americans learned Chinese, or frankly any foreign language, Americans could have prevented better than half the trouble they're in now.
The science of getting people to buy useless crap was born, raised, and battle-hardened in the US. China's fat wad of dollars (and Euros and rupees and dinars) is due to consumerism. Why would they want our culture to change as long as dollars still buy liquid energy?
Would they have built out their surveillance network as fast if they had to build it themselves? Reference Godwin's Law and IBM.
Doesn't look so free anymore in the US, does it?
But maybe your analysis is right -- the US is home to massive corporate subsidies for Big Ag, Big Oil, Big Pharma, the Big Three automakers, the Big Five record companies, just about any big business. I guess the Big People don't need strong character when they can pay the little people to build and maintain character for them, or something. But it ultimately makes as much sense as lambasting Ford because the bank robber drove a Mustang as his getaway car. Cars aren't purpose-built to rob banks, duh. High-speed facial recognition systems and content filters are purpose-built to quickly recognize individuals and hide content. There are very few legitimate businesses that have a legitimate need for such systems, casinos and child-friendly ISPs being the only ones that come to mind. Just understand that Klein has an agenda here, and being evenhanded toward the free market certainly isn't on that agenda. The free market doesn't work without transparency. Recent laws in the US have enabled and in some cases mandated opacity for business. Waving a copy of Reason around isn't going to make that go away.
It's far from the only TCP measurement tool. Besides, don't you think attacking ICANN's corporate land-grab from within is a better use of someone's time than spinning version numbers on a stable program that talks to a stable API?
The attack was launched with source addresses in AS 11393. Not that source addresses mean anything in a synflood. FiberConnexion is a suspected front for MD (and if they aren't they need to drop these shlubs realquicklike).
http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS11393
IANAL, TINLA, yadda...
They're not so much giving them a license to copy those titles as they are providing trademark rights as a feedstock to MD's process. Put on your OOD cap and it starts to compile, even if it does not link.
I agree. There should be a LOT more private, secular K-12 schools than there are.
As I said in another recent post outside this thread, there's little middle ground between warehouses and madrasas given current public school structure, and neither is particularly good at ACTIVATING young minds in productive ways.
Current "high endurance" flash memory blocks are rated for a few million erase/write cycles. Run vmstat for a typical 24-hour period in your own system, assume perfectly level write cycles (neglecting the reality that file system metadata blocks will probably be written far more often and thus wear out quicker), and solve FlashCapacity*WriteCycles/BlockWritesPerDay to find out how long that would last at most.
Flash is not battery-backed RAM, and really, battery-backed RAM is only a few times more expensive. Oh, and it writes about an order of magnitude faster.
Maybe not. Some of them have monthly plans that are worth a look. A few even offer unlimited minutes, at least during some portions of the day. This assumes you use it as a phone and not as a media workstation.
(All this reminds me of about seven years ago when TCO was the benchmark buzzword...)