It's ok. I think I understand you. People like you seem to think there are exactly three groups in the world (the people, the government and corporations), and that of the three, the people are completely powerless.
Well, they're not. The large corporations would not have the power they have without a Federal government able to impose its single will across a nation a large as the US. Can you not grasp that idea that individual states, instituting laws that cater to the people of those states, are a natural barrier to one-size-fits-all corporations.
A weakened Federal government means an State government. It is much easier for someone with a real job to be involved with State government, and even easier for them to be involved with City government.
And no one said anything about destroying the Federal government. It is not corruption to pay someone to talk to a Congressman on your behalf, but it is a crime against logic that 600 people in Washington think they can order the lives of people as diverse as New York City street vendors, North Carolina fishermen, and California grape farmers.
First, there was never a "surplus". There was a projected surplus. As in, "I would be a billionaire if my pay increased at the rate it did when I was 16 (when I moved from mowing lawns on the weekend to a minimum wage job)."
in all of economic history, socialism and communism are not the greatest enemies of capitalism, monopolies and oligopolies are: corporatism. the greatest enemy of small struggling businesses in this country are not government taxes or socialist healthcare: it is large entrenched businesses who don't want the competition and rig the market to work for them.
And how do the large corporations accomplish the rigging of the market? How about instituting pointless "certification" requirements, that do nothing to serve the customer? How about endless reels of red-tape, that a business to small to have a dedicated person can never hope to swim through? How about require a bed-and-breakfast that might be able to house four couples to spend thousands of dollars to build a handicap ramp and wider doors in a historical neighborhood?
Considering that all the laws, and especially the regulations, are set up to support big money at the expense of the little guys, fighting big government is equivalent to fighting big corporations.
That's because the budget was passed by a House and Senate with Republican majorities. In the US, the President can propose a budget. That is, he can make some suggestions, but it is the legislature that has to pass it. And the deficit would have been reduced further under that Democratic President, if the press didn't jump in with all the stories of national park closings and ruined vacations because there was no money to pay the poor park rangers.
To bolster your point, Ron Paul spoke about cutting Military spending, specifically by closing foreign bases. He was immediately labeled a loon and openly mocked in the debates that he was able to force his way into. In the first Republican debate, Huckabee was talking about sending Iranian sailors to meet their 70 virgins, and Paul retorted that we shouldn't be warmongering. The moderator actually interrupted him, claimed nobody was warmongering, and cut his response time short. Then they had that putz, Frank Luntz, doing one of those focal group nonsense things, where they all unequivocally decided that Ron Paul lost the debate.
Anytime a tea-party candidate mentions cutting ANY Federal program, they are labeled bat-shit insane, no matter how pointless or useless that program has proven itself. Test scores have been consistently dropping since the creation of the Dept of Education, with ample evidence of every increasing bureaucracy, yet any mention that it might need to go the way of a certain flightless bird is met with the same reaction you'd expect from someone suggesting the public flogging of Mother Theresa.
Moderators, this is not informative, unless you did not know that ignorance prevails.
1) this is called a "transformer". There have been a few in use since Westinghouse ran Thomas Edison out of the power production business. Some experienced power plant engineers think they're actually useful at 60Hz, and are a little more efficient than 1%.
2) that is why the charger is a pad that you lay the mobile device on when the device needs charging. The coupling distance is very short when THEY ARE IN PHYSICAL CONTACT.
So the bigger the coil in the receiving device the better. That aint going to go down so well for mobile phones, ipods etc where the size of the battery/power supply is absolutely crucial to the success of the product i.e. smaller is better.
The wires of the coil only need to carry micro-amps, and can therefore be extremely thin. I could see the coil being made of stainless steel and being cast into the case of the device. The case would be reinforced slightly by the coil, and it would add less weight than providing for the current external connector.
Is it possible to disagree with US foreign policy and not be accused of being a traitor?
No. Ron Paul suggested we bring our troops home from foreign bases and let those countries pay for their own defenses. He was derided and laughed at for the very suggestion.
It would be one of the most expensive and idiotic strategies ever.
That didn't stop Obamacare in the US. I think you underestimate the willingness of politicians to jerk the populace around in return for some short-term gain. 8*)
can I breathe a little easier now, or is there more that still needs to be done to grind this horrible blight on the internet out of existence?
No.
All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Corollary, all that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to stop doing something.
Indeed. I wish our voting process was to hand each voter a list of offices followed by a blank line. The poll test would be to write in the candidates name. If you can't correctly spell the name of the candidate you wish to vote for, you obviously haven't done enough research to really know what they stand for, and are to uninformed in matters to be choosing who gets to make the laws.
No. But what about when it is faster and uses more resources? At that point, you have to actually become and engineer and start engineering (ie, make the most use of the least amount of resources).
Case in point. In the '93 time frame, I worked in a AT&T factory (before they split off Lucent). One of the devices we manufactured was a small device that you connected to your telephone headset to encrypt your conversation (the other end would have to have a similar device).
The US government caught wind of it, came in and bought all the stock, and paid AT&T to not produce any more.
All the digital switches we produced were required by law to have a backdoor that the government could use at will to monitor calls.
I hear you, man. I dropped the EAA facade. Bunch of old geezers sitting around talking about their Cessnas and Cherokees full of ADFs, VORs and dual magnetos on a glorified lawn mower engine.
A few manufacturers can poll a very limited data set from their vehicles after a crash, but those are entirely proprietary systems that only the manufacturer has access to, and they are far from reliable. Even if there were rules and regulations mandating such data recorders on new automobiles, they would be of little use if they were not standardized and developed across the entire industry.
You obviously would be very surprised at what car manufacturers have been recording about your driving. Several have been subpoenaed during civil litigation in the US for their data reading software in order to reveal what the driver was doing at the time of an accident.
Not if you consider that the US is a very large and diverse nation with a history that got us to where we are. We are first of all, a conglomeration of separate STATES...basically, separate countries united together for common defense. Of the original 13 states that comprised the United States, the smaller and more rural states feared being overrun by the larger, more populous states. So a compromise was reached. The branch of the government that made the laws would be split in two. One half would be composed of a democratically elected body that was based purely on population. The other half would be composed of officials representing the states themselves, and each state would have equal standing. Nothing would become law without being approved by both bodies.
At one point in our history, the Senate was appointed by each states legislature and represented the interest of the states in Washington. Many of the unfunded mandate* idiocies committed by the Federal government are a direct result of the individual states losing their representation.
*unfunded mandate - The Congress passes a law, telling the states that they must spend money on a project. The Washington politicians take credit for being generous and benevolent, without having to take the blame for raising taxes to pay for the project. The states are powerless to oppose it, and may have to give up on a local project that actually makes more sense for their region/population density/etc.
As a libertarian leaning conservative, I have to say, "You are correct, hairyfeet."
But the internet and the telephone systems are much like the roads in the 1700s. You have to give control of them to the central authority, or you end up with a mish-mash of toll roads that make commerce impossible. The government should build out the infrastructure, especially the backbone, in the same way that it builds out the public roads. Thankfully, this could still be done today by simply setting up a parallel system that would run alongside todays infrastructure (the way FedEx and the UPS run alongside the USPS).
My simplistic solution is a requirement that the government must maintain control of any land that it has used the power of imminent domain to acquire. No more of condemning someones property to hand it over to a telco or mall developer. If it is important enough to use the power of government to steal someone's property, it is to important to turn over to the likes of Comcast and TimeWarner.
The removal of oil from the pan was my analogy to having a governmental "cushion" of employees and services. Take away the "cushion" and you're going to rapidly lose oil pressure and subsequently your engine as soon as you come across a curve or bump. It seems like we actually need a certain amount of waste as "backup"
Only if the engine is designed that way. Many gearboxes don't have a reservoir at all. The designers take a whole list of environmental factors into account as they are designing the oil system. In the typical piston engine, the oil also provides a minor amount of cooling to the piston head (by splashing underneath the crown). In a wankel engine, oil is the only thing cooling the rotors, and an oil cooler must be provided to handle 1/3rd of the engines cooling. I'm using a 13B from an RX-7 in the airplane I'm building, so I happen to be intimate with the requirements. In the case of the wankel, an even larger reserve is required.
My point is, that it depends on the design. In the US, I see the State and city governments providing ample reserves, diminishing the need for Fed oversight.
As for your engine rings, note that engine rings run along hardened cylinder walls (iron sleeves?). If you were comparing rich vs. poor to piston rings vs cylinder walls, your cylinder walls would be made of putty, and no amount of oil would let your engine last one revolution:D
In the wankel, and hardened steel shaft rides on babbit bearings. Babbit is a very soft lead based material. The wankel is VERY resilient to loss of oil.
I think you have that exactly backwards. Data would be a list of numbers. It only becomes information when it is analyzed and means something, such as the company grew 23% over the past year. You are not necessarily informed when handed a list of numbers, unless you know how to interpret the them. If these scientist added me their raw data, I most likely wouldn't have a clue what they meant.
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Does that count as a thing that make you go "hmmm?"
It's ok. I think I understand you. People like you seem to think there are exactly three groups in the world (the people, the government and corporations), and that of the three, the people are completely powerless.
Well, they're not. The large corporations would not have the power they have without a Federal government able to impose its single will across a nation a large as the US. Can you not grasp that idea that individual states, instituting laws that cater to the people of those states, are a natural barrier to one-size-fits-all corporations.
A weakened Federal government means an State government. It is much easier for someone with a real job to be involved with State government, and even easier for them to be involved with City government.
And no one said anything about destroying the Federal government. It is not corruption to pay someone to talk to a Congressman on your behalf, but it is a crime against logic that 600 people in Washington think they can order the lives of people as diverse as New York City street vendors, North Carolina fishermen, and California grape farmers.
First, there was never a "surplus". There was a projected surplus. As in, "I would be a billionaire if my pay increased at the rate it did when I was 16 (when I moved from mowing lawns on the weekend to a minimum wage job)."
Second, http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=612
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_Budget_Amendment
http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/scott-galupo/2010/7/30/thank-republicans-for-clintons-bold-deficit-reduction-tactics.html
If something cannot continue - then it will not.
Let me guess. You're from Greece?
in all of economic history, socialism and communism are not the greatest enemies of capitalism, monopolies and oligopolies are: corporatism. the greatest enemy of small struggling businesses in this country are not government taxes or socialist healthcare: it is large entrenched businesses who don't want the competition and rig the market to work for them.
And how do the large corporations accomplish the rigging of the market? How about instituting pointless "certification" requirements, that do nothing to serve the customer? How about endless reels of red-tape, that a business to small to have a dedicated person can never hope to swim through? How about require a bed-and-breakfast that might be able to house four couples to spend thousands of dollars to build a handicap ramp and wider doors in a historical neighborhood?
Considering that all the laws, and especially the regulations, are set up to support big money at the expense of the little guys, fighting big government is equivalent to fighting big corporations.
Great! Now we will have a "you're going to die in 30 seconds" sensor to go along with the "replace engine" indicator light in our cars!!
That's because the budget was passed by a House and Senate with Republican majorities. In the US, the President can propose a budget. That is, he can make some suggestions, but it is the legislature that has to pass it. And the deficit would have been reduced further under that Democratic President, if the press didn't jump in with all the stories of national park closings and ruined vacations because there was no money to pay the poor park rangers.
To bolster your point, Ron Paul spoke about cutting Military spending, specifically by closing foreign bases. He was immediately labeled a loon and openly mocked in the debates that he was able to force his way into. In the first Republican debate, Huckabee was talking about sending Iranian sailors to meet their 70 virgins, and Paul retorted that we shouldn't be warmongering. The moderator actually interrupted him, claimed nobody was warmongering, and cut his response time short. Then they had that putz, Frank Luntz, doing one of those focal group nonsense things, where they all unequivocally decided that Ron Paul lost the debate.
Anytime a tea-party candidate mentions cutting ANY Federal program, they are labeled bat-shit insane, no matter how pointless or useless that program has proven itself. Test scores have been consistently dropping since the creation of the Dept of Education, with ample evidence of every increasing bureaucracy, yet any mention that it might need to go the way of a certain flightless bird is met with the same reaction you'd expect from someone suggesting the public flogging of Mother Theresa.
Moderators, this is not informative, unless you did not know that ignorance prevails.
1) this is called a "transformer". There have been a few in use since Westinghouse ran Thomas Edison out of the power production business. Some experienced power plant engineers think they're actually useful at 60Hz, and are a little more efficient than 1%.
2) that is why the charger is a pad that you lay the mobile device on when the device needs charging. The coupling distance is very short when THEY ARE IN PHYSICAL CONTACT.
So the bigger the coil in the receiving device the better. That aint going to go down so well for mobile phones, ipods etc where the size of the battery/power supply is absolutely crucial to the success of the product i.e. smaller is better.
The wires of the coil only need to carry micro-amps, and can therefore be extremely thin. I could see the coil being made of stainless steel and being cast into the case of the device. The case would be reinforced slightly by the coil, and it would add less weight than providing for the current external connector.
Is it possible to disagree with US foreign policy and not be accused of being a traitor?
No. Ron Paul suggested we bring our troops home from foreign bases and let those countries pay for their own defenses. He was derided and laughed at for the very suggestion.
It would be one of the most expensive and idiotic strategies ever.
That didn't stop Obamacare in the US. I think you underestimate the willingness of politicians to jerk the populace around in return for some short-term gain. 8*)
can I breathe a little easier now, or is there more that still needs to be done to grind this horrible blight on the internet out of existence?
No.
All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Corollary, all that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to stop doing something.
Indeed. I wish our voting process was to hand each voter a list of offices followed by a blank line. The poll test would be to write in the candidates name. If you can't correctly spell the name of the candidate you wish to vote for, you obviously haven't done enough research to really know what they stand for, and are to uninformed in matters to be choosing who gets to make the laws.
But, that's just me.
No. But what about when it is faster and uses more resources? At that point, you have to actually become and engineer and start engineering (ie, make the most use of the least amount of resources).
Case in point. In the '93 time frame, I worked in a AT&T factory (before they split off Lucent). One of the devices we manufactured was a small device that you connected to your telephone headset to encrypt your conversation (the other end would have to have a similar device).
The US government caught wind of it, came in and bought all the stock, and paid AT&T to not produce any more.
All the digital switches we produced were required by law to have a backdoor that the government could use at will to monitor calls.
...and call the whole system ADS-B . Nah, on second thought, that would just be stupid.
I hear you, man. I dropped the EAA facade. Bunch of old geezers sitting around talking about their Cessnas and Cherokees full of ADFs, VORs and dual magnetos on a glorified lawn mower engine.
A few manufacturers can poll a very limited data set from their vehicles after a crash, but those are entirely proprietary systems that only the manufacturer has access to, and they are far from reliable. Even if there were rules and regulations mandating such data recorders on new automobiles, they would be of little use if they were not standardized and developed across the entire industry.
You obviously would be very surprised at what car manufacturers have been recording about your driving. Several have been subpoenaed during civil litigation in the US for their data reading software in order to reveal what the driver was doing at the time of an accident.
Not if you consider that the US is a very large and diverse nation with a history that got us to where we are. We are first of all, a conglomeration of separate STATES...basically, separate countries united together for common defense. Of the original 13 states that comprised the United States, the smaller and more rural states feared being overrun by the larger, more populous states. So a compromise was reached. The branch of the government that made the laws would be split in two. One half would be composed of a democratically elected body that was based purely on population. The other half would be composed of officials representing the states themselves, and each state would have equal standing. Nothing would become law without being approved by both bodies.
At one point in our history, the Senate was appointed by each states legislature and represented the interest of the states in Washington. Many of the unfunded mandate* idiocies committed by the Federal government are a direct result of the individual states losing their representation.
*unfunded mandate - The Congress passes a law, telling the states that they must spend money on a project. The Washington politicians take credit for being generous and benevolent, without having to take the blame for raising taxes to pay for the project. The states are powerless to oppose it, and may have to give up on a local project that actually makes more sense for their region/population density/etc.
As a libertarian leaning conservative, I have to say, "You are correct, hairyfeet."
But the internet and the telephone systems are much like the roads in the 1700s. You have to give control of them to the central authority, or you end up with a mish-mash of toll roads that make commerce impossible. The government should build out the infrastructure, especially the backbone, in the same way that it builds out the public roads. Thankfully, this could still be done today by simply setting up a parallel system that would run alongside todays infrastructure (the way FedEx and the UPS run alongside the USPS).
My simplistic solution is a requirement that the government must maintain control of any land that it has used the power of imminent domain to acquire. No more of condemning someones property to hand it over to a telco or mall developer. If it is important enough to use the power of government to steal someone's property, it is to important to turn over to the likes of Comcast and TimeWarner.
So you're saying you missed the "when forced to use an inferior tool" part?
The removal of oil from the pan was my analogy to having a governmental "cushion" of employees and services. Take away the "cushion" and you're going to rapidly lose oil pressure and subsequently your engine as soon as you come across a curve or bump. It seems like we actually need a certain amount of waste as "backup"
Only if the engine is designed that way. Many gearboxes don't have a reservoir at all. The designers take a whole list of environmental factors into account as they are designing the oil system. In the typical piston engine, the oil also provides a minor amount of cooling to the piston head (by splashing underneath the crown). In a wankel engine, oil is the only thing cooling the rotors, and an oil cooler must be provided to handle 1/3rd of the engines cooling. I'm using a 13B from an RX-7 in the airplane I'm building, so I happen to be intimate with the requirements. In the case of the wankel, an even larger reserve is required.
My point is, that it depends on the design. In the US, I see the State and city governments providing ample reserves, diminishing the need for Fed oversight.
As for your engine rings, note that engine rings run along hardened cylinder walls (iron sleeves?). If you were comparing rich vs. poor to piston rings vs cylinder walls, your cylinder walls would be made of putty, and no amount of oil would let your engine last one revolution :D
In the wankel, and hardened steel shaft rides on babbit bearings. Babbit is a very soft lead based material. The wankel is VERY resilient to loss of oil.
I think you have that exactly backwards. Data would be a list of numbers. It only becomes information when it is analyzed and means something, such as the company grew 23% over the past year. You are not necessarily informed when handed a list of numbers, unless you know how to interpret the them. If these scientist added me their raw data, I most likely wouldn't have a clue what they meant.
Bruce? Is that you? I thought you died when you stayed behind to set off the nuclear device.