The way you structure things like this is that the municipality (or PUD, depending on the region) builds out the physical infrastructure, and then you allow multiple content providers (television and internet) access to that infrastructure.
I'm pretty familiar with the situation in Chelan County and Douglas County in Washington State. There, their respective PUDs have built out nearly complete FTTH networks, running over the PUD right of ways and what not. The PUD handles the physical infrastructure up to, and including the ONTs. The consumers then have the choice of 5 or 6 ISPs and television providers, and business customers also have direct access to transit (Zayo and Level3 have access).
The network is very reliable, the service is extremely affordable, and there is real competition. The PUD is accountable to the citizens of the area both through regular audits, and at election time. It's pretty much a win-win situation for everyone involved, unless you're Comcast, Verizon, or Frontier.
See, that's the problem. That $20,000 figure is obscene. The per capita health expenditure in Canada, which generally has equal or better health outcomes, was $4608 USD.
This exactly, the only way you can make it work is to reduce the costs of running the healthcare system. The costs in the US are simply insane compared to the rest of the world.
You can't magically make it cheaper. Gotta sacrifice either a lot more people's money than pay in now or reduce quality of care to make it cheaper.
Or you make it cheaper while maintaining or improving the quality of care. It's not hard, pretty much every other industrialized nation on earth has figured out how to do this.
The problem with that comparison is that much of the US healthcare "System" (if you can call it that) is for profit, with costs and expenses that are way out of line with the rest of the world and is far less efficient at delivering good effective care.
The suggestions you make are just as invalid as what you're claiming. The real problem with the US is that people have been hoodwinked into thinking that taxes are the evil, rather than questioning why other necessary expenses (Healthcare, higher education) have become so obscenely expensive.
Anyhow, the problem with calling the individual mandate for health insurance a tax is that it deflects the attention from questioning why that insurance premium is so high for so little benefit. At the same time, the neocons and similar have done an excellent job of fooling the general population into thinking that single payer insurance is unsustainable, or socialist, or the tool of the commies or whatever. The reality is that it's quite effective, and quite sustainable, once you take the corporate profits out of healthcare delivery.
What makes it bad is that neither the user nor third-party service centers can do this "recalibration". It should be very nearly automatic with nothing more than an alert on the user's screen ("Your Touch ID sensor has been replaced. You must reprogram authorized fingerprints before you use Touch ID.") every time the user attempts to touch the Touch ID sensor until they add the first fingerprint (thus proving that they have the passcode and can unlock the device). This gives the same security protection without raising right-to-repair issues.
You're assuming that the replacement sensor is honest and/or hasn't been tampered with. If the sensor has been replaced with one that has been compromised, it would be a fairly easy vector to obtain access to the phone. A paranoid user might see that message and no longer trust the phone, but I'd bet that most would click through it and reprogram the unit. This really isn't much different, conceptually, than putting a keylogger inside a keyboard itself.
So the question becomes, how do you ensure right-to-repair, while still maintaining security? That's a tough nut to crack. Option 1 would be for Apple to make the sensors available for sale at a reasonable price. Option 2 would be for touch-id repairs to be gratis Option 3 would be to change it so that the touch sensor no longer works, but the rest of the operating system does (as does the click functionality). For better or worse, Option 3 is probably the best option.
And it's for Visa applications from people who like to hang out with ISIS, which should be an automatic denial in any sane world.
Or all the folks who worked as contractors supporting US efforts in the region. I'm not in a Visa country, but I've been to several areas that have been controlled by Daesh, working as a civilian contractor.
The idea is that the municipality/PUD takes over care and maintenance of the new physical plant. Verizon is perfectly free to compete with the other providers to provide TV service over that infrastructure, but residents shouldn't be forced into a monopoly. The infrastructure itself is then operated in a non-profit/open way. Works great in the two counties I've been in that have it.
This is where innerduct comes into play. I built out a campus project a few years ago, and before we pulled cable, we installed MaxCell innerduct. That stuff is magical. It allowed me to run 6 fiber cables through a single 2" conduit, with no damage, and if I ever need to swap one out again (due to a cut or whatever) it's a pretty simple matter to pull it back with a new pull tape. The best part is that it's pre-lubricated with dry silicone, so it's really slippery against the cable jacket material, and it has integrated color coded pull strings. Fantastic stuff.
Or, you know, you could just eliminate the laws that prohibit/restrict Municipal and/or County fiber projects. Two counties I know have PUDs that have deployed fiber to pretty much every address also serviced by their power connection. Residents then have the option to choose Internet service from several different providers (Zayo and Level 3 will also do transit over it), and TV service from several providers, and it's all very reasonably priced and reliable.
Of course, the big boys (Verizon et al) Hate it, because it dramatically lowers the bar to their competition.
The $651 million for Maven includes all the support costs for the mission. The salaries of the controllers, paying their share of time on the Deep Space Network, etc... Does the $74 million include the same thing? If not, then it's a comparison between Apples and Baseballs.
This is pretty standard on most European cars (and in fact true of all modern vehicles with traction control). The braking system is biased towards the rear brakes, which keeps the car from nose diving during hard braking. Also, in slippery conditions prior ABS/ESP kicking in, it allows the front wheels, which steer, to stay turning longer before locking up (and triggering ABS/traction control).
My VW typically goes through 3 sets of rear pads before I have to replace my fronts.
Don't forget the transformers and switchgear needed to connect those inverters to the grid. I'd be shocked if you could get that electrical equipment designed and delivered within 6 months, never mind 100 days.
It's not just the batteries that are the issue, unless Elon is only saying that the batteries will be there within 100 days. Utility scale electrical equipment is generally bespoke and/or custom manufactured and has long lead times. On top of the batteries you need to have utility scale inverters. You need switchgear to direct the produced power, you need large transformers to boost it up to utility voltages. In the organization I work with, we just finished a major electrical upgrade where we purchased 12 pad-mount transformers. While they were out of the catalogue, the lead time before shipping was still 8 weeks, and that was from a major manufacturer. Really big transformers, those capable of working with megawatts of power, take months to manufacture.
When Vancouver lost one of the two large transformers that supply the downtown part of the city, it was found that it would take 18 months to get a replacement manufactured.
You can pack even more into a 747 Freighter. A C-130 really isn't that large of an aircraft, nor does it have a particularly large payload. What it does have is the ability to land on rough/short runways.
My adapter is now travels in the little pouch with my (3rd party) earbuds, along with the adapter for those stupid two-pin airline jacks (if any still exist). It's just not that big of a deal, and the battery life is sufficient that I can watch a movie or two, and then go on and do something like read a book while the phone charges again.
Well, colour temperature != CRI. Colour temperature, which you're talking about is colour temperature. CRI is a measure of how continuous the spectrum produced by the light source is. They're two independent things. You can have an LED with a 5000k colour temperature and an excellent CRI, and a 2700k with a lousy one. Basically a high quality CRI will cause colours on paper/paintings/etc... to look good/normal. A lousy CRI will look off.
What technology could be saved from Apollo? The idea of the technology could be re-used but in terms of actual physical objects none of the items from Apollo can be used. For example some of the technology of space suits pioneered by Apollo can be used in making new space suits but it will still cost money to make the suits. It will cost money to design the suit from scratch in the first place.
A number of years ago a group of Engineers tore down a Rocketdyne F-1 and built a set of CAD drawings/solidworks models from it. It was a useful exercise to do, as there are few people with the experience of building large RP1/LOX engines. They of course have all the drawings for the engines, but the drawings only show part of the story. They were all hand-built machines and very much works of art, but each one was unique and had its own quirks. Also, because it was a crash program, not everything was documented. The design is there, but not how to put it together, what little tuning tweaks were done on the production line, etc...
Anyhow, at the end of the process, they actually wound up firing the gas generator for the turbopump on the test stand. This small part, on its own, produces more thrust than an F16 in full afterburner, and when coupled with its turbine, 55,000 shaft horsepower. Ars Technica put together a nice write up on the process.
If you believe that, I have a nice antique bridge that's for sale. Humans will set foot on Mars because of politics. That said, the only thing you can really do once you get there is science, but that's not why they will be going there.
And now you're learning what these kinds of things are really about. Project Apollo was not about the science, it was about beating the Russians and demonstrating the superiority of the American political and economic system. Of course, the only thing you can really do when you get there is good science, but that was a secondary objective.
Anyhow, the science isn't the primary point. It never has been, and it never will be.
I used to do development and testing for explosives detectors. Nitro-toluenes are very, very hard to get off your skin and clothes. I was pulled aside for random searching and swabbed for explosives.
In a past life, I was a contractor who spent 3 months bouncing between FOBs in Iraq and Afghanistan. The day before I flew home, I was on a CH-53 flying back towards Kuwait where i caught commercial back to Canada. I was sitting next to the door gunner, and as we flew along I think we crossed a range, and he let loose a dozen or so rounds out of the.50 cal. I spent the entire trip home thinking "Please don't swab me, please don't swab me..." and thankfully they didn't. Of course, trying to explain where you had been for three months when you had two in/out visas from Kuwait and a blank spot in between was another matter...
The problem with your link isn't that your browser is opening up multiple connections, it's that your satellite link has shitty (or non-existant) QoS. I run a satellite network to a remote site, that is serving about 60 users using 3.3Mbps. Between WAAS and some carefully tuned CBWFQ, it's slow but reliable, you click on something you can be pretty sure that it will load. Heck, this link is also running VOIP for everyone, and calls are nearly toll quality even when the network is saturated (which is most of the day and evening).
I'd wager that the most likely cause of failure would be a fatigue and/or structural failure in the rocket, but I'm just making an educated guess. The high stress systems (turbopumps, engines, cryo systems) have been strongly tested by the static firings. That said, 50 years of aerospace technology has taught a lot about how aluminum ages and operates under stress, though of course we still saw a structural failure on CRS-7, so who knows?
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The way you structure things like this is that the municipality (or PUD, depending on the region) builds out the physical infrastructure, and then you allow multiple content providers (television and internet) access to that infrastructure.
I'm pretty familiar with the situation in Chelan County and Douglas County in Washington State. There, their respective PUDs have built out nearly complete FTTH networks, running over the PUD right of ways and what not. The PUD handles the physical infrastructure up to, and including the ONTs. The consumers then have the choice of 5 or 6 ISPs and television providers, and business customers also have direct access to transit (Zayo and Level3 have access).
The network is very reliable, the service is extremely affordable, and there is real competition. The PUD is accountable to the citizens of the area both through regular audits, and at election time. It's pretty much a win-win situation for everyone involved, unless you're Comcast, Verizon, or Frontier.
See, that's the problem. That $20,000 figure is obscene. The per capita health expenditure in Canada, which generally has equal or better health outcomes, was $4608 USD.
This exactly, the only way you can make it work is to reduce the costs of running the healthcare system. The costs in the US are simply insane compared to the rest of the world.
You can't magically make it cheaper. Gotta sacrifice either a lot more people's money than pay in now or reduce quality of care to make it cheaper.
Or you make it cheaper while maintaining or improving the quality of care. It's not hard, pretty much every other industrialized nation on earth has figured out how to do this.
The problem with that comparison is that much of the US healthcare "System" (if you can call it that) is for profit, with costs and expenses that are way out of line with the rest of the world and is far less efficient at delivering good effective care.
The suggestions you make are just as invalid as what you're claiming. The real problem with the US is that people have been hoodwinked into thinking that taxes are the evil, rather than questioning why other necessary expenses (Healthcare, higher education) have become so obscenely expensive.
Anyhow, the problem with calling the individual mandate for health insurance a tax is that it deflects the attention from questioning why that insurance premium is so high for so little benefit. At the same time, the neocons and similar have done an excellent job of fooling the general population into thinking that single payer insurance is unsustainable, or socialist, or the tool of the commies or whatever. The reality is that it's quite effective, and quite sustainable, once you take the corporate profits out of healthcare delivery.
What makes it bad is that neither the user nor third-party service centers can do this "recalibration". It should be very nearly automatic with nothing more than an alert on the user's screen ("Your Touch ID sensor has been replaced. You must reprogram authorized fingerprints before you use Touch ID.") every time the user attempts to touch the Touch ID sensor until they add the first fingerprint (thus proving that they have the passcode and can unlock the device). This gives the same security protection without raising right-to-repair issues.
You're assuming that the replacement sensor is honest and/or hasn't been tampered with. If the sensor has been replaced with one that has been compromised, it would be a fairly easy vector to obtain access to the phone. A paranoid user might see that message and no longer trust the phone, but I'd bet that most would click through it and reprogram the unit. This really isn't much different, conceptually, than putting a keylogger inside a keyboard itself.
So the question becomes, how do you ensure right-to-repair, while still maintaining security? That's a tough nut to crack. Option 1 would be for Apple to make the sensors available for sale at a reasonable price. Option 2 would be for touch-id repairs to be gratis Option 3 would be to change it so that the touch sensor no longer works, but the rest of the operating system does (as does the click functionality). For better or worse, Option 3 is probably the best option.
And it's for Visa applications from people who like to hang out with ISIS, which should be an automatic denial in any sane world.
Or all the folks who worked as contractors supporting US efforts in the region. I'm not in a Visa country, but I've been to several areas that have been controlled by Daesh, working as a civilian contractor.
The idea is that the municipality/PUD takes over care and maintenance of the new physical plant. Verizon is perfectly free to compete with the other providers to provide TV service over that infrastructure, but residents shouldn't be forced into a monopoly. The infrastructure itself is then operated in a non-profit/open way. Works great in the two counties I've been in that have it.
This is where innerduct comes into play. I built out a campus project a few years ago, and before we pulled cable, we installed MaxCell innerduct. That stuff is magical. It allowed me to run 6 fiber cables through a single 2" conduit, with no damage, and if I ever need to swap one out again (due to a cut or whatever) it's a pretty simple matter to pull it back with a new pull tape. The best part is that it's pre-lubricated with dry silicone, so it's really slippery against the cable jacket material, and it has integrated color coded pull strings. Fantastic stuff.
Or, you know, you could just eliminate the laws that prohibit/restrict Municipal and/or County fiber projects. Two counties I know have PUDs that have deployed fiber to pretty much every address also serviced by their power connection. Residents then have the option to choose Internet service from several different providers (Zayo and Level 3 will also do transit over it), and TV service from several providers, and it's all very reasonably priced and reliable.
Of course, the big boys (Verizon et al) Hate it, because it dramatically lowers the bar to their competition.
The $651 million for Maven includes all the support costs for the mission. The salaries of the controllers, paying their share of time on the Deep Space Network, etc... Does the $74 million include the same thing? If not, then it's a comparison between Apples and Baseballs.
This is pretty standard on most European cars (and in fact true of all modern vehicles with traction control). The braking system is biased towards the rear brakes, which keeps the car from nose diving during hard braking. Also, in slippery conditions prior ABS/ESP kicking in, it allows the front wheels, which steer, to stay turning longer before locking up (and triggering ABS/traction control).
My VW typically goes through 3 sets of rear pads before I have to replace my fronts.
Don't forget the transformers and switchgear needed to connect those inverters to the grid. I'd be shocked if you could get that electrical equipment designed and delivered within 6 months, never mind 100 days.
It's not just the batteries that are the issue, unless Elon is only saying that the batteries will be there within 100 days. Utility scale electrical equipment is generally bespoke and/or custom manufactured and has long lead times. On top of the batteries you need to have utility scale inverters. You need switchgear to direct the produced power, you need large transformers to boost it up to utility voltages. In the organization I work with, we just finished a major electrical upgrade where we purchased 12 pad-mount transformers. While they were out of the catalogue, the lead time before shipping was still 8 weeks, and that was from a major manufacturer. Really big transformers, those capable of working with megawatts of power, take months to manufacture.
When Vancouver lost one of the two large transformers that supply the downtown part of the city, it was found that it would take 18 months to get a replacement manufactured.
You can pack even more into a 747 Freighter. A C-130 really isn't that large of an aircraft, nor does it have a particularly large payload. What it does have is the ability to land on rough/short runways.
My adapter is now travels in the little pouch with my (3rd party) earbuds, along with the adapter for those stupid two-pin airline jacks (if any still exist). It's just not that big of a deal, and the battery life is sufficient that I can watch a movie or two, and then go on and do something like read a book while the phone charges again.
Hey, and the city of Victoria, BC (among others) still dumps its sewage straight into it too, poop and all.
"The passengers will travel beyond the moon and loop back to Earth, spanning roughly 300,000 to 400,000 miles. "
I think the idea is that they'll swing by the moon, out into deeper space, and return to earth.
Well, colour temperature != CRI. Colour temperature, which you're talking about is colour temperature. CRI is a measure of how continuous the spectrum produced by the light source is. They're two independent things. You can have an LED with a 5000k colour temperature and an excellent CRI, and a 2700k with a lousy one. Basically a high quality CRI will cause colours on paper/paintings/etc... to look good/normal. A lousy CRI will look off.
What technology could be saved from Apollo? The idea of the technology could be re-used but in terms of actual physical objects none of the items from Apollo can be used. For example some of the technology of space suits pioneered by Apollo can be used in making new space suits but it will still cost money to make the suits. It will cost money to design the suit from scratch in the first place.
A number of years ago a group of Engineers tore down a Rocketdyne F-1 and built a set of CAD drawings/solidworks models from it. It was a useful exercise to do, as there are few people with the experience of building large RP1/LOX engines. They of course have all the drawings for the engines, but the drawings only show part of the story. They were all hand-built machines and very much works of art, but each one was unique and had its own quirks. Also, because it was a crash program, not everything was documented. The design is there, but not how to put it together, what little tuning tweaks were done on the production line, etc...
Anyhow, at the end of the process, they actually wound up firing the gas generator for the turbopump on the test stand. This small part, on its own, produces more thrust than an F16 in full afterburner, and when coupled with its turbine, 55,000 shaft horsepower. Ars Technica put together a nice write up on the process.
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If you believe that, I have a nice antique bridge that's for sale. Humans will set foot on Mars because of politics. That said, the only thing you can really do once you get there is science, but that's not why they will be going there.
And now you're learning what these kinds of things are really about. Project Apollo was not about the science, it was about beating the Russians and demonstrating the superiority of the American political and economic system. Of course, the only thing you can really do when you get there is good science, but that was a secondary objective.
Anyhow, the science isn't the primary point. It never has been, and it never will be.
I used to do development and testing for explosives detectors. Nitro-toluenes are very, very hard to get off your skin and clothes. I was pulled aside for random searching and swabbed for explosives.
In a past life, I was a contractor who spent 3 months bouncing between FOBs in Iraq and Afghanistan. The day before I flew home, I was on a CH-53 flying back towards Kuwait where i caught commercial back to Canada. I was sitting next to the door gunner, and as we flew along I think we crossed a range, and he let loose a dozen or so rounds out of the .50 cal. I spent the entire trip home thinking "Please don't swab me, please don't swab me..." and thankfully they didn't. Of course, trying to explain where you had been for three months when you had two in/out visas from Kuwait and a blank spot in between was another matter...
The problem with your link isn't that your browser is opening up multiple connections, it's that your satellite link has shitty (or non-existant) QoS. I run a satellite network to a remote site, that is serving about 60 users using 3.3Mbps. Between WAAS and some carefully tuned CBWFQ, it's slow but reliable, you click on something you can be pretty sure that it will load. Heck, this link is also running VOIP for everyone, and calls are nearly toll quality even when the network is saturated (which is most of the day and evening).
I'd wager that the most likely cause of failure would be a fatigue and/or structural failure in the rocket, but I'm just making an educated guess. The high stress systems (turbopumps, engines, cryo systems) have been strongly tested by the static firings. That said, 50 years of aerospace technology has taught a lot about how aluminum ages and operates under stress, though of course we still saw a structural failure on CRS-7, so who knows?