Most utilities give you their schedule, so you can do it with a simple timer.
Also, if you're going to draw off it most of the day, you're going to have to recharge it overnight. Its not like you have a choice to trickle-charge over a few days.
$10,000 for a ups I can buy for $1,950.00 retail, no favours asked. What a scam.
You'll save more money and a lot more energy just remembering to turn off the two computers overnight, because that's its max capacity over a 10-hour period.
After visiting their site and reading the pdf, it turns out you can't use this to power your business during peak periods. It has a capacity of 1 kw for 10 hours, so you'll be running a couple of pcs and that's it. Oh, and only if you spend additional $$$ - BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED.
Its basically a ups with an external battery (extra cost).
In short, neither the summary nor the article bothered to check the facts.
We have a nationally-mandated medicare plan, administered by each province. Move to a different province, the old province is required to cover you for a period of time (1 to 3 months - it varies) while you enroll in the new province's plan.
Part of the bitching by the provinces has been the feds reducing their historic share of the costs.
I didn't say there was one id card for the whole country.
I went to their web site, and your $10,000 doesn't include batteries.
All you get is a rectifier and switch, that will, if you connect enough betteries to it, give you 1 kw for 10 hours. So you can only expect to run a couple of computers off this. Nothing else. For less than $2,000 you can get a 5000 watt inverter that will put out 230 volts. Connect that to the same set of batteries. Plug your computers into it. Charge it up at night. Run your boxes off it during the day. You've now saved $8,000 + the cost of an installation into your mains box, and its a lot easier to maintain.
The whole debate is irrelevant - the article is wrong, as is the summary.
I went to the company's web site and downloaded the pdf. Your ten grand gets you a switch, a rectifier, and a case. You have to add the batteries yourself, and the system has a capacity of 1,000 watts x 10 hours (if you buy enough batteries).
In other words, its enough to run a couple of computers, not an office.
You can build the same thing for $2000 plus batteries, charge it up at night, plug the pcs into them during the day, and save yourself $8,000.00.
Not only is the summary wrong - so is the friggin article.
I went to their home page and downloaded the pdf.
Here's the deal - BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED!!!
The ten grand buys you a switch. That's it. A switch controlled by a computer, and an inverter. You still need to buy batteries (that will give you a grand total of 1 kw for 10 hours, so forget about running more than a couple of computers off this).
They're trying to sell you on buying a bunch of solar cells (NOTE - NOT INCLUDED IN THE PRICE EITHER) that you connect to the switch, and depending on their output, you either suck off the sun or the power grid.
Their big marketing scam - TAX CREDIT of $500 - $2500 for Solar Power Systems.
In other words, you can do this yourself with off-the-shelf parts - buy one of these http://www.apcc.com/resource/include/techspec_inde x.cfm?base_sku=SU5000UXINET&tab=features&ISOCountr yCode=usfor under 2 grand, and with the other 8 grand, buy a sh*tload of batteries for it, and you're ahead of the game cost-wise. Heck, buy two, phase-lock them, and you can run your washer and electric dryer at the same time - something you can't do with their $10,000 system (which is really a lot more after you add the batteries).
In Canada we have identity cards for various services, such as our national medicare plan, but we don't "mix-n-match" the data too much.
when it was found that HRDC (Human Resources Development Canada) HAD created a sort of "master database", the newspapers were quick to jump on it, and one of them printed up directions and a form to request your complete file. 29,000 people responded. Rather than comply within the 30 day limit, they destroyed the database.
The other problem being that if enough people go to this, then there suddenly IS no off-peak period, and no slack in the system that can absorb a jump in demand.
End result - a more fragile power net for everyone.
This post brought to you by the law of unintended consequences - just like almost everything else in life.
Off-topic : I don't know about you, but when I looked at the title of this thread "Goodles problem will be their increasing size" my first thought was "penis enlargment spam".
Back on topic (sort of): Think of how much less disorganized the world would be without its global village idiot.
Really on topic: If information is TOO organized, its usefulness diminishes. Its by the cross-fertilization of ideas between seemingly unrelated areas that we make many of our gee-whiz advances - velcro being a simple example.
As long as google doesn't employ the same mind-set in approaching its mission...
From the article:
It is driven by an open-ended mission to organize the world's knowledge or, as one VP put it, raise the world's IQ. This vision animates a restless search for new opportunities.
There are a lot of evil ways to raise the world's IQ - most of them involving a bullet.
Nobody ever said that this treatment option should be ignored.
But to quote your own words back at you:
depression is inspiration to some people
Its like the instructions on being a write: "Its easy - sit before your keyboard and slice open a vein."
Some people will opt for this treatment, others will weigh it against the risks, which include the possibility of their personality changing enough that "the well runs dry", and decide against it. This is their right, just like any other treatment. The choice is individual, and has to take this into account.
CBT - not "Computer-Based Training", but "Cognitive Behavioral therapy". Part of which is that changing your behaviour WILL change how you see things. For example, find one small thing you CAN do that might or might not change things. Then DO IT instead of just over-thinking it. Reward yourself for a small victory if it changes things, and for having eliminated one possibility if it didn't change things. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Many of the great writers produced their best works when they were fighting the wolf at the door.
Think for a minute - someone who, like Lincoln, had spent a lot of time thinking about how much life sucked, about having to go bankrupt not once, not twice, but three times, of being a failure, of trying over and over and over and over to succeed, failing, and having it gnaw at him... you don't think that wouldn't make him more sympathetic to others whose chains were just as restricting as those in his life?
If they were saying "oh, fuck it!" they wouldn't BE depressed. Life wouldn't bother them a bit. It wouldn't be like every day was just one more day where its painful to get out of bed, because what's the point, its ot going to CHANGE anything, its not going to solve any of the problems they're overwhelmed by.
Depression, and the struggle to cope with it, can lead to insights a person would not otherwie have. To say otherwise is to claim that its impossible for someone who suffers from depression is ever capable of learning, or advancing, or making any improvement. Now THAT is a depressing thought.
The ability to look at a major life problem, realize that there's nothing you can do about it, and, rather than stress over it, say, "Fuck it" and go on, is a gift. Not everyone has that gift.
This really begs the question: Have you ever been depressed?
Irrelevant to my point, but since you ask, it sort of "comes with the territory" (PTSD).
What finally worked for me was dogs. Not 100% effective, but a lot better than losing a decade (the '80s) to a grey funk.
Its probably made me more left-leaning politically than I would have been otherwise, since the experience gave me insight into just how much we all really are individuals, and how much the external appearance doesn't necessarily mirror what's going on inside.
http://www.quebecorworldinc.com/2nd largest printing company in the world is just ONE of the things he did. Also owns Sun Media, a whack of newspapers, tv stations, cable company, etc.
And then you have those who self-medicated with alcohol, like write Jack Kerouac, and ended up dying of a stomach haemorhage, or those who turned to drugs, like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ernest Hemmingway:
Hemingway attempted suicide in the spring of 1961, and received ECT treatment again; but, some three weeks short of his 62nd birthday, he took his own life on the morning of July 2, 1961, with a shotgun blast to the head. Judged not mentally responsible for his action of suicide, he was buried with a Roman Catholic service. Hemingway himself blamed the ECT treatments for "putting him out of business" by destroying his memory; medical and scholarly opinion has been respectfully attentive to this view.
What they referred to as "melancholy" in Lincoln's day would certainly pass for depression nowadays. That feeling that nothing's worth it, the world is all grey and closing in, getting out of bed is more effort than its worth, that just breathing is a reminder that there's no end in sight, no light at the end of the tunnel, that you've been there before, and that you'll be there again (how depressing...), that you have to fight fight fight just to pretend to be having a "good" day, wondering where the last 6 months, or the last 10 years, went because they were just swallowed by the gloom...
That sort of thing just didn't happen when I was that age 30 years ago.
Actually, it did, but the world was a smaller place in those days, and it was much less likely to be plastered all over the news, or if it was, it stayed in the local community. People talked about it in hushed tones, if at all, and since court awards were much less than today, there was less incentive for ambulance-chasers to "monetize" the situation.
What, were you born stupid? Take a look at the posting right above yours. Jerk.
Gee, that's really constructive...
Your brain is strongly influenced by the chemical and hormonal bath it sits in. Its also influenced by all the sensory input it gets. The GP poster was pointing this out... you, on the other hand, could probably benefit from a bout of severe depression - maybe it would give you some empathy for other people.
I know when I worked for a couple of pharmacists (and they had 40 years experience between them, and did several hundred scrips a day) that there were some doctors who had a rep for not being able to scribble properly. They knew my handwriting was no better than chicken scrawls, so a couple of times they'd ask me "can you read this?" Sometimes yes, sometimes no... pretty bad when it might be a "q" or an "a" or an "e" or and "i" or a "d" or even a "t" - there's no way to tell - it sort of has elements of all of them, and the next letter(s) is/are just a line - like he fell asleep writing it.
The best doctors PRINT rather than use cursive. It doesn't take any longer, and is a lot more legible, and a lot safer for the patients. They also PRINT when filling in their patient charts, because they know that someone else may have to consult them in the future.
I remember one woman who wanted to be a writer. She showed me a few pages. All in italic. On purple paper. Oh, my bleeding eyeballs... I asked her why - "For effect." Well, it certainly worked, because it foreshadowed the content... pretentious, self-conscious pap that had nothing to say and took forever to say it.
This could have some rather unexpected negative side-effects. For example, Lincoln was prone to depression - if he had been less melancholic, perhaps he wouldn't have spent so much time brooding over the negative consequences of slavery to the union. Similarly, this could spell the end to a lot of literature...
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Most utilities give you their schedule, so you can do it with a simple timer.
Also, if you're going to draw off it most of the day, you're going to have to recharge it overnight. Its not like you have a choice to trickle-charge over a few days.
$10,000 for a ups I can buy for $1,950.00 retail, no favours asked. What a scam.
You'll save more money and a lot more energy just remembering to turn off the two computers overnight, because that's its max capacity over a 10-hour period.
After visiting their site and reading the pdf, it turns out you can't use this to power your business during peak periods. It has a capacity of 1 kw for 10 hours, so you'll be running a couple of pcs and that's it. Oh, and only if you spend additional $$$ - BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED.
Its basically a ups with an external battery (extra cost).
In short, neither the summary nor the article bothered to check the facts.
Please re-read what I wrote. I never said we had a national identity card.
Part of the bitching by the provinces has been the feds reducing their historic share of the costs.
I didn't say there was one id card for the whole country.
I went to their web site, and your $10,000 doesn't include batteries.
All you get is a rectifier and switch, that will, if you connect enough betteries to it, give you 1 kw for 10 hours. So you can only expect to run a couple of computers off this. Nothing else. For less than $2,000 you can get a 5000 watt inverter that will put out 230 volts. Connect that to the same set of batteries. Plug your computers into it. Charge it up at night. Run your boxes off it during the day. You've now saved $8,000 + the cost of an installation into your mains box, and its a lot easier to maintain.
The whole debate is irrelevant - the article is wrong, as is the summary.
I went to the company's web site and downloaded the pdf. Your ten grand gets you a switch, a rectifier, and a case. You have to add the batteries yourself, and the system has a capacity of 1,000 watts x 10 hours (if you buy enough batteries).
In other words, its enough to run a couple of computers, not an office.
You can build the same thing for $2000 plus batteries, charge it up at night, plug the pcs into them during the day, and save yourself $8,000.00.
I went to their home page and downloaded the pdf.
Here's the deal - BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED!!!
The ten grand buys you a switch. That's it. A switch controlled by a computer, and an inverter. You still need to buy batteries (that will give you a grand total of 1 kw for 10 hours, so forget about running more than a couple of computers off this).
They're trying to sell you on buying a bunch of solar cells (NOTE - NOT INCLUDED IN THE PRICE EITHER) that you connect to the switch, and depending on their output, you either suck off the sun or the power grid.
Their big marketing scam - TAX CREDIT of $500 - $2500 for Solar Power Systems.
In other words, you can do this yourself with off-the-shelf parts - buy one of these http://www.apcc.com/resource/include/techspec_inde x.cfm?base_sku=SU5000UXINET&tab=features&ISOCountr yCode=usfor under 2 grand, and with the other 8 grand, buy a sh*tload of batteries for it, and you're ahead of the game cost-wise. Heck, buy two, phase-lock them, and you can run your washer and electric dryer at the same time - something you can't do with their $10,000 system (which is really a lot more after you add the batteries).
In Canada we have identity cards for various services, such as our national medicare plan, but we don't "mix-n-match" the data too much.
when it was found that HRDC (Human Resources Development Canada) HAD created a sort of "master database", the newspapers were quick to jump on it, and one of them printed up directions and a form to request your complete file. 29,000 people responded. Rather than comply within the 30 day limit, they destroyed the database.
Score one for the little guys.
End result - a more fragile power net for everyone.
This post brought to you by the law of unintended consequences - just like almost everything else in life.
Off-topic : I don't know about you, but when I looked at the title of this thread "Goodles problem will be their increasing size" my first thought was "penis enlargment spam".
Back on topic (sort of): Think of how much less disorganized the world would be without its global village idiot.
Really on topic: If information is TOO organized, its usefulness diminishes. Its by the cross-fertilization of ideas between seemingly unrelated areas that we make many of our gee-whiz advances - velcro being a simple example.
As long as google doesn't employ the same mind-set in approaching its mission ...
From the article:
There are a lot of evil ways to raise the world's IQ - most of them involving a bullet.
I can see it going either way, depending on the individual. For some, this could be a god-send; for others ... we just don't know.
A few points:
But to quote your own words back at you:
Its like the instructions on being a write: "Its easy - sit before your keyboard and slice open a vein."
Some people will opt for this treatment, others will weigh it against the risks, which include the possibility of their personality changing enough that "the well runs dry", and decide against it. This is their right, just like any other treatment. The choice is individual, and has to take this into account.
Thanks for liking my description :-)
Here's something nobody's asked yet
- if you or someone you knew was thinking about going through this treatment, what would you recommend?
- And, more importantly, would your recommendation be different if it was you, as compared to if you were counselling someone else?
Something to think about?CBT - not "Computer-Based Training", but "Cognitive Behavioral therapy". Part of which is that changing your behaviour WILL change how you see things. For example, find one small thing you CAN do that might or might not change things. Then DO IT instead of just over-thinking it. Reward yourself for a small victory if it changes things, and for having eliminated one possibility if it didn't change things. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Many of the great writers produced their best works when they were fighting the wolf at the door.
Think for a minute - someone who, like Lincoln, had spent a lot of time thinking about how much life sucked, about having to go bankrupt not once, not twice, but three times, of being a failure, of trying over and over and over and over to succeed, failing, and having it gnaw at him ... you don't think that wouldn't make him more sympathetic to others whose chains were just as restricting as those in his life?
If they were saying "oh, fuck it!" they wouldn't BE depressed. Life wouldn't bother them a bit. It wouldn't be like every day was just one more day where its painful to get out of bed, because what's the point, its ot going to CHANGE anything, its not going to solve any of the problems they're overwhelmed by.
Depression, and the struggle to cope with it, can lead to insights a person would not otherwie have. To say otherwise is to claim that its impossible for someone who suffers from depression is ever capable of learning, or advancing, or making any improvement. Now THAT is a depressing thought.
The ability to look at a major life problem, realize that there's nothing you can do about it, and, rather than stress over it, say, "Fuck it" and go on, is a gift. Not everyone has that gift.
Irrelevant to my point, but since you ask, it sort of "comes with the territory" (PTSD).
What finally worked for me was dogs. Not 100% effective, but a lot better than losing a decade (the '80s) to a grey funk.
Its probably made me more left-leaning politically than I would have been otherwise, since the experience gave me insight into just how much we all really are individuals, and how much the external appearance doesn't necessarily mirror what's going on inside.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebecor_Inc.
http://www.quebecorworldinc.com/2nd largest printing company in the world is just ONE of the things he did. Also owns Sun Media, a whack of newspapers, tv stations, cable company, etc.
Go down to your local library and see how many famous authors, artists, and performers committed suicide.
there's a strong link between accomplishment and "not normal".
Here's a partial list of famous suicides http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_suicid es
Or check out Buzz Aldrin's story ... http://www.horatioalger.com/members/member_info.cf m?memberid=ald05
And then you have those who self-medicated with alcohol, like write Jack Kerouac, and ended up dying of a stomach haemorhage, or those who turned to drugs, like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ernest Hemmingway:
What they referred to as "melancholy" in Lincoln's day would certainly pass for depression nowadays. That feeling that nothing's worth it, the world is all grey and closing in, getting out of bed is more effort than its worth, that just breathing is a reminder that there's no end in sight, no light at the end of the tunnel, that you've been there before, and that you'll be there again (how depressing ...), that you have to fight fight fight just to pretend to be having a "good" day, wondering where the last 6 months, or the last 10 years, went because they were just swallowed by the gloom ...
That sort of thing just didn't happen when I was that age 30 years ago.
Actually, it did, but the world was a smaller place in those days, and it was much less likely to be plastered all over the news, or if it was, it stayed in the local community. People talked about it in hushed tones, if at all, and since court awards were much less than today, there was less incentive for ambulance-chasers to "monetize" the situation.
Gee, that's really constructive ...
Your brain is strongly influenced by the chemical and hormonal bath it sits in. Its also influenced by all the sensory input it gets. The GP poster was pointing this out ... you, on the other hand, could probably benefit from a bout of severe depression - maybe it would give you some empathy for other people.
I know when I worked for a couple of pharmacists (and they had 40 years experience between them, and did several hundred scrips a day) that there were some doctors who had a rep for not being able to scribble properly. They knew my handwriting was no better than chicken scrawls, so a couple of times they'd ask me "can you read this?" Sometimes yes, sometimes no ... pretty bad when it might be a "q" or an "a" or an "e" or and "i" or a "d" or even a "t" - there's no way to tell - it sort of has elements of all of them, and the next letter(s) is/are just a line - like he fell asleep writing it.
The best doctors PRINT rather than use cursive. It doesn't take any longer, and is a lot more legible, and a lot safer for the patients. They also PRINT when filling in their patient charts, because they know that someone else may have to consult them in the future.
I remember one woman who wanted to be a writer. She showed me a few pages. All in italic. On purple paper. Oh, my bleeding eyeballs ... I asked her why - "For effect." Well, it certainly worked, because it foreshadowed the content ... pretentious, self-conscious pap that had nothing to say and took forever to say it.
( ... !!!purple??? paper ... memble mumble idiot mumble ...)
This could have some rather unexpected negative side-effects. For example, Lincoln was prone to depression - if he had been less melancholic, perhaps he wouldn't have spent so much time brooding over the negative consequences of slavery to the union. Similarly, this could spell the end to a lot of literature ...
How depressing ...