If you consider time merely another dimension like distance, then it is easy to imagine that causes which travel through time (in both directions) might degrade in their influence based on proximity. This would produce, not strict determinism, but a situation in which some events have outside influence on both the past and the future, while other events have only lesser influence, and all influence eventually fades the farther away in time the event is.
Monetization is turning a product into money by selling it to two sets of customers. Louis CK simply sold his works to viewers. He decided not to sell the opportunity to force you to watch ads or CIA propaganda or whatever as well. Remember, money is force.
Listen, this is a simple problem. It's one that I solved in 2005, and which eventually morphed into the Pickens Plan. Synthetic liquid fuel doesn't need to be converted back into electricity. It can be used to fuel vehicles. It does a fine job of that, better than batteries. The inefficiencies don't matter, because of the cost premium of liquid fuels. Just build enough intermittent electric capacity to cover the average usage, and let the market do the rest.
Some things to consider include the possibility that Chinese solar panels aren't actually under-priced over longer time periods, such as ten years or so. Also, the US still consumes twice as much energy as China in toto. So by the time we've replaced half of our energy usage with cheap panels, China could very well have replaced all of theirs. Then they just stop producing, and we're the ones stuck needing fossil fuels, except with no RE industry to speak of. There are lots of good reasons for the US to incubate its own renewable energy industry.
Governments are a necessary thing in society, and governments need to collect taxes in order to function -- and money is basically the best way we know of for governments to collect those taxes.
What pathetically-narrow worldview leads you to believe that religious conflict is not about resources?
Look at the Republican presidential candidates, they're an absolutely classic example. The ones who are in the lead are those who have nine children and a very specific (and almost completely contrived) belief structure proscribing how the rest of us are obliged to work to support them. That's about resources.
And the millions who vote for them necessarily share their belief systems. There simply aren't enough resources on the planet for everyone to have nine children, and there never will be. There will always be multiple belief systems capable of supporting politicians with nine children, and those belief systems will always be in conflict. Therefore there will always be a dominant belief system in place to proscribe how resources are allocated.
And there will always be new idiots who think with their dicks and manage to produce nine children and a novel way of expropriating other people's resources to support them.
The Cops don't usually get a kickback from the prison system.
Not directly, but their salaries are paid by investment in municipal bonds, courtesy of the same large financial institutions that invest in the private prisons. It's all connected at a high enough level for everyone involved to claim plausible deniability.
2 - Our education system is failing us horribly and not properly educating/training our workforce.
Why would you write off this option? Six years ago I saw schools advertising degree programs in jobs I was busy automating. The US education system has become a bloated, irrelevant joke.
Besides, wind turbine maintenance isn't "skilled labor". It's redneck engineering. No one should have the least bit of sympathy for companies that can't find the perfect workers to fill in the gaps of their low-paid, poorly-thought-out maintenance regimes. Companies like GE had 30 years to perfect large scale wind turbines. If they couldn't be bothered to consider who would rappel up the side of a 300 ft tower in order to maintain it, then they can just increase the wage to more realistic levels until it's worthwhile for someone else to figure it out.
Yep, disaster capitalism at it's finest. But of course there isn't a "Linux" of renewable energy, and probably won't be until the mad rush to monopolize scarce resources is nearly over and the vultures have moved on to the next big thing to invest their freshly-inflated fiat bucks in. And what will be left in Oklahoma will be an excess of broken-down, poorly-designed, written-off turbines dotting the landscape just like the crumbling oil derricks of yesteryear.
My own equally made-up figures show that wind power costs a hundred trazillion dollars a year.
On the off-chance that you are not trolling... since I'm not interested in writing a dissertation, just go ahead and point out which of these assertions you disagree with:
The US economy, through the Federal Reserve System, is subsidized by the dollar's status as global reserve currency.
Finance comprises nearly half of the US economy.
Cheap energy enables the modern consumer economy.
In fact, without affordable energy, there would likely be *no* US economy.
The primary mission of the US military is to maintain the petrodollar.
Fossil fuels are a finite resource.
Current generations consume fossil fuels by borrowing them from future generations.
The US deficit has grown exponentially since US oil production peaked.
Young Americans inherit a national debt of over $49,000 per capita.
Medical advancements enabled by cheap energy and petroleum have extended lifespan and increased medical expenditures.
The majority of healthcare spending is on the elderly.
State and federal governments spend over $7000 per year ($19 per day), per capita on health care.
The US spends over $3000 per year ($8 per day), per capita on the military.
The US spends approx $52 per year ($0.15 per day), per capita on *all* renewable energy subsidies combined.
So, in conclusion, even if only 1% of all medical spending could be attributed to unsustainable fossil fuel consumption, and only 1% of the cost of maintaining the US military benefits fossil energy, and only 1% of the debt saddled on future generations represents the consumption of finite fossil resources, this would still be over twice the cost of *all* current renewable energy subsidies combined.
That's not even true. Fossil fuels receive much more subsidies in the form of socialized health costs, military expenditures, and inter-generational debt transfer.
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Bitcoin doesn't have "built in deflation." It has built-in monetary inflation, which is currently around 35%, and which decreases over time.
If you consider time merely another dimension like distance, then it is easy to imagine that causes which travel through time (in both directions) might degrade in their influence based on proximity. This would produce, not strict determinism, but a situation in which some events have outside influence on both the past and the future, while other events have only lesser influence, and all influence eventually fades the farther away in time the event is.
The ruling is equivalent to "if you have a logon, you should have root".
The employees had access to the data in question. They could have easily been denied access if that were the intent.
Try reading the article next time.
Absolutely everything can be done. In 20 years of IT I have never said "that's not possible"
You've never had a manager ask you to prevent competitors from copying pictures off your website?
Monetization is turning a product into money by selling it to two sets of customers. Louis CK simply sold his works to viewers. He decided not to sell the opportunity to force you to watch ads or CIA propaganda or whatever as well. Remember, money is force.
Listen, this is a simple problem. It's one that I solved in 2005, and which eventually morphed into the Pickens Plan. Synthetic liquid fuel doesn't need to be converted back into electricity. It can be used to fuel vehicles. It does a fine job of that, better than batteries. The inefficiencies don't matter, because of the cost premium of liquid fuels. Just build enough intermittent electric capacity to cover the average usage, and let the market do the rest.
It's fast enough for grid load-balancing. There, do you feel better now?
Some things to consider include the possibility that Chinese solar panels aren't actually under-priced over longer time periods, such as ten years or so. Also, the US still consumes twice as much energy as China in toto. So by the time we've replaced half of our energy usage with cheap panels, China could very well have replaced all of theirs. Then they just stop producing, and we're the ones stuck needing fossil fuels, except with no RE industry to speak of. There are lots of good reasons for the US to incubate its own renewable energy industry.
No the Democrats are in charge, so it's coal.
Hard drives are cheap... desktops all have them and they're usually under-utilized... etc...
You sound like a Windows admin...
That's code for "fuck you, citizens, we'll do whatever we want."
The underwear bombing was basically a verified government false flag.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU7_L1bVBLo
Wow, you predicted all that way back in January? You are literally months ahead of your time...
Governments are a necessary thing in society, and governments need to collect taxes in order to function -- and money is basically the best way we know of for governments to collect those taxes.
Literally none of these assertions is true.
What pathetically-narrow worldview leads you to believe that religious conflict is not about resources?
Look at the Republican presidential candidates, they're an absolutely classic example. The ones who are in the lead are those who have nine children and a very specific (and almost completely contrived) belief structure proscribing how the rest of us are obliged to work to support them. That's about resources.
And the millions who vote for them necessarily share their belief systems. There simply aren't enough resources on the planet for everyone to have nine children, and there never will be. There will always be multiple belief systems capable of supporting politicians with nine children, and those belief systems will always be in conflict. Therefore there will always be a dominant belief system in place to proscribe how resources are allocated.
And there will always be new idiots who think with their dicks and manage to produce nine children and a novel way of expropriating other people's resources to support them.
Fiat currencies create artificial physical scarcity via their artificial abundance.
Put that in your crack pipe and smoke it.
An NFC wallet is not a replacement for cash. It is a replacement for credit/debit cards.
That's not necessarily true. NFC can be used with digital currencies just as easily as it can with credit cards.
Wait, so you're saying that who gets elected depends on the order in which the votes are tallied?
The Cops don't usually get a kickback from the prison system.
Not directly, but their salaries are paid by investment in municipal bonds, courtesy of the same large financial institutions that invest in the private prisons. It's all connected at a high enough level for everyone involved to claim plausible deniability.
2 - Our education system is failing us horribly and not properly educating/training our workforce.
Why would you write off this option? Six years ago I saw schools advertising degree programs in jobs I was busy automating. The US education system has become a bloated, irrelevant joke.
Besides, wind turbine maintenance isn't "skilled labor". It's redneck engineering. No one should have the least bit of sympathy for companies that can't find the perfect workers to fill in the gaps of their low-paid, poorly-thought-out maintenance regimes. Companies like GE had 30 years to perfect large scale wind turbines. If they couldn't be bothered to consider who would rappel up the side of a 300 ft tower in order to maintain it, then they can just increase the wage to more realistic levels until it's worthwhile for someone else to figure it out.
Yep, disaster capitalism at it's finest. But of course there isn't a "Linux" of renewable energy, and probably won't be until the mad rush to monopolize scarce resources is nearly over and the vultures have moved on to the next big thing to invest their freshly-inflated fiat bucks in. And what will be left in Oklahoma will be an excess of broken-down, poorly-designed, written-off turbines dotting the landscape just like the crumbling oil derricks of yesteryear.
My own equally made-up figures show that wind power costs a hundred trazillion dollars a year.
On the off-chance that you are not trolling... since I'm not interested in writing a dissertation, just go ahead and point out which of these assertions you disagree with:
So, in conclusion, even if only 1% of all medical spending could be attributed to unsustainable fossil fuel consumption, and only 1% of the cost of maintaining the US military benefits fossil energy, and only 1% of the debt saddled on future generations represents the consumption of finite fossil resources, this would still be over twice the cost of *all* current renewable energy subsidies combined.
around here
So are you saying that "around here" is someplace that unemployment insurance is not subsidized by the same people who purchase Oklahoma wind energy?
In that case, what does your post have to do with the topic?
wind power is utterly dependent on subsidies
That's not even true. Fossil fuels receive much more subsidies in the form of socialized health costs, military expenditures, and inter-generational debt transfer.
http://cleantechnica.com/2011/05/01/cost-of-wind-power-kicks-coals-butt-better-than-natural-gas-could-power-your-ev-for-0-70gallon/
I wonder about the long-term viability of (renewable energy)
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It's not a shortage of nurses, it's an over-supply of the elderly.