That would be the case if population and size of patrol areas wasn't increasing. Almost all cities are growing, increased population, increased density and increased size. Inflation only counts on increases in costs, not growth.
The reason cops are interested in theft is it's not as lucrative as drug crime. Most departments spend almost all their police time on drug crime because in the 80's the government relaxed seizure laws and allowed the local cops to keep any drug money and assets seized. Most police departments benefit directly from this and will spend almost all their time locating and seizing money and assets, even going as far as taking poor people's car's for buying a joint (a rather memorable cops episode).
Until we end the war on drugs and roll back all the seizure laws cops aren't going to be interested in petty crime. Before the war on drugs you could actually get the cops to investigate car theft and muggings, now they don't even care.
The last (AFAIK only) Wankel engine every built commercially got 8MPG. It also proved to be a son of a bitch to maintain because the seals would go bad and it would require a total engine rebuild.
A paragon of efficiency and simplicity the Wankel engine is not.
As soon as you are sending mail by the truckload let me know. I did a one day temp job at a local junk mailer. This local very small junk mailer sent mail several times a day with a 40' semi truck and unloaded directly into the post office in presorted containers with the zipcode on the container. The larger junk mailers send mail via full size semi's with pup's in a near constant stream, literally billions of pounds of paper every year. Even if you are spending $50 a year on stamps you aren't even in the ballpark as far as your contribution to the post office.
The USPS has not received a dime in Tax dollars while I've been alive and that's a long fucking time. That $5 billion dollar loss you heard about last year and trumpeted by the small government pinheads was in fact a fake loss created by congress that had no material affect on their operations. It was a failure to deposit $5 billion into a retirement fund for USPS employees that haven't been born yet.
I don't think Texas can legally ban drones anyway, it's the exclusive jurisdiction of the FAA. Just like states can't pass laws restricting the use of radio frequencies because again, it's the exclusive jurisdiction of the FCC.
The postmaster General is right, those 400 junk mailers are paying for the entire system. That letter you send once a year for $.50 doesn't even come close to paying the billions those junk mailers pay that provides the money the USPS needs to have 100K employees and a fleet of vehicles and planes that would dwarf some governments.
Contrary to what some small government people claim, the USPS is the envy of the world. The overhead is near non-existent and the delivery network is world class in efficiency. Private companies can't come near the efficiency of the post office. The reason we have a system so efficient is that the natural monopoly was recognized and non-profit corporation beholden to government was created. It's a good thing that the post office recognizes that the customers paying the bills are the junk mailers. It's also a good thing that the USPS is overseen by government regulators (except of course congresses attempt to kill the USPS by mandating that they contribute 75 years worth of retirement in 10 years). That government regulations guarantees that it's a crime for anyone to open my mail, and that the courts have precedence putting searching the mail as equivalent to breaking into your house and reading your diary. This "service" would be a field day for the NSA because the digital records would not have the same protection that he physical envelope does.
If private run companies like UPS were doing first class mail the delivery charge for a first class letter would be several dollars.
It wasn't permanent growth that did the Romans in economically. It was an economy based on and entirely dependent on slavery. The Romans themselves did nothing, everything important was done by slaves including some of the most famous engineers. You can't sustain an economy forever based on slavery, at some point it's going to collapse because you don't know how to do anything anymore.
Space based panels are routinely more efficient than earth based ones, mostly because they spend the bucks to get the best possible efficiency. IIRC space based panels are right around 30% efficient while the best earth based panels on the commerical market are low 20's with the majority sold in the 8-15% range. Afteral if you are going to pay $20K a pound you might as well send up the best money can buy.
The atmosphere bounces a lot of energy, and some entire areas of spectrum are bounced nearly completely (such as the ozone layer bouncing much of the UV radiation). In theory (we don't have the technology yet) you could layer transparent panels tuned to certain spectrum, ie have a UV panel that bleeds off all the UV energy, then move down the spectrum sucking off each wavelength with tuned panels. In such a situation you could extract massive amounts of energy per square meter because your efficiencies could be near theoretical maximums. There is no question such a scenario would require massive arrays of solar panels. Your typical communication satellite (modern) use about 10KW of electricity and has a huge panel span. DirecTV-12, uses 8.9KW, and has a "wing" span of 158 feet tip to tip of solar panels. To generate the power needed for a city you'd need a bird a kilometer wide and high and it would cost billions to put it all in orbit.
The problem we have estimating this stuff is that realistically we haven't really been looking. Ironically the first space facing radars looking for asteroids were only funded after the Movie Armageddon and what we've got in place right now is woefully inadequate. We'd likely only find the planet/civilization killer asteroid days or at a best a month or two before it hit earth, long after it was too late to do anything about it. We'd have a month warning to plan the end of humanity (which was IMO aptly demonstrated in "Seeking a friend for the end of the world").
We have absolutely no idea what the real danger is to a space object ending all our lives because we've just not been looking long enough to know how often it even happens. We NEED better monitoring, better detection and absolutely better space based detection systems.
Not a luxury car???? The Model S is nicer that most of the "Luxury" cars on the market. The only possible way you could argue they aren't luxury is if you've never been in one in which case you are talking out your ass.
I expect and accept that every nation state engages in espionage against other governments. It's a good thing. It helps those nations understand each other, their motivations, what their red lines are and why they do the things they do in a world where different cultures see the very same thing differently. It prevents war directly though these actions.
That doesn't mean governments shouldn't try to gain the advantage by stopping as much spying as they can. It's natural for a nation-state to seek advantage against others.
Snowden has unilaterally taken it upon himself to directly damage the US espionage effort without the corresponding damage to the other nations which are doing the exact same thing. If he had done equal damage to every other nation state's programs I wouldn't feel the same anger with him as the actions would have leveled the playing field, but what he has done is damage the USA, UK, Australian and Canadian espionage programs. Essentially damaging the entire English speaking worlds democracies (and even some of the non English speaking ones as well) at the advantage of a lot of non democracies and I have a serious issue with that. He should spend the rest of his life in jail for it.
Do you know how many wars have been started over a misunderstanding?
I think Snowden did the right thing when he revealed the NSA blanket spying on the US public. I think he did the wrong thing when he revealed legitimate spying on foreign nations such as the revelations about spying on the Chinese military. I think the former was so important that he deserved an award for it. I think the later was so damaging to our legitimate foreign espionage that he should be jailed for it.
If he ever returns to the US he should be publicly honored for the former and jailed for the later. It's unfortunate that for whatever reason he came up with that he decided to reveal that legitimate espionage. It's destroyed his reputation among most Americans and in truth it's damaged the good stuff he did do. All those foreign spying revelations have ultimately destroyed his legacy, if he had stayed on topic of mass spying on the American people (his claimed goal) he might have been able to return to the US someday. As it stands if he ever returns he'll likely spend the rest of his life in prison and most Americans are going to remember him as a traitor.
Ya'll should have known Karpeles would do anything to avoid coming to the US and risking jail time for his actions. The Japanese will never go after this like the US would.
There was, that's the entire point. You can't win against the state. The state can take action by force, the warrant is a check on that system but regardless no matter what you do and the technical precautions you take the state, if patient and cautious, can easily acquire the information to breech those protections. It can range from the camera put in you house to the $5 wrench. Those advocating for true crypt to protect you from the state are simply wrong that it can protect you.
Not very wise, failing to file is a criminal tax code violation, even if you don't owe anything, hell even if they owe you something. You can be penalized for it and in fact you can be incarcerated for it.
Eich was tossed because he handled the controversy like he had aspergers. Those interviews he gave were cringe worthy. CEO's absolutely have to be politicians, they have to be able to handle bad situations in a manner that improves the problem not makes it worse. They can't get asked a question then provide an answer that makes it seem even worse than the initial impression. Even when handed a shit question in an ambush situation they need to be able to dance the discussion, not make it any worse while appearing to look like they answered the question. Eich clearly couldn't do that.
As far as the board members that quit I believe they did so because they didn't like Eich, not because of any stupid money issues. The board of directors are basically quasi bosses for a CEO, they hire the CEO, have ability to fire him with a majority, they can influence policy but the CEO has final say. If the board the CEO don't get along, it's like being in a bad marriage.
The problem is that we don't know how the discovery was made.
The NSA has apparently known about heartbleed since the start. And I would be surprised if Google and other major corps aren't monitoring criminal forums where these exploits are sold. Which makes me wonder if Google discovered it though monitoring the criminal channels or it's own audits.
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That "are" should be "are not". Changes the entire meaning.
That would be the case if population and size of patrol areas wasn't increasing. Almost all cities are growing, increased population, increased density and increased size. Inflation only counts on increases in costs, not growth.
The reason cops are interested in theft is it's not as lucrative as drug crime. Most departments spend almost all their police time on drug crime because in the 80's the government relaxed seizure laws and allowed the local cops to keep any drug money and assets seized. Most police departments benefit directly from this and will spend almost all their time locating and seizing money and assets, even going as far as taking poor people's car's for buying a joint (a rather memorable cops episode).
Until we end the war on drugs and roll back all the seizure laws cops aren't going to be interested in petty crime. Before the war on drugs you could actually get the cops to investigate car theft and muggings, now they don't even care.
The last (AFAIK only) Wankel engine every built commercially got 8MPG. It also proved to be a son of a bitch to maintain because the seals would go bad and it would require a total engine rebuild.
A paragon of efficiency and simplicity the Wankel engine is not.
They don't think we are too stupid. Visa and MC make money on fraud. They have a profit incentive to make fraud easy.
Credit card fraud liability in the US is limited to $50 by federal law as long as the theft of the card is reported within 3 days of discovering it.
Without the stupid pension obligation the USPS was several hundred million in the black. Stop trotting out this lie.
As soon as you are sending mail by the truckload let me know. I did a one day temp job at a local junk mailer. This local very small junk mailer sent mail several times a day with a 40' semi truck and unloaded directly into the post office in presorted containers with the zipcode on the container. The larger junk mailers send mail via full size semi's with pup's in a near constant stream, literally billions of pounds of paper every year. Even if you are spending $50 a year on stamps you aren't even in the ballpark as far as your contribution to the post office.
The USPS has not received a dime in Tax dollars while I've been alive and that's a long fucking time. That $5 billion dollar loss you heard about last year and trumpeted by the small government pinheads was in fact a fake loss created by congress that had no material affect on their operations. It was a failure to deposit $5 billion into a retirement fund for USPS employees that haven't been born yet.
Get your facts straight.
I don't think Texas can legally ban drones anyway, it's the exclusive jurisdiction of the FAA. Just like states can't pass laws restricting the use of radio frequencies because again, it's the exclusive jurisdiction of the FCC.
The postmaster General is right, those 400 junk mailers are paying for the entire system. That letter you send once a year for $.50 doesn't even come close to paying the billions those junk mailers pay that provides the money the USPS needs to have 100K employees and a fleet of vehicles and planes that would dwarf some governments.
Contrary to what some small government people claim, the USPS is the envy of the world. The overhead is near non-existent and the delivery network is world class in efficiency. Private companies can't come near the efficiency of the post office. The reason we have a system so efficient is that the natural monopoly was recognized and non-profit corporation beholden to government was created. It's a good thing that the post office recognizes that the customers paying the bills are the junk mailers. It's also a good thing that the USPS is overseen by government regulators (except of course congresses attempt to kill the USPS by mandating that they contribute 75 years worth of retirement in 10 years). That government regulations guarantees that it's a crime for anyone to open my mail, and that the courts have precedence putting searching the mail as equivalent to breaking into your house and reading your diary. This "service" would be a field day for the NSA because the digital records would not have the same protection that he physical envelope does.
If private run companies like UPS were doing first class mail the delivery charge for a first class letter would be several dollars.
I saw the announcement when it was made, the efficiencies were ridiculously low, like 1-3%. That's not viable. We're a long ways off yet.
It wasn't permanent growth that did the Romans in economically. It was an economy based on and entirely dependent on slavery. The Romans themselves did nothing, everything important was done by slaves including some of the most famous engineers. You can't sustain an economy forever based on slavery, at some point it's going to collapse because you don't know how to do anything anymore.
Musk made his billions by creating Paypal and selling it to ebay.
Musk: -100000000
Everyone else: Fucked in the ass by paypal.
Space based panels are routinely more efficient than earth based ones, mostly because they spend the bucks to get the best possible efficiency. IIRC space based panels are right around 30% efficient while the best earth based panels on the commerical market are low 20's with the majority sold in the 8-15% range. Afteral if you are going to pay $20K a pound you might as well send up the best money can buy.
The atmosphere bounces a lot of energy, and some entire areas of spectrum are bounced nearly completely (such as the ozone layer bouncing much of the UV radiation). In theory (we don't have the technology yet) you could layer transparent panels tuned to certain spectrum, ie have a UV panel that bleeds off all the UV energy, then move down the spectrum sucking off each wavelength with tuned panels. In such a situation you could extract massive amounts of energy per square meter because your efficiencies could be near theoretical maximums. There is no question such a scenario would require massive arrays of solar panels. Your typical communication satellite (modern) use about 10KW of electricity and has a huge panel span. DirecTV-12, uses 8.9KW, and has a "wing" span of 158 feet tip to tip of solar panels. To generate the power needed for a city you'd need a bird a kilometer wide and high and it would cost billions to put it all in orbit.
The problem we have estimating this stuff is that realistically we haven't really been looking. Ironically the first space facing radars looking for asteroids were only funded after the Movie Armageddon and what we've got in place right now is woefully inadequate. We'd likely only find the planet/civilization killer asteroid days or at a best a month or two before it hit earth, long after it was too late to do anything about it. We'd have a month warning to plan the end of humanity (which was IMO aptly demonstrated in "Seeking a friend for the end of the world").
We have absolutely no idea what the real danger is to a space object ending all our lives because we've just not been looking long enough to know how often it even happens. We NEED better monitoring, better detection and absolutely better space based detection systems.
Not a luxury car???? The Model S is nicer that most of the "Luxury" cars on the market. The only possible way you could argue they aren't luxury is if you've never been in one in which case you are talking out your ass.
I expect and accept that every nation state engages in espionage against other governments. It's a good thing. It helps those nations understand each other, their motivations, what their red lines are and why they do the things they do in a world where different cultures see the very same thing differently. It prevents war directly though these actions.
That doesn't mean governments shouldn't try to gain the advantage by stopping as much spying as they can. It's natural for a nation-state to seek advantage against others.
Snowden has unilaterally taken it upon himself to directly damage the US espionage effort without the corresponding damage to the other nations which are doing the exact same thing. If he had done equal damage to every other nation state's programs I wouldn't feel the same anger with him as the actions would have leveled the playing field, but what he has done is damage the USA, UK, Australian and Canadian espionage programs. Essentially damaging the entire English speaking worlds democracies (and even some of the non English speaking ones as well) at the advantage of a lot of non democracies and I have a serious issue with that. He should spend the rest of his life in jail for it.
Do you know how many wars have been started over a misunderstanding?
I think Snowden did the right thing when he revealed the NSA blanket spying on the US public. I think he did the wrong thing when he revealed legitimate spying on foreign nations such as the revelations about spying on the Chinese military. I think the former was so important that he deserved an award for it. I think the later was so damaging to our legitimate foreign espionage that he should be jailed for it.
If he ever returns to the US he should be publicly honored for the former and jailed for the later. It's unfortunate that for whatever reason he came up with that he decided to reveal that legitimate espionage. It's destroyed his reputation among most Americans and in truth it's damaged the good stuff he did do. All those foreign spying revelations have ultimately destroyed his legacy, if he had stayed on topic of mass spying on the American people (his claimed goal) he might have been able to return to the US someday. As it stands if he ever returns he'll likely spend the rest of his life in prison and most Americans are going to remember him as a traitor.
So if Fusion is always 20 year away and 10 years === not in the foreseeable future does that mean 20 years == hell frozen over?
$100 a shot! Damn, it's no wonder the Ruskies lost the cold war!
Ya'll should have known Karpeles would do anything to avoid coming to the US and risking jail time for his actions. The Japanese will never go after this like the US would.
There was, that's the entire point. You can't win against the state. The state can take action by force, the warrant is a check on that system but regardless no matter what you do and the technical precautions you take the state, if patient and cautious, can easily acquire the information to breech those protections. It can range from the camera put in you house to the $5 wrench. Those advocating for true crypt to protect you from the state are simply wrong that it can protect you.
Not very wise, failing to file is a criminal tax code violation, even if you don't owe anything, hell even if they owe you something. You can be penalized for it and in fact you can be incarcerated for it.
Ah baloney.
Eich was tossed because he handled the controversy like he had aspergers. Those interviews he gave were cringe worthy. CEO's absolutely have to be politicians, they have to be able to handle bad situations in a manner that improves the problem not makes it worse. They can't get asked a question then provide an answer that makes it seem even worse than the initial impression. Even when handed a shit question in an ambush situation they need to be able to dance the discussion, not make it any worse while appearing to look like they answered the question. Eich clearly couldn't do that.
As far as the board members that quit I believe they did so because they didn't like Eich, not because of any stupid money issues. The board of directors are basically quasi bosses for a CEO, they hire the CEO, have ability to fire him with a majority, they can influence policy but the CEO has final say. If the board the CEO don't get along, it's like being in a bad marriage.
The problem is that we don't know how the discovery was made.
The NSA has apparently known about heartbleed since the start. And I would be surprised if Google and other major corps aren't monitoring criminal forums where these exploits are sold. Which makes me wonder if Google discovered it though monitoring the criminal channels or it's own audits.