Surely you realize that "buying British" when it comes to cars is about as meaningful as "buying American" or "buying Japanese" these days. Your Mini Cooper S is assembled in the UK by a German-owned company using, among other things, engines sourced from Brazil and other parts from other countries. What really makes it "British"?
An area the size of a football field will produce 300 MWatts at the beginning.
No way. Even if every square mm of that football field could convert every photon of sunlight striking it into useful energy, that's still only about 5 MW. And when you account for nighttime, latitude, weather, etc. you might get 1 MW average.
1000 football fields would get you 1 GW - which, really, isn't so bad - that's about 5 million square meters, or an area about 2.23 km square. How much land would a 1 GW nuclear power station take up?
Is there a law that requires census workers to knock on people's doors, can we not allow people to register for a census on the internet? Would that not be easier and less expensive? Sure - for those folks who have computers and Internet access. But somehow, I don't those are the folks that the Census Bureau is worried about missing...
He also said the computers actually are easy to use, with a failure rate of less than 1 percent when tested in the field.
One percent of three hundred million is three million. And why would they need three hundred million computers? Are they handing one out to every man, woman, and child in America? TFA says they will be hiring 600,000 workers for the census - even if every one of them is getting a computer, that's 6,000 failures, not three million.
"you guys aren't really gonna heed a call to revolution....."
Not if I can get a million dollars.
For a price I'd do about anything except pull the trigger. For that I'd need a pretty good cause. But would you buy an AK-47 for your best friend? Business, the American way?
The detectors are very sensitive. Aparently the steel in many shipping containers built in China sets it off because the chinese are recycling a lot of the steel that was in now-decommissioned nuclear reactors.
Well, that's just great - that definitely won't make it easier to sneak in actual radiological hazards...
I think you parsed his argument wrongly. As I understand it, the argument is that the NHS allows the UK to provide comparable care to the USA at approx. one-half to one-third the cost per capita. This graph supports that interpretation... http://www.kff.org/insurance/snapshot/images/figure-1.gif
How does that graph support any interpretation? All it shows are costs - it doesn't say anything about quality or level of care.
Actually, making Jobs driving around in search of a parking lot is quite an uneffective use of the CEO's time. This is wasteful. Then they can give him a reserved spot. It still doesn't make it OK for him to park in a handicapped space.
I believe the important thing is that these are personal choices. Why does it matter if they have machines that effectively strip search anyone walking through them? Because some people walking through them won't like it, and that's reason enough to prohibit the use of such machines by default.
If some people don't wanna walk through the machine, that's fine - they can take their strip-search the old-fashioned way.
American's however automatically assume that some tiny shitty place in the USA is far more relevant and important than a major world city not in the USA. And that dismissive, patronising superior attitude pisses a lot of folks off. Kudos on your tolerance and understanding of our cultural differences. People around the world would get along so much better if we were all like you...
What's up with Dr. Paul wanting to abolish all federal laws anyways? Am I the only one who finds diversity (i.e. confusion) among the laws of a single country a bad idea? What'd be so bad about federal gov't universally (well countrywide, but the US of A tend to be somewhat universal for most citizens of 'em;)) regulating matters that affect more than, say, 3 states and the states sticking to their local business? I'm not sure what you're trying to say - that is (except for the "3 states" bit) how it works, or at least how it's supposed to work. The Constitution limits the role of the Federal government with regard to interfering the affairs of states - the Tenth Amendment says that any power that is not granted to the Federal government by the Constitution (such as foreign affairs, national defense, interstate affairs like commerce, etc.) is left to the States, or to the people themselves. Now, unfortunately, as a result of things like Federal grants-in-aid, highway funding, etc. the Federal government has wheedled its way into a position of greater power over the states, but that's not how it was meant to be by the folks who wrote the Constitution.
But the most important point is that the demos in a democracy doesn't have to be consistent. Now if you're a democratic politician you basically don't want to annoy the majority on any issue and that means you can't be consistent either. But the United States is not an (unlimited) democracy. It is a constitutional democratic republic. All that is really democratic about the US is how the officers of the republic are elected. And the Constitution is there to define and limit what those officials can do. And on that score, any inconsistency only serves to embolden the government at the expense of (at least some of) the people, and is therefore to be avoided. Ron Paul has arguably been the most staunch, consistent defender of the Constitution of any elected official in the modern era.
While we in rural communities who are not served by broadband, can be skipped by another technology. Yeah, TV transmitters will give internet. Too bad there's no TV transmitters around here... I have no broadband choices (I connect at 26.4kbps) but at least I get 0 over-the-air-channels. All right! Problem solved.
Well? You live in a rural area. What were you expecting? Infrastructure tends to be more effective, and therefore is more likely to be installed, where most of the people live...
In my state (Massachusetts), the Tolls on the Pike were said to be "temporary" and that they'd be gone in a few years... The state makes a few million bucks profit... People are getting so outraged about the Tolls going UP, they forget that they shouldn't even be there in the first place.
Feh. With all the money you guys blew on the Big Dig, you should consider yourself lucky that your driveway isn't a toll road.
Maybe it's easy for me to not understand your objections since I live in NYC which has had the foresight to develop layers of useful and reasonably prices public transportation. All I can say for those of you living in big cities without it, well, the gov't you elected failed to have that foresight and guess who is to blame for putting those officials in place?
That's really not very fair of you. Mass transit infrastructures of the scale and complexity of NYC's don't spring up overnight, or during a single election cycle. NYC has been building its mass (and personal) transportation systems up over a period of many decades. The first section of the subway opened over 100 years ago; the first elevated trains were running even before that. Similarly, the first bridge in NYC (the Brooklyn Bridge) was built in the 1880s. Transport infrastructure got an early start in NYC because it had to, what with most of the city being located on islands rather than on the mainland. You should no more blame folks in other cities for the decisions that their forebears made, than you should claim credit yourself for the decisions made by New Yorkers long before you were ever born.
If anything Fischer's legacy outside of chess should be to show people that extreme talent and insight in a small area gives no one any special insight into anything else. Maybe actors and singers should take note of that.
C'mon, it's only natural for a person to want to make use of publicity/exposure/audience/etc. to put forth his/her views to a large group of people. It's the people who listen to actors and singers, and lend extra credence to their words, who should learn a lesson from Bobby Fischer.
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You mean it's NOT because they're shaped like bow ties?
Nah, NASCAR wasn't big enough back in '76 to be worth going after the "bowtie crowd".
No, it's not. It comes out of your taxes, just like all government-supplied services in all countries.
Surely you realize that "buying British" when it comes to cars is about as meaningful as "buying American" or "buying Japanese" these days. Your Mini Cooper S is assembled in the UK by a German-owned company using, among other things, engines sourced from Brazil and other parts from other countries. What really makes it "British"?
No way. Even if every square mm of that football field could convert every photon of sunlight striking it into useful energy, that's still only about 5 MW. And when you account for nighttime, latitude, weather, etc. you might get 1 MW average.
1000 football fields would get you 1 GW - which, really, isn't so bad - that's about 5 million square meters, or an area about 2.23 km square. How much land would a 1 GW nuclear power station take up?
Haven't the Feds been threatening to invade this "terrorist enclave" for decades now?
One percent of three hundred million is three million. And why would they need three hundred million computers? Are they handing one out to every man, woman, and child in America? TFA says they will be hiring 600,000 workers for the census - even if every one of them is getting a computer, that's 6,000 failures, not three million.
Well, that's just great - that definitely won't make it easier to sneak in actual radiological hazards...
How does that graph support any interpretation? All it shows are costs - it doesn't say anything about quality or level of care.
Say... Mercury would be a great place to dispose of all our used CFL bulbs!
If some people don't wanna walk through the machine, that's fine - they can take their strip-search the old-fashioned way.
The name of the new company would be Microsoft, plain and simple. They might let the old Yahoo call themselves "Microsoft Yahoo" for a while.
While we in rural communities who are not served by broadband, can be skipped by another technology. Yeah, TV transmitters will give internet. Too bad there's no TV transmitters around here... I have no broadband choices (I connect at 26.4kbps) but at least I get 0 over-the-air-channels. All right! Problem solved.
Well? You live in a rural area. What were you expecting? Infrastructure tends to be more effective, and therefore is more likely to be installed, where most of the people live...
So engineers tend to the right of the political spectrum, eh? Don't tell that to the folks here at Slashdot...
I'm just a pawn in a complicated scheme to surreptitiously move money from my employers to my creditors. And there are thousands of others like me.
It's even more complicated than you know. The money flows from your employer's customers, to your employers, to you, to your creditors...
In my state (Massachusetts), the Tolls on the Pike were said to be "temporary" and that they'd be gone in a few years... The state makes a few million bucks profit... People are getting so outraged about the Tolls going UP, they forget that they shouldn't even be there in the first place.
Feh. With all the money you guys blew on the Big Dig, you should consider yourself lucky that your driveway isn't a toll road.
Maybe it's easy for me to not understand your objections since I live in NYC which has had the foresight to develop layers of useful and reasonably prices public transportation. All I can say for those of you living in big cities without it, well, the gov't you elected failed to have that foresight and guess who is to blame for putting those officials in place?
That's really not very fair of you. Mass transit infrastructures of the scale and complexity of NYC's don't spring up overnight, or during a single election cycle. NYC has been building its mass (and personal) transportation systems up over a period of many decades. The first section of the subway opened over 100 years ago; the first elevated trains were running even before that. Similarly, the first bridge in NYC (the Brooklyn Bridge) was built in the 1880s. Transport infrastructure got an early start in NYC because it had to, what with most of the city being located on islands rather than on the mainland. You should no more blame folks in other cities for the decisions that their forebears made, than you should claim credit yourself for the decisions made by New Yorkers long before you were ever born.
If anything Fischer's legacy outside of chess should be to show people that extreme talent and insight in a small area gives no one any special insight into anything else. Maybe actors and singers should take note of that.
C'mon, it's only natural for a person to want to make use of publicity/exposure/audience/etc. to put forth his/her views to a large group of people. It's the people who listen to actors and singers, and lend extra credence to their words, who should learn a lesson from Bobby Fischer.