Under the typical business model for the solar industry, homeowners sign lease agreements with installation companies. The homeowners pay the cost of the panels over time and sell any excess power the systems generate.... States where solar thrives typically pay homeowners attractive rates for the excess power they generate and require utilities to get a considerable share of their power from renewable sources. That gives companies an incentive to promote use of solar.
What this is about is that the local utilities are FORCED to purchase the solar panel's excess generation whether they need it or not. At retail rates the utilities are forced to pay are in excess of what it costs the utility to generate and distribute power.
Usual Wiki link, usual caveat, scroll down to see a list of states and see which states have retail pricing net metering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
How long would Kroger stay in business if it bought apples orchards sold apples to Kroger for 50 cents and Kroger then sold them in stores for 75 cents, but the state passed a law requiring Kroger to pay 75 cents to any individual who brought apples into the store? It sounds like it would be a wash, except that Kroger's cost for the apples isn't actually 50 cents. Kroger has to buy land, pay taxes and utilities, transport the apples and so on. The solar power buy-back prices vary wildly across the US, In some states net-metering is the retail price like in the kroger analogy, and in others it is the wholesale price
I can't think of any other industry besides solar whose business model requires laws to require a business (utilities) to purchase their own product from the customers at retail prices whenever the customer feels like having a surplus.
Yes. Its a shame that a small child didn't go on line, steal some copyrighted material and then was driven to suicide by the shame brought down upon the family for harboring such a terrorist.
Then we could have named it the "Just think of the children law" and it would have passed easily.
Sadly, I have to agree with you, but am adding the stipulation that the child be from an upper middle class white family. Optimally, it would be a blonde girl who also fell into a well, but that may be asking too much.
Associating the act with Aaron Swartz such as calling it Aaron's Law is a huge mistake because any congressman that votes for it will have to consider how his opponents would use that against him in the next election. Keep in mind that the people who fund election campaigns are the kind that would look upon Aaron as a simple thief and menace.
The CFAA certainly needs to be fixed, but a better way would be to not mention Aaron Swartz and rather call it something like "CFAA Modernization Act"
In a rigged election, it will be that small difference. Close elections are the ones that get rigged.
True - it varies from state to state. In general it's either recanvass (re-run the machine count) or recount (count by hand)
Georgia: O.C.G.A. 21-2-493 O.C.G.A. 21-2-495
IANAL! Here's what it looks like to me if there's a problem or close (1%) election If it's paper ballots, then recounts are done with representatives of affected candidates present. The ballots are read aloud in front of the candidates (and other poll officials) representatives and counted.
In Georgia, if machines are used, you get a re-canvass. Georgia's machines do not have a paper audit of each vote, only paper total generated by the machine, so the law basically says if something went wrong, assume it was the machine and try to figure out what happened. If you can't figure it out, then that's too bad and we'll just go with what you got. If you do find the problem, then that's too bad and change the numbers to match the paper total.
See the difference? See the problem with machine-based voting?
As with many other forms of voting where there's no physical ballot, the biggest problem is that there is no actual recount if there's been any problem. You'll just get the same exact result with each recount.
Many years ago we had huge mechanical voting machines. It wasn't commonly known, but poll workers knew that those machines could lock up and lose all their totals with no way of recovering the lost votes. Rumor had it that this was more likely to occur in black neighborhoods.
I tend to ignore the text in any Huff post articles and go to any source if mentioned. The same applies to/. as well. For this one, here you go: http://www.pnas.org/content/ea...
It's not an experiment, it's several. and the loose ethics of the wealthy have been noted throughout history. We don't have to accuse people of lying about their social status because hardly anyone knows what they are except at the extremes. So, generally the participants weren't directly asked their social status, it was inferred from a tool used in other social studies designed to discover social status without directly asking for it.
Also, two of the studies didn't involve game mechanics - they involved actual theft.
One study was observing behavior in traffic and status (real or imagined) was inferred from the class of automobile.
On the other hand, continuing your theme of poor methodology some studies were done on amazon's mechanical turk using people answering adds on craigslist, an environment not known to me for attracting the wealthy. It's not only a self- selected group, but a particular subset of a self selected group.
I don't know what your idea of a long time ago is, but they are still building and improving the C-130. The Combat King variant was flight-tested in 2011.
For those who don't already know, the smallpox vaccine is the not made from smallpox. It was originally made from a virus commonly known as "cowpox", although they may have used the horse version for development.
smallpox virus is "variola" the vaccinating (cowpox) virus is "vaccinia"
The point is, we don't need smallpox to make more vaccine and would not do that anyway.
The CDC has enough vaccine to vaccinate everyone in the USA for smallpox, should it come to that.
What if it turns out that the disease that killed all the Martians when they attacked back in 1938 was smallpox, and what if that was the ONLY disease they were susceptible to? Wouldn't we feel like dummies if we destroyed all our supplies and they attacked again?
So, the department that pretends to keep me safe on airplanes is now also the one that pretends to keep me safe from deadly airborne pathogens?
Why is the CDC not holding on to these for safekeeping? Their obvious failure here notwithstanding, I'd think that this is more their bailiwick than DHS's.
The samples are begin sent to Fort Detrick's The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, so it kinda makes sense.
Good point, the word "exploration" includes the sense of searching, examining, or looking for discoveries which includes any manner.
However, I was using "exploration" in the sense of the first definition: http://www.oxforddictionaries.... : "The action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it"
Some history near earth space exploration: 1: sputnik 2: Yuri Gargarin... ISS
exploration of moon: 1: Luna series; Ranger series... 2: Apollo 8
exploration of Mars: 1: Cosmos, Mars, Mariner projects, etc... 2: year 2036, Sir Richard Branson's wheelchair gets stuck halfway up Olympus Mons, thus ending his second attempt to be the first to climb it. (joking) However, many people believe (hope) the robotic exploration of Mars is to be eventually supplanted by human exploration.
venus, mercury, gas giants 1: well, yes, all robots. I don't believe we'll ever want to send a volunteer human there. 2: perhaps we'll send someone to the Jovian moons. I hope that someday our space exploration ability will allow that.
stars: 1: telescopes: radio, microwaves, infrared, visible, UV, X-ray, and gamma. also looking for extra-solar neutrinos Will we ever get humans out of the solar system? Who would _not_ want that?
So, counting the number of planets explored by robots and those explored by humans, then historically robots outnumber humans. You got me there.
As for the egregious insults, AC, why did you do that?
Also, as is true of many skilled trades such as electrician, if he decides to start his own firm, he will on the path to becoming fully independent and a multi-millionaire.
She should focus on her skills first. I suggest that being able to write and speak well will take her to the front of whatever field she decides to choose.
The best place to begin that isn't in technical fields, but rather the so-called liberal arts. Secondly, plan on getting an advanced degree in the field she wants - at least a Masters. She can place math courses in as electives early on in case she decides to go for something technical later, or even decides to pursue a real MBA.
This guy started with a BA in history, but he's rather an exceptional person. I just mention him to point out that nothing is written in stone by your first choice of college. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
What do they expect to find on such a distant clump of rock and why is it they thought it to be a good investment to go snap a few slefies around it rather then use that money to go where things really ought to be interesting like Io and Europa?
I saw one of the early night launches(around 1990) from Savannah Georgia, but obviously only the latter part of the climb. We walked to the south end of the island I lived on then so there was no trees obstructing the horizon. In some ways it was cooler than the ones I saw from the space center.
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To provide the same value as a subsidy to solar would cost a bunch more than it costs the power companies
Yeah, what you said. Now it makes sense when framed as getting the most return for the subsidy dollar.
and furthermore this from the article:
Under the typical business model for the solar industry, homeowners sign lease agreements with installation companies. The homeowners pay the cost of the panels over time and sell any excess power the systems generate. ...
States where solar thrives typically pay homeowners attractive rates for the excess power they generate and require utilities to get a considerable share of their power from renewable sources. That gives companies an incentive to promote use of solar.
What this is about is that the local utilities are FORCED to purchase the solar panel's excess generation whether they need it or not. At retail rates the utilities are forced to pay are in excess of what it costs the utility to generate and distribute power.
Usual Wiki link, usual caveat,
scroll down to see a list of states and see which states have retail pricing net metering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
How long would Kroger stay in business if it bought apples orchards sold apples to Kroger for 50 cents and Kroger then sold them in stores for 75 cents, but the state passed a law requiring Kroger to pay 75 cents to any individual who brought apples into the store? It sounds like it would be a wash, except that Kroger's cost
for the apples isn't actually 50 cents. Kroger has to buy land, pay taxes and utilities, transport the apples and so on.
The solar power buy-back prices vary wildly across the US, In some states net-metering is the retail price like in the kroger analogy, and in others it is the wholesale price
I can't think of any other industry besides solar whose business model requires laws to require a business (utilities) to purchase their own product from the customers at retail prices whenever the customer feels like having a surplus.
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It's not perfect, but I feel like I'm getting close. Give us some Red Bull and a crunch weekend and we'll have it by monday
Yes. Its a shame that a small child didn't go on line, steal some copyrighted material and then was driven to suicide by the shame brought down upon the family for harboring such a terrorist.
Then we could have named it the "Just think of the children law" and it would have passed easily.
Sadly, I have to agree with you, but am adding the stipulation that the child be from an upper middle class white family. Optimally, it would be a blonde girl who also fell into a well, but that may be asking too much.
Associating the act with Aaron Swartz such as calling it Aaron's Law is a huge mistake because any congressman that votes for it will have to consider how his opponents would use that against him in the next election. Keep in mind that the people who fund election campaigns are the kind that would look upon Aaron as a simple thief and menace.
The CFAA certainly needs to be fixed, but a better way would be to not mention Aaron Swartz and rather call it something like "CFAA Modernization Act"
In a rigged election, it will be that small difference. Close elections are the ones that get rigged.
True - it varies from state to state. In general it's either recanvass (re-run the machine count) or recount (count by hand)
Georgia:
O.C.G.A. 21-2-493
O.C.G.A. 21-2-495
IANAL!
Here's what it looks like to me if there's a problem or close (1%) election
If it's paper ballots, then recounts are done with representatives of affected candidates present. The ballots are read aloud in front of the candidates (and other poll officials) representatives and counted.
In Georgia, if machines are used, you get a re-canvass. Georgia's machines do not have a paper audit of each vote, only paper total generated by the machine, so the law basically says if something went wrong, assume it was the machine and try to figure out what happened. If you can't figure it out, then that's too bad and we'll just go with what you got. If you do find the problem, then that's too bad and change the numbers to match the paper total.
See the difference? See the problem with machine-based voting?
If I recall properlly, the CDC keeps one of the last remaining samples of smallpox in Atlanta... so why not add Ebola? D:
The CDC and Fort Dietrick has had the ebola virus in its lab for many years.
As with many other forms of voting where there's no physical ballot, the biggest problem is that there is no actual recount if there's been any problem.
You'll just get the same exact result with each recount.
Many years ago we had huge mechanical voting machines. It wasn't commonly known, but poll workers knew that those machines could lock up and lose all their totals with no way of recovering the lost votes. Rumor had it that this was more likely to occur in black neighborhoods.
BTW, the only elections that matter are local.
I also found these written by Dr Malina in 1967 regarding search for during and after WWII
http://www.olats.org/pionniers...
http://www.olats.org/pionniers...
http://www.olats.org/pionniers...
I think this is the intended artice:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aeros...
I tend to ignore the text in any Huff post articles and go to any source if mentioned. The same applies to /. as well.
For this one, here you go:
http://www.pnas.org/content/ea...
It's not an experiment, it's several. and the loose ethics of the wealthy have been noted throughout history.
We don't have to accuse people of lying about their social status because hardly anyone knows what they are except at the extremes.
So, generally the participants weren't directly asked their social status, it was inferred from a tool used in other social studies designed to discover social status without directly asking for it.
Also, two of the studies didn't involve game mechanics - they involved actual theft.
One study was observing behavior in traffic and status (real or imagined) was inferred from the class of automobile.
On the other hand, continuing your theme of poor methodology some studies were done on amazon's mechanical turk using people answering adds on craigslist, an environment not known to me for attracting the wealthy. It's not only a self- selected group, but a particular subset of a self selected group.
Who wants to live at 80 or 90? I'm half-hoping to be dead then.
And I'm hoping to be half-dead by then. 160 to 180 sounds about right for me.
I don't know what your idea of a long time ago is, but they are still building and improving the C-130.
The Combat King variant was flight-tested in 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Never worked for or with Lockheed, eh? Or maybe never heard of the F35?
On the other hand Lockheed also made the C-130 Hercules.
640K should be enough for anyone.
For those who don't already know, the smallpox vaccine is the not made from smallpox.
It was originally made from a virus commonly known as "cowpox", although they may have used the horse version for development.
smallpox virus is "variola"
the vaccinating (cowpox) virus is "vaccinia"
The point is, we don't need smallpox to make more vaccine and would not do that anyway.
The CDC has enough vaccine to vaccinate everyone in the USA for smallpox, should it come to that.
What if it turns out that the disease that killed all the Martians when they attacked back in 1938 was smallpox, and what if that was the ONLY disease they were susceptible to?
Wouldn't we feel like dummies if we destroyed all our
supplies and they attacked again?
So, the department that pretends to keep me safe on airplanes is now also the one that pretends to keep me safe from deadly airborne pathogens?
Why is the CDC not holding on to these for safekeeping? Their obvious failure here notwithstanding, I'd think that this is more their bailiwick than DHS's.
The samples are begin sent to Fort Detrick's The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, so it kinda makes sense.
Good point, the word "exploration" includes the sense of searching, examining, or looking for discoveries which includes any manner.
However, I was using "exploration" in the sense of the first definition: http://www.oxforddictionaries.... :
"The action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it"
Some history ...
near earth space exploration:
1: sputnik
2: Yuri Gargarin
ISS
exploration of moon: ...
1: Luna series; Ranger series
2: Apollo 8
exploration of Mars: ...
1: Cosmos, Mars, Mariner projects, etc
2: year 2036, Sir Richard Branson's wheelchair gets stuck halfway up Olympus Mons, thus ending his second attempt to be the first to climb it. (joking)
However, many people believe (hope) the robotic exploration of Mars is to be eventually supplanted by human exploration.
venus, mercury, gas giants
1: well, yes, all robots. I don't believe we'll ever want to send a volunteer human there.
2: perhaps we'll send someone to the Jovian moons. I hope that someday our space exploration ability will allow that.
stars:
1: telescopes: radio, microwaves, infrared, visible, UV, X-ray, and gamma. also looking for extra-solar neutrinos
Will we ever get humans out of the solar system? Who would _not_ want that?
So, counting the number of planets explored by robots and those explored by humans, then historically robots outnumber humans.
You got me there.
As for the egregious insults, AC, why did you do that?
Historically speaking, space exploration started with robotic devices who later get replaced with astronauts.
Also, as is true of many skilled trades such as electrician, if he decides to start his own firm, he will on the path to becoming fully independent and a multi-millionaire.
She should focus on her skills first. I suggest that being able to write and speak well will take her to the front of whatever field she decides to choose.
The best place to begin that isn't in technical fields, but rather the so-called liberal arts.
Secondly, plan on getting an advanced degree in the field she wants - at least a Masters.
She can place math courses in as electives early on in case she decides to go for something technical later, or even decides to pursue a real MBA.
This guy started with a BA in history, but he's rather an exceptional person. I just mention him to point out that nothing is written in stone by your first choice of college. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
What do they expect to find on such a distant clump of rock and why is it they thought it to be a good investment to go snap a few slefies around it rather then use that money to go where things really ought to be interesting like Io and Europa?
Please return your 4-digit ID.
so, any idea how long your brain just went off?
I saw one of the early night launches(around 1990) from Savannah Georgia, but obviously only the latter part of the climb.
We walked to the south end of the island I lived on then so there was no trees obstructing the horizon.
In some ways it was cooler than the ones I saw from the space center.