Seems like you don't get the point of the article - and fall back on the same old failed meme.
1) The "Great Society" approach doesn't work. 2) Stimulus through investment in basic research is a better expenditure of limited resources.
It really comes down to the old parable about if you buy a man a fish - he eats for a day. If you teach him how to fish he eats for a lifetime. When you spend money on direct relief of poverty by paying for that apartment or providing food stamps. You are dealing with the symptoms, not the problem. Yet the easiest, most straight-forward method of getting out of poverty is education, something that we also do poorly in this country. Finally, the people in our society that take responsibility for themselves, and choose to work to improve themselves almost uniformly DO improve their lot in life.
I'm done now with the lecture. Go back to your daily whining about the 1%.
I did a quick calculation. Using 100W = 3 square feet.
That is roughly 3.2 square miles/gigawatt of solar cells. 200,000Gigawats would be 640,000 square miles, or roughly 16.8% of the US land mass.
I'm just saying - the numbers they are throwing around are a bit amazing. Further - what happens at night? Do they have a decent storage system for this juice?
That is just ignorant! Even though I don't believe the article - Uhm - how do you think the San Andreas fault GETS to San Francisco? It runs through the hills that create Silicon Valley. Always has - always will. Ever heard of the Loma Preitta Quake? That large percentage of the US brain truss you are worrying about ALREADY lives in Earth Quake country.
Okay - so you admit that Palo Alto has some "stuff" going for it, and I'll even admit to you that the cost of living in Palo Alto proper is probably as high as in SF or maybe even greater. Yet the cost of living in the numerous bedroom communities around here aren't nearly as expensive (though not cheap by Wisconsin standards..) Further - most of the Incubators are in this general area too - these things stay close to the money. I know the Startup I'm working for is right next to El Camino and Page Mill road! I can see AOL, Microsoft, and Wilson-Sansini;-) from just that corner! Not startups - but BIG companies.
The other simple fact is that SF is about the most Business UNFRIENDLY city in the country. Why would you go some place where you pay more in taxes just for being in business when you're main activity is trying to preserve capital while creating that next great product?
I'm calling BS to this whole line of discussion. Example - the biggest thing to hit the valley recently is Facebook, and it isn't in SF. The entire Start-up infrastructure is still located where it always has been - Palo Alto near Standford. The startups typically go where the money is, and where Square footage is cheaper. That ISN'T SF!
The article seems to think that the US is the first to pull the "Cyber Warfare" trigger. That is just silly. The only thing different here is that the US government was silly enough to ADMIT that they were partially responsible for Stuxnet virus, etc. The US civilian industry, and military assets have been under constant attack by various "actors" for over a decade. The only difference is those "actors" haven't admitted it or been caught red-handed. Most likely (and again they haven't been dumb enough to admit it like the US), the Chinese government has been one main Cyber Warfare protagonist that is constantly assailing US assets. So everyone get off their High Horses and face the real world.
The simple fact is we chose to fire bits at em, instead of nukes! Seems like an improvement in my mind!
This argument is naive on it's face and ignore supply and demand forces for housing.
My house is worth more in San Jose, CA than it would be in Greeley, Co. If the only things that mattered are what you are saying, then this wouldn't be true because the interest rates are the same for me in both places!
In my mind - the price of tuition has been going up for many more reasons than JUST available money, though that is certainly a large contributing factor. There is theemployee unions contributing to the sky-rocketing cost as well. The same forces that are forcing cities into bankruptcy affect government sponsored schools.
There is devaluation of our money in real terms as well. My college costs were $1500/year 30 years ago versus about $20K per year for CA schools. It's called inflation!
So roll it all up together and you get rising costs. Surprise!
The ITU does have the force of law - even here in the US because it's established by treaties we've signed. By our own Constitution, treaties bind our governments behavior with a force equal to Constitutional amendment!
The FCC is our representative to the ITU (that ALONE should be a scary thought!)
The ITU is the place where all policy on radio spectrum usage is worked out. The weird thing about radio waves is they don't respect international borders. So a place LIKE the ITU is necessary. However, it can and has been abused by other nations multiple times in it's history.
So it is better to be proactive and get what we need from the International body.
There are some who say - screw the ITU. Maybe that WOULD be a way to go - I liked the idea of ignoring satellite parking orbit restrictions, and offering them for sale!
However, any such action involves abrogation of existing treaties.
I looked at the Server patent - it essentially patents download files via the web. It is bogus beyond all recognition! It was filed in 2000 - I would imagine that gopher, or some of the other earlier web technologies take care this patent nicely, i.e.. prior art exist in spades.
Of course you do - because you think that it is okay for the state to take other people's money. In my book taxation = theft at gun point. Now there is a proper place for government to function, and someone has to pay for it, but when they take money from one to give to another because of some social engineering that someone is trying to accomplish, I call that theft.
You assume that the money is used to pay for treatment - HAH! Just like the Gas Tax in California pays for the great roads.
Arguing that correlation equals causation is fallacious. As others have said, along with myself - there are other causes beyond just the price.
The problem is - what will be next - whenever some twit bureaucrat decides he doesn't like something, our freedoms are infringed. This week it's cigarettes because everyone dislikes smokers, next week it's sugared drinks because everyone hates fat people, well next week maybe it'll be skinny people or bald headed people, or people of a certain skin color that takes the bureaucrat's fancy.
Indeed - welcome to the Nanny state - now hand over all your money so we can give it to someone else who doesn't want earn their keep by themselves.
The argument that raising taxes on cigarettes caused the decline in smoking is specious on it's face. Oh I'm sure some where deterred from buying cigarettes because of the ridiculous economic burden imposed by the state on the "legal product." However, the simple facts are that more people don't smoke because it's obviously a killer AND people are STILL paying the current HUGE price to get their fix after being raised dozens of times in the last 30 years.
This is ignorant. Yes he bought QDOS, and yes he had people working for him to modify it. This doesn't take away the fact that he was heavily involved in building the BASIC that was loaded into PROM on my PC-1! For the first several years of the company Bill coded. He also was very astute at guiding the financial and business aspects of his company, and being at the right place at the right time multiple times. Don't forget that he pointed IBM at Digital Research FIRST, before he went and purchased QDOS. At the time - Microsoft was a language company. They specialized in creating language compilers. That is how IBM had Pascal, etc. available for the PC the first day it was introduced! GAWD - you're making me defend Bill Gates - STOP THAT! (Now I've got to go and compile a linux kernel or something to make up for this!)
Ah - that ain't so. I live/work in Silicon Valley. I've worked at two companies owned by Indians with the majority of employees being Indian. The owners of one company were jack-asses, the owners of the second company were good, kind people. I've got VERY close friends who are Indian. I've also know idiots who were Indian.
Conclusion - they are just as diverse as any other group - whose personalities/qualities span the spectrum.
This is BS of the first order simply because of the number of interceptors that we're talking about. The US can shoot down maybe 90% of incoming warheads on a good day - note INCOMING - not out-going, i.e. launched from near-by neighbor Moscow. Further - there are a limited number of interceptors - where the Russians have hundreds of warhead - we'll likely have less than a couple dozen interceptors at any of these sites. The ability to overwhelm such a system is obvious. The Russians have more than enough throw weight to do so - such a system is really ONLY a deterrent to states that have a hand-full of missiles, i.e. North Korea and Iran.
The only way this is really a threat to Russia is if they are a paper tiger in the nuclear ball club.
This is a COMPLETE non-starter for me - and I'm exactly the kind of user the BeagleBoard,Beaglebone, or RasberryPi is trying to attract, i.e. a hobbyist nerd that does software & hardware projects.
Actually - it doesn't. The original poster was EXACTLY right. Any MALE ( a protected class under the constitution - i.e. one of the two sexes) can marry any FEMALE (a protected class under the constitution - i.e. one of the two sexes). He can not marry any other MALE. Giving a MALE the right to marry another MALE (or FEMALE) is adding rights.
Now you have two choices here. Add Homosexuality as a protected class under the constitution OR legislate the right into existence. Some states are doing that. However as the law stands at the federal level, those that are homosexual and those that are not have exactly the same rights under the law with respect to Marriage. Whether you want to admit it or not (because it isn't convenient to your argument...) being Gay isn't a federally protected class in the same way discrimination based on Sex, Race, or Religion are protected.
Consequently, the argument that you are denying someone their rights by denying the ability to marry someone of the same sex is bogus legally. Such a right does not exist under current law at the Federal level that I'm aware of.
Dufus. natural gas production goes hand in hand with oil production. The US is sitting on huge reserves and letting itself ger economically mauled for not developing it. Wait till you get to buy gas once a week in a line because of rationing. We just one misille launch in the middle east away from that.
I concur - the simple facts are that we have a hand-full of anti-missile missiles. Russia has hundreds. They can overwhelm the system trivially. The system is only good against bad actors with a small number of missiles, i.e. North Korea and potentially Iran. Russia is more likely pissed off about the Radar near their borders being able to see stuff they shouldn't, but they use the anti-missile aspect of it as the whipping boy.
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Seems like you don't get the point of the article - and fall back on the same old failed meme.
1) The "Great Society" approach doesn't work.
2) Stimulus through investment in basic research is a better expenditure of limited resources.
It really comes down to the old parable about if you buy a man a fish - he eats for a day. If you teach him how to fish he eats for a lifetime. When you spend money on direct relief of poverty by paying for that apartment or providing food stamps. You are dealing with the symptoms, not the problem. Yet the easiest, most straight-forward method of getting out of poverty is education, something that we also do poorly in this country. Finally, the people in our society that take responsibility for themselves, and choose to work to improve themselves almost uniformly DO improve their lot in life.
I'm done now with the lecture. Go back to your daily whining about the 1%.
Of course if you are in death valley - it is completely natural! ;-) It has been mined there for around 100 years.
I did a quick calculation. Using 100W = 3 square feet.
That is roughly 3.2 square miles/gigawatt of solar cells.
200,000Gigawats would be 640,000 square miles, or roughly 16.8% of the US land mass.
I'm just saying - the numbers they are throwing around are a bit amazing. Further - what happens at night? Do they have a decent storage system for this juice?
You are correct in theory - but harassment laws seem to ignore the constitution.
That is just ignorant! Even though I don't believe the article - Uhm - how do you think the San Andreas fault GETS to San Francisco? It runs through the hills that create Silicon Valley. Always has - always will. Ever heard of the Loma Preitta Quake? That large percentage of the US brain truss you are worrying about ALREADY lives in Earth Quake country.
Okay - so you admit that Palo Alto has some "stuff" going for it, and I'll even admit to you that the cost of living in Palo Alto proper is probably as high as in SF or maybe even greater. Yet the cost of living in the numerous bedroom communities around here aren't nearly as expensive (though not cheap by Wisconsin standards..) Further - most of the Incubators are in this general area too - these things stay close to the money. I know the Startup I'm working for is right next to El Camino and Page Mill road! I can see AOL, Microsoft, and Wilson-Sansini ;-) from just that corner! Not startups - but BIG companies.
The other simple fact is that SF is about the most Business UNFRIENDLY city in the country. Why would you go some place where you pay more in taxes just for being in business when you're main activity is trying to preserve capital while creating that next great product?
I'm calling BS to this whole line of discussion. Example - the biggest thing to hit the valley recently is Facebook, and it isn't in SF. The entire Start-up infrastructure is still located where it always has been - Palo Alto near Standford. The startups typically go where the money is, and where Square footage is cheaper. That ISN'T SF!
Why would someone be against a Vax 780? I just don't understand the lunacy?
The article seems to think that the US is the first to pull the "Cyber Warfare" trigger. That is just silly. The only thing different here is that the US government was silly enough to ADMIT that they were partially responsible for Stuxnet virus, etc. The US civilian industry, and military assets have been under constant attack by various "actors" for over a decade. The only difference is those "actors" haven't admitted it or been caught red-handed. Most likely (and again they haven't been dumb enough to admit it like the US), the Chinese government has been one main Cyber Warfare protagonist that is constantly assailing US assets. So everyone get off their High Horses and face the real world.
The simple fact is we chose to fire bits at em, instead of nukes! Seems like an improvement in my mind!
This argument is naive on it's face and ignore supply and demand forces for housing.
My house is worth more in San Jose, CA than it would be in Greeley, Co. If the only things that mattered are what you are saying, then this wouldn't be true because the interest rates are the same for me in both places!
In my mind - the price of tuition has been going up for many more reasons than JUST available money, though that is certainly a large contributing factor. There is theemployee unions contributing to the sky-rocketing cost as well. The same forces that are forcing cities into bankruptcy affect government sponsored schools.
There is devaluation of our money in real terms as well. My college costs were $1500/year 30 years ago versus about $20K per year for CA schools. It's called inflation!
So roll it all up together and you get rising costs. Surprise!
The ITU does have the force of law - even here in the US because it's established by treaties we've signed. By our own Constitution, treaties bind our governments behavior with a force equal to Constitutional amendment!
The FCC is our representative to the ITU (that ALONE should be a scary thought!)
The ITU is the place where all policy on radio spectrum usage is worked out. The weird thing about radio waves is they don't respect international borders. So a place LIKE the ITU is necessary. However, it can and has been abused by other nations multiple times in it's history.
So it is better to be proactive and get what we need from the International body.
There are some who say - screw the ITU. Maybe that WOULD be a way to go - I liked the idea of ignoring satellite parking orbit restrictions, and offering them for sale!
However, any such action involves abrogation of existing treaties.
I looked at the Server patent - it essentially patents download files via the web. It is bogus beyond all recognition! It was filed in 2000 - I would imagine that gopher, or some of the other earlier web technologies take care this patent nicely, i.e.. prior art exist in spades.
Of course you do - because you think that it is okay for the state to take other people's money. In my book taxation = theft at gun point. Now there is a proper place for government to function, and someone has to pay for it, but when they take money from one to give to another because of some social engineering that someone is trying to accomplish, I call that theft.
You assume that the money is used to pay for treatment - HAH! Just like the Gas Tax in California pays for the great roads.
Arguing that correlation equals causation is fallacious. As others have said, along with myself - there are other causes beyond just the price.
The problem is - what will be next - whenever some twit bureaucrat decides he doesn't like something, our freedoms are infringed. This week it's cigarettes because everyone dislikes smokers, next week it's sugared drinks because everyone hates fat people, well next week maybe it'll be skinny people or bald headed people, or people of a certain skin color that takes the bureaucrat's fancy.
Indeed - welcome to the Nanny state - now hand over all your money so we can give it to someone else who doesn't want earn their keep by themselves.
The argument that raising taxes on cigarettes caused the decline in smoking is specious on it's face. Oh I'm sure some where deterred from buying cigarettes because of the ridiculous economic burden imposed by the state on the "legal product." However, the simple facts are that more people don't smoke because it's obviously a killer AND people are STILL paying the current HUGE price to get their fix after being raised dozens of times in the last 30 years.
It's just smoke and mirrors.
Uhm - don't bother the left with facts... or simple arithmetic. It just gets in there way.
This is ignorant. Yes he bought QDOS, and yes he had people working for him to modify it. This doesn't take away the fact that he was heavily involved in building the BASIC that was loaded into PROM on my PC-1! For the first several years of the company Bill coded. He also was very astute at guiding the financial and business aspects of his company, and being at the right place at the right time multiple times. Don't forget that he pointed IBM at Digital Research FIRST, before he went and purchased QDOS. At the time - Microsoft was a language company. They specialized in creating language compilers. That is how IBM had Pascal, etc. available for the PC the first day it was introduced!
GAWD - you're making me defend Bill Gates - STOP THAT! (Now I've got to go and compile a linux kernel or something to make up for this!)
Ah - that ain't so. I live/work in Silicon Valley. I've worked at two companies owned by Indians with the majority of employees being Indian. The owners of one company were jack-asses, the owners of the second company were good, kind people. I've got VERY close friends who are Indian. I've also know idiots who were Indian.
Conclusion - they are just as diverse as any other group - whose personalities/qualities span the spectrum.
This is BS of the first order simply because of the number of interceptors that we're talking about. The US can shoot down maybe 90% of incoming warheads on a good day - note INCOMING - not out-going, i.e. launched from near-by neighbor Moscow. Further - there are a limited number of interceptors - where the Russians have hundreds of warhead - we'll likely have less than a couple dozen interceptors at any of these sites. The ability to overwhelm such a system is obvious. The Russians have more than enough throw weight to do so - such a system is really ONLY a deterrent to states that have a hand-full of missiles, i.e. North Korea and Iran.
The only way this is really a threat to Russia is if they are a paper tiger in the nuclear ball club.
It needs a Fan? Enough said! If you want I/O look at http://www.beagleboard.com/beaglebone
This is a COMPLETE non-starter for me - and I'm exactly the kind of user the BeagleBoard,Beaglebone, or RasberryPi is trying to attract, i.e. a hobbyist nerd that does software & hardware projects.
Hmm - me thinks you are a fan of Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.. Which of the 3 ships would YOU be on?
Actually - it doesn't. The original poster was EXACTLY right. Any MALE ( a protected class under the constitution - i.e. one of the two sexes) can marry any FEMALE (a protected class under the constitution - i.e. one of the two sexes). He can not marry any other MALE. Giving a MALE the right to marry another MALE (or FEMALE) is adding rights.
Now you have two choices here. Add Homosexuality as a protected class under the constitution OR legislate the right into existence. Some states are doing that. However as the law stands at the federal level, those that are homosexual and those that are not have exactly the same rights under the law with respect to Marriage. Whether you want to admit it or not (because it isn't convenient to your argument...) being Gay isn't a federally protected class in the same way discrimination based on Sex, Race, or Religion are protected.
Consequently, the argument that you are denying someone their rights by denying the ability to marry someone of the same sex is bogus legally. Such a right does not exist under current law at the Federal level that I'm aware of.
Uhm - nope. You are confusing Fiscal Conservatives with Republicans...that isn't the same thing!
In this case let's call them all US Politicians and agree that they LOVE spending our money exponentially. Doesn't matter which party.
Dufus. natural gas production goes hand in hand with oil production. The US is sitting on huge reserves and letting itself ger economically mauled for not developing it. Wait till you get to buy gas once a week in a line because of rationing. We just one misille launch in the middle east away from that.
I concur - the simple facts are that we have a hand-full of anti-missile missiles. Russia has hundreds. They can overwhelm the system trivially. The system is only good against bad actors with a small number of missiles, i.e. North Korea and potentially Iran. Russia is more likely pissed off about the Radar near their borders being able to see stuff they shouldn't, but they use the anti-missile aspect of it as the whipping boy.
And you have the market cornered on Monster cable too I'll bet.