Due to the lack of consumer demand, the manufactures can not find enough volume at the required high retail prices to pay back their loans, and operate the factory at a profit.
Well if coal, oil and nuclear were actually priced based on the damage they do to the environment, solar would be far far more economical. You can't let them just pollute without paying for it and call it an equal comparison.
As long as both nuclear, coal and oil are allowed to release CO2 without paying the costs of it, yes green tech won't compete.
However, as we're seeing the ever increasing costs of fossil fuel continue skyward there will come a time when green will be cheaper. (Just as the tar sands up in Canada were once so expensive they weren't viable, now, because if $4/gallon gas they are becoming viable)
Sure you can just wait till then, but what if the damage to the environment is beyond repair at that point? It is actually better and much much cheaper to plan your conversion to sustainable energy rather than have it forced down your throats by external forces. And no, the government isn't forcing things down your throat when they try and plan ahead for change.
I'm firmly in the Climate Change is real camp and humans are the cause.
Pretending we know enough to try and geo-engineer the environment is absolutely ridiculous. We are much better off trying to change what *we* are doing than to try and jigger with the atmosphere to counter act what we're already doing.
What. Could. Possibly. Go. Wrong. never had so much meaning.
The problem is that this quick access bar is icon based no? I don't want fscking pictures to decipher, I want actual text so I *know* what I'm clicking on without having to wait for the hover panel to popup.
Worse, support, how in the holy hell do you walk someone through with just pictures over the phone?
I know the ribbon generally has text, but so did menus...without the complete waste of 10% of the vertical pixels on top.
Height of menu, 15 pixels
Height of Ribbon, 60-80 pixels
That about sums it up.
The biggest gripe is that it's not 'optional'. We're talking about nothing more than the GUI here, not the actually commands. And we aren't allowed to change it. It does say this will be the most customizable version since XP so here's hoping we can make it 'look' like XP. If it ain't broke...
Yet? Any research to back that up? I've honestly never seen any study of faults 'changing' type. The time scales involved so vast that I don't know that they ever 'change', but perhaps.
Still, that is so far in the future as to be irrelevant.
one more thing, the plate itself 'vibrated' but didn't really 'move'. As in it's still basically in the same place on the globe. As opposed to the 'slip fault' in CA where there are measurable movements of the plate laterally along the earths crust. (Or Japan where we can clearly see the plate is in a different position due to the movement of the subduction fault.
Nope, the reason it was felt all up and down the coast is because it is one big solid plate. There is a crack in the middle of the plate and I suppose you could say it 'slipped' but it is not a 'slip fault' per the geologic definition like the San Andreas fault is a slip fault.
It would be more correct to say a large piece of metal is being stressed by pushing or twisting it from the edges and a small stress fracture occurs in the middle of the plate. Because it is one solid plate the vibrations of that fracture run much farther and are stronger than they would be if the same large plate was slipping against another plate at its edge. The reason is because even though the plates are solid, the material between them is generally much looser than solid bedrock and it absorbs the vibrations much quicker. A 5.9 in CA does localized damage but isn't felt very far away because of this specific factor.
This was not a slip fault like CA or a subduction fault like Japan. It's a stress fault in the middle of plate. So 'tension' is not built up via sliding. The pressure is built up by forces at the edges of the plate that end up causing a crack in the middle of the plate in response to the force.
With the exception of Geraldo Rivera, most 'news' people couldn't 'punch' their way out of a paper bag...so yes *anything* beats them senseless....especially Geraldo;-)
Since little in the internet compares to the 'real' world because of 'scarity' your analogy fails. The phone calls do compare and since they used an auto-dialer to bombard the company's phones, yes it's illegal.
(1) The union “instructed its members to send thousands of e-mails to three specific Pulte executives; (2) many of these e-mails came from . . . [the union’s] server; (3) . . . [the Union] encouraged its members to “fight back” after Pulte terminated several employees; (4) . . . [the union] used an auto-dialing service to generate a high volume of calls; and (5) some of the messages included threats and obscenity. And although Pulte appears to use an idiosyncratic e-mail system, it is plausible . . . [the union] understood the likely effects of its actions–that sending transmissions at such an incredible volume would slow down Pulte’s computer operations. . . . [The Union’s] rhetoric of “fighting back,” in particular, suggests that such a slow-down was at least one of its objectives.
Id. at *6.
It's pretty clear the 'intent' here was to disrupt them, not to prove a point. And preventing the business from operating (which is entirely separate from a strike) *is* illegal. you can picket outside but you can't block access...which is what they did here.
Generally speaking, a/. article involves lots of people doing 1 thing (loading the page) a few times because it isn't loading due to volume.
The union specifically told people to send emails, multiple emails, keep sending them so that they are overloaded. That's close enough to a DDOS to me. If a spammer told his bot army to send emails to someone such that it crashed their email server, how is that different than this?
They weren't really trying to get responses. If the union said "Contact the company and ask them X" and people independently did so multiple times, fine it's an employee's right to ask their employer questions. It's a far different story for the union to organize a protest that disrupts business. Striking/picket lines likewise are not allowed to prevent people from accessing the business. Sure they do, but that is clearly illegal.
There's your problem right there. It's been tried before, failed miserably, and nearly destroyed the country. That's exactly what made the depression of the 1930s the Great Depression.
Sorry, the Great Depression was *worsened* exactly because they cut back on spending before the recovery had fully taken hold. Which is exactly what we're doing now. The Government is the only entity willing to spend during a downturn. Both private and business sectors are holding back because they have fixed bottom lines they can't change.
The government *can* change its bottom line, it's why you can do it. Of course you can choose to not have the government do anything and there by prolong an deepen the recession/depression, or more correctly let it play out at natural levels.
Sane people would say it's better to try and mitigate the effects of the recession and get the economy growing again. That happens by deficit spending. The choice is pretty simply...much worse economy and no deficit spending...which in turn gives you more deficits as tax revenues continue to fall.
Or spend and grow.
You apparently choose pain over healing...quite interesting.
So who gets paid first?
There are enough revenues coming in constantly to pay the interest payments on the debt as well as SS, Medicare/caid, military/veteran pay, and more.
Reading. Put the koolaid down and try it.
Again, who gets paid first? You don't know because nobody knew, Treasury was going to offer up their plan, but it wasn't yet created even as of last week. That's uncertainty and was 'bad' until it wasn't according to the GOP.
As for the 1920 economy, your link shows that adding a massive 5% to the workforce in a single year was a pretty heavy factor in turning that into a bad situation. I'm talking about what *caused* the Great Depression, I'm talking about the actions they took to get out of it that hurt them long term and made it last longer. As you say...reading...
Oh gosh! I guess that warning that the insane spending and debt would be disastrous, without being able to name the exact manner & method of the disaster, the rating agency, time, date, and the weather when it happens completely invalidates the warning.
You still haven't produced any evidence that the deficit spending was at all on the rating agencies agenda prior to this Congress, much less that they tied our credit rating to it....
Do try to comprehend I'm not saying running the massive deficits continually is a good thing, but it simply wasn't an issue for anyone but ourselves until the Tea party and company decided to play political game of chicken with the debt ceiling. Now that crazy people are making decisions, funny how the lenders/raters aren't being as kind...
You don't cut spending during a recession and expect to grow out of it any time soon. How would you grow the economy if not by deficit spending right now?
The TEA Party formed only as a reaction to the insane spending increases starting about ~3 years ago.
Which shows just how hypocritical they are. There was VASTLY more spending during the previous 8 years, yet no peep from these so called 'patriots'. They started complaining about spending the moment Obama came into office. He hadn't yet spent ANYTHING, yet they were complaining about socialist rampant spending. Go figure.
And when the economy is in a tailspin, the government HAS to spend money or things get much much worse. If they're complaint is things aren't bad enough, I sure hope they find takers for that line of BS. It does raise interesting points that perhaps they *want* things to be bad so they can blame others for the policies of their brethren (GOP). Talk about shooting the messenger...the GOP runs the economy into the ground and they want to blame the President who is cleaning it up, rather than the policies that got us there.
The TEA Party, rather than being a cause, was prescient in warning that such negative consequences were on the way, and did their best with their limited power to stave the downgrade off.
Seriously? Show me *any* credit rating agency that *ever* mentioned our deficit and warned about a downgrade, prior to the Tea Party quite clearly threatening to default on the debt. It was not until these moron's started threatening that very thing that the people who make recommendations decided, just maybe, they might not pay their bills.
Do we have a deficit problem? Sure, but their manner of "everything I want and nothing you want" negotiations is at best childish and at worst treasonous. Our deficit has literally never been an issue until they made it one.
There was also no chance the US would default on the national debt. There are enough revenues coming in constantly to pay the interest payments on the debt as well as SS, Medicare/caid, military/veteran pay, and more.
So who gets paid first? Seriously who? Are you going to pay foreign creditors before US Citizens who already paid for Social Security? How down right anti-american of you.
We simply don't know who would get paid first, and you know what that breeds? Massive Uncertainty. Which if I remember correctly was something of an issue for the GOP. Until it wasn't.
They expressly haven't cared about the tickets for years (because they don't have a direct bearing on our ability to pay them) and only now that Bob is driving do they care - because, wait for it, he's threatening that he won't pay the interest on those tickets. That ain't the parking tickets...
Slashdot Mirror
Well done sir, well done!
Due to the lack of consumer demand, the manufactures can not find enough volume at the required high retail prices to pay back their loans, and operate the factory at a profit.
Well if coal, oil and nuclear were actually priced based on the damage they do to the environment, solar would be far far more economical. You can't let them just pollute without paying for it and call it an equal comparison.
As long as both nuclear, coal and oil are allowed to release CO2 without paying the costs of it, yes green tech won't compete.
However, as we're seeing the ever increasing costs of fossil fuel continue skyward there will come a time when green will be cheaper. (Just as the tar sands up in Canada were once so expensive they weren't viable, now, because if $4/gallon gas they are becoming viable)
Sure you can just wait till then, but what if the damage to the environment is beyond repair at that point? It is actually better and much much cheaper to plan your conversion to sustainable energy rather than have it forced down your throats by external forces. And no, the government isn't forcing things down your throat when they try and plan ahead for change.
I'm firmly in the Climate Change is real camp and humans are the cause.
Pretending we know enough to try and geo-engineer the environment is absolutely ridiculous. We are much better off trying to change what *we* are doing than to try and jigger with the atmosphere to counter act what we're already doing.
What. Could. Possibly. Go. Wrong. never had so much meaning.
The problem is that this quick access bar is icon based no? I don't want fscking pictures to decipher, I want actual text so I *know* what I'm clicking on without having to wait for the hover panel to popup.
Worse, support, how in the holy hell do you walk someone through with just pictures over the phone?
I know the ribbon generally has text, but so did menus...without the complete waste of 10% of the vertical pixels on top.
Metrics:
Height of menu, 15 pixels
Height of Ribbon, 60-80 pixels
That about sums it up.
The biggest gripe is that it's not 'optional'. We're talking about nothing more than the GUI here, not the actually commands. And we aren't allowed to change it. It does say this will be the most customizable version since XP so here's hoping we can make it 'look' like XP. If it ain't broke...
Yet? Any research to back that up? I've honestly never seen any study of faults 'changing' type. The time scales involved so vast that I don't know that they ever 'change', but perhaps.
Still, that is so far in the future as to be irrelevant.
the entire slab of earth moves
one more thing, the plate itself 'vibrated' but didn't really 'move'. As in it's still basically in the same place on the globe. As opposed to the 'slip fault' in CA where there are measurable movements of the plate laterally along the earths crust. (Or Japan where we can clearly see the plate is in a different position due to the movement of the subduction fault.
Nope, the reason it was felt all up and down the coast is because it is one big solid plate. There is a crack in the middle of the plate and I suppose you could say it 'slipped' but it is not a 'slip fault' per the geologic definition like the San Andreas fault is a slip fault.
It would be more correct to say a large piece of metal is being stressed by pushing or twisting it from the edges and a small stress fracture occurs in the middle of the plate. Because it is one solid plate the vibrations of that fracture run much farther and are stronger than they would be if the same large plate was slipping against another plate at its edge. The reason is because even though the plates are solid, the material between them is generally much looser than solid bedrock and it absorbs the vibrations much quicker. A 5.9 in CA does localized damage but isn't felt very far away because of this specific factor.
Mod points if I had them...very well put.
nah, Detroit's fine, all the chairs burned years ago...
This was not a slip fault like CA or a subduction fault like Japan. It's a stress fault in the middle of plate. So 'tension' is not built up via sliding. The pressure is built up by forces at the edges of the plate that end up causing a crack in the middle of the plate in response to the force.
Except this isn't a slip fault as your example describes. It's a stress fault in the middle of the plate not along the edges that could 'slip'.
you still wasted "hundreds of life seeds
hardly. He ejaculated into 'ThunderVagina'. Hundred sperm enter, one sperm leaves.
That the hundreds were not strong enough is hardly his fault.
When you can see the tides 100+ miles inland, a few feet can pretty suddenly become a problem to a whole lot of people.
Try South Carolina...it's called 'The Low Country' for a reason.
Apparently they don't understand they aren't a web app...
Rule 34
You just have to find it.
With the exception of Geraldo Rivera, most 'news' people couldn't 'punch' their way out of a paper bag...so yes *anything* beats them senseless....especially Geraldo ;-)
I dunno, pretty sure Ontario is real... I mean they have a lake or something.... But Alberta? phwwww totally not real
Since little in the internet compares to the 'real' world because of 'scarity' your analogy fails. The phone calls do compare and since they used an auto-dialer to bombard the company's phones, yes it's illegal.
They used an auto-dialer to bombard the phone system.
from linky:
(1) The union “instructed its members to send thousands of e-mails to three specific Pulte executives;
(2) many of these e-mails came from . . . [the union’s] server;
(3) . . . [the Union] encouraged its members to “fight back” after Pulte terminated several employees;
(4) . . . [the union] used an auto-dialing service to generate a high volume of calls; and
(5) some of the messages included threats and obscenity. And although Pulte appears to use an idiosyncratic e-mail system, it is plausible . . . [the union] understood the likely effects of its actions–that sending transmissions at such an incredible volume would slow down Pulte’s computer operations. . . .
[The Union’s] rhetoric of “fighting back,” in particular, suggests that such a slow-down was at least one of its objectives. Id. at *6.
It's pretty clear the 'intent' here was to disrupt them, not to prove a point. And preventing the business from operating (which is entirely separate from a strike) *is* illegal. you can picket outside but you can't block access...which is what they did here.
Then what of the slashdot effect?
Generally speaking, a /. article involves lots of people doing 1 thing (loading the page) a few times because it isn't loading due to volume.
The union specifically told people to send emails, multiple emails, keep sending them so that they are overloaded. That's close enough to a DDOS to me. If a spammer told his bot army to send emails to someone such that it crashed their email server, how is that different than this?
They weren't really trying to get responses. If the union said "Contact the company and ask them X" and people independently did so multiple times, fine it's an employee's right to ask their employer questions. It's a far different story for the union to organize a protest that disrupts business. Striking/picket lines likewise are not allowed to prevent people from accessing the business. Sure they do, but that is clearly illegal.
There's your problem right there. It's been tried before, failed miserably, and nearly destroyed the country. That's exactly what made the depression of the 1930s the Great Depression.
Sorry, the Great Depression was *worsened* exactly because they cut back on spending before the recovery had fully taken hold. Which is exactly what we're doing now. The Government is the only entity willing to spend during a downturn. Both private and business sectors are holding back because they have fixed bottom lines they can't change.
The government *can* change its bottom line, it's why you can do it. Of course you can choose to not have the government do anything and there by prolong an deepen the recession/depression, or more correctly let it play out at natural levels.
Sane people would say it's better to try and mitigate the effects of the recession and get the economy growing again. That happens by deficit spending. The choice is pretty simply...much worse economy and no deficit spending...which in turn gives you more deficits as tax revenues continue to fall.
Or spend and grow.
You apparently choose pain over healing...quite interesting.
So who gets paid first?
There are enough revenues coming in constantly to pay the interest payments on the debt as well as SS, Medicare/caid, military/veteran pay, and more.
Reading. Put the koolaid down and try it.
Again, who gets paid first? You don't know because nobody knew, Treasury was going to offer up their plan, but it wasn't yet created even as of last week. That's uncertainty and was 'bad' until it wasn't according to the GOP.
As for the 1920 economy, your link shows that adding a massive 5% to the workforce in a single year was a pretty heavy factor in turning that into a bad situation. I'm talking about what *caused* the Great Depression, I'm talking about the actions they took to get out of it that hurt them long term and made it last longer. As you say...reading...
Oh gosh! I guess that warning that the insane spending and debt would be disastrous, without being able to name the exact manner & method of the disaster, the rating agency, time, date, and the weather when it happens completely invalidates the warning.
You still haven't produced any evidence that the deficit spending was at all on the rating agencies agenda prior to this Congress, much less that they tied our credit rating to it....
Do try to comprehend I'm not saying running the massive deficits continually is a good thing, but it simply wasn't an issue for anyone but ourselves until the Tea party and company decided to play political game of chicken with the debt ceiling. Now that crazy people are making decisions, funny how the lenders/raters aren't being as kind...
You don't cut spending during a recession and expect to grow out of it any time soon. How would you grow the economy if not by deficit spending right now?
The TEA Party formed only as a reaction to the insane spending increases starting about ~3 years ago.
Which shows just how hypocritical they are. There was VASTLY more spending during the previous 8 years, yet no peep from these so called 'patriots'. They started complaining about spending the moment Obama came into office. He hadn't yet spent ANYTHING, yet they were complaining about socialist rampant spending. Go figure.
And when the economy is in a tailspin, the government HAS to spend money or things get much much worse. If they're complaint is things aren't bad enough, I sure hope they find takers for that line of BS. It does raise interesting points that perhaps they *want* things to be bad so they can blame others for the policies of their brethren (GOP). Talk about shooting the messenger...the GOP runs the economy into the ground and they want to blame the President who is cleaning it up, rather than the policies that got us there.
The TEA Party, rather than being a cause, was prescient in warning that such negative consequences were on the way, and did their best with their limited power to stave the downgrade off.
Seriously? Show me *any* credit rating agency that *ever* mentioned our deficit and warned about a downgrade, prior to the Tea Party quite clearly threatening to default on the debt. It was not until these moron's started threatening that very thing that the people who make recommendations decided, just maybe, they might not pay their bills.
Do we have a deficit problem? Sure, but their manner of "everything I want and nothing you want" negotiations is at best childish and at worst treasonous. Our deficit has literally never been an issue until they made it one.
There was also no chance the US would default on the national debt. There are enough revenues coming in constantly to pay the interest payments on the debt as well as SS, Medicare/caid, military/veteran pay, and more.
So who gets paid first? Seriously who? Are you going to pay foreign creditors before US Citizens who already paid for Social Security? How down right anti-american of you.
We simply don't know who would get paid first, and you know what that breeds? Massive Uncertainty. Which if I remember correctly was something of an issue for the GOP. Until it wasn't.
Keep drinking your kool-aid though...
They expressly haven't cared about the tickets for years (because they don't have a direct bearing on our ability to pay them) and only now that Bob is driving do they care - because, wait for it, he's threatening that he won't pay the interest on those tickets. That ain't the parking tickets...