Because of protectionism cheap solar panels have been taxed until they become so much more expensive by the time they got to the consumers
A calculation I read somewhere - sorry, I lost the link - that if there was none of those stupid taxes the solar panels could have been gotten for almost _half_ of the current prices
Can you imagine the impact of consumers getting _twice_ as many solar panels installed on their roofs?
Can you imagine how much more clean power that gonna generate... and how many more gigatons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses that didn't have to be spewed into the atmosphere because of the clean power generated by those extra solar panels?
If we truly want to save the planet earth, we must insist that all the stupid protectionism practices be stopped !!
TFA mentioned several possible scenario - spin-polarized electrons, circularly polarized light that is produced by the scattering of light in the atmosphere and in neutron stars, and so on - which should have been taking place in similar fashion all throughout the universe
Would this mean that if there are lifeforms elsewhere in the universe, would their physiology (whether or not they have DNA) be similarly affected by the polarized action of electron and/or photon around them?
At least tap water --- if properly supplied --- has gone through the chlorination process
And according to WHO, chlorination kills the ebola virus
But in Africa, and in many other third world countries, especially the rural area,they take the water from the well and streams, and use it
Of course many of them do boil water before they drink it. But my point being, the water that they take from the streams / well might have been contaminated by the ebola virus, and that might become a vector for spreading the disease
I have nothing but admiration to ISRO for what they have achieved
My only problem is what you wrote:
If anything, the brain drain consists of India's best and brightest relocating to the US after having studied in the near-free subsidized taxpayer funded colleges and universities in India. They typically go to the US to do their masters and PhD and then some of them join NASA
I do have business dealing with India, and I do regularly meet my business acquaintances in India, and I know, for a fact --- that so-called brain drain has actually benefited India
How, you might ask?
Those who emigrated abroad and working in America / Europe do accumulate knowledge / experience in whatever they do there, and, --- this is very important --- when they go back home, for visit (many of them still have families back home), most of them do pay courtesy calls to their own friends working inside India, and when that happened, technology transfers happen, and that event happens very very frequently in India
Many of the "tricks of the trade" that have been picked up by the Indian industry (including ISRO) came from the courtesy call from their friends / former classmate who work abroad
Of course, what I have described above isn't limited only to India, the same thing happens in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and even in Russia and China as well
The "brain drain" in a way, do offer a "reverse channel" that enables knowledge to flow back to home countries
It is said that the bodies of the ebola victims are filled with ebola virus, and the bodies were buried. Isn't this akin to merely "hide" the problem, and not eliminate it?
By burying the dead bodies which are filled with the ebola virus, they are allowing the virus to flow out of the decaying bodies which were buried in the burial grounds and thus contaminate the underground waters
As there aren't a lot of tap water infrastructure available in that part of the world, many people still rely on water they obtain from rivers and from wells - and when the virus contaminate the underground water more people are going to be infected with that virus
Whoever believe proclamation from politicians deserved to be betrayed
Just because Obama's campaign slogan was "A Nuclear-Free World" doesn't mean he can't lie --- and the "change" he promised us turned out to be the "spared change" we have left in our pockets
The re-arming of America's nuclear arsenal has everything to do with pork barrel --- as most of the sites related to the re-arming programs are located in the Democrat controlled districts, it is nothing more than typical practice of cronyism - political cronyism
libaba is tightly woven into a complex fabric of personal, corporate and government organization relationships
Tim, before you post that article, have you run a thorough check on the submit ?
I am not in anyway affiliated with Alibaba and do not own even one share of Alibaba, but TFA has gone overboard with its accusation that Alibaba of having "governmental organization relationships"
Although I am no longer a Chinese citizen, I did come from China and am very familiar with China
If you say Huawei, another Chinese company, have "government organization relationship" with the Chinese Communist Regime, then I agree. But not Alibaba
The truth is that Google, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco and many more American companies have MORE "governmental organization relationship" with the US government - especially with alphabetic agencies such as CIA and/or NSA - than Alibaba with the Chinese Communist regime
Just because Alibaba happens to be a company from China doesn't give anyone the right to spread all kinds of baseless accusations - and I am really sick and tired of the mindless anti-Chinese bashing that has been going on since the listing of Alibaba
Do you know that the more you guys bash all things Chinese the more you guys are showcasing your idiotic/racist side to the world?
This world isn't only USA vs China as there are other players - and your childish display will only convince those third-party players that America is not a trustworthy party
The more you guys bash the Chinese online the more you guys are ruining the whatever reputation that is left of the United States of America
Writes the submitter: "The evidence includes emails that show Obamacare officials more interested in keeping their problems from leaking to the press than working to fix them
BTW, this is emblematic of the Obama administration - they simply do not have any clue to anything that they are involved with
It is not only the Obamacare - everything else, from Syria to ISIL to Afghanistan to Europe to Islamization of America to you name it - everything that Obama has touched on it turned into a mess
I am a Chinese. I was born in China but has been an American for almost 4 decades
I can tell you one thing about America --- The average Democrats are more racist than the average Republicans
The Republicans might be more conservatives but they are also pragmatic. On the other hand the Democrats may call themselves "liberals" but their so-called "liberalism" is laced with a very strong anti-Chinese sentiment
The perfect example is Hillary Clinton - that broad is an all-out anti-Chinese racist --- even when she was still the "First Lady" her first visit to China (attending a "women conference" in Beijing, back in the mid 1990's) her first speech (she gave a keynote speech for that conference) was lambasting the Chinese people, the host of the conference, with all the vile racist diatribe she could find
I am not saying that there are no racist in the Republican camp, but if compare to those from the Donkey party, there are fewer racist Elephants
... but the intermarriage and population growth and travel will commingle DNA in a century or two...
Here we are, in year 2014, talking about a society some 7,000 to 8,000 years ago, and we project the society then, using what we have now
Dear Sir, I would hope you realize that even in our society today we still have barbarians enjoying slitting other people's throats and cutting off people's heads, and in societies 7 to 8 millennia before us, I reckon there would be even bigger proportion of human population who enjoyed cutting off other people's heads
In other words, the so-called "intermarriage", if occurred at all, did not happen like what we are enjoying today
Most of the events that led to the "exchange of genetic materials" and the "commingle of DNA sequences" most probably happened via brutal wars and gang rapes
In other words, all of us, no matter which racial background we came from, we are the descendants of those who were strong, intelligent, or lucky, or the combination of 2 or even all three of the above, for the weak, the low-minded and/or the unlucky, didn't get the chance to pass on their genetic material down through the millennia
The huge machinery behind the NSA / CIA / FBI and all those alphabet agencies wants total control, and it has the enthusiastic support of private companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, amongst others
Obama? That one is but a puppet
When the term of this puppet ends, by 2016 they will have another puppet installed. But of course, they will give us an "illusive election", whereby no matter who we vote for, it will be their puppet who will be installed inside the Casa Blanca!
TFA talked about a company in South East Asia and I do have business dealings with companies from that region - and I can tell you that many companies from that region are indeed dysfunctional
They kinda adopt the Western approach of management, but then they add in their own cultural flavor, mainly based on race / religion / language background and when all those things got mixed up, what TFA mentioned wasn't even enough to scratch the surface of the true dysfunctional nature of the beasts down there
Working for others may get you a decent living, but if you really, and I mean, REALLY want to earn a lot of money, working for others won't make you rich
I started by working for high tech companies, some decades ago. Yes, I did earn really decent wages, much better than most of my peers at that time. But I didn't stop there
When I was working, I noticed niche markets that were not being fulfilled. I got out and started my own companies (plural) to do just that
Some of the companies I sold to others, some I kept. A lot of people are working with me right now, but I gotta tell you, no matter how much I pay them (and yes, I do pay my co-workers very handsomely) they still do not earn as much as I
The moral is very simple --- if you really want to be wealthy, stop being a worker, and start being an entrepreneur
We're having coming up with a definition that means "It's fine when we do it, but an act of war if we want it to be when someone does it to us" that passes the laugh test
Remember it's NSA we are talking about
They do not need to speak the truth, and in fact, they have lied to the congress and nobody could do anything to them
In other words, they can declare "An Act of War" any time they want, even if nobody did nothing, because right now, as we speak, NSA is an entity that no one have any right to inspect - not the congress, not the court, and surely, not the White House
"We're still trying to work our way through distinguishing the difference between criminal hacking and an act of war," said Rogers
NSA supposed to be a government agency filled with very intelligent folks, and they are telling us that they can't differentiate between common hacking (whether it be criminal or otherwise) and an _Act of War_ ?
I dunno about you, but I find it very hard to believe!
I'm not sure there's even really a market for science fiction
There is always a market for good scientific fiction, inspiring stories that will bring the readers towards a universe which they never experience before
What was that last Star Trek movie? I can't even remember the name of it now. It wasn't science fiction. It was an action flick with more explosions than ideas. It just happened to be set on a spaceship
I am totally with you on that flick --- the flick is a perfect example of how severely the lacking of the ability to imagine, on current crop of writers, has become!
I suspect that the current definition of "sci-fi" is no longer similar to what we are accustomed to. Nowadays the thinking is that if something happens on board of a space-ship it automatically qualifies as "sci-fi". Gone are the days that sci-fi offered the readers a glimpse of what could-be, thus inspiring the readers (many of them young) to strive to make the world that they read in sci-fi comes alive
Sci-fi writers of yesteryears used to ask pertinent questions, something like - Can robot dreams?
Nowadays we have the so-called 'sci-fi-writer-wannabes' who produce crappy stories, crappy plots, crappy concepts, craps such as 'twenty-mile-high-buildings"
The current crop of sci-fi-writer-wannabes just ain't got the imagination to inspire
Let me Xerox off a few examples of when similar Noun/Verb phrases lost their trademark in the past
Before Xerox came out with the photocopy machine which uses plain-paper for duplicating purposes, were there any such machine on the market?
No?
Before Google was online, was there any online search engine?
Yes!
Yahoo, Astavista,... amongst others
Coke gets to retain its trademark precisely because Coke wasn't the first mass-marketed bottled soft drink either
The one big problem with Yahoo is it cluttered up its interface - even from the start we users already complained about their interface, but they just won't listen, and when Google came out with its back-to-basic minimalist interface users flocked to Google (including me) and since then the only time I go to yahoo is when I need to log on to my yahoomail account
Slashdot Mirror
Because of protectionism cheap solar panels have been taxed until they become so much more expensive by the time they got to the consumers
A calculation I read somewhere - sorry, I lost the link - that if there was none of those stupid taxes the solar panels could have been gotten for almost _half_ of the current prices
Can you imagine the impact of consumers getting _twice_ as many solar panels installed on their roofs?
Can you imagine how much more clean power that gonna generate ... and how many more gigatons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses that didn't have to be spewed into the atmosphere because of the clean power generated by those extra solar panels?
If we truly want to save the planet earth, we must insist that all the stupid protectionism practices be stopped !!
Because there is a right way
TFA mentioned several possible scenario - spin-polarized electrons, circularly polarized light that is produced by the scattering of light in the atmosphere and in neutron stars, and so on - which should have been taking place in similar fashion all throughout the universe
Would this mean that if there are lifeforms elsewhere in the universe, would their physiology (whether or not they have DNA) be similarly affected by the polarized action of electron and/or photon around them?
Does the above formula apply to the "bio-fuels" ?
If it does, then the whole "ethanol-fuel" and the "bio-diesel" thing are nothing but filthy lies ??
... I wonder what NASA can do with a budget of $74 million ...
.....
... hmm
At least tap water --- if properly supplied --- has gone through the chlorination process
And according to WHO, chlorination kills the ebola virus
But in Africa, and in many other third world countries, especially the rural area,they take the water from the well and streams, and use it
Of course many of them do boil water before they drink it. But my point being, the water that they take from the streams / well might have been contaminated by the ebola virus, and that might become a vector for spreading the disease
I have nothing but admiration to ISRO for what they have achieved
My only problem is what you wrote:
If anything, the brain drain consists of India's best and brightest relocating to the US after having studied in the near-free subsidized taxpayer funded colleges and universities in India. They typically go to the US to do their masters and PhD and then some of them join NASA
I do have business dealing with India, and I do regularly meet my business acquaintances in India, and I know, for a fact --- that so-called brain drain has actually benefited India
How, you might ask?
Those who emigrated abroad and working in America / Europe do accumulate knowledge / experience in whatever they do there, and, --- this is very important --- when they go back home, for visit (many of them still have families back home), most of them do pay courtesy calls to their own friends working inside India, and when that happened, technology transfers happen, and that event happens very very frequently in India
Many of the "tricks of the trade" that have been picked up by the Indian industry (including ISRO) came from the courtesy call from their friends / former classmate who work abroad
Of course, what I have described above isn't limited only to India, the same thing happens in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and even in Russia and China as well
The "brain drain" in a way, do offer a "reverse channel" that enables knowledge to flow back to home countries
It is said that the bodies of the ebola victims are filled with ebola virus, and the bodies were buried. Isn't this akin to merely "hide" the problem, and not eliminate it?
By burying the dead bodies which are filled with the ebola virus, they are allowing the virus to flow out of the decaying bodies which were buried in the burial grounds and thus contaminate the underground waters
As there aren't a lot of tap water infrastructure available in that part of the world, many people still rely on water they obtain from rivers and from wells - and when the virus contaminate the underground water more people are going to be infected with that virus
Why can't they burn the dead bodies instead?
I have stopped using Gnome ever since the developers decided to stop listening to the users and fucked up the whole thing
Whoever believe proclamation from politicians deserved to be betrayed
Just because Obama's campaign slogan was "A Nuclear-Free World" doesn't mean he can't lie --- and the "change" he promised us turned out to be the "spared change" we have left in our pockets
The re-arming of America's nuclear arsenal has everything to do with pork barrel --- as most of the sites related to the re-arming programs are located in the Democrat controlled districts, it is nothing more than typical practice of cronyism - political cronyism
We used to trust the USA
At least, ***I*** used to
So we have email-based public / private key encryption scheme; revocable identity-based encryption scheme ...
Are there other schemes or paradigms we can choose from?
libaba is tightly woven into a complex fabric of personal, corporate and government organization relationships
Tim, before you post that article, have you run a thorough check on the submit ?
I am not in anyway affiliated with Alibaba and do not own even one share of Alibaba, but TFA has gone overboard with its accusation that Alibaba of having "governmental organization relationships"
Although I am no longer a Chinese citizen, I did come from China and am very familiar with China
If you say Huawei, another Chinese company, have "government organization relationship" with the Chinese Communist Regime, then I agree. But not Alibaba
The truth is that Google, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco and many more American companies have MORE "governmental organization relationship" with the US government - especially with alphabetic agencies such as CIA and/or NSA - than Alibaba with the Chinese Communist regime
Just because Alibaba happens to be a company from China doesn't give anyone the right to spread all kinds of baseless accusations - and I am really sick and tired of the mindless anti-Chinese bashing that has been going on since the listing of Alibaba
Do you know that the more you guys bash all things Chinese the more you guys are showcasing your idiotic/racist side to the world?
This world isn't only USA vs China as there are other players - and your childish display will only convince those third-party players that America is not a trustworthy party
The more you guys bash the Chinese online the more you guys are ruining the whatever reputation that is left of the United States of America
I tried to read the linked page but somehow I still do not understand how that camera be " Fully Open Sourced"
Can someone enlighten me a bit on that, please?
Thanks !
Writes the submitter: "The evidence includes emails that show Obamacare officials more interested in keeping their problems from leaking to the press than working to fix them
BTW, this is emblematic of the Obama administration - they simply do not have any clue to anything that they are involved with
It is not only the Obamacare - everything else, from Syria to ISIL to Afghanistan to Europe to Islamization of America to you name it - everything that Obama has touched on it turned into a mess
What a racist comment. You must be a Republican
I am a Chinese. I was born in China but has been an American for almost 4 decades
I can tell you one thing about America --- The average Democrats are more racist than the average Republicans
The Republicans might be more conservatives but they are also pragmatic. On the other hand the Democrats may call themselves "liberals" but their so-called "liberalism" is laced with a very strong anti-Chinese sentiment
The perfect example is Hillary Clinton - that broad is an all-out anti-Chinese racist --- even when she was still the "First Lady" her first visit to China (attending a "women conference" in Beijing, back in the mid 1990's) her first speech (she gave a keynote speech for that conference) was lambasting the Chinese people, the host of the conference, with all the vile racist diatribe she could find
I am not saying that there are no racist in the Republican camp, but if compare to those from the Donkey party, there are fewer racist Elephants
Here we are, in year 2014, talking about a society some 7,000 to 8,000 years ago, and we project the society then, using what we have now
Dear Sir, I would hope you realize that even in our society today we still have barbarians enjoying slitting other people's throats and cutting off people's heads, and in societies 7 to 8 millennia before us, I reckon there would be even bigger proportion of human population who enjoyed cutting off other people's heads
In other words, the so-called "intermarriage", if occurred at all, did not happen like what we are enjoying today
Most of the events that led to the "exchange of genetic materials" and the "commingle of DNA sequences" most probably happened via brutal wars and gang rapes
In other words, all of us, no matter which racial background we came from, we are the descendants of those who were strong, intelligent, or lucky, or the combination of 2 or even all three of the above, for the weak, the low-minded and/or the unlucky, didn't get the chance to pass on their genetic material down through the millennia
The huge machinery behind the NSA / CIA / FBI and all those alphabet agencies wants total control, and it has the enthusiastic support of private companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, amongst others
Obama? That one is but a puppet
When the term of this puppet ends, by 2016 they will have another puppet installed. But of course, they will give us an "illusive election", whereby no matter who we vote for, it will be their puppet who will be installed inside the Casa Blanca!
Viva la Maquinaria !!
90% is a small number, right?
TFA talked about a company in South East Asia and I do have business dealings with companies from that region - and I can tell you that many companies from that region are indeed dysfunctional
They kinda adopt the Western approach of management, but then they add in their own cultural flavor, mainly based on race / religion / language background and when all those things got mixed up, what TFA mentioned wasn't even enough to scratch the surface of the true dysfunctional nature of the beasts down there
Working for others may get you a decent living, but if you really, and I mean, REALLY want to earn a lot of money, working for others won't make you rich
I started by working for high tech companies, some decades ago. Yes, I did earn really decent wages, much better than most of my peers at that time. But I didn't stop there
When I was working, I noticed niche markets that were not being fulfilled. I got out and started my own companies (plural) to do just that
Some of the companies I sold to others, some I kept. A lot of people are working with me right now, but I gotta tell you, no matter how much I pay them (and yes, I do pay my co-workers very handsomely) they still do not earn as much as I
The moral is very simple --- if you really want to be wealthy, stop being a worker, and start being an entrepreneur
We're having coming up with a definition that means "It's fine when we do it, but an act of war if we want it to be when someone does it to us" that passes the laugh test
Remember it's NSA we are talking about
They do not need to speak the truth, and in fact, they have lied to the congress and nobody could do anything to them
In other words, they can declare "An Act of War" any time they want, even if nobody did nothing, because right now, as we speak, NSA is an entity that no one have any right to inspect - not the congress, not the court, and surely, not the White House
"We're still trying to work our way through distinguishing the difference between criminal hacking and an act of war," said Rogers
NSA supposed to be a government agency filled with very intelligent folks, and they are telling us that they can't differentiate between common hacking (whether it be criminal or otherwise) and an _Act of War_ ?
I dunno about you, but I find it very hard to believe!
I'm not sure there's even really a market for science fiction
There is always a market for good scientific fiction, inspiring stories that will bring the readers towards a universe which they never experience before
What was that last Star Trek movie? I can't even remember the name of it now. It wasn't science fiction. It was an action flick with more explosions than ideas. It just happened to be set on a spaceship
I am totally with you on that flick --- the flick is a perfect example of how severely the lacking of the ability to imagine, on current crop of writers, has become!
I suspect that the current definition of "sci-fi" is no longer similar to what we are accustomed to. Nowadays the thinking is that if something happens on board of a space-ship it automatically qualifies as "sci-fi". Gone are the days that sci-fi offered the readers a glimpse of what could-be, thus inspiring the readers (many of them young) to strive to make the world that they read in sci-fi comes alive
Used to. No more.
Sci-fi writers of yesteryears used to ask pertinent questions, something like - Can robot dreams?
Nowadays we have the so-called 'sci-fi-writer-wannabes' who produce crappy stories, crappy plots, crappy concepts, craps such as 'twenty-mile-high-buildings"
The current crop of sci-fi-writer-wannabes just ain't got the imagination to inspire
Let me Xerox off a few examples of when similar Noun/Verb phrases lost their trademark in the past
Before Xerox came out with the photocopy machine which uses plain-paper for duplicating purposes, were there any such machine on the market?
No?
Before Google was online, was there any online search engine?
Yes!
Yahoo, Astavista, ... amongst others
Coke gets to retain its trademark precisely because Coke wasn't the first mass-marketed bottled soft drink either
The one big problem with Yahoo is it cluttered up its interface - even from the start we users already complained about their interface, but they just won't listen, and when Google came out with its back-to-basic minimalist interface users flocked to Google (including me) and since then the only time I go to yahoo is when I need to log on to my yahoomail account
If someone wants me to type in my account and then my password I won't
I really won't
Common sense tells me that no one has any right to demand me to type in my account name/number and then my password
That is why I do not understand why there _are_ people who are simply void of any common sense
Ain't there enough stories of scams already? Why can't those people learn _anything_ from the mistakes of others?