The problem is that we are now starting to get a long trail of predictions from the global warming advocates that have failed to come true. Another favourite of mine is that hurricanes were going to be rampaging across the Atlantic due to the warming. Catrina being just the start. That is why Al Gores book is covered with photoshopped hurricanes including one turning in the wrong direction. Only problem is that hurricane activity has dramatically dropped since Catrina. Yet we are expected to spent trillions with a T of dollars based on these predictions from computer models that can't be verified in any way, haven't had their code released for review or had their algorithms reviewed. This "Just take my word for it" mentality is what we are supposed to bankrupt our countries on. Just look at the disaster wind power has become for the UK and others to see what the problems are.
1. During the study period, wind generation was:
* below 20% of capacity more than half the time;
* below 10% of capacity over one third of the time;
* below 2.5% capacity for the equivalent of one day in twelve;
* below 1.25% capacity for the equivalent of just under one day a month.
What happens is that the global warming is causing the ocean water to become less dense, both by dilution by melted ice and by thermal expansion from the increased temperature.
That would be a heck of a story if there actually was warming to create this expansion. Melting glaciers put cold water into the ocean not warm water. If you think the air is some how heating the water you should have a look at the graphic over here.
I think you will find that that the UN General Assembly is in fact part of the UN. Inconvenient as that might be for your story.
General Assembly, 8 July 2008
GA/10725
Sixty-second General Assembly
Informal Meeting on Climate Change and Most Vulnerable Countries (AM)
Statements
SRGJAN KERIM, President of the General Assembly, opened the discussion by saying that 11 of the last 12 years had ranked among the 12 warmest since the keeping of global temperature records had begun in 1850. Two points were significant: that climate change was inherently a sustainable-development challenge; and that more efforts than ever before must be exerted to enable poor countries to prepare for impacts because it had been estimated that there would be between 50 million and 200 million environmental migrants by 2010.
As the value of the Rupee increases importing items like food and fuel will become cheaper. This will decrease your inflation rate. That will mean India can keep interest rates lower helping to drive economic growth.
On the other had the US is swamped in debt, the great printing press of QE2 is about to to be turned off, the hedge funds are bailing out of Tbills at the same time that the BRIC countries are giving a big thumbs down to the dollar. The US government is intentional trying to deflate the US dollar for political rather than economic reasons meaning inflation will be driven up in the US whether they have growth or not. In order to cover that inflation interest rates are going to have to start rising which is going to make supporting all that debt even more difficult. Mean while rising interest rates will slow the economy further deflating the dollar more in a deadly spiral.
So whose problems would you rather have? And isn't it time to end the insane farm subsidies the US and Europe couldn't bear to part with when they were borrowing like crazy? For 20 years they tried to end them and then gave up. I bet you could get a deal done in a weekend now.
Buddy in the video says it is because it needs to run at the exact most efficient speed in order to get the savings. As for using a CV tranny. As soon as you add a tranny to the equation you lose 20% or so of your power to the tranny making the claims much less spectacular.
Ethanol is less efficient because it is an oxygenated fuel. Meaning part of the oxygen it needs to run is provided in the fuel rather than sucked out of the air. That oxygen takes up weight and volume. Mean while what comes out the exhaust is much cleaner. Mean while if you actually tune the engine for the higher octane of ethanol your mileage can actually improve.
Nothing makes that great environmentally friendly statement to the neighbours you are trying to impress like a massive cloud of black soot as a diesel first starts up.
Diesel cars are quite popular in Europe and a few other places. The reason why you haven't seen a lot of them in North America is that the quality of the diesel over here sucked rhinos until very recently. The European standards for diesel require much less sulphur etc than North America. Our diesel would clog up the engines they use and would wreck the emission systems.
As for the story. They are no where with it and looking for funding. By the time it is ready for the real world it will be 5 times the size and produce half the power due to the realities of having to run all the time with out constant repairs. There are a 100 claims like this every week but yet some how it never makes it into an actual production car.
I live just a couple of miles north of the US border and refuse to cross the border due to how much personal information I have to surrender and the fact that non-Americans no longer have any legal protections against unreasonable any thing. So yes my tourist dollars are going any where but the US. But I hear your economy is doing fine you don't need to worry about trivial things like jobs.
Systemd will do more to rub out the use of the command line than any thing since the gui. The author has decided for every one that applications should be able to figure every thing out for themselves and passing switches and arguments to them is archaic. This will remove the incentive for application writers to bother adding interfaces to applications that will alter their functionality. That will give us fewer reasons to use the command line. It is a vicious circle.
Tasers are often used as a form of punishment with out all that nasty proof and judgement nonsense, rather than the objectives they were purchased for.
BTW my laser pointer has been doing the same thing this "new invention" does for years.
Better to get rid of both personal income taxes, and business taxes.
If you think a zero tax rate for business is the end game you are fooling yourself. After businesses hit a zero tax rate then the race will be on to see who will give the biggest subsidies to businesses in order for them to not put out a press release saying they will leave if they don't get every thing they want. Those subsidies will have to come from some where. If it isn't business then it will either have to be people or debt.
Once again GE is ahead of the curve in that they are already getting their subsidies and not paying any tax.
I don't want the octane level in my alcohol to be closer to gasoline. I want high octane numbers so I can either run a higher compression ratio or jack the boost.
Debian isn't a "Linux". Debian is a distribution of GNU licened and other software that happens to ship and use a Linux kernel. But it also does that for one of the kernel for one of the BSDs as well. As for the statistics. I couldn't think of a worst set of them to try and make a case of greatness with.
The intent of WebM is not to be the end all and be all of codecs and containers. It is meant to be an open standard that can be utilized by any one, not that has to be used by every one. Even if you included some form of DRM in WebM not every one would adopt it because some will want a different form of DRM or more specifically their form of DRM. IMHO adding DRM to WebM would be a death knell for it. You can't have free DRM it has to be closed and propriatary or it will be quickly bypassed. I'm not saying making DRM closed and proprietary saves DRM from being bypassed. Just that it can extend the length of time until it is cracked. And if you put DRM in WebM and it gets cracked what then? We abandon the standard for some thing else and every thing stops working? Is that how the internet is supposed to work?
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Which brings up the question when is a superior court finally going to get a clue and start asking WTF is up with those yahoo's over in East Texas?
I think you will find the zodiac was changed to have 13 units instead of 12.
The problem is that we are now starting to get a long trail of predictions from the global warming advocates that have failed to come true. Another favourite of mine is that hurricanes were going to be rampaging across the Atlantic due to the warming. Catrina being just the start. That is why Al Gores book is covered with photoshopped hurricanes including one turning in the wrong direction. Only problem is that hurricane activity has dramatically dropped since Catrina. Yet we are expected to spent trillions with a T of dollars based on these predictions from computer models that can't be verified in any way, haven't had their code released for review or had their algorithms reviewed. This "Just take my word for it" mentality is what we are supposed to bankrupt our countries on. Just look at the disaster wind power has become for the UK and others to see what the problems are.
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The head of the UK power grid is saying that homes are going to have to get used to not always having power at home.
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Then there is the actual life expectancy of windmills. Is this really what we should be spending money on?
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That would be a heck of a story if there actually was warming to create this expansion. Melting glaciers put cold water into the ocean not warm water. If you think the air is some how heating the water you should have a look at the graphic over here.
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I think you will find that that the UN General Assembly is in fact part of the UN. Inconvenient as that might be for your story.
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As the value of the Rupee increases importing items like food and fuel will become cheaper. This will decrease your inflation rate. That will mean India can keep interest rates lower helping to drive economic growth.
On the other had the US is swamped in debt, the great printing press of QE2 is about to to be turned off, the hedge funds are bailing out of Tbills at the same time that the BRIC countries are giving a big thumbs down to the dollar. The US government is intentional trying to deflate the US dollar for political rather than economic reasons meaning inflation will be driven up in the US whether they have growth or not. In order to cover that inflation interest rates are going to have to start rising which is going to make supporting all that debt even more difficult. Mean while rising interest rates will slow the economy further deflating the dollar more in a deadly spiral.
So whose problems would you rather have? And isn't it time to end the insane farm subsidies the US and Europe couldn't bear to part with when they were borrowing like crazy? For 20 years they tried to end them and then gave up. I bet you could get a deal done in a weekend now.
Truer words were never spoken.
The huge increase in unsprung weight would mean totally re engineering the suspension system and would ruin the handing.
Buddy in the video says it is because it needs to run at the exact most efficient speed in order to get the savings. As for using a CV tranny. As soon as you add a tranny to the equation you lose 20% or so of your power to the tranny making the claims much less spectacular.
Ethanol is less efficient because it is an oxygenated fuel. Meaning part of the oxygen it needs to run is provided in the fuel rather than sucked out of the air. That oxygen takes up weight and volume. Mean while what comes out the exhaust is much cleaner. Mean while if you actually tune the engine for the higher octane of ethanol your mileage can actually improve.
Nothing makes that great environmentally friendly statement to the neighbours you are trying to impress like a massive cloud of black soot as a diesel first starts up.
Diesel cars are quite popular in Europe and a few other places. The reason why you haven't seen a lot of them in North America is that the quality of the diesel over here sucked rhinos until very recently. The European standards for diesel require much less sulphur etc than North America. Our diesel would clog up the engines they use and would wreck the emission systems. As for the story. They are no where with it and looking for funding. By the time it is ready for the real world it will be 5 times the size and produce half the power due to the realities of having to run all the time with out constant repairs. There are a 100 claims like this every week but yet some how it never makes it into an actual production car.
I live just a couple of miles north of the US border and refuse to cross the border due to how much personal information I have to surrender and the fact that non-Americans no longer have any legal protections against unreasonable any thing. So yes my tourist dollars are going any where but the US. But I hear your economy is doing fine you don't need to worry about trivial things like jobs.
Systemd will do more to rub out the use of the command line than any thing since the gui. The author has decided for every one that applications should be able to figure every thing out for themselves and passing switches and arguments to them is archaic. This will remove the incentive for application writers to bother adding interfaces to applications that will alter their functionality. That will give us fewer reasons to use the command line. It is a vicious circle.
Tasers are often used as a form of punishment with out all that nasty proof and judgement nonsense, rather than the objectives they were purchased for. BTW my laser pointer has been doing the same thing this "new invention" does for years.
If you think a zero tax rate for business is the end game you are fooling yourself. After businesses hit a zero tax rate then the race will be on to see who will give the biggest subsidies to businesses in order for them to not put out a press release saying they will leave if they don't get every thing they want. Those subsidies will have to come from some where. If it isn't business then it will either have to be people or debt. Once again GE is ahead of the curve in that they are already getting their subsidies and not paying any tax.
In what way is Yahoo a non-Microsoft email provider? Non-Hotmail maybe but I am pretty sure they are Microsoft.
Did that guy work for Microsoft?
This would make sense if every one didn't avoid reading patents for fear of getting dinged with treble damages.
I don't want the octane level in my alcohol to be closer to gasoline. I want high octane numbers so I can either run a higher compression ratio or jack the boost.
When it's reported on Fox News then we will believe it.
Debian isn't a "Linux". Debian is a distribution of GNU licened and other software that happens to ship and use a Linux kernel. But it also does that for one of the kernel for one of the BSDs as well. As for the statistics. I couldn't think of a worst set of them to try and make a case of greatness with.
I am running Myth on an atom 330 system and it works great. This should have more oomph than a 330.
The intent of WebM is not to be the end all and be all of codecs and containers. It is meant to be an open standard that can be utilized by any one, not that has to be used by every one. Even if you included some form of DRM in WebM not every one would adopt it because some will want a different form of DRM or more specifically their form of DRM. IMHO adding DRM to WebM would be a death knell for it. You can't have free DRM it has to be closed and propriatary or it will be quickly bypassed. I'm not saying making DRM closed and proprietary saves DRM from being bypassed. Just that it can extend the length of time until it is cracked. And if you put DRM in WebM and it gets cracked what then? We abandon the standard for some thing else and every thing stops working? Is that how the internet is supposed to work?
The bigger the fool the more confidence they have.