We have 700+ bases in 130+ countries, we are the new Rome.
Just the cost of maintaining multiple carrier groups is staggering.
Eisenhower warned us about the Military Industrial Complex on the way out of office.
JFK tried to do something in that regard and he got his head blown off.
The NASA budget is a tiny joke compared to the military one.
The next biggest budget is Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid and the way to deal with that would be a Co-op similar to the way the insurance company USAA is run.
The current system is bloated and ppl have to sue the government just to get their benefits some of the time.
Having the nations of the world police themselves and reforming SSI and Medicare would take care of our money problems.
Using Algae oil grown in the desert and ending all imports of oil would totally eliminate the trade deficit in just a few years.
Better deal would be to just upgrade those willing to pay for the jump in speed.
I am willing to bet that there is fiber between the cities already.
So it is more of a last mile issue.
If only half the ppl would pay for the faster service then only install it for those ppl.
They could do an automated phone survey to find out how many ppl want it in each area, and do one area at a time to work out the bugs and other issues, then roll it out further.
$30 bn for 1 mega-bit is a bad deal seeing how 100 Mb has been around for over a decade.
You can get a used 1 Gig-E card on ebay right now for $35.
It can be done with that amount of money or even less if you can keep the pirates and looters from running off with the money.
Now that is nary impossible, especially seeing how they control the government and the corporations.
If this $43 billion was turned over to a Co-op with TRUE TRANSPARENCY it could be done by the ppl who actually want this system and only run it to the ppl that want it initially.
If half the country wouldn't pay for it or use it, then why even install it to them initially.
Good odds the single mode fiber is already in place between the cities, and the only real issue is the last mile.
Yahoo was bought by Southwestern Bell, a family member of mine worked for them for over 20 years.
The "suits" for the most part did not understand field operations, and so the ppl making the big picture decisions did not understand some of the key things going on in the field.
When the field techs tried to get the info to them they were basically ignored.
Alot of US companies go thru this, its nicknamed the Ivory Tower theory.
Southwestern Bell acts like the ATT of old, and now that ATT bought all the Bells back up Yahoo is effectively owned by ATT.
So for me the bloated entrenched top heavy mega-corp is a slow and cumbersome dinosaur with ppl at the top that liken themselves to a Noveau Royalty.
Start ups will continue to out pace and out think them.
The means and methods will continue to be MBA group-think while the upper crufties will look down there noses at those who don't wear a suit and have short uniform hair.
There are plenty of other things that have us in their cross hairs such as the theory that there is a 26 million year repeating reset on this planet due to something in space that keeps making return visits.
I didn't offer this as a total solution to the helium shortage, but if we switched all the coal, oil, and natural gas plants to LFTR reactors it would make a decent amount.
Maybe not enough for world supply, but it would help.
I am just saying LFTR would help with two problems.
"What helium is present today has been mostly created by the natural radioactive decay of heavy radioactive elements (thorium and uranium), as the alpha particles that are emitted by such decays consist of helium-4 nuclei. This radiogenic helium is trapped with natural gas in concentrations up to seven percent by volume, from which it is extracted commercially by a low-temperature separation process called fractional distillation."
Looks like another good reason to build LFTR reactors that can also take the current radioactive waste and dispose it for good.
With almost the same controls as used for RC planes one person could launch or land a stratollite for repairs or upgrades.
With this lower version of the satellite you could use less power and get less interference.
You cover less area, but the costs of launch are so much lower it makes it well worth it and even more if the balloon has multiple ppl hanging their gear off it.
As cheap as they are they could even have one on standby in a region for rapid deployment in case one gets in trouble.
There are cities in the US and elsewhere that are sick of the Telcos Charging huge rates so they can make mega bucks for their mega mansions and stock options.
Do a Co-op ISP and buy up dark fiber as a not for profit between cities.
Then treat it like a Co-op or even city owned util and move on.
The Telcos have shown they are ALMOST as corrupt as the Federal Government.
You got modded flamebait because you dared question the less is more crowd that wants higher level languages that do most of the lower level work for them.
The ppl that coded closer to the metal as you say mostly have grey hair now, and are looked at as legacy coders by the new breed that want all that lower level coding done for them by the language.
As for it being complex, sure it is complex for most ppl, but for a college trained Comp Sci. major it should be bread and butter and tools of the trade.
Ppl have declared we are giving a dumbed down education and I think this is a fair indicator of it.
The telco's took the money and screwed it off and used it to pay stock dividends.
When you count the hideous rural connect speeds that have to go thru analog loops giving them a max connection speed of 26.4 kbps then we rank as 16th in the world.
It is pathetic, and if they had spent HALF of the $200 billion on upgrading the network it would be fine.
When you look at present dark fiber in the ground it is over 90% dark in some areas.
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It is amazing what ppl can get away with when they own the legal system.
Most of the governments on earth have become horribly corrupt.
The biggest expense for the US is military.
We have 700+ bases in 130+ countries, we are the new Rome.
Just the cost of maintaining multiple carrier groups is staggering.
Eisenhower warned us about the Military Industrial Complex on
the way out of office.
JFK tried to do something in that regard and he got his head blown off.
The NASA budget is a tiny joke compared to the military one.
The next biggest budget is Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid and
the way to deal with that would be a Co-op similar to the way
the insurance company USAA is run.
The current system is bloated and ppl have to sue the government
just to get their benefits some of the time.
Having the nations of the world police themselves and reforming
SSI and Medicare would take care of our money problems.
Using Algae oil grown in the desert and ending all imports of
oil would totally eliminate the trade deficit in just a few years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hioZ7C6HLs
100,000 gal/acre/yr in the desert using non-arable land.
It would pay better than any legal crop at this time.
It would make jobs and solve our energy issues til we
can migrate the infrastructure over to hydrogen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hydrogen_production
Then with time we can get one of the several ideas for Fusion
off the ground and move to an primary electric system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense_plasma_focus#DPF_for_nuclear_fusion_power
Dense plasma focus has the lead at this point for cost
effective use.
This is the right approach in my books.
For the effort, expense and materials you can do more with a robot in space
because it does not need food, water, or air.
If a robot breaks in space fair odds you can repair it with another robot
if you got the parts up there.
If a human breaks in space...not so much.
Any mission to mars with humans would require so much food, water,
and other supplies that it would take up most of the room on the spacecraft.
Build a few tougher rovers and send them.
Make it so they can repair each other.
Make it so it can dust its solar panel off so it doesn't just
end up parked due to dust on its panel.
I was in the US military so let me be clear.
When they want good PR they go do something good,
but we have 700+ bases in 130+ countries.
We are the new Rome.
A marine corp general stopped the business plot
and he also said that war is a racket.
You might want to consider his words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQoBAc95tnw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
O = Obtuse
R = Ram
A = Abusing
C = Corrupt
L = Lousy
E = Executable
Better deal would be to just upgrade those willing to pay for the jump in speed.
I am willing to bet that there is fiber between the cities already.
So it is more of a last mile issue.
If only half the ppl would pay for the faster service then only install
it for those ppl.
They could do an automated phone survey to find out how many ppl
want it in each area, and do one area at a time to work out
the bugs and other issues, then roll it out further.
$30 bn for 1 mega-bit is a bad deal seeing how 100 Mb has been
around for over a decade.
You can get a used 1 Gig-E card on ebay right now for $35.
It can be done with that amount of money or even less if you can keep the pirates and looters
from running off with the money.
Now that is nary impossible, especially seeing how they control the government and the corporations.
If this $43 billion was turned over to a Co-op with TRUE TRANSPARENCY it could be done
by the ppl who actually want this system and only run it to the ppl that want it initially.
If half the country wouldn't pay for it or use it, then why even install it to them initially.
Good odds the single mode fiber is already in place between the cities, and the only
real issue is the last mile.
Yahoo was bought by Southwestern Bell, a family member of mine worked
for them for over 20 years.
The "suits" for the most part did not understand field operations,
and so the ppl making the big picture decisions did not understand
some of the key things going on in the field.
When the field techs tried to get the info to them they were basically ignored.
Alot of US companies go thru this, its nicknamed the Ivory Tower theory.
Southwestern Bell acts like the ATT of old, and now that ATT bought
all the Bells back up Yahoo is effectively owned by ATT.
So for me the bloated entrenched top heavy mega-corp is a slow
and cumbersome dinosaur with ppl at the top that liken themselves
to a Noveau Royalty.
Start ups will continue to out pace and out think them.
The means and methods will continue to be MBA group-think
while the upper crufties will look down there noses at those
who don't wear a suit and have short uniform hair.
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
~ George Orwell
LOL, another human hater.
Probably would have foamed with orgasmic joy at Professor Pianka's speech.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mims-Pianka_controversy
Probably another new age cult GAIA, Gerogia Guidestone, worshipping Neo-druid.
http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-druidism
The current batch of religions are bad enough without bringing back more
whacked out bogus BS to further enslave the ppl.
Reminds me of the nut jobs carving the hearts out of living ppl in Central America.
The point Mr. Hawking is trying to make is that most organisms
on Earth were almost wiped out by one super volcano in the pacific.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
There are plenty of other things that have us in their cross hairs
such as the theory that there is a 26 million year repeating reset
on this planet due to something in space that keeps making return visits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(star)
We have done a lot of bad things, on this planet, and we are
learning better ways to do things.
As Gandhi said, be the change you want to see in the world.
Between the half a dozen Super Volcanoes and threats
from off planet we will be getting a reduction at some point.
Right now the Neo-malthusians are moving ahead with their plan
to make you happy, hope you know how to speak Esperanto !
I think I did not make my point clear.
I didn't offer this as a total solution to the
helium shortage, but if we switched all the coal,
oil, and natural gas plants to LFTR reactors
it would make a decent amount.
Maybe not enough for world supply, but it would help.
I am just saying LFTR would help with two problems.
I am also not the only one saying it.
If your security system can be defeated by turning off power to your house
your security is pretty limited.
Have it on a UPS aka battery back up.
A noise maker alarm system will make most thieves look for an easier target.
If you want to know who it is then get a few video cameras and have a PC
record the video when the video detects motion.
Then to avoid then steal the data have it rsync to a remote computer
at a friend's house, your work or some other location.
You can also have the monitoring PC send an email if there is a breach.
Any weapon system that can do permanent injury is illegal, but I think ;)
you could get away with some nice tasty bear mace
That would have them really hating life.
They got a new nanotech hydrogen fuel tank based on the principle
of carbonized chicken feathers of all things now.
http://www.energyboom.com/emerging/lofty-use-chicken-feathers-power-hydrogen-economy
With biological hydrogen production we can grow hydrogen now
by depriving some algae of oxygen and feeding it a little sulfur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hydrogen_production
The best way to use this would be via a fuel cell
in an all electric vehicle.
"What helium is present today has been mostly created by the natural radioactive decay of heavy radioactive elements (thorium and uranium), as the alpha particles that are emitted by such decays consist of helium-4 nuclei. This radiogenic helium is trapped with natural gas in concentrations up to seven percent by volume, from which it is extracted commercially by a low-temperature separation process called fractional distillation."
Looks like another good reason to build LFTR reactors that can also take
the current radioactive waste and dispose it for good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUeBSoEnRk
Good transition til we can upscale other clean energy sources.
There may be more than one company, but the one I ran across years ago
was 21st century airships.
http://www.21stcenturyairships.com/HighAlt
At 65,000 ft there is no wind.
With almost the same controls as used for RC planes one person
could launch or land a stratollite for repairs or upgrades.
With this lower version of the satellite you could use less power
and get less interference.
You cover less area, but the costs of launch are so much lower
it makes it well worth it and even more if the balloon has multiple
ppl hanging their gear off it.
As cheap as they are they could even have one on standby in a region
for rapid deployment in case one gets in trouble.
Sometimes Low Tech beats High Tech, pun intended.
That's what your tribe says, LOL !
There are cities in the US and elsewhere that are sick of the Telcos
Charging huge rates so they can make mega bucks for their mega mansions
and stock options.
Do a Co-op ISP and buy up dark fiber as a not for profit between cities.
Then treat it like a Co-op or even city owned util and move on.
The Telcos have shown they are ALMOST as corrupt as the Federal Government.
http://www.tispa.org/node/14
They had to work hard to be that corrupt, LOL !
Hillary's monica is right here:
http://www.justout.com/ptArchive/blog/default.aspx?id=3882&t=Right-Wing-Conspiracy-Continued
One hot lady from the land o' sand.
In most multi million dollar operations some kind of redundancy is built in.
I am thinking there was a laptop or other desktop in a non critical role
that could have stepped into the role.
I think bad management plus ppl making excuses to not fix the problem
are often at the root of the issue.
We have a "not my problem" cutlure that spends more time looking for
excuses to deflect something than just fixing it and moving on.
I have been doing this for over 25 years so I can speak with some experience.
You got modded flamebait because you dared question the less is more crowd that wants higher level languages that do
most of the lower level work for them.
The ppl that coded closer to the metal as you say mostly have grey hair now, and are looked at as legacy coders
by the new breed that want all that lower level coding done for them by the language.
As for it being complex, sure it is complex for most ppl, but for a college trained Comp Sci. major it should
be bread and butter and tools of the trade.
Ppl have declared we are giving a dumbed down education and I think this is a fair indicator of it.
On monster.com I had the grand total of 11 hits for the whole US.
Deja moo might be an understatement.
This will just be another case of Problem, Reaction, Solution.
They already know what they want, this is just their horse and pony
show to justify what they will do to get it.
Likely some more Visa workers to drive down wage costs.
I did a search for CISSP jobs and that ilk and there is not
thousands of them out there waiting to be filled.
I call Deja moo.
Deja moo is like Deja Vu, but it refers to having heard this BS somewhere before.
Most games barely touch 4 cores these days.
Most of the games lean hard on the Vid card.
You will get better results out of a SLI system.
Odds are this is just another giant telco scam to steal more money from
the American ppl like they did in the $200 Billion Broadband scandal.
http://www.tispa.org/node/14
The telco's took the money and screwed it off and used it to pay
stock dividends.
When you count the hideous rural connect speeds that have to go
thru analog loops giving them a max connection speed of 26.4 kbps
then we rank as 16th in the world.
It is pathetic, and if they had spent HALF of the $200 billion on upgrading
the network it would be fine.
When you look at present dark fiber in the ground it is over 90% dark in some areas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre#Dark_fibre_overcapacity
As I have said on other forums, we have an idiocy problem, not a money problem.
The pirates are looking to plunder our wallets again in their real life game of monopoly.
Errr, a little over 40 yrs old.