We got some real interesting times coming, and remember even though Ron Paul was 100% correct about the financial mess he is still a nut and no one should listen to him and we need to get back to our TV's, Games, and Porn.
I'd say put the whole bunch of modern day carpet baggers in jail for a good long while, but...
Well we have too many ppl in prison as it is.
I think we need something along the lines of an economist jury to have trials for things BEFORE they financial crooks and pirates turn bad loans into derivatives and try to sell them as a "product".
The ppl pass judgement on their schemes before they go into effect.
Some of these reindeer games they played were total idiocy.
They were listing debt as an asset on their ledgers via "creative accounting" by the derivatives.
I think they should have their CPA's pulled for 3 years, and feel what it is like to work in the real world with the non-privileged for awhile.
Then when they go back they are on "probation" of sorts for a period of time based on the serious of their crimes.
These white collar criminals play number games and then the citizens get to bail them out to tune of over a trillion dollars once it is all said and done.
No more loans for ppl with bad credit no matter what their skin color is.
If your credit sucks, NO loan.
Also these cities ramping up home values so they can get more taxes is sheer idiocy as well, and it needs to stop.
My "shack" is way over valued and it was a drug repossession closer to being condemned than to be worth half what they "appraise" it at.
All this to be governmental leeches on the back side of society.
Then ppl with these perceived values gte HELOCs they cant afford and when the job market tanks, a domino effect sets in like no one has seen before.
Over a year ago when Ron Paul warned about the financial mess all the Neo-cons and half the liberals made fun of him.
If you actually read any of the articles you linked to you'd know that.
Wow, that is some real tongue in butt cheek there buddy.
By the way any dissimilar metal with a difference in potential does what ?
That's right Homer Simpson, it corrodes.
I think if you thought about all the receptacles and the fact that apprentice electricians do most of the residential wiring in the US and not fully licensed journeymen, then you'd realize the potential for slop is overwhelming.
If you take it a step further and realize that alot is being done by illegals who are supervised by an apprentice, who then gets final inspection from a Journeymen who runs through the house and talks to the 1 apprentice and then he is off to the races to the next Mc Mansion speed wire job.
Well it is because there is a lot of cheating going on.
I have worked with a lot of IT professionals that have the school and certs, but they suck.
I know that is true of other professions as well, but it does not excuse ppl cheating in getting their job.
Some of the things that are happening are them having other ppl take the tests for them.
Some ppl study braindumps over and over til they get the question pool memorized and then go test, but they do not have the full scope of the material.
So the only recourse the companies have is to test the ppl to see if they know the basics and the intermediate info.
All the on job tests I have taken have been pretty straight forward.
I missed like one question on the pre-test to be hired for Dell for their basic server support role.
Taking the test to be promoted to Gold server I missed like 2 - 3.
I agree that it sucks that it is going on, but a lot of ppl are not fully doing the education and are just taking shortcuts.
I have worked with them and got to clean up the messes they made.
I think the solution to corrupt jerks like this is find someone in town who is terminally ill and ask them to bring along the corporate clown with them on their journey out bound.
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Bizarre idea I had was to seal the data center on the ship, and have the equivalent of decontamination chambers to enter the room.
Then lower a deep sea intake line down to where the water is about 5 degree celsius, and pumps it in to heat exchangers to cool the server room.
I used to work on heat exchangers when I worked on RADAR in the Navy, we used it to cool our RADAR but we didn't go for the deep much colder water.
In theory the server room could be devoid of oxygen so oxidation of contacts could not take place, and give the server techs small oxygen tanks and masks to work like the small walk around device that emphysema patients use.
Could make it a sterile environment that could make the servers actually last longer.
On US Navy warships special door seals were used so that ships would not sink if they had a hole blowing the side of them just like the Cole in Yemen.
It had a huge hole, but did not sink due to these door seals.
Shifting the fuel storage tanks levels kept the Cole mostly vertical.
For power they could mount Wind Turbines and Solar Panels on Main Deck and even use them for shade on Main Deck.
If they Anchored out in a strong current like the Florida Current they could tap it by lower Aquanators over the side.
How is health care related to old age pensions being insufficient ?
They revamped Medicare so that there is more out of pocket expenses.
They made it ILLEGAL to buy out of country generic drugs, and ppl are currently "running the border" to Canada to get their drugs illegally.
Fix health care, and all you do is make old people live longer, thus further burdening the pension system.
Hehe, 1940's Germany thought the same way, let's kill the old and weak so we can save money for the strong and productive.
You got some great company there buddy.
Oh, and in case you have not figured it out, your gonna be one of those 60+ ppl one day, or perhaps some of your family will.
I know of almost no companies that pay pensions.
Even most of the unions have agreed to stop that.
Its 401k or IRA or nothing.
I see your in the UK, and I guess there are more pensions there.
You also have government health care, here we have zippo.
You get sick, the hospital only has to help you if your dying, and don't expect top notch care or any prescriptions.
Also they permanently wreck your credit and you can end up homeless if you end up losing your job due to your illness.
We have thousands of ppl living under bridges in our country, some are there because they are medically bankrupt.
I am no Michael Moore fan, but watch "Sicko" to get a clue what the US healthcare system is like now.
The HMO's have turned it into another race for the bottom stock market money grab.
They make money by denying ppl health care that HAVE paid for their medical policies because they come down with a illness that is in their long list of excluded coverage in the fine print.
It's all about making money off other ppls misery.
With the Gulf Coast it has been hit several times in the last few decades, Katrina just 3 years ago.
Before that By Camille & Betsy, and now Gustav.
That is 4 major hits.
Again as in my previous post, I think building codes would solve all of this once and for all.
In most major cities around the US you cannot build in the 100 year flood plain, and in Earthquake zones you have to build to code.
The same should apply to Hurricane prone areas.
Build to code, or build somewhere else.
Turn all of the Hurricane and Flood vulnerable sections into a state park, or industrial land, do it over time as time permits.
The only other possible solution is build 3 story parking garages with houses on top where the large tracts of destroyed houses are now and make the houses out of steel reinforced concrete that can take a 2x4 hitting them at 200 mph.
Make it where all windows must have certified storm shutters.
Make Hurricane preparedness NOT optional, make it law.
It is like one poster said, you have the right to live anywhere you want, but don't come digging in my wallet when your home on the shore goes out to sea.
In most of the US these codes keep you from building in the 100 year flood plain.
The destroyed areas of New Orleans that are below the level of the lake and the river need to be rezoned to industrial, or made a state park gradually over time.
If they want to rebuild it all that is fine, just rebuild it all in land above sea level on ground that is tested by geologists for subsidence.
Camille, Betsy, Katrina, and now Gustav are going to do massive damage to the City yet again, and more federal tax payer money is going to rebuild the city that is 9 feet below sea level in some areas and some engineers say it is continuing to sink.
Its true that in the US we don't like to admit our mistakes and keep just trudging on, but how many billions from other states have to go to keep rebuilding the sinking city ?
Basically if you can do something well, then you are put in charge of making it work someplace it is working poorly.
I think it is a good idea.
I think that those who understand something make the decisions on how to build it, run it, repair it, and scale it.
The idea of the bean counters, MBA's, and marketing droids moving in and making Tech decisions on ALL aspects has lead to things like the DOT COM CRASH.
Dilbert is funny for a reason, User Friendly as well.
The ppl running these companies are little more than leeches on the ass of society, thieves in nice clothes.
Our best bet is Coop ISPs.
The rest of the game is rigged, and it always has been.
That is why Google decided to light their own network because the Telecoms started whining about how they needed more of Google's money.
If anyone can muster the willpower of all the techs nationwide into an effort to bypass the bullshit, we might see Internet Access like the have in Europe and Japan.
In the mean time, status quo will rule the day.
Hopes of Google's nationwide Wifi rollout have all but died.
I'd rather pay Google $50 a month for a low latency Wifi connection that is 3 - 4 hops of the Backbone than these Cable companies that have me going close to 30 hops just to connect to a friend's server across town on a different ISP.
One of the things that holds back high speed transport is the air drag on the vehicles, planes included.
I think if you made 2 parallel tubes that went between major metro areas, and electric trains travelled through them with all the air vacuumed out it would have little to no drag.
You'd have near zero wind resistance, and it would take less power to move the train.
Slashdot Mirror
Well some of the material is rather embarrassing to some
ppl so it might hurt their feelings and make them look bad.
Yeah I know the truth should be held to a higher standard.
But when your pimping fascism this is how it is done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8qPXK8RKDI
We got some real interesting times coming, and
remember even though Ron Paul was 100% correct about
the financial mess he is still a nut and no one should
listen to him and we need to get back to our TV's, Games, and Porn.
Like good little Sheeple.
Enjoy the ride.
It deeply warms my heart that your offended.
Stop back by again and I will do my best
to take it to the next level next time.
In the meantime you can ponder on this:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/kh-101.htm
Paragraph # 5 is for you.
With Russia soon to be staging these in Cuba and Venezuela,
and the average citizen has no clue, the next Cuban missile
crisis is not far away.
On the bright side they are only 300-500 Kilo-ton warheads.
A can of gasoline can be a powerful weapon.
So can peach pits...
I don't trust you with your opinion.
But I served in the military like my father,
and grandfather before me so you can have
your opinion.
The two amendments that protect those rights
should be respected even by you and me.
I am not one of the ppl you should fear:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
Cheap does not always equal good.
I'd say put the whole bunch of modern day carpet baggers ...
in jail for a good long while, but
Well we have too many ppl in prison as it is.
I think we need something along the lines of
an economist jury to have trials for things BEFORE
they financial crooks and pirates turn bad
loans into derivatives and try to sell them as a "product".
The ppl pass judgement on their schemes before they
go into effect.
Some of these reindeer games they played were total idiocy.
They were listing debt as an asset on their ledgers
via "creative accounting" by the derivatives.
I think they should have their CPA's pulled for 3 years,
and feel what it is like to work in the real world
with the non-privileged for awhile.
Then when they go back they are on "probation" of sorts
for a period of time based on the serious of their crimes.
These white collar criminals play number games and then
the citizens get to bail them out to tune of over a trillion
dollars once it is all said and done.
No more loans for ppl with bad credit no matter what their
skin color is.
If your credit sucks, NO loan.
Also these cities ramping up home values so they can
get more taxes is sheer idiocy as well, and it needs to stop.
My "shack" is way over valued and it was a drug repossession
closer to being condemned than to be worth half what they
"appraise" it at.
All this to be governmental leeches on the back side of society.
Then ppl with these perceived values gte HELOCs they cant afford
and when the job market tanks, a domino effect sets in like
no one has seen before.
Over a year ago when Ron Paul warned about the financial
mess all the Neo-cons and half the liberals made fun of him.
Who the hell is laughing now ?
Oh, California and most of the Southwest are in the
process of secession right now.
Just it is not via some legal document.
Reconquista Aztlan is what they call it.
It is Aztlan, and it is coming to a Theatre near you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCCVUot-hBo
The opening speaker is a professor in Texas modern day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajkAP_M4ZAM
CNN covering the issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQxy-q2rDpI&feature=related
A political pundits view on it all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTwO457C8bQ&NR=1
This is very true, I own a 30-06.
It is a very scary weapon in the hands of someone who knows how to use it, I hope on my life I never have to in anger or defense.
1,000+ yards "effective" range with the right scope.
And yes, that is over half a mile.
The 50 cal BMG is well over a mile.
The diff is you can buy a 30-06 at a rural Wal-mart for $250.
But lets consider that humans are only humane when law
enforcement stands ready to kill them on the spot.
The didn't call it the Wild West due to the women.
Peace is a VERY temporary state in human nature:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_and_other_violent_events_by_death_toll
We are moving towards another World War 'right' now.
Most ppl are too busy with their favorite diversion to notice.
The Russian's however are ready:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/yamantau.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/kh-101.htm
If you actually read any of the articles you linked to you'd know that.
Wow, that is some real tongue in butt cheek there buddy.
By the way any dissimilar metal with a difference in potential
does what ?
That's right Homer Simpson, it corrodes.
I think if you thought about all the receptacles and the fact
that apprentice electricians do most of the residential wiring
in the US and not fully licensed journeymen, then you'd realize
the potential for slop is overwhelming.
If you take it a step further and realize that alot is
being done by illegals who are supervised by an apprentice,
who then gets final inspection from a Journeymen who runs
through the house and talks to the 1 apprentice and then
he is off to the races to the next Mc Mansion speed wire job.
Why do you think they won't insure the houses ?
Why do you think they banned it in most states ?
Some tinfoil hat conspiracy against Aluminum ?
Cause the insurance companies own copper mines ?
You are an idiot.
I wish they'd just put up more CSP Solar in the major deserts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy#High-temperature_collectors
Photovoltaic will be feasible someday, but right now
CSP solar is winning.
If they get a molten salt storage working on large scale
it will be a fair while before photovoltaic can catch up.
Molten salt storage could hit 99% efficiency in theory.
CSP plus molten salt could possibly hit 60% cumulatively.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy#Molten_salt_storage
Aluminum wiring is a FIRE hazard and was BANNED in all new
houses in the US due to it.
You might be able to get away with it outdoors, but it is
most likely a bad idea based on the indoor results.
http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?s=7d306106c574b8acd101e052ab90be42&p=615606&postcount=6
http://books.google.com/books?id=2edigWaeGPUC&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=aluminum+wiring+ban&source=web&ots=l0eE26iMkt&sig=rVIgBVl0gXGlJicEHA_qW8s4zY0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result
Alot of areas you cannot even get insurance for the building
with aluminum wiring in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_wiring#Hazard_insurance
Well it is because there is a lot of cheating going on.
I have worked with a lot of IT professionals that have
the school and certs, but they suck.
I know that is true of other professions as well,
but it does not excuse ppl cheating in getting their job.
Some of the things that are happening are them having
other ppl take the tests for them.
Some ppl study braindumps over and over til they get
the question pool memorized and then go test,
but they do not have the full scope of the material.
So the only recourse the companies have is to test the ppl
to see if they know the basics and the intermediate info.
All the on job tests I have taken have been pretty straight forward.
I missed like one question on the pre-test to be hired
for Dell for their basic server support role.
Taking the test to be promoted to Gold server I missed like 2 - 3.
I agree that it sucks that it is going on, but a lot of ppl
are not fully doing the education and are just taking shortcuts.
I have worked with them and got to clean up the messes they made.
It sucked.
I think the solution to corrupt jerks like this is find someone
in town who is terminally ill and ask them to bring along
the corporate clown with them on their journey out bound.
Bizarre idea I had was to seal the data center on the ship,
and have the equivalent of decontamination chambers to enter
the room.
Then lower a deep sea intake line down to where the water is
about 5 degree celsius, and pumps it in to heat exchangers
to cool the server room.
I used to work on heat exchangers when I worked on RADAR in
the Navy, we used it to cool our RADAR but we didn't go for
the deep much colder water.
In theory the server room could be devoid of oxygen so oxidation
of contacts could not take place, and give the server techs
small oxygen tanks and masks to work like the small walk
around device that emphysema patients use.
Could make it a sterile environment that could make the servers
actually last longer.
On US Navy warships special door seals were used so that ships
would not sink if they had a hole blowing the side of them just
like the Cole in Yemen.
It had a huge hole, but did not sink due to these door seals.
Shifting the fuel storage tanks levels kept the Cole mostly vertical.
For power they could mount Wind Turbines and Solar Panels on
Main Deck and even use them for shade on Main Deck.
If they Anchored out in a strong current like the Florida
Current they could tap it by lower Aquanators over the side.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/26/1096137100758.html?oneclick=true
The Florida Straits alone has about 30 times the flow of
all the rivers of the world combined.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_stream#Normal_behavior_of_the_Gulf_Stream
Well blood and guts wise I'd say sometime after all these
Executive orders get enacted here in the next few months.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl1VIhdpl4c
After all those get fired up I'd say it will be just like 1906
or 1939, take your pick.
New York City, one of the few places on Earth where the cost
of a parking space is more than a Mortgage in the Southwest.
How is health care related to old age pensions being insufficient ?
They revamped Medicare so that there is more out of pocket expenses.
They made it ILLEGAL to buy out of country generic drugs, and ppl are currently "running the border" to Canada to get their drugs illegally.
Fix health care, and all you do is make old people live longer, thus further burdening the pension system.
Hehe, 1940's Germany thought the same way, let's kill the old
and weak so we can save money for the strong and productive.
You got some great company there buddy.
Oh, and in case you have not figured it out, your gonna be one
of those 60+ ppl one day, or perhaps some of your family will.
I know of almost no companies that pay pensions.
Even most of the unions have agreed to stop that.
Its 401k or IRA or nothing.
I see your in the UK, and I guess there are more pensions there.
You also have government health care, here we have zippo.
You get sick, the hospital only has to help you if your dying,
and don't expect top notch care or any prescriptions.
Also they permanently wreck your credit and you can end up
homeless if you end up losing your job due to your illness.
We have thousands of ppl living under bridges in our country,
some are there because they are medically bankrupt.
I am no Michael Moore fan, but watch "Sicko" to get a clue
what the US healthcare system is like now.
The HMO's have turned it into another race for the bottom
stock market money grab.
They make money by denying ppl health care that HAVE paid for
their medical policies because they come down with a illness
that is in their long list of excluded coverage in the fine print.
It's all about making money off other ppls misery.
They have a Lahar warning system going in.
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/About/Highlights/RainierPilot/Pilot_highlight.html
With Rainier your looking at an infrequent event.
With the Gulf Coast it has been hit several times in the
last few decades, Katrina just 3 years ago.
Before that By Camille & Betsy, and now Gustav.
That is 4 major hits.
Again as in my previous post, I think building codes would
solve all of this once and for all.
In most major cities around the US you cannot build in
the 100 year flood plain, and in Earthquake zones you
have to build to code.
The same should apply to Hurricane prone areas.
Build to code, or build somewhere else.
Turn all of the Hurricane and Flood vulnerable sections
into a state park, or industrial land, do it over time
as time permits.
The only other possible solution is build 3 story parking
garages with houses on top where the large tracts of destroyed
houses are now and make the houses out of steel reinforced
concrete that can take a 2x4 hitting them at 200 mph.
Make it where all windows must have certified storm shutters.
Make Hurricane preparedness NOT optional, make it law.
It is like one poster said, you have the right to live anywhere
you want, but don't come digging in my wallet when your home
on the shore goes out to sea.
Well in most of the US there are building codes.
In most of the US these codes keep you from building
in the 100 year flood plain.
The destroyed areas of New Orleans that are below
the level of the lake and the river need to be
rezoned to industrial, or made a state park
gradually over time.
If they want to rebuild it all that is fine,
just rebuild it all in land above sea level
on ground that is tested by geologists for subsidence.
Camille, Betsy, Katrina, and now Gustav are going
to do massive damage to the City yet again, and
more federal tax payer money is going to rebuild
the city that is 9 feet below sea level in some areas
and some engineers say it is continuing to sink.
Its true that in the US we don't like to admit our mistakes
and keep just trudging on, but how many billions from
other states have to go to keep rebuilding the sinking city ?
The South is still full of rabid racists and various crazies.
You don't have to go south to find racists, and nuts.
As someone who has lived in 7 states I have seen them all over.
That much vacuum needing to be made over and over on a
per train basis might not be as energy efficient.
It would be just like the bank tubes, but I think it
might take more power than just electric trains.
A hard vacuum also takes a long time to build up too.
making a vacuum one time, and then just maintaining it
would have less time waiting for the vacuum to be renewed.
One good reason for SSD would be the negative effects on
using hard drives at high altitudes.
They are not well documented either.
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6035_102-0.html?forumID=59&threadID=243684&messageID=2625001&tag=forums06;posts#2625001
Yeah that is inline with the Technocracy idea.
Basically if you can do something well, then you are
put in charge of making it work someplace it is working
poorly.
I think it is a good idea.
I think that those who understand something make the
decisions on how to build it, run it, repair it, and
scale it.
The idea of the bean counters, MBA's, and marketing droids
moving in and making Tech decisions on ALL aspects has lead
to things like the DOT COM CRASH.
Dilbert is funny for a reason, User Friendly as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
Hell the fibre you want is already there in most places,
they just need to light it.
Over 90% of the fibre already in the ground is Dark Fibre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre#Dark_fiber_overcapacity
It is all about the greed.
We paid 200 billion dollars in Tax money for the Bandwidth upgrade
already and we got boned.
http://www.isp-planet.com/politics/2006/broadband_scandal_book.html
The ppl running these companies are little more than leeches
on the ass of society, thieves in nice clothes.
Our best bet is Coop ISPs.
The rest of the game is rigged, and it always has been.
That is why Google decided to light their own network because
the Telecoms started whining about how they needed more of
Google's money.
If anyone can muster the willpower of all the techs nationwide
into an effort to bypass the bullshit, we might see Internet
Access like the have in Europe and Japan.
In the mean time, status quo will rule the day.
Hopes of Google's nationwide Wifi rollout have all but died.
I'd rather pay Google $50 a month for a low latency Wifi
connection that is 3 - 4 hops of the Backbone than these
Cable companies that have me going close to 30 hops
just to connect to a friend's server across town on a
different ISP.
One of the things that holds back high speed transport is the
air drag on the vehicles, planes included.
I think if you made 2 parallel tubes that went between major
metro areas, and electric trains travelled through them
with all the air vacuumed out it would have little to no drag.
You'd have near zero wind resistance, and it would take less
power to move the train.
The biggest 'easy' alternative energy projects are
wind on the plains states and grid it to the east and
west coast.
Solar energy in the western deserts and grid it to the west coast.
California is the biggest economy state, and biggest power user
so it should work pretty well.
Some of the hard alternative energy ideas are tapping the
Florida current, and the Jetstream.
Whoever figures one of those two out is a Trillionaire.
1% of the world wide Jetstream could power the whole world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream#Future_power_generation
The Florida Current passes about 30 times all the rivers of
the world in water in that area.
Tapping that current with underwater Aquanators would make
insane power for the Eastern part of the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Stream#Normal_behavior_of_the_Gulf_Stream
Aquanator:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/26/1096137100758.html?oneclick=true