The fact that people are dying everday worldwide from "easily" preventable circumstances, and lack of food makes me question the value of this to just go up and down on the world's most expensive rollercoaster.
We need sustainable long term development of Infrastructure for all of humanity, not rocket rides to the edge of space and back for 1/5th of a million USD.
Tech is great when it makes life better or helps ppl, but when it is "go-carts" of the rich and famous I see it as a waste.
I worked on 86Kv lines for a Klystron based radar transmiter, and I did "read" the tech specs, the manuals, and worked on the cabinet under power and lived.
If I had made ONE mistake, I would not have lived.
This tends to make me believe that at a minimum I know high voltage well enough to make it work, and to stay alive.
86Kv is some pretty serious voltage, but be aware the conductor itself was no bigger than a battery cable in your car, the insulation was MUCH thicker, and of higher grade material.
The charging cable from the tripler to the tube in a monitor carries often over 30,000 volts, yet the actually wire gauge is small.
These ppl that keep spouting gauge is determined by voltage are barking out their backside and have not worked with real world equipment.
The voltage going to your dryer is 110volt phase1, and 110volt phase2.
Together they make 220v 2 phase power, the NEC(national electric code) requires higher gauge wire the more power you draw in a house and the voltage remains the same.
Current is the determining factor.
If you don't believe me, post on the electricians newsgroups and ask, or pickup a copy of the NEC, I have the pdf if you want me to email it to you to prove it.
Some items you can use 2 phase or single phase, ie. a heater that has no fan.
The best way to know the power situation around the world is a list like this one, I'd verify its accuracy elsewhere, but it gives you a good idea of what to expect, and the different connectors.
First and formost, if it is in the frequency range allocated so that public FM radio receivers can pick it up, it is not in the emergency services band.
The FM radio band is set aside for just that.
When ppl uses scanners to listen in, its freq range settings are not in the normal public FM radio band.
If they are broadcasting outside the usual band, then yeah they could be mucking up the airways, but as this is old hat and has been around for decades its very likely they want listeners in the usual Freq range.
I do not know if it is feasible, but think of a serverless peering system that has transact-sql transfers like banks use to reduce chances of hacking.
A built in network analyzer that groups ppl in low latency groups in perspective to their ISP peering, but have the ability to manually select as well.
Some sort of reward for ppl that have the most uptime on their box as well.
A master server for validation would be needed, but if the bulk of the game is hosted by the players with good connections it would reduce the bandwidth bill dramatically and provide regional/continent/locale based hosting.
Redundancy built into the peering as ppl join and drop off, and network profile histories could estimate availability.
Will anyone try this radical approach? Is it feasible?
What you may not know is the cable modems are aerial fiber hanging below the power lines, and run to a neighborhood hybrid fiber coax router that breaks it out to coax for 500 to 1,000 users typically.
The cable companies already deployed a lot of fiber just for digital cable.
Re:It's not exactly 'open' or 'free'
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You bridge a private network to the public network similar to a NAT intranet.
You use IPv6 for your private, and use number space outside the IPv4 range.
So you can still get routable IP's, but outside the core US IPv4 number range.
You can run two sets of DNS, the non-US monopolized one, and the US one.
I am sure some technical difficulties would still be incurred, but this would knock out some of the bigger ones other than getting a lot of ppl to run open mesh worldwide and bridging those big dark gaps where no one lives.
The physical transmission to all ppl worldwide will require something like this sponsored in a manner similar to a coop I am thinking :
High altitude ballons that act as comm platforms, and if they had solar cells they could be powered by the sun during daylight, and super caps or batteries while it is dark.
Satellites have latency issues at geosync orbit, at only 14 miles up, the high altitiude comm ballons have low latency and act as super tall transmission towers.
They can be setup and taken down by one man with a small truck.
They cost a great deal less than a tower or a satellite.
They fly above the weather and the wind.
It is dead still up there, and cold as hell so you could consider super conductors as well.
But as I said before, it doesnt solve all the problems, and it isnt free to deploy all this, but if many ppl around the world funded this idea as a group coop we could supplant the billion dollar money machine telecos with a vast array of wireless ballons transmitting in many different frequencies.
I think they would do a great deal to stop it though.
The CEO is more important than the janitor precisely because he or she decides what to pay employees
The CEO doesn't decide what to pay, the market economics do that, and you can bet it is someone in accounting that looks it up.
They pay as little as they can to not lose their ppl to the nearby competition, so all they do is float the going rate either a little over or a little under.
Some CEO's at some of the largest corporations in the US "fail" at their jobs and are rewarded for it "handsomely".
Government tax dollars paid to bail out failed corporate billion dollar blunders.
Huge Scandals of tax payer money to telecom companies:
Global Crossing's CEO running off with 100's of millions before he knowingly bankrupted it and took the money and run.
It's like legal bank robbery, with nice clothes.
These corporate types write off vacations as "entertainment" expenses.
They write off their breakrooms, their gyms, and numerous other items.
The rest of the population cannot do this.
Corporations have more rights under the law than the citizens.
A lot of the ppl on here and elsewhere that defend this Corporate idiocy are doing so because they benefit from it and are biased accordingly.
Honest mistakes I understand, but that is not what I am talking about.
I am talking about abhorrent rampant greed and falsified records, and offshore dummy accounts, and then having the gall to pay ppl so little they cannot buy coats for their children and organizations like "coats for kids" has to be formed just so kids dont show up at the free clinic with frost bite.
The state of humanity in the richest nation of the world is pathetic.
Greed and Selfishness and self indulgence are at a all new high.
If the worker sucks, fire them, if they do their job and the ppl at the top are obscenely wealthy then it is time to stop treating them like the share croppers of the great depression era.
If your workers beneath you made you a millionaire or billionaire, reward them with profit sharing, stock options, or something.
Don't just string them along for as little as possible or rotate through hordes of temp workers to maximize your profits even more.
M$ for one was sued over the temp issue .
In this country we could build a nation of good and caring ppl, but when their examples as leaders are blood sucking leeches of unending stupifying greed and selfishness.
You are not going to get a good end result with that kind of role model.
Lead by example, not by lies, corruption, graft, and fear.
I'd recommend a pro solution, as they are not going to go away.
Any employee you might hire to custom make a solution could die in a traffic accident, or get a new job, or die for some other reason.
You'd be stuck with a one man band application, that other ppl would have to "fully" comprehend his coding nuances.
The security, stability, and maturity of a professional long term product is going to help a lot if you are planning for further growth as well.
I'd find out the one that has the highest rating out there among the pro solutions and go with it.
A smart man once said "Do what your good at, and find those that are good at what they do and pay them if you need their services, and do not try to be a jack of all trades."
The only other way I could see it is viable is to get in on a open source app and contribute to it, but it sound like you need something the works "right now"(tm).
For example, some of the bad performers that pass anyway do so because they're likeable, have a wide net of contacts, keep up with the office gossip, maybe party animals always ready to suggest a department out on the town. Those people are in reality doing a hugely important job (without being aware of it). They are providing a lot of the social grease necessary to have the department work reasonably wel despite plenty of strong-willed, socially clumsy (but excellent) workers. Get rid of them, and you'll see a productivity decrease among the other staff instead; and probably one that more than offsets what you gained. Not until another amiable screwup is transferred to the office will productivity go up again.
Sounds like a poster Ad for AA members to me.
The biggest issues I see are nepotism, lack of TRUE technical interviews, and verification of skills.
So many of the companies I have worked for the ppl doing the hiring often do not have the mental where with all to ask the questions to see through a charlatan.
Deadwood is often kept, and boat rockers that are technically literate, but not brown nosers are tossed to the sacrificial altar due to someones ego being bruised.
Boat Rockers will make change even if it makes ppl look bad, upsets the status quo, or takes the limelight or steals the thunder of the favored in social circles.
I have seen more than a few ppl added to the layoff rolls due to their "making others look bad" because they outperformed them, or fixed a GLARING mistake and it made someone "popular" look like a slacker because he spends most of his day walking cube to cube talking about the new hot chick or sports or what they saw on TV last night or some other non-work related fiasco.
Ppl where I work now spend up to 30 - 60 min. of their work day talking about TV shows.
I have always seen the hard working group of not so popular ppl in most companies that are the first to stay late, are often NOT the most visually appealing and are often social outcasts.
Not all but most of them are the sled dogs, doing a large portion of the bulk work, and its often not the pure theory or creative kind, but just as needed as debugging is though is mind numbing.
Software Development needs Software Test and Support to sustain code/product thru all its phases and cycles.
Alot of ppl allude to something akin to elitism, and there are some "key" ppl to be sure, but if they could do it solo why are they working for a company in the first place? Because they are just one piece of the puzzle, though it might be a rare and critical one.
If you want the sled dogs to respect you, your going to have to respect them to a degree.
We know we are not going to get the top tier pay, and we know we are not going to get the perks, nicer offices, and social circle, but some appreciation and acknowledgement goes a long ways.
When you have a family or loans and bills that require a steady flow of income, you often find yourself working a job you don't like til you can find something better.
Some areas of the country finding a "good" job is difficult, but finding a job that has been dumped is easy because people are looking to leave it for the very reason you mention.
The good jobs people tend to hold onto because they have either had or heard about the bad ones, and took it to heart.
So if you need the money, you do what you have to, until you can find a way out of the situation and make a better life for you and your family.
100's of millions of people go to work everday doing things they would rather not be doing, and think of doing something else.
H-whatever or L-whatever visa, there is an entire alphabet soup of sorry lame excuses for bringing in cheap labor for big business to drive wage costs down to get imagined profits to increase so it shows "growth"
It is a shell game, and in the end, we are all gonna get played.
The only real advantage I see out of this human traffic is that ppl from all over the world will get to know each other a little better.
But then again familiarity breeds contempt.
Much like the situation with the middle east, if we had left them alone and to themselves they would be happy killing each other til the end of time.
Not that we are a great deal better here with the gang violence and racial hatred that goes both ways from all ethnic corners.
But more direct to the myth of a new india, this is the same thing that was going on in the industrial US many decades ago.
A new boom appears, those who can enrich the robber barons are well paid, and those who are not are left to fend for themselves on farms or in small town america much as my grandfathers did before world war one during the dust bowl and the depression.
The game is to get ppl to do the work to enrich the rich, and those of common threads are left at the curb with the garbage to rot along with inequity.
The best hope for the poor in india is for one of their own to guide them down a NEW path as the ones they have trod for many decades has all lead to the same place.
It is going to take community, hard work, stifling of corruption, justice for all castes, endurance, and an iron will. But if the past is any indicator of the future, like most humans it will de-evolve into selfishness, relgious and racial hatred, and chaos will reign as king for decades more to come.
Some religious organizations provide hand outs, but as abe lincoln said they need hand ups.
Showing them how to permanently pick them and their fellow man up and instilling in them the desire to do the same for others should be key.
The toil of billions will elevate those self appointed elite and wealthy to more riches, because that is the way it has been in the past, and they do not want it any different.
The golden rule should read, The one with the gold makes the rules.
The underground systems in major cities work fine, concrete coffer boxes house the large transformer units and they are also cooler than exposing them to direct sunlight which may make them last longer and perform better as heat negatively affects performance.
Many major US cities have underground power.
Areas where land movement is prevelent like earthquake zones it would most likely not work well unless a method to counteract it was derived.
Rain falls on aerial power systems now, and the aformentioned major US cities also receive rainfall and they have dealt with the water issue.
The backhoe cutting cables is where there is lax enforcement of construction permits, and or a cheap untrained workforce brought in so that higher paid skilled labor can be cast aside to make or save more money.
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makes me question the value of this
Ok, I never said it isn't his "right" to piss it away how he sees fit.
I just said it could be used in other ways more beneficial to people
who are in need of help, and are not panhandlers.
Real people with real problems.
But on here, I get modded flamebait because I question the expenditure
of millions long term, on something that is literally a quick up and down ride.
Just because it is some cool techie rocket ride.
As for when is the last $20 meal I had, I'd say it was over a year ago,
and to be honest I don't even remember it.
$40 or $100 for food...I can honestly say never in my life.
And further more, I am relating a thrill ride's "value" to that of the
deaths of thousands.
To me it is amazing so many people responded so vehemently saying
"screw the poor, we want rocket rides for the rich!"
You will see where this kind of attitude takes the world over
the next few decades, I think the path is already well laid out.
It has happened before...Read your history.
Decadence is timeless.
The fact that people are dying everday worldwide from "easily" preventable
circumstances, and lack of food makes me question the value of this
to just go up and down on the world's most expensive rollercoaster.
We need sustainable long term development of Infrastructure for all
of humanity, not rocket rides to the edge of space and back for
1/5th of a million USD.
Tech is great when it makes life better or helps ppl, but when it is
"go-carts" of the rich and famous I see it as a waste.
Fund this project http://www.fuellessflight.com/index1.htm or something on par with it.
And you sir, are also a HV illiterate.
I worked on 86Kv lines for a Klystron based radar transmiter,
and I did "read" the tech specs, the manuals, and worked on the
cabinet under power and lived.
If I had made ONE mistake, I would not have lived.
This tends to make me believe that at a minimum I know high
voltage well enough to make it work, and to stay alive.
86Kv is some pretty serious voltage, but be aware the conductor
itself was no bigger than a battery cable in your car, the
insulation was MUCH thicker, and of higher grade material.
The charging cable from the tripler to the tube in a monitor
carries often over 30,000 volts, yet the actually wire gauge
is small.
These ppl that keep spouting gauge is determined by voltage
are barking out their backside and have not worked with
real world equipment.
I have done so for DECADES.
The voltage going to your dryer is 110volt phase1, and 110volt phase2.
Together they make 220v 2 phase power, the NEC(national electric code)
requires higher gauge wire the more power you draw in a house and the
voltage remains the same.
Current is the determining factor.
If you don't believe me, post on the electricians newsgroups and ask,
or pickup a copy of the NEC, I have the pdf if you want me to email it
to you to prove it.
Some items you can use 2 phase or single phase, ie. a heater that has no fan.
The best way to know the power situation around the world is a list
like this one, I'd verify its accuracy elsewhere, but it gives you
a good idea of what to expect, and the different connectors.
http://www.kropla.com/electric2.htm
Some places sell universal adaptors too, some auto detect.
Open Source Development: The irrational belief that a group of script kiddies can produce a working program.
Your sig is bullshit.
If you have to have a water cooled radiator to keep the engine from
burning up, your wasting a lot of energy in the form of heat.
Also in line with the recharge braking, think photovoltaic roof/hood/trunk.
Moron, not Moran...
http://www.onelook.com/?w=moron&ls=a
And safe power systems are viable, but not cheap.
The problem with most of a capitalist society is it
thinks cheap first.
House wire gauge thickness for a dryer is different than for room outlets,
this is based on current not voltage.
If you look at the gauge on your car battery cables you will also see it,
and for the main lines running from the meter to the panel.
by hot-to-hot I believe he means in 220v house voltage it is
two 110 volt circuits that are 180 degrees out of phase
when viewed on a oscilliscope.
They get the 220 volts by one phase being +110v at the exact
same time the other phase is -110v.
Parent Modded Insightful...right...
First and formost, if it is in the frequency range allocated so that
public FM radio receivers can pick it up, it is not in the emergency services band.
The FM radio band is set aside for just that.
When ppl uses scanners to listen in, its freq range settings
are not in the normal public FM radio band.
If they are broadcasting outside the usual band, then yeah they could
be mucking up the airways, but as this is old hat and has been around
for decades its very likely they want listeners in the usual Freq range.
I do not know if it is feasible, but think of a serverless peering system that has transact-sql
transfers like banks use to reduce chances of hacking.
A built in network analyzer that groups ppl in low latency groups in perspective to their
ISP peering, but have the ability to manually select as well.
Some sort of reward for ppl that have the most uptime on their box as well.
A master server for validation would be needed, but if the bulk of the game is hosted
by the players with good connections it would reduce the bandwidth bill dramatically
and provide regional/continent/locale based hosting.
Redundancy built into the peering as ppl join and drop off, and network profile histories
could estimate availability.
Will anyone try this radical approach? Is it feasible?
I have no clue...
Flourescents have a small amount of mercury in them.
l amp#Environmental_issues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_
LED lights last up to 11 yrs with continuous use.
And use 1/30th the power of a regular light bulb, vs. 1/4 with a CFL.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/clearance/7aa8/
Only thing really holding it back right now is price and the fact they
wouldnt sell many to repeat customers with an 11 year always on lifespan, lol.
The ones featured here on thinkgeek don't put off quite as much light,
but with 2 lights vs. one you can get there.
The price is the only real thing hindering it, but if you consider long term
energy savings, its awesome.
Heat to energy...
j pg
http://www.technologystudent.com/images5/solfurn.
What you may not know is the cable modems are aerial fiber hanging below the power lines,
and run to a neighborhood hybrid fiber coax router that breaks it out to coax for 500
to 1,000 users typically.
The cable companies already deployed a lot of fiber just for digital cable.
You bridge a private network to the public network similar to a NAT intranet.
You use IPv6 for your private, and use number space outside the IPv4 range.
So you can still get routable IP's, but outside the core US IPv4 number range.
For DNS you use http://www.orsn.org/ or you setup your own if you like.
You can run two sets of DNS, the non-US monopolized one, and the US one.
I am sure some technical difficulties would still be incurred, but this
would knock out some of the bigger ones other than getting a lot of ppl
to run open mesh worldwide and bridging those big dark gaps where no one lives.
The physical transmission to all ppl worldwide will require something like this
sponsored in a manner similar to a coop I am thinking :
http://www.21stcenturyairships.com/
High altitude ballons that act as comm platforms, and if they had solar cells
they could be powered by the sun during daylight, and super caps or batteries
while it is dark.
Satellites have latency issues at geosync orbit, at only 14 miles up, the
high altitiude comm ballons have low latency and act as super tall transmission towers.
They can be setup and taken down by one man with a small truck.
They cost a great deal less than a tower or a satellite.
They fly above the weather and the wind.
It is dead still up there, and cold as hell so you could consider super conductors as well.
But as I said before, it doesnt solve all the problems, and it isnt free to
deploy all this, but if many ppl around the world funded this idea as
a group coop we could supplant the billion dollar money machine telecos
with a vast array of wireless ballons transmitting in many different frequencies.
I think they would do a great deal to stop it though.
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
The CEO is more important than the janitor precisely because he or
m
she decides what to pay employees
The CEO doesn't decide what to pay, the market economics do that,
and you can bet it is someone in accounting that looks it up.
They pay as little as they can to not lose their ppl to the nearby
competition, so all they do is float the going rate either a little
over or a little under.
Some CEO's at some of the largest corporations in the US "fail" at their
jobs and are rewarded for it "handsomely".
Government tax dollars paid to bail out failed corporate billion dollar blunders.
Huge Scandals of tax payer money to telecom companies:
http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.ht
Global Crossing's CEO running off with 100's of millions before
he knowingly bankrupted it and took the money and run.
It's like legal bank robbery, with nice clothes.
These corporate types write off vacations as "entertainment" expenses.
They write off their breakrooms, their gyms, and numerous other items.
The rest of the population cannot do this.
Corporations have more rights under the law than the citizens.
A lot of the ppl on here and elsewhere that defend this Corporate idiocy
are doing so because they benefit from it and are biased accordingly.
Honest mistakes I understand, but that is not what I am talking about.
I am talking about abhorrent rampant greed and falsified records,
and offshore dummy accounts, and then having the gall to pay ppl
so little they cannot buy coats for their children and organizations
like "coats for kids" has to be formed just so kids dont show up
at the free clinic with frost bite.
The state of humanity in the richest nation of the world is pathetic.
Greed and Selfishness and self indulgence are at a all new high.
If the worker sucks, fire them, if they do their job and the ppl
at the top are obscenely wealthy then it is time to stop treating them
like the share croppers of the great depression era.
If your workers beneath you made you a millionaire or billionaire, reward
them with profit sharing, stock options, or something.
Don't just string them along for as little as possible or rotate
through hordes of temp workers to maximize your profits even more.
M$ for one was sued over the temp issue .
In this country we could build a nation of good and caring ppl, but
when their examples as leaders are blood sucking leeches of unending
stupifying greed and selfishness.
You are not going to get a good end result with that kind of role model.
Lead by example, not by lies, corruption, graft, and fear.
Ex-MislTech
I'd recommend a pro solution, as they are not going to go away.
Any employee you might hire to custom make a solution could
die in a traffic accident, or get a new job, or die for some other reason.
You'd be stuck with a one man band application, that other ppl
would have to "fully" comprehend his coding nuances.
The security, stability, and maturity of a professional long term product
is going to help a lot if you are planning for further growth as well.
I'd find out the one that has the highest rating out there among
the pro solutions and go with it.
A smart man once said "Do what your good at, and find those that are
good at what they do and pay them if you need their services, and
do not try to be a jack of all trades."
The only other way I could see it is viable is to get in on a open source
app and contribute to it, but it sound like you need something the works "right now"(tm).
Ex-MislTech
For example, some of the bad performers that pass anyway do so because they're likeable, have a wide net of contacts, keep up with the office gossip, maybe party animals always ready to suggest a department out on the town. Those people are in reality doing a hugely important job (without being aware of it). They are providing a lot of the social grease necessary to have the department work reasonably wel despite plenty of strong-willed, socially clumsy (but excellent) workers. Get rid of them, and you'll see a productivity decrease among the other staff instead; and probably one that more than offsets what you gained. Not until another amiable screwup is transferred to the office will productivity go up again.
Sounds like a poster Ad for AA members to me.
The biggest issues I see are nepotism, lack of TRUE technical interviews, and
verification of skills.
So many of the companies I have worked for the ppl doing the hiring often
do not have the mental where with all to ask the questions to see through a charlatan.
Deadwood is often kept, and boat rockers that are technically literate, but not
brown nosers are tossed to the sacrificial altar due to someones ego being bruised.
Boat Rockers will make change even if it makes ppl look bad, upsets the status quo,
or takes the limelight or steals the thunder of the favored in social circles.
I have seen more than a few ppl added to the layoff rolls due to their
"making others look bad" because they outperformed them, or fixed a GLARING
mistake and it made someone "popular" look like a slacker because he spends most
of his day walking cube to cube talking about the new hot chick or sports
or what they saw on TV last night or some other non-work related fiasco.
Ppl where I work now spend up to 30 - 60 min. of their work day talking about TV shows.
I have always seen the hard working group of not so popular ppl in most
companies that are the first to stay late, are often NOT the most visually
appealing and are often social outcasts.
Not all but most of them are the sled dogs, doing a large portion of the
bulk work, and its often not the pure theory or creative kind, but just
as needed as debugging is though is mind numbing.
Software Development needs Software Test and Support to sustain code/product
thru all its phases and cycles.
Alot of ppl allude to something akin to elitism, and there are some "key" ppl
to be sure, but if they could do it solo why are they working for a company
in the first place? Because they are just one piece of the puzzle, though
it might be a rare and critical one.
If you want the sled dogs to respect you, your going to have to respect them to a degree.
We know we are not going to get the top tier pay, and we know we are not going
to get the perks, nicer offices, and social circle, but some appreciation
and acknowledgement goes a long ways.
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
When you have a family or loans and bills that require a steady flow of
income, you often find yourself working a job you don't like til you
can find something better.
Some areas of the country finding a "good" job is difficult, but finding
a job that has been dumped is easy because people are looking to leave
it for the very reason you mention.
The good jobs people tend to hold onto because they have either had
or heard about the bad ones, and took it to heart.
So if you need the money, you do what you have to, until you can find
a way out of the situation and make a better life for you and your family.
100's of millions of people go to work everday doing things they would
rather not be doing, and think of doing something else.
You can count on it.
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
H-whatever or L-whatever visa, there is an entire alphabet soup of sorry lame excuses
for bringing in cheap labor for big business to drive wage costs down to get imagined
profits to increase so it shows "growth"
It is a shell game, and in the end, we are all gonna get played.
The only real advantage I see out of this human traffic is that ppl from
all over the world will get to know each other a little better.
But then again familiarity breeds contempt.
Much like the situation with the middle east, if we had left them alone
and to themselves they would be happy killing each other til the end of time.
Not that we are a great deal better here with the gang violence and racial
hatred that goes both ways from all ethnic corners.
But more direct to the myth of a new india, this is the same thing that
was going on in the industrial US many decades ago.
A new boom appears, those who can enrich the robber barons are well paid,
and those who are not are left to fend for themselves on farms or in small
town america much as my grandfathers did before world war one during
the dust bowl and the depression.
The game is to get ppl to do the work to enrich the rich, and those of
common threads are left at the curb with the garbage to rot along with inequity.
The best hope for the poor in india is for one of their own to guide them
down a NEW path as the ones they have trod for many decades has all lead to the same place.
It is going to take community, hard work, stifling of corruption, justice for all castes,
endurance, and an iron will. But if the past is any indicator of the future, like
most humans it will de-evolve into selfishness, relgious and racial hatred, and
chaos will reign as king for decades more to come.
Some religious organizations provide hand outs, but as abe lincoln said they need hand ups.
Showing them how to permanently pick them and their fellow man up and
instilling in them the desire to do the same for others should be key.
The toil of billions will elevate those self appointed elite and wealthy to more riches,
because that is the way it has been in the past, and they do not want it any different.
The golden rule should read, The one with the gold makes the rules.
Peace sells, but who is buying...
Ex-MislTech
The underground systems in major cities work fine, concrete coffer boxes
house the large transformer units and they are also cooler than exposing
them to direct sunlight which may make them last longer and perform better
as heat negatively affects performance.
Many major US cities have underground power.
Areas where land movement is prevelent like earthquake zones it would
most likely not work well unless a method to counteract it was derived.
Rain falls on aerial power systems now, and the aformentioned major US
cities also receive rainfall and they have dealt with the water issue.
The backhoe cutting cables is where there is lax enforcement of construction
permits, and or a cheap untrained workforce brought in so that higher paid
skilled labor can be cast aside to make or save more money.
Ex-MislTech
Would you happen to have the name of a reputable scientist that claims solar output variation is responsible for global warming, by any chance?
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This has the names of some of the non-US scientists reporting it.
I am still inclined to believe it is a combination of many factors,
even the weakening and polar reversal of the earth's own magnetic field.
The large increase in activity in the ring of fire, and underwater volcanoes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/n
Thanks,
Ex-MislTech
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/002242.html
Something to consider in regards to a warming earth.