not only do you know nothing about government programs and their economic ramifications, you also know jack about the laffer curve
we're EXTREMELY on the left side of the laffer curve - the estimately laffer peak for the US is a marginal tax rate between 70 and 80% on the top 1% of earners.
go PASS a macroeconomics class before opening your mouth again.
the "flat" and "fair" taxes are also untenable schemes that would make the concentration of wealth at the top even WORSE which would just cause exactly the type of economic collapse we just suffered.
a capitalist economy cannot survive with wealth concentrated in the hands of the few - it causes a self-reinforcing collapse of demand (and thereby production, which lays off more workers, which lowers demand, rinse repeat)
sales taxes are massively regressive [that is the hurt people with less money] and reduce total buying power whereas progressive taxes, when properly calibrated, extract most of their income from people with far more income than they ever will [or can] utilize and so do not negatively affect buying power (and things they're used for can have a positive effect on total buying power giving a total boost to an economy)
in fact.. there is much evidence saying that a capitalist economy cannot survive without a properly calibrated progressive tax regime and economic transfers from top to bottom.. without them too much money gets pooled by the greedy at the top and too little buying power exists leading to a collapse in demand, leading to a collapse in production which just reinforces the collapse in demand.
wrong. 16.2% in july down from 16.5% in june. that's total real unemployement - including discouraged workers (ie stopped looking) and underemployeed (part time but want full time, working full time as a store clerk when they have an advanced degree, etc)
just FYI - you seem to have some mistaken impressions of welfare
a) you think it's unlimited (it's not. lifetime maximum benefit period exists) b) you think it pays well (it doesn't. below minimum wage appreciably) c) you think it's rampantly abused (99.5% or more of people who are on it over a 10 year period are on it less than six months [median around 3] and never again in their life)
those who do manage to cheat the system and get more than they are supposed to get and/or manage to dodge lifetime limits are forced to pay back the government in most states when they're caught.
you also seem to ignore the fact that the government is the ONLY FUNCTION solution to some problems (not saying they're doing the best job of it right now).
PS: the biggest problem with the road system? SEMI TRUCKS, long-distance freight hauling should be on rail not road but we've been neglecting our rail system horrendously [which is why Amtrak can't make money] since the invention of the car
The Roadster's efficiency, as of September 2008[update], was reported as 120 mpgge (2.0 L/100 km). It uses 135 WÂh/km (490 kJ/km or 4.60 mi/kWÂh) battery-to-wheel, and has an efficiency of 92% on average.[7][8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster
Energy content of all of those (coal, diesel, petrol) can be expressed in Joules, or Watt-hours since that is what the power companies like doing.. or even as the equivalent to US MPG (33,705 W*h/gal)
actually the guy from KElley Blue Book is an idiot. when you're operating 100% electric mode your efficiency can be expressed as equivalent to mpg because one standard us gallon of gasoline has a pretty well known "average" energy content of around 33.7KW*H
and then you can point out that the volt was treated to the EXACT same test conditions as every previous gas-powered vehicle and all the non-plug-in hybrids
you can then also show them the math for it's it's mpgge based on the efficiency of it's electric motor
comparing gasoline consumption to electricity consumption is VERY simple - elementary college physics
one standard US gallon of gasoline contains approximately 33,705 WÂh/gal how much energy does the Volt [or the Telsa Roadster, or any other electric car] use per mile driven ?
the roadster is 100% electric.. so you have to figure out the gas-electric-equivalent
"The Roadster's efficiency, as of September 2008[update], was reported as 120 mpgge (2.0 L/100 km). It uses 135 WÂh/km (490 kJ/km or 4.60 mi/kWÂh) battery-to-wheel, and has an efficiency of 92% on average.[7][8]"
in some areas it already is profitable with latest-generation ones to my understanding.
recent discoveries in photovoltaics have boosted their efficiency greatly and lowered their cost to produce at the same time.. cannot wait until those new generations hit the market.
i didn't know about the SOAP aspect.. but it is still that way on the webui. where it work it just gets slow and clunky...
where my mom works their installation is MUCH worse. they have to clear all cookies and shut down their browser multiple times per day to be able to do things. some tasks cannot be repeated without cache/cookie deletes+browser restart.
Fascism, pronounced/ËfæÊfÉzÉ(TM)m/, comprises a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology[1][2][3][4] and a corporatist economic ideology.
add to that - live CDs or PXE booting liveCD images.
one of my previous employers had a server architecture that looked like this [after their upgrade/redesign of their cluster].
2 redirector nodes - primary and backup 4 app nodes - load sharing 2 mysql nodes - primary and backup 2 storage nodes. - primary and backup
only machines in this cluster with harddrives - the storage nodes. (the mysql nodes had massive ram - they could buffer most of the tables in RAM for quick access while they were writing the updates to disk on the storaeg nodes).
A machines role was determined by what liveCD was put into it. need another app node? slap in a liveCD and 30 seconds after boot it's sharing the load. box get owned? reboot it and it's back to clean state while you roll a liveCD with the security updates.
a simple extension to this would have everything PXE booting with the default image being the app node image - adding extra capacity to the other machines would take just adding their MAC address to a list for the other image types. (not even sure there is an PXE software that supports doing that.. but you can always alter it)
wrong. it was speculation. it was quite clearly and obviously a bubble.
the cost of the "last unit required to meet demand" [always the most expensive unit to produce] was around $50/barrel. In a market without inefficiencies the market price will be 10% above that.
the market price was three times that. that is a clear and obvious (and undeniable to anyone with business sense) sign that speculators are creating a bubble.
if it was a "excess demand, insufficient supply" condition their would have been a supply shortage- there wasn't any shortage.
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so why the hell are you bitching and not reporting them and their "doctors" for fraud like a responsible citizen.
fuck dude, take some responsibility.
not only do you know nothing about government programs and their economic ramifications, you also know jack about the laffer curve
we're EXTREMELY on the left side of the laffer curve - the estimately laffer peak for the US is a marginal tax rate between 70 and 80% on the top 1% of earners.
go PASS a macroeconomics class before opening your mouth again.
the "flat" and "fair" taxes are also untenable schemes that would make the concentration of wealth at the top even WORSE which would just cause exactly the type of economic collapse we just suffered.
a capitalist economy cannot survive with wealth concentrated in the hands of the few - it causes a self-reinforcing collapse of demand (and thereby production, which lays off more workers, which lowers demand, rinse repeat)
sales taxes are massively regressive [that is the hurt people with less money] and reduce total buying power
whereas progressive taxes, when properly calibrated, extract most of their income from people with far more income than they ever will [or can] utilize and so do not negatively affect buying power (and things they're used for can have a positive effect on total buying power giving a total boost to an economy)
in fact.. there is much evidence saying that a capitalist economy cannot survive without a properly calibrated progressive tax regime and economic transfers from top to bottom.. without them too much money gets pooled by the greedy at the top and too little buying power exists leading to a collapse in demand, leading to a collapse in production which just reinforces the collapse in demand.
wrong. 16.2% in july down from 16.5% in june. that's total real unemployement - including discouraged workers (ie stopped looking) and underemployeed (part time but want full time, working full time as a store clerk when they have an advanced degree, etc)
welfare has a 2-year lifetime maximum, is worth less than minimum wage, and requires you to be actively trying to get work.
anyone who claims otherwise is BSing you.
just FYI - you seem to have some mistaken impressions of welfare
a) you think it's unlimited (it's not. lifetime maximum benefit period exists)
b) you think it pays well (it doesn't. below minimum wage appreciably)
c) you think it's rampantly abused (99.5% or more of people who are on it over a 10 year period are on it less than six months [median around 3] and never again in their life)
those who do manage to cheat the system and get more than they are supposed to get and/or manage to dodge lifetime limits are forced to pay back the government in most states when they're caught.
you also seem to ignore the fact that the government is the ONLY FUNCTION solution to some problems (not saying they're doing the best job of it right now).
PS: the biggest problem with the road system? SEMI TRUCKS, long-distance freight hauling should be on rail not road but we've been neglecting our rail system horrendously [which is why Amtrak can't make money] since the invention of the car
Miles per kilowatt hour can be expressed equivalently to mpg
a standard us gallon contains 33705 Watt-hours of power
WRONG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_per_gallon_gasoline_equivalent
US Gallon contains 33705 W*h/gal of power
The Roadster's efficiency, as of September 2008[update], was reported as 120 mpgge (2.0 L/100 km). It uses 135 WÂh/km (490 kJ/km or 4.60 mi/kWÂh) battery-to-wheel, and has an efficiency of 92% on average.[7][8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster
it's called elementary university physics.
Energy content of all of those (coal, diesel, petrol) can be expressed in Joules, or Watt-hours since that is what the power companies like doing.. or even as the equivalent to US MPG (33,705 W*h/gal)
actually the guy from KElley Blue Book is an idiot. when you're operating 100% electric mode your efficiency can be expressed as equivalent to mpg because one standard us gallon of gasoline has a pretty well known "average" energy content of around 33.7KW*H
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_per_gallon_gasoline_equivalent
and then you can point out that the volt was treated to the EXACT same test conditions as every previous gas-powered vehicle and all the non-plug-in hybrids
you can then also show them the math for it's it's mpgge based on the efficiency of it's electric motor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_per_gallon_gasoline_equivalent
comparing gasoline consumption to electricity consumption is VERY simple - elementary college physics
one standard US gallon of gasoline contains approximately 33,705 WÂh/gal
how much energy does the Volt [or the Telsa Roadster, or any other electric car] use per mile driven ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_per_gallon_gasoline_equivalent
PS the Telsa which is 100% electric's energy efficiency is equivalent to approximately 120miles/gallon.
the roadster is 100% electric.. so you have to figure out the gas-electric-equivalent
"The Roadster's efficiency, as of September 2008[update], was reported as 120 mpgge (2.0 L/100 km). It uses 135 WÂh/km (490 kJ/km or 4.60 mi/kWÂh) battery-to-wheel, and has an efficiency of 92% on average.[7][8]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster
sounds a reasonable gas-electric-equivalent mpg rating.
in some areas it already is profitable with latest-generation ones to my understanding.
recent discoveries in photovoltaics have boosted their efficiency greatly and lowered their cost to produce at the same time.. cannot wait until those new generations hit the market.
i didn't know about the SOAP aspect.. but it is still that way on the webui. where it work it just gets slow and clunky...
where my mom works their installation is MUCH worse.
they have to clear all cookies and shut down their browser multiple times per day to be able to do things. some tasks cannot be repeated without cache/cookie deletes+browser restart.
Well considering his creation - siebel - is one of the biggest steaming piles of crap i've ever seen... why would i listen to him?
Fascism, pronounced /ËfæÊfÉzÉ(TM)m/, comprises a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology[1][2][3][4] and a corporatist economic ideology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
would you care to point how how exactly he misused the term?
his usage was 100% correct. the republican party really is becoming the fascist party.
i'll gladly flame apple for it. i forgive them for nothing. to me they're almost no different than microsoft.
if you think they'd lower prices you're naive. they'd leave prices the same. just higher profit margin.
there is a reason why copyright runs from publication date.
add to that - live CDs or PXE booting liveCD images.
one of my previous employers had a server architecture that looked like this [after their upgrade/redesign of their cluster].
2 redirector nodes - primary and backup
4 app nodes - load sharing
2 mysql nodes - primary and backup
2 storage nodes. - primary and backup
only machines in this cluster with harddrives - the storage nodes. (the mysql nodes had massive ram - they could buffer most of the tables in RAM for quick access while they were writing the updates to disk on the storaeg nodes).
A machines role was determined by what liveCD was put into it. need another app node? slap in a liveCD and 30 seconds after boot it's sharing the load. box get owned? reboot it and it's back to clean state while you roll a liveCD with the security updates.
a simple extension to this would have everything PXE booting with the default image being the app node image - adding extra capacity to the other machines would take just adding their MAC address to a list for the other image types. (not even sure there is an PXE software that supports doing that .. but you can always alter it)
less than 10% ... slashdot stripped my < and i didn't notice
wrong. it was speculation. it was quite clearly and obviously a bubble.
the cost of the "last unit required to meet demand" [always the most expensive unit to produce] was around $50/barrel. In a market without inefficiencies the market price will be 10% above that.
the market price was three times that. that is a clear and obvious (and undeniable to anyone with business sense) sign that speculators are creating a bubble.
if it was a "excess demand, insufficient supply" condition their would have been a supply shortage- there wasn't any shortage.
it is still a strategic and economic problem, whether or not it's a hot political topic.