"If this had been a government agency, the people in it couldn't be fired"
Tell that to Shirley Sherrod. I work for a government agency. Trust me, firing people isn't that hard, especially if they're not represented by the union. And most people with spending authority aren't.
I don't have a problem with contracting out capital-intensive projects like road construction. Paper-pushing, on the other hand, is something government does quite well, no reason to add a middle man.
Workforce Central Florida appears to be a private, possibly "non-profit" (hard to tell from their website) agency that contracts with the state to provide unemployment services. You know, the Republican wet dream of privatizing government functions. Working out real well, isn't it? The Agency for Workforce Innovation, which IS a government agency, are the ones putting the kibosh on this ass-hattery.
"That's one of the reasons why a carbon tax would be disastrous. Companies will adapt to the tax and focus their efforts on more efficient production."
My apologies if that's sarcasm, but how is efficient production disastrous?
...again with the birds. It's not a problem now. Really. Bats, yes, that is a concern. Yes, Chernobyl was an old design. You're implying newer designs have eliminated any chance of a melt down. Really? No possibility of operator error? Did you notice that one of the major problems at Fukushima was the storage of spent fuel on site, which is standard practice everywhere because we still don't know what to do with it?
Yes, solar and wind need lots of space. We have lots of space. Not just desert, but off shore, farms, rooftops. Maybe someday we'll run out. That day is far, far away.
"The fact that this huge use of resources by solar and wind power plants is disregarded so cavalierly worries me a lot"
Really? Compared to living downwind from Three Mile Island? And what huge use of resources? Unless we build turbines that stretch from ground to the stratosphere, we'll barely harvest a fraction of the energy contained in wind. Covering the whole desert in solar panels would probably be bad, but no one's proposing that. If they do, you can join the Sierra Club and other environmentalists in trying to block it. I'm sure they'll be happy to have you on their side.
I'm pretty sure the c128 had an integrated keyboard. Regardless, my point was that an integrated keyboard isn't a feature to wax nostalgic about, but a cost-cutting move that made sense way back when, but not now that keyboards cost ten bucks.
...until the sun goes critical! Then what, send helicopters full of water to put it out? Good luck with that. Keep your giant gaseous ball of fire away from my backyard!
For a monthly subscription fee, you get one free download a month, and they have sales where you can buy books for very cheap. They store your books in your "library" in the cloud, you can download them in their proprietary format, or burn them to DRM-free CDs. It would be nice if they had an uber cheap listen-once or this-book-will-self-destruct-in-30-days format. There aren't many books I want to listen to twice, so owning them forever isn't a big deal for me.
I only own a few DVDs, most of what I watch comes from Netflix. If they die tomorrow, I really don't care. And my video library is effectively infinite.
Amen. Back when I actually owned a c64, then an Amiga, I dreamed of not having my keyboard tethered to the mouse, monitor, and a slew of peripherals. I like having my keyboard on an adjustable, sliding shelf, thank you.
The constitution doesn't give the government the right to regulate pollution either, so let's go back to the good old days of flammable rivers and brown air.
The real question is, why is the competition so much worse?
Because satellite is inherently slow, as is DSL, and Comcast has a government granted monopoly on cable. So, surprise, Comcast has the "best" service. Ain't the free market great!?
Do people really just friend random people to puff their numbers? Seems insane to me, just increases the noise ratio, and I get enough of that from people I do know who are driven to post every time they have a bowel movement.
Jeez, how many years of feature churning did it take before they squatted out Vista? And don't forget MS was pushing tablets hard 5 or 6 years ago, and that didn't turn out so well. I'm sure mentioning the word "tablet" on the Redmond campus was a great way to kill your career until fairly recently. I'm not familiar with Nerney's blog, is he usually clueless?
yes, that's the official line, and if you look at cancer rates in the surrounding area it seems to be true. But if you look specifically at areas downwind of the plant during the event, it's a different story. But you won't hear the industry or the so-called regulators discussing that.
1. We shoot our garbage to the sun,
2. It joins the fusion reaction, which creates energy, which comes to us as sunlight,
3. Which powers our rail guns, which shoot our garbage to the sun,......
4. almost forgot.....PROFIT!
According to wiki, the sun's mass is 332,950 times greater than that of earth, so imagine being struck by an object weighing 0.005 pounds, and you have an idea what rolling the entire globe into the sun would do to it. So congratulations, you found the perfect landfill, now just solve that pesky transport problem.
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Since it's obviously too much work for the poster or editors to put TFA in context, I went to Wiki and pretty much learned what you posted. Oy.
"If this had been a government agency, the people in it couldn't be fired"
Tell that to Shirley Sherrod. I work for a government agency. Trust me, firing people isn't that hard, especially if they're not represented by the union. And most people with spending authority aren't.
I don't have a problem with contracting out capital-intensive projects like road construction. Paper-pushing, on the other hand, is something government does quite well, no reason to add a middle man.
Workforce Central Florida appears to be a private, possibly "non-profit" (hard to tell from their website) agency that contracts with the state to provide unemployment services. You know, the Republican wet dream of privatizing government functions. Working out real well, isn't it? The Agency for Workforce Innovation, which IS a government agency, are the ones putting the kibosh on this ass-hattery.
..although they did get stimulus money, along with half the country.
it's a gift bearing geeks.
"That's one of the reasons why a carbon tax would be disastrous. Companies will adapt to the tax and focus their efforts on more efficient production."
My apologies if that's sarcasm, but how is efficient production disastrous?
...again with the birds. It's not a problem now. Really. Bats, yes, that is a concern. Yes, Chernobyl was an old design. You're implying newer designs have eliminated any chance of a melt down. Really? No possibility of operator error? Did you notice that one of the major problems at Fukushima was the storage of spent fuel on site, which is standard practice everywhere because we still don't know what to do with it?
Yes, solar and wind need lots of space. We have lots of space. Not just desert, but off shore, farms, rooftops. Maybe someday we'll run out. That day is far, far away.
"The fact that this huge use of resources by solar and wind power plants is disregarded so cavalierly worries me a lot"
Really? Compared to living downwind from Three Mile Island? And what huge use of resources? Unless we build turbines that stretch from ground to the stratosphere, we'll barely harvest a fraction of the energy contained in wind. Covering the whole desert in solar panels would probably be bad, but no one's proposing that. If they do, you can join the Sierra Club and other environmentalists in trying to block it. I'm sure they'll be happy to have you on their side.
I'm pretty sure the c128 had an integrated keyboard. Regardless, my point was that an integrated keyboard isn't a feature to wax nostalgic about, but a cost-cutting move that made sense way back when, but not now that keyboards cost ten bucks.
...until the sun goes critical! Then what, send helicopters full of water to put it out? Good luck with that. Keep your giant gaseous ball of fire away from my backyard!
For a monthly subscription fee, you get one free download a month, and they have sales where you can buy books for very cheap. They store your books in your "library" in the cloud, you can download them in their proprietary format, or burn them to DRM-free CDs. It would be nice if they had an uber cheap listen-once or this-book-will-self-destruct-in-30-days format. There aren't many books I want to listen to twice, so owning them forever isn't a big deal for me.
First he screws up Star Wars, now the cloud. Does that douch3 bag have to ruin everything?
I only own a few DVDs, most of what I watch comes from Netflix. If they die tomorrow, I really don't care. And my video library is effectively infinite.
...companies"? I thought that was the funniest line in the whole article, as if we have fond memories of culling through a plethora of directories.
That would be some impressive work, if you hadn't used "seams" for "seems". Homonyms, the bane of the spellchecker!
...5.25" floppy drive, or should I plan to use my cassette deck for data storage?
Amen. Back when I actually owned a c64, then an Amiga, I dreamed of not having my keyboard tethered to the mouse, monitor, and a slew of peripherals. I like having my keyboard on an adjustable, sliding shelf, thank you.
The constitution doesn't give the government the right to regulate pollution either, so let's go back to the good old days of flammable rivers and brown air.
The real question is, why is the competition so much worse?
Because satellite is inherently slow, as is DSL, and Comcast has a government granted monopoly on cable. So, surprise, Comcast has the "best" service. Ain't the free market great!?
Here's your choices:
Trust Comcast, who wants every penny they can get from you
Trust Congress, who wants every penny they can get from Comcast
At least you get to vote for Congress, so that makes them the slightly lesser of two evils.
Do people really just friend random people to puff their numbers? Seems insane to me, just increases the noise ratio, and I get enough of that from people I do know who are driven to post every time they have a bowel movement.
Jeez, how many years of feature churning did it take before they squatted out Vista? And don't forget MS was pushing tablets hard 5 or 6 years ago, and that didn't turn out so well. I'm sure mentioning the word "tablet" on the Redmond campus was a great way to kill your career until fairly recently. I'm not familiar with Nerney's blog, is he usually clueless?
so it doesn't clean the same corner ten times while ignoring the rest of the room?
yes, that's the official line, and if you look at cancer rates in the surrounding area it seems to be true. But if you look specifically at areas downwind of the plant during the event, it's a different story. But you won't hear the industry or the so-called regulators discussing that.
Solar-powered rail guns.
1. We shoot our garbage to the sun,
2. It joins the fusion reaction, which creates energy, which comes to us as sunlight,
3. Which powers our rail guns, which shoot our garbage to the sun,......
4. almost forgot.....PROFIT!
According to wiki, the sun's mass is 332,950 times greater than that of earth, so imagine being struck by an object weighing 0.005 pounds, and you have an idea what rolling the entire globe into the sun would do to it. So congratulations, you found the perfect landfill, now just solve that pesky transport problem.