Actually, refinery incidents are more often than not caused by government regulation. To shut down a refinery for maintenance requires more red tape than you can even comprehend, and a lot of the time, it takes months or years for the government to approve the work. You can forget about building new refineries. The democrats and environmental quacks out there have made sure to thwart any attempt at increasing our producing and refining capacity.
You will see that Domestic oil production has fallen by 40% since its peak in the 60's through 80's. Bush leaving office will not bring that capacity back, nor will it decrease demand, nor will it strengthen the dollar. Bush has nothing to do with any of these things.
Domestic production began to fall off in the mid 1980s. Why? Because we began to exhaust some of the smaller wells and congress would not authorize exploration for new sources, and they have not done so since.
DC ripple does not damage electrical components unless the voltage applied exceeds the absolute maximum ratings of the part. DC ripple can and does, however, cause unintended or undesirable operation. BPL will not cause physical damage to things on the grid, and it is very very unlikely that any of it would penetrate into devices plugged into the wall and cause undesired operation.
Part of the UL approval process is testing conducted immunity to things on the power line. Devices must be able to filter out transient noise on the power line so that it does not cause problems with the operation of the device.
The biggest problem with BPL is radiated emissions. Power lines are not impedance-controlled, they are not closed to RF (They do not completely confine the transmitted signal to the transmission medium like coax and fiber do). Any time there is a change in impedance of the transmission medium, three things happen: transmission, reflection, and radiation. The power lines are going to radiate a significant amount of the RF energy they are carrying, and those radiated emissions are going to interfere with services that are intended for those frequencies.
Amateur Radio, a federally licensed emergency communications service, is not the only thing that uses the spectrum that BPL does. The ARRL just happens to be practically the only organization with enough money and enough lawyers to do anything about it.
The OP said "It's easy to forget that MS followed up Windows ME, possibly their worst ever OS with XP, their best ever OS."
It therefore does not matter to whom 2K is focused. The statement the OP made is still that XP is a better OS, which is categorically false. He did not say "best consumer-focused OS."
Globalization has a lot less to do with hourly wages than it has to do with compliance.
The main motivator for moving jobs overseas is productivity. There are so many barriers to productivity in the US that even if shipping were to be 10x as expensive than it is now, it would still be worth the cost.
1) In China, there is no OSHA 2) In China, there are no medical or health benefits 3) In China, there is no mandated 40-hour work week (limit) 4) In China, labor unions have no real power 5) In China, tort litigation is not out of control
the list goes on.
Let's say that, in China, I can get 10 million widgets made per month for a wall-to-wall cost of x, and I can sell them for 2x in the states. My gross profit is 10 million (2x - x) = 10Mx. Let's say I can make them in the US for 0.5x, and still sell them for 2x, for a 50% higher gross profit margin, but I can only make 500,000 of them. My gross profit is now just 750,000x instead of 10,000,000x.
There is no scenario here where I can make as much money manufacturing in the US as I can make manufacturing in China. Furthermore, moving manufacturing back to the US is only going to push energy prices higher locally because we already do not produce enough domestic energy to cover our demand, which means that we'll have to import even more. This will depress the dollar even further.
Just some food for thought, our total refining capacity for motor gasoline is about 3.5 Million Barrels per day (March 2008), but our daily use is almost 9.3 million barrels per day. Yes, we import that much refined product.
We are in much deeper trouble than most people realize or can even comprehend. We need to cut our gasoline consumption by 65% to be able to stop importing gasoline - and that's just gasoline. We also import twice as much crude oil (10+ Million barrels/day) as we produce (about 5 million barrels/day), so we also need to cut our crude oil consumption by 65%.
Amendment 5 - Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings. Ratified 12/15/1791.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Am I missing something?
"Obesity (aka being Fat/Overweight/Tubby/etc.) is a complex set of genetic conditions"
Absolute bullshit. Obesity is caused by nothing other than consuming more energy than you expend. Genes have absolutely no dominance over the laws of thermodynamics.
Very true. The facts usually destroy the populist arguments against the rich. The rich pay all the bills anyway, so to tell the poor you're going to stick it to the rich, when you're already sticking it to the rich, is only because you want to be more popular.
This is a very common problem. Which school was it that had something like 14 valedictorians? The problem is that the curriculum is being dumbed down so much that it is easy for the high achievers to continue to get 4.0 (or shall I say, 4.5 with extra credit) while at the same time learning LESS. Simultaneously, since the bar is coming down so far, the underachievers do better, while NOT learning anything more than they used to. So, NCLB achieves the goal of narrowing the gap, but only by limiting the education of high performers. It's completely asinine.
Students who are failures need to be allowed to fail. Society needs people to be burger flippers, floor sweepers, and lettuce pickers.
You can get it all from the IRS and the Congressional Budget Office, and also from the Department of the Treasury. In fact, if you look at the 1040 instructions, there is even a pie chart that tells you where federal expenditures are spent (at least there was 10 years ago when I actually needed the instructions).
The "progressives'" plan is for us to go back to living in caves, except that it will be illegal to use fire for anything because of the carbon emissions.
I wonder if that is why above-average income earners pay 96% of the tax bill and below average earners pay only 4%. Hardly fair considering that below-average income earners consume 37% of the entire federal budget in social programs.
Okay, FF fanboy, here are the steps to reproduce the problem on my machine:
1) Start FF 2) Do not close for a couple of days
That's all it takes. It works every time without fail. It is NOT MY JOB to diagnose and fix the problem. I will answer all the questions they have that I am readily capable of answering, but I am NOT going to use a debugger and trace out the problem (as they have asked me to do for them). That is THEIR job, not mine.
When I take my car into the shop with a problem, my only responsibility is to describe the symptoms. They don't throw an apron at me and say "ok, there's the shop, have at it. Let us know when you find out what's wrong."
Opera Mini 4 works flawlessly for me. The problem must be your phone. I didn't see a FF3 installation for phones, so I think you are comparing apples to oranges anyway.
I would laugh if this weren't so blatantly true. I've gotten the same excuses over and over again, and have even been chastised for "daring" to question them on it. One guy flat out told me to figure it out myself and tell them how to fix it. I've posted already, but after 24 hours, FF3 was taking almost 700MB of memory on my machine. I wonder what excuse they will dream up for that.
Somebody probably put a decimal point in the wrong place when calculating the expiration times. They're always screwing up some mundane detail like that.
It is because DARPA requires clearances, which the best and brightest usually cannot get because they are foreign nationals. The "best and brightest" US students are not smart enough to work for DARPA anymore because of their socialist education system that is more interested in teaching liberalism, "fairness," demonization of high achievers, and so on...
Socialistic policies lead to uniform poverty. Story at 11.
I wonder if China and India similarly punish people for wanting to get ahead. Last I checked, our finest graduate programs are admitting higher and higher percentages of foreign high achievers due to a frightening lack of domestic ones. When are schools are more concerned with teaching junk science (global warming, polar bears, spotted owls), junk politics (socialism, marxism), and how to be spineless cowards, than they are with teaching math, science, history, and other factual subjects, it's not a surprise that we're falling farther and farther behind on the global scale.
I can't speak to vulnerabilities, but, I started it about 24 hours ago, parked tabs at slashdot, cnn, and weather.com, and after 24 hours, it's taking 674MB of memory...
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, refinery incidents are more often than not caused by government regulation. To shut down a refinery for maintenance requires more red tape than you can even comprehend, and a lot of the time, it takes months or years for the government to approve the work. You can forget about building new refineries. The democrats and environmental quacks out there have made sure to thwart any attempt at increasing our producing and refining capacity.
If you look at the data:
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/mcrfpus2a.htm
You will see that Domestic oil production has fallen by 40% since its peak in the 60's through 80's. Bush leaving office will not bring that capacity back, nor will it decrease demand, nor will it strengthen the dollar. Bush has nothing to do with any of these things.
Domestic production began to fall off in the mid 1980s. Why? Because we began to exhaust some of the smaller wells and congress would not authorize exploration for new sources, and they have not done so since.
Hah, he obviously didn't try leaving it open for a couple of days... I've already seen FF3 use nearly 1GB of memory...
Yes, completely out in left field. (IAAEE)
DC ripple does not damage electrical components unless the voltage applied exceeds the absolute maximum ratings of the part. DC ripple can and does, however, cause unintended or undesirable operation. BPL will not cause physical damage to things on the grid, and it is very very unlikely that any of it would penetrate into devices plugged into the wall and cause undesired operation.
Part of the UL approval process is testing conducted immunity to things on the power line. Devices must be able to filter out transient noise on the power line so that it does not cause problems with the operation of the device.
The biggest problem with BPL is radiated emissions. Power lines are not impedance-controlled, they are not closed to RF (They do not completely confine the transmitted signal to the transmission medium like coax and fiber do). Any time there is a change in impedance of the transmission medium, three things happen: transmission, reflection, and radiation. The power lines are going to radiate a significant amount of the RF energy they are carrying, and those radiated emissions are going to interfere with services that are intended for those frequencies.
Amateur Radio, a federally licensed emergency communications service, is not the only thing that uses the spectrum that BPL does. The ARRL just happens to be practically the only organization with enough money and enough lawyers to do anything about it.
The OP said "It's easy to forget that MS followed up Windows ME, possibly their worst ever OS with XP, their best ever OS." It therefore does not matter to whom 2K is focused. The statement the OP made is still that XP is a better OS, which is categorically false. He did not say "best consumer-focused OS."
Note that this is the same guy who thinks XP is better than 2K...
Globalization has a lot less to do with hourly wages than it has to do with compliance.
The main motivator for moving jobs overseas is productivity. There are so many barriers to productivity in the US that even if shipping were to be 10x as expensive than it is now, it would still be worth the cost.
1) In China, there is no OSHA
2) In China, there are no medical or health benefits
3) In China, there is no mandated 40-hour work week (limit)
4) In China, labor unions have no real power
5) In China, tort litigation is not out of control
the list goes on.
Let's say that, in China, I can get 10 million widgets made per month for a wall-to-wall cost of x, and I can sell them for 2x in the states. My gross profit is 10 million (2x - x) = 10Mx. Let's say I can make them in the US for 0.5x, and still sell them for 2x, for a 50% higher gross profit margin, but I can only make 500,000 of them. My gross profit is now just 750,000x instead of 10,000,000x.
There is no scenario here where I can make as much money manufacturing in the US as I can make manufacturing in China. Furthermore, moving manufacturing back to the US is only going to push energy prices higher locally because we already do not produce enough domestic energy to cover our demand, which means that we'll have to import even more. This will depress the dollar even further.
Just some food for thought, our total refining capacity for motor gasoline is about 3.5 Million Barrels per day (March 2008), but our daily use is almost 9.3 million barrels per day. Yes, we import that much refined product.
We are in much deeper trouble than most people realize or can even comprehend. We need to cut our gasoline consumption by 65% to be able to stop importing gasoline - and that's just gasoline. We also import twice as much crude oil (10+ Million barrels/day) as we produce (about 5 million barrels/day), so we also need to cut our crude oil consumption by 65%.
Amendment 5 - Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings. Ratified 12/15/1791. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. Am I missing something?
Consuming more energy than you expend is the CAUSE, and obesity is the SYMPTOM.
You cannot get into the state of being obese without FIRST consuming more energy than is expended.
Your brain is plugged in backwards.
"Obesity (aka being Fat/Overweight/Tubby/etc.) is a complex set of genetic conditions"
Absolute bullshit. Obesity is caused by nothing other than consuming more energy than you expend. Genes have absolutely no dominance over the laws of thermodynamics.
... of how dishonest liberals will do ANYTHING to seize power.
Obama's communist revolution should be interesting.
Very true. The facts usually destroy the populist arguments against the rich. The rich pay all the bills anyway, so to tell the poor you're going to stick it to the rich, when you're already sticking it to the rich, is only because you want to be more popular.
This is a very common problem. Which school was it that had something like 14 valedictorians? The problem is that the curriculum is being dumbed down so much that it is easy for the high achievers to continue to get 4.0 (or shall I say, 4.5 with extra credit) while at the same time learning LESS. Simultaneously, since the bar is coming down so far, the underachievers do better, while NOT learning anything more than they used to. So, NCLB achieves the goal of narrowing the gap, but only by limiting the education of high performers. It's completely asinine.
Students who are failures need to be allowed to fail. Society needs people to be burger flippers, floor sweepers, and lettuce pickers.
You can get it all from the IRS and the Congressional Budget Office, and also from the Department of the Treasury. In fact, if you look at the 1040 instructions, there is even a pie chart that tells you where federal expenditures are spent (at least there was 10 years ago when I actually needed the instructions).
Here are some links to get you started.
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/reports/factsheetwhopaysmostindividualincometaxes.update.pdf
http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/js1287.htm
http://www.cbo.gov/budget/data/historical.pdf
The "progressives'" plan is for us to go back to living in caves, except that it will be illegal to use fire for anything because of the carbon emissions.
I wonder if that is why above-average income earners pay 96% of the tax bill and below average earners pay only 4%. Hardly fair considering that below-average income earners consume 37% of the entire federal budget in social programs.
"Change we can believe in!"
I think "change" is all I'll have left...
Okay, FF fanboy, here are the steps to reproduce the problem on my machine:
1) Start FF
2) Do not close for a couple of days
That's all it takes. It works every time without fail. It is NOT MY JOB to diagnose and fix the problem. I will answer all the questions they have that I am readily capable of answering, but I am NOT going to use a debugger and trace out the problem (as they have asked me to do for them). That is THEIR job, not mine.
When I take my car into the shop with a problem, my only responsibility is to describe the symptoms. They don't throw an apron at me and say "ok, there's the shop, have at it. Let us know when you find out what's wrong."
Opera Mini 4 works flawlessly for me. The problem must be your phone. I didn't see a FF3 installation for phones, so I think you are comparing apples to oranges anyway.
I would laugh if this weren't so blatantly true. I've gotten the same excuses over and over again, and have even been chastised for "daring" to question them on it. One guy flat out told me to figure it out myself and tell them how to fix it. I've posted already, but after 24 hours, FF3 was taking almost 700MB of memory on my machine. I wonder what excuse they will dream up for that.
Somebody probably put a decimal point in the wrong place when calculating the expiration times. They're always screwing up some mundane detail like that.
Anybody see my red stapler?
It is because DARPA requires clearances, which the best and brightest usually cannot get because they are foreign nationals. The "best and brightest" US students are not smart enough to work for DARPA anymore because of their socialist education system that is more interested in teaching liberalism, "fairness," demonization of high achievers, and so on...
Socialistic policies lead to uniform poverty. Story at 11.
I wonder if China and India similarly punish people for wanting to get ahead. Last I checked, our finest graduate programs are admitting higher and higher percentages of foreign high achievers due to a frightening lack of domestic ones. When are schools are more concerned with teaching junk science (global warming, polar bears, spotted owls), junk politics (socialism, marxism), and how to be spineless cowards, than they are with teaching math, science, history, and other factual subjects, it's not a surprise that we're falling farther and farther behind on the global scale.
I can't speak to vulnerabilities, but, I started it about 24 hours ago, parked tabs at slashdot, cnn, and weather.com, and after 24 hours, it's taking 674MB of memory...
Nice job, guys...
I am reserving judgment until I confirm that, after 24hrs, it is taking up LESS than 1GB of memory...