Yes, I've seen many spectacular crashes of multi-million dollar race cars... what's your point? This is not a multi-million dollar race car. This is some guy's garage project that has assloads of power for a very short time, probably to the severe detrement of the motor windings. What I didn't see in the article, of course almost too conveniently, was any reliability data, or how many runs the car survived without having to have new batteries, motors, or both.
Bottom line is that electric cars were tried once, and they failed for a reason. This thing is just another toy for stupid rich people that don't know what to do with they money they took our of their housing ATM.
The Porsche and Ferrari are required to meet safety standards, which means withstanding front and side impacts, and also to have all the safety equipment on board.
This car is no doubt much much lighter than either of the competitors, but will likely gain 1000 lbs as it will be required to have headlights, tail lights, seatbelts, and a frame strong enough to withstand a 5mph bumper test without KILLING EVERYONE IN IT.
It is fairly obvious that NTP is trying to make an end run around it's recent settlement with RIM by inventing another lawsuit. These patent holding companies are absolute scumbags that make their profits on filing these stupid lawsuits. They don't sell a product at all - their only income is from litigation. *GRRRRRR*
If insurance did not pay for routing procedures, those routine procedures would not be expensive. Take those little motor scooters for example. They cost "what the insurance companies pay for them." They do not cost what the market will bear.
Similarly, the reason College Tuition is so insane is because of Student Loans. Without student loans, tuition would be forced to be more affordable. The plentiful supply of borrowed money inflates the cost of college, just like the plentiful supply of insurance money inflates the cost of medicine. Insurance creates artificially high demand and therefore raises the price.
I would suggest you familiarize yourself with how price inflation works before you go calling me names.
See, here's the problem. Insurance shouldn't be covering your condition at all because it is chronic. The whole problem with insurance, medicare, and socialized medicine as we know it is that society has come to expect insurance to pay for ongoing medical care, and not just the unexpected events that insurance was initially designed for.
Your car insurance doesn't pay for maintenance on your car, and your home insurance doesn't pay for maintenance on your house. However, we expect health insurance to pay maintenance on our health. This is flat out wrong. You should be paying maintenance out of your pocket just like you do for your car and your home.
Insurance is supposed to cover the UNexpected, not the expected.
On another note, I wonder if this study took hypochondria into consideration, or the fact that we have been trained to run to the doctor for every little sniffle or sneeze because hey, it's only a $20 copay and insurance pays for everything. We're pumping ourselves so full of unnecessary medicine that our bodies are figuring out that health will come from an external source, and our immune systems are getting weaker.
I also wonder if obesity is comorbid with poor health in the individuals they studied. We are probably the fattest nation on the planet, so I'm actually quite surprised that we do as well as 25th. This brings up another point of insurance. Insurance should not cover negligence, and negligence includes making obviously bad lifestyle choices like smoking. If one eats one's self to 300 pounds and smoke 2 packs every day, I don't see why my insurance premiums should be paying for their chronic illness. I would think diabetes and cardiovascular disease would be expected and therefore the complications from them not be covered.
Whatever... the world is going to hell because more than 50% of the people are complete idiots and don't know that things like socialism and the cultures of irresponsibility and blame are BAD.
So, assuming you lose 10% (being very generous here) of your energy on each conversion, you're going to end up with only 81% of the energy that you bought. You'll lose 10% of what you buy on conversion to storage, and another 10% on conversion to live energy. This is going to do nothing except smooth the demands for power companies that don't want to spend the money to comply with the law (that says they must provide sufficient electricity to meet demand) at the expense of using 20% more energy in the long run.
Considering the world's energy crisis, this isn't just irresponsible. This borders on the insane.
I'll bet their TV will not only prevent you turning it off, but will also have an internal UPS that will keep the TV on even if you pull the plug from the wall.
You make an incredibly good point that china's economy and therefore their emissions are driven by the consumer countries that do business with them. It is therefore imperative to extend the requirements being imposed on those consumer countries also to the producer countries.
This is the main reason that the US will not ratify Kyoto. There is no burden on China or India, yet they have emissions and economies that are much larger than many of the countries that DO have requirements under the protocol.
Is that why in 1998 the WHO found that 7 of the 10 worst polluted cities in the world are in China? I didn't see any data on your science mag site that supports your claim that the downward trend in Chinese CO2 emissions is still falling. Can you present some credible data to support that claim, or was it just knee-jerk leftism on your part to support your agenda?
Here are some facts:
China has no emission reduction requirements under Kyoto (source: The Kyoto Protocol) China is the second leading CO2 producer in the world (source: US Dept. of Energy) China is building 562 new coal-fired electricity plants by 2012 (Source, The McIlvaine Company, Northfield IL)
Also, China is projected to exceed CO2 emissions of the US in the next couple of years (according to Robert McIlvaine, who makes his living doing market research in energy production). Yet, strangely, China has absolutely no obligations to reduce CO2 emissions. What's worse, the countries that ARE obligated under Kyoto are also obligated to pay the cost for China to implement emissions controls as they "develop."
Look, laws are created by lawyers. Lawyers make lots of money from lawsuits. Therefore, it is reasonable to conjecture that lawyers have a vested interest in creating more silly ways for people to sue each other. I'm sure the lawyers who wrote the DMCA knew exactly what they were doing:
1) Taking away more civil liberties in favor of corporations 2) Creating more avenues to generate employment for lawyers
They really killed two birds with one stone on this one...
I see you do not understand how Medicare works. You are confusing two government programs: Medicare and Medicaid.
Medicare is the insurance program that ALL citizens are required to have after their retirement age. People are required by law to use Medicare for medical coverage after their retirement age. They are not allowed to carry their own health insurance coverage and no private company offers insurance coverage to citizens who have achieved their retirement age. This is a mandatory socialist program whose sole purpose is to deny as much medical coverage to retirees as possible. There are premiums associated with Medicare because to fund medicare fully with public funds would be astronomically expensive. Premiums for people who have not contributed FICA taxes for 40 quarters run about the same cost as a private health plan would (about $400/mo all told). This is alarming given that these premiums are a very small amount of how much money Medicare gets from the government, and is an indicator of just how much money is wasted. Pretty much every penny that the government spends on Medicare is wasted on bureaucracy and fraud - and actual medical costs are paid by the premiums. It disgusts me.
Medicaid, which is indeed a subpart of Medicare, is the medical program for the poor. Medicaid covers impoverished people regardless of age, but rather according to their income and assets. I don't so much have a problem with Medicaid. Some people are poor for reasons beyond their control (illness, involuntary disability, etc) and I don't mind helping them out. It's the people who choose to be poor that I am complaining about; people who choose to do poorly in school, choose to not learn to do something valuable; choose not to have ambition; and choose to live off of other peoples' hard work.
Having grown up in a welfare community in New York City, I have first hand experience of the mentality behind living on public assistance. There is a profound "us vs. them" attitude and believe it or not, the prevailing attitude, at least in my community, was that they wanted to get as much public money as possible to "punish" the successful for being successful. I was glad to get out of there.
I don't hate poor people. I just don't respect the ones who choose to be that way and then expect me to carry them along.
Of course, medicare wouldn't even be necessary if not for the fact that people don't exercise one shred of actual personal responsibility and rather expect everyone else to carry their weight when they don't feel it is important to actually plan for retirement...
saying "they're cutting medicare!!" because they are increasing spending by 7% instead of 9%..
The fact that they're being laid off at simply a slower rate doesn't make me feel like they're in higher demand. It could just as easily mean that they've run out of people to lay off.
The first time since the first half of Clinton's administration - if by 3 parts of government, you mean the house, senate, and presidency. Of course, there is the supreme court, but I don't have that info fresh in my mind right now.
I think there is something to be said for the fact that two years of Clinton were bad enough to swing the country so far to the right. I'm convinced that if the R's had put someone up against him in 1996 that wasn't 200 years old and had one foot in the grave, Clinton's office would have come to an abrupt end much earlier.
BTW: I still think the SCOTUS justices should be elected... life terms, sure.. but they should still be elected. I think it is wrong to have so many aspects of our law decided by unelected officials.
Sure you can... just GO EAT THE GODDAMN COWS! I, for one, will start doing my part immediately and without reprieve until our mother earth is happily frozen over again.
We all know the real reason that the GW debate is where it is... it's because the left-wing hippies are all Vermont and Massachusetts skiiers and don't want their ranches in mountains of New England to lose value...
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13. As set forth in the Junk Fax Prevention Act, an EBR alone does not entitle a sender to fax
an advertisement to an individual consumer or business. The telephone facsimile number must also be provided voluntarily by the recipient.
Specifically, under the new rules, any person sending a fax
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accordance with the Junk Fax Prevention Act, an exception to this requirement will apply if the EBR was formed prior to July 9, 2005.
dude, I think you read into that way too much. I just needed 8 syllables... and bullshit only had 2 whereas tragedy had 3... the math just worked out better...
And then the author will notice, in a fit of irony, that there are actually two-too-many syllables in the last line, demonstrating that one can still be bad at math and be more or less successful, thereby removing any original meaning that was intended by the poem in the first place.
The author will then make a note to self to never ever ever ever ever give up coffee for Lent ever ever ever ever again...
For those of you pedants who will undoubtedly notice that there are one-too-many syllables in the last line, before thinking about the meaning, the poem is intended to demonstrate that those who are bad at math and fail at school end up in dead-end professions like spamming, being hated by everyone.
Well, if you are so closed-minded as to fallaciously assume that every commment posted to be a direct response to the article and the article only, and that it is not possible that a comment thread started might be a response to other comments posted, or more generally a response to a general mood established by said comments, then and only then does your statement herein have any validity whatsoever.
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He's not their plaintiff, you idiots. That's the whole point of teh article... Learn to read, already!
Yes, I've seen many spectacular crashes of multi-million dollar race cars... what's your point? This is not a multi-million dollar race car. This is some guy's garage project that has assloads of power for a very short time, probably to the severe detrement of the motor windings. What I didn't see in the article, of course almost too conveniently, was any reliability data, or how many runs the car survived without having to have new batteries, motors, or both.
Bottom line is that electric cars were tried once, and they failed for a reason. This thing is just another toy for stupid rich people that don't know what to do with they money they took our of their housing ATM.
The Porsche and Ferrari are required to meet safety standards, which means withstanding front and side impacts, and also to have all the safety equipment on board.
This car is no doubt much much lighter than either of the competitors, but will likely gain 1000 lbs as it will be required to have headlights, tail lights, seatbelts, and a frame strong enough to withstand a 5mph bumper test without KILLING EVERYONE IN IT.
It is fairly obvious that NTP is trying to make an end run around it's recent settlement with RIM by inventing another lawsuit. These patent holding companies are absolute scumbags that make their profits on filing these stupid lawsuits. They don't sell a product at all - their only income is from litigation. *GRRRRRR*
If insurance did not pay for routing procedures, those routine procedures would not be expensive. Take those little motor scooters for example. They cost "what the insurance companies pay for them." They do not cost what the market will bear.
Similarly, the reason College Tuition is so insane is because of Student Loans. Without student loans, tuition would be forced to be more affordable. The plentiful supply of borrowed money inflates the cost of college, just like the plentiful supply of insurance money inflates the cost of medicine. Insurance creates artificially high demand and therefore raises the price.
I would suggest you familiarize yourself with how price inflation works before you go calling me names.
See, here's the problem. Insurance shouldn't be covering your condition at all because it is chronic. The whole problem with insurance, medicare, and socialized medicine as we know it is that society has come to expect insurance to pay for ongoing medical care, and not just the unexpected events that insurance was initially designed for.
Your car insurance doesn't pay for maintenance on your car, and your home insurance doesn't pay for maintenance on your house. However, we expect health insurance to pay maintenance on our health. This is flat out wrong. You should be paying maintenance out of your pocket just like you do for your car and your home.
Insurance is supposed to cover the UNexpected, not the expected.
On another note, I wonder if this study took hypochondria into consideration, or the fact that we have been trained to run to the doctor for every little sniffle or sneeze because hey, it's only a $20 copay and insurance pays for everything. We're pumping ourselves so full of unnecessary medicine that our bodies are figuring out that health will come from an external source, and our immune systems are getting weaker.
I also wonder if obesity is comorbid with poor health in the individuals they studied. We are probably the fattest nation on the planet, so I'm actually quite surprised that we do as well as 25th. This brings up another point of insurance. Insurance should not cover negligence, and negligence includes making obviously bad lifestyle choices like smoking. If one eats one's self to 300 pounds and smoke 2 packs every day, I don't see why my insurance premiums should be paying for their chronic illness. I would think diabetes and cardiovascular disease would be expected and therefore the complications from them not be covered.
Whatever... the world is going to hell because more than 50% of the people are complete idiots and don't know that things like socialism and the cultures of irresponsibility and blame are BAD.
So, assuming you lose 10% (being very generous here) of your energy on each conversion, you're going to end up with only 81% of the energy that you bought. You'll lose 10% of what you buy on conversion to storage, and another 10% on conversion to live energy. This is going to do nothing except smooth the demands for power companies that don't want to spend the money to comply with the law (that says they must provide sufficient electricity to meet demand) at the expense of using 20% more energy in the long run.
Considering the world's energy crisis, this isn't just irresponsible. This borders on the insane.
I'll bet their TV will not only prevent you turning it off, but will also have an internal UPS that will keep the TV on even if you pull the plug from the wall.
You make an incredibly good point that china's economy and therefore their emissions are driven by the consumer countries that do business with them. It is therefore imperative to extend the requirements being imposed on those consumer countries also to the producer countries.
This is the main reason that the US will not ratify Kyoto. There is no burden on China or India, yet they have emissions and economies that are much larger than many of the countries that DO have requirements under the protocol.
Is that why in 1998 the WHO found that 7 of the 10 worst polluted cities in the world are in China? I didn't see any data on your science mag site that supports your claim that the downward trend in Chinese CO2 emissions is still falling. Can you present some credible data to support that claim, or was it just knee-jerk leftism on your part to support your agenda?
Here are some facts:
China has no emission reduction requirements under Kyoto (source: The Kyoto Protocol)
China is the second leading CO2 producer in the world (source: US Dept. of Energy)
China is building 562 new coal-fired electricity plants by 2012 (Source, The McIlvaine Company, Northfield IL)
Also, China is projected to exceed CO2 emissions of the US in the next couple of years (according to Robert McIlvaine, who makes his living doing market research in energy production). Yet, strangely, China has absolutely no obligations to reduce CO2 emissions. What's worse, the countries that ARE obligated under Kyoto are also obligated to pay the cost for China to implement emissions controls as they "develop."
Look, laws are created by lawyers. Lawyers make lots of money from lawsuits. Therefore, it is reasonable to conjecture that lawyers have a vested interest in creating more silly ways for people to sue each other. I'm sure the lawyers who wrote the DMCA knew exactly what they were doing:
1) Taking away more civil liberties in favor of corporations
2) Creating more avenues to generate employment for lawyers
They really killed two birds with one stone on this one...
I see you do not understand how Medicare works. You are confusing two government programs: Medicare and Medicaid.
Medicare is the insurance program that ALL citizens are required to have after their retirement age. People are required by law to use Medicare for medical coverage after their retirement age. They are not allowed to carry their own health insurance coverage and no private company offers insurance coverage to citizens who have achieved their retirement age. This is a mandatory socialist program whose sole purpose is to deny as much medical coverage to retirees as possible. There are premiums associated with Medicare because to fund medicare fully with public funds would be astronomically expensive. Premiums for people who have not contributed FICA taxes for 40 quarters run about the same cost as a private health plan would (about $400/mo all told). This is alarming given that these premiums are a very small amount of how much money Medicare gets from the government, and is an indicator of just how much money is wasted. Pretty much every penny that the government spends on Medicare is wasted on bureaucracy and fraud - and actual medical costs are paid by the premiums. It disgusts me.
Medicaid, which is indeed a subpart of Medicare, is the medical program for the poor. Medicaid covers impoverished people regardless of age, but rather according to their income and assets. I don't so much have a problem with Medicaid. Some people are poor for reasons beyond their control (illness, involuntary disability, etc) and I don't mind helping them out. It's the people who choose to be poor that I am complaining about; people who choose to do poorly in school, choose to not learn to do something valuable; choose not to have ambition; and choose to live off of other peoples' hard work.
Having grown up in a welfare community in New York City, I have first hand experience of the mentality behind living on public assistance. There is a profound "us vs. them" attitude and believe it or not, the prevailing attitude, at least in my community, was that they wanted to get as much public money as possible to "punish" the successful for being successful. I was glad to get out of there.
I don't hate poor people. I just don't respect the ones who choose to be that way and then expect me to carry them along.
Of course, medicare wouldn't even be necessary if not for the fact that people don't exercise one shred of actual personal responsibility and rather expect everyone else to carry their weight when they don't feel it is important to actually plan for retirement...
grumble grumble...
saying "they're cutting medicare!!" because they are increasing spending by 7% instead of 9%..
The fact that they're being laid off at simply a slower rate doesn't make me feel like they're in higher demand. It could just as easily mean that they've run out of people to lay off.
The first time since the first half of Clinton's administration - if by 3 parts of government, you mean the house, senate, and presidency. Of course, there is the supreme court, but I don't have that info fresh in my mind right now.
I think there is something to be said for the fact that two years of Clinton were bad enough to swing the country so far to the right. I'm convinced that if the R's had put someone up against him in 1996 that wasn't 200 years old and had one foot in the grave, Clinton's office would have come to an abrupt end much earlier.
BTW: I still think the SCOTUS justices should be elected... life terms, sure.. but they should still be elected. I think it is wrong to have so many aspects of our law decided by unelected officials.
That's what it takes to get posted on slashdot... a very transparent troll on my part, and it worked :)
I wonder how terrible the emissions are on that old generator.
Can't control cow manure?
Sure you can... just GO EAT THE GODDAMN COWS! I, for one, will start doing my part immediately and without reprieve until our mother earth is happily frozen over again.
We all know the real reason that the GW debate is where it is... it's because the left-wing hippies are all Vermont and Massachusetts skiiers and don't want their ranches in mountains of New England to lose value...
The R&O establishes in paragraph 13 that if the recipient publishes their fax number on a website, that constitutes grant of permission under the EBR rules to engage in faxing activities. 13. As set forth in the Junk Fax Prevention Act, an EBR alone does not entitle a sender to fax an advertisement to an individual consumer or business. The telephone facsimile number must also be provided voluntarily by the recipient. Specifically, under the new rules, any person sending a fax advertisement under the EBR exemption must have obtained the facsimile number directly from the recipient within the context of the EBR,
or ensure that the recipient voluntarily agreed to make the number available in a directory, advertisement, or site on the Internet which is accessible to the public. In accordance with the Junk Fax Prevention Act, an exception to this requirement will apply if the EBR was formed prior to July 9, 2005.
dude, I think you read into that way too much. I just needed 8 syllables... and bullshit only had 2 whereas tragedy had 3... the math just worked out better...
And then the author will notice, in a fit of irony, that there are actually two-too-many syllables in the last line, demonstrating that one can still be bad at math and be more or less successful, thereby removing any original meaning that was intended by the poem in the first place.
The author will then make a note to self to never ever ever ever ever give up coffee for Lent ever ever ever ever again...
For those of you pedants who will undoubtedly notice that there are one-too-many syllables in the last line, before thinking about the meaning, the poem is intended to demonstrate that those who are bad at math and fail at school end up in dead-end professions like spamming, being hated by everyone.
Cheap
Drugs
Call Now
We're Waiting
Do Not Hesitate
Lincoln Building Tether Pineapple Goat
War
Debt
Iraq
OBL
The World Trade Center
The World is filled with tragedy
(C) 2006, me
Well, if you are so closed-minded as to fallaciously assume that every commment posted to be a direct response to the article and the article only, and that it is not possible that a comment thread started might be a response to other comments posted, or more generally a response to a general mood established by said comments, then and only then does your statement herein have any validity whatsoever.