The republicans were with minor exceptions out of power in congress since FDR. Finally, they got the power that they desired. Within 2 elections, they proved themselves to be no less venal than the democrats.
I helped to vote them in to power. I was disgusted by the result.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men -- Lord Acton
Cost is one factor, a 50kWh battery is about over 25,000 USD -- about $500 per kWh for lithium ion car batteries. Projected cost by 2025 is about $160 per kWh, so only $8,000 in in 2025
It does not last a few days of intensive use either. Avg US household use is in 2012 was 10,837 kWh per year, or about 29.7 hWh per day, so 50kWh is less than 2 days..
Sure, no that Ebola is in the news everyone wants more Ebola money. Obama was proposed budget cuts in the same budget in prior years too. I'm sure you can find Republicans that did & will do the same thing.
In this case I would half expect that Republicans would increase Ebola funding because it proves bi-partisanship, etc. I can't imagine Obama vetoing this either.
Yeah, it's all Dick Chaney's fault. Oh wait, it says in the article that Dick Cheney was largely responsible for the large funding increase for treatment of Ebola, etc.
Now the Bloomberg article clearly and accurately points out that Cheney did this to combat potential terrorism threats. But hey, no reason not to blame Republicans for being pro-death, anti-vaccine, etc. just because you have no idea about the actual funding details in this case.
Like most people, Dick Cheney has some things to like, some things to dislike. At least Cheney shot an attorney in the face.
Of couse, near fool-proof was only meant in terms of legitimate voter. Outright voter fraud via ballot stuffing or illegal voters (non-residents, felons, etc.) or other external factors cannot be solved by careful handling of real ballots.
We use mark sense locally. Voters feed their own ballots into the tabulating machine. It looks for pretty much all the detectable marking errors and kicks it back to the voter immediately. in the event of a detectable problem. Ballots can also be hand-counted.of course
There is no perfect system, but what we use is about as close to foolproof as possible.
Personally I have never noticed much difference in the nature of the scandals based on party. I just picked an article comparing 8 Rep. & 8 Dem. scandals that were selected for a different criteria. These are scandals you've probably heard of before.
6 Rep. scandals were drugs / sex 2 Dem. scandals were drugs / sex
Only 1 of the 16 was declared more or less as innocent (overzealous prosecution). It was Ted Stevens (R) -- a non drugs/sex scandal.
There may be a bias for scandal selection in that some Dem. don't considered family values important whereas some Rep. are preachy on same, so a Rep. sharing quality personal time with an aide or smoking some dope is inherently more scandalous than a Dem. doing the same because hypocrisy sells news.
But I have noticed a big difference in the reporting of the scandals. If the bum is Republican, the new story will almost certainly mention this, if the bum is a Democrat they news story usually does not consider party affiliation worth mentioning. In fact, this bias was why I selected the article that considered the coverage of the 16 scandals and the coverage in the press. This articles was the only article on the first page of Google results for "difference between republican and democratic scandals" that obviously related to news reporting. News busters is hardly top-notch unbiased journalism, but I expected that they handled basic facts correctly -- In an article like theirs, they probably did not care about the sex v. money difference in the scandals.
I've played this games for years, see a scandal, no party affiliation mentioned. Bet Democrat. Look up the answer and collect on the bet. It's even more reliable than betting against the Cubs.
They forgot to tell Chicago that you could not win an election by fraud. I know heritage.org is right-leaning, but the article is thorough and heavily footnoted documenting one of the largest voter fraud prosecutions ever conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
So both the R's & D's do it, yeah! We already knew both parties were pretty slimy.
The state does have a legitimate interest in tracking whether your vote -- I.e., have not voted for x years, lose your registered status.I think x is 8 in my state. I know that they also track which party you vote for in the primaries. And they furnish all of this info with the R's and D's, don't know who else can get it.
I would never be intimidated by one of these letters, but I can see how that others would consider it intimidating. Lots of things are more worrisome than this. Thuggery committed by cops, DA's, IRS, EPA, TSA, FDA, NSA, and a host of others bothers me a lot more. Abuse of power by politicians of every stripe is very concerning.
It was Indiana. It was 3.2. It passed the house not the Senate, never law. You actually had to read the bill fairly carefully to determine that it meant pi was exactly 3.2. But yeah, it came close to becoming law.
This is not the most shameful music in the Indiana general assembly, but this fight that at least in part led to the 17th amendment of the US constitution might be the most shameful.
5th generation Hoosier here. My brother is an Indiana state senator, he was of course surprised when I pointed out this preceding tidbit of Indiana history to him after his first election.
Ah, the peppered moth a.k.a. industrial melanism. Lots of evolutionists don't put to much faith in that study anymore since there were some questionable (or fraudulent depending upon who you ask). A quick summary makes it clear why some scientists leave this one alone, though there are still staunch defenders.
Not that I am pro-suicide booths, but at least they are voluntary for individuals (well at least if they had a few safeguards against accidental usage sadly lacking from the Futurama version were it not for the comedic element). They are not as cruel as forcing millions a people to live in squalor with poor sanitation, non-potable water supplies, limited food resources, etc. because someone else decided CO2 is bad and you can't be allowed to have any fossil fuels.
Please, if you are going to insist on no fossil fuels, delay that enforcement until we actually have some viable alternatives. Any alternative that is not nuclear or future tech is not really a viable alternative. Renewables without cheap energy storage are clearly not a viable replacement technology by themselves. The time to develop LFTR on a Manhattan Project basis is negligible in terms of additional CO2 burden if you could start converting fossil fuels power plants en masse starting in 2025. Lockheed Martin hss promised fusion by 2025. LFTR is the safe bet in terms of viability; no-one that really understands the technology says any fundamental breakthroughs are needed. So do both and let ITER and other projects continue.
Give us cheap room temperature superconductors and we could cover deserts around the world with solar panels and windmills without having to store energy. Or just nano-tech solar cells that grow themselves all over our roads. I am not fussy about how it is done, but if you double the cost of electricity you are killing people in large numbers. German electricity is already 0.36 per kWh and 0.12 in the US and 0.08 in China and India. Where do you think manufacturing will grow, where are people burning lots of wood because it it deemed renewable? You and Al Gore are probably safe though, so why should you really care -- pretending to care is enough isn't it.
Not really harping on you in particular since I suspect you would going for the comedic line. But we are ruled by lots of stupid and venal politicians that are pissing on the future as well as today.
Earth could qualify. I could easily sell 1 million 1 ounce Krugerands at $1,000.00 each and the only thing impressive would be how fast I lost hundred of millions of dollars.
Selling a billion dollars worth of Surface 3 in a quarter cannot be judged to be impressive or not when considered as a stand-alone statistic. You have to compare market growth, profitability, etc. You will also need to compare to alternatives in the market.
The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe, — when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability.
Madison intended a rule a benevolent statesman, not defacto slaveowners. In his mind, the purpose was to limit democracy so that mob rule does not simply vote itself the privilege of sharing the wealth of the rich. Madison may not have been terribly wise in seeing the future. But he at least had the foresight to protect against socialism. His protection against the evils of capitalism was also clearly inadequate too.
Your job is to inform and advise. Convincing them is not a reasonable task. People making the decision may not do so in a manner you consider rational.
Make your case honestly and to the best of your ability. What someone else does with your input is beyond your ability to control. You have already summarized the key points of the decision reasonable well. Back them up with supporting info and let it go. Ulcers are not fun.
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The republicans were with minor exceptions out of power in congress since FDR. Finally, they got the power that they desired. Within 2 elections, they proved themselves to be no less venal than the democrats.
I helped to vote them in to power. I was disgusted by the result.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men -- Lord Acton
Cost is one factor, a 50kWh battery is about over 25,000 USD -- about $500 per kWh for lithium ion car batteries. Projected cost by 2025 is about $160 per kWh, so only $8,000 in in 2025
It does not last a few days of intensive use either. Avg US household use is in 2012 was 10,837 kWh per year, or about 29.7 hWh per day, so 50kWh is less than 2 days..
And here is article claiming they installed Ubuntu. A couple of pictures.
The real question is drivers -- the article is pretty short on any real info on driver compatibility.
Sure, no that Ebola is in the news everyone wants more Ebola money. Obama was proposed budget cuts in the same budget in prior years too. I'm sure you can find Republicans that did & will do the same thing.
In this case I would half expect that Republicans would increase Ebola funding because it proves bi-partisanship, etc. I can't imagine Obama vetoing this either.
Yeah, it's all Dick Chaney's fault. Oh wait, it says in the article that Dick Cheney was largely responsible for the large funding increase for treatment of Ebola, etc.
Now the Bloomberg article clearly and accurately points out that Cheney did this to combat potential terrorism threats. But hey, no reason not to blame Republicans for being pro-death, anti-vaccine, etc. just because you have no idea about the actual funding details in this case.
Like most people, Dick Cheney has some things to like, some things to dislike. At least Cheney shot an attorney in the face.
Of couse, near fool-proof was only meant in terms of legitimate voter. Outright voter fraud via ballot stuffing or illegal voters (non-residents, felons, etc.) or other external factors cannot be solved by careful handling of real ballots.
We use mark sense locally. Voters feed their own ballots into the tabulating machine. It looks for pretty much all the detectable marking errors and kicks it back to the voter immediately. in the event of a detectable problem. Ballots can also be hand-counted.of course
There is no perfect system, but what we use is about as close to foolproof as possible.
Personally I have never noticed much difference in the nature of the scandals based on party. I just picked an article comparing 8 Rep. & 8 Dem. scandals that were selected for a different criteria. These are scandals you've probably heard of before.
6 Rep. scandals were drugs / sex
2 Dem. scandals were drugs / sex
Only 1 of the 16 was declared more or less as innocent (overzealous prosecution). It was Ted Stevens (R) -- a non drugs/sex scandal.
There may be a bias for scandal selection in that some Dem. don't considered family values important whereas some Rep. are preachy on same, so a Rep. sharing quality personal time with an aide or smoking some dope is inherently more scandalous than a Dem. doing the same because hypocrisy sells news.
But I have noticed a big difference in the reporting of the scandals. If the bum is Republican, the new story will almost certainly mention this, if the bum is a Democrat they news story usually does not consider party affiliation worth mentioning. In fact, this bias was why I selected the article that considered the coverage of the 16 scandals and the coverage in the press. This articles was the only article on the first page of Google results for "difference between republican and democratic scandals" that obviously related to news reporting. News busters is hardly top-notch unbiased journalism, but I expected that they handled basic facts correctly -- In an article like theirs, they probably did not care about the sex v. money difference in the scandals.
I've played this games for years, see a scandal, no party affiliation mentioned. Bet Democrat. Look up the answer and collect on the bet. It's even more reliable than betting against the Cubs.
They forgot to tell Chicago that you could not win an election by fraud. I know heritage.org is right-leaning, but the article is thorough and heavily footnoted documenting one of the largest voter fraud prosecutions ever conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
So both the R's & D's do it, yeah! We already knew both parties were pretty slimy.
The state does have a legitimate interest in tracking whether your vote -- I.e., have not voted for x years, lose your registered status.I think x is 8 in my state. I know that they also track which party you vote for in the primaries. And they furnish all of this info with the R's and D's, don't know who else can get it.
I would never be intimidated by one of these letters, but I can see how that others would consider it intimidating. Lots of things are more worrisome than this. Thuggery committed by cops, DA's, IRS, EPA, TSA, FDA, NSA, and a host of others bothers me a lot more. Abuse of power by politicians of every stripe is very concerning.
Air doors can be effective in many cases where automatic doors are not practical. Air conditioning the outdoors is never a sound strategy.
Yes, it runs linux.
Cray Linux® Environment (includes SUSE Linux SLES11, HSS and SMW software)
Extreme Scalability Mode (ESM) and Cluster Compatibility Mode (CCM)
system specs
If you are old enough, the mind starts to go.
The $80 plan supposedly unlimited 4G data. Over his $65 price but could be ideal for some people.
Speeds reduced after 1GB of data.
"By far the most common way of a car being stolen is still from thieves breaking into homes and stealing keys," he said.
Don't leave your keys in the obvious places, including the spare keys.
For bonus points: Have some keys labeled "neighbor's house" that are useless.
There are about a dozen states that allow (buyers choice) or require no-fault automotive insurance.
There used to be more, but average premiums were clearly higher for no-fault insurance, so some states reverted to traditional tort insurance.
You may be right about it making more sense for insuring robot cars.
It was Indiana. It was 3.2. It passed the house not the Senate, never law. You actually had to read the bill fairly carefully to determine that it meant pi was exactly 3.2. But yeah, it came close to becoming law.
This is not the most shameful music in the Indiana general assembly, but this fight that at least in part led to the 17th amendment of the US constitution might be the most shameful.
5th generation Hoosier here. My brother is an Indiana state senator, he was of course surprised when I pointed out this preceding tidbit of Indiana history to him after his first election.
Ah, the peppered moth a.k.a. industrial melanism. Lots of evolutionists don't put to much faith in that study anymore since there were some questionable (or fraudulent depending upon who you ask). A quick summary makes it clear why some scientists leave this one alone, though there are still staunch defenders.
Not that I am pro-suicide booths, but at least they are voluntary for individuals (well at least if they had a few safeguards against accidental usage sadly lacking from the Futurama version were it not for the comedic element). They are not as cruel as forcing millions a people to live in squalor with poor sanitation, non-potable water supplies, limited food resources, etc. because someone else decided CO2 is bad and you can't be allowed to have any fossil fuels.
Please, if you are going to insist on no fossil fuels, delay that enforcement until we actually have some viable alternatives. Any alternative that is not nuclear or future tech is not really a viable alternative. Renewables without cheap energy storage are clearly not a viable replacement technology by themselves. The time to develop LFTR on a Manhattan Project basis is negligible in terms of additional CO2 burden if you could start converting fossil fuels power plants en masse starting in 2025. Lockheed Martin hss promised fusion by 2025. LFTR is the safe bet in terms of viability; no-one that really understands the technology says any fundamental breakthroughs are needed. So do both and let ITER and other projects continue.
Give us cheap room temperature superconductors and we could cover deserts around the world with solar panels and windmills without having to store energy. Or just nano-tech solar cells that grow themselves all over our roads. I am not fussy about how it is done, but if you double the cost of electricity you are killing people in large numbers. German electricity is already 0.36 per kWh and 0.12 in the US and 0.08 in China and India. Where do you think manufacturing will grow, where are people burning lots of wood because it it deemed renewable? You and Al Gore are probably safe though, so why should you really care -- pretending to care is enough isn't it.
Not really harping on you in particular since I suspect you would going for the comedic line. But we are ruled by lots of stupid and venal politicians that are pissing on the future as well as today.
Earth could qualify. I could easily sell 1 million 1 ounce Krugerands at $1,000.00 each and the only thing impressive would be how fast I lost hundred of millions of dollars.
Selling a billion dollars worth of Surface 3 in a quarter cannot be judged to be impressive or not when considered as a stand-alone statistic. You have to compare market growth, profitability, etc. You will also need to compare to alternatives in the market.
Maybe you should quote him in context.
Madison intended a rule a benevolent statesman, not defacto slaveowners. In his mind, the purpose was to limit democracy so that mob rule does not simply vote itself the privilege of sharing the wealth of the rich. Madison may not have been terribly wise in seeing the future. But he at least had the foresight to protect against socialism. His protection against the evils of capitalism was also clearly inadequate too.
Your job is to inform and advise. Convincing them is not a reasonable task. People making the decision may not do so in a manner you consider rational.
Make your case honestly and to the best of your ability. What someone else does with your input is beyond your ability to control. You have already summarized the key points of the decision reasonable well. Back them up with supporting info and let it go. Ulcers are not fun.
How about -- one is a sure bet, but the other is more desirable but likely harder to produce.
Well, it was real science when performed by Isaac Newton, not so much when performed by most of the practitioners.