We need to stop charging money to our children's credit cards, start sending money to it, pay it off completely, and start putting money in savings.
Hmm, sounds like you're ignoring the advice of all the best economists - remember, saving for a rainy day is bad for the economy...we're supposed to spend every penny we make or the economy will go south....
Just because the idiot editor let it slip by is no really good reason for everyone to pretend to idiocy themselves....
Oh, and I read the article you're quoting earlier. Wind and Solar are competitive as long as you include the massive subsidies they're currently getting. Enough so that the wind and solar industries are fighting to keep those subsidies (several of which are due to expire soon) intact....
Actually, I think politicians like this care about three things:
All of your "three things" reduce to number 2 - get power. Money and reelections are just part of the Power equation.
It can be reduced even further - all politicians are in the business because they like telling other people what to do. For your own good, of course. Really, trust me - it's for your own good....
Ideally, when electric cars are 'everywhere' you'll be able to pull into your restaurant of choice and start charging up.
Intriguing theory you have about where you're likely to find 5KV electrical connections. Note that since wiring would have to be added to wherever these charging stations are, the infrastructure investment is going to be non-trivial, and so is not nearly so likely to be just everywhere as you might suspect. Much more likely that that sort of connection will be made to specialized places, sort of like a gas station.
If this math holds up, the next interstellar island is further away than we thought... and we are likely going to be a very lonely species.
This math says pretty much nothing about our neighborhood. Remember, one in ten can just as easily be 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 as 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1.
Even more importantly, this say nothing about our galaxy's likelihood of having life (basically, 100% right now)....
But really, who cares which is faster, which do you think about first when deciding what car to buy;
Fuel economy, price, style, carrying capacity, cost of maintenance, or speed of fill up?
I don't think about speed of fillup at all, because the time required is pretty much inconsequential for any "normal" car.
On the other hand, if the choice i were making included a car that could fill up in five minutes and a car that took a minimum of half an hour, then yes it would make a difference. And not in favour of the half hour fillup....
If you look at the worst ongoing conflicts [wikipedia.org] the biggest and worst are always about religion
Alas, WW2 doesn't seem to have been about religion, and it's still the largest war in human history (and if it were split into two separate wars, they'd be the two largest wars in history).
A healthy hunter-gatherer lifestyle seems preferable to dying from lack of clean water.
What makes you think hunter/gatherers historically had access to clean water? What makes you think that water that the rest of the animal kingdom has been crapping and pissing in is "clean water"?
I said hunter-gatherer, not living all by myself. They had things called tribes and families, you know. See Dances with Wolves sometime.
Feel free to take family and friends with you on your great experiment in living the hunter/gatherer lifestyle. If you can convince them that living in the woods scrounging for food is better than sitting in their comfortable house watching the interwebs....
Again, you seem to equate hunting/gathering with lawless anarchy where it's every man for himself. Ice Age hunters formed groups and undoubtedly worked well with each other.
Hmm, we've found physical evidence of murders among Ice Age hunters, so they "worked well with each other" no better than we do now. And "anarchy" is a lack of government. Which pretty much defines the Ice Age hunters. Or did you consider your Grandfather to be "government" when you were growing up?
By the by, I am by no means trying to suggest that "hunter/gatherer" is synonymous with solitude or anarchy. I AM trying to suggest that the lifestyle looks a lot better from the easy chair at home than it does when you're actually living it. And that romanticizing the hunter/gatherer lifestyle from your computer desk is, at best, silly.
I am from China, and when I was in China, China was hit by the double whammy from Chairman Mao - in the form of great famine and cultural upheaval
Hey, you people decided you'd rather have Chairman Mao than the kleptocrats you had before. On balance, I'm not sure you made the right choice, but on the other hand, I'm not sure you didn't (the previous "government" was about as bad as any in history, when you come right down to it).
Tens of millions of people perished
From what I've read, closer to 100 million than to ten million. Mao easily displaced Hitler as the cause of the greatest number of human deaths in history (thought the Black Death still beats them both).
Why then the West wants to give out money to help those "poor" countries? I mean, what the West is thinking?
Depending on whether you're talking government aid or private aid, the logic is that you get a better trading partner if those people over there aren't starving OR that it's the Christian thing to do (and don't waste my time going on about "christian hypocrisy" - the only people I actually know who go over to places like Liberia to help out (medical missions, in this case, every year, not just because ebola) are doing so because they consider it their Christian Duty).
They think without the "foreign aid" those poor countries will die?
Based on past evidence, a lot of them will. Note ebola, consider its effects sans Western medical people/equipment being sent to Africa.
For thousands of years the people of those "poor countries" were there before the "West" is known as the "West... and they never got any "Western aid" at all, and still, they survived, right?
For values of "survive" that include average lifespans of 40 years or so, starvation a year or two every decade, a great deal of what civilized people consider to be serious crimes (rape, murder, that sort of thing), etc.
I kinda like the hunter-gatherer lifestyle myself. Agriculture is overrated.
Says a guy typing on a computer that couldn't exist along with a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
For the record, agriculture was the first development that freed up labor from the "hunter/gatherer" mode to allow enough surplus to develop things like, oh, computers (along with the rest of civilization).
And no I'm not being racist, a noteworthy scholar had commented once that a hunter-gatherer from 100,000 BC lived better than the average man in 19th century London.
And another one decribed that lifetyle as "nasty, brutish, and short".
Just curious, have you ever tried a "hunter/gatherer" lifestyle? Gone to a wilderness area, ditched the trappings of civilization (clothes, cellphone, computer, canteen, all that stuff), and tried living on what you could hunt down or gather (and no, I'm not referring to what you can gather at the local Mcdonald's...)...
a police officer should have the same rights as any ordinary citizen, except when they see a crime being committed.
Your sentence should have ended right after the word "citizen" if you really were talking about "rights".
Note that if you're talking about "powers" (something governments have instead of "rights"), I'm curious what "powers" you think a police officer should have when they see a crime being committed that you don't think an ordinary citizen should have.
The Great Depression was already a generation gone by the time World War II rolled around.
Interesting theory you have there, Butch...
Black Friday (widely acknowledged as marking the start of the Great Depression) was in 1929.
WW2 started in 1939.
I've never heard of a human society with ten year generations. we generally CAN'T have children much less than 14 years after birth, and generally don't for 20+ years. Hence the notion that a "generation" is 20-25 years....
And even that ten years assumes the Great Depression was over in a few months. As opposed to dragging on and on, as it actually did.
It should also be note that WW2 is generally credited by people with a clue with ending the Great Depression (though some argue that it didn't end it so much as hide it with a high fever - war production got people working, while the war lasted. And post-war production (it's no coincidence that America's most prosperous period was followed after much of the industry of the rest of the world was bombed into rubble) hid the continuing issues with the need to make things for most of the civilized world....
but there are indeed a couple of very fishy things about this case, all pointing to an organised effort to get Assange extradited or otherwise transported to the US.
Oh, nonsense!
If the USA had really wanted Assange, the easy way to have gotten him would have been to extradite him from the UK while he was living there freely.
The whole notion that while he was living in the UK, the USA worked to convince Sweden to extradite him to Sweden so we could then extradite him to the USA is ridiculous.
It's not like Sweden is MORE friendly to the USA than the UK is....
- the nuclear plants require a lot of sweet water for cooling, 24/7, and the world is running out
Ignoring the rest of your points...
No, they don't.
1) It's quite possible to build a nuclear power plant that has a closed-loop coolant system. The navies of the world have been doing it for better than half a century.
2) You don't want pure H2O in the coolant loop in a reactor. Hot water is quite corrosive, so you add chemicals to lessen the corrosive effects of the water. The navies of the world have been doing this for better than half a century too.
3) Depending on design, you can use a secondary cooling system (that cools the water in the primary cooling system) that uses cooling towers, or that just uses sea-water. The navies of the world have been doing the latter for the last half century also.
Note that there are arguments against using sea-water, but the alternative (using fresh water) is, as you say, biting into a rather more limited resource.
P.S. Oh, by the way, it's quite possible to design a reactor that can respond to transient power demands. Navies of the world have been doing that for half a century or so also....
Considering that you don't seem to be aware that the Preamble were goals of the Constitution, NOT powers granted by the Constitution to the Federal Government, it's kind of embarrassing that you think that that's relevant to the Federal Government....
Commerce as it exists today means the invisible hand has been bought off by lobbyists, and it's now more interested in protecting the interests of major players.
To me, the invisible hand and the perfect, magical outcomes attributed to it is the biggest lie of economics.
So, what you're offended by is government interference in the economy?
Because "bought off by lobbyists" is exactly that - government interference in the economy.
It's interesting, by the by, that you seem to have the exact same idea regarding lobbyists and such that Ayn Rand had. Or didn't you notice that her villains weren't the government, but the industrialists who were bribing the government to intervene in the economy in their favour?
Antidote for what? Some kind of poison, presumably, but I can't figure out what from context....
Or did you, in your semiliterate way, mean "anecdote"?
Here's my anecdote, by the by: My wife and I are both programmers, and she makes pretty much the same money I do (more right now - I was out of the workforce for a while dealing with cancer).
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Pretty much.
Just remember, if the government has the power to do anything you want, it also has the power to do anything that guy over there wants.
His best interests aren't necessarily your best interests. And he may have more money to buy legislation than you do.
Of course the trees in Iceland are four inches (one decimeter) tall, so wood isn't really an option. ;-)
Hmm, live in the USA, near a metropolitan area (New Orleans is across the lake).
Had a power interruption here this year. Long enough to reset the clock I'm looking at.
Only power outage I can think of that was long enough to be notable (more than momentary) was Katrina....
Course, the fact that my computers are either laptops or on UPS means I really don't care all that much about power outages.
Hmm, sounds like you're ignoring the advice of all the best economists - remember, saving for a rainy day is bad for the economy...we're supposed to spend every penny we make or the economy will go south....
Seems to me that I bought my first 85 MB HDD for about that much 30 or so years ago....
Stanford, damnit!
Just because the idiot editor let it slip by is no really good reason for everyone to pretend to idiocy themselves....
Oh, and I read the article you're quoting earlier. Wind and Solar are competitive as long as you include the massive subsidies they're currently getting. Enough so that the wind and solar industries are fighting to keep those subsidies (several of which are due to expire soon) intact....
All of your "three things" reduce to number 2 - get power. Money and reelections are just part of the Power equation.
It can be reduced even further - all politicians are in the business because they like telling other people what to do. For your own good, of course. Really, trust me - it's for your own good....
Intriguing theory you have about where you're likely to find 5KV electrical connections. Note that since wiring would have to be added to wherever these charging stations are, the infrastructure investment is going to be non-trivial, and so is not nearly so likely to be just everywhere as you might suspect. Much more likely that that sort of connection will be made to specialized places, sort of like a gas station.
This math says pretty much nothing about our neighborhood. Remember, one in ten can just as easily be 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 as 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1.
Even more importantly, this say nothing about our galaxy's likelihood of having life (basically, 100% right now)....
Try MIRV's in the 50-100 kt range.
The only MT range bombs we've ever put on ICBMs were the 5MT (reportedly) bombs on the Titans, which were decommissioned decades ago.
No comments about Soviet/Russian or Chinese or British or French weapons.
I don't think about speed of fillup at all, because the time required is pretty much inconsequential for any "normal" car.
On the other hand, if the choice i were making included a car that could fill up in five minutes and a car that took a minimum of half an hour, then yes it would make a difference. And not in favour of the half hour fillup....
I think OP was talking about the KID'S first concern, not the cop's....
Alas, WW2 doesn't seem to have been about religion, and it's still the largest war in human history (and if it were split into two separate wars, they'd be the two largest wars in history).
What makes you think hunter/gatherers historically had access to clean water? What makes you think that water that the rest of the animal kingdom has been crapping and pissing in is "clean water"?
Feel free to take family and friends with you on your great experiment in living the hunter/gatherer lifestyle. If you can convince them that living in the woods scrounging for food is better than sitting in their comfortable house watching the interwebs....
Hmm, we've found physical evidence of murders among Ice Age hunters, so they "worked well with each other" no better than we do now. And "anarchy" is a lack of government. Which pretty much defines the Ice Age hunters. Or did you consider your Grandfather to be "government" when you were growing up?
By the by, I am by no means trying to suggest that "hunter/gatherer" is synonymous with solitude or anarchy. I AM trying to suggest that the lifestyle looks a lot better from the easy chair at home than it does when you're actually living it. And that romanticizing the hunter/gatherer lifestyle from your computer desk is, at best, silly.
Hey, you people decided you'd rather have Chairman Mao than the kleptocrats you had before. On balance, I'm not sure you made the right choice, but on the other hand, I'm not sure you didn't (the previous "government" was about as bad as any in history, when you come right down to it).
From what I've read, closer to 100 million than to ten million. Mao easily displaced Hitler as the cause of the greatest number of human deaths in history (thought the Black Death still beats them both).
Depending on whether you're talking government aid or private aid, the logic is that you get a better trading partner if those people over there aren't starving OR that it's the Christian thing to do (and don't waste my time going on about "christian hypocrisy" - the only people I actually know who go over to places like Liberia to help out (medical missions, in this case, every year, not just because ebola) are doing so because they consider it their Christian Duty).
Based on past evidence, a lot of them will. Note ebola, consider its effects sans Western medical people/equipment being sent to Africa.
For values of "survive" that include average lifespans of 40 years or so, starvation a year or two every decade, a great deal of what civilized people consider to be serious crimes (rape, murder, that sort of thing), etc.
No.
Says a guy typing on a computer that couldn't exist along with a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
For the record, agriculture was the first development that freed up labor from the "hunter/gatherer" mode to allow enough surplus to develop things like, oh, computers (along with the rest of civilization).
And another one decribed that lifetyle as "nasty, brutish, and short".
Just curious, have you ever tried a "hunter/gatherer" lifestyle? Gone to a wilderness area, ditched the trappings of civilization (clothes, cellphone, computer, canteen, all that stuff), and tried living on what you could hunt down or gather (and no, I'm not referring to what you can gather at the local Mcdonald's...)...
Your sentence should have ended right after the word "citizen" if you really were talking about "rights".
Note that if you're talking about "powers" (something governments have instead of "rights"), I'm curious what "powers" you think a police officer should have when they see a crime being committed that you don't think an ordinary citizen should have.
Interesting theory you have there, Butch...
Black Friday (widely acknowledged as marking the start of the Great Depression) was in 1929.
WW2 started in 1939.
I've never heard of a human society with ten year generations. we generally CAN'T have children much less than 14 years after birth, and generally don't for 20+ years. Hence the notion that a "generation" is 20-25 years....
And even that ten years assumes the Great Depression was over in a few months. As opposed to dragging on and on, as it actually did.
It should also be note that WW2 is generally credited by people with a clue with ending the Great Depression (though some argue that it didn't end it so much as hide it with a high fever - war production got people working, while the war lasted. And post-war production (it's no coincidence that America's most prosperous period was followed after much of the industry of the rest of the world was bombed into rubble) hid the continuing issues with the need to make things for most of the civilized world....
If the house is getting warmer, that must mean that the refrigerator is getting warmer, since the 'frig is part of they house, right?
That's an example of an elementary fallacy that we call the "Does Not Follow" (that's a (semi-)literary reference - anyone remember from what?).
Do note that PART of the Earth warming in no way implies that ALL of the Earth is warming.
Likewise, PART of the Earth NOT warming in no way implies that ALL of the Earth is NOT warming.
Oh, nonsense!
If the USA had really wanted Assange, the easy way to have gotten him would have been to extradite him from the UK while he was living there freely.
The whole notion that while he was living in the UK, the USA worked to convince Sweden to extradite him to Sweden so we could then extradite him to the USA is ridiculous.
It's not like Sweden is MORE friendly to the USA than the UK is....
Ignoring the rest of your points...
No, they don't.
1) It's quite possible to build a nuclear power plant that has a closed-loop coolant system. The navies of the world have been doing it for better than half a century.
2) You don't want pure H2O in the coolant loop in a reactor. Hot water is quite corrosive, so you add chemicals to lessen the corrosive effects of the water. The navies of the world have been doing this for better than half a century too.
3) Depending on design, you can use a secondary cooling system (that cools the water in the primary cooling system) that uses cooling towers, or that just uses sea-water. The navies of the world have been doing the latter for the last half century also.
Note that there are arguments against using sea-water, but the alternative (using fresh water) is, as you say, biting into a rather more limited resource.
P.S. Oh, by the way, it's quite possible to design a reactor that can respond to transient power demands. Navies of the world have been doing that for half a century or so also....
Considering that you don't seem to be aware that the Preamble were goals of the Constitution, NOT powers granted by the Constitution to the Federal Government, it's kind of embarrassing that you think that that's relevant to the Federal Government....
So, what you're offended by is government interference in the economy?
Because "bought off by lobbyists" is exactly that - government interference in the economy.
It's interesting, by the by, that you seem to have the exact same idea regarding lobbyists and such that Ayn Rand had. Or didn't you notice that her villains weren't the government, but the industrialists who were bribing the government to intervene in the economy in their favour?
Antidote for what? Some kind of poison, presumably, but I can't figure out what from context....
Or did you, in your semiliterate way, mean "anecdote"?
Here's my anecdote, by the by: My wife and I are both programmers, and she makes pretty much the same money I do (more right now - I was out of the workforce for a while dealing with cancer).