For decades, we've been being bombarded with a new list of things that can kill us pretty regularly.
cigarettes
Nucular!!!
assorted foods, depending on era - fats, carbs, red meat, alcohol, trans-fats, whatever the bugaboo-du-jour is today...
cell phones in cars
guns. since Kennedy was killed, guns have been one of our favorite bugaboos - doesn't matter how rare an event is (I'm looking at school shootings), it'll be used to panic parents (& kids).
And on and on. There's always something to be terrified of in the news, most of which, in the big picture, don't matter a hill of beans....
1. The Big Senate [thirty-thousand.org] no longer represents the people meaningfully.
2. The Little House [usconstitution.net] no longer represents the 50 States United, or offers any thoughtful feedback to the Big Senate.
Last I read the Constitution, the Senate represents the States, and the House represents the people.
But the other factor will be that for many urban people cheaper and driverless taxis will reduce car ownership. It probably won't eliminate it but a two or three car family might drop to a single car.
Quite likely. If I can drive to work, tell the car to pick me up at 5:05, and in the meantime, head back to the house so the wife or children have it available for use while I'm at work, I'd get rid of at least one car.
Probably two, come to it. There's usually enough slack in schedules that the one car can be shared between wife and kids (via the "go home, come get me in X hours" route)....
Nor is it clear why nearby oil fields that have also been injected with CO2 have not experienced similar seismic activity.
Until you figure out why CO2 injection causes problems at one oilfield, and not its neighbors, even though all of them have had similar amounts of CO2 injected, it seems rather more likely than not that the CO2 injection had nothing to do with the tremors.
So it's better to have the fuel cell at your place, rather than the fuel cells be at some electric company that then sells you the electricity at a higher price than you would pay for the "inputs".
Assuming, of course, that the overhead of a place to keep the fuel cells & their fuel, and the extra manpower needed don't add up to more than the electric company charges you.
The interesting thing is that the article linked to never refers to the weapon as an "assault rifle". It is repeatedly referred to as a "high-powered rifle", which is pretty much the opposite of an "assault rifle" (which fired rather anemic rounds).
How long do you think a major chemicals weapons plant could operate secretly?
I think you could avoid operating it until people find something else to get excited about, then turn it back on full-bore, if you've refrained from destroying the plant by the expedient of not declaring it.
Starting over from scratch is also possible, but way more expensive....
No, the real question is "how many production facilities are still operational?"
What is carefully ignored in TFS and most other headlines is that Syria has "destroyed or rendered inoperative all of the DECLARED chemical weapon production facilities."
Note the difference between "all" and "all declared".
The theory, as it goes, is that if you do away with income and corporate taxes, the price of an individual item would drop by some amount before that 20% or more sales tax is added.
The theory seems to ignore the fact that corporations buy things too, and thus would be paying the sales tax as well. Which will offset (to an unknown degree) the savings from lack of income/corp taxes.
Ultimately, it should be a wash, since you're just replacing the revenue from many taxes with one tax.
On the other hand, I've read a lot of "single-tax" descriptions, and none of them seem to do anything other than raise taxes on those least able to afford them.
Not really. If Britain was not struggling to avoid total invasion by Germany, British Singapore would never have fallen to Japan.
Britain would have had no trouble projecting sufficient power there, were it not all tied up in Europe and North Africa.
Unlikely. Time required to move significant military resources literally halfway around the world is much larger than one might think.
Note for example the time required to move enough troops for D-Day the much shorter distance to the UK.
All the big players today didn't exist 15 years ago -- Google, Facebook, eBay, Amazon... didn't exist.
2013 -15 = 1998.
Google: September 4, 1998. Ebay: September 3, 1995. Amazon: July, 1994.
For values of 'all' that equate to 'none but one', sure, that statement is true.
It's the end of October. Fifteen years ago today, Google had been around for two months...
So, more correctly, for values of 'all' that equate to 'none', that statement is true.
There should be only a single tax. Sales tax. It should apply to all sales equally. There should be no loopholes and it shout not be "progressive" (i.e. higher rate for the rich) There should be no deductions or tax deadlines.
So, based on the size of the US economy and the US governments, you like the idea of a 20-25% sales tax? Because that's what it would take to pay the various government's bills...
Of course, biomass is something to get away from long term, due to CO2 output
Biomass has zero net CO2 output. The plants that provide the biomass suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, then you burn it to put the same CO2 back into the atmosphere...
If we're using fictional examples, Spiderman has been using tracking devices in the comics for 30-40 years now. They are fired from the web shooters and stick to targets. They don't use GPS, of course, they're more traditional tracking devices that emit a signal and have to be tracked by the signal.
1) Spider-Tracers were NOT fired from his web shooters, they were thrown by hand.
Not sure what signal they emitted, but it was only detectable via his "spider-sense".
Note that I haven't read Spiderman in 30 years, so things may have changed since then.
No idea about asteroids meteorites and stuff like that, but if "diverting it to something that will send 100 rocks at us back" is a problem, then divert it towards the sun.
Or am I missing something ?
Given a year's warning, a 1m/s deltaV applied to the rock should be enough to make it miss. This time.
Given the same year's warning, it would take around 30000 m/s deltaV to make the rock impact the Sun.
I found it amazingly ironic that the states which take the hardest stance on wanting to do everything their own way because the federal government can't possibly know the nuances of their state needs nearly all chose to let the feds make the ACA website for them.
More like "the Feds want an Exchange, let them pay for it".
Distract from the actual legitimate criticism of the NSA (that it would have been better used to track down wall street swine who committing multiple felonies and should have been liable for thousands of years of prison time)
Note that the NSA's legal mandate is EXTERNAL signals intelligence.
Sending the NSA to investigate Wall Street is as illegal as, well, having them monitor Americans' cell phone conversations.
If you want to go after Wall Street, use the Justice Department and the FBI.
I believe the point is that the latter is impossible, and will remain impossible until the general level of education rises.
Only if you restrict your teachers to South Africans. It's just barely possible that teachers from other countries might be interested in teaching jobs in SA.
Of course, that only works if you have no requirement that your teachers be African.
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cigarettes
Nucular!!!
assorted foods, depending on era - fats, carbs, red meat, alcohol, trans-fats, whatever the bugaboo-du-jour is today...
cell phones in cars
guns. since Kennedy was killed, guns have been one of our favorite bugaboos - doesn't matter how rare an event is (I'm looking at school shootings), it'll be used to panic parents (& kids).
And on and on. There's always something to be terrified of in the news, most of which, in the big picture, don't matter a hill of beans....
Last I read the Constitution, the Senate represents the States, and the House represents the people.
That's not one of the choices. The NSA budget hasn't been much bigger than 2% of the DEFICIT in a long time.
If the NSA budget were zeroed and the money just not spent on anything else, you'd barely notice a change in either the federal budget or the deficit.
Its Proud Ignorance. Not it's.
Or were you trying to demonstrate proud ignorance? If so, carry on.
Quite likely. If I can drive to work, tell the car to pick me up at 5:05, and in the meantime, head back to the house so the wife or children have it available for use while I'm at work, I'd get rid of at least one car.
Probably two, come to it. There's usually enough slack in schedules that the one car can be shared between wife and kids (via the "go home, come get me in X hours" route)....
Until you figure out why CO2 injection causes problems at one oilfield, and not its neighbors, even though all of them have had similar amounts of CO2 injected, it seems rather more likely than not that the CO2 injection had nothing to do with the tremors.
Mach 6 = 4000 mph, give or take a few.
4000 mph = 1800 m/s, approximately.
1800 m/s is about 20% of orbital speed.
So, no, it would take a bit more than an add-on O2 tank to take this thing to orbit.
Assuming, of course, that the overhead of a place to keep the fuel cells & their fuel, and the extra manpower needed don't add up to more than the electric company charges you.
Seems to me I read a short-story on this theme back in the '70s.
Upshot was that pretty much everyone was locked up in a psych ward....
The interesting thing is that the article linked to never refers to the weapon as an "assault rifle". It is repeatedly referred to as a "high-powered rifle", which is pretty much the opposite of an "assault rifle" (which fired rather anemic rounds).
I think you could avoid operating it until people find something else to get excited about, then turn it back on full-bore, if you've refrained from destroying the plant by the expedient of not declaring it.
Starting over from scratch is also possible, but way more expensive....
Several kbps...sounds like dial-up modem speeds back in the day.
Yes, I'm old enough to remember using 2400 baud dial-up.
No, the real question is "how many production facilities are still operational?"
What is carefully ignored in TFS and most other headlines is that Syria has "destroyed or rendered inoperative all of the DECLARED chemical weapon production facilities."
Note the difference between "all" and "all declared".
The theory seems to ignore the fact that corporations buy things too, and thus would be paying the sales tax as well. Which will offset (to an unknown degree) the savings from lack of income/corp taxes.
Ultimately, it should be a wash, since you're just replacing the revenue from many taxes with one tax.
On the other hand, I've read a lot of "single-tax" descriptions, and none of them seem to do anything other than raise taxes on those least able to afford them.
Unlikely. Time required to move significant military resources literally halfway around the world is much larger than one might think.
Note for example the time required to move enough troops for D-Day the much shorter distance to the UK.
It's the end of October. Fifteen years ago today, Google had been around for two months...
So, more correctly, for values of 'all' that equate to 'none', that statement is true.
So, based on the size of the US economy and the US governments, you like the idea of a 20-25% sales tax? Because that's what it would take to pay the various government's bills...
Just curious.
Doesn't matter. The law includes the phrase:
Netflix is many things, but it is NOT a "broadcast", television or otherwise.
Biomass has zero net CO2 output. The plants that provide the biomass suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, then you burn it to put the same CO2 back into the atmosphere...
1) Spider-Tracers were NOT fired from his web shooters, they were thrown by hand.
Not sure what signal they emitted, but it was only detectable via his "spider-sense".
Note that I haven't read Spiderman in 30 years, so things may have changed since then.
You've been reading your Retief again, haven't you?
Given a year's warning, a 1m/s deltaV applied to the rock should be enough to make it miss. This time.
Given the same year's warning, it would take around 30000 m/s deltaV to make the rock impact the Sun.
More like "the Feds want an Exchange, let them pay for it".
Note that the NSA's legal mandate is EXTERNAL signals intelligence.
Sending the NSA to investigate Wall Street is as illegal as, well, having them monitor Americans' cell phone conversations.
If you want to go after Wall Street, use the Justice Department and the FBI.
Only if you restrict your teachers to South Africans. It's just barely possible that teachers from other countries might be interested in teaching jobs in SA.
Of course, that only works if you have no requirement that your teachers be African.