Didn't actually answer his question - you've got to produce the ZiO2 once, and the recovery is never going to be 100%, so there'll be a need for steady (hopefully low-level) replacement.
So, anyone know how dirty zinc mining and refinement are?
To heck with scaling this up. Lets scale it down so I can have one in my back yard, or at every corner gas station. A small reactors working any time there is sunlight and water scaled just large enough to keep your car topped off makes a lot more sense than trucking hydrogen around.
It operates at ~1700C. You're not going to get sustained temps like that without large mirrors and large reactor vessels. So it's not going to scale down terribly well.
All the seller should be required to do is to collect the use-tax where appropriate
Hmm, you're perhaps unaware that businesses collecting sales taxes on behalf of the buyer is a...law...
So, you want to require people to obey laws of States that they don't have a presence in. Which means all 50 States.
And since we can't have selective laws ("This law applies to whites only, for instance, or Walmart only, for another instance), that means that YOU would be bound by the laws of all 50 States.
The good news is that after going on a couple of 3-4 hour hikes with me my wife realized that I really was smarter than the average bear, and no one else would want to go with me on a >700 meter climb, so now I can go alone.
If you do that sort of thing alone, you're NOT smarter than the average bear.
If you, westerners, were worth a dime of your own beliefs you would fought tooth and nail to incorporate the following article in your man-made "constitutions":
- government cannot limit freedom of individuals under a pretext to prevent crime
Not needed. Tenth Amendment pretty much makes law enforcement a State issue, not a Federal one.
Not that the Federal government pays much attention to the Tenth, what with both the Left and Right screaming for more Federal powers....
"That said, I agree that the federal government has gotten away w/ far too much for far too long by claiming all kinds of powers under the commerce clause. No doubt about it."
Name one.
The power to prevent someone from growing medical marijiuana for their own use.
They argue that every inmate going into general population requires a strip search
Umm, no.
What they said was that the Constitution doesn't forbid the legislature from requiring that. They did NOT say that it must happen, merely that if the laws say so, then there's nothing wrong with the law.
If you don't like it, call your legislators, since they're the ones who have to fix problems with Constitutional laws that people disapprove of.
Where Colorado messed up is that they tried to levy sales tax on out of state purchases from a company that did not have a presence int he state. This has long ago been decided. What Colorado should have done is passed a bill that out of state companies, doing more than $X business in the state, must collect use tax on behalf of the state. Since use taxes are already deemed constitutional, having the vendor collecting them should not be a problem.
Requiring a business (or individual) not resident in your State to abide by your State laws while they are outside your State is usually considered to be a bad thing.
Or do you really think you should be obligated to obey the laws of all 50 States, even those you've never even visited?
Work still needs to get done so MY prediction is that alot of companies will lay off down to 50.Then give the people let go the option of becoming "contractors".
They can also reduce people to part-time status. Apparently, the 50 limit only applies to full-time workers, so 50 full-time and 60 part-time can replace 100 full-time, and keep you out of that game.
Alternately, if you really don't want to play, there's always pay the penalty. Currently, the penalty is pretty close to the cost of health insurance, but at current rates of health insurance cost increases, by 2016, it'll be cheaper to pay the penalty than to provide the health insurance.
Especially given that the penalties are imposed based on "affordable" health insurance, and "affordable" hasn't been defined. Too easy under current law to pay for health insurance, and still have to pay the penalty because the health insurance you pay for isn't "affordable".
And then they went and blew whatever gains they had made by declaring that pot grown in your own backyard for your own personal use is interstate commerce.
Alas for pot growers everywhere, there has long been precedent for this.
Specifically, Wickard v. Filburn, back in WW2 (when the feds really got into this "we control everything" phase they've been in all our lives), which dealt with a man growing his own wheat to feed his own chickens.
The Feds managed to convince the then Supremes (those were still the guys that Roosevelt had threatened with adding more Supremes to the Court till they agreed with him on everything) that the guy growing his own wheat affected interstate commerce because then he wouldn't BUY wheat, which would lower demand for wheat, driving prices down.
Note that since then, the rules have been changed, limiting the Supremes to nine justices. Now the President can't just fill it with yes-men (though they still try to pick yes-men for the Court whenever possible).
Which means that the Court can, if it wishes, overturn precedent without fear of retaliation. Or not.
It's called Republicans in office and the Supreme Court.
No, it's called "the Constitution does NOT forbid this, therefore it is allowed, assuming that the appropriate legislatures say it is".
The Supremes are NOT in the business of deciding right and wrong.
Or just and unjust.
They ARE in the business of saying "the Constitution forbids this" or "the Constitution does not forbid this".
Sounds like they think the Constitution does not forbid this. Which means the recourse you have, if you disapprove of the idea, is to talk to your legislators (State and Federal - different rules apply in State and Federal institutions) and convince them to outlaw the practice.
No, the reason for the 100,000 requests per second is largely - drumroll - mormons.
No, I'm not kidding. Honestly.
Not kidding, but wrong.
My mother is an amateur genealogist, studying our family history. She tells me that people like her have been salivating over this for months, and that many of them were planning on jumping on as soon as the information went public.
Looking at your link, the most interesting thing I saw was that in Ontario, ~40% of all taxes go to medical care, and about 48% of income goes to taxes.
Which puts Canada's total healthcare spending at ~19%, as opposed to our 17%....
Actually, a more significant factor in the U.S. lower life expectancy is violent crime. When deaths from violent crime are factored out, the difference in life expectancy disappears.
Umm, no.
2010 - 308,745,528 people, 14748 murders.
If every single one of those murders happened to an infant, then collectively they reduced the national life expectancy by about 30 hours.
It is possible that quality of healthcare isn't the overriding factor in life expectancy, but violent crime, at least, doesn't have any meaningful affect on the problem.
Knowing where you are to within 5km relative to a star and some planets is useful when you are within a star system
It's not even terribly useful then. We've managed to push probes out all over the solar system without caring about their position within 5km except when they're close to a planet.
What should have happened is that we defined the rights of the government to perform actions against the citizens, and that anything that was undeclared was a right of the citizens and a restriction upon government.
Oddly enough, that's what we did.
The Constitution very carefully enumerates the Powers (not rights, only individuals have rights) of the Federal Government.
Then it enumerated SOME of the Rights of the individual.
Then they stuck the Tenth Amendment on, which pretty much said that if we didn't list it as a Power of the Federal Government earlier, then it was NOT something the Feds could do.
Alas, people in government ignore the Tenth, and people out of government whine whenever someone invokes the Tenth against one of their pet ideas....
For what it's worth, a 911 operator has no legal or moral authority over anyone.
Which makes the "order" by the 911 operator nothing more than the "advice" of a 911 operator.
Does this excuse Zimmerman? No, not really.
Does it imply that Zimmerman is guilty of any crime? Again, no.
When I see all the evidence (after the trial, likely), I'll offer an opinion on Zimmerman's guilt or innocence. Until then, I'm going to do what I'd do as a juror - keep an open mind.
Did you know that the limited liability corporation is a creation of government, not of private individuals?
Did you know that before there were LLC's, there were large businesses without the limited liability bonus?
Don't blame people for using what the government creates to their own benefit. If you disapprove of the LLC, point your anger at its source - the government that created it....
There's a massive workforce available. People will work their butts off to feed themselves. Vast farming fields - don't need 'em. Let each family work their backyard.
Seems to me they tried that in Cambodia once upon a time.
And Zimbabwe too.
Millions of people starved in the one, and the other turned from Africa's breadbasket to a place that needs massive food aid every year to avoid starvation....
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This is correct. Eisenhower was a soldier from 1915 till his inauguration, and became a General again upon leaving the White House.
Didn't actually answer his question - you've got to produce the ZiO2 once, and the recovery is never going to be 100%, so there'll be a need for steady (hopefully low-level) replacement.
So, anyone know how dirty zinc mining and refinement are?
It operates at ~1700C. You're not going to get sustained temps like that without large mirrors and large reactor vessels. So it's not going to scale down terribly well.
Hmm, you're perhaps unaware that businesses collecting sales taxes on behalf of the buyer is a...law...
So, you want to require people to obey laws of States that they don't have a presence in. Which means all 50 States.
And since we can't have selective laws ("This law applies to whites only, for instance, or Walmart only, for another instance), that means that YOU would be bound by the laws of all 50 States.
Oops. Wrong law. Megan's Law was something else entirely. The one I was thinking of is unnamed (California Assembly Bill 86/2008).
Oh, please! This is just Megan's Law carried to its (il)logical extreme. That one was done by California, as I recall...
If you do that sort of thing alone, you're NOT smarter than the average bear.
You're obviously thinking about university.
K-12 textbooks in the USA are issued by the school, and returned at the end of the year.
Not needed. Tenth Amendment pretty much makes law enforcement a State issue, not a Federal one.
Not that the Federal government pays much attention to the Tenth, what with both the Left and Right screaming for more Federal powers....
Umm, no.
What they said was that the Constitution doesn't forbid the legislature from requiring that. They did NOT say that it must happen, merely that if the laws say so, then there's nothing wrong with the law.
If you don't like it, call your legislators, since they're the ones who have to fix problems with Constitutional laws that people disapprove of.
Requiring a business (or individual) not resident in your State to abide by your State laws while they are outside your State is usually considered to be a bad thing.
Or do you really think you should be obligated to obey the laws of all 50 States, even those you've never even visited?
They can also reduce people to part-time status. Apparently, the 50 limit only applies to full-time workers, so 50 full-time and 60 part-time can replace 100 full-time, and keep you out of that game.
Alternately, if you really don't want to play, there's always pay the penalty. Currently, the penalty is pretty close to the cost of health insurance, but at current rates of health insurance cost increases, by 2016, it'll be cheaper to pay the penalty than to provide the health insurance.
Especially given that the penalties are imposed based on "affordable" health insurance, and "affordable" hasn't been defined. Too easy under current law to pay for health insurance, and still have to pay the penalty because the health insurance you pay for isn't "affordable".
Alas for pot growers everywhere, there has long been precedent for this.
Specifically, Wickard v. Filburn, back in WW2 (when the feds really got into this "we control everything" phase they've been in all our lives), which dealt with a man growing his own wheat to feed his own chickens.
The Feds managed to convince the then Supremes (those were still the guys that Roosevelt had threatened with adding more Supremes to the Court till they agreed with him on everything) that the guy growing his own wheat affected interstate commerce because then he wouldn't BUY wheat, which would lower demand for wheat, driving prices down.
Note that since then, the rules have been changed, limiting the Supremes to nine justices. Now the President can't just fill it with yes-men (though they still try to pick yes-men for the Court whenever possible).
Which means that the Court can, if it wishes, overturn precedent without fear of retaliation. Or not.
No, it's called "the Constitution does NOT forbid this, therefore it is allowed, assuming that the appropriate legislatures say it is".
The Supremes are NOT in the business of deciding right and wrong.
Or just and unjust.
They ARE in the business of saying "the Constitution forbids this" or "the Constitution does not forbid this".
Sounds like they think the Constitution does not forbid this. Which means the recourse you have, if you disapprove of the idea, is to talk to your legislators (State and Federal - different rules apply in State and Federal institutions) and convince them to outlaw the practice.
Not kidding, but wrong.
My mother is an amateur genealogist, studying our family history. She tells me that people like her have been salivating over this for months, and that many of them were planning on jumping on as soon as the information went public.
Looking at your link, the most interesting thing I saw was that in Ontario, ~40% of all taxes go to medical care, and about 48% of income goes to taxes.
Which puts Canada's total healthcare spending at ~19%, as opposed to our 17%....
Umm, no.
2010 - 308,745,528 people, 14748 murders.
If every single one of those murders happened to an infant, then collectively they reduced the national life expectancy by about 30 hours.
It is possible that quality of healthcare isn't the overriding factor in life expectancy, but violent crime, at least, doesn't have any meaningful affect on the problem.
It's not even terribly useful then. We've managed to push probes out all over the solar system without caring about their position within 5km except when they're close to a planet.
1) No, it is not velocity. It HAS velocity, but it is not velocity.
2) No, I am not position. I HAVE a position, but I am not a position.
3) "its velocity, as your position" might be a more appropriate way of phrasing things.
Oddly enough, that's what we did.
The Constitution very carefully enumerates the Powers (not rights, only individuals have rights) of the Federal Government.
Then it enumerated SOME of the Rights of the individual.
Then they stuck the Tenth Amendment on, which pretty much said that if we didn't list it as a Power of the Federal Government earlier, then it was NOT something the Feds could do.
Alas, people in government ignore the Tenth, and people out of government whine whenever someone invokes the Tenth against one of their pet ideas....
For what it's worth, a 911 operator has no legal or moral authority over anyone.
Which makes the "order" by the 911 operator nothing more than the "advice" of a 911 operator.
Does this excuse Zimmerman? No, not really.
Does it imply that Zimmerman is guilty of any crime? Again, no.
When I see all the evidence (after the trial, likely), I'll offer an opinion on Zimmerman's guilt or innocence. Until then, I'm going to do what I'd do as a juror - keep an open mind.
Did you know that the limited liability corporation is a creation of government, not of private individuals?
Did you know that before there were LLC's, there were large businesses without the limited liability bonus?
Don't blame people for using what the government creates to their own benefit. If you disapprove of the LLC, point your anger at its source - the government that created it....
So, how do you propose to prevent a politician from being mentioned on the evening news or morning talk shows without stepping on the First Amendment?
Or do you really believe the evening news only provides impartial news articles about political candidates?
Seems to me they tried that in Cambodia once upon a time.
And Zimbabwe too.
Millions of people starved in the one, and the other turned from Africa's breadbasket to a place that needs massive food aid every year to avoid starvation....