If soda consumption returned to 1960s levels (i.e., 8-12 oz per serving (250-350 mL)), the collective weight of the U.S. population would immediately begin to drop.
I am assuming (ok, so I'm not really assuming any such thing) that you have some sort of, well, evidence to back up this assertion?
Personally, I'd bet that complete lack of diet sodas in the '60s means that the reverse is just as likely.
Especially given that it's pretty easy to drink 2 12oz sodas rather than one 20oz soda....
The USA has obligations in both the Pacific and Atlantic (and arguably the Indian) oceans.
Aircraft carriers don't yet have teleportation technology, so it takes a while to move them from one side of the world to the other.
So, we need enough in each ocean to handle any conceivable problem. Plus extras to deal with required time in port (while a CVN can stay at sea for very long periods, its non-nuclear escorts require rather more time in port) and yards (even CVNs require time in shipyards every few years, which takes them out of service for weeks to months at a time (to years at a time in some cases)).
Plus there's the thing we learned in ww2 - when you get into a fight, bring enough stuff to guarantee a win. In war there are no Good Sportsmanship consolation prizes....
Do people really remember things like "oh, yeah, I saw some telecom workers in San Jose late at night on July 17 of last year"?
Thinking back on last year, I can't actually pin ANYTHING down to that specific date. Sure, I remember seeing and doing things last year, but I couldn't tell you what I did on July 17 specifically beyond "get out of bed, eat three meals, go to bed" - don't even remember whether it was a workday or weekend, much less whether I saw any workmen doing stuff....
I assume this is mostly because the US still doesn't have chipped credit cards, or has that changed since a year or so ago when I was there?
The new ones are chipped. But the replacement cycle on credit cards (mine are usually good for five years) is long enough that a lot of unchipped cards are still out there (about half of mine are chipped, the other half won't expire for a couple-three more years).
Note that chipped doesn't protect you from credit card fraud - just yesterday I got called by my CC company to verify that I'd really bought something in Arizona that morning (haven't been in AZ in the last five years) - the card in question was chipped....
Assange isn't being extradited to the United States, he is being extradited to Sweden.
And, if Assange is extradited to the Sweden, then extradited anywhere else (the US may not extradite him directly, but may bounce him around, if they can, to find the most favorable place to extradite him from), what will you do? Eat your hat?
So, why would the US bother to extradite Assange to Sweden when the UK is much more friendly with us and much more likely to grant extradition?
The people who think we want to extradite him to Sweden so we can extradite him further always confuse me, since they're suggesting that Sweden is the most favourable country for extradition that we can find. As opposed to our longtime ally, the United Kingdom....
The public is going to be mercilessly taxed to provide themselves with high-speed internet, and the cost will be entirely on the people who benefit!
Your sarcasm aside, from TFA it looks like the town in question borrowed ~$1900 per person (NOT per household) to put in the system. They'll get that back with taxes eventually, but it's not clear whether the taxes will be on the locals or Statewide. Assuming a five year note, average household size of four, and the costs paid entirely by the locals, that should about double the $65/month that is the nominal cost of the system.
In addition, the Federal government (that's the rest of us in the USA) are going to cover ~$90M of the cost. Since the $90M covers multiple towns in the region, it's impossible to say how much the total cost of the system will be.
A single $1 billion desalination plant near LA will provide 50 million gallons of fresh water per year.
So that would be 800 such plants. 800 is not that much greater than 1. I'm not seeing the impossibility.
800 such plants would produce 40 billion gallons of fresh water per year. Since CA uses ~40 billion per DAY, that wouldn't be enough by a couple orders of magnitude.
And here I'd assumed the result was a side-effect of the "weak encryption" that was specified as an assumption. In other words, the Third Party guy won because the system was hacked....
CA uses 38 billion gallons of water per day. Well, as of 2010 they did. It may be more now. Or less. But not a lot more or less. So in the vicinity of 13.9 TRILLION gallons of water per year
The EPA says that fracking accounts for somewhere between 70 and 140 BILLION gallons of water per year for the whole USA. Of that, maybe 5% is used in places where the water could be sent to CA instead. Of course, that would mean that Utah (which is a desert) would have to ship some of its water to California. Likewise Nevada (which is also a desert)....
So, if we were to stop fracking anywhere that the water could be sent to CA instead, and send the fracking water to CA, CA would get enough extra water to operate for FOUR HOURS of CA's normal use.
In summary, no, CA's problem isn't fracking, and won't be fixed by stopping fracking....
we are seeing here a case where the French are trying to do so.
Alas, while the Chinese rulers are pragmatic enough to accept things they don't really like but can't control, the French rulers are idiots who believe nothing is beyond their power, because, after all, they're French....
And everyone (in France) knows that the French, as a people, are ALWAYS right....
It's funny that while it is common to criticize China, I don't see them trying to give orders outside of their country. It seems they have more respect over other people's laws than the west.
It has nothing to do with respect for other people's laws. It has everything to do with practicality. It's not feasible to force people in other countries to obey your laws, so the Chinese rulers don't bother (except in places they can bully/cajole local lawmakers into making nice with China (like the USA)).
Remember the Duke LaCrosse player scandal years ago? To make a long story short, on 60 Minutes one of he geezers yasked the parents why they were fighting so hard to clear all the charges and not cut a deal.
I suppose it's completely impossible to imagine that they fought the charges because they were innocent?
"Yeah, you're just going to have to sit in the sweltering heat during summer school until ThunderfuckThor69 sends us the PSU we need for a 30 year old computer made by a company very few of you have ever heard of."
Y'know, sane people make sure they have rare spare parts on hand before the system breaks. Then you repair with the on-hand parts while ordering a new set of spares.
Which is not meant to imply that that's what's being done in this case. No clue about that. But the right thing to do is have the spares on hand, unless they're the kind of spares that you can find in any hardware store in town....
Not if they have a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.
So, a dim lightbulb, in other words?
Someone should really consider getting a slightly technical person to vet screenwriters when they start using technical terms. As is, the words they put in characters' mouths frequently makes them look stupid....
Hmm, might make a bit more sense to have their IT guys discuss this. It's not like your average MP (or whatever they call them in Germany) knows squat about computer problems....
From their glorious beginnings as J. Edgar Hoover's personal commie-huntin' team to the present it always seems to be something with these guys.
While I can't really argue with J. Edgar being the root of the dodginess of the FBI, it should be noted that the FBI was founded in 1908 - Hoover didn't take over until 1924...
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I am assuming (ok, so I'm not really assuming any such thing) that you have some sort of, well, evidence to back up this assertion?
Personally, I'd bet that complete lack of diet sodas in the '60s means that the reverse is just as likely.
Especially given that it's pretty easy to drink 2 12oz sodas rather than one 20oz soda....
Manually, I am guessing. I have a different credit card for online transactions. Or possibly directly from the CC company....
The USA has obligations in both the Pacific and Atlantic (and arguably the Indian) oceans.
Aircraft carriers don't yet have teleportation technology, so it takes a while to move them from one side of the world to the other.
So, we need enough in each ocean to handle any conceivable problem. Plus extras to deal with required time in port (while a CVN can stay at sea for very long periods, its non-nuclear escorts require rather more time in port) and yards (even CVNs require time in shipyards every few years, which takes them out of service for weeks to months at a time (to years at a time in some cases)).
Plus there's the thing we learned in ww2 - when you get into a fight, bring enough stuff to guarantee a win. In war there are no Good Sportsmanship consolation prizes....
That was a year too early - 2013 instead of 2014.
Do people really remember things like "oh, yeah, I saw some telecom workers in San Jose late at night on July 17 of last year"?
Thinking back on last year, I can't actually pin ANYTHING down to that specific date. Sure, I remember seeing and doing things last year, but I couldn't tell you what I did on July 17 specifically beyond "get out of bed, eat three meals, go to bed" - don't even remember whether it was a workday or weekend, much less whether I saw any workmen doing stuff....
The new ones are chipped. But the replacement cycle on credit cards (mine are usually good for five years) is long enough that a lot of unchipped cards are still out there (about half of mine are chipped, the other half won't expire for a couple-three more years).
Note that chipped doesn't protect you from credit card fraud - just yesterday I got called by my CC company to verify that I'd really bought something in Arizona that morning (haven't been in AZ in the last five years) - the card in question was chipped....
So, why would the US bother to extradite Assange to Sweden when the UK is much more friendly with us and much more likely to grant extradition?
The people who think we want to extradite him to Sweden so we can extradite him further always confuse me, since they're suggesting that Sweden is the most favourable country for extradition that we can find. As opposed to our longtime ally, the United Kingdom....
Your sarcasm aside, from TFA it looks like the town in question borrowed ~$1900 per person (NOT per household) to put in the system. They'll get that back with taxes eventually, but it's not clear whether the taxes will be on the locals or Statewide. Assuming a five year note, average household size of four, and the costs paid entirely by the locals, that should about double the $65/month that is the nominal cost of the system.
In addition, the Federal government (that's the rest of us in the USA) are going to cover ~$90M of the cost. Since the $90M covers multiple towns in the region, it's impossible to say how much the total cost of the system will be.
Of course, the fact that the Union fort was in the territory of the Confederacy probably helped convince the Confederacy to attack it....
800 such plants would produce 40 billion gallons of fresh water per year. Since CA uses ~40 billion per DAY, that wouldn't be enough by a couple orders of magnitude.
And here I'd assumed the result was a side-effect of the "weak encryption" that was specified as an assumption. In other words, the Third Party guy won because the system was hacked....
**sighs**
CA uses 38 billion gallons of water per day. Well, as of 2010 they did. It may be more now. Or less. But not a lot more or less. So in the vicinity of 13.9 TRILLION gallons of water per year
The EPA says that fracking accounts for somewhere between 70 and 140 BILLION gallons of water per year for the whole USA. Of that, maybe 5% is used in places where the water could be sent to CA instead. Of course, that would mean that Utah (which is a desert) would have to ship some of its water to California. Likewise Nevada (which is also a desert)....
So, if we were to stop fracking anywhere that the water could be sent to CA instead, and send the fracking water to CA, CA would get enough extra water to operate for FOUR HOURS of CA's normal use.
In summary, no, CA's problem isn't fracking, and won't be fixed by stopping fracking....
Alas, while the Chinese rulers are pragmatic enough to accept things they don't really like but can't control, the French rulers are idiots who believe nothing is beyond their power, because, after all, they're French....
And everyone (in France) knows that the French, as a people, are ALWAYS right....
And corporations are most of your basic 401K (certainly they're a large majority of MY 401K(s).).
It has nothing to do with respect for other people's laws. It has everything to do with practicality. It's not feasible to force people in other countries to obey your laws, so the Chinese rulers don't bother (except in places they can bully/cajole local lawmakers into making nice with China (like the USA)).
I suppose it's completely impossible to imagine that they fought the charges because they were innocent?
Y'know, sane people make sure they have rare spare parts on hand before the system breaks. Then you repair with the on-hand parts while ordering a new set of spares.
Which is not meant to imply that that's what's being done in this case. No clue about that. But the right thing to do is have the spares on hand, unless they're the kind of spares that you can find in any hardware store in town....
What's with the "helped" bit? The House Reps were pretty solidly in favour of the Bill, the House Dems were pretty solidly against it.
I'm curious - how big do you think submarine reactors are? And how big is your backyard?
A couple of useful hints, by the by:
1) a naval nuclear reactor is bigger than your house.
2) they require an ocean to provide cooling water for the system. Though they could probably manage with a decent sized lake or small river.
3) One man can't operate a naval nuclear reactor.
4) One house can't use the electricity they produce.
So, a dim lightbulb, in other words?
Someone should really consider getting a slightly technical person to vet screenwriters when they start using technical terms. As is, the words they put in characters' mouths frequently makes them look stupid....
Shades of "The Man Who Sold the Moon"!
Hmm, might make a bit more sense to have their IT guys discuss this. It's not like your average MP (or whatever they call them in Germany) knows squat about computer problems....
Somehow, I have a hard time putting "slowly unfurling" and "crisis" together in a meaningful way.
Crisis sort of suggests something that needs to be dealt with Right The Fuck Now, not in twenty or thirty or forty or fifty or one hundred years.
Would you care to make book on that? "That" being defined as "the program will have ended", NOT "the Supremes get around to hearing it"....
While I can't really argue with J. Edgar being the root of the dodginess of the FBI, it should be noted that the FBI was founded in 1908 - Hoover didn't take over until 1924...