If the stated goal of this charity is "to heal the climate crisis though reforestation," then yes, there is a direct link - we want them to grow forests to soak up all the carbon we're digging up and spewing into the air. (Burning firewood, by contrast, is carbon neutral if harvested at the same rate as the forest re-grows).
But I'm sure providing better health and convenience to the recipients is part of the aim as well.
I won't claim to have a good working design for this application, but pressure cooking is claimed to reduce cooking time by 70% and energy use by 50%, which sounds good when cooking with solar energy in the dark!
Perhaps you could heat up a thermal store in the day, put it into a pressure cooker and add water to efficiently carry the heat from the slug to the food. Apparently pressure cookers can be made quite cheaply. Hmm, according to the customer reviews on that link pressure cooking is traditional in India, I didn't know that.
There are different rationale for subsidies. One is to offset externalized costs such as environmental damage. In that light, nuclear power is deserving. But another is to promote technologies that are not yet economical but may become so. Solar scores on both counts, because it almost defines "sustainable," and because (largely due to government investment) the cost of solar has dropped by about 97% since the mid-70s. In contrast, nuclear is getting more expensive (perhaps not for any reason inherent in the technology). Some claim that solar is now cheaper than nuclear. (Of course nothing can be as cheap as coal - pretty hard to beat "dig it, burn it," if all you care about is short-term expenses and place no value on the air you breathe).
Huh? One of the reasons for the smart grid is to handle thousands of highly variable power sources. Life was simpler for the utilities when you just hooked a town up to a big coal plant and that was it. (Or maybe we are just talking about different things, since "smart grid" isn't a well-defined term).
If rates of the precursor were not limited, then lower priced generic drugs would be produced destroying the advantage of overproducing the expensive medication.
If by "lower priced generic drugs" you mean "people selling baggies of speed and meth on the street corner in ziplock bags," then yes. That is what the free market would do.
Because I think it's boring. It's not that I don't have the time, but I would just rather be doing other things.
Something that really helps me do treadmill is watching a movie. I once had a shelf for a laptop above the treadmill, but these days most treadmills have screens and iPod connections. I've found the best movies for exercising aren't great movies, they're 2 1/2 star action flicks. My wife has found the same thing, but for her it's trashy TV, mainly reality shows.
Even then, would I rather be doing other things? Probably. But it's just a cost of having a sedentary job. We weren't meant to live like this.
I agree they didn't change the question much. But this does negate conventional wisdom, which is, just try to get moderate physical activity into your everyday life - take the stairs, gardening, park in the next lot over. This is the opposite of that - puke your brains out for 20 minutes twice per week and then don't worry about it.
90% heart rate pretty much just means "go flat out." So, one minute flat out, one minute rest. Repeat 10 times. I can tell you right now that this will make those 20 minutes of exercise about as unpleasant as they could be. Concentrating your exercise like this maximizes the gap between your normal level of activity (none) and your exercise. I'm surprised it doesn't cause heart attacks, but far be it from me to offer up intuition against data.
Unpaid internships happen to be a big issue in the US right now due to some lawsuits filed recently. Read the article; there are lots of degree programs you can't finish without giving companies unpaid labor first. Just like in China.
Ugh, no. For one thing, your brain is similarly activated when you THINK about words as when you hear them, so this kind of work demonstrates the possibility of a brain/computer interface.
It should also be possible to prompt you (or force you) to think about the word (either its meaning, or to hallucinate the sound, depending on where you link in) by injecting a current, enabling a more direct link to an external memory, such as the Internet.
The HUGE catch in all this is it requires an inter-cranial electrode array, which is currently only justified when there is some dire medical need for it, such as people constantly plagued by severe seizures. What we really need is a less invasive way to get those into there.
There must be small businesses using VPN features of these routers (I am not implying D-Link is the affected party by the way). Otherwise they wouldn't have found so many such keys on the open net (0.4% of all keys) - certainly there aren't that many people remotely configuring their firewalls etc. If I were using one for VPN I would watch closely for a firmware upgrade in the near future.
Not really. For many people in the US, rising food prices might just mean eating steak less often. But for millions (billions?) of people around the globe, and also for many Americans unless food stamps benefits also rise, a rise in food prices equates to going hungry.
And if you expect hungry people to concern themselves with legal artifice, such as respecting property rights or water rights, you will be disappointed. It doesn't work that way. Rising food prices contributed to a number of regime changes in the last couple years. (As much as Gingrich derides Obama as the Food Stamp President, I honestly think the US would be in major political upheaval right now without them.)
Obama is spending money we do NOT have, even as our debt has skyrocketed higher and much faster than GDP.
Nobody ever said the skyrocketing debt over the last few years was sustainable. The recession increased demands on the government even while sharply reducing tax revenue. Taking on debt in that situation makes sense if you believe that the recession is temporary. If you instead believe this is the "new normal" because America's place in the world has changed, then it is a big mistake. At this moment nobody knows for sure which is correct. It's essentially no different than any business that takes on debt to get started or get through a hard time, as Ford did for example. To me the more worrying fact is that for the last 30 years or so we continue to take on more debt even when the economy is good.
And a 1% increase is actually a decrease. You have to talk in inflation-adjusted numbers for it to mean anything. That said, just maintaining the status quo is somewhat generous; we do need to back off govt. spending as the economy improves.
What? I just got a Macbook Pro from Apple, and its screen is 1680 x 1050.
I have the same. It's OK, but still fewer pixels than the 15" 1600x1200 laptop I had, what, 8 years ago? 4 years ago it was 1400x1050 in a 14" screen, which was a great compromise between resolution and size for a laptop.
A lot of the issue why it doesn't seem your new PC isn't that much faster then your old one is basically because your new video card can handle higher resolutions and you attach larger resolution screens to it
That was once true, but desktop and laptop screens have regressed over the past few years towards 1080p (high-def TV) resolutions. There are only a few 2560x1600 desktop displays now - Apple for example no longer sells one. 1600x1200 screens were available on laptops for some time, too, but no longer.
With that resolution and dual backlights, I bet the new iPad screen will look fantastic. Now give me a 'retinal' 30" display for my desktop, please.
Yes, it is somewhat different because none of the following stories will lead to state executions, but it's a little surprising how easily a tweet or something like that can get you imprisoned in the US. It certainly doesn't require any actual violent actions (quoting Glen Greenwald):
A Staten Island satellite TV salesman in 2009 was sentenced to five years in federal prison merely for including a Hezbollah TV channel as part of the satellite package he sold to customers;
a Massachusetts resident, Tarek Mehanna, is being prosecuted now "for posting pro-jihadist material on the internet";
a 24-year-old Pakistani legal resident living in Virginia, Jubair Ahmad, was indicted last September for uploading a 5-minute video to YouTube that was highly critical of U.S. actions in the Muslim world, an allegedly criminal act simply because prosecutors claim he discussed the video in advance with the son of a leader of a designated Terrorist organization (Lashkar-e-Tayyiba);
a Saudi Arabian graduate student, Sami Omar al-Hussayen, was prosecuted simply for maintaining a website with links "to groups that praised suicide bombings in Chechnya and in Israel" and "jihadist" sites that solicited donations for extremist groups (he was ultimately acquitted);
and last July, a 22-year-old former Penn State student and son of an instructor at the school, Emerson Winfield Begolly, was indicted for - in the FBI's words - "repeatedly using the Internet to promote violent jihad against Americans" by posting comments on a "jihadist" Internet forum including "a comment online that praised the shootings" at a Marine Corps base, action which former Obama lawyer Marty Lederman said "does not at first glance appear to be different from the sort of advocacy of unlawful conduct that is entitled to substantial First Amendment protection."
In the case of oil, without exception the national oil company of that country is (actually has to be) a partner in the production, and tax rates are at least 50% on everything that is taken out of the countries. I fail to see how that is disadvantaging anyone.
Oil money built Khadafi some nice palaces didn't it?
That is not to say Africa or the Middle East would be a paradise without natural resource exports. I agreed with most of your post until perhaps the very end. But I responded to the GP because the notion that Africa's problems are all caused by our well-meaning generosity is just too self-serving and factually incorrect to let go.
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Come on now, history as already played this out. 19th century London was covered in soot and it was pretty awful.
But I'm sure providing better health and convenience to the recipients is part of the aim as well.
Perhaps you could heat up a thermal store in the day, put it into a pressure cooker and add water to efficiently carry the heat from the slug to the food. Apparently pressure cookers can be made quite cheaply. Hmm, according to the customer reviews on that link pressure cooking is traditional in India, I didn't know that.
There are different rationale for subsidies. One is to offset externalized costs such as environmental damage. In that light, nuclear power is deserving. But another is to promote technologies that are not yet economical but may become so. Solar scores on both counts, because it almost defines "sustainable," and because (largely due to government investment) the cost of solar has dropped by about 97% since the mid-70s. In contrast, nuclear is getting more expensive (perhaps not for any reason inherent in the technology). Some claim that solar is now cheaper than nuclear. (Of course nothing can be as cheap as coal - pretty hard to beat "dig it, burn it," if all you care about is short-term expenses and place no value on the air you breathe).
Huh? One of the reasons for the smart grid is to handle thousands of highly variable power sources. Life was simpler for the utilities when you just hooked a town up to a big coal plant and that was it. (Or maybe we are just talking about different things, since "smart grid" isn't a well-defined term).
Well, you would have to qualify for a CDL at his pretend MVD first, obviously...
If by "lower priced generic drugs" you mean "people selling baggies of speed and meth on the street corner in ziplock bags," then yes. That is what the free market would do.
Something that really helps me do treadmill is watching a movie. I once had a shelf for a laptop above the treadmill, but these days most treadmills have screens and iPod connections. I've found the best movies for exercising aren't great movies, they're 2 1/2 star action flicks. My wife has found the same thing, but for her it's trashy TV, mainly reality shows.
Even then, would I rather be doing other things? Probably. But it's just a cost of having a sedentary job. We weren't meant to live like this.
I agree they didn't change the question much. But this does negate conventional wisdom, which is, just try to get moderate physical activity into your everyday life - take the stairs, gardening, park in the next lot over. This is the opposite of that - puke your brains out for 20 minutes twice per week and then don't worry about it.
90% heart rate pretty much just means "go flat out." So, one minute flat out, one minute rest. Repeat 10 times. I can tell you right now that this will make those 20 minutes of exercise about as unpleasant as they could be. Concentrating your exercise like this maximizes the gap between your normal level of activity (none) and your exercise. I'm surprised it doesn't cause heart attacks, but far be it from me to offer up intuition against data.
Unpaid internships happen to be a big issue in the US right now due to some lawsuits filed recently. Read the article; there are lots of degree programs you can't finish without giving companies unpaid labor first. Just like in China.
Sorry, "intra-cranial," i.e. inside your skull. Otherwise the sensing is much more limited (EEG).
It should also be possible to prompt you (or force you) to think about the word (either its meaning, or to hallucinate the sound, depending on where you link in) by injecting a current, enabling a more direct link to an external memory, such as the Internet.
The HUGE catch in all this is it requires an inter-cranial electrode array, which is currently only justified when there is some dire medical need for it, such as people constantly plagued by severe seizures. What we really need is a less invasive way to get those into there.
There must be small businesses using VPN features of these routers (I am not implying D-Link is the affected party by the way). Otherwise they wouldn't have found so many such keys on the open net (0.4% of all keys) - certainly there aren't that many people remotely configuring their firewalls etc. If I were using one for VPN I would watch closely for a firmware upgrade in the near future.
Not really. For many people in the US, rising food prices might just mean eating steak less often. But for millions (billions?) of people around the globe, and also for many Americans unless food stamps benefits also rise, a rise in food prices equates to going hungry.
And if you expect hungry people to concern themselves with legal artifice, such as respecting property rights or water rights, you will be disappointed. It doesn't work that way. Rising food prices contributed to a number of regime changes in the last couple years. (As much as Gingrich derides Obama as the Food Stamp President, I honestly think the US would be in major political upheaval right now without them.)
On the other hand, the "cool-factor" might have a big positive impact on people bothering to actually watch the videos.
Take it from advertisers, the most cheaply-produced message is not always the most cost-effective. They should know.
Nobody ever said the skyrocketing debt over the last few years was sustainable. The recession increased demands on the government even while sharply reducing tax revenue. Taking on debt in that situation makes sense if you believe that the recession is temporary. If you instead believe this is the "new normal" because America's place in the world has changed, then it is a big mistake. At this moment nobody knows for sure which is correct. It's essentially no different than any business that takes on debt to get started or get through a hard time, as Ford did for example. To me the more worrying fact is that for the last 30 years or so we continue to take on more debt even when the economy is good.
Really? Have you forgotten what a nuisance telemarketing used to be before "Do Not Call"? From what I can tell it was very effective.
And a 1% increase is actually a decrease. You have to talk in inflation-adjusted numbers for it to mean anything. That said, just maintaining the status quo is somewhat generous; we do need to back off govt. spending as the economy improves.
I have the same. It's OK, but still fewer pixels than the 15" 1600x1200 laptop I had, what, 8 years ago? 4 years ago it was 1400x1050 in a 14" screen, which was a great compromise between resolution and size for a laptop.
That was once true, but desktop and laptop screens have regressed over the past few years towards 1080p (high-def TV) resolutions. There are only a few 2560x1600 desktop displays now - Apple for example no longer sells one. 1600x1200 screens were available on laptops for some time, too, but no longer.
With that resolution and dual backlights, I bet the new iPad screen will look fantastic. Now give me a 'retinal' 30" display for my desktop, please.
Did you see this on SNL last week? Maybe not especially hilarious, but will probably be a staple in marketing seminars for the next 10 years.
Why are you jealous of them? What great thing has extremism brought them?
Oil money built Khadafi some nice palaces didn't it?
The plight of Nauru after a windfall from phosphate mining perfectly illustrates what happens when resource extraction displaces local industry and culture and then peters out. There is nothing left.
That is not to say Africa or the Middle East would be a paradise without natural resource exports. I agreed with most of your post until perhaps the very end. But I responded to the GP because the notion that Africa's problems are all caused by our well-meaning generosity is just too self-serving and factually incorrect to let go.