WSJ is just a parrot of the 'prevailing wisdom' on Wall Street. This is useless if you want to make money. They were as surprised as everyone else about the recent bubble. There is no insight or original thought here. They are also mindless cheerleaders for crony capitalism which makes them less than useless. I would only read the WSJ to figure out what NOT to do.
I appreciate the wide variety of sources that Google give me access to through Google News. However, I started reading WSJ, for example, 50 years ago (yes, I'm old) and by now I know that I won't find new ideas there. They just rehash the same old point of view (and that point of view was out of date 50 years ago). The rest of Murdoch's papers are just sensationalist trash.
I do, however, appreciate Al Jazeera. They have a fresh open view that gives me new perspectives and insights and I look forward to their text and TV offerings. I would be upset if I couldn't get access to them.
I personally have no interest in Murdoch's news sites and I would pay to have an index that excluded all of his publications. They are either sensationalist trash or blatantly biased news sources.
You could also view votes with a video camera in the ceiling and it would also give you a picture of the top of the person's head to help with identification. This would also work to reveal paper ballots as well as electronic machines. Think of the children! You could also ask people how they voted when they left the polling place and most people would just tell you! Some would lie but only because you were ugly. In other news, most people don't vote; those who do vote are uninformed; and the only votes that really count is the money that comes from corporations. I know it's Sunday but it's raining here and I don't have anything better to do than read this drivel.
(Note to moderators... I'm going for funny here but feel free to mark as 'stupid'.)
Can't we all just stick to SI units to avoid problems like this?
"The dimension of power is energy divided by time. The SI unit of power is the watt (W), which is equal to one joule per second."
Horsepower is a non-SI unit. "One horsepower is equivalent to 33,000 foot-pounds per minute, or the power required to lift 550 pounds by one foot in one second, and is equivalent to about 746 watts."
550 watts would be 0.74 horsepower but why even bother with horsepower? Only cowboys and the idle rich use horses.
I guess that makes more sense but it still seems like a lot of memory even if you count all the icons and menus on my XP desktop. I don't have any wallpaper (just a black background).
I'm home now and I notice that my Ubuntu machine has a Nautilus process that seems to run all of the time. I guess this is the equivalent of Explorer... it's using 13 Meg and goes up a little each time I open a file window.
Just checked my Firefox memory usage after having 20+ tabs open all day... 250 Meg. I understand older versions had a problem with memory and would gradually take over the machine but not in the last year or so.
BTW, why does Explorer (not IE, just basic file list explorer) take up 40 Meg? What on earth is it doing with all that memory just to display a list of files?
I have the same problem in Switzerland but it is even more confused since I live in Geneva (francophone part of Switzerland) but Google insists on giving me pages in German even though I have every preference I can find set to English. If I set Google Docs to Switzerland location, I get everything in German. They can't deal with a country that has more than one language or with people who have a different native language.
I agree. The Swiss have the best plugs. Sturdy round pins go into a recessed socket for safety.
On the other hand, the British plugs are just too large and clumsy. They look like something out of a Frankenstein movie. Also, the individual on/off switches on each socket drive me crazy. It's always off when you need it to be on and don't check it. I never want to be able to turn off an outlet.
When you have a monopoly, you don't have the option to ignore it. You have to buy from the corporation or do without.
You also have an interesting view of local government. Local governments are generally responsive to voters and don't have the power to send you off to Iraq.
You seem to have an odd view of the world. I think you have been watching too much of the 'fair and balanced' coverage on Fox. Reality check... There are no death panels. Obama was born in Hawaii. Evolution is real. Global warming is happening. There are no space aliens in area 51 (sorry to disappoint you).
How is a corporate monopoly (accountable only to their own profit) better than a government monopoly (accountable to voters)?
Of course, you might cynically say that governments have been corrupted by corporations so you get the corporate monopoly either way but in this case, at least, it appears that the government is trying to be accountable to voters.
I don't think that you have any experience in retail sales. Stuffing the channel is a time honored tactic for meeting end of month/quarter sales goals. It happens all of the time in every industry. The retailers cooperate by agreeing to take the product without having to pay for it, by having the right to return it at no cost and other creative 'incentives', discounts, rebates, loans, etc.
'Shipped to retailers' is never anything close to 'sold to consumers'. It's a shell game. That's why people build warehouses.
Good to see that Texas has this wind farm and has more wind power than any other state (but less than some other countries). However, your reading comprehension seems to be deficient because it does not say that Texas has more renewable energy than other states.
Please stay in Texas and keep working on the wind (and also your reading comprehension).
The study was from the Environmental Law Center in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (right wing think tank... Condoleezza Rice, Michael Leavitt, etc.) so it should be 'fair and balanced' but if you weren't too lazy to Google, you could have found lots of other studies that give similar results.
Actually, Stanford studied just that hypothesis and found it to be false (Google it). It is absurd to call California technologically backwards... ever heard of HP, Intel, Cisco, Google, etc.? Guess where they are headquartered and have the most employees... it's not Alabama.
As far as energy production, California leads the world in renewable energy. More renewable energy in California than any other place in the world... and it's happened because of government regulation providing incentives and penalties for the market.
Recent study by the Environmental Law Center measured subsidies to energy over the past 5 years. Coal, oil, and gas received the most ($72 Billion) and renewable (solar, wind) the lease (just a few billion). Ethanol is in a separate category since it is really just welfare for our 'free market' farmers and doesn't really save any energy and received a subsidy of $17 billion.
California has the highest energy costs in the nation and that helps keep usage down.
Due to energy saving mandates and regulations like this new proposal, California has managed to keep per capita electricity consumption flat (no increase) since 1973 while the rest of the country has doubled per capita usage during the same period. This is a big win for everyone in California and keeps us on the cutting edge of environment and energy policy as well as lowering the costs for everyone in the state.
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WSJ is just a parrot of the 'prevailing wisdom' on Wall Street. This is useless if you want to make money. They were as surprised as everyone else about the recent bubble. There is no insight or original thought here. They are also mindless cheerleaders for crony capitalism which makes them less than useless. I would only read the WSJ to figure out what NOT to do.
I do, however, appreciate Al Jazeera. They have a fresh open view that gives me new perspectives and insights and I look forward to their text and TV offerings. I would be upset if I couldn't get access to them.
I personally have no interest in Murdoch's news sites and I would pay to have an index that excluded all of his publications. They are either sensationalist trash or blatantly biased news sources.
(Note to moderators... I'm going for funny here but feel free to mark as 'stupid'.)
"The dimension of power is energy divided by time. The SI unit of power is the watt (W), which is equal to one joule per second."
Horsepower is a non-SI unit. "One horsepower is equivalent to 33,000 foot-pounds per minute, or the power required to lift 550 pounds by one foot in one second, and is equivalent to about 746 watts."
550 watts would be 0.74 horsepower but why even bother with horsepower? Only cowboys and the idle rich use horses.
Actually, the first computer I built had 256 bytes (not K) of memory. Once I upgraded that to 1K things really improved.
I'm home now and I notice that my Ubuntu machine has a Nautilus process that seems to run all of the time. I guess this is the equivalent of Explorer... it's using 13 Meg and goes up a little each time I open a file window.
BTW, why does Explorer (not IE, just basic file list explorer) take up 40 Meg? What on earth is it doing with all that memory just to display a list of files?
Just post them on wikileaks.org
I have the same problem in Switzerland but it is even more confused since I live in Geneva (francophone part of Switzerland) but Google insists on giving me pages in German even though I have every preference I can find set to English. If I set Google Docs to Switzerland location, I get everything in German. They can't deal with a country that has more than one language or with people who have a different native language.
On the other hand, the British plugs are just too large and clumsy. They look like something out of a Frankenstein movie. Also, the individual on/off switches on each socket drive me crazy. It's always off when you need it to be on and don't check it. I never want to be able to turn off an outlet.
Copyright office allows you to claim copyright for the following year for works published in the last few months of a year.
When you have a monopoly, you don't have the option to ignore it. You have to buy from the corporation or do without.
You also have an interesting view of local government. Local governments are generally responsive to voters and don't have the power to send you off to Iraq.
You seem to have an odd view of the world. I think you have been watching too much of the 'fair and balanced' coverage on Fox. Reality check... There are no death panels. Obama was born in Hawaii. Evolution is real. Global warming is happening. There are no space aliens in area 51 (sorry to disappoint you).
Of course, you might cynically say that governments have been corrupted by corporations so you get the corporate monopoly either way but in this case, at least, it appears that the government is trying to be accountable to voters.
It would give a much more 'realistic' experience if he didn't have the phone blocking the view out the front.
http://www.crumbproducts.com/comics.html
Comic book version of Genesis. It has great reviews. It's being translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Finnish, Dutch
But then it would be sledding and not skiing.
'Shipped to retailers' is never anything close to 'sold to consumers'. It's a shell game. That's why people build warehouses.
Outlook search is a complete waste of time.
Lookout is much better and I used it for a while.
However, I now use Google desktop search which is much better. (YMMV)
Please stay in Texas and keep working on the wind (and also your reading comprehension).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies
www.unep.org/pdf/PressReleases/Reforming_Energy_Subsidies.pdf
I said more renewable energy production, not percent production. Nobody lives in Norway or New Zealand so it's easy to get a high percentage.
As far as energy production, California leads the world in renewable energy. More renewable energy in California than any other place in the world... and it's happened because of government regulation providing incentives and penalties for the market.
California has the highest energy costs in the nation and that helps keep usage down.
1. Energy efficiency regulations.
2. ????
3. Profit!
Please don't move to California and screw it up.