Looks like $2.1 trillion in assets are off shore. US Treasury estimates it costs $111 billion a year. Intelligent people know how to use Google to find out real information.
Noticed today on the news.google.com site that two "stories" under the "Health" section were gibberish (kind of like covfefe) and when I clicked on them one led to an online casino site and another to a "Canadian drug" seller. The news headlines appeared legitimate. Not as dangerous but still disturbing.
The rocks also show that the Earth's (Red Planet's) climate may have been more dynamic than we thought, going from cold and dry to warm and wet, before eventually drying out. We still don't know whether life once existed on Earth (Mars) when the planet was warmer and had liquid water. But today's findings, published in Science, give a much more nuanced and detailed picture of what this area of Earth (Mars) could have looked like through time... "The lake had all the right stuff for microbial life to live in," says study co-author Joel Hurowitz, a geochemist and planetary scientist at Stony Brook University.
For the past 10 years or so I have never checked luggage. I find that I can put everything I need in a carry on size backpack. I had to drag around heavy suitcases, wait to check them in, and wait to retrieve them (hopefully not lost). I'm in and out of the airport in minutes. I travel a lot internationally for work and vacation. I've even been able to fit all of my SCUBA gear in my carry on bag on an extended work trip to the South Pacific. So, what do I do? I definitely don't want to start checking bags.
First, there is no such thing as a clean coal plant. Newer plants are slightly cleaner and more efficient but still terribly polluting. Second, they are also closing hundreds of old obsolete coal power plants. The remaining plants are only operating at less than 50% capacity (and dropping). They are installing 1000 Gigawatts of renewable power (more than the capacity of the entire US electrical grid).
China is taking over leadership of the world (along with the EU minus GB). A large reason is the abdication by the US. Trump is damaging the US by withdrawing from global trade and climate agreements. These agreements are voluntary and negotiated to provide benefits and costs to each side. The US got a good deal in the Paris climate agreement where the demands on the US were very weak. China has much stricter requirements than the US under the agreement. China will also benefit from the $4 trillion worldwide market for renewable energy products whereas we will still be mining coal and selling it to a rapidly dwindling market.
Shit happens and most competent companies plan for it by have redundant live backup systems. I can't believe that BA didn't have a live backup system at another site to fail over to. Really, this costs money but these cheap bastards don't seem to have a clue.
Per capita, the US emits more pollution. China is doing something about it (largest solar and wind installations, cancelling 107 coal plants, etc.) vs the US which is run by the fossil fuel companies with Trump as their useful idiot.
Yucca mountain reinforces the fact that there is no realistic way to store nuclear waste safely. Japan follows US nuclear regulations. They failed. You can't say nuclear is safe and not count Fukushima and Chernobyl. Real world systems are complex and nuclear is dangerous.
You've listed a number of nuclear myths in your post. There are many more pushed by nuclear proponents. Here's a rundown of the whole list before you post more: http://energypost.eu/renewable...
(I'd take a look at Myths 5 through 9 to address your concerns.)
We are on track to cut CO2 due to the availability of cheap solar and wind power. What Trump has done will just push the US towards irrelevancy. China and Europe are taking over leadership of the world. The US is declining in power and influence. Even Russia will benefit.
Nuclear is the most expensive and most dangerous power. Solar and wind are cheaper than nuclear, gas, coal, etc. (everything). Burning natural gas creates CO2 (in case you didn't know) and the methane leaks are 30 times as damaging to the climate as CO2. The US is the greatest contributor to global warming so it should pay the most to clean it up.
Free Open Source Software runs most of the Internet and has been proven to be of better quality than proprietary software. (How's is that Windows crapware working out for you?) It's great if you want to charge for OSS and if you'll provide real service, I'm sure you will be successful.
The greatest reason for inequality in the US is that our tax structure has become less progressive. During the time of Eisenhower up to Reagan, the highest tax rate was 90% and there were fewer loopholes. Regan started the tear down this progressive tax structure and as a result, we have had steadily rising inequality. The current GOP administration is poised for another large tax break for those at the top so inequality will get worse.
I believe that Cory is looking to the use of social media to organize groups of people around an idea for action. This is different than the propaganda such as the fake news posted by Russian and alt-right operatives who use this to promote their fascist ideals.
Yes, lower forms of animals are violent, brutal and uncaring. Some human societies have evolved to be supportive and caring of all members. Scandinavia probably does the best job at this... the US, not so much.
One of the major advances in human evolution was the ability to understand abstract concepts such as the nation state or religion and to recruit individuals to support these ideas. This freed humans from the limitations of small family/tribal units. More advanced societies have adopted concepts such as democratic socialism which allows governments to take care of less fortunate individuals. This is manifest to a small degree in the US where we have unemployment insurance, food stamps, limited welfare and limited health care. Other countries such as Scandinavian countries have taken greater steps to ensure that their less fortunate citizens don't fall too far behind.
I think the fact that the POTUS has progressive neurodegenerative disease which has reached the point where his extemporaneous speech is word salad and his tweets end in gibberish is a matter of worldwide concern.
If you haven't figured it out yet, the whole "terrorist" thing is a tit for tat whack a mole game which keeps the defense industry humming. We bomb them; this creates terrorists; they bomb us... Rinse and repeat. (More good news for the military contractors today... we're going to send more troops to Afghanistan... at 16 years the longest running war with no end in sight... Trump said he would end this war but nobody except the ignorant believed him.)
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Looks like $2.1 trillion in assets are off shore. US Treasury estimates it costs $111 billion a year.
Intelligent people know how to use Google to find out real information.
Noticed today on the news.google.com site that two "stories" under the "Health" section were gibberish (kind of like covfefe) and when I clicked on them one led to an online casino site and another to a "Canadian drug" seller. The news headlines appeared legitimate. Not as dangerous but still disturbing.
The rocks also show that the Earth's (Red Planet's) climate may have been more dynamic than we thought, going from cold and dry to warm and wet, before eventually drying out. We still don't know whether life once existed on Earth (Mars) when the planet was warmer and had liquid water. But today's findings, published in Science, give a much more nuanced and detailed picture of what this area of Earth (Mars) could have looked like through time... "The lake had all the right stuff for microbial life to live in," says study co-author Joel Hurowitz, a geochemist and planetary scientist at Stony Brook University.
For the past 10 years or so I have never checked luggage. I find that I can put everything I need in a carry on size backpack. I had to drag around heavy suitcases, wait to check them in, and wait to retrieve them (hopefully not lost). I'm in and out of the airport in minutes. I travel a lot internationally for work and vacation. I've even been able to fit all of my SCUBA gear in my carry on bag on an extended work trip to the South Pacific.
So, what do I do? I definitely don't want to start checking bags.
More importantly, does it run on Linux?
First, there is no such thing as a clean coal plant. Newer plants are slightly cleaner and more efficient but still terribly polluting.
Second, they are also closing hundreds of old obsolete coal power plants. The remaining plants are only operating at less than 50% capacity (and dropping). They are installing 1000 Gigawatts of renewable power (more than the capacity of the entire US electrical grid).
China is taking over leadership of the world (along with the EU minus GB). A large reason is the abdication by the US. Trump is damaging the US by withdrawing from global trade and climate agreements. These agreements are voluntary and negotiated to provide benefits and costs to each side. The US got a good deal in the Paris climate agreement where the demands on the US were very weak. China has much stricter requirements than the US under the agreement.
China will also benefit from the $4 trillion worldwide market for renewable energy products whereas we will still be mining coal and selling it to a rapidly dwindling market.
Silly fellow, silicone is for breasts (and it can do a lot for them, no tech required).
Shit happens and most competent companies plan for it by have redundant live backup systems.
I can't believe that BA didn't have a live backup system at another site to fail over to.
Really, this costs money but these cheap bastards don't seem to have a clue.
Isn't that how you fix Windows computers?
Per capita, the US emits more pollution.
China is doing something about it (largest solar and wind installations, cancelling 107 coal plants, etc.) vs the US which is run by the fossil fuel companies with Trump as their useful idiot.
Yucca mountain reinforces the fact that there is no realistic way to store nuclear waste safely.
Japan follows US nuclear regulations. They failed. You can't say nuclear is safe and not count Fukushima and Chernobyl. Real world systems are complex and nuclear is dangerous.
There are nuclear and fossil fuel shills spreading these myths. If you're not a shill, the term doesn't apply.
No, that's what followers do.
You've listed a number of nuclear myths in your post. There are many more pushed by nuclear proponents.
Here's a rundown of the whole list before you post more:
http://energypost.eu/renewable...
(I'd take a look at Myths 5 through 9 to address your concerns.)
We are on track to cut CO2 due to the availability of cheap solar and wind power.
What Trump has done will just push the US towards irrelevancy. China and Europe are taking over leadership of the world. The US is declining in power and influence. Even Russia will benefit.
Nuclear is the most expensive and most dangerous power. Solar and wind are cheaper than nuclear, gas, coal, etc. (everything).
Burning natural gas creates CO2 (in case you didn't know) and the methane leaks are 30 times as damaging to the climate as CO2.
The US is the greatest contributor to global warming so it should pay the most to clean it up.
Only those at the top have a preference for inequality.
Free Open Source Software runs most of the Internet and has been proven to be of better quality than proprietary software. (How's is that Windows crapware working out for you?)
It's great if you want to charge for OSS and if you'll provide real service, I'm sure you will be successful.
The greatest reason for inequality in the US is that our tax structure has become less progressive. During the time of Eisenhower up to Reagan, the highest tax rate was 90% and there were fewer loopholes. Regan started the tear down this progressive tax structure and as a result, we have had steadily rising inequality. The current GOP administration is poised for another large tax break for those at the top so inequality will get worse.
I believe that Cory is looking to the use of social media to organize groups of people around an idea for action. This is different than the propaganda such as the fake news posted by Russian and alt-right operatives who use this to promote their fascist ideals.
Yes, lower forms of animals are violent, brutal and uncaring. Some human societies have evolved to be supportive and caring of all members. Scandinavia probably does the best job at this... the US, not so much.
One of the major advances in human evolution was the ability to understand abstract concepts such as the nation state or religion and to recruit individuals to support these ideas. This freed humans from the limitations of small family/tribal units.
More advanced societies have adopted concepts such as democratic socialism which allows governments to take care of less fortunate individuals. This is manifest to a small degree in the US where we have unemployment insurance, food stamps, limited welfare and limited health care. Other countries such as Scandinavian countries have taken greater steps to ensure that their less fortunate citizens don't fall too far behind.
I think the fact that the POTUS has progressive neurodegenerative disease which has reached the point where his extemporaneous speech is word salad and his tweets end in gibberish is a matter of worldwide concern.
If you haven't figured it out yet, the whole "terrorist" thing is a tit for tat whack a mole game which keeps the defense industry humming.
We bomb them; this creates terrorists; they bomb us... Rinse and repeat.
(More good news for the military contractors today... we're going to send more troops to Afghanistan... at 16 years the longest running war with no end in sight... Trump said he would end this war but nobody except the ignorant believed him.)