It is not likely 'pimp' would be used; however, my disagreement is not literally those words but that the ones that best convey meaning to the users who actually use the software may not be mainstream. A niche product with a specific demographic may use different metaphors than the mainstream or that of the developer.
That is misleading; I've heard other groups say texas has been a loser state for longer. Depends on what one measures I suppose...
Federal indirect spending is probably not being counted by them; and many things leave out the super massive corporate welfare which is not an easy thing to total up (in part because it is corruption related that whole area benefits from obscurity) while all the social programs are well tracked. Corporate welfare beats out welfare by a huge margin (medicare and social security are not welfare programs; despite the movement to mislabel them and get people to think they are part of the general fund.)
Tell him programming is just a form of math-- it is quite likely any CS professor he asks that will confirm that CS is mathematical-- since they still hold that math can't be patented.
Me, I find it odd that simple math turned into a million lines of extremely specific steps is patented broadly while some difficult solution that took 100s of years to discover that is only a few lines and is already very broad (like the currently patents given) can not be patented. Either both or neither can be.
Please. I know too much to fall for that Fanny Mae scapegoating. The two of them could have continued do poorly but it was the deregulation that allowed the sale of debts and repackaging them in schemes that were outright FRAUD which spread outside of them and infected the whole system. It didn't just cause them to collapse; the problem spread and multiplied outside of them and became far larger than the origin. Plus it was not just them, it was others doing similar (or worse) schemes and dumping their ponzi scheme like a hot potato on some sucker who bought that risk. Do you not realize how the ratings "industries" were involved in multiplying the problems from multiple sources and shifting them to others or the IRONY that the USA bond rating was lowered by the same corp who highly rated these frauds???
Madoff's biggest mistake was not better packaging his crap and selling it off (to blow up in their faces) like the others did. LACK of law enforcement, investigation and regulations caused the mess; if you can't see that you are not bright enough to be in politics. Government needs to punish these frauds and they are not... if the people take action themselves, they are terrorists. Government is not functioning and part of that is bloat, I agree, but a complex society requires a larger government able to perform its duties. I can not understand why today so many people are pushing the same old talking points that were used to create the problem.
Trouble with armed gangs? Get rid of more laws and have less police then you will have less crime! true... if their crimes are made legal and if criminals are not caught there will be less "crime".
Reduce government corruption, we agree on that. But reducing government so it lacks the power to do its job to protect the citizens (and do their will) for things citizens can not do themselves. The big corporations RUN THE GOVERNMENT. You don't see it? when we hear about the **IA trying to pass even worse copyright laws and imposing their will on other nations with lax laws; and using the USA gov as their enforcer. What about the wikileaks on Monsanto having the state dept threaten Spain for being anti-GM food? This is not favoritism; it is way beyond that... well, its more like Monsanto favoring government officials than the other way around. Powerful forces who subvert the democratic process and democratic institutions. You've got it backwards. We've been down this backwards thinking since Nixon (except Carter years, it has pretty much progressed non stop.) Clinton did little a few moves that served more as cover than anything else.
Under the flag of lowering government corruption the powerful crooks who corrupt the government create even better conditions for themselves. I remember how Bush weakened the ability of government to investigate the wealthy and focused the IRS on the little people; yeah, smaller government...
We didn't live under the rule of law during Bush either, and the democracy was dysfunctional since Nixon. Carter was the last unapproved president and he was thwarted; we've only been allowed approved candidates since. How could one think such situations remain static? Without a huge mass movement to fix the problem it continues to go downhill each year. They don't need to setup a Colosseum for mass entertainment to distract us; we already had the biggest escapist culture on earth before things got bad; it'll have to fall relatively much more than Rome before the masses activate.
You sir, do not like representative democracy. You think its better to have organizations where we the people do not have a vote? I can't actually control who is in office but the corporations CAN and DO. I can't control who runs the corporation and if I could take out the board, another like minded one would be put into place, restricted ONLY by regulation. Hell, its government regulation that created, defined, and empowered corporations in the 1st place-- they are government created organizations under private management; you have
When a corp apologizes, its the PR or marketing dept providing cover for the management's agenda. When they become activists on something that is not a misstep where even an honest apology can be believed because it reveals the agenda. They continue after being discovered with better cover or by alternative means; sometimes nothing changes except some money is put into PR cover.
You are off target; the smokescreen designed to keep you hating the wrong enemy and vilifying them society becomes ineffective at self governance.
The corporations are the problem; the 1 world government will not take the form of a government institution with some dictator antichrist. It'll be a cabal of powerful corporations pulling the strings of most the world's captive governments which placate the masses OR serve to distract people such as yourself. A system not an antichrist; systems are more powerful and more difficult to stop or recognize... For example, you can jail Madoff but other crooks just take his place and the still system promotes them; the masses are placated with scapegoats. Government systems are troublesome as well, which is why the separation of powers was attempted but does not apply to external organizations which can concentrate greater power and that is where todays problems are coming from (that and people having too many kids.)
It is rather odd you take the line that you do; given how regulations went down to the point where the economy tanked and haven't been restored to prevent anything further. How the Chinese kick our ass with their lack of even reasonable regulation and are not so great at enforcing what little they do have (they just execute 1-2 execs after a big scandal and go back to the norm.) We are a race to the bottom and unless you want to go below China they will win in the "free market" that is, until your robotics can be cheaper than exploited human labor (at which point what do most the world's people do for a living? when the lowest of the low can't beat machines?)
Religious beliefs are a powerful control method; Christianity is an old one but economic religions based upon extreme marxism or capitalism can be used too. Gods are not necessary for something to be a religion. Extremist believers in a "just world fallacy" count too.
I've seen old versions of that mask in photos dating many years before the comic. Not that the old ones looked exactly the same. Like Santa Claus, some corporation takes the image and makes it into 1 icon. BTW, Santa's red/white fatness being THE image of santa is from Coca-Cola, I read about the history of that back before the internet in this thing called a book.
It was a great film; few movies today are any good. Its not reality, it is art and it can illustrate plenty of real concepts and sometimes bring things into focus better than a documentary ever could. This is the power of art. Good art is vague enough for broader interpretation and this film is maybe a little too specific but it is generalized enough it'll continue for a long time; like how the book 1984 did; which was not "realistic" either but did a better job and will live on longer (until the book is banned by the party.) 1984 was short enough to be made into 1 movie... but it works better as a book; I'd not be against a film that changed the book if it broadened the exposure of the purpose of the book.
It is a pity if you did not understand the movie. It was a comic book action movie, those are quite lame so it did exceptionally well considering (although it did pick a smarter comic as did The Watchmen so it would be difficult to remove all merit... not that Hollywood couldn't rob something of all its redeeming characteristics.)
More pointless shallow movies need to have some thought injected into them to they can do more than just act like an escapist drug. Even if you do not like the film it clearly has a global impact, arguably a positive one giving like minded people a symbolism to gather around... Some thing a documentary or "realistic" film nobody has seen can not do. Sure there is more informative or even more motivating material out there but good luck on trying to get wide appeal and recruit new people to the concepts. V for Vendetta was way above the tripe like Spiderman which put in some phrases "With great power..." and that is all they've got (not to mention how bland such lines are; and I'm saddened to see adults quoting empty movie lines as if they were proverbs.)
160 years? I call BS. What do you do when it has problems after 40? ask for a refund? It is still a uranium reactor. Where is the new technology we've heard is 5 years off for the last 30 years?
Obviously one can't know the future-- most the solar cost projections I've been following for the last decade were pretty close to the way it happened. Its an estimate, that is true. Solar has nothing to do with Moore's law. I remember reading a couple articles saying in 2011 Solar came down to match nuclear power.
AVERAGE or mean is not a great metric to be using. Georgia is probably at the bottom while higher demand better grids raise the average.
Yes, solar and wind have spacing issues; nuclear has fuel and waste issues. Both have issues to deal with. The BIG problem under all this stuff is people have to stop selfishly cranking out babies! Power demands are going to be a seriously big unavoidable problem no matter what kind of power system; people are just going to have to pay more for power and use less of it; or have less people.
Your bias is showing. Obama IS using his lawyers and building upon what Bush did and taking it to the next logical step. He is not breaking the laws any more than Bush did (so yes, I think he is breaking them too;) he is a continuation, it is almost as if Bush was still in office on some issues. It is almost as if somebody else is running the agenda and either dictating policy moves or makes sure both parties think the same way on certain issues. It looks like a good cop bad cop situation to me; some see obama as the good cop and others saw bush as the good cop. I don't give a rip for the social issue placating either side does while the real important stuff goes unnoticed.
Just because some evil lawyer says something is legal does not make it legal; if YOUR lawyer said something was legal and you did it, you would be the one in court and being punished for it.
Bush did it and like everything else no laws apply to him. ever. Like Nixon said, its not illegal if the president does it. Only was caught with a half dozen or so; here is the top google result I found in no time: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/26/politics/main669432.shtml
How has the nuclear industry suckered so many/. moderators?
Somehow being anti-nuclear is being equated with the anti-technology ignoramuses. I personally know a nuclear physicist (well, he did plasma work for fusion so maybe he is not a nuclear physicist.) My friend is against nuclear power for many reasons that never get mentioned, including the fact the USA ran out of uranium in only 50 years and now imports the stuff when it used to be one of the richest nations in uranium mines (now Canada is #1 with about 2/3 of what the USA once had.)
7 BILLION per nuclear plant? In the decade it takes to build a plant there are always cost overruns as the politicians and lawyers find ways (over that decade) to milk even more money; naturally, once you dumped in 1 billion you can't STOP! You have to spend 10 billion so you don't waste that 7 you put in! Although, in reality the clever politicians double the costs to "prevent" cost over-runs (but in a decade those politicians will be removed from such blame.)
Can't we put that 14 Billion into getting southerners away from running their air conditioners 24/7 during half the year??
In the DECADE before those plants are built, solar and wind will be less than HALF the cost they are today, more accepted and we may have wave and fusion nearing fruition (where is the investment in fusion? bet they don't get 14 billion...) Higher prices might cause needed changes to be made everywhere else. How about a smarter grid that doesn't LOSE 10-20% of the power? When they say 10% line loss that is a ball park average; I bet Georgia probably has a pathetic power grid.
If there was anything to this next gen nuclear power we'd be building one of those-- instead we are making the same old design with a couple tweaks. Personally, the idea of passive cooling in humid hot Georgia sounds like something is wrong.
These chinese workers are really just cheap somewhat disposable biological robots-- we call them human resources; as if they were just another resource like copper. Euphemisms should not be allowed to become accepted norms. MBAs do not even have to deal with their actions anymore because they've outsourced that unpleasantness to the HR dept who work in a real life Milgram experiment.
Slaves are not entirely the lowest level; a slave like a robot involves upkeep costs and some concern for the investment in the "machine." An exploited worker is borrowed, the upkeep is an externalized cost put onto the worker if they break down or wear you can just get another one. A slave has constant motivation to rebel which has to be suppressed; while desperate workers will repress themselves. A system can provide a stronger fence than an actual fence; like an invisible fence.
One has to ponder about the day when there are not enough jobs because machines can do so many of them cheaper and we have more people and less demand for human jobs. If you raise the working environments for humans to humane levels can they compete with our robotics?? It seems to me that we are already at a turning point and mankind is desperately trying to compete with the robot to the point where beating the machines is lowering humans down to unacceptable levels. Also ponder about the low demand which means we must foster consumer addictions, planned obsolescence, fashion and unhealthy needy people in order to fuel enough growth to sustain a system that is too productive (ironically we think increased productivity helps viability; in the larger picture it does not.)
You may win in the initial sprint but the slow and steady pull is going to win the race.
Doing some ball park figuring in my head I would say it is not realistic. You are trying to have an initial velocity (exiting the gun) that is high enough that the constant deceleration of gravity and the decreasing levels of friction and wind resistance will not prevent it from maintaining escape velocity until it is free from the earth.
The amount of initial energy you have to pack has to be more than the total amount opposing you during the whole journey. Ignoring the crazy G forces involved, the speed is so high you likely have a huge temperature problem not to mention the MASSIVE energy losses you incur up to 30,000 feet where 90% of our heavy atmosphere resides. The wise move would be to exert only the minimum necessary which is greatest at the beginning but this difficult area is not a few feet you are punching through it is a long 30,000ft and then decreases from there except gravity will still be a huge problem-- if you are aiming for orbits then you are not escaping gravity so it gets considerably easier after you get past the dense atmosphere problem. So, storing and slowly releasing energy makes the most sense; you lose mass while the resistance decreases and then need less energy; in a curve matching with demands-- chemical energy is the best controlled energy source we have.
Somebody should figure what the temp of the projectile would be at such speeds at low altitude and what the shock wave would be like...probably like a bomb going off-- but how big of a bomb?
I'll agree with the parent; although, I've not read that book. Generally a book written for somebody of a particular background more useful.
Similar background for me (but 15 years ago;) although, if you have discipline and comment your code the typing issues are not a problem. I'm spoiled now; I like prefer javascript (if it only had named parameters...) If you like inheritance you will not be so happy and the performance loss from overusing the prototype system. If you are doing some major work that requires accessibility you can't. In some ways javascript reminds me more of Perl...
I recommend NOT using jQuery or most libraries. If you are just looking to expand don't attach yourself to a library that may fall out of favor when you need to do serious work later (and something else is popular.) Most these libraries are ways to hack pathetic browsers like IE6 which replace the API with different one - meaning you are not learning the standards. Not to mention javascript is used outside the browser. You can find a document.getElementBySelector() library out there and use that until DOM3 finally adds that officially (why it didn't make it to DOM2 I'd like to know!) No need to learn browser related hacks; unless you have to deal with the problem today; in which case a library of hacks may be useful, possibly just for finding the 1 hack you need in the source code.
The only upsetting part of your story is how we've let the slimy lawyer politicians shift more and more crime to severe rankings and I'm not just referring to the increase in felony crimes which is bad enough given how much policy is based upon that classification alone.
It is not a war. The American killed was an internet loser not on a battlefield. Most the stuff is police action type stuff not warfare. Oh, so saying bad stuff with the enemy is an act of war and not free speech? or not a simple police-level crime?
Article is a Troll; Fox isn't News is American PRAVDA.Ru.
Modern political power groups have a process they follow in taking out their enemies and its all "peaceful" social warfare similar to what is done during campaigns then falling down into dirty Karl Rove style propaganda. Exploitation of the US press is so easily done today they can do that at the start with no effort. If all those games fail to lower the threat to a manageable level then more drastic measures are added to the mix; abusing broken legal systems and political systems. This abuse is usually enough and does not have to go to the extreme where it is obvious to the public (that is those who are not always watching reality tv.)
Wikileaks is now at this phase in the process.
The next step after all the peaceful warfare is ineffectual, is accidents and premature natural deaths to friends, family, and/or the leadership of the group; the most extreme of course is to just label them some evil group and outright attack them based on lies. This rarely has to happen (except for nations, insert sanctions before war) because all the other methods are so effective and the few times such extreme measures are taken the propaganda lead up to it provides plenty of cover so people don't realize there is a planned progression. This culture is so well engineered to be anti-conspiracy they can't even realize that their politicians conspire full time for a living (except the occupy movement who is just behind Wikileaks in the process.) People here think the FBI and CIA conspiracies only can exist in simplistic movies and TV shows (unaware the #1 job of the FBI is criminal conspiracy and the CIA largely operates in conspiracy; most of which are beyond an action movie.)
The open exploitation of corrupt officials in the EU seemed like desperation to me as they were doing a lot of damage already-- I think they feared more huge leaks and needed to terrorize anybody from doing something like that again. If they could they would "rendition" the wikileaks leadership and big supporters PUBLICLY but they knew that would end up having the opposite effect; which is why I think that was not done back during the Bush years; the law or the paranoia had no part in preventing it.
As with music and everything else, the big USED product market didn't prevent various massive industries from being born... which are now using their power to warp reality and politics.
Infinite stock price growth is what fuels this war with their customers. Share holders are all that matters today nobody thinks of customers. The past is not enough, they must wring every cent from you in every way conceivable or the board picks a new CEO. Many newspapers that died were still profitable but not as high as desired (or they were just less profitable but still profitable) so they were gutted and the owners made away on the entrails.
I oppose wasting money on manned space programs other than getting the most research out of the space station.
Man is inferior to robots. No, this isn't a sci-fi fan gone crazy or somebody trying to suck up to our terminator overlords; it is a fact of TODAY. In the domain of space exploration robots have surpassed man already. Tomorrow, or just even by 2020 the robot will have advanced further than they did in the last 10 years-- while the humans... won't. (insert wisecrack here)
I would prefer we lead the world into a future of advanced robotics in space as well as on earth. We can leave the moon's razor sharp dust to the disposable robots. HAL can give us a ride to Mars for cheap after we jump start the core of Mars and create an atmosphere which does not turn to liquid in winter... NASA can work on planetary science (and related climate science) instead of being diverted to less immediate... "coincidental" projects.
This sick illogical reasoning has been the basis for more than just future possible violent crimes. Other thought crimes continue to have popularity in our so-called modern civilized times: Gay crimes, because promoting gay anything or just being actively gay is a thought crime against society that will unravel all morals and make straight marriage fall apart!
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It is not likely 'pimp' would be used; however, my disagreement is not literally those words but that the ones that best convey meaning to the users who actually use the software may not be mainstream. A niche product with a specific demographic may use different metaphors than the mainstream or that of the developer.
That is misleading; I've heard other groups say texas has been a loser state for longer. Depends on what one measures I suppose...
Federal indirect spending is probably not being counted by them; and many things leave out the super massive corporate welfare which is not an easy thing to total up (in part because it is corruption related that whole area benefits from obscurity) while all the social programs are well tracked. Corporate welfare beats out welfare by a huge margin (medicare and social security are not welfare programs; despite the movement to mislabel them and get people to think they are part of the general fund.)
Tell him programming is just a form of math-- it is quite likely any CS professor he asks that will confirm that CS is mathematical-- since they still hold that math can't be patented.
Me, I find it odd that simple math turned into a million lines of extremely specific steps is patented broadly while some difficult solution that took 100s of years to discover that is only a few lines and is already very broad (like the currently patents given) can not be patented. Either both or neither can be.
Please. I know too much to fall for that Fanny Mae scapegoating. The two of them could have continued do poorly but it was the deregulation that allowed the sale of debts and repackaging them in schemes that were outright FRAUD which spread outside of them and infected the whole system. It didn't just cause them to collapse; the problem spread and multiplied outside of them and became far larger than the origin. Plus it was not just them, it was others doing similar (or worse) schemes and dumping their ponzi scheme like a hot potato on some sucker who bought that risk. Do you not realize how the ratings "industries" were involved in multiplying the problems from multiple sources and shifting them to others or the IRONY that the USA bond rating was lowered by the same corp who highly rated these frauds???
Madoff's biggest mistake was not better packaging his crap and selling it off (to blow up in their faces) like the others did. LACK of law enforcement, investigation and regulations caused the mess; if you can't see that you are not bright enough to be in politics. Government needs to punish these frauds and they are not... if the people take action themselves, they are terrorists. Government is not functioning and part of that is bloat, I agree, but a complex society requires a larger government able to perform its duties. I can not understand why today so many people are pushing the same old talking points that were used to create the problem.
Trouble with armed gangs? Get rid of more laws and have less police then you will have less crime! true... if their crimes are made legal and if criminals are not caught there will be less "crime".
Reduce government corruption, we agree on that. But reducing government so it lacks the power to do its job to protect the citizens (and do their will) for things citizens can not do themselves. The big corporations RUN THE GOVERNMENT. You don't see it? when we hear about the **IA trying to pass even worse copyright laws and imposing their will on other nations with lax laws; and using the USA gov as their enforcer. What about the wikileaks on Monsanto having the state dept threaten Spain for being anti-GM food? This is not favoritism; it is way beyond that... well, its more like Monsanto favoring government officials than the other way around. Powerful forces who subvert the democratic process and democratic institutions. You've got it backwards. We've been down this backwards thinking since Nixon (except Carter years, it has pretty much progressed non stop.) Clinton did little a few moves that served more as cover than anything else.
Under the flag of lowering government corruption the powerful crooks who corrupt the government create even better conditions for themselves. I remember how Bush weakened the ability of government to investigate the wealthy and focused the IRS on the little people; yeah, smaller government...
We didn't live under the rule of law during Bush either, and the democracy was dysfunctional since Nixon. Carter was the last unapproved president and he was thwarted; we've only been allowed approved candidates since. How could one think such situations remain static? Without a huge mass movement to fix the problem it continues to go downhill each year. They don't need to setup a Colosseum for mass entertainment to distract us; we already had the biggest escapist culture on earth before things got bad; it'll have to fall relatively much more than Rome before the masses activate.
You sir, do not like representative democracy. You think its better to have organizations where we the people do not have a vote?
I can't actually control who is in office but the corporations CAN and DO. I can't control who runs the corporation and if I could take out the board, another like minded one would be put into place, restricted ONLY by regulation. Hell, its government regulation that created, defined, and empowered corporations in the 1st place-- they are government created organizations under private management; you have
When a corp apologizes, its the PR or marketing dept providing cover for the management's agenda. When they become activists on something that is not a misstep where even an honest apology can be believed because it reveals the agenda. They continue after being discovered with better cover or by alternative means; sometimes nothing changes except some money is put into PR cover.
You are off target; the smokescreen designed to keep you hating the wrong enemy and vilifying them society becomes ineffective at self governance.
The corporations are the problem; the 1 world government will not take the form of a government institution with some dictator antichrist. It'll be a cabal of powerful corporations pulling the strings of most the world's captive governments which placate the masses OR serve to distract people such as yourself. A system not an antichrist; systems are more powerful and more difficult to stop or recognize... For example, you can jail Madoff but other crooks just take his place and the still system promotes them; the masses are placated with scapegoats. Government systems are troublesome as well, which is why the separation of powers was attempted but does not apply to external organizations which can concentrate greater power and that is where todays problems are coming from (that and people having too many kids.)
It is rather odd you take the line that you do; given how regulations went down to the point where the economy tanked and haven't been restored to prevent anything further. How the Chinese kick our ass with their lack of even reasonable regulation and are not so great at enforcing what little they do have (they just execute 1-2 execs after a big scandal and go back to the norm.) We are a race to the bottom and unless you want to go below China they will win in the "free market" that is, until your robotics can be cheaper than exploited human labor (at which point what do most the world's people do for a living? when the lowest of the low can't beat machines?)
Religious beliefs are a powerful control method; Christianity is an old one but economic religions based upon extreme marxism or capitalism can be used too. Gods are not necessary for something to be a religion. Extremist believers in a "just world fallacy" count too.
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I've seen old versions of that mask in photos dating many years before the comic.
Not that the old ones looked exactly the same. Like Santa Claus, some corporation takes the image and makes it into 1 icon. BTW, Santa's red/white fatness being THE image of santa is from Coca-Cola, I read about the history of that back before the internet in this thing called a book.
It was a great film; few movies today are any good. Its not reality, it is art and it can illustrate plenty of real concepts and sometimes bring things into focus better than a documentary ever could. This is the power of art. Good art is vague enough for broader interpretation and this film is maybe a little too specific but it is generalized enough it'll continue for a long time; like how the book 1984 did; which was not "realistic" either but did a better job and will live on longer (until the book is banned by the party.) 1984 was short enough to be made into 1 movie... but it works better as a book; I'd not be against a film that changed the book if it broadened the exposure of the purpose of the book.
It is a pity if you did not understand the movie. It was a comic book action movie, those are quite lame so it did exceptionally well considering (although it did pick a smarter comic as did The Watchmen so it would be difficult to remove all merit... not that Hollywood couldn't rob something of all its redeeming characteristics.)
More pointless shallow movies need to have some thought injected into them to they can do more than just act like an escapist drug. Even if you do not like the film it clearly has a global impact, arguably a positive one giving like minded people a symbolism to gather around... Some thing a documentary or "realistic" film nobody has seen can not do. Sure there is more informative or even more motivating material out there but good luck on trying to get wide appeal and recruit new people to the concepts. V for Vendetta was way above the tripe like Spiderman which put in some phrases "With great power..." and that is all they've got (not to mention how bland such lines are; and I'm saddened to see adults quoting empty movie lines as if they were proverbs.)
They can't own the mask; it predates the corporation.
160 years? I call BS. What do you do when it has problems after 40? ask for a refund?
It is still a uranium reactor. Where is the new technology we've heard is 5 years off for the last 30 years?
Obviously one can't know the future-- most the solar cost projections I've been following for the last decade were pretty close to the way it happened. Its an estimate, that is true. Solar has nothing to do with Moore's law. I remember reading a couple articles saying in 2011 Solar came down to match nuclear power.
AVERAGE or mean is not a great metric to be using. Georgia is probably at the bottom while higher demand better grids raise the average.
Yes, solar and wind have spacing issues; nuclear has fuel and waste issues. Both have issues to deal with. The BIG problem under all this stuff is people have to stop selfishly cranking out babies! Power demands are going to be a seriously big unavoidable problem no matter what kind of power system; people are just going to have to pay more for power and use less of it; or have less people.
Your bias is showing. Obama IS using his lawyers and building upon what Bush did and taking it to the next logical step. He is not breaking the laws any more than Bush did (so yes, I think he is breaking them too;) he is a continuation, it is almost as if Bush was still in office on some issues. It is almost as if somebody else is running the agenda and either dictating policy moves or makes sure both parties think the same way on certain issues. It looks like a good cop bad cop situation to me; some see obama as the good cop and others saw bush as the good cop. I don't give a rip for the social issue placating either side does while the real important stuff goes unnoticed.
Just because some evil lawyer says something is legal does not make it legal; if YOUR lawyer said something was legal and you did it, you would be the one in court and being punished for it.
Bush did it and like everything else no laws apply to him. ever. Like Nixon said, its not illegal if the president does it.
Only was caught with a half dozen or so; here is the top google result I found in no time: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/26/politics/main669432.shtml
How has the nuclear industry suckered so many /. moderators?
Somehow being anti-nuclear is being equated with the anti-technology ignoramuses. I personally know a nuclear physicist (well, he did plasma work for fusion so maybe he is not a nuclear physicist.) My friend is against nuclear power for many reasons that never get mentioned, including the fact the USA ran out of uranium in only 50 years and now imports the stuff when it used to be one of the richest nations in uranium mines (now Canada is #1 with about 2/3 of what the USA once had.)
7 BILLION per nuclear plant? In the decade it takes to build a plant there are always cost overruns as the politicians and lawyers find ways (over that decade) to milk even more money; naturally, once you dumped in 1 billion you can't STOP! You have to spend 10 billion so you don't waste that 7 you put in! Although, in reality the clever politicians double the costs to "prevent" cost over-runs (but in a decade those politicians will be removed from such blame.)
Can't we put that 14 Billion into getting southerners away from running their air conditioners 24/7 during half the year??
In the DECADE before those plants are built, solar and wind will be less than HALF the cost they are today, more accepted and we may have wave and fusion nearing fruition (where is the investment in fusion? bet they don't get 14 billion...) Higher prices might cause needed changes to be made everywhere else. How about a smarter grid that doesn't LOSE 10-20% of the power? When they say 10% line loss that is a ball park average; I bet Georgia probably has a pathetic power grid.
If there was anything to this next gen nuclear power we'd be building one of those-- instead we are making the same old design with a couple tweaks. Personally, the idea of passive cooling in humid hot Georgia sounds like something is wrong.
These chinese workers are really just cheap somewhat disposable biological robots-- we call them human resources; as if they were just another resource like copper. Euphemisms should not be allowed to become accepted norms. MBAs do not even have to deal with their actions anymore because they've outsourced that unpleasantness to the HR dept who work in a real life Milgram experiment.
Slaves are not entirely the lowest level; a slave like a robot involves upkeep costs and some concern for the investment in the "machine." An exploited worker is borrowed, the upkeep is an externalized cost put onto the worker if they break down or wear you can just get another one. A slave has constant motivation to rebel which has to be suppressed; while desperate workers will repress themselves. A system can provide a stronger fence than an actual fence; like an invisible fence.
One has to ponder about the day when there are not enough jobs because machines can do so many of them cheaper and we have more people and less demand for human jobs. If you raise the working environments for humans to humane levels can they compete with our robotics?? It seems to me that we are already at a turning point and mankind is desperately trying to compete with the robot to the point where beating the machines is lowering humans down to unacceptable levels. Also ponder about the low demand which means we must foster consumer addictions, planned obsolescence, fashion and unhealthy needy people in order to fuel enough growth to sustain a system that is too productive (ironically we think increased productivity helps viability; in the larger picture it does not.)
You may win in the initial sprint but the slow and steady pull is going to win the race.
Doing some ball park figuring in my head I would say it is not realistic. You are trying to have an initial velocity (exiting the gun) that is high enough that the constant deceleration of gravity and the decreasing levels of friction and wind resistance will not prevent it from maintaining escape velocity until it is free from the earth.
The amount of initial energy you have to pack has to be more than the total amount opposing you during the whole journey. Ignoring the crazy G forces involved, the speed is so high you likely have a huge temperature problem not to mention the MASSIVE energy losses you incur up to 30,000 feet where 90% of our heavy atmosphere resides. The wise move would be to exert only the minimum necessary which is greatest at the beginning but this difficult area is not a few feet you are punching through it is a long 30,000ft and then decreases from there except gravity will still be a huge problem-- if you are aiming for orbits then you are not escaping gravity so it gets considerably easier after you get past the dense atmosphere problem. So, storing and slowly releasing energy makes the most sense; you lose mass while the resistance decreases and then need less energy; in a curve matching with demands-- chemical energy is the best controlled energy source we have.
Somebody should figure what the temp of the projectile would be at such speeds at low altitude and what the shock wave would be like...probably like a bomb going off-- but how big of a bomb?
I'll agree with the parent; although, I've not read that book. Generally a book written for somebody of a particular background more useful.
Similar background for me (but 15 years ago;) although, if you have discipline and comment your code the typing issues are not a problem. I'm spoiled now; I like prefer javascript (if it only had named parameters...) If you like inheritance you will not be so happy and the performance loss from overusing the prototype system. If you are doing some major work that requires accessibility you can't. In some ways javascript reminds me more of Perl...
I recommend NOT using jQuery or most libraries. If you are just looking to expand don't attach yourself to a library that may fall out of favor when you need to do serious work later (and something else is popular.) Most these libraries are ways to hack pathetic browsers like IE6 which replace the API with different one - meaning you are not learning the standards. Not to mention javascript is used outside the browser. You can find a document.getElementBySelector() library out there and use that until DOM3 finally adds that officially (why it didn't make it to DOM2 I'd like to know!)
No need to learn browser related hacks; unless you have to deal with the problem today; in which case a library of hacks may be useful, possibly just for finding the 1 hack you need in the source code.
/. is an addiction.
The only upsetting part of your story is how we've let the slimy lawyer politicians shift more and more crime to severe rankings and I'm not just referring to the increase in felony crimes which is bad enough given how much policy is based upon that classification alone.
The plants created animals simply to keep warm! brilliant!!
That is, until their new creations evolved into monsters out of their control!
Anybody notice all the banks involved with the IPO?
Facebook seems a perfect match for them.
It is not a war. The American killed was an internet loser not on a battlefield. Most the stuff is police action type stuff not warfare. Oh, so saying bad stuff with the enemy is an act of war and not free speech? or not a simple police-level crime?
Article is a Troll; Fox isn't News is American PRAVDA.Ru.
Modern political power groups have a process they follow in taking out their enemies and its all "peaceful" social warfare similar to what is done during campaigns then falling down into dirty Karl Rove style propaganda. Exploitation of the US press is so easily done today they can do that at the start with no effort. If all those games fail to lower the threat to a manageable level then more drastic measures are added to the mix; abusing broken legal systems and political systems. This abuse is usually enough and does not have to go to the extreme where it is obvious to the public (that is those who are not always watching reality tv.)
Wikileaks is now at this phase in the process.
The next step after all the peaceful warfare is ineffectual, is accidents and premature natural deaths to friends, family, and/or the leadership of the group; the most extreme of course is to just label them some evil group and outright attack them based on lies. This rarely has to happen (except for nations, insert sanctions before war) because all the other methods are so effective and the few times such extreme measures are taken the propaganda lead up to it provides plenty of cover so people don't realize there is a planned progression. This culture is so well engineered to be anti-conspiracy they can't even realize that their politicians conspire full time for a living (except the occupy movement who is just behind Wikileaks in the process.) People here think the FBI and CIA conspiracies only can exist in simplistic movies and TV shows (unaware the #1 job of the FBI is criminal conspiracy and the CIA largely operates in conspiracy; most of which are beyond an action movie.)
The open exploitation of corrupt officials in the EU seemed like desperation to me as they were doing a lot of damage already-- I think they feared more huge leaks and needed to terrorize anybody from doing something like that again. If they could they would "rendition" the wikileaks leadership and big supporters PUBLICLY but they knew that would end up having the opposite effect; which is why I think that was not done back during the Bush years; the law or the paranoia had no part in preventing it.
As with music and everything else, the big USED product market didn't prevent various massive industries from being born... which are now using their power to warp reality and politics.
Infinite stock price growth is what fuels this war with their customers. Share holders are all that matters today nobody thinks of customers. The past is not enough, they must wring every cent from you in every way conceivable or the board picks a new CEO. Many newspapers that died were still profitable but not as high as desired (or they were just less profitable but still profitable) so they were gutted and the owners made away on the entrails.
I oppose wasting money on manned space programs other than getting the most research out of the space station.
Man is inferior to robots. No, this isn't a sci-fi fan gone crazy or somebody trying to suck up to our terminator overlords; it is a fact of TODAY. In the domain of space exploration robots have surpassed man already. Tomorrow, or just even by 2020 the robot will have advanced further than they did in the last 10 years-- while the humans... won't. (insert wisecrack here)
I would prefer we lead the world into a future of advanced robotics in space as well as on earth.
We can leave the moon's razor sharp dust to the disposable robots.
HAL can give us a ride to Mars for cheap after we jump start the core of Mars and create an atmosphere which does not turn to liquid in winter...
NASA can work on planetary science (and related climate science) instead of being diverted to less immediate... "coincidental" projects.
This sick illogical reasoning has been the basis for more than just future possible violent crimes. Other thought crimes continue to have popularity in our so-called modern civilized times: Gay crimes, because promoting gay anything or just being actively gay is a thought crime against society that will unravel all morals and make straight marriage fall apart!