The US is too big to pull it off. It works in Europe because of the small size. Regional rail could work, but capital costs are too much for regional states to absorb.
The US federal government is too corrupt and ineffective to pull this off.
Welcome to the world of universal college education.
Amazingly enough, many of the college grads I interview who have sparkling qualifications are terribly uneducated. They appear well, speak well, and for all purposes talk the talk, but it is very superficial.
GM has no choice at this point. They have taken so much government cheese that they will build whatever they are told to, no matter the cost.
That said, as much as I liked and wanted a Prius, the numbers did not add up. I could get a Fit that averages 38/41 on my commute for $10,000 less than a Prius that averages 45/47mpg on my commute. The Prius no longer has a tax subsidy and 10 grand is a huge nut. I went for the cash in hand.
My VW Rabbit in high school got 60mpg, and my friends' Civics and CRX's got 40+ in the 1980's....why do even small 4cyl cars get such bad mileage today? Is it just the weight of added safety features?
So creationism or Intelligent Design are individuals or religions' way to integrate current science into existing dogma. So what?
Religions have been morphing and changing for 1000's of years for various reasons.
Shoot, most of the material I read on evolution practically implies intelligence in the process, that it approaches deism. The consumer level science outlets are the worst.
Regardless of web or not, security will drive movement back to centralized data processing. It is more cost effective to secure data in one location than it is to secure thousands of employee desktops and laptops.
Cost will drive data back to the data center. The author's assertion that modern computers are like Cray's only means that companies are wasting money buying unused CPU cycles that can be better used on a centralized farm where cycles can be distributed where needed on the fly.
The flexibility of web deployment means fewer VPNs, faster deployment of new physical work sites, and the potential to run on all sorts of devices.
Marijuana is illegal because it is impossible to tax. It is as easy to grow as a tomato on your window sill, and "regulators" to control personal crops versus government licensed crops would cost just as much as enforcement does today.
The majority of "SUVs" are light pickup trucks, and they are the lifeblood of the working class. Landscapers, yard cutters, painters, plumbers, etc etc all require pickups.
Digital distribution will get killed by the ISP's and their bandwidth throttling in the US. It competes directly with their core content distribution model. Disk is still the high-bandwidth, lowest cost distribution model for 20GB files in the current environment.
Sony's BR 2.0 spec with a hybrid digital-physical model is the best fit.
The "dignity of man" referenced by the Catholic Pope, regardless of modern religion, is the basis of the enlightenment and of all modern secular humanist societies and of the concept of human rights. Once the concept of innate human dignity is gone, you end up with societies where human beings are nothing more than raw material for the State machine. As the concept fades you see inhumane state practices appear such as denying health care to the obese in the UK or mandatory abortions in China. The needs of people can be ignored when they become inconvenient or expensive to the state if there is no innate dignity of man.
I think coders are the next textile workers. The entire US market will get decimated by the global economy except for very closed, security obsessed markets.
It seems to me that Mac and Linux users fall into the standard percentage of the population who "gets it" and a huge percentage of windows users just accept it. As long as users have to take action and break out of the mainstream to use something other than MS, the percentages will be low.
Don't buy music. Don't buy movies. Don't download music or visit streaming sites. Don't go to the movies. Don't watch TV or listen to the radio. Just drop all commercial content.
If you need a content fix, buy music directly from unsigned artists. Go to concerts. See local bands. Go to a live theater.
Regardless. Federal taxes have been collected and redistributed to the ISP's to fund rural "information superhighway" infrastructure. Where did the money go? Did the ISP's just steal it and refuse to build the infrastructure? Do we need to recover the funds through taxes on the ISPs themselves? It has been paid for, now it needs to be built.
Second, internet access in rural areas is a huge boon to job growth in those areas where land is cheap. It is a win for everyone involved. I'd rather "outsource" to rural America than to India.
Third, huge urban sprawl is an ecological nightmare. The government needs to provide incentives to redistribute populations on a wider geographic basis. Not having access to basic business infrastructure makes this very very hard.
Math underlies everything, and everything can be expressed mathematically. Wishing it away will not make it so. I wish it were not the case because I have always struggled with high order mathematics.
The reality is that the radical environmentalists are right: the worlds population needs to be reduced to 1 billion souls. The remaining 5 billion along with the livestock and industrial infrastructure needed to keep them going need to vanish.
IMO, biofuels are just one way that environmentalists want to cull the herd.
Now that I have gotten that conspiracy theory off my chest, green friends have told me that bio-fuels are carbon neutral because they do not add any net new carbon to the cycle, but they do accelerate the cycle. Fossil fuels are bad because they add net new carbon, sequestered millions of years ago, to the cycle. Ironically, due to the industrial infrastructure & processes, materials and transportation required to build a Toyota Prius, the vehicle is actually very bad for the environment.
The EU regularly makes it clear that they have no interest in bringing Turkey into the EU. So I would expect Turkey to recoil the other direction and become less secular and more middle eastern in its orientation.
On top of that the EU regularly censors web material for a variety of reasons.
Papers are the ideal way to test the writers skill at synthesis of existing ideas and facts. It is the only to way to measure original thought and ability. For disciplines like History, Literature, Law, Philosophy and many others it is the only way to present research or test students.
Writing improves writing and verbal skills. For most people the only time they truly write is school papers.
And if you think a government will do anything with this power other than tax the population you are foolish. They will do nothing meaningful to reduce carbon emission.
The reality is that the ONLY way to reduce the carbon output of humans is to reduce the human population, associated livestock populations and the industrial output needed to sustain them by roughly 1/3. When the US and the EU do go green, billions will die as a result and poof problem solved. Along with the reduction in population you will need to require that all trade be limited to a 100 mile radius, that urban populations be dispersed, and auto, plastics, concrete, steel, computer, and other energy and carbon intensive heavy industries.
Jeez, what kind of fascistic bent this post had. Who cares what people think. My guess is that world wide, well over 50% believe in some kind of creation myth/faith instead of evolution. Do you think the 1 billion Muslims believe in evolution? The 1 billion Catholics? The 1 billion Buddhists?
The fact is that forcing people to recant their religious faith in favor of Evolution is just as wrong as religions forcing scientists to recant their beliefs in favor of religious dogma.
Microsoft doesn't just want "market share," it wants to make money. Apple wants the same thing, it is just achieving that more successfully.
What is this guy thinking? Based on the quarterly reports for the last decade or more MS has been wildly more successful at achieving the goal of making money.
This is the most inane story I've seen in a while. Playing sports DOES burn more calories than watching TV all day. Doing physical labor DOES burn more calories than sitting in a cube in front of a computer. Therefore, their testing must be flawed or they count some useless amount of time doing "sports" as exercise.
Running 20 minutes on a treadmill probably does nothing, but running 5-10 miles a day for 30-60 minutes burns a whole heck of a lot of calories and will waste you away to nothing.
Also the type of sports has a huge difference. My normal weight is 175lbs. When I ran long distance in high school (17-19 yrs old) I weighed 145-155. When I played rugby in college (19-22) I weighed 180-185 lbs. Running burns so many calories your muscles drop down to their bare minimum. Rugby builds mass and weight. I was equally fit in either sport.
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The US is too big to pull it off. It works in Europe because of the small size. Regional rail could work, but capital costs are too much for regional states to absorb.
The US federal government is too corrupt and ineffective to pull this off.
Welcome to the world of universal college education.
Amazingly enough, many of the college grads I interview who have sparkling qualifications are terribly uneducated. They appear well, speak well, and for all purposes talk the talk, but it is very superficial.
GM has no choice at this point. They have taken so much government cheese that they will build whatever they are told to, no matter the cost.
That said, as much as I liked and wanted a Prius, the numbers did not add up. I could get a Fit that averages 38/41 on my commute for $10,000 less than a Prius that averages 45/47mpg on my commute. The Prius no longer has a tax subsidy and 10 grand is a huge nut. I went for the cash in hand.
My VW Rabbit in high school got 60mpg, and my friends' Civics and CRX's got 40+ in the 1980's....why do even small 4cyl cars get such bad mileage today? Is it just the weight of added safety features?
So creationism or Intelligent Design are individuals or religions' way to integrate current science into existing dogma. So what?
Religions have been morphing and changing for 1000's of years for various reasons.
Shoot, most of the material I read on evolution practically implies intelligence in the process, that it approaches deism. The consumer level science outlets are the worst.
34 trillion won divided by 120,000 new jobs....ouch.
Regardless of web or not, security will drive movement back to centralized data processing. It is more cost effective to secure data in one location than it is to secure thousands of employee desktops and laptops.
Cost will drive data back to the data center. The author's assertion that modern computers are like Cray's only means that companies are wasting money buying unused CPU cycles that can be better used on a centralized farm where cycles can be distributed where needed on the fly.
The flexibility of web deployment means fewer VPNs, faster deployment of new physical work sites, and the potential to run on all sorts of devices.
Marijuana is illegal because it is impossible to tax. It is as easy to grow as a tomato on your window sill, and "regulators" to control personal crops versus government licensed crops would cost just as much as enforcement does today.
The majority of "SUVs" are light pickup trucks, and they are the lifeblood of the working class. Landscapers, yard cutters, painters, plumbers, etc etc all require pickups.
Digital distribution will get killed by the ISP's and their bandwidth throttling in the US. It competes directly with their core content distribution model. Disk is still the high-bandwidth, lowest cost distribution model for 20GB files in the current environment.
Sony's BR 2.0 spec with a hybrid digital-physical model is the best fit.
The "dignity of man" referenced by the Catholic Pope, regardless of modern religion, is the basis of the enlightenment and of all modern secular humanist societies and of the concept of human rights. Once the concept of innate human dignity is gone, you end up with societies where human beings are nothing more than raw material for the State machine. As the concept fades you see inhumane state practices appear such as denying health care to the obese in the UK or mandatory abortions in China. The needs of people can be ignored when they become inconvenient or expensive to the state if there is no innate dignity of man.
I think coders are the next textile workers. The entire US market will get decimated by the global economy except for very closed, security obsessed markets.
If you pay $450 for a basic web/email computer you got ripped off. Which is the entire point of the $200 walmart PC.
Any router that passes your packets can be abused to spy on you and where you go. It is that simple.
It seems to me that Mac and Linux users fall into the standard percentage of the population who "gets it" and a huge percentage of windows users just accept it. As long as users have to take action and break out of the mainstream to use something other than MS, the percentages will be low.
It is very simple...boycott.
Don't buy music. Don't buy movies. Don't download music or visit streaming sites. Don't go to the movies. Don't watch TV or listen to the radio. Just drop all commercial content.
If you need a content fix, buy music directly from unsigned artists. Go to concerts. See local bands. Go to a live theater.
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Regardless. Federal taxes have been collected and redistributed to the ISP's to fund rural "information superhighway" infrastructure. Where did the money go? Did the ISP's just steal it and refuse to build the infrastructure? Do we need to recover the funds through taxes on the ISPs themselves? It has been paid for, now it needs to be built.
Second, internet access in rural areas is a huge boon to job growth in those areas where land is cheap. It is a win for everyone involved. I'd rather "outsource" to rural America than to India.
Third, huge urban sprawl is an ecological nightmare. The government needs to provide incentives to redistribute populations on a wider geographic basis. Not having access to basic business infrastructure makes this very very hard.
Math underlies everything, and everything can be expressed mathematically. Wishing it away will not make it so. I wish it were not the case because I have always struggled with high order mathematics.
The reality is that the radical environmentalists are right: the worlds population needs to be reduced to 1 billion souls. The remaining 5 billion along with the livestock and industrial infrastructure needed to keep them going need to vanish.
IMO, biofuels are just one way that environmentalists want to cull the herd.
Now that I have gotten that conspiracy theory off my chest, green friends have told me that bio-fuels are carbon neutral because they do not add any net new carbon to the cycle, but they do accelerate the cycle. Fossil fuels are bad because they add net new carbon, sequestered millions of years ago, to the cycle. Ironically, due to the industrial infrastructure & processes, materials and transportation required to build a Toyota Prius, the vehicle is actually very bad for the environment.
The EU regularly makes it clear that they have no interest in bringing Turkey into the EU. So I would expect Turkey to recoil the other direction and become less secular and more middle eastern in its orientation.
On top of that the EU regularly censors web material for a variety of reasons.
Papers are the ideal way to test the writers skill at synthesis of existing ideas and facts. It is the only to way to measure original thought and ability. For disciplines like History, Literature, Law, Philosophy and many others it is the only way to present research or test students.
Writing improves writing and verbal skills. For most people the only time they truly write is school papers.
Yet another dumbing down of the education system.
And if you think a government will do anything with this power other than tax the population you are foolish. They will do nothing meaningful to reduce carbon emission.
The reality is that the ONLY way to reduce the carbon output of humans is to reduce the human population, associated livestock populations and the industrial output needed to sustain them by roughly 1/3. When the US and the EU do go green, billions will die as a result and poof problem solved. Along with the reduction in population you will need to require that all trade be limited to a 100 mile radius, that urban populations be dispersed, and auto, plastics, concrete, steel, computer, and other energy and carbon intensive heavy industries.
And NO government will do that.
Oh boy, now the EPA can regulate breathing, how often, how much, how deeply.
All those mammals...they just gotta go.
Jeez, what kind of fascistic bent this post had. Who cares what people think. My guess is that world wide, well over 50% believe in some kind of creation myth/faith instead of evolution. Do you think the 1 billion Muslims believe in evolution? The 1 billion Catholics? The 1 billion Buddhists?
The fact is that forcing people to recant their religious faith in favor of Evolution is just as wrong as religions forcing scientists to recant their beliefs in favor of religious dogma.
This is the most inane story I've seen in a while. Playing sports DOES burn more calories than watching TV all day. Doing physical labor DOES burn more calories than sitting in a cube in front of a computer. Therefore, their testing must be flawed or they count some useless amount of time doing "sports" as exercise.
Running 20 minutes on a treadmill probably does nothing, but running 5-10 miles a day for 30-60 minutes burns a whole heck of a lot of calories and will waste you away to nothing.
Also the type of sports has a huge difference. My normal weight is 175lbs. When I ran long distance in high school (17-19 yrs old) I weighed 145-155. When I played rugby in college (19-22) I weighed 180-185 lbs. Running burns so many calories your muscles drop down to their bare minimum. Rugby builds mass and weight. I was equally fit in either sport.