a number of people do that here in florida if a hurricane knocks out power. A lot more plug A/C units into gas generators which are basically the same thing without the truck.
I hate articles like this because they mislead people. Solar is NOT a way to save money and every sucker who is drawn in by this idea will be turned off solar for a long time.
These kind of articles always ignore the real costs and usually just look at the cost of the panels. But the panels aren't the only consideration, you have to consider the cost of the battery bank and the cost of replacing the batteries periodically. You won't get the full life out the batteries either, that constant charge and discharge is going to reduce the capacity of those batteries quickly.
The other cost is both in terms of economics and comfort. To actually be able to come close to living on that small solar output you are going to need to install all new appliances and run a water heater that will deliver luke warm water at best. You are going to have to come to terms with being frugile with power in almost action you take from there on in.
It sure will. Even in California or here in Florida you have fewer hours of sun in the winter. Since most people on solar are trying to live on far less energy than a human needs to be comfortable in order to utilize technology that simply isn't cost effective yet, I have no doubt they will be borrowing from the grid in winter.
On the other hand, unlike the northern states, power usage in these places is also reduced. In warm climate areas you stay inside in the summer to avoid the weather rather than the winter.
Simple fix, trade kwh for kwh until net zero is reached and then sell excess for wholesale. Of course you would do this on an estimated annual usage basis just like the 'budget' billing most power consumers have to prevent huge spikes in their bills during certain hot or cold months.
As for putting the power company out of business, I'm all for it. Whoever had the bright idea of privatizing a utility should be shot. Fundemental public services should not be privatized they should be public and operating in a fully transparent manner. Roads, Schools, Libraries, Utilities, and Health Care.
Or a real programmer as any good programmer doesn't particularly care what SHOULD be necessary and only concerns himself with what IS necessary here in the real world.
First of all, there are at least a half dozen or more places I can go get a cert right now with that same level of verification. You add a cname to the dns and your whois information must match the identity you are claiming, that alone will get you an SSL cert from MOST vendors. You can get one from godaddy.com right now with nothing more.
More importantly, regardless of what hype verisign uses, NOBODY trusts a site based upon having a cert. All a cert tells you is that the connection is encrypted and established with the domain in the cert. MOST people only know that the padlock means everything is encrypted.
Regardless of what a CERT is supposed to mean, that is what it does mean. The web as a whole would be more secure if CERTs were free with domain verification and everyone could encrypt connections.
In all the revolutions I mentioned they started out with a monarchy. Communism is hated here in the US but it is a clear improvement upon a monarchy.
It is difficult to claim the people suffered from being under absolute authority for a short time when not revolting would have meant remaining under absolute authority indefinitely.
Lets see, there was a revolution in Britain, France, here in the colonies, russia, etc.
Actually most successful revolutions in major nations have improved the lives of the citizenry. The only revolutions I am aware of that have not done so were coups in small third world nations.
'Do either of you have first-hand experience with someone who spoke out against the government and then "heard the fed knocking"?'
I don't know about them but I know a few.
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When you are turned on by someone other than your wife, that would be when the coveting comes in.
But technically the bible says marriage occurs upon having sex, not upon saying vows. As long as you don't watch the cumshot and the actors aren't married beforehand you are in the clear.
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Technically, according to the bible any woman becomes your wife upon having sex with her. Adultery is something that woman does when she has sex with another man, not something the man she has sex with does.
Now, if a woman goes and bangs another guy then I believe I recall the punishment being that her uncle becomes sterile.
Now, if the woman has sex with a mule, not only does her uncle become sterile but her and the mule have to be put to death. If a guy has sex with a mule the mule gets put to death.
Anyone who questions these laws of God also gets put to death. Fairly straightforward.
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As a Perl-Fu artist who has been living in a world of *nix for the past 12yrs. Let me just say that seeing someone use Ubuntu doesn't clue newb to me.
On the contrary, Ubuntu is the only system I have seen that provides functional GUI interfaces that don't cause me to have to jump through hoops to do any sort of advanced manual configuration.
I'm all for power, but someone who chooses Slack or regular Debian over Ubuntu is probably the type who likes hot wax poured on their balls.
That must be nice for you, my religious preference or lack of one is certainly nice for me. That said, what does your personal belief system have to do with this conversation?
The line is arbitrary by definition. The distinction that people are trying to draw here doesn't exist because in the real world human life is no more or less sacred than grass seed.
The line we are trying to make is akin to determining at what length it is no longer morally acceptable to mow your lawn.
Though the line is arbitrary by definition from a scientific standpoint it still is not left to us to draw it. When the baby is done cooking mommy gives birth, whether you are talking about a human or anything else. For the religious this would be the line God has chosen and who are you to question God?
The entire two party vs one party concept is bad. There is no such thing as a one party system, a one party system is a NO party system. With a so called 'one party' system, you just have several individuals standing on their own merits and viewpoints without any party loyalties clouding your judgement. With the two party system you've narrowed the floor to two viewpoints.
Elections with a single candidate are bad but that there is no reason to have any form of partisan politics.
'Dishonest men are kept honest by fear of repercussions. Honest men are honest because that's what feels right to them. Politicians are kept honest by burying them up to the neck in sand, head first.'
Sane men are kept honest by fear of repercussions or gains from honesty. Nuts and morons behave in ANY fashion because of how they 'feel'.
'we have the OPPORTUNITY to put an end to it, but not the will.'
That is the biggest problem we face today. Today we are more 'civilized' than in the past. Almost everyone agrees that our government is corrupt and that many of our representatives lie to us.
Sweeping and immense irregularities were documented in the last election. Whether you blame incompetence, laziness, or conspiracy the fact remains that the most fundemental process in our democracy is KNOWN to be compromised. The people know, the people are outraged, the people have seen it documented on HBO specials if nothing else.
The people of this nation oppose the war in Iraq. The people of this nation support medical marijuana and from my discussions most are under the false impression that marijuana is already legal medicinal purposes.
Despite the fact that our 'representatives' are known to be corrupt, our elections are known to be compromised, the will of the people is ignored as our corrupt government continues to destroy nations and murder their citizens abroad; the people of this nation lack the STOMACH and the COURAGE required to take action.
The sad state of things is that the people of this nation are no longer willing to fight for their rights. They want a corrupt government to choose to protect their interests and when that government does not they roll over and whine about the next issue they beg the powers at be to give them their way on.
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Oh yeah sure, unless of course they need it to power alaska during the months of darkness ;)
I'm not saying there shouldn't be publically available power. I'm saying the supplier shouldn't be a for profit organization.
a number of people do that here in florida if a hurricane knocks out power. A lot more plug A/C units into gas generators which are basically the same thing without the truck.
I hate articles like this because they mislead people. Solar is NOT a way to save money and every sucker who is drawn in by this idea will be turned off solar for a long time.
These kind of articles always ignore the real costs and usually just look at the cost of the panels. But the panels aren't the only consideration, you have to consider the cost of the battery bank and the cost of replacing the batteries periodically. You won't get the full life out the batteries either, that constant charge and discharge is going to reduce the capacity of those batteries quickly.
The other cost is both in terms of economics and comfort. To actually be able to come close to living on that small solar output you are going to need to install all new appliances and run a water heater that will deliver luke warm water at best. You are going to have to come to terms with being frugile with power in almost action you take from there on in.
That would be a nice idea if marine a/c units weren't ungodly expensive.
It sure will. Even in California or here in Florida you have fewer hours of sun in the winter. Since most people on solar are trying to live on far less energy than a human needs to be comfortable in order to utilize technology that simply isn't cost effective yet, I have no doubt they will be borrowing from the grid in winter.
On the other hand, unlike the northern states, power usage in these places is also reduced. In warm climate areas you stay inside in the summer to avoid the weather rather than the winter.
Simple fix, trade kwh for kwh until net zero is reached and then sell excess for wholesale. Of course you would do this on an estimated annual usage basis just like the 'budget' billing most power consumers have to prevent huge spikes in their bills during certain hot or cold months.
As for putting the power company out of business, I'm all for it. Whoever had the bright idea of privatizing a utility should be shot. Fundemental public services should not be privatized they should be public and operating in a fully transparent manner. Roads, Schools, Libraries, Utilities, and Health Care.
Or a real programmer as any good programmer doesn't particularly care what SHOULD be necessary and only concerns himself with what IS necessary here in the real world.
First of all, there are at least a half dozen or more places I can go get a cert right now with that same level of verification. You add a cname to the dns and your whois information must match the identity you are claiming, that alone will get you an SSL cert from MOST vendors. You can get one from godaddy.com right now with nothing more.
More importantly, regardless of what hype verisign uses, NOBODY trusts a site based upon having a cert. All a cert tells you is that the connection is encrypted and established with the domain in the cert. MOST people only know that the padlock means everything is encrypted.
Regardless of what a CERT is supposed to mean, that is what it does mean. The web as a whole would be more secure if CERTs were free with domain verification and everyone could encrypt connections.
In all the revolutions I mentioned they started out with a monarchy. Communism is hated here in the US but it is a clear improvement upon a monarchy.
It is difficult to claim the people suffered from being under absolute authority for a short time when not revolting would have meant remaining under absolute authority indefinitely.
Lets see, there was a revolution in Britain, France, here in the colonies, russia, etc.
Actually most successful revolutions in major nations have improved the lives of the citizenry. The only revolutions I am aware of that have not done so were coups in small third world nations.
'Do either of you have first-hand experience with someone who spoke out against the government and then "heard the fed knocking"?'
I don't know about them but I know a few.
When you are turned on by someone other than your wife, that would be when the coveting comes in.
But technically the bible says marriage occurs upon having sex, not upon saying vows. As long as you don't watch the cumshot and the actors aren't married beforehand you are in the clear.
Technically, according to the bible any woman becomes your wife upon having sex with her. Adultery is something that woman does when she has sex with another man, not something the man she has sex with does.
Now, if a woman goes and bangs another guy then I believe I recall the punishment being that her uncle becomes sterile.
Now, if the woman has sex with a mule, not only does her uncle become sterile but her and the mule have to be put to death. If a guy has sex with a mule the mule gets put to death.
Anyone who questions these laws of God also gets put to death. Fairly straightforward.
'Life isn't all about who is smarter.'
Life is not, making decisions is.
As a Perl-Fu artist who has been living in a world of *nix for the past 12yrs. Let me just say that seeing someone use Ubuntu doesn't clue newb to me.
On the contrary, Ubuntu is the only system I have seen that provides functional GUI interfaces that don't cause me to have to jump through hoops to do any sort of advanced manual configuration.
I'm all for power, but someone who chooses Slack or regular Debian over Ubuntu is probably the type who likes hot wax poured on their balls.
In other words, you don't have any actual logical point to add to the discussion.
That must be nice for you, my religious preference or lack of one is certainly nice for me. That said, what does your personal belief system have to do with this conversation?
The line is arbitrary by definition. The distinction that people are trying to draw here doesn't exist because in the real world human life is no more or less sacred than grass seed.
The line we are trying to make is akin to determining at what length it is no longer morally acceptable to mow your lawn.
Though the line is arbitrary by definition from a scientific standpoint it still is not left to us to draw it. When the baby is done cooking mommy gives birth, whether you are talking about a human or anything else. For the religious this would be the line God has chosen and who are you to question God?
The entire two party vs one party concept is bad. There is no such thing as a one party system, a one party system is a NO party system. With a so called 'one party' system, you just have several individuals standing on their own merits and viewpoints without any party loyalties clouding your judgement. With the two party system you've narrowed the floor to two viewpoints.
Elections with a single candidate are bad but that there is no reason to have any form of partisan politics.
This mistake is allowing corporations 1st Amendment rights.
'We tried having weak governments before. Didn't work. [wikipedia.org] Twice. [wikipedia.org]'
Didn't work... according to the weak government who wanted more authority.
Who said anything about giving the candidates money? We have prisoners make signs and air all debates and campaign announcements on CSPAN.
'Dishonest men are kept honest by fear of repercussions. Honest men are honest because that's what feels right to them. Politicians are kept honest by burying them up to the neck in sand, head first.'
Sane men are kept honest by fear of repercussions or gains from honesty. Nuts and morons behave in ANY fashion because of how they 'feel'.
As for the rest of your post, I'll go with that.
'we have the OPPORTUNITY to put an end to it, but not the will.'
That is the biggest problem we face today. Today we are more 'civilized' than in the past. Almost everyone agrees that our government is corrupt and that many of our representatives lie to us.
Sweeping and immense irregularities were documented in the last election. Whether you blame incompetence, laziness, or conspiracy the fact remains that the most fundemental process in our democracy is KNOWN to be compromised. The people know, the people are outraged, the people have seen it documented on HBO specials if nothing else.
The people of this nation oppose the war in Iraq. The people of this nation support medical marijuana and from my discussions most are under the false impression that marijuana is already legal medicinal purposes.
Despite the fact that our 'representatives' are known to be corrupt, our elections are known to be compromised, the will of the people is ignored as our corrupt government continues to destroy nations and murder their citizens abroad; the people of this nation lack the STOMACH and the COURAGE required to take action.
The sad state of things is that the people of this nation are no longer willing to fight for their rights. They want a corrupt government to choose to protect their interests and when that government does not they roll over and whine about the next issue they beg the powers at be to give them their way on.