Actually, we need to require boot camp of ALL 18 y.o.s, and then have a draft for 2 year terms with no non-medical excuses ( other than religious reason ). But yeah, rich ppl's kids need to be in the same boat.
Far too many ppl today, do not realize the real threat that is out there. Only once they work/serve in DoD or in our intelligence world, will they find out that the threats out there are VERY real.
Baloney.
Look, employees SHOULD have a say in what happens. It does not mean that they should DECIDE what goes on, but they absolutely should have the right to voice issues to Chairman on down. Somebody erred in outing this letter. It should have remained within MS, just like that one idiot who was fired from Google should have had his postings not aired outside (whomever did that, should have been fired).
First, the question should be what is a server network going to be used for?
The answer is that this is NOT a weapon. It may be used to TRACK weapons. It may be used to track how effective (i.e. lethal) a weapon is. It may be used to hold intelligence about a field, a base, etc. It may also be used to track terrorists and enemy movements.
Far more likely, it would become ALL OF THAT.
BUT, even when tracking terrorists, it is not about killing them and everything around them. The military does this stuff to not only track a terrorists, but try to figure out when they are away from civilians, and ideally around other terrorists. It does no good for ANY military to kill civilians. They know that. That is why Russia and China go to great lengths to NOT take responsibility for their actions (such as blowing planes out of the sky, re-education camps, invasions of India, Phillipines, Japan, etc). America's DoD, in fact, I would say the western military, work hard to limit collateral damage.
I would imagine that THIS CLOUD would likely be used for such things.
Secondly, it is worth nothing that both Russia and China are working hard on such things. Most likely if they, esp China, ever feel that they ahve a military advantage, they WILL attack on a full-scale war. This is not as true for Russia since they KNOW that MAD would likely occur. BUT, the majority of CHinese leaders, including Xi, believe that not only is a war with the west ultimately winnable, but more importantly, a nuclear war is winnable. IOW, the majority of Chinese leaders do not accept the MAD premise. As such, the only real way to stop this war, is to make sure that the west remains militarily stronger than CHina (not just strong; it has to be that Chinese leaders KNOW that they can not win a regular war with the west, esp against Taiwan, Japan, Philippines, India, etc, or nations that CHina has historically invaded ).
All in all, it is in Google's and MS's, AND THEIR EMPLOYEES, best interest to do this work. If need be, then both companies should spin off side companies and let them do the work. I am sure that plenty of employees will be able to get clearance and then do the work.
we continue to allow additional coal plants to be built. Worse, in the west, we are shutting down Nuclear power plants and what is Germany replacing them with? COAL. What is California going to replace their's with? NAT GAS.
Wow.
I'm opposed to fighting for net neutrality ( better to let local gov put in competition and waste of time ), but have to say, great logic on your post, and spot on.
The BFS is NOT a human carrier. It is a vehicle that has 3 different version of fuel depot, Cargo Carrier, and lastly Human carrier . The cargo version of BFR/BFS will take 150 tonnes to LEO, and still land the BFR.
There is zero chance of Co2 dropping because of China, but mostly those that defend CHina's need to burn coal.
It is the far lefties, as well as those paid to troll, that are the worse. If all ppl would push govs to cut back, then issue would be solved. But so not going to happen
Oddly, China is using their coal plants ar 50-60%, and yet, they continue to add many more new coal plants. In fact, much more than they are adding in AE.
China's coal consumption appears to be rising at a rapid rate in 2018, erasing several years of low growth and environmental restraint.
In the first five months of the year, China used 870 million metric tons of "thermal" coal, a 12-percent increase from a year earlier, the government's top planning agency said on June 21.
Until China quits ADDING new coal plants and refrains from using more coal, it will only go up.
The entire west, will not burn 12% less. America MIGHT burn 12% less coal (though trump is trying to reverse that), but I doubt it. We still have more coal plants to shut down first. The biggest is the navajo plant. Once that is shut down, it will drop America's coal use down some 1-2%.
And the massive amount of solar./wind is NOTHING compared to what both Europe AND AMERICA is doing in per capita fashion. China remains at the bottom for adding that, while they are the TOP at ADDING new coal plants.
U have it backkwards. Baseload came about because it was observed that we have a floor amount of electricity that is used. As such, it became cheap to design, add, and run 'baseload' power plants. And it still remains the cheapest to do so.
Ppl like you are the problem. You did not even read the article. In it, they state that America dropped 1/3 of our coal production over the last 7 years. And these were the worst for emissions. America has not built a new coal in some 7 years.
And by end of 2021, America's coal plants should be below 1/2 of our peak.
But the fact you think other nations , es China is cutting back, is the real problem.
Neither China nor India have to cutback coal. They simply have to stop adding new coal plants. In fact, all nations have to stop adding them. Then let the old plants retire. Ideanlly, they would be replaced with nukes, or AE, but even replacing with new fossil fuel plants that burn cleaner and emit less co2 would work.
Can not happen since too many ppl consider it ok for 3rd world and China, to add new coal plants. China is ADDing, not just replacing, more new coal to China alone, than the America has by 2030. And they are adding to china/3rd world more than the entire west has has. U less we stop adding new coal, we lose. BTW, replacing old coal with new coal plants that burn less coal or new Nat gas plants, work as well. Ideally, we would replace with AE along with nukes.
funny thing is, that Lexus, Caddy, nearly all german cars, all sell for $50+K.
And yet, the retarded one does not care about that.
The funny thing is, that Tesla is not really increasing the market. They are replacing those car sales. IOW, they are taking sales away from the other car makers esp. the German, and Japanese luxury cars.
huh.
America is 5% of the world's population. In fact, the entire western nations, alone, is more than 1/6 of the world population. Just in western nations, There are some 1.5 trillion with an median salary of ~$40K. That means that 1/3 of these could easily afford these (and with prices going down, many more will). So, yes, there is an easy 500 million that can afford the premium M3. Once the base M3 starts, then we are up to an easy 3/4T. And none of that includes the fact that Tesla will start $25K vehicles within 2-3 years, with $15K within 6 years.
Yes, yes, yes.
Musk has broken YOUR ideas of "fundamentals". However, your idea is based on short-term profits.
Musk, and Rei's, along with others such as myself, is based on GROWTH and getting the company to be able to add a factory and have its lines up to maximum production in under 6 months. M3, like MS/MX, has relatively low production costs (compared to other companies), and all of the money is going into R&D (hignest % in the industry; most are around 3-5%; Tesla is something like 20%) as well as building out a massive EV charging system (way ahead of anything else). However, yes, if has been failing your GAAP for short-term profits. But, I will guess that the bleeding stops by end of year.
So, yeah, Rei is right that Musk has the fundamentals down. Oddly, prior to 1980, Musk would be held in the highest accolades in America. Now, we have nothing but multiple monopolistic companies, a bought political party (the GOP), and a large number of trolls that run around denigrating the man and his companies.
In fact, once Tesla is set-up for on-going profitability, I have no doubt that Musk will finally put a decent non-MBA, engineer president in place and let them take over. At this moment, Tesla needs Musk to survive, but, I suspect by 2020, that will no longer be the case.
Need a ba330 ( or even a BA Sundancer ) with a tug to push it around. That could be used to move around leo, esp from ISS to another private space station.
I grew up just west of Zion plant. Even use to fish both on-shore/off-shore of it (attracked alewives, which attracted coho). I really think that putting NEW 4th gen SMR reactors on-site is the way to go, and then simply replace the old ones with these. Once these 2'nd, 2.5, and 3rd gen are hitting 50+ years old, they have issues. The new 4th gen SMRs SHOULD be economical as well. Unlike the massive 1gw reactors that had to be built ON-SITE and then torn down on-site, these SMRs are easy to install and easy to remove.
there are TONNES, not just a fuck ton, of nuclear fuel sitting around at those sites. That is why we need to put in new 4th gen reactors that can use that fuel and get it down to a minor amount.
As it is, if we really want to get rid of it, simply re-start YUCCA and put it down there. BUT, that would be a true waste of fuel.
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Actually, we need to require boot camp of ALL 18 y.o.s, and then have a draft for 2 year terms with no non-medical excuses ( other than religious reason ). But yeah, rich ppl's kids need to be in the same boat.
Far too many ppl today, do not realize the real threat that is out there. Only once they work/serve in DoD or in our intelligence world, will they find out that the threats out there are VERY real.
Baloney.
Look, employees SHOULD have a say in what happens. It does not mean that they should DECIDE what goes on, but they absolutely should have the right to voice issues to Chairman on down. Somebody erred in outing this letter. It should have remained within MS, just like that one idiot who was fired from Google should have had his postings not aired outside (whomever did that, should have been fired).
First, the question should be what is a server network going to be used for? The answer is that this is NOT a weapon. It may be used to TRACK weapons. It may be used to track how effective (i.e. lethal) a weapon is. It may be used to hold intelligence about a field, a base, etc. It may also be used to track terrorists and enemy movements.
Far more likely, it would become ALL OF THAT.
BUT, even when tracking terrorists, it is not about killing them and everything around them. The military does this stuff to not only track a terrorists, but try to figure out when they are away from civilians, and ideally around other terrorists. It does no good for ANY military to kill civilians. They know that. That is why Russia and China go to great lengths to NOT take responsibility for their actions (such as blowing planes out of the sky, re-education camps, invasions of India, Phillipines, Japan, etc). America's DoD, in fact, I would say the western military, work hard to limit collateral damage.
I would imagine that THIS CLOUD would likely be used for such things.
Secondly, it is worth nothing that both Russia and China are working hard on such things. Most likely if they, esp China, ever feel that they ahve a military advantage, they WILL attack on a full-scale war. This is not as true for Russia since they KNOW that MAD would likely occur. BUT, the majority of CHinese leaders, including Xi, believe that not only is a war with the west ultimately winnable, but more importantly, a nuclear war is winnable. IOW, the majority of Chinese leaders do not accept the MAD premise. As such, the only real way to stop this war, is to make sure that the west remains militarily stronger than CHina (not just strong; it has to be that Chinese leaders KNOW that they can not win a regular war with the west, esp against Taiwan, Japan, Philippines, India, etc, or nations that CHina has historically invaded ).
All in all, it is in Google's and MS's, AND THEIR EMPLOYEES, best interest to do this work. If need be, then both companies should spin off side companies and let them do the work. I am sure that plenty of employees will be able to get clearance and then do the work.
we continue to allow additional coal plants to be built. Worse, in the west, we are shutting down Nuclear power plants and what is Germany replacing them with? COAL. What is California going to replace their's with? NAT GAS.
IOW, they are moving to FUCKING FOSSIL FUEL.
Wow. I'm opposed to fighting for net neutrality ( better to let local gov put in competition and waste of time ), but have to say, great logic on your post, and spot on.
The BFS is NOT a human carrier. It is a vehicle that has 3 different version of fuel depot, Cargo Carrier, and lastly Human carrier . The cargo version of BFR/BFS will take 150 tonnes to LEO, and still land the BFR.
CoalSwarm published a report on September 26 warning that 259 gigawatts of coal power capacity – equivalent to the entire coal power fleet of the United States – is being built in China despite government policies restricting new builds.
How funny. This was known more than 1.5 years ago, and yet, Coal Swarm did not report it. Now, they finally report PART of it. They are reporting the ADDITIONAL NEW coal plants. Not the replacement.
There is zero chance of Co2 dropping because of China, but mostly those that defend CHina's need to burn coal.
It is the far lefties, as well as those paid to troll, that are the worse. If all ppl would push govs to cut back, then issue would be solved. But so not going to happen
Oddly, China is using their coal plants ar 50-60%, and yet, they continue to add many more new coal plants. In fact, much more than they are adding in AE.
thank you.
Sadly, Caffeinated Bacon/Crimson Tsunami just loves to troll here with loads of lies.
China's coal consumption appears to be rising at a rapid rate in 2018, erasing several years of low growth and environmental restraint.
In the first five months of the year, China used 870 million metric tons of "thermal" coal, a 12-percent increase from a year earlier, the government's top planning agency said on June 21.
Until China quits ADDING new coal plants and refrains from using more coal, it will only go up.
The entire west, will not burn 12% less. America MIGHT burn 12% less coal (though trump is trying to reverse that), but I doubt it. We still have more coal plants to shut down first. The biggest is the navajo plant. Once that is shut down, it will drop America's coal use down some 1-2%.
Caffinated Bacon/Crimson Tsunami: The gutless lying Chinese pig.
In the first five months of the year, China used 870 million metric tons of "thermal" coal, a 12-percent increase from a year earlier, the government's top planning agency said on June 21.
America continues to drop, while your nation continues to increase.
And the massive amount of solar./wind is NOTHING compared to what both Europe AND AMERICA is doing in per capita fashion. China remains at the bottom for adding that, while they are the TOP at ADDING new coal plants.
Caffinated Bacon/Crimson Tsunami: The gutless lying Chinese pig.
In the first five months of the year, China used 870 million metric tons of "thermal" coal, a 12-percent increase from a year earlier, the government's top planning agency said on June 21.
America continues to drop, while your nation continues to increase.
China is overbuilt already on powerplants. They dump electricity.
U have it backkwards. Baseload came about because it was observed that we have a floor amount of electricity that is used. As such, it became cheap to design, add, and run 'baseload' power plants. And it still remains the cheapest to do so.
Ppl like you are the problem. You did not even read the article. In it, they state that America dropped 1/3 of our coal production over the last 7 years. And these were the worst for emissions. America has not built a new coal in some 7 years. And by end of 2021, America's coal plants should be below 1/2 of our peak. But the fact you think other nations , es China is cutting back, is the real problem.
Neither China nor India have to cutback coal. They simply have to stop adding new coal plants. In fact, all nations have to stop adding them. Then let the old plants retire. Ideanlly, they would be replaced with nukes, or AE, but even replacing with new fossil fuel plants that burn cleaner and emit less co2 would work.
Can not happen since too many ppl consider it ok for 3rd world and China, to add new coal plants. China is ADDing, not just replacing, more new coal to China alone, than the America has by 2030. And they are adding to china/3rd world more than the entire west has has. U less we stop adding new coal, we lose. BTW, replacing old coal with new coal plants that burn less coal or new Nat gas plants, work as well. Ideally, we would replace with AE along with nukes.
BTW, it gets better.
Just in Luxury German car sales for last year, there was 6,502,102 by Audi, BMW, MB, and Porsche. That does not include Caddy, Lexus, etc. Tesla is taking these car companies sales.
So, apparently, plenty of luxury car sales on this planet.
funny thing is, that Lexus, Caddy, nearly all german cars, all sell for $50+K.
And yet, the retarded one does not care about that.
The funny thing is, that Tesla is not really increasing the market. They are replacing those car sales. IOW, they are taking sales away from the other car makers esp. the German, and Japanese luxury cars.
huh.
.001%.
America is 5% of the world's population. In fact, the entire western nations, alone, is more than 1/6 of the world population. Just in western nations, There are some 1.5 trillion with an median salary of ~$40K. That means that 1/3 of these could easily afford these (and with prices going down, many more will). So, yes, there is an easy 500 million that can afford the premium M3. Once the base M3 starts, then we are up to an easy 3/4T. And none of that includes the fact that Tesla will start $25K vehicles within 2-3 years, with $15K within 6 years.
So, no, that is a great deal more than
Yes, yes, yes.
Musk has broken YOUR ideas of "fundamentals". However, your idea is based on short-term profits.
Musk, and Rei's, along with others such as myself, is based on GROWTH and getting the company to be able to add a factory and have its lines up to maximum production in under 6 months. M3, like MS/MX, has relatively low production costs (compared to other companies), and all of the money is going into R&D (hignest % in the industry; most are around 3-5%; Tesla is something like 20%) as well as building out a massive EV charging system (way ahead of anything else). However, yes, if has been failing your GAAP for short-term profits. But, I will guess that the bleeding stops by end of year.
So, yeah, Rei is right that Musk has the fundamentals down. Oddly, prior to 1980, Musk would be held in the highest accolades in America. Now, we have nothing but multiple monopolistic companies, a bought political party (the GOP), and a large number of trolls that run around denigrating the man and his companies.
In fact, once Tesla is set-up for on-going profitability, I have no doubt that Musk will finally put a decent non-MBA, engineer president in place and let them take over. At this moment, Tesla needs Musk to survive, but, I suspect by 2020, that will no longer be the case.
Need a ba330 ( or even a BA Sundancer ) with a tug to push it around. That could be used to move around leo, esp from ISS to another private space station.
geo-thermal, hydro, tidal are some decent ones.
However, we still need an energy matrix, not a single source.
I grew up just west of Zion plant. Even use to fish both on-shore/off-shore of it (attracked alewives, which attracted coho). I really think that putting NEW 4th gen SMR reactors on-site is the way to go, and then simply replace the old ones with these. Once these 2'nd, 2.5, and 3rd gen are hitting 50+ years old, they have issues. The new 4th gen SMRs SHOULD be economical as well. Unlike the massive 1gw reactors that had to be built ON-SITE and then torn down on-site, these SMRs are easy to install and easy to remove.
there are TONNES, not just a fuck ton, of nuclear fuel sitting around at those sites. That is why we need to put in new 4th gen reactors that can use that fuel and get it down to a minor amount.
As it is, if we really want to get rid of it, simply re-start YUCCA and put it down there. BUT, that would be a true waste of fuel.