Microsoft, Yahoo, and Apple ALREADY have open doors for FBI. About the only clean system will be the OSS, and even then, it is NOT guaranteed unless you have the OSS bios.
That really is NOT the case. The fact is, that a MINORITY of Americans think that climate change has some doubt.
The problem is NOT that, though republicans use it as a crutch.
The REAL problem is that the Liberals are making a HORRIBLE mistake with this and refuse to come up with NEW ideas on how to solve this. And CO2 and other GHG will continue. Heck, even Europe is backing off because they have found that they can NOT compete against other nations that are NOT taking the economic hit.
Assume that USA takes the economic hit. Then what will happen is that China, India, Russia, South Africa, etc. will build up coal plants WITHOUT pollution control as quickly as possibly. Why? To capture more manufacturing and other items from USA.
So, what is a REAL SOLUTION? Involve ALL nations (and states ) at the same time.
For America, we need 2 things ASAP:
1) require all new buildings under 4 stories to have unsubsidized on-site AE to provide energy equal to 95% or more of their HVAC. Why do this? Because it will encourage builders to NOT put up loads of solar, but to instead, look for alternatives such as better insulation, aerogel windows, geo-thermal HVAC, etc.
2) put a tax on ALL goods based on which nations/state they come from and the CO2 emissions. But several things about this:
a) none of this guess work. We need it based on OCO2, which will measure directly. Greenies are in for a REAL shocker. Their beliefs about America's emissions are probably close since we do direct measurements, but China is way too low. In addition, it does not matter the source. Just co2(out) - co2(in).
b) this needs to be normalized, but not based on per capita. It needs to be on tonnes / $ of actual GDP (not GDP-ppp). The truth is, that the vast majority of emissions is not tied to ppl, but to business.
c) it needs to start low and increase. If you want your product to be an exception to the tax, then you will say where components come from and then the tax is lowered based on the location being more efficient. As such, goods from China would have the max tax on it.
America's own goods would then have average tax, but dropping.
Likewise, goods from Sweden would have a low tax.
With the above approaches, it would put ALL nations/states on the same footing. If they want to sell here without a tax, they need to drop their emissions. And by spending a bit of money cleaning up, it rewards a nation by paying lower taxes.
Seriously, you liberals are hurting yourselves. You scream that America needs to destroy the economy, while allowing Europe to move their heavy dirty work to monitored eastern Europe. More importantly, all of BRIC, will continue to grow quickly with coal, not AE. China says that they will put limits, but they have broken every single treaty that they have signed over the last 40 years. Heck, they are now inside of Indian land claiming that it is theirs, even though India has had control of it since the 60's.
If you liberals and Europeans REALLY want to make a difference, then you will change tactics.
First and foremost is to get rid of this idea that emissions is tied to ppl. It is not. It is tied to rapid expansion of GDP. As such, you want to tackle the CO2/GDP. From another posting elsewhere:
BTW, There is a much better solution for all of this.
We should simply require a tax on all goods, local and imported (save maybe unprocessed food) that slowly raises over time. It should be tied to the components in the goods and the CO2 from where they come from. This needs to be normalized, but not on CO2 per capita, but on CO2 per GDP.
The best argument for this is China. They have had a large population, but their Co2 emissions have gone up with their GDP. The same is true all over.
In addition, it needs to be GDP, not GDP PPP, which rewards nations cheating.
Right now, our CO2 / nation is based on measurements in the west, and lots of guess work elsewhere, esp. China. That is the WRONG way to do things.
Instead, we have the OCO2 going up next year. It will measure the CO2 directly. It will not know that source, which is great. All that matters is that CO2 increases as it leaves your borders from what it was coming in.
If we do this, then EVERY nation/state has to make decisions on how best to drop their CO2. For some, it might be increasing their ag and forests. For others such as China and America, it would be solving our Coal/Cement issue.
Regardless, this is about the only way to solve this issue
We made the mistake of buying Electrolux fridge and dishwasher. An extended warranty for the two cost us 300+. However, we have had over 10 visits on the 2 and invoked lemon law on dishwasher. Now we have kitchenaide with no issues. However we have had over 5 visits for fridge with different issues, but they have to be more than 1 month apart. With this next call(yeah we have a call in), we will have to invoke lemon law again. And we will switch to kitchen aide. If u buy some appliance from overseas get extended warranty. Electrolux, frigid are poorly designed, built, and supported. The same is true of IKEA junk And haier. LG and Samsung are not poorly made, but apparently are horrible for repairs. And very expensive. Get extended for any of these. I would also recommend for GE.
Seriously, we need to encourage cities like NYC to do this and pull in garbage from around the area. This is far better than throwing it away in a dump or in the ocean.
Quite honestly, it is not what you think. Basically, it is a nice outsourcing sham business that sends it all to China. In addition, I have had more difficulty dealing with them than with local manufacturers. That is why I tried an easy idea to see what would happen. I also tried to get ahold of Kaufman to ask about future direction. Instead, I got some gal who told me zero chance to talking to him and zero chance of anything being produced in America.
Quirky makes Shark Tank vultures look like boy scouts.
Unsanitary condition that is covered by innoculating their birds with vaccines and tamiflu. Sadly, when it goes around the world, this will be damaging because the Chinese have already genetically selected the most lethal virus.
Are they ones on top of the traffic lights waiting to pounce down on top of my car as I drive by? Those ppl are SOOO weird, hanging around on top of those lights.
Right now, Tesla is looking to produce their Model X (a cross-over), and then will do Bluestar. That will be an electric car costing around 30K. After that, they will do a new roadster. My understanding is that will blow the doors off nearly everything. The reason is that it will be AWD borrowed from the model X. Then add to it the much better body that Tesla will no doubt design and build. So, I would expect to see 0-60 in the 2-2.5 range. And the old roadster was in the price range of vettes that had similar performance.
Strato launch is the one possibility for them. However, that is not really theirs. In that case, they are a sub-component. Hopefully, this time around, they will do the work, rather than just sub it out.
And yes, pegasus was the original private of what the USAF did and what NASA wanted. And during the 90's, it was useful, though very expensive.
Now, I really want to see competition. BUT, OSC is not the company. They own little to no IP with regard to launch. They are doing nothing to bring down the price of launch. All in all, OSC will be out of the launch business once CRS is done. They have had too many failures and costs way too much.
BTW, I am hopeful that more space companies DO move up. I would love to see aerojet/rocketdyne produce their own and compete against SpaceX.
Ouch. I have been busy for the last couple of months so was not paying attention to this. I figured that Aerojet would go after builders (say armadillo) rather than engine builders. To be honest, I am disappointed in this one. I would rather see Rocketdyne picked up by ULA (though there are issues with it, but still possible). We desperately need competition. However, if this leads to AJ deciding to be a rocket builder, then great. Just not sure how that will happen.
I said a VAT tax on the item just at the point where it goes from wholesale to retail. The other issue is when it come from foreign to local, but the ideal way is to simply have the shipping collect it and give them part.
Good post. I would mod you up. We DO have plenty of high prices. Sadly, our fossil fuel is subsidized, so that is cheap, but that only serves to hurt us. Hopefully, we will stop that.
Right now, the Falcon 9 carries 13 tonnes to LEO for 50 million... Pretty scary.
Hey dude, I think you are farting out of you mouth because Elon Musk' prick is stuck in your rectum due to the presence of a some amount of constipated feces.
Right now Falcon 9 carries 5 tons to LEO (of which only 0.5 ton is useful payload) for 133 million...talking about scary...scarily incompetent.
Yeah, I can not imagine that if Bigelow and SpaceX put up INEXPENSIVE systems to leo would be bad. Or if Bigelow/SpaceX make it on the moon by 2020 like they want, I can not imagine that a number of smaller nations will not pay 100 M or less to put 1 of their ppl on their to explore.
Nope. Android does not use Java. Besides these sats have to work so Windows was out (blue screams of death in space is a bad thing; nobody can hear it).
The fairing has had a lot of issues with OSC. In fact, NASA will only use OSC for finishing this contract and will no longer use OSC's launch group. Worse, OSC not only did not build the fairing, but they have not built the seperation system, the avionics, etc. They have done little to nothing.
As such, they one of the most expensive launch costs going, as well as zero control. Within 4 years, OSC will be out of the launch industry. Instead, we are likely to see Aerojet and possibly Rocketdyne merging with one of the smaller builders and then building a tug/depot, or perhaps their own form of a land-able launch system.
But as for OSC, with 20 years worth of launch, they have control over next to NO technology. They outsourced it to Europe, Russia, Aerojet, ATK, and a few others. IOW, they are finished.
Nope. They did not lobby for this. NASA approached them. BUT, you are right that OSC outsourced it all. All they did was assemble this. Heck, Cygnus was done 100% in Europe. And Antares will carry 5 tonnes to LEO for about 50-60 million. Right now, the Falcon 9 carries 13 tonnes to LEO for 50 million and shortly the FH will take 54 tonnes for 100 million. So for 2x the price of Anteres, you can carry 10x the cargo. Pretty scary.
And all of that will be destroyed when SpaceX is successful with Grasshopper In about 2 years. At that time, the price of an F9 wll be less than 20M and possibly less than 10M. FH will likewise drop in half, possibly 1/4.
First off, IRS penalty and interest are NOT taxes. That is for lazy or corrupt individuals.
Secondly, perhaps you can push for one large tax of say 50% and be done with it.
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Microsoft, Yahoo, and Apple ALREADY have open doors for FBI. About the only clean system will be the OSS, and even then, it is NOT guaranteed unless you have the OSS bios.
That really is NOT the case. The fact is, that a MINORITY of Americans think that climate change has some doubt.
The problem is NOT that, though republicans use it as a crutch.
The REAL problem is that the Liberals are making a HORRIBLE mistake with this and refuse to come up with NEW ideas on how to solve this. And CO2 and other GHG will continue. Heck, even Europe is backing off because they have found that they can NOT compete against other nations that are NOT taking the economic hit.
Assume that USA takes the economic hit. Then what will happen is that China, India, Russia, South Africa, etc. will build up coal plants WITHOUT pollution control as quickly as possibly. Why? To capture more manufacturing and other items from USA.
So, what is a REAL SOLUTION? Involve ALL nations (and states ) at the same time.
For America, we need 2 things ASAP:
1) require all new buildings under 4 stories to have unsubsidized on-site AE to provide energy equal to 95% or more of their HVAC. Why do this? Because it will encourage builders to NOT put up loads of solar, but to instead, look for alternatives such as better insulation, aerogel windows, geo-thermal HVAC, etc.
2) put a tax on ALL goods based on which nations/state they come from and the CO2 emissions. But several things about this:
a) none of this guess work. We need it based on OCO2, which will measure directly. Greenies are in for a REAL shocker. Their beliefs about America's emissions are probably close since we do direct measurements, but China is way too low. In addition, it does not matter the source. Just co2(out) - co2(in).
b) this needs to be normalized, but not based on per capita. It needs to be on tonnes / $ of actual GDP (not GDP-ppp). The truth is, that the vast majority of emissions is not tied to ppl, but to business.
c) it needs to start low and increase. If you want your product to be an exception to the tax, then you will say where components come from and then the tax is lowered based on the location being more efficient. As such, goods from China would have the max tax on it.
America's own goods would then have average tax, but dropping.
Likewise, goods from Sweden would have a low tax.
Here is some data for the later:
This is wiki, but it is based on 2006 data.
Here is 2009 data, but it is ppp GDP (which rewards nations for manipulating their money against the dollar; hence why it has to be real $GDP ).
With the above approaches, it would put ALL nations/states on the same footing. If they want to sell here without a tax, they need to drop their emissions. And by spending a bit of money cleaning up, it rewards a nation by paying lower taxes.
If you liberals and Europeans REALLY want to make a difference, then you will change tactics.
First and foremost is to get rid of this idea that emissions is tied to ppl. It is not. It is tied to rapid expansion of GDP. As such, you want to tackle the CO2/GDP. From another posting elsewhere:
BTW, There is a much better solution for all of this.
We should simply require a tax on all goods, local and imported (save maybe unprocessed food) that slowly raises over time. It should be tied to the components in the goods and the CO2 from where they come from. This needs to be normalized, but not on CO2 per capita, but on CO2 per GDP.
The best argument for this is China. They have had a large population, but their Co2 emissions have gone up with their GDP. The same is true all over.
In addition, it needs to be GDP, not GDP PPP, which rewards nations cheating.
Right now, our CO2 / nation is based on measurements in the west, and lots of guess work elsewhere, esp. China. That is the WRONG way to do things.
Instead, we have the OCO2 going up next year. It will measure the CO2 directly. It will not know that source, which is great. All that matters is that CO2 increases as it leaves your borders from what it was coming in.
If we do this, then EVERY nation/state has to make decisions on how best to drop their CO2. For some, it might be increasing their ag and forests. For others such as China and America, it would be solving our Coal/Cement issue.
Regardless, this is about the only way to solve this issue
We made the mistake of buying Electrolux fridge and dishwasher. An extended warranty for the two cost us 300+. However, we have had over 10 visits on the 2 and invoked lemon law on dishwasher. Now we have kitchenaide with no issues. However we have had over 5 visits for fridge with different issues, but they have to be more than 1 month apart. With this next call(yeah we have a call in), we will have to invoke lemon law again. And we will switch to kitchen aide. If u buy some appliance from overseas get extended warranty. Electrolux, frigid are poorly designed, built, and supported. The same is true of IKEA junk And haier. LG and Samsung are not poorly made, but apparently are horrible for repairs. And very expensive. Get extended for any of these. I would also recommend for GE.
Seriously, we need to encourage cities like NYC to do this and pull in garbage from around the area. This is far better than throwing it away in a dump or in the ocean.
who said that price is going up? It is going down. However, the upfront money is more expensive.
Quite honestly, it is not what you think. Basically, it is a nice outsourcing sham business that sends it all to China. In addition, I have had more difficulty dealing with them than with local manufacturers. That is why I tried an easy idea to see what would happen. I also tried to get ahold of Kaufman to ask about future direction. Instead, I got some gal who told me zero chance to talking to him and zero chance of anything being produced in America. Quirky makes Shark Tank vultures look like boy scouts.
Unsanitary condition that is covered by innoculating their birds with vaccines and tamiflu. Sadly, when it goes around the world, this will be damaging because the Chinese have already genetically selected the most lethal virus.
They are following the constitution. Now the neo-cons will be upset about that and insist that their buddies at SCOTUS to overrule the 5th.
Are they ones on top of the traffic lights waiting to pounce down on top of my car as I drive by? Those ppl are SOOO weird, hanging around on top of those lights.
Right now, Tesla is looking to produce their Model X (a cross-over), and then will do Bluestar. That will be an electric car costing around 30K. After that, they will do a new roadster. My understanding is that will blow the doors off nearly everything. The reason is that it will be AWD borrowed from the model X. Then add to it the much better body that Tesla will no doubt design and build. So, I would expect to see 0-60 in the 2-2.5 range. And the old roadster was in the price range of vettes that had similar performance.
Worst yet, the house republicans are actively working to kill private space and keep paying Russia .5b/year so that SLS is funded.
Seriously, Netflix is funding series, and Dish is about to.
Strato launch is the one possibility for them. However, that is not really theirs. In that case, they are a sub-component. Hopefully, this time around, they will do the work, rather than just sub it out.
And yes, pegasus was the original private of what the USAF did and what NASA wanted. And during the 90's, it was useful, though very expensive.
You are the one not paying attention. .5 tonne into LEO. In the last 10 years, they have flown 9 missions, with only 2 over the last 5 years.
3 failures out of 9 launches. The last success was almost 10 years ago.
the pegasus was enjoyed some success, but most of it was in the 90's. Right now, the pegasus costs 30 million to launch
Now, I really want to see competition. BUT, OSC is not the company. They own little to no IP with regard to launch. They are doing nothing to bring down the price of launch. All in all, OSC will be out of the launch business once CRS is done. They have had too many failures and costs way too much.
BTW, I am hopeful that more space companies DO move up. I would love to see aerojet/rocketdyne produce their own and compete against SpaceX.
Ouch. I have been busy for the last couple of months so was not paying attention to this. I figured that Aerojet would go after builders (say armadillo) rather than engine builders. To be honest, I am disappointed in this one. I would rather see Rocketdyne picked up by ULA (though there are issues with it, but still possible). We desperately need competition. However, if this leads to AJ deciding to be a rocket builder, then great. Just not sure how that will happen.
I said a VAT tax on the item just at the point where it goes from wholesale to retail. The other issue is when it come from foreign to local, but the ideal way is to simply have the shipping collect it and give them part.
Good post. I would mod you up. We DO have plenty of high prices. Sadly, our fossil fuel is subsidized, so that is cheap, but that only serves to hurt us. Hopefully, we will stop that.
A couple of corrections:
1) Dragon has berthed 3 times. The first was under COTS, and then they have done 2 successful CRS missions. As you can see by the link, that SpaceX has 5 more launches for this year, with 1 of them for another CRS.
2) The next flight is the COTS for cygnus which is June.
Right now, the Falcon 9 carries 13 tonnes to LEO for 50 million... Pretty scary.
Hey dude, I think you are farting out of you mouth because Elon Musk' prick is stuck in your rectum due to the presence of a some amount of constipated feces.
Right now Falcon 9 carries 5 tons to LEO (of which only 0.5 ton is useful payload) for 133 million...talking about scary...scarily incompetent.
Nope. V1.1 which is the current launcher carries 13 tonnes and it costs 54 million.
Sadly, idiots like you prove that 'No child left behind' is a failure.
Yeah, I can not imagine that if Bigelow and SpaceX put up INEXPENSIVE systems to leo would be bad. Or if Bigelow/SpaceX make it on the moon by 2020 like they want, I can not imagine that a number of smaller nations will not pay 100 M or less to put 1 of their ppl on their to explore.
Nope. Android does not use Java. Besides these sats have to work so Windows was out (blue screams of death in space is a bad thing; nobody can hear it).
The fairing has had a lot of issues with OSC. In fact, NASA will only use OSC for finishing this contract and will no longer use OSC's launch group. Worse, OSC not only did not build the fairing, but they have not built the seperation system, the avionics, etc. They have done little to nothing.
As such, they one of the most expensive launch costs going, as well as zero control. Within 4 years, OSC will be out of the launch industry. Instead, we are likely to see Aerojet and possibly Rocketdyne merging with one of the smaller builders and then building a tug/depot, or perhaps their own form of a land-able launch system.
But as for OSC, with 20 years worth of launch, they have control over next to NO technology. They outsourced it to Europe, Russia, Aerojet, ATK, and a few others. IOW, they are finished.
Nope. They did not lobby for this. NASA approached them. BUT, you are right that OSC outsourced it all. All they did was assemble this. Heck, Cygnus was done 100% in Europe. And Antares will carry 5 tonnes to LEO for about 50-60 million. Right now, the Falcon 9 carries 13 tonnes to LEO for 50 million and shortly the FH will take 54 tonnes for 100 million. So for 2x the price of Anteres, you can carry 10x the cargo. Pretty scary.
And all of that will be destroyed when SpaceX is successful with Grasshopper In about 2 years. At that time, the price of an F9 wll be less than 20M and possibly less than 10M. FH will likewise drop in half, possibly 1/4.
First off, IRS penalty and interest are NOT taxes. That is for lazy or corrupt individuals.
Secondly, perhaps you can push for one large tax of say 50% and be done with it.