down. China will at some point want to attack. If we have only 300 nukes, then in a first wave, they can take out more than 1/2. That means 150 or less nukes. Easy to block that.
OTOH, if we have 3K+, then China can not block all of them.
20 years ago, Gates was encouraging you to do that. It meant less money going to his competitors. It was only once he had a monopoly that piracy became an issue. Heck, In China and in 3rd world, MS stills encourages theft by individuals (it is the seller of large quantities that he gets upset with).
Melinda wanted it to be about repairing gate's name. Gate's wanted to expand and use this to expand MS. Now, he wants to take American nuke tech and give it to China.
I wonder as spotlights are shined on gate's dealings, if buffet will continue with the idea of sending his money to gates.
Higgs was pretty much a given. All that CERN did was confirm it. OTOH, Dark matter occupies a large amount of the universe and yet, we have not found it. So, the question is, is this real?
Because the GD neo-cons left us with a mess. Basically, we borrow too much money from China. If we will drop our deficit, then we COULD slowly impose a tariff against China unless they honor WTO and the Clinton-China Accord. Personally, I would rather that China play's honestly. But CHinese gov. is in a cold war with the west, so that is not likely to happen.
A free market does not allow a gov. to dump to destroy all competitors, and then restrict exports.
And there is no free market where China is concerned.
Actually, up until mid 90's, America's molycorp accounted for 95% of all rare earth (india had the other 5%). And we were the only exporter. It was available to all. However reagan pushed Molycorp to share tech with China. Once China figured it out, and was doing it, they DUMPPED massive quantities on the open market. Rare earth prices went to 1/10 of what they were. IOW, China gutted Moly corp. Once they did that, then China put up SMALL export quota WHICH IS ILLEGAL per the WTO agreement that they signed.
Now, Molycorp has a new means of mining that should allow them to be around 1/10 of the price of China's. The issue is that China has already hinted multiple times that they will dump again. In fact, the Chinese gov. has said that they will give it away to stop molycorp.
China is the bad guy because:
1) The Chinese gov. requires all of the Chinese company to sell ONLY to the Chinese gov..
2) The Chinese gov. is working hard to prevent the west from having any access to rare earth.
At this time, I think that we should slowly raise tariffs on CHina and tell them that they are not allowed to manipulate it like this.
Molycorp went out first time because China was dumping and CA was after them to clean up (but mostly China's dumping).
Right now, it appears that China is building a large stockpile so that they can dump it on the market and destroy Molycorp.
There are many on this site that will disregard China's actions on all of this. Or they will claim that China is taking these actions because the west is beating up China. Regardless, Molycorp is coming. But my guess is that China will dump on the market until Molycorp is dead.
All in all, West Texas was a MUCH better choice for this.
Though to be honest, the one thing that many consider bad (volcanic activity) I consider good. Mix this with magma and keep it underground.
Of course, even better would be to burn up all of this 'waste' in a GE Prism.
First off, I hate to tell you, but it is the neo-cons that are pushing for the FAA to regulate, as well as pushing hard for NASA to control the private space via the standard cost+ approach, rather than as a service. They KNOW that a service will succeed, where the cost+ encourages abuse
Secondly the grip about regulations is nothing but a red herring. Look at Japan, Canada and Germany. All have many many more regs than we do. And all have stronger economies than we do. Why? Well, all are nationalistic and push their own companies. But for Canada and Germany, their strong economy is due to strong control of their budgets.
How is the cronyism worse under O than under reagan or W?
Actually, the SLS does many more R's in it them Ds. However, one of those D IS Nelson (idiot). And obviosly, there are enough Ds in the Senate to allow the Rs to push the SLS in the house.
But the big difference between the Ds and Rs on this, is that the Rs are hard at work at gutting private space. The Ds are not.
Poppa bush made a HORRIBLE mistake in doing the SSC in Texas. Just like the WIPP was done in Nevada, but SHOULD have been done in West Texas. Again, that was a political decision.
Saying that we have no manned space program while we have 2 ppl on the ISS has to be a bad joke by neo-cons.
Look, the real issue that we are lacking right now, is the ability to LAUNCH humans into space.
Yet, could have 1 system by 2014, 3 systems by 2015, and 4 by 2016.
In addition, if the neo-cons would stop trying to gut private space, we could have MULTIPLE space stations in orbit by 2014. That is something that the neo-cons want to kill off. Sad, considering that they speak of private enterprise in the same language that they spoke of deficits prior to running it up by some 8-10 trillion.
What is needed is to restore science to what we had PRIOR to reagan. At that time, we made most decisions based on what was good for the nation, not what was good for the republican party.
With that said, I will say that dems also suck. But not for this reason. Dems are much better on this one than are the neo-cons.
That IS true that libs do it. However as much? Not even close.
In fact, the JWST was pushed mostly by libs, but does not cost anywhere near as much (7B, though it was sold on 2B). The problem with the JWST, is that it did not have alternatives. OTOH, SSC as well as the SLS had low costs superior options. But it was neo-cons that pushed these nightmares. In fact, they continue to push the SLS while working hard to destroy private space.
Is what the headlines should read. The reason why SSC was not completed is because Poppa Bush had chosen it based on POLITICAL reasons. Had the reason been up to scientists, then this would have been built in illinois by extending our original collider AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN FINISHED.
The reason that I say so that:
1) it extended the current collider. As such, only part of it had to be built.
2) the ground was soft in Illinois and did not suffer from water issues like Texas did. Just building part of the tunnel in Texas was more expensive then doing all of it in Illinois.
3) Illinois was loaded with diggers and plenty of workers that were finishing up various projects in Chicago. They would have brought the diggers down there and finished it in no time flat. In texas, they brought in loads of illegals who had to be taught how to do simple construction techniques.
What Americans should be doing is screaming that we have suffered ENOUGH of the politics that permeates today. For example, the neo-cons (these are the ppl that have taken over the republican party and are the ones responsible for the above screw-up), are currently pushing for the Space Launch System to be built (ANOTHER 20 B to build a system that will not have its first SCHEDULED launch for another decade) and working hard to kill off private space. They are basically trying to destroy NASA and America's space assests. What is amazing is that they proclaim one thing, but do another. And their loyal followers have not notice that over the last 30 years, they have sunk America into being a mediocre nation with massive debt and destroying our science and R&D.
1) Throw in a number of round-a-bouts where stop signs are (round-a-bouts are much better than stop signs for handling traffic flow).
2) re-time a number of stop-lights.
3) a new layer of traffic: Basically add in rail underground, or better yet, and much cheaper, put elevated monorail around the area.
In China, the gov. IS the business. Any major business there is 100% owned by the gov. or is owned by somebody that belongs 100% to China (IOW, they report to the party and vs. versa). The fact that 'foreign-owned' businesses mean that the business is actually MAJORITY owned by a Chinese speaks volumes. If a company has 5 Chinese owners, of which the largest has 20%, the most that a foreign company can own is 19.999%.
So, as to China's methods being effective, so were hitler's, pol pots, Stalin, etc. And as long as China is a totalitarian nation which controls 100% of all companies that have no foreign investment, I think that it is safe to say that they are not even a capitalist nation.
When a gov. sets a minimum pay that foreign minority owned businesses must pay, while any 100% local owned gov (and not allowed to have any foreign investment) have a max pay that is less than the other, that is about forcing local companies to do better.
When a gov. puts up a 50% tariff on a single foreign company for cars imported OR PRODUCED LOCAL unless they turn over all of their patents to all of the 100% Chinese owned companies, that is not about stopping ruthlessness.
The list goes on and on.
Chinese gov's action is not about regulating markets. It is a communist gov. making sure that they remain in power. It is a gov. in a cold war with the west.
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down. China will at some point want to attack. If we have only 300 nukes, then in a first wave, they can take out more than 1/2. That means 150 or less nukes. Easy to block that.
OTOH, if we have 3K+, then China can not block all of them.
20 years ago, Gates was encouraging you to do that. It meant less money going to his competitors. It was only once he had a monopoly that piracy became an issue.
Heck, In China and in 3rd world, MS stills encourages theft by individuals (it is the seller of large quantities that he gets upset with).
Melinda wanted it to be about repairing gate's name. Gate's wanted to expand and use this to expand MS. Now, he wants to take American nuke tech and give it to China.
I wonder as spotlights are shined on gate's dealings, if buffet will continue with the idea of sending his money to gates.
Higgs was pretty much a given. All that CERN did was confirm it. OTOH, Dark matter occupies a large amount of the universe and yet, we have not found it. So, the question is, is this real?
Just give more cash to more republicans and you can label nuke waste from China as being a Kid's toy made in the USA.
This allows Google to get a line going and then slowly switch over more and more western-made parts.
Because the GD neo-cons left us with a mess. Basically, we borrow too much money from China. If we will drop our deficit, then we COULD slowly impose a tariff against China unless they honor WTO and the Clinton-China Accord. Personally, I would rather that China play's honestly. But CHinese gov. is in a cold war with the west, so that is not likely to happen.
A free market does not allow a gov. to dump to destroy all competitors, and then restrict exports.
And there is no free market where China is concerned.
Actually, up until mid 90's, America's molycorp accounted for 95% of all rare earth (india had the other 5%). And we were the only exporter. It was available to all. However reagan pushed Molycorp to share tech with China. Once China figured it out, and was doing it, they DUMPPED massive quantities on the open market. Rare earth prices went to 1/10 of what they were. IOW, China gutted Moly corp. Once they did that, then China put up SMALL export quota WHICH IS ILLEGAL per the WTO agreement that they signed.
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Now, Molycorp has a new means of mining that should allow them to be around 1/10 of the price of China's. The issue is that China has already hinted multiple times that they will dump again. In fact, the Chinese gov. has said that they will give it away to stop molycorp.
China is the bad guy because
1) The Chinese gov. requires all of the Chinese company to sell ONLY to the Chinese gov..
2) The Chinese gov. is working hard to prevent the west from having any access to rare earth.
At this time, I think that we should slowly raise tariffs on CHina and tell them that they are not allowed to manipulate it like this.
Molycorp went out first time because China was dumping and CA was after them to clean up (but mostly China's dumping).
Right now, it appears that China is building a large stockpile so that they can dump it on the market and destroy Molycorp.
There are many on this site that will disregard China's actions on all of this. Or they will claim that China is taking these actions because the west is beating up China. Regardless, Molycorp is coming. But my guess is that China will dump on the market until Molycorp is dead.
Actually, I did mean yucca (I have been up a lot lately, so tired).
but this is what you want.
All in all, West Texas was a MUCH better choice for this. Though to be honest, the one thing that many consider bad (volcanic activity) I consider good. Mix this with magma and keep it underground.
Of course, even better would be to burn up all of this 'waste' in a GE Prism.
Do I want to remove politics from our science? Absolutely.
First off, I hate to tell you, but it is the neo-cons that are pushing for the FAA to regulate, as well as pushing hard for NASA to control the private space via the standard cost+ approach, rather than as a service. They KNOW that a service will succeed, where the cost+ encourages abuse
Secondly the grip about regulations is nothing but a red herring. Look at Japan, Canada and Germany. All have many many more regs than we do. And all have stronger economies than we do. Why? Well, all are nationalistic and push their own companies. But for Canada and Germany, their strong economy is due to strong control of their budgets.
How is the cronyism worse under O than under reagan or W?
Actually, the SLS does many more R's in it them Ds. However, one of those D IS Nelson (idiot). And obviosly, there are enough Ds in the Senate to allow the Rs to push the SLS in the house.
But the big difference between the Ds and Rs on this, is that the Rs are hard at work at gutting private space. The Ds are not.
You just described obama to a T. Although he thinks our debt situation can be SOLVED WITH MORE DEBT!
Please, provide us links that show how Obama is wasting 20 billion on space systems?
Poppa bush made a HORRIBLE mistake in doing the SSC in Texas. Just like the WIPP was done in Nevada, but SHOULD have been done in West Texas. Again, that was a political decision.
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However, in 1993, Clinton tried to prevent the cancellation by asking Congress to continue "to support this important and challenging effort" through completion because "abandoning the SSC at this point would signal that the United States is compromising its position of leadership in basic science".
Now, as to your assertion that Clinton killed the SSC:
Congress officially canceled the project October 21, 1993[9] after $2 billion had been spent.[10] Many factors contributed to the cancellation:[3] rising cost estimates; poor management by physicists and Department of Energy officials; the end of the need to prove the supremacy of American science with the collapse of the Soviet Union;
Just because idiots like Rush and other neo-cons make wild claims, it does not make it truthful.
CONgress killed it BECAUSE it was not even close to half way done. As it was, it was already tripled in price and was expected to waste billions more and be 1-2 decades LATE.
Saying that we have no manned space program while we have 2 ppl on the ISS has to be a bad joke by neo-cons.
Look, the real issue that we are lacking right now, is the ability to LAUNCH humans into space.
Yet, could have 1 system by 2014, 3 systems by 2015, and 4 by 2016.
In addition, if the neo-cons would stop trying to gut private space, we could have MULTIPLE space stations in orbit by 2014. That is something that the neo-cons want to kill off. Sad, considering that they speak of private enterprise in the same language that they spoke of deficits prior to running it up by some 8-10 trillion.
What is needed is to restore science to what we had PRIOR to reagan. At that time, we made most decisions based on what was good for the nation, not what was good for the republican party.
With that said, I will say that dems also suck. But not for this reason. Dems are much better on this one than are the neo-cons.
That IS true that libs do it. However as much? Not even close.
In fact, the JWST was pushed mostly by libs, but does not cost anywhere near as much (7B, though it was sold on 2B). The problem with the JWST, is that it did not have alternatives. OTOH, SSC as well as the SLS had low costs superior options. But it was neo-cons that pushed these nightmares. In fact, they continue to push the SLS while working hard to destroy private space.
Up until the 80's, we did it. It was when the neo-cons started taking over the GOP that we saw large amounts of politics introduced into science.
Is what the headlines should read. The reason why SSC was not completed is because Poppa Bush had chosen it based on POLITICAL reasons. Had the reason been up to scientists, then this would have been built in illinois by extending our original collider AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN FINISHED.
The reason that I say so that:
1) it extended the current collider. As such, only part of it had to be built.
2) the ground was soft in Illinois and did not suffer from water issues like Texas did. Just building part of the tunnel in Texas was more expensive then doing all of it in Illinois.
3) Illinois was loaded with diggers and plenty of workers that were finishing up various projects in Chicago. They would have brought the diggers down there and finished it in no time flat. In texas, they brought in loads of illegals who had to be taught how to do simple construction techniques.
What Americans should be doing is screaming that we have suffered ENOUGH of the politics that permeates today. For example, the neo-cons (these are the ppl that have taken over the republican party and are the ones responsible for the above screw-up), are currently pushing for the Space Launch System to be built (ANOTHER 20 B to build a system that will not have its first SCHEDULED launch for another decade) and working hard to kill off private space. They are basically trying to destroy NASA and America's space assests. What is amazing is that they proclaim one thing, but do another. And their loyal followers have not notice that over the last 30 years, they have sunk America into being a mediocre nation with massive debt and destroying our science and R&D.
I would say that it is broken. Everybody is going to the left, rather than the right. :)
1) Throw in a number of round-a-bouts where stop signs are (round-a-bouts are much better than stop signs for handling traffic flow). 2) re-time a number of stop-lights. 3) a new layer of traffic: Basically add in rail underground, or better yet, and much cheaper, put elevated monorail around the area.
In China, the gov. IS the business. Any major business there is 100% owned by the gov. or is owned by somebody that belongs 100% to China (IOW, they report to the party and vs. versa). The fact that 'foreign-owned' businesses mean that the business is actually MAJORITY owned by a Chinese speaks volumes. If a company has 5 Chinese owners, of which the largest has 20%, the most that a foreign company can own is 19.999%.
So, as to China's methods being effective, so were hitler's, pol pots, Stalin, etc. And as long as China is a totalitarian nation which controls 100% of all companies that have no foreign investment, I think that it is safe to say that they are not even a capitalist nation.
When a gov. sets a minimum pay that foreign minority owned businesses must pay, while any 100% local owned gov (and not allowed to have any foreign investment) have a max pay that is less than the other, that is about forcing local companies to do better.
When a gov. puts up a 50% tariff on a single foreign company for cars imported OR PRODUCED LOCAL unless they turn over all of their patents to all of the 100% Chinese owned companies, that is not about stopping ruthlessness.
The list goes on and on.
Chinese gov's action is not about regulating markets. It is a communist gov. making sure that they remain in power. It is a gov. in a cold war with the west.