Hmmm. Lets see. No DDT here in the States. Has not been since the USA became the FIRST nation to ban DDT and its manufacturing back in the 70s, and then pushed Europe to do the same. Sadly, Europe is just getting around to do so. At this time, Europe still allows its use, though it may not be sprayed directly on crops. And other nations fight it. Likewise, I eat my steak rare at best (depending on whom from; if from one of my local producers, then rare, if from outside of the USA, medium-rare to medium). In fact, I think most Americans do steaks medium-rare (though much older ones or immigrated one still do well-done because of the sanitation issues from other times or nations).
But, hey, lets not let facts get in the way of your prejudice and bias.
Well, my wife is Indian, so between her and the in-laws I get plenty of vegi meals. However, I hate the American or European vegi meals. They really are fucking bland.
Which is exactly why I do ranged grass-fed beef, as opposed to feedlot corn-fed beef.
BTW, this is not just an American practice. ALL nations that export been are doing feed lots.
Partly it's a question of preference - Americans like bland greasy meat, so their livestock farming practices reflect that.
Actually, many do not. We like spices on it. For example, I eat low fat ranged beef, with habanero sauce. Good stuff. And absolutely nothing bland about that. Of course, I have seen that most veggi dishes are about as bland as it gets.
First off, the idea of COTS comes from mid-90s. Secondly, the earliest that COTS-2 will happen is April. In addition, they have to get a number of things right to be able to berth with the ISS. The first full F9 trip will happen later this summer.
The average Joe is not highly interested or informed about egghead space probes.
Sadly, you appear to be an average Joe.
It was W that killed the shuttle and then the neo-cons underfunded Constellation. The fastest and most economical way to get us back into human launches was by creating CCDEV to build up private space. Sadly, the neo-cons this last year, gutted CCDEV by dropping.8B to.3B (later the senate got it to be.5B). This year, the neo-cons are again trying to pull funds from CCdev and send it to SLS which will not be ready until 2020.
Bolden is doing all this to put the money into private space. Right now, the standard group (hatch, hutchinson, coffman, shelby, wolfe, etc) are working hard to kill that and get the trivial amount of money moved to the SLS. HOWEVER, if Bolden's bid works, USA will have human launch in 2014 with multiple launchers, and we will be going for mars in 2016-2017 with the red dragon. More importantly, red dragon will put as much on the surface as the MSL will (1 tonne), only it will cost less than.5B for a mission. MSL cost us close to 3 B.
oops. I will say that I agree with you. The republicans that I listed are working hard to kill private space. However, there are plenty of dems that continue to push SLS as well as private space. Bennet and Udall come to mind.
The problem is that the space committee is not the only one pushing SLS. For example, the main backers of SLS are Hatch, Hutchinson, Coffman, Wolfe, Shelby, And Nelson. Coffman, Wolfe, and Shelby are not on the comittees. Yet, these ppl continue to push it. Why? Because of a jobs program for themselves.
CCDEV was O's, not COTS. COTS was from mid 90's NASA, but gutted by the neo-con CONgress back then. Then in mid 00's, Griffin was able to convince CONgress to do the right thing and allow it.
With that said, Newt would simply continue with the same program that O has. Newt wants to support private space in exactly this fashion. The only difference is that he would DIRECTLY target the moon, while O is counting on private space to do a base, once private space is up and going. O then has NASA going for Mars. IOW, he wants America to do 2 things at once, which is a good plan.
why? a big part of doing these cuts is to fund private space development. You will see that we went from.5B for private space to 1B. The problem is that the neo-cons are already objecting and want that extra.5B funneled into their pet project the SLS.
In fact, Obama calls for spending a lot more money on NIH and NAS. The issue here is that republicans have called for cuts to private space development in hopes of pushing the monster SLS. To do that, the neo-cons will fund russia to the tune of.5B a year from 2015-2018 as well as pay 20-30B for SLS development which will finally launch 70 tonnes to LEO in 2020 (yes, it is already 2 years late).
OTH, NASA wants the economical approach so that they can make a great deal more launches in the future. As such, NASA is cutting several missions that will cost billions, but is spending money on getting human launch going by 2014. However, with that, they will also be able to put red dragon (spaceX's dragon) on Mars with a 1 ton payload of equipment for.5B. So, should NASA spend several billion to get one mission to Mars, OR should they spend money today to be able to get a number of CHEAP missions to mars a year earlier?
I do not like seeing NASA's budget cut, HOWEVER, kudos to Bolden. He is doing the right thing in getting ECONOMICAL private space going.
I do not think that Musk is looking to take over 100% of all launches. In fact, it would work against him. For us to go to the moon and Mars, we absolutely need MULTIPLE type crafts with different weaknesses. So, he will want to see others be there. Instead, I believe his goal to help expand rapidly into space. Basically, if he remains cheap, then he can control 60% or more of all launches, while making it possible for companies and even other nations to be into space. That is why he needs Bigelow going and vice-versa. Likewise, NASA needs CHEAP launchers. SLS is absolutely not going to provide it. 70 tonnes to LEO for 1 Billion or more, while FG does 54 tonnes to LEO for.1B. For the cost of 1 SLS vs. 10 FGs, it becomes 70 tonnes vs 540. Big difference.
First off, CONgress DESERVES it. They SUCK. BOTH parties need to go. So, I will continue to call them CONgress. And it is CONgress, because it is the opposite of PROgress. Have you seen any good come out of CONgress for the last 30 years? Nope.
As to L-Mart, I am not the one that gave them that name. Lockheed-Martian did. I have a number of friends that work at L-Mart Denver, and some others that work on the east coast. I have also been at various locations teaching for them. And internally, they call themselves that.
So, if you want to be upset, be upset with them.
But hey, lets not let facts get in the way of a rant like yours.
I hope it doesn't happen, but I think at some point SpaceX is going to go the way of Boeing and Gencorp, and all the other big players and just become another subcon for NASA.
As long as musk is there, it will not happen. HOWEVER, as the saying goes, all good things come to an end. Boeing and L-Mart became this way because they are able to control CONgress which controls NASA. If we can get private space to be honestly profitable and not just fleasing the feds, then we will see expansion and competition.
They only pay property tax if they own a place.
They do pay sales tax, if they buy locally. However, in most states, the main money is from income taxes, not property taxes.
In addition, by having illegals work here, they lower the salaries/wages, which lowers the taxes paid.
Finally, look at alabama.
They enacted a anti-illegal bill. Now, I am not in favor of how harsh it is WRT privacy. The ability to stop a car and haul ppl in just because they 'look' illegal, is just plain wrong. BUT, the requirement of e-verify on ALL businesses has had a telling impact. Namely that for the last 6 months, they have fallen from 10% unemployment to 8% unemployment. In addition, gov. assistance PLUMMETED. Not only is taxes up, but they have said that they can now start increasing money back to education and other programs that had to be cut before. So, to say that illegals are useful to America, is just plain wrong.
Actually, you miss some points as well.
NASA is pouring money into SpaceX and private space BECAUSE they want cheap redundant human launch, Falcon Heavy, and the RED DRAGON. Cheap REDUNDANT Human launch should be obvious. It is not just for ISS access, but moon and mars. More importantly, if our launchers are busy and we have multiple companies launching monthly, then costs go down for NASA.
And for NASA, the FH and red dragon are HUGE to Mars. The red dragon is a contained landing system for putting more mass on Mars than we have total to date. And that is just with the first launch. In addition, with FH, we can send a larger number of sats in one relatively cheap launch.
Basically, by simply not starting new programs TODAY for about 5 years (hopefully less), we gain cheap access to LEO, Moon, Asteroids, and Mars. And by 2017, we will likely put a red dragon on mars, as well as multiple sats, all in one or two launches.
The problem is that the house republicans are pushing for the SLS. O fought against this waste of money, but he has enough issues to fight. Hopefully, on the next term, when the house reverts back to dems, then O will be able to kill SLS once and for all, and increase NASA's budget for doing private space.
Look, we have republicans working to gut NASA, but at the same time, trying to keep the SLS going. The problem is, that space launch is no longer about capabilities, but about economics. As such, we NEED cheap redundant launch systems. The SLS is NOT IT. It is a 20 Billion boondoggle with a 1-2 billion launch cost, and that is just to get 70 tonnes to orbit.
OTOH, if we halt major projects for a short time, AND get private space going, THEN, we can obtain CHEAP ECONOMIC LAUNCHES. In addition, we would have red dragon quickly available. With red dragon and Falcon Heavy, we can send new missions to mars every 2 years for less than 300 million. Keep in mind that falcon heavy will allow MULTIPLE sats and a lander to go to mars. That is huge.
If you are going to whine, then whine about the fact that neo-cons are gutting NASA by turning it into a job's bill, rather than keep it as a National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Seriously, that is the big issue. Come up with classes of questions/answers and then have them picked in random. Likewise, have the results checked by the computer. If somebody differs, then they are handchecked.
MS plays loads of games with patents now. No doubt they were hoping that this would be used against a number of their enemies (pretty much everybody else).
So, did Eola get this wrapeed up so that if the patent was lost, that they did not have to pay back MS? Otherwise, there is a LOAD of money that has to go back to MS.
Actually, we do not 'NEED' new baseload to handle electric cars. Multiple studies have shown that we have plenty of power and grid for handling electric cars, ASSUMING that you charge them at nighttime. In fact, we will actually LOWER electric prices if we move quickly to electric cars/small vehicles. The reason is that base-load systems produce cheap energy compared to the NG turbines that are used for on-demand.
However, we need replacements for the numerous coal plants that WILL shut down over the next 10-20 years, as well as replacements for the old large nuke plants. AND AE, other than geo-thermal, can not do the job.
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Out here in the west, it makes sense to store water in large reservoirs and then use that for cooling purposes. Utah can do the same.
Hmmm. Lets see. No DDT here in the States. Has not been since the USA became the FIRST nation to ban DDT and its manufacturing back in the 70s, and then pushed Europe to do the same. Sadly, Europe is just getting around to do so. At this time, Europe still allows its use, though it may not be sprayed directly on crops. And other nations fight it.
Likewise, I eat my steak rare at best (depending on whom from; if from one of my local producers, then rare, if from outside of the USA, medium-rare to medium). In fact, I think most Americans do steaks medium-rare (though much older ones or immigrated one still do well-done because of the sanitation issues from other times or nations).
But, hey, lets not let facts get in the way of your prejudice and bias.
Well, my wife is Indian, so between her and the in-laws I get plenty of vegi meals. However, I hate the American or European vegi meals. They really are fucking bland.
Did you miss the part about ranged beef? As opposed to feed-lot.
Or are you just one of those nut-balls that scream about meat eaters?
Which is exactly why I do ranged grass-fed beef, as opposed to feedlot corn-fed beef.
BTW, this is not just an American practice. ALL nations that export been are doing feed lots.
Partly it's a question of preference - Americans like bland greasy meat, so their livestock farming practices reflect that.
Actually, many do not. We like spices on it. For example, I eat low fat ranged beef, with habanero sauce. Good stuff. And absolutely nothing bland about that. Of course, I have seen that most veggi dishes are about as bland as it gets.
But hey, your accusation says a lot.
First off, the idea of COTS comes from mid-90s. Secondly, the earliest that COTS-2 will happen is April. In addition, they have to get a number of things right to be able to berth with the ISS. The first full F9 trip will happen later this summer.
The average Joe is not highly interested or informed about egghead space probes.
Sadly, you appear to be an average Joe. .8B to .3B (later the senate got it to be .5B). This year, the neo-cons are again trying to pull funds from CCdev and send it to SLS which will not be ready until 2020.
.5B for a mission. MSL cost us close to 3 B.
It was W that killed the shuttle and then the neo-cons underfunded Constellation. The fastest and most economical way to get us back into human launches was by creating CCDEV to build up private space. Sadly, the neo-cons this last year, gutted CCDEV by dropping
Bolden is doing all this to put the money into private space. Right now, the standard group (hatch, hutchinson, coffman, shelby, wolfe, etc) are working hard to kill that and get the trivial amount of money moved to the SLS. HOWEVER, if Bolden's bid works, USA will have human launch in 2014 with multiple launchers, and we will be going for mars in 2016-2017 with the red dragon. More importantly, red dragon will put as much on the surface as the MSL will (1 tonne), only it will cost less than
oops. I will say that I agree with you. The republicans that I listed are working hard to kill private space. However, there are plenty of dems that continue to push SLS as well as private space. Bennet and Udall come to mind.
The problem is that the space committee is not the only one pushing SLS. For example, the main backers of SLS are Hatch, Hutchinson, Coffman, Wolfe, Shelby, And Nelson. Coffman, Wolfe, and Shelby are not on the comittees. Yet, these ppl continue to push it. Why? Because of a jobs program for themselves.
CCDEV was O's, not COTS. COTS was from mid 90's NASA, but gutted by the neo-con CONgress back then. Then in mid 00's, Griffin was able to convince CONgress to do the right thing and allow it.
With that said, Newt would simply continue with the same program that O has. Newt wants to support private space in exactly this fashion. The only difference is that he would DIRECTLY target the moon, while O is counting on private space to do a base, once private space is up and going. O then has NASA going for Mars. IOW, he wants America to do 2 things at once, which is a good plan.
why? a big part of doing these cuts is to fund private space development. You will see that we went from .5B for private space to 1B. The problem is that the neo-cons are already objecting and want that extra .5B funneled into their pet project the SLS.
In fact, Obama calls for spending a lot more money on NIH and NAS. The issue here is that republicans have called for cuts to private space development in hopes of pushing the monster SLS. To do that, the neo-cons will fund russia to the tune of .5B a year from 2015-2018 as well as pay 20-30B for SLS development which will finally launch 70 tonnes to LEO in 2020 (yes, it is already 2 years late). .5B. So, should NASA spend several billion to get one mission to Mars, OR should they spend money today to be able to get a number of CHEAP missions to mars a year earlier?
OTH, NASA wants the economical approach so that they can make a great deal more launches in the future. As such, NASA is cutting several missions that will cost billions, but is spending money on getting human launch going by 2014. However, with that, they will also be able to put red dragon (spaceX's dragon) on Mars with a 1 ton payload of equipment for
I do not like seeing NASA's budget cut, HOWEVER, kudos to Bolden. He is doing the right thing in getting ECONOMICAL private space going.
I do not think that Musk is looking to take over 100% of all launches. In fact, it would work against him. For us to go to the moon and Mars, we absolutely need MULTIPLE type crafts with different weaknesses. So, he will want to see others be there. Instead, I believe his goal to help expand rapidly into space. Basically, if he remains cheap, then he can control 60% or more of all launches, while making it possible for companies and even other nations to be into space. That is why he needs Bigelow going and vice-versa. Likewise, NASA needs CHEAP launchers. SLS is absolutely not going to provide it. 70 tonnes to LEO for 1 Billion or more, while FG does 54 tonnes to LEO for .1B. For the cost of 1 SLS vs. 10 FGs, it becomes 70 tonnes vs 540. Big difference.
First off, CONgress DESERVES it. They SUCK. BOTH parties need to go. So, I will continue to call them CONgress. And it is CONgress, because it is the opposite of PROgress. Have you seen any good come out of CONgress for the last 30 years? Nope.
As to L-Mart, I am not the one that gave them that name. Lockheed-Martian did. I have a number of friends that work at L-Mart Denver, and some others that work on the east coast. I have also been at various locations teaching for them. And internally, they call themselves that. So, if you want to be upset, be upset with them.
But hey, lets not let facts get in the way of a rant like yours.
I hope it doesn't happen, but I think at some point SpaceX is going to go the way of Boeing and Gencorp, and all the other big players and just become another subcon for NASA.
As long as musk is there, it will not happen. HOWEVER, as the saying goes, all good things come to an end. Boeing and L-Mart became this way because they are able to control CONgress which controls NASA. If we can get private space to be honestly profitable and not just fleasing the feds, then we will see expansion and competition.
They only pay property tax if they own a place. They do pay sales tax, if they buy locally. However, in most states, the main money is from income taxes, not property taxes.
In addition, by having illegals work here, they lower the salaries/wages, which lowers the taxes paid.
Finally, look at alabama. They enacted a anti-illegal bill. Now, I am not in favor of how harsh it is WRT privacy. The ability to stop a car and haul ppl in just because they 'look' illegal, is just plain wrong. BUT, the requirement of e-verify on ALL businesses has had a telling impact. Namely that for the last 6 months, they have fallen from 10% unemployment to 8% unemployment. In addition, gov. assistance PLUMMETED. Not only is taxes up, but they have said that they can now start increasing money back to education and other programs that had to be cut before. So, to say that illegals are useful to America, is just plain wrong.
Actually, you miss some points as well.
NASA is pouring money into SpaceX and private space BECAUSE they want cheap redundant human launch, Falcon Heavy, and the RED DRAGON.
Cheap REDUNDANT Human launch should be obvious. It is not just for ISS access, but moon and mars. More importantly, if our launchers are busy and we have multiple companies launching monthly, then costs go down for NASA.
And for NASA, the FH and red dragon are HUGE to Mars. The red dragon is a contained landing system for putting more mass on Mars than we have total to date. And that is just with the first launch. In addition, with FH, we can send a larger number of sats in one relatively cheap launch.
Basically, by simply not starting new programs TODAY for about 5 years (hopefully less), we gain cheap access to LEO, Moon, Asteroids, and Mars. And by 2017, we will likely put a red dragon on mars, as well as multiple sats, all in one or two launches.
The problem is that the house republicans are pushing for the SLS. O fought against this waste of money, but he has enough issues to fight. Hopefully, on the next term, when the house reverts back to dems, then O will be able to kill SLS once and for all, and increase NASA's budget for doing private space.
Obama has pushed hard to increase the NASA budget. It is the house republicans that have been gutting it.
Look, we have republicans working to gut NASA, but at the same time, trying to keep the SLS going. The problem is, that space launch is no longer about capabilities, but about economics. As such, we NEED cheap redundant launch systems. The SLS is NOT IT. It is a 20 Billion boondoggle with a 1-2 billion launch cost, and that is just to get 70 tonnes to orbit.
OTOH, if we halt major projects for a short time, AND get private space going, THEN, we can obtain CHEAP ECONOMIC LAUNCHES. In addition, we would have red dragon quickly available. With red dragon and Falcon Heavy, we can send new missions to mars every 2 years for less than 300 million. Keep in mind that falcon heavy will allow MULTIPLE sats and a lander to go to mars. That is huge.
If you are going to whine, then whine about the fact that neo-cons are gutting NASA by turning it into a job's bill, rather than keep it as a National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Seriously, that is the big issue. Come up with classes of questions/answers and then have them picked in random. Likewise, have the results checked by the computer. If somebody differs, then they are handchecked.
MS plays loads of games with patents now. No doubt they were hoping that this would be used against a number of their enemies (pretty much everybody else). So, did Eola get this wrapeed up so that if the patent was lost, that they did not have to pay back MS? Otherwise, there is a LOAD of money that has to go back to MS.
Actually, we do not 'NEED' new baseload to handle electric cars. Multiple studies have shown that we have plenty of power and grid for handling electric cars, ASSUMING that you charge them at nighttime. In fact, we will actually LOWER electric prices if we move quickly to electric cars/small vehicles. The reason is that base-load systems produce cheap energy compared to the NG turbines that are used for on-demand.
However, we need replacements for the numerous coal plants that WILL shut down over the next 10-20 years, as well as replacements for the old large nuke plants. AND AE, other than geo-thermal, can not do the job.
Consider seeing some local health service. You need to restart your lithium.