Pakistan's and America's relationship is faltering. The fact is, that pakistan is harboring terrorists PURPOSELY.
To be honest, part of the issues belong to us. W/neo-cons gave India access to 'civil' nuke tech, but not to pakistan.
Once we opened that up, we basically told pakistan that we did not trust them. Of course, that was true. We don't.
And we are helping what they consider their mortal enemy (even though it is also their 'brother').
no. the DOD is looking at switching to smart phones. Motorola Solutions no longer does those. Or is there some deal with them that allows that to happen?
Actually, I think that the DOD had to be forced to allow plants to move around. They would prefer that everything was local to here. And I think that it is fair to say that comm links with troops probably rate up there with what you want to protect esp. from a nation that is in a cold war with us, but gearing up for a hot war.
yeah, I switch from comcast due to the price as well. They seem to keep raising it over and over.
I have not tried netflx yet (on the blue-ray; We have been enjoying the 3 months of free channels on dish so far) We had loads of buffering under comcast. If that disappears, my wife and kids will be happy.
The execs change, but the same bad policies remain in place. We had to battle with them to get the vdsl line. Just 2 weeks prior to CenturyLink taking over, we were vetted for vdsl (it had ran to the house before, and I knew the block level switch had plenty of vdsls). When CL took over, they tried to put us on adsl unless we were going to add iptv. Thankfully after 3 weeks of battle, we got it. Basically, CL is just as worthless
Actually, many of the electronics are done with automation. The truth is, that labor makes up a VERY small amount of electronic costs. If you read some of the interviews by top taiwain manufacturers, they LIKE the idea of coming to America. They think that the regs are MORE than fair (even on the east coast). In fact, based on the fact that our power is plentiful and cheap, and that we have a decent infrastructure, we would be cheaper than China.
Their grip is about our legal system. We allow right and left wingers to sue at will (mostly left). Our legal system has become a mess. However, for American companies, they are already in the thick of things. IOW, there is no difference for them wether the phone is made in China or America.
BUT, if they can increase sales 10% or more, then they get to recover more of their money.
Just switched from comcast to qwest. Have to say that their bandwidth positively SUX. We even have 20 mb vs. the 12 that comcast advertises. And yet, this is slower than comcast. Sad. Real sad.
Hopefully, they have better uptime than comcast (comcast has so many outages; glad that I ran my own bind; their always had issues in their DNS).
The US DOD is studying using smart phones for troop communications. Having all the smart phones produced in China makes ZERO sense. Instead, Google can approach DOD and cut a deal that they will bring back manufacturing to the USA if DOD will buy their phones. WIth that approach, and throwing in automation, Google can have 10% of their phones being bought by the DOD. That lowers prices a great deal.
And if you read the rest of my posts, you will see that I support the use of a thorium reactor inside of large applications. I KNOW that it will require Pu, U or something to generate neutrons to actually cause the fission. This guys approach is not going to work. But a small enough reactor CAN be developed for LARGE vehicles. It will not built for a car in spite of what some believe (at least not up front). However, it could be used larger equipment. Trains. Ships. Earthmovers. Basically, items that move for long periods of time and typically generate loads of pollution are IDEAL for creating small reactors. With Pu or U, we would need shielding, so that is impracticable. OTH, using thorium, you use a smidgen of U with shielding around the unit, and U being in a container that will not break apart in an accident, but lets neutrons through. Put this on large systems that have ppl around them 24x7 (i.e. security purposes). Down the road, work on tiny neutron generators.
This CAN be made to work usefully. Not in cars, but in large equipment. And dropping business costs is a good thing.
Well, we did a reactor ship once. Sadly, on-board politics got in the way. I have been amazed that B&W has not pushed for commercial ships with their reactors. That would be a great way to restart our commercial ship building.
However, I differ with you about the large vehicles and trains. All of these make heavy use of fuel. Ag Tractors in particular. But so do some of of the largest cats, shovels, haulers, etc that are placed on a single site and then used nearly 24x7. For those, it makes great sense to put in a small nuke reactor. In fact, since these are pretty much at one site that is going to be tore, these really would be ideal. Likewise, think of the various earthmovers that are around. They have little to NO pollution control. WIth our push on dropping emissions, these would make great sense to move to an electrical system. By doing small reactors in these first, getting them solid, efficient, then move to trains, finally to other systems.
LOL.
For somebody that has a minor in chem and has had advanced work in Radiation, you would THINK that I would get it right. I guess 30 years away from it does let that slip.
Thanx for correcting me and not being a dick about it. Far too many of the new ppl on/. have turned out to be dicks compared to what we had 11 years ago.
Far too many nut jobs in America (on both sides of the equation) will carp about this as being dangerous on the highways. However, there would be multiple places why this should be developed quickly:
1) Tractors, construction equipment, etc. all make heavy use of fuel. By putting this in these, it would drop energy usage across the nation by 5% or more (yup, this equipment makes HEAVY use of fuel). In addition, it has the advantage that there is LITTLE chance of accidents compared to highway miles.
2) Trains. This could be used on trains easily. Relatively few accidents compared to cars. In addition, there could be one car up front for the engineer and major motor, with this on another car 1-2 back. With that approach, less chance of damage (again keeping the nut jobs happy).
2) Space. We need the ability to send nuke power to the moon and mars. Nut jobs get upset about Pb going up. Thorium is SAFE by itself AND even less is needed. It is ideal to send up something like this to the moon, remote missions, etc. Heck, combine this with the new Stirling power generator and we can send new voyagers out that have a VASIMR engine that will work for the next 40 years.
the reason why the driver license worked is because Google is using India and china to process our information. I have already had to deal with these guys on some other issues and was surprised to find out Google outsourced that much. What I find interesting is that Google is still using Chinese and that China is being allowed to learn that much about other nations. And by outsourcing this to foreign nations, you can see the results of this. I think that somebody from Mexico or Canada would do better and knowing about America than ppl who have never set foot here. At this time, I would not trust a CA from Google (or from any company like them such as MS, facebook, Apple, etc) then I would another home-brew CA.
also missiles. The ability to launch something and run it up to mach 25, while other crafts are moving at mach 1-2 means that it can take out launchers, etc before systems can respond. The only real answer to that will be a laser. At this time, that would be China, Russia, and the west.
This will not do mach 3-4 economically. It is around mach 5 that it kicks in. Mach 1-4 is supersonic. Falcon is to test hyper and high hypersonic speeds.
WHich is why you pick the EASY one. There is plenty of money to be had on Windows, Mac and Linux. In fact, considering that Linux is used on bigger badder servers for handling money, you should pursue them if oyu want the large score. But, when you want to get the money, you go for the EASY SURE bet. That is anything from MS. At least for today.
It will be interesting to see what happens if MS ever hires decent coders and lock down their systems. Thank god that so far that is not the case. But if they ever become more secure, then I will be curious to see what systems the black hats pursue. My guess is Linux.
Please show me where I stated that all those who disliked Churchill's statements to be neo-cons.
I never said that. I said that my state's neo-cons went after him because of those statements, which is exactly what tenure is suppose to prevent. Finding Churchhills statements offensive, well, I did as well. Yet, I also back not only free speech, but also the NEED for academia to not be dismissed by making outrageous statements. These later things are far more important than the fact that an idiot said what he said.
And yes, most ppl took offense. It was neo-cons that went on this illegal witchhunt.
That is a HUGE difference between what you accuse me of, what I wrote, and what the facts are.
Actually, I had not looked at his stuff. It is really too bad if that is what he considered important.
Sadly, the neo-cons and a number of tea* have a LOT in common with Al Qaeda and Communist China. They want total control. AQ and Neo-cons and many of the Tea* also want a conservative gov. in which they rule by religions. Heck, the only difference between Iran, and what AQ/Neo-cons/Tea* want is which book leads the way.
I suspect that the world is re-entering a dark dark period. One that may make 1940s look enlightened.
Well, first off, tenure would not have saved this women from what she did. You can ALWAYS be fired for something like that.
Tenure was designed to protect profs from being attacked politically. For example, Ward churchhill spoke out against W and the neo-cons and was then persecuted by our state's neo-cons. Now, I was not wild about what he said, and certainly did not agree with it. HOWEVER, he HAD been granted tenure and it was designed to prevent this very thing from happening. Yet, he was fired after being accused of plagiarism that occurred before he was given tenure. He has appealed once and lost and I suspect that he will appeal again, and probably win. Had our state neo-cons not forced this firing, then Churchhill would have been demoted from dept head to a lowly prof, had his pay dropped to 20K or less and then told to teach 5 course, or else leave. Point is, that he would have been ran out of the academia system. Now, he will likely get backpay, which really sux.
And as to the academia world, it depends on what university and what depts. For example, CU and CSU are fine, as long as you are in science, math, engineering, etc. The reason is that in these depts it is based on 'publish or perish'. THat is typical of ALL science, math, and engineering areas. OTH, in Polysci, business, liberal arts, well, they are fucking worthless in most universities. On most of these, it is based on personal politics as to how well you get along. Far too many of the profs that are in there are idiots that could not make it elsewhere, or were brought in typically as pay-off for gov. service (sorry, but it is far too often true). One interesting example is the USAF academy. That place is MASSIVELY fucked up. It is more about politics as in which party that you belong to, then about how good you are. Nearly everybody that is working there has to belong to the republican party. They have some of the worst ppl there. I have seen idiots there that that would not even cut it in most community colleges. Sad really.
Back at NIU, I had a lit class in which the female prof on the tenure track nuked all 3 guys in the class. I mean we scored D and F. ALL of the women scored much higher. I got fed up with this and one of my dorm mates gave a paper of his that had earned a A+ from the head of the lit program. It got a D-. After the semester was done, we took all of my papers including the purposely plagiarized one and went to the head. Showed it to him. Apparently, a major investigation was done, and she was released after that. My grades were adjusted up to a B after the head had re-graded all of the men's paper (I gave the head the paper that I had done and let him grade it).
but it really needs to check for plagiarism. I saw a load of it up at Colorado State.
In addition, it would ideally be able to handle lab books. I remember grading micro-bio 201 lab books back in the 80's, and I was getting tired after the first 30. The second 30 was a pain. The last 30, well, we finished the grading at a pizza joint over beer. I suspect that was how grade inflation happens.
BTW, at some point, I will probably use fetchmail or some other daemon to copy our emails just to have local backups. But I will continue to use gmail to send. They handle too many things nicely and easily.
As to their looking into my mail, well, yeah, they do. So does microsoft, apple, yahoo, etc. And when you send your email, even the backbone servers watch and record. But if security is a real issue, then simply encrypt it and that way only those on the commercial server will not know what you sent.
Who has ever thought that you were spamming with malware by using google?
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Pakistan's and America's relationship is faltering. The fact is, that pakistan is harboring terrorists PURPOSELY.
To be honest, part of the issues belong to us. W/neo-cons gave India access to 'civil' nuke tech, but not to pakistan. Once we opened that up, we basically told pakistan that we did not trust them. Of course, that was true. We don't. And we are helping what they consider their mortal enemy (even though it is also their 'brother').
no. the DOD is looking at switching to smart phones. Motorola Solutions no longer does those. Or is there some deal with them that allows that to happen?
Actually, I think that the DOD had to be forced to allow plants to move around. They would prefer that everything was local to here. And I think that it is fair to say that comm links with troops probably rate up there with what you want to protect esp. from a nation that is in a cold war with us, but gearing up for a hot war.
yeah, I switch from comcast due to the price as well. They seem to keep raising it over and over. I have not tried netflx yet (on the blue-ray; We have been enjoying the 3 months of free channels on dish so far) We had loads of buffering under comcast. If that disappears, my wife and kids will be happy.
The execs change, but the same bad policies remain in place. We had to battle with them to get the vdsl line. Just 2 weeks prior to CenturyLink taking over, we were vetted for vdsl (it had ran to the house before, and I knew the block level switch had plenty of vdsls). When CL took over, they tried to put us on adsl unless we were going to add iptv. Thankfully after 3 weeks of battle, we got it. Basically, CL is just as worthless
Actually, many of the electronics are done with automation. The truth is, that labor makes up a VERY small amount of electronic costs. If you read some of the interviews by top taiwain manufacturers, they LIKE the idea of coming to America. They think that the regs are MORE than fair (even on the east coast). In fact, based on the fact that our power is plentiful and cheap, and that we have a decent infrastructure, we would be cheaper than China.
Their grip is about our legal system. We allow right and left wingers to sue at will (mostly left). Our legal system has become a mess. However, for American companies, they are already in the thick of things. IOW, there is no difference for them wether the phone is made in China or America.
BUT, if they can increase sales 10% or more, then they get to recover more of their money.
Just switched from comcast to qwest. Have to say that their bandwidth positively SUX. We even have 20 mb vs. the 12 that comcast advertises. And yet, this is slower than comcast. Sad. Real sad.
Hopefully, they have better uptime than comcast (comcast has so many outages; glad that I ran my own bind; their always had issues in their DNS).
So, It makes sense to have enemies produce your communication? Hmmm.
Yes. That is why I am suggesting that they bring it back.
The US DOD is studying using smart phones for troop communications. Having all the smart phones produced in China makes ZERO sense. Instead, Google can approach DOD and cut a deal that they will bring back manufacturing to the USA if DOD will buy their phones. WIth that approach, and throwing in automation, Google can have 10% of their phones being bought by the DOD. That lowers prices a great deal.
And if you read the rest of my posts, you will see that I support the use of a thorium reactor inside of large applications. I KNOW that it will require Pu, U or something to generate neutrons to actually cause the fission. This guys approach is not going to work. But a small enough reactor CAN be developed for LARGE vehicles. It will not built for a car in spite of what some believe (at least not up front). However, it could be used larger equipment. Trains. Ships. Earthmovers. Basically, items that move for long periods of time and typically generate loads of pollution are IDEAL for creating small reactors. With Pu or U, we would need shielding, so that is impracticable. OTH, using thorium, you use a smidgen of U with shielding around the unit, and U being in a container that will not break apart in an accident, but lets neutrons through. Put this on large systems that have ppl around them 24x7 (i.e. security purposes). Down the road, work on tiny neutron generators.
This CAN be made to work usefully. Not in cars, but in large equipment. And dropping business costs is a good thing.
Well, we did a reactor ship once. Sadly, on-board politics got in the way. I have been amazed that B&W has not pushed for commercial ships with their reactors. That would be a great way to restart our commercial ship building.
However, I differ with you about the large vehicles and trains. All of these make heavy use of fuel. Ag Tractors in particular. But so do some of of the largest cats, shovels, haulers, etc that are placed on a single site and then used nearly 24x7. For those, it makes great sense to put in a small nuke reactor. In fact, since these are pretty much at one site that is going to be tore, these really would be ideal. Likewise, think of the various earthmovers that are around. They have little to NO pollution control. WIth our push on dropping emissions, these would make great sense to move to an electrical system. By doing small reactors in these first, getting them solid, efficient, then move to trains, finally to other systems.
LOL. /. have turned out to be dicks compared to what we had 11 years ago.
For somebody that has a minor in chem and has had advanced work in Radiation, you would THINK that I would get it right. I guess 30 years away from it does let that slip.
Thanx for correcting me and not being a dick about it. Far too many of the new ppl on
Far too many nut jobs in America (on both sides of the equation) will carp about this as being dangerous on the highways. However, there would be multiple places why this should be developed quickly:
1) Tractors, construction equipment, etc. all make heavy use of fuel. By putting this in these, it would drop energy usage across the nation by 5% or more (yup, this equipment makes HEAVY use of fuel). In addition, it has the advantage that there is LITTLE chance of accidents compared to highway miles.
2) Trains. This could be used on trains easily. Relatively few accidents compared to cars. In addition, there could be one car up front for the engineer and major motor, with this on another car 1-2 back. With that approach, less chance of damage (again keeping the nut jobs happy).
2) Space. We need the ability to send nuke power to the moon and mars. Nut jobs get upset about Pb going up. Thorium is SAFE by itself AND even less is needed. It is ideal to send up something like this to the moon, remote missions, etc. Heck, combine this with the new Stirling power generator and we can send new voyagers out that have a VASIMR engine that will work for the next 40 years.
the reason why the driver license worked is because Google is using India and china to process our information. I have already had to deal with these guys on some other issues and was surprised to find out Google outsourced that much. What I find interesting is that Google is still using Chinese and that China is being allowed to learn that much about other nations. And by outsourcing this to foreign nations, you can see the results of this. I think that somebody from Mexico or Canada would do better and knowing about America than ppl who have never set foot here. At this time, I would not trust a CA from Google (or from any company like them such as MS, facebook, Apple, etc) then I would another home-brew CA.
also missiles. The ability to launch something and run it up to mach 25, while other crafts are moving at mach 1-2 means that it can take out launchers, etc before systems can respond. The only real answer to that will be a laser. At this time, that would be China, Russia, and the west.
This will not do mach 3-4 economically. It is around mach 5 that it kicks in. Mach 1-4 is supersonic. Falcon is to test hyper and high hypersonic speeds.
WHich is why you pick the EASY one. There is plenty of money to be had on Windows, Mac and Linux. In fact, considering that Linux is used on bigger badder servers for handling money, you should pursue them if oyu want the large score. But, when you want to get the money, you go for the EASY SURE bet. That is anything from MS. At least for today.
It will be interesting to see what happens if MS ever hires decent coders and lock down their systems. Thank god that so far that is not the case. But if they ever become more secure, then I will be curious to see what systems the black hats pursue. My guess is Linux.
no doubt. But at CSOM, you guys drink beer int he same way that a geek drinks coffee. :)
Please show me where I stated that all those who disliked Churchill's statements to be neo-cons.
I never said that. I said that my state's neo-cons went after him because of those statements, which is exactly what tenure is suppose to prevent. Finding Churchhills statements offensive, well, I did as well. Yet, I also back not only free speech, but also the NEED for academia to not be dismissed by making outrageous statements. These later things are far more important than the fact that an idiot said what he said.
And yes, most ppl took offense. It was neo-cons that went on this illegal witchhunt.
That is a HUGE difference between what you accuse me of, what I wrote, and what the facts are.
Do you see the difference now?
Actually, I had not looked at his stuff. It is really too bad if that is what he considered important.
Sadly, the neo-cons and a number of tea* have a LOT in common with Al Qaeda and Communist China. They want total control. AQ and Neo-cons and many of the Tea* also want a conservative gov. in which they rule by religions. Heck, the only difference between Iran, and what AQ/Neo-cons/Tea* want is which book leads the way.
I suspect that the world is re-entering a dark dark period. One that may make 1940s look enlightened.
Well, first off, tenure would not have saved this women from what she did. You can ALWAYS be fired for something like that. Tenure was designed to protect profs from being attacked politically. For example, Ward churchhill spoke out against W and the neo-cons and was then persecuted by our state's neo-cons. Now, I was not wild about what he said, and certainly did not agree with it. HOWEVER, he HAD been granted tenure and it was designed to prevent this very thing from happening. Yet, he was fired after being accused of plagiarism that occurred before he was given tenure. He has appealed once and lost and I suspect that he will appeal again, and probably win. Had our state neo-cons not forced this firing, then Churchhill would have been demoted from dept head to a lowly prof, had his pay dropped to 20K or less and then told to teach 5 course, or else leave. Point is, that he would have been ran out of the academia system. Now, he will likely get backpay, which really sux.
And as to the academia world, it depends on what university and what depts. For example, CU and CSU are fine, as long as you are in science, math, engineering, etc. The reason is that in these depts it is based on 'publish or perish'. THat is typical of ALL science, math, and engineering areas. OTH, in Polysci, business, liberal arts, well, they are fucking worthless in most universities. On most of these, it is based on personal politics as to how well you get along. Far too many of the profs that are in there are idiots that could not make it elsewhere, or were brought in typically as pay-off for gov. service (sorry, but it is far too often true). One interesting example is the USAF academy. That place is MASSIVELY fucked up. It is more about politics as in which party that you belong to, then about how good you are. Nearly everybody that is working there has to belong to the republican party. They have some of the worst ppl there. I have seen idiots there that that would not even cut it in most community colleges. Sad really.
Back at NIU, I had a lit class in which the female prof on the tenure track nuked all 3 guys in the class. I mean we scored D and F. ALL of the women scored much higher. I got fed up with this and one of my dorm mates gave a paper of his that had earned a A+ from the head of the lit program. It got a D-. After the semester was done, we took all of my papers including the purposely plagiarized one and went to the head. Showed it to him. Apparently, a major investigation was done, and she was released after that. My grades were adjusted up to a B after the head had re-graded all of the men's paper (I gave the head the paper that I had done and let him grade it).
Sometimes, things do work the way that it should.
but it really needs to check for plagiarism. I saw a load of it up at Colorado State.
In addition, it would ideally be able to handle lab books. I remember grading micro-bio 201 lab books back in the 80's, and I was getting tired after the first 30. The second 30 was a pain. The last 30, well, we finished the grading at a pizza joint over beer. I suspect that was how grade inflation happens.
BTW, at some point, I will probably use fetchmail or some other daemon to copy our emails just to have local backups. But I will continue to use gmail to send. They handle too many things nicely and easily.
As to their looking into my mail, well, yeah, they do. So does microsoft, apple, yahoo, etc. And when you send your email, even the backbone servers watch and record. But if security is a real issue, then simply encrypt it and that way only those on the commercial server will not know what you sent.
Who has ever thought that you were spamming with malware by using google?