all of this pollution remained in China. The problem is that CHina's pollution is going everywhere. Right now, they have accounted for more than 1/2 of ALL mercruy that man has EVER emitted. Likewise, in THIS DECADE, China will account for 1/2 of all CO2 that man has emitted. And that assumes that CHina is actually cleaning up their CO2 like they PROMISED (keep in mind that China's treaties, let alone word, is worthless).
Actually, I have no issue voting for a Republican. The problem is that the Republican party has been hijacked by neo-cons and they are NOT republicans. Worse, many of these a55holes have been working their way into the Libertarian Party. I swear the next time I hear one of those idiots get up and push anti-abortion issues at a meeting, I will simply punch him (always a guy) in the face. There is free speech, but I am now sick and tired of these MFers coming to our meetings and pushing neo-con and tea* crap into the meetings.
Extreme weather such as tornadoes are diminishing
Links?
CO2 is a greenhouse gas, that is obviously true, hence it will push our climate through a tipping point, that is obviously not true. It has been 10-20 times higher before yet we are here.
Links that show when Man was around in which CO2 was 10-20 x higher?
Here is a clue: You will not find links for EITHER of those. The fact is, that weather is not calming down. Nor has CO2 been 10-20 higher during man's time as you imply.
China has shown that they will cheat at everything. They are required to have scrubbers per treaties with Japan. The thing is, that ALL OF THEIR 10 year old or less plants have scrubbers on them. They are simply not turned on. WHy? Because they costs MONEY. The fact is, that China cheats on just about everything. So, how does this impact Kyoto? It shows that other nations that are way behind will realize that all they have to do is cheat to get ahead. If kyoto were to happen, many nations will follow CHina's path. As it is, many are cheating by manipulating their money. Now, if other nations think that they can grab large amounts of manufacturing from America, just by adding loads of 'cheap' energy, they will do so. The fact is, that Kyoto was one of the worst ideas going, and remains so.
If we want to solve this issue, then America should tax ALL GOODS including imports based on where final and primary sub-component come from and their CO2 Emissions. The CO2 emissions should be monitored by sat and should watch how much Co2 flows in and out. Then apply it at a rate of PER SQ KM, rather than per capita (fairer and takes into account everything).
My original response had NOTHING to do with racism. It had EVERYTHING to do with the fact that I am going to have to fight in court against at least one patent (most likely more) because the examiner had ZERO KNOWLEDGE of prior art here in the 50-70's. And many items from that timeframe did NOT have a patent. It was too expensive and production was cheap here. So you just made them.
As to GSM, would I want an expert here? Yup. HOWEVER, GSM is more of a system. I would actually want an expert on Cell Phones. And where did Cell Phones originate at? America. And where are the vast majority of cell phone patents remain to this date? America. Not Europe.
Now, as center of manufacturing, well, here is clue for you: America WAS the center from the 50-70's. Right now, China is. In about another 20 years, I would actually like to have the number of Chinese born examiners in the office that they have now. But at this time, We are better served by Americans who DO have this knowledge.
So, any other racist illogical arguments that you want to state?
Almost all of the new ones ARE naturalized. The problem is that they have no PRIOR ART EXPERIENCE within American context. So, you can think that is ok, but not even close. I like the idea of having SOME come from other nations, but the vast majority should be from HERE so that they can see and shoot down such obvious BS patents. Instead, they wasted HUGE amounts of time on them.
Happens all the time. Now that I am dealing with a number of patents issued in the last decade, I have found that many of the USPTO ppl were foreigners working here (mostly chinese). I have already come across 6 patents issued over the last 7 years that have prior art (this is for PHYSICAL items, not software).
Basically, USPTO was gutted under W. It needs to be revamped and restore to what happened to it.
Amazingly, these American 'global' companies do not realize that most of the none American nations WILL be protecting their own industry and are going to resort to more of that as the global economy dies. Basically, these idiots are transferring tech so quickly and will lose all of their precious abilities here. The good news for America is that these companies will die with us.
who said that book companies will be the ones selling the text? I suspect that books companies are going to go the same way as buggy whip companies went.
Worst yet, the hydrogen fanbois simply want to ignore the efficiency issues. To get hydrogen is either using natural gas, stripping off the H2 (typically with electrical heated steam), and then pushing this around every inefficiently. It would simply be easier, cheaper, and more efficient to burn natural gas directly.
Of course, some fanbois will the point out electrolysis or some such nonesense and ignore the fact that you lose about 50% of electricity to start with, then you lose another 15% in transportation (more than shipping electricity 2000 miles), and finally either use a fuel cell or ICE.
In both cases, your efficiency will be no higher than 10% MAX, while pure electrical cars are around 60% total (from coal to turning the wheel), and ICE is around 15%.
You are right. ABout that being Manic Ranting.
The fact is that GM and Ford and Toyota and Honda and BWM and VW, etc have all done studies and they all come up with COMMON MAX distances of 35-40 miles ROUND TRIP. That is for the AVERAGE AMERICAN driver. Is that every driver? Nope. Would I depend on a car that traveled only 50 miles and probably trakes about 60 minutes to charge (and on a 220 at that)? Nope.
HOWEVER, with my wife's Toyota Highlander, would I buy this car to travel 40-50 miles on a regular daily basis? Yup.
My wife and I can trade off on who NEEDS the highlander. Ideally, whoever is driving the LEAST would drive it while the furtherst that is still inside of the 40 mile range would drive the other.
So, now I bet that your carp will be what if we are BOTH going to go more than 50 miles? Well, let me ask you, what if you own midsize to small sedans and are going to move your house? Think that you will use just those 2 cars? Yeah. Exactly.
This car will be ideal for more than 75% of all American homes (as a second car) and will probably work as primary cars in EU, East Coast America, and Japan.
First off, to make an organism that is impervious to virus is probably impossible. But assume that you could. WOuld that be a good thing? Nope. It stops evolution. Evolution is NOT single point genetic mutations, but is virus splicing/slicing in new sections, possibly even new genes. However, even if now sections, these will ultimately make it to the point of being a full gene.
Gates has NOT been innovative as many have said. All he has done is constantly cheat at everything. The man has developed little to nothing. Now, you and others claim that he is. Yet, he has done a number of start-ups and all fail. WHy? Because they were missing MS's magic formula: CHEAT. Gates has no vision. Never has. Take the large example of creating a new competing network. Once he realized that he could not cheat with it and would lose to the net, then he moved to trying to control the internet. How about his venture to do networking over satellites? Could not cheat with that, and he lost. His dominance in Office? That was caused by packaging it with his OS and giving it away for free. Lotus and WP lost out because they put their BEST STUFF on MS and they were east to gut. How about Borland? MS defeated them by cheating again( changing libraries underneath them, while giving away quick*). All in all, MS got ahead because Gates does not have a single scruple.
OTH, Allen has actually created multiple industries. For example, it was Paul Allen with Charter that pushed internet over cable. The cable industry had ZERO interest in doing this. Likewise, Paul Allen is largely responsible for the current private space developments going on. He funded Scaled's SS1. He also built several companies that are creating space systems.
Then you have Elon Musk: Paypal. Solar City. Tesla. SpaceX.
These 2 have shown themselves to be the types of leaders that you want in companies. Gates? Nope. Absolutely Worthless except for his money, his contacts, and his falsely earned reputation.
I did not say that Gates did not code. Obviously he did. I said that he stole other ppl's tech. Gates never had a single original idea. Heck, he coded a version of BASIS, rather than develop a new better languages. He BOUGHT DOS. He bought Xenix, and then had to be made to focus on DOS from his employees (including a guy that I know who has some very interesting comments about the early days of MS; Basically, had gates gotten his way, MS would likely have failed). There was NOTHING from Gates that was innovative that actually helped MS.
OTH, it was gates that pushed MS to have ZERO ethics (which pervades through their company today; also why I will never hire any coder that has been there for more than a year unless I know them personally; I have more than a few friends that have worked for them). It was Gates that pushed to steal tech everywhere. Heck, we all know about Windows development.
Basically, if Gates was back in MS right now, they would be back under DOD inspection. Gates is not capable of a single new innovative idea. He really was worthless on that area.
OTH, what gates is good at, is that he is a MARKETER (hence his wife). Gates has a good eye for recognizing where tech is going. Not initially though. As I said earlier, had he won on many of those early choices, MS would be dead today. But over time, he did. But if Gates was there today, MS would be in worse shape.
Gates NEVER developed any tech that helped MS. NEVER. What he did was steal other ppl's work, and cheat illegally. Nothing difficult about doing that. The real problem is that MS can not cheat easily right now. What would have helped MS is had the allowed the break-up. In my posts during that time, I spoke against the break-up because it was obvious to me that it would bring back more companies that would cheat. Now, MS is slowly dying because they are TOO big.
And for those of you that think that is not true, look at our bail-out of GM and Chrysler. Chrysler was sold off to a foreign company that had gone through a collapse, and GM still stinks. Had we broken them up, they would be smaller, but at least several of the new companies would know how to get back to size. Politics is killing America. We were built on small, but push big.
Odd. NASA has had multiple accidents and they have the most regs going. I would have to say that the real issue occurs when bean counters get in the way.
Commercialization IS the answer due to our piss poor CONgress and presidents that we have had for multiple times. However, private space has a near zero record of doing the R, and even most of the D. NASA's only real issue is politics.
BTW, that is why I am opposed to SLS and support a COTS-SHLV for TWO SHLV. Better to fund 2 of these for say 5 billion each and offer to pay.5 billion / launch, then to do another constellation which is assuredly coming.
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all of this pollution remained in China. The problem is that CHina's pollution is going everywhere. Right now, they have accounted for more than 1/2 of ALL mercruy that man has EVER emitted. Likewise, in THIS DECADE, China will account for 1/2 of all CO2 that man has emitted. And that assumes that CHina is actually cleaning up their CO2 like they PROMISED (keep in mind that China's treaties, let alone word, is worthless).
Actually, I have no issue voting for a Republican. The problem is that the Republican party has been hijacked by neo-cons and they are NOT republicans. Worse, many of these a55holes have been working their way into the Libertarian Party. I swear the next time I hear one of those idiots get up and push anti-abortion issues at a meeting, I will simply punch him (always a guy) in the face. There is free speech, but I am now sick and tired of these MFers coming to our meetings and pushing neo-con and tea* crap into the meetings.
Hey, A john bircher still lives.
Extreme weather such as tornadoes are diminishing
Links? CO2 is a greenhouse gas, that is obviously true, hence it will push our climate through a tipping point, that is obviously not true. It has been 10-20 times higher before yet we are here.
Links that show when Man was around in which CO2 was 10-20 x higher?
Here is a clue: You will not find links for EITHER of those. The fact is, that weather is not calming down. Nor has CO2 been 10-20 higher during man's time as you imply.
China has shown that they will cheat at everything. They are required to have scrubbers per treaties with Japan. The thing is, that ALL OF THEIR 10 year old or less plants have scrubbers on them. They are simply not turned on. WHy? Because they costs MONEY. The fact is, that China cheats on just about everything. So, how does this impact Kyoto? It shows that other nations that are way behind will realize that all they have to do is cheat to get ahead. If kyoto were to happen, many nations will follow CHina's path. As it is, many are cheating by manipulating their money. Now, if other nations think that they can grab large amounts of manufacturing from America, just by adding loads of 'cheap' energy, they will do so. The fact is, that Kyoto was one of the worst ideas going, and remains so.
If we want to solve this issue, then America should tax ALL GOODS including imports based on where final and primary sub-component come from and their CO2 Emissions. The CO2 emissions should be monitored by sat and should watch how much Co2 flows in and out. Then apply it at a rate of PER SQ KM, rather than per capita (fairer and takes into account everything).
Why? You do not think that Americans can do the job? What a Racists you are. The home-born allows for large knowledge of PRIOR ART. Europeans. Shesh.
My original response had NOTHING to do with racism. It had EVERYTHING to do with the fact that I am going to have to fight in court against at least one patent (most likely more) because the examiner had ZERO KNOWLEDGE of prior art here in the 50-70's. And many items from that timeframe did NOT have a patent. It was too expensive and production was cheap here. So you just made them.
As to GSM, would I want an expert here? Yup. HOWEVER, GSM is more of a system. I would actually want an expert on Cell Phones. And where did Cell Phones originate at? America. And where are the vast majority of cell phone patents remain to this date? America. Not Europe.
Now, as center of manufacturing, well, here is clue for you: America WAS the center from the 50-70's. Right now, China is. In about another 20 years, I would actually like to have the number of Chinese born examiners in the office that they have now. But at this time, We are better served by Americans who DO have this knowledge.
So, any other racist illogical arguments that you want to state?
Almost all of the new ones ARE naturalized. The problem is that they have no PRIOR ART EXPERIENCE within American context. So, you can think that is ok, but not even close. I like the idea of having SOME come from other nations, but the vast majority should be from HERE so that they can see and shoot down such obvious BS patents. Instead, they wasted HUGE amounts of time on them.
Happens all the time. Now that I am dealing with a number of patents issued in the last decade, I have found that many of the USPTO ppl were foreigners working here (mostly chinese). I have already come across 6 patents issued over the last 7 years that have prior art (this is for PHYSICAL items, not software).
Basically, USPTO was gutted under W. It needs to be revamped and restore to what happened to it.
Well, here's to hoping that most of sun's software patents are found to be wrong. If so, then Oracle will have to re-think when they buy up companies.
Amazingly, these American 'global' companies do not realize that most of the none American nations WILL be protecting their own industry and are going to resort to more of that as the global economy dies. Basically, these idiots are transferring tech so quickly and will lose all of their precious abilities here. The good news for America is that these companies will die with us.
who said that book companies will be the ones selling the text? I suspect that books companies are going to go the same way as buggy whip companies went.
Worst yet, the hydrogen fanbois simply want to ignore the efficiency issues. To get hydrogen is either using natural gas, stripping off the H2 (typically with electrical heated steam), and then pushing this around every inefficiently. It would simply be easier, cheaper, and more efficient to burn natural gas directly.
Of course, some fanbois will the point out electrolysis or some such nonesense and ignore the fact that you lose about 50% of electricity to start with, then you lose another 15% in transportation (more than shipping electricity 2000 miles), and finally either use a fuel cell or ICE.
In both cases, your efficiency will be no higher than 10% MAX, while pure electrical cars are around 60% total (from coal to turning the wheel), and ICE is around 15%.
And yet, the researchers in the fields such as NREL, the companies producing cars, the lack of infrastructure, etc says that you are SOOOOO WRONG.
Simply put, hydrogen will really only be useful for stationary situations, not for transportation.
You are right. ABout that being Manic Ranting.
The fact is that GM and Ford and Toyota and Honda and BWM and VW, etc have all done studies and they all come up with COMMON MAX distances of 35-40 miles ROUND TRIP. That is for the AVERAGE AMERICAN driver. Is that every driver? Nope. Would I depend on a car that traveled only 50 miles and probably trakes about 60 minutes to charge (and on a 220 at that)? Nope.
HOWEVER, with my wife's Toyota Highlander, would I buy this car to travel 40-50 miles on a regular daily basis? Yup.
My wife and I can trade off on who NEEDS the highlander. Ideally, whoever is driving the LEAST would drive it while the furtherst that is still inside of the 40 mile range would drive the other.
So, now I bet that your carp will be what if we are BOTH going to go more than 50 miles? Well, let me ask you, what if you own midsize to small sedans and are going to move your house? Think that you will use just those 2 cars? Yeah. Exactly.
This car will be ideal for more than 75% of all American homes (as a second car) and will probably work as primary cars in EU, East Coast America, and Japan.
But not at $12K a car, when the batteries account for the majority of the costs.
Pricing and trims haven't been announced, but reviewers expect the iQ to start around $12,000.
First off, to make an organism that is impervious to virus is probably impossible. But assume that you could. WOuld that be a good thing? Nope. It stops evolution. Evolution is NOT single point genetic mutations, but is virus splicing/slicing in new sections, possibly even new genes. However, even if now sections, these will ultimately make it to the point of being a full gene.
Gates has NOT been innovative as many have said. All he has done is constantly cheat at everything. The man has developed little to nothing. Now, you and others claim that he is. Yet, he has done a number of start-ups and all fail. WHy? Because they were missing MS's magic formula: CHEAT. Gates has no vision. Never has. Take the large example of creating a new competing network. Once he realized that he could not cheat with it and would lose to the net, then he moved to trying to control the internet. How about his venture to do networking over satellites? Could not cheat with that, and he lost. His dominance in Office? That was caused by packaging it with his OS and giving it away for free. Lotus and WP lost out because they put their BEST STUFF on MS and they were east to gut. How about Borland? MS defeated them by cheating again( changing libraries underneath them, while giving away quick*). All in all, MS got ahead because Gates does not have a single scruple.
OTH, Allen has actually created multiple industries. For example, it was Paul Allen with Charter that pushed internet over cable. The cable industry had ZERO interest in doing this. Likewise, Paul Allen is largely responsible for the current private space developments going on. He funded Scaled's SS1. He also built several companies that are creating space systems. Then you have Elon Musk: Paypal. Solar City. Tesla. SpaceX.
These 2 have shown themselves to be the types of leaders that you want in companies. Gates? Nope. Absolutely Worthless except for his money, his contacts, and his falsely earned reputation.
I did not say that Gates did not code. Obviously he did. I said that he stole other ppl's tech. Gates never had a single original idea. Heck, he coded a version of BASIS, rather than develop a new better languages. He BOUGHT DOS. He bought Xenix, and then had to be made to focus on DOS from his employees (including a guy that I know who has some very interesting comments about the early days of MS; Basically, had gates gotten his way, MS would likely have failed). There was NOTHING from Gates that was innovative that actually helped MS.
OTH, it was gates that pushed MS to have ZERO ethics (which pervades through their company today; also why I will never hire any coder that has been there for more than a year unless I know them personally; I have more than a few friends that have worked for them). It was Gates that pushed to steal tech everywhere. Heck, we all know about Windows development.
Basically, if Gates was back in MS right now, they would be back under DOD inspection. Gates is not capable of a single new innovative idea. He really was worthless on that area.
OTH, what gates is good at, is that he is a MARKETER (hence his wife). Gates has a good eye for recognizing where tech is going. Not initially though. As I said earlier, had he won on many of those early choices, MS would be dead today. But over time, he did. But if Gates was there today, MS would be in worse shape.
Gates NEVER developed any tech that helped MS. NEVER. What he did was steal other ppl's work, and cheat illegally. Nothing difficult about doing that. The real problem is that MS can not cheat easily right now. What would have helped MS is had the allowed the break-up. In my posts during that time, I spoke against the break-up because it was obvious to me that it would bring back more companies that would cheat. Now, MS is slowly dying because they are TOO big.
And for those of you that think that is not true, look at our bail-out of GM and Chrysler. Chrysler was sold off to a foreign company that had gone through a collapse, and GM still stinks. Had we broken them up, they would be smaller, but at least several of the new companies would know how to get back to size. Politics is killing America. We were built on small, but push big.
Odd. NASA has had multiple accidents and they have the most regs going. I would have to say that the real issue occurs when bean counters get in the way.
expect an email from the famous fat man's wife. :)
Once Bigelow builds their space station, it will be above most of this. That will help a lot of things, though you still have to travel up there.
Commercialization IS the answer due to our piss poor CONgress and presidents that we have had for multiple times. However, private space has a near zero record of doing the R, and even most of the D. NASA's only real issue is politics.
.5 billion / launch, then to do another constellation which is assuredly coming.
BTW, that is why I am opposed to SLS and support a COTS-SHLV for TWO SHLV. Better to fund 2 of these for say 5 billion each and offer to pay