Have the feds require that all of their dept do IPv6 by end of year. Then require that they drop IPv4 by year end 2012. That will solve these issues QUICKLY. The reason is that many businesses will start shopping for ISPs that support IPv6. And they will tell their current ISP that they are leaving unless they have it PDQ. By end of 2013, IPv4 will be gone.
NO!. Requiring that is a waste.
However, there IS a simple solution.
Simply require that the feds use IPv6 and IPv4 everywhere with IPv4 support dropping 1 year out. That will get a number of ISPs to re-think this through REAL QUICK. In particular, all of the big players will have IPv6 done very quickly. And all of the smaller companies will make fast switches as well.
Seriously, assume that a new device comes out and the company is a bit like Google in wanting to make real changes. They could turn around and require that access to the site be via IPv6 only. They might have to use a tunnel, but the idea is that the website itself would be IPv6 to push that as being the only solution. And that would mean that for any other system to access it, they must use IPv6.
Which is why I said that states and feds come to an agreement of what % goes to the feds and what goes to each state. With this approach, then we can have something like a 5-10% sales tax on all internet goods.
Well first, not every president says 'no new taxes'. Just the neo-cons and one republican. Sadly that burned the republican, but not the neo-cons.
Secondly, I agree that a sales tax on JUST LOCAL PURCHASES hurt local sales. It is unfair to do that. Instead, we need a tax on the internet as well.
Finally, most states have sales taxes. Only a few do not. And while the feds will likely not impose a fed tax on all goods, it CAN put a single tax on INTERNET goods and then get the states to agree that a certain % goes to the feds and the rest goes to each state. That is not just possible, but probable.
The idea of multiple taxing districts is INSANE. Instead, the feds should get an agreement out of ALL states that one rate is applied to all internet sales. And in that agreement, it should also say how much the feds will take, AS A PERCENTAGE, with the rest going to the state. Then each state can decide how to split the tax.
Seriously, this is a good time to get the western users over to IPv6. From there, it is easier to secure a system since most will have their own IP address. THat does not mean that it is secured, just easier than dealing with NAT.
Bill Gate's success was by cheating. The man was a true disaster for MS, Computing, and continues to this day. His work on killing mosquitoes, as well as trying to stop hurricanes is pure madness.
The big problem is that many nations are trying to force USA to participate in a BS scheme. That scheme would actually WORSEN things, not improve them.
However, There is a SIMPLE way to solve this.
The USA should tax ALL GOODS as a percentage of a slowly rising value. That percentage is based on the Co2 emissions PER SQ KM OF LAND from which the finally item and the primary sub-component comes from. The tax is applied just prior to moving to retail (i.e. at point of entry to the USA or from leaving the manufacturer).
Note the ease in which the tax is done: first off it is on sq km of land. That is a fixed size (assuming not a war). It should also be measured as CO2 out of the nation - CO2 into the nation. This can be done simply by a satellite which would allow many nations to put up their own sat to check (i.e. veracity).
All of this should take into account environment, ag vs manufacturing, economy and ppl better than just judging per capita. In addition, it is a simple approach.
You will note that this approach is about the only one that rewards a nation that DROPS their emissions (lower %), while punishing those that continue to add. In addition, it gives every nation a fixed amount of CO2 emission and then allows each nation to decide how to balance their own emissions. For nearly ALL of the developing world, they should have little to nothing to fix. OTH, developed nations and China as well as Brazil will have to make cuts.
This is a simple easy to do approach that can work.
The current approach favored by EU and Dems will actually cause nations to emulate China to grab our businesses since they are not part of the cap/tax. They will build loads of coal plants quickly to get 'cheap' electricity as well as throw in loads of roads (loads of emissions). OTH, this approach would have others tax nations exports AS WELL AS THAT NATION'S OWN, thereby limiting their economy unless they make changes. Finally, by raising the max SLOWLY, it gives nations time to adjust.
Well, I can attests to the Chinese spies. At a previous job, we were working with DOD and various TLAs. One of the interviewees that I did was a Chinese girl that had just married an officer and moved to the springs. She was so-so in interest in the job, until we told her that we could not hire her, but I could send her to several other places that would likely pick her up (and pay her more). She went ballistic. She wanted our job once she heard the reason (our employers would NOT have taken our goods). Needless to say, I did not bother sending her onwards. Basically, we allow our troops to sleep with the enemies and we have the enemies here learning our tech (as well as out and out stealing it).
But the issue here is that Duke will most likely have China design and build these controls. If so, it is trivial to put in back doors into a NUKE POWER PLANT. Just like Iran, you have a nice way to control a nation when you need to. Imagine if you were China and looking to take on America. The best way to do that is to get the military close to similar levels and then plan an attack. The attack would then make use of confusion in the west. Blow a couple of nuke power plants, drop all power, and suddenly, you have control of a nation.
Kevin,
All of their equipment is now Chinese made. When Duke has some ideas on what they want done, they turn to China to get it done. Lets disregard the issue of poor quality on boilers etc. The issue here is building controls for power plants, esp. nukes. It is trivial to put backdoors into them. That is the last thing that I want here. And that is also why China insists that all of their critical stuff comes ONLY from China.
Duke energy is the one that is working CLOSELY with China (they are more chinese than is GE). My guess is that these controls will come from them. As such, it will be VERY prone to control by them at the worst possible time.
Zero chance that THIS current approach will improve their sales.
Historically, as in back in the 60-80s, their DIY customers were actually ppl that were IN THE FIELD. That is, these were ppl that made their products, OR their competitors. Likewise, a number of them designed them as well. When Radio shack moved to supporting China in China's illegal manipulation of money by bringing in their cheap, poorly built products, RS was destroying their customer base as well.
At this time, if radio shack REALLY wants to get that customer base back, they must rebuild it, OR move to where the manufacturing is done.
So, they COULD move to CHina, however, China's gov. will simply allow chinese only retailers to have lower prices and destroy you there (china IS a command economy despite what fools claim; the only capitalism is in exports, and even that is controlled).
The other choice is that you could seek out NEW innovative products from America, As well as look for new manufacturing from here. In doing that, Radio Shack would encourage new engineers, as well as electronics builders.
One cheap and easy approach on that would be to issue X-prizes on this. It will not solve Radio Shacks issues overnight, but it will build up their customer bases slowly, while at the same time, giving RS advertising.
The real problem is that Radio shack has shown over and over that they will take short cuts to QUICK profits rather than a long-term view. As such, I suspect that Radio shack will do nothing except wither on the vine.
The salt storage is heated, and piping is ran through it to heat the working fluid. As to proper boiler, yeah, but, to keep efficiencies around 50% total, you would need to use the technology from an Electric Arc furnace (same as what is used for metals). These have a lot of research for keeping the efficiency high.
And actually, the turbine/generators are rarely pulled out of a old coal plant and placed elsewhere. Most new plants have all new equipment. As to ppl to run it, well, you might want 1-2 per shift. In fact, you might just do a maytag and have one person site, plenty of cameras, and remote monitoring. In the event of an outage from the central control, then a reserve person is called in to help. That should help on keeping costs low.
btw, this was not about the solar collection, but about the salt storage ONLY. However, I note that Spain is working with Exel on converting one coal plant in Colorado into a solar collection approach. Exel approach multiple American companies and they were not interested. Sadly, Spain will likely gain the patents and experience on upgrading an old coal plant into something useful again.
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It is amazing how easy it is for an ISP to provide a 4to6 for these.
Have the feds require that all of their dept do IPv6 by end of year. Then require that they drop IPv4 by year end 2012. That will solve these issues QUICKLY. The reason is that many businesses will start shopping for ISPs that support IPv6. And they will tell their current ISP that they are leaving unless they have it PDQ. By end of 2013, IPv4 will be gone.
NO!. Requiring that is a waste.
However, there IS a simple solution.
Simply require that the feds use IPv6 and IPv4 everywhere with IPv4 support dropping 1 year out. That will get a number of ISPs to re-think this through REAL QUICK. In particular, all of the big players will have IPv6 done very quickly. And all of the smaller companies will make fast switches as well.
Seriously, assume that a new device comes out and the company is a bit like Google in wanting to make real changes. They could turn around and require that access to the site be via IPv6 only. They might have to use a tunnel, but the idea is that the website itself would be IPv6 to push that as being the only solution. And that would mean that for any other system to access it, they must use IPv6.
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Which is why I said that states and feds come to an agreement of what % goes to the feds and what goes to each state. With this approach, then we can have something like a 5-10% sales tax on all internet goods.
Well first, not every president says 'no new taxes'. Just the neo-cons and one republican. Sadly that burned the republican, but not the neo-cons.
Secondly, I agree that a sales tax on JUST LOCAL PURCHASES hurt local sales. It is unfair to do that. Instead, we need a tax on the internet as well.
Finally, most states have sales taxes. Only a few do not. And while the feds will likely not impose a fed tax on all goods, it CAN put a single tax on INTERNET goods and then get the states to agree that a certain % goes to the feds and the rest goes to each state. That is not just possible, but probable.
Then those states do not have to take their cut of it. They just pay the full amount to the feds.
If you read my post, you will see that I said that the idea is is applicable ONLY to internet sales, not to general sales.
The idea of multiple taxing districts is INSANE. Instead, the feds should get an agreement out of ALL states that one rate is applied to all internet sales. And in that agreement, it should also say how much the feds will take, AS A PERCENTAGE, with the rest going to the state. Then each state can decide how to split the tax.
The Y2 issue was a 00 issue.
Seriously, this is a good time to get the western users over to IPv6. From there, it is easier to secure a system since most will have their own IP address. THat does not mean that it is secured, just easier than dealing with NAT.
Actually, nukes ARE safe. It is just that the issues have been in first gen plants. What is needed is to move to SAFER plants, esp by using thorium.
Bill Gate's success was by cheating. The man was a true disaster for MS, Computing, and continues to this day. His work on killing mosquitoes, as well as trying to stop hurricanes is pure madness.
The big problem is that many nations are trying to force USA to participate in a BS scheme. That scheme would actually WORSEN things, not improve them.
However, There is a SIMPLE way to solve this.
The USA should tax ALL GOODS as a percentage of a slowly rising value. That percentage is based on the Co2 emissions PER SQ KM OF LAND from which the finally item and the primary sub-component comes from. The tax is applied just prior to moving to retail (i.e. at point of entry to the USA or from leaving the manufacturer).
Note the ease in which the tax is done: first off it is on sq km of land. That is a fixed size (assuming not a war). It should also be measured as CO2 out of the nation - CO2 into the nation. This can be done simply by a satellite which would allow many nations to put up their own sat to check (i.e. veracity). All of this should take into account environment, ag vs manufacturing, economy and ppl better than just judging per capita. In addition, it is a simple approach.
You will note that this approach is about the only one that rewards a nation that DROPS their emissions (lower %), while punishing those that continue to add. In addition, it gives every nation a fixed amount of CO2 emission and then allows each nation to decide how to balance their own emissions. For nearly ALL of the developing world, they should have little to nothing to fix. OTH, developed nations and China as well as Brazil will have to make cuts.
This is a simple easy to do approach that can work.
The current approach favored by EU and Dems will actually cause nations to emulate China to grab our businesses since they are not part of the cap/tax. They will build loads of coal plants quickly to get 'cheap' electricity as well as throw in loads of roads (loads of emissions). OTH, this approach would have others tax nations exports AS WELL AS THAT NATION'S OWN, thereby limiting their economy unless they make changes. Finally, by raising the max SLOWLY, it gives nations time to adjust.
They ARE flexible.
Buy from here.
Cheaper and does the same, except for flexibility. Yes, It works in a partial occlusion.
and yet, so was Iran's. The fact is, that you do not need an outside network connection to be able to make use of backdoors.
Well, I can attests to the Chinese spies. At a previous job, we were working with DOD and various TLAs. One of the interviewees that I did was a Chinese girl that had just married an officer and moved to the springs. She was so-so in interest in the job, until we told her that we could not hire her, but I could send her to several other places that would likely pick her up (and pay her more). She went ballistic. She wanted our job once she heard the reason (our employers would NOT have taken our goods). Needless to say, I did not bother sending her onwards. Basically, we allow our troops to sleep with the enemies and we have the enemies here learning our tech (as well as out and out stealing it).
But the issue here is that Duke will most likely have China design and build these controls. If so, it is trivial to put in back doors into a NUKE POWER PLANT. Just like Iran, you have a nice way to control a nation when you need to. Imagine if you were China and looking to take on America. The best way to do that is to get the military close to similar levels and then plan an attack. The attack would then make use of confusion in the west. Blow a couple of nuke power plants, drop all power, and suddenly, you have control of a nation.
Kevin, All of their equipment is now Chinese made. When Duke has some ideas on what they want done, they turn to China to get it done. Lets disregard the issue of poor quality on boilers etc. The issue here is building controls for power plants, esp. nukes. It is trivial to put backdoors into them. That is the last thing that I want here. And that is also why China insists that all of their critical stuff comes ONLY from China.
EXACTLY. And as I pointed out below, Duke is the one that is massively in bed with Chinese.
Duke energy is the one that is working CLOSELY with China (they are more chinese than is GE). My guess is that these controls will come from them. As such, it will be VERY prone to control by them at the worst possible time.
Zero chance that THIS current approach will improve their sales.
Historically, as in back in the 60-80s, their DIY customers were actually ppl that were IN THE FIELD. That is, these were ppl that made their products, OR their competitors. Likewise, a number of them designed them as well. When Radio shack moved to supporting China in China's illegal manipulation of money by bringing in their cheap, poorly built products, RS was destroying their customer base as well. At this time, if radio shack REALLY wants to get that customer base back, they must rebuild it, OR move to where the manufacturing is done.
So, they COULD move to CHina, however, China's gov. will simply allow chinese only retailers to have lower prices and destroy you there (china IS a command economy despite what fools claim; the only capitalism is in exports, and even that is controlled). The other choice is that you could seek out NEW innovative products from America, As well as look for new manufacturing from here. In doing that, Radio Shack would encourage new engineers, as well as electronics builders.
One cheap and easy approach on that would be to issue X-prizes on this. It will not solve Radio Shacks issues overnight, but it will build up their customer bases slowly, while at the same time, giving RS advertising.
The real problem is that Radio shack has shown over and over that they will take short cuts to QUICK profits rather than a long-term view. As such, I suspect that Radio shack will do nothing except wither on the vine.
The salt storage is heated, and piping is ran through it to heat the working fluid. As to proper boiler, yeah, but, to keep efficiencies around 50% total, you would need to use the technology from an Electric Arc furnace (same as what is used for metals). These have a lot of research for keeping the efficiency high.
And actually, the turbine/generators are rarely pulled out of a old coal plant and placed elsewhere. Most new plants have all new equipment. As to ppl to run it, well, you might want 1-2 per shift. In fact, you might just do a maytag and have one person site, plenty of cameras, and remote monitoring. In the event of an outage from the central control, then a reserve person is called in to help. That should help on keeping costs low.
btw, this was not about the solar collection, but about the salt storage ONLY. However, I note that Spain is working with Exel on converting one coal plant in Colorado into a solar collection approach. Exel approach multiple American companies and they were not interested. Sadly, Spain will likely gain the patents and experience on upgrading an old coal plant into something useful again.